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.

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Invite:</b> please link to the comment with your approved invite! <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Blurb:</b> <b>Code Name:</b> <b>Domain:</b> <b>Combat Type:</b> <b>Awakening:</b> How will your character awaken to their powers? If you want this to coincide with another character’s awakening, here’s a great place to plan it out! <b>Present Life:</b> <b>Past Life:</b> <b>In-Game Plans:</b> Put plans you already have in mind for your character here, if any. <b>Pre-Established CR Hooks:</b> Existing connections your characters could have before the start of the game — roles in your character's life such as family, childhood friends, colleagues, etc. <b>Desired CR/Hooks:</b> Relationships with other characters you'd like to develop in game. Friendship, romance, weird one-way rivalry, and everything else in between! <b>Other:</b>

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[snizier]

Player Name: Lex 1 (even though I posted 2nd don't worry about it)
Contact: cerebrah
Invite: wassup

Character Name: Jamil Viper
Canon: Twisted Wonderland
Character Blurb: anime boy gijinka of Jafar from Disney's Aladdin (1992). This is who I am now. In Twisted Wonderland's version of things Jamil has grown up as Kalim's servant and Designated Best Friend (By Kalim) due to their families' histories, which he resents a WHOLE lot. He's also secretly very talented but has had to hide this his whole life due to not being allowed to outshine Kalim in any way. However, he's also developed such an unpleasant level of ego about this, as well as a manipulative and cruel streak, that it's honestly hard to sympathize with him very much. You'd also want to murder Kalim if you were in his shoes though trust

Code Name: Nova Crescent
Domain: Moon 🌙 (Prism Power Makeup)
Combat Type: Attack probably; right now I'm considering a magic rogue archetype based on Idia's canon characterization of him as a fiddly off-DPS. Probably gonna let him go full edgelord assassin's creed about it since a hood is OBVIOUSLY required for his magical girl look. For powerset, I'm considering: crescent moon daggers, shadow phasing, maybe invisibility or teleport cloak?? He's going to be doing some full melodramatic Tuxedo Mask nonsense I can tell you that, I CANNOT stress enough how embarrassing this guy is

Awakening: I haven't decided the exact circumstances, but the key detail is that Kalim was not there and does not know about it because Jamil is going to be trying to keep his double life a secret from his as long as possible, despite there being no purpose whatsoever to this. It's the principle of the thing. Honestly he's SO buttmad Kalim is a Nova Knight at all ❤️
Present Life: In Calra City, Jamil is Kalim's bodyguard-slash-enforcer-in-training with their families in a similar Traditional Generational Arrangement as in canon. Also as in canon Jamil is SO resentful of this, but here it's a bit more focused around Jamil having to do Kalim's dirty work while he's determined to stick his head in the sand about being a mafia heir. They also have not even BEGUN to address any of their issues at this point in time so that's a whole bomb waiting to go off!!! The question isn't If Jamil is going to eclipse but When
Past Life: Details are still vague, but we've at least decided on a role reversal situation with Jamil as the noble and/or wealthy merchant heir and Kalim as his servant and like it SEEMS a better arrangement at first but it turns out that it was just as fucked up in different ways. Haven't quite worked that out yet, but 🤔 one thing I would like to explore is how much of Jamil's shitty attitude comes from his Lifelong Resentment vs his natural personality. I mean obviously he'll still be a scheming little dickhead but what would he actually be like without a humongous chip on his shoulder about having to hold himself back... much to think about...
oh we also decided that Jamil probably died saving Kalim in Otherwise Vague Circumstances so that present day Jamil can have a total incredulous conniption about it when he regains that memory :)

In-Game Plans: As referenced above I plan on Jamil trying to keep his real identity secret even from his teammates for as long as he can, but I do NOT care how successful he actually is with it with anyone other than Kalim, who is extremely easy to fool anyway. I think it would be really funny if other people had his number actually so feel free to have your characters figure it out even if they're not that smart.
Pre-Established CR Hooks: Jamil makes it his business to stay beneath notice as much as possible, so it is very unlikely that anyone would know who he is unless they have directly encountered Kalim and thought to pay attention to That Guy Always Hanging Out Behind Him. It's very likely he's at least heard of other characters of prominence though since it's his job to be Kalim's walking reference material, lucky him!
Desired CR/Hooks: Again, Jamil will be living a double life for as long as I can get mileage out of it, and I would love to play with him having potentially two different dynamics with all the other characters. He's a demure, quiet wallflower by day and the haughtiest asshole you've ever had the misfortune to meet by night. He's also REALLY mean to Nova Sunbeam for no reason in particular, what's up with that?? I imagine most of his civilian CR will be (blandly, boringly) positive and all his Nova Knight CR will be EXTREMELY negative and I really want to play with that dichotomy 🙏

Other:

[wood_sorrel]

do you think they've interacted meaningfully before. she'll be third wheeling their relationship drama either way but how can we make it funnier and stupider

[snizier]

yes i really think maomao ought to have his number in all universes. obviously since she knows his secret identity she'll be able to call him on his daily masking but i do think it would be even funnier if she figured it out somehow even BEFORE the nova knight thing

eta: i think perhaps she caught him doing something (embarrassing) that ruins his front somehow like really early on. we could probably even incorporate it into cat thread since he has no reason to keep up appearances in front of (what he thinks is) a cat lmao

[wood_sorrel]

maomao's not going to start the game awakened, so it will be a little bit before he can unknowingly interact with cat maomao, but tbh i think it would be very funny (and very maomao) if he did something completely mundanely embarrassing where only she could see it once upon a time

[theriflespiral]

i almost want to make this worse by having natalia koutolika, former math whiz and now apparent ace detective, being there for Jalim's awakening and vice versa

Just

they hate each other so much, eyes meet across a crowded briefing room and lightning sparks between them because they both know exactly how much of a weirdo the other is

but

on the OTHER hand I want them able to commisserate

[snizier]

WOW YES PLEASE jamil has such a chip on his shoulder about being Capable that i am looking for all opportunities to have to put him in other people's debt actually. the more people he has to be a hater about the better

i am still a bit out from being able to rp with any reliability but i would love to get a thread going with them at some point!! perhaps we can even do their awakening(s)