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Kalvin Brnine ([personal profile] swaglessfish) wrote in [community profile] nashira_ooc 2025-04-09 12:58 pm (UTC)

Kalvin Brnine 🐟 Friends at the Table

Player Name: Max
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Character Name: Kalvin Brnine (goes by Brnine, pronounced "brine")
Canon: Friends at the Table
Character Blurb: In their home canon, Brnine is an acerbic fish alien arms manufacturer turned mercenary turned revolutionary + swagless team (nonbinary) dad. They're drawn into a revolution against their will by Valence, a character they were pretty clearly falling in love with (shh, don't tell anyone), and after Valence's sudden death, they become committed to Valence's revolution heart and soul. Over time, they work on their social skills such that they stop being an outright asshole and become "only" unspeakably awkward to talk to or be around. They captain a spaceship with a team of revolutionaries that includes multiple earnest young adults, for whom they have a huge soft spot. (Don't worry, they love their older crew members too.) They have big divorcé energy and are also oozing grief, for Valence and for other people they've lost along the way, that they absolutely refuse to talk about or even acknowledge. To say they have emotional problems would be a massive understatement.

Code Name: Nova Coral
Domain: Coral Reef

(I'm wide open to suggestions, prompts, ideas, etc. on literally everything past this point!)

Combat Type: Support or defense. I'm not totally sure about their starting move yet, but I think it would be fun for their powers to be themed around protection for the other Nova Knights, especially the teens (see "present life" below), kind of like how a coral reef is a safe home for all the little fishies.

Awakening: I...am not sure how they awakened to their powers yet! Would love to hear ideas if anyone has any! I do know that when they heard their past self saying their dying wish, the wish was "avenge them," and they misinterpreted that as "avenge the teens" (it was actually "avenge Valence").

Present Life: Brnine is the shop teacher at the Everwave Academy for Distinguished Youths. After they awaken to their powers, they fight as a Nova Knight not out of some grand belief in the justice of what they're doing but because they're an adult, a lot of the other Nova Knights are their students, and someone needs to watch the kids' backs. In their personal life, they're a loner with a lot of hobbies and, uh, not a lot of friends.

Past Life: I am so, so vague on this except that I know Valence existed in their past life and died on the Nashira before the rest of the Nova Knights did, probably at an earlier point during the final confrontation. Ideas welcome! I need to brainstorm!

In-Game Plans: I don't have a ton of in-game plans yet! The main one is that I want them to regain their memories of their past life gradually over time, such that when they start to remember Valence, they're gut-punched with fresh grief that they have no idea what to do with.

Desired CR/Hooks: I would LOVE for Brnine to develop an awkward but earnest mentor-mentee relationship with one or more of their students. They're also desperately in need of friends, of any age! And I would be super open to romance tbh; in canon, Brnine has several bizarre flirting-but-then-friendzoning-but-also-they're-already-divorced relationships with other revolutionaries after Valence dies, including one where the other character is kind of awful and they don't even really get along, so the weirder the vibes, the better!

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