Plotting Post - Part two

[modmaster]

This is the Limelight Stage Plotting post Part Two, Families and Organizations edition. With teams being sorted, you now can plot with your family members and figure out how much you know one another! There are headers specifically for team plotting! After that, you are welcome to toplevel a new comment and tag around for off team CR!!

If you'd like a general form to fill out, fill this one! Otherwise, just do whatever! You can use your discord channels too if you prefer.

Player Name:
Character:
Canon:
Team:
General AU idea: What kind of story are you looking to have? If you're open to ideas, feel free to notate that.
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.
Wants and Dreams:

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Team:</b> <b>General AU idea:</b> What kind of story are you looking to have? If you're open to ideas, feel free to notate that. <b>Roles/CR you're interested in:</b> 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. <b>Wants and Dreams:</b>

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! This is JUST for Brainstorming.

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ACIDIA

[modmaster]

HIZUMI MIZUSHIRO

[bondsofsuffering]

Player Name: Dani
Character: Hizumi Mizushiro
Canon: Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning
Team: Acidia

General AU idea: The Hizumi of this world has never known hardship. Born to bright but not particularly extraordinary parents who were already members of Acidia, Hizumi grew up eagerly awaiting the day he could begin making his own contributions to the family’s goals - a day that would come sooner than some might expect, because he’s a bonafide genius who breezed effortlessly through all of his classes and lessons, proving himself worthy of taking on the family’s work at a young age (maybe ten or so, but I'm open to changing depending on CR?)

Ever social, Hizumi was already interested in forming connections with members of other families, both out of a genuine desire for friendship as well as with an eye towards the future of all the families - to his mind, all sorts of great things could surely come out of more collaborations between families, and in between his own projects he seeks to foster those relations in the hope that he will know a guy should he run into a conundrum that requires a specialty outside of his own family’s expertise.

His focus is on creating cures for every ailment he possibly can, meaning he studies both antidotes and the poisons that are sometimes necessary to make them. I'm probably going to have him start off being known by "Snow" due to a preference for snowdrop flower accessories.

Roles/CR you're interested in: He's currently 16, so friends his age or connections he's made through school or networking (which can also be aggressive friendshipping)! I'd also be interested in adults who know him from just, like, running around being a social, sweet-hearted kid.

Wants and Dreams: Close CR through AU - that is to say, people who already have an "in" with him and are close friends who can look out for him, and vice-versa. He's in for a lot of shitty memories, so my ideal situation is starting him out with a good support network to fall back on when things get, uh, rough,,

He's very friendly and while he can be playfully teasing, he's a genuinely kind-hearted kid with a gift for benign social engineering in the sense that if he notices someone struggling with socializing, he's liable to step in and gently direct the flow of conversation so even shy folks can be included at a level they can be comfortable with. And, as he's already working, he can also be a provider of Concoctions™ if people need them for whatever reason, though he will still like screen people and want to know exactly what they're for of course.

PERCY JACKSON

[audacity]

Player Name: zephy
Character: percy jackson (nome de plume: still deciding, but thinking about river!)
Canon: pjo
Team: acidia

General AU idea: i'm definitely open to ideas! i'm mostly thinking he's something like, comes from a pretty quiet fishing/seaside town. he had an incident at a young age that left him with a drowning phobia, but otherwise his life has been pretty calm and chill. happy home life, probably. his worst problem was getting kind of bored with his middle of nowhere life...until he lost his memories and got recruited by acidia.

Roles/CR you're interested in: he's 17, so definitely peers (friends!!) his own age, positive or negative adult influences. people who've taken him under their wing!! people he maybe has beef with or has pissed off (especially comically!). i'm interested in people he's built relationships with since losing his memory, when he'd be lowkey pretty vulnerable and eager to latch onto a sense of community or friendship (if hidden under a healthy layer of skepticism and quips). i'm also tentatively interested in a limited number of people recognizing him from his au life pre-amnesia!! not totally decided but definitely up to talk about it.

Wants and Dreams: still firming up powers but i keep thinking about the idea of a more healer-y oriented guy slowly discovering actually he's incredibly destructive and not even fully human. also just, relatively normal dude going WH, WHAT IS, WHAT IS MY ORIGINAL LIFE, WHY IS IT LIKE THAT,

ok i'm going back to sleep forgive any late night typos eyyy

Vash (the pointy one)

[featherduster]

Player Name: mel
Character: Vash the Stampede
Canon: Trigun Maximum (+ Sheep PGAU)
Team: Acidia
General AU idea: BY DAY: very friendly, sociable dude who runs a flower/apothecary shop and is very into medicine/healing/plants in general. Is pretty integrated with the local community and thus would know lots of folks even if only relatively superficially. HONESTLY JUST REALLY NICE AND WELL-ADJUSTED?

BY NIGHT: uses poisons and (??? powers TBD????) to mcfuckinmurder people he's decided deserve it. He's Light Yagami. Fuck them villains. Maybe not actually 100% well-adjusted.

Roles/CR you're interested in: CRACKS KNUCKLES

CR WITH "VASH"

Anyone he might cross paths with via the flower shop: patrons, business partners/suppliers, people who wanna hang out and take advantage of him being Too Nice. Like neighborhood kids who know they can hang out there and he'll bring them snacks like a fucking sucker.

