Pre-Game AU & CR Plotting Meme

[beautifuldreamermods]

AU/CR PLOTTING

Welcome to Beautiful Dreamer's very first AU/CR Plotting Meme! This first version is going up in advance of the game itself to give potential applicants the opportunity to feel out how they want to play their AUs as well as shopping around for pre-game CR and potentially some CR castmates...??? Perish the thought!

During future app rounds, the AU and CR Plotting memes will be split in two in order for new players to have a bit of breathing room in workshopping their CR but in this pre-game stretch while we're all chewing on the bars of our collective cage you get a two for one deal!

Don't feel as though you have to be 100% beholden to anything you brainstorm here – ultimately this is just to get ideas flowing and to help prebake some character connections before entry into the game. Feel free to also take a look around the FAQ pages or tag about on the TDM before posting here and generate some ideas that way!

Once you're ready to get cookin', just fill out the form below and paste it into the comments.


<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Introduction:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>About:</b> (Give us a quick outline of your AU! If you have a more detailed AU already in mind you can give the cliffnotes here, or if you're more about the Vibes currently, you can go with those as well.) <b>Short Term & Long Term Plans:</b> (If you have any, of course! You can also use this section to pitch the general shape of The Vibes you're shooting for in your arc and see if anyone else can help you brainstorm it.) <b>Desired CR/AU Castmates:</B> (This is the big one! If you're looking for particular prebaked CR or have some particularly important roles in your AU you'd like to fill, pitch them here!) <B>Anything Else?:</b> i fully expect this to be meme central but i'm adding it anyway

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Ryoko Shinonome | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

[nmc0204]

Player Name: Claire
Contact: PM to journal or phainein
Introduction: hello homies, i'm claire (she/they) and i accidentally this game. i am just a little unicorn with konpeito and air in their brain. i love fate/grand order, magical girls and unhinged evil women. i have a disease that makes me love the colour pink and star shaped things and it's called being a fucking genius

Character Name: Ryoko Shinonome
Canon: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

About:

⧖ A totally normal teenager who grew up in Yumemigaoka. Pretty grumpy and quiet and standoffish but an okay kid to hang around with if you can get her used to your presence. Child of a divorced couple, currently living with her mom.
⧖ Around ~6 months prior to the game starting, she was attacked by a Nightmare in her dreams. The Dreamer who attempted to help her wasn't able to save Ryoko in time and her frustration and anger at the situation caused her Awakening.
⧖ Due to how long she was stuck in the Nightmare's grasp, however, she woke up with almost all her prior memories totally erased. Her memories of schooling and how to live day to day life have remained, but all of her personal memories are completely gone.
⧖ Ryoko does NOT want to be involved with the DU or any Dreamer BS so she more or less completely ignores her powers and tries to go back to her normal life. But increasingly, it feels like she doesn't fit there anymore - she feels like an intruder in someone else's life.
⧖ Craving a fresh start, she eventually makes the decision to sign up with the Dreamer Union, transfer to Promised Morning and start fighting in the Dream Sphere
⧖ This causes a HUGE blowup with her mom for understandable reasons, but Ryoko's convinced that if she can find and destroy the Nightmare that attacked her, she'll return to her old self which will be better for everyone.
⧖ Because of the rift this causes, she now lives away from home with a different guardian instead of her mom and is splitting her time 50/50 between school and fighting in the Dream Sphere

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Short term will be just getting her settled into her new life and making friends! Ryoko will be a transfer student at Promised Morning and a Novice Dreamer so most of her time in the first few months will be her coming to grips with the changes going on.

Long term, I want her to actually delve into dealing with the actual core of her emotional issues and start healing – while Ryoko's intended end point is more or less "retcon the current me so the Old, Superior Me can come back Where She Belongs", what I intend her overall arc to be about is Ryoko re-learning to imagine a future for herself and to understand that she, as the self she currently is, has value and deserves to be happy.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: Oh god. Everything!!! New classmates. New friends. Old classmates and friends!!! People who knew Ryoko before everything happened and now have to deal with her having no memory of them and somehow being even more scrunkly and standoffish than she was before. Mentors! People to look out for her! Honestly I would actually really love to have someone play Ryoko's current guardian - I purposely left that relationship a little vague in case it needs handwaving but I think it could be really juicy and interesting to play out in practice. If you are down to be Ryoko's dad/uncle/aunt/etc and look out for a scrunkly girl please let me know!!!

Anything Else?: i,m gonna be so fucking normal about finally playing bd ryoko you guys have no idea

Re: Ryoko Shinonome | 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

[voltrounds]

amnesia buddies

I'm joking but only kind of because you know at some point somebody thought it would be a good idea to put the Amnesia Teens together

Artemis's Nerds

[my_name_is_frill]

Player Name: Artemis
Contact: TheDoomkitten
Introduction: Hi, I'm Artemis (she/her), and I've been vibrating in anticipation of this game (and particularly playing this girl who has done nothing wrong in her life ever at all, ever) for YEARS. I have eternal brainrot about seagulls and ciconia crying, Magic: the Gathering, and both giant robots and magical girl shows. There's important info in my pinned plurk, so you should probably check that out!

Frill | Wonder Egg Priority

[my_name_is_frill]

Character Name: Frill
Canon: Wonder Egg Priority (unfortunately)

About: A little more than a year ago, an odd website floated to the surface of Dreamer-oriented internet circles: FrillNet, an old-school message board oriented toward the needs of Dreamers on the fringes who aren't comfortable signing up with Dreamer Union. The sole moderator of the forum, a user with the display name of frill! and is allergic to sharing any details whatsoever about herself, but in addition to moderator-ly duties, she posts live updates about Torment and Nightmare activity in the Dream Sphere so that those who aren't privy to official Dreamer Union intelligence can keep fighting the good fight.

Around the same time, in particularly dusty corners of The Necropolis that are infested with powerful Torments and Nightmares, a mysterious figure (source) sometimes appears when Dreamers or Figments are in dire need of help, most often when some poor Figment has already had their memories ripped out and is at risk of even worse damage. The mysterious "Dreamer Latticewing" is never around for long, flickering into nonexistence after only a few moments, but even a few moments can be valuable in desperate situations. Strangely, she seems particularly inclined to protect regular users of FrillNet, and she'll often give them a cheery wave and smile before vanishing.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Frill's situation is very Spooky and Mysterious on purpose, and in particular she has absolutely ZERO presence in "real life" for Plot Reasons(tm). Still, I really want her to slowly start making actual friends, and hopefully maybe eventually she'll poke her head out into the real world!

Desired CR/AU Castmates: I'd really like to see regular users of FrillNet that have been there long enough or are charming enough to have had a few conversations with its mysterious moderator, since that's the closest thing that Frill can get to "friendship." Additionally, people investigating the mystery of Dreamer Latticewing would be a great help in progressing her personal arc!

Anything Else?: please for the love of god do not watch wonder egg priority it is an awful anime

Metal Sonic | Sonic the Hedgehog

[numetal]

Player Name: Kiva
Contact: obscureinternetreference @ plurk
Introduction: Hi, I'm Kiva! (she/her) I'm your local irish girl hyperfixating on metal hedgehogs. I love a lot of canons but lately I've just been full force soaking up old series I used to love as a kid and revisiting them as an adult. I like DBZ (which is kinda my forever canon), Sonic, Yu-gi-oh (reread the manga recently but I've played Master Duel since launch), vanillaware stuff. Most recently I've been playing Wo Lang, RE4make, vampire survivors...kinda love everything tbh!! I'm also a tour guide who will be leaving a shitty job at a historical church for an extremely better job this month so I'm pumped for that annnnd I'm writing a VN! Who the fuck knows when that'll be finished.

