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

[fifth_wheel]

Player Name: Brantron
Character Name: Iris Amicitia
Original Canon: Final Fantasy XV
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Lovers
AU History Blurb: UPTOWN GIRL, SHE'S BEEN LIVING IN HER UPTOWN WORLD
Okay, but seriously. The idea I have for Iris is essentially that she's from a moderately well-to-do family and is involved with a guy from the wrong side of the tracks. My general idea is that, while the boyfriend in question is in fact from a rough section of town and probably involved in some less than legal doings, he gets set up and busted by the cops for something he genuinely didn't do. Possibly this leads to a bunch of his friends getting into similar trouble, with a strong implication that Iris' wealthy and disapproving family may have had a hand in things. Faced with a corrupt police force and unable to count on even her family for help, she manifests a Persona out of a desire to get back at what she sees as a miscarriage of justice.
Tentative Plans for character: She'll be looking for a place to stay since she doesn't trust her parents, and trying to keep one step ahead of both them and the police.
Pre-Established CR: I would honestly love to have another player in the role of the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks, possibly having escaped from the police through a timely awakening of his own Persona.
Desired CR: I'm honestly down for just about anything.

[streetwolf]

This guy is probably too shady to be boyfriend material, being a homeless delinquent and all. But if you need someone to be mistaken for her boyfriend then I volunteer him.