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

Sion Astal, Test Persona Request

[sunderings]

Persona
Branch: Navigator

Type(s): Light

Style(s): Healer, Protector

Passive: Defensive

[cordibus]

Test Persona
Weakness: Dark | Strong: Light

Attacks:
Cleave/Skewer/Bash (Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on one enemy.)
Eiha (Inflicts a small amount of Dark damage on one enemy.)

Protective & Healling:
Wall (Increases an ally's resistance to an element - Caster selects which element the wall will protect against)

Dia (Recovers a small amount of HP to one ally.)

Unbreakable Tie (Caster is protected by a shield that increases resistance to all elements and removes any weaknesses, but is now subjected to all damage caused to other users. (Spell stops when user decides))

Passives:
Boost (Attacks are 25% more effective)
Dodge (Doubles evasion against attacks.)
Stone Feet (25% less chance to be knocked down from a knockdown or a critical hit)
Counter (10% chance of repelling Physical attacks)

[sociallyarcward]

Jaune only dreams of your girl problems Mako |Db

Please teach Jaune how to be cool...cooler? Not as much of a nerd? We'll work on it

Midgardsormr - Request a Persona

[lordofsilvertear]

Persona
Branch: Combatant

Type(s): Fire, Nuclear

Style(s): Protector

Passive:Dual

[bossed]

omg that sounds perfect tbh! loitering is eikichi's jam. /o/ he's definitely the type to go wander around town until evening and either get into trouble or... not... he's not particularly picky when it comes to that stuff, dohoho

[torching]

listen...you don't want his girl problems he's lucky korra and asami didn't cut ties with him tbh

i love this....jaune for best kouhai

[bossed]

YES LET'S

WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING

[draculabackwards]

They shop at the same store. XD

[torching]

HERE'S MY PLANNING COMMENT

also he has a lil sister potentially

[bossed]

hollaaaaa

i'm probs gonna have eikichi be in his last year of high school so idk mako can be a senpai or some shit maybe

or someone eikichi can give a hard time over being a Good Student since that is definitely not eikichi's jam wEEPS

[superstylishsquid]

Hey, just because you're an unnatural abomination against all that is good and holy doesn't mean you can't be classy about it, right?

[catchthishand]

WELL an apartment complex is a possibility. In all honesty, if there aren't any bites on the family line, I'm planning on a pure npc family, if only for the horrific awkwardness of having Okuyasu trying to play happy families when he's used to living on his own taking care of an invalid father.

He's, uh. 16. I keep forgetting to mention that, but he is a highschooler, and in a sane society would be living at home with family.

That said, if you're looking for someone else to fill out an apartment complex and/or someone to be (near or distant) kin, I'm game.

[megabond]

Well, I like to see his reaction about that as well. (troll face)

[mockingbirb]

Oh, yeah, I meant more like his brothers - if you're keeping them or making Okuyasu an only child, how old are NPC-kun and NPC-san, and if they would move out, and do the ex-roommate thing through them. (The most awkward tangental CR possible, basically. Some people get, "You're my father!" Others get, "Wait, aren't you the dick who I could've swore stole my copy of Final Fantasy XV when you were over that one time?") That said...same apartment complex is probably easiest and then tagging in the rest.

2B , test persona request

[acies]

Persona
Branch: Combatant

Type(s): Physical, Nuclear

Style(s): Protector

Passive: Offensive

[pouringrain]

I can honestly picture Yamamoto bringing drinks/snacks for Shinjiro in that case, because 'YO MAN have you even eaten anything what are you doing not being social you're gonna end up not having fun that way :C' And he'll probably make a point to purposely go up to him and just chitchat a bit so he's not completely alone all the time.

AND IT IIIIS. His persona is probably going to be much of the same, honestly. :> Like Sif from Dark Souls but as an Akita with wings more or less.

[dssploded]

So here's what I'm thinking with regard to Louis and Kaworu. I have a couple of options on Kaworu's age, since at the canon point I'm taking him from, he hasn't physically aged past 15, but in truth he's 29. I'm thinking it might be fun to play him actually matching the latter for once, and only look younger in the awakened state. So in that case, I'm wondering if they might work together as music teachers. Maybe they teach different grade levels or different specialties. Kaworu is canonly skilled at playing piano, and his interactions were generally with teenagers, so that could possibly inform what and who he teaches, but it could also be other things.

