cicada 2.0

[Magnum 0pus]

Howdy, it's me, Magnum, and I've come to propose ideas for the types of relationships your kids could have with mine, Claude!

RAY JANECZEK

I imagine Ray and Claude are on pretty friendly terms with each other. Both being on the horror club makes it even more likely, and with how popular and friendly Claude is, it's not out of the question. Although, I imagine they have also had chance encounters online via FPS games on occasion... I'm just suggesting that since I think it would be funny to see how that goes.

MONA MARROQUÍN

In a complete contrast, Mona and Claude are on unfriendly terms. Not because she has done wrong by him, but because he generally just avoids her so as to not associate with her in any way, shape, or form. Now sure, he is mixed in with a couple of bad eggs, but Mona is a really bad egg, even by other standards.

CLARISSA SHOEMAKER

Clarissa and Claude are friends. He is able to notice that her whole thing is a facade, but he doesn't really say anything to her about it since he knows she'll deny it. Despite that, his perception would have him actually worry for her and ask her if she's uncomfortable or overwhelmed since he genuinely looks out for her.

TRISHA PRESCOTT

Trisha and Claude... they know each other, to say the least. They have certainly spoken and hung out very rarely. Claude just doesn't seem to mind her, and is suspicious of her two faced nature but simply opts to not really care about it. Trisha, I don't really know what you would suggest she would think about Claude, I'm open to anything.


And that's about it, I can't wait to see what your thoughts and opinions are on my suggestions.

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[Survival Chances]

Hey there, read through all the characters, and here's some of my ideas for relationships:

Ray Janeczek could be friends with Thomas Shaw, since both are slightly nerdy, although Thomas could get annoyed since Thomas' talks (while usually dumb thought experiments) still need to be thought through, and I doubt Ray and Thomas would be able to have those sorts of talks.

Mona Marroquín... If you want enemies, I can give you two of them. Thomas could have become friends but ditched Mona when Thomas eventually realized how awful Mona was. Same with Chester Mullivan, but Chester could have lashed out against Mona and gotten close to getting in a fight, ending up with nothing happening due to the football team holding Chester back.

Finally, Clarissa Shoemaker would only really know Chester, and how good of friends they are is up to you since Chester is well known for his "Outbursts".

That's all I have for right now, and have a good day!

[Cicada]

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Changes:

• Giving Clarissa yet another rank of aquaintances consisting of folk who, while she'll still be on good terms with them, they stress her out to a point where she does try to avoid them if possible.

[+] Magnum 0pus

• Claude and Ray works to an extent. They don't seem to have much in common beyond horror club but Ray is one of Mortimer's closer friends so they have that common connection. Ray's a tech geek and terminally online and would be happy to have mild hyperfixation rambles about it, so he might help explain some things to Claude as well. Strikes me as friendly aquaintances/casual friends.
• I don't see much potential for Mona and Claude to actively be conspiring against each other. Claude one-sidedly avoiding Mona, yes, she deserves it. But she doesn't really have a reason to target him or really know him beyond being another face in the Red Rocks crowd she may have heard a thing or two about in passing.
• Clarissa is close friends to a lot of folks Claude seems to think highly of like Raya and Sylvie. She'd be working on the Magnum Opus alongside Raya, she'd be one of the cheer squad at Claude's games, they have plenty of chances to be on good terms, and she's sweet and easy to deal with. Plus, the concern he feels for her since she can see her disability for what it is probably adds to the regard between them and I imagine he'd be one of the folks who keeps an eye out for her. Tries and fails to convince her that Joanne is bad news, etc. Also since Claude's on the baseball team and I decided semi-jokingly while working out relationships that Clarissa crushes on baseball boys, well. She likely made an earnest pass at him at some point, however he'd react to that.

[+] Survival Chances

• Thomas and Ray share the Horror club and playing hella video games (Ray would feel quite sorry for Thomas due to the gaming restriction!). so that gives them common things to nerd out over. Honestly, Ray does like thought experiments and talking through them quite a bit, so he might be willing to entertain Thomas on that! Ray's also good at working with silence, so Thomas zoning out won't bother Ray at all.
  
