AUGUST AU PLANNING

[thewatchers]

AUGUST AU PLANNING
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Welcome to the August AU Planning Meme for Daybreak Academy! This post is intended to help prospective players plot their AU and figure out who their characters are in this setting and where they want to go, as well as work together with other players to plan future CR, build Secret Societies and Clubs, and generally determine where they want to start their characters, and where they want them to go. In addition to posting up the form, you are encouraged to tag around to other people's forms and discuss potential CR and plans with them. This post is an open forum for all prospective players to hash out interesting ideas for their characters ahead of joining the game.

Not sure where to start? Feel free to look through the Premise and FAQ for notes on what the game is about, and what to expect. We also encourage you to take a look at our information for in-setting Powers and Secret Societies to help flesh out your character's backstory.

Please note, simply posting here is not enough to guarantee your spot in the game. If you are interested in playing a character, you will want to Reserve them.

GENERAL INFORMATION

PLAYER NAME: (Your name/alias.)
CHARACTER NAME: (Your character's name in canon)
CANON: (Canon name, or Original Canon if applicable)
BLURB: (Use this space to give us a birds eye view of the character/canon.)

AU INFORMATION

CHARACTER AU NAME: (Can be the same or different from OU)
STUDENT OR FACULTY?: (Self-explanatory. Optional: Include grade for student it subject of study for faculty)
CHARACTER BLURB: (A short blurb about who they are and where they come from)
PRE-ESTABLISHED CR: (What are you looking for in terms of pre-established CR as you enter the game. Include information about what kind of family/clan or secret society your character might be a part of, or anything that might be a potential hook for others.)
DESIRED CR: (What kinds of CR would you like to build in the game?)
OTHER:(Put whatever you like here. Tagging schedule, cat gifs, you do you.)

<b style="font-size:20px;padding-right:1px;font-family:Palatino Linotype;color:#307151">GENERAL INFORMATION</b> <span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype;"><b style="color:#307151;">PLAYER NAME:</b> (Your name/alias.) <b style="color:#307151;">CHARACTER NAME:</b> (Your character's name in canon) <b style="color:#307151;">CANON:</b> (Canon name, or Original Canon if applicable) <b style="color:#307151;">BLURB:</b> (Use this space to give us a birds eye view of the character/canon.)</span> <b style="font-size:20px;padding-right:1px;font-family:Palatino Linotype;color:#307151">AU INFORMATION</b> <span style="font-family:Palatino Linotype;"><b style="color:#307151;">CHARACTER AU NAME:</b> (Can be the same or different from OU) <b style="color:#307151;">STUDENT OR FACULTY?:</b> (Self-explanatory. Optional: Include grade for student it subject of study for faculty) <b style="color:#307151;">CHARACTER BLURB:</b> (A short blurb about who they are and where they come from) <b style="color:#307151;">PRE-ESTABLISHED CR:</b> (What are you looking for in terms of pre-established CR as you enter the game. Include information about what kind of family/clan or secret society your character might be a part of, or anything that might be a potential hook for others.) <b style="color:#307151;">DESIRED CR:</b> (What kinds of CR would you like to build in the game?) <b style="color:#307151;">OTHER:</b> (Put whatever you like here. Tagging schedule, cat gifs, you do you.)</span>

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Comments

[ninehilist]

GENERAL INFORMATION

PLAYER NAME: Fae
CHARACTER NAME: 9S
CANON: Nier: Automata
BLURB: Yoko Taro's Wild Ride Featuring:
-Emotions!
-Philosophy!
-Lots of Yelling!
-Things Being Weirdly Sexual at Times!
-A summary that took me forty-five minutes to type trying to explain 9S's deal to Amber seriously Nier: Automata is a Lot okay?

