JANUARY AU WORKSHOP

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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!<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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[abgrund]

PLAYER: Eon
CHARACTER: Ain
CANON: Elsword

AU NAME: N/A
AU AGE: 22

BLURB: Son to the leader of Seven Tower, which is your typical Scientology-eque cult. Seven Tower believes in the spiritual elevation of humanity, meta- or not. Or that's the cover story, anyway. Some celebrities espouse it, others think it's really fucking weird. They're right. Within it is an increasingly crazy pyramid of actual eldritch cult beliefs, culminating in the order's founder Hennon. Hennon is a meta-human born with a distinctively malformed arm and some tentacle-related abilities, and he made it his life's goal to summon a chthonian deity.

Of course, any cult needs a respectable cover operation and a way to ensure their members' loyalty. On the surface they seem to do community service and donate to charity, making them seem like a weird but still legal organization. But the higher ranks of the order are bound to its founder via metahuman-mediated mind control. Hennon had his henchmen abduct a child from its meta-human parents and raise the child as his own, as the child showed potential to carry the same dark powers as he did. Ain grew up believing Hennon was his father, and Hennon used Ain's mind-control ability to solidify his hold on the inner circle. While he was content to obey his father and conduct spooky rituals for him, he eventually progressed to the rebellious teenage phase and began leaving the cult headquarters for his own adventures. He is able to make people (read as: NPCs only, no PCs unless with permission) forget about him, letting him explore without much consequence. He's a wildcard to both Seven Tower and the city at large, seeking out things that amuse him and slipping into the shadows away from things that do not.

Note: I'm not interested in making him forcibly mind-control PCs. He does not induct people into Seven Tower if they do not wish to join.

LOOKING FOR:
- People who think he's a run-of-the-mill metahuman living on the streets
- People of his age who don't mind hanging out with an edgy young man
- People who are willing to trade with Seven Tower and sell them shady shit
- Anyone wants to join the cult...? Haha just kidding... unless?
- I'm just throwing ideas out into the air here tbh

[psychokinesia]

tentaclefriend

HMMMMMMMMMMM I'm gonna say Add caught him pulling the ol tentacle mindtrick on someone and that is how they met. Maybe Seven Tower had some connections to whatever disbanded company was funding/murdering Add's family and that's how he figures out Add's identity? Hooray for mutual blackmail woo

and maybe they also like the same kpop bands or something, this is how friendship works right? blackmail and kpop?

[abgrund]

sounds legit tbh. they should be grudgingly friends and or rivals just like canon

[deviousdetonation]

Heyo!! I'm here to offer a heathen here to hang out with the edgelord mcgee, and also to sell shady tech if she ever gets her hands on anything worth it?? All in all, it would depend on how much menace Ain's willing to put up with

[abgrund]

He's willing to put up with a lot as long as they're not actually out to harm Seven Tower, haha. By himself he's not very passionate about the cult's cause/just kind of plays along since he's funding the entire mind control pyramid. They could get along at least I think!