Round 2: Pre-Awakening AUs, Personas and Tarots, Lets Plan!

[cordibus]

We've made this post for a very quick round of pre-drive planning. Post the characters that you are interesting in trying out and ask for advice or suggest, or even try to look/entice for castmates! Suggest pre-made AUs where someone from cross canon has been living with you for a while, so when you begin the test proper tomorrow you'll have an idea of what you want to do!

The city of Eddan is like a typical metropolis, your characters can have any job that would make sense in a busy city. They don't have to be restricted to the school, or have a school job.

You are free to continue using this post to plan or ask the mods test-drive related questions. We'll do our best to answer in a timely manner! If you're not sure, don't be shy about asking. There's a lot of freedom!

You can also request to roll for a Persona. You can find information about Persona and the Awakening here. Ask for as many test drive characters you have if you'd like!

If you want to assign your character a tarot card for test drive purposes, you're free to pick whatever you think fits best. Your character's actual Arcana will be assigned after being accepted.

Let's begin! And remember, the test drive will is Already In Progress

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MOD - Request a Persona

[cordibus]

To request a persona, fill out the form below and reply to this post. Remember try to limit it to only one of your test personas. We will try to roll them for you as soon as we can!

If you're curious to see a full list of spells, you can find it here! Keep in mind that you won't be using all of the listed skills right away, if at all. When you request your persona, you do not list the spells, just what spell groups you want and we'll do the rest.

<u><big><big>Persona</big></big></u> <strong>Branch:</strong> (A Combatant or a Navigator - Remember Navigators are more rare and tend to be tactical people. Please pick the role that would be the most fitting for your character.) <strong>Type(s):</strong> (Take a look at the Persona information page if needed or for a refresher. These are the attack spells of the game. Pick the type you'd like and you will be given a spell accordingly. The possible element types are: Physical, Fire, Ice, Wind, Electric, Nuclear, Psy, Dark and Light. Combatants can pick up to two, Navigators pick only one.) <strong>Style(s):</strong> (Take a look at the Persona information page if needed or for a refresher. These are additional spells to aid the users in battle. Pick a style and will be given spells accordingly. The possible styles are: Healer, Protector, Buffer, Negotiator, Sorcerer. Combatants can only pick one, Navigators can pick up to two.) <strong>Passive:</strong> (Take a look at the Persona information page if needed or for a refresher. These are passive skills that the Awakened have active whenever they use their Personas to aid them. Each user only gets one choice from the following: Offensive, Defensive, Dual)

Shirou Fubuki

[touketsu]

Persona
Branch: Combatant

Type(s): Ice, Wind

Style(s): Buffer

Passive: Dual

Augustine Sycamore | Test Persona Request

[megabond]

Persona
Branch: Combatant

Type(s): Psy, Physical

Style(s): Buffer

Passive: Dual

[hachitaro]

Persona
Branch: Navigator

Type(s): Psy

Style(s): Healer, Buffer

Passive: Defensive

Koko Himaa

[umbralshadows]

Persona
Branch: Combatant

Type(s): Dark, Physical

Style(s): Sorcerer

Passive: Defensive

MOD - Questions for Test Drive Only

[cordibus]

If you have a general question, please ask it in the FAQ!

[bulletbiter]

Hey folks! It's Eon (again) I played Teruomi on the previous test drive, but I'm trying out a different character from God Eater this time. His name is Julius Visconti and he's the stoic leader type, which means a horrible fate will befall him after you clear the tutorial in good old GE fashion.

I'm thinking of making him a member of the student council AU-wise. He'll be a heir to a rich family and get driven to school, that sort of thing; but he's also hardworking and humble despite his background. He also has a pretty face so that probably entitles him to some unwanted attention in having a fanclub (oops). Like his OU self he'll push himself to the exact limit of his physical health so feel free to have your dudes know him as that one StuCo guy who never seems to sleep. He probably needs a sport too to keep up his figure so he's also up for some games once in a while.

Hit me up if you'd like to do anything!

[probablynoteren]

"a horrible fate befalls them" did u mean like every God Eater main I s2g

That being said Julius PLS CHILL. Also tbh his fanclub can probably meld with the Jun's fanclub (since they'd both be in gardening club) and it would just be one slightly scary fanmass that sometimes swarms the greenhouses.... heh. What is a StuCo guy, this is a new term to me--

Also you know me, if you suddenly think of new additions you want to make to CR hit me. ☆ For the moment I figure Julius & Lenka are mostly gardening buddies and sometimes Lenka has to wonder why all his senpai are either conked out all the time or living in trees. I hope one day he waters Julius by accident.

