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

[dereban]

Hi guys! Len here with Himeko Inaba who was in a past round (R2) - and I'm gunning for her in R4 as well! In terms of her AU, Inaba's a D-class agent who does a lot of paperwork/documentation and technology stuff as necessary for backup and sometimes goes on missions primarily dealing with safe SCPs since she can't exactly do a lot of combat oriented stuff, so she isn't on the front lines a lot.

She's been here for a while (since September 2018!) and picks up things pretty quickly, so for the first two months she did go on relatively simple missions that dealt with safe SCPs (i.e 'ones you can easily categorize and put in boxes') for the most part except for any mandatory missions that she was sent on. Although since she's pretty much a normal person, she wasn't sent alone, so. If anybody wants to have gone on a mission with her for those first two months, feel free to hit me up! She probably wouldn't have spoken much to anyone and try to distance herself and acts cold to everyone. Talking is only necessary when she has to because she doesn't want to get close to them.

People who have vaguely met her - either on a mission or just seen her in general on the Canada site - would have noticed that she was gone from late November to January for R2, and then started floating between the R1 and the R2 site and started collecting merch on her little cubicle/desk... I'm sorry, she's like this.

Also, others who would have noticed her can mistake her for a non-6350 agent given that she looks pretty normal in comparison to the others which I think is pretty hilarious!!

I should also bring up that if anyone met her pre-R2 they will have noticed a very huge personality shift post-R2 as she seems a little happier now, like a huge weight has gone off her shoulders and generally seems more relaxed but is also tense quite a bit. She tries to act generally the same towards those who weren't in the past rounds, but others might notice her actually chatting up the past rounders a little more than she normally would prior.

Also: anyone who is bringing in a duplicate of a character that was in R2 - I'd rather not have any pre-game CR with them until the game proper (or TDM, if any of y'all are TDMing proper) for awkwardness purposes, laughs.

Anyway, other than that I'm pretty open to a lot, so come at me! Either here or at my plurk at endlesseight.

[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.

SCP Agent Vanitas

[darkremnants]

Name:Vanitas
Canon: Kingdom Hearts
Age:??? 18+

Ideas: I'm still working things out.

Aiming for the max amount of time in the Foundation (a couple of years).

I'm thinking of making him Class C Agent.

He's not friendly, but he's not going to go out of his way to bully people unless they are interesting enough to him.

On missions, he won't go out of his way to protect anyone, unless they are certain people. He'll let people die, especially if they do something dumb. Originally, he probably egged people on to do dumb things/die, but over time he doesn't (unless they super deserve it).

Hit me up if you want to work on missions together or pass him by (maybe mistake him for Bani).

[iblistriggered]

HEY Y'ALL. ITS YA GIRL FISH, purveyor of hedgehogs and hedgehog accessories and also Szayel. My pick for this round is Silver the Hedgehog, coming off the games this time because I want to include Team Sonic Racing ok ok. For those of you who don't know. Silver is a 14 year old telekinetic hedgehog and is basically the future trunks of the Sonic world -- a kid from a ruined future who frequently goes back in time to change things and is probably just making lots and lots of offshoot timelines instead, who knows. NOT SILVER, that's for sure! He means well, even if the time stream is begging him for mercy.

