Second reincarnation relationship plotting meme

[ourearth]

Second reincarnation relationship plotting meme

What?

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This meme is here to be used as a place to coordinate AUs. Everyone has family, friends, colleagues, people they knew in the past, neighbours, pets, and more.

Fill those relations of your character with other player characters!

The big advantage of having connected AUs is that you start into the game with existing CR. Branch out! We recommend using this chance to forge cross-canon pre-CR, which will then make any further CR easier - ties with canonmates will, in our experience, be forged quickly enough even with no pre-CR at all.

For ideas, please consult the Locations, Soft facts & Gossip, British stuff and NPCs pages, as well as any other game pages. Go here or to the FAQ to ask questions about potential AUs, characters, game mechanics, etc.

For whom?

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Feel free to comment here with a separate comment for any character you are planning on apping with some level of certainty (you don't need to be decided yet, but out of courtesy to your fellow players, please don't throw characters on here that you doubt you'll app - "probably yes"/"if I can get a good idea" is okay, "probably not"/"only if the stars align just right" isn't). Don't be shy about commenting around for prospective CR and plans on game start - though, of course, remember that plans will be tentative!

How to:

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Toss up a comment with your character's pre-incarnated name, canon, and AU occupation in the subject line. E.x. "Rarity | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | Family Pet". In the body, of course, place any information you see fit; go on ahead and use this form if you'd like a place to start or take it however you feel!

<b>Pre-Incarnation:</b> Name/Canon <b>A short blurb about your character's AU:</b> Where are they in life? What defining moments are there about their history, personality, everyday life, interests... that could provide a hook for CR and interactions? What have you already solidified, what are you still flexible about? Do you have any special plans that you'd like to explore with certain kinds of AUCR? <b>Open/Wanted CR:</b> What positions in your character's life are open? What are you especially looking for? What random ideas could be fun? <b>Anything else?</b>

While you are here

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We are still looking for mods, especially applications mods who will help us judge applications.

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Major Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings | Parasol Protectorate | Family pet

[channingchanningchanning]

Pre-Incarnation: Major Channing Channing of the Chesterfield Channings / Parasol Protectorate

A short blurb about your character's AU: Chad is a Family pet - as in, he's a white Pomeranian (a tiny purebred dog) who lives with his owner above an Italian restaurant in Mossgate that said owner helps run. The restaurant is a mafia front. He's 10 and was a stud originally but got retired many years ago and given to his current owner as a present. He echoed sentience about a year before game start. He sometimes wanders around the restaurant on his own, so patrons might know him.

Open/Wanted CR: His owner! Any mafia members attached to the restaurant. Dogsitters! If someone is thinking about a white Pomeranian breeder (good white Pomeranians apparently come from specialized breeders? the things you learn through RP) background, I'd be interested in knowing where he came from, too, and maybe doing something with it later. Patrons or other people that would know him. Other dogs that he could bond with/have rivalries with.

Anything else? Chad isn't as much of an arrogant pompous twat as Channing, but he still thinks way too highly of himself, so it'd be hilarious if people encountered him as a cute, well behaved dog and then later had to deal with his personality once he learns how to communicate...

Webmind | The WWW Trilogy | Independent Contractor in IT

[iamnotgod]

Pre-Incarnation: Webmind / The WWW Trilogy
A short blurb about your character's AU: Walter here, while born in Mossgate, has been away for most of his life... first due to less-than-pleasant cult-related circumstances, then due to university. Now he's back, having learned how to carve out a niche for himself in the computer world (and also learned about himself - he's FTM trans, and very glad his meds work), and has been settling back into the town life for the past two years. While shy, he's the helpful sort, and always willing to add a joke to the conversation (or vent about the latest stupid thing a client has done).
Open/Wanted CR: FRIENDS. While the rest of his family is still back in London (if someone really wants to app someone as his younger sister, that's an option), Walter knows enough about himself that he really shouldn't be going it alone. >.> Flatmates would also be a good idea.
Anything else? He's going to be veeery quiet once his first recognizable echo kicks in, since it'll push his reflexes and thoughtspeed TO THE MAX and... he needs to get a handle on that.
And try and run every security test possible on the Network, once he figures out that's a thing.

