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MARCH 2019 AU WORKSHOP

AU WORKSHOP

AU WORKSHOP - MARCH
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.

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• Reserves open on March 17th at 9pm EST! Please note; due to player polls, players may now apply for characters without a reservation. Applications open on March 24th at 12am EST.
• 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 15 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!
As a note, we will update the application page with a space for current players to link their full AC for our review should a player wish to apply without a reserve.

• Most importantly, as a friendly note: Recollé will be going into its endgame this year. As such this is the last application cycle of 2019.

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.

March Workshop Character Directory

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PLAYER: Domon
CHARACTER: Asuna Yuuki
CANON: Sword Art Online

AU NAME: Asami Yuuki/Erika Yui(stage name)
AU AGE: 19
AU OCCUPATION: Actress on the hit live action kids show Fae Force Five
BLURB:
> Asuna was born in Japan, where her father was an executive at an electronics firm and her mother was a teacher. They moved to the United States as the result of a promotion when she was four.
> A fateful trip to the mall when she was six led to her mother guiding her into an acting career. She did commercials and guest spots on a few television shows to start her career.
> She landed the role of Jasperlynn Jadewing on the TV show Fae Force Five(imagine Power Rangers with fairies instead of giant robots). The show was an unexpected hit and she's been playing the character for three years now.
> Jasperlynn is the polar opposite of Asuna's normal personality, as she's the bookish, shy member of the team. Asuna tends to be more self assertive. It's one of many reasons she's not crazy about the show.
> She's come to Recollé in part to try and get a stage acting role, to try and become more of a "serious" actress. She's also eager to get away from her controlling parents. So... she's probably also doing some pretty dark work as a form of rebellion.
> She has one more year on her show contract, and even though it's on hiatus she's also expected to make a few personal appearances.
> Secretly, Asuna is a huge gamer and loves creating different characters for the games she plays online. She's actually a huge fan of watching everything Vivarium posts though she's too intimidated to even talk to the guild.
> Asuna has been so focused on her work and building her career that she doesn't have very many close friends, and she's totally on her own when she first arrives in Recollé.
> Having grown up in a wealthy family and having experienced a lot of professional success, she can come off as spoiled and even a little bratty at times. It masks a deep insecurity that people won't like the "real" Asuna.
> She has her own small studio apartment. It's not that great, and Asuna is romanticizing this as "paying her dues".
> Part of her job involved learning stage combat, and that's turned into a love for fencing and martial arts. She'll deny it to the ends of the earth, but you might see her with her face hidden under a hoodie at local pro wrestling matches too.
> There's a rumor that Asuna is dating Ken Kirigaya, one of her costars. It's not true, and it drives her crazy that a lot of fans on social media ship them on screen and off. The fact that her mother likes the idea only makes it more frustrating.
> Asuna loves animals and is a soft touch for rescuing animals, and she probably will get a pet of her own fairly quickly, if she doesn't already have one.
> Asuna has a pretty good singing voice, though she's not all that confident in it and is terrified at the thought of trying out for a musical.
LOOKING FOR:
> Anyone involved with the theater she's acting at. This would probably be her lifeline at first. It doesn't have to be actors, either! Technical crew, theater staff, anyone who might want to give her a hand.
> Gaming buddies, though she'd probably be using a different name and it wouldn't be obvious that she's "the girl from the fairy show" to any of them.
> Neighbors, either in her building or people she runs into throughout the neighborhood.
> Awkward fan interactions would be incredible. The show has a pretty passionate fan base. And yes, there are shipping wars, so this could get as awkward as you like.
> Negative CR could be fun as well. She's a little stuck up and not used to living on her own, so she might rub some people the wrong way.
> Above all else, she needs friends to show her there's more to life than her career. She needs to have some fun!
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME:
This is all still very much "draft 0" of her AU, so if you can think of some awkward ideas then I'd love to hear them!

GAMING FRIENDS..... Raina is also (somewhat) secretly a gaming nerd that goes under a different name online (she goes by Hime, or a variation of it) in MMOs and also likes playing a bunch of different characters so her typing style isn't consistent at all laughs.

Gaming friends are definitely welcome! I'm open to them either meeting for the first time, or maybe knowing each other across a few different games for a while now.

...Asuna will be a lot nicer online than she is IRL, too.

OH definitely knowing each other across games would be nice... Raina is definitely nicer online than she is in person, given that she comes off a little prickly sometimes and distant even though she tries to be sociable.

"Tries" being the key word since she has trust issues, ahaha.

Although she's definitely friendly online for the most part and a bit of a shitposter unless she's doing a 'villain' role, which is rare! She doesn't bring up RL at all online though, so there's that too.

Maybe we can go with the idea that she's an old gaming friend of Asuna's... either in a guild or just someone she knows she can partner up with and have fun. I need to come up with a game tag for her... I didn't realize she was going to have so many different names.

Asuna will probably be a lot more accommodating online. In canon she becomes a healer just because no one else in her group wanted to play one, and I think she'd fall into a similar pattern in the AU.

