JANUARY AU WORKSHOP

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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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bishamon | noragami

[accoutered]

CHARACTER: bishamon
CANON: noragami
BLURB: in her canon, bishamon is the actual god of war and warriors and proclaimed punisher of evildoers.

• early- to mid-20s, possibly 24 at the oldest?
• she's made quite the name for herself in the police force, pretty much blazing through her time as an officer and making rank as a detective. this year would mark her first as a full-fledged detective.
• she is actually a transfer from a neighboring city, so that coupled with her relative inexperience, has most in the force regarding her one of two ways: awe or disdain. either way, almost everyone is in some way intimidated by her.
• many of her superiors are actually quite wary of her, fearing she has her eye on their positions, when in reality she is quite happy to be a detective, as her goal all along is to be out in the field, solving injustices
• kind of a gamble in that she can be at once a stickler for rules and a loose cannon; rules, to bisha, seem to only work for her up to a point. she does not hesitate to take matters into her own hands if she believes it is for the better.
• headstrong, proud, has a strong sense of duty and responsibility but also with something to prove, but more than that she is just a very compassionate woman who seeks to use her power for good
• has very volatile emotions
• proficient in almost all forms of combat and weaponry
• family is very well-off, but most of it is old money; bisha herself tries to live modestly, but cannot help but indulge in some luxuries here and there
• a sloppy drunk
• has a soft spot for children, and has often dreamed of having her own children, but knows that her career and her duties will always have to come first for her

LOOKING FOR:

• a partner in the force!
• superiors to butt heads with/possibly see eye to eye with?
• children for her to fawn over...
• friends! frenemies! enemies?!
• informants
• anyone from her past
• housing arrangements??

OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: i'm also considering nisaka from koi to uso!

[fateality]

partner you say

[accoutered]

don't get in her way, old man

[fateality]

don't get yourself killed, newbie

[sacrifeyes]

Hey hey, I see Bishamon comes from money; this guy comes from money, too. Would it be fun for them to know one another from money-people parties in their childhoods? They could be very useful contacts for one another, too: her for her detective work (he Knows People) and him for, you know, having somebody on the force he's friendly with--particularly someone who cares so much about doing good in the world

[accoutered]

oh man that would be great, actually! i haven't worked it out fully yet, but i'm leaning towards bisha trying to move away from that part of her life, so having someone she still keeps in regular contact with from her past would definitely be really interesting to play out! either way she is definitely trying to make her own name for herself, and not want to user her family's influence out of fear it would just ~taint the process~ so to speak... but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, right. 8')

also it'd be very interesting since they're both trying to disassociate from their families, but seem to be going about it in very different ways, since she's trying to cut herself off entirely (almost entirely... she loves expensive spas and bath soaps too much sobs) while he seems to still integrate himself into that lifestyle?

[sacrifeyes]

He totally respects the desire to make her own way, on her own terms, and wouldn't push friendship on her or anything! But he'd want to keep their acquaintanceship alive with, like, I dunno, holiday cards, or a nice photo for her birthday, things like that.

He's not exactly trying to distance himself from his family--they all kind of drift away from one another anyway, letting their art and travels take them where they will--but yeah, professionally, he doesn't want to rely on their influence. I'd say largely he floats on that current without investing himself in the game, if that makes sense. He's part of the world but not a player, and everything that's important to him is what he does outside of the moneyed world.

[me_matey]

another cop for may to harass/be harassed by

[accoutered]

don't do these things may BE GOOD BE BETTER REACH YOUR POTENTIAL >:'C

[me_matey]

but her potential is being a pirate

why you gotta crush her dreams

Re: bishamon | noragami

[browbeater]

I am looking to have him as a new recruit/police academy cadet.

I'd love for her to be an either inspiration or mentor? Since being a detective is v. much where he wants to be!

[accoutered]

oh man that would be a great opportunity for cr, i think! especially since bisha has sort of had to parry off a lot of dissent from her peers/superiors, it would be nice if someone in the field actually cheered her on lfmlksjda

she takes responsibility very seriously, too, so if she ever knew he looked up to her in that way she would gladly take him under her wing!

Re: bishamon | noragami

[crutching]

Bisha might get along with Weaver here? Weaver is also a headstrong, compassionate woman who wants to do good. Canonically she's a doctor, but I was thinking of sticking her in a different career path, maybe something like social work, so she would have some contact with the police department and might have discussed cases with Bisha.

