+1 teenage douche

[darkinferno]

Hello and good evening to all, I am (trying really hard not to scare you all away with my excite) (failing miserably at that task) (reconsidering the logic behind using these parentheses in the first place) (Abilene), and I am 100% brand-spankin'-new to StE.

Well. 95% new. If you count knowing a couple people from previous games prior to this. But I digress.

The fact of the matter is that I'm all sorts of excited to be joining you here, and I'll be bringing you a fresh incarnation of Riku from Kingdom Hearts! To make a long story short, boy's a moron: he tried to exploit darkness, failed, spent a few games figuring his shit out, and now is doing pretty ok for himself. 

In StE, where he's known as Dante Rantanen, he's kind of going to be a teenage douche--this incarnation hasn't ever had his arrogance bite him in the ass yet, and so is a lot more sardonic than his counterpart in later games. Due to constantly traveling with his parents when he was younger, Riku's not really that great (or even interested) in forming long-lasting friendships; he tends to make superficial connections based on what they might be able to do for him later on. He's been in Locke City for about a year and a half now, so not really new to the area, but just graduated from Locke City Academy here this past school year. Not doing anything with his life as of yet because he's just a bum coasting off his parents' money. No reason not to, right?

Riku's info post can be found here for more information (though beware, a few of the links just lead to placeholder posts atm... I'll get those changed out later for legit ones...) (guess who got everything updated!). I myself can be reached at journeys (just let me know who you are please, aha... ha...), or through a PM here on Riku's journal! I'm about to be absent for a day or so because of Christmas (I AM THE QUEEN OF BEST TIMING), but I'm hoping to get the ball rolling here soon. I AM LOOKING FORWARD SO MUCH TO PLAYING WITH YOU ALL :)

(Also please don't let my extreme silliness scare you away, I promise I'm just a gigantic dork :>)

Comments

[tenaciousc]

abi

abi abi abi abi




Hi. :D

[darkinferno]

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HI! :D






i am so excite

[originaloddcouple]

Have idiots to be used by jerks!

In other words, hi! I'm Nerdman, probably gonna add you somewhat soonish, and I play the Dians. The dumbie dumb dumb Dians. Welcome aboard!

[darkinferno]

YESSSSSSSSSSS I love Isaac and Miria so much and I am so excited to see them around! and oh gods, Riku will probably see them as very useful very quickly but they're such endearing idiots

[scramasax]

Hello and welcome~!

I'm Blue, player of Anthony from Eternal Darkness, former Holy Roman Empire messenger turned zombie, now a serious and uptight but eager-to-please sixteen-year-old who's also gone zombie; and Rarity from My Little Pony, unicorn fashion mogul who has recently regrown a horn as a family pet renamed to Cinderella.

Fantastic to meet you and may you have a smashing time with us~ I shall look forward to playing off you!

[darkinferno]

Hello Blue! I know I've seen Anthony commenting around before--I don't know too much about Eternal Darkness but his story sounds fascinating! I'll be looking forward to checking it out :> (And I won't lie, when I first saw Rarity on the Taken list my initial response was pretty much "???????" but it's neat how it seems to be working out so far!)

[ursoreckless]

Hello Abilene, welcome to the game!

I'm Alec and I have this guy here - Sho from the movie Moon Child. In his previous life, he was a street rat that grew up to be a mob boss and then was turned into a vampire by his BFF. In this life, he is a trust fund baby that is in America on the pretense of 'trying to find himself' while he spends a majority of his time at parties, speeding with his ridiculously priced sports car - which he will probably upgrade - and his cosplay gear.

[darkinferno]

Oh, very nice! Sounds like Sho's living it up, at least until he draws too much attention his way, huh? :) I'll be looking forward to playing off of you, Alec!

[poisonousflame]

/SCREAMS AT

/LOUDLY

[darkinferno]

/SCREAMS BACK AT

/LOUDER

[sayhitobianca]

OH NO IT'S ABI RUN

i mean

WELCOME yes that's it.

come join the mob Silver >:D

[darkinferno]

YEAH I KNOW I CLEARED THE ROOM AGAIN :( IT'S A PROBLEM OKAY

also yes

silver would like very much to join the mob

you get to corrupt him this time varric! HE MIGHT EVEN LET YOU MAKE HIM LAUGH AND CRACK JOKES AND SNARK GASP

[strikeraid]

HI

HELLO
TRIES NOT TO BREATHE IN YOUR SPACE

[darkinferno]

HEE

HI THERE
PLEASE FEEL WELCOME TO BREATHE IN MY SPACE NEW FRIEND >:D

MORE THAN WELCOME REALLY

I WILL JUST BE OVER HERE MAKING mOwOm FACES OKAY

[moarnomsplz]

Hey there! I'm ellie, and I play this kid, Ax from Animorphs, who in Locke City is called Alex and is a sophomore at LCA. Welcome to StE!

