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vivalamods) wrote2024-05-22 10:15 pm
vivalamods) wrote2024-05-22 10:15 pm
CHARACTER PLOTTING
CHARACTER PLOTTING
Welcome to Viva La's Character Plotting post! This is a permanent post that will be re-linked at the beginning of the month where players can workshop character concepts and plan CR or plots.
Players are encouraged to look through and comment on past and current entries made by others. While this is not required, we recommend having a frozen comment reply on your top-level to use for noting potential connections or plans.
OU CHARACTERS
OU (Original Universe) characters are apped to the game unchanged from their original source material. Original Characters (OCs) who are pulled from their respective, original setting are included in this group. OU Characters reach Esthere through the Empire’s use of the Servant’s Gate, a powerful portal that draws people from other worlds into this one. The Empire has set the gate in an enclosed room where they will immediately subdue the target, strip them of all their gear, and press them into servitude. But, the gate doesn’t always work as intended, so characters may arrive somewhere outside of the room and manage to escape before being enslaved by the Empire. Either way, the characters will come in either as established Crimson Corsairs who are just stepping into the spotlight having been found or liberated prior, or newly-found or liberated members who are joining the Crimson Corsairs. OU characters can use this post to seek potential CR or preestablished CR if they’re coming in as more experienced members.
AU CHARACTERS
AU (Alternate Universe) characters are characters from established canons (including original settings for OCs) whose backstory has been adapted to fit within the game setting. For AU characters, they may resemble their canon counterparts quite a bit, but they were born in the world of Esthere and have always lived there. AU characters are encouraged to use this post to develop who they are and what their place is in the world, which could include things like familial connections to other AU characters and achievements prior to the start of the game. AU characters will either be established members of the Crimson Corsairs who are just now stepping into the spotlight, or they can be green recruits who just joined up.
CHARACTER PLOTTING FORM
EMILY CHARACTERS
Player Pronouns: she/her
Contact:
Maomao | Apothecary Diaries
Canon: Apothecary Diaries
Character Blurb: An apothecary that gets kidnapped and forced to work in the Outer Palace. Through her skills and curiosity, she ends up solving several mysterious and winds up as a poison tester for the emperor's top concubine while being forced to solve more mysteries by the enigmatic manager of the Outer Palace.
Faction: Elysium
Character AU Name: If it needs to be Germanic, then Maomao will be a nickname she prefers.
AU Blurb: As in canon, except instead of the imperial palace, she's working for a higher noble's concubine. Then she gets rescued and joins up.
She was raised in the red light district of Elysium before being kidnapped, so she settles back in there after being saved while this time taking a more active anti-empire role in things.
Preestablished CR Hooks: She was already an Apothecary in the red light district of Elysium, so there's that of your character is from our frequents there. She also gets involved in solving murders and other investigations a lot. Other than that, she was basically enslaved as a servant and then poison taster for a noble if your character has a similar past, or maybe the recent rescue involved your character?
Desired CR + Hooks: In canon, her father is a stupidly high ranked member of the imperial court, unbeknownst to her for a long while, so it's possible that a VILLAIN takes over this role.
As for family, she's also open to an adopted parental figure or self-proclaimed siblings among people who live in Elysium. (She's 17/18 if that helps.)
Then idk whatever. I've got hooks in the other section. Also get her a girlfriend. Or a boyfriend that looks like a girlfriend (hi Jinshi.)
IC Plans: Gonna be a supplier making medicines and poisons. Lives in Elysium. Idk what else.
Other: Tags can be expected in the afternoon and on weekends mostly.
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More seriously, I think she might be able to fulfill a similar role to Gyokuyou since she's pretty scheme-y.
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Re: Maomao | Apothecary Diaries
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She could provide them with herbs and cosmetics and medicines, though.
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It's not a bluff, and after confirming her identity Fuyumura would try and blackmail Maomao into helping her investigate her friend's disappearance (and Santa, Santa is also important), at which point Maomao can suggest that Fuyumura join the Crimson Corsairs instead of blowing Maomao's cover. Everybody wins, except Maomao, since Fuyumura would refuse to let go of the "help me find my friend and also Santa" thing and glom onto her
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also it'd probably involve Musse by necessity since she basically bought out Maomao
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Because she's not interested and, being the autistic kind of gal she is, she cannot study anything unless it's her special interest,
But she wouldn't mind taking part in finding out how proper medicine and magic interact. Now THAT'S good science
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Project: Medusa / Andromeda | OC
Canon: Mecha Tabletop
Character Blurb: A part of a project by shady moon-based laboratory Chimera to artificially produce the next stage of human evolution, Project Medusa was raised entirely within the confines of a laboratory and learning nothing of the outside. Due to one accident in the lab where she briefly escaped, she learned about the concept of "freedom" and "free will" and made the determination to escape for real one day. Due to her nature as an artificially enhanced human, she can control mecha with a finesse impossible for others. (She's an artificial newtype okay.)