Remilia Scarlet | Touhou Project

[scarlet_devil]

Pre-Incarnation: Remilia Scarlet/Touhou Project
A short blurb about your character's AU: From a well to do English family with some Norman ancestry, Emily Scarlet is 21 and still unsure what she wants to do with her life aside from continuing the family business. A little arrogant, but capable of being pleasant bi girl that's gotten too complacent.

Open/Wanted CR: Has a younger sister already, but generally open to ideas... Family members, boyfriend, a girlfriend, anybody else...?

[scarsolderthanyou]

Pre-Incarnation: Stone/Books of the Raksura
A short blurb about your character's AU:
Sam Stone has lived in the city for something like 15 years, which isn't all THAT long when you're in your mid to late 70s, which he is. He's gruff, a former American air force (cuz I don't know a damn thing about UK air force, and also the way he talks is not very conducive to an English accent), but on the whole a good guy. He has a small private plane that he used to teach flying lessons in before his wife died.

Open/Wanted CR: Friends, former flying students, people he ran into around town? He already has one daughter living in town, but he had another kid and a passel of grandkids if anyone wants to to be related to him.

Anything else? Everybody should want to be granddadded at by him. He is the best granddad, even if he's not as great with kids as he was in canon.

Doomfist / Overwatch / 6th Form Teacher

[brofistsforall]

Pre-Incarnation: Doomfist/Overwatch
A short blurb about your character's AU: SO INSTEAD OF A SUPERVILLIAN LEADING AN EVIL ORGANIZATION Jacob here teachers science at 6th form at a school I haven't quite decided; I'm leaning towards Mossgate, though. He's got a bad arm due to his echo, but doesn't let it get him down; he's an extremely upbeat person, as evidenced by his username, and heartily enjoys the ups and downs of his job teaching teenagers and/or serving as a mentor to certain problem students. BASICALLY he's that teacher you really loved who wasn't afraid to tease someone in class with 'remember, the world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around the thirty other students in this room' kind of attitude but you know he's always got your back so long as you put forth some effort.

In his spare time he enjoys karaoke (he's got a pretty good singing voice, but isn't exactly about to appear on the X Factor or whatever shows there are), card games, and good liquor. I can't recall how gambling is treated in England, but he may spend just a tad too much on it. Just a tad. Enough that his savings aren't anywhere they should be, anyway.

Never married, still vaguely looking but he's mostly resigned himself to being a bachelor. I'm on the fence about his orientation; I figure I'll figure it out more as I write him.

Open/Wanted CR: Students! Coworkers/associates! Parents of students! Or other people he'd hang around with.
Anything else? I'm not sure if I want him to have a Moment where he sort of snaps and sort of supervillains a bit, but I'm not against him having a midlife crisis due to his previous self's actions. 8)

Papyrus | Undertale | Theatre Technician / Supporting cast / Misc Part-time work

[spaghettimonster]

Pre-Incarnation: Papyrus / Undertale

A short blurb about your character's AU: Russell's a longtime theatre kid in his mid-20s from Moss Manor, having been involved with everything from props and set design to playing supporting roles since secondary school. He went to university for literature, and spent a couple semesters in America (as my cunning way to explain linguistic slips - he's picked up a bunch of Americanisms). Lives now in Mossgate in an apartment with ever-revolving roommates, and works a variety of temporary part-time jobs to pay the bills as he tries to make an acting career happen.

He's the sort of guy who wears costumes around town, be it from the latest performance or whatever cosplay he's enthusiastic about. Every couple of months he's idolizing somebody, reinventing his image to emulate them, and your character may be next! I'm still working out what his first echo might be, and haven't made many decisions about his family yet (besides having some Italian ancestry).