Character Name: Metal Sonic
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog

About:
- Morris Robotnik is the younger near identical twin of a guy called Maurice, with their only different feature being the colour of their eyes. The two were a pair of orphans adopted by an eccentric inventor named Ivo Robotnik, whose biggest claim to fame is the oviphone, which is like...probably 4 or 5 spots down from your androids/iphones in terms of quality but hey it's not as expensive.
- While Morris and Maurice are nearly identical in appearance, they couldn't be more different in terms of demeanour. Maurice is..look he's sonic the hedgehog, he's a fun loving free spirit thrillseeker who might rub you the wrong way but you'll probably begrundingly like him. Morris, however, is quiet - mute in fact - introverted, serious, short tempered, kinda rude and difficult. However, he's similar to his brother in that he's fiercely determined, never gives up and competitive - he may even be the more competitive of the two, but you wouldn't know that from first glance.
- Because Maurice is a no good delinquent who thinks school is for nerds, a lot of their dad's attention is spent on trying to keep his more free spirited son in line. As a result, Morris is somewhat of a latch key kid - he actually does all the cooking and cleaning and his family have just kinda grown used to that. Spends a lot of time at home. Kind of neglected but not on purpose, that's a big contributing factor to why he is the way he is.
- Morris attends school and mostly doesn't draw attention to himself. He's very studious but he probably won't help you with your work cause he's Like That. He doesn't attend any club activities, but perhaps Entirely Coincidentally he's really athletic when it comes to things his brother is good at! Almost like he picks up things his brother does to try and outdo him! Weird.
- At one point another student who had beef with his brother tried picking on Morris because they figured him being introverted meant he wouldn't stand up for himself, but he proceeded to kick the shit out of them. Parents were probably called. Favours were called. Parents and officials were probably paid off. It was a mess. He doesn't regret it.
- I like to think the twins' awakening happened simultaneously and he would have signed up for the DU as his brother did just because he's stupid and competitive. edit he tried this for a little while and then dinah recruited him to be a dark mahou so that's him now, he tried he's out
- He really likes cycling. He is counting down the days when he's old enough to own a motorcycle.


Short Term & Long Term Plans: I actually want him to be a long term dreamer cause he's gonna be the most unhelpful piece of shit senpai but he will actually lend you a hand. He's not a robot anymore.

Otherwise I'm winging it.

Desired CR/AU Castmates:
- So like to be completely honest unless it's Sonic and Eggman specifically, I don't really want like "fill ins" for his AU family. As with canon it's tied very closely to those two and I don't think I'd like substitutions.
- While there are protags out there who I know will inevitably befriend him I'd like for some people who think he's weird/offputting/rude? Because he is, yknow.
- But yeah come and be his friend it's fine, he's cold and distant but he isn't as evil as his robot self so he won't try to kill you.

Anything Else?:

claire sent me this this morning and im still laughing about it

[mutualashuradestruction]

Okay first off I am dying at the Maurice callback, bravo.

Second of all, maybe Ashild as the kid who tried coming at Morris for one sided beef by proxy?

Mila and her characters.

[spielhaus]

Player Name: Mila
Contact: PM journal, or gravenrose
Introduction: Hey hi, I'm Mila (she/her). I love history and historical dramas, anime, magical girls, and gay shit. also unhinged women doing fucked up shit.

I will be putting a couple characters here, so stay tuned.

Misato Katsuragi | Neon Genesis Evangelion

[spielhaus]

Character Name: Misato Katsuragi
Canon: Neon Genesis Evangelion

About: I have some pretty vague thoughts so far, but I'm seeing her as an older Dreamer/mahou shoujo who's a bit on the darker and fucked up side. Has some kind of deep seated psychological desire for revenge due to something that happened to her family in the past and despite being a friendly person outwardly, she struggles with alcohol dependence and seeks comfort in casual physical intimacy as a way of keeping people at arm's length.

Also don't let her pretend to parent your teenagers she will fuck them up. Probably works as a teacher or a coach or something in her day job, which is a bad idea for everyone.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: None just yet, though I have vague plans with someone else to be part of a squad of jaded fucked up magical girls together, but otherwise I just want to watch Misato make ruins out of her life.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: Looking for someone to be her on-again-off-again fling that she secretly harbors deep feelings for (aka, someone to be her AU Kaji) but can't admit to because she's so driven by her revenge/work. Accepting men and women and everyone else for this, because it's an AU and I can do what I want. Other messy exes who she left when things got rough/too real. Co-workers to butt heads with. Teammates and friends who can call out her shit. Teenage magical girls/boys for her to fuck up emotionally mentor.

Anything Else?:

Bee

[egomitochdavar]

Player Name: Bee
Contact: beelzebae / beelzebae#2319
Introduction: What's up? I'm Bee (she/her or It/Its, with the capital, it's complicated). I love horror, queer stuff, screaming into the ether about weird content and roleplaying/tabletop, and MESSY FUCKED UP STUFF OH BOY.

I'm dropping one character and one character only here, and it's one I'm super excited for.

BINAH

[egomitochdavar]

Character Name: Binah
Canon: Lobotomy Corporation/Library of Ruina

About: Hey, dreamers. Did you know that I, Bee, fucking love dark magical girls? You did? Terrific.

Well, I'll boil the basic facts down to be as digestible as possible; I'm going to playing Binah as Garion, a trans woman that's probably around college age (but might go younger/older depending on what other players are settling on) and doesn't really fit into the "jolly cooperation" model of things. More on that under plans! For now, she'll be taking up the mantle of a dark mahou - the leader of a team that scouts and "recruits" (read: brings under her heel) other mahou to keep the city safe.

As a person, Garion is kind of miserable to deal with on a long term. She's cold and sharp, more a weapon of steel than a human being; she speaks in thinly veiled allusions and references, and is far more happy to discuss philosophy than the day's events. In her own canon, she has killed at the behest of a cruel city for a very long time, but grows fond of some parts of the world she inhabits; in this AU, she'll be very focused on keeping things Orderly and Clean, and if that means discouraging all the new young-eyed dreamers she is more than happy to do so.

Notably, I'd like to keep her power set secret for the time being! We'll see what happens when the game gets rolling, though. >:3c

tl,dr; Cold and cruel person who, while not really explicitly antagonistic, is absolutely going to discourage the dreamers who don't side with her and recruit people with darkness in their hearts/powersets that make them useful for keeping the city safe - come hell or high water.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Speaking short term, here's the obvious one - I'd like her to have a team of similarly "dark magical people," and am interested in plotting this out. (More below!) However, on a long term, I do like the idea of people with particularly strong ideals and the ability to back them up swaying her over time. Basically, she needs to be shown that her own dream is not necessarily correct - and that someone else is strong enough to make their own dream a reality.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: HERE WE GO. So: Garion is going to be leading a team of dark mahou, the sort of people who might not normally join up with an idealistic team of beginners. You know what that means? Binah needs teammates. People who can fight alongside her and under her command; whether they joined because of her forceful personality, her crushing morals and ideals, or because she literally beat the shit out of them to get them to submit. This is done with Claire's permission, just to note!

Depending on what age I end up going with, I'm also fine with people knowing her alter ego as "that scary person in my class/that I've seen around town." I also love previous CR/handwaved CR, so don't hesitate to hit me up on that!!