[umbral_idol]

Well then, I hereby offer you... a fanclub girl, yes. Ignore the fact that she's probably several years younger than him and thus probably wouldn't even technically be in the same building.

But I mean, really, heir to a rich family that gets driven to school who constantly pushes themselves to the limits of their physical health? Hello, self-destructive senior, I would like to learn your ways!

Speaking seriously, the two probably at least know... of each other purely due to familial social circles.

[sociallyarcward]

Oh cool! I was wanting to make Jaune a member of student council, but no one really seemed to be pulling student council students so it hasn't really come up yet.

I'm also not sure how it would work with different years--does each cycle have a separate council or do we get to make just a giant school council? I'd be cool with some established CR in that realm either way...I imagine there has to be SOME crossover work.

[possedere]

Not set in stone yet, but I might make this guy a part of the student council because he is nosy and loves being in positions of power. Even if he doesn't end up joining the student council, I'd like CR anyway since I'm sure he'd like to keep a close eye on anyone who looks like they might be useful. o/

[hachitaro]

Yo, it's Matt, showing up with Taro from... well, nothing, technically. Until I write his book. He's an OC, and a tanuki. He's also a nerd.

I'm of two minds on how to go with this. One is to go with his usual 'cover' of being a social guy, the kind who would sit under a tree and play Wonderwall for anyone who'd care to hear it and never ever fight someone.

... The other is to go the complete opposite direction for it and make him the King of a Command Tower team, because he's good at both showboating and is a fairly okay strategist.

[megabond]

Hey, this is Runner (RunnerRPAwaker on Plurk), back with the second chance by bringing back Professor Augustine Sycamore from Pokemon XY/XYZ anime. Just a little recap, he is a Pokemon Professor from the Kalos region who is currently researching on Mega Evolution, but unlike his game canon, he has a Garchomp who can Mega Evolve.

Unlike Round 1, I do have some plans for his Pre-Awakening background now. Like before, he will be a teacher for Green Valley and he's a half-French living in Eddan his whole life. While he is still the nice guy just like his canon, he can be a worrywart and protective to his students and relatives due to the serial murders around the city.

Post-Awakening, he will be a Combatant and he'll try to join the other Awakening in solving the mysteries around them (and open a school club for the Awakened students).

In any case, I'm open to family and friends CR! And I'm open for any plots you have in mind with this Pokemon Professor!

EDIT: Also, my other character (which I doubt I can that) will be game!Sycamore, so let me know if you want me to bring him as well.

[umbralshadows]

Hello, I'm Twi (twilitfall), attempting a second time to poke at this game. This time with a player character from Final Fantasy XIV who looks a little demonic herself. Her name is Koko of the Himaa tribe of Xaela - a clan of the half-demon playable race, Au Ra. She's a young mother out of wedlock and widowed, turned hero back home. Needless to say, it's something that's undoubtedly going to eat at her once she awakens.

Pre-Awakening, I can easily see her as a young P.E. teacher, having recently graduated herself. She wouldn't be much for socializing outside of classes, or at least not speaking unless spoken to, but fiercely protective of her students. Especially now that the murders have resumed.

Once Koko Awakens, she will dive straight into the mystery left at their feet; and as a Combatant, willing to place herself on the front lines.

(Obviously none of this is 100% set in stone, but I'd love to discuss potential shenanigans with everyone.)

[prayed]

CLINGS TO YOU LIKE STATIC

I 100% need mama dargon CR in my life. Maybe she can be Kyoko's PE teacher?

[twobee]

Penbun here with 2B from the awesome action RP Nier: Automata. She is an android from the year 11,900ish that was built to fight against an endless army of machine life form that have taken over Earth.

For her AU I was think of two different things, the first is having a mild bit of 8th grade syndrome that would mean she do strange things, like purposing she has super powers or that she is being stalked by a secret organization. Think Okabe from Stiens'gate or Rikka from Chuu2.

The other is making her a very cold and someone who practices swordplay regularly.

Tell me what you think! I'm aways open to suggestion.