AU INFORMATION

CHARACTER AU NAME: 9S aka Nines (I do have a "normal" name for him, Finn Lastname-to-be-determined but he doesn't remember or respond to it)
STUDENT OR FACULTY?: Not sure tbh? 9S is...well
CHARACTER BLURB: After having lost his parents when he was very young, the boy who would eventually be called 9S was taken by a super sketchy lab known only as YoRHa. Run by the probably-not-human Red Girls, YoRHa's mission was to create super soldiers in any way they felt necessary. This lead to a lot of human experimentation, especially on those the Red Girls deemed interesting. 9S, being one of the youngest and one of the few with innate "magical" ability, was one of "interesting" ones. They decided to utilize his innate psychic ability for a variety of different terrible things and see how far they could take it. As a result, 9S was turned into what some might call a cyborg: able to interface with most technology simply by willing it, with more complicated tech requiring more focus (it's very easy to read someone's text messages, but way harder to get into a military computer mainframe). Because of this, 9S can't read minds or anything, assuming he ever had that ability in the first place. Nowadays, his "psychic" ability is mostly just in the form of blasting people with raw psychic energy, though that does leave him exhausted as the experiments left him with a weaker constitution than most.

After maybe ten years of this sort treatment, 9S managed to escape with one of the girls kept in the YoRHa labs. He's not quite sure what happened to her (or so he claims). After that, he escaped to a city and proceeded to set himself up in a dinky apartment with far too many computers and keep himself to himself for the most part.

And then he got into a fight with some probable-cultists and got stabbed and met Lia and she convinced him to maybe attend Daybreak after a few days of nagging, 9S running off and making his injuries worse, and general nihilism meeting magical girl shenanigans.
PRE-ESTABLISHED CR: So this is entirely Amber's fault, and he would know Lia when he got here. He really didn't get a chance to nor want to interact with people outside of "picking fights to maybe make the pain stop" before Lia sort of shoved herself into his life so pre-established CR would probably have to be from the whole "picking fights" thing, if anyone else is from Lia's town, or maybe on the internet since he's there 99% of the time. Otherwise, there's possible connections to YoRHa (maybe you knew about it or had heard about it?) or hell, the probable-cultists could be a connection!
DESIRED CR: ACTUAL FRIENDS this boy has none and all of his previous human interaction was kinda bullshit. Fellow nerds. People who appreciate a good bit of code.
OTHER: I am not super sure how to like. Cement all of this into Daybreak! Any ideas on what 9S's powers might be classified under would be greatly appreciated, as well as any other suggestions!

(Also in my head the probable-culitsts are Adam and Eve but for obvious reason I'm leaving them Super Generic for this.)

[buddinghopes]

I'm not sorry

[ninehilist]

FISTSHAKE

[lifeforced]

> if anyone else is from Lia's town

Becky here lived there between 2012-2014 and knows Lia personally, and remained in pretty consistent contact with her after moving away (phone calls, text messaging, online chats, etc.), before they wound up reuniting here at Daybreak in late 2019. They're now roommates.

[ninehilist]

Unfortunately I don't think he would have been out of the labs by that point but if she visited and wandered the less-great areas/paid attention to Lia's gossip she probably heard about a few guys getting literally blasted!

And Amber said Lia would have 100% told Becky about the whole Debacle with 9S so

[stavros]

Kokoro does know Lia, and she's been through her share of "how do normal person" despite (because of?) growing up going to Daybreak. Also, beating up evil cultists is one of her many centuries-long family traditions, so she might have heard a thing or two about that.

[ninehilist]

Does the school offer lessons in how to normal person because 9S is gonna want those...but yes! I wasn't sure if there were cults already established that would work so I left that vague, but I do have an idea for this cult if there wasn't! Granted "totally want to bring about the end of humanity by way of creeper possibly eldritch gods, possibly demons" is pretty common cult bullshit lbr but hey XD

[silksoul]

what's with all these people making soldiers out of children!!! hornet disapproves!! And understands sorta!! Maybe they can be tentative friendacquaintances and sort of mutually awkwardly nod at each other about not really having a great deal of socialisation!

as for power help, depending on what angle you want to take with it it could be some kind of feycraft, magic, or even a forced daemon pact, depending on the nature of the lab and their experiments. i know canon yorha is all about that Serving Humanity stuff but how far they're willing to go with it with utilising other inhuman sources of power could be a good question to ask

[ninehilist]

I was thinking feycraft, since afaik magic is something that's trained and...they did not do that with 9S, they just took what he had and turned it tech-y, but I wasn't sure if that'd work :|a you think it would?

also look if someone can figure out what's with the people taking kids and making them into soldiers let 9S know he'd love to cause problems on purpose for them

[shockingblue]

Well, Gunvolt here is a friend of Lia's, so that's a solid in for CR to begin with. He's generally heroic, good, and tries to be just. He has magical powers as a Candle that make him command lightning and electricity. No, he won't fry 9S's computers, don't worry!

