Welcome to Happiness, an RP inspired by a bunch of different things, such as Battle Royale, Doubt!, Youkai Ningen, Corpse Party, SAW, a bunch more different series which I forget about, and even a bunch of weird Japanese songs I found on the tube of you.

Happiness is a survival mystery where every choice you make could affect the characters of everyone else. Characters will die, unless they're smart. If they last long enough, perhaps they could see the light of day again.

The beginning would start in all of the characters waking up in a small room with a bed and a small cardboard box. Within each box would be a random weapon and a cellphone.

Each character would be working towards the same goal (more or less). They all want (or maybe not) to escape from the ghostly asylum that they are stuck in. However, that is difficult, seeing how many doors are locked and how many traps are laid out.

To make things worse, food and water are scarce. The only way to get new supplies is to complete a daily mission, given to you on the phone you get from the start. Daily missions come in on texts. They range from inane actions to targeted murders. Completing these missions are optional, -but- something bad may happen if you skip too many of them.

Of course, you could also take supplies from other people without their permission. But doing this makes you unhappier and unhappier. At some point, you would be declared as not happy at all, and that would be a problem, wouldn't it?

The more judicious people may even want to find out things about the person who has done this to them.

Still, there's a lot of stuff that I don't want to reveal at all, as to make it much more like a mystery. Everything would have to be figured out by the characters. Some hypothesis that they make could be correct, but some may also be false. Of course, some could even lead to a dead end.

Characters won't die instantly from making a mistake, however. They'll get two or three "Get out of jail free cards" before a mistake would result in a dirt map. But, the more characters there are, the less lucky they are. Teamwork would be necessary to get people out of sticky situations.

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Any question asked will be placed in the FAQ so people can find the answers easier.

Interested.

Sounds fun. A little like Danganronpa. I'm up for it.

Definitely interested! Love me some survival mystery.

I'm interested. Sounds like a fun time!

Alright. We have enough people for this to work. Here's an app, if you want to start writing a character.

Name: (What people call you)
Age: (How many years have you been on this rock?)
Gender: (What is it?)
Appearance: (Image/Anime/DeviantArt/Written/doesn't matter, they're only used as references, anyways)
Personality: (Either a paragraph or some brief points. I want to understand why a character does X)
Backstory: (You may keep it brief. I just want to understand a character's upbringing and such)
Talents: (Stuff like martial arts, detective work, etc. Be sure to add in why in the backstory.)
Other: (Anything that's missing.)

Could we post our characters now? Or do you want us to wait a little bit for the OOC to go up?

You can post them now or wait.

Whoops here's a character I got this idea pretty quickly.

Name: Austin Reid

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Appearance: Short swept hair, and a tall, firm frame keep this man solid in a consistent stance. His shoulders aren’t too broad, nor his legs too thick. His pride is apparent on his stance, but he isn’t one to let it become apparent. He likes tighter t-shirts and jeans, and bright colours are definitely his style. In fact, a few layers of his hair are coloured in a vibrant pink
Personality: Austin is confident, but it comes in twofold. On one side he’s willing to admit he’s wrong and allow other people to take the lead because he’s confident in his own skills. On the other side, his pride can often get the best of him, especially when it relates to his talents. Otherwise he has a soft bravado with a quiet presence, as if denying the brightness, he tries to bring to his appearance.

He isn’t afraid of who he is. You either love him or hate him, trust him or deny him, but either way he doesn’t care. He trusts that he can handle whatever situation that’s thrown at him. If he can’t, then someone he knows should be able to figure it out.

At least until things get dangerous. His confidence takes a serious downfall if in the face of danger. Like his flirting style, any confidence behind his words stumble and fade away when challenged by someone else. He won’t run away, per se, but he can find the whole situation to be overwhelming pretty quickly and crack under the pressure.

Also he’s a pretty serious flirt.

Backstory: Being a Psych major with a serious passion for his field, Austin grew up spending a lot of his time understanding people. He’d read up almost any book he could find on the subject, or books based on romance and friendships. Novels were something he’d spend every free hour consuming until he started becoming friends with people.

His priorities were always pretty straight. First focus on becoming a therapist, then on relationships, then reading. It was around high school age that romantic relationships entered that cycle. He’d end up with many relationships with many different people, but end up breaking them off a month or two later. He searched for the “perfect” relationship, believing that somewhere in all of his empathy and research he would be able to find it.
That has not been achieved quite yet.

