AU Worldbuilding Meme (#2)

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It can be an intimidating process trying to come up with a way to AU your character from their canon into another universe, which is why the AU Worldbuilding Meme is here to help you! Post a comment here to: Brainstorm with others about adapting events into the game universe! Discuss possible impacts of a Pacific Rim setting on your character, and how in-game elements may affect them similarly to in-canon elements. Look over the AU Handbook and coordinate and discuss the impact of various events on the world over the last seven years. Help each other flesh out and build past relationships and history for purposes of this game. Please be respectful within this space, and take the chance to get some excellent brainstorming done together! Please direct AU worldbuilding questions requesting mod response to either the AU Handbook or the P.A.Q./F.A.Q. Thank you!

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[spareheir]

Thorwing out there for any new kids that Kou is from Japan, so it might be possible to do backstory here if anyone is interested.

I also play Yancy Becket, who could easily have run into anyone who had been previously stationed in Alaska!

[observationalhazard]

Hey everyone! I'm apping Hanji in this round and I haven't really defined too any of her relationships yet. The basic rundown of her character is over here. Suffice to say, she's a member of the staff and will end up in K-Science, possibly instructing the cadets on that subject. She was probably up at the Alaska Academy before transferring down to Valparaiso, so odds are she might've encountered some of the current Rangers up there at some point.

She also used to live in the Bay Area (well, until Trespasser bulldozed through it) and attended UC Berkeley, so anyone from that area might possibly know her. Depends on what you want to do! Let me know if you have any ideas or input. Here's hoping I make it in!

[paperbacks]

These two would be best friends. >>; I think they might actually be separated at birth... they kinda even look alike.

At the very least, they'll know of each other, and they've most likely met several times (I'm sure they have like, academic conferences for nerdy people who have bizarre social habits and unhealthy obsessions with kaiju?). Tenpou is a cryptozoologist who's worked with the Chinese and Japanese branches of the PPDC before transferring to Chile, so they'd be colleagues!

[observationalhazard]

Oh man, they kind of do. They probably make jokes about that in the K-Science office. Hanji encourages it.

That'd be awesome! She was up in Alaska, but she's probably met him on business trips or at least talked to him via e-mail or on a ocnference call or met him at a conference or something. Academic slap-fights, go.

But yes, totally colleagues and metaphorical brothers in arms. They can geek out about kaiju together!

[paperbacks]

Aww! That's really rather cute~ Once they start talking about kaiju, they won't stop until days have gone by and they run out of coffee and pass out... And they can terrorize the rest of the Shatterdome together!

[observationalhazard]

At first people were relieved, because it meant neither of them were lecturing other people.

Then they realized they were going to lecture other people together.

[secondtry]

Here are some fun backstory things that people might want to get in with when it comes to Mike!

1: He went to military school from sixth grade through senior year - for those not in the US, that means from age eleven to age eighteen. Trespasser struck while he was in school. So if your character is of the age and went to military school, it's possible they went to the same one.

2: After military school, he went directly to the Academy in Alaska. This is where things get fuzzy. As far as he knows, he graduated but he was unable to find anyone he was drift compatible with. This may or may not be the truth in reality, but in his mind, this is the truth. So anyone who was in the academy around the same time as Yancy and Raleigh Becket might have seen Mike around. Or they might not have. The Academy is a big place.

3: Whatever happened at the Academy, after it was over, he took a few years off and went to Las Vegas where he, for a while, drove in open-wheel car races until that stopped paying the bills. Then he took jobs as as a bouncer, or as security at different night clubs. Anyone from Vegas who might have seen him in passing, let me know.

[expect]

Hello! I just was accepted with Rory here, so I thought I'd pop my head in. The short version of Rory's life is:

• He's spent the last several years (2014 - 2018) in the Philippines, acting a relief worker in a hospital and getting caught up in some shady/unpleasant business as he did. He didn't enjoy this! Anyone else who might've been in the area around this time might have run into him?

• He's not a student at the academy, but a member of medical staff — in other words, he's you guys's school nurse. :| So if your character has any medical issues or gets scraped up, we can definitely have CR from that!

• Otherwise, he's from a tiny village in England about an hour from Gloucester. The odds aren't high that they would have met there, but hey, strangers things have happened!

[reengineered]

Lucy is new so hi!!!

Just a note that she doesn't speak, and unless your character knows ASL, it might be a little difficult to talk to her. It's kind of weird not having a network-based game for her, so I'll see what I can do. I kind of have her writing a lot until possibly anyone takes up learning ASL, so there's that.

Basically she was orphaned by the San Fran attack and the trauma caused her to stop speaking. She's 20, so she's a little older than some of the others, but just as devoted and driven!

She's also a little bit withdrawn occasionally, but completely looks up to her superiors. Yup. It's Complicated.

[keyes]

HEY GUYS, I'm Knight and I'm new here as is Jacob Keyes. I'll just do a quick run down, more detail is over here though not much, at least there's pretty pictures?

> He's from Chicago, went to Cornell though after some time in the Navy, which he went back into until K-Day.

> Joined up waay early on in the program and got assigned to a Mark II Jaeger, took down a kaiju annnd his co-pilot got killed in a car accident (they were partners roughly two-ish years).

> Now he's an Academy instructor! He's been in Alaska until recently (where he was also trained many moons ago).

I'm game for anything really, lay it on me folks!

[charliehotel]

WOW DID YOU FORGET SOMETHING!???

[keyes]

OH OOPS I DID. GJ SELF THIS IS WHY I DON'T DO THIS TYPE OF THING WITHOUT MORE CAFFEINE.

[charliehotel]

ilu the mostest

[charliehotel]

HI IT'S NINI AGAIN!!!! Second character, only this time staff!

-She's basically research staff, having been part of the development of the pons tech and the drivesuits etc. She will be teaching science courses and assisting when the drivesuits come into play.

-She tends to stay in her research areas for as long as she's allowed, and she leaves a trail of half-filled coffee cups in her wake.

-Volunteered to come here because impressionable minds.

-A genius, she has multiple degrees of all kinds and is also an MD.

-She's from New York and taught at Cornell.

-I should probably mention the fact that Catherine here and Jacob Keyes were a thing in the past, but aren't right now. It won't be public knowledge, but I find it hilarious so. There we go. Please enjoy the awkward.

Her app is on her journal, so feel free to read it! Any questions are welcome!