Methodical-By-The-Slacker: Harbor for Relationship Planning

[MethodicalSlacker]

———The Hell Panel Unfolds———

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Amaryllis Perlman-Byrne has lived in Salem her whole life. She is the lead singer and lead guitarist in a band with some of her classmates (tentatively named the Phantom Violets) whose sound has been defined by others as falling in the 'post-punk' genre. The band is trying to get active in the recently revived local music scene, where it now feels all of a sudden like there is a great possibility where just moments ago there was great void, possibility fit for one as ambitious and type-A as Amaryllis to seize upon. She is also an athlete, and has participated as a runner in track and field and a goalie in soccer in years past. These days, she's taking it slow on the sports, and would like to go camping in the forests of New England whenever she gets the chance most of the time. She is an active rock climber, and she knows how to fish. She plays in the percussion section of her school concert band and guitar in the jazz ensemble, provided it could continue; she has her own equipment so she'd be fine probably.

Let's get to her politics. She has a bit of a fiery temper, and is very political, having moved sharply leftward since she gained political consciousness roughly around the time of Canon's election. She identifies as a democratic socialist if pressed, and a communist if she feels comfortable; practically, this means she supports universal single-payer public health care, a green new deal, a living minimum wage, higher taxes on the ultra rich and wealthy, federally legalized recreational marijuana and the decriminalization of all drugs, criminal justice reform, tuition-free public university and forgiveness of student loan debt, and a bunch of other stuff. If you'd like specific confirmation on her stance on an issue, don't hesitate to ask if you think it would help your kid respond to something.

Her grades are alright. Nothing special. Not an academic standout by any stretch. I envision her as something of an outcast; she knows one or two people in each circle, enough to be a bit of a hanger on, and she's trying to live around school rather than through it, if this makes sense. She's more focused on the music aspect and trying to build a portfolio of songs. She wants to apply to the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Here is a gallery with some picrews of Amaryllis.

Her profile isn't complete, but once I have a full draft it'll probably be linked here, on this line.

Relationships I'm Looking For:
- Other people in/with connections to the Salem/Endecott High music scene. Friends, rivals, anything and everything; if you have a kid who performs with an instrument (especially outside of school) hit me up
- People with good politics for Amaryllis to be friends with
- People with bad politics for Amaryllis to be enemies with, and ideas on what sort of arguments they've had/if things have escalated to physical violence
- Someone from a past romantic relationship that ended in the middle of Quarantine. Amaryllis identifies as pansexual.
- Former soccer/track teammates

[+] Amaryllis Relationships

The Phantom Violets:
Melanie: "My drummer. And there isn't a better one at JEM. Singular in talent, does her best work whenever asked. I'd join the lacrosse team for her and Liya if I didn't also hate it."

La Inter-scholastic-ale
Natasha White: "Chairwoman of the Vanguard Party. I defer to her judgement on matters of theory, probably to my occasional detriment, but she's one of my best friends so I can't say I really care whether or not her Lenin quotes are a hundred percent accurate. Also she has a really, uh, dope? Taste in music. I hope that's the right word, for my out of touch punk-ass, hah."
Isaiah: "Good guy. Respectable ideas. I don't mind running into him in the woods on a walk every now and again, which is more than I can say for some of the people I meet on the trail."
Lorenzo 'Ren': "We need to jam. And to hang out a bit more in general. If I could? I'd like to take Ren under my wing. But that's up to them."
Abhi Panicker: "I didn't really get Abhi until I listened to Trueanon for the first time. Then it made total sense. He's just like Brace! And I can say that without feeling like a total fucking simp because I'm 99% sure Abhi has never heard of him. The genuine article."

The Radicalization List
Teddy Berenson: "Idealism is a hell of a drug."
Salem Fox: "There's something wrong with the names in our class. Something about constant terror attacks and paranoia made all of parents collectively shit the bed and call us all weird bullshit. I can't judge Salem, because at least he doesn't have to spell his first name with a 'y' in the middle, but holy fuck he did not luck out with that one. He agrees a bit too readily to stuff I put forward. I get sort of a Buttigieg or Ossoff vibe from him, but I can't be certain. I want to be, though. Whatever it takes."

