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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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?:

[whatiswargoodfor]

it would be hysterical if she was miyao's judo coach and thereby the sole adult in his life that he feels like he can rely on

[spielhaus]

god. judo club adviser + teacher. Digging it.

[whatiswargoodfor]

Miyao thinks of her as an inspiration and someone he can trust because she's one of the few people that doesn't buy into the escalating bullshit martial arts school rivalry stuff that's endangering his friendships and stressing him out

but really that's because misato just doesn't give enough of a crap about any of this to care

[kitri]

how many exes do you have floating around the yumemigaoka Dreamer scene, misato, and do you want one more

[spielhaus]

many and yes

[darknesshotpot]

Messy exes? How about an unemployed hoarder with substance abuse issues and survivor's guilt? oh my god they'd be a disaster couple...

[spielhaus]

what about "current bad decision made by both of them."

[trickyjedi]

Collecting all the other adults to see what they think of this weird british nerd in their midst.

[spielhaus]

"Seems like a nice guy" probably.

[kninja]

Bar friends?

...Bar friends with occasional benefits?

Either way, Obi's an easy, low-key kind of acquaintance to have, and won't judge her for being dark or jaded. Most people he knows (outside of this Dreamer thing) are! (Most people he knows are felons.)

[saynotobugs]

screwed-up twentysomethings gotta stick together and occasionally bicker about stupid stuff

[spielhaus]

hell yeah fellow screwed up twenty-something

Re: Misato Katsuragi | Neon Genesis Evangelion

[hyperlinking]

Hi, I saw that you like revenge. This kid also likes revenge. Wanna know a fucked up kid on a revenge quest and possibly inadvertently push him into being even more fucked up? Cause of revenge.

I put up a thing talking about it here if you'd like to take a look. Either way, always cool to see Misato running around.

[thezekeinator]

Between this and her TDM thread, I had the idea of Zeke doing his best to keep her in the loop on Dreamer and even Union stuff (I gather she isn't too in on the latter?) as a general goal of "it's better if we're all looking out for the kids even if our own ideologies differ".

Which is on a much quieter level also him trying to keep her from wrecking any of the kids or herself for that matter, since despite being an idiot to all appearances Zeke is a little more on the ball than people think. So maybe she could do with a slightly positive influence in her life?

[spielhaus]

She teaches at the Academy so she's kind of... officially in on the Union stuff even if privately she isn't 100% on board with all of it.

She does absolutely need some kind of positive influence, though.

[lonelyrollingstar]

Okay so as a huge Eva fan it’s so exciting seeing someone playing Misato in the wild!! Doubly so for a game like this! Would she be in the market for a shy and lonely scrawny little brunette teenager with tremendous daddy issues? I hear she’s pretty good* with those /finger guns

*Is she, though??

[spielhaus]

YES. I love Eva and Misato in particular. She's such a messy millenial so I kinda HAVE to relate to her.

Also yes she would love* some teenagers to mentor in a very good and healthy way**!

*sort of
**fuck up

[platinumdreamer]

If Misato is a teacher, maybe she could know Cynthia thanks to her working with the school system through her job as director of Yumemigaoka Aquarium? They could be friends, and maybe drinking partners (I don't wanna presume too much in other areas, ha ha).

[spielhaus]

Oh, definitely. Misato needs people to be friends with for sure.

Hikari Kagura » Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight

[fatedstage]

Character Name: Hikari Kagura
Canon: Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight

About: A would-be actress recently graduated from a notable academy centered on theater, song, and dance. Has been a Dreamer for a while, and struggled in her mid-teens with feeling as if she had lost her passion/dreams. Now revitalized and back better than ever.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: None yet, I am simply vibing/considering this character and don't have anything concrete.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: Classmates, fellow creative types, others who have had their Faith in Friendship renewed recently.

Anything Else?:

[pritarist]

Why has no one said hi to Hikari yet? Tragic.

Anyway here's a performing arts kouhai, though she's more in the strictly-music scene.

[fatedstage]

TRAGIC!!!

Also yes give her performing arts kouhais. She might even be doing teaching or something to help make ends meet while she tries to land an acting gig.

Makoto Amanaka | OC

[illrested]

Character Name: Makoto Amanaka
Canon: Native OC

About: Native of Yumemigaoka, born and raised. Never had much to do with the Dreamers until he was Awoken recnetly at the end of middle school, which has flipped his life upside down He really doesn't like what this possibly means for his life and is struggling to fit in at the Academy and to slide into this new life. His parents wanted the best for him and pulled him out of the normal high school he was supposed to attend with his middle school friends, so he feels very lost and adrift.

He's also super embarrassed because his form in the Dream Sphere is a very feminine girl and he is definitely not a girl in the real world. He's goin' through some stuff right now and trying to work out what it all means.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: Long term, Makoto is on the road to figuring out he's a trans girl (and I plan to switch pronouns then, but at the moment since he IDs as a guy, he'll use he/him). In the meantime I'd love to find him some classmates or new friends or someone to help him settle into the whole Dreamer thing since he's literally only been doing it a couple months.

Desired CR/AU Castmates: I'd love to find him some classmates or new friends or someone to help him settle into the whole Dreamer thing since he's literally only been doing it a couple months. He had a rep in middle school as a delinquent because he got into a lot of fights (white knight syndrome) and that might carry over to his new school. He's very fond of music and even makes and posts some on the internet, so someone who knows of them from there might be fun!