- Silver has been with the Foundation for a year, working primarily out of Site 1 in Michigan, but a few months ago (about a week prior to the start of R2) was transferred to Site 2 in Canada.
- He’s been very cooperative! After all, the Foundation wants to help people, right? However, his lack of commitment to killing means he remains a D-class.
- Despite that, he’s been sent on many missions, especially those concerning psychic phenomena and powerful creatures, where his psychokinetic powers shine.
- He is also sent after rogue agents — and may have killed a few. But he doesn’t remember. He is usually so upset after being ordered to kill that he has to be given amnestics to make him functional again.
- They keep using him though because he’s a very effective weapon :’) And since he’s not human, he’s considered even LESS than many of the other 6350s. YAY.
- Despite having seen a LOT OF SHIT, he retains his cheer… but it has dulled somewhat, leading to moments of despair and hopelessness.
- Due to his powers, Silver is very resistant to magical and psychic mind-altering effects… but drugs have a more potent effect on him. The Foundation has been experimenting with a drug that causes him to enter a berserk or fugue-like state. While under the effects of the drug, he is very susceptible to suggestion and following orders. However, the longer the drug effects last, the more uncontrollable he becomes. For now, a dose with an active time of an hour is considered safe.
- While not on missions, he wears a small headband that inhibits his powers, though due to his cooperative and friendly nature, it is usually turned off.
- In his spare time, Silver loves to garden. There are some outdoor gardens in Michigan that were once tended by him, and there’s a room in Site 2 with gro-lights installed where he maintains an indoor vegetable and flower garden.
- He makes friends with just about everyone.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Hello this is Eski with James Moriarty, who was in the last round for a bit and in this round as an actual player even though he doesn't fit the time qualifications due to [PLOT DETAILS]. He's definitely the new kid on the block and just a normal D-class agent, officially considered a 'control' for whatever they're planning by everyone's favorite creepy clown scientist, Mayuri, who is absolutely the reason he's even there in the first place.

It's fine!!

ANYWAY, Moriarty has definitely been around a LOT even in the small time he's been there (since May of this year!), and had pretty much hopped from site to site doing things like finding / hunting down SCP's, identifying rogue agents / maaaaaybe executing one or two and putting his fingers in all the pies. He's pretty good at it too, and most likely characters have either been chatted up by him in passing (he's a very friendly seeming british gentleman, after all) or potentially been on assignment with him as a more 'senior' agent to supervise.

I'm absolutely more open to anything though, so feel free to hit me up here or on my plurk, eskiwen!

[georgeous]

ESKI I WANT PROPER CR FOR ONCE ;;

George is also British, that's like... a bonding element, probably, maybe. They probably ran past one another and had a conversation or two at the least?

[iblistriggered]

adopt a hedgehog

[iblistriggered]

how can you be wary of this face

[hatesdeerstalkers]

FOR ONCE YES, George seems like the exact kind of person Moriarty would be like 'HM, YES, GET IN MY POCKET IMMEDIATELY' because this fucker is trying to set up his secret web of contacts and lists and basically run the Foundation in secret, because of course he is.

Definitely a convo or two, probably know each other's names, Moriarty being a charming victorian gentleman who has a habit of getting loud sometimes and seeming like a harmless old man, but his eyes just seem to catch a little too much and be a little too piercing.

Saki Watanabe | From The New World

[bimyfriends]

Name: Saki Watanabe
Age: Canonically 26, now 27
Time in foundation: A little over 1 year.
Agent Rank: C-class

Canonically from approximately 1000 years in the future, Japan. All people over the age of 12 in her society have psychokinesis, which they refer to as "cantus," and live fairly simple, rural lives - albeit aided by much of the past's knowledge of animal husbandry and then some, thanks to being able to manipulate genetics with cantus. Her society is in truth a rather darker, Big Brother Is Watching sort, and she's run into her fair share of troubles uncovering the secrets behind the curtain so to speak from a young age. By now however, she's settled in her place in society as a researcher in the health division, waiting for the day when she can claim a spot in a position of power and enact some real change.

AU:
✦ Arrived in May 2018, took about a month to learn everything properly, mainly the reading, writing, and technology. This means she started taking on missions in June 2018.
✦ She's been available for a variety of missions:
✧ Lab work, in which she can function as a researcher as well as use her cantus to transport items that cannot be touched, or otherwise perform tests utilizing it (by applying heat, pressure, etc.) She is not permitted to test anything that is human or resembles a human too closely, such as a realistic hologram or a realistic android.
✧ Containment missions, in which she can use her cantus to help trap, capture, or even neutralize SCPs. Once again, she is not permitted to contain anything that is human or resembles a human too closely, such as a realistic hologram or a realistic android.
✦ Probably promoted fairly recently to C-class? The fact that she isn't useful for missions involving humans put her behind, but she's still a good worker otherwise. She now works mainly in the labs and is less hands on unless her cantus is needed (or convenient for her to use). I'll nail down a specific time later.
✦ Site TBD.

