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dressingrooms2022-10-22 12:55 am
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Disorient Express AU Brainstorming
Welcome, dear players, to Grief Street! You've joined us for tonight's episode, The Disorient Express, a murder mystery aboard a train with secrets and inter-character drama galore.
Given the nature of the game and application, we've provided a collaborative space for you to brainstorm with your fellow players about your AU'd characters. This is where you'll be able to figure out who they are, what they're doing here, and also what relationships they might have to other characters on the train. Relationships can be as simple as "Character A and Character B are gossip buddies", or as spicy as "Character A is having an affair with Character B and is plotting to help kill their spouse". Have fun with it!
Remember to be respectful of each other's ideas! If you have any questions or want to talk about something you want to keep secret, feel free to reach out at
Player Name: That's you!
Character Name: You can also add their AU name here, if you're changing their name.
Canon: If they have one, that is.
Age: How old is your character?
Occupation: Describe what they do for a living!
Appearance: A brief visual description of your character, if you're changing the way they look/dress/etc.
About: Write a few sentences about your character's AU. This doesn't have to be finalized in the slightest, but it'll help give people an idea of what your character's vibes are! It can be in paragraph or bullet point form--whatever gets the point across.
Looking For: What sort of established relationships are you looking for? Family, friends, enemies, rivals, etc? You may also want to discuss are potential relationship hooks (occupation, country of origin, habits, etc) to help others collaborate with you. You're also encouraged to integrate other player characters into your own character's secrets!
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Character Name: Kotoko Iwanaga
Canon: In/Spectre
Age: 20
Occupation: heiress, university student
Appearance: A tiny <5' doll of a lady who favors fluffy dresses and berets. She carries a cane, although she doesn't seem to need it for any purpose beyond poking people. She's well aware that she generally looks young and she's a little sore about it.
About:
What I've got currently: Kotoko is the only child of a very wealthy family who do some manner of nebulous Business internationally. While not completely oblivious to where her money comes from—and with a passion for gossip and an all-purpose nosiness that keeps her abreast of various Business World goings-on—Kotoko's own interests are a little bit more eccentric. She has a love of the occult and all things strange and inexplicable. More consumingly, she has a love of being in love. Kotoko fell hard and one-sidedly for Kuro Sakuragawa, disregarding the fact that he was already romantically entangled, and came to study at his university to get a little closer to her target. She's currently a student of literature and focuses on mystery and detective fiction, particularly the kind that touches on the supernatural. She's bubbly, brash, and frequently off-puttingly blunt; depending on the context, she comes across as somewhere between cutesy and calculating, and probably like she needs to be scruffed by the back of the neck for the good of everyone around her.
What I'm still fiddling with: what to do with the blatantly supernatural parts of Kotoko's backstory/setting. In canon she was abducted by yokai at age 11 and gained the ability to talk to spirits as a result. That's not a factor here, and I'm leaning towards cutting it entirely to not make her setup unnecessarily complicated. But if someone wants to build off of this I'm open to ideas.
Looking For: Literally everything! Some possible hooks here:
Additional Notes: Pour one out for the time period scuppering Kotoko's most deeply-held dream bc thermochromic paint wasn't invented until the 70s
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since lindy's a medical researcher in this au he can be slotted into the 'science type academics' who publish. or, well, he is on his way to doing EXACTLY that because lmfao he has lazy bitch disease and is taking his time, though he's probably at least published some articles??
he receives the annoying correspondence and goes like 'have you considered elaborating or otherwise leaving me be' and that is where it all starts...
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WELP. CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'RE PENPALS NOW. Kotoko will, unfortunately, elaborate. Lindy's likely to have a novel-length pile of "theories" in response, lovingly well-researched. If he's unwise enough to answer more than once, she will be so happy to throw together a new theory every time he shoots one down. This is her form of enrichment.
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anyways i don't have anything else to add but i'm very excited to see her in the game <3 for the supernatural parts of her backstory, i'm tempted to suggest that maybe she had a REAL(tm) GHOST ENCOUNTER (NOT CLICKBAIT) when she was young and has been trying to kind of recreate that ever since (to little success). not that it has much of a big impact on the game but it's fun to think about!
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also hello yes I LOVE THIS and I'm going to run with it! Kotoko meeting one ghost and proceeding to make it everyone else's problem for the rest of eternity is absolutely the most her-energy thing possible.