[kouteipenguin]

If you go the chuuni route, I've got a fellow chuuni (even though he's got reasons for it, Kidou please). In canon his standard outfit involves wearing goggles 24/7 - we have actual scenes with him asleep in them - and a cape when playing soccer. He takes himself incredibly seriously. Everyone else takes him incredibly seriously. It's kind of amazing.

His AU self, Michi Yamashita, isn't exactly one, though he does drift from hobby to hobby and through clubs in some attempt to learn literally everything. He half counts.

[anovelidea]

Hello I'm Kat again and sobs this game already has me thinking of second characters. Damn you pix.

Assuming OCs are still bueno, I miiiiight give in to a certain Skull's peer pressure and bring in the most delicate of maidens, Aleksandr Novak. Also because gdit I demand at least ONE of our navigators be an irredeemable shitbag trying to get their party killed, so it may as well be me. Don't have an account done up for tags yet but TLDR hotlist below:

- Pretty face. Easily mistaken for a girl.
- Needs a haircut. Sleeps too much and doesn't fix it.
- MORNINGS ARE FOR BABIES. Blood type is 90% coffee.
- Broke as hell but tries really hard not to make it obvious. (It's still obvious.)
- Either in the foster system or living on his own in the AU, haven't decided yet.
- Vacillates wildly between business casual and dressing like he just got out of bed. Latter usually wins.
- Scary good at sciences and technology: but the kind of smart where you spend all night working your ass off studying. He needs that scholarship you assholes- wait what ahahaha
- TERRIBLE AT ENGLISH AND MATH. THE LITERAL WORST. kill him pls no more essays
- Gets to cut phys.ed because of health issues ayyyyyy he's a winner.
- BFF is Paimonia. The name may sound familiar.
- Mindmelded with Literally A Lovecraftian Eldritch Abomination. Came out afterward as this weird amalgamation of a Delphi oracle and Tohru Adachi's Outlook On Life.
- Everyone else was and still is highly concerned. Get better life choices.
- Took over the antichrist's job when the brat was too full of ~~~feelings~~~ to do it himself.
- Does Not Want To Die.

Pre-awakening would just be that one really quiet and polite booknerd who hides in the back of class who's way too nice for his own good. Disappears from the school for weeks on end for no visible reason. Does your homework if you offer him food.

Post-awakening is pretending to be the really quiet and polite booknerd, but is actually a fucking monster who cares about no one but himself and what he wants accomplished. And if that means genocide on a multiverse-scale, then so be it. To make it worse, he's long-since weaponized his personality to drive someone up a wall as quickly as possible. #rip everyone's patience. Depending on how annoyed he is at anyone, may actively try to get them killed by Shadows. Doesn't do it if you offer him food.

At either awakening state he is really bad at managing stress, which leads to the worst life choices imaginable. Such as becoming the temporary antichrist. Or slamming your existence against Yog-sothoth because you got too mad about something. Or taking English AP. So with the app's constant stalking he's gonna end up smashing a monitor and then have a meltdown over how much it costs at some nebulous point. Everyone find joy at his expense. He deserves it.

[blackdogdown]

hi this is my son now

[pouringrain]

Hey there, I'm Bree! :> You might have seen this same nerd on the last TDM/AU planning post, but for reasons of canon review I didn't quite finish his app in time - but I'll be throwing him in this round, so hopefully you'll be seeing this baseball nerd making all the friends soon enough (because he will)!

Speaking of, this is Takeshi Yamamoto from the anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Essentially it's a crazy shonen anime that has elements of the mafia. If you think that means this anime is SUPER dramatic and serious - you would be wrong. Mostly.

I don't have any set AU ideas in mind for him, but he might end up being the younger brother to a particular Persona character that my friend will be apping to the game! That and chances are he'll still be stupidly obsessive over playing baseball, tend to fall asleep in class, will generally try to be friends with everyone and overall be a normal fourteen year old kid.

As for his name, I'm considering Angelo Genovese. Two names from people in the NY Mafia - his first taken from someone who was generally a docile mafia boss, while the second is the name of the strongest and oldest mafia family in NY (so, you know, fitting). His persona will still be Glasya-Labolas, though, because I like the idea of him having such a frightening sounding persona that basically looks like a winged puppy with a sword.

And surprise, surprise, he'll be a Combatant.

[draculabackwards]

Angelo and/or Yamamoto, you need to shape up with your grades. Your dhampir senpai demands it.

