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AU PLANNING POST

AU Backstory Planning Post

✯Information

Every month, we'll have a post where new characters and old characters can plan out backstories with one another. This should hopefully get characters something to work with when coming up with their alternate universes and get some prebuilt CR for those who are looking for it! This is NOT a requirement, you could be an unattached person if you'd like! However, for those who do want it, this is the place for you!

Before you start with making an AU, I would recommend getting familiar with some of the information to get an idea of how the setting works here.

◆ How to Build an AU
◆ What are Families?
◆ The Eight Families
◆ Names
◆ Full Navigation for any other questions/curiosities!

Once you get done with that, you can comment to the post!

✯New Potential Players

Thank you for having interest in joining! When you post your comment looking to plot, please toplevel the post with NEW CHARACTER | CHARACTER CANON NAME (CANON) and then fill out the following:

Player Name:
Character:
Canon: Please also list if they are post game!
Potential Family Option: List the teams you're considering! Nothing here is permanent/guaranteed.
AU idea(s): What kind of story are you looking to have? Did you have multiple ideas but not sure which one you like? List em here! If you're amnesia, go ahead and list that too!
Roles/CR you're interested in: Parent looking for kids, teachers looking for students, neighborhood cat looking for pets, local gamer needing ppl to dunk on, etc. Just a general idea of some things you're interested in.
Wants and Dreams: anything else that hasn't been mentioned yet, please note it here!!

Please don't take anything listed here as "official". Players are allowed to refuse whatever they're not interested in and they can change their minds if they haven't played it out yet!

Once you comment, please join the discord and LINK your post into the links subchannel. If you haven't received access to the discord, DM Celi! If you haven't gotten permission to join the game yet, you'll have to DM me anyway since this game is friends only!

✯Established Characters

For established characters, you can use this post as well! If you have an "open to all" type of CR where you're always needing a certain type of CR, you can do that here! This includes a restaurant needing regular patrons or a teacher needing students, guinea pigs for experiments, etc. Open to All is literally Open to All, it is never closed until the OP player adds a CLOSED comment so if you're a new player, don't feel like you're overwhelming them by commenting!!

When you post your comment looking to plot, please toplevel the post with OPEN TO ALL | CHARACTER CANON NAME (CANON) and then fill out the following:

Player Name:
Character:
Canon: Please also list if they are post game!
Family:
Looking for You can included things like regulars for cafe, regular patients, students, past lovers, etc.
Any other notes:

Whenever you reach your CR limit, feel free to comment to your toplevel with the header CLOSED to let new players know that you're not taking any more CR for the time being (of course you can still tag new potential players!). It will also close automatically once the new monthly post goes up.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Player Name: Floor
Character: Jinshi
Canon: The Apothecary Diaries (LNs)
Family: Siren's Melodies

AU idea(s): Still fleshing things out, but here's some general ideas:

- His mom is Holy Order, dad is Siren's Melodies. They had an amicable divorce when he was still young and he decided to flee to the Arias with his dad because he just wasn't suited to the Holy Order Lyfe and he knew it.

- Started his career as a model and skincare influencer around 16, except he was modeling for womenswear and most people had no idea. Eventually this led to a big industry blowup (which may or may not have been caused by Cirrus) and he vanished from the scene when he was ~20.

- Tired of being only appreciated for his looks (but fully aware that he has nothing else going for him aside from his sex appeal) he restarted his career shortly after as an ASMRtist. No full face, just voice and hands sometimes!! Obviously involving sexy/spicy content more often than not and a lot of RP.

- He does not love his career but it pays the bills and is still better than running back to Holy Order with mom.

- Probably from HaZE's rival agency because I want him bullied.

- Personality-wise I plan to keep him pretty close to canon, except I might just make him talk more like a terminally online zoomer as part of his "please don't recognize me as That ASMRtist" disguise. (Also because I think it will be hilarious as he slowly regains his canon voice).

Roles/CR you're interested in:

- Childhood and/or industry friends who know his struggles and are either supportive or terrible bullies about it.

- Industry rivalry of some sort?! Idk, looks at the other Sirens.

- Likewise come @ me Cirrus, you can have spread gossip about him during either of his careers or actually be a supporter or whatever.

- Any Holy Orders/Unholy Disorders or people with connections there who want to know he's the son of Big Important Lady. Again this is all pretty nebulous so far but throws spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.

- Fans??? If you're a fan he'll mcfucking die.

- He's rich and stupid and can't do anything for himself, so if you want to have worked for him/his family at any point and know how much of a spoiled brat he is that could also be fun.

- I'M PRETTY OPEN IN GENERAL so if you have any other ideas lmk. Also cool with him just coming in fresh and meeting people from scratch. I'm ez.

Wants and Dreams: Concept: Maomao on Cirrus. Please consider. Thank.

can I bully you and also try to poach you

YES AND YES this man was made for bullying. Also give me any and all hcs you might have for the rival agency so we can also plot stuff there.

Re: New Character | Jinshi (The Apothecary Diaries)

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doggonemad - 2024-10-31 02:49 (UTC) - Expand

On one hand, he's from the rival agency but on the other, he has such a nice voice...how could Friday fault him. no, it's probably very weird listening to his ASMR (especially the erotic ones)...I will go with regularly sees him at parties, has chatted with him, and does not think ill of Jinshi since he's not a rival singer.