But of course, Gunvolt would be on board for wanting to punch out both cultists and YoRHa, because some of that hits pretty close to home for him too. He's got quite a beef with people/organizations that do stuff like what happened to 9S, given he's been actively working against a Japanese company called Sumeragi Group that's big on exploiting Candles for power, energy, and profit (And while he's *not one* in Daybreak, Gunvolt himself was a victim of them in canon), YoRHa would pretty swiftly go on his shit list too. So if Nines needs a staunch ally in the "maybe don't turn magic kids into tools" battle, he'll get one pretty quick.

And for powers, if it's a naturally occurring power for Nines, it could be anything from fae heritage or a gift, daemonic heritage, or in theory it could even be a Flame. Flames work pretty well as a general "all purpose" sort of thing where powers don't always fit in an easy categorization and allow greater flexibility. Gunvolt's powers in his canon, for example, are like a mishmash of psychic/biological stuff as a result of human evolution, but I transitioned them to a Flame in Daybreak and they work pretty much the same way. So that's a decent option too, and Nines' Flame might've forcibly awakened early under duress, as a possible explanation of why he got them so young, if you want to go that route.

[ninehilist]

ngl once 9S realizes that there are other people who are down to destroy YoRHa he will be very keen on maybe doing that. or finding who their sponsor was and going that route so I am super down for that CR!

I was leaning towards fae-related stuff since....that is very much my jam won't even lie, but maybe the Flame idea would work better :|a they did take his powers and make them more tech-y after all

[st0rmandstr3ss]

GENERAL INFORMATION

PLAYER NAME: Laura
CHARACTER NAME: Yarrow
CANON: Original Canon
BLURB: For the Canon world, it's 5e, so all kinds of weird races, dragons, etc etc. For Yarrow himself, he's an ex-slave of the yuan-ti (snake people) (sneaple) and managed to somehow escape and get to a completely different continent...with absolutely no memory of how that happened. He has semi-uncontrollable magical powers of the elemental variety, and is trying to figure out what his purpose in the world is, and what it means to have some amount of free will. Also, casually providing the group with unsettling information about the best ways to murder and manipulate people. By d&d standards, his alignment is "neutral good, mostly."

Oh quick edit, he's a Storm Barbarian. So very tanky, rages, and has strange powers that erupt from his body. Specifically fire, electricity, and ice. He also has some ability to manipulate elements around him - controlling nonmagical fire, earth, and water, along with other things.


AU INFORMATION

CHARACTER AU NAME: Yarrow Mayu
STUDENT OR FACULTY?: Probably student?? Faculty would be alright too, but idk yet
CHARACTER BLURB: Yarrow is Quechua. In the D&D game I left it rather vague, and most of the time I'll point to his unique situation to keep it vague here too, as I'm only so familiar with the culture.

How to play out his captivity is where I'm having trouble. Human trafficking is a thing, obviously, but I really don't want to get into the sexual issues there, especially not in a modern setting where it's very possible players have been directly affected by that. But that situation is also part of his core character, in that he was held for so long against his will since childhood that he's having issues with finding his personal identity. (Along with PTSD.) See below for the way I think that could be resolved??
PRE-ESTABLISHED CR: I'm thinking Yarrow was probably outright kidnapped as a young child by a particularly malicious Contracted, who somehow found out he was an Candle before the magical signs started cropping up. He waited until Yarrow presented with the magic to start experimenting, and in the meantime left Yarrow to the care of other "servants" to be taught how to be useful.

