APRIL AU WORKSHOP

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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 <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> <br> <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>

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[thesettingsun]

PLAYER: Mini
CHARACTER: Dazai Osamu
CANON: Bungou to Alchemist


AU NAME: Tsushima Shuji
AU AGE: 24
AU OCCUPATION: College student/part-time in retail
BLURB:
- Second-generation immigrant: his parents came over from Aomori, Japan, after a run of bad fortune convinced them that the only way they could get their lives back on track was to shake things up, and they'd always wanted to live in a big city anyway.
- They speak a lot of Japanese at home, and Shuji's embarrassed to speak Japanese in front of anyone other than his parents, even if most people here don't know Tsugaru-ben's reputation.
- An only child! His relationship with his parents is awkward due to his difficulties with school and him actually learning how to support himself, but there's no doubt they love each other.
- Shuji has always been bright, but one of those kids who thinks that being bright is enough to get him to pass through school and college flawlessly even if he doesn't study and spends his time writing in his notebook or listening to fifty different Youtube (or whatever it's called here) channels about fashion or flirting with girls-
- Unsurprisingly, this doesn't go all that well for him in college. He's currently on his third attempt at college: the first two ended somewhat similarly, with him taking breaks in between. He'd try his best for a while and then get distracted by other, more fun pursuits, then feeling bad about getting distracted would make him want to cheer himself up, and so forth until he had to withdraw. Right now he's still doing okay in this attempt, but who knows.
- Of course he's majoring in literature.
- To help encourage responsibility, his parents have required him to get a part-time job this time around, so he's working in some sort of retail thing. This is probably not good for his mental state, but it was the first thing he could find available. He tends to be easily cowed by customers, and his coworkers have probably all seen him cry at least once.
- Lives at the dorms for that sweet, sweet roommate CR.
LOOKING FOR: College friends - a roommate, classmates (especially fellow literature/other fine arts majors), teachers who he's begged for extra time on a project or who remember him from his previous two attempts at the same school. Anyone who's interested in writing would be cool as a 'meet up for coffee or (more likely) alcohol and talk about Art' thing. If anyone does Youtube channels, he might be a subscriber? More of a long shot, but it'd be awesome to have someone famous in either the literature or fashion worlds that Shuji could get his fanboy on over.

[rhapsodeity]

MINI!!!

we gotta do a thing, we DESERVE A THING. jade has a youtube channel with dave here! we could use that? she's also a college (and...high school since she's 17 here) student so they could be schoolmates who might know each other passingly or even deeper than that if you want :O

[thesettingsun]

I MISSED YOU

What is Jade's youtube channel about? Also they could be classmates, and they could know each other or we could do the "!!!! you're jade from youtube!! I've seen your show so many times" thing

don't underestimate his ability to fanboy

[rhapsodeity]

i mean BOTH IS GOOD, maybe he met her at the start of the school term and recognized her?

.......also her and dave blow things up on their channel. because it's cool and fun. dave adds a bunch of ridiculous special effects and jade explains the science behind the explosions? it's probably one of those really ridiculously entertaining and educational youtube channels tbh because who doesn't love explosions

[thesettingsun]

He would totally watch that and favorite their stuff. Also I need their first meeting to have included the phrase 'you look different without safety goggles on!'

[thesettingsun]

ALSO COWORKERS WOULD BE GREAT I don't know what retail job he has, just that he needs to Suffer

and girls he's previously flirted with

[littlekittens]

HI MINI I'm excited to see you here after all!

Koutarou works as a (Very) part-time art teacher so even if Dazai has not been his student maybe they've met on campus before???

If you want to he can be buddies with this guy, he'd easily call himself Dazai's friend if he likes him (and "Dazainyan" is a cute nickname) and he also has a youtube channel but following or not depends on how interested you'd have Dazai be in yoga and dumb cat videos.

[thesettingsun]

okay I really need Dazainyan to be his nickname right now

he will not admit to it but he has a bunch of those dumb cat videos favorited

[littlekittens]

Then it is!

Algira will find out one way or other, and be super excited.

[thesettingsun]

...wait shoot Dazai isn't his AU name because his AU name is his actual birth name

I regret everything

[pantsoptional]

Hello, directionless college student!! I have an astronomy professor here, who will occasionally grant extra time on projects if it seems warranted, but also will absolutely stick his nose into a student's life and encourage them to live up to their full potential, if that would be something of interest to you.

[thesettingsun]

Who would actually say no to Rider CR, though. Please stick your nose all up into his business he definitely needs a king guiding force in his life.

[doublesmall]

HELLO THERE

So Chuuya is a former literature major, he's officially quit college but they might have met there when he did attend? he writes poetry and would be all over alcohol and art meetups seeing as he runs a literature themed bar :>

though if he ever finds out he's a Dazai he's going to be pissed in a very confused way because this is not That Dazai?? but maybe it is??

[thesettingsun]

HI TEEJ long time no see

I absolutely guarantee you that is Shuji's favorite bar and one of his favorite places to Totally Have Enough Time To Finish His Assignments, He's Just Taking A Little Break First.

wouldn't it be great if they had reasonably positive cr at first and then Chuuya learned he was A Shitty Dazai/Shuji remembered how incredibly terrified he is of people named Nakahara Chuuya/both

[doublesmall]

oh my god is he really scared of his version of chuuya... we need to do this, chuuya will be so confused bc he remembers a bit about his dazai

He'll probably start a fight with him whether dazai wants one or not, I'm sorry about him

[thesettingsun]

My dude, he is petrified.

I understand and accept this fight being picked. It's an inevitability.

[notbunaga]

MINI IT'S KIVA so like

nobu here does have a youtube channel but she isn't very successful because she only uses it to archive her twitch streams

where she is really abrasive and rude to her entire chat, and the people she plays against

so it's entirely just...edgy internet kids

i get the feeling she is not the streamer for him

[thesettingsun]

HI KIVA

that does not seem like a thing he would be into hmm

but maybe he's following some people she played against and is like 'wow you don't have to be such a jerk on a game for fun' except he fears direct confrontation so he probably left her anon comments to that effect and would deny it being him hahaha.....

[notbunaga]

LMFAO aww this poor guy...

how would you feel if one day he stopped by the arcade she works at and the minute he hears her voice he's like IT'S HER but

she's just like ???? you okay there buddy

[protegge]

ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT I'M HERE

so shuji definitely wouldn't naturally run in the same circles as mista because shuji is academic and mista is a loser BUT i think they could def have run into each other! mista's jumped from job to job a bunch but he could easily have briefly had a retail job that. idk. he got fired from when he told a customer to fuck off after they hassled shuji, lol.

alternately he was a barista for a skinny minute so they could've met that way. EITHER WAY WORKS jsut gimme ur cr mini

[thesettingsun]

ALL THE ANNE CR

Please give me Mista having told off a customer who made Shuji cry
Shuji will consider him his hero for like forever and Mista will be unable to be in the same bar as him without getting a free drink

[protegge]

ok i was honestly hoping you'd pick that option because it's cute as hell

mista would probably check in on shuji a lot too because like........ kid he's a mess but you're a bigger mess somehow. how did that happen.

[liberal_arts]

Kasen's not really a literature person specifically but he's got some poetry books under his belt. he's mostly a modern day renaissance man who focuses on supporting young artsits. he's kind of a big name in the art scene.

[thesettingsun]

if they're both from DMM games, does that make them castmates

Shuji might have at least the poetry books! Enough to recognize the name when it comes up and go "oh you're that kasen, I'm a fan"

[liberal_arts]

well he also has a building at recolle university named after him, so it's a definite "oh, THAT Kasen" kind of moment