Anything Else?:

Yamato Hotsuin | Devil Survivor 2

[aretaic]

Player Name: Jess
Contact: raspberrydrink
Introduction: Yo. ;)

Character Name: Yamato Hotsuin
Canon: Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker
About:

- Scion of the Hotsuin family, one of, if not THE richest family in Yumemigaoka. Because of this he has been tutored and private schooled his entire life alongside his twin sister and has no, and I mean NO social skills. Their parents died a few years ago so he's now the family head, even though he's a minor- his guardian is basically just a figurehead, he pretty much runs things.

- Speaking of the Hotsuins, they are also very very involved in the DU, and nasty rumors suggest their fortune came from skeevy use of the Dream Sphere back before the DU was supervising things. This may or may not be true.

- Even so, Yamato takes his position as a Dreamer Very Serious and sees them as the guardians of Japan and that all Dreamers should strive for excellence in all things. He Will judge you if you slack.

- Will be a vet and a mentor. Yes, even though he's only 17

Short Term & Long Term Plans: With a bunch of people becoming Dreamers at once he's going to transfer to Promised Morning to 'observe' the newbies. He's never been in public schooling ever in his life or dealt with people his own age. I want him to gain some appreciation for being a kid and the 'small folk'

Desired CR/AU Castmates: Kids his age to bully him into Friendship. Adults to tell him to stop Adulting so hard. Other Hotsuins (cousins, aunts/uncles, etc.), people who work for him

Anything Else?:

[kitri]

raises hand

An adult to tell him to stop adulting so hard..... well novvy is definitely getting a migraine watching him and thinking about the wasted youth spirit bomb growing in his soul

Misfire | Transformers IDW (2005)

[dullshooter]

Player Name: Jeff
Contact:trepan
Introduction: what's up it's Jerf (she/her, he/him) and I can never think of a good way to introduce myself. I like giant robots and singing furries, also beautiful men who go on bizarre adventures. I work, I study, I'm here for a good time.

Character Name: Misfire
Canon: Transformers (IDW)

About:
- Florida Man (name: Fly Higson) accidentally shoots friend nonlethally. Charges are never pressed, but it gets him the nickname "Misfire" which lasts forever.
- Due to [reasons] he leaves the beautiful US of A and winds up in Yumemigaoka. Some say he was searching to find himself. Many will say he was on the run.
- He awakened as a dreamer pretty soon after arriving and for once had the opportunity to do something productive with his life.
- Joined the DU with nothing better to do, is now an experienced dreamer and eager to onboard new recruits.
- In his free time, however, he contributes to society via gambling, scavenging garbage, and editing wikipedia pages in silly and crude ways.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Short term plans wise, he's just here to have fun. Long term, I wanna get into why he's just here to have fun. Meaning: he's got terrible self esteem and his sense of identity is just a commitment to the bit, and I want him to grow out of that and into a more comfortable and sincere sense of self that ISN'T just Being A Funny Guy.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: As he's an Experienced Dreamer I think it'd be super fun for him to have established teammates, or novices that are taken under his wing (which, like, sorry to them), so!

Anything Else?: He's not a robot but Some Guy.

[kitri]

FELLOW USA EXPAT

wanna bitch about not being able to get your favorite snacks out here together

Novvy Rex / original character

[kitri]

Player Name: zazo
Contact: matchre @ plurk, zazozaliad#4142 at plurk
Introduction: hi I'm that guy you may or may not know that likes final fantasy ix a lot & 2023 is gonna be my YEAR. forgive me a little bit of intermittent signal, many life changes rn

Character Name: Novae "Novvy" Rex aka Dreamer Ballade
Canon: original character from a wip magical girl game project named Star Brides

About:
consider
an adorable, plucky little girl with a distinct theme animal (🐇) and a tumultuous past,
whose struggling single dad in his 30s abruptly awakens as a Dreamer.

Novvy Rex is that guy. A renowned star ballerina... 10+ years out of practice. current hostage of the grind. life irreparably altered when a twist of fate un-buried his dreams of the stage just enough that he made attractive prey to a Nightmare-- and thus sparked into Awakening.

So, hes super new to this, and i wanna play out his awakening as a recent event w dreamers who might be interested! If anything having 8 more hours of the day he can draw paycheck out of is gonna be even more earthshattering than the 'in my dreams, I'm fearless and at the top of my game again' thing. Thenk you Dreamer Union for his life.

Novvy has worked a LONG string of various inglorious entry-level positions until landing the dance instructor job that rattled him Awake. Four years since he came _out to this city and he's went from unworldly display-shelf housewife to jack-of-all-trades.... he'd say he's hashtag #thriving but his high resting heartrate and nicotine dependency do not agree.

As a Dreamer, Novvy tries to keep his two lives in separate boxes, banking on his dramatic differences in the waking vs dreaming worlds letting him stay under the radar and playing very coy with information about his waking self around his fellow Dreamers. This drops the moment he's interacting with the Union, though. No fooling around with the meal ticket.

As Dreamer Ballade, he comes off as very unserious... as Novvy Rex, he's like a pulled taut string.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: oh boy okay
Well for starters I want to live deliciously playing an extremely niche storyline/character concept.... I'm going to rot my own teeth out with sweet parent fluff just doing side content for myself

ANYWAY. I have LOTS of ideas, more than can be reasonably stuffed in here, but a big vibe is getting novvy to come to terms with the life he left behind when he left his husband, and also for him to like. Come to a place of equilibrium. I'm kind of setting his little toy car down just Before the real climbing out of the hole begins.

I plan on taking symbolic inspiration for his arc(s???) from various famous ballets, starting with Don Quixote _{which is the journal name origin!!}

Desired CR/AU Castmates:
I have a post over here w a bunch of spitballing for potential connections, though the Big One of a babysitter-on-call for Novvy's daughter Gratia has been filled. But tl;dr: need a dance teacher? Former coworker? An excited rookie Dreamer who got a super late start?

Anything Else?: SORRY THIS GOT SO LONG--

[whatiswargoodfor]

We have already discussed extensively but I am SO excited for Novvy and these two

jen's characters

[dreamgoeson]

Player Name: Jen
Contact: magentaskies
Introduction: Hello! I'm Jen (she/they), and I have eternal idol and magical girl brainrot. I am utterly incapable of playing characters who can't sing.

[dreamgoeson]

Character Name: Harune Aira
Canon: Pretty Rhythm

About:

- normal girl who grew up in Yumemigaoka; her mom and dad own a bakery.
- started ice skating when she was four. she is still a competitive ice skater.
- woke up to her powers as Dreamer Aurora when she was fourteen (she is now eighteen)
- very active saver type; will jump in and help anyone who needs it

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Aira needs to learn she can't always be the one jumping into help. Learning this will help her grow as a person and keep her steady.
Desired CR/AU Castmates: give me your singers, your idols, your skaters, your performers.

