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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:
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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: Robyn
CHARACTER: Aloy
CANON: Horizon: Zero Dawn

AU NAME: Alison...idk if I should put her last name here because it’s a tiny spoiler! But I have one for her.
AU AGE: 20-22ish.
AU OCCUPATION: Going to school for environmentalist studies or! Robotics...i can’t figure it out yet, wants to get a doctorate, probably also wants to work in the national park service or smth...but she’s a wanderer at heart and is (very) bright but hasn’t settled down yet. As for an actual job-job...I like the idea of her tinkering with machines, lol. Maybe she can work at someone’s auto shop. Barring that, does volunteer park work, primarily summer camp stuff.
BLURB: In canon, Aloy is from a post-post apocalyptic world, largely overtaken by nature, where machines are the apex predators and humans live on in primitive tribes. She was an outcast at birth, raised by a fellow outcast and surrogate father/father figure, Rost. She comes to discover that her actual lineage is a lot more complex and meaningful than she first believed, and is granted the title of Seeker by her tribe, thus allowing her to go out into the world and discover all of its secrets! And kill a lot of machines in super cool ways.

Although Aloy is from a pretty under-advanced society, she’s a fast learner, pragmatic, driven and brave. Also, for someone who was raised largely on the outskirts of her society, she’s surprisingly well-adjusted and thoughtful, thanks to Rost. An AU Aloy would first and foremost be socialized a bit more! So while she’s still blunt and to the point, she’s a little less “cut to the chase” than she is in canon, more easygoing, and some of her wanderlust is tempered by the practicality of a modern day world. She’s not especially extroverted, but has had a circle of friends throughout her life (some have rotated out and some haven’t) and is less isolated than she was in canon. Her intelligence and ingenuity I would like to gear toward a drive to making a positive change in the world, thus leading her to the field she’s studying. Aloy in canon has to grow into this role, but Alison will have been nurtured in an environment that would drive her to want to do it on her own. Part of this is because she has heard stories about her mother since she was a kid (who passed away shortly after her birth) and is inspired to emulate her. I’m not going to go too heavy on detail here because I’m trying not to spoil everything lmao. Her dad is actually not her birth father, he’s a family friend who adopted her at her mother’s death. Or at least that’s the story I’m going with. She was raised in Recolle but went away to school in Colorado Springs. Since she’s gone away to college, they communicate mostly via phone calls (he’s old fashioned and snail mails her sometimes too.) He’s currently having a long trip with a group of buddies across the U.S. (They’re visiting national parks), and Alison has transferred to a school in Recolle to continue her studies. Also she got a hookup on a job, idk.

She’s really athletic (was in archery class in high school and hikes now.) Worked at a ranch for a spell in her senior year. Probably was kind of a smart ass all through high school, also was a bit more rebellious in general. She can and has hotwired a car (it was her dad’s car, she got in a lot of trouble.)

LOOKING FOR: - BUDS...people she used to know and new people!
Fellow science...nerds. Esp. people who don’t look like nerds but are huge nerds.
People who want to idk crossfit with her (jk she doesn’t crossfit). UH BASICALLY other outdoorsy types, etc.
Following canon, an awkward crush she can shoot down in a good-natured sort of way.
I’m really flying by the seat of my pants so I have no set in stone ideas, just hmu.
OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: i’m also thinking about Utena Tenjou from RGU but this is already tentative so! idk

I have no clue how they would meet but holy crap GIMME.

Oh gosh, definitely! Maybe they knew each other in high school? Has he ever ridden a horse...lmao. Or needed a tutor? Or, maybe he joined her on her crazy joyride hotwiring adventures who knows.

So Mako did go through HS-- he dropped out of college. But he was a football/soccer player in HS (opposite seasons, totally doable). He also boxes in his spare time.

He's dirt poor, so no horse, unless she offered it to him at some point!

HI YES Naoto is very interested in science but it's mainly forensic stuff. However she is also A Secret Nerd so if Aloy was doing robotic stuff she'd be all "wow that's heckin cool" and be very into her work.

Unfortunately she's only 16. She's taking classes at the university though.

Sounds like science buddies! Her own interests steer toward conservation efforts and green energy and other useful hippie stuff but she'd be interested in forensics in like a "watches murder drama documentaries at 2am" sort of way.

That sounds like pretty much how Naoto would be interested in other science. "Huh. That's cool. It's not my thing, but I'll probably read this article about it and find it fascinating."

Murder dramas are her guilty pleasure.

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