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112th ♫ | let time blur together into an eternity

The All-Purpose JamJar Meme

For that authentic Jamjar experience without the pesky commitment. Roll or pick from a setting and a prompt below! Drum up some assumed CR with strangers! Jamjar settings are officially the best when you want to do a cross-canon tag-out but just can't be assed to think of a way to fit your character in another one's canon.

I - SETTING

1. Horror: Your characters are taken from their own worlds and thrown into a terrifying situation! Things are creepy, resources are scarce, and ensuring your own survival is paramount.
2. Sex Game: For whatever contrived and nonsensical reason, your characters are forced into a world where they gotta bone. Aside from smutstuff, you have the opportunity to play out how very awkward it is to navigate these agreements and encounters before and after. Lasting bonds can form from something you didn't expect! But so can eternal regret.
3. Slice of Life: Characters are forced to live together in familial units. They have an opportunity here -- in spite of being stuck -- to relax and slow down and do some fun, ordinary things. Picnics, dates, school, etc.
4. Fantasy: Characters are forced into guilds and roles, given weapons and are made to utilize their powers in coordinated units to complete missions.
5. Scifi: Characters are thrust on to the frontier of spacial colonization! Characters on a spaceship! Characters being drafted into an Imperial Earth Army to fight/conquer foreign entities! Characters being in a world where they are assessed, identified, tracked and policed by artificial intelligence! And so on!
6. Reincarnation/ New Identity: Your character has been reborn at this game, or given a new identity. Work out their karma or help them come to terms with having to live a new life.
7. Asylum/Prison/Institutionalized Identity: Characters are locked up and put under heavy surveillance. Slowly they are institutionalized and disintegrated from ordinary social rules of engagement. They could be told that they've been identified as mentally dysfunctional, or they could be in prison! Are they pleading their innocence, or do they know they're guilty as fuck back in their world?
8. Assignment-Based/Mercenary/Survival: Characters have to put their skills to good use as drafted mercenaries. Help your captors assassinate, spy, sabotage, infiltrate, steal, and terrorize for points that will lead up to your freedom or the freedom of others.
9. Your Choice!: Do whatever!

II - SITUATION

1. First Impressions: You never forget your first impression of someone. Unless it was entirely forgettable.
2. Oh Hey Again: I kind of know you!!!! Hi!!! I hate this place but love familiarity hi!!!
3. Event: SOMETHING IS HAPPENING and your characters have either run into each other or sought each other out to stick together during it!
4. Living Quarters: Surprise, your characters are in the same house! Or room! Or building! Either way you have to share space and facilities with this person. Enjoy!
5. Mystery: Who Did It? Why Are We Here? Characters are disappearing, people are dying, whatever is happening it is FISHY!
6. Canon Update/Respawn/"But we know each other, I swear!": One character comes (back) to a game and does not remember previous CR. A relationship or friend or even hateship is forgotten. How will this be dealt with?
7. Begrudgingly Working Together: You are so fucking annoying but I guess we have to fight Monster of the Day Together/Get Unstuck-UnLost Together/Find Our Way Back/Help Each Other Out.
8. Is This a Date: Gee, you guys sure are doing a lot of things that people on dates do and you're having a lot of fun [sweats]...
9. Violence: Characters beat the shit out of each other or help each other out of a gory situation with terrible traumatic injuries or something!
10. One-Sided(?) Crush: How do you get their attention? Or, alternatively, how do you ignore that this person obviously is crushing on you and it's totally awkward
11. Protecting/Saving: Your character's chance to be a hero or a damsel!
12. Network Post: Mandatory bs.
13. Inbox: Hey, can I talk to you for a second? In private?
14. Your Choice!: Do whatever!

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Slice of Life

[You would think it would be weirder to go back to slow paced normal-ass life after everything Shu has been through, but it really isn't. Mundane routines fit in like a glove and he is more than happy to do some manual labor to keep the community thriving. He works part time at the garden, delighted in his own way at literally getting his hands dirty. He also works part time at the coffee shop, and is going to whatever educational institution exists here.]

[He's got a reputation for being the Flirty Barista. Hey, that shit gets tips! He's on shift now, sitting behind the counter in his little apron and working on either a math or a physics problem set. Something with shapes and numbers and probably a graph. He looks up with a beaming, lazy smile.]

