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

[infinitejustice]

Player Name: Chris
Character Name: Athrun Zala
Original Canon: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Justice
AU History Blurb: Athrun is the son of a wealthy politician, attended boarding school in New England, and joined the Air Force when he turned 18. A couple years later, he has a tour of duty as an F-16 pilot in the Middle East under his belt. However, he's since had a falling out with his father, who has taken a turn for the xenophobic and nationalistic ever since his mother's death in a terrorist attack. It's left him with a drive to combat xenophobia and aggressive nationalism as a way to set right what his father made wrong.
Tentative Plans for character: One of Athrun's problems is that he carries his father's sins as if they were his own, and it's one of the reasons why he's so admantly anti-nationalist. He needs to work on that so that he's no longer shackled by his father's reputation in his own mind and can be his own man.
Pre-Established CR: Nothing in particular, other than maybe some classmates at UCLA. He's going there to further his studies now that he's back in the US.
Desired CR: All kinds! But definitely people who lean toward physics and computer science. Those are his loves.

[mouflon]

Long time no see and also, are you ready for Rin to take her misplaced anger out on Athrun?!?!

[infinitejustice]

It has! I hope you've been well.

And yes please. Make him feel worse about his dad. Especially if it means the tables turn when Rin finds out he hates what his dad stands for.

[mouflon]

Listen, I came to this thread for one thing and that is Rin sticking her foot in her mouth 100% of the time. SO YES, I AM ALSO READY FOR HER EVENTUAL COMEUPPANCE.

[infinitejustice]

Excellent. This should be fun!