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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[parillegal]

Player Name: Luc! You'll also see my name around as Lucifer it's bc i'm very choice and cool and good
Contact: love_letters
Invite: beep

Character Name: Maya Fey
Canon: Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Trilogy)
Character Blurb: In a game about lawyers I hyperfixated on the ghost story where the girl sidekick just has the bitchiest cult family you can imagine. Though she was once a ghost channeler I am now subjecting her to my Tastes and Whims. Despite having an absolutely shitty upbringing and having plenty of reasons to be resentful of Everything Ever, Maya instead aggressively looks on the bright side and devotes herself to everyone else's dreams and wellbeing. There are no therapists in ace attorney. anyway

Code Name: fuck i have no idea. nova vessel or some shit. nova nerdass. not that one
Domain: Spirit??? we're going with spirit
Combat Type: support probably. i sound so confident don't I

Awakening: I am not picky except that it would be Thematically Good if Maya was maybe late to the party and/or awoke trying to help someone else out.
Present Life: This is the one I have the most ideas for thanks to harry and lex's enabling. Maya's family is technically running a funerary service for the underprivileged and those inclined toward looser interpretations of the law, if you know what you're looking for. On the front, though, it's a 'rival' for Verdigris house in the Pleasure district. It's not... actually a rival, and it's really more of a front, but Maya's shitty aunt sure thinks they have to compete.
Anyway Maya's mom fucked off for some reason leaving her in the care of aforementioned shitty aunt who would really rather her own daughter be the defacto leader the Kurain household once she comes of age, and Maya's just so rude as to get in the way. Shame. Deemed unfit to even bother to train to entertain guests (though she's certainly a quick enough learner on her own) Maya's job has usually been cleaning up. Cleaning up after guests. Cleaning up after funerary preparations.
She didn't get to do much school herself, but now she's pretty devoted to walking her baby cousin to school every day— her baby cousin being a good friend of Jamil Viper's sister, of course. They all know each other through the most wonderful method of bonding of them all: being born into a family that does crime.
Maya's real passion in life, though, is fandom. Her devotion to the Best Show in the world, The Steel Samurai. She wants him. She wants to be him. He is a robotic samurai. She is a very short squishy girl. Regardless, she knows all the Steel Samurai's best moves.
Past Life: This one I have fewer ideas about but I definitely want to lean into themes of Maya being a vessel in canon and not really having a lot of autonomy, of being powerless in certain situations while also feeling like her abilities are not her own to take pride in. Someone who was, as she is Now, always throwing themselves into things whole heartedly for the sake of others to the point of forgetting to address their own desires and needs.

In-Game Plans: My plans are incredibly flexible she mostly is just Friends with people. Got a lot of what Has Happened Already sorted out but less clear on the Later.
Pre-Established CR Hooks: Maya was probably kept isolated and away from school growing up by Morgan, and the same with her Big Sister who may or may not be around. As a result her friends are probably few and far between, stolen through various opportunistic moments such as Family Meetings, sneak-outs with big sis or baby cousin to City Events, or.....

Online Steel Samurai Fanclub Members. The girl's got a phone and she knows how to navigate the forums. Her friends online are just as real as in real life!

Oh, also, once you're close to her? She wants to be YOUR big sister. Is she younger than you? Doesn't matter. Big sister. Had different intentions in mind? Too bad. Ignoring it. Big sister. Don't actually like her that much at all?

Big.

Sister.

Desired CR/Hooks: Truly I have no preference. The reality is that everything with maya is interesting and funny. She's so very kindhearted and really does want to big sister at everyone, but she's an insatiable trickster as well. She thinks she needs to manipulate people in order for them to even so much as give her attention, let alone help her in situations she might need it. She doesn't always know when a joke is too much. She acts like a social butterfly and she's great at reading the room, but she's actually inexperienced in social situations. Most things she knows about the world and relationships are from watching either her loveless, outsider-distrusting family or from TV shows.

She can also be very quiet and reserved with outsiders she hasn't met, especially since so far in this au she hasn't met Phoenix to really bring her out of her shell. Outside of having some childhood acquaintances, she might not consider everyone safe to share information with, even if she's very polite. I'd love to have some situations where people might not immediately recognize that she lives her whole life idolizing shounen content because she's busy not being sure if talking to this person will get her in trouble back at home.

That said obviously she's a great friend to have too! And hopefully one day will be a helpful support as well. She's dearly devoted and tends to fall into the role of sidekick for others. It'd be cool if maybe she was allowed to be little a bit mad about her situation for once instead of being limited by canon to never be upset about her situation and always self abandon. achievable through the power of friendship maybe?

Other:

[wood_sorrel]

kicks in the door. we gotta talk about maomao and maya because im so excited for this shit

my question to you is: how much do you think maomao and maya have actually interacted over the years. they definitely have a Rapport (i LOVE the energy in ur tdm tag) and maomao definitely would not consider maya a Friend but i do think it is funny if like, they were each other's ONLY option for peer socialization in their neighborhood growing up. maya has probably watched maomao put SO many dubious things in her mouth

[parillegal]

the unfortunate thing for all of us is that maya has probably encouraged maomao to put so many dubious things in her mouth. enabler ass.

it would be SO funny to me because yeah, the vibe is totally not "friends", but "heyyy you're the only person i know at this party so i'm going to stay over in this corner but not necessarily talk to you"

actually my idea for that tag is that Maya has forgotten that she is also supposed to pick up a prescription for Morgan today, so she doesn't have any of Morgan's information on hand to present for the legal exchange of medicine and wants to play on the fact their familes know each other to get out of trouble

I imagine that Maomao is probably among one of the very few people Morgan would actually let Maya interact growing up with specifically because they are both girls and bc Maomao is from a family Morgan would want to maintain niceties with, but you know her ass was not setting up playdates

[wood_sorrel]

ENABLER ASS MAYA!!! i love this for them both. and yeah agree the "you're the only person i know at this party" vibe is perfect for them

i love that idea for the thread! fortunately for maya, luomen is really big on the friends & neighbors mode of operating but maomao probaly won't let her off QUITE that easy

and LOL YEAH i don't think anyone was setting up playdates tbh. like the verdigris house madam certainly was not, and maomao was largely unattended to during the day when everyone was working, so i can easily see them both just being Outside and interacting because there's no one else around AND it is actually worth something that maya encouraged her to eat potentially toxic plants. for maomao thats as fond a childhood memory as it gets

[parillegal]

since morgan often complains about maya sneaking off from training (who knows how often she actually did, but) and there's Nothing Fucking Else to Do in the Mountains, I always imagine her being this outdoorsy girl who used to catch horned beetles with Mia and pit them against each other, so i a b s o l u t e l y think she'd encourage maomao's.... adventurousness.

girls who are always some place they aren't supposed to be but you can't actually yell at them because they DID do their chores it turns out