  They're also both the sober sort who avoid substances, so that also gives them something that's probably on the rarer side in the student body in common. They strike me as kindred spirits who can have deep conversations and also lightheartedly joke around and meme. Ray would probably have some ethical concerns about Thomas deriving entertainment from SOTF if he ever caught wind of it. Not enough for Ray to actually bring it up since he's a coward, but it could be a point of tension on a subconscious level.
• Hmmm, I will say that I can't see any particular reason for Mona to have beef she wants to cook with either Thomas or Chester. She likely wouldn't have a reason to know anything about Thomas (he only games for an hour a day so they can't connect through that, and they share no clubs especially since Mona was booted from them all) besides a name she might remember the face of. For Chester she may have heard of him due to his reputation but she wouldn't have much reason to think about him.
• Difficult people trouble Clarissa a lot, she doesn't do well in stressful situations where others are angry at all. Since she's a cheerleader she was likely right in the vicinity of at least one of Chester's outbursts and she got terrified in a way that will unconsciously bias her against him and make her a bit more avoidant of her. He's kind and charitable and I'm sure on paper she thinks he's a great person, but she probably tries passively to stay out of his way when she can. Chester in turn probably likes Clarissa well enough. Not much there to dislike.

[JacobAllTradez]

Alrightie alrightie!

Rita Schnell

Oh lord…uh, I think you might have found Mona’s arch-nemesis. Rita fucking DESPISES Mona for how she treated Manuel and is one of the few people Rita genuinely believes is irredeemable. Anyone trying to gas Mona up will be met with Rita screaming about how she’s a bad person.

Clarissa and Rita scream close friends, not gonna lie. They’ve been to each other’s parties and in general like their company. I can see Clarissa taking issue with Rita’s ego, however.

Skyla Monroe

Honestly, I think Skyla just feels sad regarding Mona. Here’s a woman who had all the potential in the world get consistently fails herself every time because she has to get the last laugh, and with how Mona has just fallen further into the alt-right incel sphere, Skyla just wants Mona to get some therapy cause it’s clear something inside her isn’t right.

Maggie Wilfred

Well Ray, you’re in luck, cause Maggie’s been trying to get into DND and other RPGs herself! She might’ve joined him in a few of their games, wanting to see what the fuss was all about. Not sure if they have a close connection but she’s a pleasent enough person.

Well this could go south. Maggie is aware of Monams garbage reputation and how she manipulates and ruins men…and yet, she’s still curious about this influencer lifestyle. See, she’s got a personality quest going and she wants to know, could being an influencer be a good path forward? I can see Mona being willing to help, and maaaaybe trying to spread alt-right propaganda to Maggie.

Maggie is also intrigued by Clarissa and how sweet and cool she is. It helps that she’s autistic just like her so she can relate really easily. I think they’ve hung out a couple times, but nothing major. Maggie wants to change that somehow, cause she thinks Clarissa is cool!


Murray Miller

Murray has actively told the football team what Mona did. About how Mona and Manuel were caught making babies in the closet and he saw one of the babies looking at him. Uh…yeah, he got the spirit but he doesn’t fully understand why people hate Mona.

Oh the other hand, I think Murray and Clarissa might be dating, like unironically. It’s the classic case of big guy and little girl where he does everything she can to keep her spirits high while Clarissa does the same for him. Definitely could’ve bonded as part of the Outdoor Rattlers.

[Survival Chances]

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• Thomas and Ray share the Horror club and playing hella video games (Ray would feel quite sorry for Thomas due to the gaming restriction!). so that gives them common things to nerd out over. Honestly, Ray does like thought experiments and talking through them quite a bit, so he might be willing to entertain Thomas on that! Ray's also good at working with silence, so Thomas zoning out won't bother Ray at all.
  