Also? I'm seeing so much potential already for dual identity shenanigans and I love it.

Raina probably doesn't do guilds - so just a partner would work! She probably understands how much it sucks to be a healer though in an MMO in spite of not playing one most of the time (she usually defaults to red mage/fighter classes) but she does play healer when she has to.

AND YES please give me shenanigans. . .

Hmmm... maybe they've built up their characters to where they both have some healing abilities and load up on items otherwise(AKA my default JRPG party half the time)? Asuna wouldn't mind having a healing build of some kind, but she'd probably also want to fight sometimes.

Oh, there will be shenanigans. Perhaps even goings on as well! They'll have to have an awkward meeting IRL... then maybe vent about it online to each other, not realizing who the other is talking about.

Yeah, definitely! She wouldn't really mind her wanting to fight since she can cover healing as a red mage even if it isn't as good as a normal healer (basically she's back up if any other healers die in big raids and bosses).

I'd definitely like an awkward meeting IRL for sure; she might not talk too much about it online (since she doesn't like talking about RL online) but if Asuna wants to vent, Raina is here for it, although it's possible she might clue in since she's an analyst + taking psychology classes ahaha.

this is very belated (sorry, rl things came up :c) but hello! dani pinged me when your au workshop came up and vivarium fan! kokichi is yuuki's older brother and runs the guild with her (goes under the name zero and uses an origami mouse as his online identity).

i would be really interested in seeing how cr between asuna and kokichi would go! because kokichi can be... a jerk and can be really difficult to deal with, laughs. he's a pathological liar and can get on people's nerves so asuna might not enjoy interacting with him irl so it might be an interesting contrast between their irl selves maybe not getting along while they might be fine online (though if he finds out that she's a fan before he meets her irl, he might change up how he would act around irl, laughs)

Given how things are already starting in the TDM, I can already tell they're going to have an, um, interesting relationship. I imagine when it comes to Vivarium, she's probably going to be really scared to actually approach them in any way online, at least at first, but there are ways to force the issue, of course.

But I am all for the dual identity contrasts and seeing just how badly they can annoy each other!

aaaaa i'm sorry again for tagging/replying back late! rl things keep coming up... but yes, i'm very interested in seeing where their cr goes!

i think it'd be kind of hilarious if they get along online but terribly offline. then one day, they discover each other's online/rl identity and it's like wait you were that asshole/decent person??

That's a great idea! I could see her being bewildered that one of her gaming heroes is someone she just keeps butting heads with. Especially if she ends up being the victim of one of a pranks say, when she's doing a personal appearance in costume.

we can definitely make a prank happen! kokichi's pranks are mostly harmless but they can be annoying/embarrassing to deal with. we can absolutely come up with one so asami can have a Bad Time

i also think it'd be hilarious if asami gets along with yuuki then finds out later that kokichi is her brother by, like, idk going to their apt and seeing him there or seeing the two interact in a positive way. it can be like oh no... my nice cast are has a jerk for a brother

Excellent. I think a good harmless prank (other than to her pride) would help bring out her bratty side a little more.

Oh gosh, that would be great... especially if she's got a distinct impression that her brother is this really great guy, walks in... "You! What are YOU doing here??"

i'll think of a few harmless pranks that kokichi might do and get back to you on that! c:

and LAUGHS god i love that. yuuki is literally the only person who thinks her brother isn't a jerk so i'm sure some incorrect impressions can be made. asami can just come in and find kokichi in his super casual clothes, chilling on the couch with some video game, and he just yells back: "hey, yukki!! you brought home a wet blanket! what gives!"

Awesome!

Given some of the stuff we were discussing on Plurk, I really can't wait to see where that goes. Depending on how things turn out with Yuuki, I can also see her really gritting her teeth and not trying to push back so much out of respect for her feelings. Hopefully that doesn't paint too big a target on her back.

POOR ASAMI honestly... it might paint a target on her back but kokichi is nicer in this au. he won't push that much if he sees that she's getting super uncomfortable with it and he'd probably also hold himself back just because asami is friends with yuuki. he'll tease! and poke fun at her! but he won't outright insult her like he does in canon, laughs, so it could be so much worse

Depending on how things go, I could maybe see them settling into a pattern of giving each other a hard time as a sign of respect. Even if that happens, though, it'll be so much fun to see the journey to get there.

yes, i'm really interested and excited to see their cr progressing and possibly falling into that pattern as well! it can get really interesting if they eventually start to learn to depend on each other and go through these dangerous situations together. they butt heads but they can work together when they need to

It'll probably get easier for her as more of Asuna starts to keep into her personality. Especially in the later parts of the series, she settles into a more supportive, less confrontational role. That and the murder machine will probably make her a little more polite as well.

HAHA if they can get along through normal means, kokichi will just force it through the murder machine like a good person 8')

Just put a nice little bow on the murder machine, or have flowers painted onto the chain saw. That should convey the right message!

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