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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!
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!
Fukawa Toko/Genocider Syo | Danganronpa
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 π¬π¬π¬ 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 ( Ν‘Β° ΝΚ Ν‘Β°)
- 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 β say any kind of past run-in with AU Syo that could be held over both girls heads β 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
Notes! (pls do not respond) (CW: child abuse mention)
- 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
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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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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......
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IS HE HER NUMBER ONE FAN ONLINE???
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damn that's cold i'm gonna need a minute here
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POTENTIAL HUMOUROUS AU SCENARIOS
- he's her online nemesis, e-sports are for losers, fanfic supremacy
- once she had to take a seat on the dunking tank for a school fair and Felix either a) saved her from humiliation and took her place or b) threw the shot that knocked her in
- she constantly hoards a seat in his coffee shop and all the employees and patrons hate her but as she is Dimitri's sister, he regrettably must allow her to exist
- she caught him crying big baby tears when they were younger and to this day he fears she'll bribe him somehow
- a truck of mayonnaise collided with a truck of mustard while they were crossing the street one day and they got caught in a condiment tsunami
- they attend group therapy together
- the therapy is about the condiment crisis
- since this is scorched earth, they are bitter exes
- since this is scorched earth, they are currently dating
IDK MAN what were you thinking, i'm clearly open to all and sundry
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also want to have a shenanigan like, idk, she got bullied too hard at school one day and skipped last period with Claude, who gallantly took her for chili cheese fries?
maybe that's how they met
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Roland in the AU is that one (1) friendly neighbor and a working adult! I'm not sure where their paths in life would have crossed, but I'm down for anything, be it long-term or in passing. The sky is our limit . . . We can be as sensible or as wild as you'd like. Alas, he would not hate her and be as nice as humanly possible to her instead.
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I was looking at your post as well and wondering where best to slot her in, taps chin...My first thought is maybe she was touring his campus and either he's the guide or she got lost and they wound up walking around for a bit before they found the group again, but that's possibly too mundane. Where is he volunteering, could be an opening there!
Or! She could absolutely have ran him over the one and only time she tried riding a bike, and they have to sit awkwardly in the ER together for hours
Or if you want the horrible half, if Roland knew someone who got mixed up in a bad money loan or was roped into something illicit himself, that'd put him in Syo's line of fire. She could have threatened him or his buddy at some point, or maybe he called the cops on her al;kjdsf;w
Anything grabbing your eye here, or did you whip up some more suggestions in the meantime?
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I do love this, I hope he gallantly handed her a snack and dissipated into the mist and she now only remembers him as the Cliff Bar Angel
And she's written several stories now with a heavily romanticized version of him, all with millions of kudos
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Anyway yes one hundred percent please! BUT I ALSO HAD A THOUGHT TODAY -- what if when they were much younger they were also neighbours and fukawa's terrible parents occasionally shoved her at Lottie when they wanted her out of their hair, and so Lottie became one of Fukawa's first and only friends, and maybe they would check in online sometimes once Lottie moved away
and now that she's back they're becoming actual adult friends
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Allow me to propose Silly Things:
π By day, Protag-kun Noodle Chef Kaito has good ramen and generally decent advice to offer university students like Fukawa
π By night, Ramen Yakuza Kingpin Kaito may or may not end up having to tag along with Syo to do loan sharking work for YOMI CORP who may or may not have hired both of them to do A Violent Collection. He can play Good Loan Shark to her Bad Loan Shark or they can both just cause havoc, it's open season here
Bonus point:
1) he has his Nightfell CRAU but doesn't remember any of it right now, so the Puck Slime Incident is a one-sided memory if you'd like Syo to remember that
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asljf well first off Syo would remember that, yes! Her ire lives on I'm afraid. And while Fukawa hasn't committed to a school yet she can have met him at the ramen shop, and Syo could have had a wild night on the job with him once! Those all sound great to me, ty ty sagi
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i guess there are worse things to think
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she's going to be like if you're brothers why are you a catboy
dogboy
animalman
Anyway yes i'm ready for it, he's felix's aloof but handsome older brother, who probably made her heart flutter whenever he deigned to address her! Too bad she'll just be a hissy middle schooler in his eyes forever
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I think they would def bond over their shared Very Bad Father Experiences
CW: Child abuse mention
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- Toko meets looks mister looks like Byakuya and is stonking rich like Byakuya but is soft and friendly like an adorable golden retriever DON'T BE MEAN. *except do because my special caveat is he actually can get very petty and indignant and sharp-tongued but only after he's bullied a lot.
- maybe he can be disgusting and be positive and cheerlead her anyway depending on how cr goes
- consider also Brick's best galpal is a psychopath in canon so he also normalizes women's wrongsβgood for him. Coffee dates? FORCED SPA DATE?
- Syo meets him while in the middle of a Financial Transaction and maybe there's a case of mistaken identity and misunderstandings Who Owes Money To Whom andor an easy opportunity to pilfer a Fat Wallet for a loan shark enforcer...?
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