But anyway. Teacher buddies? In that case I think having them go together for prompt two on the test drive would be fitting.

[catchthishand]

Ah, I see, I see, my bad. Reading comprehension is apparently not in my wheelhouse this morning.

I do actually adore that idea of a friend of a family member connection, so sure, fuck it, older sibling's roommate would work hilariously. I was figuring pinning him as the middle of three, one older, one younger, and then letting the actual details fall out as they occur, just to leave room in the planning stages in case anyone wants to slot a pc in, so, yeah, NPC older sibling could be the independent sort- if moving into their own apartment in the same complex even counts.

Any preferences on if the older sib is a dude or a chick? Also, general age range, personality type, ect ect.

[mockingbirb]

Oh. Nope, surprise me re: sibling details. I could also have Tsuru move a couple of times and thus make it more plausible that way as this happened at Apartment #2 out of 5. Or something. I'm starting to droop over here, tbh.

[catchthishand]

Hm.

HM.

Older sister, the overbearing bossy type, in her mid 20s, uses her bossy nature to good use in her job as a nurse (pre-med? either or). Nosey, extroverted, willing to go along with whatever crazy schemes mostly because then she can make sure that no one is getting themselves killed.

Sound like someone your guy would room with? Feel free to swap all the pronouns, should you so desire.

[mockingbirb]

I'm all for this. Done. She's perfect.

[catchthishand]

EXCELLENT the contract is sealed enjoy having a nurse poke at your dude every time he comes home with a scrape.

[cordibus]

Their canon name! I'll edit the prompt to make it a little more obvious, thank you!

[dereban]

Hi there, everybody! I'm Len (you can catch me at endlesseight), and I'll be test driving Himeko Inaba from the Kokoro Connect light novel series which is basically Memes: The Light Novel, but also known as that series that made bodyswapping cool before Kimi no na wa. Just to know a little about her: she's a normal teenage girl who tends to worry about things to much and has a bunch of trust issues. She tends to act cold and distanced because she's afraid someone might proverbially stab her in the back, hence why it's hard for her to make friends. She also doesn't even trust herself.

As for her AU, I'm going to be utilizing a few things for sure:

• She'll be an only child over having a sibling, isolating her even more than she normally would be.
  
• I'm thinking of having her in a computer club in high school - she'll be the equivalent of a high school senior.
  
• She'll definitely have the nickname "Ice Princess", given that she tends to brush people off and not care about others and her first name, Himeko means 'princess child'.
  
• In middle school she was a bit of a hikkikomori - just like canon - so she was someone who went home after school and spent hours on the computer, so if anybody wants to recognize her online handles, feel free! Though I'd prefer that nobody figure out who she is online initially.

Of course, I might be considering some of my other muses if anybody is interested in working something out with me as I'm not 100% set on this choice, but... there we go.

[ruinedemperor]

Hey there! I'm Cass and I'm trying to decide between two horrible douchebags.

The first is this guy, Hiroyuki Tsunekawa aka Zera from Litchi Hikari Club. Zera is a teenage genius who loves robotics and is trying to build a robot with a soul that knows what beauty is. He's also the tyrannical leader of a cult-like after school club that has resulted in way more casualties than an after school club should result in. He likes giving grandiose speeches, litchi fruit, roman emperors, beauty, and displays of devotion.

The second is Oh Sangwoo from Killing Stalking. Sangwoo is a university student and a generally charming, polite person that is well-liked and considered a model citizen. He's also a serial killer and has a bunch of bodies in his basement and likes to torture hostages but that part's a secret. Basically just don't go into his basement. And don't get a crush on him because that goes nowhere good.

I haven't hashed out exact AU details for either of them yet, but they'll both still be students and will be somewhat similar to their canon lives (with less murder because you can't do much from inside of a prison cell). I'd love to plan out some CR with either of them!