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I think I'm in love... Would it be panfandom AU? Would characters have to be in a determined range of age? Or could they be older if they "look" young enough? (This idea comes from the manga Haruka 17, which is about a 28 years old woman who starts an idol career as a 17 years old girl).

Are we focusing only in singing or would there be other idol-related things like photoshots and acting? Also would there be a "dark side" of the idol career? You know the "sexiest" kind of jobs, it's not the same to do a photoshop in swimsuit than an ero one...

Maybe I'm thinking too much of this orz

It would be panfandom, I would limit it to manga, games, anime and that sort of thing. Live action might get a bit tricky because Japan's idol system is different than the U.S.

As for the age part, there would be a limit like the min age would be like 13 with no max age. Seeing as you know movie stars are pretty old and still going.

There would be acting, photoshots everything else idols do besides singing. The darker side i.e like h related work is not something I would be putting in because I'd like to keep things under pg-16. Seeing as you know not everyone is in to that sort of thing.

Might I suggest leaving the darker side as something referenced but not played unless it's a "bad end" case scenario? I mean in an IC way. Like... We have three characters A, B and C, eventually, though, both B and C's muns drop the game or just the characters as they have lost the voice or whatever. ICly the reasons why B and C don't keep going could be one of them decided to lead a normal life outside of the idol world while the other continues its career on the "dark side".

Though I realize as I'm saying this that this would cause problems with a situation of a character that's dropped and later on picked up again, by the same player or a different one. Leaving the darker side thing aside, how would that be handled? I mean a char being dropped and picked up by the same or another mun, how would it work ICly?

As for dropped characters. I have a few ideas

- The character would not have the same stats and icly the character would have gone on "break" for personal reasons.

- If they are in a group the character would quit and stop being an idol. Everyone forgets about them ect ect.

Clearly one way is better if someone you know is taking the character up, the other is better if someone completely new is taking the character. It would be up to the player to make the call on if it's one or the other. Either way people will just think they went on break or left the business. They won't have the same stats in less it's a re-app from the same person.

With the darker stuff that would work. Though if something does go in to a "bad end" it was affect the character's point ranking. So it wouldn't be something you'd want to do in less you wanted to be a horrible person and make a character suffer.

Maybe not make it so much of a "bad end"? But if that would happen a returning char would have a significant drop in their stats even if apped by the same player. I suppose that could be left up to the players, the reason why the char vanished and then returned, until a char returns ICly people may not know for sure what happened and just make suppositions and assumptions. As it happens in the real world :|

Also sorry if I seem too focused on the dark side, it's not that I'm really interested on it but I like things to be minimally accurate. And every rising idol may have had -in fact many have- a period of wrong decisions or something. The darker side could even just be suggested by there being other c.os smaller and less known that actually do that kind of jobs. It wouldn't be the first time an aspiring idol is fed up with their manager/whatever and thinks they are stuck there and changes c.os but because they are impatient end being fooled by promises of quick fame by those of the "darker side". It could even work for hiatus if a player is up to torture their char that much by having them go through that.

Btw you didn't answer if it would be AU or not even if it's a panfandom.

Ah, in the case of wanting to play out the "torture" scenario, to identify it in some way, would that c.o change count for the limit or not since it's not to an "official" c.o?

It wouldn't count on the positive because it's not official. Only jobs posted will net you points. It will only lower your total point count due to scandals that could break out.

As for the panfandom thing, I stated it would be open to everything besides live action series. As for AU related things most likely the only thing that would happen is the character's popular not transferring over if they're an idol.

If you're interested in what I have so far I'm writing down some stuff in my musebox for future ref.
http://boxofsheep.dreamwidth.org/429.html

Reading that with interest. But I realize that you aren't understanding AU the same way I was meaning, sorry. When I asked if it would be a panfandom AU it was in reference to the setting and such. I'm not talking about a case in which Usagi Tsukino, rather than being Sailor Moon is Tuxedo Kamen, but for example cases like Kenshin Himura, from a series settled in the Meiji era, being apped. Or about humanoid characters like the Thundercats, or even characters from worlds that are clearly not Earth and such. How would those be handled?

As for non-human characters they would be turned in to normal humans. Characters that have ears and tails can keep them as cosplay props.

All characters would come in with basic understanding of how the job works, like you had just gone through job training.

I still don't think you understand what that anon meant.

Would the characters treat the setting as a jamjar? Would they be thrown into this world going "WTF AM I DOING HERE I WANT TO GO HOME" or do they have an established AU background in this world? Did they grow up there? Is the world they find themselves in the only world they know, or do they remember their canon home?

They would remember their canon home

I'm sorry for being a thick head but I'm still not clear on this issue. Taking once more the example of Kenshin Himura, his "canon home" is Kyoto, that he remembers that doesn't mean he would remember being a samurai assassin that lived in the Meiji era. If he does remember all of that I can't help to wonder how and why characters would even want to become idols rather than return to their worlds. Unless the most popular idol gets to go home, that is.

It's fine, I'm not very good at explaining things so this is kinda my fault.

In the end when you've gotten to be top idol in theory you would be able to go home. It would be that sort of thing driving the characters to aim to be the best.

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