Ugh.
Ash Graves: "I'm too young to be nostalgic. Fuck nostalgia. But I loved Ash, and I hate that I have to say it that way. Now, I mean, I guess we aren't uncool. But we aren't ever going to be the same kind of friends again."

Riff-Raff:
Clover Wilkinson-Crowheart: "She seems nice. We're in percussion together. Don't know why she doesn't like talking to me as much as she should given how much we have in common with each other. Oh well. I like her hair."
Nick Andretti: "If Mike and Eoin aren't in town, Nick's the next stop. Doesn't go any further than that."
Amerika: "She isn't the worst like I could have guessed from what her dad does and is, but she's not more than a liberal, which is, I guess, fine, given that she doesn't really wield any sort of institutional or even personal power and as such is sort of just someone else who exists. Shame about her dad though. And the anti-drug stuff, like, come on, that's a bit short-sighted."
The Betties: "Ugh. Just. Ugh. I just. Don't even. Let me start with. This fucking bullshit. Ugh. Fine individually, but they don't really exist unless they're all together."
Donovan Lauer: "If he would shut up about me quitting the track team that'd be really great that'd be really fucking nice and maybe he'd get bumped up a spot but right now he's borderline Shitlist and I don't wanna have to punch a wall like this boy definitely does when he gets angry so I'm gonna move on. Fuck."

Shitlist:
Alex Avanesian: "Don't trust anyone who claims to be a never-Canon conservative. This kid's like a walking, talking, gawking Lincoln Project."
Matthew Bell: "Another brainless Canon drone, and a misogynist too."
Callie Zhou: "I'm not a Maoist, but I think I understand what he was getting at."
Mo Shadid: "What a fucking chud. He dresses like the same backwards mindless 'counter-culture' that he gets his garbage politics from, so I guess at least he's consistent, but holy fuck! Total waste of air."
Corbin Azinger: "Hey asshole, make like a crow and fly the fuck out of here why don'tcha, I don't wanna have to tell you or any of these other JROTC meatheads again to get the fuck out of my way, capiche? Fuck off with this backwater reactionary."

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Eugene Marcus used to wrestle, but took a really bad injury in a meet as a junior months before the pandemic and hasn't been in the ring since. He used the time recovering to get into video games, chiefly fighting games, and to watch a lot of wrestling. Olympic wrestling and also professional wrestling. He used to party a good deal before but not now. In a good spot academically, trying to get into UMass Amherst for computer science. Having a bit of a culture shock going from hardcore athlete to nerd, but basically has the ropes down by now. It might surprise people who haven't seen him since junior year before the injury, though, to know that he's more interested in the FCC than the WWE. Haha, nice. He is also much better at cooking now, and he got into poetry over quarantine too.

I think Eugene has a pretty friendly disposition, and mostly just likes to get along with people. I don't see him having many enemies. Eugene's profile isn't complete either, and I'll update this when I'm closer to that and have more to share.

Relationships I'm Looking For:
- Wrestling squadmates/other athlete friends
- People to play fighting games with.
- Poetry club? Or just people who don't mind sharing.
- Friends who just know him from class and would greet him in the halls/have stuff to talk about with him
- I'm probably gonna have him join a club or two. Stay tuned!

[+] Eugene Relationships

Before the Fall
Ash Graves: "What a—this is what we call a stand up individual who does a lot for her community and is also pretty cool, just to chill with. I think of things in context of my injury a lot. Can't help it, but Ash helps me shatter that illusion when she's around, breaking that false dichotomy in my mind."
Matthew Bell: "If he can shut up for five minutes? Decent guy. Just another face at the gym, and I don't like to let people get to me like that."
Mo Shadid: "He's cool, I like the grease and stuff, y'know, we hung out a lot before the injury. Haven't seen him much since but that's just how it's like sometimes."
Donovan Lauer: "I remember this kid from the gym, yeah. Kinda weird, not gonna lie."