FRIDAY DON'T LISTEN TO THE FORBIDDEN ASMR. Jinshi will simply never acknowledge this as a thing other people could be doing wrt his work.

But yes! Friendly acquaintances sounds great to me. Jinshi talks to him and feels like there's something familiar about him and simply cannot tell why/what.

Re: New Character | Jinshi (The Apothecary Diaries)

regulate - 2024-10-31 01:54 (UTC) - Expand

…let eriks have done SOME kind of commission for him in the last four months

i also want something with my other character but that can wait until he’s placed

Yes and yes!!!

Please help him with his studio for maximum hyper-efficient soundproofing.

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liveslaughsloves - 2024-10-31 03:49 (UTC) - Expand

Moray started as a fresh baby amnesiac/intern at HaZE shortly before the game started, so he probably wouldn't have had any chances to met Jinshi. I'm looking forward to how they get on though, since he views the rest of Sirens as his wise seniors and Jinshi will be The Enemy.

Super excited to be the weird rival guy that now lives in your home.

idk this man they will meet on boat

YES GOOD

His twin brother listens to the racy ASMR and Breezy resents this man because YOURE SEDUCING HIS BROTHER HOW DARE YOU AT LEAST BUY HIM A PRETEND DINNER FIRST I feel like breezy would have the ear to recognize this man's voice

for the lols

Yeah absolutely recognize him. He deliberately uses a different tone in his ASMR vids/streams and it's soft and whispery most of the time, but Breezy should be able to tell anyway. I support this 100%.

as a secret undercover detective with amnesia who works at a repair shop as a cover that is now mostly just reality on account of forgetting most of the detective part, Lea is the worst for trying to grab pre-plotted cr with

HOWEVER!! i have cobbled together some half-baked thoughts for your perusal:
-childhood friends somehow (Lea can either absolutely not remember this or recognize his face enough to be like "??? I know you, don't I")
-came to his house once and fixed his stuff. does he have a fancy car. he coulda fixed up his fancy car and also nagged him to get the oil changed more frequently.
-Lea sells his potions to people if Jinshi would have bought any of them at some point
-alternatively they've never met before and this is their first meeting and he's gonna get bullied no matter what. we can make this work

OH CHILDHOOD FRIENDS SOUNDS CUTE. Tell me about Lea's childhood, would this be pre-Facility?

Re: New Character | Jinshi (The Apothecary Diaries)

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Jem is too single minded to consider spicy ASMR so either:

They met on a job/entertainment industry event (either as children or during his modeling era)

One of her unitmates is a fan.

Or they just meet on the boat.

Or some some alternative

I like the idea of them meeting during his modeling time! Please assume Jinshi was either very quiet or incredibly soft-spoken for it, which will be very contrasting to his current presentation.

Can Booker have destroyed his modeling career

I already said yes, but yes. My assumption is that him being a guy was known by several close staff so idk, manager, personal makeup artist, etc. There were whispers around it in the industry and that was part of the appeal for fans and designers. Just very ambiguous overall.

Did you have any specific scandal ideas that Booker would go for? If not, it could have been something like him taking jobs that should have been going to actual women or something like that. Maybe a specific event that had to do a feminist/women's cause? Let's cook.

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JINSHI! Oh I love him. Glad to see him here in the game!

idk I don't have much to add here other than to say I would love CR with him with either Till (Forte) or Tsukasa (Valerian).

Forte is closer in age and does a lot of underground gigs trying to make it as a singer. He has also worked like... everywhere. He's never been part of the group that has a lot of secret background connections or info on others though because he just doesn't care ='D

If he's visited the cat cafe though or sometimes hits up bars and various performances he might have seen him before. He's opened a few times for his sis (Rockstar) over on Eonia.

Likewise...! Tsukasa (Valerian) has been extremely sheltered and knows absolutely 0% of pop culture or things. He was raised on a shrine and lowkey his parents had him almost worshipped there (but he's not actually a living god or anything). If he's the type to ever visit one, it's possible he could have seen a foxboy with wings and crossed paths at some point. His parents have him 'bless' people who visit.

Yaaaay, thank you! I'm happy to have this horrible man here.

He does drop by the cat café every now and then, but he isn't a super regular and would most likely be incognito (think kpop idol airport vibes). If it's entertainment stuff they might have met or seen each other in passing?

For Valerian he could have definitely seen him at a shrine visit, especially with Holy Order mom. He would have been very confused by it but no judgment here.

Re: New Character | Jinshi (The Apothecary Diaries)

untilldeath - 2024-10-31 02:02 (UTC) - Expand

razzy is secretly a fan

she only listens to asmr to relax okay!! definitely!!

Jinshi will not judge any of your ASMR habits, in fact please never tell him that you know him from that job or that you may have tipped him in the past, thank you very much.

That is to say, please bully.

Edited 2024-10-31 01:48 (UTC)

As discussed on Plurk I am happy to be your probably distant, incredibly successful but also presumed dead cousin.

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socialcapital - 2024-10-31 02:45 (UTC) - Expand

ok but consider

'Rem', Felt's normie alter ego was in the past, one or many of the following:
- a fan
- a part time intern for his family (bought her way out of background check red flags)
- chill and normal

then they re-meet on the boat and he realizes that she's actually Felt Voltain the heir to Voltajet and probably as rich as he is