cape and cowl 2020: planning post

[2020mod]

C&C 2020 Someone call for a dystopian future au? Sometime around 2014 (THIS IS NEW, GUYS, WE'RE JUST SLIDING THE SHIT HITTING THE FAN FORWARD A FEW YEARS OKAY), the government in the City decided that they'd had enough of these superhero antics. There was a nationwide crackdown on metas, requiring registration upon penalty of incarceration. The network was shut down, and many residents were scattered to the winds. There are a few that stayed in touch, however. That's where you come in. For some of you, this might be from before your time. Not to fear! Since it's a highly flexible splinter universe, there's pretty much no such thing as canon. Retcons abound, either as allowances for contradictory canon information (except for the premise, of course), or even just if the player wants to change something around! So, use this post as a free-for all. New characters get new projected histories, dropped characters can be said to have come back, and old characters can be reexamined or given more story. On Sunday, an open post will be put up in capeandcowl2020 proper, so use this time to work out information and pimp this out to players who're eligible but may not see this (you can also ahead and start your own posts in that comm)! Remember, any character that has been played in main game is automatically good to go, and you are welcome to make use of the musebox whenever the mood strikes you! musebox • rules • character list

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[swordedpast]

Archer (swordedpast) and Kyouko (seeksherownsalvation but maybe I'll make a new one?) will go here!

[seeksherownsalvation]

Kyouko Sakura is twenty-one years old as of 2020 and a certified badass. What, did you expect she'd find something to do that didn't involve violence?

Her life is a bundle of contradictions. By day, she moves from place to place before anyone can notice she's gone and gets by helping out at churches. Sometimes it seems like she sincerely believes in the good works they do and the spiritual teachings they preach--and other times she vociferously denies having any interest in that. "Don't be stupid! It's just that if I make myself useful to charitable people like that, they'll help protect me from the government's eyes. You don't expect anything more from me, d'you?" By night, or at least in the dark, she waits on word from her resistance connections, and whenever a need for her arises, she flashes into action, spear at the ready. Don't expect her to admit she does it out of the goodness of her heart, though. "I just don't want this stupid government keeping me under lock and key. That'd be boring."

She dyes her hair, at least. See? She's learned some subtlety.

[squishypriest]

How would you feel about some awkward, We're Totally Not Helping People meetings? Like. Kyouko keeps spotting Codex at the ~secret~ clinic and Cyd keeps bumping into Kyouko on her her way to church

and they have this unspoken agreement to pretend IT NEVER HAPPENED

even though it... keeps happening...

[swordedpast]

In 2020 and the years that follow it, it's a dystopian future where imPorts are hunted and virtually collared, and in the face of this adversity the man who goes by Archer has thrived in a way he never did before. But that's down to the people who helped him. Years of being with Rin have gentled him; his connection with Minako has strengthened him. If you asked him what happened to him, and he trusted you enough to tell you, he would say that he realized something: the impossible utopia he once strove for is real after all, and it exists in the hearts of his most precious people.

Fortunately for those who don't want to be subjected to such sap, there are very few people he'd tell such a thing to.

(He still doesn't much care for himself. He's still reckless and prone to despair. But he has something he believes in again.)

Archer wears his bangs down these days and dyes his hair black to avoid suspicion. He's aged a few years, but not as many as he should have. He looks about thirty-six, maybe thirty-seven. That's if you see him at all. He used to be easy enough to contact if you knew the networks created by the resistance, but in recent years he's become more and more reclusive as Rin needs him for her own. The two of them never took well to the government's yoke, and so they've been more or less on the run since things got bad.

He resurfaces sometimes, looking fearless but a little haunted, a little troubled. He still needs to keep in contact with Minako, and he worries about her. He still compulsively does kindnesses for the people around him while sulking about it, which sometimes includes paying a favor to some resistance network or another. But mostly, he goes where Rin goes, even if he tells no one else exactly what their relationship is.

[out_of_time]

'sup

guess who's going to need some stabbing done