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incorrectsdkquotes · 4 years

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AU--CEO AU

(Warning--Long Post!)

The ever-present CEO AU. In this one, each of the different groups (Four Emperors, Mibu Clan [Five Stars/Four Elders, etc.], Twelve Gods, Sanada Clan, Tokugawas, etc.) are all different businesses/corporations/what-have-yous.

Kyo is obviously CEO of the Four Emperors group; he didn’t even initially really want to be CEO, but the prospect of taking over other companies/etc. was too much fun to pass up--even more, he’s somehow really, really good at it, too. He has an on-going personal/hostile rivalry with the Mibu, who keep trying to do their own hostile takeover of his company/etc. Legally, there are claims that he took some of their intellectual property when he left, which is why he’s been so successful; unofficially, the CEO of the Mibu, the Crimson King, just wants Kyo to return to the Mibu as the heir. Kyo’s not about that life, though, and would rather do things his way instead of having everything handed to him on a silver platter.

Akira is his right hand man, the VP, the one who makes sure that everything in the company is running smoothly. He was recruited at a young age when he managed to impress Kyo by attempting to hack into his servers back when Kyo was still in the start-up phase of his career. Instead of backing down, even when it looked like he would go to jail, Akira merely told him that he should get better servers. Kyo agreed, hired him on the spot, and Akira has been fiercely loyal ever since. His job may technically be VP, but his roots go back to the IT dept. God help you if you’re anyone but Kyo and need tech support--he’ll maybe help you if he feels like it, but you know he’ll condescend to you the entire time. The only ones (other than Kyo) that he has trouble saying ‘no’ to are the other three members of the Upper Echelon, the Inner Circle, the Four Emperors--Bontenmaru, Akari, and Hotaru.

Bontenmaru is the company’s head of the HR department. He’s the guy you go to if you’re having personal issues and need to talk to someone about them. Depending on the seriousness of the issue, he’ll either tell you to stop acting like a baby (but with more...colorful words) or he’ll be your shoulder to cry on, the one who will fight tooth and nail for you. Admittedly, most of the complaints he gets are about the other Four Emperors, so he’s usually telling the other employees a mix of ‘suck it up’/’yeah, okay, I’ll handle it’ while yelling at his co-workers. If he happens to get into some kind of physical fight with his co-workers...well, what are they going to do? Complain to HR about him? A good guy, he’s the emotional rock holding the whole company together. He’s also the only one brave enought to talk back to Kyo and get away with it, being his oldest (in more ways than one) friend.

Akari is the CFO, or Chief Financial Officer. If you want to spend even a single unit of currency belonging to the company, you’ll first have to prepare one of the many forms explaining exactly why you want to spend Kyo’s hard earned money. She’ll most likely agree if it’s a good enough reason, but you’ll absolutely have to do a ‘favor’ for her in exchange. These ‘favors’ are nothing unsavory--Bon-chan won’t hesitate to actually do his job if they were--but usually involve telling her some new piece of office gossip. Sometimes it’s personal secrets, sometimes it’s getting her a drink from the vending machine, sometimes it’s using your personal connections to get her and Kyo a table at one of the hottest new restaurants in town. She’s also unofficially the office’s go-to nurse; because of her ‘former life’ in the medical field, she has a fully stocked first aid kit in her office, and is willing to help you with anything from a paper cut to setting a broken bone--just be prepared to ‘pay’ her extra for the service. Her favorite people to tease and extract ‘favors’ from are her fellow Four Emperors. Kyo is, of course, an exception and is always welcome in her office for anything.

