AU Planning Meme - Pre-Game

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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?

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Player Name:

Character Name: Lúcio Correia dos Santos
Original Canon: Overwatch
AU Role: Infiltrator or maybe operator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Probably the Star
AU History Blurb: Younger than his Overwatch self, Lucio is a college undergrad from Brazil who got some nice scholarships that let him go to school at UCLA despite being pretty damn poor. Studying poly-sci in hopes of figuring out how to enact positive social change by running for office back home some day, making money on the side as a DJ at nights.
Tentative Plans for character: I want Lucio's personal arc to have him butting heads with corporate corruption, much like his canon self. Ideally by the end of the game he would pull some kind of large scale resistance against a corporate action aiming at bullying poorer neighborhoods. I'll figure it out when I know more
Pre-Established CR: UCLA classmates?
Desired CR: *shrug emoji*

Character Name: Zolk
Original Canon: B-Team (Original Character)
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Guide
Arcana: Justice, Judgement, Magician, or maybe Chariot. Lotta options
AU History Blurb: The angriest guide, taking the form of a brightly colored lizard in the physical world and a similarly colored kobold in the metaverse. Zolk apparently used to be a slave of a powerful shadow until an infiltrator freed him. Zolk now uses his extensive knowledge of the metaverse and of alchemy, as well as his FURIOUS AND RIGHTEOUS ANGER, to aid his saviors and to tear down oppressors everywhere.
Tentative Plans for character: Ideally Zolk should make ALMOST as many situations worse as he makes better due to his short temper and violently destructive tendencies.
Pre-Established CR: Other Guides. It could also possibly a more veteran PC who freed him from servitude.
Desired CR: People who can help him be less angry, or at least to channel his anger into productive pursuits.

Character Name: Takeshi Sato
Original Canon: Persona inspired Tabletop Campaign (Original Character)
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Strength
AU History Blurb: The Center on the West Burbank High School football team. Also the youngest child of a family of super intense and successful people. Takeshi struggles as the pressures from his success driven family and the testosterone laden football team conflict with his own comparatively mellow and kind hearted nature, and tends to act like more of a muscleheaded jackass than he actually is because he feels like he has to to keep the approval of the people around him. In the campaign, his persona was Gilgamesh.
Tentative Plans for character: Takeshi needs to be torn between siding with the bullies who are his friends and the people they're bullying that he really wants to defend but doesn't feel like he can, so that he can grow as a person.
Pre-Established CR: Other football players? Bullying victims? I dunno
Desired CR: People who can stand up to him and get him to be less of a dick. People who need standing up for that he can reluctantly decided to help. Artists.

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If you're looking for a classmate and fellow protester, Locke can definitely provide. I feel like he and Lucio would generally be around the same age and taking some of the same classes/getting thrown in the same jails after a round of pepper spray from the cops.

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Team breaking into corporate offices at night is a go