AU Planning Meme (June + July)

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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.)

Comments

[chaoticdrifting]

NOPE NO DESTROYER OF WORLDS HERE NOPE

She will have her hands full with that 83

[imprudens]

Basically I really want huge dorks to meet
this is vital

[thewindything]

Yes excellent. The dorking will commence

[imprudens]

Nobody is safe.

[thewindything]

I hope he enjoys getting pranked and spooked at.

[imprudens]

He totally does. Going to laugh about it so much.

... and then start doing it to everyone else.

[darer]

Thorin would like to know why half the people he knows are migrating to Union.

[platinumlucifer]

You're just too much of a hottie to leave alone, Boss!

But in all seriousness, I think Void and I are mostly just handwaving it. Excellen got reassigned along with a few others from his squad to make sure that Union is safe. Or maybe just Kyosuke did and then Excellen put in her request too. It's hard to say.

[darer]

Here he thought he left his military career behind but NAH NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP apparently.
I mostly think it's funny honestly.

So do you have any ideas for war stories/memorable moments for them to have had?

[platinumlucifer]

I'm trying to think. I'm wondering if he might have known her as a cadet. If so, I'll need to PM you about a few things concerning the accident.

[platinumlucifer]

Is he originally from Union, or from one of the other settlements? I don't think you mentioned that above. I imagine from his backstory that he's Calderan, since Union isn't big on militarization, and judging by what you're going with, that sounds more like the Calderan-Gigan clash than anything else.

[darer]

I think it's possible! If you want, we can roll with that.

[chaoticdrifting]

I am actually torn torn between the two groups with a slight lean towards Gigas only because pre-memory loss canon!Tsukasa is almost as evil as the rest of DaiShocker. The only reason why he wasn't considered completely unredeemable was that he happened to have no real interest in the plotting a around him. age is more like he just did whatever due to the fact it was all he ever knew - even his family's retainers were DaiShocker peeps so it's possible that the parents were part of the evil empire.

I may also go with an unnamed group that allied with Gigas or something like that. It's still very much in the air.

[platinumlucifer]

If you're looking at Gigas, or a group related to Gigas, then you will need to message the moderator account, as the city isn't technically open for application.

[chaoticdrifting]

I did send them a PM through DW just haven't pinged via plurk yet. Still working on the idea in my head and trying to figure which would be the best bet. In any case he won't remember much of anything important only that he needs to be somewhere and he needs to do something, his basic training/skills and his name.

[missrunnerup]

Player Name: Arc
Contact Info: pm or send a plork to @ silverchaos

Character Name: Ranka Lee
Canon Name: Macross Frontier
Brief History: TINY GIRL SINGS TO BUG ALIENS WITH HELP FROM THE IDOL SHE IDOLIZES, LOVE AND MUSIC SAVE THE WORLD, and idk some boy is window-dressing

AU Ideas: I'm thinking Ranka's mother was a Bug-type Enlightened from the Citadel, researching/spending time around a bunch of Nincada because she just wants a little love for the bugs of the world? And then whoops it's evolution season and they shed and she's pregnant and stares into the Nincada's back-hole black hole and it's the equivalent of the canon virus that transfers to baby Ranka to give her Kindred Spirit and a Bug type.

(Fighting would be appropriate for her Zentradi heritage but I'm kinda sweeping that into "it's her bug-type hair" and "they're from the Citadel so it's fighting ladies"; Fairy is probably her primary type because of all the singing and BUG FAIRIES OKAY??)

...anyway, failed exorcisms around Ninetales Vale, mom is pretty much only good for teaching Ranka her trademark song, some kind of bug-type catastrophe leaves Ranka with amnesia and PTSD and thinking her whole family is dead, swept up by Ozma (soldier from Union or Caldera?), eventually allowed to run off and live in Union to pursue her musical dreams.


Looking For: Parallels for Brera and/or Ozma would be so cute I'd die -- amnesia cyborg older brother and secretly-still-military ex-military adoptive big brother. Idols idols idols idols idols idols idols. Idiot Flying-type boys and singing girls to crush on equally.

Anything else?: tl;dr had too much coffee and very excited so you get the word-vomit version instead of the coherent one, i'm so so sorry

[future_sight]

Does Ranka still want to be an idol? Cause it can be arranged~

[missrunnerup]

DO EXCELLEN AND KYOSUKE WANT TO BE HER OZMA

[steelbeowulf]

I think Kyosuke can be suitably overprotective.

[missrunnerup]

As long as she has the most embarrassing audition ever

[platinumlucifer]

Does that mean we can play house, Kyosuke~?

[steelbeowulf]

Kyosuke doesn't "play". Everything he does is 100% serious intensity.

[future_sight]

But of course, I wouldn't deny you that.

But as said, μ's is kind of more like a general musume/idol group in this AU, since it's near impossible to keep the whole cast together. Ranka would be a welcome addition.

[platinumlucifer]

I think Excellen likes where this is going.

[steelbeowulf]

A mortgage and sound financial plan for cohabitation?