After the Fall
Lúcio Oliveira: "Lúcio and I go back, but we only really got to know each other recently. Always fun to play with him, and sometimes, about every other week, I stop by the gym with him too. Always a pleasure."
Amerika: "I like her poems, but like, it's a bit weird to appreciate stuff coming from someone who's been brought up on, well, you know."
Ren: "Chill dude, great cook, what's not to love about Ren? I can't see anyone disliking this guy, seriously."

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Coda Taylor is a class clown. Textbook. Always making a joke here or there with their friends, or plotting one in a series of senior pranks, getting material for the several school Instagram meme accounts they run, coming up with ridiculous lyrics for their SoundCloud rap group—Coda is the most zoomer of my V8 cast. They also fence outside of school, and has fenced foil and saber in the past. They're part of the school photography club. Trying to grow out of an Elon Musk phase from before the pandemic. Likewise, some of their material is somewhat dated, politically, and occasionally a take comes out here or there that's a bit off-color. Nobody's perfect?

Coda produces beats under several aliases, which I have yet to come up with, just assume they're very Online and clever and funny. I haven't decided how good they are at rapping yet. Probably bad on purpose. But Coda is down to produce beats for any classmate who asks, and is proficient at a variety of styles. Like, they know how to use Ableton correctly. That sort of thing. Coda doesn't really have academic ambitions, and is going to apply undeclared to a bunch of colleges without application fees and just see what happens. They only just recently moved to Salem, at the start of high school, and as such they are still taken in a bit by the whole witch thing. Not a lot, but enough that Coda owns a couple of novelty tarot decks.

I have some picrews for Coda, but not enough for a folder. I'll make some more as I update the character and come back here. And I'll do the same for the profile too.

Relationships I'm Looking For:
- Former musical collaborators
- People who have memories of Coda doing wacky shit
- Fencing partners
- People who would like Coda's memes/follow their account(s)
- Likewise, people who think Coda's jokes suck

[+] Coda Relationships

Collab???:
Salem Fox: "I trust this shithead with my life and livelihood, yo. Peep the Soundcloud link in my bio for our track!"

Chumroll:
Clover Wilkinson-Crowheart: "She seemed okay until I basically dug up her old tweets. That's not what I actually did but that's basically it, felt like I was trying to cancel a classmate or something. Arm's length. Arm and a half. Three quarters."
Nick Andretti: "A solid option in a pinch for you-know-exactly-what."
Lúcio Oliveira: "Ah. A craftsman. An artist. Truly, Lúcio has my utmost respect and admiration. It takes a lot of guts to stay in this game these days, especially with me at the table. A gentleman scholar shithead all the same."
Donovan Lauer: "Prank squad. Prank squad. Party squad. Damn I got so many good memories with this guy! I'd follow this guy to college just to watch him get fucked up at frats. It's like that sorta thing! He better be in the room when I try cocaine, I'll say that much!"

Trollcall:
Natasha White: "The tankie crap is gross, yo. Imagine being the only Stalinist in Salem. Vanguard my ass. Learn economics, you dip."
Matthew Bell: "Yikes with a capital Whyyyyyyyy."
Mo Shadid: "More like Mo Sha-did you know culture has moved on from the fucking 1950's? This guy's no fun!"
Gabrielle: "Gabrielle is wicked pissah, man! Her content always gets a lot of likes—on my pages, not hers. If she wasn't a femcel maybe we'd be friends."
Abhi Panicker: "Panic harder loser, this tankie shit's gonna get you on several lists, man. There's a difference between layers of irony and just being a fascist, fuckhead, ell-em-aye-oh."