[touketsu]

Hey, I'm Joey (bizarretown) with Shirou Fubuki from Inazuma Eleven, an anime series all about magical soccer. I plan to hit up the TDM shortly, but in the meantime...let's do some planning!

For the most part, I've been imagining Pre-Awakening Shirou as a happy and well-adjusted youth of 14 who attends Green Valley. Very popular among his peers, especially the girls, Shirou both achieves excellent grades and is a celebrated member of the school's track and field team, specializing in the sprinting and high jump events. Interestingly, the moments he claims to love the most aren't clearing the finish line or the bar, but the mad dash towards the goal when running, and the fall that follows jumping, when he feels the wind briefly wrap around him and the rest of the world seems to disappear.

Despite being very kind and easy to get along with, Shirou also has a playful side. Given his academic and athletic prowess, there are many rumors floating around about him, most of which are inaccurate and portray him as being much larger than he is. Shirou takes great pleasure in playing with these misconceptions and fooling people. Playing other kinds of pranks on people is another thing he enjoys, though even if they're the kinds of pranks that scare someone, he's always careful not to be cruel.

He seems like he has his life together and, despite the grisly murders occurring in Eddan, seems to be fearless and like he hasn't a care in the world other than having fun.

I have no concrete plans regarding his family (and would love to plot with people regarding that!) but I will note that I'd prefer familial relations to be positive in nature to directly contrast what he'll remember upon Awakening.

Speaking of...

Awakened Shirou is...quite literally a mixed bag. For all that their personality remains something they have in common, he's nowhere near being as well-adjusted and stable as his AU.

For starters, when Shirou was still very young, his entire family was killed in an avalanche. His father, his mother, and his twin brother all died, and he was the only one among them who survived, leaving him with a phobia of any loud noises resembling the deep, thunderous rumble of snow crashing down a mountainside.

Wearing his brother's scarf in his memory, eventually Shirou began to "hear" Atsuya's voice coming from it while playing soccer. This, along with his father's last words the day he died, impressed upon Shirou a desire to be "perfect" and he believed that the only way to accomplish this was to become one with, or surrender himself to his brother, letting Atsuya take over while playing.

As "Atsuya," Shirou is nothing like his more subdued self. He is extremely aggressive, brash, a bit of a show pony and, despite being very capable, he'll charge headlong into a situation without thinking, demonstrating an absurd amount of arrogance and over-confidence. His primary objectives are winning and being entertained, and he'll do whatever it takes to achieve both, except tolerate people standing in his way.

Needless to say, he is a very sore loser. And Shirou himself isn't much better, for he has struggled since the day he lost his parents with his identity and where he belongs. He wants to be needed. But so does "Atsuya." Essentially, while warring with shadows, he'll also be warring with himself...so that'll be a thing.

Regarding his Persona, I've decided to run with Marchosias for him, and Shirou himself will be a Combatant.

Anyway...

TL;DR: I've got a nice (if trollish) kid here with a split personality disorder and I'm looking to see who he might know around the city and school! And for potential family!

[kouteipenguin]

Kidou here! His AU name is Michi Yamashita, aaaand he's on the track team. For now at least.

Also he can't have goggles outside of his awakened form so that's weird.

[possedere]

Hello I am Mimi and I'm being not so gently enabled to bring Mukuro Rokudo from KHR into the mix. It's a shonen series about becoming part of the mafia, babies who are the strongest fighters in the world, and being able to turn willpower into flames. So clearly it is super serious and not cracky at all.

Personality wise, Mukuro is vain, charismatic, a showboat, and the kind of guy who can't answer a question in a straightforward manner. He may have some redeeming qualities like actually caring about people, being intelligent, and always having a plan, but try to get him to admit to the first one. I'm anticipating he'll have a lot of negative CR because he is a catty troublemaker who likes to start shit just to see how far he can go, so please feel free to hit me up if that's your cup of tea.

AU wise, Mukuro has been a citizen of Eddan his whole life, consistently gets high grades, may or may not pick up Command Tower if there aren't too many Kings swanning around. I'm also thinking of sticking him in a drama club or perhaps student council. And possibly having him be shady as all hell like getting contraband things or whatever would be permittable by the mods.

I'd love family + friends + enemy CR so toss them all at me!

