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Name: Zita Contact: You're welcome to add me on plurk at zitasaurusrex or Zita#2651 Time Zone: PST Tagging Speed/Preferences: I'd say I run medium-to-slow if you aren't catching me at a time where I can tag back. If you are, I can usually go at least a few rounds pretty rapidly. I can sometimes phone tag from work. I'm generally willing to backtag, but get unsure about if the other player wants to continue if it's getting old. Communicate with me about what you need. I'm okay with handwaving ends to threads so we can keep moving. About Me: SUP I'm Zita, I run the front counter in a shop that does custom work. Sometimes it's dead, sometimes every single phone is ringing at once. I have vague knowledge of a lot of popular Nerd Stuff but, despite good intentions, I don't really take in a lot of media anymore so I am canonblind to most things. I generally enjoy scifi a little more than fantasy and like to play video games (...when I can get around to them.) I read a lot of objectively bad books and complain theatrically about them for fun.
Also: Huge tabletop nerd with an unfortunate D&D-disliking problem. (I'm currently playing Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Masks: A New Generation, The One Ring, and (...theoretically) Vampire: the Masquerade, as everyone's adult schedules permit.)
I read/reread over 30 Halo novels since the start of the year and it may have broken something within me. 8)
Character
Character Name: John-117 (The Master Chief, he appreciates being called "Chief" but will also answer to John.) Canon: Halo (Main continuity from the games/novels, the TV show is entirely different ) Canon Point: The end of Halo: Infinite Age: Chronologically 48, but the man has spent a lot of time in cryogenic suspension and is probably closer to late 30s. Being infantry in Halo is like that. Planetary Alignment: Tian
About My Character: The Master Chief is a very dedicated person who has committed his entire life to protecting humanity. ...Because John and a bunch of other kids were stolen from their homes at age six to be trained and surgically altered for the job. (They were actually meant to suppress colonial rebellion, but having newly-minted teenaged super soldiers ready to deploy was very convenient when a xenocidal alien empire showed up.) He will do just about anything to cover this up because 1) the creation of the Spartan-IIs was very illegal like that 2) he understands this information is upsetting and 3) this let him save many lives, so that makes it Fine, Actually™. He's amazing at soldiering, and has no life experience with anything else.
John is tough, brave, stubborn, awkward at parties, a total workacholic, and can sometimes be the dumbest smart person you've ever met. He has great self-control, a calm temper, and can handle a lot of wild shit with professionalism. He's good at hiding his problems, but... he has been through a lot lately and is incredibly tired.
John also, for better or worse, thinks he's funny. His sense of humor runs deadpan when it shows, and sometimes he's correct.
Tethering Information/Requests: 10/10 mechanic designed in a lab to bully the Chief personally. Being new means he has some time to figure this out, and he's probably going to approach it in the most practical and please-don't-make-this-weird way possible when he does.
He'll be very respectful of boundaries and try not to dig into your secrets if you extend the same courtesy, and will be suitably guilty about it if shit he can't control happens.
CR I'm Looking For: Chief actually bonds pretty quickly with people and cares genuinely... he just doesn't let anyone truly close and is used to how bad it hurts when he loses them. It would be nice to let him have friends that he isn't responsible for in a chain of command and who don't die on him.
This character especially benefits if he has at least one friend who has better people skills than he does and doesn't mind being a social anchor/doing talking things he's bad at. If you've got a talker who isn't too intrusive too soon and would feel good about having a big, stoic friend who's quietly grateful for them, he can be that guy. (This is probably a good angle for a tether, too.) This can easily be multiple people, he needs all the help he can get.
He's also great if other characters need someone steady that they don't have to be The Okay One for. He can be The Okay One for you, even if he's not always okay himself. Protecting and providing for others feeds who John is as a person when he can be that, it makes him feel actually good about what he is. (As opposed to when he's just good as a tool for pure violence, which doesn't feel all that great but he tries to ignore it.)
For the most part, John's really not that difficult to get along with if you're actually trying to do good work. He's surprisingly gentle and understanding if someone breaks down in a situation they're not trained to handle, he gets it. Things might get negative if someone's really pushy and tries to pry into his shell way too fast, or if someone is selfishly jeopardizing things that are important, but in general John's somebody who avoids or ices out people he has genuine issues with rather than getting heated.
