MAY STATE OF THE GAME & ARRIVALS

[etrayamods]

⏵ May State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴ Hello, Etrayans! As previously mentioned, we have changed our player cap to ten new players per application round. This will be in effect until we hit under 60 players. With May's round of applications, we're currently at 78 players. Given our new player limitations, we will be moving our TDMs to every three months. Our next TDM will go up on June 13th, and the one after that will go up on September 19th. To make sure players can keep TDM threads as game canon, we're going to be changing our TDM formatting a little! This will become more clear when our next TDM goes live. Mingle logs will continue going up during months when we do not have a TDM. These will be simplistic logs with a couple of prompts to play with. As a friendly reminder - Etraya's network does not have private filters! If it's posted on the network, it's accessible to everyone. The exception to this are threads happening in character inboxes. There is a player plot in progress to develop something for player characters, but as it has not been released yet, it's still inaccessible. We'll be updating our LOCATIONS page over the next week with additional places based on those who applied and were accepted; if there are any locations you would like to see in particular, please feel free to use the provided form so we can get it added! Additionally, please check out our CALENDAR noting the dates of the upcoming mission and Activity Check due dates. For new characters, activity is simply responding to the ACTIVITY CHECK page using the formatting provided. ⏵ OOC INTRO ⏴ Welcome to the game, new arrivals! Please use the below form to introduce yourself, tell us what you’re looking forward to, and CR you want to play. We also have a mod comment HERE that you can use to ask us mods anything about our upcoming plans, add suggestions or anything of the like. We also have the plotting post going up on June 3rd. <b>PLAYER:</b> your name/handle, and your preferred pronouns if you want to provide them! <b>CONTACT:</b> feel free to link to your plurk, provide a discord handle, or state any other preferences! <b>ABOUT YOU:</b> what fandoms are you in? what cool thing about you do you think would be fun to share? are you more of a texty tagger, a log tagger, quick boomeranger? <b>CHARACTER:</b> who have you apped? what canon are they from? <b>CHARACTER INFO:</b> how excited are they to be told their entire world is going to be destroyed if they're not invited to the cool kids table? are they prepared to make friends? or stab people in the back? or are they planning on finding every kitten available, taking over a couple of apartments, and starting a cat colony? <b>CR NOTES:</b> what kind of cr are you looking for, or not looking for? <b>PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:</b> this is mostly for us mods: tell us things you're interested in! are you here more for horror elements, the mystery, soft fluffy missions, or the plot behind why echo has called everyone in? do you want to explore the world and figure out what's beyond the bubble etraya resides in? let us know! <b>OTHER:</b> this is for pretty pictures or gifs. or possum pics, if you like possums.

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Mica ★ Katsuki Bakugo ★ My Hero Academia

[nitropowered]

PLAYER: Mica. / they/them
CONTACT: onlilypads, onlilypads @ discord
ABOUT YOU: Hi, I'm Mica and I live in Canada on the West Coast with my wife, two hairless cats, and a basset hound! My current fave fandoms are My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, Critical Role, Peacemaker, and my hobbies include TTRPGs, FFXIV, true crime, DnD real-play podcasts, and drawing sometimes. I am just finishing up some night classes over the next two weeks, so my tagging speed should be going up! I am willing to write action brackets or prose, depending on the preference of my threading partner. I have no real preference! Oh, I'm also in the PST time zone and most of my tagging is done in the evening and on weekends thanks to my 9-5 office job!

CHARACTER: Katsuki Bakugo ★ My Hero Academia
CHARACTER INFO: Bakugo is kind of an unpleasant person, but he will absolutely take the need to save his world personally and make it his utmost goal for the foreseeable future, and he will work hard at it. Single-mindedly even.

As for his personality, Bakugo is loud, yells a lot, calls people names a lot (or just 'extras' if he doesn't know them), is generally always angry. It's because he doesn't know how to properly express himself, he doesn't even have any real excuse to be the way he is, honestly. But beyond being abundantly aggro and kind of a bully, he's caring in how he acts - he's one of those people who will yell at you and call you an idiot but then also fetch you your favourite tea when you're sick. If he likes you. (It can be hard to tell if he likes you.)

Oh he also sweats nitroglycerin and can explode it from his hands, which he uses for offense as well as flying around like an idiot.
CR NOTES: Cop-out, but EVERYTHING. Narrowing it down, I'd love to have some acquaintances who are capable of taking all his abuse and looking beyond it with the hope of making friends. I'd love to have rivals or frienemies for Bakugo, so they can get that good "making each other better" CR. I'm not super into negative CR just for the sake of negative CR, but I like to see development in relationships as we go along so I've got no problem with enemies-to-frienemies-to-friends or similar!
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'm into most of the plot here! Would love to rub my little nose into some horror, exploration, solving mysteries, soft fluffy stuff, slice-of-life, etc. I love when games are varied and have a lot of options for what to do at any given time!
OTHER:

[etiological]

C'mere Bakugo get under Victoria's wing as she slowly makes a new group of young teens that shouldn't be heroes.

re: the picture, Victoria would argue that you can indeed, but the paperwork makes it so not worth the hassle

[nitropowered]

Omg, yes. Love that for them. Bakugo would argue that he's DESTINED to be a hero, and the best hero out there, but tbh he needs some therapy first.

