AU Planning Meme - April

[bravenewmods]

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

[albertstyle]

He's such a little ass, if you're looking for some good negative cr I have your man. Luke will be an even bigger little ass too because she was planning on apping in long-haired and eventually going short. They'll be terrible Swords.

[tracedarte]

Player Name: nor
Contact Info: pm this account

Character Name: Luke fon Fabre
Canon Name: Tales of the Abyss
Brief History:

Spoiled baby gets kidnapped, memories get wiped, gets kidnapped again, goes on adventure, finds out the memories were never there in the first place, finds out he's not even a real person, cuts his hair short, continues to be a spoiled brat who now tries to use big words.

AU Ideas:

Luke is gonna be a Sword of Savior, because his dad told him to. Otherwise he's a spoiled bratty member of the nobility, only 17, who's never seen the world. He's been sheltered for most of his life, so CR with other nobles could happen but not necessarily be possible until very recently. Has a twin brother (albertstyle) who looks just like him so possibility for confusion is high until Luke cuts off all his hair. Besides that he's just gonna be moseying around and being mean and annoying.

Looking For: Everything! Pre and new CR, good and bad! Luke will probably annoy just about everyone at first, so there's that. Negative CR is always fun, especially at Luke's expense!

Anything else?:

[antiseptic]

Prior CR with Jade maybe? Maybe in a 'knows who they are but not personally' kind of way? He was working in the labs around ten years back, and is a Ranger now.

[antiseptic]

I could toss up Jade for catty verbal sparring! I'm not sure if it'd technically be negative CR since Jade doesn't feel strongly enough about most people to dislike them, but he excels at being an ass so Feliks is definitely welcome to find him obnoxious!

[niepokonany]

I am 100% in.

Do you think they'd have had occasion to meet before?

[antiseptic]

If you don't mind, I could tag him in the party log? I was planning to but last week was kinda hectic!

[niepokonany]

Sounds awesome! I will backtag close to literally forever, so I'll be happy when you get to it :)

sidles on in here

[fonlines]

this is a thing you do before you app right aha haaa
I'll chat up important/relevant castmates in a bit provided I don't run into them on this post first looks at Sync specifically
Player Name: Mauyn or any corruption thereof
Contact Info: PM this account or hit me up at ellipsesinaction

Character Name: Ion (of the original, walking spoiler variety except oops AU what is an original who needs spoilers anyway)
Canon Name: Tales of the Abyss
Brief History: prophecy says kid will end up leading religious order of the world, kid gets taken away from parents when young to be groomed into being said leader, did we mention this prophecy is a big thing, like really, really big, everyone hangs on to every last word and happening in it
also it says he'll die at 12, cue giant FML and fuck y'all too he wanted to live this prophecy sucks. proceeded to clone himself 7 times because when you can't upload your brain to a computer network like in proper transhumanist form because this isn't that kind of world/story/plot, you settle for the next best thing. a misanthropic, lonely brat.
also he adopted a wild little girl as a pet. yup.

AU Ideas: WEEELLLL if it's okay by Sync-mun I figured O!Ion here would probably be the eldest of the bunch of siblings in Sync's family, and waffling around putting his age somewhere around the 17-19 mark because I'm not entirely sure whether to go for quadruplets (...octuplets?) or something more pedestrian. So in that same vein he'd have been groomed by their well-off family for a Council position yadda yadda except that's for old people. THE DETAILS ON THIS WHOLE THING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE depending on how things go with Sync-mun but his family probably pushed a lot of expectations on him since he's the oldest and has a duty to his family and blah blah blah, he's probably a little resentful as a result but on the bright side he's a lot more adjusted and less... vengeful than in canon. Still a passive-aggressive little shit that tends to look down on people though, though he tends to be more genuinely nice to Pokemon and/or people who have little/nothing to do with higher authority/politicking/nobility/the council stop me I'm blathering
What I'm thinking is that he'd be a Psychic/Dark Enlightened at any rate, with a skillset revolving mainly around:

• sound-based moves along the likes of Disarming Voice and Perish Song
  
• uh, emotional control/sensing stuff (stemming off Seventh Fonons being memory particles in canon with some flavors of the nature of Curse Slots fiddled with to suit the setting)
  
• kind of a minor form of precognition (? maybe, maybe not since that sort of thing is kinda yeeeaaah in an open dwrp setting...)
  
