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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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Player Name: cel
Contact: samielherbei @ discord
Invite: Here!

Character Name: Hope Carassia
Canon: OC
Character Blurb: Hope is the illegitimate daughter of the patriarch of the obscenely wealthy Carassia family. They spent most of their childhood living, frankly, in the lap of luxury, and their father is even funding their lifestyle now that they're 25 and not legally his problem anymore—just as long as they never cause problems for the family. (This has not messed with them in the slightest, and they know how to feel all of their emotions perfectly.) They have no idea if they would actually be able to survive without their father's money and the idea of finding out terrifies them, so—even though they strain constantly against the chains they've placed around their own heart—they force themself to be quiet, be small, be normal. More info here!

Code Name: Nova Pandora
Domain: Binding
Combat Type: Support

Awakening: This isn't something I've thought about too much yet, but I think it would make the most sense for them to come into their powers in a moment where they desperately feel the need to do something about some injustice that they're otherwise forced to sit back and watch from the sidelines (in the name of keeping a low profile).

Present Life: Hope doesn't really do much, or at least they wouldn't say they do. They tend to keep to their small area of the city; if they're not in their apartment then they're bouncing between pet stores, konbinis, and net cafes. Though they may have near limitless money, they feel like it's necessary to maintain a modest, quiet life where they don't bother anybody or raise their voice to support people who are downtrodden, no matter how much they actually want to do it. They take very good care of the fish that they keep as pets, and they're pretty skilled at first-person shooters (which is what they're practicing at the net cafes all the time), but otherwise, they really do just try to keep themself under the radar whenever possible.

Past Life: In short, they were a diviner-in-training who saw a horrible disaster prophesied in the waves and refused to actually tell anybody about it. Although the prophecy is absolute, they couldn't believe that disaster would befall them in such a way, so they just tried to ignore it as best they could. Of course, when disaster did fall, they sunk into depression and guilt, feeling themself personally responsible for what happened (even though that's obviously impossible). They spent a lot of time on the ship begging the Ocean for forgiveness and keeping to themself, making a name as "the one who stays up all 'night' staring at the fish and crying".

In-Game Plans: I'm not much of a planner, honestly. Mostly I just want to get Hope acclimated to being around other people and expand their emotional spectrum a little bit more. I'm more than happy just seeing what happens.
Pre-Established CR Hooks: The Carassias are a known entity among the elite of the city, so it's possible that people knew Hope from a few years ago while they were growing up inside Carassia Manor. In the modern day, though, they bounce from activity to activity a lot and have tried nearly everything once. Not a lot has stuck, but if there's an odd hobby or craft that your character dabbles in, Hope's probably been there buying supplies or taking classes. Other than that, their regular haunts are net cafes and convenience stores.
Desired CR/Hooks: Hope needs friends. Hope needs so many friends because they have no idea how to make them and have a terrible time keeping them. Friends their own age would be nice, but they're not picky. They have so many emotions inside them and they need to know people who won't blow up their entire life if they laugh a little too hard one time.

Other:

LOVE ALL OF THIS now I want to hear a little more about their past life because I'm intrigued and I LOVE that one of the cast was in the Oracle in their past life.

My main question is, did the nature of the disastrous prophecy only affect them, or did it have implications for other people? It's fine if you haven't decided what the specific prophecy was, but I'm curious about how many people encountered misfortune as a result of Hope not sharing the prophecy.

ohhh, that's an excellent question. i haven't put too much thought into the specifics of what they saw yet, but i was intending for it to be something that had implications for other people, too—that's the only way that their guilt really makes sense in my head. if what they saw had direct implications to other people in the game right now, all the better, honestly.

We discussed this elsewhere, but for the sake of reference: we determined that the prophecy ignored by past life Hope also foretold the horrible tragedy that befell past life Mutsumi and Mortis's Constellation, and that Hope may have misinterpreted how bad it was/who it was going to affect. I think it's worth examining too how the Oracle higher ups would have interpreted this prophecy as it relates to MutsuMortis's Constellation, and whether or not things were actually supposed to play out like this, or if the prophecy would have been "correctly" interpreted in a way that would have allowed them to mitigate the Tragedy.

Really fun when your state religion does a lot of "interpreting", huh!

i know we joked about this briefly but i think hope should only know maomao from a distance bc they saw maomao eating mushrooms off the ground or something similarly unhinged

yes. absolutely. obviously. there's no better way to be aware of the world's least normal normie.

the world's least normal normie INDEED. i think maomao should also be completely unaware of this unless hope brings it up

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