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AU Planning Meme - Pre-Game

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: Walker
Character Name: Terra Branford
Original Canon: Final Fantasy 6
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: The Fool
AU History Blurb: A foster child homeschooled by a draconian old man, Terra is unfamiliar with the world outside the walls. That's basically as close as I can get to 'man who personally murdered her mother raised her to be a living weapon for world domination' so feel free to chip in with better ideas.
Tentative Plans for character: Terra's basic character arc of being uncertain of who she is as a person and slowly learning how to connect to other people is super satisfying to me so...those are my tentative plans I guess?
Pre-Established CR: If there are other FF6 characters around it'd be nice for them to already know Terra?
Desired CR: Basically all of it. All the CR.

Edited 2017-12-05 19:23 (UTC)

Player Name: Ana
Character Name: Nemesis Sudou, Naomi Sato
Original Canon: Evillious Chronicles
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Justice
AU History Blurb: Naomi is the daughter of an affair between a high-profile judge and his mistress. Her mother had her as an attempt to get into the good life, but was threatened before she could even tell the father. So, with that plan falling through, and not really wanting a child, Naomi was dropped at the nearest fire station with only a name. Since then, she grew up in foster care, and it was probably not good. She doesn't really know who her parents are, and as she aged she ended up falling into tougher crowds because they actually gave a shit about her. As time went on and she was further neglected, she kind of just became angry at the world and began looking into her real family for answers as to why the hell she was abandoned. She's not a tiny rage ball who's fallen through the cracks of the foster system, and she spends more time on the streets than anywhere else.
Tentative Plans for character: I want to explore what justice means to Naomi and her dealing with basically being someone who fell through the cracks of the system, maybe even find her a family.
Pre-Established CR: Foster siblings, the kids she met on the streets, maybe even foster parents who didn't know what to do with her or, hell, even half-siblings that can discover each other over the course of the game. Maybe even her dad.
Desired CR: Naomi especially needs CR that will help her deal with her problems and especially help her feel she's not just a number in the system. She is simultaneously a people pleaser because she wants to be wanted and unruly because she feels owed some happiness with all she's been through.

Edited 2017-12-05 19:11 (UTC)

Player Name: Char
Character Name: Maya Amano
Original Canon: Persona 2: Innocent Sin
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: The Moon
AU History Blurb: Maya is a young adult currently working at as a low-level reporter trying to get the next best scoop on all the things happening in L.A. When she was a child, she used to play Masquerade with her other friends. She had to move away from them eventually due to her father, though. Her father, a big inspiration to her, died when she was very young and is the big reason she went into reporting. He was a political and war reporter, and one day he left and never came back. Worried that there might be some particular reason behind his death (say him reporting too much on an unpopular political stance at the time), and pretty sure there's a conspiracy behind it, Maya wants to investigate subtly into it using her job and the leads she gets. But she hates her boss, and she hates how restricted she gets, so she's trying her best to find scoops and write stories that really show the corruption in the world. She's becoming pretty disillusioned with it all, as a reporter, having seen the bad side of people a lot, but is determined to try to remain a "positive thinker" and find some good in the world, or elsewise, make her own. I think she could work to try making her reporting skills useful to the Phantom Thieves.
Tentative Plans for character: I'd like her to be one of the older guiding forces for the younger persona users. Maya naturally has a motherly nature, and is a very positive person, to a fault, even if she's lying and doesn't believe what she's saying herself. She'll make herself keep going to try to help others, so I'll probably have her try to help others. It'd also suit her role as a part-time healer in battle.
Pre-Established CR: People who could have been her friend when she was young (they'd have to have been into Phoenix Ranger Featherman R, because the kids played a lot of that in the Masquerade), but I'd also love if someone would be willing to be her roommate, because oh man, she is a terrible roomie and that would be hilarious. Also anyone who'd be willing to potentially help her with reporting duties, or be a reporter alongside her would probably be fun.
Desired CR: All kinds, really! But I'd really like to see someone get to Maya's "real" somewhat disillusioned side and have her admit what a fake smiler she is because her father kind of taught her you smile through the pain no matter what.

I'm open to any suggestions to anyone who knows P2, but on the whole I don't think she'd need TOO much altering.