  They're also both the sober sort who avoid substances, so that also gives them something that's probably on the rarer side in the student body in common. They strike me as kindred spirits who can have deep conversations and also lightheartedly joke around and meme. Ray would probably have some ethical concerns about Thomas deriving entertainment from SOTF if he ever caught wind of it. Not enough for Ray to actually bring it up since he's a coward, but it could be a point of tension on a subconscious level.
• Hmmm, I will say that I can't see any particular reason for Mona to have beef she wants to cook with either Thomas or Chester. She likely wouldn't have a reason to know anything about Thomas (he only games for an hour a day so they can't connect through that, and they share no clubs especially since Mona was booted from them all) besides a name she might remember the face of. For Chester she may have heard of him due to his reputation but she wouldn't have much reason to think about him.
• Difficult people trouble Clarissa a lot, she doesn't do well in stressful situations where others are angry at all. Since she's a cheerleader she was likely right in the vicinity of at least one of Chester's outbursts and she got terrified in a way that will unconsciously bias her against him and make her a bit more avoidant of her. He's kind and charitable and I'm sure on paper she thinks he's a great person, but she probably tries passively to stay out of his way when she can. Chester in turn probably likes Clarissa well enough. Not much there to dislike.

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Alright, thanks for taking a look!

[Survival Chances]

Sorry for not adding this in the first post, but I added a new character, Kaede Miller, a rich theater kid, and I think she would know some people. This mainly has to do with Clarissa Shoemaker since both are popular. Plus, Kaede could have been friends with Mona but then decided to ditch Mona after deciding that Mona was not a good friend.

[Cicada]

I'm on a roll (down a cliff to my death). Note that I haven't updated my tracker with the below ideas yet, just writing down my responses first and I'll do updates later.

[+] JacobAllTradez

Rita:

• Honestly yes, I do see it. As a fallen from grace former popular girl Mona and Rita were probably at least familiar with each other's game before Mona's mask got ripped off so they have the bonus of having been familiar with each other before their sudden falling out. Mona probably quietly never liked Rita in the first place. Priveliged optimist sounds like a combo of traits that would really have ticked Mona off. With that in mind, after the fact, no lost love between the two and Rita had a place on Mona's shitlist for sure. Not that anyone gasses Mona up LOL.
• Clarissa wouldn't really be bothered by Rita's ego actually, Clarissa just kind of goes along with what most charismatic and conceited people throw at her, so she'd probably happily accept it at face value. So she sees Rita as a really good and positive, vibrant friend! Clarissa is easy to make a lackey, with the caveat that she's fallen most thoroughly into orbit of Joanne's vapidity. That might be an ego blow to Rita, perhaps one she's actively trying to snap Clarissa out of (her and all of Clarissa's friends who give a shit lol). Why follow her when you could follow me instead, etc.

Skyla:

• Hmm, nothing jumps out to me here from my end. Skyla's allowed to have that opinion on Mona, of course, but Skyla probably isn't on Mona's radar. Like, I could see my other kids, especially Ray, liking Skyla and having commonalities but there's no direct line to connect them, no hobbies in common, no common friends, etc. Maybe Raya for Clarissa. Skyla can be yet another person who is a bit too smart for Clarissa to get but that she likes listening to(TM).

Maggie:

• Huh, did I list DND/TTRPGs as an interest for Ray? I don't believe I did- that's not his speed, and apologies if I accidentally did list that. If she's interested in Magic: The Gathering then yes, that would apply. Besides that I do they they'd like each other. I don't their social circles really align at the moment though. More of a missed connection, IMO.
• Yeah, a Maggie looking for an identity who would be willing to overlook Mona's bad reputation to seek her mentorship in trying out streaming would definitely appeal a lot to Mona. Also they both have and love cats! Mona would definitely be willing to be a bit of a devil on Maggie's shoulder, giving Maggie her genuine advice (because Maggie's success would boost her ego, and because on some level Mona probably actually does feel at least a little affection for someone so pure and empathic. Even the devil can love, etc) while also subtly trying to poison the well with her hateful views/gossip and falsehoods about other kids at school, and or get Maggie to leak some dirt on her parents that could get Mona clout on /pol/ or whatever. I can't imagine anyone Maggie cares for would advise her that associating with Mona is a good idea, so I do wonder how Maggie would deal with that conflict between her personal interest and the advice of other people she considers a good friend.
• I do like the idea of Clarissa being someone Maggie looks up to- relatable with both of them being neurodiverse, but with far more focus and more concrete passions in life given that Clarissa goes hard in everything she does and has a lot of drive. Yeah, I like it a lot. A relationship more defined by Maggie's perspective- for Clarissa she'd only know Maggie as another casual aquaintance who she likes catching up with from time to time.

