Round 4 AU Workshop

[foundationmods]

In Round 4, all characters will be veteran Agents. That means they have been Agents for at least 6 months, and up to 2 years. This post can be used for sorting out that AU history.

Arrival at the Foundation

Arrival at the Foundation will generally follow this pattern:

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.


Rankings

If a character survives being a D-class agent for long enough, they have the potential to become a C-class agent. C-class agents are generally given better assignments (to Safe SCPs with well-known containment protocols), and often are expected to be the 'leader' for groups of D-class agents.

For this round, your character can potentially be a C-class agent if they meet the following qualifications:

1: They have been at the Foundation for longer than 6 months.

2: They have been generally cooperative with the Foundation.

3: They have a particularly useful skill (mundane or otherwise) or a useful power.

If they don't fit those requirements, go with D-class to be on the safe side.


AU personality

Depending on the length of time they have been at the Foundation, a character's personality may be somewhat different from how they are in canon. This is to be expected, given the kind of work the Foundation does. However, characters should still be recognizable as themselves, and all changes in personality need to be explained on your app.

Any AU history or personality changes that are not listed on your app will not be considered canon for this game!


TL;DR -

- Characters will be agents of the Foundation.
- They can be there for anywhere from 'six months' to 'two years'.
- 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

[georgeous]

CHARACTER: George Ace
CANON: Tsuritama
AGE: mid-30s
TIME IN FOUNDATION: full 2 years
AGENT RANK: C-class agent (as of 11 months ago)

AU BACKSTORY (rough):
Initially George thought he was abducted by aliens and did not agree with the intake interview, netting him about a week in an isolation cell. Then, he changed gears and decided that his best way to get out of here would be through gaining more freedom by cooperating.

In his early agent days, George was more openly disdainful of the organization, though he never disobeyed orders (in any way that got caught). Eventually, he stopped publicly expressing disagreement and worked his way up the Foundation career ladder. Having been the head of an anti-alien organization (and its military) in his homeworld, George is perfectly qualified for agent work and has basically done this career path before.

That's very plain, which is why I'd LOVE to add other characters in to spice it up.

PERSONALITY OVERVIEW:
George is an eccentric personality. His first description in the novelized version of Tsuritama is that he's a person who's "age, ethnicity and gender" appear unclear at a glance. He always wears perfect make-up and he always has sunglasses and a turban on.

Coworkers would know him as someone who is authoritative and competent as a leader. He's confident and a little condescending, but when it comes down to it, he takes his work seriously. He's a workaholic. His priority is always the safe-keeping of civilians, so D-class agents might have come to death under his leadership after he's ranked up. Generally, he avoids needless casualties though.

People who met him really shortly after arrival might have witnessed public displays of loathing for the Foundation, but in recent times he's acted as a perfect Foundation-loyal man to the public.

He's initially wary of any people who are non-human.

DESIRED AU CR: Coworkers in C-class, people who worked under him before, allies, ex-dates (????). GIMME STUFF. George is fairly emotionally secluded and I don't want to AU him too far away from that so all friendships would occupy this more-than-coworkers-less-than-friends sphere.

[iblistriggered]

how can you be wary of this face

[georgeous]

With determination and a strong bias towards ducks! No other animal is as cute!

[iblistriggered]

!!!

well!!!





hes right ducks are very cute

[bimyfriends]

Does. Does having telekinesis make you no longer human or.

[georgeous]

No, telekinesis is totally fine. This is more about species at baseline! In his homeworld he protects Earth from aliens, so he's very HUMAN SAFETY FIRST; EVERYONE ELSE SECOND.

[bimyfriends]

HONESTLY BACK WHEN TELEKINESIS FIRST BECAME A THING PEOPLE CONSIDERED THOSE FOLKS DEMONS SO /HOLLOW LAUGHTER

But good, because Saki also considers herself human, thank you very much. What kind of missions does he tend to run do you think?

[oceanicbutterfly]

So he's probably ordered Cure Aqua around before and she probably has respect for his priorities

[georgeous]

Yeah, probably! The magical girl thing is such a headscratcher for him, because on the one hand he hates leaving things to teens, but on the other hand.... teens strong and the aesthetic is good.

[oceanicbutterfly]

pff, what's gonna happen? is she gonna die? been there done that

[mastersdefender]

Co-workers in C-Class sounds like it could be manageable.

Aqua is pretty friendly enough, so she'd be able to be pretty talkative while practical all on her own, so I imagine that could help.

[georgeous]

George is definitely up for chattiness between coworker and he's pleasant enough towards people of the same rank, so they might have had some casual talks after missions, yeah!

[houndumb]

Oh my god he's from Tsuritama that completely explains the bright-ass colors and the zaniness, bless. I still haven't finished watching that fish anime. BUT OKAY like /waves this non-human in the air for CR?? LOL Nora is probably one of the less cooperative D-Classes in that he'll grouch about the Foundation all day long because he's very much hardheaded and likes doing things his own way regardless of the wisdom of it. That being said he usually completes his missions despite complaining so there's that.