• some middling ability in barriers/reflect/light screen type stuff (Daathic Seals)

Hoorah magic sound and memory magic stuff? Master of Training, I figure, considering how he worked with and taught the canon Arietta. Has constant telepathic conversations with his Ralts, which is where most of the less-polite stuff he doesn't say to peoples' faces tends to go, whoops.
Looking For: I really, really have no idea what I'm doing help. High class/politically-oriented people knowing kinda sorta being passingly acquainted with each other? I'm up for anything, really, preestablished CR would be pretty cool and makes for a more interesting and rounded AU app history anyway. o/

Anything else?: for the record my defense is that i was enabled

/camps

[rejected_trash]

WOW HI.

Ahem. So that sounds good. Sync is also 17 for reference since he's second oldest unless we get clones 1-4 somehow.(Which I wouldn't mind if anyone has been thinking on it!) IDEK how siblings will work. I left it as vague as humanly possible in-case the other green-hairs did not want. Anyway since you are interested, Sync ran away 2 years ago, his real name is Ciro, Sync has because he copies, and he ran away exactly because of why Ion is annoyed with his family because he did not want at all.

I like the Dark Typing! That was how I explained the Curse Slot for him, and I think the Psychic/Dark combo hits all the points. I love him being a little shit privately with his Ralts. I am so up for anything with how they got/get along, and if he actually knows where Sync is and how he's doing. ='D

/sets up a fire...

[unidentify]

Hmm yeah, I was using your Sync's age as a gauge... Maybe I'll settle for Original!Ion being on the older end of 18. Yes. This will work. Idek how having two kids named Ion would work in the event that a replica!Ion showed up though, curse it. Maybe nicknames of some sort...

Hehehehehe Dark typing. It also conveniently gives him resistance to any would-be snooping telepaths. This unreadably sedate Fon Master will remain so if I have anything to say about it! o9

At any rate Ion would both be kind of miffed at Sync for just taking off like that despite being second oldest and slightly envious of his position to do whatever the hell he wants. But c'est la vie, he stuck around with the family and so that's that. Clearly Ciro-Sync just wasn't up to handling the pressures of the position, or at least that's what he tells himself. I don't quite think in the AU he'd hate him or anything, but he'd probably be a bit distant and would end up having to bite his tongue a lot if he hadn't already learned that early on. Awkwardly somewhat estranged siblings go? They could've commiserated over how much their family sucked before Sync ran off on his own maybe wow rude bro way to ditch. :'D;;

/clings and holds forever

[notgloomy]

omgomg I am so happy that you decided to app that I almost screamed when I saw the reserve last night.

Except I was at dress rehearsal and that would've been super bad.

Also it only feels right that we have some type of pre!established cr. We can keep it canon-like as that he was the one to help her get tamed or something else! I'm up for anything!

eep

[fonlines]

hellohello again, it took a while but here I am! uwu

And fff, yeah, don't do that!

That could work, yeah! The family could have some ties to the church, so it wouldn't be strange for him to have known, known about, Arietta and helped out with the whole education thing. She would've been a refreshing breath of air from ~high society~ and the posturing they do, ugh. He probably on more than one occasion blew off some of his private tutors for her and played innocent when he got back. ♥ Gosh, not-entirely-a-misanthropic-dick, regular teenager Orion is such a strange thought when you look at canon.

♥

[notgloomy]

and it has completely made my week so that is okay!

