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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: pepper
Character: Valencia Lambe
Canon: OC/Honkai Star Rail AU
Family: Eonia
AU idea(s): Banksy-esque "faceless" artist that moonlights as a hitman for the mob. Her family name is Moretta Cygnus, but her art is all signed "Kestrel Meteor".

In this AU Moretta comes from a mob-connected family (the Falling Stars. thats the cringe ass name we're going with) that’s fairly powerful and fairly ruthless. Val’s parents were already hitmen and raised her into the position as well. Her mob family primary engages in racketeering, counterfeiting, etc but when a rat needs to be taken out back it’s Val’s family that gets called. She views these people not as people but as vermin; she doesn’t seem to have any real qualms with killing or even some torture when needed, so long as it’s done in the line of duty to her family. She’s loyal and obedient to a fault, and while she’s kind and polite outside of her clean-up duties she doesn’t seem to see anything wrong with it (or unusual, even). Aligning this with Eonia's everything, ostensibly this IS contributing to a "better future". In... their own way... Moretta doesn't question it.

When she’s not committing crimes in the name of family, though, Moretta is a relatively well-known artist-- but only by name. Her paintings have gained recognition from their style, appearing both in shows and auctions. While her work is… pretty good, she mostly seemed to gain fame due to being more or less faceless– nobody knows who “Kestrel Meteor" is or what she looks like, or even if she is in fact a woman (she’s frequently gendered male in auctions and articles talking about her, so that gets peddled around more often).

She tends to lay low publicly and keep attention off of her by more or less just being… normal. She has hobbies and chills at cafes and keeps up her daily exercises, so she’s not an unknown around her community but more of a non-entity that nobody worries about. “Oh she’s nice” is generally the extent of most peoples’ knowledge who aren’t entwined with her more closely. On top of this, she’s often bound to her home– she has some chronic health issues (fevers, mostly) that keep her inside on a semi regular basis. Not enough to stop her daily runs, of course, but certainly enough to slow her down some. She IS friendly though, and fairly easygoing and a little flirtatious and isn't always shy about enjoying herself. Nor is she very shy about using this to her advantage in work situations, if needed.

She still has her neckwings (+ lower back wings but those are kept wrapped up mostly) but her halo is nowhere to be found; instead in this au it’s a collar she wears as a lifelong accessory.

Roles/CR you're interested in: Beyond the usual friends, acquaintances, etc
- Someone who knows her as an artist (whether as Kestrel or just as an art fried, whichever)
- Mob family connections, whether by actual mobsters/criminals, or informants, trustworthy individuals, etc.. any
- Friends with benefits. this is mostly because og val is a massively stuck up prude.

Wants and Dreams: im down for anything i love fucking around and finding out

hey bb

babe of all time fr

I am going to go with guy who commissioned her as an artist for fliers for the host club a few times and has become a friend to Val.

HELL YEAH tho she probably did it under her family name and not her anonymartist moniker

or else he would have. the most insanely valuable fliers of all time /j

She really captured the essence of all their tits, and for that, he's eternally grateful. A+++ would commission again.

HAHDKAJSHDK YEAH. YEAH.

ngl she probably visits. sometimes. as a patron.

Get your freak on, Val. He's here to listen to your woes and butter her up with drinks and compliments. Best kind of therapy session.

ok we gotta have backstory cr we gotta except they're both un-worrying non-entities in the community (handshake though)

she's probably at least heard of the artist alter-ego though since she houses a nonzero number of penniless artists who are theoretically her "renters"

they could absolutely be art and/or cafe casual buddies especially since theyre family anyway

really funny of her to be like "have you heard of kestrel" while moretta goes woah i haven't... tell me about it :o though

omg. yes

probably some well-meaning cafe employee tried to introduce them since corretto is known to be incredibly antisocial and it at least kind of worked out

open s arms can they have a one night standso they can spiderman meme at each other

YEAH ABSOLUTELY. hell it can even be a two night stand shes got free weekends

hes like girl you need to get off this boat IM HAPPY YOURE HERE BC YOU HAVE GAME BUT ALSO GET OFF THIS BOAT ITS A BAD TIME

how bad could it be.......... people dying? pff. i mean oh no terrible

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