JUNE 2017 AU WORKSHOP

[recollecters]

AU WORKSHOP

AU WORKSHOP - JUNE 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. IMPORTANT INFORMATION World changes FAQ New AC requirements starting July 2017 June 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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[anguinous]

CHARACTER: Laurent of Vere
CANON: Captive Prince


AU NAME: Laurent Duvere
AU AGE: 20
AU OCCUPATION: Heir to CableCorp, a thinly veiled version of NewsCorp in its heyday, and business student
BLURB:
Laurent Duvere is the youngest son of Aleron Duvere, a French billionaire who made his fortune as a successful media mogul. He expanded CableCorp, a French media company started by his father before him, via successful investing and buyouts until it became one of the largest media companies in Europe. CableCorp is a media conglomerate worth billions of dollars. It owns newspapers, TV channels, websites, magazines, radio shows, has shares in film companies.

Laurent's father and mother both died in a car accident seven years ago, leaving the business to be taken over by their oldest son Auguste with the assistance of his uncle. Auguste is well liked and clever, and largely Laurent trusts him with all this, but recently the usually more even-handed direction of the company and its reporting has begun to tip just enough to be noticeable. Since the death of his father, Laurent's uncle has been a more noticeable presence in the family's life and he has been helping Auguste run the company in a way that smacks of ambition. Laurent suspects his influence is responsible for this change in direction, and that his brother is a little too trusting of his own family to realise he is being manipulated.

CableCorp thus has had a certain amount of backlash, and while Laurent is likely not a recognisable face his surname is (in the same way the name Murdoch might be in life). There is a slowly developing scandal as the reporting methods of some branches are investigated, and Laurent is loathe to not be home to help but also aware he must let his brother handle it. He is in Recolle finishing a business degree, and generally travels with security in case someone decides to get a little heated. (Someone else who will end up on the workshop in a minute will probably be his awkward security guard).

CableCorp tends to back the mayor in most of its news! It is not the number one news company in Recolle, it's bigger in Europe, but it is present. The mayor probably plays golf with Laurent's creepy uncle once a month or something.

LOOKING FOR:
Study friends in business degree land, or in the land the same college at least!
Rival families!
Friendly families!
Politically minded people who want to have slightly heated debates about Cablecorp!
Fellow book nerds! Laurent is a big reader
Do you like riding? Laurent likes riding! Horses in canon but yknow I CAN DEAL W/ BIG CHICKENS
Are you a tenacious flirt? Laurent is gay (yes, as well as European) and also plays horrendously hard to get.
Do you like a good sass battle? Laurent won Best Poker Face of the Year ten times over and can drop the sickest burns.
Are you also European? Complain with him about how everything is clearly better in Europe.

WARNING: This book series comes with a laundry list of content warnings. While most of it is sort of... safely not in his AU memories, once he starts to remember his life he will definitely have memories of child abuse, slavery, incest, all sorts of bad things. You can totally opt out of him (if he gets in!) or just, you know, warn me to stay away from that content with you. It... probably isn't something he'd talk about anyway, I'm just being upfront so people don't feel caught out after planning here or something.

[hollywooding]

Originally I saw "poker face" and was like oh nice and then i read everything else and was like OH, NICE.

Mary's a year younger than him but also studies politics! she also has a short temper and would probably make an excellent debate partner :3c she comes from a poor family but likes to pretend she's actually rich too... lol

[anguinous]

EXCELLENT if she is into politics and stuff she's probably aware of the suspect stuff about CableCorp's reporting and all. Laurent is actually secretly a nice person but he likes to keep people at arms length by acting the role of who people think he should be (aloof elitist dick, super cold hearted.)

(Secretly he'd probably save a kitten yknow).

This means they could have a good few heckling spats where he's like LOL IDC before she gets under his skin a little.

If you want comedy value she could have been dragged off by his bodyguard too for yelling.

[hollywooding]

I JUST SAW THE BODY GUARD AND LAUGHED, mary is like 5 feet tall and a hundred pounds soaking wet, please scruff her like a kitten and carry her away

i'm imagining like in class rivals, like a professor asks a question and laurent answers and mary's like "wELL, ACTUALLY" and it turns into a progressively more passive aggressive debate until one of them (both of them) get kicked out of class

AND THEN MAYBE BECOMING ACTUAL FRIENDS at some point... intellectual buds

[he_smol]

I got an Austrian who can throw a pretty brutal burn battle right back! Just so happens he's used to dealing with princes, too...

[anguinous]

Austria is Europe so yknow, CLEARLY STILL SUPERIOR TO RECOLLE HERE.

He's a librarian I see so Laurent probably has met him while checking out books for his degree and secretly books to read too or something, they can have pokerface sass battles in the calm tone of a normal conversation while he signs them out maybe! c:

[he_smol]

Hey, I was toying with either librarian or having him teach full time, actually so either way, I see potential sass battles!

