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

[paintbrushes]

I don't know how open you are to suggestions, but it occurs to me in a modern AU the idea of keeping someone's memory alive and not letting the person who wronged them escape judgement vs. allowing their loved ones to process grief in peace might make an interesting metaphor for his ingame refusal to let Rachel die and conflict with her family.

Maybe he could be really big on not wanting anyone to forget that 'this is Rachel and a grave injustice was done to her' - yelling about it on social media, bothering local news outlets constantly even way after the fact, etc. - and in conflict with a family who just wants to be able to grieve (and who maybe process their grief in part by blaming him for 'dragging her into trouble', whether that's fair or not).

[returnher]

I actually really like this idea, thanks!

I think I'll incorporate it, but since I'm going for a characterization closer to early actual game I'll probably keep it as part of his backstory, he went hard in and ended up very much at odds with her family which brings him to his more close-lipped but still very much hurting characterization at game start.