Outside of missions, she can be found in break rooms enjoying tea or reading. She doesn't mind spending time with others, and will drink socially, though she never drinks too much and tends to excuse herself earlier in the evening. If she's known someone long enough to get past the point of only exchanging polite courtesies, she will probably vent about missions, but never in a way that directly puts down the Foundation; she will complain that she is tired, or that the mission was gross, but never say anything that implies the mission itself was a horrible idea. If introduced to texting, she probably writes like someone who is not familiar enough with internetisms to be too casual, but still uses emojis to spice up her messages. Someone please get her into texting, I'm begging you.

She looked into the beginning of her canon just enough to unlock some of her previously sealed memories, but hasn't looked past her "canon point." She refuses to look into others' canons to try to learn about them because quite frankly she thinks it's creepy and invasive, and will explain if asked that she would much rather meet face to face and get to know people that way. Please let me know if your character would have researched her, since they'd know a few things she's explicitly refraining from discussing!

AU CHANGES/ADDITIONS

[bimyfriends]

Please don't reply to this comment, this is just for me to add/change things!

IMPORTANT ADDITIONS:

-She is based in Site 1 (Michigan), but sometimes travels to other sites to transfer SCPs with her cantus or otherwise complete missions.

-During her first month or so past training, she was probably very touchy-feely in the sense that she'd often casually lay a hand on the arm or shoulder or whatever. Completely casual affection. It took her a while to adjust to a culture that's less big on that. Feel free to have dealt with this when she was in her newbie days, she probably apologized profusely if she noticed any discomfort.

-She does come from a society based on bonobos and as such, intimacy is the preferred way to blow off some steam. If anyone in her age group wants to have a history of friends with benefits with her, I'd be game; I'm just not interested in writing out any smut if that continues into the round (though fade to black is fine). She's also not involved in any actual romantic relationships so far.

CR ADDITIONS:
-Met Ryuji as he trained her on tech use. He's used to her casual physical affection, since she was still trying to adjust to the culture at the time.
-Met Ellie during her first few months and touched her without thinking, which became awkward because of Ellie's phobia.
-Since their breaks often coincided, Saki began ensuring coffee was ready for Goro on his return from missions, and they got to talking early on. After knowing each other for about a year and getting to know each other well, he finally confessed to the murders he'd committed; but having seen and assessed him all this time, she feels he's changed for the better here and still considers him close. He refers to her as big sis now, and she regards him as a younger brother figure.
-Met Silver during a test in which they were made to use their respective telekinesis on each other to see how they would interact. She befriended him afterwards out of concern.
-Has been put on containment duty for Nora's missions, as her cantus lends itself well to killing him quickly if needed. They started off arguing, but she's since realized she can bribe him with food for less collateral damage, and she listens to him vent about the Foundation.
-Knows Akira, likely through Akechi. They trade favors; her use of cantus in exchange for tips and strategies for keeping her teams alive. They've discussed things about her world, though she avoids going into too much detail.
-Worked with George as a team member on field missions, gained his trust and now splits authority and responsibilities on shared missions.
-Knows Atsushi from her reading breaks. They're a two person book club and they chat about books over tea. She eventually catches onto his mood dropping around full moon incidents, and after some particularly awful ones she begins making chazuke for him as it's simple and seems to do him a lot of good.
-She's done missions with Oda. Given the man's insistence on throwing himself into danger to protect the D-class under him, she's learned a few things about first aid just in case he ends up with injuries. She scolds him for it, but shockingly, he still does the thing.
-Met with Wheatley after R3 and was very confused about his... goat status. She accidentally got the rundown of Portal 2 and has no idea what to make of this.
-Tried to make coffee for Sandalphon and promptly got critiqued on it. She thinks he's a total brat, but she's grudgingly learning how he prepares coffee because it's so absurdly good.
-Worked with Karen briefly in the labs and knows her by sight. They got along well enough.
-She has met Vanitas and pat him once.
-She doesn't know Ingway. But he does know a few things about her.
-She's lukewarm on Alcor. He's weird, his questions are weird, and somehow he's invited himself to the tiny book club with Atsushi.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Honestly, after the 'Okay this is new' he probably will

ANYWAY, What were you thinking about them meeting each other? Maybe they got, uh, assigned to hunt someone down together?

