H.Fromm.

Heidi Fromm. 🇩🇪. Mass Effect RP blog. Representative for Ariake Technologies (other muse @moation).

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On Being Away

Yeah so I nearly died and was put into a medically induced coma for a week; took a necessary break. I’m not, nor ever, going to fully recover and don’t have the energy to roleplay with that ^ and with my work with the university (where what time I have left will be devoted). I shall keep this blog active as a point of contact and a character building platform, an archive of character, as I very much like Detective Albert Rosgaard and what I’ve created of him (as well as Otto and Grimm on my side blogs @grimmaced and @dekuunan). I have a host of other ME RP blogs which shall be kept as character profiles and online records as I like the format of Tumblr to build characters and not just to RP them. I could just do that privately, but… I like a scant amount of selfish publicity to my characters. I’m in hospital, currently, yet again and am a little better than before: but still trending downhill and I simply don’t wish to RP. Dying diverts my focus. If you wish to send ideas as to how I can privately build my characters or to send advice to you (I have a background in literary theory and philosophy) then I may do that.

Sorry for my absence. It will soon be permanent.

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What are some of their strengths ? What are some of their weaknesses ? - earthlyechoes

A Strength: Heidi has vast technological and mathematical knowledge. Has a very analytical mind. Not superstitious.

A Weakness: Is often too focused on her career with Ariake Tech. “Married to the job.”

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More Business Headcanons within Mass Effect:

This ( https://norwegiandetective.tumblr.com/post/145209812552/mass-effect-capitalism-headcanons ) got a lot of notes, so I have created a few more Headcanons referring to the state of modern industries within Mass Effect. Mitsubishi was founded in 1870, and is still a thriving conglomerate today. Needless to say most other businesses have a small chance of lasting for so long.

Nintendo: Nintendo ran out of ideas and could not successfully keep recycling its old IP, and eventually crumpled and died in 2039 due to a creative lull.

Sony: Like most modern-day companies, the idea of them last forever is peculiar. The one’s that do are oddities. Sony is not one of those oddities. After a few major scandals amongst its highest board members, Sony dissolved in the mid 2070s, after increased competition and a lack of managerial stability.

ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Sinopec Group, BP: All thankfully dead. Oil is not a highly used or needed substance with the emergence of Mass Effect technology and eezo, along with most fossil fuels. The UN Renewability Acts of the late 21st century had the greatest effect on the major oil companies as most of the post-industrial world embraced green energy. Pollution is still a major problem in poorer parts of Earth, as shown from the Codex entries on Earth, but the polluting substances used and sold are now done so by a plethora of small and independent, often highly corrupt, companies, scam artists, and black market distributors. The discovery of ‘Mass Effect’ technology from the Prothean ruins on Mars in 2148 was the final nail in the coffin for most large multinational gas and oil companies.

AT&T: The American multinational telecommunications corporation was destroyed, physically and financially, as a result of the Second American Civil War in 2096. A few of AT&T’s CEO’s and Department Heads secretly supported the Freedoms First secessionists instead of the UNAS Union. In the aftermath of the war, with the Unionist win, the corporation crumbled after public outcry concerning embezzled and clandestine secessionist funding.

Samsung: Liquidated in 2101 after an internal crisis and the result of better competition.

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Mass Effect Capitalism Headcanons.

I have often wondered what would happen to large corporations and companies that exist today in the time of Mass Effect. If they have survived, what are these companies now doing in consideration of galactic competition and with the various changes in demands? While we are given details of Earth-based firms like Rosenkov Materials and Ariake Technologies, what has happened to huge corporations like Google, Microsoft, and Apple by the time of 2183 – 2186? This is a long period of time, and it is doubtful many of our current business leaders will survive for so long.

As there evidently is no information, I have formulated some headcanons considering which modern-day companies are still around in the Mass Effect universe.

By far the biggest upheaval in Earth business and industries was the First Contact War and the emergence of humanity into the galactic community. With many alien industries already out-performing in the roles of existing Earth industries, many had to relegate themselves to being primarily planetside industries or went out of business. With only a few firms managing to expand successfully into the existing galactic market. By far the most successful Earth-based firms, with burgeoning cross-species trade, are weapons and military technologies manufacturers such as the Russian-based Rosenkov Materials, Ariake Tech, Hahne-Kedar, and the biomedical firm The Sirta Foundation – the creators of medi-gel (based -off canon).

However…

“By 2185, however, the attack on the Chohe facility brought Sirta to its knees financially, and it was predicted that the foundation would soon declare bankruptcy and dissolve. Fortunately, asari colonists on Lusia began selling platinum, discovered in abundance on the largest moon of Pronoia, to the foundation for less than its market value. This discount is believed to have single-handedly saved Sirta from bankruptcy.”

