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CRAU INFO: Heartrate + Synflux
Hey ho friends! Gigan here as he appears in Synflux is a CRAU from a recent short-term game called Heartrate! I love CRAU antics! Not everyone does, and I understand and respect that! So I'm making this entry to supply a brief background on things and specific canon/character callouts, as well as a place to opt out, discuss comfort levels, and so on.
I will not make anyone play with any CRAU aspect they don't agree to. Player comfort is my top priority here! I also tend to talk a lot so I will do my best to keep this explanation very brief and to the point. Some main points below!
What kind of game was Heartrate?
Heartrate was a fast-paced, short-term competition game, akin to a murder game, except the premise was dating. Yep, dating. This particular round was monster-focused, meaning all humans were given a monster form and anyone who was already a monster, like Gigan, was either left alone or given a different monster form. The goal was to build relationships with one another and go on dates, and characters ranked others on how positively they felt towards them.
Uhhh how'd that go for him?
Gigan won second place, which I hope you will all agree with me is incredibly hilarious. He had a very good time overall—forming some close relationships, learning some outside perspectives, experiencing some empathy, developing some character, and all that good stuff. The game only took place over an IC week and wasn't nearly as dramatic as something like a murdergame, so he is very much still himself, but—
Why are you playing him as this CRAU?
The Heartrate experience did a good job of equipping him for the parts of Synflux that involve decision-making, feeling empathy, and living in the context of a society. These are not things Gigan had ever really needed to do before! He is capable of learning them, or else he wouldn't have in Heartrate, but taking him as a CRAU lets me skip ahead a little bit in that development without bypassing it entirely (that wouldn't be fun either). He is very much a work in progress, just a little more progress than he'd have straight from canon. For example, he knows how to do things like . . . put on a pair of pants in human form, a thing he would otherwise still need to learn, so that's nice for all of us.
On a more personal character level, it opened up the door for him to begin thinking of himself as somewhat more of an individual capable of pursuing his own desires and future, which was also not a part of his life historically. Sometimes you are a cybernetic living weapon who gets mind-controlled a lot and lent out like a piece of equipment and it doesn't do a whole lot of good for your boundaries or sense of self. This is also still a huge work in progress for him, but Heartrate helped!
So how about those CRAU relationships?
The real meat of this. This is the part I want to be in close and clear contact about! Heartrate was a very small private game, and several of the characters were OCs, so the number of canons/casts Gigan became familiar with there was very small. But some of those canons are represented in Synflux, though none of the characters themselves are (currently).
The list is short enough that I'm just going to list them out, including those not represented in Synflux right now, in case they become so later. Here it is!
Pokemon: We had a PLA cast, so Gigan has met Akari, Volo, and Ingo, and knows a little about the mechanics of Pokemon types, battles, and so on. This isn't currently relevant to Synflux.
Delicious in Dungeon: Gigan has met Falin from post-canon! He knows the names of Marcille and Laios and that Laios is Falin's brother, but he has not seen them to recognize on sight.
Catherine: Gigan has met Katherine and has seen Vincent and Catherine in a dream sequence. This is pretty unlikely to ever be relevant in Synflux, but hey, you never know.
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint: Gigan has met Kim Dokja and would recognize Yu Junghyeok on sight. This isn't currently relevant in Synflux and this one would be a liiiiittle complicated to navigate because of literally everything about ORV and spoilers, so if this comes up we can chat it out.
Trigun Stampede: He knows Meryl and has seen memories of Vash and Knives! He also knows some of the backstory of the world (and has some personal investment in it). This one is relevant and I'm happy to discuss it!
Genshin Impact: He has met Aether and seen Lumine in a dream, but the Aether Gigan knows is an AU, and so the odds he would recognize him as the same person if it ever came up are decreased. He hasn't seen anyone else from the cast and doesn't really know anything about the canon.
Dangan Ronpa: Gigan has met Tsumugi and knows . . . a little bit about the concept of NDRV3, but not a lot, and what he did hear just confused him, so he doesn't have a lot of fourth wall-breaking info here if it ever were to come up.
That's all, folks!
What if my character/canon is in the list above?