Anything Else?:

andy here with a ricky

[voltrounds]

Player Name: Andrusi with a triangle
Contact: Andrusi without a triangle
Introduction: I'm andy (he/him) and my back hurts. I like transformers and precure and etrian odyssey and occasionally other things

Character Name: Frederica (Ricky) Irving
Canon: Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl

About: So this is Ricky, and like our resident scrunkly Clairacter, she has a bad case of the amnesias. Unlike Ryoko, Ricky moved here from the US not long ago with her dad, who was a researcher studying Dreamers and the Dream Sphere and shit and who had gone and died not long before Ricky misplaced her memories. Thanks a lot, dad. Real helpful. Anyway tl;dr she's going to Promised Morning now because what else is she going to do with herself? She spends a lot of time on the computer to the point that for a while she thought she had a best friend that turned out to just be the "computer name" on her laptop. She also has the distinct feeling there was something really important she needed to do but, amnesia.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: I'm basically just yoloing atm I've had this character in mind for maybe a day and a half total

Desired CR/AU Castmates: So Ricky's not likely to have a lot of existing longterm CR since, backstory, but I'd enjoy having people who've been Concerned About The Girl and possibly have been specifically keeping an eye on her. Also, online friends and enemies!

Anything Else?:

[anoceanofatma]

Amnesia buddies!

Jun's parents didn't so much "die" as they did "Disown him and then he moved to Japan and didn't tell anyone who the fuck he is so now he's stuck in a foreign land with no information on how he got there or who he is". So they're in kind of similar situations.

Phas' Losers

[mutualashuradestruction]

Player Name: Phas
Contact: Phasma
Introduction:

Surge the Tenrec (cw: abuse)

[mutualashuradestruction]

Character Name: Surge the Tenrec | Åshild Starline
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW)

About: Adopted at a young age by Dr. Oliver Starline out of the goodness of his hearAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no, Starline is a piece of shit in all continuities. This overly posh doctor of psychiatry had Theories about Dreamers and Awakening, and he adopted the legally renamed Ashild and Kristoff in order to have a pair of readily available test subjects. Which resulted in a whole lot of pressure to perform, impossibly high standards, and a lot of emotional neglect and gaslighting. We're not going into detail! It's not great, is the point.

The worst part is it kind of worked? All that anger and emotional pain makes for some tasty Nightmare bait at night, an Awakening was narratively inevitable unless someone's massively misunderstood how things work.

The aftermath similarly didn't go well! Lots of explosions, metaphorically and possibly literally. ...She finally snapped and went apeshit on her abuser, is what we're saying. Keeping it vague on the off chance anyone apps in Kit or Starline.

In more everyday terms, Ashild is an insanely competitive jock teenager. A sore loser and a braggart, but with the chops to back it up (usually) and not above playing dirty to try scraping out a win. More than a little delinquent, especially now that she's lacking in parental authority figures and is more or less off the chain.

She has a complicated relationship with being a Dreamer; because on the one hand, That Backstory, and on the other hand, it's free super powers and the chance to Be The Best at beating up monsters, which is objectively one of the coolest things to be The Best at.

She has a consistent second place rank on most of the games in Pegasus Arcade. She doesn't know who the one consistently beating her out for first is, but if she ever finds out it's on sight.

Short Term & Long Term Plans:
Short term, probably a lot of one-sided rivalries or unwilling friendships? Having to learn to be a Team Player, it's going to be rough.

Long term could go a few directions, she could actively improve and maybe get something resembling therapy, she could go more along the lines of canon and decide to rebel against the system and just burn it all down. It'll be pretty heavily dependent on how things go.

Desired CR/AU Castmates:
-Dr. Starline and Kit would be amazing, and I'd be willing to do heavy revision on the AU backstory given everything, that would be a lot to push onto another PC
-Sonic would be amazing? But also it's most on brand if Sonic has no idea who Surge is at the start

Anything Else?:

Sakaguchi Ango | Bungou to Alchemist

[darknesshotpot]

Player Name: Matatabi (they/them)
Contact: matatabibito
Introduction: Heeeeey I'm Matatabi! I've been out of DWRP for years because I only play in AU games, but it's good to be back!

Character Name: Sakaguchi Ango.
Canon: Bungou to Alchemist.

About:
In canon, Ango is a cynical novelist who was one of the founding members of the "decadent" literary movement in post-WWII Japan. He and all of his dead novelist buddies are magically summoned into a dumb gacha game/anime where the spirits of classic literature's most dysfunctional writers are made to fight monsters (when they're not slacking off or arguing with each other). It's basically Fate/Grand Order, but you collect middle-aged amphetamine addicts with arts degrees. Anime was a mistake. Despite his tough guy looks and claims of being "Japan's greatest delinquent," Ango ends up becoming the Team Mom of the crew.

In BD, he's a moderately famous writer who awakens as a novice Dreamer after the death of a close friend. With his personal life in shambles and his rent past due, Ango arrives in Yumemigaoka looking for free food and a place to crash (and maybe even a sense of purpose). He's skeptical of the Dreamer Union, seeing it as an organization that exploits idealistic young people and uses them to deal with society's mental health issues. Ango's Dreamer aesthetic is ninja-inspired and he specializes in close-range physical attacks, so he's armed with a pair of daggers for times when just punching the collective unconscious in the face doesn't get the job done. His special ability is being able to make a surprisingly decent meal out of whatever he finds in the kitchen.

He's been living in Tokyo up until now, but other characters might have heard of him. His short stories have made it into the contemporary literature curriculum, which he finds deeply embarrassing. Anything you have to read in school is trash.

Short Term & Long Term Plans:
Short Term: Since Ango is a chronically unemployed failed adult, his first priority is finding someplace to live (or even just an unlocked supply closet at the Dreamer Union where he can camp until he finds someone to sponge off of). He's a novice Dreamer, so he's going to be figuring out his powers too. Ango is very easygoing, and at first he's not going to take this whole magical anime hero thing seriously at all. Dressing up in a costume and fighting dream monsters is only like the third weirdest thing he's done for money.
Long Term: Ango doesn't make long term plans. Ango is a chaos gremlin who careens from one self-made crisis to the next.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: I'd love for him to hang out with some other jaded oyajis/aunties, or mentor some delinquent teens! He's a terrible influence on the youth.

Anything Else?:

[kninja]

Ninjas, daggers, and an easygoing attitude in inappropriate straits, you say? Sounds like Obi's kind of dude. I saw that Jeff offered for Misfire to offer a couch that doesn't even belong to him; would you like that couch to be Obi's couch? Wanna be sketchy ninja-esque friends?

kaoru sakurayashiki | sk8: the infinity

[noushoka]

Player Name: Rachel
Contact: crescendoll @ plurk
Introduction: hey everyone, I'm Rachel!

Character Name: Kaoru Sakurayashiki
Canon: SK8: The Infinity

About: I'm not 100% settled on anything but I'd probably keep the majority of his backstory intact: a famous calligrapher with an eye for technology and the ability to seamlessly shift between being calm, polite and respectable, and the world's most unlikeable person. The Sakurayashikis have lived in Yumemigaoka for a very, very long time, always working in the arts, and Kaoru carries the weight of his family name and business. More than his canon self, he's given up a lot more to keep it alive, mostly his love of skateboarding and technology/AI and it's a total fucking bummer because it means he doesn't have a whole lot of outlets. It might be interesting if he rejected his role as a Dreamer entirely and had to be dragged back into it by Shenanigans.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Nothing as of yet but I'm Looking Respectfully.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: In terms of dynamics, Kaoru works well with someone to bounce off of, especially if they can give as good as they get because his way of showing affection is usually to be a dick. He also- reluctantly- always ends up falling into parental or mentorlike roles; he's brutally honest with criticism but also patient and willing to put the effort into helping people he cares about. also, he's a know-it-all and it's a good way to show off oop

Basically, if you want a catty bestie, a surrogate mother or your favourite mean teacher, he's your guy. For specific relationships, employees or students at his studio, clients, family friends, acquaintances that he refuses to let become actual friends, the usual. Depends on whether you want Sakurayashiki-sensei, the refined master calligrapher, or Kaoru, the abrasive asshole who secretly can't sleep without a lullaby.

