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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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Thank you for helping me out! I really need it since I'm a newbie at this apping in DWRP.

One of the things that might be good to consider is Augustine's motivations to explain how he got from point a to point b. For instance, why did he decide to move to Paris to study? What lead him to studying animal biology?

To be honest, I haven't thought of that. I tried to come up his reasons to move to Paris and study animal biology and even do a canon review, but I can't seem to find one...

Other ways to shape him would be thinking about influences around him. Is he from a lower class, middle class, upper class? Does he have any siblings? How close is he with his family? He's a bachelor who flirts sometimes, but does he ever think about settling down someday?

I'm going with either middle or upper class, but mostly upper because I think one of his parents is influential. And I was going for him being an only child, but now that you've mentioned it, he might have a sibling that might influence his decision on studying animal biology or becoming a college professor.

And yeah, I did find him flirting a woman in one scene, but you've got a point there. Maybe he might tone it down when he recovered some of his canon memories or he's once a flirt until he matured when he became a college professor. Are those ideas make sense?

As for his personality, what's he like in canon? A great way to flesh out his AU personality is to look how he's treated canonically in the anime and what traits he displays and then incorporate them into your AU. Is he very friendly with people or generous?

When I watched the anime, I saw him as a cool and helpful guy to trainers and he always shows some determination just to help them out. So yeah, he's very friendly and generous to people.

I might need more help on some points I've mentioned... Sorry about this. Like I said, I'm still a newbie when it comes to mem-loss/AU.

There doesn't have to be a specific reason in canon to support why he would move to Paris! That's something you could reasonably make up in the confines of the AU itself. For instance, he could be going to school on scholarship, or perhaps a relative of his paid for tuition for him to study in Paris very early in his life. With AUs it's a blend of mixing your creativity with what might make sense for the character themselves.

Those ideas do, in fact, make sense! They're a good start to explaining some of his behavior. It never hurts to not only canon-review and watch scenes with your character and notate their personality but also look at the world around them as a whole and how it affects their worldview and their ideals.

What may also be helpful is to go through some of the other workshopped comments on this post for canons/characters you know (you can check out the directory here) and see how the players are incorporating these differences in their AUs! Additionally, we do have example applications on our applications page that display general ideas of how to incorporate an AU and what we look for in our apps!

Oh, thanks! I think I might get some ideas for his AU right now thanks to your advice. And yeah, I'll check some of the workshopped comments if I can.

But one more thing, should I mentioned about the effects of him recovering his canon memories or not? Cause it might affect his AU self if it did.

If you think my question might be off-topic, that's fine. Thanks for the advice anyway.

Since you'll be apping the character in as if they're unaware there's a "right" version of them (i.e. their canon selves), I would personally recommend not writing his AU as if you've already predicted how he'll react to regaining his memories! Our applications have a slot for writing your character's canon history and canon personality which you can use to detail how they are presented in canon, along with the AU section for history and personality. It's best to keep these sections separate.

I hope all of this helps you!

Okay, I'll keep that in mind. Maybe I'll just pick the former his AU self is sometimes a flirt because it should make a big difference between his canon and AU. Plus, it should be a good character development along the way, I think...

I got so many more questions, but I'll ask them in the reserve or application week in another place soon. Thanks again!

JANUARY AU WORKSHOP

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