Maybe, the Church suggested that to his family that he be one of the ones to help or something because of his Enlightened abilities? She came the to Union twwooo year, so she got lessons for a year? Since apparently, according to TotA timeline, she only needed a year of society before becoming Fon Master Guardian. But they spent a year with lessons and maybe Arietta still goes with him to play when she's bored? or just bother him buh

[fonlines]

Oh, hey, maybe. His sympathetic/empathetic abilities would be some of his stronger ones at that point which is hilarious considering, so that could've been a thing to help smooth over the lessons earlier on. If anyone fussed too much about it, and I'm not saying they would've, they might've gotten a hands-on demonstration of what a minor goodfeelings equivalent of Dark Pulse could do I mean what okay no I'm just being silly. A year sounds good, considering she already had the basics here. and she is totally welcome to come bother him

[notgloomy]

who knows, maybe he had to use it on Arietta in order to get her under some damn control at the beginning. and stop shocking people Yeah, instead of being a baby she was four, so she had some idea of what things were. Just who cares about jobs and politics and all the dumb civilization stuff. She will probably paw at him to go out of the Union with her

[endtome]

ADVENTURE TIME?!?!

Seriously these two and sticking their noses into things together, please please please! If you wanted to, we could even look at them being classmates/neighbourhood brat chan friends!

[endtome]

Player Name: Daine
Contact Info: At my plurk, purikura or my Skype, starshinemuffin!

Character Name: Ventus
Canon Name: Kingdom Hearts
Brief History: The cute one of a trio of three with unfortunate amnesia due to an incident four years prior that ripped his heart in two, almost killed him and inevitably ends up placing him in a 10+ year coma. Also Disney.

AU Ideas: Ven grew up in Union with the ultimate goal of becoming a Ranger, and in a personal attempt to hone his skills wandered practically everywhere taking notes about the most ridiculous things 2am, medic walked past eating suspicious berries. Thanks to his lack of understanding in the 'Stranger Danger' field, he pretty much gift wrapped himself into a year long kidnapping where certain old, crusty men attempted to train him like a Pokemon, and the ensuing trauma has left his memory a little spotty at times.

The biggest thing for him right now is the pressure of what organisation he'll join at the end of his studies- Caretaker being the safe option, Ranger being his lifelong dream. He's also pretty uncomfortable around people who used to know him well, thanks to a bit of a complex about meeting their expectations on who he's actually supposed to be, in comparison to he is, so... That's fun!

Looking For: Honestly this kid is the most social creature ever. I'd love to have people who've known him as a bubbly, bright kid in the past, and realistically he's stuck his nose in everything, so occupation wise doesn't bother me at all! Childhood friends, teachers, Rangers who used to tell him wildly inaccurate stories about all the awesome things they've done-- and of course, people he's never met to give the poor kid a break from all that lack of self confidence. The sky is the limit!

Anything else?:

[heartstorage]

MY GOD THAT IMAGE.

[endtome]

I didn't know hotels could talk. Weird.

[thefloorislava]

oh my god that drawing. that's hilarious

[endtome]

I have an unfortunate love for this artist's work, they're hilarious fjndjns

[thefloorislava]

that is so great.


ANYWAY.

Lea has connections to both of Ven's career paths. He WAS a ranger, then he went to jail. Now he's a caretaker. SO.

[endtome]

Woah Lea you are like bueno to all of Ven's needs man. They definitely have to meet up...maybe in my intro post I'll make a scenario pretty much only for him? Have the usual street stuff but one where he's actually at the habitat to wander and ask about volunteering a bit.

[thefloorislava]

YEAH that sounds good. Lea will be there. :D And he will wonder why the hell Roxas is coming to visit him instead of the other way around

[beyond_hope]

Player Name: Dany
Contact Info: over at plurk!

Character Name: Vanitas
Canon Name: Kingdom Hearts
Brief History: He's the physical representation of the darkness inside Ventus' heart, and he's pretty much an angry and sad little bag of crap. Also he looks exactly like Sora because of ridiculous KH reasons, except for eye and hair colour.

AU Ideas: Vanitas was originally a Sableye, that transformed into a human due to being close to enlightened individuals. He can't turn back into a pokemon though, so he'll be a humanoid forever. He also has the power to heal himself and because this is the only useful thing he has any knowledge about he's looking into becoming a medic. Other than that he's a lonely guy with no friends and no idea how to make them.

Looking For: Someone that would help him get confused as woah because of the other three with the same face running around. Also just things with anyone really, they could go from cute to you hating this idiot.

Anything else?: completely relevant



i just noticed this is by the same artist as ventus' one, damn