R3 - Foundation AU plotting post

[foundationmods]

Welcome! If you're here, then that means you're ready to make your AU history for your character.

For Round 3, all characters entering the game will be agents of the Foundation. This means that they must have either willingly joined the Foundation, or they were coerced into joining. The exact motivation is up to you, but the end result will be the same: they will be a D-class agent for the Foundation.

The process goes something like this:

1: Your character won't remember exactly how they were removed from their world. As far as they know, their memories just 'cut off' abruptly at whatever canon point you choose for them. They will have the feeling that there is a gap in there somewhere, but they won't be aware of how long it is or what happened during that time. Their first memory after this gap will always be the same: waking up naked in a cold room with a large, strange machine nearby. Regardless of what they were wearing before, they will now be wearing an orange jumpsuit.

2: Shortly after awakening, they will be taken from the room with the strange machine and brought to what looks like an interrogation room. In there, they will have their intake interview. The interview will vary based on how your character responds to being questioned, but in the end they will either agree to be an agent or end up being subdued and locked away in a cell until they agree to cooperate. Here are some examples of the intake interview: (1), (2), (3).

3: After the intake interview, characters will be taken away for training. This will vary based on what your character already knows, but by the end of it they will be proficient in the following: technology use (on par with 2019, as well as the use of Foundation-specific tech), reading and writing (in English, which all characters are suddenly able to speak), firearm use, containment protocol basics, and testing/training in using their powers. This process could last as little as a couple days (long enough to test out of all the training) to a few months (for people who know none of that and need to learn everything).

4: After their training is done, characters will start being assigned on missions. Characters will generally be assigned to tasks that fit their talents, but you can expect any mission they are sent on as D-class agents to be very dangerous. Casualties will be common. If you want, you can have your character be injured on a mission, but they will need to be fully healed by the time Round 3 starts. There are healers working for the Foundation, so you can say the damage was healed away.

For Round 3, steps 1 and 2 are mandatory! Your character must get through at least the intake interview. However, you may have them working for the Foundation for up to six months, which is enough time to get through training and take a couple missions. Any length of time between 'just finished the interview' to 'six months as an agent' are acceptable for Round 3. The other requirement is that they cannot permanently die during their time with the Foundation prior to the start of Round 3. Temporary death is possible, since there are plenty of ghost-power-people within the Foundation who will shove souls back into bodies, but if someone dies and a ghost-catcher isn't right there then they are dead for good, and they can't be apped to Round 3.



TL;DR -

- Characters will be agents of the Foundation.
- They can be there for anywhere from 'finished the interview' to 'six months'.
- You must write up a summary of their AU history.
- You must also explain how this AU history has affected their personality.
- Time matters! Someone who only did the intake interview will be pretty much the same as they are in canon. Someone who has been with the Foundation for a few months will have Seen Some Shit, and their personality will probably have changed a bit.


As a final note, you must seek permission from other players before you may use their character in your character's AU history! If you want to have your character trained by Atsushi, for example, then you must ask Atsushi's player for permission, and we will seek confirmation from that player. Apps that fail this step will be automatically rejected!

So go ahead and get planning!

Comments

questions

[foundationmods]

If you have any questions for the mods, please ask them here!

[excavated]

Quick question to clarify: if we choose to go with bringing the character straight from the intake interview in our applications, should we detail how the interview went? If it doesn't change how their personality is, would we still have to write how they acted?

Re: questions

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen is a magical girl, and as a result her abilities (and consequently her likely assignments with the Foundation) are highly dependent on whether she was able to get back a specific item of hers after her intake interview. Would that have been possible?

[clearumbrella]

A really silly question but would Clear wake up with a mask on to hide his shame plus the orange jumpsuit or just the jumpsuit?

[incrediblystressedout]

I've noticed people mention firearms training, combat missions, etc. I don't see it mentioned anywhere, and I understand hilarious levels of danger and expendability are par for the course with SCP, but how much aggressive combat would be required for the Foundation's import-hires?

I'm mainly concerned with the firearms since one of Joey's central character quirks is a categorical refusal to even pick up a gun, even one that shoots Nerf darts, but I'm also wondering if they're looking for investigators and containment specialists who don't require particular weapon skills. She's not a total pacifist (otherwise I wouldn't app her to a murdergame), but I'm wondering how far they'll expect her to go other than being an expendable investigator.

CURRENT PLAYERS

[foundationmods]

If you played in round 1 or 2 and want to volunteer your character(s) for use in someone else's AU history, comment here and leave a way for the Round 3 players to contact you!

