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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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hikari ku

[personal profile] reinherits 2023-05-17 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: January
Player Contact: PM/[plurk.com profile] snowesque

Character Name: Hikari Ku
Canon: Octopath Traveler II
AU Occupation: University student | various part-time jobs... perhaps i will think of specific things later...
AU Background: oh god uhhh this is jan on need-to-sleep-brain but—estranged from his family who are involved in gang stuff! He grew up tangentially involved, his mom tried to keep him out of it mostly but he probably did a crime or two. And then she died, so he ultimately convinced his family to let him walk away from the life entirely, though the downside is that he's cut off from any financial support so he probably works several jobs to keep himself afloat through university as i try to figure out what he's studying sweats. Also probably does a lot of volunteer stuff.

Looking For:
  • Cop-out answer of anything tbh
  • Fwiends? Or the opposite too
  • If you want to be related somehow I am open........
  • People to recognize from the gang/shady life..... Hikari doesn't keep his family ties a secret because he has no sense of self-preservation, but he will politely pretend he's never met you under sus circumstances if you're trying to keep things hush hush
  • DO YOU HAVE VACANT JOB SPOTS... please hire him (or be colleagues)
  • Volunteer buddies
  • He probably doesn't have a ton of free time for extracurriculars but he can't not be a jock so he does some kind of martial arts or sport when he has time so athletic buddies?
  • He is going to be very weirded out by AU memories because he already has enough brain problems help but he will try to take them in stride! He generally defaults to politeness so he'll take cues from how other people react to him/treat the memories
  • disingenuous: (r86)

    [personal profile] disingenuous 2023-05-17 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
    i'm crying we can do that

    they met and then buzen dated kaveh instead would be hilarious
    reinherits: (nm. 8)

    notes

    [personal profile] reinherits 2023-05-17 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
    predispose: (pic#16307531)

    [personal profile] predispose 2023-05-17 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
    holds paw in volunteer buds.... yoojin job hops a lot too so !!!!
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    [personal profile] reinherits 2023-05-17 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
    this icon is so funny zetsu

    but ye...... multi-job buddies!! hikari is probably not very tech savvy so maybe yoojin could've helped teach him

    and then hikari followed his instagram and to be nice he tries to comment on every single photo yoojin posts of peace as you can tell he increasingly struggles to come up with something unique to say each time but can't stop now without feeling rude
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    [personal profile] diffract 2023-05-17 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
    alhaitham: turn off my fucking life support

    I LOVE HER please let this happen. when he sees her he'll be like please. anything but this. the bad news is she's incredibly smart (even if she has bad taste) so alhaitham can't help but respect her and encourage scholarly pursuits... there's no winning
    predispose: (pic#15852895)

    [personal profile] predispose 2023-05-17 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
    yoojin is expressive in the best of ways ALSO AGGRESSIVELY TUCKS YOU INTO BED

    yeah!! he would've helped him in any way he needs. the caretaker in him just naturally and patiently lending a hand

    and i. help THIS IS SO FUNNY stop forcing your hand hikari you can just like the post and leave it at That. JKHGKHGKJDF i appreciate him so much
    hasteful: (➛ should this be the last thing i see)

    [personal profile] hasteful 2023-05-17 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
    STOP!!!! ALHAITHAM WHAT CAN BUZEN SAY IN RETURN!!!! i truly don't know if he'll ever pick up that alhaitham and kaveh are soulmates damb but he'll be supportive once he gets the clue
    hasteful: (➛ and people talk too much)

    [personal profile] hasteful 2023-05-17 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
    WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN BOTH SIBLINGS ARE BEAUTIFUL????? accidentally fall into a relationship with the first one available ig
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    [personal profile] reinherits 2023-05-17 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
    HE WANTED TO BE A SUPPORTIVE FRIEND!! and now he can't stop........
    middleboss: (The Don's Melancholy)

    [personal profile] middleboss 2023-05-17 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
    god it's so stupid, i love it


    she's too dense to read the room and realize that gushing about kaveh's streams in depth is causing alhaitham physical pain but she aces even her college level exams.... she's a cryptid

    and she's his problem now, good luck alhaitham
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    anna

