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WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

THE 'WHAT'S NEXT?' MEME

So, R3s! And maybe R2s/R1s/R0s, now that Certain Revelations Have Been Made. What are your character's current plans for the future, how do they impact everyone else? Are you looking at PSLing down the line? Maybe you don't have any and want to see how you can tag along with another's - well, there's where you can do it!

As a reminder,

theaftershow exists for all your Curtains-related PSL needs!
(Unless you have somewhere you're already planning to do it, I'm not your [parental figure of choice])

CHARACTER: The character you played!
PLAYER: Who you are, + any contact info you want to share!
SUMMARY; A few quick notes on what plans - if any - your character has for the future. If they don't have any and/or will just be milling about in Denny's for a While, you can note that, too!
LOOKING FOR; Are you looking to get involved in anything? Maybe you want an excuse for some further growth?

...it goes on, and on, and on, and on...

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CHARACTER: Peregrine Wells
PLAYER: Ashley | ashriel#6058
SUMMARY:
oh god its longer than orpheus's im so sorry

Peregrine's headed back to Whitetail! She has college to attend in St. Paul but uhh she needs a little time before jumping back into that! When she starts it up again in the...oh god what time of year is it anymore— after several nebulously undefined months, they're moving to St. Paul, which was already in the cards for Per's mom but one interdimentional kidnapping later and she really does not want to be far from her daughter.

Anyway, she's taking Connor with her because fuck the Murphys! She has a lot of long-distance relationship stuff in her future since he's going go to art school in Paris and like, the fact that all of her girlfriends are attending Seisho, which was mercifully spared the Teen Musical World merging, but like. Janis is a narrator, it's fine!! When Peregrine feels able to go back to school, she's going to change her mind on her double-major in Political Science and Anthropology and instead go for a double-major in Anthropology and Photography. The former seems heavier than she wants to take part in, now, even though she's. Still going to double-major because she's a nightmare.

Anyway! With some narrator help, they're going to get like...a home in Tokyo (Bushiverse), a home in Paris (Bushiverse), a home in NYC (Teen Musical Universe), and a cabin on the edge of Whitetail that Peregrine needs to disappear to sometimes because all of the big cities confuse and upset her sometimes. It's by a lake, it's scenic. In at LEAST the NYC one there's a hall with doors leading to the other places. There are a lot of shenanigans. Like fifteen different weddings or something over five different worlds. She specifically marries Connor impromptu at a courthouse to win a polycule bet, probably before she finishes college. It's ridiculous.

She's going to eventually become a nature photographer but like...one of those nature photographers that looks at some of the rough parts of nature. Like you know those documentaries you'd watch on Animal Planet and then suddenly everything gets really upsetting?? Yeah. Girl's gonna travel all over the world and take photos for all kinds of documentaries and articles that she probably cannot show her sensitive friends/significant others (Connor) because they don't want to see one of the lions get hurt while fighting for dominance.

She does hit a bit of a snag because in her last year of undergrad she gets pregnant. Did she and Connor intend on this? Nope! But they do have quite a lot of help and neither of them really want to take any of the other options so she finishes out her studies and welcomes the polycule's first kid, Tobias Jacob Wells, who Peregrine has no idea she accidentally named after a character from a children's book series and no one is going to tell her. There may have been MANY terrible name suggestions, half of them bird-related, and all of them came from Peregrine. Connor is exhausted with her. When they have their daughter Piper Amelie Wells a few years later, intentionally this time and after she's done with her Master in Photography, she is banned from naming her after making one too many actual-word suggestions like Reality and Fable and Solstice.

...And these kids have like, six sisters (tbd) from the rest of the polycule, we're working on it, don't worry about it, they're all going to grow up really confused about what is and isn't normal in terms of interdimensional travel.

LOOKING FOR; I am BAD at PSLs but I love this game a lot and would love to try to do some. Gatherings and cute shenanigans, hurt/comfort shit... Just whatever. Members of the polycule absolutely hit me up!! I just accidentally got really invested in the swarm of children they're going to have but also about everything in general.

Edited 2021-07-24 04:26 (UTC)

BUT DOES SHE GET THERAPY

YES, SHE GETS THERAPY, BUT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO EITHER PAY STEVEN'S THERAPIST REALLY HANDSOMELY OR FIND SOMEONE WHO IS ALSO AWARE OF META BULLSHIT BC OH GOD SHE HAS SOME THINGS TO UNPACK

i mean stephen has one that he pays really well

he could get her a referral

I mean one of her homes is gonna be NYC..............