IT WOULD BE CUTE TO MENTOR KIDS ON ANYTHING MEDICINE/HEALING RELATED. Young kids or college students looking to get internship/apprentice exp etc

Adopted kids in general. No dad? No problem. He's your dad now. He probably won't even run out on you (* TBD)

Anyone who's ever been personally victimized by Ruan Mei (at game start I'm making a post for the Exes Group Chat)

Other local business owners/common patrons of those businesses: bakeries, restaurants, gyms, anywhere a stupidly friendly dude would be likely to hang out. Cuz I promise you he's hangin out

COLLEGE BUDDIES. FORMER HOOKUPS. THE NEIGHBOR NEXT DOOR. EXES. Just the array of relationships you acquire over a long period of being integrated in one community

FOR SHEEP CHARACTERS SPECIFICALLY: he won't get Sheep regains for a long while probably but if u wanna do anything... hmu

Monsterfuckers. It will come up later. :)

CR WITH "THE VIGILANTE" (i'll come up with a name later probably)

People trying to hunt him down/identify him/thwart him. NEMESIS!!!1

Other criminals who maybe do shady stuff with him occasionally / info brokers

PEOPLE HE'S TRYING TO MURDER??? You'd have to be like real shitty for this tho

Any double-CR with people who know 'Vash' AND 'the Vigilante' but obviously don't know that's the same fuckin dude

Wants and Dreams:

The duality of being super integrated into a community (AU) vs. the EXACT opposite of that in canon memories. Trying to hastily detach and utterly failing because people don't let him is always a favorite

LIKEWISE the struggle of accepting that your seemingly ideal life is actually fake and everything is bad forever

CR finding out about the double identity. IDENTITY TROPES IN GENERAL. LITERALLY ANY IDENTITY PORN TROPES

Just a bunch of really cute CR in general. Nice things. Let him be happy in one (1) universe even if it's fake

PLEASE COME AT ME WITH ANYTHING I WANNA PLAY WITH FOLKS SO BAAAAD

RUGGIE BUCCHI

[rugpull]

Player Name: Ari
Character: Ruggie Bucchi
Canon: Twisted Wonderland
Team: Acidia
General AU idea: He's an average to struggling student whose parents are very busy with Acidian organization work. Their home serves as a stopping place/temporary home to incoming new Acidia family members or visitors from other locations. They work in scouting and early training, stuff like that. They have a strained marriage and both spend a lot of time outside the home, leaving Ruggie to raise himself as a variety of houseguests move in and out. Maybe you stayed as a traveler who had Acidian business briefly?

He is always in search of ways to keep himself occupied/interested and as such has tried a lot of different things. He may have worked in your store briefly or joined your club. He had a few months as a popular Among Us player called Nettle who never streamed but got invited to several due to his turbo murder playstyle and playful attitude. But he never sticks to one thing too long, always searching for Something that will fill that hole in him...

He's also taken to some deviant activities. He sells that wacky leaf from time to time. Yeah man. That stuff.

Catnip.

The GOOD stuff.

Also does some minor shoplifting, tries to slide into bars, flirts with older people he has no business flirting with. He can pickpocket, pick locks, does some Urban Exploring in places he shouldn't be. He could be having catnip on your roof right now. Crime.

Within Acidia his focus is combining both poisons and healing with cooking to make things more palatable. He's also very poison tolerant and its not unheard of for him to sample dangerous substances with less severe consequences than others would have. Most of the time. He has sent himself to the hospital a few times throughout the years since his youth. Even as a child he just kind of stuck things in his mouth. With Acidian guests from afar staying at his home this has at least once been near deadly oops thanks for bringing that new discovery here. Good thing he has that iron stomach.

Roles/CR you're interested in:
Teen friends!
Bad influences!
Mentors/replacement parents!
Someone tutor this boy.
did u sleep with his dad? are you the sidepiece?
Wants and Dreams: i just want yall to rp with me everyone here is SUPER!!! CUTE!!!!

Michael Lin/Miha Nikaia

[toofarisnextspring]

Player Name: Mischa
Character: Michael Lin/Miha Nikaia (nom de plume(s): Lotus/Lily)
Canon: Original (Fate/Eden tabletop game)
Team: Acidia
General AU idea:
- Incredibly nerdy, brilliant high school senior who is currently doing dual enrollment with college classes. Very bookish, has a lot of interests (history, computer engineering, healing-related stuff, etc, etc), Excels in school (valedictorian, etc, kind of shit), works hard, but has no idea what they want to do with their life and doesn't really have ambition. Is currently the kind of person who in a few years will have aunties going "aiya, they're such a smart child, but they need to stop being so flighty and settle on a career-"
- Is an orphan and spent much of their childhood-adolescence in an orphanage. Was plucked out of the orphanage by Acidia a few years ago, was in foster care for a bit and then was set up in a small apartment on their own. So they're kind of late on the "figuring out what job they even do for the family" thing because see above on "directionlessness."
- Probably currently works as a tutor.
- Very shy and introverted, soft-spoken and gentle. Anxious, especially in social situations, sometimes apologizes for things that aren't their fault. Startles at the "wrong" things, like they'll get jumpy when people approach them unexpectedly, but potentially dangerous situations don't get them startled. Kind of depressed, seems pretty normal otherwise.
- Except the fact that they're two halves of one person in one body. It's fine. Totally.
Roles/CR you're interested in:
- friends or friends (?). They're usually the kind of introvert who is ripe for being dragged around by the more social as a project of some kind.
- Fellow students that they're tutoring
- fellow nerds for them to talk to, either in person/online?
- ...they're also into fashion and things like that, so maybe an avenue there too??
- teachers, official or otherwise?? adult presence of some kind in their life?
- idk I'm bad at suggestions and honestly I'm open to a lot, try me?
Wants and Dreams:
Honestly I'm hoping that they'll have friends and people to care about and have faith in in this kind of sad but still reasonably happy AU life before they start remembering their intensely shitty life where all the love they got was with conditions and they didn't have faith in anyone.