Romance isn't totally off the table (I'm soft), but he's never-been-kissed inexperienced and this is so far off his list of priorities it would totally blindside him. If you've got a character he might be a fit for and you're interested, see if there's chemistry first and maybe sometime down the line we'll talk.
Plots I'm Looking For: God idk I just got here and am pretty open!
I guess something is that he's currently chipped, is retaining it because he likes having the option to not go in loud every time, and is adapting to not being as tough as usual and it's gonna bother him.
He also is gonna be picking up magic because Tian reasons, and that's weird.
Character Arc Ideas: SLAMS MY FIST ON THE TABLE about how John doesn't understand that the most important thing about him isn't that he's The Master Chief, Savior of Humanity. It's that despite how awful everything is for him pretty much all the time, despite the terrible things he's been through, despite loss and betrayal and suffering, he's John who cares earnestly, makes bad jokes, and wants to do the right thing for other people/make them feel safe. I picked Tian for John because while Heba would have been much more within his comfort zone (forthright, direct, externally-focused, high-action), Tian leans more on his capacity to support and care for others and the fact John could really stand to sit down with his emotions for a bit.
Basically, help me shake Chief like a ragdoll until he understands that he's more important as a person than he is as a weapon. People have been trying to get through to him about this for years, and he's really stubborn.
Other: Note that he doesn't have his armor and I have no plans about if/when he might get it back, but I like using armor icons when he's not face-to-face because #aesthetic.
Rokuro isn't exactly helpful in a social sense because he is from the year 1600 and has Opinions on modern day life that he will definitely share (whether you ask or not), but if you want a small guy who will take care of a bigger guy energy he is your man. Very nurturing and protective, sometimes to a annoying degree.
He also seems to be collecting socially awkward tech-bro types, and isn't the type to pry too hard. Everyone has their shit deep dark shit, and he knows that better than most. Also very similar in the 'I don't exist out of my duties' struggling to exist as a person camp.
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Zita | John-117 (The Master Chief)
Name: Zita
Contact: You're welcome to add me on plurk at
Time Zone: PST
Tagging Speed/Preferences: I'd say I run medium-to-slow if you aren't catching me at a time where I can tag back. If you are, I can usually go at least a few rounds pretty rapidly. I can sometimes phone tag from work.
I'm generally willing to backtag, but get unsure about if the other player wants to continue if it's getting old. Communicate with me about what you need. I'm okay with handwaving ends to threads so we can keep moving.
About Me:
SUP I'm Zita, I run the front counter in a shop that does custom work. Sometimes it's dead, sometimes every single phone is ringing at once. I have vague knowledge of a lot of popular Nerd Stuff but, despite good intentions, I don't really take in a lot of media anymore so I am canonblind to most things. I generally enjoy scifi a little more than fantasy and like to play video games (...when I can get around to them.) I read a lot of objectively bad books and complain theatrically about them for fun.
Also: Huge tabletop nerd with an unfortunate D&D-disliking problem. (I'm currently playing Werewolf: the Apocalypse, Masks: A New Generation, The One Ring, and (...theoretically) Vampire: the Masquerade, as everyone's adult schedules permit.)
I read/reread over 30 Halo novels since the start of the year and it may have broken something within me. 8)
Character Name: John-117 (The Master Chief, he appreciates being called "Chief" but will also answer to John.)
Canon: Halo (Main continuity from the games/novels, the TV show is entirely different )
Canon Point: The end of Halo: Infinite
Age: Chronologically 48, but the man has spent a lot of time in cryogenic suspension and is probably closer to late 30s. Being infantry in Halo is like that.
Planetary Alignment: Tian
About My Character:
The Master Chief is a very dedicated person who has committed his entire life to protecting humanity. ...Because John and a bunch of other kids were stolen from their homes at age six to be trained and surgically altered for the job. (They were actually meant to suppress colonial rebellion, but having newly-minted teenaged super soldiers ready to deploy was very convenient when a xenocidal alien empire showed up.) He will do just about anything to cover this up because 1) the creation of the Spartan-IIs was very illegal like that 2) he understands this information is upsetting and 3) this let him save many lives, so that makes it Fine, Actually™. He's amazing at soldiering, and has no life experience with anything else.
