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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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DANA

[personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Dana
Player Contact: pm this journal! or pp [plurk.com profile] evergrace
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BUZEN GOU

[personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Buzen Gou ( permissions )
Canon: Touken Ranbu
AU Occupation: street racer, mechanic and local errand boy when he needs money
AU Background:
✧ everyone's boyfriend buzen gou at your service, he's (mumbles in mid 20's) years old
✧ it's hard for me to pretend that i have thoughts besides King of the Street Races that happen in the middle of the night, because i think he deserves his tokyo drift destiny
✧ literally just race him. on anything. cars, motorcycles, horses, boats, he can and will drive and ride anything
✧ has a family situation! doesn't talk about it :) but he's from out of town for sure, even though he's been in Crane City for the past couple years
✧ very bad with finances, but he's won a lot of fast cars so what more could a man want
✧ probably went to college very casually before ultimately deciding that it wasn't for him and preferred to take up the car trade anyway
✧ also happy to work part-time literally anywhere. he's probably picked up a lot of random work ranging from petsitting, modeling, cafe stuff, life coach or just regular fitness coach, probably very jack of all trades and master of none vibes

Looking For:
✧ race him, please race him, any kind of rival or jock buddy would absolutely be so easy for him to love and adore
✧ i think it'd be so funny if he was someone's life and fitness coach and generally just peptalked them all day every day
✧ hire him! in general! if you needed any random errand done, buzen would've done it, and then his finances would be bad because he'd forget to charge once you're friends :') he would just start doing everything for free
✧ old college buddies before he stopped going..... he needed a tutor so bad. he's so stupid.
✧ previous relationships or situationships.... let "everyone's boyfriend buzen" be real.... it's probably more casual relationships than anything, and also i make everyone else come up with reasons why they broke up with buzen because he would just never break up with someone,,

✦ as for how he'd treat the AU memories, he doesn't believe in them! LMFAOASDLKFH he thinks they're funny little stories, but they have nothing to do with him. that said, buzen is also an idiot and his behavior will naturally be altered by his memories whether he is aware of it or not (i.e. touchier with old flames, just acting more familiarly regardless,)
Edited 2023-02-22 04:19 (UTC)
hasteful: (➛ they don't know)

NOTES

[personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
✦ as per the rules of goumyu, buzen is (was?) engaged to matsui. he doesn't actually believe in this and as far as he's concerned he's still platonically poly with everyone "that's called having friends" platonic poly :)
✦ dated itsuki at some point, and that's a mess
✦ dated yoojin at some point, and that's fortunately less of a mess
✦ old uni friends with roland, absolutely went to his graduation all mushy about it
✦ occasionally picks up shifts at the cafe where felix and sylvain work
✦ motorcycle cavalier buddies with sylvain!!!! ♥ bro ♥
✦ was a track star during uni with felix before he dropped out, they have a rivalry worthy of shounen sports manga!!! ♥ bro ♥
✦ getaway driver (jk) (srs) for ringo bc that's what friends do
✦ friends with fukawa! yeaahhhh!! we support women's wrongs!
✦ workout buddies with aspen!! wow! ballet!
✦ also workout buddies with alfred! we love jocks in this house
✦ helps riku and sophia stream even though he knows nothing about streaming
✦ generally tags along with the catholic brunch crew even tho he doesn't go to church
✦ occasionally hired by hsy to do random odd jobs for ads and whatnot, this is how we get the "ikemen unites all of humanity" article
✦ please give me more to this i'm withering away i'm dying
Edited 2023-02-23 00:41 (UTC)
magesque: (ღ let me see the light)