Ruan Mei

[abaogenesis]

Player Name: pepper
Character: Ruan Mei
Canon: Honkai Star Rail
Team: Acidia
General AU idea: mostly the same as what i initially put in the past plotting post:

Local woman is a serial divorcee/dater. Very attractive, very lovely, tends to pull people in by being just strange and offputting and elegant ENOUGH to start a relationship (she's very receptive to dates!!) but never lasts more than a year into a marriage, if it gets to marriage at all. None of her relationships tend to end badly, but there is always a general air of confusion about why. She seems to have her reasons and always assured ex-partners it's not specifically them, but it's pretty clear that she's looking for something and maybe just not getting results...? None of her partners are totally alike. She's very strange. But she's civil and perfectly kind about it, and accommodating, so if nothing else she doesn't seem to have any explicitly hostile previous relationships (or at least if she does, it doesn't seem to bother her much).

Currently she owns a relatively busy tea house/confectionary shop and has decent work-life balance but she doesn't particularly seem to be in love with her job... or really anything else, for that matter. Notably she has never said she loves any of her partners, which likely contributes to the divorces in the first place...? Who knows.

She tends to just Disappear sometimes but she always come back eeeeventually...??? possibly also a contributing factor to ending relationships.

some more background stuff:
- relatively wealthy lifestyle/family background but nothing terribly extravagant. tends to look more wealthy than she is due to style of dress/how she presents herself/etc. had an arranged marriage but her parents both died a few years ago and so started her divorce spree i guess
- went to college and fully graduated with a specific interest in biology (and related) but only dabbled in it as a career here and there for some reason...?
- ^you can probably infer some basic stuff and/or suggest whatever along any of these lines for cr purposes and i would be down for it
- Due to being in Acidia she IS deeply knowledgeable about herbal remedies and probably implements them into her baking/tea in some ways (+ also the odd bout of psuedo-hypnotism/poison/obedience via poison, don't worry about it), but despite this she pretty blatantly goes against this aspect of the Family in order to run her shop/etc. She does deeply care about life but, well...........

Roles/CR you're interested in:
- Old school friends/teachers/associates from her field work jobs before she started her bakery
- Bakery regulars/associates/employees. She probably only has one or two employees.
- Exes (bonus: you get to be in the Exes and Bros group chat. no ruan mei is not part of it but she knows about it,)
- Casual "friends"/etc. Friendship with her may be somewhat one-sided bc she does tend to only concern herself with her own issues to an extent and she's not, like... terribly great at getting close to people. But she can socialize fine when she needs to.

Wants and Dreams: make her have some sort of emotion and be wildly uncomfortable about it. i want her to squirm

Re: ACIDIA

[bittytorrent]

Player Name: Dzel
Character: Traumerei
Canon: Tower of God
Team: Acidia
General AU idea:

TRAUMEREI THE FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD TRUANT: Supposedly a high school student, but only ever shows up to biology class. Does show up to (most) tests and mysteriously passes with full marks. Can often be found getting into trouble with other class skippers, or working at the cat cafe. Avoids talking about his family, but is otherwise nice and normal*!!

*turns out his mom was murdered three years ago by a serial killer (Miguel's brother) for [reasons TBD] (Katy help). Since she was a rich family outcast that ran away to marry Traumerei's dad, the family found this incredibly convenient and used that as an excuse to cut ties with him completely. Traumerei's dad is an Acidia-native of [TBD] occupation that hasn't been the same since the murder. Definitely depressed, definitely a deadbeat. Possibly a druggie, idk yet.

ICARUS: Icarus is a well-known hacker that mysteriously popped into existence one year ago, coincidentally when the MMO "Ascension Online" (tentative name) mysteriously went offline. Need to doxx someone? Spoof your own data? Disable a security system? Pay a sufficient price and Icarus will do the deed, no questions asked. Traumerei doesn't talk about Icarus and Icarus doesn't talk about Traumerei. Double life, what double life--

CALAMITY: Traumerei's in-game name during the MMO's beta test. 'Calamity' was one of the top players of the top PvE guild, named Revolution. Was notably less of an elitist than Revo members and liked doing all sorts of casual content for the sake of it. Traumerei doesn't actively bring up Calamity or Revolution, but childhood friends may have noticed him spending a LOT of time in-game once he suddenly stopped showing up to class. Traumerei will talk about Calamity if asked, but expect him to be awkward about it.

Roles/CR you're interested in:

- Childhood friends that knew him pre-MMO binge
- Fellow beta testers in the MMO that definitely doesn't represent the Tower of God canon. (canon familiarity not required. we can build a fake MMO together)
- Normal teen friends in general
- The cutthroat businessfolk that shut down his beloved MMO due to lack of profits
- Troublemakers to follow into danger
- Cat cafe enjoyers
- Parent types
- Teachers that are suspicious of his definitely-not-spoofed perfect grades
- Icarus customers
- Icarus rivals
- People that know both Traumerei and Icarus but fail to connect the two
- Water-themed CR for reasons that are funny to me

Wants and Dreams: being part of a support network so they can all suffer together when the curtain gets ripped to shreds. alternatively "what if this child had to work through his problems instead of deleting his emotions and putting them in a dragon"

CIRRUS

[modmaster]

Re: CIRRUS

[reportinastorm]

Player Name: Vector
Character: Meryl Stryfe
Canon: Trigun Stampede
Team: Cirrus Network

General AU idea: She's a reporter! Which she is canonically too, but she's doing it a lot more successfully here. The general vibe I am going for is "generally happy, in a way she wasn't prior, due to things that are simply not possible on No Man's Land." She works for a major newspaper and does a lot of fairly high-profile investigative reporting, but she also has a podcast where she can talk about topics where the newspaper doesn't accept her pitch. She has a lot of people she gets along with pretty well and enough antagonistic relationships that she is fulfilled. She likes buying herself flowers for her desk and standing out in the rain. Etc.

