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

[kokuyoyo]

This is probably a highly questionable idea but HELLO! I'm James, and I'll be trying out the test drive with.... Chikusa Kakimoto from Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

tl;dr - Part of a mafia family that was outcast for doing horrific things, so the family decided that doing more horrific things to the children of the family by using them in experiments. Eventually they were horribly murdered by one in particular, who escaped with the last two surviving kids, and they grew up into murderous teens who just want to see the world burn. But mostly the mafia.

In canon, Chikusa is the only one in the trio with no notable special powers, relying more on poison and stealth hits, and he's generally known as coming off extremely emotionless.

I'm not sure how I'll translate him into his Pre-Awakening, but I'd like him to have a very nice normal life full of pleasantness to contrast greatly with the god awful bullshit he's going to remember. Probably an A+ student with very good grades, a few close friends, etc, etc. So, uh, any handwaved CR would be great, assuming I decide to make the questionable life choice of apping. However, I do think he'll still have depression problems that have made him somewhat reserved, which will get worse when he remembers things, so... There's that.

Also fun fact: I know fuck all about Persona besides 2.

[beastfang]

I heard KHR also Chikusa was my favorite Kokuyo boy

I don't really know how to do this, but considering I want Genda here to be a library regular and helper in there they likely know one another at least in passing. Though likely they'd probably work even better after awakening considering trauma parties their canons are regarding them.

[kokuyoyo]

He is a good Kokuyo murder garbage child

But that works for me! Chikusa might be a dorm kid and spending a lot of time in places like the library, because social skills are still hard sometimes. Probably things about plants and engineering and stuff.

Totally ignore it when he starts asking about books on venomous animals and stuff. It's fine. He's fine.

[beastfang]

Listen, as long as he doesn't have to explain anything to the police or the faculty, Genda couldn't care. Well don't kill anyone in the library because it's hard to get the smell of dead people from the books.

[kokuyoyo]

Don't worry, he inexplicably has knowledge on how to best hide dead bodies, it's all good.

[princessofsociallinks]

Hello fellow A+ student do you need a tutor.

[kokuyoyo]

He would definitely need a tutor, because why do something half-way when you can be way too aggressive about it? I think it'd also be interesting since you said Twilight might be part of the student council, which would have his faint interest Pre-Awakening.

(and maybe even afterwards, because helpful with mysteries, maybe)