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au plotting post

Welcome to the Duocaeli's Plotting Post for OFFline world AUs! Rather than doing monthly installments to play with this optional mechanic, we've decided to use this permanently installed post for players to come in and engage with our AU mechanic as they please.

How does the AU mechanic work?
Upon arriving in the OFF world of Crane City, characters will find themselves encountering NPC residents and others who react to them as familiar citizens, friends, and family. While not necessary, there is an optional mechanic for characters to also suddenly regain memories of a life they had in Crane City, whether it be an entire lifetime or as someone who moved in and took up residence later on. However, all characters will intrinsically know that the Alternative Universe memories they have of the OFF world aren't their real memories.

In addition, while characters may have OFFline friends or family resemble canon characters that can be apped, they must also retain some differences. This is to allow for creative freedom for characters being apped in.

OOCly, Duocaeli puts a focus on canon personalities and histories of characters, but we wanted to have the optional AU mechanic for those who wanted to play with it! If you don't want to opt in, there is no requirement to have a top-level or entry in this page. If you would like to engage, please follow our example for organization's sake.

This AU Plotting Post will be linked on every monthly mod post as a reminder for those who would like to engage in the optional AU mechanic.

Player Name:
Player Contact:

Character Name: Feel free to also link to their permissions/info post if that's your jam!
Canon:
AU Occupation: Quick snapshot of what your character does.
AU Background: This can be as detailed or barebones as you want!
Looking For: Are there any particular kinds of AU CR that you'd like for your character? Childhood friends? Bitter academic rivals? It may also help to include your character's attitude on the AU memories - do they find them confusing and want to embrace them? Or will they ignore them to the best of their ability?

While not necessary, mods also encourage having a FROZEN "Notes" comment reply to your own top-level that lets you edit and include new AU details as you plot!

Otherwise, the entire post works like a general plotting area! Please comment under character comments to build AUs with each other. Don't be shy now!

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

hey what if both their affluent families tried to get them to hook up and date

or at the very least i think they should be cute rich kid friends

propositions you my dear Kabby with;
- Toko meets looks mister looks like Byakuya and is stonking rich like Byakuya but is soft and friendly like an adorable golden retriever DON'T BE MEAN. *except do because my special caveat is he actually can get very petty and indignant and sharp-tongued but only after he's bullied a lot.
- maybe he can be disgusting and be positive and cheerlead her anyway depending on how cr goes
- consider also Brick's best galpal is a psychopath in canon so he also normalizes women's wrongs—good for him. Coffee dates? FORCED SPA DATE?
- Syo meets him while in the middle of a Financial Transaction and maybe there's a case of mistaken identity and misunderstandings Who Owes Money To Whom andor an easy opportunity to pilfer a Fat Wallet for a loan shark enforcer...?

SWEET VASH... I LOVE HIM SO why is this the funniest thing of course he can be an unpaid intern, im crashing tonight but may i throw a prompt at vash sra... i want to tag with u puts my hands on u

HOW CAN THEY BE STUDY BUDDIES WHEN KAVEH IS BANGING HIS BUZEN!!!!!!! no i think that's hilarious let's do it

STOP LISTEN maybe kaveh dated buzen for a short time after graduation......... THEY DON'T NEED TO BE ENEMIES MATSUI HE DOESN'T WANT YOUR MAN ANYMORE IT'S FINE DON'T TAKE HIS BLOOD

JOLEEEEENE JOLEEEEENE JOLENE JOLEEEEEEEEENE I'M BEGGING OF YOU PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY MAN or ill take your blood

I hate this

LISTEN IT'S FINE maybe he did design work for her parents or something... and he likes the arts in general!!! visual art but also music and performance art like theatre hehe

IT'S FINE... SOMETIMES YOU DATE THE SAME GUY at least it's not an embarrassing ex because Buzen is a great dude, imagine if they shared a shitty one

idk if my friend will app alhaitham himself or not but either way yeah poor roland will get the brunt of kaveh's bitching about him/people like him/shitty people that he has to Fight (not physically)

OPENS MY ARMS PLS... I'm also hoping to put an open post up this weekend too

she hates all of this, rips his fucking face off

but no i would love for them to become best friends somehow, it could be a really cute dynamic i think! i know she's difficult but he is both genki and crazy enough to break through

also re: Syo LMF YES, did we still want to go with what Sra proposed and have Vash save Bricks from a narrow skewering? This can all be in the past so they have a weird reunion in game, fake memories do be a bitch

that'd be funny. i'd say athy's au extended family could do that. her father is the type to think it'd be great if she stayed single forever, so if you're fine with that kind of vibe, i'm good for that!

regardless of the above, they end up cute rich kid friends because that's always a++

oh yeah he definitely could!! her father would commission so many things for her, so he could have asked kaveh to help design a huge garden or greenhouse or something.

performance arts are also a go. theater and dance are things she'd be interested in.

he can be very genki, true u_u

YEAH I'M GAME FOR THAT I feel like Syo would not be the first or last thing Vash saves Bricks from either way! Definitely gives added impetus for him to be like madam why are you like this

he supports that vibe! he's not ready to commit to a serious relationship so even if he liked her he'd be like "WELL, YOUR DAD, YOU KNOW..."

but yessss cute rich kids friends

the way i made an open post with no prompts in it... but HERE U GO!!!

they would become gossip girls together to bitch about their shitty ex they share if they did. but instead they talk nicely and fondly about their sweet valid buzen