Edited 2017-12-05 19:11 (UTC)

Player Name: Kasu
Character Name: Margaret "Mae" Borowski
Original Canon: Night in the Woods
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Tower
AU History Blurb: Basically the same deal as Night 1 canon Mae, except her college freakout happened at UC Berkeley and she's gone back to live with her parents in LA. Bea, Gregg, Angus, and Germ aren't around, so she's sad and alone in Hollywood.
Tentative Plans for character: Mae's gotta make new friends! She lost her old friend group since they moved away to college and shit, and she's going to try and cling to other people as new friends to cope with her crippling mental issues.
Pre-Established CR: Not looking for too much pre-built CR, maybe somebody else that knew her from her time at Berkeley.
Desired CR: WEIRD FRIENDS FOR WEIRD CAT

Edited 2017-12-05 19:42 (UTC)

Player Name: Sana
Character Name: Reijirou Enokizu
Original Canon: Hyakkiyakou/Kyougokudou/Mouryou no Hako series (it has many names...)
AU Role: Probably Operator so I can make use of his psychic skills. He's still going to LEEEROY JENKINS his way into fights whether he's useful or not.
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Priestess
AU History Blurb: Enokizu is a ~~35-year-old failed adult~~ self-proclaimed detective who is uncannily good at solving crimes despite a total disdain for "investigation" or "evidence" or "laws" or "basic logic." (In canon, he does this via a psychic ability to read memories, but I haven't quite figured out how to adapt that). He comes from a very wealthy family and had a promising career as a Navy officer until... shit happened. Right now, he's playing guitar in a bar and running an amateur "detective agency" specializing in lost pets. People tend to assume that he's a criminal or a drug addict (he's totally not ~~anymore~~) so he has a very antagonistic relationship with the police.
Tentative Plans for character:
Comic relief and incompetent detective work. He'll always be a bit of an overgrown manchild, but I'd like him to learn how to better communicate with people and how to control his emotional outbursts. Although he doesn't have access to much money right now, at some point he'll gain back his fortune.
Pre-Established CR:
Anything's good! He's probably known to anyone in law enforcement, and his estranged father is a very rich businessman/politician so he'll have some name recognition.
Desired CR:
I'd love to bounce him off some of the real detective characters, or have him drag hapless strangers into his crackpot investigations. People who can put up with and maybe even rein in his obnoxious airhead behavior would be great, too.

Player Name: Chrissy
Character Name: Lyria
Original Canon: Granblue Fantasy
AU Role: Operator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: The Fool
AU History Blurb: A girl with no memory on her past and lived most of her known life as a pawn for an underground criminal empire. She had a strange affinity with animals so she was used to make them fight for gambling. She escaped with a woman who she finds as her mother figure and used to be part of the empire.

Some what keeping a close relation to canon, but I wish to keep some room open in case a Gran/Djeeta wishes to app into the game. Until then, she's just a girl on the run and in hiding.
Tentative Plans for character: Lyria's overall personal arc in the series is pretty much learning about the world around her while trying to figure out who she really is with the help of the friends she makes along the way. So any parent types or guiding friends would be appreciated as she spend most of her life underground with little to no knowledge.
Pre-Established CR: Hey, anyone else wanna run from a crime empire? Besides that, any friends around her age or parent type adults are loved! Lyria tries to make friends with everyone, so be prepared.
Desired CR: All of it, feed me the CR.

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.

Player Name: Shini
Character Name: Sinbad. In AU, full name is Sinbad Tisoni
Original Canon: Magi - Sinbad no Bouken
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Chariot or Emperor
AU History Blurb: The child of a Lebanese-american woman from Ohio, and a naturalized Iraqi immigrant, he got some ambitions into breaking into the music business with sick guitar shreds and lyric writing. His dad unfortunately is currently in jail due to a dockworker's strike gone south. Sinbad and his mother insisted that their father never hit anyone.
Tentative Plans for character: A mix of trying to figure out the events that lead up to his dad's arrest, the trials of trying to get into the music scene, and general trouble with a High school brat who has issues with authority.
Pre-Established CR: Generally I play him as an only child, but siblings or other relatives would be great. Maybe some friends as part of a garage band of sorts.
Desired CR: Close friends - both troublemakers like him and those trying to keep him out of trouble, maybe mentors in the performing arts, and people he can regularly butt heads with over ideas. Also he does a lot of part-time jobs to help his mom out, so coworkers or teachers concerned about his grades can work.