Open/Wanted CR: Current or former roommates, relatives, friends from school, and people he's worked with are all good options! People he's looked up to, and thus emulated to some degree, would be especially helpful for working out the rest of my app.

Anything else? Without his brother, he's a little less self-confident, and I admit it makes for a slightly Burgerpants!Papyrus, but I had to. He quotes Hamlet while dying, on top of his various theatrical and artistic tendencies. There'll probably be bad skeleton war jokes down the road, too.

[spaghettimonster]

I really, really want for Russell to have some kind of antagonism with Chad, as Papyrus has a history with intelligent and mischievous white dogs disrupting his life. Maybe Russell's been a dogsitter, or worked for a bit washing dishes at the restaurant?

[channingchanningchanning]

Perhaps both? He worked washing dishes and through that met [Chad's owner] and got asked to walk the dog when [his owner] was away, or something? And then he stopped the kitchen job but kept the on-off dog-sitting one?

Luke Skywalker | Star Wars Legends | UU Pastor

[blueskying]

Pre-Incarnation: Luke Skywalker from, well, Star Wars Legends. Here he's Luke Walker but often goes by Sky.
A short blurb about your character's AU: Not much changed from here. Sky's an old war veteran with a missing hand. He was some dumb American farmboy who signed up for the military, was catapulted in over his head, and generally suffered. Coming back to being disdained for his role in the war he ended up in a cult, but he left it again eventually, with the help of his sister and a government agent. Much soul-searching ensued and he joined the Unitarian Universalists, eventually even going to college and becoming a minister. Moved here less than a year ago to replace the old local UU minister.

Sky's in his sixties or so. He is or has been married - very possibly his wife is still in America and they have a happy relationship that involves not being constantly in proximity - and has had children, who are adults. How many these are, if they resemble him, who they are and if they've had children, I don't know! He's also still close to his sister. These wouldn't have to be Star Wars characters but that'd be amazing, especially if relationships were completely shuffled around. As long as he's not married to the reincarnation of Luke's sister or mother, of course.

He's a gentle person with a very lax approach to a lot of things, idealistic, tolerant, and accepting to a fault. Aside from preaching to a small congregation he teaches meditation, writes for a nondenominational spiritual newsletter, he's moonlit as a writer of cheap adventure novels, and he does some low-impact exercise.

Open/Wanted CR: He'd be relatively new to the area. Family, friends, or members of the congregation (which is open) are good.
Anything else? Man, I don't know!

[blueskying]

Hey, two people of similar age from the same branch of the American military!

I've been vaguely thinking Sky was in Vietnam but I actually need to... research, I don't know a thing about the air force in that period. Suffice that he signed up as a crop-dusting idiot teenager and came out in worse condition, and with a pretty poor opinion of the military, though he's mellowed out since.

What do you think? Some kind of decades-old acquaintance with a giant lapse in the middle?

[iamnotgod]

Walter here probably accidentally got granddaded. He's 27 and perfectly capable of taking care of himself, just... more than occasionally shy and anxious. >.>

Also, if Stone ever wants to complain about tech stuff (particularly on the software side of things), Walter'd be more than happy to help (and possibly vent with).

Re: Doomfist / Overwatch / 6th Form Teacher

[iamnotgod]

I need to get better at coming up with ideas BUT if there's any ongoing IT Contractor plans going on at the school, Walter's probably met him before??

School websites, mang. How do they even work?

Re: Papyrus | Undertale | Theatre Technician / Supporting cast / Misc Part-time work

[iamnotgod]

ROOMMATES? That's my first thought, anyway. Possibly former roommates - Walter's the shyer type, and interrupting him when he's in the Zone on an IT project is never a smart idea. He's gotten lots of practice at at least acting less anxious than he feels at any one time, he tries to be optimistic... and he can, ahem, work a pun or two. So if Papyrus would try to emulate that, I guess he could?

Considering Walter's been (back in) Mossgate for the past two years, they've likely at least crossed paths.