[bimyfriends]

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

[iblistriggered]

THAT SOUNDS GOOD. Moriarty could see Silver's reluctance in action. Hell they probably sent Moriarty along as backup in case Silver chickened out -- again.

[bimyfriends]

HEY FRIEND

Saki would have been mystified with him at first because the intelligent speaking critters in her world are uhhh very different and also do not have powers. I think she'd find him very sweet though and hopefully she has no idea what they're doing with him re: drugs because that's absolutely horrifying and something she'd add to her checklist to put a stop to, what the hell Foundation.

[iblistriggered]

he's a lot cuter that's for sure

and he probably doesn't know much himself, just that they're doing "tests" to "improve his usefulness to the foundation" :')

[bimyfriends]

Yeah, that tracks. May she never find out :'D

She'd be interested in how he uses his powers since her own have various requirements tied to it; she has to chant a mantra before she can use it, and she has to form mental images to affect the world, etc. She'd be outwardly fascinated by a power that's similar and yet less restricted.

It helps that it's also in the hands of someone like Silver though because the restrictions on her own cantus is quite frankly so they can stop people from killing each other with their brains, so. You know.

[iblistriggered]

YEAH and Silver is probably inhuman enough to not trigger her death stuff. They may have asked her to use her psychokinesis on him and vice versa, just to see how psychic powers from different worlds interact.

HAHAH YEAH his powers are more limited in their scope, but not restricted! he's also not able to scramble people's dna so thats a good thing.

[failsaw]

Hydok here with a piece of human garbage.

This is Giriko from Soul Eater. He's a chaotic evil scumbag who turns into a chainsaw and is so ridiculously loyal to a witch made of spiders that he's spent the last 800 years bodysnatching his own children to give himself a kind of parasitic immortality so he can continue to protect a woman who kind of treats him like garbage. Then the protags killed the witch and if you thought he was full of hate and bloodlust before oh boy

(Side note I'll probably be going with she/her pronouns because Giriko is a very... "I have tits I'm a woman now fuck you" type of person who is not inclined to think too deeply about gender)

SCP-wise, Giriko's probably been around just under a year. C-class, someone put her in charge of managing D-class agents on missions because she's actually got skills in that and just gets pissed off when agents die, not upset.

Her two big skills are making enchanted golems for grunt work/basic protection and also turning into a giant chainsaw (or turning parts of her body into chainsaw parts). Her hobbies are drinking, fighting, and actually that's about it.

She's got basically no personality changes because once you're an 800 year old man child fueled by hate you're kind of stuck there.

[bimyfriends]

He is

Absolutely inhuman enough so yeah, that works! Saki's definitely not a fan of that particular test, but it might be all the more reason to befriend him afterwards. Boy the tests here sure are... something, huh.

[iblistriggered]

they are!! Haha!! but they're for good right?? it's all worth it, isn't it?? it must be!

[bimyfriends]

Oh yes, absolutely!! But he's okay, right, she didn't mess anything up did she--

[iblistriggered]

oh he's totally fine!! see no new arms or weird dna or anything!

[literalidiotball]

How's this scenario: Wheatley sees Saki, flags her down to apologize for going rogue after taking over Aperture Labs and nearly blowing up the place, and after a while realizes he's not talking to Chell from his own canon?

We have two options if we do this. Before R3 (End of March 2019 to Beginning of May 2019), he was a robot ball mounted on an android body. Post R3 he's a humanoid android with a goat's head because apperently witches don't know how robots work.

Lemme know if this is okay?

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Yeah, probably - honestly, seeing Silver hesitate even for just a few minutes would be enough to make him take the shot in front of him all 'No, don't worry, I have it. /BLAM'