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Google: Google no longer exists. It continued operating for much of the 21st century, but was eventually out-competed by other superior search engines and eventually became an archived system by the beginning of the 22nd. After First Contact and the discovery of the galactic Extranet, Earth-based search engines were relegated to obsolescence by longer-existing and more formalised operations.

Apple: Apple is also dead. After a major financial deficit and lack of sales the company was liquidated around 2096; during the creation of the United North American States (UNAS).

Microsoft: By 2183-6 Microsoft still lives on. Yet in a rather different role. With the emergence and disappearance of a whole host of technological corporations through the late 21st and early 22nd century, Microsoft made the decision to become a highly specialised and less broad corporation, with its modus operandi solely being the creation of gaming consoles, graphics cards, and various small and specialised computing components; with the ECrate VIII being the most popular gaming console on Earth in 2185. Windows no longer exists. The last upgrade, Windows SP, was in 2038.

Citroen: A peculiar success story, the French company is the leading manufacture of skycars and other transportation on Earth in the 22nd century. Indeed, since before and after First Contact, which had a major effect on Earth-based industries, Citroen is one of the only large modern-day companies to stay afloat for such a long period. Along with fellow manufacturers Volvo and Honda. Other car makers came and went during the intervening years of the last two centuries, with only a small few maintaining prolonged permeance. Despite wide fluctuations in profit margins.

Nokia: Nokia still manufactures telecommunications devices and is now expanding into the market for omni-tools. It remained relatively consistent and stable throughout the 21st century.

NASA: NASA and the ESA were superseded by the creation of the Systems Alliance in 2148.

(I think @omegastation may find some of this interesting :) . I wonder what other people think about businesses in the ME universe).

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N7 Crusader.                                                                                                  Astrid’s primary weapon (mods: Shredder mod. High Velocity Barrel).

(Secondary weapon M-6 Carnifex). 

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N7 Demolisher Engineer Astrid Cioran’s primary weapon; the N7 Crusader.

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Permanent starter call. 

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Headcanon meme - send me a symbol and I'll describe my muse's...

❣ - hands

❤ - voice

۵ - feet

❦ - lips

ø - eyes

ღ - nose

♮ - body type

♫ - singing voice

✮ - sleeping habits

✉ - texting habits

✿ - laugh

✍ - writing style

⌨ - time-wasting habits

❅ - keeping warm/keeping cool techniques

✎ - taste in music/literature

☤ - self care/first aid habits

✪ - favourite food/eating habits

☁ - ideal holiday

✄ - nervous habits

☂ - sadness

❈ - ideal birthday

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Reblog this if you play with sideblogs!

I have noticed a startling number of people who make doing so difficult, though I think it is entirely on accident, so a little reassurance is in order!

I PLAY WITH SIDEBLOGS. I enjoy your muse even if it comes attached to a blog that isn’t a primary. Promise. Adore you all the way.

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@moation

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Walt Motion. Mercenary. Space Pirate. Mass Effect OC RP side|blog. All-round terrible person.

Sideblog. 

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Character Development Questions - 5, 11, 13, 15, 20, 24, 28, 30, 33, 35~

5. How do they dress? What styles, colours, accessories, and other possessions do they favour? Why?Heidi dresses formally most of the time for her work. Often sporting dark trousers, white button shirts, and company branded cardigans. Flat shoes (she does like high-heels). Will also often wear an antique (though inexpensive) wrist-watch, as a show of her aesthetic fascination with clockwork.

11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones, inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use? Heidi uses two sorts of voices. During work she needs to be more expressive and vocal to persuade potential buyers and put across her points. Privately she is more quietly spoken. She doesn’t gesture too much, doesn’t flail her hands around, nor keep them in her pockets. She has a faint German accent.

13. How do they greet the world — what is their typical attitude towards life? How does it differ in different circumstances, or towards different subjects? Why do they take these attitudes, and why do they change? How do these tend to be expressed?Heidi has become very open due to travelling around the galaxy on business and dealing with many different species as customers. She doesn’t begrudge the conceits of the modern world; hook-up culture in displacement of traditional long-form speaking, over-reliance on technology etc, and instead sees them as mostly archetypal movements beyond individual control which may as well be conceded too, with little hope of changing massive things.She is nonetheless energetic, wakes early, sleeps well, and likes to be professional with most of whom she speaks to.

