Field Guide for the Canonblind (Code Experiment)

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Dexter Grif
Local asshole doesn't want to do work, helps while complaining

RED VS BLUE

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Pronouns: He/Him
Age: Early to late 20s depending on canon point
Species: Human
World: Centuries into the scifi space future. Interstellar travel. Aliens tried to kill humanity a little while ago. That's over, but there's a lot of fallout. That said, this is also a comedy canon that plays a lot of things ridiculous.

What They Do: Soldier, kind of. Retired hero, kind of. Grif was a disposable soldier used to run live simulations for a shady military project. He and his disposable idiot friends exposed the shady project, went on to save a colony planet from a shady corporation, and are now loved (and tolerated) by its people.

Personality: Grif is sarcastic, opportunistic, pessimistic, and funny (intentionally and unintentionally). He's used to being stuck in bad/stupid situations he can't do anything about and being resigned to it. Actually very capable of loyalty and caring a lot for others, he just has to hide it under a layer of bullshit and weaponized laziness or he feels like he'll be called out/mocked for it. Loves food, dumb scifi shows, and finding the stupidest possible hills to die on in an argument.

Possible Ideas:

• Do you need a slacker coworker to fight with? Who doesn't?


• Grif is great for befriending (against his will) characters who are kinder and more sincerely heroic than he is, especially if they could use someone to be the Fuck Off, Asshole friend.


• Please argue with him about inane and stupid things it's always so much fun.

Shipping?: Grif has had a crush on his best friend for years, but is held back by internalized homophobia/fear of emotional vulnerability. In general he tends to admire people who are more sincere than he is, which he sees as a kind of courage. He struggles with expressing any fondness for anybody at all, and expects to be mocked for softer feelings.

Notes: I've played Grif for like a billionty years. I've done a lot of things with him and can pretty much always pick the voice back up, but sometimes I want a long break.

Garrus Vakarian
Alien vigilante sniper always down for a galaxy-saving quest

MASS EFFECT

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Pronouns: He/Him
Age: 26-29 depending on canonpoint
Species: Turian

World: In the 22nd century, humanity tripped over the existence of a whole galactic community of aliens. 30 years later, signs start cropping up that the Reapers (giant sentient squid-shaped spaceships with huge lasers) that wiped out the galaxy's previous megacivilization ~50,000 years ago were trying to come do it again. People didn't want to believe this. It happened. The day had to be saved. It was all very stressful and bad.

What They Do: Sniper and small-unit tactics expert. Garrus was a space cop on the Citadel (the gigantic space station/capitol city), a job that left him frustrated and restless. He quit to join the team of a human agent of the Citadel Council, and helped hunt down a rogue operative who was trying to help the Reapers come back. After, the government denied any further Reaper threat existed. Garrus started a vigilante gang harassing the mercenary companies on a lawless asteroid. When the mercs finally pinned him down, he got lucky his human friend showed up again and pulled him out. He got less lucky that it was because they needed him to try to stop the Reaper invasion again.

Personality: Good intentions and a very hard head. Struggles with black and white thinking in places. Is frustrated with rules and red tape and feels like "a bad turian" for chafing under his people's rigid hierarchy and sacrifice-for-the-good-of-everyone ethos, but has honestly internalized a lot of things and is miserable if he doesn't feel like he's doing anything good to make the world better. (And for Garrus, that generally means shooting at and pissing off the worst kind of people.)

Exceptionally loyal if he believes in you. If you matter to Garrus, he will burn everything down and follow you directly into hell if you ask.

Things that could be fun:

• Give him something to do. Garrus doesn't idle well. Alternately, don't and if he can't find trouble, he will create it.


• Do you want to be part of a doomed vigilante merc hunting group?


• Do you want to be exhausted and kind of fucked up by a nearly apocalyptic war/alien squid robot spaceship invasion?


• Mass Effect Things™, if your OCs or AUs wanna hang out I am sure we can do something.