Haha, amazing. Bakugo just likes shouting "go die" and "I'll kill you" at people. And his hero name might be Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight...

[etiological]

She was mentoring a therapy group of young wannabe heroes before coming here so she'll take it up to herself to keep doing that (mainly because she might lose her mind if idle for too long).

Ooooh boy she'll be immediately reminded of Magic Knight Crash, Mystic Magic Impaler and Dynamite Warrior Dash Fantastic, who are three literal weaboos from her world. that are actually a little too trigger happy.

[fourthwalled]

Wade is completely unbothered by someone calling him names and screaming at him. If anything it will make him want to needle him more and never leave and decide they are friends whether Bakugo likes it or not so....

[nitropowered]

Love it. Please needle Bakugo so, so, so, so, so much. He deserves it. And he actually...does pretty well with people who just decide they're friends and act like it.

Also not Wade having my birthday (day and month anyway).

[fourthwalled]

Countdown to buying them friendship bracelets with his rewards! (j/k j/k... probably). He's already met Midoriya in a dream, so naturally I thought I should collect Bakugo too.

Ha! Really, that's funny. I have no idea what characters share my birthday...

[equivo]

Hello and welcome!

Semi-retired teen villain regular civilian Krouse here has heard some things about Mr. Murder Explosion Dynamight from his superhero pal Deku, and I'd be happy to offer him up for some lighthearted 'teen boys giving each other shit' shenanigans. He'd be very entertained by the contrast between Bakugo and Midoriya.

[nitropowered]

Hiya!

I'm so happy to discover that Bakugo's nasty reputation is preceding him, though Deku probably only said the like, 2 nice things about him. I'll have to go snoop. ;)

I'd love to have some 'teen boys giving each other shit' shenanigans, it sounds right up my alley!

[equivo]

It was a pretty glowing review, yeah.

Fantastic! Krouse is of the overly cocky and smug variety of teenager just smart enough to manage being an idiot creatively, so I think the friction will produce some entertaining sparks. And maybe explosions.

[redheadcarrier]

Asuka is super done with her world but she's also an angry hothead teenager with a lot of emotional trauma so I feel like they'll get along explosively.

[nitropowered]

Oh man, I want this CR. Hotheaded animes to yell at each other. I kind of love it.

[redheadcarrier]

gonna go amazingly or awfully, there's no in between.

[pangzi]

I would love Baixi to meet Bakugo and wonder wtf is going on with the superheroes of Japan...

[nitropowered]

HAHAHAHA, oh that would be a valid question. I'd love to try out some CR! Baixi's is a canon I didn't even know existed, but it's awesome!

[pangzi]

Baixi's canon is basically 'creepy Chinese shadow government scientist decided to beat the American superheroes at their own game' but then they decided to go independent when they discovered how creepy the creepy shadow government scientist actually was

[prevail]

I'll offer an immortal creature who might yell back, but will accept that's just how Bakugou is. He's not great at expressing his feelings either but he had a whole redemption arc already.

But also: does the exploding boy need coffee? Can we give him coffee?

[nitropowered]

Katsuki is....well, on his redemption arc, sorta? He apologized at least. But either way it might work out, I'd love to give it a try either way.

Yes, please give him coffee.

[prevail]

Hey, he's made progress! Sandalphon still sees himself as atoning, he uh. Caused an apocalyptic event, so. Bakugou's not doing so bad. With a mission coming up, they can have a run-in.

He will absolutely provide coffee. Last month he got the okay to grow it, too.

Re: Mica ★ Katsuki Bakugo ★ My Hero Academia

[wannasmash]

Ew gross it's some nerd

Deku is just coming around to the idea that Shigaraki isn't around every corner, so it'll be a shock to see someone from his world! Particularly a friend!!

[nitropowered]

So says the biggest shitnerd ever born. >)

I'm really looking forward to these two reuniting. Bakugo is gonna be so mad Deku has his gear and Bakugo doesn't haha.

[agoddessonce]

hi I'm marbles and I play Storm from the X-Men!! I followed MHA briefly and have always wanted X-Men crossover lol (quirks vs mutations!!) so I'd love to toss Storm at Bakugo some time?? she'll be very Teacher/Mentor vibes at him unfortunately but if he needs someone who can take his attitude and his powers, she's your girllll

[nitropowered]

Lovely to meet you Marbles! I would totally love for him to eventually form a grudging soft of admiration for her because she's so strong. He'll totally brush it off at first but eventually he'll be forced to fanboy.

[plangona]

hi mica, welcome to the game! i'm k and i play octavia blake (the 100) over here. i'm only vaguely familiar with bakugo but i feel like cr between them could go either way since her personality is kinda similar. anyways i look forward to tossing them together!!

[nitropowered]

Hi K! It's lovely to meet you. I watched a lot of The 100 but it was a loooong time ago. I can see these two getting along though....or really not. I'm curious how it would play out. Either way, I can't wait to see what happens with them.