Oh right, I'd rather not triple post but I would also like people to actually notice this, um, your character does not have to be a regular user of the app but they do need to have seen it in action with the phone in their hands at some point.

A bit bare bones, but I've discussed a lot of the rest of his details with Vita already.



[@VitaVitAR]

Since we discussed this before, accepted!

@SaintRice@banjoanjo@Nerevarine@Altasaire@ERode@Dark Lugia

Since the RP started, here's a mention for everyone who hasn't gotten a bio up yet but shown interest in the thread. You have plenty of time to complete your bio, so don't worry!

• Name: Hotaru Ozawa
• Age: 17
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: Bonjour
• Personality: Hotaru is a rather mellow and passive young woman. She's typically found at home or at the library studying, and if not there, she is likely working from home or in an activity with her church. A constant hard worker, Hotaru is surprisingly disorganized and messy for someone of her demeanor. Those who have visited her home make note that her room is full of garbage like half-eaten food and empty soda bottles, as well as dirty clothes that act like a second carpet.
• Skills:
  - Translation: Hotaru's particular specialty is her skill in translation. In addition to a mastery of the Japanese Language, Hotaru speaks English at the level of a native and has high skill in Mandarin, Korean, French, German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew as well.
  - Encryption: In connection to her skill with languages, Hotaru has developed and honed the ability to create intricate and complex cyphers.
• Equipment: Hotaru carries around a backpack with her that contains a notepad and pens, her work computer, a series of langauge drill primers, and her bible. As well, she's rarely seen without her smartphone, wallet, and her portable game console, usually loaded with an RPG or puzzle game.
• Soul Arts:
  Ghosting: Inserting the Soul Art's chip in her neck behind her ear, Hotaru is able to take on a state wherein her body density can be manipulated, allowing her to change into a lower density state to increase speed and dexterity in battle, as well as increase density to add more power to her punches and take hits better.
• Brief Backstory:

Hotaru is a native of Nagasaki. Her Father and Mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hiroji and Megumi Ozawa are Roman Catholics who moved from Nagasaki shortly after the birth of their daughter. Since then, the life of the Ozawa family has been pretty ordinary. Aside from their religion, they are a completely normal Japanese family.

Hotaru Ozawa is an average girl in many ways. She is not too popular, but not to vilified. She arrives to her classes on time, has a modestly sized circle of friends, regularly goes to church, and has a facination with video games. Perhaps her only major quirk is her skill with and love with languages and her job as a translator for a video game company. Hotaru first came in contact with Strange Gospel at her school and downloaded it to investigate it, but was horrifed by the content and quickly denounced it as Satanic and refused to assocaite with it any further. When the issues of horrifying and disturbing imagery came up, Hotaru was once again quick to denounce the app as something Satanic and began to encourage everyone around her to cut all interaction with the app and avoid in all possible ways.

As of now, Hotaru has been working as hard as she can to avoid all interaction with Strange Gospel, and devoting herself extra to school work and her job.

@VitaVitaAR

@Nerevarine: While I'm not usually prone to accepting things very late at night, I'm very awake this time and see no problems with your bio, so accepted.

Incidentally, I'd like for everyone to somehow run into each other before I get things going.

If you're having trouble with that, I can post to help out with it, but at the moment I'd like everyone to meet somehow.

I feel bad about triple posting again, but I'd like to make it clear that everyone can sign up with up to two characters, including if you're using a villain.

I'm saying this because I decided to introduce a human character to help out with some things. ^^;