Does this therapist know about murdergame stuff?

switches accounts

I'm rolling with the idea that Stephen introduced the situation with 'this is going to sound insane, but I'll pay you triple to act like it's real, and also to not call the cops'

By now the therapist is beginning to think that maybe Stephen isn't insane, but hey. Bucks.

Well, she really doesn't want someone to think she's crazy..... But if this is the best she can get that might work. She doesn't really wanna rely on her rich girlfriends to get therapy though.

CHARACTER: Claudine Saijo
PLAYER: Jen!

magentaskies <- feel free to add me here!
discord info, please ask first, but otherwise I am happy to add anyone
SUMMARY; Claudine is officially part of the big ol’ teen polycule now. She’s going to go back to Seisho, graduate, and go to university, getting her degree in Performing Arts. She continues acting the entire time she’s in university, then joins the same theatre troupe as Maya does once they graduate. After an extremely dramatic proposal, she and Maya get married in Revue Starlight universe. In liminal space, she’s married to Janis, Peregrine, and Hester as well.

Claudine wants to call dibs on Nana as her maid of honor. After a lot of squabbling, she wins and asks her.

About ten years later, Claudine gets pregnant with what she thinks is a single winter baby. Marie-Annette Yukiko Tendo is the baby they know about. Her twin brother, Junji Louis Tendo is shy, and hid during every sonogram. The surprise twins are opposites in terms of personality, Marie-Annette following in her moms’ footsteps as an outgoing actress and Junji being a more introverted and gifted artist. Janis immediately takes him under her wing.

Marie-Annette goes by the nickname Annie most of the time, because one of her siblings couldn’t pronounce Marie correctly. Maya immediately breaks out a film of Claudine as a child, performing in what’s basically Annie with the serial numbers filed off.

While her poor accountant is frazzled managing a lot of universes’ poly marriages’ taxes, Claudine can’t imagine being any happier than she is.
LOOKING FOR; LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I love all of you and would love to play any of this out!!

Edited 2021-07-24 06:19 (UTC)

CHARACTER: Actual Historical Composer Antonio Salieri
PLAYER: Nikki! I'm mostly on discord at this point at Nikkernoodle#7047 but also my plurk is

nikkernoodle and I’m going to try and get back to using that more.
SUMMARY; Salieri is, as discussed, going to set up an Estate (Castle, it's a castle, with extensive grounds and a hedge maze) with more than enough room for everyone. Orpheus and Eurydice have a summer cottage on the grounds for whenever the weather turns south at their cottage by the sea. There’s a wing on the estate so the Polycute can have a big cuddle bed, and a game room because he wanted somewhere for Rina to play her video games when she’s over and there’s lots of soft pillows there to hang out on and lounge on. There’s probably some kind of chem lab for Varian in a wing off to the side somewhere. He's also officially adopted both Farrah and Hester Salieri, and does his best to be supportive of whatever they want to do (within reason.) Aside from that, he'll be doing some traveling through the multiverse with Discord and whoever else from the fam or friends wants to tag along or whomever Farrah invites. He'll obviously be spending some time in Equestria getting to know the ponies there, esp Fluttershy because obvs. Beyond that, he’ll be helping with that Somniatore business and doing his best to spend time with various branches of his friends and family, especially for special occasions, be it a wedding, baby shower, performance, photography show, birthday, etc. He also starts going to therapy when Spongebob explains it to him because boy there is so much to unpack there. So much. He’s working on getting better, and it’s a process, and there’s good days and bad but overall he’s working on it and trying to get better at communicating, though there’s a lot of work to be done there also lmao.

Also I’ll be playing around a bit with Salieri learning how to push and play with the narrator-adjacent thing and conducting reality and the after-effects of that because of Immortality Reasons, it’s a whole thing Rem and I talked abt and I also discussed it with QV as well, so that might def pop up in other threads because uhhhh Salieri is going the opposite way of Orpheus and is signing up for Immortality because he doesn’t want Discord to be alone. It IS something he will want to discuss with close CR for obvious reasons because immortality isn’t exactly a gift, but sometimes you make choices. He's probably going to stop aging around late fourties-early fifties, but I haven't decided what age exactly yet.

LOOKING FOR;
JUST ABOUT ANYTHING I’m SO HERE for PSLs and was considering just putting up a TL in a musebox for the Estate so whomever wants to have threads there can toss them on if they want so lmk if that’s something anyone other than me would be interested in lmao.