Roles/CR you're interested in:
- Family! She doesn't have any siblings or any family she's close to canonically so those things would be cute to have.
- Coworkers from the newspaper
- People who've come on her podcast to talk about various topics
- People she has talked ABOUT on her podcasts, either people who are the story or other reporter-type people she either references or has beef with
- Exes. These do not have to be particularly deep relationships or antagonistic breakups, I am imagining she has been a serial dater in the way where she will initiate a relationship and then either she'll be too intense and high-strung or she'll get bored or she'll get busy with work and they'll break up after a few months.

Wants and Dreams: plz give me a lot of AU CR I want to stack her with more people than she actually knows how to deal with

Re: CIRRUS

[foreclosure]

Player Name: Suzu
Character: Jade (nickname is Aunt Lucy in addition to any team name theme that may raise)
Canon: Honkai Star Rail
Team: Cirrus

General AU idea:
✮ Jade was Cirrus-born to an affluent influential family so it was a shoe-in that she too would become Cirrus
✮ Leaning toward having the role of a Guardian in the family, so her day job is consultant (be her own boss and set her own hours) but most of her time is spent recruiting for the family and checking in on the rising stars of Cirrus
✮ General cookie-cutter boring suburban life where she takes the career woman path instead of getting married and settling down
✮ Depending on how housing works, platonic housemates with Lucifer (played by Tyki) in spirit if not in practice

Roles/CR you're interested in:
✮ Always looking for proteges and people to take under her wing (Cirrus or not)
✮ Always looking to watch (and encourage) the train wreck that are people with larger-than-life ambitions
✮ Failed to recruit into Cirrus but now we're friends or in a mutually beneficial work relationship across families
✮ Acquaintances/friendships built from random hobbies and encounters where they might not even know what family the other belongs to such as (but not limited to):
    ☆ Thrift store/pawn shop bargain hunting
    ☆ The cliche of seeing someone at a park/specific shop/bus stop for weeks and building a friendship
    ☆ Anything snake related (she has pets)
    ☆ Being nosy gossiping neighbors

Wants and Dreams:
✮ Since I finally have a character for this, I would like to play the shoulder devil to a few people looking to play a fall from grace/corruption arc. Warning: It would probably be subtle and slowburn to maximize indulgence
✮ Her own corruption arc of being the nice neighbor lady with actual good intentions slowing falling into seeing people as resources and pet projects for the "greater good"
✮ Shenanigans. Always want silly and dumb shenanigans

Kim Dokja

[thefaultinthestars]

Player Name: Aviy
Character: Kim Dokja
Canon: Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
Team: Cirrus
General AU idea: REID SOLO (name may change) was the the son of the wealthy and famous Solos of the Siren family, who died tragically in a house fire as victims of a serial arsonist about 20ish years ago. Reid/Dokja ended up being passed around by various immediate family but was by all reports a troubled and troublesome youth and eventually was left at a local orphanage.

Orphanage close friends are LOCKED IN, he ended up being part of a small group of very weird friends.

One of said friends got kidnapped when he was about 16 and reminded that THE WORLD SUCKS AND IS TERRIBLE he started to sell his story to tabloids, that being: his family sucked, actually. He tells all the sordid tales of his parent's abuse and neglect and how he was shifted from relative to relative as a traumatized child and had his inherence basically stolen from him. This would've been about ten years ago if anyone wants to remember him from tabloids/talk shows/pop culture drama at the time.

HE HAS SOME ISSUE WITH THE SIREN FAM FOR THIS REASON. (hashtag not all sirens)

He joined Cirrus and renamed to [UNDECIDED] at about age 19 when the talk show circuit was no longer making him enough money to live alone, and moved more into reporting/commentary via being a PNGtuber. His initial attempts were TOO NICE and he rebranded as a more sensational, clickbaiting troll who is happy to get hateclicks named Demonic Squid. Demonic Squid's deal is he takes 10% true facts and forecasts HOW THIS IS ALL GOING TO PLAY OUT and he spins interesting tales that may or may not turn out to be accurate but it's honestly more entertainment than news anyway. It's a pretty fun show if like sensationalist pop-culture stuff.

He keeps his profile low in real life but it is not at all impossible to know who he is. Anyone with any kind of life in public who is not a child (he will not pick on children) is welcome to assume that Demonic Squid has covered drama in their life in some way and in general made their life less pleasant as a result. He is particularly prone to being shitty about Siren.

Outside of his PNGtuber persona he is a much more low key guy, just a normal dude doing average stuff, keeps to himself but isn't unpleasant generally.

