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!
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 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.
Player Name: Lynsey Contact: merlyns in the game discord! Introduction: sup it's Lynsey again who only just apped back into the game this past cycle with Ageha and now Claire's enabling me to follow the idea that hasn't left my mind for weeks so lmao
Character Name: Orthrus (Akira Inuyama in this AU) Canon: original
About: In his original universe Orthrus is a demi god alien kaiju who wakes up from a depression nap only to stumble into becoming a full time wife guy and dad. Here, we skip to the wife guy and dad part and his name is Akira. That is to say he is specifically the wife guy of retired dreamer/founding member/former face of the DU itself Odette Cygnia a.k.a. Dreamer Swan. (Which also makes him the father of my previous character, Odile!)
To get more into it: Akira was Odette’s childhood friend and eventual high school sweetheart when she first became Dreamer Swan. Unbeknownst to most people, including his own children, Akira was also a dreamer as a child: Dreamer Raven. (This was in my original app for Odile but I just never got around to doing anything with it) He had fallen victim to a particularly nasty and powerful nightmare, but Odette put herself through hell trying to save him and eventually he was able to awaken as a Dreamer during the experience. That said, Akira's time as a dreamer was always sort of intrinsically entwined with his own trauma (the attack happened to him after some pretty bad bullying reached its peak) so it didn't quite do for him what it did for Odette and come high school he ended up giving it up so he could focus on school and his future. Despite that though he always stayed at Odette's side supporting her outside of the Dreamsphere and was part of her motivation for helping to establish the DU. As such, he has ultimately had a pretty big involvement in it, from its early days and even to now.
Currently he teaches at Promised Morning Academy and is at the DU on occasion mostly in relation to that or doing something on Odette's behalf. His powers as a Dreamer didn't technically go away after he gave it up but he's only returned to the Dreamsphere once: to mentor Ai at Odette's request. They seem pretty much gone now though... or at least he hasn't tried using them even though he's anxious as hell about his oldest kid awakening as one--
Short Term & Long Term Plans: If it's not clear, Akira is here to be a mundane! I don't really have any exact plans besides playing in the space that this AU affords. He's already had a full and meaningful character arc in his youth, he can be the one to help others with theirs.
Desired CR/AU Castmates: So as teacher the big one here is STUDENTS!! In my head his main fields are probably home economics and music, though I have also considered swapping out one of those for something like history and let the other be something related to a club he's an advisor for or something idk. On that note, getting pulled into being a club advisor would be fun as well I think. His general attitude as a teacher is to dad the hell out of anyone who needs it so if that's something you need I am here for it. Also ofc cr with fellow DU folks, especially anyone who's been with the organization for a while. I also can't decide if it's better to have his Dreamer past be completely unknown to everyone or like. The BIGGEST open secret. Like he thinks no one else knows but in truth almost everyone knows (especially anyone who put two and two together and realized Odette couldn't have possibly trained Ai in the Dreamsphere because her powers were already gone by then lmao) and they just don't bring it up to humor him.
Anything Else?: Finally I can explain why I've just always had this specific sketch on hand lmao
He'd be way faster to get attached if you end up going with history teacher but any authority figure who is 1) not an asshole and 2) gets that awakening as a Dreamer after some real bad bullying trauma (Pete's old school had a very 80s high school movie hierarchy and he got it Real Bad for years) is a lot to process would get him attached real quick
Him being a teacher tied somehow into Home Ec is killing me, if only because Jade would be a high schooler who'd absolutely have to take that subject - she grew up mostly alone on an island with her dog, someone teach her things that aren't just straight-up wilderness survival. What is a checkbook, what do you mean by 'balance', balance it on what,,
Honestly what’s killing ME is that despite all the bird theming in this AU, in his OU his true form as Orthrus is… actually a dog. A giant two headed kaiju dog BUT. STILL A DOG KFJSHSNS. I feel like I need this cr to happen just for that alone honestly
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Contact: merlyns in the game discord!
Introduction: sup it's Lynsey again who only just apped back into the game this past cycle with Ageha and now Claire's enabling me to follow the idea that hasn't left my mind for weeks so lmao
Character Name: Orthrus (Akira Inuyama in this AU)
Canon: original
About:
In his original universe Orthrus is a demi god alien kaiju who wakes up from a depression nap only to stumble into becoming a full time wife guy and dad. Here, we skip to the wife guy and dad part and his name is Akira. That is to say he is specifically the wife guy of retired dreamer/founding member/former face of the DU itself Odette Cygnia a.k.a. Dreamer Swan. (Which also makes him the father of my previous character, Odile!)
To get more into it: Akira was Odette’s childhood friend and eventual high school sweetheart when she first became Dreamer Swan. Unbeknownst to most people, including his own children, Akira was also a dreamer as a child: Dreamer Raven. (This was in my original app for Odile but I just never got around to doing anything with it) He had fallen victim to a particularly nasty and powerful nightmare, but Odette put herself through hell trying to save him and eventually he was able to awaken as a Dreamer during the experience. That said, Akira's time as a dreamer was always sort of intrinsically entwined with his own trauma (the attack happened to him after some pretty bad bullying reached its peak) so it didn't quite do for him what it did for Odette and come high school he ended up giving it up so he could focus on school and his future. Despite that though he always stayed at Odette's side supporting her outside of the Dreamsphere and was part of her motivation for helping to establish the DU. As such, he has ultimately had a pretty big involvement in it, from its early days and even to now.
Currently he teaches at Promised Morning Academy and is at the DU on occasion mostly in relation to that or doing something on Odette's behalf. His powers as a Dreamer didn't technically go away after he gave it up but he's only returned to the Dreamsphere once: to mentor Ai at Odette's request. They seem pretty much gone now though... or at least he hasn't tried using them even though he's anxious as hell about his oldest kid awakening as one--
Short Term & Long Term Plans:
If it's not clear, Akira is here to be a mundane! I don't really have any exact plans besides playing in the space that this AU affords. He's already had a full and meaningful character arc in his youth, he can be the one to help others with theirs.
Desired CR/AU Castmates:
So as teacher the big one here is STUDENTS!! In my head his main fields are probably home economics and music, though I have also considered swapping out one of those for something like history and let the other be something related to a club he's an advisor for or something idk. On that note, getting pulled into being a club advisor would be fun as well I think. His general attitude as a teacher is to dad the hell out of anyone who needs it so if that's something you need I am here for it.
Also ofc cr with fellow DU folks, especially anyone who's been with the organization for a while. I also can't decide if it's better to have his Dreamer past be completely unknown to everyone or like. The BIGGEST open secret. Like he thinks no one else knows but in truth almost everyone knows (especially anyone who put two and two together and realized Odette couldn't have possibly trained Ai in the Dreamsphere because her powers were already gone by then lmao) and they just don't bring it up to humor him.
Anything Else?:
Finally I can explain why I've just always had this specific sketch on hand lmao
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hi, lynsey, hi, guess who's planning on bringing an academic overachiever who is
new-ish and lonelythe type of nerd who befriends his teachers?no subject
My arms. They are open wide. I am here for this
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Honestly what’s killing ME is that despite all the bird theming in this AU, in his OU his true form as Orthrus is… actually a dog. A giant two headed kaiju dog BUT. STILL A DOG KFJSHSNS. I feel like I need this cr to happen just for that alone honestly
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Dog?
DOG!!
omg that's great, yeee let the dogfolk meet each other... XD
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