• Name: Sasegawa Hikaru
• Age: 15
• Gender: Female(as of now everyone should believe her to be male)
• Appearance: Hikaru has light skin, very dark red hair, dark red eyes, and tends to wear black clothing. She is just under five feet tall. Copious amounts of binding are involved.
• Personality: Hikaru is a very serious individual. Her belief is that she must focus on her work as a detective above all else, even to the detriment of all other aspects of her life. Wishing to honor her father's memory, and to be taken seriously, Hikaru disguises the fact that she is a girl. She believes that others would doubt her skills and think that she only achieved her dream of being detective because her father was a highly respected detective himself. She is deeply self-conscious of this fact and fears that this belief would tarnish her father's memory, and therefore she hides her femininity. Hikaru has no friends to speak of, dedicating most of her free time to detective work. She is proud of her work, and takes pride in doing things properly. When she cooks, she follows recipes to the letter. When she works, she carefully inspects every single angle. Hikaru is very blunt and to the point, and somewhat unhesitating to call others stupid or foolish. This is both due to scorn at times and due to her tendency to plainly state what she perceives. Hikaru is very self-conscious about her femininity, and hides her figure in concealing clothing as a result. She is actually quite easily embarrassed or flustered in spite of her blunt attitude, but it's not likely that anyone will find it easy to do so while she still is believed to be male. Finally, Hikaru has difficulty understanding romance or why anyone would desire it with her, feeling very awkward about the prospect. While she is celebrated by the police, she also is aware of being resented for her youth.
• Skills: Hikaru is extremely intelligent and analytical, excellent at observation and analysis of her surroundings. A skilled detective in spite of her young age, Hikaru has solved multiple cases, including murders, using her capabilities. She is also a remarkably capable cook, but only when using recipes. She also excels at marksmanship, being trusted with a revolver in spite of her young age and the strict gun control laws in Japan(obviously not on school grounds).
• Equipment: Hikaru carries with her, when she is not on school grounds, a police-issue revolver. Aside from that, most of her typical detective equipment is on her person at all times. This includes the means to dust for fingerprints and various other methods of observation.
• Soul Arts: BANG! A Shocking Development!!! - Hikaru's Soul Art is inserted directly into her palm. Once inserted, she gains a translucent pistol alongside her revolver, which can fire bolts or bullets of electricity. The bolts are more powerful, but the bullets can hone in on her targets.
• Brief Backstory: Hikaru was born to Sasegawa Mami and Sasegawa Ryouji. Sadly, her mother passed away not long after her birth, leaving her to be raised by her father. Hikaru was brought up on stories of justice, stories of detective work paying off in getting the bad guy. Naturally, her own dreams were formed by this, and she made the decision to become a detective herself, just like her father. This goal was furthered by her naturally high intelligence and analytical attitude. Unfortunately, none of this could prepare her for her father's death on the case. Now living with a friend of her family's, Aoi Yumeko, Hikaru resolved to become a detective who could uphold the Sasegawa family name and carry on her father's legacy. Fearing that she would be treated as nothing more then the product of nepotism due to detective work largely being a male profession, Hikaru decided to hide her female nature and pretend to be male. Working with the police force, she has solved multiple cases that include several murders. She is currently assigned to the Strange Gospel case. At Yamamura High, she is believed to be male and has a very long list of female admirers.

... Before anyone says anything, I know she is basically Naoto(the one Persona 4 character I know anything about) but that was by accident until I realized what I'd done and just decided to roll with it. ^^;

Meant to post a lot sooner. Home life suddenly decided I don't need time to myself after work these days.

@VitaVitaAR
Sorry for the late submission. Here ya go.

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Godlike selfie game.

@banjoanjo: While it's late, I'm pretty awake so I feel like I can okay him.

If we can have a second character, I'm gonna add one in. The team could use more men too

@VitaVitaAR



Name: Chiyu Shoukei (朱 祥瓊)

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Despite her shockingly pink head of hair (all-natural, thank you very much), the five foot three teenage girl isn't someone with a particularly noticeable aura, unless one of her many strange ideas pops into her head and she recklessly decides to go ahead with some action that draws people's attentions. Indeed, one merely needs to take a gander at Shoukei's ridiculously sparse wardrobe (stocked just in order to ensure that she can alternate between outfits when some are in the wash) to conclude that, yes, if she has a fashion sense that isn't tailored entirely towards looking like a brightly-coloured background extra, it's one that's almost nonexistent. While definitely not totally lacking in savvy towards clothing, she definitely is somebody whose care ends at "being presentable", although depending on whether or not she'd brushed her hair that morning, even that can change. Sometimes she wears glasses. She does, however, have an incredibly expressive face.

Personality: At first glance, Shoukei seems like one of those quiet, studious types, someone who prefers to keep silent and fade into the background rather than engage with the rest of society on a regular basis. That view is ... half-right; while it is true that she doesn't care for being in the forefront of life and whatnot (despite a mild attention-seeking streak) due to all the energy it would require of her, the actual reason behind her seeming lack of social activity is her constant need to think things through around strangers. As someone already not too predisposed to talking, a lot of the time she spends her efforts formulating the proper conversation starters, thinking through the consequences of what words she may say, and whether or not others would welcome her actually talking to them. And then it turns out that she's lost her window of opportunity, so she simply shrugs her shoulders and decides to do better next time.

Of course, none of her planning actually comes into play when she actually gets into a conversation.

Shoukei's manner of speech is, to put it bluntly, incredibly off-the-cuff, with a certain irreverence to it that some people could construe as rudeness. She certainly doesn't try to be rude, of course, and that's pretty clear to see in her interactions with figures of authority (who tend to receive polite addresses from her), but the moment she crosses the hurdle of "should I actually try talking to this stranger", she starts loosening up, and any attempts at staying formal immediately devolve into incredibly casual dialogue (and depending on the situation, loudness). Under the seemingly quiet persona she's accidentally adopted, it becomes pretty telling that the pink-haired girl is an amicable lass, although the contents of her words can be, at times, a bit eccentric. The closer she is to you, and the more casual she is, the more likely it is for her to not bother with thinking through her words. Sure, the running commentary in her brain (which is, despite her friendliness, somewhat dismissive from time to time) is always turned on, giving dry observations of happenings, but even that can't stop her from blurting out what's on her mind.

