Welcome to the OOC! I'm stone, your GM, and Aviaire is my lovely CoGM. Please direct any questions you have to us. If you want to PM us on the Guild, include both of us in the recipient line. On discord, you can DM me @stone#2804, though you might have to friend me first, and I'll make a group chat. Also, Avi hasn't finished Persona 5 yet, and IDK fully about others applying to the RP, so try to keep spoilers to a minimum.
We're looking for a small/medium group of people, anywhere from 4-7 players, though the number isn’t concrete yet.
Sea of Unconscious
The collective unconscious, coined by Carl Jung in 1916, argues that humans, alongside the personal unconscious, exhibit a “collective” unconscious wherein common dreams, myths, symbols, and other motifs appear constantly in individuals’ thoughts as a result of various traditions, expectations, and other excitements. These symbols are referred to as “Jungian archetypes,” and they form the basis of the idea of a collective unconscious. These archetypes are thought to shape our perceptions, thoughts, and behaviors in profound ways, and are seen as a way to understand the underlying psychological dynamics of the human experience.
There is more to the concept than the simple description above, but for the purposes of a Persona RP, it’s enough. We won’t be getting into too much psychology (unless your characters really really want to), but having the baseline knowledge is nice. The Palaces in P5 represent the personal unconscious of their rules, while P4’s TV world and P5’s Mementos both represent the collective unconscious.
The Sea of Unconscious is this RP’s way of characterizing the personal and collective unconscious in order to provide a lovely setting for shadow-fighting, bond-strengthening, and pun-making. The great big ocean represents the collective, the islands represent the personal. Early on in the RP, the party will acquire a means to travel the Sea of Unconscious. Story arcs will entail sailing to and from islands, searching for ship upgrades, and fighting bad guys.
In terms of greater theming, the focus of the RP will be isolation and connection, with a touch of personal truth. Your characters will be dealing with the barriers of communications, individual ways to build and maintain relationships, and the power of friendship. Feel free to use these themes as a guide when building your character, though it’s not necessary—Persona games generally touch on many, many different ideas beyond their central focus, and this RP will likely do the same.
Harbour Academy
Harbour is a small city on the coast of southeast England, with Harbour Academy for Gifted Adolescents and Youths located about 45 minutes away, looking over the sea. HAGAY is an international boarding school filled with students from affluent backgrounds from all over the globe, although its generous scholarship programme is always an option for those who can’t afford the price tag.
(it’s an international school so i don’t have to relive a levels) Select one of five subject groups: language & literature, arts, sciences, mathematics, humanities. Classes are allocated according to the groups with a little bit of overlap.
[School Culture]
Competition is the most important part of Harbour Academy - each course has biweekly exams, the results of which are ranked and posted publicly, not to mention the pressure on scholarship students to maintain their funding. This atmosphere is further encouraged by the school, with competitions being an integral part of the school’s identity, and not just in academics - sports, drama and music as well.
Although the majority of people pretend to not care about social standing, the identities of one’s parents can have a large impact on your social life at Harbour Academy. In general, many students are very wealthy. Even most of the scholarship students are from families with money - just not at the level where paying the full tuition is either justifiable or possible. People in the city can be a little hostile towards Harbour Academy students.
On a lighter note, although the school is uniformed, the regulations are fairly relaxed, so modifying uniforms has become very popular amongst students, especially the wealthy ones. Cropped skirts, funny looking socks, cardigans, hoodies… it’s all there! That said, it’s somehow impossible to get away with not tucking your shirt in.
[Facilities]
The school has many fancy facilities, including a 25m pool, a well-equipped personal fitness centre, a large library, a 300-seat auditorium, a boathouse and dock, and even an 1860s-era chapel.
[Extracurriculars]
Students are free to form their own clubs if they can meet a member requirement and convince a faculty member to oversee. Sports include lacrosse, rowing, cricket, and football. The school’s drama and music programs are highly celebrated as well. The two main drama clubs compete at the end of the school year in an event known as the Curtain Cup.
Drama clubs: Harbour Stars - Glitzy, glamourous, ginternal conflicts, that’s Harbour Stars! A group focused around entertaining the masses first and foremost. Boasting a large number of former members going on to become large talents in theatre and cinema, Harbour Stars is the go-to for anyone who wants to become, well, a star! (The nepotism sure helps.)
