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THE AU CR MEME

This is for anyone wanting to establish CR going into the game, or if you're already in the game and looking for more. It can help you hit the ground running on potential inter-personal plots. Use it however you like!

Just fill out the form below and comment around to whatever pings your interest. You can refer to our world info and NPC profiles, as well as recent events, if you need to to help flesh things out, as well. Have fun!

<b>Character Name:</b> (Character Name) <b>Character Journal:</b> <user name="USERNAME"> <b>Canon:</b> (Canon) <b>Brief Personality:</b> (Add a brief personality of your character) <b>Brief AU History:</b> (Just a summary of their AU history, not your whole app) <b>Joined School:</b> (Give the date, if you can, of when your character came to the school ICly, not when they were accepted) <b>FOR RETURNING CHARACTERS any important information to fill in between the last time the game was open and now?:</b> (basically exactly what it says. Any events, accomplishments, missions, losses, etc should be noted here) <b>Plans/CR seeking/other ideas:</b> (Go nuts here. Basically, what are you looking for?) <b>Is it okay to make Test Drive threads game canon?:</b> (A simple yes or no will do)

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[mutationsprice]

Character Name: Mr. Gold (Friends will be granted access to his given name which is Royce)
Character Journal: mutationsprice
Canon: Once Upon a Time

Brief Personality: The man has two sides he can show, one is aloof and distant in nature, holding himself at a distance from people and socializing. The other is an affable man who can be something of an adorable dork if he cares anything about the people he's around.

Brief AU History: Born in Scotland, he went from being something of a con-artist in his youth to a spinner and then to a healer over the years when his abilities/mutations made themselves known. He went to medical school, though given that was in the 40s, he's apt not to be as well versed in the more modern medicine though he does try to pay attention to the advances the medical field has made. After some time exploring the healing ability of his, he went through law school to learn Scottish law. After spending some 70+ years of his life in Scotland, he got a case of wanderlust and left it to head for the states where he fell in love, married, started a couple businesses (If you like your character could of heard of Rumpelstiltskin's yarn/textiles, as that's the name used. The name has likely no doubt changed by the time the year 2k came around though due to his giving the business up) and then had a son. Then tragedy struck and he lost the wife and son, his wife he lost permanently to death, while he's still looking for his boy. He also suffered injury to his right leg that left him with a limp and forces him to use a cane to aid him in walking usually.

Joined School: Gold came in around in the year 2016, given I don't know the current year (is it 2016? If not, I can adjust this.). As for month and date, it'll be December 13th, he's relatively new to the faculty, though I suspect any characters could have seen him visiting Charles as he worked out his deal with the man.

Plans/CR seeking/other ideas: Positive CR is something he needs, though I won't say no to Negative if done well. He needs more friends in the states, he has precious few of those given he can count how many friends he has in the US on one hand.

Also he will be finding himself a lab and likely working on acquiring the materials needed to set up potion making. If you want to be a part of helping him set up, it could net your character some benefits in future favors or freebie potions once he's gotten to making them. He'll be otherwise making deals for the potions (at least the augmenting ones) due to the fact it's time consuming and isn't entirely all that easy collecting the materials needed.

He does enjoy reading a number of subjects, so finding him in the library is a good method of gaining CR, as is finding him engaged in a bit of solo chess playing, because it's fun and it gives him something to do which isn't entirely mindless, given he has to consider strategies. He's also willing to talk "shop" in medicine/chemistry, law, textiles or antiques.

He doesn't usually care to show off what he can do, he'll only create gold when he feels the need for it, especially these days given he needs to either be careful to whom he sells it to and how much he sells. He'll heal anything major if asked to, but will often either ignore or present a deal if asked to heal rather minor injuries that pose no harm save inconvenience to someone.

This is due to the fact that using these two abilities of his taxes him in stamina and energy. Depending on how much he does and in healing, the severity of the wound being healed, he will need to rest and eat before doing any more lest he court the risk of exhausting himself and possibly passing out.

Due to having been married twice, and losing both of his wives, he's going to not want to get close to people right off the bat. Especially given how he lost his last wife. He'll be worried about bringing harm to those he cares for via association. However, it is possible to get him to warm up over time, especially within the walls of the institute.

Platonic CR will be far easier to get than Romantic, however the romantic isn't impossible, it'll just take considerable time (months likely at least) to get it firmly established. However if you care to crush on him unrequitedly, feel free to do so, despite him being mainly hetro, men are free to crush on him if they so desire to, the awkwardness from him experiencing that would be precious I think.

Is it okay to make Test Drive threads game canon?: Yes

[denialism]

I'd love to do something with the two of them! Unfortunately, Adachi doesn't really like to read and shares none of Gold's interests. But maybe if Gold needs the cooperation of campus security for anything? Adachi would help him out if there was something in it for him.

[the_prodigal_son]

Gosh, I'd love for Mr. Gold and Jack to have some interaction. I'm not sure if they share any interests, but Jack is likely to bother him randomly anyway. And if they discover they were both alive during the 50s (technically, Jack is four but was cryofrozen in 1960) they'll have something to talk about.

Also, iirc the current year is 2018. /clears throat

[mutationsprice]

Thank you for clarification on the year! The only year I could find mentioned in the history was 2016, I saw something mentioned in passing in one of the posts about 2018, but was uncertain if that was the actual year or not. I'll just move the year date up to 2018 then!

Indeed, Gold was in Scotland during the 50s. The Highlands of it actually I think. So if Jack is curious to learn about Scotland in the 50s~ They can speak of it. It's actually one of the better decades in his life, besides the two he spent with second wife. I wonder what Jack would think if he learned Gold was actually born in 1916.

[the_prodigal_son]

Yeah, the last run of the game was at 2013 when it ended and we had a five-year skip into this run so... 2018. Yep.

Jack would be ridiculously interested, he is a very curious child. And now that he's over the shock of being stuck under the ocean, killing the two people he considered sort of fathers, learning his entire life is a lie, being trapped under the ocean some more for 60 years and brought to modern day New York... (his canon is a ride but hey so is OUAT)... he is very willing to explore and make friends and learn EVERYTHING because the amount of lies that went into his existence has left him with an obsession for learning about everything that is real.

Also it'll be very comforting to know there's someone at the school who's older than him chronologically. Although Booker is even older than Gold, since he was born in 1874. ffft.

Speaking of which, Booker and Gold might know each other in passing. But Booker is a drunk janitor so they probably don't talk much.