OOC M&G / JAN '25 / BETA.

[eagan]

Hi there. Welcome to AFTER LIFE, a game based in the world of Severance! This post is meant to serve as a sort of meet and greet: a starting point for OOC chatter about which characters you may like to bring to the game, what your plans for them are, if your character needs a housemate, etc. Hopefully this will make the application process much easier! The meet and greet is open to anyone who has an invitation to the game. Got any questions? Check the FAQ or ask in the comments here.

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[powerhungry]

hi, it's me, rog! 🫡

i don't have any concrete character plans at the moment (beyond "silco maybe," hence using this journal to comment) but you all know who my blorbos are. but for the sake of making a mod comment that makes it clearer what this post is for: WERE i to app silco, i'd say he wouldn't work at lumon and has some sort of job in town, and likely be severed at the moment of his death in canon. (in the event i can bully one of you into apping jinx, i'd probably still go this route but maybe consider making him a perma-innie wellness counselor. 😇) actually i keep thinking of New Scenarios so just get back to me on this.

eta: for some further examples of stuff you can do with your character, when i initially built this game i thought of playing galadriel and listing her reason for severing as her grief wrt the deaths of her brothers/being subjected to disbelief by her own people, and have her sever once again to work at lumon to try to forgot the memory of her brother dying in a “car accident.” i also thought about apping littlefinger in as a manager (not severed) who would tell whoever his “wife” was not to work at lumon. what i’m trying to say is that the world is your oyster and i’ll happily work with you to figure out a way to make a character work.

please feel free to use this comment to ask me any game-related questions in addition to character stuff! i love you all and i hope we all have fun. 🥰

eta 2: my three main contenders are probably silco (undetermined), astarion (perma-innie), and galadriel (depressed manager). change my mind.

laura!

[smudgy]

i have four hundred ideas send help. girlie list

kristen bouchard for a wellness coach with the personality of helly, very much willing to fuck everything up when she starts to realise things Are Off. likely severed because she needed the money to look after her four daughters and because she, as a psychologist, was encouraged to do so or be left behind.

more traditional hard worker busy bee bossy girl types like nancy wheeler and cordelia chase as early career, eager to advance, fresh faces.

and forever boy gale as a department head rule follower innie, irv-coded. outtie role as a pro severance scientist whose Wife is high up at lumon and encouraged him to take this job 😮‍💨

jinx/powder also has potential because then i could use icons of her cute au hair. like the idea of playing someone sciency. maybe she and silco both “died” in a car crash for causing problems around kier/putting their noses where they didn’t belong after her mother disappeared.

lauren

[nightsung]

i am sooo canonblind so this is me just waving a little flag with my character roster asking for assistance/who people would be most interested in CR with tbh

i think i'm set on dorian in a game with salt, but i have shadowheart whom i have done nothing with so far and i think she'd be neat...other kids i've played/canon reviewed for recently enough incl astarion, jayce, viktor, spike, giles???, lisbeth salander from 2010 gwtdt could be interesting and an easy canon review

ok byeee

merc

[semicharmed]

Hello, I'm just a gal who plays this One Guy. (Info post over here!) I don't know canon, I just heard it's the horrors of late capitalism and I wanna hang, so here's my bare bones thoughts:

Matt got somebody pregnant, oop.

His parents went, "We have all the money, so go be a productive citizen at Lumon (where we have vague financial interests) and never see them again and we will give you money for alimony."

His mother, Kennedy Jamison (perpetual board member, concerned citizen, and monogrammer), is under the impression that it might be possible to switch out her bisexual, unmarriageable, magical son for one with no magical powers and more importantly: no memories. Also like his dad is 1000% on board for this they're both terrible.

I don't know about employment ... a job more "true to him" would be like a gardener or florist or something just around town, but his parents would probably want him to work at Lumon.

I also don't know about rooming/housing situations, but totally open to Matt being assigned a family OR having a roomie. It'd be interesting if Matt was the one having the gay awakening for once rather than inspiring them in others rofl.

Any brainstorming thoughts, random ideas, episode or scene recommendations, would all be welcome!

kaye

[oo]

OKAY HEAR ME OUT.

james bond (needs a canon review! very badly!), and in the event i did, i am deeply into the vibe of "i thought i just sold books and was severely into lawn care, but i keep, horrifyingly, knowing stuff" (severed cause: up in the air! but also, he's died like, 60 times?). i don't imagine he'd work at lumon, but that, also, is a possibility.

other outliers are: natasha romanoff of mcu fame (more spies!), booker from the old guard (severed because he fucked it all up; still depressed! perhaps married with a family so i can go the "these are not my beautiful children, this is not my beautiful wife" route?), or joan holloway from mad men (i heard some of you need A WIFE).

meri

[girlbossing]

too many people i'd like to bring into this, but immediately thought of nancy and can't get the brain worms to leave.

journalist whose ambition has always been to expose corruption and reveal hidden truths. she takes the position at lumon, not for the paycheck but to investigate the company's mysterious practices after receiving an anonymous tip linking them to unethical experiments and disappearances. willingly undergoes the procedure in hopes of figuring out and exposing what's really going on.

two options for an innie:

option one: her innie is meticulous, sharp, and deeply curious. even without her outie's memories, her natural drive for discovery pushes her to question the strange things she sees. notices discrepancies in reports, overhears cryptic conversations, and begins documenting her findings in a secret journal she hides in her office. she also struggles with guilt and fear as she doesn't understand why she feels so driven to uncover truths that might put herself in danger.

option two: maybe lumon's aware that she might be trying to dig up information on what's going on; they assign her to a secretarial position in the archives department where she's tasked with transcribing, filing, and cataloging company records. the role feels stifling and meaningless, dominated by mindless clerical tasks that sap her energy and creativity. i'd love for her to be forced to work under a condescending manager (perhaps an eagan zealot) who expects her to adhere to rigid "proper office conduct" rules — demeanor, dress, and deference. putting her into the stereotypical role of a woman secretary. boss/secretary stuff 🥵