George will probably creep him out, though, lol and he has a nose for condescension and all that stuff. It's debatable whether he'll react by just being suspicious of him all the time or wanting to prove himself, though, it could go either way unless George himself wants to tip the balance to make doge more useful to him. :')

Basically it probably won't be super-friendly CR but it might be an entertaining working relationship of some kind. ☆

[georgeous]

OH DEAR............. George is definitely not fond of Nora on principle. Giant dog transformation? Ugh. Having an attitude? Double ugh.

While George can acknowledge that the sheer power level is useful, it's completely obvious how much he looks down on Nora.

Which obviously means they should have done a bunch of missions together already, for added tension / tension diffusion by virtue of getting used to it.

[houndumb]

Hahaha it's truly going to be oil and water, time to deal with the hissy and dubious furry, George!! 8)) And yeah Nora is just going to have his hackles raised around him all the time, he doesn't even get tired of this so it's literally just going to be MAX SIDE EYETRON 3000 and their missions are going to be completely ridiculous.

I think earlier missions would probably be a mess because Nora still tends to get distracted easily and start prioritizing infighting over actually doing stuff, but he is capable of like. Actually getting stuff done eventually providing things balance out pffft. I need to go look at SCPs/think of other stuff they might have worked on but. \o/

[odasaku]

as a fellow c-class agent, oda will not be a fan of him sending d-class agents to their deaths!!! wow!!!! :V

[georgeous]

Look, it's only when it can't be avoided / is very hard to avoid! Which sadly is quite a few times, given the Foundation being what it is.....

George will argue very strongly that he's doing what it takes to keep the world safe, though... if Oda pressed it for an extended amount of time, he might have gotten a small glimpse of real remorse.

Also: which type of Curry does Oda like.... Japanese, Indian, British.... THIS IS OF IMPERATIVE IMPORTANCE.

[odasaku]

i mean...oda won't press about it, he'll just throw himself into the fray instead! as self-sacrifice!

also the answer to that is: as long as the curry is spicy, he'll like it.

[arraignments]

>Eventually, he stopped publicly expressing disagreement and worked his way up the Foundation career ladder

Lmao I'm crying at how similar the AU backstory sounds to this guy's... Because that's exactly how Goro did it - starting out disagreeable and clearly not a fan, but then "well, okay, if I'm gonna be here......"

Hi5 on being a workaholic who acts as the Perfect C-class Agent. :'>

Goro's got a habit of protecting people according to how he ranks their importance/value, and he always works to keep civilians safe first, so... JFC, if they ever worked together, it was probably scary how in-sync they were, assuming they... get along??? Which, for the most part, Goro will do his best to at least get along with fellow C-class agents/higher ranking folks.

[georgeous]

Oh my god, their MO really is scarily similar.... I'm impressed, haha.

I think they'd get along pretty well. George greatly values people with skill and a sense for strategy, so!!

When they met, George was probably skeptical due to Goro's age (and it might have been notable), but after they cooperated, he'd think positively of him.

[arraignments]

The skepticism was probably noticed, namely since he's still kinda used to seeing that sorta thing, but he'd do his best to shrug it off. To at least pretend it doesn't bother him, at all, laughs

I'm thinking they'd get along, too, even with Goro's attempts at keeping some emotional distance and just. Not Genuinely Care about anyone.

He probably couldn't help growing fond of someone who genuinely values him, even if it's starting out that way because of the skill and strategizing - hello there, weakness! He sure does love you being hit!!

[merirut]

George!!! I'm glad to see him around again and i look forward to a repeat of unlimited duck works (somehow)

okay, but in regards to actual CR, i'd be up for Sandalphon having had worked together with him before although i imagine it would have been... extremely hit or miss considering Sandy won't always follow certain orders laughs. he also doesn't take that well to people talking down to him so obviously this will be a very productive working relationship!

[georgeous]

I was denied regaining a living duck from the gacha, so we're off to a terrible start. But don't fear, I'll do everything I can to obtain ducks anyway.

Having been raised Christian, George feels SO WEIRD about Sandalphon's arch-angel status. The part in him that goes 'non-human=bad' and the part that goes 'huh, divine??' are at war, though the former is winning.

This at least gets Sandalphon a bit more respectful talking though! What kind of orders would Sandalphon refuse?

[visionem]

lunaaaaaaaaaaa.

okay im laughing but. alcor is visibly non-human (what is walking, floating is superior?) and if he got paired up with george on a mission he would require a not so little amount of babysitting. he was actually helpful when it mattered and hes ridiculously strong (the mission prolly ended really shortly after Alcor decided to act for real), but initially he prolly just peanut gallery'd the whole thing and/or got distracted by something in the environment.

he would not care at all that george was c class and he was d!

[georgeous]

Oh my god, Alcor, why. George would have been so irritated with this attitude. Uncooperative agents are the worst but overpowered uncooperative agents are a step above! So as soon as they meet on site, George is just internally groaning not that guy again!!

Alcor probably got a minor mission pay cut for his attitude, though only minor because............ well. He did get the job done after and that's all the superiors truly care about.