Alex!

[enter_the_darkness]

TALK AT ME ABOUT HOW VANITAS AND YOUR CHARACTER MET! I can be reached at NaCl#4218 on Discord or skiesonfire at plurk. ♥

Vanitas' history stuff is here and here!

[swordhandled]

Owain here participated in Round 2! If you wanna use him, feel free to hit me up here, on Discord (wolf#7836) or on plurk (lycanroc)!

I ACTUALLY DON'T HAVE HIS HISTORY WRITTEN but basically it's "Chuuni nerd who chuunis all the time and then went to a murderresort and ended up being adopted by an asshole"

Re: CURRENT PLAYERS

[justfists]

Makoto is available for plotting as well! LMK if you want her in your backstory. Hit me up on disco at raina#6340

[kagamiimagak]

If anyone wants to plan for that I'm open though.

Edit.

Okay Kagami's going to be entirely unfazed by all of this. She's only been here a few months but training was easy enough. Some might have noticed her taking apart the weapons they're given to train with or asking more about how they work.

On missions, she's just as carefree even when she shouldn't be. She's another magical girl who fights via summoning a gunblade.

She's not going to go into much detail with it, but she's pretty open about having traveled a lot. Also that she is very definitely 18, even if she seems to have spent too much time traveling for that to be right. Amyone pressing on that will just get a comment that she's been 18 for awhile.

[literalidiotball]

Just putting this out in the open, but you said she was gonna make bad literature jokes at Wheatley and tell him stuff that was half true. Are we still going with this? Do we need to flesh things out?

[mastodonut]

Anyone that's been around for any amount of time has probably at least heard about this reckless idiot pulling crazy stupid stunts that tend to work but also cause as much property damage as possible.

He's probably finished training, gone on one mission, and then had to go through some retraining because in the moment he's not so good at things like "protocol".

Wheatley | Portal 2

[literalidiotball]

Alright, here's what I have so far:

Wheatley was pretty much used to big facilities that regularly kill people for science, so his intake interview was short and sweet. "Oh, you're going to have me work here? Sure. Beats being in space."

Part of his training involved getting an engineer/technician/inventor to build him a body for his little round core to hook up to so he can go on missions and such. Can we get some people who can robot in here?

Another part of his training is the... Uh... Actually using the body phase. Nevermind that he was practically built to be an idiot, he's not used to having arms and legs at this point and needs training so he doesn't fall all over himself like he did in the TDM. He won't like talking about this moment in his robot life.

The rest of his training entails writing, containment protocol basics, and firearm use. Like I said, he is not used to having arms, but the writing part only took like a week or two... Sadly, he really needs to work on his aim.

Wheatley becomes so renown for his idiocy that they made a list of things he is not supposed to do. If you guys have any suggestions for this list, LMK.

In his free time, he messes with the Portal 2 level editor (yes, he found his own canon) and regularly submits half-baked test chambers to the Steam Workshop.

I'm on the fence on actually sending him on a mission or taking him from right after training is complete, but I'm thinking he must have been with the foundation for around two or three months.

[mastodonut]

Hey Wheatley this dumb ranger is used to a weird robot bossing him around... he might hang around and try to make friends because he reminds Zack of Alpha 5.

[kiddatheart]

Ryuji is pretty new to the Foundation. He took an extra long time during training (ENGLISH IS HARD ALRIGHT) and has only been on one mission before the start of Round 3.

[kagamiimagak]

Volunteering Kagami to help teach him questionable English. She will entirely give him a phase that's super cutesy, then tell him it's an insult.

Sherlock Holmes (Ruler) | Fate/Grand Order

[improbablenotimpossible]

Here's a rough break down:

* Sherlock would've been around for quite awhile between 5-6 months. He goes by his class 'Ruler'.

* He quickly agreed to join, mainly out of a sense of obligation to make things better. Training didn't take much time between him already possessing most of the requisite skills and being a Servant allowed him to quickly catch up on technology.

* Generally his duties are split recon: flushing out stray SCPs to capture, or retrieving escapees. Sometimes he's sent out as an internal investigator for troublemakers. So it is possible some people have worked with him or have been questioned.

* Holmes believes the foundation is horrendously incompetent and unnecessarily inhumane, but keeps it to himself while he's puzzling out how to improve the foundation on both counts. While still openly eccentric, he's been learning to hide and scheme more.

[mastodonut]

Would he potentially have to investigate what went down in a failed retrieval mission that also involved a lot of property damage?

Please let him have to question Zack about blowing all his protocols to save a teammate.

