swipes: a friendr meme

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swipes: a friendr meme

Any new arrival to the city has seen the ad for a free app popping up on their devices, and anyone who's been around for a while probably has a profile and has used it a bit. It's almost universal in the city - Friendr, a friend-finder and/or dating app. If characters choose to install it, they will fill out a short bio and parameters for what they're looking for, upload a snap of themselves, and then proceed to browse for matches. This is a typical swipe-left-or-right type app. The default color scheme can be seen below, but the Friendr app has a wide variety of themes, so feel free to customize with colors and patterns as you see fit, but do not remove the credit line out of respect for the creator of the code.

	Friendr
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	» Age: your character's age » Seeking: friendship/romantic/anything » Preferences: sexual preference or n/a » Interests: three interests » Bio: 30 words or less
	base code by photosynthesis
	Character Name
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Code to post your character's bio is in the textbox below.

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Friendr base code is by photosynthesis.

● Post up a top-level for your character with their Friendr profile and then go around and swipe left or right on everyone else's!
● This meme is for characters already accepted into the game to window shop other characters' Friendrs while they're all gathered conveniently into one place.
● This meme is GAME CANON, so any threads played out in this meme can be carried through into the actual canon of the game.
● Since this meme is game canon, open, and only for characters in the game, threads here can be used for either Activity Points or the monthly Activity Check.

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[thestoriesarereal]

Nuh-huh! Alex said math demons are real!

[nobasisinfact]

Alex is easily carried away by the idea that the fantastical is real.

[thestoriesarereal]

Depending upon the world you're in, the fantastical is real.

You're a real non-believer, aren't you?

[nobasisinfact]

You could call me that.

Is it disappointing?

[thestoriesarereal]

[...How to phrase this lightly..]

No...it's a little sad. Everyone needs to believe in something. When you don't, it means you've given up.

[nobasisinfact]

I assure you that I'm not giving up.

[Except those times when he did.]

There's simply far more beauty in the world than fantasy can provide.

[thestoriesarereal]

If you don't believe in happy endings, in fantasy, or that there could be some magic out there...you've given up.

There is a lot of beauty in this world, and in others. But, to deny there aren't other worlds, or other realms, means you deny the beauty there too...

Just sayin'.

::Private to Lucy

[nobasisinfact]

Maybe that's why I have someone who believes in such things sticking to my side.

private --> Video

[thestoriesarereal]

[Video feed switches on to show Lucy in all of her 9 year old, kidness.]

So...I get what you're saying...and it makes sense. You're kind of like Henry, in a way but.. [she leans into the camera, staring at him a little.]

....Are you cursed? [Is he part of a story and he's forgotten who he truly is?]

Re: private --> Video

[nobasisinfact]

[Well, since she did it first, he'll turn on the video too. Of course, he wouldn't be this kind to someone who wasn't a nine-year-old girl who might remind him a bit of Charlie.]

I wouldn't say so, no. Then again, I also don't believe in curses.

Who's Henry?

[thestoriesarereal]

[There's a small grin and a wave of her hand.]

Ahh, you sound like Henry. So maybe you are cursed.

Henry is my dad, but he's under a curse so he doesn't remember me...or think I'm his daughter. But, I'll figure something out. In the mean time, I have two great Dad's taking care of me.

[nobasisinfact]

[Well, okay, he'll give a little wave back.]

Are they here?

[He'll refrain from suggesting that her father is pretending not to remember her for some sort of ridiculous reason. That seems mean, even for him.]

[thestoriesarereal]

[There's a smile. He seems a bit unsure about the situation? Or maybe he hasn't had enough practice talking with kids.]

My Dad's? Yes. There's Victor, and Jim. We all live together.

My actual parents are Henry Mills and Cinderella, but since she's cursed she goes by Jacinda.

[nobasisinfact]

[Only his own for long periods of time, and Charlie has been independent for quite some time now.]

Victor is friends with my Alex.

Does your mother remember you?

[This seems like a situation where the girl made a story to find a reason for why her father left her. It's sad, but it would be better if Victor and Jim handled that situation.]