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Kyle 'K' Emerson is a bit of an enigma. He's quiet, hangs out around town, pretty smart in math, does some music in class, has some obnoxious friends but is generally chill. Doesn't talk much in class, and always looks a little out of it. He sort of it; he likes taking long rides into the city just to take the train around and visit stuff on his own. Used to live in a town where it was safer to walk around at night, and hasn't quite grown out of that. He listens to sort of synthy gloomy lo-fi music, and likes watching live feeds online from unsecured surveillance cameras, a sort of digital people watching that compliments his own habits staring out coffee shop windows and scanning subway platform benches. Maybe has seen some shit. Is definitely hiding something.

If the marching band survived the funding cuts, K Emerson is section leader for the Clarinets. Otherwise, he holds a similar position in the concert band, and practices outside of school. This is maybe the one thing anyone can tell K has any human passion about, as they're prone to spending lots and lots of time in the practice rooms.

K is pretty unremarkable appearance-wise, but here's a short collection of picrews.

Profile not done here either, sorry.

Relationships I'm Looking For:
- Any other clarinet players that had section leading ambitions, so that I can work things out with you and negotiate you down to a second in command spot. You aren't getting me to budge here.
- Other burn-outs who might think he's sort of neat
- idk this is a let-it-happen kid for this kind of thing

[+] K Emerson Relationships

K's Beloved
?????? ????????: "She can't know. Nobody can know."

The Sin Kid Crew
Clover Wilkinson-Crowheart: "She's my best friend, and I'd do anything for her. I mean, I don't know that I've had to do much for her yet, she seems to have a pretty okay grasp on things, but I need to be there for her. As support. No matter how the rest of me is."

Drifters, Loners, The Lost and Soon Forgotten
Cedar Dailsay: "It was awkward turning her down that one time. I mean, she's cute, but she isn't really, and I couldn't, y'know, that just wouldn't be right. But I'm into her as a person, like we talk and have fun about math and whatever. I met her when I was still on the advanced track, and she stuck around even though I'm just doing computer science stuff now. Neato."
Alex Avanesian: "Yeah this dude is alright, we shoot the breeze sometimes and it's never boring. Cool dude."
Nick Andretti: "Dude, this is like, the plug. Nick's the man. I get, y'know, stuff from him. For parties. Another solid dude."
Donovan Lauer: "Maybe this dude's a little less solid, but like, I dunno, he's wild. He's got that energy to him. Fun to watch."
Lúcio Oliveira: "Look, I'd love to stick around and chat, but I got marching band practice in like five minutes and I gotta get down to the field. I'd love to workout sometime, but I'm just a bit too busy this week. I always have excuses for this guy, and it makes me feel like crap. I don't workout, though. And I won't."

Modern Day Wastoids
Mo Shadid: "An anomaly. I never thought I'd know someone who's like this. Pretty cool. I don't talk to him, but, I watch."
Callie Zhou: "What a bitch, man. I mean, fuck, I think just about anyone would say that, but she's just kinda out there. I can tell she's trying to manipulate her into something, and that's fine. Two can play. But there's something else... about the way we talk to each other... that just gets me feeling... a certain kind of way. I can't explain it."
Corbin Azinger: "I mean, I'll talk with just about anyone. I don't really mind. This guy seems solid, like, he has a moral code. I kinda tend to defer to those people most of the time."

Bottom of the Barrel

More coming soon!

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[Dogs231]

Amaryllis:

Donovan is on the track and field team and might be annoyed that they lost a teammate.

Abhishek has some takes she might really agree with and others that would make the average person run screaming into the hills, though the second category is almost entirely ironic. Abhishek and her probably have a sort of strained agreement about politics as a whole - they might not agree fully, but enough to probably not hate each other.

Eugene:

Donovan has probably attended at least some parties that he's been to.

Coda:

Donovan is a fellow troublemaker/class clown type who can be quite wacky, and he enjoys rap music (though he doesn't make any - he just likes listening to it.)

Abhishek also enjoys politics but is also an ironically terrible person who tries to get a rise out of people who disagree with him. The two of them might have had a negative interaction on social media.

[Yonagoda]

Am-whateverhernameis:

Good Politics: Isaiah, a queer socialist involved in queer socialism activism stuff and also enviornmental activism! Nature-ey and also just a touch of (slightly fake) religious. If you want an ex, I might be open to offer Isaiah as one, but idk.

