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memesinthenight2019-11-15 01:47 pm
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CR Meme #3
Hello everyone and welcome to the game's third CR Meme! As always, it's been incredible to see just how much everyone has been willing to reach out to one another both in and out of character, and with a wide variety of new players (and new characters from old players) having joined us recently, there's sure to be a lot to talk about! New or old, we'd love to see you make some new friends or unexpected connections between your characters. Ready to dive in?
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Who's-- not sure about Peter, yet. He thinks Peter is nice, and friendly and he's willing to go to Peter for help (Peter is going to have to kind of Spider-web his own door shut later on probably, because Quentin is going to think of Peter first if he needs help with something technical or exploration related) and he trusts him enough to ask for that help (which- I'm going to reply to their 'Let's Suit Up' thread SOON, I SWEAR). Quentin asking for help is really kind of a BIG THING because he doesn't really do that much.
Gees, Peter, let up on the mutant registration! It was a good idea on paper and Quentin is a very theoretical kind of man! And he thinks the best of people - which is going to get him killed by Villanelle- yay?
So, that was a long way of saying - yes! Please, yes, more Peter and Quentin being weird around each other!
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listen listen the last time something like that happened, his aunt ended up getting shot, he ended up committing a dozen crimes and then made a deal with the devil to sell his marriage to save his aunt. it worked out Very Badly, okay. BUT SURE GREAT IDEA IN THEORY, IT'S JUST A SORE SPOT, ALRIGHT.
BUT YIKES QUENTIN. peter will be pretty bothered by quentin dying, ngl. he'll definitely come and check in on him, maybe with ... like, ice cream.
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Well, okay! So maybe someone should tell Quentin that? Because he was just being friendly, alright? Just because registering Hedge witches (magicians but without formal training? They have to learn all of magic on their own, some are SO badass!) lent to them being targeted and killed? That was a fluke, okay? A one off! It's not like keeping a list of people who are different has ever gone bad before!
It's ice cream soup now. From the crab in the park. It sells ice cream soup now. But yes! Bring it! Also, Quentin should visit Peter once this is all over to apologize for being a sad sack all over him last month - he'll bring Tequila or creme de menthe and they can get plastered.
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peter will tell him one day, okay. just like... in a super roundabout way, because he's totes not spider-man. totes.
also ice cream soup is milkshakes. the crab now sells milkshakes, alright.
oh my god
oh my god
that'll be
hilarious and disastrous because LMFAO PETER DOESN'T ACTUALLY DRINK...
or rather, there's like a grand total of THREE occasions where he's shown to be drunk in canon, and only one of them is pleasant — he unwittingly gets drunk (spiked punch, because of course), fights the hobgoblin, and it's terrible; after he and mj have broken up, they're both at may's wedding and he gets wrecked because he can't work up the courage to actually speak to mj sober, and then ends up sleeping with his roommate and remembering nothing about the night (baby's first hangover); and during ~the lost years~ of pete and mj's marriage, they were celebrating reuniting after their separation and that was like ... the only time he's been not sober and it's not ended terribly.
(aka i drink rarely and badly indeed.)
he'd maybe have one or two to be polite but he's also a hilarious lightweight despite being a superhero and having the associated COMICS metabolism.
basically, quentin, your new pal's a fucking disaster.
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Totally not, like, Spider-man is all capable and cool and shit, and wears spandex? And is strong? And Peter is... not those things?
Depends - is it served warm? The mods weren't all clear on that. So, it could just be melted, luke-warm ice cream. In a bowl.
He doesn't? Jesus, the whole cast of the Magicians are pickled. Always. Not an episode come by without someone or all of them drinking or doing drugs. So much! Magical drugs, regular drugs, snorting stuff, popping pills. You name it, they probably did it. Except for shooting up, they're staying clear of that one for now. But, who knows what the future brings, since they DID JUST kill off Quentin and made a huge production about him not coming back.
Aww, poor Peter, all traumatized by drinking! Drinking with Quentin is fun! He's a fun drunk! Or moping, but mostly fun! He even knows a dance routine he made with his best friend Julia when they were teens. Also, he sings under his breath when he's drunk and even remotely happy.
Welcome, new friend! To the disaster zone, because Quentin is such a HUGE one himself! Have I showed you the gif of him removing clothes? I feel like I have, but maybe you missed it? Because he's just-- not good at normal things.
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he could do without the weird prophecies, okay.
BUT SURE, QUENTIN, U CAN HAVE EVERYONE U LOVE DIE TOO. THAT'S COOL, IT'S NOT INTENSELY TRAUMATIC AT ALL.
capable and cool, god, precisely no-one says that about spider-man. WHAT UNIVERSE ARE YOU FROM QUENTIN and can peter go there.
