AU Planning Meme September Edition

[bravenewmods]

AU PLANNING MEME

Given the nature of AU, below is a form that can be used for planning purposes when plotting out your character. While it is not required to fill out the form, we encourage you take a look at the listings in this post and use them as a guide when setting up plots or planning character backgrounds.

<b>Player Name:</b> (What name you go by in-game) <b>Contact Info:</b> (What is the best way to contact you for plotting purposes) <b>Character Name:</b> (The name of your character) <b>Canon Name:</b> (What canon they come from) <b>Brief History:</b> (A brief blurb about the character, does not have to be overly detailed. This is used to give a basic idea of who this character is) <b>AU Ideas:</b> (Here is where you talk about what plans you may have for your character's intended AU. Reading this, others should hopefully get an idea of what you intend to do with your character's back story pertaining to the game's setting.) <b>Looking For:</b> (This section is for hypothetical things you would like to see, be it events, people related to them, whatever; canon parallels, character proxies, all of that goes here.) <b>Anything else?:</b> (Anything that you feel has been overlooked or that should be noted goes here.)

Comments

[g_cis]

So, Nate didn't work out, but I still want to give this game a spin. And the character I'm looking at is this fellow.

Player Name: Razorsaw
Contact Info: razorsaw, as well as my plurk (razorsaw), AIM (razorsawsblade), and my e-mail (razorsawtf[at]gmail[dot]com)

Character Name: Ghetsis
Canon Name: ... Ghetsis
Brief History: He's the main villain of the Black/White games and the head of Team Plasma. Guy secretly wants to be the only person who controls Pokemon and to rule the Unova region, while manipulating his adoptive son N to that end. Implied to have been injured by Pokemon in the past, leaving him scarred on one side of his body.

AU Ideas: My idea is that Ghetsis is a nobleman and last surviving member of a once prolific family. A bitter man born crippled, he has mostly been living off the lingering resources of his family.

However, this Ghetsis is not the megalomaniac that he is in the Unova games. He's certainly not a good man, but he's not at the point where he's considering conquering the world. He'd certainly be corrupt, he'd certainly be willing to use people for his own ends, or metaphorically stab them in the back, but he's not a monster... just not a good person by any stretch of the imagination.

(I considered having him intend to form an in-game version of Plasma, but I figured that would be biting off too much).

His main goal is trying to earn prestige for himself, but through which means he's still trying to find the right opportunity.

Looking For: Ideas for any past or future CR would be excellent. For stuff that happened in the past, he's somewhat old, so chances of him knowing younger characters would be unlikely. But he's bitter and curmudgeonly, and if there's a chance he earned someone's ire through some kind of business venture or simply by being abrasive to another well off person, I'd be willing to work something out.

That being said, he has a love of fine arts, would have an interest in the culture and military history of Caldera, and I think he'd be a regular skulker at Teeter's, the theater, and Burgh Museum.

Anything else?: I intend for him to be a nobleman, but it really doesn't amount to much. His family's money is enough to live comfortably, but he doesn't have much power to go with his status.

[worldmother]

Depending on the direction that you do intend to take him, these two might have some interesting CR, considering her back story.

[g_cis]

*steeplefingers*

Go on.

[worldmother]

Elly is from Gigas, and has quite a history there (one that I'm not disclosed to talk too much about), and she would have good reason to be at odds with someone with such goals as OU Ghetsis.

right journal this time

[g_cis]

I see, I see. Maybe such an antagonistic relationship could come from him approaching her to discuss Caldera?

[worldmother]

First of all, good luck getting her to talk about where she's from or anything related to it.

But something like that might get a massive fireball to the face, so yes, antagonistic is a way to put it.

[g_cis]

ah, okeedokee.

But in generally, he'd be kinda smarmy in his attempts to learn more about Caldera. Like I said, this Ghetsis doesn't have designs to conquer anything yet, but he'd definitely be looking out for a way to "make friends" in certain places, so I imagine that could rub people the wrong way. So if he starts asking about Caldera openly...

[worldmother]

She's not from Caldera herself, so depending on the questions asked, he'll either get an indifferent answer, or a more indignant one.

[g_cis]

Hold on.

*rubs eyes* I'm sorry. I'm just now realizing you said GIGAS, not Caldera. I'm sorry, it's late and my eyes played tricks on me. x_x