Opt In/Opt Out (Come Sail Away Specific)

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OPT OUT: Weird Faces

Some of April's icons may involve the absence of facial features that should be there, or features that shouldn't be there, or are other wise distorted (think thatcher effect, excessive eye imagery etc). If seeing that at even a 100x100 resolution is uncomfortable for you, please let me know here and I'll post with her more normal icons when threading with you!

OPT OUT: Besties

April's best friend and coworker yourexoduslaughing is now on the ship, and may or may not jump into threads with April if the timing is right. Let us know if that's something you'd like to avoid!

OPT IN: Get Haunted!

Part of April's deal is that she is basically a living creepypasta image. Part of how she sustains herself is by taking 'cursed images' or making them cursed by being in them.

The result ranges from:
- I saw this creepy picture/video too late at night and it's been a week and I still think about it when I close my eyes
- something is wrong about this picture of me but I can't think of what it is and it's destroying my self image
- I saw this image once and screamed and don't ever send it to me again
- This face is showing up in my nightmares and I'm legit having trouble sleeping
- normally photoshops don't affect me but what the FUCK
- Okay so there definitely wasn't an extra person there when the picture was taken, I'm going to be looking over my shoulder for awhile.

- Visually, think the 'identifying an alternate' segment in the mandela catalogues or the emotions advert on blue channel.

The idea is that it lingers in a person's mind in an upsetting way, those spooky image edits you've seen that mentally scar you a little bit.

So! with that said, let me know here if you want your characters running into that with April!

EDIT It turns out writing horrible things for someone else's character completely blind is hard, so if you'd be so kind as to fill out the following:
<u><i>What scares your character?</i></u> <b>Image distortions:</b> (i.e., scribbled out eyes, grin too big, feeling like the eyes in the picture are looking at you, etc) <b>Superstitions:</b> (i.e. Particular ghosts, urban legends, unlucky images they'd be creeped out by) <b>Self-image:</b> (i.e. is there a role your character feels pressured to fill, an image they feel they can't perfect? or is there something they're afraid of becoming?) <b>Unwelcome Guests:</b> (i.e. Anyone they would be troubled to see in the background of a photo? Dead or alive? Behaving normally, or is there a way they'd emote/appear that would upset your character?) <b>HARD NO:</b> what YOU THE PLAYER don't want to see/play out a reaction to, ever.
Thanks!

How much her images affect your character and what your character does about it is entirely up to your discretion, too. You know your character's constitution best!

(Consider this a volunteer sign-up sheet for pursuing this sort of story with them, or permission to have your characters mention being unusually disturbed by a picture they saw, this isn't an immunity check!)

But my character can't see these pictures!

April:


Then this especially does not apply to you at all! Enjoy your cruise and the company of your absolutely normal cruise friend, April!

Comments

Rose Tyler (in which it's obvious I play her for being the opposite of Oda)

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What scares your character? Being left behind/forgotten. THIS IS KIND OF HAPPENING. So I might update her to just fearing the Doctor turning into a monster/hard which was my original intention oops. || DALEKS + Cybermen + Krillitane + Time Paradoxes
Image distortions: just the uneasy feeling she can't figure out, that she's missing something OBVIOUS and if only ~the Doctor~ were here he'd know what's wrong etc.
Superstitions: BAD WOLF
Self-image: Rose wants to be cute, strong, and badass. She gets annoyed with constantly having been in positions of minimum wage + unskilled labor and being dismissed as incapable of helping.
She has a love-hate with her Bad Wolf self (see above) due to its broad implications. It was something she literally did to herself, but it KILLED THE DOCTOR, and possibly worse things, and it makes her a magnet to villains who can sense it sometimes, (werewolves in particular) and has no practical useful application since she has no control/will over it at all. "Trust yourself" yeah ok whatever. BUT WHAT IF NO? Because what if someone else just tries to trick her with it? So NO.
Unwelcome Guests: Cassandra might fuck her up the most lmfao. TBF Wouldn't you be weirded out too?!
HARD NO: DOLLS please no, and thank you!