15. What kind of inner life do they have — rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives?Heidi is very calculating and logical as one of her hobbies is predicting and observing the movements of the galactic stock market. This means she has come to expect surprises and the unexpected, but also see the general patterns of most behaviour. Her life is mostly devoid of conflict and she is surprisingly comfortable with how she is, despite a lack of companionship. She loves her family and schedules regular visits. She also keeps an up to date diary of things and rarely performs spontaneous acts.

20. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends, family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships?Heidi is a lot less formal with her family. With acquaintances she is mostly businesslike, polite, and professional in her manner.

24. How do they present themselves socially? What distinguishes their “persona” from their “true self”, and what causes that difference?She is often well-dressed and rarely dirty as she presents herself in her profession. Likewise, she is rarely rude and cocksure and mostly polite and attentive.                                                                                                     Outward persona as opposed to true self is mostly a verbose and obscurantist topic. She sees little of anything in it. At home and alone she is more relaxed, but rarely differs in her ostensible actions.

28. What are they likely to do if they have the opportunity, resources, and time to accomplish it? Why? Do it. 😜 Just. Do. …[etc]

30. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if they get either too little or too much?She is active with work and exercises a lot (jogging). She have some pent-up… carnal urges which are sadly often unsatisfied. Which can make her stressed; so she distracts herself with running and listening to music, or checking up on business rivals in the exchange.

33. How do they learn about the world–what is their preferred learning style? Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking? Observation or rote memorisation? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking patterns and organisation? Taking things apart and putting them back together? Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatising things?Deconstruction. Taking things apart and rebuilding them. She used to do so with toys when she was a child. Especially clocks; much to her parents chagrin.

35. How and why do they internalise knowledge? What effect has that had on them?She knows a lot about aviation, aeronautics, transport, technology, and economics. With her many business contacts she has enough room and scope to express her thoughts and ideas (either on the Ariake Tech board or with family) and doesn’t need to repress herself.

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Fluffy/Silly/Romantic settings for a starter! Send a...

☆ - for my muse posing to yours for a painting

☂ - for your muse dancing with mine in the rain

♞ - for your muse teaching my muse to cook

✂ - for our muses trying out clothes for a carnival

☎ - for our muses meeting in secret

☢ - for your muse massaging mine

▷ - for our muses getting drunk together

€ - for our muses spending a lazy afternoon together in bed

☀ - for your muse walking in on my muse bathing 

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42 character development questions!

PHYSICAL PRESENCE AND GESTURE. 1. How do they move and carry themselves? Pace, rhythm, gestures, energy? 2. How much physical space do they use, active and at rest? 3. How do they position themselves in a group? Do they like to be the center of attention, or do they hang back at the edges of a crowd? 4. What is their size and build? How does it influence how they use their body, if it does? 5. How do they dress? What styles, colors, accessories, and other possessions do they favor? Why? 6. What are they like in motion–in different environments, and in different activities? What causes the differences between these? 7. How do they physically engage with other people, inanimate objects, and their environment? What causes the differences between these? 8. Where and when do they seem most and least at ease? Why? How can you tell? 9. How do they manifest energy, exhaustion, tension, or other strong emotions? 10. What energizes and drains them most? 11. How are they vocally expressive? What kind of voice, accent, tones, inflections, volume, phrases and slang, and manner of speaking do they use? 12. How are they bodily expressive? How do they use nonverbal cues such as their posture, stance, eyes, eyebrows, mouths, and hands? DISPOSITION AND TEMPERAMENT. 13. How do they greet the world — what is their typical attitude towards life? How does it differ in different circumstances, or towards different subjects? Why do they take these attitudes, and why do they change? How do these tend to be expressed? 14. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings, or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed? 15. What kind of inner life do they have — rich and imaginative? Calculating and practical? Full of doubts and fears? Does it find any sort of outlet in their lives? 16. Do they dream? What are those dreams like? 17. Are they more shaped by nature or nurture — who they are, or what has happened to them? How have these shaped who they’ve become as a person? 18. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take, (best, worst, most likely?) what would cause them to come to pass, and what consequences might they have? What paths would you especially like to see, and why? CONNECTIONS WITH OTHERS. 19. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why? 20. What kind of individual relationships do they have with others, and how do they behave in them? How are they different between intimate relationships like friends, family, and lovers versus more impersonal relationships? 21. What kind of relationships do they tend to intentionally seek out versus actually cultivate? What kind of social contact do they prefer, and why? 22. How do people respond to them, and why might these responses differ? 23. How do they respond to difficult social moments? What makes them consider a social situation difficult? 24. How do they present themselves socially? What distinguishes their “persona” from their “true self”, and what causes that difference? 25. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it? 26. How do they view and feel about relationships, and how might this manifest in how they handle them, if it does? ACTIVITIES AND PREFERENCES. 27. What do they strongly like and dislike, in any category? Why? 28. What are they likely to do if they have the opportunity, resources, and time to accomplish it? Why? 29. What kind of activities, interests, and hobbies do they have? What significance and impact do these have in their lives, both positive and negative? 30. What is their preferred level of activity and stimulation? How do they cope if they get either too little or too much? 31. Is there anything that counts as a “dealbreaker” for them, positively or negatively? What makes things go smoothly, and what spoils an activity or ruins their day? Why? 32. Do they have any “props” that are a significant part of their life, identity, activities, or self-presentation somehow? What are they, how are they used, and why are they so significant? How would these props’ absence impact them, how would they compensate, and why? THINKING AND LEARNING. 33. How do they learn about the world–what is their preferred learning style? Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking? Observation or rote memorization? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking patterns and organization? Taking things apart and putting them back together? Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatizing things? 34. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why? 35. How and why do they internalize knowledge? What effect has that had on them? 36. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this? 37. Have they had any special education or training that colors their means of learning about or understanding the world? Conversely, do they lack some kind of education considered essential in their world? What kind of impact has this addition or lack had on them? 38. Is there anything they wish they could change about their worldview or thought processes? What, and why? 39. What sort of questions or thoughts recur in their lives, either specifically or as a theme? Why are these never answered, or answered permanently to their satisfaction? 40. What do they wonder about? What sparks their curiosity and imagination, and why? How is this expressed, if it is? FREE FOR ALL. 41. What associations do they bring to mind? Words or phrases, images, metaphors or motifs? Why? 42. I have a question of my own!

