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

[celebrity_commentator]

Oh my god all the tiny idols I mean *ahem*

Rise hasn't got the Fairy type, let alone any Galacticness, but if you need an idol-senpai aside from μ's I am here.

This is Void's fault

[lelisjaune]

Player Name: Sheepy
Contact Info: sheepyton

Character Name: Aerith Gainsborough
Canon Name: Final Fantasy VII
Brief History: Flower girl last of her kind who hangs around with a chocobo-headed line face dude. Gets kebabed in the first ten hours of the game.

AU Ideas: Originally from Sanctuary, fled with her mother who ended up dying due to injuries. Was taken in by a Calderan woman and spent much of her life there. Ended up moving with her to Union after the first big migration over. She currently works at the habitat tower, although I may have her do some volunteer work with the medical center too, depending. Working toward opening her own flower shop, but that's expensive :<

(This is subject to change, since I'm still trying to decide how I want to work this. I won't be bringing her in until July at the earliest anyway.)
Looking For: I am literally open to anything. People for her to tease/mom at.

Anything else?:

[pathofheaven]

Player Name: Ski
Contact Info: Skiiage on Plurk, Skype, and AIM!

Character Name: Tendou Souji
Canon Name: Kamen Rider Kabuto
Brief History: Some kid got his home (and most of Shibuya) exploded in a meteor strike, it turns out the meteor was filled with shapeshifting aliens. Now he turns into a karate bugman and kicks them in the face because fuck Worms. Also his grandmother is an endless font of wisdom and his ego is the size of the sun.

AU Ideas: I'm already in the game, so some of this stuff is set in stone. He's a guy from a nomadic tribe that got destroyed during the conflict between Caldera and Gigas, he suspects Gigas but it could be either or even neither. He relocates to Caldera, trains, then eventually heads to Union in search of his destiny.

He's probably somewhat famous in certain Calderan circles for showing up randomly, wowing everyone with his quick work and confident leadership, and then disappearing for a long time. Also for his incredible cooking.

I imagine he's going to be spending a while messing with people while I get his levels up, because what's a guy supposed to do without his signature move and a low level Honedge, but eventually he's going to get up to shenanigans.

His big personal plot will be the dismantling of whoever ended up exploding his home, and I think the best path for this will be making the culprit the Shocker analogue of BNW (a Gigas branch, obviously) and teaming up with the other Riders and like heroes to kick them in the face. That, and generally levelling up and exploring new frontiers so he can become the hottest shit ever.

Looking For: Probably an analogue for ZECT and Kagami.

ZECT in Kabuto is the main organisation behind the Rider System and the anti-Worm efforts. Tendou being the type of character he is, constantly shows them up and antagonises them. Most of them are well-meaning people, the uppermost echelons are predictably hilariously corrupt and turn out to be the final villains of the series. I'm not too sure how much of this can be replicated in BNW and I don't really want a 1 to 1 reproduction anyway, but something along the lines of a by the books cop being really mad at Tendou's weird-ass inscrutable vigilante plans?

I don't expect there to actually be a Kagami (in fact I already nicknamed Tendou's Honedge that whoops) but I like the dynamic too much to not throw it out there. Kagami's sort of the straight hero to Tendou's jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold-but-also-ego-problems and is in many ways the second protagonist of KR Kabuto. He's a constant presence in the series, alternatively awed by Tendou's over the top bullshit, learning from him, but also fighting him over his inscrutable, self-centred plans when he could probably do the same without antagonising everyone if he just opened up a bit. Tendou meanwhile is quite taken by the guy, as long as he feels like Kagami is pursuing his ambitions and sense of justice, but rejects him whenever he feels like Kagami is too caught up with the party line or what other people want.

Anything else?: Grandma definitely did not say this. also looking for Tendou icons

[therewasawifehere]

Player Name: Box
Contact Info: likeabox

Character Name: James Sunderland
Canon Name: Silent Hill 2
Brief History: Once upon a time, James was a nice, normal clerk from some town in Maine. But everything changed when terminal illness attacked. Uh, not him. His wife Mary, actually. One day, long after her apparent death, James received a letter in her handwriting, saying that she was waiting for him in Silent Hill. So like any well-adjusted husband, he drove there to find out. This goes extremely well for everybody. Yes.

AU Ideas: So in this AU, Mary isn't dead yet! Hooray! Unfortunately, while they were visiting the Lake Shrine, Mary became very ill, and things have been... tense, ever since. Other than that, though, James is a fairly average clerk/record keeper in Union. He's probably Far From Ordinary, with Normal typing. Starter's probably a poliwag with the very original name of Polly. Look, he's not good at these things.

Oh, yeah, and you can count on him to jump into any suspicious/deadly holes.
Looking For: Well! Are there any other record keepers in Union he would know? Doctors to shout at? Spooky fog covered towns to visit?

