Breach - please give this
Cheradenine can be his brother!
I'm really tempted to turn him a biker gang member or leader because!
lookashiny: what would he think about an outlaw younger brother?
Offering up Trevor as an ex for Wu Xin? Maybe as someone who was in his gang, got hurt or disillusioned, and now barely speaks to him but is still "yeah whatever, jerk, come and eat but don't bring trouble to my door"?
cannibalherpes: lol, are you talking about ex member or ex Ex. XD
I'm leaning towards him being a cop who became disillusioned and leaves the force, so there'd be interesting conflict there!
Sephchama: Both? 
or he might be an interventionist
either way, conflict
cannibalherpes: Anshi, Wu Xin's name here, is a flirt and may still try to sweet talk him back. Even jokingly. He's accepted that he and Trevor are over, but the 'barely talks to' is one sided.
lookashiny: Cop! I like cop and robbers. Ever let the kid go?
oh, yeah, at least once. did the whole "you have to knock me out" thing and all
Sephchama: I adore that. Yes
"I am IGNORING YOU get out of my potato garden B[[[ " and yelling at any other gang members by spraying them with a hose
cannibalherpes: good thing he doesn't have hair... But he'll make sure to wear waterproof clothes the next time he visits his honey.
/growly noises about pet names being off the table
"honeybear is so cute with the growls."
/brushes Trevor's chin
/brushes Trevor's chin
"Touch me again and I'll poison your morning coffee"
"god this is SO LIKE YOU. B[ we BROKE UP. find someone else!"
cannibalherpes: Am I staying the night then? 😏
"Yeah. I'll put your pillow in the compost pile."
cannibalherpes: "So you're inviting me back into your bed?"
"/slams door in Wu Xin's face"
John friend!
yes!
yarnzipan: I'm thinking that Anshi was orphaned as a kid cause his father was some big criminal that got killed in action. And Anshi had bad Sci and ran off to the Blackout Blocks before he could be taken to therapy
Or something. But definitely bad childhood Sci that ran off.
lookashiny: wanna say half brother on mother's side?
lookashiny: wanna say half brother on mother's side?
that works
it gives plausible distance so the connection could be hidden
lookashiny: Yes. And Anshi was estranged from mommy, so Cheradenine wouldn't get caught up in family criminal relations.
exactly!
lookashiny: they probably reconnected the first time he got caught? Like, damn, haven't seen you in xx years and you grow up as a wild biker!
yeah, just, like, why are you here? what the hell happened? I'm going to turn my back and not watch what you do so....
lookashiny: Best brother. Hi. Long time no see! Don't worry, no one's getting hurt. Just helping myself to some redistributed goods.
you could get hurt!
lookashiny: that's ridiculous! You're not hurting me. Gotta go now. Let's meet up for lunch sometime!
....call mom, you're worrying her!
lookashiny: 🙄
Okay, thinking on it some more, father would have owned the gang, which is called Beyond SCI, and now he inherited. Though daddy didn't actually go make a gang until after he kinda went nuts.
XD
So that still means Anshi got like a handful or so years in normal growing up before he's like dragged into a few years of gangsta life, then running it. He drove his first bike when he was 10.
maruah: Not related to Breach.... but after this, I wonder if he'd have retained his bike riding skills......
....Oh no! XD Go riding with Yazoo and Kadaj?
In the Enclosure?
I know it's been spoken about getting it arranged to do. Maybe it was a plan to do something with Cloud I overheard? Hmm. Even if not the motorcycles then the rollerblades.
Rollerblades is definitely a thing. Though probably after Wu Xin gets out of his seclusion in March.
no it was with Tendi I think
although I would be happy for Big Brother to go with them
I do know that Abel had been trying to do a motorbike race course a long while back.
yeah, Abel helped Cloud recreate his custom bike in there too
Cerberus? He has that (in the Enclosure)?
Fenrir is the custom bike. Cerberus is Vincent's gun.
what maru said XD
but yes, he has Fenrir in the Enclosure and goes there to ride it a lot!
..... I KEEP MIXING THEM UP. >.> I should be ashamed. I have the AC custom bike model in my basement. With Cloud, but Bike was the main point. Lol.
Once upon a time I remembered the differences.
AAAAA JEALOUS I've never had the money for that kind of stuff
probably just his usual early 20s
Hmmmm, rather young then. Maybe he'd have seen Anshi before as an officer, since Anshi does robbery/raids outside sometimes. Peaceful ones! No one gets hurt.
how old is Anshi?