Oh, hey, welcome to The Grind, what can I do for you?

Shameless Kaisou TDM

[Guess who has two thumbs and just gained some wind powers? This guy. Shu is laughing delightedly to himself as he makes himself hover above the ground, and twirls a pen above his hand without touching it at all.]

Okay, so it's no Sentinel, but this is great!

[He turns to the nearest friendly looking face.]

Want to see what quests are on offer? I'm feelin' lucky!

BYO

[Bring your own prompt, just play god and go wild.]

Roll the Dice

[Let RNG decide our fate and whip up a starter or leave prompts for me and I will start!]

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[ Oh, the only thing more likely to induce a headache than regular flavor Shu Amiguchi... Shu Amiguchi with superpowers. She really can't have a normal day even once, can she? ]

Shouldn't you be sure you know what you're doing with all this before you go rushing off and getting into trouble?

[ ryoko of all people saying this is a little.......... ]

[Aw, c'mon, isn't he cute all excited?]

Aww, Shinonome-senpai...

[He pouts, dropping back down to rest his feet on the ground again. He can hear her care for him in the scolding, though, so his wince quickly becomes a tiny smile.]

Do you want to help me learn more, then? You've been here longer, so that makes you my senpai all over again.

[ Ryoko just huffs a breath through her nose. If it's any consolation, it seems like she's at her usual base level of irritation at the world at large than directly at him specifically. Progress! ]

I'm not sure that I can. I haven't ended up developing any powers like that since I got here – not that I need them.

[ The Power Of Friendship And This Gun She Found

But then she wrinkles her nose just a little and... visibly concedes. It's probably better to help than to let him go get hurt. ]

Well... what sort of things have you been able to do with them so far? We should start there, so we can establish your limits.

[So they're basically BFFs now!]

Aw, really? Well, I guess you're enough of a badass with just a gun and your brain, huh?

[He grins, clearly fully genuine.]

Umm, well I can do that floaty thing, and also- [He raises a hand, moving the palm in a small little circle, and a puff of air comes out of it, like a fan, gently blowing Ryoko's hair back from her face.]

Somebody has to use their brain around here.

[ And now that hers isn't overclocking every moment of the day (not YET anyway) it might as well be her!!

With his little demonstration though, her expression shifts a little to thoughtful, brow furrowing and hand to her chin. It's not much yet, but... ]

So you're... generating the wind out of nowhere? Or are you controlling the air around you and manipulating it in that way? Either of those could be useful in different ways... especially if you were able to work out a way to get even higher. You could even manage to fly, if you were careful.

Heheheh,

[She's cute when she's bullying him. And, well, he isn't about to argue that she isn't smarter than him, he knows that she is.]

It feels more like I'm controlling the air already around me. I can sort of... make it hold me up, if that makes sense? Or I can make it swirl and move. Oh! One last thing, check this out!

[He braces a foot behind himself and then... runs. Zooms, even, in circles around her, like an excited puppy. Except he's moving faster than even Natsuno at top speed could manage.]

Oh–

[ She takes a short step back in visible surprise – one of those rare occasions she's caught off guard enough to let it actually show on her face. ]

So it's more than just controlling the air... now I see.

[ Even if nothing else pans out, this absolutely could be useful. ]

How fast can you go?

[He feels a little proud, getting a reaction out of her that isn’t just disgruntlement. Her face is pretty, when it’s smoothed out from the worry lines. He slides to a stop, breathing a little faster from thrill and from slight exertion.]

I haven’t clocked my speeds yet or anything. Want to do the honors for me?

Mm. I can try, at least.

[ She fishes out her phone and taps away at it for a second before pulling up the handy dandy timer app. It's got a stopwatch icon and everything so surely this can't go wrong. ]

Let's see... do you think you could manage a mile run? That should be the quickest and easiest way for us to start working out what your average speed is.

Oh, man, you’re not messing around are you, senpai?

[He isn’t a track star, but he’s pretty athletic. Been awhile since he straight up ran a mile, but he’s feeling good. And hell, he wouldn’t recognize himself if he didn’t take an opportunity to show off to a girl.]

Okay. Shit, why not.