Gebura | Lobotomy Corporation

[aleph_armed]

Let's imitate the rough break down for Sherlock Holmes and get the key points through:

-She's been here for roughly six months.

-Wound up agreeing to join pretty quickly, once she found out that she's basically going to be working for Lobotomy Corporation but with a lower body count (somehow)

-Her duties tend towards combat stuff, which makes sense considering that she has a wide variety of weapons that can even hurt SCPs that would normally be immune to physical damage. Still, she's probably lost limbs a couple times. (It's fine, they were repaired and reattached, possibly by rats.)

-The Foundation probably has a small armory consisting entirely of weapons and armor pulled from Gebura's body. While the stuff inside is generally classed as "safe", the section place is locked up with unusually high security due to the fact that many of the equipment have compulsion, tactile, and infohazard properties. Which is to say, they will mess you up if someone not appropriate were to touch them.

-Off-duty, she mostly spends her time training or training other people, sometimes bringing some of her weapons out of her armory to help teach new people "muscle memory", exploiting the fact that EGO weapons cause the wielder to instinctively understand the best way to use it as long as they're holding it. If anyone wants weird EGO weapon related incidents, just tell me. (Psst, there's a weapon that looks like an ordinary gun that gives the wielder a compulsion to shave their head, if someone wants to inadvertently try it because it's the only gun that doesn't look like a toy, we can have a noodle incident.)

-She's actually a lot... calmer than she is in canon? It turns out that when people aren't dying horribly in front of her every day with her unable to do anything, she chills out a bit.

-As a result, she's... actually okay with the Foundation? Yes, the casualty levels could be improved, but it's still way better than what she had in canon, and she can actually help change that by giving people outside her division proper fighting training? Sure they don't treat us like humans, but that's not any different from Lobotomy either.

-She'll still call everyone weak and insist on using Lobotomy Corporation classifications, though. After several months she has finally accepted that Object Classification is fine with the Lobotomy classifications mixed in, but she's probably annoyed quite a few people by talking about "Safe Zayins", "Euclid Waws", and "Keter Alephs".

[literalidiotball]

Wheatley doesn't have hair. Would he be able to use that gun that makes you wanna shave your head? Even though he probably can't aim?

Takumi Aiba | Digimon Story

[goldenmaniac]

Takumi has been an agent for probably 5 months or so! He asked a lot of questions during his intake and was probably obnoxious but honestly joined up pretty easily: stopping giant monsters from destroying the world is pretty on point for him.

- He's been on a few missions, and probably has some sort of anti-escape device to keep him from using his Connect Jump powers outside of sanctioned times.

- He also might have been 'loaned' to Agents on a flash drive or cellphone or other electronic device to be used as a hacking program or to Jump into electric SCPs to subdue them.

- Either way he is very friendly and probably tried to befriend any agent he's worked with.

- He may or may not be in the running for thaumiel training due to his power set, though he def needs some training on being less empathetic and more willing to do a kill instead of bringing everyone back alive always.

Re: Takumi Aiba | Digimon Story

[literalidiotball]

I'm just imagining Wheatley being used as a vehicle for Takumi...

But hey, I think they get along quite well otherwise.

Sakura Matou | Fate/stay night

[respring]

- Has probably been an agent for 3-ish months, so she's not freaking out at everything around her but is still a little skittish

- Would have had to go through heavy-ass technology training because while she is not quite as bad as Rin she still is a magus and therefore hilariously inept with anything more complicated than working a tv remote.

- I'm still deciding on her canonpoint, which will change things a bit, but her abilities are basically "summon skyscraper-sized shadow monsters" and "suck spirits beings into a void and kill them" so she probably gets sent on almost entirely containment missions.

- She's very nice and polite to anyone she meets though there's definitely a sinister feeling to her if one sees her work in the field :') she's a little too used to brutally killing monsters

[fullbodied]

I would love to have Ann have met Sakura, and possibly healed her on the battlefield?

Shadow the Hedgehog | Sonic Games / IDW Comics

[chaoscontrol]

Shadow, three feet of pure surly fuck-you, showed up at the Foundation about three months ago. After a short period of noncompliance (mostly because they took his inhibitor rings and wouldn’t give them back at first), Shadow decided to cooperate. The Foundation is incredibly similar to the military unit he works for back home, “G.U.N.” which is ostensibly like the CIA or FBI, so the transition is fairly easy. He’s also used to being treated more like a weapon or an object than a person, which makes the change all the more easy. The Foundation’s goals align with his own — to protect the people of earth. It all works out.