Aside from that, some ideas could be:
-Salieri would love to travel to his friends' worlds and visit them, or have them come and visit him.
-I’m always up for domestic shenanigans: sleepovers, parties, holidays, water balloon fights, going to Court, taking the kids to the ~~mall~~ tailor’s, general estate shenanigans
-Road Trip to Equestria???? So everyone can showcase their ponysona.
-Somniatore shenanigans
-Future family shenanigans, spoiling the grandchildren/nieces/nephews etc taking them on trips to see real life dinosaurs (because that’s something Discord canonically does with the Cutie Mark Crusaders in a comic so) BUT JUST GENERAL SPOILING AS MANY KIDS AS THEIR PARENTS WILL LET BE SPOILED

OKAY SO several things came up these past few days and I gotta add them in here

So it's probably super safe to say that they aren't going to murder Mr. Krabs as shitty as he is; it would traumatize this poor sponge. However, Elle's plan to sue Mr. Krabs is a lot more acceptable to Spongebob, even if he's still hesitant at first.

Even though Bikini Bottom is... /gestures/... I like to believe that they manage to sue Mr. Krabs due to the constant blatant violation of workers right (really hard to justify "instead of hiring new employees when we moved to 24 hours, I made my current employees work constantly without breaks or rest"). This makes Mr. Krabs lose most of his money and forced to renounce ownership of the Krusty Krab. Both Squidward and Spongebob were probably offered ownership but Spongebob was the only one who took the offer.

There would be a Lot of growing pains in suddenly becoming an owner, but with his good heart and his friends he's able to make the Krusty Krab flourish into both a great restaurant to eat at but also work there. (he def pays his employees at minimum 20 bucks an hour and a solid month paid vacation). With traveling to different dimensions, he gains the reputation of creating the best burgers in the multiverse and while I can't see him building separate restaurant, I like the idea of him setting something up for multidimensional delivery.

Eventually, Spongebob proposes to Patrick and they have a wonderfully grand wedding, inviting literally everyone from every round (... except maybe Will) to come. They both move into Spongebob's pineapple home and eventually adopt a squid daughter named Octavia. She is painfully shy but Spongebob and Patrick try their best to make her comfortable with such a large extended family.

I know Patrick has a bad track record for raising children but he's much more valid in the musical and I wanna believe this Patrick would try (he will probably call for Spongebob constantly because he's terrified of breaking her, however)

Steven's gotten a lot better about not needing to solve literally every problem that presents itself to him, but he'll absolutely pitch in with Somniatores where he can. He's already planning this road trip, this is basically just a few more stops on the way right?

Pretty much a situation of, "hey, can you make a quick detour over to [x] and do [y]? kthxbai, enjoy your trip"

pokes head in

let Sal become a silver fox, at least

GIVE ME SO MANY PSL

Beyond everything else I would love some good Somniatore stuff that doubles as father son bonding because the idea of them teaming up to save the multiverse is both adorable and also feels like it would be extremely stupid in the best way

CHARACTER: Benjamin Barker
PLAYER: Ri! If you don't have me added everywhere yet, my discord is resplendentri#3940, and my plurk is

ResplendentRi. My modus operandi is "radio silence, followed by 'look at this meme/tiktok/video that made me think of you," which is to say that I'm chronically online but terrible at starting conversations.
SUMMARY; Benjamin has no immediate plans for the first year or so, post-Denny's, nor any idea where he's going to settle. He wants to learn more about the future, ~~see the world, behold its wonders~~, learn to embrace second chances and newfound freedom.

After around a year, year and a half after the end of Curtains, he ends up tagging along with a group that goes to see R2's reigning queen perform, an event that ends up giving his life a much-needed trajectory by introducing him to Jane Seymour. He settles down in New York, taking up his trade again and spending his free time getting to know and then falling in love with Jane.

After a year or so, he's able to rent a parlor space with a small apartment above it, and once he's established is when he begins to realize that Jane is more than a dear friend and confidant, and agree to take their courtship slow and serious.

And then Jane gets pregnant. And all thoughts of "slow" go right out the window. The result is Antonia "Teeny" Jane Barker, shortly followed by her little brother Thomas "Tommy" Benjamin Barker. And that is where they stop, in part because Tommy is about the same age as Angus and Elle's twins, who call Benji "Grandpa Ben" and he could not, in good conscience, bring more babies into the world who would be younger than the kids who call him GRANDPA.

LOOKING FOR; Anything! Did you put him up for a little while before he got a purpose and settled down? Come visit his new parlor? Need Grandpa to babysit? Have a wedding or a baby shower? He'll be there. ~~his narrator-adjacent power is being summoned like Beetlejuice (for legal reasons this is a joke)~~

Continuing close CR or developing CR that didn't get the chance to happen during the round are both great with me! Especially since he's the father-in-law to most of the teen polycule (father-in-law once removed, if you're Connor).

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