Music scene: Ren did some music stuff- sings in the choir, plays the guitar at home maybe, so there’s that.

Bad Politics- Erika/Amerika’s father owned a podcast and a local newspaper that’s very conservative and also maybe had a few conspiracy theories? While she separated herself from him, she has contributed in the past, sometimes unknowingly. (“when watching fox news last night, my daughter Amerika exclaimed…” etc) She’s a centrist, slightly liberal leaning, right now but the past can’t be erased lol. Also she likes hiking and nature and shit like that. Sometimes sells animal bones and stuff, a little creepy.

Eugene: Erika does just a touch of poetry, and Ren likes cooking.

Coda: Gabrielle thinks his memes are shit, but doesn’t bother to speak up about it. Ren’s in the music scene and does a bit of singing. So maybe they do Music Stuff together? Idk.

Kyle:... hm, idk, Gabrielle’s a super burnout I guess?

[VoltTurtle]

Today on Volt's journey to reply to the lowest relationship thread in the list each day, we have this thread! If you want the context for my suggestions here, there's a link to my V8 relationship thread in my signature.

Amaryllis is a prime target to be recruited into Natasha's Vanguard, as she is openly leftist and less openly a communist. Natasha's open and proud communism combined with her own fire suggests to me that they would have every reason to get along, and Natasha would certainly want to bring her into the fold. Natasha also has an interest in hip-hop music which is adjacent to Amaryllis' musical inclinations, though she doesn't directly play an instrument, unless Amaryllis would count using synthesizers to compose beats.

Eugene, meanwhile, would likely be very friendly with Lúcio, as a fellow athlete who is also a huge dork. Lúcio being as nice and inviting as he is would likely be down to alternate getting taught the ropes and shit-stomped by Eugene in fighting games. Lúcio would likely also extend an invite to his Body Improvement Club towards Eugene, but whether or not Eugene would take it is up to him.

In the same vein, Coda and Lúcio would almost certainly get along, as fellow class clowns. I could easily imagine them going back and forth telling each other awful jokes. They don't necessarily share many other commonalities, so maybe they wouldn't actually be the closest of friends, but Lúcio's a good boy. He has lots of friends.

As for Kitty... I'm not so sure she'd be friends with any of your kids. She could theoretically get along with any of them, really, but she's so painfully shy that she'd likely just avoid them unless you think they would go out of their way to befriend her. They would probably just know about her general weirdness and her mental instability and steer clear of her as a result.

Lemme know what you think!

[Cicada]

Alright, I'll be jumping into your relations thread to respond to your ideas, don't mind me now.

[+] Here Be

K and Cedar; K seems to fit the bill of a quiet, socially awkward and somewhat needy person for Cedar to dote on. For his part, her absences from school on account of interest worry him too. They don't have much in common, and the chances of K getting her to peel away from the platoon for a day to come hang out with his friends seem unlikely, but if they had a class together at some point I can see her checking up on him every now and again. If you want, maybe she has a (one-sided) crush on him, since he seems to fit her type too.

Glancing around at your other thread posts so far I can't get a fix on whether K's group of more intimate friends would be the sort she might orbit in or not, so I'm going to note to myself to get back to you on that (probably, you know how SOTF promises go). Does good at math translate to him taking an advanced maths track in school? If so that's most likely where they made an acquaintance. I can imagine that she tried to ramble out on the town with him at least once, people watching in some aesthetically sound spot somewhere while she did art on her tablet and they didn't actually converse much. Good visual in my head, anyways. You're right that I'm pretty sure he'd have some allure for her in the past, probably pretty soon after they met and had some kind of outing where she got to know him even if only by quiet observation. She's not shy about propositioning if she's interested and single, so his specific response there would obviously be up to you.

Amaryllis and Callie; Maybe Callie gets into Amaryllis' orbit and then they have a tiff about the politics and then fall out. Edgy libertarians are among Amaryllis' least favorite people, so it'd be interesting to see what happens when either of these people have to quickly course-correct their expectations about each other. The even-tempered devil's advocate versus the quick to incense bleeding heart.

