JANUARY AU WORKSHOP

[recollecters]

AU WORKSHOP

AU WORKSHOP - JANUARY Welcome to Recollé's AU Workshop! On this post players new and old are encouraged to help one another make connections for their AU lives and to ask for or offer ideas if they so choose. Please respond to the post with the below form, and/or feel free to comment to anyone else to work things out! Please be aware that posting to this workshop does not guarantee you a reserve, and that multiple players are permitted to workshop the same character. Please find our mod questions comment here. CHARACTER: CANON: BLURB: Here you should write what you have for your AU; your character's age, occupation, name, hobbies - that sort of thing! Just let us know what you have. LOOKING FOR: Are you looking for family members or friends or enemies for your character to be pre-planned? Or are you asking for ideas or feedback on your AU idea? Anything goes, just specify what you would like. OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: Are you torn between which character to app? Let us help! Post your ideas in a comment and let fellow players offer feedback and CR ideas. You can also use this section to ask for canonmates you would like to see in-game whether it be in your specific AU or for different CR. January Workshop Character Directory <span style="font: bold 13px calibri, sans-serif;">CHARACTER:</span> <span style="font: bold 13px calibri, sans-serif;">CANON:</span> <span style="font: bold 13px calibri, sans-serif;">BLURB:</span> <span style="font: bold 13px calibri, sans-serif;">LOOKING FOR:</span> <span style="font: bold 13px calibri, sans-serif;">OPTIONAL ENABLE ME:</span>

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dirk strider / homestuck

[splinten]

CHARACTER: Dirk Strider
CANON: Homestuck
BLURB:
-20 year old, moved out from home, can't deal with institutionalized education or tolerate normal work environments so he does various kinds of projects freelance to get by
-we've talked about him as twin (older by 1 minute) of Roxy Strider and Dave's elder brother
-a possible Jake English's roommate, and therefore possible Andersen's roomie when Grandpa English dies and the younger brat moves in
-loves robotics and technology in general, big on code and AI things?
-totally has a blog where he talks about AI Science and the development of ASIs im so sorry
-owns a motorcycle. has biking gloves. does not have a biking jacket? please. there is no fashion sense except when other people intervene
-took tap dancing as a kid, had an edgy teen phase where he decided to take krav maga instead, is slightly less edgy now thank god and just takes krav for regular exercise
-personality-wise he's highly driven and perfection-focused, but a lot more relaxed and capable of, like, socially interacting with people and not being a total disaster for it
-does speedrunning but doesn't have a channel... just.... does it because it's fun....
-do not let him dissert at you, he has dissertations and his refusal to go to college means it's just his blog and whoever becomes a victim of his randoms
-still has authority problems HAS PROBABLY BEEN ARRESTED AT LEAST ONCE FOR SOMETHING STUPID
-loves his fam so much tho, would die for, has not ever killed for but you know those people who you can just tell are capable of killing someone if it comes down to it? yes

LOOKING FOR: Friends? PEOPLE HE GETS IN ARGUMENT WITH ON THE INTERNET? he still would not be... super social... but he'd try to cultivate a circle of acquaintances.
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: The more losery things you can suggest for Dirk, the more probable this will be

[parodeity]

banned

unless room sharing was a thing as kids, in which case unbanned. (this comment serves no purpose, except i encourage you to keep considering this, obviously)

[splinten]

i accept kids sharing rooms, this is permitted

[rhapsodeity]

please. please. even if jade's your dorky baby brother's even dorkier friend i will give you cr?

jade and dirk can brainstorm ways to make his motorcycle even cooler. sicker, if you will. as in cool, but more extremely cool.

[splinten]

yes he thinks jade is great? he doesn't get mad at her even when jade and dave blow up his ugly clothing on their youtube channel. totally lets her help him remodel the motorbike

[voideity]

uploads icon just to say yes please

roxy would happily vine his speedrunning with various music in the bg until vine died. then instragram it instead.

[splinten]

roxy no he is a private speedrunner let him game in peace?
i hope she gets lots of videos of him screwing up a glitch and just. cr1tikal-ing in deadpan displeasure.