Shadow blitzed through basic training like a champ, showing impressive knowledge of both firearm use, technology, and use of motor vehicles (despite his short stature). Shadow himself assisted the researchers from 6350 in the workings of his inhibitor rings, and while on Foundation property they are by default set to dampen 100% of his power. There was some sort of containment breach during which Shadow’s time-slowing powers were incredibly helpful, and he now has permission to release up to 20% of his power (which is approximately the canon level) when needed.

Shadow came in with his air shoes and the green Chaos Emerald — both are kept in separate containment when he is not on a mission; the shoes in a secure locker and the emerald in a thick, lead box.

SO. HOW COULD YOUR CHARACTER KNOW SHEDO THE EDGE?

Well.

• He mostly keeps to himself. In public areas he is very quiet and frequently has a book, a phone/iPad, or a newspaper.

• He may have been roped into firearm and vehicle training with newbs, much to his chagrin. He is not a patient teacher.

• He has been on several dangerous missions where his time control powers have proven very helpful.

• He is surprisingly chill about the whole thing, but doesn’t suffer idiots — including Foundation staff. This lands him in isolated containment on occasion.

• He does not have a mono-eye, thanks much.

[aleph_armed]

...These two probably met on a dangerous mission or two, and now Gebura occasionally wants to spar with him. We need to keep our skills up to do our jobs right, after all!

...She can also help deal with some of the firearm newbs, though uh. She is definitely a drill sergeant type. Sorry Shadow, you might actually end up being considered the "Good Cop" for firearms training.

Karen Minazuki | Yes! Precure 5

[oceanicbutterfly]

Karen's been around for... let's say two months? In that time she's taken to her training very well--she can shoot with the best of them, she knows her way around all the Foundation tech anyone has let her look at, and most impressively of all, she submits very well-written reports. Seriously, she probably has a reputation as a person you can go to if you just can't ever remember how to format experiment log entries or whatever. She's not really friends with most people, relatively closed-off overall, but she's generally friendly. Unless you really irritate her, in which case you'll definitely know that's how she feels.

Cure Aqua, on the other hand, has quickly established herself as a heavy hitter (yes, another one). She's entirely too strong, it's very difficult to injure her, and she has powerful water magic. She's apparently nice, but it's hard to be sure because she's rarely seen when she's not on a mission. The fact that she and Karen are the same person isn't a secret, exactly, but most people don't put two and two together unless either they're specifically told or they see her transform, even if they really should recognize her face and/or voice. Such is the way of the magical girl. Don't worry about it too much, it's not the weirdest thing to happen around here.

[aleph_armed]

Oh hey! Want some negative CR? What we have here is a fighty robot who dislikes magical girls and probably constantly ends up being sent over to you because she just refuses to file the paperwork correctly. I'm sorry Karen, you'll probably have to listen to Gebura complain about Cure Aqua busting in on her job while you're stuck supervising her write-ups to make sure she actually uses Foundation terminology.

...Even though she's been here like four months longer than you...

Yeah, absolutely don't put up with her garbage, she'll appreciate it.

Natsuno Yuuki | Shiki

[sotoshini]

- Natsuno has been an agent for about a month. He needed proper firearms training and to be caught up to technology (oh the 90's), but that didn't take too long. His training was probably about a week and a half.

- He sticks to himself, but he'll speak back if spoken to. Introduces himself as Yuuki only, though if anyone sees his file/overhears they'll know his first name is Natsuno. He hates being called that, and would correct anyone who tries to use his first name.

- Appearances wise, he definitely fits the "overly broody teenager" archetype, though his fashion choices (distinct vibrant patterns, fluffy coats), make him stick out.

- He's probably been scathingly blunt at one point or another to SCP staff (and everyone really), though he doesn't put up a real fight besides.

- Around the base you can see him at all times of the day... does he ever sleep? Largely reading books and the occasional fashion magazine, or hanging out in high places such as ceiling beams etc.

- Speaking of human needs, he doesn't eat much either and seems completely disinterested in food.

- He's been on several missions with Riku, so anyone who's familiar with him, Natsuno would acknowledge pretty easily. During missions he uses firearms, but he's resorted to melee at times as well.

...that's about all, I am completely new to SCP so if I am leaving out anything lmk!

[keydomhearts]

Hey LB! Riku is his best friend, so they probably know each other/of each other.