Anything else?:

[ladyofluminosity]

Yes, actually! There's a large organization of them, called the Seekers. They have a chapter in Union and Caldera.

[therewasawifehere]

Oh, awesome! He'll probably help out managing/keeping track of the artifacts retrieved from the field in Union, then! :D

[ladyofluminosity]

In that case, he'd probably know Lux here. She's a bit young, but works with the Seekers. She's also disgustingly intelligent.

[therewasawifehere]

Oh, this should be fun then!

this is so tl;dr i'm so gomen

[nippy]

Player Name: Isabel
Contact Info: PM or unspeakingly

Character Name: Jack Frost
Canon Name: Rise of the Guardians
Brief History: So in like... colonial America, there was a teenager who saved his sister from drowning and died in her stead. And then the Man in the Moon resurrected him, gave him ice powers, named him Jack Frost and set him loose on the world! But unfortunately, Jack lost all memory of his previous life (including the knowledge that he even had a previous life), and was told absolutely fucking nothing about what was happening to him.

Since a spirit like him can't be seen unless he's believed in, and nobody believed in him at all, he spent the next 300 years being alone, bitter, and invisible. Other spirits don't seem to have ever had the time for him, and those that he did meet don't seem to have liked him. He passed the time making snow days, playing pranks, and having snowball fights with kids that walked right through him - and in doing this built a reputation for being a childish, flighty, careless winter spirit. He also had a lot of existential angst on account of the Moon not explaining anything! Fun for the whole family.

AU Ideas: First off, his type would definitely be Ice/Ghost, no question about it. Those are his things. As for backstory stuff, Jack's two most important character aspects are his long period of isolation, and his "centre" of Fun, so those are things that I want to either have in him from the start or develop over time.

Right now, I'm thinking of something along the lines of him being a Homunculus who retained his personality, but most of his memory was lost or fragmented; it's a shitty situation that kind of reflects where he was at the start of canon. The matter of his will is up in the air to him, because the mage that made him just up and vanished right afterwards, and left Jack behind with a lot of existential issues and a desperate desire to learn about his previous life and why the hell the guy even made him at all. (Thanks, Man in the Moon!)

He has poor control of his powers rather than any physical impediment, and on account of the Ice-typing, that can get kind of dangerous at times. Which means a fun life of self-enforced isolation so that he doesn't run the risk of accidentally hurting people! He's as nomadic as he can possibly be, figuring that more time spent in one place = more chance his control slips and somebody gets hurt. The travelling is also, you know, him trying to find the stupid mage that made him so he can get some answers.

There is still definitely a fun side to him, though, so whenever he stops by anywhere, he takes the time to start some snowball fights and ice-sledding for any kids. Aaaaand maybe "haunting" some houses. With all his wandering, characters could have run into him just about anywhere, and he's not great at keeping his head down either - his Pokemon companion is a Duskull, and more than once, they have pretended to "kidnap" bad children to freak a town out. (They definitely just took the kids so they could play games with them.) The fun is pretty much a must-have for him to keep himself together with all that existential angst on his shoulders.

Looking For: He loves kids, sooo he's definitely going to want to gather up everyone his age and younger so he can 1) look after them, and 2) pelt snowballs at them. They're the people he'll make friends with easiest. Pranksters and light-hearted types are always good! Jack's isolation would be self-enforced in BNW, so he'd benefit from having people to lift his spirits and help him to open up. And it might be nice for him to have some kind of responsible people to help stabilise him too, since his idea of dealing with things is not dealing with them at all.

On the "bad for Jack" side of things, it'd be interesting to see how he interacts with any antagonistic CR, considering how incredibly poorly he coped with Pitch needling him in the film. (And his uncomfortable sympathy feelings there, hahaha... COME TEMPT HIM WITH COMPANIONSHIP.) Also, Jack's fun can certainly edge on the mean-spirited side of things - freezing water pipes, ruining Easter, trying to break into North's workshop. So anyone with a darker sense of humour might be able to nudge Jack into some pretty awful shit in the name of his own personal enjoyment.

Anything else?: Jack is aaaaall movie-based until I finally find the time to read the books!! But since BNW is all AU anyway, I don't expect that will change anything because the only gaps that it would be supplementing are canon setting things.

Re: this is so tl;dr i'm so gomen

[halfterlife]

so i totally attacked you on plurk already anyway but just to make it official

you

me

your idiot and this idiot and his family and some kind of noodle incident(s) during the years danny was being dragged over the map on the spoop tour

[nippy]

YEP 100% DONE jack's going to be so happy that someone even vaguely recognises him bc even if he is avoiding people he... still loves attention omg. tell him how cool his spooky pranks are, danny.

