PLOT SIGN-UPS: The Brunch Gang

[hellshaped]

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Play this in the background for full effect.

For a period of eight hours, fifty-four minutes, your character will be locked in detention (on a Saturday!) for breaking some kind of school rule. They're locked in there with other characters, strangers, with whom they have nothing in common -- except each other.

Obviously Paradisa is not a school (most of the time) and your character may or may not be of student age. For the purposes of this plot, characters will be AU'd to be typical American teenagers. Once the plot is over, they will retain all memories of what they learned about each other. This is why it's important that you keep your AU as close to canon as possible.

(ex.: Harry Potter is a wizard in canon with parents who died, and he lives with relatives who don't love him. In this AU, he is just a normal kid with dead parents and relatives who don't love him.)

If your character doesn't have a canon childhood/adolescence, you may use headcanon as long as you're willing to stick with it. In other words, memories for this plot are simply altered from what really happened in their canon to fit the setting, not made up completely.

GUIDELINES:

o1. Humanization is not necessary.
If your character is a cyborg, an elf, or a Hellboy, they may retain their original forms. As long as they're humanoid (ie, have hands and feet), they can stay the same. Weird abnormalities in appearance (pointy ears, metal parts, being Hellboy) should have the same reaction as, say, someone who has an eyepatch or is missing some teeth. It's noticeable, but not wildly unusual or scary.

o2. Pre-existing CR should not be very close.
Unless your character is canonically related to another by blood, they really shouldn't know each other that well. No BFFs, boyfriends/girlfriends, or anything like that. Obviously if they run in the same social circles, they'll know who the other people are, but they shouldn't be that close.

o3. Aging down/up (or staying the same).
Typical American high schools are ages 14-18. 14/15 are freshmen, 15/16 are sophomores, 16/17 are juniors, and 17/18 are seniors. If your character is under 14, age them up to whatever you want. If they're an adult, age them down. If they're teenaged already, keep them there! (You don't have to make new icons or anything, so don't stress out.)

o4. Be ready to backtag!
The "detention" will take place IC between 7:05 AM to 4 PM. Obviously it's hard to tag out an entire day during that space of time, so be prepared to do a lot of backtagging.

o5. Tag around, get new CR, and have fun!
The purpose of this plot is to help in branching out CR by having your character temporarily be an emotional teenager. Characters who are ordinarily very closed-off can open up in ways they ordinarily wouldn't, to people they ordinarily wouldn't speak to. They may learn something new about a stranger, someone they thought they knew, or even themselves.

EXTRA FUN STUFF:

o1. You can choose a reason your character was sent to detention. Either keep it to yourself to be revealed during the plot, or announce it here if you want. Please be reasonable about this and keep in mind that very dangerous or law-breaking offenses would probably result in suspension or expulsion, not detention. (If you can't come up with a reason, your character can always just be cagey about it.)

o2. You can choose a "stereotype" for your character to fulfill. This should be unique to your character to avoid characters knowing each other that well previous to the plot, so if you want to "claim" something, please list it with your character's name. ex.: Lydia Deetz (goth); Bruce Wayne (jock); Mickey Mouse (drama geek); etc.

SIGN-UPS:

This plot is limited to around eight (8) characters, so please make sure you are really interested before you sign up! One character per player.

oo. Mr. Boy (Hellboy): the vice principal
o1. Leela Tahiri (Kalinda Sharma): juvenile delinquent
o2. Arya Stark
o3. John Doe, Jr. (Megamind): the science geek
o4. Eli Gold: the loner
o5. Cross Marian: the jock
o6. Echidna Makarova (Echidna)
o7. Leonardo da Vinci: the weird kid
o8. Tohru Adachi: the overachiever
o9. Phoenix Wright: the artist

Questions? Comment here.

Comments

QUESTIONS?

[hellshaped]

Ask them here.

[kalinda]

KALINDA SHARMA-- er, Leela Tahiri! She is in detention for vandalizing a neighboring school.

She is the social deviant/professional delinquent. The outspoken brain who acts out. B)

[persequor]

ARYA "I BEAT UP A SENIOR WITH A VOLLEYBALL" STARK

And you thought I'd sign up Mark.

[mispronunciates]

Megamind John Doe, Jr - The Science Geek. He's in for pretty much doing what he did in canon - blowing up something that turned an entire classroom neon blue.

Shool sucks, fight the powah.

[campaigns]

ELI GOLD, the sort of quiet, antisocial geek that lacks confidence and gets okay grades. Not really someone you'd cheat off of.

He got angry and mouthed off at a senior, fight broke out, and the blame was on Eli because the star whatever had a game on Saturday. Or something.

:3

[echivoc]

I've been looking for a reason to de-age him and he needs to get out more anyway, so I'm signing Cross Marian up for this. He can be the archery club captain?? He also landed in detention for punching a guy out cold. (He has to defend the ladies okay?? Gosh~)

[hedonic]

Echidna Makarova (BS last name). Her canon nickname would be a little campy for school but she'd probably have a reputation for fighting, being especially cruel towards men, and being a slutty, inappropriate lesbian, so anyone else is welcome to call her whatever they want. B) The school counselor probably has nightmares who knows.

She'd probably be in for fighting, and coming on to a teacher. No doubt one more strike away from expulsion...

[universale]

can i sign up leo??? he acn be the school weirdo/nerd or something idk....

[foolreversed]

signing up TOHRU ADACHI to be that asian kid with straight A's yet another overachieving dorky nerd type

he got detention because he got caught falling asleep and/or reading comics in class one too many times

[takethat]

If it's okay to sign him up... Phoenix Wright! The artsy type. The obnoxious artsy type. Also, he wants to be your best friend.

Edit: Wait or can I not count--just disregard--maybe I can be a backup if all the slots are filled alkdfjghd <3!