Character Introductions and Plotting post!

[re_alignedmods]

Gooood evening everybody!

The official opening start time for Re/Alignment will be June 21st, 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. (For those across the globe, feel free to poke us in here for clarification on this.)

Since this is less than two days away, we're putting up this post for everyone to introduce their characters in, and maybe start plotting who will be waking up next to or on top of whom! Will there be fights breaking out over the choicest pieces of junk on the junk pile? Medics trying to remove the mysterious glyphs? Problems understanding Japanese/Cybertronian before communicators are given out?

Jump in and find out~

Comments

jumping in with an idea

[not_halfbaked]

I volunteer Korra! It'd be fun if Knock Out was the first Cybertronian she met.

Now Korra's experiences with robots (or the closest thing to them) are the steampunkish, retro, piloted-by-a-human kind, so more like Mecha tanks. That were attacking her. And she only associates 'robots' with Equalists, a group of nonbenders who violently fight back for greater equality with the benders. Korra is a major target as the Avatar, like the uber-bender and a historical symbol for benders.

Anyway, instead of immediately attacking, Korra notices the robot seems messed up and making pained noises, so it sounds like its pilot is hurt. Korra hesitates, and decides to help the probable Equalist out, thinking he or she is trapped and hurt inside the damaged robot, which probably won't be getting up to attack her anytime soon...and hey, she could probably question the Equalist pilot about where the hell she is.

Cue Korra's shock when she realizes there's no human inside but the robot still talks on its own and has a mouth and eyes....

Picture of the closest thing to a robot Korra knows here: http://images.wikia.com/avatar/images/f/f8/Mecha_tanks.png

And more info on them here: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Mecha_tank

[automobile_enthusiast]

Oh man yes?? It probably wouldn't be KO's very first encounter, as he's going to wake up tangled up with Ratchet, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's limping a little harder than before when he finally makes it away from that particular encounter. Having Korra find him and mistake him for a piloted mecha around that point would be great!

[not_halfbaked]

Cool, I'd love to do it!

So I would wait for your and Ratchet's convo to end first before starting that, right?

Probably even just KO limping and making pained sounds would make Korra hesitate before outright attacking.

[automobile_enthusiast]

Actually, we can proooobably play the threads out concurrently, just to cut down a little bit on the backtagging (i.e., threads playing out for way longer in RL time than gametime). I'd just have to make sure Ratchet and Wheeljack don't bang him up too much, but that should be easy enough to arrange.

[not_halfbaked]

That sounds much better. :D

Speaking of which, are you eastern or pacific time?

[automobile_enthusiast]

Central, actually.

[not_halfbaked]

How does central time work?

I'm pacific.

[automobile_enthusiast]

It's Eastern time minus an hour, which means I ought to be two hours ahead of you. ...I think.

[not_halfbaked]

So if I start at 5 PST, it would be like 7 CT for you?

[automobile_enthusiast]

Yup!