Shipping?: I do ship him with Shepard, any gender (though my pref runs more Paragon than Renegade.) In general, he admires strong convictions and bold action. Garrus is surprised if somebody expresses romantic care for him, and is nervous but earnest if he wants to respond in kind.

Notes: New character, I've never had the opportunity to play Garrus in seriousness before and need to stretch the Mass Effect muscles again.

Prince Zagreus
The son of Hades himself is actually a pretty nice guy, dies lots

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Pronouns: He/Him
Age: Whatever it means to be a young man when you're a young god
Species: Greek deity
World: A specific retelling of Greek myth with some of the details changed. Zagreus grew up in the House of Hades deep in the underworld. The realm is populated mostly by the shades of the dead spread across its many environments according to whether their deeds merited reward or punishment in death. Only recently, he began being able to communicate with his weird and capricious relatives on Olympus.

What They Do: Runaway turned security expert. Zagreus was unhappy living under his stern, brooding father. He began making attempts to escape from the underworld, assisted from afar by his Olympian relatives and on the sly by his underworld friends. Each time, he'd be killed by something and flow back down the river Styx. Eventually, after reuniting with his mother and resolving some family drama that had started when he was born, Zagreus reconciled with his father and took up the job of intentionally testing the underworld's security systems.

Personality: Mischievous, good-natured, and exceptionally determined. Though Zagreus is the prince of the underworld, he's not arrogant. Zag's confident (even a little cocky) in his skills, but he also treats the denizens of the realm with decency and basic respect. He's politely curious about others, patient, and a good listener. Zagreus also has a lot of experience acting friendly and maintaining cordial terms with people that he doesn't actually trust, especially his hot-headed and prideful Olympian relatives. Some people (*cough*his dad*cough*) are uniquely good at getting under his skin and alert to the cracks in his facade, though, and he's not immune to footmouth.

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• Did you die? Wanna try and prison break your way out of the underworld with the son of Hades?


• Did you die? Do you need someone to hear out your regrets? The runaway prince actually has a pretty solid ear to lend when he's not busy dying. ...And he might be able to pull some strings, if it's a problem that can be helped from down here.


• Young chthonic god has never spent much time on the surface and he's stuck up here, what will he fuck up?


• Smash up your Greek myth inspired things with mine, there will be weird edges to mesh but it'll probably be fun.


• It would be really funny to me to let Zagreus talk about his frustration with his dad with someone who also understands having dad problems on a much less underworld deity scale.

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- New character! Haven't gotten to play him.
- I'm a little more interested in figuring out crosscanon situations over canon ones, though I'm also up to interact with castmates.
- My Greek mythology knowledge has gotten kinda anemic and I'll need to do some reading to dig into it more properly.
- Not really a big shipper on this one. I'm not opposed to any configuration of Zagreus's canon ships, and I'm here for it if some chemistry hits right, I'm just not actively seeking it out.

Crow
Amnesiac space hero is learning fast, has a bad past

DESTINY 2

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Pronouns: He/Him
Age: Uncertain due to some weird space magic, looks like he's in his 20s, missing all but the last 2 years of his memories.
Species: Human (Awoken)

World: A weird space apocalypse happened due to a force called the Darkness. In the centuries since, a magic sky orb (long story) has used a force called the Light to resurrect chosen dead people to act as Guardians. Guardians cannot remember their past lives, but they gain semi-immortality and space magic powers that they use to defend the Last City on Earth from various weird space monster/alien/robot problems and the Darkness. There are a lot of buckwild guns.

What They Do: A scout, ranger, and saboteur. Crow was resurrected only a couple years ago. In his previous life, he was Prince Uldren Sov of the Awoken people. (They live far from Earth and are suspicious of Guardians.) Uldren was corrupted by the Darkness, turned on his own people, killed a leader of the Guardians, and was hunted and put down himself. Resurrected, he came to be called Crow. After a long period of being pressed into the service of an alien mobster, he's finally made some non-hostile contact with the Guardian leadership. They understand his situation, but are struggling to figure out how to integrate him given his recognizability. He still doesn't know who he is or what he did, and isn't sure he wants to know.