Kira Nerys | Star Trek Deep Space Nine

[kiranerysds9]

Kira Nerys is as green as they come, at least when it comes to the SCP Foundation. She got through her intake interview and that is about it. She does have hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, security, diplomacy, command, and leadership experience. She is a Bajoran, which is a humanoid. She has no powers, at all. I am good with characters who know Star Trek. You can leave a comment here if you want to talk about developing a CR with her.

[byanyother_name]

He hasn't gotten to DS9 yet but Kurama kind of loves Star Trek. He already knew TOS from his original time (or at least a version of it) and he's working his way through NextGen currently.

emi kino | concrete revolutio

[youkaiwatch]

- Agent for just under six months, but not close to many people despite being here for a while. Probably has a generally positive reputation though some might find her a little cold.

- She's a half-youkai, and would be notably warmer toward non-humans for the most part.

- Doesn't usually get too involved in direct combat, but may employ the help of some friendlier SCPs that she gets along with. More often involved in negotiations and infiltration.

- When not out in the field, she helps out in the labs -- she was a scientist's assistant for most of her life before coming to the Foundation.

- She's around 30, so probably not hanging out with kids too much outside of a professional setting. She smokes and drinks but does it elegantly.

[keydomhearts]

SHE IS CUTE OMG. And sorry I have a kid but he would be useful in a fight \o/

Sora | Kingdom Hearts (KH3 Spoilers Light)

[keydomhearts]

Sora has been an agent for close to six months. He was probably upset when he first arrived, but would eventually go along and sign up to be an agent if it means helping those in need.

Outwardly, he will be largely the same as he always been. He believes in others, draws strength from the friends he remembers and all the ones he met in this world.

Inwardly, his doubts have increased and he's not really okay, but he's hanging in there thanks to the promise of a better tomorrow for here and all worlds eventually.

It helps that he might be throwing his all into the belief that they are doing the right thing. They are protecting this world and taking out things that should be taken out. Or locked down.

He likely plugs his ears or doesn't think about all the ugly of the Foundation. If the agent that trained him knows he's like this, they may have encouraged he's doing the right thing.

I don't know if I make any sense

He probably is on some kind anti-depressants because he honestly needed them from things from his own canon and now dealing with all of this.

He probably helps with containment and taking out SCPs.

[enter_the_darkness]

laughtrack.wav

How's he liking that this guy is MIA? They probably have been around one another in those rare times he pops in to sneakily hang out with folks

Late to the party here

[byanyother_name]

Kurama has been an agent for a little over four months. He was only in training for about a week, mostly catching him up to current technology because another 90s boy.

They decided he was caught up enough after he patched into the base's PA speakers and started a loop play of 'What Does The Fox Say'. Introducing Kurama to the modern internet was a terrible idea.

He's a more than competent agent, though, between his fighting skills and his tactical capabilities. He even does his paperwork correctly and on time!

There is a note in his file that he isn't to be sent for plant-based SCPs. His powers make him uniquely suited for them, yes, but he would want to keep them.

He's not happy with his situation. He's far from blind to the ugly side of the Foundation and while he cooperates because many SCPs are legitimate large scale threats, he despises their methods and the entire concept of 'D-class'. When it comes to SCPs that are both sentient and not a threat, there's a building anger to him that might be a problem someday.

Which would be part of why he conveniently failed to bring Vanitas in when he ran into him on a mission. Oops. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ He had to prioritize his original mission objectives~

He spends his down time catching up on the twenty years of video games and pop culture he missed, and honestly he's become nearly symbiotic with his smartphone. He might be pretty and charming but he's also a huge nerd.

[youkaiwatch]

greetings, fellow kitsune

[anonnomnomnom]

SLAMS IN INCREDIBLY LATE HELLO

Anon here is a shapeshifting demon! He's friendly and deeply curious and LOVES TO FIGHT please fight him. He will fight you and your small dog too. :D :DD

• Has been at the SCP... let's say 1 month: Interview done and in processing
• Probably still mostly in containment because they have no clue what to do with this dude, he's way too capricious and crazy powerful to just let loose
• Maybe been on 1 or 2 test missions, he's swallowed some shit by this point and probably at least done some fighting or sparring
• Already fairly infamous for his Kirby powers: Can take on the appearance, identity (enough to fool most detection) and powers of anyone or anything he swallows

He probably doesn't know anyone super well yet since he's still mostly locked away, but if you'd like your character to have been used as power testing bait at some point (NOTE: This means he's going to swallow them whole and steal their identity for as long as they're dormant in his stomach hammerspace, after which he can regurgitate them unharmed), just hit me up! He also welcomes sparring partners. He needs to be exercised regularly, kind of like a large and very fluffy dog.