#sometimes i waffle between goth fashion

[rissynicole]

...I mean... it’s not wrong...

i made a goth, scene, emo generator  

[hollowincalmo]

The Good Boyfriend/Girlfriend - a lifepath

The Good Boyfriend/Girlfriend

Campaign: Looking Glass Heart

Academics Skill: Above Average

Sports Skill: Slightly Below Average

Favorite Foods: Tea of All Kinds, Waffles, French Fries

Blood Type: O

Animal: Lovebird

Age: 18

Genres: Pastoral, Immersive Fantasy, Techno

Step 1: Choose Your Name

Hello, and welcome to the world of Looking Glass Heart.

The first thing you should know is that you're a good person.

You're a kind person. A pure person. A loving person.

The sort of person who makes a good friend, or a good partner.

You're sort of known for this quality.

You're also ridiculously fashionable. You've thought about starting a fashion blog, but you're not sure how to even begin getting a router set up in Fortitude.

But even good and kind and loving people have dark sides. Even good and kind and loving people feel pain.

Something bad happened to you when you were young. It changed your perspective on the world. Before that, you thought of the world as a good and beautiful place. Nowadays you think of it as something sick and wrong, a place where innocent people get hurt, and where people who should be happy don't get to enjoy happiness.

If you're thinking right now that this sounds a lot like the philosophy of the Rider Magisters, you're not wrong. It does. You're aware of that.

But you're not a Magister. You're not even a Rider at all.

That's because you've found a purpose. You've found something to hold onto, something to love and cherish in this rotten, ugly world.

And that sustains you. That keeps your head above the water, even at the worst of times.

You don't want anyone to know that you're all broken inside. You don't want even your closest friends to know.

So to make up for it all, you love, deeply and passionately.

To make up for it all, you make yourself good.

Are you...

• ...Matteus Novikov, the Good Boyfriend, a gender non-conforming boy?

• ...Julia Novikova, the Good Girlfriend, an extremely goth girl?

• ...Jesse Novikov, the Good Partner, who is not bound by such silly notions as gender?

• ...or someone else altogether?

Sorry, Julia! This book is going to assume you're Matteus Novikov, a boy. But swap the gender and the name and you should find this a useful document about yourself!

Step 2: Choose Your Trauma

Something awful happened to you when you were young, somewhere between eight and ten years old. Typically, it's something supernatural, but it might also be something mundane, if that's the angle you want to run with.

Either way, it changed the way you look at things.

You've worked the worst of it at this point, but it still upsets you and unnerves you at times.

What happened to you?

• The summer I turned nine, I became friends with a youkai I called Mister Bignose. At the end of the summer, he lured me into a pond and tried to drown me, which had been his goal all along.

• My father was a giant world-eating snake, and on my tenth birthday, he told me that he had been raising me with no goal other than to consume me to sustain his lifespan and human form for another ten years. Just moments after telling me this, he tried to consume me, and I barely escaped with my life.

• When I was nine, my grandfather ripped out my heart and used it for strange alchemy. He never gave it back to me.

• My mother was a renegade glass-maker. When I was ten years old, I learned that I was not a human being after all, but an eidolon made of glass. When I read my mother's research notes, I learned that she viewed me as a failed experiment, and was planning to destroy me when she completed her next experiment. I ran away, and never saw her again after that.

Or did something else altogether happen to you?

Whatever it was, I'm very sorry that it happened to you, because this whole concept is such an awful thing for a child to have to go through.

Step 3: Choose Your Calling

You have a reason why you haven't fallen over the brink and become an enemy of the world. This is a fundamentally pastoral, honest reason for being. Whenever you're feeling at your worst, you can fall back on this thing, and it brings you comfort, unlike the rest of the world.

Are you trying to...

• ...be the best partner I can be to my partner(s)?

• ...take care of your disabled best friend?

• ...become the most renowned fashion designer in Town?

• ...get straight A's in school?

• …create a comprehensive botanical catalog of everything plant in the Walking Fields?

• ...learn everything there is to know about your favorite TV series?

• ...get more dates than your rival?

• ...collect every issue of your favorite long-running superhero comic?

• ...live an interesting life?

• ...make your friends happy?

• ...or something else?

If your calling is a goal that you can complete, you'll have to find a new calling when you finish your first one.

Step 4: Choose Your Favorite Scenes

Are you most often seen...

[Purple]...hanging out with your friends?

[Purple]...comforting a friend who's hurting?

[Purple] ...taking care of a pet or child?

[Purple] ...spending time in The Princess of Emptiness's Good Place?

[Purple] ...being kind to people you don't even know?

[Purple] ...on a date with a cute person?

[Purple] ...sewing a new outfit for a friend?

[Silver] ...doing simple, honest work alone in Fortitude?

[Silver] ...reading books on fashion design?

[Silver] ...playing your bass guitar?

[Silver] ...cleaning your house?

[Silver] ...wandering around Fortitude?

[Silver] ...sewing a new outfit for yourself?

[Gold]...competing with a rival?

[Gold]...flirting with cute people?

Pick 2-3 favorites to help you figure out what you might be doing when you're not sure what to do in a scene.

Step 5: Review Your Goals

You've got your calling. That's a huge goal. It occupies a lot of your time.

Other than that, you've pretty much always got a lot of work to do. Being the kind of helpful person you are, people ask you for your help pretty often.

You also want to date someone cute. Having a partner to take care of, and who could take care of you would be pretty nice.

Otherwise, you're just trying to make it through each day. Even though you have stuff to do, that isn't easy at all sometimes...

Step 6: Choose Your Connections

You're close to a lot of people. It's how you do things. Your identity is very much understood through the lens of the people around you, the people you help, the people you love.

You starting Connections are typically as follows:

• The Princess/Prince of Emptiness 3. You and Sadako are childhood friends. You're also kind of rivals. And you want to kiss her.

• The Guardian 2. You and Iris are childhood friends too. You grew up together, and you hang out a lot.

• Emily Kanda 2. You grew up with her too. This is starting to look like a running theme, isn't it?

•  The One Becoming 1. You grew up together in Fortitude. You and her don't talk as often nowadays though.

Talk to the other players about your relationship with their characters. If someone agrees that you should feel comfortable around their PC and have a fair amount of knowledge about how to take care of them, you can get a free level 2-3 Connection to their character as well! You can improve these Connections later, if you want.

Step 7: Review Your Powers

You're not really that miraculous yet. You can't do much at all in the way of amazing stuff (well, other than stuff that's mundane but cool). You do your best despite it though.

• You have a calling that sustains you even when things get bad.