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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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Red | Pokémon

[yochamp]

[Enter the beastmaster. Sort of. Maybe he's just JRPG's young, male version of a cat lady. Red's that weird guy who sort of half lives in town, half disappears enigmatically for long stretches of time and comes back dirty and hauling in plenty of exotic natural treasures and a new animal friend or two. His mother doesn't question his comings nor goings and keeps house as best she can when it's completely overrun by small, strangely docile wild monsters.

No one knows the surrounding wilderness like Red, but he refuses to join any kind of guild or hunting party. At least, it seems like he refuses? The guy never says anything, just stares silently whenever someone asks. Sometimes he turns up at school, but he stares out the window the whole time, and sometimes leaves early just to disappear into the wilds once again.

But he's a great resource on the surrounding environment if you know how to talk to him. And when he wants to say something, he has a way of making his thoughts known.]