RESONANCE

WELCOME TO TOTEM! Settle in! TOTEM will be your new home for the next few months while you are a part of our progressive, and experimental, RESONANCE program! And once again, TOTEM thanks you for your participation in our initiative. Your cooperation is appreciated, and is never taken for granted. . . . mobile navigation

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nakamoto yuta - nct - undecided cluster - extension! jung soojung (krystal) - actress - delta cluster - extension!

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dichen lachman - actor - undecided cluster

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RECEIVED APPLICATIONS!

aneurin barnard - actor - beta cluster: received - reviewing!

oscar issac - actor - alpha cluster: received - reviewing

sonoya mizuno - actor - beta cluster: received - reviewing!

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Roleplay Update

Hi everyone! Happy Monday! Hope you’re all doing well still! Just wanted to provide a mini update about the roleplay itself and my own activity.

I am still committed to opening this roleplay and seeing it through! I have already started planning the opening event as well as a mini plot drop later on, but will be doing some minor page revamps (giving each ‘cluster’ its own page of resources, filling out some of the blanks in the cluster information, adding some of the faq questions into the plot/premise, etc.). In addition, my updates on here may be less frequent (going from 2-3 posts per day to 1 reserves/applications update on the weekdays & answering asks).

This is because in my state, I am considered an essential worker (child services), and my company has a commercial grade kitchen making donation meals (on the average day we cook lunch for 300+ students) for hospitals, and we are also active within our communities in resources/donation distribution - so there is a lot to coordinate and do during the week! Additionally, a person close to me has been impacted by COVID-19, so I am monitoring this as well and providing assistance to their family.

However, I fully intend to open this roleplay if I am given the opportunity, as I really do love it; let’s call it a passion project! It is also something that will help take my mind off things, and hopefully once we’re open - it will be something that will continue to provide joy and inspiration and muse to all our members!

Thank you so much, to those who check the main regularly, to those who have sent in reserves (and applications!!!), and to those who are engaged with sending asks, asking about our plot and premise!

Stay happy, stay healthy everyone - and I will update the reserves & apps post in a few!

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do the sensates in each cluster know who their "birth" parents are?

Do any of us really know who our parents are?

Existential questions aside, the short answer is yes!

Long answer incoming:

The show’s lore about birth parents for clusters is a bit complicated yet a little sparse, so for the purposes of this RP, take the next few paragraphs as canon! Yes, the sensates generally know who their parents are - older members of a cluster will have better memory than say, the youngest member of a cluster who may have been quite young during the birth of the cluster. Both females and males can birth a cluster, and some can birth multiple clusters; it also does not matter what age you are when you give birth, though most are in between the ages of 40-65, though there are of course, outliers (or so the TOTEM data says).

Birth parents have a special connection with their children - whereas you have to explicitly make eye contact at another cluster member that is not within your own to communicate (within your own cluster, you can even mentally ‘visit’ and experience what they’re experiencing, but it takes practice), birth parents can be anywhere in the world and communicate with their children still. What the birth parent wants to disclose is up to them; some clusters have very close relationships with their parents while others rarely ever get contact from them (…like real life, too).

With that being said - let me lay out my ‘birth’ parents for the clusters:

Alpha - FC: Joan Chen…Huang Sihua (55)…..A mildly successful actress in her younger years working in China, but found more fame and passion in producing and working closely with a director that is steadily gaining more and more traction in the film industry for their inventive screenplays. This is her third cluster, as she tends to birth them during long breaks in between projects, and also for the adrenaline rush immediately after to help with inspiration. She is very connected for some periods of time, then pretty distant during the crux of filming. Asks her cluster to call her ‘Mother.’

Beta -  FC: Chun Ho Jin…..Name ??? (60)…..Very Important Businessman ™ who may just be (more than) a little crooked, located in South Korea. This is his first and only cluster birthed (purposefully). But, he has not told his cluster his actual name now his occupation, just communicates with them to see their progress in their connections to each other. Certain members of the group think he’s involved with TOTEM, but can’t be sure. An overall mystery. Tells the cluster to just call him ‘Uncle.’

Gamma -  FC: Irma P. Hall…..Odessa Munson (81)…..Beloved member of her local community, she worked as the front desk receptionist in a television network company in New York for all the years prior to her retirement. So far she has given birth to over ten clusters, and is warm and welcoming towards all of her children (over 70 at this point). Gamma holds a special place in her heart as it’s the most children in a cluster she’s birthed, and probably one of, if not, her last. She is very close with the Gamma children who reach out to her. Asks her cluster to call her ‘Grandma Odessa’ - “I’m too old to just be a mother!”