[darkinferno]

Aaaaaaaaaax! And how adorable is his PB, oh wow. Has he started echoing back the physical traits yet? I imagine that must be pretty tough to hide!

(And thank you!)

[ex_elude798]

Oh snap a new 'ku!

First off, welcome to the game! I'm Ren and I play Suzaku Kururugi (Code Geass) and Clear - now Pierce Asher (DRAMAtical Murder). One's a jerk with a white-knight complex and way less tact than he should have, other's a Mr Nice Guy who's highly gifted on the piano.

...And eventually both will have lives involving robots.

Wanted to check in with you not just to greet (c'mon, Riku's a great character), but also because Suzaku here knew the previous Riku. I'm speculating whether his features would strike as familiar, since the previous Riku bleached his hair and thus looked about the same. Suzaku knew him as a half-Japanese fellow who actually went by the name Riku, and arguably the only friend-like entity in his childhood because Suzaku was a confrontational bruiser. I say friend-like because of sheer brevity, they met again about a decade later via network.

I'm wondering whether we can exploit the resemblance for maximum confusion and possible headaches, and what your preferences are regarding this. Totally up to you, but I figured I'd run it by you because sometimes giving characters headaches is fun.

In all cases I hope you have a blast here.

[darkinferno]

Hello, Ren! It's nice to meet you :)

I'm not so sure that this version of Riku's going to necessarily look a lot like the prior Riku (at least in the face; even with the hair resemblance, Japanese features vs Finnish features are still going to be pretty markedly different), but I would be all for having Dante and the prior Riku have like the same build/look alike from a distance or behind! Anyone who's played with me before can tell you I take all sorts of glee in making the poor boy's life more difficult ehehe.

But even if appearance-wise it might be a bit more difficult, another possibility would be that they could very well have similar voices? Same timbre and pitch? I'm not so sure how long it'll take Dante to start making video posts on the network, so we could definitely play with that too.

[spellfire]

HELLO HOW ARE YOU

i am mindy i play this bint right here and also a reincarnated space robot

[darkinferno]

oh hellooooooo i am wonderful and

can i just say

i love hellbird of what i've seen so far of her oh man hers was one of the top entries on the comm when i was scanning entries for what dante might've seen when he first found the network and how freakin' great is she

[acequeen]

Hey there! I'm Pam and I currently play Kallen Kouzuki from Code Geass, known as Regina Akamine in STE world. Regina's a girl who's opinionated like her canon counterpart and she has no qualms with kicking ass, but she also keeps to herself most of the time. Additionally, she was once in a gang but is now focusing on graduating college and getting degrees in medicine and Japanese studies, so yeah haha.

Also she met the previous Riku and they were both in separate gangs IIRC. He's also one of the few friends she's ever had! If you'd like to plan something out with these two, I'm all ears.

[darkinferno]

Heyo! Regina sounds like a lot of fun :> I would definitely be up for plotting something out between the two of them! I know Dante doesn't look too much like the prior Riku once you get up close, but the two of them could definitely run into each other at some point. I know Suzaku and he are having a case of mistaken identity over the network due to voices sounding similar too, so until she saw his face he'd seem pretty similar to the other 'ku...

[earnedmystripes]

hey hey!

welcome to the game, i'm batty and i play kotetsu kaburagi from tiger and bunny, who used to be a derpy superhero and is now a derpy cop :'D

soooo kotetsu knew previous!riku, at some point in a 'first meeting' sort of thing would you be down for kotetsu calling him that (i.e identity confusion etc) ? i imagine it'd be ECHO-INDUCING so i'd wanna confirm beforehand!! the fun part is where not being "remembered" is echo-inducing for kotetsu too...

[darkinferno]

YES I would be totally up for this! (also kotetsu what a precious ;w; i desperately need to finish watching this series, i got halfway through episode 10 and then life happened) Although I know we're getting some identity confusion with Suzaku and Kallen too, so not 100% if being called Riku would trigger an echo for him :|a BUT it still sounds like a lot of fun!! and yesssssssss dante will be SO CONFUSED by producing an echo in another person it'll be a++

but yes ABSOLUTELY I would love to thread with kotetsu!

[dominateartimus]

Hello and welcome to the game, Abi!

I remember playing with you at MSE. I'm Joc & this time around, I play an original character known as Sandrath -- a fallen arch-angel by his world's terms -- but better known in-game as Xander Jarle, a former soldier turned baker.

It's nice to play with you again.