So unlike many others, Yarrow grew up with the knowledge of the magic he had. Once his own powers kicked in, the Contracted began to shape him into a weapon. I figure the Contracted stepped on the wrong toes at some point and ended up on the wrong side of some Hunters or Rune Guards and ended up dying and having his mansion scrubbed out for dangerous magical items. Which happens to include Yarrow. After some "wtf that's a whole ass person" they figured the Academy was probably the best place to send him.

I don't know much about specific people though, I wandered here through enablemeplz.
DESIRED CR: Friendly CR!!! And also people to challenge in physical contests. Someone to coax him into relaxing a little more. Though negative cr is fun too, though at this point Yarrow tends to be quite passive.
OTHER: Idk if my suggested thing is too dramatic, or if there are any things that could be made to work out better. I also figure that his education will be all over the place, so I figure a handwoven "recovery period" of 6 months or so, to at least have kinda sorta functional.

Anyway, tagging schedule - I tend to go fast in short bursts, go quiet, repeat. I like 3rd person prose best but I can work with literally anything.

[spelleton]

oh man, yarrow sounds like he's been through quite a lot! I don't think the stuff you have now is too dramatic - we've got plenty of folks with heavy backstories, and i think that might even be a bonding point/jumping off point for new CR!

provided he wants to open up about it, which he might not,

AS FOR PRE-ESTABLISHED CR....Ekkehardt is part of the medical staff and definitely would at least be hovering for a bit to make sure he's recovering from what he was put through in captivity so Yarrow could easily know him through that, if you're ok with it!

[st0rmandstr3ss]

Then awesome! As for opening up to people, I think at this point Yarrow would be okay with giving the basics out if asked, but won't go volunteering stuff. Probably after going into too much detail with someone and making them cry. He's still working on what's normal conversation and what's deeply disturbing.

And ooh, I'd love that! I think Yarrow would be a little confused by the hovering (at least until he gets better insight into the fact that his situation was leagues beyond 'normal') but he'd be alright with it.

[stavros]

Like Ruka said, there are other characters with dark backstories, it's just usualy carefully alluded to. He sounds like an interesting character!

The "relax more" mood is real. Kokoro's been putting in effort on that front herself, Yarrow will be in a lot of company in that regard.

[emergensirations]

Thirding go hard or go home... or whatever you want to do, it's all good here. My current characters don't quite fit the desired CR roster but I welcome you wholly to the game should you decide to join in. Perhaps in future when my trauma lad returns from his """vacation""" there can be idle chats.

[nau]

GENERAL INFORMATION

PLAYER NAME: Avery
CHARACTER NAME: Lalli Hotakainen
CANON: Stand Still Stay Silent
BLURB: First off, this is not a canon I would recommend starting in the current climate because Oh Boy! That's too close for comfort!

Second off, SSSS takes place 90 years after the world was, essentially, destroyed and overrun by monsters. There's magic, friendship (?), language barriers, cats, and, of course, a lot of horrific monsters and ghosts.

AU INFORMATION

CHARACTER AU NAME: Lalli Hotakainen
STUDENT OR FACULTY?: Student - grade is ??? because if this AU goes inline with canon, he was in school for all of two years.
CHARACTER BLURB: •Grandson of Ensi Hotakainen, a powerful mage. Can't really say he's from a mage family because the only people in the family with magical ability are Ensi, Lalli, and Lalli's cousin Onni.
•Was trained in magic underneath Ensi until Ensi's "death" when Lalli was eight. It's not clear if she actually died, or if something Else happened.
•Joined a Finnish hunter's group after the death of his family & village with the other survivors, Onni and his sister (so Lalli's other cousin) Tuuri.
•At 19 he was recruited into an expedition into an area of the Outlands known as the Silent World in order to research a variety of monsters known as trolls, functioning as a scout for the party.
•After the expedition was wrapped up, he was left to his own devices and gently encouraged to pursue more proper mage training, with Daybreak seeming to be the obvious choice because of their standard of "we will take anyone".
PRE-ESTABLISHED CR: The most obvious thing would be anyone who knew Ensi - she was a powerful and well respected mage and hunter, and Lalli is a near spitting image of her so even before learning his name it's possible to draw the connection. She's only been "dead" for about 11, 12 years and was active as a hunter and explorer of the Outlands up until her death.

