Potential CR Planning: Pre-game

[undergroundmods]

Potential CR Planning

Hello! 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 first application round, 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 prospective players, but I'm happy to answer any mod questions you might have too. Happy planning!

Comments

oh is this where we go for too many choices

[aproperdoctor]

HELLO YES I AM THE LATEST EVER.

Actually there is roughly a gazillion percent chance that I am apping Martha, BUT I have other choices for potential future apps!

- Martha here is a doctor who is also a witch (maybe, I'm waffling) who focuses on healing and who met a ~mysterious~ outcast fae who she hung out with for awhile (HOW/WHY I DON'T KNOW background ugh). This made her realise that she wants to help everyone, regardless of race or affiliation; since receiving her medical degree, she's been studying every form of magical healing she can find for the different races. (Whether or not she's actually successful/capable of doing so is a different story. It probably involves a lot of potions and things and less actual magic.) She's a member of Circle Daybreak and probably loosely affiliated with the Redbright Institute, because yay fluffy friendly acceptance for all.

(Edit: ...or maybe she works at the Redbright Institute? Do they need doctors? I DON'T KNOW.)

Potential future apps:
- A metahuman who does her best to keep her powers hidden; her powers revert vampires and werewolves to mortal status as long as she's touching them and can bind ghosts (this might get taken out). I'm not even sure this would be allowed, tbh. Although she doesn't know it, her father was the result of a metahuman breeding program by some religious fanatics in Italy. Modern AU of a woman from Victorian England.
- A witch whose background I have yet to figure out how to adapt because she accidentally summoned a creature who almost destroyed London in canon whoops (also because her sort of magic is wholly different than the magic present in game).
- A metanatural who can control others' bodies when touching them. Probably a lifelong member of the Redbright Institute; she belongs to a super-secret government organisation in canon (one that takes children from their parents and educates them privately to use their powers for the good of Great Britain). Has another canon installment coming out at the end of June so WE'LL SEE THEN.

[biophilia]

Oh, I just adore Martha. *^* I'd love to get some fellow Good Witch CR with her and this guy.

[aproperdoctor]

Ahh, yes! I saw in your comment that Ginko makes potions and knows a lot about botany, so I think that would be great CR for them! Also banding together to be like "hey these other people aren't that bad really" bros.

[biophilia]

As I'm hashing out his AU canon, I think he'll make his real world living through homeopathy, so their knowledge (and "all living things" worldview) would be awesomely complimentary!

more notes on Martha as I work on my app, possibly to be edited later

[aproperdoctor]

- I guess I should mention here for any potential Doctor appers that I'm totally flexible on what he actually is, I'm just listing him as an outcast fae in my app for the sake of like...having something definite (actually if you are a potential Doctor apper please let me know and we can talk about CR I may just be conveniently eliminating the romance aspect whoops)
- also her family were kidnapped by an equally mysterious outcast unseelie fae (or dark witch or WHATEVER I'm not boxing in any potential Master appers either) and tortured whoops so while she might be warm and fuzzy and accepting of most people, if you do dark magic she is not going to be terribly happy about that SORRY

[disobedient]

omg you play Myfanwy and Alexia

I want to see both of them, in addition to Martha, just putting that out there. Though it looks like the release date for Stiletto got pushed back again.

[aproperdoctor]

Alexia is more likely, just because I've played her before, but I'm also worried her powers might be too overpowered. :/ Also Alexia would actually be easier to AU, since there isn't really an equivalent to the Checquy.

Did it really? Oh, man, that sucks. D:

[disobedient]

True, the Checquy is rather central to the world building in that book.

At least on Amazon, it looks like it's been pushed back to January.