So, I love the persona series, mainly persona 4 and it's "recent" re:make for the ps vita. The persona series was introduced to me a few years ago in a trailer for persona 3, where the characters would use a gun (which I now understand to be called an "evoker") and shoot themselves to summon their persona monster thingy and fight. I merely wrote it off as "oh silly jrpg, you never cease to amuse me."
Then I played persona 4 as I saw the anime and thought "This is kind of interesting, I just hope the tarot card thing is how it works in the game instead of the guns." I played P4, and man did I love that game. A game with the standard but well designed JRPG turn based combat and the unique system of weaknesses, knockdowns, and shuffle time for extra rewards after the battle, that was combined with actual in-depth (though somewhat generic and cliched, but still developed and well done) story and characters that made me feel for them. The use of Social Links to increase the strength of your personas gave your interactions with other characters more weight than the already tremendous emotion that they display within their story bits.
Then I played back into P3 and such, before getting a vita nad playing Persona 4 Golden, the updated remake that also introduced more content with a new character, extra dungeons, and other such things. Basically, Persona 4 and it's Golden remake are games that got me back into the shin megami tensei series after I played the digital devil games, and I loved those as I loved this game. It was familiar yet unique at the same time and fuck it was awesome.
So, now that I got my plug about persona in, let me explain the focus of this RP I want to pursue.
So, "Persona" Void of the Screen" is an "original" story that I want someone to help me with. Your role in this story would be playing the protagonist of the story, similar to the protagonists of the past persona games.
This RP will take place in High School (at a fictional city of course) where your character is new to the area. You will meet an array of characters that I will be controlling before being told about the rumor circulating threw school. There's a new app, simply called "Void." When opened without headphones on, the app simply open up a picture of a person too hard to make out. They say that whoever uses the app with headphones on, they'll be able to hear the mystery person's voice screaming in agony for help. After 7 days, the mystery person will be revealed, and the next day they'll be found on the news dead. Once the app is downloaded, the app can't be deleted, and whenever the app is pulled down from the download site, it will appear back up within an hour, so it's impossible to truly get rid of it.
From there, it will be a rabbit hole of sorts for your character and his/her friends to go down into and pursue, trying to figure out what the app has to do with the murders.
So, I'm used to explaining my rules for those interested, so here goes.
1. PM vs. Thread: I prefer to use PM's over threads but I don't mind making a thread for the ooc/ic
2. Posting: This is an advanced RP, so at least 3 decently detailed paragraphs of writing per post. Also, don't go more than 2-3 days of no posting. If you can't post on this schedule regularly, don't bother looking further. If something comes up during this period and you need more time to post, then notify me with a pm or something so I'm not left waiting. If you go 2 weeks without posting, I drop you, simple as that.
3. Don't be a dick: I try to be courteous and kind to my partner's, please give me the same treatment.
4. Don't hesitate to drop: If you need/want to drop our RP, then just tell me. I'd rather lose the RP entirely than slowly drift into worse and worse responses before deciding to break it off myself. If it isn't for you, just tell me and we won't waste each other's time.
5. Limits: I have none, but I do believe in moderation. I don't mind doing gore, but we don't need to go elfen lied levels of human blood bag explosions okay? I don't mind doing a smut scene if you insist, but I refuse to make that a focus. I don't mind cursing, but cursing too much just makes it seem like you can't write. I don't mind doing romance, in fact for a persona RP I think it's a reasonable to pursue romance, but I won't do "lovey-dovey" bullshit cause much for the same reason as smut, it can become a focus and ruin the RP. Remember, at the heart of persona, it's a game based on forming relationships to STOP A GREATER EVIL, not unadulterated hand holding bullshit lol.
So those are my rules. If I haven't driven you away with my rules or the semi-written plot, then please, send me a PM of a CS for your protagonist.
Name:
Age: (16-18 preferred)
Gender: (This will affect who you can pursue as romantic relationships)
Appearance: (Pics are encouraged, especially anime pics. Don't worry, this is an RP based on a JRPG, pretty sure that anime pics would just be easier to use)
Personality: (Are you shy? Are you open minded? Are you nihilistic? Just give a 1 or 2 paragraph description of what your character is like)
Weapon of choice: (This will affect the RP later, but does your character like using swords, axes, spears, etc? Just give a type of weapon your character would fight shadows with)
Strength: (The persona series has several styles of characters, that range from those that focus on casting spells, those that focus on buffing/debuffing targets as well as healing them, and then physical based damage. What does your character excel in? The choices are "Valor" "Wisdom" and "Support")
Weakness: (If your character is good at using physical attacks, they probably suck at casting damage spells. If they use damage spells, they suck at healing and support based spells. If they excel in support spells, they probably aren't good in doing physical damage. Basically it's kind of like rock paper scissors. Whatever your strength is, the weakness would be what they can't do well. Valor = weakness of wisdom, wisdom = weakness of support, support = weakness of valor. These last two bits are basically to just solidify how your character would work in the combat scenarios. Do you want to be on the front lines? Bombarding your enemies from afar? Or focus more on helping your allies survive while they fight?)
Now, I know you might be a little disappointed if you know the persona series and want to have your own unique persona, but for the sake of the story I will be assigning you a starter persona. As the RP progresses, I will allow you to create your own personas to use in addition to your starting one, as the game does.
