EMP & ATP 005 ● MAY 2026

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ATP&EMP

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Behold, an opportunity to gather.

Welcome to Somnia's fifth ATP & EMP Meme! 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!

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THIS APP ROUND: With September marking the start of the game's second arc, there will be a setting shift and thus we'll be skipping a TDM/app round for that month to better situate our current players. With that said, our next app round after this one will only being in October, so I've decided to uncap the game and thus the number of apps coming in this round and going forward (at least until where I feel like I can handle it).

IN SUMMARY, If you have interest in apping, now might be a good time if you do not wish to wait three months for the next round, or risk the game getting capped again!



Dates to note are as follows:

- EVENT/TDM: June 1st
- RESERVES: June 12th
- APPS: June 19th - 24th

An 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. Current players may extend their invites, and if you don't know anyone in the game, the mod will make a decision to send an invite (note that this does not guarantee one). Just like our EMP, you do not need an invite to participate in the TDM, either— only to reserve and app.

Use the forms below to show us those pretty white jaws!

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[go_loud]

ᛗ PLAYER
Name: Faye
Contact: wingedvoices, DM, I'm sometimes on Discord but the other two are generally better

ᛗ CHARACTER
Name: Camilla Hect | go_loud
Canon: The Locked Tomb books
Brief Info: So extremely earnest necromancer/academic character whose player I'm flailing at up there? ^^^ Cam is his cavalier other half/childhood bff/just super normal about each other.

The cavalier-necromancer partnership is part of the book's society -- cavaliers are the physical to their adept's mental/magical skills -- but both Camilla and Palamedes are incredible at what they do. Cam is a fierce fighter, athlete and acrobat, doesn't adhere to typical norms of how or what a cavalier should specialize in and prefers aggressive strategy -- including weaponized underestimation -- and is unfailingly devoted to Pal, though she'll criticize him fondly: she's also the one who remembers the (pen/ruler/flashlight/food) he inevitably put down or forgot all about.

She operates on her own, decisive moral compass, and is extremely intelligent and academic -- collaborating with Palamedes in thinking out his theorems, a role not all cavaliers play. She can be blunt (and snarkily witty!) but cares very deeply for the people she's allowed into her life and beneath it all feels very deeply as well.

Vessel Type & General ideas: She's totally a Seraph. Being a cavalier is a giveaway for being a Offering, and Seraph fits her so well, particularly as her House's motto is (Six) for the truth, before solace in lies and the elements of instability to/weakness to lying, justice- and mission-oriented-ness and being a defender/protector are all right on the nose (as well as flame references for ...reasons). I've got a moodboard! Which may evolve differently if there's a Palamedes to not be grieving the loss of, but ... look, a lot of things happen in these books.

She's the one I'm very set on. She suits the setting a bit more and especially if there are canonmates...

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There are other loud voices who I play (and in the first case, have more recently) who it's always possible I might throw into the TDM, especially if anyone's interested.

CHARACTER
Name: Teddy Roberts | tedandroses
Canon: Original
Brief Info: No crazy OC universe here; they're from our world. Queer (and genderqueer) musician/activist/nerd from the coalfields of Central Appalachia.
Teddy loved nature and their family growing up, but -- for lots of reasons, some very obvious -- was desperate to get the hell out.
Got the hell out for college; got punched in the face by a combo of homesickness and more education about the socioeconomic/political/historical nuances of the region; formed a political, Appalachian-music-informed folk punk band called Scrip and toured with it for a while; had an escalation in his temporal lobe epilepsy that forced him to take it down a notch; returned home, which was probably inevitable.
After a few years dealing with all that, they're back on their feet. Keeping themself busy, finding community with other marginalized groups in the area, making music. Trying to figure out how to stage a minor revolution or ...maybe just help their community and tell its stories.

Vessel Type & General ideas: I definitely think a Token. I'm split in a few different directions for Teddy.
- Geomancer would be thematically appropriate on a very deep level (no pun intended), since. Ancient mountains. Coal. Wanting to make change. You get it. And, the vibrations of the earth, singing/acoustics... there are things to do with that.
- Runecaster -- Teddy's such a nerd about stories, language, the way literature and song are actually the same thing, bards...etc -- I love the vocal harmonics and paperiness qualities mentioned as examples. Languages are also a thing that fascinate Teddy (and yes, they make bad puns). This could be a winner, though I do love a very lowkey theme being pulled out by transformation.
- Beastkin is an obvious one, but I'm thinking it's too surface. They love nature, and they're defensive of systems and harmony between them, but their affinity isn't with animals specifically.


