AU Planning Meme (December + January)

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AU PLANNING MEME (DECEMBER + JANUARY)

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.

<span style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 13px;"><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.)</span>

Comments

[sleepingvalkyrie]

not!griselda would have been sempai to Mami for sure, before graduating to leader of her own valkyrie wing ^^ we will definitely have to mash this up :D

[wishingalone]

Eeeexcellent! This sounds good. :D

[timedmage]

Player Name: Sheepy
Contact Info: sheepyton

Character Name: Vivi Ornitier
Canon Name: Final Fantasy IX
Brief History: A black mage who was created to be a soulless death machine, is instead an adorable wooby.

AU Ideas: HOO BOY okay I hope you all like angst. Vivi is an Enhanced child, initially created to bolster Gigas' army. He, along with quite a few others created with similar powers to him, has a very large flaw, however: in exchange for his Enhanced powers, he and his "siblings" have a very shortened lifespan. While it is not nearly as short as it is in canon (roughly a year), it is very unlikely that any who went through the same horrific transformation that he did will see adulthood. He will have no memory of any of this, or where he's originally from when apped in.

I'm toying with the idea of having him and the other "black mages" be from Mist, because I love crossing streams and puns and etc. Going Dark and either Normal or Psychic/Dragon for his typing, and Egg Mastery for his ability. Because why not.

He'll also have the rudest Murkrow in existence, because this poor child can never catch a break.
Looking For: Someone please take this adorable child under your wing. Other than that, Vivi needs friends to make him stop questioning his own existence (or at least get that down to a min) and help bolster his courage at least a little bit.

Anything else?:



Character Name: Zidane Tribal
Canon Name: Final Fantasy IX
Brief History: Monkey boy becomes a hero (somehow), gets the girl.

AU Ideas: This one isn't nearly as fleshed out as Vivi, but Mankey shifter is a must. Like Vivi, would be some kind of Enhanced (plot enhanced), planted into Union to keep an eye on them. Except. He's kind of forgotten about that. Best secret weapon ever, this one.
Looking For: Terrible influences, or people he can be terrible influences on. People he can hang on to. Really, this boy is a handful who would want to be his friend.

Anything else?:

[expertonshutters]

HELLO DID SOMEONE ASK FOR AN ADOPTION. Hayato has a weakness for kids and also he's enhanced??? yes

[timedmage]

oh no this would be cute

[expertonshutters]

get ready for piggy backs and training lessons. Just don't set him on fire it's his ownly weakness.

[protectsall]

Player Name: Amber
Contact Info: twistingkage

Character Name: Raquna Sheldon
Canon Name: Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl
Brief History: Member of a team investigating a Mysterious Ruin around Etria, team joins up with a guy from a warrior tribe and a girl who fall out of a cryostasis(?) pod to investigate the mysteries of the ruin which suspiciously tie into the mysteries of the a giant deathtrap labyrinth tree.

AU Ideas: Raquna's gonna be from a military family in Caldera, likely a member of the Steel Battalion herself. Might have her look to join the Seekers at some point. Not entirely sure what will go on between those two points, admittedly.
Looking For: People she'd have known in the Steel Battalion, drinking buddies, people for her to be a big sis at!

Anything else?: gently sets this here because the image is so big

[vistapoint]

Geo still has yet to figure out the whole friendship thing, but when he does, I bet he and Vivi would be really cute friends!

... Alternatively Zidane could be a terrible influence on Geo, I'm not picky.

[warriormouse]

Poor child needs a place to stay? Martin's good for that :D

Or if Zidane's a troublemaker, he could also know Martin from his Sword days

[chataclysmic]

Player Name: Ghost
Contact Info: ghosthotel

Character Name: Adrien Agreste
Canon Name: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
Brief History: Prodigious model son of famous fashion designer Gabriel Agreste, Adrien is the poster boy of Paris and everything his father could ever ask for. He's well-mannered, he's intelligent, he's a perfect combination of babyfaced, tall, and pretty to be a teenage model. He's... also the plucky sidekick half of Paris' crime-fighting duo, Chat Noir. Except nobody knows that. Superhero secret identity clause and all. You know the deal.

AU Ideas: Yes hello we need more Enhanced PCs and also I love making my children hurt. Adrien maintains his canon likeness of a prodigious son of a famous fashion designer-- except Gabriel Agreste also has a darker agenda with being a part of the Enhanced Project.

And, uh. He turned his son into a cat.

So because Adrien had a visual presence in Gigas he won't be talking about it, because he still for some reason loves his father even if now he's more than a lot terrified of him and ran away from him (because wow, he sure does have ears and a tail, and claws, and fangs, and he sure is a fucking catboy when he's not focused on looking like Adrien Agreste), and he'll be staggering his way into Union with his cheese-loving bratty Eevee, Plagg, wearing about a hundred scarves to hide the visual changes his Dark Typing have given him. There'll be a lot of Black Cat = Bad Luck going into him, so he'll have a small myriad of Negative Effects of Enhancements. As mentioned before, the nature of his enhancements adorned him with several visual cues of a Black Cat-- ears, tail, fangs, claws, and a black "mask", the coloration effectively just manifestations of his Dark typing shading his skin like coal. He has the ability to mask these changes to retain his usual appearance of Normal Pretty Teenage Boy, but they require a fair amount of focus to maintain so he's not going to be able to keep it up forever. He's probably also literally bad luck, though in early stages this may not be overtly noticeable.