Harbour Academy Theatrical Society (HATS) - A much more serious, performance oriented group but no less successful. Their standards are high, greatly valuing accuracy to the source as well as the quality of acting, and some say that their auditions can be more stress-inducing than the actual academic element of HAGAY life.
[Dorms]
All students at Harbour Academy live at the school, separated by gender and year group. Although there is a curfew of 11pm, it isn’t too heavily enforced and finding new ways to sneak out of the historic buildings is a favourite pastime of the students. Just don’t get caught!
Meta stuff
Standard Guild rules apply, don’t be dumb, don’t be a bigot.
We don’t have any length requirements for posts, even if this is a Casual RP. Write as much as you need or feel up to. Tiny posts are better than no posts! We don’t care about double posting either lol.
Here’s the character sheet, don’t make any of the sections too long or we will cry - if you have any cool ideas you’d want to include, you're free to DM us. We don’t have an explicit section for ultimate personas but it would be nice to think about the direction you might want to take your character in. Also, maybe don’t make a Navigator character. We got that covered already.
picture here character info Name:
What it says on the tin!
Arcana:
Anything but: Fool, Judgement, World.
Birthday:
(Slightly recommend against early september or we won't get to celebrate it) :(
Appearance:
Extra description: notable physical traits, additional details like how they wear their uniform etc.
Reputation:
What do other people tend to think of them?
Background:
A brief summary of what their life has been like.
Misc. :
Everything else, in case you want to tell us what food we can flanderize your character with.
persona info Weapon:
If you can justify how you can hurt someone with it, then it's fine!
Persona:
Name, maybe an appearance, and some detail.
Moveset:
Brief description of what element/skills you'd have (don't need to be super specific we're not doing numbers).
OLD APPS IF YOU WANT THE HUB (graciously provided by TGM):
FYI, mentions break after a certain number of them are slammed into a single post. And with 4 to 7 outta all these people, what's the criteria and such? Whether or not we read Helck?
FYI, mentions break after a certain number of them are slammed into a single post. And with 4 to 7 outta all these people, what's the criteria and such? Whether or not we read Helck?
We’d like a diverse party, don’t worry about picking the same Arcana as someone else (most can be tweaked to fit another). Plus general review of sheet quality and writing and the like. it’s holistic.
Also reading Helck is sadly not a requirement, but if it were, you and hatakekuro would be in instantly lmfao
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN PEOPLE SHOULDN'T READ HELCK haha people should read helck because it's goat raw peak kino fiction, not cuz their GMs love it
please don’t worry about it too much, the group size number is not concrete
Cool, I'll use him, but remove the wild card ability from him in that case.
sounds good. Generally, we're looking for characters that will make good party members while retaining more agency than a normal Persona game party member. i.e. what the PTs would be like without Joker, what the Investigation team would be like without Yu, etc.
BASICALLY just make characters that are interesting and not blank slates and would slot well into a party and provide their thing and all that jazz
Surname: Miyahara, Forename: Hiro Age: 15 Personality: Quiet, understanding and polite Weapons: Masamune Katana Powers: Summoning Persona Given Persona: Mars Given Arcana: Tower Abilities: Agi (Fire) , Cleave, Bash, Sukukaja (Hit/Evasion up), Sharp Student, Sukunda (Hit/Evasion down), Maragi, Maragion, Agilao, Masakunda, Masasukaja, Headbutt, Atom smasher, Vorpal blade, God's Hand, Charge, Drain Fire, Pets: None Occupation: Highschool Freshman
Bio:
Hiro is the type of person who just keeps to himself and stays out of trouble. With his polite and quiet nature, he avoids most conflicts. He a popular kid who are rich or trendy looking. His father was a mortician and his mother was a model and a singer. His mother is the reason why so many kids are jealous of him. Some tried befriending him, but he rejected. Hiro and his mother moved out because his father was abusive whenever he came home after a few drinks. Parents got a divorce, and now lives under the custody of his mother. His mother was chased by record labels and producers and model agencies, and was mostly away due to those. Hiro on the other hand enjoys going to Kenjutsu classes and is very skilled in this art. He achieved numerous awards, praises and notoriety, but snuffed them as he disliked the idea of going public for the whole world to see.
