AU Planning Meme - Pre-Game

[phantommods]

Welcome to the first AU Workshop for Phantom Thieves International! This post is intended to help incoming players plot their AU and figure out who their characters are in this setting and where they want to go. This is completely optional but players are encouraged to use this post to establish some pre-existing CR and goals for their characters.

CURRENT EVENTS

The following events will be occuring in the setting as the game begins:

-There’s an open casting call for extras for the production of an artsy film by a well-known Hollywood producer.
-Pop superstar Leanna Rapide is playing at the Staples Center. Tickets are almost entirely sold out.
-There has been an uptick in vandalism in Chinatown and Japantown, including anti-Asian graffiti as well as light damages to local independent shops and restaurants.
-Tensions remain high as police continue to conduct drug raids in poorer neighborhoods not seen since the height of the war on drugs.

To post to this meme, please use the format below.



<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> Include AU name if different <b>Original Canon:</b> <b>AU Role:</b> Infiltrator, Operator or Accomplice <b>AU Species:</b> Human or Guide <b>Arcana:</b> The Arcana you hope to assume with this character <b>AU History Blurb:</b> A short blurb about who they are and where they come from <b>Tentative Plans for character:</b> Things you want to do with the character outside the mainline story <b>Pre-Established CR:</b> What are you looking for in terms of pre-established CR as you enter the game <b>Desired CR:</b> What kinds of CR would you like to build in the game?

Comments

[zangenasai]

Player Name: Ana
Character Name: Nemesis Sudou, Naomi Sato
Original Canon: Evillious Chronicles
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Justice
AU History Blurb: Naomi is the daughter of an affair between a high-profile judge and his mistress. Her mother had her as an attempt to get into the good life, but was threatened before she could even tell the father. So, with that plan falling through, and not really wanting a child, Naomi was dropped at the nearest fire station with only a name. Since then, she grew up in foster care, and it was probably not good. She doesn't really know who her parents are, and as she aged she ended up falling into tougher crowds because they actually gave a shit about her. As time went on and she was further neglected, she kind of just became angry at the world and began looking into her real family for answers as to why the hell she was abandoned. She's not a tiny rage ball who's fallen through the cracks of the foster system, and she spends more time on the streets than anywhere else.
Tentative Plans for character: I want to explore what justice means to Naomi and her dealing with basically being someone who fell through the cracks of the system, maybe even find her a family.
Pre-Established CR: Foster siblings, the kids she met on the streets, maybe even foster parents who didn't know what to do with her or, hell, even half-siblings that can discover each other over the course of the game. Maybe even her dad.
Desired CR: Naomi especially needs CR that will help her deal with her problems and especially help her feel she's not just a number in the system. She is simultaneously a people pleaser because she wants to be wanted and unruly because she feels owed some happiness with all she's been through.

[moneymoneymoney666]

*Slides in*

You mentioned dad somewhere?

[zangenasai]

I

This is the most unexpected thing and I literally said "Oh my God" out loud.

My wife can vouch.

[moneymoneymoney666]

My apologies.

So, well then, prepare yourself for questionable parent/child relations. Maybe.

[zangenasai]

NO DON'T. I JUST DIDN'T THINK ANYONE BESIDES ME AND MY WIFE AND OCCASIONALLY A FRIEND OF OURS PLAYED FROM EC ON ALL OF DW.

But yes. Things will be. Awkward. ...At least she doesn't have the huge incentive to shoot him between the eyes now?

[moneymoneymoney666]

Fair enough, I wasn’t expecting this either.

And he is at least a marginally better person so... yeah it’ll still be awkward.

[zangenasai]

Surprise you have a secret daughter, Gallerian.

She is a tiny anger nugget.

[streetwolf]

I don't have a full plan up yet. But most of Wayne's starting CR is probably going to be street people if I app. And my current au for him has him passed around foster homes.

[zangenasai]

JOIN THE ANGER CHILDREN, WAYNE. BECOME ONE OF THEM.

[streetwolf]

He already is one though... technically he's and anger adult now.

[zangenasai]

Are Rin and Wayne and Nemesis just a smol Anger Family.

[streetwolf]

I think? He's ended up with more family than he starts off with in cannon somehow.

[robinhoodedcrow]

Still working on his backstory a bit (mostly on what I can or cannot use from canon) but I figure it's pretty safe to say the whole abandoned-unwanted-orphan-child thing is still a thing for him. Perhaps they were together for a time in the same foster home? I can totally see them feeding each other's rage and sense of injustice at the world and their absent families.

[zangenasai]

YEAH Akechi and Naomi have similar arcs, even in canon. Nem just gets to go a whole lot further and never stops. Akechi is literally how I realized what her Arcana was.

BUT YES. Let the anger children feed each other's anger!

[robinhoodedcrow]

Nice! EC sounds interesting, I'll have to take a look into it sometime.

And omg are they going to have a club? PTI: Angry Edition or something lmao

[zangenasai]

Rin and Wayne are also anger children, or still angry previous children. I think at least one of them aged out of the system.

AND EC IS... It's interesting but it's very, very big. It covers about 1000 years of events and is separated into arcs and if you've ever heard Daughter/Story of Evil that's going to be what a lot of people know.

[robinhoodedcrow]

Ooooh yeah I've heard of Story of Evil! Mainly just the Daughter of Evil and Servant of Evil songs though. I didn't realize it was so vast o: Once upon a time on lj I even had a journal for the servant but more on a whim than anything.

[zangenasai]

I'd suggest picking a song out of the mainline sins and starting from there, then branching out. It's... A lot of info.

[has_too_many_moles]

Foster kid?