Murray:

• Mona doesn't really hate Murray at all, compared to how she does hate most of the sports kids in Mananas circle. Can't hate a guy like that.
• Hm, for Clarissa and Murray, I will say that I'm not interested in her like, currently dating someone as is, just because it's thematic for her to be indecisively stuck in the middle of a few crushes as her life also approaches an inflection point in general. I'd be down for them having a bit of a mutual understated crush on each other that neither's acted on because they haven't had the time/place to ask each other out. Clarissa would like his kindness, positivity, and ability to be funny. Someone she doesn't have to put her brain through a blender to understand like she does with a lot of other people. So yeah, crushes on each other maybe? And we can see how that plays out in pregame.

[+] Survival Chances 2.0

• Positive charismatic people make Clarissa happy and don't cause her much stress, and she's always down to clown! Clarissa in turn has probably literally never done anything mean in her life, even on accident. Girl's built diff. She does encourage Kaede to join the dance team whenever they do happen to hang out.
• TBH, something funny we could go for here would be that, having both been decently popular girls in their early years in high school, maybe Mona let a bit of her nastiness slip through her mask every now and then- acted a little petty, cruel, etc. Like, in a way most would forgive as a one off thing, but Kaede might not because she's really easy to turn into a enemy. So Mona makes a bit of a social faux pas, maybe a dark joke that isn't really funny and is kind of cruel. Most of the other popular girls just shrug it off as an off moment but Kaede blocks Mona that day or something. And a year and some months later, when Mona turns into the school's pariah almost overnight, Kaede gets to be totally right and I told you so about it all! She hated Mona before it was cool.

[Salic]

oh the entropy

Clarissa

Lightning is a fellow cheerleader and rich partygoer who loves hip hop (3 for 3)! She's also a weird spiritualist trustafarian (a trust-fund kid who superficially adopts counterculture aesthetics and uses their parents' unlimited funds to buoy their shiftless and hedonistic lifestyle). She also has a sleeve of arm tats covered in Celtic symbols she doesn't really understand. Fun! Lightning is probably the most outwardly weird cheerleader (she's a base) on the team. She's loud, bombastic, and has a forceful personality and reputation that absolutely precedes her; she's a big believer in actions speaking louder than words and almost always acts before she thinks. At parties, she's probably the one who starts the hijinks that Clarissa inevitably gets sucked towards.

Side note, since Lightning is rich, she'll probably have a really nice car that Clarissa can nerd out over. She's also probably tried to rope Clarissa into doing yoga at some point. Maybe also tried flirting at her; was almost certainly deeply unserious about it.

Mona

Misty is one of the few people at Red Rock who doesn't really know or care about Mona's reputation collapse because she was a Junior at the time! She was also truant for half the year and failed every class, so she stayed back while everyone else moved on.

Misty falls entirely into the delinquent social circle at Red Rock and wasn't really checked in to the ins and outs of Red Rock's social drama, so she is fairly ambivalent to Mona's existence. She probably only associates with her via friends of friends of friends, but maybe Mona will appreciate someone who doesn't really know or want to get into her past.

Priscilla

Misty falls into pretty much the exact same category of person that Priscilla is. Misty generally prefers vapes/cigarettes to weed but is pretty down to toke up whenever. Misty is a fairly skilled drummer and is a part of the local avant-garde noisegrind black metal fusion band Crackhead Psychopath, so being musicians is something they both fall into. Misty may have had a short fling with Priscilla at some point; Misty is 19, so if Priscilla turned 18 a while ago then they may have had something then. Any younger and Misty would drop that shit like the demon core.

Lightning's involvement here is still kinda shrouded in mystery; I have no idea if her family would be part of the Prescotteers. Check back later

[Cicada]

Welcome back Salic!

[+] .