Hotaru is the company enigma/cryptid/urban legend. He appears in the office frequently, though he’s just as likely to get lost either on the way to the office or even inside the office. No one’s quite sure what his official title is, if he even has one, but according to company records he’s the head of Public Relations. Originally, he was sent by the Mibu to infiltrate as a corporate spy, something he was okay with being...up until he met Kyo and the others and decided that working for them would be more fun. He doesn’t spill many Mibu secrets, largely because he never really cared for them in the first place and hardly remembers any of them, though every now and then when the topic comes up he’ll remember something and say it, usually out of context, giving the company a leg up on the Mibu. His usual ‘expeditions’, as they’ve come to be known around the office, while lost has let him meet with other people and businesses. These connections have allowed him to explain Kyo’s Business (as he calls it), bringing in more business, money, and even more connections. His ‘expeditions’ have come to be considered a business write-off, something Akari grudging allows partially because it helps Kyo and brings in money, and partly because it’s hilarious.

Benitora is one of the newest hires at the company. He’s actually the son and heir to the Tokugawa Conglomerate, something everyone but the company lawyer knows, but is allowed to stay partly because he’s a pretty fun guy and partly because he clearly wants to be here rather than working for his father. There’s the implicit understanding that he will probably have to go back to the Tokugawas eventually, but in the meantime he’s more than happy to be the office gopher (specifically Kyo’s, though he’ll help out anyone else if they ask, especially the pretty lawyer). The only one he’s not on the greatest terms with is Akira, who keeps needling him whenever Tora has frequent computer issues. Tora gives as good as he gets, leading to an...odd friendship, not that either party will admit that they’re friends. If Hotaru gets involved, the three are just as likely to accidentally (somehow) take over another, smaller company for Kyo (again) or go on a weekend bender that ends with them having to call the company lawyer to bail them out--usually by entering Akari’s debt for the bail to be paid.

Yuya is the newest hire at the company. She’s the company lawyer and the one who is constantly exasperated and pulling her hair out because of the others’ antics. Despite her complaining, she’s the best lawyer the company has ever had and has successfully managed to win several key cases against the Mibu. Her only complaint is that the CEO, Kyo, is a jackass who frequently makes passes at her. He hasn’t quite crossed the line of sexual harrassment (unlike canon), but she has frequently complained to Bontenmaru about him. Despite how crass he can seem, there’s a caring side that he seems to only show her, something that keeps her at the company instead of just leaving. She has many friends (and admirers) at the company, though no one is quite brave enough to really try anything with her considering her relationship with the CEO and his Inner Circle. She’ll frequently volunteer her work pro-bono on the weekends for causes she supports and the underprivileged--in exchange, she double bills the company for her time, something Akari allows partly because they’re good friends and partly because Yuya’s complaints to her during their talks are a gold-mine of office gossip.

#not a quote #incorrectsdkquotes #incorrect samurai deeper kyo quotes #au ideas #office/ceo au #demon eyes kyo #akira #bontenmaru #akari #hotaru #benitora #shiina yuya #four emperors #shiseiten #i could probably go on with this au #with the mibu/twelve gods/sanada 10 and their companies #if anyone wants/cares for me to #i may have thought about this a lot #lol

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antagonistchanremade · 5 years

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Some character descriptions of the Stellar Grievances cast.

Stella Greenfield, our main protagonist, is a 20-year-old black woman. In her “civilian” form she’s got long black hair in a ponytail and wears a sweater, leather jacket, miniskirt, thigh highs, and sneakers. In her “Logged In” form, Mechaniisms, her hair is drastically shortened and gets more boyish, and her clothes are replaced with dress pants, combat boots, a really nice dress shirt, a vest, and a cravat, not including her equipment. Her eyes are purple and she’s average height. She was a strategy game nerd in the real world, and upon being thrust into the game world she suddenly essentially had a shit ton of in-universe (since the game world and real world rely on different laws of physics; notably, Newton’s laws are specifically stated to not necessarily be true in the game world) engineering knowledge dumped into her head, so strategy and technology are her two big hobbies. When not giving orders or dealing with a situation herself, she can usually be found tinkering, either on the team’s ship, the GSF Headstrong, or on her own equipment and drones. Also, she comes from an interracial family and has a white stepmom and stepbrother (her stepbrother, Tyler, actually got her into Stellar Grievances in the first place, and he’s part of the main cast for a brief period of time in the beginning). And she’s bi and has ADHD. Her Wrench is called the Gauntlet Wrench.