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Headcanon meme~

Put a symbol (or several) and a character/characters in my ask box, and I’ll give you a headcanon.  Yes.  Do it.

☾ - sleep headcanon

★ - sad headcanon

☆ - happy headcanon

☠ - angry/violent headcanon

✿ - Sex headcanon

■ -  Bedroom/house/living quarters headcanon

♡ - romantic headcanon

♥ - family headcanon

☮ - friendship headcanon

♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon

☯ - likes/dislikes headcanon

▼ - childhood headcanon

∇ -. old age/aging headcanon

♒ - cooking/food headcanon

☼ - appearance headcanon

ൠ - random headcanon

◉ - Any other question of your choosing

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A Character-Building Question Meme

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Leave one of my characters and a number (or more) in my ask, and I will answer:

What foods do they love, and what foods do they refuse to eat?

What is their weapon of choice, and what weapon do they dislike using the most?

What is their preferred method of transportation?

Who did they look up to the most as a child? Who do they look up to as an adult?

What kind of weather makes them happy, and what kind makes them sad?

What languages do they speak? Do they have any idiosyncrasies or identifiable patterns of speech, word usages, etc?

What clothing do they like to wear, and what do they wear most often?

Do they eat a healthy diet? A varied one?

As a child, what did they want to be when they grew up? Did they realize their dream?

What makes them feel safe or secure? What makes them feel insecure or unsafe?

What do they do when they need comfort? Do they seek out a person, a food, an activity, etc?

Do they sing or play any musical instruments, even if just for fun? How well?

What decision in their past did they most analyze and fret over after the fact?

What are they like when they are drunk?

Where in their body do they keep stress or tension? 

What do they think about where they currently live? If they could move elsewhere, would they?

Do they have any pet peeves or petty dislikes, and how do they react to encountering them?

What foods do they eat most often? Do they enjoy it?

What is their favorite texture?

Do they like to travel? How do they pack and prepare?

How well do they take criticism? How do they react to others noticing their flaws?

What are they like when they get sick? Do they have a particular system (ears, lungs, etc) that illness gravitates to?

What is their favorite drink?

How do they react to being physically injured or undergoing medical treatment?

What do their hands look and feel like?

How much do they eat, and how often? Do they drink appetite suppressants (tea, coffee, etc)?

Do they have children? Do they want children? What names would they choose?

What is a gift that they have received that was especially touching or significant?

How do they arrange or decorate their living space? 

Do they have any allergies or chronic conditions?

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7, 12, 15 [ Ask about my OC meme ]

7 - What they are proud of? Her aeronautics degree. Being part of one of Earth’s leading advanced tech firms. Her parents.

12 - Morning person? Yes. Very much Heidi sleeps well and wakes early for work.

15 - Family? Her parents still live in downtown Tokyo since moving from Germany for work. Still has regular contact with most extended family. Surprisingly little arguments and little disfunction at all. Good terms.