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

[looselips]

Player Name: Nix
Character Name: Rin Tousaka (or, more commonly, "Tohsaka," but I prefer to use the EXTRA's official localization to differentiate in case a SN!Rin apps in)
Original Canon: Fate/EXTRA
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Chariot
AU History Blurb: Another foster care kid, who knows all of jack and shit about her birth parents. Headstrong from a young age, Rin ran up against difficulties with ~the system—something which inadvertently kindled an interest in politics in her. Unfortunately, trying to get involved on a local level left her nothing but disillusioned with the whole political process, and she essentially "flunked out" of any aboveboard efforts to enact social change, winding up as a street punk and a vandal the second she was free to go her own way. Always strapped for cash, always looking for something to do, always mad.
Tentative Plans for character: punch as many rich people as possible I MEAN... Punch as many rich people as possible, but also, I would like for her impulses to perhaps become more focused and productive than they will be to start.
Pre-Established CR: WHERE HER FELLOW ANARCHISTS AT by which I mean other street punks/political agitators/people who are willing to get their hands dirty. I would love to have her already involved in some less-than-legal shit, but that's a matter of what opportunities are available for her to seize upon. Also, Rin's employment is probably in a constant limbo of multiple minimum wage jobs, so that could also be used as a way for people to know her.
Desired CR: I would love a stand-in for one or both of the Harway brothers, by which I mean rich people she wants to fight with her fists. Other than that and angry anarchist friends, maybe some people who could help her chill??

OR

Character Name: Shinji Matou
Original Canon: Fate/EXTRA
AU Role: Operator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Magician
AU History Blurb: An eight-year-old child prodigy with a superficially well-to-do lifestyle. However, despite the affluence of his family, Shinji suffers from parental neglect and was essentially raised by the internet. His parents only value him in as much as he continues to be "special," so he has a pretty warped view of both his own and others' values as human beings! Also, he's worked pretty aggressively to make a name for himself in the online gaming community, because he's desperate to receive praise and attention from anyone for any reason.
Tentative Plans for character: Help this damaged child so that he can maybe grow up into an adequately adjusted human being, please god
Pre-Established CR: People probably wouldn't know Shinji IRL, but he absolutely has a rep in the online gaming community and runs a semi-notorious blog, so nothing would delight me more than someone who knows of his online persona finding out that, actually, he is a mouthy eight-year-old.
Desired CR: See tentative plans, kid needs people who will be nice to him and give him positive attention and, like, maybe tell him that he doesn't have to be better than other people to be worth something.

[zangenasai]

Okay but

Naomi and Rin as ANGER sisters

[mouflon]

How can so much anger fit inside two bodies, it is a mystery

[zangenasai]

It Just Can

[defectiveagency]

Oh hey, want an extremely punchable rich idiot who's actually really into social justice?

[mouflon]

Let's be honest, she would probably consider punching him even if he weren't rich.

So, please.

[moneymoneymoney666]

Yeah I’m just gonna offer you Gall as a rich Law boi to get punched.

[mouflon]

I mean like, honestly

After talking with Ana, Rin is going to be close to Naomi one way or another, so I feel like punching is pretty much inevitable whether or not Gall actually deserves it.

[moneymoneymoney666]

Lol yeah. And whether or not he deserves it here is... debatable.

[timetogetdown]

YO RIN WHO WANTS TO START A FUCKING RIOT?

[mouflon]

SMASH THE STATE

Haha though I'm sorry, she's cynical about the idea of changing the system through "legit" means, so Lucio will have to listen to her being kind of a downer about that.

[timetogetdown]

Oh he'll TRY to do things legit for a while, but even in canon he resorted to drastic means after he saw that normal means weren't cutting it.

[mouflon]

Oh boy, that'll definitely be...fun with Rin. I'll look forward to it!

[has_too_many_moles]

I offer Yukio? His brother is more the sort to help her with being political anarchist, but he could be used as a voice of reason!

[mouflon]

HEY YUKIO HELP HER LEARN HOW TO USE A GUN, SURELY THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL IN NO WAY BE USED FOR DUBIOUS ENDS.

But yeah, I am definitely up for someone who can maybe stop her from leaping at the littlest thing.

[has_too_many_moles]

Hey just ask for some help with self defense and he wi so help you out with learning how to shoot a gun.

[mouflon]

Great, because I think one of her goals at the start of the game is going to be "receive and get good at shooting gun", haha. IT'S TOTALLY FOR SELF-DEFENSE... Probably.