Personality: Daring, resilient, and growing strong principles. Out from under the Spider's control, Crow is quickly gaining confidence in himself and his beliefs. He cares a lot about protecting the vulnerable and even extends that to aliens, staunchly defending the personhood of species most Guardians despise. He takes his new responsibilities seriously, but he does still have a sense of humor and an inner longing to be admired for his nerve.

Crow's first years were full of violence and exploitation, so he is not overly trusting. Still, that experience means that any generosity shown to him means a lot to him.

Possible Ideas:

• AU people into Destiny with me, do it coward


• Alternately, tell me what kind of problems a dude could have amnesia about causing where you're from. Does your character know? Feed me drama, I hunger.


• Terrible crime asshole has leverage on their enforcer, but the enforcer isn't such a bad dude and what if you could get him out of there....?


• Dude's basically a space elf I'm sure I could fit him into a fantasy setting somehow and it would be easy.


• Semi-immortality is fun but thoroughly optional.


• I'm sure that Crow talking to Cayde-6 could only end in Some Shit but I have no idea what kind or how, if someone wants to find out with me I'll be there, like, five minutes ago.

Shipping?: Crow only has a couple years of living memory and is still rebuilding his sense of his place in the universe. Even if he feels anything, he knows it would be unwise to pursue just yet. In general, though: Crow admires competence, wit, and especially the courage it takes to offer an open hand in kindness when one knows it could be bitten.

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- Crow, being a Guardian, has a Ghost named Glint. Ghosts are small drones that handle communications, navigation, hacking, pulling things in and out of magic space storage, and (most importantly) reviving Guardians when they die. You aren't a Guardian until you're chosen and imbued with Light by a Ghost.
- Destiny 2 sometimes moves a little fast for me to keep up with and I won't pretend I know all lore well.

Agent Carolina
Competitive former super soldier working through her trauma

RED VS BLUE

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Pronouns: She/Her
Age: Late 30s at most recent canonpoint, 20s at earliest
Species: Human
World: Centuries into the scifi space future. Interstellar travel. Aliens tried to kill humanity a little while ago. That's over, but there's a lot of fallout. That said, this is also a comedy canon that plays a lot of things ridiculous.

What They Do: Super-soldier project survivor, has been busy tearing apart what's left of that project and keeping its scattered resources out of bad hands. When Carolina was young, her mother died in the alien war and her father became distant and obsessed with his work. Eventually, Carolina grew up and became part of a secret super soldier project her father was Director of. Carolina became the team's leader, was super competitive about it, and it ultimately hurt her very badly. After the project fell apart in murder and fighting, Carolina vanished and focused on hunting down (intending to kill) her father.

During that hunt, she ran into another surviving agent, a gaggle of low-level troopers, and an AI who was kind of her weird fucked up AI project little brother (Epsilon). They were also looking for the Director.

After finding him and getting that closure, Carolina and Epsilon worked together, she learned a lot of valuable lessons about friendship, helped the rest of the gang save a colony from a civil war, and failed at "retirement."
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Eddie Brock (& Venom)
Investigative reporter has an alien slime monster body-roommate

VENOM (2018)

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John-117 (The Master Chief)
World-saving legend won't stop, can't stop, doesn't know how to stop

HALO

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Karkat Vantas
Crabby alien teenager survives multidimensional LARPing apocalypse

HOMESTUCK

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Cayde-6
Robot gunslinger grew responsibility, wishes he could ungrow it

DESTINY 2

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Kevin Ingstrom
Teen skateboarder/vampire exceptionally chill considering all the trauma

VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE

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Leonard Church ("Alpha")
Loudmouth AI extremely convinced he's actually a computer ghost

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JAK
Young man gets mad AND gets even

JAK & DAXTER

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