Welcome to Beautiful Dreamer's AU Plotting Meme! This meme is to give prospective applicants a place to pitch their game AUs, feel out the plans they'd like to make as well as to shop around for pre-game CR and potentially some CR castmates...??? Perish the thought!
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Player Name: ▲ndrusi Contact:Andrusi Introduction: it me. Ricky's not really working for me and an AU for Arianna popped fully formed into my head so
Character Name: Arianna Caledonia Canon: Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight
About: Once upon a time, Princess Violetta of INSERT_COUNTRY_NAME_HERE awakened as a Dreamer. This would basically have just been tabloid fodder, except that a) this was back during the early days when Dreamers as a concept weren't widely understood or even known and b) Violetta disappeared a few years later under mysterious circumstances, causing some brief chaos. A lot of weird theories popped up about what was up with Violetta, like she was negotiating with aliens who abducted her or she was actually an angel or what have you, and even years later once the Dream Sphere became a thing people knew about, that stuff kind of stuck around (morphing into "she was a Dreamer who ___" variations) because nobody likes to give up on a good conspiracy theory, especially since there still wasn't a good explanation for why she straight-up vanished.
Fast-forward a couple of decades, Violetta's grand-niece Arianna is a cute kid who grows up to be a cute teen, and she looks a lot like Violetta and people start to get ideas about what this means for when Arianna awakens as a Dreamer because she definitely will. The royal family mostly responds to this by not letting her know about it so she doesn't get any Ideas... until she happens to awaken on exactly her 18th birthday and they freak the fuck out because that's the sort of thing that weird cultists and conspiracy theorists will latch onto as Significant and be dangerously weird about. So it very abruptly becomes Very Important for Arianna to Experience Other Cultures and blend in with the Common People.
Thus a Perfectly Ordinary Novice Dreamer named Anna Caldwell arrives in Yumemigaoka and starts doing Perfectly Ordinary Novice Dreamer things like working at a job and getting training at the DU. She is trying her best to seem Perfectly Ordinary and she is Not good at it because she's very sheltered and doesn't have a deceptive bone in her body, but she's so nice that it would just be rude to say anything, right?
Short Term & Long Term Plans: Specific plans are fake, but I do have one goal which is for people to figure out Arianna's real identity on a regular basis. She'll vaguely have "figure out what Violetta's deal was" on her radar, but given that she's on the wrong side of the world I don't really expect that to go anywhere.
Desired CR/AU Castmates: People who were involved in the whole "incognito princess" plan, whether setting things up or helping manage things while she's here (DU people would fit well here), would be fun to have around. Additionally, maybe some of the older characters could have known or known of Violetta? On the less-secret side of things, unless someone suggests an Amazing alternative I'm probably going to have her working as a waitress (as is semi-canon) so customers who could recognize her or co-workers would be nice. Also, people she's just randomly run into and been herself at?
Anything Else?: So after writing up that backstory I remembered this screencap existed:
i feel like it would be fun if connor and arianna are distantly related (like connor's grandmother's sister married a low-ranking noble or something) so now he's roped into the incognito princess plan by virtue of being someone who is vaguely aware arianna exists and has to be like "....... this is my cousin, anna"
princess protection program......... 2! he has to take her to the mall to get new clothes and explain how to eat a hamburger after. their whole relationship is "anna please be normal" "i'm being normal!"
inside you are two wolves...... the one who thinks it would be really funny if she wore a princess shirt and one who knows she's already so bad at pretending to not be a princess that she should not get a princess shirt
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beautifulmemer2023-06-09 04:46 am
Arianna Caledonia
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Introduction: it me. Ricky's not really working for me and an AU for Arianna popped fully formed into my head so
Character Name: Arianna Caledonia
Canon: Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight
About: Once upon a time, Princess Violetta of INSERT_COUNTRY_NAME_HERE awakened as a Dreamer. This would basically have just been tabloid fodder, except that a) this was back during the early days when Dreamers as a concept weren't widely understood or even known and b) Violetta disappeared a few years later under mysterious circumstances, causing some brief chaos. A lot of weird theories popped up about what was up with Violetta, like she was negotiating with aliens who abducted her or she was actually an angel or what have you, and even years later once the Dream Sphere became a thing people knew about, that stuff kind of stuck around (morphing into "she was a Dreamer who ___" variations) because nobody likes to give up on a good conspiracy theory, especially since there still wasn't a good explanation for why she straight-up vanished.
Fast-forward a couple of decades, Violetta's grand-niece Arianna is a cute kid who grows up to be a cute teen, and she looks a lot like Violetta and people start to get ideas about what this means for when Arianna awakens as a Dreamer because she definitely will. The royal family mostly responds to this by not letting her know about it so she doesn't get any Ideas... until she happens to awaken on exactly her 18th birthday and they freak the fuck out because that's the sort of thing that weird cultists and conspiracy theorists will latch onto as Significant and be dangerously weird about. So it very abruptly becomes Very Important for Arianna to Experience Other Cultures and blend in with the Common People.
Thus a Perfectly Ordinary Novice Dreamer named Anna Caldwell arrives in Yumemigaoka and starts doing Perfectly Ordinary Novice Dreamer things like working at a job and getting training at the DU. She is trying her best to seem Perfectly Ordinary and she is Not good at it because she's very sheltered and doesn't have a deceptive bone in her body, but she's so nice that it would just be rude to say anything, right?
Short Term & Long Term Plans: Specific plans are fake, but I do have one goal which is for people to figure out Arianna's real identity on a regular basis. She'll vaguely have "figure out what Violetta's deal was" on her radar, but given that she's on the wrong side of the world I don't really expect that to go anywhere.
Desired CR/AU Castmates: People who were involved in the whole "incognito princess" plan, whether setting things up or helping manage things while she's here (DU people would fit well here), would be fun to have around. Additionally, maybe some of the older characters could have known or known of Violetta? On the less-secret side of things, unless someone suggests an Amazing alternative I'm probably going to have her working as a waitress (as is semi-canon) so customers who could recognize her or co-workers would be nice. Also, people she's just randomly run into and been herself at?
Anything Else?: So after writing up that backstory I remembered this screencap existed:
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