AU Planning Meme (June + July)

[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

[platinumlucifer]

Yeah yeah whatever let's get to the going to bed part.

[triangled]

Player Name: Ace
Contact Info: pm or plurk at aceoftherebellion
Character Name: Hikaru Ichijyo
Canon Name: Macross
Brief History: A stunt flyer joins the military to save the world from giant aliens that turn out to be people, falls into a triangle, macross ensues

AU Ideas: In canon, Hikaru was a stunt flyer from a family of the same. I was thinking he could be involved in training flying types for pokebirb aerobatic displays. He's pretty easy to background. His type has pretty much got to be flying, no question about it. Maybe just sort of traveling from place to place performing with birbs? He could join the pseudo-military with birbs as his story continues, get dragged into it, that be fun

Looking For: Love Triangles? A sempai? Idols?

Anything else?: Pokemans that look like giant robots can also apply

[triangled]

So, reenact how Ranka met Alto with a stand-in, y?

[triangled]

So I hear you need a rookie buttmonkey to push around

[platinumlucifer]

You heard right~

[halfterlife]

Player Name: Fel
Contact Info: plurk: Tenfel | AIM: erraticExcursionist

Character Name: Danny Fenton
Canon Name: Danny Phantom
Brief History: A socially outcast 14 year old dork who really wanted to be an astronaut until his mad scientist/ghost hunter parents' portal to the ghost zone half-killed him and turned him into a ghost/human hybrid with 2spoopy powers. Now he fights evil ghosts and tries to balance his life as Amity Park's new much-maligned ghostly superhero with his life as a human highschooler, all while struggling to gain control of his ghost powers and keep them a secret from everyone around him. including his parents. especially his parents.

AU Ideas: Tentatively planning for him to be from outside of Union! probably born in Caldera originally, but his parents move around a lot trying to investigate the world's spookiest places for their ghost-type research and they drag their kids with them, so he's lived in a few places and wasn't living there when the war with Gigas really began heating up. Danny and his family recently moved to Union so his parents could study the forest shrine and the connection to ghosts/the spirit world that part of the population has.

I'm thinking of trying to mirror Danny's canon situation in that Danny wasn't born Enlightened; after moving to Union, his parents try to develop a Ghost-type Enhanced item that performs a similar "bridging" effect to that done by mediums only WITH SCIENCE!, something happens that results in Danny getting zapped by it, and suddenly we have a Ghost/Normal Enlightened who may or may not be half-dead. (i'm thinking Kindred Soul for his ability but that's up in the air right now!)

Looking For: spoopy types to help him get control of his powers shamelessly pranking him and making his life difficult is also an acceptable alternative! fellow teenagers for him to make friends with. maybe anyone from outside of Union who might have met him while his parents were dragging him and his sister over most of the known world? i would also love enemies or antagonistic CR honestly YOU CAN GO FOR ANYTHING.

Anything else?: i apologise in advance for the amount of terrible puns this boy makes. union is not ready.

[aerialassault]

Player Name: Stark
Contact Info: starkxravingxmad @plurk

Character Name: Clif Fittir
Canon Name: Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Brief History: Brawler with a heart of gold is secretly the founder/under cover member of an anti government organization and ends up abducting a college kid who may or may not have the power to save the world. He's huge, friendly, likes to tease, and is much smarter than he looks.

AU Ideas: I'm still working on the details here, because Cliff is a tad tricky for me to AU and maintain lots of his canon elements-- but, I'm running with the idea of him being a Calderan Earthkin, God of War with the fighting/flying/steel types. He was probably in a mid-level command position in the military before he willfully surrendered to prevent the rest of his unit from being annihilated. It ended badly-- all of his pokemon team were MIA/KIA, and much of his unit still fell-- and he ended up in a Gigas prison. The only reason he wasn't considered for the Enhanced program is because he was far too volitile in his temper to even risk having un-restrained.

Eventually he broke out in a situation that most likely involved lots of bloodied heads and broken walls and he made his way back to civilization. Upon his recovery from injuries sustained, he made his Union to see what all the fuss with this place is.

Looking For: Friend/Allies past and present, training buddies, military contacts, people he knew from the prisons, people to potentially abduct for good cause. He also has a not!adopted teenage daughter in canon, so if anyone wants to help with an analogue of that, it'd be totally sweet.

Anything else?:

[platinumlucifer]

Hot Calderan military guy you say?

[aerialassault]

How old are you again? He's a little wary about dating someone too young... he's 36 yanno.

[aerialassault]

Hey. I don't know you, and this is crazy-- but, I'll be your Ozma if you'll be my Maria, Arc-y!

[platinumlucifer]

Who said anything about dating? She can still appreciate someone who is attractive, especially at that age. If anything, she'll just shamelessly flirt.

[aerialassault]

Well, there's an awful lot to admire on this man, and he's liable to do some admiring as well. Especially if she's a kick-ass chick with an attitude-- the girl's gotta have brains too, or its no fun.

[platinumlucifer]

She's a bad-ass sniper and stupidly smart.

[aerialassault]

Perfect. That's just his type!

[expertonshutters]

HOLY SHIT A DANNY HELLO YES THROWS ALL OF MY CHARACTERS AT YOU




but no, mostly i want cr with John and Danny because ghost type nerds who make bad jokes. John will prank the shit out of him.