There are also people who might be familiar with him or his cousins through their work with their Hunter's group. Lalli largely worked alone, but it's still possible to recognize him.
DESIRED CR: Anything and everything! People who want to be his friend, people he can be prickly at, I'm open to it all.

Also people who will dote on his cat, Kitty.
OTHER:

[stavros]

Since Kokoro's from an old Hunter family, they might have heard of each other.

[buddinghopes]

Okay other than the obvious bit about Lia gluing herself to Lalli...

It's probably entirely possible that V at least knows of Ensi? Not, y'know, As Himself but :V

[spelleton]

Ekkehardt would have known his grandma at least in passing pre-Daybreak so he'd probably kind of vaguely drift past to check up on him now on then just based on that. Not sure if his family and Lalli's family had any other sort of contact though!

Hornet might have met Lalli on an Outlands trip as some kind of weird cryptid encounter honestly, if he went out there. passing by like ships in the night

[nor_iron_bars]

...I'm almost sorry to say it, but I think someone has to:

Consider the horrible possibility that Jail has in fact hit on Lalli's grandma.

[incinerating]

GENERAL INFORMATION

PLAYER NAME: coffee
CHARACTER NAME: Emil Västerström
CANON: Stand Still. Stay Silent
BLURB: Post-apocalyptic Nordic adventure, with some magic, and terrible body horror monsters. The reason for the apocalypse is a little too close to reality right now, as a fair warning. Emil is very well-educated but pretty dumb, so he doesn't actually know much of anything, very spoiled and vain, highly insecure, and completely tactless. He's also extremely patient, considerate, loyal, and refuses to leave anyone behind. Emil likes to complain, brag, and has only had one actual friend in his whole life, but if you're cold he'll definitely give you his jacket and probably bring you something hot to drink.

AU INFORMATION

CHARACTER AU NAME: Same as canon!
STUDENT OR FACULTY?: Student. He's 20, and graduated public school in Sweden, then took a gap year, so he's college-age.
CHARACTER BLURB: Some bullet points:
☆ Grew up in Sweden, in a rich influential (though extremely non-magical) family, was extremely spoiled by his parents in exchange for them never being around to pay attention to him. Schooled by private tutors until his family lost all their money when he was about 15. He was forced to attend public school in another city, where he lived with his aunt and uncle and frequently babysat his three little cousins, who were just awful. He got bullied a lot, and was a bad student.

☆ When he was 19, just after graduation from school in Sweden, he went on a joint Hunter mission on a whim because he wanted to have an adventure. He met Lalli Hotakainen there, who he quickly considered a good friend despite the language barrier. During an incident with magic gone wrong, Lalli's consciousness was housed in Emil's mind for a while. After Lalli managed to get free, Emil suddenly started exhibiting signs of being a Candle.

☆ He was probably dragged to Daybreak Academy because he wasn't controlling things well and didn't know about magic and is generally ignorant and needed help. Thankfully, Lalli is here?

PRE-ESTABLISHED CR: Lalli Hotakainen, his canonmate. I don't have anything else set in stone but I would totally love it if anyone who came from an influential family maybe knew him in his terrible bratty early teen years???
DESIRED CR: Friendships. Rivalries. Dumb crushes. People who can teach him. Honestly, anything.
OTHER:

[silksoul]

did someone say RIVALS
i'm sorry hornet is VERY likely to be kind of a cryptid jerk to him at least at first. she may see him as like, someone to train to whip into shape unfortunately, if that is a thing you might like as a dynamic(you might not!) I am totally open to suggestions

[buddinghopes]

FRIENDSHIP

hi yes Lia's extremely friendly and will be happy to teach Emil things!!

[kept_his_letters]

At the moment my roster consists of a young bratty daemon, a played NPC of a sweet girl named Coco Rivera who is looking for her father, and her Actually Played father who is absent until later October and forgotten by characters due to Player Plot Things TM. I am not sure what would roll best but I would be interested in Things.