I'm putting him between 20-25.
Decided to age him up a little so he's not a kid running a gang. Just a youngster running one. Lol.
oh - also, Cheradenine is Cloud's partner, so that could be one avenue for them meeting somehow even if Cloud doesn't know at the time that they're brothers since it's a secret and all
...... He's his brother's partner??? I think once Anshi realized his bro is an officer, he'd look up him and his partner. Maybe even drop by and say hi to his bro sometimes. In private. Where Cloud can see him. "Oh, hey, you have a brother?" And the next time they meet is like Anshi racing off from a crime.
omg XD we'd have to ask lookashiny about it ofc but that could work - could be one of the incidents that makes Cloud start questioning things, cuz well...if his partner's brother is a hoodlum, he's obligated to bring that up with him
yeah, a leader of hoodlums
yeah, a society of hoodlums on bikes
Of which, he's also friends and business acquaintances with Fred..... he might have influenced her to disappear too. AND he flirts with her a lot. .... Not that Cloud knows any of that.
Them meeting up would give Cheradenine an aneurysm, but it'd be fun!
lookashiny: I think Anshi likes his brother, but kinda blames his mother for leaving. So he's okay with keeping a relationship with Cheradenine and even dropping by for (unannounced) lunch, but has no interest in going to see his mother.
And such lunches could totally have Cloud around at the time.
definitely! he wants a good relationship with his partner, after all
sounds good!
theSSjuli: lookashiny: Now the question is to do@lookis to do we want this to be history, or play out during breach?
I think at least some should be played out during the Breach
the first meeting might be difficult, but I'd love to do some thread with the three of them
sure!
oh my god
at the beginning of the breach he doesn't know she's alive yet, but once he finds her he can be like WHAT
and then they can explain Anshi is a good guy and Cloud can be like "but my worldview....."
XD it's a gradual change but it certainly gives him things to think about
But yes, if he sneaks out of BB, it'll be because he's using tech that Fred gave him to fill the scanners
siderealtime
siderealtime
theSSjuli: this is such a happy coincidence.... But that means he can't flirt with his brother's partner if he's also brother-in-law
lookashiny: I'm down for 3 way for breach! Btw, I have the CR thread up if you want to play their first meeting too
the CR thread works for me! I'll try to tag it today
I love that this all worked out like this. XD Poor Cloud's gonna get hot with a lot.
I feel a little bad about Cloud being whammied like this by Wu Xin.
lookashiny: did you want to use this thread for brotherly CR (with maybe Cloud cameo at the end finding out?)
I plan to do a breach thread, which we can do an official lunch date with all three of them as well, since you wanted them more developed there. (Who came up with that idea?!)
I plan to do a breach thread, which we can do an official lunch date with all three of them as well, since you wanted them more developed there. (Who came up with that idea?!)
hahaha it's fine, this is his rude awakening
brotherly CR with Cloud showing up at the end works for me
theSSjuli: I can't figure out how he'll know he's dating Fred, but he absolutely should at some point if he figured out he's alive.
Maybe if he recognizes her handiwork if there's any Anshi is using?
it's also possible Anshi's just there at some point when Cloud goes to see Fred
theSSjuli: I am down for that too. siderealtime:
yeah, me too!
Rewrote his plotting thread now that I know what he's doing.
AND.... time to poke into all the other plotting threads because Plurk is very hard to keep up with!
So. Looks like during week of the Breach, he'll be stealing a shipment of Vincent's books (and his lunch).
SO devestating! :C
(he was looking forward to that lunch)
maruah: I'm sure Anshi will enjoy that lunch on his behalf.
How brave will he be in guarding his shipment of books when a gang of bikers roll in out of nowhere and nab it and go?
How brave will he be in guarding his shipment of books when a gang of bikers roll in out of nowhere and nab it and go?
He would probably be instinctively inclined to stand in front of the shipment so the sudden biker presence doesn't accidentally crash into it.
But he's not a combatant so if they're like 'we'm here for the booksz' he'd stand down and be like, gonna take pics call copz
OH NOES
But look he loves his books.
maruah: Sorry professor. Is he a professor? Must be only those guys love that much books. Gotta share the education.
:C
Gotta give people a chance to learn in the Blocks.
He gonna be sad and his Interventionalist kids are gonna be like 'DAD IS SAD GET WREKT' (maybe)
If he's rich, he'll trade them back for supplies?