Anything Else?:

[breezyplayboy]

Holds up a little skrunkly who could use a replacement parent

He's an unerringly cheerful guy who loves technology and can absolutely take grumpiness without a flinch. Shu's got rich parents so I could see them sending their son to calligraphy class when he was younger if we need an opening

Jeannette (Jeanne d'Arc) | Symphogear XDU

[darcangel]

Player Name: Mari
Contact: gibberditz
Introduction: high-camp-loving lesbrarian. bad pun connoisseur. currently living in THE JOAN ZONE, see below.

Character Name: Jeanne "Jeannette" d'Arc
Canon: Symphogear XDU ("but mari, i've seen symphogear and i don't remember joan of arc being in it!" "that's because she was only in the mobile game as a side character madly in love with saint-germain; you can read her entire event story, which is basically F/GO Orleans But Make It Explicitly Lesbians, here!" "why thank you, mari! is that why you've spent most of 2023 yelling joan of arc trivia on plurk?" "no comment")

About: Take Joan of Arc - bold, naive, a little sassy, highly religious, but quick to make decisions and selflessly do what she thinks is right. Make her a Pure Anime Girl who Loves Her Hometown and is Always Thinking Of Everyone. Give her an enormous blazing crush on a broody antiheroine who monologues about Revolution but has a soft spot for sweet idealists. There you go.

I'm presuming this world's history had something different happen in the Hundred Years' War so there isn't a historical Joan of Arc....Jeannette is from France and became a Dreamer after her life was saved by a Dreamer she calls ~her angel~. From there I'm torn between whether:

1) her "angel" is the same person it was in canon, but offscreen, or whether a PC should fill this role (see below)
2) she's a novice Dreamer or ready to be a mentor (on the one hand, her motivation is wanting to be her "angel's squire"; on the other, Jeanne d'Arc was a leady and inspiry person, and Jeannette is college-aged)
3) which of the archetypes to make her! I'm leaning towards Saver but she's like the only Jeannime d'Arc whose signature weapon is a sword instead of a flag so I'd like to keep that, and she ALSO historically had a habit of leading the charge even if she wasn't doing most of the hack and slashing......I might decide based on what we need the most to round out the cast.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Jeannette has just moved here from rural France and I'm intending to do a bunch of mirai zura country bumpkin jokes with her as a result. I might have her sign up to be a Dreamer as her job, since she was a professional soldier historically and is the type of person who wants to Help as much as she can. Lots of her plans hinge on whether I get a volunteer for pre-existing "Angel" CR.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: DOES ANYONE WANT TO BE JEANNETTE'S "ANGEL"/LOVE INTEREST? Requirements:

- Would have had a reason to be in rural France 7 years pre-canon
- Be a cool adult mentor-type woman

Beyond that I'm open to developing things based on how they'd go between your character and someone who hero-worships her enough to want to spend her entire life paying your character back. (I personally would love it if Jeannette's feelings were reciprocated but "notice me, Senpai" is wonderful too.) Give me a pitch and maybe we can try some sample threads, see if they click, because you're basically signing up to have Jeannette be over the moon for your lady and I want it to be fun for both of us.

I also think it would be hysterical if we got more anime Joans of Arc and they were all related. Like the extended d'Arc family can't stop naming their girls Jeanne. Half the population of Domremy is girls named Jeanne d'Arc. Fates and Jalters I am LOOKING INTENSELY AT YOU.

Anything Else?:

Symphogear XDU is a game you can play, with graphics.

[kitri]

i activate like a sleeper agent and the entirety of jeanne D'Arc psp floods into my brain. I love jeanimes


Novvy here would probably fit best for cr with her as 'will know each other working together as dreamers' best, he's Also an employed dreamer

Quinn -> Ayako Takeda (OC)

[singmyself]

Player Name: Quinn
Contact: Quinn2win
Introduction: Central US time zone, They/Them or Ze/Zir/Zer pronouns. No preference between Zir and Zer. I like video games, tabletop game design, and OCs.

Character Name: Ayako Takeda
Canon: Original

About: High school third year. A quiet, aloof, kind of unapproachable senpai on the surface. The truth is, she's kind of a delinquent. Not the pompadour-punching kind, she just has very little respect for the rules of society. Knows where her dad's booze stash is, hangs out in off-limits places just because she saw a sign that said "off limits". Plays the guitar. Wants to start a rock band, but is gunshy about it for reasons to be explored later. Can sing, but never does in front of people.

TLDR: People who know Ayako through school and people who know Ayako outside of school will basically be meeting two completely different people.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Ayako will be having a case of the genders, becoming a Dreamer, and possibly putting that rock band together. Beyond that, who knows.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: Let's have some concrete things! Because "anything" never catches my eye.

• People who know Ayako at school, who can later learn what she's really like.
• People who live within the boundaries of polite society, for Ayako to tempt into going outside of those boundaries.
• Other problem children to go jump into rivers and stuff with.
• The big one: AU family. I want a sibling. Surname is negotiable in the name of achieving this. AU family is my favorite kind of AU CR.

Anything Else?: Ayako's PB is from this music video, so I'm also gonna use it as a voice reference. Ayako sounds like that.

Re: Quinn -> Ayako Takeda (OC)

[voltrounds]

Ricky's re-figuring herself out and, by nature of her canon, has some "figure out whether this is edible by eating it"-level decision-making in her so Ayako sounds like exactly the sort of bad influence who would be hilarious

Eric's options

[trickyjedi]

Player Name: Eric
Contact: overbringer
Introduction: Hi I'm Eric (he/him) and I'm here to maybe do a bit of RP with you guys. These days I'm into mainly Warhammer 40,000, Star Wars, and Discworld, with a rotating slot for whatever the new hotness is. Follow me on plurk for rambling about co-op video games, Tabletop RPGs, and original characters.

Obi-Wan Kenobi | Star Wars

[trickyjedi]

Character Name: Obi-Wan Ben Kenobi
Canon: Star Wars

About: Benjamin Kenobi is an English teacher at one of the schools in Yumemigaoka. Probably the high school. He's actually from England and is a huge nerd. Expect to see him regularly in tweed jackets with leather elbow patches, or wearing a bow tie. His Japanese is just fine, but still with a notable accent.

He is also, however, an experienced dream warrior who knows the ins and outs of the dreaming as well as anyone does. He does his best to keep all the newbies safe in an increasingly dangerous world. He 40 years old, which will probably make him one of the Old Farts.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: I don't have a lot. I mainly just want to have him do Jedi Things in dreamland while being a ridiculous nerd in the waking world.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: I DO have some shit I want for Kenobi:

• An apprentice/sidekick/bff to stand in for Anakin
  
• An apprentice/sidekick for his apprentice/sidekick to stand in for Ahsoka
  
• An ex girlfriend (or possibly an ex boyfriend) for him to be kinda awkward around to stand in for Duchess Satine.
  
• A shady motherfucker for him to flirt with to stand in for Asajj Ventress

Anything Else?:

Zeke von Genbu, BRINGER OF CHAOS!

[thezekeinator]

Player Name: Dragon
Contact: ultimaweapon
Introduction: Xenoblade. That's what I do.