[He bends down to re-tie his shoes so they’re snug. When he straightens he does a quick bounce from foot to foot.]

It just seems like the most obvious way to time it, that's all. [ maybe to Ryoko, but to a normal person??? well, he's going for it anyway... ] Besides, this should also let us see if you're expanding any more energy than you usually would, or if your stamina's been increased so you can handle the speed.

[ She's gonna be a science brain about this to the end, huh...

Some more tappa-tapping on her phone before she holds it out for him to see – she's gotten directions to a storefront that's just about a mile away, at least according to the net. ]

Here. Going by the directions, this should serve as a good landmark – it's more or less a straight line there and back, so you won't be slowed down by having to make turns or double check your directions.

Well, you're not wrong about all that.

[But still, who just asks a guy to run a mile??? At least she has... faith in him.....? He blinks at the map on her phone.]

So you want me to run a mile there and a mile back, huh? I'm not saying I can't do it, but you sure do wanna work me hard, senpai.

It's the quickest way to test your limits, isn't it?

[ Or so she says, but even Ryoko's looking a little doubtful now... she kind of thought he'd jump at the opportunity to show off, so this is a surprise. Leave it to Ryoko to be the very last person in the room to realize she's being unreasonable. ]

If it's too much... just half a mile, then? That should still be enough to start getting an idea of how far you can go.

[He likes to show off when he knows he's guaranteed to look good! He doesn't know yet if he'll get too exhausted from using the magic and beef it part way through and that's not at all the look he wants to have in front of his senapi! Or any girl, really.]

[But then she has to go and offer him the out and it comes just too close to bruising his masculinity. So, like an idiot, he backpedals.]

No, no, I can do it! I wouldn't dare get in the way of good science.

[He hops on the balls of his feet a couple times then turns in the direction of the storefront she had shown him on her map.]

On your mark, senpai.

[ She huffs out a hard breath through her nose. Rather than her usual irritation, though... doesn't it almost seem like a laugh? ]

If you insist, I won't stop you.

[ She pulls up the stopwatch on her phone and... ]

Three, two, one... go.

[ Starts it. For science!! ]

[Whatever, Ryoko, act like you didn't want him to be doing this.]

Hup!

[He kicks off on go, starting at the same speed he had when he was doing laps around her. He doesn't show any signs of slowing down...]

[ The wind picks up with him and catches her hair as he goes, fluttering it in a mess all around her face. It's a good job its base state is already kind of fluffy and untamable, because at least then it can't look much worse. ]

So it is staying consistent, at least for now...

[ You can tell she's taking this science stuff seriously because now she's taking notes. ]

[The fluffy untamable curls are a challenge waiting to be met with Shu's favorite de-frizz and de-tangle cosmetics. But that's science for a later time.]

[He is still consistent, though he starts to feel a little strain in his legs and he can tell he's gonna be winded by the end. Ugh, not cool. Still, he makes it to the landmark, bounces on his feet for a quick breather, and then comes running back.]

[ If it's any consolation, Ryoko certainly looks impressed once she spots him making the return run – sure, maybe he's a little out of breath, but that's still one hell of a run to make. And he even went the full mile... she's underestimated his stubbornness, huh.

The timer gives a cheery beep! as she stops it, but she holds on a few seconds before checking the final time - just to give him a chance to catch his breath. ]

You managed that much quicker than I was expecting... it looks like it's done something for your stamina, too.

[More than a consolation- he puffs up like a strutting pigeon while he literally puffs for breath a little.]

I was pretty athletic to start with, but I definitely haven't done two miles like that in awhile, and I've never been this fast.

[He practically sparkles like she gave him effusive praise.]

[ It really doesn't take that much to put a smile on his face, huh... ]

It's definitely an impressive speed. [ she's going back to tapping away and taking notes on her phone. science!! experimenting!! If nothing else, having something reasonably practical to focus on seems to have perked her up a bit more than usual. ] How did it actually feel to run like that? Any different than usual?

[Well when you say it like that...]

It felt really good, actually. Like being able to go faster made me want to run more.

[Even Ryoko looks happy about all this, in her own way. The way she always looks when there is Science To Do. It softens his smile somewhat, and he might look a little bit dorky when she looks up from tapping on her phone.]