Clarissa + Lightning:
You know they both immediately listened to GNX the moment it hit streaming nod nod.

Loud and opinionated popular athlete, yep, sounds like the exact sort of girl Clarissa falls into the orbit of. Depending on how Lightning interfaces with Joanne Martinez (Deblod's kid) Clarissa might go either way, but generally she kind of just does things and goes along with whatever. Joanne would be her closer overpowering influence because they're both on cheer, but plenty of space for Lightning to stress out Clarissa and get her in trouble. So yeah, pretty good friends. Maybe in like the second closest circle of people Clarissa enjoys the company of, not someone who is pretty much always on Clarissa's mind like her best besties but up there.

Clarissa would probably take to yoga but not be the biggest fan of doing it in classes with others. Still, I'm sure she'd be happy to go along when Lightning invites her. If Lightning flirted Clarissa would probably just awkwardly play along with the joke for a hot minute.

And when you settle on the model of Lightning's car let me know what it is because I need Information on these things for my own peace of mind, etc.

Mona + Misty:
One potential wrench: Mona builds her entire life around drowning herself in very petty fandom stuff. Consuming mainstream content, streamers, blah blah blah. I could see a dynamic where Misty looks down on Mona but might at least respect that Mona has the 'fuck off' energy to hit back in the instance that Misty dunks on Mona's weeb swag. Maybe like, a very distant mutual animosity and respect or the sort.

Priscilla + Misty:
Priscilla does vapes too! Prob not cigs though. They don't quite have the same mentalities concerning art and music but I think they align well enough: Misty hates the mainstream and people who aim for success and the commodification of their art, and Priscilla while not strictly about keeping her art obscure does not give a shit and just plays to play because she loves making good music and making cool noises with her guitar. So there's no antagonism in their perspectives at least, since Priscilla doesn't make her music for attention.

Maybe Misty was a drummer who got rotated out of Priscilla's band? Or to be honest is actively still in it since the project so rarely does Things that it wouldn't be much of a time commitment, just an occasional text to record some drum tracks for Priscilla's latest 6 min instrumental doodly thing.

And yeah, a very noncommital fling could work? Priscilla's been 18 all of senior year since her birthday's in summer. Girls in a band making out but both being emotionally unavailable be a vibe, etc etc.

[Cicada]

As if Cicada needed another kid/excuse to go around making more posts on people's relationship trackers update:

There is another kid!

Raileigh 'Ron' Hunter is an aloof girl from trailer poverty generally found in the delinquent crowds of Red Rocks, a practiced lockpick and pickpocketer with some decent fighting experience under her belt. Loyal if she likes you, doesn't care and could (heavy emphasis on could, she isn't a rando thug) be a pretty nasty bully if she doesn't in the sense that she'll casually rob your kid through intimidation or slight of hand. She also desperately needs a boyfriend who broke her heart instead of taking on the heavy burden of saving her from her rough and tumble life. The less delinquent coded that special someone the more peak.

All my other kids still open to some of them relationship type things. I've done little tweaks and edits for most of them but nothing major.

[EllisWilson]

Hi, second pass through for me.

Mona

Wade hates her, presumably just because Mortimer told him about what she did. Second hand disdain!

Priscilla

Wade doesn’t like interacting with her purely because he can’t stand the smell of that good shit. He had no real issue with her, it is purely a smell thing.

Alec does not do his standard *vaguely desperate flirting schtick* with her for obvious reasons. He respects her orientation but they don’t have much overlap otherwise. Probably just friendly acquaintances and nothing else.

Ron

I’m gonna submit Wade as the boyfriend for her, since I can actually see them getting along in that way until the inevitable break up. Based off her bio they strike me as having similar attitudes, at least superficially, and they both have the wrestling interest in common.

Londyn has one thousand percent gotten punched in the face for agitating her, and Londyn one million percent uploaded a video titled ‘TRAILER TRASH CRASHOUT (GOT PUNCHED)’ after the fact.

Alec would fall under the umbrella of ‘targeted on a whim’ and he just flat out hates her because of that. He doesn’t like getting his lunch money stolen.

That’s all I have. Have a good night.

