pt_memes | AU Planning Meme

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.

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Player Name: Mars
Character Name: Richard Plantagenet; Richard Plante
Original Canon: Baraou no Souretsu
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Devil

AU History Blurb: Born intersex but raised male, Richard has two older brothers, a father who loves him, and a mother who despises him. Their family used to be wealthy and held a lot of power, but have lost all of that; Richard's father leaves on a business venture to gain some of their former glory back, but dies in a tragic accident. His older brother elopes with an older woman and his other brother leaves for college, only to be later kicked out for alcohol-related incidents. With just himself and his mother left at home, she tries to make money by selling Richard to some sketchy men, using his unique physiology as a selling point. He manages to escape before they do anything to him, and runs away into the countryside. He meets a kind shepard who takes him in for a time, but he chooses not to stay and tries returning home. There, he learns that his father's death may not have been an accident like they had been told, but deliberately done. He leaves to seek out the answer to his father's death and find the one responsible.

Tentative Plans for character: Richard has a complicated sense of self, not least warped by the disparate feelings he received from his parents. I would like him, while he's on his own, to get a chance to grow past his insecurities and open himself up to other viewpoints, to help him construct a more complete picture of himself.

Pre-Established CR: Fellow classmates, perhaps? Others who may be staying at the safe house would be fine; I figure Richard is originally from England and came to LA via Mementos, so he'd probably need to stay at the safe house, at least at first, b/c he has no money. He's still a teenager, so he'd be going to the high school.

Desired CR: Positive CR would be great, Richard could really use some, especially people he could eventually open up to and trust with his secret. He just in general needs more positive people in his life, the only one he had is dead, so... I would love to find him a better mother/big sister figure too, someone who can help him have good female role models and not, y'know, his own mother...

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Pretty solidly going with Akechi this round, but this popped into my head last night and has been knocking around ever since, so I figured, why not?

AU Planning Meme - Pre-Game

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