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EMP 001 β JUNE 2025
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Welcome to Somnia's first EMP! This is the place to be if you're interested in the game's setting, if you're unsure about who you'd like to bring or if you just want to check out the vibes. Remember that the EMP is open to all, and you don't need an invite to participate in the slightest!
Dates to note are as follows:
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Dates to note are as follows:
- TDM: June 7thAn opportunity for players who do not have invites to post their interest in receiving one will be available on the TDM as a mod comment to reply to. Just like our EMP, you do not need an invite to participate in the TDM, either (only to reserve and app). Mod-run invites will also be available then, so I thank you kindly for your patience!
- RESERVES: June 21st
- APPS: June 22nd - 26th
- GAME START: July 1st
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Especially with the food as love and companionship theme there vs Freddie's like ongoing desperate need for interpersonal connection - in particular because he was not a deliberate child and while he wasn't unloved, his parents were just sort of "meh" about the whole thing and neither of them really did much special to convey affection through food. And natch it was like, Kid Cuisine and Kraft Microwaveable Mac N Cheese Cup (or Chef Boyardee...) on dad's custody days, so someone making something special for him specifically as a gesture of fondness on an occasion other than like, a birthday, would be both very alien to him and deeply meaningful because in addition to seeking closeness he wants to feel valued in a way that his childhood never fulfilled!! And that would for sure meet that need!! Man finally offered a sip of water in the desert!
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FFW to current day, he has a deep desire for connection to others and shows his own affection via acts of service. He enjoys cooking and so it just seems to follow that through it is how he shows his love. He has never felt valued either, and deeply needs to be told he's 'enough'.
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SO FIRST OF ALL the acts of service would HIT for Mr. FrΓ©dΓ©ric bc he basically just felt like he was just sort of There as a child and an interloper in his parents' lives. Like yeah, they did things like take him to the zoo sometimes, but once he started making friends and visiting people's houses it became apparent to him that their relationships were different and more overtly loving. Then he was in the military for 10 years, where the credo is just sort of "stop whining about it", so someone making a point of doing something for him would stop him in his tracks!! Because it conveys that he is important enough to be worth carving out a slot of time for!
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The way this is like. Freddie's whole other issue!! π€π€π€ As a kid he eventually learned that a lot of parents stay together "for the kid" and wait until they move out to divorce, so his parents splitting even despite both being Catholic and disapproving of divorce effectively led him to draw the conclusion that the other kids were somehow better than him and "worth" staying together for, whereas he was not - and then growing up feeling a degree of absence of parental connection, the natural response pretty much any child/teenager is going to have is to wonder what's wrong with them and how they can make themselves loveable enough to solicit the affection they are not receiving. So then when his efforts at connection-seeking just didn't return the yield he was trying for, eventually he sort of slid into a degree of "it is what it is" apathy.
Then fast forward and this same kid is now an adult man who gets cheated on, and natch his immediate response is to internalize it as him not being "enough" to fully meet her needs and keep her content in a relationship with only him as opposed to just. Sometimes people do shitty things like cheat and you can't do anything to prevent it or somehow "earn it", because his background has primed him and instilled this belief that something about him is innately Not Enough compared to other people, which obviously (to him) explains the cheating.
and then that sort of plunged him off the deep end into a freefall of seeking as many instant-gratification connection-adjacent encounters without the emotional risk of trying to build a friendship or relationship and then being mistreated or the relationship being lopsided as he can find. But because he is DTF any gender that doesn't really make it easy to bond because there aren't really many categories of people his age that he won't first try to make a pass at for the much easier (but less satisfying) validation hit of sex vs the slowburn of friendship... but then once he initiates a sexual relationship he is gonna panic and ghost after like 2 meetups!! Endless cycle!
Not to be That Person who dumps paragraphs about their Special Little Guy but the parallels... They're so juicy... Lu please hold this strange lonely man in your cupped hands like a confused baby bird and feed him millet
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He is panromantic and demisexual. He is not sex adverse, he just has always been married to his job and does not feel attraction to others unless he develops feelings for them first, and in the past his feelings were not generally reciprocated.
He is EXTREMELY awkward when he realizes he has feelings for someone because he too doesn't want to deal with the rejection, etc. He reads a lot of romance novels and his cousin has always been a big flirt so he knows how to emulate what he has read/seen and turn it on, but then often panics when it becomes 'too real'.
I dump this info not just because of parallels but also to warn you/anyone reading this that any relationships with Lu will be super slow burn for those reasons... but once he's in, he's LOCKED IN and says the most heart-wrenching, poetic, romantic shit you've ever heard.
And then there's Spite. Who I haven't really mentioned in our discussion but is worth mentioning now because I firmly believe that the way to Lucanis' heart is actually through Spite. If someone can accept the demon he's bound to, not only does Lucanis feel more comfortable being accepted himself, but Spite has a habit of encouraging Lucanis. He's actually a very good boy once he's being listened to, but most people write him off immediately because 'demon'. And frankly idk why they would bc two boyfriends for the price of one?? come on.
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man it really is like that sometimes... RELATABLE
Vis-a-vis panicking when things start getting too real, if he ends up developing feelings for another character I would like to volunteer my extremely unqualified blorbo to give him relationship """advice""" despite dealing with the same issues because god knows that won't stop him! I have to admit I love that whole Genre of thread ESPECIALLY if it's bad advice that he's giving. Cannot emphasize how much he is NOT qualified to be giving relationship advice on intimacy issues.
He bonds by spending time and doing things though so!! He is trying to make friends on the playground here!
Also this is absolutely insane of him but like depending on the relationship Lu seems to have with Spite this mf really might get envious of a Possession. He needs a pet so bad it's unreal
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I'm down for bad advice always. He does the exact same shit. Literally in canon he gives a colleague advice and then when he's later thanked for it he admits it's never worked for him. So there's that.
Lu and Spite have their ups and downs. It's really dependent on canon choices but I do like playing them getting along.