Roles/CR you're interested in:
-PEOPLE WHO HATE HIM
-PEOPLE WHOSE LIFE HE'S MADE WORSE
-PEOPLE WHO WANT REVENGE
-GIVE ME THE NEGATIVE CR
-fans of the show
-weird stalkers?
-people who have been following his show since before he was demonic squid
-normie stuff is fine too but he probably doesn't have any close friends cuz he sucks

Wants and Dreams:
getting to be a little shit in a bunch of threads

Re: CIRRUS

[fromthegarden]

Player Name: Tyki
Character: Lucifer Morningstar (In game name: Uncle Lou)
Canon: Hazbin Hotel
Team: Cirrus

General AU idea:

• One day fell from the sky and landed on the estate grounds of CIRRUS
  
• Just wouldn't leave so they kept him
  
• If anyone asks where he came from he says a stork dropped him on accident while on the way to his real parents (spoilers: obviously not true, but that's what he's sticking with)
  
• Reports on the weather --- specifically rainclouds. Has a tendency to chase them around.
  
• In his spare time he is a stress baker. Yes, he probably knows your favorite dessert
  
• Probably will be more of a guardian type
  
• Depending on how housing works, platonic housemates with Jade (played by Suzu) in spirit if not in practice

Roles/CR you're interested in:

• Stray people cats he normally bakes for
  
• Let me know if your character was around when he landed on the estate
  
• People he has done and will continue to do shenanigans with
  
• Since this is the suits team, if anyone wants to be his tailor
  
• Really, I'm open to anything! Let me know if you want something.

Wants and Dreams:

• I'm just here to play a silly little guy
  
• Eventually he'll be a silly little guy + the devil

SUN SIGN

[modmaster]

Re: SUN SIGN

[themightybosstone]

Player Name: Nishi
Character: Settrigh (Sett, the Boss)
Canon: League of Legends
Team: Sun Sign
General AU idea: Sett had a bit of a time doing some MMA prize fighting, but got out of it after a few title fights (and their delicious prize monies) under his belt. He took his winnings and actually invested them, starting a little coffee shop that eventually became a cat cafe. It is called Little Meowcenaries. (with a little sign, Adopt Recruit Within!!)

There's a little sun carved in the door, designating this as a safe place for travelers, strays and outcasts.

The internet is strong enough, there's a lot of cats, and the food's actually pretty decent. Sett has spent a lot of time on two things. Body building and latte art.

Everyone's got to have a hobby or two.

He's divorced and the cats bully him. He's fine.
Roles/CR you're interested in: Honestly, I love found family shit. I want past CR of people he might have been a fighter up against. Either formally or. ahem, informally.

People he throws out on sight? People who are regulars.

Other business owners!! Do we have a local channel??

Relationships! Friends! Gym bros! Relationships!
Wants and Dreams: Who doesn't want an ideal life stripped away slowly one memory at a time reconciling with the fact you're a murderer for fun AND profit so like-

Re: SUN SIGN

[foxtouched]

Player Name: Shiny!
Character: Kitsuno
Canon: Original
Team: Sun Sign
BACKSTORY, THIS IS NECESSARY: (Click to read, tl;dr: Goddess Vessel Fairy Special Snowflake Being goes through some shit she didn't ever want to be involved with, and is now trying to find a reason to not just die out and plunge her world -and likely yours- into oblivion. So she chooses to study and enjoy humans!)

---

To put AU into perspective, what must be known is that Princess is the oracle of the fairies with a big purpose and reigning a Nexus Realm where everyone's imagination and supernatural beings originate from, and is the vessel for a primordial fertility goddess, tasked with "birthing" inspiration and desire. She is a fox fairy!

Her other powers also include traveling existences, keeping an eye on their kind in non-magical realms, and reviving what's gone once it's died or extinct, things like that.

She's mostly just been grown to be this useful being who is tasked with all this and never known a life outside of it. Though she isn't looking to "break free" from her role, she has little to no agency in her life.

In her story, with how everything ends up getting her cursed, and her being unintentionally OP as a result causes her to trap an ancient demon of the dead on who the universe depends within her- she just wants to understand why these worlds matter and what purpose the cycle of her existence as a Goddess Vessel serves.

SO, she's trying to let herself live and find ways to live while she's weakened from her restraints on her (that control her pheromones that have gone haywire due to the curse) and just exist without powering the Demon King inside her.

Thanks to the curse on her, she's begun to slowly die as well, which is unfair to her! She never chose to be Oracle or in this powerful position, nor did she want to be cursed and locked away, or be trapped with a Demon King who tried to kill her (and now is in love with her but ?? It makes no sense)- but! She's slowly accepting her role, and trying to give it meaning while she can't fulfill her purpose as an Oracle and Goddess Vessel. She sees meaning in mortals and short-lived beings, so she wants to learn about them and what keeps them going.

And hey, if she decides they're not worth it, they can die with her! Simple!

Also, humans with kind hearts have delicious life energy/souls, while humans with evil or in the middle hearts/souls have sharper (but also delicious flavors)- so she tends to want to eat them, but she's trying not to, because that might also strengthen the Demon King inside her and he'll take her over. So she will restrain herself from eating people and their souls!

General AU idea: So being here, even if she can't remember her purpose, is a way to give her some experience in humanity, to be among people, not be a being on which existence's imagination and magic depend and people's desires, and just live and learn. I'd like to see her learning and understanding humans, good and bad, while also finding herself accepted. While she has no human hang-ups about people hating or fearing her, she just finds them all so adorable that she wants to spend more time with them.

So- people she can experience things with, be friends, just generally see mortality in all its good and ugly is great. Also dances. Please teach her all your dances!! She's not a fighter, and is physically incapable of really hurting anyone unless she shapeshifts, though she knows some combat with throwing fans and can heal through touch and dances, depending, whenever powers come into the picture.



