MAY 2018 AU WORKSHOP

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AU WORKSHOP

AU WORKSHOP - MAY 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. Additionally, you can find our game-wide App This Please over here. Of note: this will be the last application cycle until September! IMPORTANT INFORMATION World Changes FAQ Game Calendar Plot Finds (ooc knowledge) • Please note: you need a reserve to apply, so please plan accordingly! Reservation dates can also be found on the game calendar and coincide with the TDM. • For current players who are interested in 2nd or 3rd characters, please review and follow our policy about AC! To reserve a 2nd character you must have a pass for the previous month's AC with your first character. For a 3rd character, you must have a pass for the previous two months' AC for both of your characters. In addition, we do ask that the AC for the current month be met and filled into your AC comment by the time of your reserve. It must be full AC. This means you must have 20 comments between at least 2 and at most 4 threads and one memory regain listed for the current month's AC period. Your reserve will not be accepted until you supply the requested AC! FORM PLAYER'S NAME: CHARACTER'S NAME: CANON: AU NAME: If there's a name change at all! If there isn't, you're free to put n/a AU AGE: Again, if there's an age change at all! If there isn't, you're free to put n/a AU OCCUPATION: Feel free to list if your character is a student (elementary/middle/high school/college), if they own their own business, if they freelance, if they have a stable job, etc. BLURB: Here you should write what you have for your AU; you can list your character's hobbies, who their friends and family are, if they have any particular quirks or interesting pieces of their history, if they're from a wealthy family or if they're struggling to get by, anything you feel is relevant. 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. <span style="font: bold 13px calibri, sans-serif;">PLAYER:</span> <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; color: #000000;">AU NAME:</span> <span style="font: bold 13px calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;">AU AGE:</span> <span style="font: bold 13px calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;">AU OCCUPATION:</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> May Workshop Character Directory

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Hope Estheim | Final Fantasy XIII

[dreamedoftomorrow]

PLAYER: Amanda
CHARACTER: Hope Estheim
CANON: Final Fantasy XIII

AU NAME: Hope Esterbrook
AU AGE: 27
AU OCCUPATION: Pharmacist
BLURB:

►Born in North Carolina, moved to New York around age 4.
►Father is a politician, mother is a housewife
►Was in private school pretty much up to age 17, he graduated early.
►He grew up a bit sheltered and was shy, not one to really get into trouble or anything of the sort. Mama's boy, basically.
►Father passes away when he is 19 due to a heart aneurysm caused by stress and overworking. There's a bit of a media frenzy with this, conspiracies abound, because he was also trying to eventually make his way to Congress to help make a difference, but while it never reached national coverage, Hope was social media savvy enough and his mother received enough calls from journalists that they both decided to simply move away from it all.
►His mother received his father's inheritance and life insurance, so they were still well off but they still opt to move.
►Hope takes about a year sabbatical to help his mother move to Recolle, he gets his transcripts in order and transfers to Recolle University.
►Things quiet down and Hope uses his time keeping away from social media and the like to get back into his studies. He gets his PhD in Pharmacology when he is 25 (he took classes in summer and winter as well has having a full load in the normal semesters) and is now a pharmacist at Recolle Pharmacy (or maybe just a local drug store like a CVS or Rite-Aid, we'll see!).
►He lives with his mother as he wants to take care of her after the stress of losing their loved one, but she does make it a point to move forward as well and works in administration for the City. Hope makes enough money for the both of them but she doesn't want to stay home all day.
►Hope is no longer quite as shy and sheltered by this time, having to essentially stop clinging to his mother and instead be the man of the house and take care of things.

LOOKING FOR: Friends, family wouldn't be bad! Coworkers, of course. ERRYBODY???

OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: Jack Frost!

[As always, this is Amanda and you can find me at lineandcolor!]

Addendum - Please Don't Reply!

[dreamedoftomorrow]

WIP

[wordcarvings]

Koutarou can be that weird paint-covered guy who comes in to buy a bit too much bandaids and bandages a bit too often because he gets hurt a lot that the people at the pharmacy/drug store whisper about when he's there; but it's really because he's the kind of idiot who draws and walks at the same time even though he's been told literally ten thousand times not to. (It's definitely been getting worse lately, too, because he takes to the forest sometimes these days.)

[dreamedoftomorrow]

Koutaro pls.

I think Hope would probably realize it eventually given he might be able to tell just what those scrapes are and stuff. Forever sighing at the boy, "You should really not draw and walk at the same time. It's just as bad as being on your phone while walking."

[wordcarvings]

Boy... He turned 30 this year XD At least he doesn't actually use his phone when walking, and he's not got music stuffed in his ears either--which doesn't matter in this case huh

[dreamedoftomorrow]

MY BAD. This is what I get for not looking at the rest of the journal LOL

Either way just "8| please"

[wordcarvings]

Nah it's fine, his friends treat him like a kid sometimes and he's older than most of them

He'll just get innocent smiles back because Koutarou can't make a promise he's bound to break

[chaoticwhimsy]

Weeeeell look who it is!

[dreamedoftomorrow]

well hi thar c:

[chaoticwhimsy]

So Lumuna (AU Luna Takada) is all of thirteen but there has to be a way for her to be a bit of a torment in his life.

[dreamedoftomorrow]

This might not be until September rolls around so we have time BUT hm!

Maybe they just always happen to run into each other and she just likes giving him a hard time?

[chaoticwhimsy]

...Wow I am out of it if I misspelled her NAME good lord.

That could work! She has an occasional shoplifting problem too maybe he caught her?

[fiddlestick]

Elliot is from New York too, so I'm not sure if there's much overlap in their personal history, but he might've heard about Hope's dad and the conspiracies around his death? Though Elliot was about 10 at the time, so I doubt he knows much else beyond "I remember my family and the local news talking about it".

[dreamedoftomorrow]

It's certainly something people are free to be aware of! Hope just might not respond too much to it after all these years.

[fiddlestick]

It's okay Elliot's not really the type to pry about that stuff, but good to know!

[angealwings]

Picking up beds for Genesis so Hope remembers him?

[dreamedoftomorrow]

Sure! I'm always down for regular customer CR c:

[angealwings]

... yes, that was meds. /facepalm

:> Andrew helping out (painting) and calming Hope down like, this month when the NPCs notice stuff.

[frostedoverland]

Hahaha, I figured as much. No worries.

Yup! That definitely works. And then, months later, Hope is like "...wait what?"

[belligerentwarrior]

They've got nothing in common (yet), but I wouldn't mind them being strangers. I think it'd be interesting with the regains and all!

Recent(ish) events have pushed Freya into going for a paramedic program so he can pity her when she gets to the pharmacology portion of her schooling. She's going to hate that class, haha

[dreamedoftomorrow]

Haha, poor Freya! Could always ask him to tutor her.

[belligerentwarrior]

Not outside the realm of possibility!

I see you have three characters on the TDM. Have you decided?

[dreamedoftomorrow]

Honestly, it's going to be between Jack and Hope, I put Rarity up to see what would happen mostly and because she had been an idea for a couple weeks, so I figured why not since this would be the last until Sept.

That being said, still trying to decide between the two boys. I have more pre-determined CR with Jack at the moment, but I've wanted to put Hope somewhere more plot heavy for awhile now. It's a tough choice given I'll have to wait until September after this!

Re: Hope Estheim | Final Fantasy XIII

[kittycaterer]

I have a need.... idk what but.... FF’s unite

[frostedoverland]

If Noctis requires any meds, he could have met Hope at the pharmacy?