Currently in the throes of his third year of school, romantic relationships needed to take a backseat for the work he was doing, involving plenty of extra credit doing research for numerous psychology professors. He was going to be one of the best therapists, and that meant he needed to do as much work as possible.

It was some research into old case files at a ghostly asylum that he remembered reading last.

Talents: Austin is a master of empathy, and he’s very good at judging current emotions or sanity levels in other people just by looking at them or sharing a short conversation. He can read and speak in most languages, although he sticks to English mostly (thanks to a lot of time spent wanting to understand books of various different languages). Austin’s an expert in language and logic-based puzzles as long as he’s given time to figure it out, though he cracks under pressure.

Other: He tends to keep people in his head on various scales. A mental, physical, and emotional chart from 1-10 so he can keep track of how people are doing. Usually he also keeps notes on this, but he can usually keep a decent mental map if he needs to.

Also not really important but Austin’s pan so romantic relationships can be with practically anyone.

Super duper interested.

Name: Justin Mai

Age: 21

Gender: Male

Appearance: Dark-brown, short chic hair that is usually kept neat and styled in a charming manner that frames his angular face quite well. He is of mixed ethnicity - his father being Chinese and his mother from the States. Because of his multiracial traits, his eyes are colored hazel are more of a rounded almond shape. He has an olive-colored complexion, inheriting the darker skin tones from his father. Being Chinese-American, he stands at a shorter-than-average height than his fully Caucasian peers, but only by a little. Though sporting a thin frame, his athleticism over the years have made his body quite sturdy, though it doesn't quite show underneath his usual fitted clothing. For his attire, he usually wears things that are pretty casual but stylish with darker colors.

Personality: Charming, laid-back, and sociable, Justin is a young man who is in the prime of his years. He radiates youth with his optimism as well as show it by partaking in silly risks and living his days with a splash of adventure and mischief. His confidence is backed by his stubbornness, a disastrous combination that usually leads him into trouble. Still, he is intelligent enough to never put himself and those around him in any real danger, as he knows he cannot forsake the future he had worked so hard for.

Because of his casual demeanor, he is quite charismatic and approachable. He carries a conversation as smooth as silk and has the ability to dissuade most tension in a situation with his logical and refreshing words. He can be really understanding but conversely, it's difficult for him to open up - but he hides it very well. In most cases, this makes him quite the liar, though he tries not to without good reason. He is more persuasive than intimidating, which is both a strength and weaknesses depending on the situation.

Usually he is level-headed and can be analytical with his surroundings, and though his fuse is long, there are things that can quickly set off his temper and make him quite rash. But again, he is able to mask his weakness quite well.

Backstory: His father was a descendant of Chinese immigrants who had came over to the United States during WWII. Though having grown up in San Diego, California since he was born, Justin's father and his grandparents were quite traditional with their Chinese roots. It was only after his father was in high school, where he met his American mother, that his sense of tradition began to fade and instead became quite 'westernized' himself. So when Justin was born many years later, he was raised primarily on American values and principles, with his Chinese heritage being sprinkled in here and there.

Justin grew up in a household of an average, middle-class nuclear family with him being the only child. His parents are hard workers, with his dad being a small-time manager of a metalworking company and his mom a receptionist at a local hospital. He himself is in his third year of University, just finishing up the remaining of his pre-requisites to apply for an externship that would finish off his medical imaging degree. He is quite adept with his major, having taken interest in Anatomy and Physiology since his early high-school days. He knows a lot about the human body, as well as having the basic fundamentals of pathology and medicine ingrained in his head after years of hard studying for his future profession.

On his down-times, Justin participates in various cardio and weight-bearing exercises so that he may keep in shape for his kickboxing hobby in Muay Thai. Though he lives on his own now, he still frequents his parents quite regularly as he his close with his family. Though he is quite sociable at school and well-known, he only hangs out with a select group of individuals that he calls his closest friends.

Talents: Being a student of a major that branches off of medicine, he is quite adept at first aid and giving out diagnoses and prognoses. Though his initial knowledge is severely limited, as long as the pathology is not too rare or complex, he's able to establish a very broad idea of what it is, and therefor, can maybe procure some sort of temporary remedy, if not being able to cure it without proper medicine.

As a practioner of Muay Thai, he is capable of self-defense but only to a limited extent. He has a small sparring background, and has only been training for a year.

Other: He loves sweets, and usually carries around some sort of small candy in his pockets.

OH I'm definitely interested in this! Gonna edit this post in the future with my character.