...i'll be honest, i totally forgot the ice cream was an actual in game thing there. but you can have cold soup, maybe it's ice cream gazpacho.
HE DOES NOT, it's a control thing. he's very uptight, so he just drinks a shitton of coffee because how else do you think he's survived on basically no sleep, ever, since the age of 15. (i mean, this is what happens when one of his clones gets drunk. enjoy the lovely mullet, please.) which is to say: GOSH QUENTIN. such a raucous life. and it's fine, people come back from being dead all the time. quentin will (maybe) get over it. flesh wound etc etc.
"mostly fun" fkdlg is he going to sing taylor swift at peter....
i ... absolutely feel like it may have been in the discord once but i think i came back to the conversation about it and not the actual gif SO PLEASE DO SHOW ME yes.
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No prophecies, though. Just a weird quest given to Eliot from the questing cock about Eliot's floppy-haired friend.
OH LET'S COMPARE TRAUMA - Quentin grew up with his single dad in New Jersey, because his mom left them because she just couldn't deal with either of them. She constantly hates Quentin and calls him a failure. She mentions him, to his face! as the boy how breaks everything around him. Always. His dad dies of magical Brain cancer! And, Quentin was the one to bring magic back (quest!) and thus killed his own dad!
His girlfriend died and turned in to a niffin that lived in his back for a year, talking to him in his head. He has clinical depression to the point where he's been hospitalized several times. He gets his best friend raped by a god, because he refuses to help her learn magic. He gets his ex-girlfriend BACK FROM THE DEAD! and she hates him for it. She's his ex because he slept with Eliot and Margo-- by accident! It was a one-time thing!
And then- jesus, and then he lived a whole life, trapped in the magical, mythical kingdom of Fillory (think Narnia, but darker). He lived it for more than fifty years, he got married and he had a son. He lived it with Eliot, for all those years until Eliot dies in his sleep when they're about 80? This is when the quest is completed (show the beauty of all life) and -- and that whole timeline is just erased! BUT! Quentin and Eliot both remember it! AND Quentin, remembering this perfect, wonderful life, wants to try in this one --- AND ELIOT TURNS HIM DOWN WITH 'that's not me and that's definitely not you, Q, so no.' JUST AFTER THAT! An unstoppable, unkillable monster possess Eliot's body and starts killing people with Quentin in tow. Because it likes Quentin. It hates everything else, but it likes Quentin, so of course Quentin has to come along to rip the hearts out of people's chests! For putting sprinkles on ice cream!
Quentin died (partly) to get Eliot his body back.
Spider-man is kind of cool, because he's from New York, so there!
... he just MIGHT sing Taylor Swift at Peter, yes! There's a TSwift song for every occasion!
I will show you when I find them! Hold on!
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what
rip people's hearts out for putting sprinkles on ice cream...
ALRIGHT CLIFF NOTES TRAUMA: uncle ben's death, captain stacy's death, gwen's death on his shoulders. he was cloned (several times, and briefly gave up his life because he thought he was the clone); and a totally terrible retcon has gwen stacy, love! of his life! sleeping with norman osborn (arch-nemesis, green goblin, and all-around terrible father of his bff) and giving birth to t...wins... who later try and kill him.
oh, and said dead girlfriend was also cloned by a dude obsessed with her.
then we've got being buried alive for two weeks! (it was traumatising.) may's death faked! mary jane's death faked! separation! then he dies, he sheds his skin, creates a cocoon, comes back to life with weird magic spider powers, briefly has an embarrassing idolisation of tony stark and reveals his identity on national tv. which means aunt may gets shot (bullet meant for mj!), EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE, he commits MANY CRIMES and ends up making a deal with the devil to sell his marriage to make things okay again.
then we had a shitty story that establishes the false memories peter and mj have of their marriage not working out is: peter misses the wedding entirely, and they break up (later) due to mj wanting kids as a requirement for getting married and not wanting to bring them into a life with peter parker because he's ..... spider-man.
the usual dramas happen for a while, then otto octavius (runner-up nemesis, really) steals his body, peter technically dies in otto octavius' body. otto goes around for like, a year pretending to be peter parker/spider-man, no-one really notices that peter's LOST THE FUCKING PLOT until he regains control of his body. then he becomes a national disgrace twice over for destroying the company otto had set up in his name, and later because ...... peter never actually finished grad school, so otto did his phd as peter and then peter got accused of plagiarising otto......
and now aunt may has cancer. and he was going to propose to mj (again), but he was too late because she'd gone to california to shoot a movie.
less traumatically, he also kinda has a sister, it turns out. her name is teresa and she's a super cool cia agent.
but tbh most of that's irrelevant because peter will never ever mention it. which means, like, HE CAN RELATE, Q, HE'S JUST NOT going to elaborate on how and why........
lmao peter will just take quentin's word that there's a tswift song for every occasion, because the most recent artist he actually really, genuinely listens to, is run-dmc. soz q.