Faction: Either Flotsom OR Vault. I have Maomao in Elysium. She'd do terribly there anyway.
Character AU Name: Designation "Project: Medusa"
AU Blurb: (Another) Imperial experiment to create a type of human that can better connect with and pilot the Armors that the Empire utilizes. She was raised entirely within a laboratory and has severe health issues as a result of the experimental procedures. During some preliminary test runs before actual deployment, she presumably escapes / is rescued by a Crimson Corsair raid wherein they attempt to destroy the "new Imperial weapon," thinking it's a new type of armor and not a new type of pilot.
Her powers are the general sort of mecha-newtype nonsense. She can sense other people with similar powers, can sometimes get flashes of others' memories, she hears voices that are actually other people's thoughts (not usually very clearly though), has heightened reaction times, can synchronize with multiple systems at once, etc. The downside of these powers are chronic head pain, auditory and visual hallucinations (she doesn't know how much of these are her powers at work and which are not,) and occasional blackouts.
Also she's like, 14, if that helps determine the nature of any potential CR.
Preestablished CR Hooks:
1. The Good Imperial: Andi only knows about the concepts of human freedom and free will because she once got Loose from the lab about 1-5 years ago and met somebody who tried to help her out. Given that she's from an Imperial lab, though, this narrows down possible characters to those nice ones within the Empire at the time. The context of "helping out" can vary depending on the character but either way she learned about being free from them, which sparked her desire to live for herself. DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOUR CHARACTER? PLEASE APPLY!
2. The Rescue Team: Or rather, the team within the Crimson Corsairs that (VERY recently - within a couple days or weeks of the start of game preferably) went to destroy a new Imperial weapon and ended up bringing back a girl instead.
3. Fellow Experiments: I Know there are more characters out there starting with this kind of origin, so I will say that while Project Medusa was often isolated from human contact, she was "Allowed" a certain amount of socialization, but only from other experiments within the labs. This would likely be somehow supervised but it's still possible she has a friendship already with somebody similar to herself.
Desired CR + Hooks: Looking for character/characters that Project Medusa can unhealthily(healthily?) latch onto because she has absolutely no idea how the world outside of her lab works or how people operate or how anything.
She'll also probably need a doctor or other healer or something to look after her health.
Love interests optional (I realize she's going to be younger than most characters so this is unlikely. Also she is gay and does not know it yet.)
IC Plans: Aiming to get an Armor of some kind so she can properly Fin Funnel System all over the place and actually be useful.
Other than that, Medusa's character arc is all about learning how to properly BE human from the people around her. About not knowing how anything works and slowly learning and coming to terms with the world. About learning about injustice, and wanting to see it corrected. Seeing the world through new eyes and deciding it needs to be fixed.
Other: (I need icons. Also here have a meme.)
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Chaos Greed | OC
Character Name: Chaos Greed
Canon: OC
Character Blurb: A squad of space marines form a bond of friendship and mutual respect with a team of precures, but with the serial numbers filed off. Chaos Greed is a manifestation of Aos, who is a manifestation of Chaos but Kid-Friendly, who takes her job Very Seriously (not seriously at all.) Her job is to gather magical energy usually by pulling out people's inner greed and manifesting it as a giant monster (they're called Sinistrals) based on a random nearby object. Her job gets harder when those guys in armor and guns showed up, though!
Faction: Undecided
Arrival: She would immediately sign up to work for the Empire and then just as quickly turn around and vamoose the second she gets a better offer from the Corsairs. She works for CHAOS that is the OPPOSITE of the Empire, if anything they should have seen it coming! It's in her NAME!
Desired CR:
1. Please let her turn you into a giant monster by drawing out your inner greed it's FINE she PROMISES
2. People who don't trust her / want to keep her on a short leash (she needs it, probably)
3. as always, my characters are GAY and AVAILABLE (this time in magical girl villain variety!)
IC Plans: She is going to be REALLY annoying and cause SO much chaos, it's not even funny. (It'll be funny.)
Please somebody keep her on a leash
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