Then let's chat! Comments to this post are screened, or you can PM me here or on Plurk, Discord, whatever. I will work with whatever your comfort level is for any "hey, I recognize you!" shenanigans, whether that's FUCK IT WE BALL or "please just have Gigan magically forget anything he knows about my character's canon, I don't want to play with him or deal with it" or anything inbetween.
I will not make anyone play with any CRAU aspect they don't agree to. Player comfort is my top priority here! I also tend to talk a lot so I will do my best to keep this explanation very brief and to the point. Some main points below!
What kind of game was Heartrate?
Heartrate was a fast-paced, short-term competition game, akin to a murder game, except the premise was dating. Yep, dating. This particular round was monster-focused, meaning all humans were given a monster form and anyone who was already a monster, like Gigan, was either left alone or given a different monster form. The goal was to build relationships with one another and go on dates, and characters ranked others on how positively they felt towards them.
Uhhh how'd that go for him?
Gigan won second place, which I hope you will all agree with me is incredibly hilarious. He had a very good time overall—forming some close relationships, learning some outside perspectives, experiencing some empathy, developing some character, and all that good stuff. The game only took place over an IC week and wasn't nearly as dramatic as something like a murdergame, so he is very much still himself, but—
Why are you playing him as this CRAU?
The Heartrate experience did a good job of equipping him for the parts of Synflux that involve decision-making, feeling empathy, and living in the context of a society. These are not things Gigan had ever really needed to do before! He is capable of learning them, or else he wouldn't have in Heartrate, but taking him as a CRAU lets me skip ahead a little bit in that development without bypassing it entirely (that wouldn't be fun either). He is very much a work in progress, just a little more progress than he'd have straight from canon. For example, he knows how to do things like . . . put on a pair of pants in human form, a thing he would otherwise still need to learn, so that's nice for all of us.
On a more personal character level, it opened up the door for him to begin thinking of himself as somewhat more of an individual capable of pursuing his own desires and future, which was also not a part of his life historically. Sometimes you are a cybernetic living weapon who gets mind-controlled a lot and lent out like a piece of equipment and it doesn't do a whole lot of good for your boundaries or sense of self. This is also still a huge work in progress for him, but Heartrate helped!
So how about those CRAU relationships?
The real meat of this. This is the part I want to be in close and clear contact about! Heartrate was a very small private game, and several of the characters were OCs, so the number of canons/casts Gigan became familiar with there was very small. But some of those canons are represented in Synflux, though none of the characters themselves are (currently).
The list is short enough that I'm just going to list them out, including those not represented in Synflux right now, in case they become so later. Here it is!
Pokemon: We had a PLA cast, so Gigan has met Akari, Volo, and Ingo, and knows a little about the mechanics of Pokemon types, battles, and so on. This isn't currently relevant to Synflux.
Delicious in Dungeon: Gigan has met Falin from post-canon! He knows the names of Marcille and Laios and that Laios is Falin's brother, but he has not seen them to recognize on sight.
Catherine: Gigan has met Katherine and has seen Vincent and Catherine in a dream sequence. This is pretty unlikely to ever be relevant in Synflux, but hey, you never know.
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint: Gigan has met Kim Dokja and would recognize Yu Junghyeok on sight. This isn't currently relevant in Synflux and this one would be a liiiiittle complicated to navigate because of literally everything about ORV and spoilers, so if this comes up we can chat it out.
Trigun Stampede: He knows Meryl and has seen memories of Vash and Knives! He also knows some of the backstory of the world (and has some personal investment in it). This one is relevant and I'm happy to discuss it!
Genshin Impact: He has met Aether and seen Lumine in a dream, but the Aether Gigan knows is an AU, and so the odds he would recognize him as the same person if it ever came up are decreased. He hasn't seen anyone else from the cast and doesn't really know anything about the canon.
Dangan Ronpa: Gigan has met Tsumugi and knows . . . a little bit about the concept of NDRV3, but not a lot, and what he did hear just confused him, so he doesn't have a lot of fourth wall-breaking info here if it ever were to come up.
That's all, folks!
What if my character/canon is in the list above?
Then let's chat! Comments to this post are screened, or you can PM me here or on Plurk, Discord, whatever. I will work with whatever your comfort level is for any "hey, I recognize you!" shenanigans, whether that's FUCK IT WE BALL or "please just have Gigan magically forget anything he knows about my character's canon, I don't want to play with him or deal with it" or anything inbetween.