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.)

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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