Delta - FC: John Francis-Daley….. Grant Weir (33)…..Highly intelligent and book-smart, he is a serial degree collector and hoarder…with no intention of actually putting any of it to use. He comes from a highly wealthy background thus his ability to continue paying for school, and is based out of California. Communicates with his cluster quite a bit, though is terrible at factoring in timezones and gets a little bit awkward around his first cluster, since he’s not that much older than them. Doesn’t really care what his cluster calls him, so most just call him ‘Grant.’

AMAZING question - thank you! I had so much fun answering it too!

UPDATE 4.20.20: Will be converting this information into a resources page for each cluster!

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Since my askbox seems to be malfunctioning...please double-send any reserves via anon, or via IM if you’re okay with it being associated with an account, and please IM me if you are submitting your application to make sure that I have received it! On that note - it’s probably safe to save your bio somewhere or post it onto your pre-made blog just in case!

That being said, all currently active reserves will be extended for 1 additional day! All new reserves will receive 3 full days due to this inconvenience until further notice.

Apologies about all this - the blog just does not seem to want to cooperate! I had some issues with the tags in the beginning, but after a few days it sorted itself out. I am hoping this will be the same.

Also - happy Sunday, everyone! Hope it’s a restful one for you all!

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Your placeholder has been activated! Please send in your application by 11:59PM on April 22nd, 2020!

sonoya mizuno - actor - alpha cluster

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dichen lachman - actor - undecided cluster

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jeon jungkook - bts - delta cluster aneurin barnard - actor - beta cluster

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park jimin - bts - undecided cluster milo ventimiglia - actor - alpha cluster nakamoto yuta - nct - undecided cluster jung soojung (krystal) - actress - delta cluster

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do all members live together in the living quarters or is this divided by cluster?

Ugh! More world-building - love this!

As TOTEM’s main goal is to research/test/expand upon the clusters’ connection with each other, they would not be very strict about keeping each cluster sectioned off in regards to living quarters. Thus, I would be comfortable saying the manner in which they’re situated is based on how long ago they entered the program. So, the first few members of Alpha or Beta would probably be within the same hall/area…so on and so forth.

While we are on the topic: I would say the ‘dorms’ associated with the RESONANCE program are studio-apartment-esque for our Alpha and Beta members, with half of Gamma in those type of apartments as well. But, the later Gamma members and Delta members are probably closer to a dorm setup (one or two roommates to a moderate sized room and probably 4 or so people sharing a communal kitchen/restroom).

Should we get to the point where we’re talking about living arrangements, I’ll go ahead and make a map and/or a page dedicated to just the apartments/dorms!

Thank you so much for sending this in! Appreciate it a lot!!

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Bah humbug!

In speaking with a potential applicant, I realized that though I put down what ‘day’ of birth all the clusters share, I in fact did not put down anywhere what day their ‘sensate’ abilities were activated or ‘birthed’ by their parent!

 That being said, if anyone is already writing their bio and/or has a firm timeline for their muse, could you please reach out to the main via ask or via IMs? I don’t want to completely derail your inspiration and muse, and I could try and write around your hard dates! If possible, please reach out before 12:00pm noon on Saturday, April 18th (EST)! Otherwise, I will be releasing that information around 2:00pm or 3:00pm on the main!

Thank you and I apologize for the inconvenience!

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jeon jungkook - bts - delta cluster aneurin barnard - actor - beta cluster

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park jimin - bts - undecided cluster milo ventimiglia - actor - alpha cluster nakamoto yuta - nct - undecided cluster park sooyoung (joy) - red velvet - delta cluster

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song joonki - actor - undecided cluster

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mw ?? :3

MW? Modern warfare? Must watch? Oh, maybe most wanted?