Anyways, as I said before, if you're interested, PM me with a filled out CS and title it "Persona Void Quest Character" and we'll take it from there :)
If you insist on avoiding PM's, you can post it here instead.
Then I played persona 4 as I saw the anime and thought "This is kind of interesting, I just hope the tarot card thing is how it works in the game instead of the guns." I played P4, and man did I love that game. A game with the standard but well designed JRPG turn based combat and the unique system of weaknesses, knockdowns, and shuffle time for extra rewards after the battle, that was combined with actual in-depth (though somewhat generic and cliched, but still developed and well done) story and characters that made me feel for them. The use of Social Links to increase the strength of your personas gave your interactions with other characters more weight than the already tremendous emotion that they display within their story bits.
Then I played back into P3 and such, before getting a vita nad playing Persona 4 Golden, the updated remake that also introduced more content with a new character, extra dungeons, and other such things. Basically, Persona 4 and it's Golden remake are games that got me back into the shin megami tensei series after I played the digital devil games, and I loved those as I loved this game. It was familiar yet unique at the same time and fuck it was awesome.
So, now that I got my plug about persona in, let me explain the focus of this RP I want to pursue.
So, "Persona" Void of the Screen" is an "original" story that I want someone to help me with. Your role in this story would be playing the protagonist of the story, similar to the protagonists of the past persona games.
This RP will take place in High School (at a fictional city of course) where your character is new to the area. You will meet an array of characters that I will be controlling before being told about the rumor circulating threw school. There's a new app, simply called "Void." When opened without headphones on, the app simply open up a picture of a person too hard to make out. They say that whoever uses the app with headphones on, they'll be able to hear the mystery person's voice screaming in agony for help. After 7 days, the mystery person will be revealed, and the next day they'll be found on the news dead. Once the app is downloaded, the app can't be deleted, and whenever the app is pulled down from the download site, it will appear back up within an hour, so it's impossible to truly get rid of it.
From there, it will be a rabbit hole of sorts for your character and his/her friends to go down into and pursue, trying to figure out what the app has to do with the murders.
So, I'm used to explaining my rules for those interested, so here goes.
1. PM vs. Thread: I prefer to use PM's over threads but I don't mind making a thread for the ooc/ic
2. Posting: This is an advanced RP, so at least 3 decently detailed paragraphs of writing per post. Also, don't go more than 2-3 days of no posting. If you can't post on this schedule regularly, don't bother looking further. If something comes up during this period and you need more time to post, then notify me with a pm or something so I'm not left waiting. If you go 2 weeks without posting, I drop you, simple as that.
3. Don't be a dick: I try to be courteous and kind to my partner's, please give me the same treatment.
4. Don't hesitate to drop: If you need/want to drop our RP, then just tell me. I'd rather lose the RP entirely than slowly drift into worse and worse responses before deciding to break it off myself. If it isn't for you, just tell me and we won't waste each other's time.
5. Limits: I have none, but I do believe in moderation. I don't mind doing gore, but we don't need to go elfen lied levels of human blood bag explosions okay? I don't mind doing a smut scene if you insist, but I refuse to make that a focus. I don't mind cursing, but cursing too much just makes it seem like you can't write. I don't mind doing romance, in fact for a persona RP I think it's a reasonable to pursue romance, but I won't do "lovey-dovey" bullshit cause much for the same reason as smut, it can become a focus and ruin the RP. Remember, at the heart of persona, it's a game based on forming relationships to STOP A GREATER EVIL, not unadulterated hand holding bullshit lol.
So those are my rules. If I haven't driven you away with my rules or the semi-written plot, then please, send me a PM of a CS for your protagonist.
Name:
Age: (16-18 preferred)
Gender: (This will affect who you can pursue as romantic relationships)
Appearance: (Pics are encouraged, especially anime pics. Don't worry, this is an RP based on a JRPG, pretty sure that anime pics would just be easier to use)
Personality: (Are you shy? Are you open minded? Are you nihilistic? Just give a 1 or 2 paragraph description of what your character is like)
Weapon of choice: (This will affect the RP later, but does your character like using swords, axes, spears, etc? Just give a type of weapon your character would fight shadows with)
Strength: (The persona series has several styles of characters, that range from those that focus on casting spells, those that focus on buffing/debuffing targets as well as healing them, and then physical based damage. What does your character excel in? The choices are "Valor" "Wisdom" and "Support")
Weakness: (If your character is good at using physical attacks, they probably suck at casting damage spells. If they use damage spells, they suck at healing and support based spells. If they excel in support spells, they probably aren't good in doing physical damage. Basically it's kind of like rock paper scissors. Whatever your strength is, the weakness would be what they can't do well. Valor = weakness of wisdom, wisdom = weakness of support, support = weakness of valor. These last two bits are basically to just solidify how your character would work in the combat scenarios. Do you want to be on the front lines? Bombarding your enemies from afar? Or focus more on helping your allies survive while they fight?)
Now, I know you might be a little disappointed if you know the persona series and want to have your own unique persona, but for the sake of the story I will be assigning you a starter persona. As the RP progresses, I will allow you to create your own personas to use in addition to your starting one, as the game does.
Anyways, as I said before, if you're interested, PM me with a filled out CS and title it "Persona Void Quest Character" and we'll take it from there :)
If you insist on avoiding PM's, you can post it here instead.