[halfterlife]

sjbfsjfg YES HELLO HI THERE

also i am so unbelievably up for this. Danny is not here for having the rest of the life pranked out of him but i most definitely am

and thus begins a war of escalation that danny cannot hope to win

[thewindything]

HE WILL MENTOR YOU IN THE WAY OF THE SPOOP by really obnoxious pranks.

he is simply the best there is.

[ladyofluminosity]

YOU KIDS AND YOUR SPOOKY PRANKS GEEZ

[monochromememories]

Player Name: Levi
Contact Info: thecaffeinator

Character Name: Blaike Skye
Canon Name: Original
Brief History: A brilliant, solemn man from Sanctuary who lost just about everything dear to him years ago. He's an Enhanced Child of Knowledge Unbound who's kinda sorta in Team Evolution. He has a massive grudge against Gigas, although he tries not to make that known. Has a love of sketching and tends to see things as art. He also has a weakness for women.

AU Ideas: Blaike is a Normal/Psychic Enhanced (Resists Bug), Child of Knowledge Unbound. His signature spell is going to be one that changes the type of everyone in range to Normal for a short period of time. As an Enhanced, he's somewhat unstable, although he sports both mental and physical instability in the form of excruciating headaches, chronic nightmares/flashbacks, and debilitating chest pain.

He wields mostly special attacks that have some sort of side effects, as well as a fire typed chain sword. (Imagine a segmented blade that stretches out like a whip when swung.)

Looking For: Other Enhanced are definitely welcome, as I don't think we have any PC Team Evolution members? Anyone else with a massive grudgeboner for Gigas is also good. Other than that, people to annoy him or someone for him to end up protecting would be great!

[missrunnerup]

okay, but then she's gonna teach him to make paper airplanes and boop his forehead with 'em :3c

[missrunnerup]

I don't know much about SO3, but what wiki-ing I've done makes it sound pretty cute! Let's do this thing somehow! o9

[missrunnerup]

i call this meeting of the "oh god why did my parents have to meddle with spoopy things" club to order?

[halfterlife]

hello yes i would like to apply to be the vice-president of this club

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS THOUGH wow this is CR i would very much love to have!! would you prefer to go the pre-established route or start from scratch?

[ofpromisedvictory]

Oh right there's this thing I should write things down publicly before apping

Player Name: Nerdo
Contact Info: Nerdorama

Character Name: Saber, aka Arturia Pendragon
Canon Name: Fate/Stay Night
Brief History: It's a very long story, so bullet points:

-King Arthur was secretly a teenage girl the whole time (this is the least ridiculous part btw)
-While dying, she made a deal with the collective consciousness of humanity to basically become a summonable spirit for wizards so she could eventually obtain the Holy Grail (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) to get her wish of giving Britain a do-over on her reign (no one in this canon is very good at the Grandfather Paradox).
-She's summoned into a ritualized magical battle royale in the 1990's by Magical Nineties Batman. It sucks, a lot. She technically wins, but doesn't get the prize because it turns out this Holy Grail is literally possessed by Satan.
-She's summoned into a repeat of the same battle royale ten years later by Magical Nineties Batman's adopted son, whose entire personality is survivor's guilt symptoms. It sucks a bit less (except for Heaven's Feel which isn't really relevant), and she grows to learn that valuing herself and others is more important that perfection, and the value of both attainable and unattainable goals.
-Something about timeloops, idefk.

AU Ideas: Okay so most of that is pretty well thrown out for AU purposes, but I have a sort of parallel idea. Hold onto your hats, it's not any less dumb.

-An important human warrior died fighting against the gods to protect her people back in the War.
-Dying with regrets that she couldn't do more, this person's ghost became part of a Honedge which spent the intervening centuries sitting in a tomb doing Honedge things.
-Eventually for reasons I am intentionally leaving vague, this Honedge attained a human-esque personality and became a Shifter, with the ability to turn into a facsimile of its mortal life, wandered out of the tomb, and decided to call herself Saber.

Now we've got someone just as confused about their own humanity, mortality, and place in the world as the original Saber, albeit for different reasons. Rather than being a dead woman time-traveling and getting into fights, she's a dead woman who's also an undead Pokémon who can change which form she presents at will. I will admit I will probably do some angst with this one, sorry.

Looking For: Saber could really use a dedicated friend or two to focus her on a "be yourself" message, or at least be around while she's trying to figure out who her self is. In both her human previous life and her Pokémon existence, she also enjoys fighting almost instinctively, and could use both friendly rivals and antagonists (too bad there's no Spear Pokémon...)

Also, if I wanted to be horrible, I could say she was once "caught" and used rather roughly as an attack dog by a jerk from Sanctuary or Gigas. I don't know if we have anyone like that and wouldn't wish Kiritsugu Emiya on anybody as a character, but if this dovetails with anyone else's ideas, by all means, contact me.

Anything else?: Oh right, in keeping with BNW tradition, she's a magical girl:

same player

[untalented]

Hah. There's not much to know on this front, just that the relationship with Cliff and Maria is almost a direct parallel as that of Ranka and Ozma. The only differences are that Cliff didn't hide his militaristic activities....

We can coordinate on plurk or something-- I'm slowly working on apps, but how does she feel about having a Calderan God of War as not!bro/not!dad?