CHARACTER
Name: Grantaire | theobverse (PB swap in progress)
Canon: Les Mis
Brief Info: Grantaire! Meet this skeptic, nihilist, super ADHD (...my diagnosis but I'm NOT WRONG), semi-functional-alcoholic eternal student. He's an artist and a fighter (savate et canne) and he knows all the good places for everything in Paris. He will ramble for pages worth just to set up a string of a few terrible puns. (His nickname, and the way he signs off on things, is "R" because "Grantaire" sounds like "big R" in French.)

He is SMITTEN with Enjolras, the leader of the student activist group Les Amis de l'ABC (Abaisse), so he is desperate to be a part of their actions despite being kind of "meh" about politics and Enjolras being extremely meh about him. He volunteers intensely (and at least seems to get sidetracked at it); he's bitter and passive-aggressive when he's not trusted the next time.

TLDR (spoilers for Les Mis????): while the barricades are falling, he makes a stand for the Republic when he could've shut up and been unnoticed, and they end up dying together in a grand conclusion to Hugo making a lot of "historically good friend" allusions.
HOWEVER: I tend to play Grantaire as he is for most of the novel: flawed, covering-his-feelings-with-performativity and flaunting his vices, but also desperate to belong and to be needed. That inner strength and loyalty is there, but it's hard to access beneath all the self-sabotage.

Vessel Type & General ideas: Just as Teddy seems obviously to be a Token to me, Grantaire seems to obviously be an Offering. My instincts say Daemon or Satyr, but I'm leaning Daemon . First, Enjolras is so often described as angelic or godlike, and their traits are so stereotypically pure vs defiled, that it's a funny nod. Also, one of the big differences to me between the two seems to be the flight/fear and gracefulness of the Satyr types and the wrath/outbursts of the Daemon types.
Grantaire is absolutely impulsively annoyed, not afraid: people actively have to tell him to shut up and stop being antagonistic. So...yeah probably Daemon!

I think that could actually be really fun.

Plus in canon he's pretty distinctly not actually much of a seducer -- he just likes to make other people think he's getting it every day of the week. (Now, it could be funny to switch that up BECAUSE of the transformation, but!)

[hallowedly]

Listen. If we're getting a Palamedes.

It's illegal not to.

[go_loud]

Lol, honestly I would support that law.
Seriously, I came up with this whole grief-centric concept for Cam as a Seraph, assuming she wouldn't have a Pal, and yet the idea of having one to bounce off is inspiring me way more to actually get on it even though I'm going to have to rework that a bit...

[sorte]

...flawed, covering-his-feelings-with-performativity and flaunting his vices, but also desperate to belong and to be needed. That inner strength and loyalty is there, but it's hard to access beneath all the self-sabotage.

Weh, okay, but I kinda really need this?! I'm not sure if you are familiar with HSR canon, but I'll assume not and basically say I could quote you while describing Aventurine to someone and people who know the canon would never suspect it was originally about a completely different character.

So while I am gung-ho for Camilla as you've been debating her for a while on top of the opportunity with a Palamedes, if you do decide to put Grantaire on the TDM, drop me a link because I'll definitely tag him with Aventurine even if you aren't apping him. (Usually I focus on the characters that are gonna be potentially apped so they have samples and more groundwork laid for them arriving in game when people post more than one character because I get sidetracked and overwhelmed, but I will make an exception for this.)

replying to you with R's journal just for funsies and also bc i just found some decent icons

[theobverse]

Aw, I love when people need a Grantaire in their lives which I guess is...only appropriate given the above description! You are correct that I'm HSR canon-blind -- at least, mostly; I've met several characters via RP, but Aventurine isn't one of them yet!

My guess is I'd love Aventurine, because that whole specific feelings disaster is very much one of my Types. I checked out his bio -- btw holy cool journal?!? -- and he's definitely more confident than Grantaire - and a little greyer morally. ...But that's even MORE fun because wow, the potential chaos?
(Plus - he's been through a whoooole lot more than R ever has, for one, and we also don't see a truly dark Grantaire. R's attracted to Enjolras partly because he's pretty, but primarily bc of the strength of his convictions, which he wishes he had himself. But if he'd stumbled on someone whose strong convictions were distinctly less self-sacrificing...hmm! that's a fun thought exercise. Whatever their other reaction to each other, he IS going to be distracted by how pretty Aventurine is oops)]

I'm thinking out loud at you but! I will TOTALLY throw Grantaire in (once he gets loud in my head, he never shuts up) and I'll definitely link you! Your policy on tagging is a wise one, but I'm very flattered that you want to make an exception :D

And of course, whether I bring R in later or not, you're always welcome to throw these disasters together with me on memes or PSLs etc.

[tequila_sunset]

Oh Harry would vibe intensely with all the above. But ESPECIALLY Grantaire. Harry is from a francophone country haunted by the shadow of a failed communist revolution and an impending second revolution that’s almost certainly doomed to fail. He’s haunted by the imagery of student communists dying, also.

Teddy sounds like such a darling… (kicks my legs)