Edited 2017-12-05 21:09 (UTC)

Player Name: Shini
Character Name: Ky Kiske - Kyle "Ky" Kiske in AU,
Original Canon: Guilty Gear
AU Role: Accomplice
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Justice
AU History Blurb: A member of the LAPD's vice squad, Ky generally bust drug usage and prostitution, he's still a greenhorn and thus still easily flustered in awkward situations, but he's bound and determined to do his job in a way that makes his squad members call him an overachiever.
Tentative Plans for character: Ky wants to make it to Detective, plan is roughly discovering the corruption in his precinct, struggle with his sense of ethics and morality as the Phantom Thieves come into play, until he reluctantly throws his lot with them.
Pre-Established CR: fellow cops or investigative sorts, people he previously cuffed, and again open to have relatives in the AU.
Desired CR: friends, people he keeps an eye out on - either as a protective big brother/father type, or to make sure that person stays out of trouble.

Okay but

Naomi and Rin as ANGER sisters

Player Name: Runner

Character Name: Augustine Sycamore (Augustine Sauveterre in AU)
Original Canon: Pokemon X (game)
AU Role: Operator/Accomplice
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Death
AU History Blurb: A college professor working at UCLA who is also a son of an American lawyer and French retired professor. Despite his likable and social nature to his students and colleague, he is a target of many rumors after his mother's case from 10 years ago caused her client's suicide due to accusations of a murder. Also, he has a fallout with his friend who is also a son of the disgraced politician.
Tentative Plans for character: Basically, if he's an Operator, he tries to be a mentor and peacekeeper to the Phantom Thieves while if he's an Accomplice, he usually share about his mother and his cousin's (who is also a lawyer) cases that may relate to them or the plot itself. But most importantly, he tries to avoid avoiding his problems through other people and trying to lose his inability to act.
Pre-Established CR: Relatives, students, and people who knew his mother. Also, I'm open to Pre-CR with other Pokemon game characters.
Desired CR: All of them! But most importantly, he needs a CR that helps him out of his past as he still struggles to move on despite showing a smile most of the time.

Character Name: Cyan Reyes (I'll try to make an account in the near future in case I managed to finish his icons)
Original Canon: Original Character
AU Role: Infiltrator
AU Species: Human
Arcana: Moon
AU History Blurb: Born into an influential Filipino-American family, 16 years old Cyan is known as a miracle heir. But due to rumors and scandals involving his CEO father and his heritage, he became a bullying victim through his middle school and high school. Despite this, he longs to grow his inclusive side and dreams of being accepted into society when he graduates. He is also an MMO gamer. Though I'm accepting some better ideas if you can.
Tentative Plans for character: Cyan's personal arc regarding of trying to live a normal life not only outside of his life as a Phantom Thief, but also from his family's social status. Again, this is just tentative.
Pre-Established CR: Childhood friends, MMO online friends, and any friends that his family knew of
Desired CR: All of them! This kid needs friends!

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

It Just Can

it's quite likely Ky and Reijirou had run-ins during Ky's patrols and stings and it's loathe at first sight.

Rin is super FUCK THE POLICE so I would love for her to have or have had a run-in with Ky at some point!

*Slides in*

You mentioned dad somewhere?

I

This is the most unexpected thing and I literally said "Oh my God" out loud.

My wife can vouch.

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.

That would be hilarious, given how straight-laced he is, he's gonna get shit on both sides.

did somebody say garage band?

b/c every garage band needs a bassist, right

Yep, Sinbad mains guitar and is the songwriter, he can sing but he'll leave it up to someone who got a way better voice for it.

My apologies.

So, well then, prepare yourself for questionable parent/child relations. Maybe.

NO DON'T. I JUST DIDN'T THINK ANYONE BESIDES ME AND MY WIFE AND OCCASIONALLY A FRIEND OF OURS PLAYED FROM EC ON ALL OF DW.

But yes. Things will be. Awkward. ...At least she doesn't have the huge incentive to shoot him between the eyes now?

mae can't sing worth a crap (or at least she doesn't think she can) but she can shred a mean bass

that's a lie, no she can't, she can just pluck on the strings alright and pretend BUT THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH ISN'T IT

Cyan and Sinbad could go to the same school, Sinbad being initially 'Ugh rich boy' but grows nicer because he hates bullies more.

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