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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[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!