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duocaeli mods ([personal profile] gamedevs) wrote2023-01-08 07:20 pm

AU plotting post

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!
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PINOCCHIO | DIMENSION 20: NEVERAFTER

[personal profile] bubblegumwhisky 2023-05-03 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Kabby
Player Contact: PMs/[plurk.com profile] cornonthekobb

Character Name: Pinocchio
Canon: Dimension 20: Neverafter
AU Occupation: he's a child, he's in school :\
AU Background: I have not thought particularly hard about this part because when you're but a wee lad there's only so much backstory you can have.

I'm having him be an orphan in the foster care system. No one knows who his real parents are or how he came to be, he's still a wooden puppet in Crane City 8( What a mystery! He's definitely gotten a history of acting up and has disappeared more than once, having to be rescued out of less-than-ideal situations. Perhaps he literally ran away to join the circus at some point ala his "I'VE GOT NO STRINGS~" phase, perhaps there was an equivalent of Toy Island...unsure what that could be without going darker than i'm willing to, but anyway

he's a little punk in canon and he's a little punk in the AU. He's bounced around from home to home and now he's just kicking it at Dodo house, I guess? He tries sometimes in school and other times he just gives up in frustration. Pretty average student, most likely the class clown, runs amok in the streets, will endure no supervision.

Don't worry you're not responsible for him, just fish him out of a manhole if he's fallen down one and be on your way.

Looking For: NO PARENTS, sorry. But he will take casual mentor types! Pinocchio will materialize by your ankles and expect to be entertained, or maybe he'll just fucking torment you if you're bullyable.
- FRIENDS. I know he is a baby next to y'all but his regular friend group is multi-gen, he's game to level with you. Also he's quite sweet if you get to know him
- OTHER MISCREANTS. Let's get into some shit, were you someone that led him astray before? it's very easy to do, he's dumb and devious
- ??? I'm really just here to wing it fellas.
Edited 2023-05-03 23:29 (UTC)
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Notes! (pls do not respond)

[personal profile] bubblegumwhisky 2023-05-03 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
PENDING...
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anna (2)

[personal profile] feyfound 2023-05-04 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: anna
Player Contact: [plurk.com profile] camerata / dm for discord
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nat

[personal profile] diffract 2023-05-04 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: nat
Player Contact: nat#1824 / [plurk.com profile] deliverance
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jena

[personal profile] petitejournalism 2023-05-04 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: jena
Player Contact: pm! plurk or discord upon request <3
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alhaitham 🌱 genshin impact

[personal profile] diffract 2023-05-04 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: alhaitham
Canon: genshin impact
AU Occupation: half time university special collections archivist, half time freelance consultant, full time devil's advocate (punches him)
AU Background: i barely thought about this so get ready for this to be inaccurate an hour from now skdfjskld
🌱 reaction to au memories: he will try to figure out why tf this happened, but overall if it doesn't hurt him or intrude on his life then he'll roll with it while he investigates
🌱 family: orphaned, no siblings, raised by grandma who passed when he got into college
🌱 money: rich kid through his family inheritance
🌱 sexuality: ace and he's the worst date ever
🌱 schooling: master's in linguistics, minor in archaeology, working on phd in linguistics (first year? second year?)
🌱 general attitude: super smart and observant, surprisingly insightful, tactless but unfortunately right most of the time, just vibes, only motivation is to keep his life simple and easy, wants out of the dodo house as fast as humanly possible
🌱 likes: listening to music, comfy chairs, quiet places to read, working by his own schedule, debating, napping, meat?, skipping leg day, being a coffee and beer bro :/
🌱 dislikes: noise, being in the rain, working overtime, useless tasks and paperwork, being bothered outside of work hours

Looking For:
fellow cohort/graduating class members
childhood friends/vague acquaintances
people who are genki... maybe university students?
bookstore owners
fellow fans of his fav bands
distant relatives or cousins
wise/smart elders that he can respect
coworkers/other university staff
baristas or chefs at his regular cafes/restaurants.... rip sylvain 🫡
anything! i'm happy to bounce off of any ideas or make things work!
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notes.

[personal profile] diffract 2023-05-04 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
( please no steppy )
Edited 2023-05-04 07:06 (UTC)
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meryl stryfe | trigun stampede

[personal profile] petitejournalism 2023-05-04 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Meryl Stryfe / info/permissions here!
Canon: Trigun Stampede
AU Occupation: A journalist! Who is on a little bit of thin ice because she keeps sticking her nose where it doesn't belong and finding stories she can't write about due to danger of retaliation... Don't worry about it.
AU Background:
✏️Meryl has a single father, Robert, who is definitely not Roberto but has a lot in common with him.
✏️She got her love of journalism from him and looks up to him despite having to constantly remind him to behave himself.
✏️Led a pretty normal, top-of-her-class life being the Class President in high school, graduating at the top there, and then graduating at the top again after studying journalism in college. She put a wild amount of time into studying which led to a lack of social life outside of her small clique of friends, and some naivety about the world outside of textbooks.
✏️She got a job in journalism after graduating and often gets herself in trouble because of it — she's always looking for the biggest stories and those tend to be in dangerous places with powerful people.
✏️She has a habit of following trails into the Underworld and either almost getting herself killed or having to make deals that she won't write stories about it to keep herself or family safe.
✏️Her job is on thin ice due to the lack of stories she can write as a result of all that, so she's normally given smaller pieces like sports games or gossip columns — things they can trust her to write and finish. Doesn't stop her from sticking her nose where it doesn't belong, though. She'll get the story of the century yet!
✏️There are some old, old videos of her as a pre-teen on not!Youtube of her practicing being a reporter behind the news desk, reporting on kid stuff. She's somehow managed to get herself locked out of the account and can't delete them, so she just hopes no one finds them. But they're there — she used her real name thinking it'd be useful for her resume someday, so they're not hard to find.
✏️She has some amateur photography pictures of flowers on some stock photo sites, as a small side hobby that she figures can help her photography skills for journalism.

