Disorient Express AU Brainstorming

[thedirectors]

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 wolfnoir or on Discord at wolfnoir#4990.

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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!

<b>Player Name:</b> That's you! <b>Character Name:</b> You can also add their AU name here, if you're changing their name. <b>Canon:</b> If they have one, that is. <b>Age:</b> How old is your character? <b>Occupation:</b> Describe what they do for a living! <b>Appearance:</b> A brief visual description of your character, if you're changing the way they look/dress/etc. <b>About:</b> 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. <b>Looking For:</b> 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. <b>Additional Notes:</b> Anything else you want to put down!

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[vorakh]

Player Name: Haylen
Character Name: Artemy Burakh
Canon: Pathologic

Age: 27
Occupation: Surgeon(?)
Appearance: A 6'3" bear of a man dressed in muted, earthy tones and sensible boots. He has dirty blond hair, sharp eyes, and angular features. Were he less of an overwhelming presence, one might expect him to blend easily into a crowd.

About:

• A gruff, enigmatic man with a thick Russian accent claiming to be a surgeon. In truth, Artemy is something more akin to a medical student, and one who is travelling abroad from his small village to receive a proper degree and license to practice medicine. His sentences are either too blunt or too verbose and cryptic, he wields a scalpel more like a murderer than a surgeon, and he loves children and animals.


• Seeing as how his own canon is set within a similar time frame, I'll actually be changing very little about his background to fit the AU! Pathologic is ostensibly set in the late 1910s to early 1920s in a rural Russian town, wherein Artemy is one of a small handful of doctors trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly disease.


• As far as the AU goes, instead of returning to his hometown on a train as is the game's opening sequence, instead his itinerary has him travelling far, far away from it. He has no issue discussing the town, its customs, or his upbringing, although he speaks very little about the outbreak.


• Artemy is a workaholic who averages probably 4 hours of sleep a night. He has absolutely no filter whatsoever on anything he says, meaning he will say things that are blunt, outright rude, or complete nonsense. He refuses to spend any money he absolutely does not have to -- so he's the guy to go to if you need a hole in your socks patched up. He can often seem numb to the horrors of life, responding to them with deadpan snark or indifference.


• But don't let his harsh exterior fool you, Artemy is a deeply caring and loving person, with gentle hands and a soft heart. Near everything he does is out of selflessness, believing that good comes from sacrifice and that people must look out for one another.

Looking For: Everything!!! Go wild!! I will say that most people are likely to at the very least dislike him -- babygirl he is so strange and off-putting. But if you'd like to get along with him, he enjoys learning about medical and scientific research but can also talk your ear off about folk medicine. He's also a good cook, a solid drinking buddy, and he's got pretty good bedside manner if you happen to have sought him out as a doctor (WHY???? HE ISN'T ONE BTW). But also I'm open to ideas :3c

Additional Notes:

[stimpaks]

idk if these guys would know each other in any capacity before the train but the idea of them interacting is so.

[vorakh]

if i had a nickel for every blond, freakishly tall, almost-doctor with a shady history on this train i'd have 2 nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that there's two of them

[whodie]

Medical and funeral industries are two sides of the same coin! In a way. At least, they're very closely related, so Hu Tao is always interested in those with a medical background -- given the relatively close ties between the Soviet Union and China at the time in addition to the closeness of the industry I wonder if rumors would have filtered through somewhere...

Either way strange and off-putting folks unite, Hu Tao is definitely more bright-eyed and social but death industry staff sure are taboo where she comes from, so I think it'd be a fun blend of CR. :D

[vorakh]

omg i completely agree!! artemy also has a habit of adopting/looking after kids and teenagers, and not to mention the caretaker of his hometown's cemetery is also an extremely strange and off-putting teenage girl, LMFAO. they're drawn to him like moths to a flame, much to his bewilderment, so she and artemy would have some really fun cr!! :3cc

she can totally have heard rumours of him, if you'd like!! urban legends of some butcher of the steppe....... spooky!

[whodie]

Can't believe he just can't get away from creepy girls related to the death industry, LOL, I love it. ☆ She'll be so excited to meet the man, the mystery, the legend. :D