RIN TOHSAKA

[personal profile] magesque 2023-02-22 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Rin Tohsaka ( permissions )
Canon: Fate/Stay Night
AU Occupation: by day: college student / by night: crime heiress
AU Background:
✧ similar to her f/sn background, rin comes off as a fairly stand-offish, peerless, perfect honor student who does everything right and has wide range of talents
✧ but a little digging on her background will reveal that she's an orphaned child of a prominent and now very dead crime lord in the Batata District
✧ so rin walks the line of having a decent moral compass because she lost her parents before she could become more ruthless, but also believes that she should still be some level of cold and terrible and wouldn't be surprised if people judge her for her family history if they find it
✧ she's currently in her revenge era, and is biding her time and resources so that she can figure out who killed her mother and father and then back at them, whatever that looks like (she hasn't decided what it looks like)
✧ but other than that she's such an approachable young lady! she's charming if prone to teasing, and very polite though she is still used to getting close to people
✧ she's the captain of the baseball club this is important everyone play baseball with rin
✧ she's also an only child :) now that's fucked up!

Looking For:
✧ i actually think closer relationships (friends, maybe one trusted childhood friend, sibling-ish things) would be nice to explore with rin because in canon she doesn't let herself have any
✧ people who are also in slightly more criminal/shady dealings would be fun, if only because she would be trying to get information out of them and also build relationships for sketchy things
✧ if someone wants to act as her Archer stand-in as a type of confidant/attendant/right hand then i think that'd be sweet.... Master and Servant-adjacent vibes
✧ baseball team! let's fucking play ball! even if rin just roped you into it for fun!!
✧ exes are always hilarious, though rin is more likely to find herself in situationships because she would struggle to confirm (bad at Defining the Relationship)
✧ did you kill her dad? were you part of killing her parents? i just think this would be a fun AU to have to unpack and deal with especially if the relationship is otherwise amiable and good.... betrayal arc built right in
✧ she's always nicer to girls so i think that she should have a lot of girl friends and girlfriends you know what i'm saying

✦ as for how she feels about the AU, the funny thing about fate/ is that rin can very easily accept the existence of parallel universes. so she does think that this could possibly be true! she'll be a little confused and embarrassed by it, but be more likely to believe it's even a little possible than the average person
magesque: (ღ in your high-heeled shoes)

NOTES - please don't reply!

[personal profile] magesque 2023-02-22 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
✦ sylvain was her babysitter when she was younger, making him a pseudo-brother to her even though she'll never admit that to anyone
✦ claude rejected her once when she wasn't even fucking asking (derogatory)
✦ had a Thing with felix but don't ask her what it was, she's not entirely clear
✦ works part-time as a model for hsy and thinks that she's meddling but funny...
sanguinary: (i just came to say goodnight)

matsui gou

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-02-22 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: aki!
Player Contact: pm or [plurk.com profile] ikedaya hell yea

Character Name: Matsui Gou
Canon: Touken Ranbu
AU Occupation: Phlebologist or something else highly medical and blood-specific because i think that's hilarious personally
AU Background: i genuinely have not thought about this at all girl help.
• HE'S CATHOLIC?? like sunday catholic. not catholic enough for it to matter in any real way but he wears a rosary about it
• went to medical school! he has a fascination with blood for probably tragic reasons that he doesn't talk about but it's fine because they're normal person levels of tragic and not sword levels
• is also from out of town but it's fine because he will truly just vibe anywhere
• home situation is a mystery, does even he know, wild, what's happening out here

Looking For: the usual not at all helpful I WILL TAKE ANYONE AND ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING because listen.. i will...... but!! more specifically:
• family?! i have literally nothing planned for him so far so if anyone wants a brother/uncle/cousin/whatever, i throw u this fucker
• fellow medschool students! who was with him while studying for 29 straight hours for an exam, living solely off of trix and coffee grounds... they've been through the trenches
• colleagues! who is out here with him cursing anyone who says the word quiet while in the waiting room
• fwiends... air him out over the weekends or he'll never leave his study and start growing mushrooms
• Enemies In Love i guess if ur character dated buzen help
• idk sunday church friends???? HELP

re: how he'd treat his au memories, he is very much like buzen and also doesn't believe that they're real! but since he's more self-aware and also running faster in this one single matter he's actively avoiding treating people any differently to the degree that he's capable of...help
sanguinary: (peacefall)

notes!

