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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tenatively slides this in here

[songoftime]

Player Name: Malathyne
Contact Info: Malathyne

Character Name: Link
Canon Name: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask
Brief History: So there's this 10yo kid who lives in a forest raised by other kids, who are actually forest spirits of some sort. All of them have a fairy companion, except for him. He gets picked on for it by the leader of the kids but he's friends with everybody else. And then one day, the local dad tree who looks after the entire forest calls Link over and asks him to destroy the curse inside him. In the process, Link finally gets a fairy of his own! Yay! Everything is great!

... Except that once the curse is destroyed, treedad tells Link to Go Forth To Save The World, Whoo Destiny, and promptly dies. Link does, in fact, Go Forth To Save The World, meets a princess, and gets stuck in a space outside of time for seven years. When he wakes up, the world has gone to shit and he is (physically) Suddenly An Adult. More time travel shenanigans happens, Link discovers he isn't a forest spirit after all, and does, in fact, Save The World.

At the end of it all, he gets sent back to his childhood, except he has been ~forever changed~ and doesn't Belong anywhere. He isn't a forest spirit like he thought, and he isn't exactly a kid like he looks like he is any more, and no one remembers or knows about the things he did to Save The World. Also, his fairy buddy leaves. So, he decides to go looking for her, and gets sucked into another Adventure With Time Travel and also, lots of masks and the moon threatening to fall and destroy the world. Far, far in his future, after Link becomes an adult again and a knight, he eventually dies and stays in the forest as a heroic spirit waiting for the next hero to pass on his skills on to.

Bonus points: Link and the princess happened to shatter the timeline of their world into itty bitty pieces. Also, they're reincarnations of a goddess and her chosen hero, stuck in a never-ending reincarnation loop in order to keep the world from being destroyed by various incarnations of an evil demon dude. But only sort of, because two Links have existed at the same time. So that's fun.

AU Ideas: Obviously, a lot of that gets to go right out the window.

- Link is going to be a ten-year-old from the Citadel, because, come on, giant tree. This is also useful to me because I'd like to keep Link's education level pretty simple, and Union is pretty heavy on the schooling. I'm thinking he'll also be a Kindred Spirit. Very likely Fairy type.

- I'd like to keep him an orphan? Having no real parents to speak of and thus being forced to be independent at a young age would be great for his development. That said, I could also very easily saddle him with a Heroic Uncle who went off and died fairly recently as a callback to Link to the Past. Maybe his uncle died when dealing with the lavabeast?

- The reason why Link would be striking out would be because of his bonding with his first Pokemon. I'm thinking of this being a Honedge, as a symbol of the fact that it's pretty common theming for Link to be given a sword and his adventure starting as a result.

- I have no ideas about his potential evolutions. Maybe time-related shenanigans? Music? Masks?? Hero's Shade style stuff??? I don't know. I have no idea.

- If possible, I'd love to keep the reincarnation aspect. I saw that the Sailor Scouts have something like that going, so maybe it's in the realm of possibility?? I don't have any ideas about the history of it beyond that, and I can definitely live without it, but it'd be cool to incorporate that aspect.

Looking For: I... well. Nothing in particular?? Absolutely everything? My thoughts on this are basically that this is Link striking out for adventure For The First Time so that all of his questing will be in-game experiences, for maximum character development and CR flexibilities. So that pretty well means I'm open to... anything and everything. I'm also open to someone taking Link on and being his guardian? That's a very real and pretty cool option, whether it's pre-planned or it just kind of Happens naturally out of CR.

Anything else?:

[darer]

Look I'm not saying you have to have a fire temple but I am saying there's already a city with a lake of lava

[aerial_ace]

As long as it's not a water temple I am find with this.

[darer]

well... there's the ocean and then there's the lake shrine... do you really think there's any getting around it?

[miracle_miko]

No Kite. I draw the line at water temple.

[songoftime]

you and me both. especially considering my preferred canon point is usually majora's mask... and the one in mm is so much worse than the one in oot... /cries

[songoftime]

liked and subscribed, sending a 10yo into a fire temple without a red tunic

[darer]

now especially deadly if you choose to make him part grass type.

