AU Planning Meme the Second

[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.)

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[antiseptic]

Player Name: Rei
Contact Info: PM here, Plurk arrasailsup or AIM at reitunno

Character Name: Jade Curtiss
Canon Name: Tales of the Abyss
Brief History: 35 year old Colonel with a reputation of scavenging corpses after battles. Used to be a creepy child genius, but nowadays he's usually quite playful and teasing with his friends, prone to a mildly sadistic and quite condescending form of humour, all the while claiming he is always serious. Despite that, he's verrrrry competent and almost scarily cold and logical when the situation calls for it.

AU Ideas:
tl;dr version of his history: accidentally murdered his teacher, failed to resurrect her with his ghost/psychic powers, got fostered by the Curtiss ranger family and became a respected researcher specializing in weapon development, all the while carrying on unethical and dangerous experiments in secret with the aim of creating copies of dead people to "resurrect" them. Sees the errors of his ways after an experiment gone awry, quit his researcher job and joined the rangers instead, where he rose up the ranks. Is now a senior member of the Survey Corps, so if anyone wants to join in, give me a nudge.

Looking For: Former researcher buddies/rivals/enemies! Hopefully both from the legal, official world and from the secret unethical side. Also, ranger buddies! Drinking buddies! I'd love for him to have CR with older or more mature characters who he can respect, but also with bratty characters he can mock and be mutually antagonistic with. Would also love younger/more playful characters who'd tease him back in return.

Anything else?: I'm thinking about starting a small expedition out to the wilderness once the game opens. Could be a good opportunity for CR! Chime in if you're interested.

[mastermedium]

reaches out to I'M GONNA FINISH THAT DIARMUID APP EVENTUALLY...

but hey yeah if you want someone awful and ridiculous I have maya here

[antiseptic]

oh snap that was you? Playing with him is super fun!

Yesss they shall be mutual trolling buddies. Possibly with some hidden issues on Jade's side because holy shit someone who can work with the dead - !!

[mastermedium]

WHEEZE I'M GLAD YOU SAID THAT BECAUSE THAT WAS LITERALLY MY FIRST ACTUAL THREAD AS HIM I just cosplay him and larp him, my usual is Saber but my saber cosplayer has saber on reserve this time
/end nerding

YES that'll be so cool

Maya will probably bug him for information because she's nosy as shit, but you know

[antiseptic]

he is SUPER FUN to play off of although I'm entirely canon blind :|b

And Jade will coolly evade because he's, you know. Himself.

but man i'm looking forward to this!

[mastermedium]

THEN LIKEWISE I have no idea what Jade's from but they seem to make a good enough team after they've gotten done STARING EACH OTHER DOWN AND ANALYSING EACH OTHER LIKE WARRIORS

Diarmuid's a knight-ish-thing, they weren't exactly called knights at that time in ireland but he's... that, so he'd probably end up on the guard or as a ranger when I... start... that app.

i AM ALSO LOOKIN' FORWARD TO IT /high five

Jade's p interesting from what I've seen

[stahlflugel]

Survey corps breathes on

[antiseptic]

uh oh more children to babysit

but okay on the more serious side feel free to hit me up if you ever want him to test eren or something if he tries to join the rangers :|b

[stahlflugel]

He definitely needs to level up some first but then FOR SURE.

[testingcycle]

Mutual antagonism and a history of ethically unconscionable questionable experiments?

--seriously though, I'm a fan of ToA, so I'm familiar with Jade's character. Don't worry, I don't especially expect him to dig GLaDOS'... uh, thing for the worst interpretation of science ever. I dig the idea of CR between them, though, however positive or negative that might turn out.

[antiseptic]

EEEEEE GLADOS! Which reminds me, I should get started on Portal 2

And oh damn I am very much down for both of those. The thing is he stopped his experiments both questionable and not around 10 years ago so I don't think they'll be able to have a shared history. :|a But I do want them to work together at some stage...

They will, however, probably have some very nice CR once they learn about each other. And by nice I mean Jade will probably be equal parts amused, annoyed, and troubled by her.

...And possibly wanting to take her apart because curiosity. For science!

[testingcycle]

Don't you dare--

GLaDOS will probably be vocal about her 'testing' and 'experiments' on the Warp Band network, so there will be plenty of opportunities for them to meet. And I'm sure that 'so this Delver had an accident and now there's talking Old Tech puppeting her body' probably gets around to some degree.

They should definitely work together at some point--you know, for science. I am very much looking forward to this terrible combination.

[reborn_love]

Hi! Elly could very well be one of Jade's subordinates? :E

[antiseptic]

That would be wonderful! He needs more people to do his work for him delegate tasks to.

[reborn_love]

Oh ho, excellent. One lieutenant, coming right up, then!

[liveforher]

THIS IS SO LATE I AM SORRY....

But hi hi fellow ranger buddy! Teresa's been a member of the rangers for like...10+ years so I'M SURE THEY KNOW EACH OTHER. She's powerful, competent and a troll so I'm sure they probably along just fine.

And by just fine I mean horrible for anyone else.

[antiseptic]

That would be excellent! I pity their underlings but the two of them should have fun at least!

[liveforher]

Well if they didn't want to be sources of amusement for their superiors, they shouldn't have become underlings.