Round 1: Pre-Awakening AUs, Personas and Tarots, Lets Plan!

[cordibus]

In order to do a little bit of planning before the test drive appears, 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.

As the test drive begins, 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

[draculabackwards]

Maybe Louis teaches Alucard the electric guitar! Or he could be a music TA for extra spending money.

[catchthishand]

The Arcana are what will kill me, because while I can see Okuyasu as one of a couple, my planned second could fit, like, six of them. It's overwhelming in a fun way.

[munechika]

he's an adult now ok!!!!! he knows how life works

sort of

maybe

like he knows how to go grocery shopping now (online) and stuff. totally worldly experience right there.

[mutesician]

A TA would be nice! Heaven knows he probably needs one.

[dssploded]

lmao definitely a weird bird buddy. But that could be fun. Kaworu would definitely enjoy fellow musical people, too.

[draculabackwards]

Alucard has a commanding voice so it probably helps corral the class.

[blackdogdown]

Oh good. They can bond by glaring at birds of prey whenever they appear.

Please protect the children, swan dad.

[onhope]

Maybe through school? Cassian is only like... 2-3 years older than Yuuri.

[umbral_idol]

Nice to meet you all! I'm Waku (Reisen), and I'm test driving here as Elizabeth Bathory AKA: Lancer from Fate/Extella. I could ramble about her for hours, so let me just get the basics down: She's a digital incarnation of the serial killer Elizabeth Bathory, given superpowers. After having Weird Things We Don't Talk About (aka: the plot of Fate/Extra CCC) happen, she had begun her first steps on a redemption quest... When it ended up getting aborted early on when the big bad infected her with an Eldritch Abomination virus. But we should talk about her personality, huh... She's hyper, energetic, always throwing herself into whatever she's doing, because if she sits still long enough she gets into a self-hating depression. She also had some weird mental affliction that causes her to identify people as animals instead, though this... probably won't be carried over immediately, due to it being a magical power according to Nasuverse rules. Canon also insists that this version of her is 14, so that's the age she'll be in-game.

Pre-Awakened, she'll probably be from a fairly wealthy family, a good child who keeps her head down and spends most of her time trying to fulfill her parent's unrealistic expectations. Don't get her started on cosmetics, though. Even in an AU, Eliza will always love cosmetics.

As for post-awakening... Are you ready for the Dark Idol Eli, who's technically an Eletric element?! Honestly speaking, she'll probably be treating this world as a second chance at life, at least until her... spontaneity manages to mess things up for her. Still! She can sing! She can shout! And noone's heads will blow up! ...Not having a dragon's lung capacity is handy.

[eyeofcute]

HI FYRE HI LETS BEAT THE SHIIIIIT OUT OF EVEYRTHING

[eyeofcute]

YEP YOU BASICALLY GOT IT it's going to be the best one-sided rivalry. Cagliostro polishes her cabinet of 2nd place silver trophies in bitterness.

[umbral_idol]

Ooh, Lower 3-mate! Let's have CR, yes! So, AU Elizabeth is probably going to be more or less working herself to death, so momming and tea will be appreciated! ...Tea actually sounds really good.

[1in_perfection]

I admit, I was worried about giving Mitsuru any musical talent (and this is a constant worry with her) because she already has a lot going for her in terms of abilities; business sense, fencing, etiquette, general combat, EXECUTIONS, etc.

But… well, then I thought about it more and realized I could tackle this in a couple of ways. One is that I could actually go on FAKE memories of Mitsuru being a part time band member; people might remember her playing, but she’s never actually done so. The other is that she’s gotten very limited proficiency with the harp via fake memories.

Also. It gives me a fantastic excuse to bring up this song with her fake name several times. With a harp cover.

And sorry; that was a lot of tl;dr to say that I think the idea of sharing a music club would be cool!

[seigikan]

To accidentally shoot one's teammates, one must first be able to successfully hit something. And she uses a submachine gun, so you'd think she'd get SOMETHING.

[eyeofcute]

Probably just a few months into his time as a library helper, so this Spiel has probably been continuing for a while--

Her favorite tea is the really expensive matcha teas. Sorry. After a while she'll probably start buying and bringing her own powdered matcha from home so he can make it for her.

[seigikan]

...define "nothing bad."

She's very devoted to her friends and looks out for them, but that's led to things like accidentally trashing a host club or busting into a pediatrician's office with an airsoft submachine gun...

[catchthishand]

Oh man, you have no idea how hype I am to see a Transformer showing up.

Roughly how old were you thinking his pre-awakening self would be?

[plainest]

vicchan 2.0 for max pain

Oh, school counselor is definitely happening too! Pre-awakening Yuuri is also more open and less anxious about being social so it will work well hopefully OwO

[1in_perfection]

No, it was an awesome first outing by Miyazaki. Naturally!

I think there's some interesting ground between the two because of that; they're both talented at academics, but that delinquency is going to cause a gulf. Though since Mitsuru is that little bit warmer with her fake memories. (Being estranged from her family has given her a very, VERY slight bit of empathy. Even if she's still busy trying to forge her own identity and social standing.) So she might approach it with a slight "you'd be climbing the ranks faster if you did THIS instead of this" type of attitude.

[eyeofcute]

SCREAMING

you're lucky/unlucky I'm not considering Tamamo for this game because holy shit

I LOVE ELIZABETH Cagliostro is like a whole third older than her but maybe she can be her tutor or something. For her star science subjects or the like. I want her to witness Elizabeth's descent into madness first hand.

ALSO I have the game on the PS Vita so if you ever want good screens of any scene for icons or such I will gladly do it! I LOVE ELIZABETH

[plainest]

SHOTA SHORTS FUSHIMI

IS LIFE

[plainest]

Oh man! That would be good.... If we can work out something from their old student days or something.

[1in_perfection]

She's definitely going to be starting her 3rd year I think, preparing for the college branch of the academy. And likely still trying to decide if she'll be pursuing economics or not, depending on the wishes of her family once her report cards come in.

But! It looks like so far she'll be on the fencing team, and perhaps, if I can figure out how to swing it, the music club. She's also going to be a constant fixture in the library when she's not involved with either of those things.

[magicdancer]

Hello everyone! I'm Jeff, and I'm test driving Shantae from... the Shantae series! Shantae is a half-genie, born to a genie mother and a human father in the fantasy world of Sequin Land. Genies were the guardians of Sequin Land, but disappeared long ago to seal away an ancient evil. Half-genies are all that remain of them in the mortal world, but since they're not full genies their magic is quirky and unpredictable. In Shantae's case, her hair is prehensile, and she uses it as a whip against enemies, and she can cast spells by belly dancing. Most importantly, she can use this dance magic to shapeshift into animals. Her life involves defending a port town from monsters, fighting off busty pirates, making coffee for zombies, and helping a squid through his mid-life crisis.

Her AU is as a popular high school student and dancer named Scheherazade.

[misplacedxsheath]

There's always mutual nerdery! Margulis is mostly known as a warrior, but he's also a Huge History Nerd who can definitely be caught hanging out in libraries and bookstores.

He might also have a small collection of really old books he got from his teacher...