Probably wouldn't have much of a chance of encountering each other enough to want to talk to one another? Contingent on how Amaryllis' other relationships shake out. Hypothetically I imagine the encounter would go along the lines of: Amaryllis gets really passionate and into her feelings and tries to out-argue a gaslighting edgelord brick wall and at some point realizes there's no point and backs off with a smug smirking Callie left firmly etched onto her personal shit list.

Coda and Callie; Callie seems like she'd like Coda's memes. She seems like she'd also like their politics enough. The conspiracy theorist bend isn't something they're totally interested in but otherwise I think Callie and Coda could be alright friends, enough that Coda doesn't really mind when Callie gets spacey. Would be incredibly interested in purchasing her services for pranks.

Hm... I was thinking about this for a while but I can't come up with anything for sure. Another 'I'll wait to see where Coda's social network' ends up looking like to be sure how connected the two might be.

K and Callie; K's a misfit weirdo and maybe K knows Callie that way. K doesn't have much emotional stakes in school, so I can see them aimlessly arguing each other to death about asinine bullshit. At least until the bus gets here and K has to go.

K would probably be appreciated for that if they get straight to the jousting with no strings attached, I can see it. They both seem like the sort to vanish from each other's lives the moment the off-the-top verbal shitposting is done, and Callie at least is perfectly alright with that.

Amaryllis and Ash; Woah, musician alert! There are a few ways I can think of this playing out; Ash seems perfect both for someone for Amaryllis to be jam buddies with but maybe is good enough at it that Amaryllis feels threatened and this is more of a rivalry than anything. Maybe they started as close friends during middle school and planned on making music together at some point but drifted away over quarantine when Amaryllis got tired of the self-improvement stuff. I can see Ash being the reason Amaryllis quit sports, too. Who knows, could be interesting either way, let me know if you have more ideas.

Music's something Ash keeps to herself about more or less- I haven't pitched her for any of the school band concepts for a reason. She'd definitely appreciate Amaryllis' output though, and admire her passion and hard work. I could see the timeline working about as you said but with more of a mutual focus on Amaryllis' former history with sports.

Something like this might work, roughly? Ash turning from a casual sports fan and athlete to the super motivated tryhard she is in high school does play a role in Amaryllis beginning to feel the negative aspects of Ash's relentlessness, associating it with sports to such an extent that it becomes part of her eventual retiring from being an active athlete. Timeline flexible there. They don't part on bad terms though, each doing their own thing but Ash still a big fan of the Cool and New sounds Amaryllis is working on. At some point recently Amaryllis maybe thought Ash could be an asset in her efforts to breathe life into the local music scene and or stop the school band from dying and they strongly reconnected for a time, but Ash gets put off by realizing how much her friend has changed (exchanging sports for outdoorsmanship interests would strike a sour note for Kitty-related reasons) and eventually declines further involvement in Amaryllis' projects. So like... they're not on bad terms but they're more of a past-tense than present-tense duo if that makes sense. More fond memories than current interest in each others lives.

Eugene and Ash; Eugene, while not an athlete anymore himself, probably respects Ash's efforts around the school. Mai Onodera falls in the same boat; both of these kids get the feeling that Ash is good and would like to know her, but her aesthetics sort of put them off from getting to know her much deeper than that. So they're all pretty much outwardly friendly, when they run into each other.

Sounds good to me for sure. Probably close enough in terms of comradery that Ash was at his bedside at least a few times while Eugene was recovering, and she doesn't judge his transition into being a nerd. She might even have helped him out in the process, sharing a couple of her more 'yeah I normally don't talk too much about this in public' type hobbies like recommending horror movies or playing trivia games with him or such. They might have transitioned into being fixtures in a group of study buddies or the like.

