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[mytarget]

THE FANTASY SLICE OF LIFE AU MEME

"Okay, you know how every RPG has the grand heroes chosen by fate to become wonderful friends and stand up to the evil sorcerer/empire/corporation/monster and keep it from destroying the world? This game is not about them."

It's not always about saving the day. For every fate-changing hero running around and saving the world, there's a hundred perfectly ordinary people living out perfectly ordinary lives.

Well, for a given definition of "ordinary" anyway.

This meme is basically just an excuse to play out characters living their lives in a nice, relaxed JRPG setting along the lines of the Atelier or Etrian Odyssey series. There's no hard setting details other than "low fantasy JRPG aesthetic" so feel free to go nuts with the details!

Just drop a toplevel below with some AU details for your character (you can even pick out a character class if you're really into that), tag around and LET'S DO THIS

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[stuckinreverse]

[Ah, this must be the place! Marion had heard from some other girl recently that her big sister runs the local atelier. Marion's own research as a self-professed 'great witch' has turned up absolutely zero, so she's getting a bit desperate. It's not as if alchemy is really pure magic, anyway! She can see if this clearly inferior brand of magical study maybe might... have an easier solution to her problem than her own obviously superior spellcraft.

She also knows saying that is likely to get her nowhere. Since she looks around the same age as this Yuuri's little sister, she figures she'll have a better chance if she acts sweet and polite.]

Ah, good afternoon, Miss Yuuri!

[She has a bright, cheerful smile and is doing her very best sweet and innocent voice. Even the slight stumble over her words as she approaches the young woman and exchanges pleasant greetings is calculated.]

I don't know if you'll have what I'm looking for right now, but I need a potion. [She lets her smile falter just a little, hoping that showing a little uncertainty will garner more sympathy.] I have money...

[Specifying that both sounds like something an innocent child would say, and hopefully assures Yuuri that she doesn't expect her to work for free.]