She’s also regularly joined by her sidekick of sorts, an AI she programmed named Eve. Eve is fully conscious (which is rare but not unheard of in the setting), and usually refers to Stella as her mother. She sometimes appears as a holographic human (and can range in size depending on where she’s projected from; if she’s being projected from Stella’s own equipment, she’s usually the size of a fairy or something, but larger hologram projectors in larger machines can make her practically any size, usually life sized), but her primary function is to operate Stella’s various combat drones, so she can also appear as them instead (and some of them can get pretty humanoid; eventually, Stella even develops a drone that just... looks like the holographic form Eve takes, so Eve can basically have a real body if she so chooses). Eve acts like your typical AI assistant character- generally unemotional and analytical, but she has emotions and whatnot, she just doesn’t really have the emotional maturity to match her logical reasoning and academic intelligence and thus comes off like a computer to those who don’t really know her.

Then, Madison, our secondary protagonist. When she’s first introduced as Buttercup, she has back-length blonde hair and yellow eyes, and is wearing a fancy lolita dress; however, when Phyll dies and passes on his powers to her, her eyes turn green and she gets a green streak in her hair, and when she changes her name to Madison and joins the team, she cuts her hair a little shorter, starts wearing it in a side-ponytail, and switches to wearing jeans and a hoodie. In her “Logged In” state, Agent Yellow, she visibly matures, getting taller, curvier, and less babyfaced (since she was generally short, smol, and babyfaced in her civilian form), her voice gets deeper, her hair gets longer (and also pointier), and her clothes are replaced by beige power armor that... basically looks like Halo power armor but without the helmet. And she wears a beige cape. She also carries a green sniper rifle. Personality-wise, she’s very much the team Cinnamon Roll, though she also carries insecurities from her time with the other Awoken Agents (as she was the last one created, and shortly after her creation work fully began on the Specialist system, so she never really got to contribute much, especially since her only power was that she couldn’t stay dead); it doesn’t help that the Agent who was kindest to her, Phyll, is now dead, and the Agent who was least kind to her, Violet, had a crush on Phyll and blames his death on her (though Violet eventually gets over all this and becomes Madison’s love interest) and can often be found brooding. Her sniper rifle is called the Proto Rifle.

Lily Flowers is the team’s Medic, and the entire basis for her character back when I first envisioned her was that she toyed with general stereotypes for people who play “Healer” characters in media vs in real life. Specifically, back when she first started playing online games, she was what you’d expect from a “healer” character in anime- a moeblob who just wants to help the team, no matter what! But years and years of maining healer characters in online games has worn her down and she’s now more like someone who actually plays healer characters in real life- cynical, sarcastic, and untrusting. Her main coping method that stops her from becoming a total bitter pessimist? Being the team memelord and shitposter. She’s basically the Moca Aoba of the team, the Neptune of the team, the Yang Xiao Long of the team, you know, that character. The one who practically says “Eh? Ehhhh?” after everything they say to make sure everyone got the stupid pun they made. She’s got short messy pink hair and silver eyes, and they don’t change at all when she Logs In. What does change? Well, for one, her prosthetic, since she’s an amputee without a right arm. In her civilian state, her prosthetic is fairly normal; however, when she Logs In to become Yuyuriri, her existing prosthetic twists around to come out of her back, and a new prosthetic that’s bulkier and clumsier but has her MedTool built in is fixed in its place. That’s not the only thing that changes when she Logs In, but it’s the biggest difference; the other big difference is that she wears a big coat in her civilian form, but removes it when she Logs In. She appears to have a different outfit when she’s Logged In, but she’s actually wearing that outfit in her civilian form, too, just under her coat. Specifically, the outfit is made up of a blue turtleneck with no right arm (so it doesn’t get in the way of her second prosthetic), jean short shorts, tights, and boots. Lily’s also a lesbian, and in fact is Stella’s main love interest.