[probablynoteren]

HI MIMI welcome to the neighborhood of disaster children and dubious adults being given sharp implements and supernatural creatures. It's a great neighborhood tbh. (What are your thoughts on Mukuro's Persona because I need to know ~)

Let's see, I play a quiet semi-lineface shounen protag so clearly the CR is going to be bizarre and entertaining. What school year are you putting Mukuro in! I forgot how old he is/depending on his canonpoint/etc. ages are hard, but Lenka here is in 1st year of senior cycle (15). I highly encourage student counciling Mukuro by the way because the student council definitely needs more members! Also currently it has too many goody-goodies and needs livening up. ☆

Oh, also, Lenka here lives in an apartment building with a few other characters so if Persona/KHR disaster fam wants to move in please feel free. :D :DD Best neighbors.

[mishiman]

HELLO ALL I am Rui bringin' you this cute little moon from Persona 5, Yuuki Mishima. Admittedly I am still a little undecided on whether I do want to join the game but I'd thought I'd toss this up to just to see if anybody's interested on having this nerdo in their family.

He's a good kid but a liiiiil' power hungry due to being picked on and bullied a lot, so giving him a Persona will be uh....... interesting LAUGHS I described it to my friend as "giving a kid a chainsaw" so yeah. And honestly god help them if he learns who the Phantom Thieves are aside from Akira. He's going to be That Teammate who does shit just to try to look cool and completely overcompensates and underestimates things and he's a hot mess please don't look at him...

As for school he'll be a student just like in canon, maybe at the head of the nerdo computing/programming/whatever club?? maybe, we'll see.

[pouringrain]

HEY NERD HOW'S IT HANGING.

[onethousandflowers]

Hihi all! I'm Art, I'm insane to even be considering apping here, but I'm doin' it. I'm probably bringing Byakuran from KHR here if I do end up apping, but I've got few ideas for AUs. Or maybe the problem is that I have too many? He's easy to fit in anywhere, after all; AUs are kinda his thing!

He's going to be a student, that much is certain. Yes, I'm playing the TYE version ignore my icons. He's a little less of a douchebag in that era, so it makes it easier. He'll probably be in a club or two, get high grades despite being a space case, and in general be an insufferable prick when his head's not in the clouds.

Personality... Shitlord of shit mountain in the land of garbage dumps a good summary? He's not as bad as he once was (going to be, TIME TRAVEL BULLSHIT), but your average rabid baboon is nicer than his marshmallow-orchid ass was. He doesn't do nice things for other people without expecting something in return or having an ulterior motive unless the fate of the world is on the line. Which might count as an ulterior motive; he lives there. Sometimes his motive is simple, though. Like shits and giggles or to prove he's not totally evil. Doesn't mean he won't cheat at rock-paper-scissors and semi-gleefully attempt to kill things, though. That's canon.

Oh, and he's psychic and near omniscient in canon. It's a mess.

[probablynoteren]

HELLO THERE I mostly missed out on Byakuran's arc of KHR because I got spectacularly lazy but from what I know I feel obliged to attempt recruiting him for the gardening club just because, y'know. /stares at his username :3c

Currently we have a good handful of members (including Chikusa and I think Yamamoto might gatecrash sometimes, plus a few other accidental friends that drop by), a complex of greenhouses on the Green Valley campus (I assume he goes to GV, what cycle will he be in!), probably some kind of butterfly house annnnd that's most of what we got so far. (We have a flowerfest mingle here, and the prompts are totes open to be used on the TDM because why the hell not. 8))

I SHOULD probably also introduce me and my character, hi I'm Fyre, we've run into each other here and there in James' plurk and I play Lenka here, who's basically your garden (heh) variety quiet-style shounen protag. He's 1st year of senior cycle at GV and an officer in the gardening club, which mostly means he's saddled with all the paperwork. |D

[r3f4c70r3d]

Hi! I'm Tam @weirdtakoyaki and looking into bringing in my girl Angel from the Borderlands series! (though likely with a different journal)

The last game I had Angel in was also an AU, so there are elements that I might draw from that version of her for the AU here, if they end up working.

Angel is a bit of a complicated character, in the series you only meet/see her in person once, while the rest of the time she stays in touch with the PC through a communicator system, posing as a helpful AI until her reveal as a human girl (though still one with incredible magic-like powers). She is also a prisoner of her father Jack, trapped in a high security underground facility where her powers are exploited for his gain until she convinces the PC to help her commit suicide by cutting off the drug(kinda) supply keeping her alive.

