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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

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

And his mom is still a shapeshifter, oops.

I can work with Almedha having a proper husband, though an affair is optional if you need more ???? about Kurt's parentage. I'd go with Amelia as an AU name in that case. She's most likely been kind of distant with her husband since Kurt came into the picture; having a kid hit her like a ton of unhappy bricks. I don't think divorce would be on the table, they're just very neutral about each other.

I was thinking Kurt's dad would be away often on business trips/film production and generally busy and clearly not around enough for Amelia's taste. I'm not sure how big of a role you want him to have, so that could be changed if you want.

Amelia would fit scarily well as that intrusive and elitist presence in his life trying to keep Kurt away from "unsuccessful friends". Don't talk to the peasants dear, mother will be all the help you need, etc. She does hold genuine affection for her son, just expresses it in obsessive clingwrap sorts of ways. Picking up tutoring just to make sure her son's tutors were doing a good job, arranging for weekend trips to visit him while Hecklebusters was filming, and so on.

Maybe part of the agreement with Kurt going to college and accepting a smaller stipend was Amelia giving him room to breathe/agreeing to Stay Away From Him sometimes? She'd be melodramatic with it of course ("My son doesn't want to see me, how awful"), and she'd take up tutoring at the resource center on the off chance she'd get to see him more often than certain days. Empty nest syndrome, man.

As a side note there's probably a collection of every Hecklebusters DVD and copies of magazines that feature it (mostly Kurt) in her penthouse. She's not quite That Embarrassing Mom with a million pictures of her kid in her purse, but she's pretty embarrassing tbh

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blueraven on plurk, if you want to add me!

Oops! ...Man, and refreshing myself on her background (I haven't played Radiant Dawn since it first came out) only makes me see more parallels!

And wow, that all really pretty much fits together perfectly! I'm down with pretty much all of that and without any objections. With Kurt's parentage, I think I prefer for it to be clean-cut in the AU, so that the confusion can come from his remembering his canon moms. But the parents being on very neutral terms and stuff does work out. Part of my intention in thinking up his AU parents was to act as a contrast to his canon adoptive parents, so that fits quite nicely!

On the subject of Mr. Wagner, that works too! I haven't really had much of a specific purpose in mind for him aside from informing Kurt's background and being a potential source of occasional conflict in the background. Your idea of him being away traveling works perfectly! (If this plan goes through, maybe in the future we could keep our eyes open for any applicants who could potentially fit as the dad! Of course I wouldn't approach anyone about it without your approval)

BUT YEAH this sounds great and can add some conflict that I feel Kurt's been needing in his game. And it can make for even more of a wonderful hot mess as memory regains occur... thank you for being such a sport with this, and I'll definitely add you! (ahhh you're the Lucy/Kaede player! I've been meaning to tag her more too!)

JUNE 2017 AU WORKSHOP

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