The All-Purpose CR/Plotting Meme - First of 2014

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The All-Purpose CR/Plotting Meme

Another round of the CR/Plotting Meme with which to begin a new year!

As always, the meme's open for making arrangements with and between not only current but potential characters in StE; there will be a header under which to comment with potential characters - when doing so, please label with characters' reincarnated names (if decided!) and pre-incarnated names and canons in the comments' subject lines.

For characters of either status, toss up a comment and any information you see please; go on ahead and use this form if you'd like a place to start or take it however you feel -

<b>Character:</b> <b>Pre-Incarnation:</b> [Feel free to write them up a blurb here - especially encouraged if they're a character you're considering rather than one established in-game! Alternatively omit.] <b>Pre-Network CR Opportunities:</b> (Family, colleagues, or mentors/students you're open to player control of? Friends and enemies from here-or-there you'd like them entering things with? Etc.) <b>Open/Wanted CR:</b> (Have you any certain types of CR/dynamics you hope to bring into development?) <b>Other Info:</b> (Anything a person ought to know - any plans for them or things you've wanted to write them doing? Where characters may encounter each other? What they like, what they've been up to, what they do and do not get along with?) <b>Anything Else?:</b> (Anything else you'd like to say?)

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William Thomas Winchester // Blitzcrank, The Great Steam Golem

[hawaiianheir]

Character: William Thomas "Bill" Winchester.
Pre-Incarnation: Blitzcrank, the Great Steam Golem, champion in the League of Legends.

Blitzcrank, created by a brilliant team of magical/technology scientists, was originally a waste-reclamation bot who, in the interests of safety, was given the ability to make on the fly judgements. As robots given abilities to make judgements on their own are wont to do, Blitzcrank started to learn and became a fully sentient steam-and-magic-powered automaton. A huge debate wages, over which credit was falsely claimed, until Blitzcrank humbly filed for autonomy in the courts of Zaun, a motion which the public overwhelmingly supported. Distressed by the controversy, he left for the League of Legends, to mingle with other situationally unique and find his own way. He's tough, and maybe a bit rough around the edges, but he's certainly kind.

William is in much the same vein, though less magic and steam and steel and more flesh and blood. Early 50s, he's lived in Locke practically most of his life, though I'm toying with the idea of him having lived in Texas during his childhood. In the game, he'd be running a rather modest, if fairly successful business known as Winchester's Bolts And Wrenches (Often just called Winchester's.), a Locke City staple as a mechanics and parts place that graduated into a sort of catch-all mechanics and electronic repair shop, with Bill himself as the shop's patron.

Pre-Network CR Opportunities: Of what I have together for Bill, he could have any of the following:

- Family, particularly nieces/nephews.
- Co-Workers of Winchester's
- Students from part-time teaching at Locke U
- People who just know of him as the local repair shop guy.
- Regulars at Winchester's?
- OTHER STUFF PROBABLY

Open/Wanted CR: Bill is a kind-hearted meddler by nature who's slow to anger. I can see him as a sort of dad/uncle role to a lot of characters, though obviously some will be more trouble than that. And I figure he can mingle more with the adult crowd than say, Mac. :'| I'm open for basically anything and everything.

Other Info: HE WILL BE TURNING INTO A ROBOT AT SOME POINT. A MAGITEK STEAM ROBOT. SO. THERE'S THAT.

Anything Else?: Obviously, he's not quite set in stone, and Blitzcrank's story is a bit paper-thin and cobbled together from what we have of him featured in League. I'd appreciate anyone who knows more about League lore than me to bring any information I might have missed to my knowledge, since I want to flesh out Bill and Blitz equally.

[wasandwillbe]

did you know that blitzcrank, in canon, has run a matchmaking service

just sayin'

[hawaiianheir]

I DID KNOW THIS AND BELIEVE ME IT WILL BE ECHOED BACK

(i still ship rammus/a cactus tbh)

[nevergivesup]

Jake here's a car/motorcycle mechanic at another place, so they could possibly know each other. If Winchester's sells specific automotive parts, it could be that the place Jake works at (Armco) buys parts from them as needed. Otherwise, they could just know each other since they deal with the same general field.

[hawaiianheir]

Winchester's does sell specific automotive parts, typically custom ones that are hard to find in local garage junkies' places for automotive hobbyists, though they have a small supply of standard parts too, though they don't often advertise them, simply because their stock on auto parts hasn't been entirely as plentiful as Bill'd liked since they've shifted into a catch-all machine-and-electronics shop.

But yeah, I'm totally cool with them being buddies who worked in the same field or something.