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APRIL AU WORKSHOP

AU WORKSHOP

AU WORKSHOP - APRIL
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.

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.

April Workshop Character Directory

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PLAYER: Anne
CHARACTER: Guido Mista
CANON: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

AU NAME: ~~guy salad~~ Still Guido Mista
AU AGE: 18
AU OCCUPATION: Uh, various. He's not great at holding down a job because he has a very c'est la vie attitude towards life and sometimes just. Doesn't show up to work, because he'd rather be doing this other thing. Jobs he's held in the past: delivery driver, barista (which he would have actually been okay at if he wasn't so bad at actually showing up to work), bouncer. He may or may not be taking part in some of Majima's business ventures, which are for the moment totally above-board. tl;dr odd jobs, host club maybe.
BLURB:

Mista is an 18 year old Italian-American kid. In this case, Italian-American means a much stronger loyalty to Italy than the U.S., since he grew up in Naples until he was 15.
He moved to Recolle when he was 15, not entirely willingly, to escape manslaughter charges. He beat a man to death after witnessing him attacking a girl in a car, but because the man was a fairly prominent public official with nebulous mafia ties, his mother insisted that he go live with family overseas.
Mista has a very love-hate relationship with the city. He loves some of the people, hates the place for not being home, and has a certain low-lying distrust of the Establishment, although not enough of it to motivate him to actually do anything about it.
He is very Catholic. That is: he goes to church a lot and is a very spiritually aware person. On the other hand, he tends to pick and choose which parts of church doctrine he actually attends to, so maybe it's more correct to say he's the best Catholic he personally can be and sometimes feels bad about not being a better one.
While his mother had high hopes for him finishing high school and heading to university in Recolle, it never panned out. He finished school with middling grades and immediately started a string of odd jobs, none lasting long; he tended to make an okay impression on managers and a great impression on coworkers, though, because he was always fun to work with. Maybe a little too fun. Do your job, Mista.
When he's not at whatever job he's picked up this month, Mista is (tentatively) set to work at Majima's host club. He's actually really good at this. Because:
While Mista is definitely the kind of guy to flirt wildly with anyone appropriate, he's actually a pretty decent dude with high standards for how he treats potential partners/women in general. He's admittedly very clumsy when he actually catches feelings and generally a flighty and unfocused person, but whatever exes he has probably ended the relationship amicably because he's a loser rather than an asshole.
Mista has extremely strong feelings about film and television, especially romantic comedies and spaghetti westerns. While he's a vivacious and fun person to be around in general, he is passionate about film, and as such can also be found at the movies a fair amount of the time. Talk to him about Pretty Woman.
Finally, while Mista is still quite strong in his faith and has an overall positive outlook about the world, he has been known to express a certain feeling of directionlessness, as though something significant is missing from his life. As a result, he tends to throw himself into things impulsively, spend impulsively, start relationships impulsively, and so on. Additionally, this makes him very superstitious about certain things, so while he's overall easygoing he can be jumpy about weird shit.

LOOKING FOR: Friends, found family, exes! If anyone wants to step in as Mista's distant relatives he moved to Recolle to live with, that's awesome too. While long-term negative relationships are a little harder to sustain with Mista, if anyone's likely to have offended his sense of justice I'm totally interested in that, too.
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: n/a I'm set on this nerd

Edited 2017-04-10 04:31 (UTC)

Holy crap I forgot how much I loved this series. Hi. Hi. Officer Hitori Togusa, RPD.

(........does this mean Tommy would get Jimmy talking to him back as a regain? Is that a thing? This has so much potential.)

Ah, these two could know each other in a professional capacity. I'm just really excited now because this show was great.

PLAYER: Rema
CHARACTER: Goro Majima
CANON: Yakuza (series)

AU NAME: n/a
AU AGE: 23
AU OCCUPATION: Cabaret Club Owner (think: hostess club)
BLURB:

✧ grew up in an orphanage in Recollé and was kind of a punk
✧ doesn't speak japanese and thus can't be a huge embarassment with honorifics
✧ has a bro who is in jail and is working really hard to get a good lawyer to help him out
✧ runs Club Sunshine which is essentially a host club. he employs basically anyone and is really well liked by his employees despite his kind of rough exterior. he's got a pretty good reputation for building the business into something successful and for his a+++ customer service skills.
✧ hasn't lost his eye because come on guys what an incredibly traumatic regain for the future
✧ enjoys karaoke, is a really good dancer, and does about a million different kinds of minigames. his hobbies are varied and diverse and he probably plays mahjong with your auntie
✧ recently met this loser named kazuma kiryu that's probably meaningless
✧ ends up helping people out A LOT even though he ""doesn't care"" but runs their errands for them anyway, I guess
✧ cage fights for money on occasion!! he's a pretty strong fighter
✧ not actually a yakuza
✧ he LOVES baseball
✧ tamago is his favorite sushi dont judge

LOOKING FOR:

I'm honestly open to any ideas at all, but the most exciting to me at the moment is the prospect of having people work for him. He can employ people to help manage, work the bar, be a bouncer, or be a host/hostess. It's the year of our lord 2017 anyone can be a host. There are some really fun mechanics I want to build into the club - canonically he buys his employees things and does cute training substory conversations and stuff to help them be better at their job! He can also partner with businesses in town or rival other clubs, which are also canonical functions I swear this game series is really about the yakuza.

I'd also love to build some standing cr of random encounter kinds of things - people he's helped out in your classic video game substory fashion where they'd know his name and remember his face and be like oh hey you're that guy!!