[in4apounding]

Okay how about a pair of nerds getting into arguments and/or excited shrieking over tech stuff online

[splinten]

yes, please. internet debates with him? or gushing it doesn't matter. the important thing is TALKING! ABOUT TECH!! nerd alert

[kotatsu]

nanako is like half his age and into music so i have no idea how this work but i miss playing w/ you and it'd be nice to have cr again

ngl if he ever made a speedrunning channel she'd subscribe to it

(hi this is ame btw)

[splinten]

AME!!! shhhh we'll make it happen No Matter What

he never makes a speedrunning channel bc his life is just him trying to have no social media presence and then
dirk and jake and roxy and everyone putting him all over their various blogs/channels/etc

she could watch his speedrunning as recorded and posted by roxy tho HE'S SO STUPID

[chiseler]

I was going to say something intelligent and I only got as far as "yeah Luke's probably been arrested for something stupid too" but whatever FARRAH I am collecting Strilondes. I think that Luke would actually read Dirk's blog?? He wouldn't get part of it but his baby sister is a major nerd and he wants to pretend he's smart too. But also please give Dirk a speedrunning channel because that would be fantastic and even if not I love that idea.

We can do acquaintances if Dirk could handle Luke being a lowkey jackass

[splinten]

yes read his stupid blog Luke?? it's clearly awesome and full of learning

also picture them in the holding cell at the same time. in for. absolutely stupid things. and just sitting there for their stupid crimes.

dirk has a high tolerance for jackasses i mean have you met caliborn there is no au where he can't tolerate some level of dickishness

[notbunaga]

get a channel

so she can harshly critique everything he does

"Didn't you know if you crouch here and fire the tesla rail the knockback skips you through the wall and you save like an extra 2 seconds?? weak dude 0/10"

[splinten]

this is exactly why he doesn't have a channel?? it's recreational he doesn't want this shit

also because he tries to have little social media presence despite CONSTANTLY ENDING UP ON HIS FRIENDS' STUFF because this running joke is hilarious to me

[goen]

Yato's probably been arrested at least once for something stupid too... Jailmate/holding cell acquaintances?! Though Yato probably spent more time lying around and carving his phone number into a wall because vandalism is what you do after you've been arrested

[splinten]

tbh dirk genuinely amused that. vandalism is yato's next effort like oh my fucking god dude. HILARIOUS. clearly a dude dirk has to get to know.

[gemgineer]

peridot 100% follows dirk's blog, ftr. she would also argue with him any day on the internet ANYTIME because that is a cherished pastime of hers as well, but also she'd be fascinated by speedrunning and would totally want to learn more about it.

[splinten]

I'd absolutely love nerdy Peridot CR! look arguing about things is important and Peridot gets that

dirk's lessons on speedrunning: 'you take the game. then you break it as fast as you can'

[darkinferno]

Welp, I'm looking to make a collection of all the Strider sibs here so :D

So Dave's player and I were thinking that Riku's dad (who is a pianist) at one point did a joint thing with Stridermom, which would mean that they all might've met during the rehearsal/performance process. This would've been about four years-ish back, when Riku would've been 15 and Dirk would've been 16? After, Riku probably would've stayed somewhat connected with them through social media and chat HE COULD VERY WELL HAVE FALLEN INTO THE TRAP OF LETTING DIRK DISSERT AT HIM MORE THAN ONCE hahahaha

THOUGHTS? IDK

[splinten]

I AM DOWN FOR THAT come on Riku listen to his dissertations they are So Important
Riku hasn't picked his major in college, Dirk like 'consider just dropping [ten page research essay on institutional education's failings here]'

[rhapsodeity]

i just realized i never told you jade has snuck into dave's room for like

ever

probably since around thirteen maybe twelve so DEFINITELY WHEN DIRK WAS SHARING A ROOM WITH HIM, oh my god

v important info: you bb bro's bestie just shows up in the middle of the night. throwin pebbles at the window excitedly. im so sorry

[splinten]

"dave get the window it's your wolf'

why won't you two let him just rig you up some sort of silent alarm system so he can pretend to sleep

[trivialization]

Definitely another blog follower. May or may not pester him about actually getting a degree or publishing officially or something. Or just steal his ideas w/e.

[notyourutopian]

So Eleanor has a freelance computer repair business, authority issues, argues on the internet and has a blog. (Hers is about politics though.)

And likes robots (well, personifies her engineering projects a lot...)

I feel like these two are either friends, or accidental rivals. Or both?