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AUGUST AU PLANNING
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.)
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Hell yeah! That sounds great - I dunno what Kokoro's into, but I could see them being awkward together in some recreational club/event? Either way is fun!
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