AU Planning/Plotting Meme

[omegamods]

We had a fantastic response to opening the game, and now it's time to get ready for the real launch!

This is a post for AU plotting. Do your characters already know each other? Do you want to introduce some new elements to the setting, and let other people use them, too? Do you want to establish some villain teams to work together against the Omegafriends? Just want to decide where future plots will be going, or who will be rivals with who? You can do all of that here!

You can freeform it if you want, but here's a form you can use:

<b>Player:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>From:</b> <b>Character Overview:</b> (Who they are, in a couple of sentences, so that people reading can get a good idea of who they're looking at here.) <b>Affiliation:</b> (Omegafriends? Villain? A specific villainous faction? Independent Hero? Non-powered?) <b>Looking forward:</b> (What are you planning to do with this character, in broad strokes?) <b>Possible CR Hooks:</b> (Are there any blank spots in your backstory or future planning that other people could fill in?) <b>I am looking for:</b> (Classmates? Teammates? Rivals? Family members? Childhood friends?) <b>Extra:</b> (This is probably where funny gifs/screencaps go.)

Don't forget to check out the Venture City Locations and FAQ posts for inspiration!

Comments

[descendsfromshadow]

Player: Nick
Character: Blake Belladonna
From: RWBY

Character Overview: Ninja catgirl supervillain turned hero. Now a quiet, lone wolf hero with a love for books who is trying to prove her good intentions.

Affiliation: Formerly of a criminal organization, presently Omegafriends.

Looking forward: In canon, Blake is a member of a humanoid race called Faunus which are basically people with animal features, in her face feline ones like a pair of cat ears. For her AU, I was thinking of making her a "Hybrid", a class of humans who have been mutated through some event or twist of nature to have their DNA combined with animals. As such, she was raised in a criminal organization which could be an expy of the White Fang (an extremist Faunus group in canon) or whatever else might be available, and acted as a supervillain under the moniker Nightshade (a takeoff of her last name "Belladonna" which is another name for the deadly nightshade plant). Until her conscience caught up with her and she defected to the good guys when her former allies went too far.

Possible CR Hooks: First and foremost she could probably do with a moral compass type. She's a good person at heart but being raised to be a supervillain has left her with some rather non-heroic habits and methods that she might need to be pulled back from, not to mention just getting her to lighten up and have some damn fun every now and then. People who trust her, people who don't trust her. General villain redemption stuff.

Past villain CR is great as well. Allies, teachers, "family" anybody to throw some moral dilemmas her way would be perfect for her.

I am looking for: Teammates, friends, people to "you're not alone" speech at her every now and again. People with a stringent "black and white morality" worldview to butt heads with. I dunno, hit me.

Extra: The image I tried to post didn't work. Imagine something funny.

[widerthanthesea]

Did somebody say personal problems that can be addressed with friendship speeches

[descendsfromshadow]

Did I say that?

Yes, yes I did. Bring on your friendship speeches.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

There's probably a dynamic in here, to be honest.

[descendsfromshadow]

A couple of quiet smart types who have seen a little too much of the world to totally buy the optimism and hope of those around them?

Yeah, probably.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Complete with Bad Things in their pasts which they aren't normally going to just sit around and talk to people about?

Yes sir.

[descendsfromshadow]

Sounds good. Want to sit around, read books and not discuss feelings for a while?

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Possibly with some quiet, unspoken looks of judgment upon others from afar?

[descendsfromshadow]

That sounds fantastic right about now.