Kyousuke Tenjou, meanwhile, was originally created for two purposes. One, to be a sort of self-insert, and two, to parody/refine the character of Kirito from SAO; the former has mostly been abandoned (my idea was that he’d start out as a total Fedora Neckbeard type, but then slowly get better as he hung out with the rest of the team, and eventually even realize he was actually a transgirl, which is an exaggerated version of how I realized I was trans (I was never quite to the Broni Friendzoni level, but still), but I eventually dropped this aspect to focus more on the Kirito thing and also to keep the team more gender-balanced, though there are still hints of it). So, Kyousuke is this brooding longer swordsman dude who’s visually similar to and named similarly to Kirito, so the comparisons are obvious. But, see, Kirito is regularly rewarded by the series for being this jackass loner dude, even if it does make a token effort to have him grow out of it; the series claims that Kirito’s loner attitude makes him less happy, but more effective as a warrior. Stellar Grievances, meanwhile, makes it clear that Kyousuke’s loner attitude is a weakness and that he’s an arrogant dipshit for thinking he can play a teamwork-based game alone, and he’s mostly doing it in an attempt to look cool and badass when it really makes him look like an asshole and a dumbass. A big part of his character arc is about him unlearning all sorts of toxic masculinity, including some internalized aphobia (because he does start out as this jackass trying to get into every woman he sees’ pants, but it eventually becomes clear that he’s trying to compensate for the fact that he doesn’t actually find any of them attractive and he feels like not liking women makes him less of a man). Anyways, in his civilian form, his hair is short and messy, but longer and messier than Lily’s; his Logged In form, xX_Kyo_Xx (or Kyo for short), reins it back in to Lily levels. His eyes are blue and his hair is black, but when he Logs In his hair is dyed electric blue and he wears green colored contacts. The colored contacts are also functional, as he wears glasses in his civilian form but not his Logged In form. He’s generally wearing black jeans, black boots, and a black sweater in both forms. In his civilian form, he wears a brown jacket, but when he Logs In he trades that out for black gloves and a black cape.

Travis Bhatia was created pretty much alongside the concept of the Scout class itself, but once I’d finished deciding what the Scout class even did, I decided to flesh out his story, and his character arc ended up being about felon’s rights. Because a big part of his backstory is that when he was 19, he committed a horrible crime. And this wasn’t a case of him being framed, or it being an accident; he did a terrible thing on purpose. And he agrees that it was terrible, and even that he deserved to go to jail for what he did. And he did go to jail for three years. But when he got out, that was when the bullshit started. America treats its convicted felons very badly, even once they’ve served their time. And while Travis agrees that he deserved every second of his jailtime, he feels like he was completely screwed over when he got out. He’d served his time, but he was still being punished. And he ended up having to freeload with a cousin of his, and got addicted to online video games like Stellar Grievances. Which is why getting stuck in another world was the best thing that ever happened to him- it let him get a new start on life without the baggage of his felony. Travis is also a first-generation American, as his parents were immigrants from Britain, and he’s also ethnically Indian (for clarification, if it wasn’t obvious, actual Indian, like from India). In his civilian form, he wears jeans and a logo t-shirt; in his Logged In form, Explorer21 (or just Explorer for short), his jeans turn back, he gets his hoverboots, he gets goggles, he gets gloves, the logo on his shirt disappears, and he gets covered in belts, but most importantly, he gets a really long leather coat with a popped collar that looks totally cool when he’s flying around. He’s generally pretty chill and down-to-earth. He’s also gay and very flirty. Originally he was gonna be covered in robes, kinda inspired by the music video for Superheroes by Daft Punk. Travis is also the second tallest of the team after James.

