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Hi hello I am awkward and shy and bad at introductions buuuut...

I'm Jormy, and I just got dragged into this game and it is all Ink's fault. It's been a long time since I was in a game with people I didn't know, so hopefully you'll all forgive me being kind of awkward about... things. and stuff.

Bringing in Éowyn of Rohan, from Tolkien's works, because she is my badass warrior queen and I love her. I'm taking her from book canon, around a year and a half after the end of the Ringwar, so she's married to Faramir and recovered from her battle with the Witch-King. She also has a modicum of Healer training which she didn't have in the books, since I tend to assume that she's the sort of person who, when she says "I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren" actually means "I am doing this the moment I am well enough because I have no goddamn patience for having nothing to do".

Anyway. Yes. Éowyn. Or Eowyn, if you prefer. ~~I swear that accent will be the death of me. if it's not there it nags me with its absence and if it is there I have to copy-paste it in.~~ She's representing District 10 and is undoubtedly going to cause many shenanigans with her inability to put up with bullshit.

If you want to talk CR, probably the easiest ways are to message me on this account or to go and poke me on tumblr, since that's where I basically live. I do, as of five minutes ago, have a Plurk, but I have never actually used it before and I will probably forget to check it.

So.

Uh.

Yes.

*sidles away awkwardly*

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Hi Jormy! Eowyn is my absolute favourite Tolkien character, so I'm really excited to have her in game. I'm Hannah and I play Arya Stark here from A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones, who's also representing District 10, as well as an OC called Emily Finch, Mentor for District 7.

Hi, Hannah! Nice to meetcha. I was thinking about it and it occurs to me that bouncing Arya and Eowyn off each other could be really interesting. in terms of badass warrior queens of my heart. Thoughts?

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I'd absolutely love that! Arya would definitely think she's awesome, and it makes sense for them to know each other being in the same district too

Awesomesauce. :D

~~now if i can just summon up the courage to actually post or whatever everything will be great~~

Hello hello! I only know the movies, and only from when they all first came out, so I'm not 100% familiar with her but still excited to see more Tolkien around :D. Anyways, I'm Cee and I play Captain Jack Sparrow from those pirate movies, over in District 8.

SO YES welcome to the game and don't be nervous at all, everyone here is very friendly and nice! Also hope you don't mind an add on plurk ♥

Do love me some Captain Jack! And it's nice to meet you. :)

I'm sure everyone's lovely. I'm just worried I'm going to do something daft, is all. Last time I was in a new game with new people was like 2011 or something. and this one has so much reading and I am in such a weird headspace I'm just like YEP GONNA FUCK UP. (Sorry. Just kinda dumped neuroses all over the place there, oopsie)

And I'm totally fine with an add on plurk, as long as you're fine with me having no idea how to use the dang thing. :p

He's fun and yes likewise c:

No worries if you do, honestly! I doubt you will, but even so we all make mistakes once in awhile. And I know how that feels, it is a total information overload when you first start out (or start again or whatever).

If you ever have any questions, at all, feel free to hit me up and I'll gladly answer them or help you out. The best way to contact me is over plurk, though, which is ridiculously confusing as well hahah. My advice would be to just use it and use it and eventually you'll get used to the weird layout.

Seems like sound advice. And thanks for the offer of help! I'll bear it in mind. :) I'm currently just trying to figure out whether I'm up to making an intro post tonight or whether I should leave it for the time being. Ho hum.

Hello and welcome, Jormy! I'm Ali (one of the mods) and I play Courfeyrac from Les Mis, Pixie from X-Men, Felicity from the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Jessica from Sweet Valley High, and OCs Jennifer & Sergius. I'm super excited to meet you and to play with Éowyn! And I come bearing some accent news! To type the ´ accent, all you have to do is hold down alt + e, then type the capitol E (this works for Macs... idk about Windows, but yeah! :)

It doesn't work on Ubuntu, buuuuut you triggered me to go look it up and ÉéÉé aaas you can see I found the shortcut. Hooray! I can spell things correctly! :D

Glad to have been of some service (as a French language student, that shortcut has saved my sanity many a time! 8D)

Oh, gods, I can imagine. I remember doing secondary school German and just... the endless copy-pasting. Because I never quite got to grips with the shortcuts because I am a dumbfuck when it comes to technology.

And that was only one class. If I'd been doing it seriously I would have lost my marbles long ago. Well. You know. If I had marbles to lose.

'ello Jormy. I'm Monface and I play Luke from The Walking Dead Game. Welcome aboard!