Character Name: Zeke von Genbu, BRINGER OF CHAOS!
Canon: Xenoblade Chronicles 2

About: An established member of the DU, Zeke is a dedicated member of the young-Dreamer assistance division. Despite appearing to be an absolute lunatic, Zeke is actually pretty emotionally mature and good at handling life. He holds down a pretty cushy job that helps him provide real-life support, but is even more useful as a source of advice and emotional assistance. Guy's not only good at this magical-girl thing, he's good at making it fun and keeping things from getting too heavy or angsty.

Also he has UNBELIEVABLY bad luck, starting with his Dreamer outfit being very sailor-scouty and going from there.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Support for younger characters who need some guidance and help, whether in real life or the Dream Sphere! Also probably trying to get all you people going down the Dark Magical Girl path to get your acts together and stop doing... all of that.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: I would absolutely love an established partner/handler for him, as a parallel to canon.

Anything Else?:

[egomitochdavar]

Also probably trying to get all you people going down the Dark Magical Girl path to get your acts together and stop doing... all of that.

good luck my guy

Star's Potential Dreamers

[starscall]

Player Name: Star
Contact: Starscall, PM or Starscall#7508
Introduction: Hi, I'm Star. (they/he) I'm a long time Mahou Shoujo fan since far too many years to actually want to count them. lol Other than that I really enjoy fantasy, sci fi, xanxia, and a variety of other genres. I play a lot of video games, listen to a lot of music (especially kpop), and I'm honestly far too easy to enable.

Oh! I'm in the UK, but keep Weird Hours. I'm literally working on this at 3:35 am. Tehe.

Yuuki Asuna | Sword Art Online

[starscall]

Character Name: Yuuki Asuna
Canon: Sword Art Online.
Honestly, one of the reasons Asuna came to mind is because she comes prebaked with alternate designs that can be used for a magical girl persona. Which is... probably silly, but I've grown to really like the idea. (I'm thinking her Blue ALO Undine version would work nicely, complete with wings)

About:

Asuna is just a fairly normal teenage girl who grew up in Yumemigaoka. One of two children, she has an older brother, ultimately before everything she had a pretty normal life, if... slightly more wealthy than the average person. Pre-Dreamer she went to a Private All-Girl's school, but everything changed when she gained her new identity.... which I have yet to name. Dreamer Stacia seems a little.... too on the nose. Dreamer Flash too basic. Dreamer Senko? Dreamer Titania? They're all kinda meh. So consider this a WIP.

Asuna herself is a fairly kind and helpful, the sort who has trouble turning her back on someone in need. In short, she's the sort of person who'd take the duties of a Magical Girl very strongly. It's a Power that bears responsibility and she won't hesitate to do everything she can to save people. She's a proud member of the DU.

Short Term & Long Term Plans:

Being a Magical Girl might not be quite the same as fighting for your life in a Death Game, but I feel like it hits pretty close. She's very openly supportive of the DU and is happy to work as a team to help people. I haven't quite decided if she's a Striker or a Saver, as both actually suit her fairly well.

Long term, she's going to be focused on really developing her abilities and being the Best Dreamer she can be. Because the stronger she gets, the more she can help people and after Awakening that's a very large focus in her life.

Desired CR/AU Castmates:
I feel like a Unit would be really important for her. Which is why I need to figure out her Archetype sooner rather than later. I might lean one way or the other depending on which role needs more members tbh.

Other than that, I'm looking for everything! Old and New friends and classmates. Maybe some enemies or at least people put off by how she's so focused on being a Proper Dreamer and Doing the Right Thing? But really, anything works.

Anything Else?:


I had trouble finding memes go figure.

Wednesday Addams | Netflix's Wednesday

[woenely]

Player Name: Drizz
Contact: PM to journal or lightdrizzel
Introduction: Hello enigmatic beings of the internet, I am drizz (he/they) and I'm a roleplayer! Hence, being here. I'm searching for a new brainrot to infect myself with, and taking a slight break from western animation to bring you a live action, murderous teenager.
Character Name: Wednesday Addams
Canon: Wednesday

About:
- Wednesday's family immigrated to Japan roughly a year ago, and have been very quiet up until several months before now. Only recently has Wednesday started attending the local high school for the school year.
- Their estate in Yumemigaoka is old and secluded (rumors say it's haunted). also the previous owner miiiiiight have been murdered
- Even before moving, Wednesday was afflicted with prophetic dreams, something her mother also has, that foretold Nightmares. Naturally, one came after her.
- Naturally, it lost, but it did lead to Wednesday's Awakening.
- She hates being a Dreamer, but the Nightmares interest her enough that she wants to investigate the truth behind this matter anyway.
- Not fond of this fresh start her family is making, but she'll only complain about it sometimes.
- Speaks formal, almost antiquated Japanese, but does so with perfect diction.

Short Term & Long Term Plans:
Short Term: Dragging Wednesday, kicking and screaming (metaphorically), into the outside world for socialization and enrichment. Despite her intense disinterest in anything other than her own business. Being a new transfer student means she's already an outcast which must be dealt with before anything else.

Long Term: possibly investigating the murder of her distant relative On the long term, investigating the Dream Sphere will be high on Wednesday's priorities. Just as well, I'd love to see her come into her own as a person, and be slightly more open with others. Maybe even allowing herself to be.... slightly caring.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: New classmates! Folk who'll look kindly on outcasts. Bullies. Other freaks to bond with. Part of the draw for Wednesday is that she's kind of an unknown enigma, so I want to play a bit with folk's expectations of her.

Anything Else?:

Re: Wednesday Addams | Netflix's Wednesday

[mutualashuradestruction]

Bully slash fellow freak and outcast?

Lyndon Characters

[sexymoon]

Player Name: Lyndon
Contact: PM one of my journals ooooooor lovebelievesin
Introduction: what up im lyndon (he/him) im in my late 20s and im sleepy all the time but i DO love magical girls! i also love terrible media, which i spend a lot more time than i should thinking about. sometimes i will be normal and then sometimes i will get really into a horrible disney channel original series for weeks. it happens.

Ein Characters

[breezyplayboy]

Player Name: Einir (they/she)
Contact: moxana
Introduction: Hello gamers I am your local friendly giant moth here to be an IRL tired healer and to rub my gay little hands all over shiny things on the internet. I have 5000000 hobbies and do none of them enough but usually I'm playing video games or reading if I'm not at work keeping people alive overnight at the hospital. Current obsessions are 13SAR (thanks claire), bandori, splatoon, metroid, the locked tomb, fire emblem, and persona as always

i am extremely normal about lonely characters who hide the sads by flirting and being big sluts and who desperately seek approval by being who they think everyone around them wants them to be

Shu

[breezyplayboy]

Character Name: Shu Amiguchi
Canon: 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim

About: It is very hard to explain anything about any 13SAR characters without massive spoilers for the game theres your warning but mostly this is about his AU self

x Both his parents work and are Super Rich but not very emotionally available. His mom especially is very distant with both him and his father. They aren't divorced but they probably should be.
x Because they both travel a lot (and his dad wanted privacy for his affairs), his dad bought Shu his own apartment when he started high school, so he's learned to be somewhat self-sufficient. He can take care of his own space at least, even if he still mostly orders takeout rather than cook for himself because he can just afford to do that
x With all that lack of parenting and no siblings, as an extrovert, Shu is constantly seeking social interaction. He welcomes having any of his schoolfriends over to his apartment and happily shares all of his cool rich kid stuff like his game systems, his high end tv and sound system, he will pay for their meals, etc. he is So Bored and So Lonely Always please hang out with him
x He has been a gamer his whole life and is a popular streamer online, doing challenge runs and generally just being so charming people love to watch him and it fills the hole in his heart where parental affirmation should be i mean what
x He's got a pretty face and is naturally really smart so he gets good grades without trying hard, and in middle school he started to get really popular, so he leaned into it. He's casually dated many, many girls but doesn't seem to commit or be serious with any of them. He isn't a mean guy and he doesn't hurt them on purpose, he just doesn't seem to take much of anything seriously

x Possibly also considering maybe his dad used the excuse of Shu awakening to being a Dreamer as a good reason to buy him his own place across the city/in a different city to go to Promise Academy and be involved in DU. handwobbles