James Reynolds was actually not originally gonna be part of the main cast. I created James to be an antivillain who became friends with Kyousuke and helped Kyosuke realize he was a transgirl, since James was himself a transman. The team’s Marine was gonna be Stella’s brother Tyler. However, I found myself mixing up Travis and Tyler’s names a lot, and realizing that I just liked James better than Tyler, and wanting explicit trans representation back in the team after I decided to leave Kyousuke a guy after all, so I decided to replace Tyler with James. But I didn’t want the antivillain angle with James to go away completely, and Tyler’s presence in the beginning of the story was very important (in fact, Tyler’s presence in the beginning was significantly more important than his presence once things get going, which is part of why I nixed him), so I decided that Tyler would be the team’s initial Marine, but he’d have to leave the team fairly early on, and the team would be without a Marine for a while until James, introduced as an antivillain, would betray his villainous allies to join the protagonists. Anyways, James is the tallest member, with blue eyes and messy orange hair in a ponytail. His general appearance can basically be described as “Bishounen”. He’s generally wearing jeans, a blue t-shirt, and an unbuttoned brown button-up shirt. His Logged In state, Don1998 (or just Don for short), wears a fedora (NOT FOR THOSE REASONS), a dress shirt, dress pants, dress shoes, a green tie, and a blazer. James is generally pretty quiet and stoic, though he does often either chuckle or glare depending on his mood. He’s also bi, and a frequent (willing) target of Travis’s flirting, though his primary love interest is a woman.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that Travis and James’ hair colors change when they Log In. Travis’s hair is black, Explorer’s is green; James’ hair is orange, Don’s is red. Don’s also got slightly shorter hair than James, but James’ hair is already pretty short. Travis has spiky hair in either form.

#oc posting #this post ended up taking an hour and a half #i should probably take that into account when planning my schedules in the future

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marriedtojbiebs · 7 years

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Wait, why do you hate the ending of Furuba might I ask? (feel free to rant as much as you want, I love listening to salt lol :3)

LIST OF GRIEVANCES:

** Kyo and Tohru get together. Yeah, they’re my NOTP, because Kyo was a goddamn jackass and I hope he chokes. I don’t give a fuck about his tragic backstory, because Yuki suffered just as much under Akito, and WITHOUT anyone like Shishou to comfort him, and Yuki doesn’t feel the need to be an enormous bag of dicks to everyone: he goes out of his way to be kind.**The curse is broken. Maybe it’s just me and my terminal I Just Want To Be Special syndrome, but I don’t see what was so awful about the curse and why everyone had an “I turn into an animal I AM UNLOVABLE!!!!!1!!” complex. I legit asked my mother if she would still love me if I turned into an animal, and she said yes. The parents are shit for shitty reasons, and being unable to hug a gender isn’t a life-ruiner. An inconvenience that might even really suck? Absolutely. But not a life-ruiner. And if you play your cards right, you can even not deal with Akito if you don’t want to: see Ayame, and how Shigure got kicked out of the main house, ie. got free of her. I thought it was cool, dammit.**Yuki and Machi get together. Yeah, I’m a Yukiru shipper (it’s my second fave after Aayatori). Miss me with any of that Oedipus-complex “I only see her as a mother” bullshit. Yuki transformed when she called him by his first name. Heck. Also, as above, Yuki isn’t a bag of dicks, although my ships list shows I ship Tohru with a lot more than just Yun-Yun.**Ayame and Mine get together. Ayame is G-A-Y, my friend. Natsuki Takaya’s gonna look me in the eye, and tell me that the same man who offered to effectively be school hooker at his all-boys school, then clarifies that statement by saying he’s a bottom, doesn’t just joke about but implies for real (in the anime at least) that he and Shigure are friends with benefits, and worships the ground Hatori walks on, is actually super het for Mine. No way. Catch these damn hands. (don’t @me about biphobia, cause i’m the bi-est bi to ever bi. I absolutely believe he and Mine are the best of friends or even platonic soulmates, but Ayame is all about that D, specifically Hatori’s).

Honestly, there’s WAY more where that came from, but that’s the worst; what really shits me off. The other stuff I could live with, but these things absolutely infuriated me. I’m still bitter about them, I’m always gonna be bitter about them, I’m gonna die bitter about them. Thank you for letting me rant, love!

#asks #anon #fruits basket #Y'ALL EVERY TIME I REMEMBER ANY OF THIS I GET SO FUCKIN MAD

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