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-02-22 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
• he was pining for buzen for like 10 years and then they got engaged in like 2 weeks :amen: this is all i got so far help me lorde
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Jae

[personal profile] duskspear 2023-02-22 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Jae
Player Contact: PM or PP ([plurk.com profile] welzes)
appeale: (i am a tentacle‚ incapacitated obstacle)

[personal profile] appeale 2023-02-22 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
church acquaintances........... the worst kind of social connection
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Fukawa Toko/Genocider Syo | Danganronpa

[personal profile] janescayre 2023-02-22 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Kabby
Player Contact: PMs/Kabby#3489

Character Name: Fukawa Toko/Genocider Syo
Canon: Danganronpa
AU Occupation: On the meme I had Syo down as a loan shark enforcer just for giggles, but perhaps that is too wacky to start with? Debating keeping that as Syo's gig on the down low while Fukawa has no idea, toiling away in the daylight as a disrespected intern at a prestigious publishing company. Or worse, she's making ends meet as an assistant makeup artist. Being around hotter women all day, touching their perfect faces...horrific.
AU Background: - Definitely still a writer, though without her canon prestige or fame. Let's say she has a bajillion kudos on Ao3 and is mortified that her AU self was writing trashy fanfiction this whole time, but then gets super into it and starts flame wars with competing ships.
- Family wise, she is half-siblings with Dimitri. Do not ask how that works. I haven't got any family plans beyond that and would want to consult with Nu before deciding what their parents are like, since her canon parents were pretty 😬😬😬 Let's just say there is a reason she is the way she is
- Her split-personality is still mostly a secret, though a less urgent one to keep since there's no body count this time. Perhaps if her parents are nice this time, they are gently suggesting therapy? Very, very gently.
- Syo has mostly been a nocturnal presence, sometimes Fukawa's bed will be empty and her window left suspiciously open. Nobody knows where she goes or what she does. Could she be Spider-Man????
- She is still a deeply unpleasant, paranoid, jealous wreck who falls for boys who hate her, but with a better safety net around she hasn't resorted to her former desperate extremes
- Freshly graduated! 19 and ready to enter higher learning and the job market! Likely shopping for college options. Perhaps you remember her as the girl who got kicked out the lit club for bitching out the other members and making their supervisor cry.
- I'm winging this tbh, I'm unsure of what else to put

Looking For: - Rivals! If you breathe Fukawa hates you.
- Unless you're a princely bishounen type, esp if you disrespect her. Then she has a massive crush on you.
- That said she's inevitably going to find some of these pretty boys to be a complete disappointment, so that's fun too.
- Go-getters or strong-minded protag types who wormed their way into her heart. She's allowed to have friends in the AU.
- Other family/family friends? Cousins?
- Fellow Ao3 writers/readers, perhaps people to get into fights with
- galpals ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- boypals?????
- horrible miscreants who enjoy Syo's horrible company!
- Idiots who Syo can bully/manhandle/make odd-couple friendships with
- Bad influences and good influences
- is anyone even senpai aged here? Mature folks of all stripes are most welcome!
- Fukawa and Syo are both trying to lay low and reform after a bad incident in Nightfell. If you have ideas on how to help or make it even more difficult — say any kind of past run-in with AU Syo that could be held over both girls heads — I'm open to discussing it! But I'm also holding the right to veto it because this can always be dicey territory, where one party winds up being a scapegoat or made to be a bigger bad guy than they agreed to, so please keep that in mind!
- ?????
- Forced makeover montage?
- i'm tired, I'm sure I'll think of something brilliant when it's far too late
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Notes! (pls do not respond) (CW: child abuse mention)

