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

[pega_pony_princess]

Player: Walker
Character: Cynthia
From: Fire Emblem: Awakening

Character Overview: Cynthia is the tomboy younger princess of Ylisse, a MAGICAL FANTASY KINGDOM that is currently at peace. She's not in line for the throne, so when she asked her parents to let her go to Earth and be a hero they figured it would be good life experience for her. She's pretending to be a foreign exchange student from Wales by the name of Cynthia Grisialgwawr Rhithanadl Sanctaiddgwaywffon - although you can just use her English name, Cynthia Crystaldawn Phantombreath Holylance. Being from a MAGICAL FANTASY KINGDOM, she has very little idea what modern Earth society is actually like, so she is extremely likely to make stupid mistakes. She's also super into being an Actual, For-Real Hero, and generally tries to act as one in all aspects of her life. In her secret identity, this means she's the loud, energetic girl that always sticks up for the bullied kids and does her best to be a supportive and reliable friend. In her hero identity, she is a tremendous dork that is constantly making painfully corny speeches about Justice and Vanquishing Evil. Her 'powers', such as they are, come from special magical amulets that she receives as care packages from home, with each one having its own advantages and disadvantages.

Affiliation: Omegafriends/Justice Cabal

Looking forward: ALL JUSTICE, ALL THE TIME

Possible CR Hooks: Ylisse is currently a peaceful fantasy kingdom! Key word: currently. Any villains with magical powers or backstory can have heard of/attacked Ylisse in the past, maybe an older hero with magical powers can be FAMOUS BACK HOME and a target for her undying hero worship...she's basically a huge bundle of sharp, pointy hooks for anything magic-related.

I am looking for: She needs: older heroes to mentor her in heroism, younger heroes to hang around with, civilian friends to show her how things work IN AMERICA!!, annnnd maybe some kind of catty rival she can have snark fights with.

Extra:

[atruebeoulve]

...oh god i just got mental images. of ramza acting knightly to cynthia without even realizing that's what he was doing.

And Ramza would totally be the sort to take time out of his studies to help this new strange exchange student around.

[pega_pony_princess]

Cynthia would only find it weird if someone pointed it out to her, since she's a princess and is constantly surrounded by knights.

Also if he has powers based on Ivalice stuff does that mean one of his super-powers is throwing small rocks at people?

[atruebeoulve]

And Ramza won't point it out, he doesn't know he's doing it!

Yup! One of his first powers will be throwing small rocks with great aim. He has to learn to be a Squire before he can become a Dark Knight! :D

(He may not realize this is a power, though.)

[pega_pony_princess]

If he ever does figure it out and tells Cynthia don't tell Cynthia she will consider 'Ramza, throw a rock at him!' a valid plan to stop dumb villainous monologues.

Only HEROES are allowed to make speeches!

[atruebeoulve]

Oh my god and that would be amazing, Ramza throwing stones like that. As long as he's not a chicken at the time, which might be his first power he discovers. (When he's startled he becomes one because of his powers awakening and also a family curse. Though he'll think he didn't get good powers :T)

And he'll let her give the speeches, at least.

[pega_pony_princess]

Mayyyybe Cynthia will be able to actually communicate with Ramza when he is a chicken (assuming he isn't a talking chicken, anyway) because it's apparently canon that she and her mother have the ability to hold conversations with pegasi.

Dunno if I'll expand that to, like, all animals or not, though.

[king_of_the_koopas]

Oh, Bowser would be all over special magical amulets and magical ANYTHINGS in general. Even if it means trying to steal them and give them to his Goombas to use.

... and more importantly, Bowser would probably get sucked into some sort of corny speech Cold War with Cynthia, since he's a gigantic ham AND type to try and 1-up heroic speeches with corny villainous boasts of his own and nothing would ever get done

[pega_pony_princess]

There's actually a very particular amulet that I am going to be saving for a special occasion, and it would be hilarious if Bowser actually managed to steal it.

also yes i approve of speech wars

[king_of_the_koopas]

... oh my god

And then Venture City was terrorized by the newest of Bowser's troops

The Bride Goombas

[pega_pony_princess]

too bad bowser isn't the type to test things out on himself before he gives them to his troops, huh

[king_of_the_koopas]

Talk about giving a whole other meaning to 'Bridezilla'...