[missrunnerup]

RISE-SENPAI FOR BEST SENPAI

[missrunnerup]

It's looking like it might be unlikely she has a lot of friends at the start/I might be skewing her a little more people-shy-Pokemon-friendly, so starting from scratch miiiight be better? But either is good! Everyone needs a friend or two :|b

I'm so sorry it took 500000 years to get my act together and get back to this app plan /)-(\

[morituri_nolumus_mori]

Player Name: Scrib
Contact Info: scribblecloud @ plurk

Character Name: Rincewind
Canon Name: Discworld
Brief History:
Rincewind is a 35 year old wizzard (poor man can't spell), is tragically inept in learning and casting spells, is the unluckiest/luckiest man on all of the disc, and a coward. He can't learn spells because, during his time in the equivalent of wizard highschool, he took a dare to open the spellbook of the creator of the universe. One of eight powerful spells lodged itself into his memory and, according to him, scared away all the other spells that he'd otherwise memorize. He doesn't know what the spell does, but in times of great duress/near death experiences he'll begin to unconsciously cast it. The Lady (the Discworld's equivalent of Goddess of Luck), favors him and because he doesn't acknowledge/realize this, he continues to survive falling off the world, near-drownings, near-starvation, near-hanging, mobs, C'thulu equivalent monsters, the Dungeon Dimensions, Fate's wrath, and Death.

Rincewind is the coward with a thousand running backs. His hourglass that measures his life is so warped and twisted that Death keeps it on his desk as desk art.

AU Ideas:
Rincewind will be a "wizzard" (or "maggus"?? I'm still hashing this out in my head) from Sanctuary. He IS enlightened, but he'll be spell-less. He'll have lived his whole life during the Sanctuary lock-down from Gigas so anything he knows about the world around him will be from the books he's devoured. He's fluent in a number of languages and knows how to scream in even more. He'll have some geographical knowledge courtesy of the books he's read. I figure he'll have found Union by running for his life from Gigas.

I'm still braining over if I want to try to haggle to have him as the favored of a BNW equivalent of The Lady or just have one of his innate abilities be something of luck...if possible. On the other hand I've thought about just loading up his 3 innate abilities with redundant splash attacks and make him the human version of a magikarp...without the evolving.

He wont have The Luggage unless I can find the pokemon equivalent of "half suitcase, half homicidal maniac".

Looking For: ANYTHING AND ANYONE. People to get him into trouble. People to get him OUT of trouble. Trouble. Anyone who's heard of Rincewind's infamy of being the worst magus to ever magus.

Anything else?:

[halfterlife]

I'm good with either, so if scratch is better for you I'm down for that :]b

also gosh it's okay, i have a tendency to be Captain Slow myself at times, you're fine nwn/

[expertonshutters]

oh my god he sounds wonderful. I don't know who I would throw at him but what a great character.

[morituri_nolumus_mori]

Throw anyone at him :D
There's a 100% chance that Rincewind will think they'll make his life more horrible in one way or another. It'll be great!

[lanfan]

Player Name: Kite
Contact Info: accipitridae

Character Name: Lan Fan
Canon Name: FMA (manga)/FMA Brotherhood (anime)
Brief History: Retainer and bodyguard to Ling Yao, prince of Xing and 12th in line to the throne, Lan Fan is very much about her duty. She's a powerful ninjawarrior even at the age of 15, and unflinchingly follows Ling through whatever hell, willing to make sacrifices someone her age has no actual business being okay with. But hey, she's been brought up to do all this! So clearly it must be fine!
shealsokindof has a crush on her liege so don't badmouth him she'll know it from a mile off and punch you in the face.

AU Ideas: Lan Fan will be from Sanctuary, and either Homunculus or Enhanced. She was likely dropped in the Yao family's lap at a young age to be the young lord's future bodyguard. Her typing will be fighting/dark or if I go the God of War route Fighting/Dark/Steel, and I have not yet decided what kind of impediment I'll give her. Possibly an actual missing arm?
She won't see herself as human or of human worth, and will most definitely be as attached to Ling as she is in canon.
She doesn't exactly have a family, or remember one. There's just her mentor Fu, who she calls her grandfather, even though she doesn't know if they're actually related.
Looking For: People to realize her own attitude towards herself and try and point out to her that she is a person. I mean, I don't think you'll have that much luck, but please, please try.

Anything else?: This is Jami's fault. I can't stress this enough. This is entirely Jami's fault.

[kingofthepeople]

[lanfan]

/attaches self to

[kingofthepeople]

wraps up and carries home

[lanfan]

fgvbhnj

[lanfan]

UHM

[lanfan]

... well ok then

[nippy]

oh my god, this could go one of two ways: either Jack tries to work with Lan Fan on improving her self-esteem and convincing her that she's still human, and in the process, starts to believe it himself

or Lan Fan's attitude towards herself unearths all of Jack's repressed issues about being a Homunculi and he ends up questioning his worth and humanity just as much as her