Potential CR Planning/ATP: June 2015

[undergroundmods]

Potential CR Planning

Are you thinking about joining the game? Then you've found the right place! This post is for all prospective players to discuss their characters' AU backgrounds with canonmates and other characters, and to establish pre-existing CR (character relations). The aim is to help you figure out what to write in the background section of your application and to give you a starting point for building CR when you join the game.

You can use this post to:

• Share your ideas on how you'd like to adapt your character's background to the game.
• Ask questions and request feedback on your AU plans.
• Discuss potential shared history with canonmates and build in cross-canon CR.

Please note that nothing discussed here is guaranteed, since not all prospective players will submit an app or be accepted into the game, while others will app without having commented to this post. After the next round of applications have been processed, there will be a follow-up CR planning post for accepted players to confirm initial plans, make changes, and look for new CR.

This post is intended to be an open discussion between current and prospective players, but I'm happy to answer any mod questions you might have too. Happy planning!

For current players
Are there any characters that you'd love to see in the game? Post your requests here! I'll add them to the ATP advert, and who knows, they might inspire someone...

Comments

[specifiercity]

New player alert! I'm Adri and I'm planning on apping Arthur here from Inception.

The AU I have planned for him is that he's a hunter, originally a secret ops vampire hunter with the US military, which is where he found out about supernatural creatures to begin with. After doing that a few years he met up with a witch and his human wife, who hired him as basically a personal bodyguard and live-in BFF (I imagined these two as Cobb and Mal for those of you that have seen Inception but I'm leaving it vague and nameless on the off chance someone wants to app them). He travelled all over with them, learning about supernatural stuff and then ended up in London, where they left him on his own for vague unknown reasons. He'd have been in London about a year if I get him in, so there's plenty of room for him to have made connections.

Even though he's a hunter, he's not very hostile to supernatural types unless they're hostile first! He's totally down for making deals and being friendly with all sorts, though he keeps his professional distance most of the time just in case. He's a bit of a tough nut to crack friendship wise, but a year is plenty of time to learn about someone over a few weekly drinks at the bar!

Let me know if you're interested in establishing or getting something going with him! I am amenable to all types of CR though obviously I'd like to plan if things are going to be complicated.

[goroesi]

This Inception cast coming about is making me want to app in my Ariadne. Maybe in August... :D!

For now, I'm also a prospective player with my original character Maera here. She's an Unseelie fairy messenger, so she's been all over London, and spends a lot of time in the human realm in general. It's totally possible for her to have run into Arthur once or twice before, if not more often! She's also super friendly - the type to chat with pretty much anyone - so basically if Arthur's looking for a casual friend, she could be one!

[specifiercity]

Ariadne C8

I'm totally cool with casual friends. My headcanon is that Arthur knows the least about fae so he'd be curious but not aggressively so if he knows she's a fae. Even if not they'd probably get along... he's fairly laid back.

[goroesi]

And Maera's curious about everyone, so it works out! They can chill sometimes when they bump into each other in the city. :D

and I'm super super trash for inception so ariadne will probably come along in august haha

[specifiercity]

okay but who isn't Inception trash honestly

sounds good to me (8

[whatmatters]

Ringer here has a pretty similar personality - not actively anti supernatural - and we could def use more!

[specifiercity]

Yeah! Arthur's totally more interested in learning about supernatural stuff than he is in killing vampires (although he is very good at it) and it'd be cool for him to meet up with some like-minded people and trade intel or whatever.

[whatmatters]

We need more peeps from Hillingdon to oppose territory claims and get involved in larger politics too. xD

[specifiercity]

Arthur is totally into that. Less on the surface politics and more on the covert ops/intimidation/assassination side of things but I really would like to get him involved.

[whatmatters]

Awesome! Looking forward to it. c:

[brickinthewall]

given that he's secret ops vampire hunter and mine comes from what would've been a metahuman unit, maybe these two could have something to talk about? Hanna would've been in London for a little longer and probably people would've heard about a metahuman mercenary who does pretty much... anything as long as the price is fair enough.

Alternately I have a normal hunter whose been at the hunting thing for YEARS but back in the States and it would be interesting see how Georgina who is just way too cheerful all the time would react to Arthur

[specifiercity]

I would be into either of those tbh. Arthur's really into working with people with different skills and he'd be interested to learn what she knows and to learn what she can do etc. He's a huge nerd when it comes to supernatural stuff so basically anything she could say would probably be interesting to him.

Georgina sounds cool too though! Arthur would have had a bit of contact with independent hunters before quitting the military, and then even after I imagine while he was traveling more he would have crossed paths with a few more so we could even have some pre-London CR if you're interested. Otherwise he'd probably be interested to meet a fellow American hunter because what the hell are they both doing in London :')

[brickinthewall]

Ok but hear me out

Hanna LOVES music. As in like would've been a music producer. Close your eyes imagine Arthur being dragged into a karaoke bar at ass o clock in he middle of London tho

[specifiercity]

oh my god I need this RIGHT NOW everything about that situation is awful and I love it.

[brickinthewall]

I imagine he regrets befriending her almost every hour tbh as she texts him inane crap and tries to get him to do jobs with her

[specifiercity]

As if he doesn't intentionally surround himself with ridiculous people to keep himself busy.

(He'd love it, is what I'm saying. He'd only act annoyed.)

[brickinthewall]

She'd know better it's why she's drag him anywhere that puts them neck deep in trouble

[specifiercity]

I love this friendship already.

[brickinthewall]

Excellent I feel like they would've just sort of heard about each other before and he could be like wait you're that crazy meta human and she's like ah yeah about that?

But he should definitely not know her level of crazy and moral ambiguity until London tbh the point of no return

[specifiercity]

No certainly not it's more fun if they slowly discover each other's fun quirks in-game

[brickinthewall]

yesssss excellent he'll have to deal with how messy rock n roll she looks most of the time

She is a big fan of pink Floyd and Classic rock he's getting some obnoxious classic rock ringtone for when he calls and texts eventually