Phew, tons of faceclaims to want and ask for! Besides the ones that are already on our reserves list, here are some random ones that I’d like to see…but fair warning, I’m not the best person to ask such a generalized ‘most wanted’ question towards! But, this is me trying my absolute best…

Female:Zoe Kravitz, Park Sodam, Sonoya Mizuno, Ming Lee Simmons, Naomi Scott, Ryan Destiny, Kim Jiwon, Sara Ali Khan, Lee Sunbin, Shiva Negar, Tessa Thompson, Shraddha Kapoor, Lee Hyori, Sofia Boutella, Araya A. Hargate, Freida Pinto, Emeraude Toubia, Ahn Heeyeon (Hani), Aimee Carrero, Dichen Lachman, Eiza Gonzalez, Matsui Jurina

Male:Henry Golding, Manny Jacinto, Wallace Huo, Rami Malek, Lee Dongwook, Aaron Tveit, Jeon Jungkook, Sakaguchi Kentaro, Rome Flynn, Jing Boran, Nam Joohyuk, Kono Junki, Cha Seung Won, Alex Landi, Satoh Takeru, Chella Man, Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Daniel Henney, Idris Elba, Akanishi Jin, Hrithik Roshan

Bonus Round of random FCs I came up with for the clusters! These are in no particular order - seriously, there’s no rhyme or reason but I hope this gives you a few ideas!

Alpha:

Gong Yoo, Chadwick Boseman, Cha Seung Won, Milo Ventimiglia, Otani Ryohei, James Mcavoy, Cate Blanchett, Takizawa Hideaki, Zoe Saldana, Jesse Williams, Josh Duhamel, Sunny Suwanmethnont, Ito Misaki, Jarod Joseph, Conrad Ricamora,Tominaga Ai, Zhang Ziyi, Ann Thongprasom, Araya A. Hargate, April Bowlby, Li Bingbing, Viola Davis 

Beta

Yoo Ahin, Kendrick Sampson, Aja Naomi King, Bae Joohyun (Irene), Higashide Masahiro, Ruth Negga, Beau Mirchoff, Jessica Lucas, Ueda Daisuke, Sonam Kapoor, Chai Hansen, Kim Yerim (Lim Kim), Okamoto Tao, Ueto Aya, Laila Boonyasak, Aubrey Plaza, Warattaya Nilkuha, Freida Pinto, Liu Yifei, Tiffany Tang, Alexander Koch, Armie Hammer, Rahul Kohli, Marie Avgeropoulos

Delta:

Seo Kangjoon, Keiynan Lonsdale, Takeuchi Ryoma, Hayley Kiyoko, Hu Yitian, Moses Sumney, Yoshitaka Yuriko, Tanaya Beatty, Kim Dongyoung (Doyoung, NCT), Lu Bai, Daniela M Biah, Erinn Westbrook, Fonthip Watcharatrakul, Lucien Laviscount, Urassaya Sperbund, Ashton Moio, Jordan Fisher, Kim Sungjoo, Nathalie Emmanuel, Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul (Ten)

Gamma:

Marlon Teixeira, Freya Mavor, Bang Chan, Jessica Sula, Jeon Jungkook, Saoirse Ronan, Kiersey Clemons, Freya Mavor , Yamazaki Kento, Song Weilong, Yi Lin, Fukushi Rina, Sofia Carson, Wong Yuk-hei

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hello! what if we wanted our muse to be involved in some not so legal things? would they still be accepted into the resonance program/at totem?

Spicy! What a great question!

Ultimately, TOTEM’s goal is to unite the whole cluster, regardless of their background. Their motives are to study the cluster as a whole and find the limits of the sensate connection both within the cluster and in regards to parallel clusters so it wouldn’t make sense to reject entrance/lodging to someone just because they were involved in some “not so legal” things or had a criminal record. Keep in mind that TOTEM isn’t necessarily squeaky clean either.

In fact, I could even imagine if someone was currently in prison, on parole, or on probation, etc., TOTEM would attempt to negotiate them out of their current situation. Remember, to the public - TOTEM is the epitome of philanthropic excellence and research genius.

In regards to society - think of an alternate world where one organization has a significant presence in the global environment, and also a sparkling outward reputation - most places/government would bend over backwards for this organization! It’s almost a bit dystopian in a way…an organization with just that much influence with barely any checks and balances above them? Sounds dangerous to me. History tends to repeat itself.

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park jimin - bts - undecided cluster oscar issac - actor - alpha cluster nakamoto yuta - nct - undecided cluster park sooyoung (joy) - red velvet - delta cluster

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song joonki - actor - undecided cluster

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WELCOME TO TOTEM!

Settle in! TOTEM will be your new home for the next few months while you are a part of our progressive, and experimental, RESONANCE program! We are so excited for you to meet your cluster of sensates! We are even more excited to watch and help you all grow together! We will do amazing things together! And once again, TOTEM thanks you for your participation in our initiative!

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