So, major things I would like to work on/around:

i. Her ambiguity. I was thinking something along the lines of her being a sickly shut-in, who communicates mostly through the network and other forum or chat type platforms, and isn't seen in person till she awakens.

ii. Her close relationship with her father. because Angel's narrative is so closely tied to Jack's, I want to make sure there is some breathing room for any possible future Jack player. It would be some great tragedy material for her to have a happy family life in the AU only to remember the awful truth upon awakening, but don't want to complicate or force a narrative for a potential Jack.

iii. Her dependence on eridium (kinda-drug mentioned in her breakdown.) In canon she's force-fed this alien material to increase her powers, and it has been so long that she can no longer survive without it. If possible I'd like to mimic this somehow in game.

The things I know for certain are that I'd like her to be a navigator type, since that's what she is in her canon (she's basically the navi of borderlands) that she will be around 18 yrs and that I will be taking her from post-death.

Planning AUs is always really fun, thanks in advance for any suggestions!

[decompiler]

ah yes hello, my name is Xel! And I am thinking I will be bringing you this cryptid of a dude, known otherwise as Royce Bracket from the slightly obscure game Transistor. Transistor is a touching story about a furious mute lady, her sword boyfriend, and the secret society that Ruined Everything in the process of making their city great again. Royce in particular helped Ruin Everything harder than most and he's basically not sorry about it. Oops.

HERE ARE SOME CANON ROYCE THINGS:

➤ 37. Expert in math and engineering.
➤ Also architecture and computer programming. These things might seem kind of diverse but Cloudbank is a weird world that more or less seems to be a Matrix/San Junipero sort of situation, so they're actually functionally all the same discipline.
➤ As such, Royce designed a TON of stuff in the city of Cloudbank. Roads, buildings, sculptures, you name it. He was very passionate about it too. But there's a problem: in Cloudbank, everybody gets a say in what the city looks like, and the majority opinion is always changing. Royce pours his all into building a tower, Cloudbank votes for a park sometime later, tower is deleted so a park can live there. Park gets to chill for a while until the people want a fountain. Then the fountain gets torn down because they feel like a tower. Sounds a little frustrating, right?
➤ Yeah, Royce gets super butthurt about this state of affairs after a while. He starts designing more and more daring and avant-garde stuff hoping that it might last a little longer, but the people always get tired of it eventually. So Royce effectively retires and flounces off to a surburb of his own creation, where he starts obsessively trying to understand the pattern behind the changes to the city.
➤ He ends up discovering the hidden mechanism behind everything that gets built in Cloudbank. These alien robot critters are collectively called the Process.
➤ He also stumbles upon the Transistor, a USB sword.
➤ Royce's longtime friend Grant, a high-ranking city admin, agrees with Royce that the people don't know what's good for them and hatches the zany plan to make Cloudbank its best self by STRAIGHT UP MURDERING a bunch of influential citizens and like, sucking their essence into the Transistor to use as they see fit. Royce is just like, totally fine with this I guess. The way this works is like... let's say Cloudbank is a canvas, right? The Transistor is your brush, and the Process is essentially your paint if paint could also start to rage out of control and Delete Fucking Everything.
➤ So yeah, that happens. Royce is just like "my bad."
➤ He's a little softspoken and socially awkward but cordial and at least a little bit charming.
➤ Impeccable fashion sense, weirdly. His outside doesn't match his true character like, at all.
➤ Inexplicably has a bit of a gentle southern accent.
➤ Was a graduate of the prestigious Traverson Hall, which is literally almost the same deal as Green Valley. So that worked out p awesomely.
➤ Resting bitch face
➤ Chainsmoker (there is no lung cancer in Cloudbank)
➤ Royce/Process OTP
➤ It's a one-sided ship; the Process seems to kind of think he's a dick.
➤ Villainous origin story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8ShAosqzI
➤ Crazy tall. Like 6'3'' at minimum, 50% leg with a dorito build.
➤ In terms of basic personality, he's airy, artistic, introverted, curious, prideful, and just a little folksy. Outwardly he's a fairly affable guy, but there is something a little off about it. The best way I can describe it is "amicably empty." It doesn't help that his morals seem to be, um, pretty flexible.

