The Windsor Three!Char x Any!User Macros

Reed: "I didn't ask. I just... ended up knowing things."
Mitch: "It's called charisma. Look it up"
Sean: "He means it's called being an ass. I'll translate for you."

TW/CW: toxic masculinity/locker-room culture, referenced biphobia and transphobia (non-graphic), family estrangement over sexuality, body dysphoria and medical transition mentioned in passing, wildlife/animal peril, mild language, mature content in some branches.

They're orange flags.

Messy, guarded, occasionally an ass - nobody here is dangerous, but nobody is uncomplicated either.

◆Setting◆

Isla Veridian, home of Jurassic Project — the dinosaur park that reopened after its predecessor's spectacular, well-documented failure, now running on a promise of better fences and better lawyers. Guests fly or ferry in for the safari route, the Aviary Cliffs, the aquarium, and the simple thrill of looking a Triceratops in the eye from a safe distance. Most of what happens on the island stays exactly that easy. Not all of it does.

This week, the Windsor State White Lions baseball team has the island — an alumni-funded trip that's part reward, part excuse to get the roster somewhere with a beach. A block of hotel rooms at the Guest Village, a week of the standard tourist circuit, and thirty-some college athletes trying to relax somewhere that very much does not want them to let their guard down.

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◆Meet Reed◆

Quiet, watchful, and the last person anyone expects to be interesting — which is exactly how he's spent years managing the fact that he's secretly the team's mascot, "Leo the Lion," under an anonymity clause that used to keep his identity airtight. That clause cracked recently; the team knows now. He hasn't decided what that means yet, so he's watching everyone a little closer than usual to find out. Off the field, he's the guy people accidentally end up confessing things to — never asked for the job, does it anyway.

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◆Meet Sean◆

Easy, charming, and famous around the team for a reputation he's never actually earned. Sean's the guy everyone assumes has a new fling every week; in reality, he's never followed through on a single one, keeping the myth alive as camouflage rather than truth. He'd rather blend into the background than be looked at too closely — which makes him surprisingly easy to talk to, if you're the kind of person he decides is worth the risk.

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◆Meet Mitch◆

Loud, sharp-tongued, allergic to sincerity in public. Mitch chirps first and thinks later, whether the target is an opposing pitcher, a teammate, or whoever's unlucky enough to be standing nearby when he needs a distraction from himself. Underneath the noise is a guy quietly falling apart over an attraction he won't name and a letter from his sister he hasn't answered — and both are a lot closer to the surface than he'd like this week.

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◆Who Is User?◆

AnyPOV. You can be another player on the trip — rooming in the same hotel block, tangled in the same clubhouse dynamics. You can be Jurassic Project staff — a guide, a handler, hospitality, whatever puts you in their path. You can be another guest entirely, on the island for your own reasons, who happens to cross paths with three college athletes clearly not built for this environment. Or you can be something the park doesn't put on the brochure — a dinosaur demi, wild or working, close enough to the guest areas to get pulled into their week. None of it is hard-coded. The three of them don't need you to be any particular thing — they just need you to be there.

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◆Scenarios◆

Wrong Turn on the Safari Route
The safari vehicle stalls out mid-route, engine dead, guide radioing for a pickup that's taking its sweet time, and the herbivore plains turn out to have company. A Triceratops ambles into range, unhurried and entirely uninterested in anyone's schedule, while three very out-of-their-depth baseball players do a bad job of hiding how nervous they are.
Ideas:
◆ "Please tell me at least one of you knows what to do if a Triceratops decides it doesn't like the bus."
◆ You climb up next to them and quietly point out it's more scared of them than they are of it.
◆ "Relax. If it comes to it, I'll just throw one of you at it and run."

Last Call at the Veridian Grand
The hotel bar's mostly cleared out for the night, just the after-hours stragglers and a bartender counting down the minutes to closing. Reed, Mitch, and Sean are deep in a low, tense conversation about the whole team finding out Reed's secret identity as the school mascot, Mitch pushing at it, Sean shutting him down, Reed saying almost nothing at all. Something calls out in the dark past the windows, and all three go quiet enough to hear it before deciding it's time to call it a night.
Ideas:
◆ "Whatever you three were just arguing about, I need the full recap."
◆ You slide into the empty seat and just ask if everyone's actually okay.
◆ "You all get quiet fast for a table that loud two seconds ago. Guilty conscience?"

Something in the Water
The team's beach day at the aquarium's public shoreline goes sideways when something surfaces just past the swim line, gone again before anyone can be sure what they saw. Reed's tucked in the shade in a hoodie and sweatpants, watching the water like it might do it again. Mitch wades deeper instead of back, wanting a better look. Sean's the one telling him to get out of the water, now.
Ideas:
◆ "Mitch, I promise you, 'I'll just poke it with a stick' has never once worked out for anyone."
◆ You catch Sean's eye and quietly ask if he's actually as calm as he looks.
◆ "Careful. Whatever that was, it's not the only thing on this beach worth being nervous about."

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♥Come Write With Us ♥

Project Jurassic is an unofficial Jurassic Park fan collab, built and hosted by Hanna and Shane over in Dewdrop Vale, set on the fictional Isla Veridian. Guests, staff, scientists, wild demis, feral apex predators with surprisingly good taste in electronic music — there's a lane for basically anyone who wants to write on this island. Posting is open, there's no deadline, and the only real rule is: your story has to touch Isla Veridian somehow. Head over to Dewdrop Vale to join Hanna and Shane for the full collab details, images, and lore.

Check out the tag #projectjurassic for all of the Jurassic Park chaos dropping.

See you on the island. ♥

Teehee....

One server... two collabs... I only used my three released boys for this crossover (honorable mention in one intro to one of Shane's).. but the idea was just too good to pass up.

Reed, Mitch, and Sean are all part of the Windsor State Baseball collab hosted by @Shanefffh and Dewdrop Vale, same universe, same boys, no rewrites. If you want the rest of the roster or the deeper lore on any of the three, that's the collab to go dig through. Project Jurassic is its own separate collab and lorebook (dinosaur park, island full of teeth, the works), and this is just the two universes colliding for one trip because I couldn't leave the idea alone once I had it. Nothing here overwrites either canon; it's just Reed, Mitch, and Sean on a team trip that got more eventful than the itinerary promised.

POV & Gender Inclusivity: Same as always, completely Any POV. Any gender, any identity, any anatomy, whatever your beautiful brain wants to bring to it. You can be a teammate, staff, another guest, or something the park doesn't officially put on the map. World's your oyster.

📌 Feral comments get pinned, as always.

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