Amaryllis and Salem; Amaryllis probably knows that Salem is a CIA plant and doesn't really care. They seem like they'd get along well enough, even if Amaryllis is sort of interested in what he might be hiding. She probably didn't realize he was flirting with her until like seven minutes into their conversation and then laughed about it and turned him down. Might have seen each other at parties too—yeah, apart from Amaryllis trying to push him a bit on the politics and whatever reaction Salem would have to that, I can see them being alright enough friends. Maybe he let on a little too much with the flirting, or Amaryllis lead him on so she could learn more. I can see a thread where they're trying to talk around each other like that.

Ash spilled the beans, lets say. Or said enough off-handedly that Amaryllis would at least realize that Salem's way more of a try-hard than he lets on. Depends on just how much you want Amaryllis to know and how plausible it might be in your opinion, I'm flexible here. They agree on enough politics, of the things you've listed anyways, that Amaryllis probably doesn't think he's The Worst Ever if she does know the full McKinsey-recruit-to-be story. She pushes him he'll gladly admit he believes more in what she believes than seems apparent and he's just personally interested in doing things he can change and affect personally slash doesn't like dealing in more 'pure ideology'. Something like that. Maybe she'd still think that's BS and maybe it is- that's how unsure I am myself of his precise motivations, TBH.

But yeah, they seem like they could be close. Probably closer at present than Ash/Amaryllis. Even if Amaryllis is a successful recruit into Natasha's tankie brigade Salem would let that slide with only a bit of an eyebrow quirk. NGL, that thread idea of Salem making a pass at her (perhaps its something they do semiregularly?) and the two of them verbally jousting and trying to pry Salem's alter-ego life out of his skull sounds it could be a really good one.

Coda and Salem; Shitpost buddies, party friends, general miscreants who like to hang out.

Yup. Put Salem in for being a mod in Coda's meme pages. They probably paired up on at least one low-effort shitty diss track.

Mai and Salem; Mai doesn't take too well to being hit on, and is likely to get somewhat upset when she realizes it's happening to her. Would talk to Ash to let her know what Salem did and be absolutely dumbfounded when she realized she was alright with it. Then would ask if she could kick him anyway.

Both Salem and Ash would permit it- Salem's probably alright with taking a bit of a beating if that's part of the catharsis needed to alleviate the impact of his bullshit. Or maybe offering that's just a strategy they developed to blunt the negative fallout from whenever Salem's flirt trolling is taken badly since they don't expect anyone to seriously take them up on it.

I will, energy permitting, be keeping an eye on how relationships develop for you as V8 continues to take shape, all these things can be tweaked as needed.

[Jilly]

You're at the bottom of the threads so you'll be the first stop in the jilly worldwide tour I guess so sucks to be you. You already posted in my thread, so I'll just talk about Amos since he showed up at my door after the fact.

We already got a big thing going on with Amaryllis and Melanie so idk how you feel about doubling up with handler concepts but if you want a modern day quarantine breakup I'll offer him to you since I think there's room to work there where Amaryllis is such a hot personality and Amos is so cold so there might be a little short-circuiting there as far as what they want out of a relationship exacerbated even more by the fact that high schoolers are so hormonal without the frontal lobes to handle them and stuff, tho that is up to you.

Otherwise, there might be something with him and Eugene being friends in the Before Times depending on which clubs you end up putting Eugene in/in the past and then over quarantine things just kinda turned weird and they got more and more distance between each other and don't really talk anymore either as a natural friendship decay or as some sort of inciting incident idk.

He also thinks Coda can fuck right off but wouldn't tell that to their face

[Deamon]

I could see Amaryllis being good friends with Jessica as they're both outdoors types and avid rock climbers and I could see her being friendly with Darryl as a lot of their politics agree but one of his hobbies is trying to annoy Natasha so there's that.

Eugene could be friends with Aracelis, Jessica or Robbie in turn and to different levels depending on what you reckon. They're all athletes so they have that in common.

Coda may know Darryl and work on beats for him. Also, Darryl ain't here for that witch shit. Coda would also be at least acquaintances with Aracelis via photography club.

K idk really, maybe California but that's about all I can see.