HERE ARE A COUPLE AU ROYCE THINGS:

➤ Graduate of Green Valley, now works in some capacity for the city maybe?
➤ Architect/planner/civil engineer, something of that nature.
➤ Is probably rather attached to Eddan! Because it's his, you see.
➤ Disapproves of this rash of murders but admittedly is super curious about them. Probably because he and his colleagues committed a rash of murders in another life.
➤ Will probably become a little addicted to the rush of summoning his Persona.
➤ Requires friends and colleagues to prop up his ego, make him be social, and convince him to make terrible life decisions. That last one doesn't seem to be very hard.

Oh god this is so much. His TDM thread can be found here, at any rate! Obligatory mentions that I'm super excited about the premise and would do unspeakable things in the name of enabling castmates. Wow it sure is 3am I'm gonna go to bed

[tellmeimbeautiful]

I think Royce would fit in nicely with the faculty who are all a little off and match his flexible morals (flexible like a yoga master with a foot behind his ear).

Maybe he could teach a few classes (in architecture? in math?) as an adjunct? Schools often bring in people from the industry, and that way it would give him a little bit of a network to tap into (I don't think we have many professionals in Eddan atm).

[moonlitknight]

Hello, Blithe here potentially bringing in Zero from Vampire Knight. I took a look at the tdm last month for another character but that didn't quite work out due to time constraints. Also, I have no clue what Persona is so I'm driving blind here. Please feel free to correct me if I get something wrong!

Anyways, in quick summary: Zero is a vampire hunter who was turned into a vampire with an uncontrollable bloodlust. His backstory is a tragedy that left him an orphan with every reason to hate vampires. It's also the reason why he's so blunt and hard to get along with, yet he's a total pushover when it comes to kids, animals, and sick people. He embodies the classical characteristics of the sacrificial knight but don't expect him to be nice. He's a blunt character that tends to keep to himself. He does better with individuals than he does with a group but he's far enough in canon to get along with others, even if he doesn't necessarily befriend them.

AU Zero. I don't really know what I'll be doing with him - feeling my way through this - but I'm thinking of making him an exchange student. He'll have recently arrived to live with an old family friend after becoming an orphan after his parents die in a plane crash. He'll have a sizeable inheritance to keep people from worrying about him. School-wise, he'll have top grades with his best courses being math and science (canon). He's not a social guy so most people would only know him by seeing him 'around'. Aside from that... I don't really know.

I've got no idea about his Persona. Even after reading the faq I'm still not sure if I understand what a Persona is orz. But then, that's why I'm here!

[onethousandflowers]

BLIIIIIIIIITHE! It's Art! HI!

How old are you bringing Zero in as, exactly, beyond "student"?

As for the persona thing... It's complicated, but basically they're expressions of the inner self. As far as I can tell, the initial persona, demons, are expressions of darker urges, while proper persona are more of a defense mechanism.

[mirrors_wish]

First time apper here! My name is Akino, and I'll be apping Yui Kanzaki from Kamen Rider Ryuki. Long story short, it's a show about 13 people contracting with monsters and fighting in a Mirror World for the vague promise of a wish to be granted. But the whole thing is set up by Yui's brother, who has his own wish, and quite honestly, Yui herself just wants everyone to stop fighting especially because she's pretty sure she has more to do with it than anyone's telling her. She can come off as really serious at times and doesn't mince words when she's mad at people, but she can also be really sensitive and looks for other people to try to tell her everything's okay.

As for her AU, I'm thinking she's probably studying art, since her childhood drawings were a big plot point in the series. Maybe also interested in journalism, since she did temp work with a news site for an episode and she was really good at it? And without all the crap she went through in her childhood, she'd be pretty social.

Family-wise, if she had any siblings, she'd still feel really attached to them, since she was so attached to her brother in canon. And I'd really want her to have a close relationship with her parents, since she definitely did not in canon.

Oh, and I'm thinking her Persona will be Amon because she would rather settle disputes than engage in fights, but she wants to heal and protect people too. She doesn't like it when people try to protect her, so she'd be trying to help them in turn.

[sociallyarcward]

Hello! Super canon blind so not sure where to go with this, it also depends on what cycle she is in--Jaune isn't artsy much.

However, his family DOES operate a cafe. If she would frequent a place like that or maybe have art to hang on the walls there that might be a place to start.