Roles/CR you're interested in: Local cryptid stares at you while you sleep. She has some daughter energy, even though she's centuries old herself, and kind of terrifying if you think about it, but she's got faebrain and is cute and curious! Part Disney Princess, Part Bizarre Horror Nightmare. So, she'll do well as just a companion fairy who will generally love people and try to understand them.

Wants and Dreams: I do wish for her to eventually truly feel for people, and be confused and accept their strange ways. So I'd like to grow that with her CR even if she isn't human herself and may never truly understand them, but I'd like her to be filled with wonder and interest through her interactions, down to the most mundane.

She'll be your local cat fox with pretty eyes.

Re: SUN SIGN

[unlimitedtimeoff]

Player Name: Jeva
Character: Gojo Satoru
Canon: Jujutsu Kaisen (PGAU Last Resort/Serpentine Horizon)
Team: Sun Sign
General AU idea: normal ass middle class life. was a bit of a punk in high school, beating up bullies and being a nice (but very rude) jock. got into a motorcycle accident a couple of years ago. HE ALMOST DIED! so his memories are a little wonky during that time period of his recovery but also he did have a recovery period and LOOK AT THIS GNARLY SCAR HE GOT--WEAR YOUR HELMETS, KIDS! (the scar is on his torso, so unhelpful advice to avoid that injury). after this experience, he decided to go the route of SELF HELP VIA WORKOUTS or basically Healthy Body, Healthy Mind level of guru except he is still a bit of bully and rude about it. frequents the gym, has a few proteges or workout buds/rivals. also goes to the local cat cafe and sweets shop! idk something like that.

Roles/CR you're interested in: IF YOU NEED COOL OLDER BRO OR GYM BRO OR MAYBE EVEN DAD, I'M DOWN FOR IT. HE'S GOOD FOR THOSE ROLLS, JUST BE ADVISED HE HAS A TERRIBLE PERSONALITY AND CAN AND WILL BULLY YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY TO BEING BETTER TO YOURSELF.

Wants and Dreams: Not gojo hiding the fact that he's actually someone who had a destiny and thus is OP as fuck. surely no one could find out his secret as he regains memories! also shenanigans in general.

Jing Yuan

[lionsleeps]

Player Name: Cleo
Character: Jing Yuan (Nom De Plume: Zibeline)
Canon: Honkai: Star Rail
Team: Sun Sign
General AU idea: He was born to a wealthy political (prolly Holy Order) family, who really wanted him to follow in their footsteps into politics or civil service. He thought that sounded criminally boring and useless, so when he went to university he went low-contact and is unofficially disowned. Undergrad was Wild Boy Times as he was freshly free of strict expectations, so he spent a lot of time partying and sleeping around and taking naps in weird public places. He started some kind of video social media (youtube tiktok w/e) account while in grad school and ultimately around 27 he got his PhD in something wildlife conservation related. He started traveling the world for field work and this caused his internet presence to blow up -- so now he is a bigtime internet personality. But managing his actual conservation work w/fame was exhausting so he took a break from travel 2 years ago to teach some undergrad biology/zoology classes. So as of game start he's a college professor and a Celebrity Animal Conservation Guy. He spends most of his downtime at Sett's cat cafe.

Roles/CR you're interested in: Anyone who might've known him during his rich people childhood, partied with him in his wild college days, worked with him in conservation, knows him on the internet, or is involved with him in a university capacity.

Particularly would love to have fellow faculty/TAs/students, cat cafe buddies, people from childhood or college who remember him quite differently than he currently is, and people he knew in field work who have seen him up to his armpits in mud looking very NOT the handsome celebrity.

I will also appreciate anyone who wants to include him in their general cultural awareness of celebrities, even if they don't give a single shit about it. Fans and anti-fans also good but I'll be delighted with any amount of "oh that dude. w/e. no thoughts."

Wants and Dreams: I want to play with the way he's been a very different person to different people depending on when they knew him and from where. I want people he can goof around with and people who will embarrass him and people who think he's a big fake asshole. Anything and everything rly, but my main goal is to have him be generally happy and tragedy-free at baseline so when he recovers memories it'll be traumatizing.

Re: SUN SIGN

[demonicdomestic]

Player Name: Ruru
Character: Alciel/Shirou Ashiya
Canon: The Devil is a Part Timer!
Team: Sun Sign

General AU idea:
Doctoral student trapped in the endless purgatory of working on his thesis. Poor. Buried under the threat of student debt and the hopelessness of an uncertain employment future. Frequently takes short term/odd jobs to make ends meet, from teaching assistant and grading papers to weekend deliveries and covering sick leave.

His frugal lifestyle led him to develop a bit of a knack for item restoration and mending, and he's got a bit of a word-of-mouth reputation as that guy that can get those worn, cherished shoes or that ripped designer jacket back to almost new.

His family is large and scattered, and he's not particularly close with any of them.

That all said, Alciel is just a simple, normal, human guy living a simple, normal, human life. Definitely not a demon. Definitely not a great demon general. Has not done even a single war crime.

Roles/CR you're interested in:
Business owners he works for or picks up shifts at, faculty he's worked with or worked for, maybe a doctoral advisor. People who generally get to know polite, dedicated Alciel.

Fellow students and employees, people who get the slightly more open but generally nice (if slightly despairing) Alciel.

Past roommates, people who find him and commission restoration work, students he's tutored. People who get to know bitchy, unimpressed Alciel.

