dressingrooms | 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

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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!

Additional Notes: Anything else you want to put down!

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Player Name: Everett
Character Name: Arcade Gannon
Canon: Fallout: New Vegas

Age: 34
Occupation: Medical researcher
Appearance: Tall blonde guy with glasses, wearing a long white coat that somewhat resembles a lab coat. Voice acted by Zachary Levi.

About:

Arcade Gannon is an American medical researcher coming back from a research conference. He's a bit dry and sarcastic at times, but genuinely compassionate and wants to make the world a better place. He tends to deflect questions about himself and tries to make himself stand out as little as possible.
In his original canon, Arcade's father was part of the Enclave, an organization dedicated to upholding "the old America" and a facsimile of its pre-apocalypse government. You can imagine this organization was pretty bad! It was eventually dissolved by military force and other external threats. Arcade doesn't care for it at all, but is still somewhat fond of the individual people who helped raise him. He tries to keep this aspect of himself a secret, but I'm talking about it OOCly so I can garner some ideas.

In the AU, I'm thinking about making his father a part of a politically influential academic think tank before he died. Arcade was raised by other members of that think tank before they were eventually forced to dissolve by uhhh...I dunno, either crime lords pushing back on them or government intervention??? I'm still mulling on the specific details of this. Maybe they were planning an insurrection or something. Maybe it's more criminal in nature than academic. I don't know! If you have any thoughts I'd be willing to hear 'em.
Because of his familial ties with this organization, Arcade has tried to distance himself from this legacy by diving wholeheartedly into things like medical research and being determined to help other people.

Looking For: Friends, rivals, and enemies alike! Arcade really works best when he's got some friction with other people. He's an idealist who is never really satisfied with the current state of things, always thinking they can be improved. Maybe your character has encountered him in the past through his medical research, or perhaps even been acquainted w/ him as a student. Maybe they even know a little bit about his familial ties...? Most people would have an overall negative impression on the organization his father was a part of. Toss me some ideas and we can chat!!!

Additional Notes:

Edited 2022-11-04 17:07 (UTC)

Linhardt is a part of the 'academia' scene and potentially a fellow rising medical researcher because why not. But he is perhaps one of the most irritating ones, constantly going against the grain, shirking manners or expectations resulting from others, and seeming half-hearted in his appearances with others in the field in discussions. He is very blunt, opinionated, appearing lazy unless interested (falling asleep in the midst of people's conversation so Arcade can observe that too lol), and such.

Rich too, to boot, thanks to his parents.

Also a point of interest for him would be Arcade's ties to that organization. He'd consistently ask about it or poke around into his business bc knowledge is power. Maybe that can be a source of tension/annoyance for them so they end up somewhere between enemies/rivals even if he is not interested wholly in the rival aspect?

OH BOY. arcade would definitely view him as a rich brat who never had to work or care abt actually helping others (even if not necessarily true) so this is tasty as hell. I'm down for that!! maybe they met as students once and arcade was like "I've had enough of this dude" but they kept running into each other over and over again?

Oh my god, hell to the yes, that would be absolutely HILARIOUS

HAHA, EXCELLENT. when they get on the train and spot each other it'll be like this

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE"

ok listen i got it everett. you're right, i don't think they've met before the train, but i can smell the vitriol already. i know artemy's track record with medical researchers so idealistic they border on naive. he HATES them. and artemy would absolutely throttle him for speaking latin too, once again just like a certain someone he cannot stand. but given that arcade's interests are in protecting the common man and not just the wealthy........... well, they could end up as friends after all :)

wait also it's possible they've studied together at some point. Consider

Edited 2022-11-15 18:14 (UTC)

it is possible....what if they each had a bad first impression of the other before coming here. i don't know what that would be but, imagine,

HELP THAT'S SO FUNNY. they're like "hey i heard about you have some kind of shady secret in your past" "yeah and i heard you kill people. so i guess we've both been hearing things, haven't we."

guys who are suspicious about each other....

but i'd be down for them to have overheard these rumors about each other ^_^ make for some fun first interactions

Okay but the ages match... did their residency together/some kind of medical schooling? :eye emoji: If you don't already have it, it could be a rivalry kind of thing, since I was also thinking "attend medical conference" would be why Ozaki was probably on the train.

Oh my god, yes, that would be fantastic. Arcade has a strained relationship w/ Linhardt from his school days, but not a complete rivalry. For Ozaki, I'd be down for a research/medical rivalry!!

I have no idea how it would've started, but we can just...pretend that both of them have forgotten at this point, it's fine. They would probably get along if they weren't so busy taking shots at each other for petty reasons. If you have any other thoughts let me know?

also he would be intrigued by ozaki's research into infectious disease for his own career but god forbid he use something from his RIVAL

I could see some kind of minor competition over funding or internship/residency spots or even just a perceived and biased PoV of "oh that guy again?" But yes, whatever it was was probably so small no one really remembers anymore, I am down for it!!

Seeing each other at events and realizing they're actually fairly similar probably makes it even worse LOL

Perfect, please do this!! pretentious nerd fights over paper citations are a science staple

I can just imagine the back-and-forth research papers. "IN RESPONSE TO 'XYZ PAPER', A LEVELED ANALYSIS"...etc etc etc.

Anyways. The contract is sealed :-)

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