It did? [ At that, her head immediately pops back up. New data?? New data for Ryoko to analyze...??? ] That's interesting...

[ She goes quiet for a moment, mulling that over. With no apparent self-consciousness, she fixes Shu with a searching sort of look, just intense enough to be a little embarrassing to be subjected to. It could just be a coincidence, but... ]

Going fast is something you're already inclined to enjoy... you have your bike, after all. Could that be why you developed a power like this? It's something you're already inclined towards?

[tl;dr - mycroft's trinidadian watson; (secret) owner of a London tobacco shop; as #tired as literally every other watson. mild cw for mentions of past period racism.]

1. slice of life;

[The requisite learning-how-technology-works period has passed. Now that this Victorian gentleman has gotten adjusted, he's relishing in it all: hot food anytime he likes! Electric lights everywhere! Television and radio programs at his fingertips! And, best of all, he's free to move about as he pleases without question. It's like a breath of the fresh spring breeze after years of stale air alone.

Every day he's out and about-- a slightly-graying man of 40 reading or people watching at cafes, window shopping downtown, mingling at bars with a cigarette between his fingers. It's pretty great. Much as he misses his loved ones back home, he's been away from home before-- he could really get used to this.]

2. network - un: douglas;

Good afternoon, everyone. I can't help but notice there's a distinct lack of a specialty store for tobacco. [Yes, he's found a liquor store or two that carries cigars, but he's PICKY about this, so sue him.] As it seems like we'll be here for quite some time, I'm looking into opening one myself. Would that be of interest to you all here? And is there anything in particular you'd be interested in seeing the shop carry?

3. event;

[BUT OF COURSE THIS IS A JAMJAR LMAO, so his good times don't last!!]

A. natural disaster;
[With his coat shed and his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, Douglas is hoisting your character off the ground and brushing the dirt off them. There's been an earthquake-- or fire, or flood, or explosion-what-have-you-- and he's checking this poor person over for injuries with a brow knit tightly together.] Are you wounded? Quickly, now-- we need to find somewhere safe. [His tone isn't unkind, but it's firm: a man who knows they've got to get going all of five minutes ago.]

B. horror;
[Douglas was never raised to believe in ghost stories. He's not a suspicious man-- least of all after that whole douen hoax that'd brought him back to Trinidad-- and now is no exception. However, when there's strange, shambling creatures skulking about the town? It becomes much, much harder to try to rationalize the monsters away. He turns to the companion who's taken this same abandoned shop as shelter.] What do we do now? [He's armed-- a pistol weighty in his pocket-- but what good will that do against whatever's outside?]

C. mystery;
[This is Mycroft's purview, not his. Even so, he knows how this goes: with another person in tow, he's breaking into some official's office for some valuable answers. As the two of them lurk around a corner, footsteps echo in the distance, slowly drawing nearer-- but that offending door is still locked up tight. Douglas turns to his companion, looking harried.] Please tell me you know how to pick a lock?

wildcard;
[HIT ME WITH WHATEVER.]

[i'm sorry i got too lazy to write more starters rip. down for whatever, let me know if you want something in particular :*]

1. slice of life, network - un: tigermask51

Yo roomie. Can you get off the wifi? I'm trying to torrent something

[Give him a sec to realize what he's done.]

wildcard;
[im too lazy again. give him your shitposts.]

Anime or live action?

[As if there's any question in his mind.]

Anime this time. Go grab a pizza, man, we're giving you the Gundam crash course in

[a minute later]

3 hours? 4 hours? Nobody is fucking seeding this thing

Uh I never signed up for Gundam in the first place. Can't we just watch like Berserk or DBZ?

FUCK NO because you told me you hadnt seen ANY OF IT and im righting this wrong A FUCKING SAP!!! anyway, Mobile Suit is literally only 43 episodes you big baby you're gonna live.

Only 43
Yeah I don't know I think I'm coming down with something
Maybe I should just stay in bed..................

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112th ♫ | let time blur together into an eternity

Shu Amiguchi | 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim | Pick your poison yall

shamelessly tdms with u

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cyrus douglas | mycroft holmes series

kamui uehara | kill the past / no more heroes

travis touchdown | no more heroes

un: dante bc if that's what he named his damned sword he has 0 creativity, fight me

pls

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