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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)
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[personal profile] hexensabbat 2023-02-22 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
listen......... i love the idea of AU buzen thinking AU ringo's a deliveryperson like he is but instead she's up to shady smuggling shit


she would let this happen
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[personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-22 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
FIRST OF ALL yes of course and SECOND OF ALL i think ringo should randomly need a getaway driver and then she sees buzen’s car and tells him to floor it and he’s like “lol ok” and they get into a police chase
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[personal profile] hexensabbat 2023-02-22 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
YES. I'M READY omg that sounds so funny


she'll always think of him as a good getaway driver

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[personal profile] lockedon 2023-02-26 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
hi dana i'm unfortunately here to report that eustace is now itsuki and felix's big bro (this family is a fuckin mess) so now he has to know buzen as 'my little bro's ex'

how messy was the relationship, give me the deets so i can inject them into his au memories
hasteful: (➛ so give me a reason and;)

[personal profile] hasteful 2023-02-27 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
this is so fucking funny val i love this family so much

I DON'T KNOW HOW MESSY IT WAS, it was 4 years ago, they dated for a little while, and buzen thought that everything was good!! :))) but then itsuki did a slut freak out and broke up with him because it was getting too serious and then buzen was like :(? oh okay?

then they were friends.... and buzen assumes that itsuki just moved on and doesn't like him anymore :) (this is not the case)

HE PROBABLY WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECTLY NICE TO EUSTACE even outside of dating his bro........ they align in liking animals and also taking morning jogs
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[personal profile] lockedon 2023-03-04 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
I THOUGHT I REPLIED TO THIS, HELP ME

anyway yeah, what a nice cursed family, i'm kind of regretting not making eustace part of the slut brigade since i forgot felix is an accidental slut but too late now. i guess one of them can be normal (no)


thanks for the deets though dana, i appreciate you greatly, blows you a kiss. truthfully i feel like eustace will like buzen more than his own brother (sighs) because buzen is so chill and easygoing. sometimes you align in liking animals and taking morning jogs, truly.
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[personal profile] historicallyloaded 2023-04-14 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Warbler Suite budddyyyy

I can not offer a racer rival but I can offer a proverbial pit crew and repair guy. He'd LOVE working on cars and bikes and engines and modifying them to go Very Fast! He'd also cheer for Buzen in races. And chastise him if he ever comes back with damaged vehicles. 😔 all that work and you do this to him

Bricks is also a huge nerd he could softly casually tutor him on some things aka he'd just talk at Buzen for hours?
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[personal profile] hasteful 2023-05-16 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'M GONNA!!! SCREAM!!!! I'M THE LATEST PERSON EVER IT'S SO EMBARRASSING BUT IF YOU'LL STILL HAVE ME I'M RUNNING AT THIS

this is so fucking funny tho. buzen would try so hard to take care of his vehicles but also he's reckless and stupid so i'm SO sure that he will do things that will require recalibration.... sometimes you are just a friend's getaway driver and things happen,

but also this is so cute. it's not even official tutoring buzen will just happily sit around while bricks works on his car and listen to him FOREVER. he's dumb but he loves being surrounded by passionate people!! he will try SO hard to retain some of what bricks goes on about....
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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...
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[personal profile] appeale 2023-02-22 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
DANA I WANT DOUBLE CR rin & ruby should be childhood friends due to their families having connections to each other so they got shoved together for playdates.... and then drifted apart sometime in their early teens so now whenever they run into each other it's that awkward "we WERE close but literally don't speak anymore for no particular reason so we'll talk like we're friends but know nothing about each other's lives now" kind of conversation
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[personal profile] magesque 2023-02-23 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
LET'S ABSOLUTELY DOUBLE CR and this is exactly what rin's relationship with her canon sister is, so funny, she'll be like "wow feels familiar" lkahdsflkahsdfasdf. rin was probably still a brat and headstrong child who would drag ruby around with her so they didn't have to do boring stuff, but then when her family crashed and burned rin just said "bye!" and stopped interacting with snooty stuff entirely.....

but she'll still say hi and be distant i'm losing it,
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[personal profile] appeale 2023-02-23 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
oh my god i didn't even think of that re: the rin & sakura dynamic STOP WHY IS RUBY ACTUALLY WEIRDLY SIMILAR TO SAKURA......

good tho. AU ruby would have been so miserable about rin leaving her behind in Rich People Hell but was too cynical and anxious and self-loathing to reach out on her own and try to continue the relationship so she just resigned herself to it..... real ruby realising she has new abandonment issues on top of all her existing ones and just being like yeah that seems about right

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[personal profile] hexensabbat 2023-02-22 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
obligatory "hello i can offer a shady at-least-assisting-the-criminals" character
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[personal profile] magesque 2023-02-23 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
hell YES we love shady girls
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[personal profile] midway 2023-02-23 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
lowkey confused as hell that she managed to date felix can only assume the b*ng was incredible
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[personal profile] magesque 2023-02-23 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
i'm dming niji to retcon it now bc this is the second time you've brought it up and i'm feeling judged
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[personal profile] midway 2023-02-23 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
no please let me have this claude needs to know felix can love something that isn't a sword

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[personal profile] sawboned 2023-02-23 11:35 am (UTC)(link)
baseball! baseball!!

I think Denji only joined because Rin is a cute assertive girl and probably doesn't have a, like, great grasp of the rules even now but he's got spirit
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[personal profile] magesque 2023-02-28 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
this is so funny i love you denji.... confused but enthused!! rin won't mind. if we teach him the rules maybe he'll kick ass you never know
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[personal profile] nagano 2023-02-26 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
HELLO, please consider: crime heiress curiously seeking out presumed crime lord (he did just wrap up a bloody gang war (ignore that he wrapped it up on an episode of iron chef)) and constantly wondering where the rub is in his sketchy dealings because there's absolutely no way he just ships noodles out to ramen shops. it has to be a cover up for something dark and gruesome.

except it's not. and the journey to that discovery sounds like it could be comedy gold.

bonus points for him actually being able to navigate the proper channels in batata district because of how often he actually has to get his hands dirty to protect himself from assassins. also he makes really good ramen. maybe there's some potential for the archer stand-in dynamic?
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[personal profile] magesque 2023-02-28 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
this is so funny help me I JUST FEEL LIKE I WAS TAKEN ON SUCH A RIDE READING HIS WHOLE AU AND YET I LOVE IT SO MUCH i love you noodle kingpin

but yes. 100%. let's do this. there is so much potential here and i don't know where to start - but an archer stand-in is always 100% welcome in my books. partially because rin needs to eat and while she can cook, she always prefers someone else do it for her.

do you want to say that this is a recent run-in that they've had (idk within the past year) or that it's one of those things where their families knew each other for much longer

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