John is tough, brave, stubborn, awkward at parties, a total workacholic, and can sometimes be the dumbest smart person you've ever met. He has great self-control, a calm temper, and can handle a lot of wild shit with professionalism. He's good at hiding his problems, but... he has been through a lot lately and is incredibly tired.
John also, for better or worse, thinks he's funny. His sense of humor runs deadpan when it shows, and sometimes he's correct.
Tethering Information/Requests: 10/10 mechanic designed in a lab to bully the Chief personally. Being new means he has some time to figure this out, and he's probably going to approach it in the most practical and please-don't-make-this-weird way possible when he does.
He'll be very respectful of boundaries and try not to dig into your secrets if you extend the same courtesy, and will be suitably guilty about it if shit he can't control happens.
CR I'm Looking For: Chief actually bonds pretty quickly with people and cares genuinely... he just doesn't let anyone truly close and is used to how bad it hurts when he loses them. It would be nice to let him have friends that he isn't responsible for in a chain of command and who don't die on him.
This character especially benefits if he has at least one friend who has better people skills than he does and doesn't mind being a social anchor/doing talking things he's bad at. If you've got a talker who isn't too intrusive too soon and would feel good about having a big, stoic friend who's quietly grateful for them, he can be that guy. (This is probably a good angle for a tether, too.) This can easily be multiple people, he needs all the help he can get.
He's also great if other characters need someone steady that they don't have to be The Okay One for. He can be The Okay One for you, even if he's not always okay himself. Protecting and providing for others feeds who John is as a person when he can be that, it makes him feel actually good about what he is. (As opposed to when he's just good as a tool for pure violence, which doesn't feel all that great but he tries to ignore it.)
For the most part, John's really not that difficult to get along with if you're actually trying to do good work. He's surprisingly gentle and understanding if someone breaks down in a situation they're not trained to handle, he gets it. Things might get negative if someone's really pushy and tries to pry into his shell way too fast, or if someone is selfishly jeopardizing things that are important, but in general John's somebody who avoids or ices out people he has genuine issues with rather than getting heated.
Romance isn't totally off the table (I'm soft), but he's never-been-kissed inexperienced and this is so far off his list of priorities it would totally blindside him. If you've got a character he might be a fit for and you're interested, see if there's chemistry first and maybe sometime down the line we'll talk.
Plots I'm Looking For: God idk I just got here and am pretty open!
I guess something is that he's currently chipped, is retaining it because he likes having the option to not go in loud every time, and is adapting to not being as tough as usual and it's gonna bother him.
He also is gonna be picking up magic because Tian reasons, and that's weird.
Character Arc Ideas: SLAMS MY FIST ON THE TABLE about how John doesn't understand that the most important thing about him isn't that he's The Master Chief, Savior of Humanity. It's that despite how awful everything is for him pretty much all the time, despite the terrible things he's been through, despite loss and betrayal and suffering, he's John who cares earnestly, makes bad jokes, and wants to do the right thing for other people/make them feel safe. I picked Tian for John because while Heba would have been much more within his comfort zone (forthright, direct, externally-focused, high-action), Tian leans more on his capacity to support and care for others and the fact John could really stand to sit down with his emotions for a bit.
Basically, help me shake Chief like a ragdoll until he understands that he's more important as a person than he is as a weapon. People have been trying to get through to him about this for years, and he's really stubborn.
Other:
Note that he doesn't have his armor and I have no plans about if/when he might get it back, but I like using armor icons when he's not face-to-face because #aesthetic.
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He also seems to be collecting socially awkward tech-bro types, and isn't the type to pry too hard. Everyone has their shit deep dark shit, and he knows that better than most. Also very similar in the 'I don't exist out of my duties' struggling to exist as a person camp.
When John orders a tea and gets coffee but doesn't want to bother the waitress.