[brofistsforall]

Generally they have someone, but I'm basing my experience off High School/College; it's very possible though they've met through that :D

Re: Remilia Scarlet | Touhou Project

[iamnotgod]

... Possibly friends. While he's older (and does try to play an active role in things, as opposed to isolating himself), he also has many reasons to be anxious/shy around people.

[iamnotgod]

I mean, my own schools have had some serious trouble with Blackboard and Moodle (let alone individual teachers' pages! ... or lack thereof), so, same. |D

Walter's not the sort to talk down to people about what he's doing, so if Jacob showed an interest he'd be glad to explain!

[brofistsforall]

I know Blackboard's used in colleges, but IDK how much it's used in 6th form. BUT if he's in Mossgate, I could absolutely see it being one of the more advanced schools; this certainlly seems workable! :D

Jacob's the sort who'd like to learn things so he doesn't have to rely on others, so if Walter'd be willing to show him "so I know what to do next time" Jacob'd be an apt student~

[scarlet_devil]

Friends are a given. Somehow I forgot to put that. But anyway, Emily is the type to try and get introverts to come out of their shell.

[iamnotgod]

I don't think Remilia (if that's the name she'll go by in this game?) will have a shortage of introverts to choose from here~

But yes. They could talk about societal momentum! Or other obscure stuff. Let's be real, weird conversations would happen even if they WEREN'T numbered.

[runs]

Kitty has established a few "home bases" around town - essentially, she managed to wander into someone's life/house and end up dropping by every so often, raid their ice cream/cookie stocks and commandeer their TV, or just nap on their couch, play a board game with them, or whatever, and wander back out after a few hours. She is kind of aiming for older(-ish) people with this, so Luke would be in her area of potentials.

Could Luke's place be one of those "home bases"?

[spaghettimonster]

That works for me! With Chad hanging out around the restaurant, Russell would have met him before dog walking came into the picture. Maybe someone was visiting who's allergic to fur, or a slow night when [owner] wanted to talk business without the outsider in the kitchen, and things went from there.

Does Chad usually behave all cute and polite when he's around the restaurant, and less so when he's out on his own?

[spaghettimonster]

Roommates or former roommates could work pretty well. He respects peoples' privacy enough not to go in their rooms without permission, but there could easily have been a couple of incidents of knocking on the door while in the Zone. Especially if he was under the impression Walter was neglecting other things, like eating timely meals.

I'll need to think about the emulation side. I'm thinking Russell tends to emulate louder, more confident people than himself - if they're likeable and he behaves like them he'll be liked too, right?? But he appreciates wordplay, especially stuff he hasn't heard before.

[iamnotgod]

... Wordplay jams would definitely be a thing. This Netizen may or may not study them in his free time.

Though he'd probably appreciate the reminders to eat. >.>

Elise | Fire Emblem Fates | Rich kid/ student

[lilys_poise]

Pre-Incarnation: Elise/Fire Emblem Fates

A short blurb about your character's AU: Basically a young rich girl with a difficult home life who deals with her issues via aggressive optimism and persistent smiling. With varying degrees of success.

Instead of a despotic king I'm thinking her father is either a wealthy businessman who got rich on a lot of horribly shady deals and ruthless business practices, or is just straight up involved in organized crime. Can't really decide which is more interesting.

Either way, Elise is his youngest child and has grown up pretty sheltered but also largely neglected. She's not quite as naive as she is in canon, but it's easier to pretend she doesn't notice the things her father is doing. She probably still has older siblings that she looks up to and adores.

Open/Wanted CR: Siblings, friends, teachers (She's about 14 and I'll have to look up where that places her in British school)

Anything else? This is sort of thrown together and very vague so any ideas/suggestions would be extremely helpful.

[scarsolderthanyou]

We have a bunch of older people planned for the game and I love it :D

It would be awesome if they knew each other! how long has Sky been in the UK? would they have run into each other in town before now and renewed their acquaintance or is Sky pretty new?