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Aug. 17th, 2018 10:40 pmRose Marshall aka the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown, The Girl in the Diner, Graveyard Rose and The Angel of the Overpass, probably a few I'm forgetting and a few more she hasn't even heard yet.
This character is from Seanan McGuire's Ghost Stories book series (which shares a setting with her InCryptid series if you're into completionism).
I vary my canonpoints but usually stick to somewhere in between books 1-2 of her series with occasional InCryptid shout-outs if the time might line up right for it. Also open to scenes from from the 50s to now or trying to do scenes with long time-skips if you want to enable my need to explore late 20th century fashion trends through text.
I may get into more post-book-3 Rose stuff in the right scenes/CR combinations, but that comes with a whole other mess of mythological concepts and connections that may be best planned out beforehand.
Happy to fill in blanks and provide exposition for canonblind and canon-blending tags. Open to assuming vague gen CR where it works and planning anything you wanna talk about first.
[OOC]
Backtagging: Always down for it.
Threadhopping: If everyone else is cool with it.
Fourthwalling: In-universe, Rose is the truth behind about a whole bunch of different urban legends (with mixed opinions and narratives ranging from a roadside guardian angel or a campfire story about the dangers of picking up hitchhikers). Feel free to know about that stuff or even have your character know some completely new-to-her twist on the story. It gets around even about more than she does.
Knowledge of her as a fictional character? Ehh. It's easy enough to get that kind of meta with the urban legend angle, but She-Hulk, Deadpool and the other usual 4th wall suspects are welcome to try to poking holes in canon if you can Rule of Cool it somehow.
Offensive subjects (elaborate):
Rose's origin story involves vehicular homicide of a teenage girl by a paranormal serial killer. So there's that right out the gate.
In relation to RP, assuming one is encountering her in her natural habitat, the myriad terrifying risks inherent in hitchhiking being a constant presence in her life are generally implied, even if those risks don't actually apply to her.
[IC]
Hugging this character: If she's solid, you can try.
Kissing this character: See above.
Flirting with this character: Fine.
Fighting with this character: If she's solid, I'm down for it. She's not exactly good at it, though, and will probably just shrug off her coat and be annoyingly incorporeal at anyone trying to hit her too hard.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Down for at least discussing anything, but it's probably not going to stick for long. Feel free to ping me via PM if you're unsure.
Killing this character: She's already dead. Killing her temporarily manifested physical body could make for a twist somewhere. Not in to drawing it out longer than is genre-typical to action or horror movies, but am into using it to lead into giving her a reason to haunt someone if she feels she can scare a dangerous person off the road or reveal her nature (accidentally or otherwise) to someone who's seen her in a non-survivable situation.
It's worth noting that if she is killed, her body disappears without a trace beyond the coat she was wearing. This often leaves yet another person to swear to someone she was there, and they'll have a cousin who has a friend at your local slumber party or campfire or stoner circle and the cycle of people trying to creep out their own friends by adding their own "fun" new details begins anew.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: If she has a coat on, reading her mind probably means noticing there are extra decades of memories (and some very trippy ones at that). Could be Too Much, or just the psychic version of an ice cream headache depending on how you wanna treat it.
If your character can sense ghosts, they'll be able to tell what she is as long as she doesn't have a coat, in which case she's functionally (if temporarily) human, but some of her strange behavior or other tells could definitely identify her to those paying close enough attention.
Warnings/Other Notes: Rose has the mouth of someone who's been hanging out with truckers for sixty+ years when not pretending to be a teenage runaway, so she will probably swear like a modern teenager despite lacking 99% of the pop culture and technical knowledge that any sixteen year old has had since about 1980 or so.
She almost always avoids revealing her nature to living people unless they're the type to be paranormally-inclined and already know about what she is. Or if she's literally caught out doing something that should be impossible.
She'll also stay with people about to die on the road that she can't save, providing company at an otherwise lonely time and serving as a psychopomp of the road and unofficial guide for the recently deceased and ghostly to help them cope with their oncoming afterlife.
For most living people she comes across, she's a pleasant enough surprise roadtrip companion who happens to be there at the right moment to prevent something that might have been pretty nasty.
Then there are the times she has a reason to actually want to be scary, as in the case of less-than-friendly drivers picking her up. She may just pull some cheap jump scares and blink-and-you'll-miss-her tricks she has at her disposal to put someone through their own personal horror story. That's more of a hobby than a fulltime afterlife gig though. She's fairly incapable of inflicting any real physical harm, but that doesn't mean she can't fuck with people's sense of reality.
