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AU Workshopping Post
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This post is for players who have an approved invite to Stars of the Nashira to brainstorm AU concepts for a character (or characters, if you're trying to decide between more than one) you're thinking of apping. Post a comment using the form below with your thoughts and plans for your character's present and past lives, and reply to other people to help them decide on things they're not sure about yet or to suggest ways your character might already know theirs! If there’s a specific role that someone could fill for your character or vice versa, this is a great place to discuss those details.
Remember: you don't need to have all of this figured out before you app! The details of your characters' past lives, powers, and relationships will develop over time in game; this is just a handy opportunity to coordinate some stuff in advance.
Note: this post is intended for players with approved invites. Please wait until your invite has been approved to post.
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This post is for players who have an approved invite to Stars of the Nashira to brainstorm AU concepts for a character (or characters, if you're trying to decide between more than one) you're thinking of apping. Post a comment using the form below with your thoughts and plans for your character's present and past lives, and reply to other people to help them decide on things they're not sure about yet or to suggest ways your character might already know theirs! If there’s a specific role that someone could fill for your character or vice versa, this is a great place to discuss those details.
Remember: you don't need to have all of this figured out before you app! The details of your characters' past lives, powers, and relationships will develop over time in game; this is just a handy opportunity to coordinate some stuff in advance.
Note: this post is intended for players with approved invites. Please wait until your invite has been approved to post.
KALIM AL-ASIM ☀️ TWISTED WONDERLAND
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Invite: wink!
Character Name: Kalim Al-Asim
Canon: Twisted Wonderland
Character Blurb: anime boy gijinka of the Sultan from Aladdin (1992); one of the three whole guys at anime disney villain hogwarts who's based on a character who isn't evil. In canon Kalim is from a wealthy family (not actually royalty) and, as the eldest child, set to inherit the family's immense business empire despite having no qualifications whatsoever and not being on any medication for his blatant ADHD. He's both insanely pampered and the regular target of assassination and kidnapping attempts, which he copes with using massive amounts of repression and denial. He's a wizard but not a super good one; he only goes to wizard school because his dad bribed the school to let him in, because he missed his
servantBest Friend, Jamil. Jamil resents him massively but also cooks all his meals and makes sure he doesn't forget his homework and dresses him and does his makeup for him. It's fine, probably!Code Name: Nova Sunbeam
Domain: Da Sun ☀️☀️☀️
Combat type: Support! I'm thinking his starting move will be some kind of heatwave mirage effect that confuses enemies... I want him to be able to boost his allies too but I feel like his first move shouldn't be something that necessarily relies on having other Nova Knights present 🤔
Awakening: This is going to have happened when he was at the cinema with Jamil lmao
In-Game Plans: I don't have any involved plans beyond wanting to see how long it takes Kalim to figure out that Jamil is actually one of the Nova Knights lmao :) How things end up going for him generally though will depend on who the other Nova Knights are and how they get along. I'd like for him to be forced to confront his turbo repression at some point though lmao
Present Life: Like in canon, Kalim is the coddled heir to a fantastically wealthy family who lives in luxury apart from all the attempts on his life. Unlike in canon, instead of running a legitimate above-board business, in this AU his family is at the head of one of the most powerful criminal organisations in Chalra City and beyond. Kalim is very determinedly not paying attention to everything that that entails! It's fine, probably! Currently he lives with Jamil – the son of a family in Kalim's family's employ who's been assigned to work as his bodyguard – in an unnecessarily lavish downtown penthouse suite, so that he doesn't have to commute as far to school from his family's estate.
Past Life: We have less of this hammered out, but for Kalim and Jamil's past lives we're running with book 7 dream bubble inspired role reversal shit where Jamil was the rich heir and Kalim was his attendant and bodyguard. Kalim was Definitely struggling with the class distinction breakdown on board the Nashira lmao
Pre-Established CR Hooks:
- Kalim is going to be attending the Everwave Academy for Distinguished Youth; if your character is also a student there (or a staff member) they probably at least know of him, because he's loud and boisterous and throws a lot of parties (although not AS many as he does in canon – not having a dorm lounge with a basically captive guest list diminishes the party possibilities somewhat, but the party spirit still moves him).
- If your character moves in rich people circles it's likely their paths have intersected before. You've probably seen him at a fancy gala or two; his family have their hands in a lot of outwardly legitimate stuff.
- If your character is involved with Crime then it's entirely possible they've dealt with his family before – although it's unlikely they'd have encountered Kalim specifically in that capacity unless they worked with the Asim family very closely. Or unless the crime they were involved in was being hired to try to kidnap or assassinate him. That's happened a lot of times, so if your character is in that kind of line of work........
- Kalim loves living in the city and he's been SO excited to live here ever since he moved downtown for high school that he really loves just wandering around and making friendly conversation with random strangers. The way people who live in a big city usually react when someone they don't know starts talking to them for no reason has yet to put him off doing this.
Desired CR/Hooks: I am hype for absolutely everything. Kalim is super friendly even to people who objectively suck, but he's also really really annoying, especially at the canon point equivalent he's starting off at here. He's extremely thoughtless and oblivious and he regularly talks over people and tunes them out when they're saying stuff that doesn't align with whatever he's hype about right now (like, for example, that they can't come to the party he just invited them to). He doesn't have an intentionally mean bone in his body, but for any other character who isn't also a massive bimbo, the question is less whether they're going to find him obnoxious and more how bad they're going to feel about how obnoxious they find him.
Other: this one is actually ooc at this point in his character development. kalim Is going to dance and play his drums. he is going to plug in his bass and lay a slap riff over this. and jamil is going to go into his mind palace and get really just you wait henry higgins about it
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anyway do you think they've ever talked before. i think they're all the same age in this game so even if not i think she needs to share a class with both of them
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Re: KALIM AL-ASIM ☀️ TWISTED WONDERLAND
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NO UHHH in all seriousness i do NOT think it would be a huge stretch for minami to be involved in organized crime in some way, even if not deeply. just like in the way rich people are. i think this could actually be potentially interesting so i'm going to take more thought on it
i REALLY love the way they're vibing as friends in their tdm thread though. i think it would be a cute mirror of their past lives if they had contact as kids in rich people circles the same way that melos & mori had contact with past life kalim and jamil but she's def more comfortable around kalim.
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ALSO SAME... THEYRE CUTE. how recently was the crychic breakup, i can't decide if kalim would've gotten the chance to see them play
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less than a year for sure; crychic both formed and broke up in the previous school year. i want to say its probably been less than 6 months since the breakup. i think kalim DEF would have had a chance to see them play though. and it was probably pretty conspicuous when she stopped bringing her guitar to school
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