AU Planning Meme (January & February)

[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

[actsmagnificent]

First up I've got Haruka for all the ridiculously petty negative CR that entails. Seiya has been at the top of my "wanted characters" list for ages, so hearing you were interested in apping him made my day!

And now, textwalls. I know you're planning on looking over the game info but I'll pull in recent game events here to see if any of this sounds good.

As mentioned on Plurk, there's both a large entertainment presence in Union and a city that was completely destroyed, Sanctuary. Since Seiya is an idol in canon more than an actor (though he does act too) you could maybe do something with the fact that radio and TV are growing industries? He could be a rising star, and there are plenty of aspiring idols in-game to get CR with, too.

Alternatively, if you DID want to go the theater route, there's two established theaters he could work for - the Union Divine Theater if you wanted him to work alongside Haruka and Michiru, or the Kricketune Theaters if you wanted them to be rivals. I can talk more about the Divine Theater in a later tag if that approach appeals to you, because it comes with fancy secret identities.

As for his actual plotline, with searching for his "Princess", you could very easily say that he's come to Union to look for someone important to him from Sanctuary. You probably couldn't set her up as the leader of Sanctuary (definitely not without mod approval), but maybe she was a mentor? Someone who changed his life for the better there? I have to admit I don't know much about Sanctuary - or even if there's anything to know about it - so my thoughts there are vague.

(This is really me going out on a limb, but since it occurred to me - the timing is good for him wanting to keep his search a secret, too: people in Union, the main city where BNW takes place, have recently decided to set up a center to rehabilitate science-experiment soldiers from Gigas, the city that destroyed Sanctuary. Union is doing this because they're opposed to Gigas's methods, but that also means that more people are announcing to Union that they used to live in Gigas and want to help. Maybe, even though these are defectors, the presence of Gigans in Union is too high for Seiya to feel comfortable. Or maybe he's just paranoid because Union pretty much has painted a "come get us next, Gigas" target on itself.)

Regarding the gender-switching: You could say that Seiya is a Pokémon Shifter (a person who can turn into a Pokémon or vice versa), but the Pokémon he shifts to is an all-female species. She was born a Pokémon, learned to shift into a male human, and the Princess is her Trainer. I mean what. You could then check with the mods to see whether it'd be okay for Seiya to have control over his biological gender as part of being a Shifter. Or - and this is probably the most doable - that Star Fighter is a female Zorua shifter who uses illusions to make her human form appear male, but she drops that illusion when she fights. All of this might depend on how important to you it is that Seiya's male form in canon is a disguise/the "senshi have to be girls" worldbuilding.

IDK. Shifter makes the most sense to me as a Seiya ability, but there are all kinds of Enlightened so there's got to be a way to make the gender-switching work. I have to run now, orz, but I hope this rambling helps as you think over the AU!