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.

Comments

[ultimatums]

OK THIS IS INTERESTING... 👀 i've actually been thinking about this a lot since i posted this comment lmao and i feel like the liaising with the NSO is a relatively new thing for the company (i'm thinking about just calling it the marshals service, even though my idea is that the marshals service no longer really exists as a branch of law enforcement purely bc it seems to me like the police are a more unanimous force in this world? but correct me if i'm wrong) but i was wondering what kind of like... weapons permits/rights a private company like this would have?

[truthchanges]

police are definitely corporate entities in this world, with the Douman Zaibatsu controlling New Gate City's police force, specifically. you'd be right in assuming there's no marshals in this system, at least not under that title or how we'd officially know them. the company would be more willing to just hire bounty hunters for that kind of work.

as far as *legal* rights to hire their own pseudo-marshals, the NSO would have... mostly none, but it doesn't strictly matter as they're a private company funded by *mysterious backers* who apparently don't answer to the Douman Zaibatsu, so unless they step on the company's toes, the NSO is allowed to do some self-policing, which would include limited weapons permits.

any actual vigilantism is supported by the NSO, but done so strictly under the table with nothing that could legally tie it to the NSO being obvious. but they totally still sponsor it.