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JANUARY 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!

PLAYER:
CHARACTER:
CANON:

AU NAME: if the character's name is different, you can note so here! If not, feel free to put n/a
AU AGE: same here!

BLURB: 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!

LOOKING FOR: 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.

OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: 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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you know what this sounds AMAZING. even without looking up the character (I like to be surprised like that), from what you've written I can imagine just how this sort of thing would have played out. them hitting it off rather quickly only to have it fizzle out when things get too intense on account of incompatibility on the part of their world views and also their deeper personality traits is absolutely an idea I can get behind!

Yang would big into physical intimacy - shoulder and back touches, leaning against, holding hands, stuff like that - with Fujino on account of not being able to, like, share meaningful glances across a table and so on. I could see that being a hard habit to break in the long run since she very much ties those sorts of feelings in with her concern over those closest to her, and though romantic love didn't work out, she's still likely to sort of... idk, hover in Fujino's periphery, ready to hop in and offer a hand (hah) whenever she needs it.

how's that sort of thing strike you?

I'm so glad! Uh, for a quick scan - she used to be a sheltered rich girl type, then her powers woke up and she basically got thrown out onto the streets, where she didn't really cope at all, with the oppression of Metas or with the Meta community. She's very much a prim and proper type even now, speaks pretty elegantly. Probably just does whatever odd jobs she can to get by - bodyguard work, maybe, stuff like that. She's got the vibe of someone who's holding herself back a lot, since she just wants to feel like she has a safe place to be.

Her power is that she can she can physically bend, twist, and break things by looking at them, so it's a very destructive power. She has decent control of it by now, but she still isn't comfortable with it. And of course, since she can't actually see, she has to sort of feel out the shape of things with her powers when she uses them - which means it's a bit imprecise when she does use it.

In terms of normal hobbies, she likes horror novels and ghost stories, plus assorted rich girl hobbies that have carried over from her childhood, like classical novels and such.

And she loves physical intimacy - she'd probably miss it a lot after they broke up. Definitely the type who used to rest with her head on her lap. So, very complex feelings if Yang accidentally slips back into their usual body language? But that's super interesting, so. I'll go ahead and tag you on the TDM, and we can toss around ideas as we go?

not to be too excited about that last bit, but I had this mental image of Fujino just relaxing against Yang like that while she tries to narrate a story, complete with silly voices and all, stroking her hair, until Fujino either falls asleep or something sappy and soft like that

and she would miss that sort of thing a lot, too, so mixed signals YES. Yang should really break some of her old habits but she's spent her teen years and up rapidly adjusting to being outside her comfort zone and so her natural response is to kind of just... burrow into other people's comfort zones.

~~this hole was NOT made for her but she'll make it work~~

also: her power sounds amazingly destructive. Yang's probably equal parts awed but also alarmed by that kind of potential. not that she doesn't have that in herself to an extent but just. literally, if looks could kill? WOW. good idea to stay on Fujino's good side, ahah...

No that's honestly very cute? They probably had a few moments like that - Fujino's flashes of pain and all make it a bit difficult for her to sleep, plus she's the kind of person who just has a difficult time relaxing, so Yang soothing her off to bed like that would be (would haveb een?) amazing.

And Fujino's the kind of person who tends to project and turn other people into her comfort zones, because she wants to have one that bad, so they really feed each other's bad habits, it's great. Some like, recognition of that but that base attraction still being there would be pretty fascinating stuff.

Also! Fujino'd honestly think Yang had the better power, if only because it's more like, practical? Fujino dislikes that her power really is so destructive, especially considering that she was disowned because of it. (She would have been thrown out if she had any power, really, but let her have an excuse for her self-loathing.) Some incident where Yang actually saw Fujino's power in action would be a fun thing for them to have in their past?

oh no, sleep troubles. Yang's been spared most of the mental side effects of her physical trauma thanks to implants but she would absolutely do what she could to help in her own way. she's the ideal big spoon! all warmth and still pretty soft all things considered, and there's no risk of her other arm falling asleep. (she always removes it before bed when others are involved.)

but yeesh it really does sound like they're a yin-and-yang but not in a punny way or healthy way at all. it's probably a good thing they've drifted out of each other's grasp one way or another, even if there's still a pull keeping them in a wide orbit of each other. now that I'm thinking about it, a couple of months might have been good for being "official" but this seems like the sort of thing that would have been building up slowly for a while? could even have taken place during one of the lulls between Yang's on-again-off-again (currently: off) partner because Yang is 100% the type to go find comfort to stave off what's totally not a depressive episode ahaha....

Them having known each other for a while, some flirting, but it becoming an official thing during one of those lulls? It was a very brief relationship in the scheme of things, but very intense, so there's a lot of lingering discomfort? Fujino's the type to want to take care of her partner and be taken care of in turn, plus there's a lot of loneliness for both of them so they were probably pretty domestic, too? Sleeping together most nights, that sort of thing.

yeah! not like living together formally - Yang's space is too cramped and disorganized to have anyone around without having to move stuff around, and she's got too much literal crap around to ever move it. she needs her space. but definitely a lot of inviting her over and/or coming over herself and just staying the night. making breakfast in the morning before going off to work and so on. a comfortable routine that made it easier to put off ignoring any warning signs until it became clearer that things were not gonna work out long-term.

Exactly! Fujino's place is also very cramped but she does a much better job cleaning up (though to be fair she lives pretty sparsely.)

She definitely cleaned up Yang's place without being asked a couple of times.

oh god no please don't (but do). I said "disorganized" but what I meant was "it looks messy, but Yang knows where everything is somehow anyway".

Oh my god that's the most couply argument. 'You moved everything!' 'But it's organized now.' 'It was organized before!' '???'

"why would you put the clean mugs with the clean glasses they need to be near the coffee machine???"

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