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Shu will either be freshly awakened or awaken during the game so I want to play with him discovering all of that and learning his powers! I'm looking forward to playing with his abilities and getting creative. Long term, I want him to develop really meaningful relationships and learn how to really emotionally open up and trust others, in a mundane way and in a magical on-the-battlefield friendship power way.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: Prebaked CR as casual schoolfriends or ex-girlfriends (or even an ex-boyfriend) would be fun!!! I would like to play with him having generally positive relationships with exes, if distant. Like he would help his ex gfs with new bf troubles or by being IT support or just generally being a good guy even if he Wasn't A Good Long Term Boyfriend, but I would also be interested in exploring some negative CR in general.

Shu probably also plays some kind of sport IDK so if someone wants to be a teammate for track or soccer or whatever lmk.

would like an au replacement bff to fit the same sort of bill as the gangbanger with a heart of gold who was Shu's bff in canon. Some kind of gruff/tough guy dude with a strong moral compass that probably isnt the compass society wants him to have. Also probably taught Shu how to throw a punch without breaking his own fingers. That kind of thing.

Anything Else?:

Kaysper Characters

[nevercravetherose]

Player Name: Kaysper
Contact: kaysper and Kaysper#5562 on discord
Introduction: EY. I'm here because I love magical girl stuff, I can talk exhaustively about Sailor Moon if people want me to. Other passions include Persona, Fire Emblem, Tales of, Final Fantasy, etc. I like the vidyagames.

Also overseas in Japan until the 5th/6th, so my time schedule is all kinds of wonky.

Shionne Imeris | Tales of Arise

[nevercravetherose]

Character Name: Shionne Vymer Imeris Daymore (Shortened to just Shionne Imeris, thank you.)
Canon: Tales of Arise

About:
Short version: angry healer tries to take control of her life.

Long version: People around Shionne have a habit of getting hurt. Whether that’s due to her magical girl powers somehow spilling over into the real world at inopportune times, people getting attacked by Nightmares if they get too close to her, or just being associated with a lot of accidents… Either way, folks have learned to keep their distance from her, and treat her as an odd, rumor-rich outcast. And since that keeps people from getting further damaged or herself from hurting, that suits Shionne just fine.
She’s been a magical girl for at least a year now, having awakened fairly early and manifesting a pretty bad curse/ability (read: her Curse of Thorns) along with her power set. As such she’s driven to master her abilities, and the dreamsphere around her. She’s got a very goal oriented attitude, which is a nice contrast to how distant she is at school; not quite delinquent, not quite elite student council/honor roll, but somewhere in between.
Also yes she’s going to be in school, at least the last year of it. Arise gave us school uniform costumes and I appreciate that. If I can put in some sort of Lenegis Sponsorship or something with Shionne’s school life, I might go with that; some sort of elite group interested in the Dreamsphere, and Shionne’s abilities in turn. Yes she bristles under their control quite a bit.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: SHIONNE IS HERE TO KILL NIGHTMARES. Most especially, four or five major elemental themed Nightmares that totally aren’t rethemed Renan Lords; she has a hunch that will help her get a better handle on her powers, which she’s all for. She probably needs to learn how to chip off some of the ice and sharp edges of her personality, and be more open towards people. And maybe figure out what she’s going to do with her life outside of trying to control her situation.
Probably specing her towards Saver.
Beyond that, have her be good at healing people if need be; grumpy as she may be, she still helps people if they need it.
And uh... Maybe have her be infamous as a cook and trying to learn how to cook better? And also eating her own weight at many of the restaurants. Also likely good at the needle and thread, and looking into the newest fashion trends.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: HI IF THERE’S ANY TALES PEOPLE IN HERE FEEL FREE TO HIT ME UP. Alternately, feel free to hear all sorts of weird rumors about Shionne and how she’s bad luck in general, and how people should stay away from her.

Anything Else?:

[waddledee]

Player Name: Lynsey
Contact: beastiiil
Introduction: uhhhh hello, my name is Lynsey (they/she). I am known for my love of all girls, questionable taste in terrible complicated fictional men, and that time I tricked Claire into thinking "lake sharks" were a thing in the lakes around my childhood home of Bumfuck Nowhere Alberta Canada that we were visiting together and kept the ruse going for a whole ass year. My main fandoms are Love Live (pour one out for school idol festival.........), Fate/ and Final Fantasy XIV. Here's an important picture of me.
I'm also the one who designed our transformation devices!


Character Name: Odile Cygnia (will be known mostly as Odile Inuyama for reasons outlined in the about)
Canon: original

About:
So this au does not start with Odile. It starts with their mother: Odette Cygnia.

(Note: all of the following has been extensively discussed with and approved by Claire)

Before the days of the Dreamer Union, Odette came to Yumemigaoka from [ UNCLEAR EUROPEAN COUNTRY ] to study abroad at the age of 12. The second born of a wealthy family, Odette's family life was far from a happy one: constantly berated and abused by everyone but her older sister, she was treated her entire life as "only a spare" and barely even considered worthy of being that much. As such, when Odette had her awakening as Dreamer Swan she dove fully into it, believing that this must be her true calling in life - finally something she could do.

And she seemed to be a perfect fit for it. Odette had the kind of personality you would expect from your usual mahou shoujo lead: optimistic, bubbly, kind to a fault, kind of clumsy and ditzy but always putting her all into everything and refusing to leave anyone behind. Things that her mother would say made her a "useless daughter" were now strengths that let her be a light in the dark for others. She even found love during this time, in your typical sweet shoujo love story.

However, as she got older she and other Dreamers struggled with balancing their waking lives and their lives as Dreamers, and started to wonder what they could do for the future Dreamers. From this, the Dreamer Union would eventually be formed, with Odette as one of its founding members. During the formation of the Union Odette became a very public figure - long disowned by her family for defying their orders to return home, she did not have the family wealth to turn to for helping the Union. As such, she compensated for this by spear heading a lot of the efforts to get the Union the funding and recognition it needed to be operational, using her natural charisma and determination to win government officials and the public over. She became quite famous for this, and for a while was even considered one of the main faces of the Union.

She stayed a mentor for a long time, her high levels of energy letting her keep up with the younger members even as she herself was getting on in the years. She stayed a beloved figure and even a bit of a legend among other Dreamers, and continued doing a lot of charity work in the greater Yumemigaoka community as well, investing a lot of her own money into the place that gave her a real home and earning her even more infamy.

And then suddenly, about 18 years ago, Odette lost all her powers.

She withdrew from the public eye, retired from mentoring, and handed most of her other official Union business off to her husband. Maybe if you're lucky you'll catch a glimpse of her now and then when she stops by for a visit, but for the most part Odette seems perfectly content to leave Dreamer life behind completely - not once did she ever look sad or disappointed, she just stayed her usual upbeat self. No one quite knows why her powers disappeared, as Odette herself certainly never spoke of it beyond that it happened, but there's a few rumors that circle around now and then when people start doing the math.