Finally, people who he's gotten in fights with via cage fighting OR other people from his delinquent youth, either at the orphanage or on the streets would be pretty sweet. He's obviously cleaned up his act and works to have a really clean image with the club but his bro is in jail for a reason and he was definitely living that life.

heeeey

Haha yes good, Kinda Marvel Bros. And yeah that all sounds like legit stuff! Kurt only reads comics every now and then so he probably gets a lot of things Wrong

YES GOOD... and his major is philosophy because his bff basically dragged him to university (yams personally just wants to do All Kendo All The Time) but he's interested in history and he likes school, I could totally see him enjoying a class of hers because she could make it seem interesting... putting things in ways he never would've thought about

AND HE WOULD DEFINITELY LET HER EXPERIMENT especially because a lot of his regains have been pretty traumatizing... so that's fun

I made a noise only dogs can hear when I saw this is that weird that's probably weird forget I said that.

uh. Hi?

So I know Eleanor is kind of tangentally canon-mates here but More Bioshocks yes! I'm not sure how Eleanor should know her, maybe college? She'll be starting there next year and is taking a pre-college class now and uh. Yeah. IDK.

OH I also have Red from Transistor who is a music/language professor there that makes sense they could know each other?

ME TOO

i figure that baren and yamyamtaro get along like a bitchy cat and a hyperactive dog so there's that. baren probably wanders into their apartment as he pleases to grab kashuu for things and invites yams sometimes if he needs extra muscle????

like tbh baren probably pokes at yams because it's fun and not because he actually dislikes him.....

but also baren does know kendo and fencing and a couple of other things

so i hope yams finds that out one unfortunate day when baren picks up something to parry on reflex

obviously you need a resident scientist to tell you that's not how radiation works, oh my god, tony, you can't just stick a giant metal plate into iron man's chest, that's completely unrealistic, tony.

but no she def will reject him as well
like come flirt with her tony by all means but don't expect anything to come of it

mista 6 months ago: ok i'll be a bouncer
mista 2 months ago: ok i'll pinch hit as a host
mista now: why do i have 2 jobs

okay but like

what if kurama and majima met because majima thought kurama was a hot girl and tried to get "her" to work at his club

and then they ended up becoming friends but it's still a running joke between them and they hang out sometimes because guess what they're the same age

WE SHOULD STILL DO A THING

i think they'd probably be cousins on baren's moms side of the family?? i'm trying to keep the kumou family side clear bc there's a lot of kumous in canon in case they ever want to app in the future....

but baren probably met up with levy when he moved once he realized that his mom had some family that moved to recolle?? and told her kind of immediately "know whatever people say about me, even if it's shitty things and even if it's true, I'll always be here for you"

immediately dumps family feelings on this ig

Kid he'll defend you with his life at this point tbh

i love him too

i'm going to be honest though baren's made of chaos and likes to cause trouble and he'll pick up malik under his wing SO GODDAMN FAST IF MALIK LETS HIM

(but he also has a lot more control over his emotions so watch him try to teach malik to keep it under wraps too)

>low-lying distrust of the Establishment

YES

gimme a minute and I'll be able to spitball better becaaaause I def all about getting CR with you someway, somehow Anne!!! the obvious angle would be the distrust of the establishment. malik probably ordered a coffee or two from mista as well?? but obviously that's not much as far as establishing cr goes... it's hard because they aren't too far off in age but there's enough of a gap where they wouldn't have been in school at the same time i'm p sure
SO I GUESS ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT IT IS??? i'll make something happen

FUCKING SLAMS INTO THIS AND SITS ON YOUR HEAD

I WILL GIVE MORE CONSTRUCTIVE INPUT TOMORROW BUT NAT!! NAT I'M SO HAPPY!! JOIN MY GAME AND GIVE ME THE BOY OF MY HEART

also i still really love designer kanji like with my whole entire stupid heart

THE MESSIEST OF EXES all that's staying the same ofc ofc

but i'm losing it

yeah baren would probably be down. while walking down memory lane in the worst way like "remember when you nearly pissed yourself the first time we went to jail aw chuu you've grown"

lmfao, yes. majima walks up with a really nice watch in hand (this is how you recruit girls, i don't make the rules) like hey!! and then whoops

i mean he'd still ask him he employs dudes but

he'd definitely admit he thought he was a girl no lies there

ok so i could either see mista pushing zelos into a puddle for being shitty to his exes OR just fucking with him since he's a prickly guy OR some combo of the above, if any of those would be appealing to you

THAT WORKS FOR ME, since she'll be...half japanese her mom can be baren's moms' sister ok.

AND I'M THINKING she would have been here before he moved and just chilling in recolle even if they lived in japan originally, so she would have been :) about meeting new family and pretty willing to just give him the benefit of all the doubts. SHE'S A SWEET KID. and an orphan in canon but i'm like at least her mom can live ok

I was so excited to see someone playing Eleanor, oh my goodness. But college would absolutely work! Ros could definitely run into her while she's taking the pre-college courses. Do you have her specializing in anything, or are they more general education stuff?

But Red could work too! I mean, definitely Rosalind is fascinated by generally all knowledge, so learning more about music and/or linguistics would certainly be her jam.

if this kurama is going to be a REDHEAD who wears ALL PINK again, kanji's hair will fall out. PLEASE give me this...

I'm not entirely sure what kind of CR I can offer you with Hiro though I do have a 23 year old bar owner that's from an upperclass family and may have met Tony once upon a time. MOSTLY I wanted to pop in here and just say that I love this AU and it's cracking me up, A+.

It has been... but you know, everything's relative. Any specific family openings in mind?

supotco's going to be amazing

BUT LMFAO I'M SO HAPPY FOR ALL OF THIS it's all going to happen 100% all of our plans should still be in place along with luke and baren unfortunately causing fires wherever they go

but how did they meet, ty. did baren wander into the bar 3 years ago and suddenly luke has had to deal with him ever since and now he owns the bar and baren is even more excited to be there

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