BUT TOO DAMN RIGHT SPIDER-MAN'S A COOL NEW YORKER. (aka of fucking course growing up in jersey was a traumatic experience, quentin, it's fucking jersey.)
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See, this monster was made by the Gods at the beginning of time, and because they really fucking suck, they made a being of pure want. It doesn't know how NOT TO WANT things, mostly, it wants affection. Attention. It's basically a five year old with unlimited powers. It kidnaps Quentin, and then murders around the world with Quentin there as a witness or, more likely, his security blanket. Because it really, really likes Quentin. The Monster killing someone over sprinkles here.
Eliot:
1, 2, 3
The Monster:
1, 2 3
Quentin will also NEVER MENTION any of this! He doesn't even mention Eliot as anything other than - this is Eliot (/explanation). He'll talk Peter's ear off about his ideas about superheroes, tropes and fantasy stories! Yay! But mention ANY OF THIS WHOLE MESS? Never. He might mention problems in his own world? And that he died 39 times? But the whole messy emotional crap? NEVER!
Holy crap - I dropped out of the comics right after the story mentioned that the Peter Parker we'd been reading about, was really the clone and the clone (who wasn't even called Peter by that time) was really the original Peter. It was a mess. I never really got in to it after that, because I found other comics? But wow, and MJ and Green Goblin? Shit!
Don't mention that you relate without elaborating, Peter! Because Quentin has this whole HUGE must fix the thing!-thing going on! Unless he gets distracted by random crap. It's part of how he only feels like he has a right to exist if he's useful? Since if he isn't being useful to someone, or something (quests!) he's just a waste of space. Issues, man! So many issues! But otherwise he's going to try to get Peter to talk about weird things!
Quentin being bad at taking a shirt off:
Quentin, still and always loving his ex-girlfriend Alice:
1, 2
Quentin and Eliot:
1, 2 3, 4
Oh, he WILL FUCKING SING THEM! Don't ever doubt the power of TSwift! Seriously, though. I have no idea, Quentin is a BIG FAN in canon, so I have to google Taylor Swift songs a lot.
HE KNOWS! Jersey is not good a good place for a kid! New York IS BETTER!
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SECURITY BLANKET QUENTIN oh my god. honestly, magicians sounds like a trip. i love the fact that the shirt he's wearing is his happy shirt...
OH MAN SORRY that was my bad for lack of clarity, it was gwen and norman — sins past, which was a straczynski story. he'd originally wanted the kids to be pete and gwen's, but editorial decided that peter having kids would fucking age him too much, so obviously the better answer was to decide that ... norman and gwen slept together..... ironically, jms' run is my favourite of the modern runs, but the duds he ended up writing were absolutely fucking terrible.
BUT LMFAO HONESTLY i am not surprised you dropped out around the clone saga. ben reilly being the "real" peter OBVIOUSLY WASN'T RECEIVED VERY WELL, so they dropped it. it's just totally wild to me that marvel thought it would work.
GOSH. QUENTIN GETTING (UN)DRESSED IS LIKE A PRETTY VALUABLE LIFE SKILL...
tbh they need to bond over pizza again.
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"Look, just imagine dicks, okay? With one dick, you're just jerking yourself off, but with three dicks, suddenly you've got six people having sex. Which is more powerful? "
So, yeah. Dick jokes. It's a thing. Expect more.
Still, tho. Gwen and Norman isn't that much better? It's still- oh gross. Because Peter would be too old? He's SPIDER-MAN! It's not like he's going to end up decrepit because he's 40. But yeah, some writers can make or break a story. Personally, I just love the stories that deconstruct the tropes? Like Red Son? Astro City? Irredeemable? Watchmen?
Irredeemable (deconstruction of Superman, kind of), has a line about a friend of the Plutonian asking him - "what does it feel like to be you?" (mean, to be special, to save the day, to be super) and a few years later, when the Plutonian snaps, he puts the friend in the middle of a flash-flood, with thousands of people in danger. Men, women, children, all just waiting to die from exposure or drowning. He puts his friend down in the middle and says: "Choose ten." Of course the friend argues, pleads- "Just the kids, then! Please!" And the Plutonian goes: "This is what it feels like to be me - now Choose. Ten." The friend picks ten, going "There! Happy now?" and the Plutonian sets the rest of the people he didn't pick on fire.
I love shit like that.
Well, to be fair to them, comicbook fans have been willing to eat a lot of shit before, so. Maybe they just thought they would keep doing it.
HE DOES NOT HAVE THIS LIFE SKILL!! HE IS NOT SKILLED AT LIFE IN ANY WAY, SHAPE or FORM!
... they really should!