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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ardyn izunia | final fantasy xv

[daemonized]

CHARACTER: Ardyn Izunia
CANON: Final Fantasy XV
BLURB:

SO BASICALLY I only have a vague idea of where I want Ardyn to be, as a character. No big spoilers, but he’s a bit of a villain type in canon, and that all stems from how he was treated many, many years ago. Throwing him into an AU setting where he didn’t have those traumas to go through may allow for him to be Not Such a Jerk. He will still have jerk-like qualities, of course, adhering to his character, but (for the time being), you wouldn’t be able to label him as a villain. For character development in-game, as Ardyn slowly regains his memories, this may provide interesting challenges for any CR he has. What kind of challenges and how people react to it, of course, depends on the character. Beyond that, here are some Very Vague Ideas I’ve been tossing around in my head:

Ardyn Izunia is 37 years old. The youngest of two siblings. (Sibling details to be fleshed out later, depending on what this AU workshop provides!) His family was wealthy.

He had a falling out with his family that he doesn’t like to talk about, and has distanced himself with them since. He rarely speaks with them, unless things change in the future.

Since he’s something of a political man in canon, I’ve been learning towards the idea that he’s a law professor at Recolle University.

He’s that weird, kind of theatrical professor that won’t hesitate to patronize you in front of your fellow students, but at least keeps class interesting and you’ll probably learn a lot in it???

Personality-wise he has a lot of wit and even more smarmy charm, and this can either rub people he wrong way or endear them to him. Unlike in his canon, however, he actually can be a helpful person overall. If you squint through all those layers of his questionable fashion sense, you might even spot something reminiscent to kindness.

That is, maybe until he starts getting his canon memories back. PLOT WITH ME BROS.

LOOKING FOR: Pretty much open where this is concerned. I’m up for strained family relations, students in his class, fellow teachers/co-workers, etc. Hell, even if you want to throw a spouse his way, I’ll consider it.
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: I’ve pretty much made up my mind about Ardyn, but that being said, I want all the CR. All of it. Come at me with ideas, and I’ll at the very least consider them.

[rhapsodeity]

okay so jade is nowhere near friend age group and she's not going over to uni for law, but i see that ardyn and liz are potentially break buddies and i would love to have her know him prior to game open, if only because. ardyn is so great.

so maybe she knows him through mom or they've run into each other during school? jade's technically a high school student but coming over for astronomy and engineer related classes SO

[daemonized]

I would definitely love that! I think it's reasonable to say that she'd know him through her mom and might have come across him at school occasionally. (Ardyn's hard to miss, he's the that Weird Professor that everyone's had once in their lifetime)

[myboggartisthemoon]

Frickin' Syltherin, 100 points from your house

[daemonized]

Rude???? He hasn't even done anything???? Yet???????

[myboggartisthemoon]

Smarmy charm is a thing. So yeah, here's a part-time professor who's quite different and not entirely certain he approves.

[daemonized]

WELL. Ardyn harbors a special kind of smarmy for people he knows that may not approve. So this should be fun. :'D

[covenantal]

god yu isn't old enough to be going to college and i think he'll focus on medicine but even so i'm just like ARDYN......




i beat the game a week ago and i am still Suffering, you see

[daemonized]

omg I cried an ugly cry at the end

my feelings for ardyn varied wildly afterwards from

"I HATE ARDYN I'M DELETING ALL THE PHOTOS PROMPTO TOOK OF HIM"

the next day

"I guess he's kind of an interesting character in retrospect"

the next day

/makes journal for him

[covenantal]

OH MY GOD I KNOW scrolling through photos at the end and being like THIS FUCKER!! I HATE HIS STUPID FACE!!! .... doesn't delete any of his pics....

i really want to make a noctis journal at some point because he is My Son but god, do i feel you.

it's been a really long time since a video game made me cry, i can't believe ffxv ruined my life

[daemonized]

SAME HERE but for some reason final fantasy games always tear my heart out at the end...

If you ever want to voice test Noctis with....the Big Bad, then you know where to find me

points at eyes, points at you

[scoffs]

hello i have no idea how this will work but i have jeanne here who comes from a family of politicians and who also sort of had a falling out with them. maybe they might have heard of each other somehow?? jeanne also teaches french/italian on the side so there is that too

idk listen i just have a thing for ardyn and i hate myself but i think they could be weird friends who lowkey sass each other for fun

[daemonized]

HELLO I love Jeanne btw. She's so fab

And yes! I've decided that Ardyn's family is that of mainly politicians, so they may have even heard of each other or met each other years prior to the game starting. Regardless they will definitely have run into each other on campus, he always tries to chat up fellow teachers even if it's in passing. Plus Jeanne is hard to miss gurl why aren't you modeling with legs like that

Laughs about Ardyn.....I hated this garbage man at first because I was suffering after beating the game. Then a few days later I made a journal and now I hate myself deeply.

[navarus]

Hello! While Setz/Sekreuz here is high school student, he'd be taking a few college courses with an interest in politics and law, so he could be one of Ardyn's (extremely straight-laced) students, if you'd like! c:

[daemonized]

That sounds great! Yes come be in his class. He may be the most theatrical professor in the college, so having a few straight-laced students should be fun.

Re: ardyn izunia | final fantasy xv

[twelfthspark]

Larx/Arlene isn't anywhere near a law student, which is too bad because she's a dramatic little shit and the results in class would probably be amazing. Maybe she could just... casually hang around the law part of campus sometime to see if his class lives up to its reputation?

And/or because she heard someone say he's hot and she wants to see for herself don't blame me blame Abi

[daemonized]

of course! who's to say that she can't sneak into one of his classes, motivated out of pure curiosity? Ardyn certainly won't say anything, not at first at least.

oh my god lmao... no u must run far away, what r u doing

[twelfthspark]

does she look like somebody who makes good decisions??

Nah but then she goes back to the girl that told her and goes, "I couldn't tell. I was blinded by that crime against fashion he was wearing."

[daemonized]

SCREAMS TO THE HEAVENS everyone leave his sense of fashion alone okay

so what if he has a thing for weird scarves and black and white flourish motifs

there is nothing wrong with that

[metafaliure]

Consider: ex-villain university prof coworker buddies??

[daemonized]

Certainly! One can never have enough ex-villains.

[glacian]

Over here humoring the idea of making Gentiana a highschool professor or a college one. Still not certain yet but I could picture her somewhat linefacing at this dramatic thespian of a Theatrical professor.

[daemonized]

SCREAMS HELLO AGAIN.........

Omg. I have to admit that would be very hilarious. She'd be the type that he'd try so hard to get a reaction from and... nothing. It would be secretly very frustrating for a reason he wouldn't be able to understand.

Also. Regains would make this terrible, jsyk.

[glacian]

Hello~

Ha! I can literally see this happening. Dear Ardyn would constantly try to impress or anger Gentiana only to get stared at or politely ignored as she walks past ever so elegantly. Though, that one day he wins a smirk might be moderately rewarding.

The regains, goodness. I can see this ending in tragedy. Though, Gentiana would try to remain neutral unless she regains all of her past.

[daemonized]

Haha, amazing. Did you want for them to have any previous CR, or if you app her in, would you like to start completely fresh?

IT WOULD BE... definitely tragedy. Or at least, Ardyn is going to be alll mcbitterpants, because UUUUGH ASTRALS.... but in more elegant words.