[personal profile] janescayre 2023-02-22 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
- she sucks
- Lived with her birth father and his new wife until she was fifteen, they were abusive/neglectful in much the same vein as her canon family
- Moved in with her birth mother and her half brother Dimitri thereafter, slowly regains #HOPE
- Instead of serial killing Syo's gotten involved in organized crime, why not. She's fully an enforcer for a loan shark now, possibly has mob ties. Fukawa doesn't know about any of this, she just wakes up in her bed and sometimes finds a fat stack of cash?? how did that get there
- sadly this may mean murder is still on the table...oof...
- has definitely been bullied and bullied hard
Edited 2023-02-23 05:38 (UTC)
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[personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
kabby give me everything..... on the one hand buzen is perfectly capable of being nice and her friend and completely patient and accepting even through fucking everything because he's an idiot with a big heart,

on the other the idea of her doing rin's makeup and they both fucking hate each other but also talk shit about other people at the same time is sooooo funny pleaSE
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[personal profile] janescayre 2023-02-22 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm supposed to be going to bed BUT YES YES YES

I loved where her thread with Buzen was going, I think they could sincerely be friends with more time! He's just so beautifully dumb and hopeful and sweet. Just like a golden retriever, pets him fondly

and a;lskdfj YEAH DONE DEAL she has to seethe through lining Rin's sparkling sapphire orbs but ultimately their hate of other people brings them together...perhaps someday, even overcomes their own hatred......
hasteful: (➛ and people talk too much)

[personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
get better taste (not a real comment)
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Roland Glenbrook

[personal profile] duskspear 2023-02-22 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Roland Glenbrook
Canon: Triangle Strategy
AU Occupation: Social worker for maximum irony
AU Background: A native denizen of Crane City and the eldest child of two to a teacher father and a horticultural therapist mother. Cheerful and aspirational, he's an active member of the community and the friendly neighbor who's happy to reach out when he isn't busy spoiling his little brother.
Looking For: Roland's attitude toward the memories is one of wary reluctance. He doesn't accept them as his reality, but he plays along with those who seemingly recognize him lest he cause unintentional damage somewhere. Fabricated or not, he's sympathetic toward the people who've unknowingly lost the actual person whose memories he's inherited.

  • Friends from childhood or recent stages of life like university. Is your character shy? Roland would've approached them first. He's more of a jock than a nerd, but he appreciates everyone.
  • Colleagues in professional and/or volunteer work, just so this aspect of their lives doesn't exist in a vacuum.
  • Anything and everything to flavor CR. It can be something small or whacky like the one (1) time your character ran him over on a bicycle. Conversely, I'm open to discussion on more impactful relationships (e.g., sweethearts). Hit me up!
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Notes

[personal profile] duskspear 2023-02-22 07:46 am (UTC)(link)
  • Little brother: ❌ Mithos ([personal profile] reliance)
  • Sweetheart: ❌ Rutile ([personal profile] equillibriums)
  • Friends:
  • Serendipitous:
  • (billboard voice) this could be you
  • ❌ = dropped characters considered missing in Crane City
  • Edited 2023-07-08 08:57 (UTC)
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    [personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
    FRIENDS!!!! ROLAND AND BUZEN DESTINED TO BE FRIENDS I NEED IT
    duskspear: (Default)

    [personal profile] duskspear 2023-02-22 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
    I'm shaking in my nonexistent boots at how fast you are.

    BUT I NEED IT, TOO!! Should they be friends from school . . . He missed you the day you dropped out, bro.
    hasteful: (➛ you keep it in your pocket)

    [personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
    i gotta go fast.... want my jae cr

    they can and absolutely should be friends from school.... they probably met in a general ed course and became fast friends!!! even after buzen dropped out he still would visit roland on campus and also wanted to go to his graduation!!!
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    [personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
    GO TO BED I'LL BE HERE TOMORROW

    literally i still have to tag you back so she can get the confirmation that buzen is a literal hunk of steel i'm dyijngklshdfsf BUT YES LET'S DO IT. buzen would happily be her friend.... :) he just wants to make sure she's happy

    also this is hilarious gOD I HOPE SO. i just want mean girls to eventually respect and appreciate each other....
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    [personal profile] prozaic 2023-02-22 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
    grabby hands at
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    [personal profile] duskspear 2023-02-22 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
    That's soft. 🥹 Buzen was welcome to graduation while Roland supported him in the car trade. You do what makes you happy, friend.

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