[accoutered]

oh man that would be great!! as i said in a previous thread, bisha is used to butting heads more often in her line of work, but having allies in the field (or close to it) would be so great. i think they can definitely reach an understanding with their compassion and desire to make a difference c:

[goen]

bleeds

Bishamon constantly tries to arrest Yato please?! I'm up for hashing out a Significant Reason why she might have a grudge against him, or it could just be that he's an annoying punk who won't stop spraypainting his phone number everywhere and doing shady jobs

I'm flexible really

[accoutered]

gently screams

I WOULD DEFINITELY LOVE TO INTEGRATE HER GRUDGE IN SOME WAY but i'm struggling to figure out exactly how to do that... she's compassionate enough that she would see his behavior and want to try and Help Him Out but i think that might take away some of the fun in their dynamic, since he gets under her skin so well HMMMM

do you think maybe somewhere in yato's ~criminal past~ he might have led another person astray? and that person could have been someone bisha had been trying to help or something... ofc it would have all been a misunderstanding, but yato took the fall anyway or something? :|a

[goen]

ngl I was struggling too... it's kind of hard to recreate the shitfest that is their backstory in a realistic setting. if only we had a kazuma to bridge the gap AM I RIGHT. I agree though that it would change their dynamic a lot if he weren't as scummy as possible in her eyes so

Let's see!! I imagine some kind of death would be necessary to cement Bisha's grudge (correct me if I'm wrong)... so I was thinking that perhaps this person X was an ex-con trying to change their ways and getting Bisha's help to turn over a new leaf? OR they could've been playing a double game and trying to get in Bisha's good favor for some ulterior motive...

Either way, maybe this person was pressured into doing something serious (assault, drugs, etc.) for financial reasons/blackmail/family threat. Yato happens upon this person in the middle of their shady business, they attack him, he kills in self defense?

If we want to wink at canon and make it a "this was actually saving Bisha" thing, the ex-con could've been told to knock Bisha off by an old gang? And Yato could've stumbled upon the ex-con while he was waiting for Bishamon to come along... And then Bishamon stumbles upon them while Yato is killing this guy off...

Is any of that plausible... I'm super open to altering/scrapping it haha

[onepunchwoman]

okay but important questions: what music does she listen to, and where might she get sloppily drunk

I'm curious if you want a scenario where she inadvertently ends up busting Yang for playing in bars and getting drinks though she doesn't turn 21 til the summer.

I haven't decided on if she's going to eventually go for a bouncer position once she decides to get an Actual Job but if that ends up happening the informant angle could come in as she sees people coming and going from places or the occasional text of "hey I'm about to throw X out onto the street and I think you were looking for them so you've got five minutes before this guy stops seeing stars you'd better send a car"

[accoutered]

omg yang... NO THAT SOUNDS GREAT, ACTUALLY. i'm all for building up bisha's informants but also think she could benefit from characters with lighter personalities because she can definitely sometimes be a stick in the mud LOL...

[onepunchwoman]

lighter personalities

ahah... well she CAN be, relatively, I guess?

I'm not letting her off easy even in this AU but she DOES party to escape her miserable circumstances not that she TALKS about said circumstances... but if Bisha is good at prying without being too obvious about it she has a better chance than most

[viktorymaker]

oh no, let's be friends (or frienemies??), bishamon!

i'm not sure how much of a law-abiding citizen this one is going to turn out to be once I work out the details of this AU, but he's friendly and he'd be interested in getting to know the new detective in town for sure, although i don't know what'd be the best way to make that happen...

either way, he's a good person, selfishness and secrets aside '-'

[accoutered]

stumbles in here late forgive me

i'd love for some cr with viktor! c: i have bisha as brand-spanking new in the tdm so maybe they just cross paths and hit it off that way...??

[viktorymaker]

ahahah don't worry about it! I'm planning to tag out later today or tomorrow, so I'll reply to one of your starters with him and we can see what happens :D/

[scoffs]

we already plurked about this but jeanne picking up bisha from the station after work and taking her out for girl's night in some sporty car, like get in loser we're going clubbing

jeanne taking bisha shopping and just casually dressing her in like idk louis vuitton while bisha rants about her job

spa dates??? spa dates.

idk i just want them to be really great gal pals ok.

[accoutered]

JEANNE-NEE...!!