[songoftime]

[link sweating nervously profusely in the foreground]

[miracle_miko]

Heeeeeey fellow Citadel person~

Sanae here is a priestess for that big ol' tree you call home. Obviously we need to do something with this.

[songoftime]

Hellooooo :D

Yes, we absolutely should. Hello, will you be my Saria substitute Maybe already friends or at least acquaintances?? If that works out with what you've already got established?

[miracle_miko]

Sanae's a lot stupidier less serious, but sure! She's an extremely strong Enlightened, and was made a priestess for this reason, so it fits. Her powers are more weather and nature-based, though.

She has lived most of her life in the service of the great tree, within a convent sort of deal. Does that still work with what you have in mind? It could be that he was taken in there as a child.

[songoftime]

Hey, still sounds like a Sage to me

I think it still works :|a A lot of the background details I have at this point are pretty ambiguous, so I think it's entirely plausible that he visited as a kid, either via adult supervision or because he snuck off and went Exploring and thus poking around in places he probably shouldn't be.

[miracle_miko]

Why not both? Sneaking it would be super cute, Sanae would definitely play with him if he did =O

[songoftime]

Oh, man, that would be adorable. If he was brought there by his Heroic Uncle for... idk, maybe his uncle was there to talk to someone official, and then he snuck off away from the boring grown-up talk.

[miracle_miko]

Are you playing kid Link, then? Since you mentioned that he's MM Link, I assume so.

[songoftime]

Yup! Though I was thinking more of very early OoT Link, 'cause like... MM implies that Link has been on a lot of adventures already, and not to mention there's the whole "adult(ish) mind in a kid's body" thing going on. I'm not entirely sure how I'd want to handle that?

So I figured it'd be easier just to aim for an early OoT canon point instead, basically, and have him go through a bunch of adventures over the course of the game itself. The downside is that he won't have a lot of the maturity under his belt... But this approach would also be a lot of fun.

[miracle_miko]

I totally agree. In that case, Sanae's about twice his age, so she can definitely big sister at him. He can tell her about the city outside of the convent, because she doesn't really remember it (she's been there since she was about two or three when she awakened as an Enlightened).

OKAY BUT ON A MORE PLOTTING SIDE

[imprudens]

hello this is still kite for the record

Totsuka here is a Union native and he'll be happy to introduce anyone to the culture and really just show 'em the ropes and also get into all sorts of shenanigans. With him? For him? On his own? doesn't matter. Looks after peoplee well, plus, he knows people who know people and he's more than anything about having fun and doing new things, so he's always a great sidekick to have around.

Promising? maybe?

[songoftime]

I am 100% down with this. Come be the child's tour guide, Totsuka.

Link getting into shenanigans of all sorts is so canon it's fantastic, whether it's his own shenanigans or the shenanigans of other people. When it's the shenanigans of other people, it's even more perfect tbh because Link just Wants To Be Helpful and gets sucked into all kinds of things as a result...

[imprudens]

I feel like I should apologize, but I'm 0% sorry. In case you're wondering how many shenanigans? So many. Practically all of them.

[nippy]

MALA i have no idea why this SUDDENLY occurred to me just now, but we could totally say that Link and Jack should have already met?!?! in the three years since he woke up, Jack has pretty much just been wandering around from place to place on his own totally fruitless search, and he circled back around to cities now and then just to listen for news and play with kids so like

he would totally have come to Citadel several times over the years and he would have loved to hang out with Link???

[songoftime]

omg, I love this idea, let's fuckin do it. time for mini-games with Jack!!

[nippy]

GOOD i hope you like your fuckin weirdo friend who just turned up out of nowhere sometimes and acted all ~mysterious and fey~ when really he's a lonely dead teen who wants to play with kids

he can't even take care of himself much less children but he will definitely be link's Cool Older Friend in union

[songoftime]

link probably isnt gonna think twice about any of jack's weirdness... thats just jack!! and if jack is his friend then hey what does link care? he's... a super non-judgmental child... the most non-judgmental child you will ever meet...

that's okay link's starter honedge is basically gonna be his babysitter