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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!
nascens: (sualocin)

aki!

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: aki
Player Contact: pm or [plurk.com profile] ikedaya!
nascens: (felixvarela)

scaramouche | genshin impact

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name: Scaramouche
Canon: Genshin Impact
AU Occupation: Recently graduated nurse at the same hospital Matsui works (worked????? his ass is probably long since fired) at because i'm committing to the bit and having any character i app here work at the same hospital
AU Background: SHOWS UP WITH ANOTHER CHARACTER AND STILL PUTS NO THOUGHT INTO AU
• Estranged from his family and does not talk about them! What did they do? What were they like?? A mystery.
• Not a local and a relatively recent transplant. Where did he come from?? Also a mystery, damn.
• Has extremely mixed reviews at his job because he has terrible bedside manners but is like the most efficient worker at any given time.
• i want him to have some weird side gig because i think it'd be funny, like he just moonlights as an extremely popular banksy type graffiti artist or anonymous slam poet or something

Looking For: THE USUAL BLANKET I'M GAME FOR ANYTHING. more specifically:
• PATIENTS?? who's leaving him 1 star reviews on yelp
• Coworkers/students he may have crammed with and lived that exhausted nurse life with
• Distant relatives?? Some Family Is Okay Maybe
• Friends! Penpals! Childhood buddies! Past flames?! Give him social connections for once in his sad, sad little life.
• Let's form a roving raccoon huddle of miscreant graffiti artists

re: reacting to au memories, scaramouche will largely be ignoring his! those are fake! get them out of his head! bye!! but he's at least somewhat susceptible to treating people differently depending on their au history and i'm totally down for playing around with this and seeing what happens
nascens: (arcturus)

notes!

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
will i actually remember to update these this time
ohthehumanities: kongqingkoqi @ twitter (Default)

[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so happy about nursemoose
nascens: (tangra)

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
NURSEMOOSE i fucking hate it here. let's do some au nonsense tho, maybe scara gave him the worst service but best splint he's ever had or some shit
ohthehumanities: niluhong @ twitter (steel blue)

[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
THE BEST SPLINT LFMSDKGJHDSJKGH

kaveh probably gets sick a lot because he can't not overwork himself (and also he drinks too much) so I think it would be funny if they see each other a lot and hate each other but also kaveh is a huge fan of his artist work and doesn't know it's him
nascens: (sadr)

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
WAEWALPESLPFES PLEASE THIS IS SO FUCKING FUNNY kaveh like wow have u met this shitty nurse who knocked my applesauce on the floor for no reason. also damn i love banksy2
ohthehumanities: ostian @ dw (carnelian)

[personal profile] ohthehumanities 2023-05-04 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
LMFKSJHDGK YEAH HELPPPPP PLEASE my running gag in this game is for kaveh to not know shit so this is perfect
nascens: (equuleus)

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-04 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
so it is spoken so it shall be
humainity: (Say something nice)

[personal profile] humainity 2023-05-05 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
help you said penpals and now I want it
sanguinary: (oho)

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-05-05 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
the way i entirely forgot that i included that for a second and was like I DID??? but grips ur paws HELL YES. maybe they became penpals as a school or volunteer project. or maybe they were friends before and just decided to keep in touch??
humainity: (Say something nice)

[personal profile] humainity 2023-05-05 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
god friends as a school project sounds hilarious. He kept waiting for her to stop writing AND SHE NEVER DID-
sanguinary: (lights out)

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-05-05 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
HELPWAELPFES HE'S JUST LIKE "wow she wrote again" "wow, huh, she wrote back" "surely she won't write back this time" (smashcut to years later where they're still writing)

the hilarity of him responding to these letters but being baffled that she does the same
humainity: (Default)

[personal profile] humainity 2023-05-05 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Years later where he's like "wow she hasn't given up yet maybe next time" when he could have just stopped writing back
sanguinary: (oho)

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-05-05 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah that sounds about right honestly
onlypets: (pic#16412768)

[personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
this is fucking killing me to read i hate you
nascens: (lesath)

[personal profile] nascens 2023-05-17 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
YEAH YEAH MY AU pretzels you into it
onlypets: (pic#16412720)

[personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
DONT JUST ASSIMILATE ME INTO THIS NURSE SCARAMOUCHE
sanguinary: (martha stewart in collaboration with)

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-05-17 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
don't u want d to have the worlds shittiest nurse!!!
onlypets: (pic#16412664)

[personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-17 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
HELPPP THIS IS SO FUNNY it’s bad that he would like scaramouche a lot very terrible

they could be childhood friends too VERY TERRIBLE
sanguinary: (え)

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-05-18 08:57 am (UTC)(link)
STOP I THINK THAT'D BE SO FUCKING FUNNY PLEASE LET D AND SCARA BE CHILDHOOD FRIENDS
onlypets: (pic#16412728)

[personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-18 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
I HATE IT HERE

they’re like the nihilism meme except with misanthropy

i hate humans! :D
i hate humans >:/

dont you remember being pretend best friends while younger, scara… wasnt it so fun!! how did you become a nurse
sanguinary: (you were saying)

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-05-18 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
HELPWEPLAPFLPESPFESFS IM IN TEARS they can be the nihilism meme WITH misanthropy! winning combo... also fucking help........ d just like REMEMBER THESE FUN FAKE MEMORIES and scara just like i don't remember anything leave this place
onlypets: (pic#16412666)

[personal profile] onlypets 2023-05-18 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
DONT JUST BANISH HIM HELP ME??

apparently they should make an anti human club with knives
sanguinary: (fashion)

[personal profile] sanguinary 2023-05-18 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
YEAH HE'LL BANISH!!!!

im losing it though yeah that sounds about right. THIS IS A PROBLEMATIC CLUB we love to see it