repeter | JUNE 2017 AU WORKSHOP

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.

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June Workshop Character Directory

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PLAYER: Kalan
CHARACTER: Garrus Vakarian
CANON: Mass Effect

AU NAME: Gerald ("Gerry") Valente
AU AGE: 29
AU OCCUPATION: FBI - Cybercrimes unit

BLURB:

▸ normal enough guy from a pretty well-off family. dad was a federal judge, mom was an engineer. has a younger sister.
▸ has lived in recolle most of his life, though went out of state for university where he did a double major in computer science and criminal justice (the latter to please his dad).
▸ was recruited by the FBI right out of college, and has managed to advance through the ranks at a decent rate.
▸ despite having had special agent training, he enjoys his desk work and not particularly eager to get out in the field. he takes most things in stride.
▸ however, he does frequent the shooting range... just in case.
▸ considers himself "married to his work" if only because he's not the smoothest when it comes to the whole dating thing.
▸ however, he's pretty good at making friends.
▸ has helped bring down a couple of larger hacking outfits re: corporate espionage, and has served as an expert witness on a couple of trials
▸ active around various internet communities under the username "archangel"

LOOKING FOR:

▸ friends! all across the board, from childhood to beyond, and internet pals
▸ co-workers from all manner of law enforcement
▸ awkward exes are also always fun.
▸ honestly i'm pretty good with anything.

This dumb kid shows up at the local precinct for a work study/internship thing. That might be a point of contact.

yes this would be lovely! he's also a massive big bro type as well.

also he is around the shooting range, IF NAOTO has any of that canon persona weapon skill

Not yet, but she's going to get her revolver (and her gun skill) back soon! So she'll absolutely go to the range.

great!

also if you ever want someone to enthusiastically tell you to pursue a career in law enforcement, he's your guy.

So Tatsuo here works as a CSI for the Recolle Crime Lab, and while the FBI probably has their own shiny labs, you never know who you have to contact.

He did grow up in Recolle though, so they could have met before Gerry went off to college. Tatsuo is 30, but his birthday is in the fall, so they could have been in the same grade if Gerry was a spring birthday.

That would be an excellent point of contact. i'm waffling on whether he should be FBI or a detective with aspirations of FBIdom (to more coincide with his canon experiences).

And he'd definitely could've met then as well. :D

On the one hand, having more cops just makes it funnier how many PC cops there are. On the other, who knows what kind of resources Gerry might have at the FBI level the local police don't?

Okay, how was Gerry in elementary school? Because Tatsuo went through a period when he was 10. His mom died, he was sent to the orphanage and therefore ended up changing schools. And for about three months he got into fights with the kids at his new school. Some of it was kids teasing him, some of it was him channeling his grief. After starting karate lessons, he stopped fighting at school.

Would Gerry like to remember this one random Japanese kid who kept brawling, or perhaps been on the receiving end of one of his fists?

that's my thought as well. I'm assuming he would collaborate with the police at least a little, given that cybercrimes do impact them as well.

he was definitely that kid who tried to be everyone's friend, though could occasionally be MASSIVELY accidentally insensitive. especially considering he comes from a well-off family.

so he'd have tried to be friendly. to... probably mixed results. :P

and contrary to what TV might have you believe, even the FBI isn't all powerful and still has to ask local jurisdictions to share relevant info

oh boy, yeah. he'd have just had to rub Tatsuo the wrong way once and POW. and then a few months later there would have been a follow up where Tatsuo awkwardly apologizes for punching him. :/

if there were still friendly overtures after that, Tatsuo would have been receptive

oh he'd definitely still be friendly, though would probably tell the story over and over. just be like "hey yeah this is my buddy the first time we met he punched me in the face. it was hilarious"

Oh yes please do that! Tatsuo is so much older than most of his CR that those who did know him when he was 10 were too young to know what was going on with him.

It will be completely hilarious. Pls tell all of his new friends what a ball of rage he was at 10.

I can offer you a private security coworker here! Faolan here is not the greatest at making friends bc he's married to his job as well but he's a good guy and a good friend, once the connection's made! He is currently working Laurent Duvere, who is basically the youngest son of a French media mogul family who just "happens" to be studying abroad here in Recolle. Perhaps they might have connected through something job related?

That'd be lovely! Gerry is one of those guys who's pretty laid back and affable, if a little awkward and a bit of a nerd. but he relates on the whole "married to his job" thing. they definitely could've crossed paths, especially if Laurent's family is worried about cybersecurity. gotta have an agent monitoring it or something. :)

Awesome! And that's okay, Faolan's awkward too. And for sure, Faolan is good at what he does so he would try to have all areas of Laurent's security down tight, including cyber security, especially given what the family's company does. You never know what's coming next from what direction constant vigilance GOTTA BE READY the last thing he needs is anything bad happening on his watch

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