Because less than a year after they disappeared, Odette's first child was born.

And this is the legacy that Odile Cygnia now walks into.

A 17 year old genderfluid transfemme, Odile has always admired their mother. Having grown up hearing stories about Odette's time as a Dreamer, Odile wanted nothing more than to be one like she was. Though they primarily go by their father's family name Inuyama while living on their own at school, this is merely to avoid too much attention and not out of any shame being Dreamer Swan's child.

Though they physically resemble their mother quite strongly, with the different last name and the drastically different personalities you wouldn't be blamed for not immediately catching on. Where Odette was loud, friendly and bubbly, Odile is quiet, shy and withdrawn. Odette ran at everything full tilt with all the genki energy of your average kids anime protagonist, meanwhile Odile tends to be too cautious. Odette was bold and never afraid to try, but Odile is anxious and lacks self confidence.

It doesn't help that sometimes rumors pop up that maybe... Odile is why Odette lost her powers. As if Odile themselves stole them in the womb. These ideas get to them but more than that Odile has always wondered: did Odette ever regret no longer being a Dreamer? It was something she loved so much after all. And can they truly ever hope of being as great as her now that they have awakened? Despite these worries though they intend to give it their all and do their best to step into her shoes.

tl;dr: Famous Dreamer who was more like your typical mahou shoujo protagonist (Usagi, Sakura, etc.) and a founding member of the Dreamer Union has a child who is now trying to step into the very big shoes she left behind, but is much more timid, anxious and unsure of themselves (in part because of speculative rumors about why their mother lost their powers).

(Also I am undecided on if Odile should also be called Dreamer Swan or go by Dreamer Cygnet. Opinions welcome!)


Short Term & Long Term Plans:
I mean you can probably guess where I want to go from that description but I'd like to go a character arc where they become more confident and overcome their doubts! Yep that's about it.


Desired CR/AU Castmates:
I would absolutely love it if there could be some folks who knew Odile's mother, or just like. Anyone willing to play around with her being this known figure and realizing (or not realizing right away and being surprised later!) that Odile is her kid. Also the high expectations that come with being said kid. I think it'd be fun to play with!
Otherwise I would like friends for my birb pls i don't know i'm bad at these kinds of memes lmao

Anything Else?: uhhhhhhhhhh since I don't have Odile's journal ready yet (hence using my main) have this dumb redraw of a certain face I did of them I did last year on a whim

[breezyplayboy]

crushes odile lovingly in my hands i love them already

consider: shu's rich ass parents who probably businesses or something were some of the patrons that odette recruited to fund the DU. As such, Shu kind of knows her/knows of her, since she's friendly acquaintances of the family or smth

Maybe he and Odile met as wee children when their parents brought them with to a gala or something idk

Asher Possibilities

[kninja]

Player Name: Asher
Contact: asherdashery; Discord: asherdashery#5061
Introduction: He/him, Eastern Time. I'm really... really... really crazy busy right now, on account of (hopefully) graduating rabbinical school this semester and working almost full-time on top of it. But also, I miss RP games. I may not app right away, given the Everything, but this could help solidify ideas for which character(s) I actually wanna bring and also get excited about possible connections. And who knows, I have no self-control, maybe I'll app right away anyway!

Obi | Snow White with the Red Hair

[kninja]

Character Name: Obi
Canon: Snow White with the Red Hair

About:
Who is this shady rando.

The young man calling himself "Obi" tends to pop up unexpectedly, both in the waking world and the Dream Sphere. He's like a friendly stray cat: cute, in a rough and roguish kind of way, but who knows where he's been? When he turns up, Obi reliably makes himself helpful, bringing his unique skills, perspective, and sense of humor to bear on tough situations, but something about him just feels so sketchy.

It's the obvious criminal aura. My god, look at him. He has the scars and pointy eyes and tendency to crouch on narrow ledges and everything, how can he broadcast "illegal anime activities!" more loudly? (Actually--at least these days--Obi mostly works in private security.) He can be found in the wild at restaurants and bars (and sometimes in trees), and occasionally enters martial arts contests, when he has the time.

Dreamer-wise, Obi awakened in the usual way a short while ago, but chose not to go immediately to the DU. Instead, he's been testing his powers and trying out small explorations of the Dream Sphere on his own, because heaven forbid anyone should see him anything less than comfortable with his own capabilities. I figure by the time I app, he'll be confident enough in understanding himself to meet other Dreamers in a more official capacity and will apply to the DU then as a Novice Dreamer.

Short Term & Long Term Plans:
Short-term plans: Obi's gonna join the DU! He's here to crack jokes and Torments' heads. I still have no idea what his powers will be, but he's well-used to combat in the real world, so even if he's a novice, he'll be happy to take more of a frontline role in a party.
Long-term plans: I dunno, Obi runs on vibes and so do I. His arc in SWwtRH is all about learning what it means to stay in one place and be valued by others, so I imagine his development here might take a similar trajectory. Possibly also a role shift over time reflected in his appearance as a Dreamer changing from a more ninja-like look to a knightly one?

Desired CR/AU Castmates:
- I'd totally love for Obi to have history, shady or not, with a couple people. He's been a fighter-for-hire all over the world, annnndddd not all of that would have been on the right side of local laws? But some of it would! So it's possible he was a coworker or even a former foe.
- Drinking buddies, flirting buddies. Fighting buddies! Obi's eminently buddy-shaped.
- Obi could absolutely be someone's bodyguard or even, like... guardian? Someone hired by their actual guardians to look after them, make sure they're fed, fight off kidnappers, whatever. I see all you rich kids.
- There's a chance to meet him when he's doing his ill-advised solo explorations of the Dream Sphere!

Anything Else?: Is it legal for there to be both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Obi in the same game. Is that allowed. Anyway.

[inthemoonlightsshadow]

Player Name: Tyra
Contact: Tyranno
Introduction: My name is Tyra and I'm a big fan of magical girls (particularly Precure), so this game is right up my alley! I have an appreciation for all sorts of characters, so expect my choices to be varied and eclectic. I'm on Central time and live in the Midwest, but am also pretty varied in times I'm around and available to tag.

Scourge the Hedgehog | Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics)

[hog_wild]

Character Name: Scourge the Hedgehog (Canon); Scott Harrison, aka "Dreamer Scourge"
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics)

About: Scott here is a fucking delinquent. Raised by an absent father who was more focused on his overall status as a politician, Scott rebelled by becoming a Holy Terror. When he awakened as a Dreamer, it was used as an excuse to send him to Yumemigaoka for the sake of getting him out of view where he could hurt his father's reputation.

Since arriving, he's chafed under Japanese social norms and started living that delinquent life but in Japan this time. He knows Japanese because he can fucking learn things when he applies himself, but he speaks very arrogantly and doesn't show others respect. Think Bakugou from My Hero Academia, folks.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: I want Scott to basically be trouble, and go down that Dark Magical Warrior track. He'd also be Striker, and be constantly causing trouble in school. Hunting Torments and Nightmares would be a responsibility he slacks off on or pursues to be the best. He basically wants to piss of Daddy, even in Japan, so anything that could take him down that route is great.

Desired CR/AU Castmates:

Fellow delinquents, people who are ready to cause trouble alongside him.

Older folks who are fucking tired of him or actually want to try and help him.

Any negative influences that would try to drag him down the path of evil.

Anyone he could have bullied or treated badly in his time since coming to Japan or beforehand.

Anything Else?: Hogglesnogs.