[Survival Chances]

Hi, more stuff, I added a brand new character named Samuel Burkholder, an Amish delinquent, so I have some more interesting relationships:

Raileigh 'Ron' Hunter would know Samuel as a delinquent pal. Then I think Mona Marroquín could have known Samuel, with Samuel moving away from her when he noticed she was a true outcast. Clarissa Shoemaker would know Samuel thanks to Football, but I'm not sure they would be pals.

That is everything I have for now, so take care.

[Cicada]

[+] EllisWillson

Mona -
Yup. So, Deblod and I worked out that Mona was an ex member of the edgy gamer squad prior to her sophmore year meltdown. She has a very special grudge against all of their members and so that will count Wade for sure. I imagine she and he weren't on like the closest terms even when they shared a friend group. Just acquaintances who consomed horror media and whatever the heck drugs Mortimer is on.

Priscilla -
Both of these sound good. Probably not noteworthy for her, she'd vaguely remember their names if at all.

Ron -
Oh yeah I can see Wade and Ron being a thing, it works pretty well. Ron as a junior, Wade as a sophomore, Wade's fit, has a cool demeanor, and for sure the two can bond over wrestling especially since they both prefer the real thing and not the WWE shit. I'm sure they could unironically spar and stuff while being a couple too. Sounds kind of peak. She probably also gets into casually reading horror stuff in the school library so she can chat with that kind of thing with Wade. She wouldn't join the edgy gamers since she doesn't vibe with their energy, I'll talk with Deblod about the possibilities there at some point.

The flip side comes where, when Wade feels comfortable enough with his girlfriend, he starts to open up and be more honest about his insecurities and stimming around her? She would not like that much and sort of tries to make him not show off that kind of thing around her. Making his moodiness over it even worse, feeling betrayed, and her in turn starting to feel he's not really what she thought she was while putting him on a pedestal. Things degrade and they break up in short order. And I imagine given that they got close enough to open up to each other they both have very poor opinions of each other. Feelings of betrayal etc.

I'm going to format Ron's bullying exploits in a certain way on her relations chart since she will in no way care about them after the fact unless given a reason to, but:
Londyn - I can definitely see Londyn's annoying clout chasing aesthetics making Ron give her a casual stink eye. Londyn trying to film shit or be a nuisance, Ron casually tells them to fuck off, and Londyn doesn't seem like the sort to back down because they're an attention whore and stubborn to the point of stupid? So maybe they've had a number of encounters where Londyn tries to get a one up on Ron, Ron at this point legit hates their face so she makes Londyn pay the troll toll and has stolen stuff from them in the past and also shoved them and such. If you want some aesthetics to work with maybe on top of the broken wrist Londyn might also have a broken nose coming into V9's island thanks to Ron just casually clocking them after their latest encounter?
Alec - Ron probably wouldn't feel the need to target on a whim. I can give you: Ron shoulder checks him and walks off when Alec tries to hit on her, and I'm sure Alec would be smart enough to not try it again.

[+] Survival Chances

Ray -
Might casually know Samuel from Horror Club. Now there's no specifics on what kind of bad shit Samuel gets up to, but Ray's pretty ethically minded so it's possible Samuel crossed a line that Ray wouldn't like, heard about it from rumors, and Ray ignores him now.

Mona -
Hmmm I don't see Mona having run around in Samuel's social circles?

Clarissa -
Depends on what bad shit Samuel is up to/his crowd but yeah, Clarissa is easily intimidated. She'd be friendly enough with him but she'd generally try to dodge and ignore Samuel to the best of her ability, though if she has no choice she'll be friendly if awkward.

Priscilla -
I'd like to offer that Priscilla and Kaede might be casual karaoke buddies if Kaede does that kind of thing.

Ron -
Yep, sounds about right. Depending on what Samuel did specifically Ron would either just be casually be willing to shoot the shit with him or they might be as thick as thieves. Thick as thieves roughly means be willing to fight with her if needed, essentially. Depends on the personality too. She doesn't care as much for people who make too much trouble because it demands more of her precious time.

PM me or such if any follow ups are needed!