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This character is from Seanan McGuire's Ghost Stories book series (which shares a setting with her InCryptid series if you're into completionism).
I vary my canonpoints but usually stick to somewhere in between books 1-2 of her series with occasional InCryptid shout-outs if the time might line up right for it. Also open to scenes from from the 50s to now or trying to do scenes with long time-skips if you want to enable my need to explore late 20th century fashion trends through text.
I may get into more post-book-3 Rose stuff in the right scenes/CR combinations, but that comes with a whole other mess of mythological concepts and connections that may be best planned out beforehand.
Happy to fill in blanks and provide exposition for canonblind and canon-blending tags. Open to assuming vague gen CR where it works and planning anything you wanna talk about first.
[OOC]
Backtagging: Always down for it.
Threadhopping: If everyone else is cool with it.
Fourthwalling: In-universe, Rose is the truth behind about a whole bunch of different urban legends (with mixed opinions and narratives ranging from a roadside guardian angel or a campfire story about the dangers of picking up hitchhikers). Feel free to know about that stuff or even have your character know some completely new-to-her twist on the story. It gets around even about more than she does.
Knowledge of her as a fictional character? Ehh. It's easy enough to get that kind of meta with the urban legend angle, but She-Hulk, Deadpool and the other usual 4th wall suspects are welcome to try to poking holes in canon if you can Rule of Cool it somehow.
Offensive subjects (elaborate):
Rose's origin story involves vehicular homicide of a teenage girl by a paranormal serial killer. So there's that right out the gate.
In relation to RP, assuming one is encountering her in her natural habitat, the myriad terrifying risks inherent in hitchhiking being a constant presence in her life are generally implied, even if those risks don't actually apply to her.
[IC]
Hugging this character: If she's solid, you can try.
Kissing this character: See above.
Flirting with this character: Fine.
Fighting with this character: If she's solid, I'm down for it. She's not exactly good at it, though, and will probably just shrug off her coat and be annoyingly incorporeal at anyone trying to hit her too hard.
Injuring this character (include limits and severity): Down for at least discussing anything, but it's probably not going to stick for long. Feel free to ping me via PM if you're unsure.
Killing this character: She's already dead. Killing her temporarily manifested physical body could make for a twist somewhere. Not in to drawing it out longer than is genre-typical to action or horror movies, but am into using it to lead into giving her a reason to haunt someone if she feels she can scare a dangerous person off the road or reveal her nature (accidentally or otherwise) to someone who's seen her in a non-survivable situation.
It's worth noting that if she is killed, her body disappears without a trace beyond the coat she was wearing. This often leaves yet another person to swear to someone she was there, and they'll have a cousin who has a friend at your local slumber party or campfire or stoner circle and the cycle of people trying to creep out their own friends by adding their own "fun" new details begins anew.
Using telepathy/mind reading abilities on this character: If she has a coat on, reading her mind probably means noticing there are extra decades of memories (and some very trippy ones at that). Could be Too Much, or just the psychic version of an ice cream headache depending on how you wanna treat it.
If your character can sense ghosts, they'll be able to tell what she is as long as she doesn't have a coat, in which case she's functionally (if temporarily) human, but some of her strange behavior or other tells could definitely identify her to those paying close enough attention.
Warnings/Other Notes: Rose has the mouth of someone who's been hanging out with truckers for sixty+ years when not pretending to be a teenage runaway, so she will probably swear like a modern teenager despite lacking 99% of the pop culture and technical knowledge that any sixteen year old has had since about 1980 or so.
She almost always avoids revealing her nature to living people unless they're the type to be paranormally-inclined and already know about what she is. Or if she's literally caught out doing something that should be impossible.
She'll also stay with people about to die on the road that she can't save, providing company at an otherwise lonely time and serving as a psychopomp of the road and unofficial guide for the recently deceased and ghostly to help them cope with their oncoming afterlife.
For most living people she comes across, she's a pleasant enough surprise roadtrip companion who happens to be there at the right moment to prevent something that might have been pretty nasty.
Then there are the times she has a reason to actually want to be scary, as in the case of less-than-friendly drivers picking her up. She may just pull some cheap jump scares and blink-and-you'll-miss-her tricks she has at her disposal to put someone through their own personal horror story. That's more of a hobby than a fulltime afterlife gig though. She's fairly incapable of inflicting any real physical harm, but that doesn't mean she can't fuck with people's sense of reality.
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