[flowrite]

I am continually amused by how many French characters there are, so much French :3

Fai is from a wealthy French family but the only one left alive aside from himself is his uncle, so I don't think we could swing them being relatives. But maybe the families were friends at one point? Fai is 31 and he moved to Recolle when he was nine so he wouldn't know Laurent but maybe he remembers Laurent's parents/uncle?

[anguinous]

You probably would want to go with parents since Laurent's creepy uncle is the canon source of all the uh, content warnings the canon has -- but I would be up for family friend!

[flowrite]

WELL now that you mention it! Fai's parents/grandfather were kind of terrible people and were horribly abusive. I'm canon-blind but maybe the uncle would be the way to go? It's up to you lol!

[crushcard]

I MEAN HIS BOYFRIEND IS FRENCH (hi i see you've talked to Fai already)

but! Kaiba here is a part time student on his third degree (he did economics and law and then now he's apparently doing a computer science degree? this fucking over achiever) and he also runs his own game publishing and development company whiiiich I imagine would have dealings with Cablecorp in some sort especially since he's always interested in putting out advertisements and the like in the lifestyle section of Cablecorp news, whether as advertisements for games, events he's running (he's running a massive convention thing at the end of July) and/or op-eds, if you want to run with that route!

also come at him with your sickest burns, Kaiba's got a very dry and terrible sense of humour tbh

also im' fucking screaming at you because Captive Prince oh my god i was just. rereading it the other day.

[flowrite]

omg more impetus for Kaiba to learn French why do they keep looking over at me and laughing I need to know what they're talking about :D :D :D

[anguinous]

Laurent would do it just to wind him up

[anguinous]

God its such a trashy canon but I love Laurent so much


BUT YES I am like -- low key aware of Kaiba?

I do not know which version of the thing I watched I just remember BLUE EYES WHITE DRAGON and lots of HEH

From this abstract series of memories I think they would get along sassing each other, and YEAH I dont see why he couldn't have had dealings with them if he is advertising in Europe especially!

Equally since Fai is setting up a familial sort of friendship they could meet in person through Fai and Kaiba can be Overwhelmed by the Sudden Amount of Frenchness surrounding him.

[crushcard]

I mean I play him from the manga, which is a whole other monster on its own with multiple extremes involving sixteen year old kaiba designing a death trap theme park to kill one specific person, said kid nearly decapitating someone with a briefcase and three years later somehow managing to fucking pierce the veil of death to chase after the spirit of a 3,000 year old pharaoh i swear all these actually happened

there is definitely blue-eyes white dragons though except now grey bc thanks, retrospec?????

BUT YEAH oh god he actually knows german instead because he studied it in school and apparently in canon is fluent enough to read nietzsche in the original language so he's just going to suddenly be like: so much french

and yes let's run with that!!!

[splinten]

I was going to make a comment about how dirk likes arguments and horse-riding BUT DO I IN FACT KNOW WHO YOU ARE....

[anguinous]

YOU DO

[shinyidea]

Mari is also european and rich!! she'll move to recolle when i app her and she also loves riding they can ride chocobos together and lament horses and be sad they aren't in europe and stuff

[anguinous]

AW yes c:

She's even blonde people will probably think she's his little sister

[originallutece]

EUROPE BUDDIES though alas Ros is English and proud of it, so def let's let them bicker and fight over that difference.

Seriously tho Ros here is a genius professor over at the university who comes from Old Money and loves sassing with people who can keep up. I feel like she and Laurent would either get on really well or absolutely despise each other, but either way, what fun, eh?

[anguinous]

I feel like it'd probably start off as low key hate before she started to like him.

Laurent tends to play up the 'aloof rich kid' thing to keep people buffered away but he's secretly a kitten who loves books and happiness

[scarlet_devil]

Heh, a lot of French people here in Recolle, big ol' melting pot it is. Anyway, this is Émilie Écarlate, heiress and future CEO of ÉcarlateSoft, a rival of Ubisoft. (Brand names stay the same if they don't fourth wall characters.) She's doing her business degree too - and will love to complain about how silly American laws and customs can be.

[anguinous]

The coffee here

terrible

the food?

How is it food

And why is everything so big

[heiresy]

I goddamn love captive prince. I'm so glad to see Laurent, I love him so much.

Aymeric has a lot in common with him starting with being French, moneyed political, gay(ish), in college, and dead-parented! Can they please talk shit in French? Aymeric tutors French, maybe they could bump into each other in the tutor resource center or something?

In his canon, aymeric is an army's commander at the end of one war and the beginning of another. They would have plenty to talk about in general once the memories come back. Aymeric is a compassionate person who will sit and talk with someone for hours on end. So if Laurent needs someone to fall apart on and then promise to kill him if he says anything, aymeric's the perfect guy for that.

[anguinous]

I have no idea what you are talking about? Laurent is a well balanced individual with no emotional problems? He has no reason to fall apart ever? He wouldn't ever bottle anything up or feel weird about expressing himself? What is this slander.


J/K he's a mess I don't know if he even can function enough to have an actual breakdown properly.

But I am all about talking shit about people in French! Bonus points if it is in front of the person and while sipping a drink sassily.