Wants and Dreams:
I love me some slow burn relationships - friendships, found family, everything. It takes a lot to win him over, but he is stupidly loyal if someone does.

Would particularly love to form relationships that will be a certain level of awkward when his past and nature starts surfacing. Outside his homeworld, his kind of demon is stupidly long lived and draws power from negative human emotions. His natural form is humanoid but definitely not human (pointed ears, a hard black carapace covering most of his body, clawed hands and feet and a spiky forked tail). There's some potential fun overlap there with HSR's Xianzhou natives and the Abundance and I would be so down for that if anyone is interested.

His canon's version of Lucifer is his long-term colleague (neg) and he's had to interact with several big-name angels, so I would also love eventual fun shenanigans with other canons' version of their angelic/demonic hierarchies.

SIREN'S MELODIES

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Skadi | Ishar'mla (Moonjelly)

[shorcanado]

Player Name: Mora
Character: "Skadi"
Canon: Arknights
Team: Siren's Melodies
General AU idea:
- orphan that got kidnapped and ends up doing forced ocean labour
- ends up at shady ass seaworld equivalent where she works night shift as an animal trainer and maintanence
- becomes a performer eventually, doing musical sea animal shows w/ the orcas. might be enchanting people with her voice? who can say
- also has an orca fursona and seems to be some kind of otherkin on the internet and posts unhinged rants about ecoterrorism in between the covers and handful of original songs and creepy ass videos of her singing from off-screen in an empty aquarium at 3 am she uploads. it's fine because it's all in character though she would never actually do an ecoterrorism and eat her boss (unless...?)
- might be two girls? definitely seems to vacillate wildly between mad about normies (and absolutely hating her job, only staying there because THE ANIMALS ARE HER FRIENDS AND THEY MIGHT GET HURT IF SHE LEAVES) and everyone will love each other and be happy OR ELSE (please pay $399 for a season pass. the sea will save you. come to seaworld and jump in the orca tank. the sea will save you)

Roles/CR you're interested in:
- people who read her bad posts on the internet
- people who like her shows/music/creepy aquarium videos
- rivals
- people she's kissed. skadi/jellyfish is a lonely bitch despite being a shut-in mad at the world and people in general and ishar'mla/moonfish is a lonely bitch who doesn't have a sense of personal space or knowledge of why she shouldn't be allowed to put her mouth on people
- exes
- people she messages with unhinged rants about how humanity has ruined everything, is hopelessly divided, and needs to be forced to cooperate and swallowed by the sea because the ocean is the only thing that will never betray you
- if you willingly submit yourself to the waves you finally be able to be happy, free from the shackles of humanity
- the whales will be free and they will kill every normie
- this is probably why she has exes

Wants and Dreams:

hi let's be friends

THE FORGE

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Vash (ver. Stampede)

[liveslaughsloves]

Player Name: Seth
Character: Vash the Stampede (nom de plume Eriks)
Canon: Trigun Stampede
Team: The Forge
General AU idea: Sparknotes version is:
- Twin brothers with Trimax Vash but everyone thinks he's the baby brother anyway.
- Both Vashes are part of an organized criminal org in the darker underbelly of the Families, that's grown concerned about Trimax Vash's unendorsed vigilante activities.
- While Trimax Vash got settled and established in a community with his flower shop etc., this Vash is a rover. For a few years now he's become a hard-to-reach guy who travels a ton and doesn't settle. He does do crimes and kill people for good causes also, but he hates doing it and tries to make it up to the folks left behind if he can.
- The criminal org contacted him and sent him to go check what the fuck is up with his bro.
- He got in a bad accident and as a result has forgotten literally everything about his AU except that the other Vash is his twin. He DOES have papers and ID confirming him as a member of Forge and likely had a few prior connections to Forge before he joined as a cover for hs current job, but he is a recent conscript and does not have deep-rooted history with this Family.

Roles/CR you're interested in: Other characters may remember something about him -- shared schooling or rooming in different cities; having gotten to casually know him from the many transient jobs he's worked; being part of the same criminal org; having glimpsed him doing crimes on dark and stormy nights. Maybe you're even a cop tracking his criminal identity without yet being able to identify his civilian one! MAYBE HE KILLED YOUR FAMILY. He will pretend to remember you if you make like you know him no matter what, but oh my god will he be faking it.

Wants and Dreams: I WELCOME EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO DO SOMETHING WITH THIS DUMB AUMNESIA PREMISE TBQH. You don't even have to actually HAVE an AU history with him, you can pretend you do and he'll fully bite the hook, at least for a while. Bully him. Help him. Follow your whims.

If we tapped each other on the first plotting post all of those ideas are still valid and delightful, and we can flesh things out more here! But I would also love more connections since I ended up missing a lot of the first plotting period.

EONIA

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Re: EONIA

[weboftruths]

Player Name: CELI
Character: Kuroro Lucifer
Canon: Hunter x Hunter
Team: Eonia
General AU idea: Kuroro was an orphan who grew up his whole entire life without knowing who his parents are. There were some rumors that something very terrible happened to them or that he was thrown away, but he's not entirely sure of what the true backstory was. Still, he maintained a positive attitude so he can help other orphans in the orphanage!! He often would "borrow" things like movies or games that he thought the kids would like, even personally developing a liking to fandom things because it brought him good memories. He developed a group of friends he cherished, but due to unfortunate circumstances, they were all split apart.

