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

Comments

[probablynoteren]

who are you

Yes I, an anime playing an anime, must reduce my anime output. This is truly a challenge worthy of my caliber. ☆

Julius I swear to god he will get the entire club to sit on you, including the other angst singularities.

[prayed]

CLINGS TO YOU LIKE STATIC

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

[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.

[umbralshadows]

CLINGS RIGHT ON BACK YO

I am totes OK with this. lancers and dark knights gotta stick together /nodnod

[blackdogdown]

hi this is my son now

[anovelidea]

annie love yourself you need to not

[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.

[probablynoteren]

I appreciate everything about this.

[anovelidea]

im doomed

[probablynoteren]

and u love it

[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!

[anovelidea]

I don't have a Battler's Tears emote on this account, but pls insert it here at your discretion.

[probablynoteren]

Making Battler cry is one of the greatest joys in life, thank.

[pouringrain]

But baseball, senpai.

Also ngl he'll... probably answer to both. > > Even if he'll be way more comfortable with Yamamoto when he gets his memories back.

[blackdogdown]

nope it is 2 late they r adoptive foster bros.

[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.

[draculabackwards]

Fine. If you do well on your next test, you can actually teach Alucard a bit about baseball because he knows zero.

[pouringrain]

!!! Be prepared for the worst lesson in the history of baseball lessons, because Yamamoto is a horrible teacher oh my god.

Alucard you don't know what you're asking. also he will be sorry for any stray baseballs that are thrown in your direction at stupidly high speeds.

[touketsu]

I think I'm pretty set on Shirou's AU name being Kouyuki Jin (conveniently written in western format, already). It's appropriately awful.

Anyway...

From an OOC perspective, it's going to take some getting used to seeing Kidou without his goggles! Hell, after Shirou awakens, it'll be odd from an IC perspective, too! But at least he won't be the only one without something? Shirou won't be able to wear Atsuya's scarf, either. H-here's to solidarity...? :'D

...so, about the track team. Looks like they'll at least know each other.

[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.

[sociallyarcward]

Yes, please bring in more shonen idiots who are into friendship!

Jaune's a bit older, but if you want a mentor type or something I'm totally here for that! o/

[pouringrain]

He is probably the best one for friendship!! He will literally talk to and annoy anyone that ends up in his path, so expect a lot of him happily hanging around Jaune.

But mentor sounds wonderful. '^' Maybe they can both practice spar with each other?? I think Jaune uses a sword if my memory recalls, but even then he can probably help Yamamoto with his grades. lsdfj

Kid needs study buddies, for sure.

[sociallyarcward]

You are correct! But pre-Awakening Jaune (or John, because I thought it was funny) isn't really into that yet. But since I think his group goes through it soon, we might have some overlap.

And it's funny you mention that cause I already have him tutoring one or two people! So he's up for that. His specialties are in history and English though...so hopefully it's not math you are looking help for XDb

His family also runs a restaurant -- so if he's the type to have a part time job you are free to have him work there! It's a cafe that serves cajun/creole/new orleans style food.

[pouringrain]

Ah, no worries, no worries. Meant when he awakens, really. Yamamoto will only be interested in baseball as well before he gets his memories back, so possibly a future thing!

But honestly he needs help with everything - in general, he once he sits down and actually reads through the material, he can get stuff pretty quickly, but the problem is getting him to actually sit down and do it. Thus, study buddies. :>

I would also absolutely be down for that! In canon he works at his dad's sushi shop, so he'd actually be a pretty good helper at the cafe. :D But just don't ask him to throw anything, because he will absolutely throw it like he does baseballs.