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

[probablynoteren]

IDK what Turn() is but I'm stocking popcorn to find out. 8) Unusual characters are the spice of life, tbh.

I'm in the middle of Bastion and a few other games right now but I'll have to poke at Transistor once I shave down on my currently-playing list a bit. I didn't know it was that quick!

That is an interesting story choice, will he be gaining (and then losing lol) these things in the AU? Totally curious now.

[nowprocessing]

It's exactly what it sounds like: he's from an action game canon ala Bastion, but Turn() is a power of the Transistor. It essentially lets you plan out a series of actions and instantly execute them, with a cooldown.

In AU, I'd have to give him a name and history. And his OU gives you enough of his history to understand his background, if you pay attention: He's a grifter that exists outside of the system, having mostly remained an observer who participated in things outside of the city's scope until he met Red.

He doesn't need a defined face - it'll be handwaved, since I don't really need to talk about his face or anything. But he probably would be just as secretive with his real name as he was in the game proper. I don't know if he's actually called Boxer or not, even: that's actually a name pulled from the game's code itself!

In-code, Red is referred to as Muse, and Boxer (or "Blue" as people like to call him) is called, well, Boxer.

Transistor is a wonderful game with excellent worldbuilding and a deliberately minimalist narrative. I'm hoping we see it get some kind of fleshing out - even a novel would be wonderful.