FEBRUARY AU WORKSHOP

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FEBRUARY AU WORKSHOP

Welcome to the AU Workshop! We understand adapting a character for an AU game can be a difficult process, even if you have all the creativity in the world, so we've put this together to help! Just fill out the form and post it in a comment below, and sort of brain out which ideas stick!

Keep in mind this is not a reserve. Reserves will open on the 3rd, as always, and you don't need to use this if you're already sure of your ideas! This is just a fun creative exercise that we hope you enjoy and find helpful!

Be sure to check out our Premise, FAQ, Locations, and NPC posts for worldbuilding info to help you get started!

Here's the form!<b>PLAYER:</b> <b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>CANON:</b> <b>AU NAME:</b> if the character's name is different, you can note so here! If not, feel free to put n/a <b>AU AGE:</b> same here! <b>BLURB:</b> Write a short description of your character's AU! Are they a Meta-human? If so, what are their powers? Are they a normal human? Do they have anything else unusual about them, such as cybernetic parts or other features? What's their background? Hobbies? Anything interesting you want to say! <b>LOOKING FOR:</b> 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. <b>OPTIONAL ENABLE ME:</b> 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.

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[legionusunkindness]

PLAYER: Dragon
CHARACTER: Akira Howard
CANON: Astral Chain

AU NAME: Akira (last name up for debate!)
AU AGE: 19*

BLURB: CLONING

Officially, Officer Akira Howard was killed in response to a meta-rights terrorist attack by an extremist group -- a shame, really, as she'd only been on the force for a couple of weeks. In reality, though, she spontaneously returned to life in the hospital morgue, and was promptly abducted into the biological division of a corporation who had been fronting the hospital for various experimental opportunities. Akira, it turns out, had a meta talent of her own -- one that the corporation promptly and grossly misunderstood, believing it to be an energy power that they could use to amplify and augment technological advances that required a power source otherwise impossible to obtain at the size/output requirements thy desired.

Ethics not exactly being a consideration for these folks, they kept Akira in an induced coma and vat-grew a bunch of extras. These extras accomplished exactly what the corporation hoped, being able to power and utilize various experimental devices, although in ways that never seemed entirely consistent with expected results. Still, the data was valuable and the Revolutionary Augmented Versatile Engagement Nexus (i.e. the paramilitary unit of Akira clones) looked to be a profitable and powerful force on paper.

Before it could ever deploy properly, though, Akira Howard woke up. Seven minutes later, the entire corporate research facility was irrecoverably aflame, and the RAVENs with it -- save for one Akira, who punched her way out of her cloning vat and escaped.

She knows her name is Akira. She possess a device called the Augmented Strategic/Tactical Response Agent Launch Control Hub (Akira-Indigo-Nine). And her soul powers it. That is the true nature of Akira Howard's power: projection of her soul into an external form.

LOOKING FOR: Was someone responsible for Akira Howard waking up? Or helped with the subsequent lab destruction? Did someone know about this program? Does someone have connections or history with it? Is someone secretly trying to reclaim her? Who had to deal with this "amnesiac" and dangerous girl after her escape? Did you fight her? Did you help her? Did anyone adopt her? Did anyone know the original Akira Howard, and now sees "her" alive and untouched by the intervening time?

[nephtunium]

How long ago was her escape, you think? I know Marigold was running around at various points rescuing other people who were experimented on too, maybe has gone out a few times in the last few years to do so when needed as part of her merc ties. Might be able to give you something there!

[thezekeinator]

I was thinking fairly recently. I'd envisioned her being pretty lost out in the world!

[nephtunium]

If you'd like I am all for Mari having gone on a mission recently and finding her either during the stuff and helping or in the aftermath!

Depending on how out of it she was/how combative she is afterward, Mari might've needed to get the NSO involved just to help her stabilize, but NSO would get involved either way I figure. and you know she would adopt her fairly quick. Experiments gotta stick together!