    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
    Player Name: anna
    Player Contact: PM or [plurk.com profile] moetan
    onlypets: (pic#16412702)

    count d

    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
    Character Name: Count D (his info post is here)
    Canon: Pet Shop of Horrors
    AU Occupation: a wildlife biologist
    AU Background: HELP i have to use my brain... he moved into the city with his grampy when he was young so they could run his grampy's little pet shop, but grampy has decided to take sabbatical now and left him to manage the shop while gone. just him, helping out with the pet distribution system while doing wildlife and conservation biology. does the city have a zoo??? anyway, he's probably there when needed. he does those conservation tiktok videos here and there showing him feeding the wild cats while they viciously growl at him and he coos delightedly. he also loves plants so the pet shop is full of them.
    Looking For:
    *not looking for any family, but definitely looking for:
    - friends (even childhood friends)
    - customers of the pet shop
    - anyone who needs vet assistance ig (do u trust him when he isn't a certified vet...)
    - people to have tea with even if they will be poisoned by his 1:12 tea-sugar ratio
    - people who will bring him sweets as bribes
    - anyone who love animals and nature, music, and art
    - anyone who doesn't love those things so he can get mad and argue with them
    - fellow lil weirdo goth and drama kids
    - anyone who likes creature mythology or natural history. anyone with cool stories about the culture of nature of their world! professors, historians, etc both AU and not AU. he's a nerd, he loves this stuff

    *his au memory attitude is curiosity and he goes along with it, but doesn't cling to them by any means
    onlypets: (pic#16412677)

    NOTES

    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
    - places he frequents as a customer and/or people he's encountered many times: roxana's florist shop, nai's butcher shop, tsurumaru's bakery
    - apparently childhood friends with scaramouche this is terrible
    - amiable friends with fellow dramatic weird goth dubbed single letter zoo-goer v
    - probably convinces al to help him obtain illicit records for nefarious justice purposes (why is he just selina kyle.......)
    - absolutely adores juniper. the perks of kemonomimi
    Edited 2023-05-18 16:03 (UTC)
    onlypets: (pic#16412696)

    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
    jan why do you always play characters who desperately need help
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    [personal profile] reinherits 2023-05-17 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
    I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THIS FROM YOU?
    onlypets: (pic#16412693)

    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
    he comes to get flowers from her all the time to decorate the pet shop and his room!! thank you ara goodbye
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    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
    this is fucking killing me to read i hate you
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    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
    i'm sorry if d ever bugs her about doing conservationist editorials help meryl...

    hilariously, the research probably always seems very bland at first, but then there is a twist that something very shady and bad was going down with w/e the editorial was about. he had absolutely nothing to do with any of that and wasn't involved at all, good job meryl.
    onlypets: (pic#16412674)

    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
    nattt!!! (it's anna(1))

    brings ol' al a pet and drops it off in his lap before absconding
    onlypets: (pic#16412708)

    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
    HEY.... listen here MINE DESERVE IT AND AREN'T JUST SAD HEAPS WHO SHOULD BE LOVED
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    [personal profile] feyfound 2023-05-17 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
    HIII JAN it's anna (2)

    i haven't played octopath ii yet but i am here for hikari... is he a good student. juni needs a study buddy bc she's bad at school!! otherwise she's definitely an athletic buddy by default,
    reinherits: (nm. 8)

    [personal profile] reinherits 2023-05-17 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
    i'm going to throw you off a cliff and check out d's canon unfortunately
    reinherits: (nm. 2)

    [personal profile] reinherits 2023-05-17 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
    HELLO THE SUPERIOR ANNA

    also yea he's a nerd too... he will help you study juni!! you can achieve good grades through the power of friendship this is how academics work
    onlypets: (pic#16412704)

    [personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
    WHAT THE HECK i wanted to be like NOOOOO then realized you were modding summer so it doesnt matter DANG MY MYSTERY

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