'ello Monface. I don't know that much about TWD but it's nice to meet you anyway!

Zombies who are not called zombies, and survivor-angst. That about covers it. XD

Likewise!

Walkers, right? I suspect this is another one of those fandoms where I have learnt just enough by osmosis/watching other people play to be confusing. XD

Osmosis indeed! Yup, walkers. But then there's all these other little nicknames they get -- like how Luke refers to them as lurkers a fair bit. But anyway. :P

Fascinating. *strokes chin in a completely unsuccessful attempt to seem erudite*

Like. TWD is on my to-watch list, to-read list, and to-play list, but I have at this point more or less admitted to myself that nothing on any of those lists is getting done until at least the summer holidays.

Yea, verily! /blows bubble out of a pipe

Understandable. :P

And maybe even forsooth.

I'm making some progress in that I'm watching Steven Universe, but that's like... item one on a list of about a hundred things I need to watch. And I gots shit to do, yo.

...that was me and this is why I should check what account I'm logged into before responding. :x

Hey, welcome! :D It's so exciting to see Eowyn - she is amazing, oh man. I'm Amry, and I play Samwise from the books (and also Cecil Palmer from Welcome To Night Vale, currently in D13, and a Hunger Games OC called Cyrus Reagan)-- it's so cool to see more Tolkiens!

Seconding/thirding/whatever the offer of help, if you need it - I'm soonerbee on plurk, and also always available over PM! Welcome to the Games!

oh hey look it's one of the only tolkien characters to thoroughly rival éowyn for my affections! :D I am so happy that someone plays him, you don't even know.

Also, Cecil!

I can only conclude that you are a person with excellent taste and it's doubly a pleasure to meet you!

I look forward so much to tagging her - I'm super interested to tag with Tolkiens who haven't met each other before! That doesn't happen often! (And, you know, the world needs more Tolkien chicks in general.)

It hadn't even occurred to me that they hadn't met. I mean, they were both at Aragorn's crowning, but you're right, they never actually met, did they? Awesome! :D

And the world does indeed need more Tolkien chicks. So does the Tolkien legendarium, in fairness. Like, Tolkien didn't write many women, but the ones he did write are all such fucking badasses. ~~is it weird that i have this strange urge to play lobelia sackville-baggins? because she is awesome.~~

Nope! Also, I took Sam from the minutes following the fight with Shelob - afaik, he won't know who Eowyn is, except vaguely by reputation. ...Which makes me excited to see how they get along!

~~also this is a perfectly understandable urge, battleaxe hobbit matriarchs are a thing the world needs more of~~

Ooh, excellent. But he does know Faramir, so that's a start. I am looking forwards to this smush!

~~...okay so this means that less than a week after finding out about this place i now have a list of characters to app which is longer than the game allows. i maaaay have a problem.~~

Hello Jormy! Welcome to the Games, and super stoked to see Eowyn here (my favorite Tolkien character too). I'm Lisa and I play Punchy (Wildstorm), Venus Dee Milo and Black Tom Cassidy (Marvel Comics), and Jason Compson and Bayard Sartoris (Faulkner books).

Black Tom's in Eowyn's District, so that should be fun! :D

Iiiii... do not know who any of those characters are and am mildly ashamed of this. Oops.

But hi! :D

Lol no worries, literally no one else plays them or cares about them. XD

As someone who has played some pretty dang obscure characters in their time, I can sympathise. :p

/slams in here like a freight train

Hiiii! I'm Katy and I have Arwen here, though she's mostly movie canon, but YAY MORE TOLKIENS!

ALWAYS MORE TOLKIENS.

I have to admit to being not so well-up on the movie canon (only watched them a few times, and mostly back when they came out, although I did go to the EE marathon my university had last year. and discovered that boromir still makes me cry. but that's beside the point), but I am always a fan of the Tolkiens. :D

Welcome! I'm Stupei, and I play Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. I'm more familiar with the movies than the books, but I'm really excited to see someone playing Éowyn!

Whassup. :) I don't think the films changed much about her, iirc, she just has a bigger part in the books. so it's really not that big a deal. I just like to make sure people know I'm playing from the books because, as I've mentioned, I don't know the movies that well.

Yes, definitely. Regardless, I am still looking forward to seeing her in the game! Rick is not the most social creature, but hopefully they will cross paths at some point. c:

Well, tbh I'm in the stage where I'm liable to just throw her at every post and see what sticks, so there's hope. :p

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