Looking For: Meryl is 50/50 on these memories. On the one hand, they have quite a bit in common with her real life, in terms of academia and journalism. It's also fascinating to her to know how she could've grown up on Earth. It's hard to ignore her curiosity there. On the other hand, she's kind of trying to avoid them because of the way her fake dad reminds her of Roberto, and that's still an incredibly fresh wound. It's also just weird and invasive to have memories that aren't necessarily hers, and it's confusing and hard to deal with.

✏️Academic rivals would be nice for her to have! Surely she was constantly keeping up with who was getting what scores and who she should look out for her on her journey to be The Best in her class.
✏️People who tried to approach her in school and got ghosted in favor of studying instead??
✏️Those who exist in shady areas of the world for her to accidentally get herself into trouble with, or who at least know about her from all the stumbling into things she does. Maybe you even secretly try to keep people from killing her!
✏️Anyone else who might have interactions with journalists, she'd want to keep up on anyone important, or might end up getting to write a story on you! Or maybe you're also in her line of work, or adjacent to it!
✏️People who've found her embarrassing childhood videos and recognize her, or have used her stock images for things...
✏️She's an active person so there's likely a reason for her to run into just about anyone, so if you have any other ideas, go for it! I'm always open for both positive and negative relationships!
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NOTES (do not reply please!)

[personal profile] petitejournalism 2023-05-04 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
↬Roland has seen her stupid childhood reporter videos.
↬tbc
Edited 2023-05-05 03:43 (UTC)
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aki!

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: aki
Player Contact: pm or [plurk.com profile] ikedaya!
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scaramouche | genshin impact

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Scaramouche
Canon: Genshin Impact
AU Occupation: Recently graduated nurse at the same hospital Matsui works (worked????? his ass is probably long since fired) at because i'm committing to the bit and having any character i app here work at the same hospital
AU Background: SHOWS UP WITH ANOTHER CHARACTER AND STILL PUTS NO THOUGHT INTO AU
• Estranged from his family and does not talk about them! What did they do? What were they like?? A mystery.
• Not a local and a relatively recent transplant. Where did he come from?? Also a mystery, damn.
• Has extremely mixed reviews at his job because he has terrible bedside manners but is like the most efficient worker at any given time.
• i want him to have some weird side gig because i think it'd be funny, like he just moonlights as an extremely popular banksy type graffiti artist or anonymous slam poet or something

Looking For: THE USUAL BLANKET I'M GAME FOR ANYTHING. more specifically:
• PATIENTS?? who's leaving him 1 star reviews on yelp
• Coworkers/students he may have crammed with and lived that exhausted nurse life with
• Distant relatives?? Some Family Is Okay Maybe
• Friends! Penpals! Childhood buddies! Past flames?! Give him social connections for once in his sad, sad little life.
• Let's form a roving raccoon huddle of miscreant graffiti artists

re: reacting to au memories, scaramouche will largely be ignoring his! those are fake! get them out of his head! bye!! but he's at least somewhat susceptible to treating people differently depending on their au history and i'm totally down for playing around with this and seeing what happens
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notes!

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
will i actually remember to update these this time
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[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
BODYSLAMS YOU
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[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so happy about nursemoose
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[personal profile] diffract 2023-05-04 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
PICKS KAVEH UP AND SPINS HIM
into therapy
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[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
NO!!!!


are we doing roommates or does alhaitham get to be free of kaveh's horrible bird
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[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
NURSEMOOSE i fucking hate it here. let's do some au nonsense tho, maybe scara gave him the worst service but best splint he's ever had or some shit
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[personal profile] diffract 2023-05-04 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
NO WE'RE DOING IT i need alhaitham and bird tag teaming to make his life hell
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[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
THE BEST SPLINT LFMSDKGJHDSJKGH

kaveh probably gets sick a lot because he can't not overwork himself (and also he drinks too much) so I think it would be funny if they see each other a lot and hate each other but also kaveh is a huge fan of his artist work and doesn't know it's him
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[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] diffract 2023-05-04 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
you tell him little man
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[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
WAEWALPESLPFES PLEASE THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY kaveh like wow have u met this shitty nurse who knocked my applesauce on the floor for no reason. also damn i love banksy2
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[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
this is kaveh's worst nightmare
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[personal profile] diffract 2023-05-04 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
he can get rid of the bird and move out then
Edited 2023-05-04 07:18 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
He's deaf suddenly

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