Name: Aedin Demavend
Age: 19
Gender: Male

Appearance:

Personality: Aedin is a survivor used to the loner life. He works well with others, but only as a means to meet his personal goals. He's a fast thinker with a sarcastic attitude. He doesn't like overextending his physical limits. Morals never enter the picture for him, only his self-serving needs.

Backstory: Homelessness is all Aedin knows. He grew up being raised by a homeless father that looked to take care of his own needs first and then Aedin's second. From a young age, Aedin had to grow up fast to survive. He learned how to steal by using others as a distraction. Of course he had his mess ups and close calls, but he was lucky enough to never be caught by the police. He always dealt with the problems he could with sarcasm, and even with the problems he couldn't deal with he used it.

He eventually got out of the city he grew up in after he turned 16 and he did it to get away from his father. He wanted to set up his own stomping grounds elsewhere. He settled down in San Fransisco and quickly found a spot he could use as a base of operations. There were gangs here that he had to learn to respect, but if he could get away with it he rather enjoyed ripping them off. He ended up building a small crew himself, but he couldn't call any one of them a friend as they all were only using each other and he knew it.

Talents: Improvisation - A fast thinker has to think on his feet, and a little bit of imagination can (limitedly) go a long way.

Street Fighting - Who needs to fight fair where you have to fight to survive? On the street everything is a weapon even the dirt.

Petty Theft - Gotta knack for stealing things. Oh, this phone? I'm just borrowing it.

Other: Bringing up his father is a bad idea.

I gotta take a break from all of this cartography.

And thus, I review the current characters.

@RedXCross Austin is accepted.

@tatszico Justin is accepted.

Now that one hour has passed since I took my break from making the map, I'll go back to it and stop slacking off.

@SilverDawnTake your time! Excited to see what the OOC will bring, as well as seeing the other sheets roll in. :)

@drewccapp Aedin is accepted.

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@tatszico@drewccapp@yoyohayli@RedXCross@Jinxer@Bombardier

OOC is up, so feel free to move your characters there if you've been accepted.

Interested, working on a character now.

@SilverDawn Question; can the characters be from anywhere in the world, or are we limited to a certain country?

@SilverDawn Question; can the characters be from anywhere in the world, or are we limited to a certain country?

Anywhere.

They don't even need to speak English.

Here goes:

Name: Irina Mehlakova
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Appearance:


Irina is a rather average looking girl. She stands at 5’4” and was roughly 135 lbs last time she checked. Working on the farm has given her strong arms and legs, and the muscle definition can clearly be seen. Her eyes are a light green, speckled with brown and her skin has a warm tan to it. Her hands are rough and calloused, from years of hard work.

Backstory:
Irina’s whole family, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, everyone, moved from Russia over to the small neighboring country of Latvia when she was very little. She doesn’t remember much of that time, but clearly recalls the long train ride from St. Petersburg all the way to Riga, Latvia. Her grandparents had bought a small farm just outside of the capital and for a very long time all 15 or 16 of them lived in that small wooden cottage. Soon, her parents bought an apartment in the city, but Irina chose to stay with her grandparents.

On the farm they owned; two goats, a mother and her son, a cow, a flock of chickens and various cats and dogs that would come and go as they pleased. Irina’s grandparents were old, and her grandfather had suffered a stroke back in Russia, so his mobility was limited. But together they planted fruits and vegetables, they looked after their small patch of land and even renovated the house a bit. Her jobs often included; tending to the garden, taking care of the animals, herding the goats and chickens through the woods by the farm, and hunting for extra food.

Personality: Working in order to survive, Irina grew up responsible and caring. She is a kind soul, especially to animals and anything involving nature. However, she is hardheaded and can be stubborn. Having never finished her schooling, Irina isn’t very well rounded in things like science, or History, but she has a passion for reading.
Sometimes, Irina can be very straight forward, it comes with the way she was raised, and because of this she sometimes struggles making friends. She’ll tell you exactly what’s on her mind, without even a second thought.

Talents: Tri-Lingual (Russian, English, Latvian in order of proficiency), Excellent reader, Can identify many plant and animal species just by looking at them, quick-witted, sharp tongue, very strong in her arms and legs, can walk/run for extended periods of time. Knows how to use a gun and is a fairly good shot.

Other: Sometimes she sings to herself. If she’s angry or stressed, Irina might start speaking in all 3 languages at once. Loves stories. Pansexual.