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moonmoonacademy2019-07-27 07:43 pm
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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: Lavvy
CHARACTER NAME: Caim
CANON: Granblue Fantasy
BLURB: Hyperintelligent child born such a smartass that his parents abandoned him for being too irritating to deal with. To fill his edginess quota, his adoptive parents also kill themselves and then he murders his birth parents. Something something the world is too stupid so clearly the answer is to team up with a primal beast and make a new one (by destroying it). Alas, his evil plot is foiled after protag-chan finishes the obligatory 10 billion hour grind to unlock him as a playable character. He didn't actually repent or anything, he just has amnesia now so its TOTALLY fine to give this ex-supervillain ten-year-old a knife and have him stand in the backlines of your adventuring party alongside his ancient magical beast buddy that is also still pacted to him and possibly still wielding world-ending potential, trust me.
AU INFORMATION
CHARACTER AU NAME: Caim
STUDENT OR FACULTY?: Student, tentatively sitting at around grade 8 because geniuschild got skipped ahead quite a bit
CHARACTER BLURB: Caim was born with insanely-quick learning capabilities due to his Flame manifesting prematurely a short time after his birth. His parents, not wanting to deal with a freaky genius child, dumped him on his grandparents one day and cut off all contact, and a few years later his grandparents also died from stress-related issues. All of this cumulates into a hyperintelligent 6-year-old with self esteem issues where he feels like he has to prove he's 100% faultless and perfect no matter what. From there he got bounced between a few reluctant relatives and/or foster homes while his birth parents continued to deny any sort of contact with him, eventually leading to him being targeted by a pro-Nightfall cult. He "won" a scholarship to some fancy boarding school for despite being like 9, which totally wasn't actually testing for Flame candidates and definitely hadn't also been infiltrated by nefarious cultists.
He was showered with extra attention and gradually introduced to the supernatural while also having it hammered in that yeah his entire family was awful and so is the rest of the world so it's fine if it all, say, got destroyed by an apocalyptic darkness. He took to this mindset well thanks to all the manipulation and was finally introduced to his to-be partner: a powerful fey called the Hanged Man who was part of an elite group of powerful beings known as the Arcarum. The Arcarum wasn't strictly anti-humanity, but they followed an ancient prophecy that claimed Nightfall was good and necessary and thus were working with likeminded organizations to ensure that the apocalypse was a success. Caim forged a pact with the Hanged Man, promising to help the Arcarum in exchange for a peaceful and happy life in the new world.
And so, thanks to a combination of his unaturally-high intelligence and cultists-in-high-places pulling a few strings, he was able to get a scholarship to Daybreak Academy to definitely not enact any evil cultist schemes in the future.
PRE-ESTABLISHED CR: Caim is probably either a brand-new student at Daybreak or transferred in fairly late into the previous year, so he probably doesn't know too many people at the academy yet. He went to a boarding school that sought out Candles before getting sent to Daybreak, though, so other students may have come from the same school! If you're fine with there being some shady dealings with cultists behind closed doors, anyway... but hey, it's not like everyone would get singled out by creepy cultists, right?? Alternatively, his shitty childhood reulted in his getting moved around a lot between relatives, so it's entirely possible someone may have known him briefly during that time.
On the Arcarum side of things, if anyone has/wants connections with weird cults there's always that. It'd be cool if Caim could have some allies within Daybreak
DESIRED CR: Nerds, "friends", people to be incredibly suspicious of this 10yo child, people who will actually make him doubt his goals, etc. I am 100% planning to have him go nuclear later down the road and Do Some Evil so it'd be great to make some friendships along the way so I can crush everyone's hearts mercilessly including my own. Please get attached to this smug child.
Also, the Hanged Man is kind of his own character, though I haven't decided yet how much he's going to be bugging other people when he's supposed to be laying low. He's a big fan of people watching so he'll probably pop into dreams at random or w/e to see what all these interesting folks are up to and generally just be terrible at this whole "laying low" business. He's basically just super nosy and useless and loves it when people struggle with things. Maybe he'll chat up some of the daemons/fey/etc? Maybe he knows some secret thing about your character that they haven't yet realized themselves and he'll be needlessly obtuse about it??? Who knows man hit me up
OTHER: i swear im actually apping this time and i won't spend another 2 months rewriting this AU wheezes a lot
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YES HELLO I AM HERE
Anyway, seeing as Moriarty is, well, fucking moriarty, he'd probably cotton onto Caim's shadyness, but...also not say anything because, well, kids need to do their own thing, even if that means doing some evil shit.
THAT ALSO BEING SAID, if given half the chance, he'd absolutely be like 'yes hello child let me dad you now (so whatever you're planning won't be as bad if I do this right)' if you're up for that!
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It's only been like 3000 years since the last Missed Opportunity, but MAYBE WE SHOULD DO A THING if we both get in there.
And by a thing I mean Shady New Kid "befriends" Other New Kid, they sort of pal around a bit with Other New Kid not catching on to what Shady New Kid's up to, and then they (and probably other people) have to deal with the aftermath of an Eventual Betrayal if Shady New Kid ultimately decides not to change his course.
Normally I'd be after something more positive but hey what can you do when one half of the equation is is A Problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