Saddest of professors, he woulda probably donated books.
(probably does but nuances)
Ransom! ( He probably would. )
Cause seriously, this books are waaaay too advanced for uneducated peeps. Lol.
He's gonna steal his books. And lunch. Then later in the afternoon he'll get a random ransom call from an unknown number.... (stolen phone too), about trading him back the books.
And a lot of them are historical probably. Or vaguely not in standard rota. Not practical in any case.
Exactly. He's like... What is this. Can't use this. Can't eat this. Can't even give kids these.
So he's gonna call the guy it belongs to and maybe get something actually useful in exchange.
omg what if Vincent called Cloud
I mean.
It could happen.
Or even when the call ccomes in, seeing Vincent Valentine on the docket.
.... This could totally happen.
Your brother in law is robbing someone.
Cloud like STOP SAYING THAT, YOU'RE NOT MARRIED TO HER
but yeah it'd be kinda funny if this happens before Cloud meets Anshi as Cheradenine's bro
Sooner or later, sooner or later.
That would be difficult unless you don't want cloud cameo in the pre breach thread to find things out
Cause Anshi is robbing/ransoming poor Vince during Breach.
ahh okay
after is also fine!
then Cloud can go to Eli later like "so uh. your brother."
and THEN he can find out about him and Claire XD
I imagine he already saw Anshi and Eli together prebreach.
"Claire? She told me her name was Fred."
did she actually? cuz Claire is what she goes by after she faked her death and stuff
Oh. I thought it was Fred. siderealtime
Boyfriend needs to know what your name is!!
Probably will yes.
Within reason.
By which I mean 'so the guys that stole the books are looking for staples and supplies like food, clean water, clothes' he is not really going to worry much/be sympathetic
weapons and money maybe not so much.
tbh that could be one of the incidents that makes Cloud start doubting stuff, cuz why would criminals ask for food and clean water instead of weapons and money?? do they not have that stuff?? why not???
He won't want weapons
she goes by Claire in the rest of the city, I believe. the BB knows her as Fred (no surname). I suspect Anshi knew her name was Winifred. theSSjuli: do you want them to be Burkle or Strife? (either is funny either way XD)
siderealtime: what does she prefer to be called?
maruah: definitely not weapons. He's a pacifist gangster! No, he wants supplies that he can take back and share with the people back home. He probably took the books thinking it's great that they finally get some education things for kids or people to read. Except.... Those books didn't even have pictures.
Hahaha.
The ransom may include some unsolicited education books and fairy tales who knows.
Water they have. But food though, he'll take a shipment of smoked meats. Cause he hates eels. He's practically half vegetarian here because ew, eels!
siderealtime I'm good with either, I've just been using Strife so far bc I thought it was funny for the hero of positivityland to have Strife as a name XD
Anshi isn't very educated. He thinks Fred is great because she's so smart. Adores her for that really. "Bright Star". I think that might be what he calls her.
Sephchama yeahhh this is how he's managed to get where he is going this long without doubts until just now kldjsfg
Cloudy and Strife. Dude, his parents really aren't superstitious.
I'm laughing at Winifred and Cloud. like why
Sephchama: sorry, I didn't get a ping! but I think she'd prefer Fred. lets her shake off the personal she's got to do for Claire or some such. man, Bright Star is so sweet too <3
their parents went through a hippie phase, clearly 
Why would you name your kid Cloud in a world where you want clear SCI?
That's so hilarious.
LMAO right?
Probably puffy cloud or like clouds always have a silver lining
Well meaning but ALSO WRONG
Join Beyond SCI! Where it doesn't matter if you're Cloudy or Sunny!
lmao
I guess I could change his name XD
....change it to sunny
do it
You don't need to tho!
No, should totally keep it
That's good nickname though
Sunny Strife lmfao
plus the Strife (which my autocorrect keeps wanting to change to struggle). I love it. :3
his mom in canon is named Claudia so maybe his name is Claude
Officer Sunny, Cloud Strife
...okay but what if his name is Cloud Strife but people call him OFFICER SUNNY because of his optimistic tow the line heroic bit
AHAHA
okay yes
/high Fives Mura
ohhh nice perfect <3
Clearly Anshi thinks his brother Eli should learn from his partner and be a bit more Sunny.
In case they want to track down and arrest him using the phone number.
....hilarious. And Sweeney's signed off on that? XD
Well. He signed off on letting his phone get stolen.
Works for me
Bless.