[thestoriesarereal]

Oh? Your Alex? [Grinning a little.] I know who she is, and she's really nice.

She remembers me...but she doesn't remember the Enchanted Realm, or our lives before. But Victor gets it, he was cursed too.

I should explain, see where I'm from, Fairytales are actually real and not just stories. But, everyone is under a curse and they don't remember who they really are.

[nobasisinfact]

[He smirks slightly when she says that Alex is nice.]

Don't tell her that, it'll go to her head.

So, everyone is under a curse?

[That is an incredibly detailed fantasy.]

[thestoriesarereal]

[Lucy is taking notice of that....does he like Alex? If he's cursed, does he need to kiss her and then the spell will be broken?]

I don't think it will. She's pretty good at staying grounded. She... ,small>[There's a pause as she wonders if she should tell him this.]you tell her she's nice, she'll smile a lot.

[Lucy pauses then and thinks a few things over.]

Not everyone. So what happened was, my step-grandmother Lady Tremaine cast a curse and took everyone to a land without magic. So, some of us are cursed, and some people are just...people. It's hard to tell who is really who, but I know my mom is Cinderella...and I know my Dad, Henry, is my Dad.

He even wrote this book called 'Once Upon a Time' that has some of our stories in it, but in reality, it's his life that he wrote, but he doesn't remember because of the curse.

Does that make sense?

[nobasisinfact]

[Sorry Lucy, they've already tested that theory, repeatedly. He hasn't turned into a prince yet.]

Alex and I have our own language that works out well between us. If I ever say anything nice, don't tell her.

How do you know they're your parents?

[thestoriesarereal]

[...maybe they haven't tried under the right conditions.]

But why? That kind of doesn't make any sense.

Because I remember a little bit of our lives before. Reading Henry's stories help sometimes...but I know because there's a feeling I get around both of them. I know they're my parents.

He's turning into Regina with Henry~

[nobasisinfact]

[There has been a lot of kissing under a lot of conditions. He's fairly certain he's not a prince. Pretty much the opposite of that, actually.]

A lot of things Alex and I do don't make sense to others.

So, reading a storybook helps you remember being in another world and they are your parents because of a gut feeling? What do Victor and Jim say about this?

[He thinks you need therapy kid.]

Indeed, he is!

[thestoriesarereal]

But, they could! If...you explained it. Or maybe wrote it down?

[Her attitude starts to deflate a little. Adults can never believe something for what it was.]

Reading the book helped me realize we are part of the curse. And I was trying to convince Henry to believe in it, and set him up with my mom...but things happened...

And Victor and Jim know. I don't hide it, and I even have pictures of Henry and me! Victor knew him from when he was about my age.

At least he's not her step-father (He'd be an awesome step-father)

[nobasisinfact]

I don't have any reason to want them to understand. As long as Alex understands that's all I need.

[Hey, she did call him a non-believer.]

So your mom and Henry aren't together. [It seemed as much, but it's good to have it clear.] Are the pictures before or after the curse?

....stop giving me ideas

[thestoriesarereal]

[ Lucy starts to look pensive, trying to wrap her head around this.]

That’s....very complicated and confusing. So as long as Alex understands you’re fine with that? Kind of reminds me of Belle and Rump—Rumple.

[ Is Richard in his own version of beauty and the beast? Is he the beast? Or Rumple? ]

Before the curse, but I have a few pictures of my mom after the curse....it helps with missing them.

Never!

[nobasisinfact]

[Richard is his own version of something. Maybe Podcaster and the asshole.]

I think it's pretty straightforward. I only care about Alex understanding me, and she does so in a way that no one else can.

Who are Belle and Rumple?

Lol!

[thestoriesarereal]

[ .....he sounds like a beast. Or the beast. Maybe they just need to find the right conditions and the spell will be broken. ]

Not really, if you only have one person who understands you, and that person isn’t always around...it makes for a lonely life.

Oh! They’re my great-grandparents. You may know them as Beauty and the Beast.