He's currently at Eonia (not impossible that he swapped around families at first prior to joining, unsure as to what he's looking for in a group). With Eonia, he probably tries to make sure everyone is working together and wants to get them to be friendly if possible. He thinks friendship is good!! He might get really exasperated with some of the more "grumpy" or "morally grey" types, but unfortunately, that's the type he gravitates towards.

Right now, he is a talented artist, known especially for his fanart/doujin work, usually selling his art at conventions because he hoped it would reconnect him with his friends (and it did!).

ALSO I SHOULD NOTE, he's in his late 20s, around 28. He is also a giant nerd, straight laced, waited til he was of legal to drink, etc.

Roles/CR you're interested in: His orphan friend group is solidified but he probably ran around in the streets a lot, especially when he was going on secret heists so if you're interested in this, let me know!! If you were also in the orphanage, he probably knows who you are and has been very friendly with you.

He also has a strong online social life, and is very social in general. Conventions and libraries are his favorite hangouts, but he'll be into movies too. If you're a nerd, he'll have no problem striking a chat so you might know him from that.
Wants and Dreams: I WANT HIM TO HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS SO WHEN HE REMEMBERS HIS MEMORIES OF BEING WORTHLESS, HE CAN TRY TO THROW IT ALL AWAY AND EVERYONE WILL BULLY HIM ABOUT IT!!!!!!

HOLY ORDER

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Re: HOLY ORDER

[warpweft]

Player Name: Jeff
Character: Nessa Houghton
Canon: OC
Team: Holy Order
General AU idea:
- Nessa spent the first part of her life alone, spending at least part of it living in an orphanage. She was eventually taken in by some guy and taken care of by him.
- Joined Holy Order and has pretty singlemindedly dedicated herself to being an upholder of the Order's laws. Nessa grew up in chaos and was only safe and happy when she found order and support. She really believes in Holy Order's ideals.
- Has overachieved super hard and successfully become a detective in Whatever Estoria's Major Crimes Division Equivalent Is.
- Someone who defines herself by her external achievements and is pretty much always seeking approval from her peers. She used to be alone and have nothing, now she has all of these commendations and accomplishments, so that means she matters now, right? Right???????????

The kinda arc I'm interested in is pretty simple want/need stuff, Nessa defines herself by her accomplishments and her external validations and has gotten herself to believe so strongly in the structure she believes Holy Order represents that she values herself by how well she can uphold that structure and what she actually needs to do is see the value within herself, y'know the drill. Also, Original Nessa is a flouncy, sarcastic, semi-hedonistic smart-ass witch with very little respect for the law, so contrasting that with super straight-laced duty-bound plays by the rules Holy Order Cop Nessa is very funny to me.

Roles/CR you're interested in: Nessa is gonna be around her early-mid 20s, so, within Holy Order, I'm interested in more senior characters that she's looking up to and seeking the approval of, maybe some kind of mentor relationship. I'm also interested in CR with younger characters who she wants to give some level of stability to that she didn't have.

UNHOLY DISORDER

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Re: UNHOLY DISORDER

[iamverybadass]

Player Name: Jiora
Character: Damian Wayne / probably "Magpie" for a Nom de Plume
Canon: DC Comics
Team: Unholy Disorder
General AU idea: Not quite a wish fulfillment AU, but this is an entirely non-traumatic AU life.

• Raised by a rich single mother (probably owns a hotel chain or something) who does genuinely love and support him, but is kept very busy running her business.
  • She has hired nannies/caretakers over the years to make sure there's someone whose job it is to be available/present for him when she can't be.
  
  
• Once he hit 10 years old he began acting out anyway!!1 But acting out really just means he got into
  • skateboarding and dirt biking and stuff and skips school a lot while still passing his classes.
  • Sometimes steals trinkets from loved ones
  • or steals animals from shitty owners to pass on to cat cafes/animal rescues/individuals he's confident will care for them.
  • More recently has begun getting into graffiti as an outlet for his art. (Big on realism; beginning to dabble more in abstract/stylized art.)
  • His art is extremely good and he has a couple of formal paintings in [mother's business(es)]
  
  
• Also when he was 10, badgered his mother into adopting Tim Drake after they bonded over skateboarding and graffiti, and Damian noticed Tim was spending too much time on the streets for his liking.
  • This did nothing to improve his his acting out, but at least Tim was supervising him now (sometimes).
  
  
• Attends school in Manteau City
  • Does regularly skip classes, but his mom donates to the school to keep him from facing worse than detentions
  • Very academically gifted in every class. He's been skipped a grade or two, but his mom won't let him skip any further so he has to learn how to socialize with fellow teens.
  • His grades hover around B, sometimes A. The only reason he's not a straight A student is his attendance.

Roles/CR

• Former caretakers? Maybe he's only ever had one caretaker; maybe he's had several who've had to move away/change jobs for whatever reason
  
• Cops/other authority figures who've run into him. Are you assigned to petty crimes? Do you want to be part of a cat and mouse chase across the city after a graffiti artist or local pet thief? Just feel like fucking with a disorder youth, or trying to guide him back onto the lawful good path?
  
• Fellow students and/or hooligans. Never enough of these. Maybe they're friends, maybe he had to tutor someone as part of a detention period, maybe he's gotten into schoolyard scuffles over petty school bullshit?? All options here rule.
  
• Other??? Really I'm down for anything. Friends of his older brother that he thinks are cool, people who own shops in the area he might frequent, people who might do business with his mother and be aware of him as a future heir to her business, former or current teachers, etc.

Wants and Dreams: Everything

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