Given that Chat Noir is characterized with an overly flirtatious attitude whereas Adrien is overall significantly less so, there's going to be a marked level of difference between how he behaves depending on how someone meets him. Basically, if you meet "Adrien", he'll be a normal kid, a touch on the quiet/anxious side, and probably still wearing an entire rack of sweaters. If you meet him when he either hasn't had a chance to or straight-up can't mask his Dark Typing, well-- he's going to be making himself a second persona to cope, more than likely naming the second one "Chat Noir". He's shooting himself in the foot with this, given how few people he's going to fool for very long, but especially once he realizes the freeing aspect of Not Having to Be Daddy's Poster Boy, he may actually grow into liking this whole Being a Cat bullshit.

Looking For: Someone please adopt this stray cat. And possibly take a squirt bottle to his face when he's a pain in the ass. This kid needs friends and this kid needs enemies, but mostly he really needs a hug and probably some kind of family circuit to keep him from going completely catatonic.

Haha, get it? Catatonic.

Anything else?:
I'm not even a little bit sorry for the puns that are going to ensue.

[getsometail]

I don't see fellow nerds troublemakers on your list of things you're looking for.

[vistapoint]

Geo here could probably do the squirt bottle thing if necessary BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY I'm totally up for throwing this twerp at Adrien for friendship and potential shenanigans.

[chataclysmic]

How can you look for something that's already there though.

[chataclysmic]

Hey, a friend that's willing to squirt bottle him when he's a little shit is a friend he needs.

[vistapoint]

Perfect. Geo might be a little resistant to the idea of friendship at first but he'll get better. Eventually.

[chataclysmic]

He'll just have to be really annoying, then. I'll definitely put him down for someone Adrien meets as Chat, so he can schmooze instead of being overly polite.

[guitar_case_vagabond]

Player Name:Nick
Contact Info: Plurk

Character Name: Ryuko Matoi
Canon Name: Kill la Kill
Brief History: One day, Ryuko came home to find her dad on the floor with a giant scissor stuck through his gut. This pissed her off right quick and she decided to take the giant scissor and hunt down the sumbitch who offed her dad. Along the way, she ended up transferring to a new school to kick the shit out of everyone until she found her dad's killer. She also met a talking uniform named Senketsu that gave her super powers. She also found out that clothes are from outer space. And that she's a hybrid between human and clothing.

Kill la Kill is weird, man.

AU Ideas: So the idea I'm generally thinking for for Ryuko here is that she's an orphaned kid found and raised in Caldera. Pretty quick-tempered, even by Calderan standards, she probably pretty quickly grew a reputation as a delinquent and troublemaker not at all helped by the reveal that she was abandoned as an infant and, apparently, left to die by her real parents.

The twist is that she was actually born in Sanctuary, for the sole purpose of an experiment to create Enhanced Enlightened. When it appeared the infant Ryuko had perished during the experiments she was chucked on down the garbage chute but somehow managed to survive and was picked up and brought to safety, completely unaware of her real origins.

I'm still working on details but I'm figuring this probably came out somewhere along the line and she may have even gotten a tip and traveled to Union in pursuit. Other ideas would be that she was actually snuck out of Sanctuary by one or both of her parents at the cost of their lives at the hands of Gigas and this discovery leads her to declare war on Gigas itself. Because she makes great decisions.

Looking For: I'm open to all things. Rivals, naturally are immensely welcome for ridiculous angry shoutfights. Friends! Both the type to rush out and get into trouble right alongside her and to maybe even out her craziness a little. Friends and rivals need not even be mutually exclusive, frenemies are rad. I'm also open to any old friends from Caldera or even anybody who was a part of her adopted family back home. I dunno, if you've got an idea, fire away and I'll be stoked to talk about it.

Anything else?: She's an Enhanced God of War with Fighting/Dragon/Steel typing and her weakness to Fighting types and a hair trigger temper and possibly some kind of terrifying instability in her powers somewhere down the line. I dunno, I'm working on it.

[platinumlucifer]

I'm on my way to class, but!

If Ryuko was a troublemaker, then she likely at least ran into Excellen once or twice. She's definitely not going to let her break the law or anything like that, but I imagine that she looked out for the younger girl. She also has a terrible sense of humor (see: perverted), so have fun with that.

I hope you're okay with getting boobs'd, Ryuko.

[ideologic]

I've got this jerk who is gonna be blowing in from citadel soon enough who LOVES a good fight. Beating the snot out of each other y/y?

[sparrowfeathered]

Rose grew up in Caldera until she didn't, because things went south with her adopted dad, when their military unit didn't protect a Calderan VIP. Thus, they became a mixture of merchants and secret mercenaries/assassins/et cetera. So she could have known Ryuko, because of orphans in Caldera!

With things to discover later. They might be friends? Rose is pretty go get 'em and intuitive, if not quite as shouty as Ryuko is. (But who is?)

[expertonshutters]

Slides in another Calderan! Hayato was also a shitty street urchin until he got his act together and became photojournalist. They're probably a few years apart but its definitely possible they've met!

He was also kidnapped by Gigas off the battlefield and Enhanced not too long ago so theres that, too! I'm up for any shenanigans.

[expertonshutters]

CAREFULLY...ADOPTS....

[expertonshutters]

Hayato wasn't ever in the military but he's worked as a battlefield photographer! So it's entirely possible they've brushed shoulders! He went missing though so it will probably be a surprise to see him in Union and also not dead.

[ideologic]

My boy Waver Velvet is the Master of the Squirt Bottle-- but, more importantly, this jerk I plan on apping in might be willing to roll along with any mischief. He's gonna end up as a fellow Dark-type with a Ghost Problem and a fondness for pyrotechnics (and cooking), all of which is important for a flashy kitty.

[chataclysmic]

Very important for a flashy kitty. Also having fellow Dark types as friends will be good for the loser.