AU Planning Meme (January & February)

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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.)

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[betterthanwu]

Player Name: Joysweeper
Contact Info: Joysweeper on Plurk

Character Name: Kuvira
Canon Name: Legend of Korra
Brief History: A young girl abandoned by her family and taken in by the ruler of a walled city of innovation and achievement. Ten years later and she's a star dancer and its guard-captain, and chafes to leave the city to help the rest of the country, though that is forbidden. She leads parts of the city into leaving and pacifies a city overrun by bandits and looters, and over the next three years does the same to the whole country. In that time the young woman is dubbed the Great Uniter, and although she fights with her people's interests in mind, she comes out of balance as she becomes more prideful and cruel. She is redeemed in the end.

AU Ideas: Steel-type Enlightened kid born in Refuge, though she doesn't know where it is or what it was called, with foolish parents who left with her and then later abandoned her in the wilderness. Their Gardevoir stayed with her and she was taken into Caldera, and there brought up by a wealthy influential Enlightened perfectionist.

This Kuvira worked just as hard as in canon for her approval, and participated in the war with Gigas, if more from the sidelines than the thick of the fighting. Union's intervention was very exciting, but her mentor forbade her to leave. In time Kuvira disregarded this and left anyway.

Unlike canon she has no followers with her, unless you count a sheltered Talts, and is less seasoned, forceful, and charismatic in general. She also has far vaguer goals than in canon, relating to wanting to help people who are cornered, like Union did. And to become stronger, of course!
Looking For: People she might know!

Kuivra's patron or mentor in Caldera sponsors or is otherwise affiliated with various people who show promise. Especially if they've screwed up in the past! Any old affiliates would be welcome. Suyin is usually supportive but can be controlling if someone isn't doing the kinds of things she wants.

There's a dramatic moment during a battle in canon. Someone falls off a cliff and is thought dead, but Kuivra catches him and later tends his wounds. I'd love someone she could have saved like that, or otherwise met in the field!

Finally, I guess someone from out of Caldera who could have encouraged her, directly or just by existing and talking about it, to leave. That would be cool!
Anything else?: I don't know what I'm doing! :D

[darer]

Sooooo. Hello stranger, I'm Kite, and I've got Thorin here who was heavily involved in Calderan military for the last 20+ years. As Earthkin and eventually fairly highly ranked, he was in the thick of the fighting, but they might still know each other!

Bonus points for him influencing her to go - he stepped down and left Caldera shortly after Union helped end the siege, even though his chances of getting into a leadership position in Caldera were probably pretty good. y/n/???

[betterthanwu]

Hi Kite! Oooh, Thorin. Awesome.

That would be amazing. Met on or off battlefields? "Catching people who fall off cliffs" aside I think she acted as a medic or sentry a lot. He certainly could have left an impression! She wanted to leave after Union's intervention but was forbidden, and it took her a while to actually commit to cutting ties.

[darer]

FIRST OFF sorry for vanishing, life kind of ate me a bit there. And continues to, but for now I'm fending it off with a stick.

Perhaps they'd have met after a battle! So, on the battlefield, but with most of the action out of the way. He'd be pretty relentless about making sure everyone he's responsible for is accounted for, alive or otherwise, and also kind of terrible at acknowledging that he might need to take a break.

[betterthanwu]

Hey, it's cool. I have to drop off for a few days every here and there, too.

aww, nice. Kuvira's generally very composed and professional, good in a subordinate role. She could have come over to report on some of his people, or to help?

[darer]

That sounds good! He can respect that which is... really important in good CR with him. How old is Kuvira?

[betterthanwu]

She is eighteen now, but tends to come off as somewhat older.

[darer]

... BITTY. that makes her a year older than Kili, but a capable military officer is less likely to be spontaneously adopted. Soooo I guess you can rest easy on that account? XD

[betterthanwu]

|D heee. Maybe just as well, she wants to be independent. She still wouldn't mind a little guidance though!

[worldmother]

Oh lord so uh

Elly was a soldier for Gigas. I think something needs to be done with this.

[betterthanwu]

Well. heh, could be so! Kuvira's on the "give people another chance" side, but it's still an interesting jump off point.

[expertonshutters]

YOOOO

So I have another Calderan to throw your way. Hayato wasn't a soldier but he was a photographer for the war that went missing and then turned up eight months later in Union. He was all over the place taking pictures so there's a pretty good chance that they could have met!

Hayato was also kind of a scrappy street urchin up until he discovered photography so there is potential there as well

[betterthanwu]

Heyyyy!

Yeah, that sounds great! She's sympathetic towards people in that kind of position. Both could work really!

[expertonshutters]

I would say that him getting his first camera could have been at the hands of her mentor but Hayato would not have been very good at sticking to her wishes. Or anyones wishes. He's kind of the epitome of I DO WHAT I WANT. Otherwise they could have met just met when they were younger and then met up again on the battlefield.

I could see him possibly giving her a pep talk on leaving Caldera sometime while he was running around battlefields.

[betterthanwu]

hee. Well, Kuvira came into the city ~10 years ago, when she was about eight, and idk how long it was or if she had anyone to take her in before her mentor noticed she was Earthkin. She could have met him then and encouraged her mentor to give him a chance, and... well, Suyin had to be disappointed!

Did he have a wish to get out and see the world, etc?

[expertonshutters]

WHOOPS. No hard feelings, guys he's just too much of a free spirit. He did do well for himself at least! You know, until Gigas captured him and made him an Enhanced.

Not necessarily about seeing the world but he would have told her to do what she really wanted to do.

[betterthanwu]

Yup. That would do it. |D

Cool! I'll be able to tag tomorrow, I think, this has been a busy day.

[toxicrevenger]

Pamela was heavily involved in the diplomatic negotiations between Gigas and Caldera, and helped with an agricultural project in Caldera in case Gigas came back and attempted a siege again. She could have met Kuvira, if you'd like! She's from one of Union's prominent noble families but considers herself a researcher first and foremost.

[betterthanwu]

Cool! I'd like that, I think! Kuvira has met or seen a lot of prominent people through her mentor, even if she hasn't actually done much yet. People from Union are fascinating.

[sparkofgenius]

Okay! Now that I went through with the Calderan kid...let me finally tag this. Also hi, is Ax.

Lucca's own plotting sort of set her up to be a semi-famous inventor from Caldera who was well known during the conflict with Gigas. She made experimental weapons and defenses, like short term force-fields and hand-held death rays. All the usual mad science sort of stuff.

There's possible some connection that could come from this, even if it's just them having met in passing, or having met on the battlefield. Lucca isn't really a great fighter (and her powers are entirely defensive until her first evolution) but she did fight.

Thoughts?

[betterthanwu]

Hey Ax! Been a while!

Cool. Could be a little of both? Kuvira's mentor is prominent enough that she could've seen or been introduced to all kinds of prominent types.

[sparkofgenius]

Yep!

It could be, yes. I can work with that, if you like. Enough so that Lucca and Kuvira know one another's names, most definitely. More than that is awkward because Lucca is...well...awkward.

[betterthanwu]

It sounds good! Meanwhile Kuvira tends to be overly mature, so we'll see what happens!