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

Updated because I had a second idea

[occultured_gentleman]

Player Name: Ket
Character Name: Isaac Morton
Original Canon: Devils and Realist
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Undecided but either Magician or Fortune
AU History Blurb: All very vague because I'm still ironing it out, but here's what I have so far.

Isaac is from a wealthy high society family and was attending a ritzy boarding school. While there he and some from friends who were all fascinated with the supernatural started and 'occult society.' They imagined themselves as very edgy but really it was just rich kids sneaking out to the woods and telling each other spoooooky stories and talking about how bigfoot is totally real and that one house down the street is waaay haunted. And messing around with incense and runes and tarot cards because they're totes doing reeeal magic you guys.

It all came crashing down when he and his friends were caught sneaking into an abandoned building that they thought was haunted. His parents were embarrassed and outraged and immediately pulled him out of that school and brought him home. They got rid of all his 'dangerous' occult paraphenalia, insisted that he cut ties with all his friends, insisted that he start seeing a psychaitrist, and have enrolled him in a new school closer to home. They are also watching him a lot more closely now.

tl;dr eccentric teenager has a weird hobby, parents overreact and stifling environment brings a sense of rebellion.

Tentative Plans for character: Secretly start up another club for 'occult investigations.' Because persona nonsense isn't enough, let's also hunt for cryptids.
Pre-Established CR: Honestly, in an AU setting I'm a huuuuge sucker for setting up au family nonsense so siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. would be amazing. And I'd certainly be willing to tweak parts of the backstory to accommodate.
Also since he's returning to LA after going away to school for a couple of years, maybe people who knew him before?
Desired CR: A new batch of friends willing to look for ghosts and bigfoot and stuff. Or just put up with him while he babbles about all that stuff.


OR


Character Name: Albert Morcerf
Original Canon: Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Undecided, open to suggestions
AU History Blurb: Vague as heck because I thought of this like ten minutes before bedtime and could definitely use some ideas

Honestly very like canon. Albert is the classic bored, spoiled, rich kid. His father is powerful and influential. I'm thinking politician or maybe businessman in this case. His life was going great until he discovers that one or both of his parents is involved in something terrible.


Probably illegal, definitely immoral, maybe there's an old crime being covered up, maybe innocent people are being thrown under the bus so his dad can increase his own power or fortune, something like that. Perhaps there's an even worse scheme in the works. It doesn't matter because enough money and power can get you out of anything.

Unless you have a dumb, idealistic kid who decides that he has to stop you. And after Albert discovers the nefarious goings on, what else can he do? And why stop there? His Dad probably has associates who are just as dirty, right? (Like a Banker or a Judge or something....) See where this is going?

tl;dr Dumb rich kid finds out that one or both of his parents is doing something awful and he deals with it in the most sensible way possible. By becoming a phantom thief.

Tentative Plans for character: Get him in waaay over his head. Albert is not good at considering consequences and he's a TERRIBLE judge of character.
Pre-Established CR: Family? Siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, open to anything.

Other rich kids with controlling and possibly untrustworthy parents
Desired CR: Poor role models(Since he won't have the Count here)
Also patient friends to keep him from getting himself killed(Because he won't have Franz here)

Re: Updated because I had a second idea

[has_too_many_moles]

I offer Yukio whose biological father was an occultist murder?



that is the best I could think of to au a son of Satan. So sue me, lol!