And her mind certainly can come up with weird things.

She isn't too fond of being a weirdo, however, although she's resignedly accepted that, yes, she's definitely somewhat more eccentric than your usual gal. It doesn't stop her brain (which ping pongs from nihilism to shining optimism like a table tennis match in high level Chinese leagues) from constantly trying to pretend to have some veneer of normalcy. It's why it's easy for her to play both funny and straight woman if necessary, because ignoring her inherent strange nature, she likes the concept of an easy, quiet and perfectly normal life. Her exasperated snarking does tend to be more mental though, because she doesn't want to verbalise any disrespectful thoughts too much. She still does, but they're not too common, thankfully.

Or at least not common enough to do much to her reputation (which admittedly isn't too great but hey, nobody thinks she's anything worse than a weirdo).

Something to keep in mind is that Shoukei possesses a pretty sizable streak of selfish cynicism. While she does do her best to keep it under bay, it does end up colouring a lot of her worldview. And serve as a source for some of her materialistic ambitions. Even if she prefers the quiet life, there are just some things that she really wants, and will do anything to get it. Like the position of Student Council Treasurer, triumphing over her rival to do so.

It can be noticed that she's rather petty, too.

In the end, however, she's still a studious and diligent young girl, and for all her flaws and eccentricities, Shoukei can be someone hard-working and effective in her duties, to the point where you can describe her as some sorta freight train in her intensity. She has an almost unhealthy sense of responsibility to almost any task she's been assigned (a flaw which she acknowledges and awkwardly tries to avoid by convincing others of her lack of suitability as being in charge of things), and will fight 100% to make sure it comes out properly.

Even the smallest things. Especially the smallest things.

She'll get them done, no sweat.

Skills: For all her weirdness and tendency to leap before she looks, Shoukei's actually pretty smart. Grasping and understanding the concepts of how things work comes pretty easily to her (which explains the overall excellence of her school grades), so it doesn't really take long for her to suss things out. Lateral thinking is something that she still needs to work on, but when getting down to the nitty-gritty details, she can definitely get it through. Her diligence towards getting things done is almostly inhuman, to the point where she can function on almost zero sleep (well, almost - if she's had a few late nights, do expect her to be taking advantage of any break to snooze). Physically, of course, she's not that amazing, although some say that if she's either scared or super pissed, the adrenaline turns her from "mediocre" to "Usain Bolt's got nothing on this lassie", but that's just an exaggeration of her tendency to perform slightly better when motivated. She learnt to speak Chinese from a Beijinger, hence her excessive rhotic consonants. Her cooking boils down entirely to ... well, boiling. And eggs.

Equipment: Mobile phone; wallet (bank card, cash, library card, photo ID, fabric store loyalty card, coffee store loyalty card, some old receipts she's forgotten to throw away); a lot of pens; a notebook of miscellaneous deeds; chopsticks case

Soul Arts: Lil' Miss Acoustic - when inserted into a slot present on her right forearm (usually hidden under her sleeves), Shoukei gains the ability to reduce some of the damage she takes from enemy attacks by converting the energy received from them into sound waves (through a complex series of events which boils entirely down to "her body starts oscillating"). In itself, this ability would be admittedly useless, and an added strain on her body, but once she begins to produce sound waves, she can manipulate the direction of their displacement (usually by redirecting it towards her foes). The intensity of these waves depend on the attack she's redirecting, although it goes without saying that she's definitely more powerful underwater (given the denser medium). Of course, that means she's useless in space.

Brief Backstory: The firstborn daughter of a government clerk and a teacher, Chiyu Shoukei grew up in a rather normal upper middle class household, albeit one with a significant focus on education. Her early years were rather bland, having spent much of them merely going to school and absorbing everything that her teachers and parents sought to instill in her and training up her head for numbers through her maths classes. It wasn't really until the later stages of her elementary life (and bleeding into middle school) that she (and her fellow self-actualising peers) realised the extent of her eccentricities, a revelation that she promptly sought to correct through a series of rather embarrassing and unspeakable events that she refuses to acknowledge ever happened. Yet the repercussions on her reputation stuck, and so Shoukei threw herself even further into her studies, hoping to quickly get into high school and blot out that stain on her person.

Her wish, fortunately, was somewhat fulfilled with her arrival onto the campus grounds of Yamamura High. While it was impossible to entirely avoid being seen as a mild weirdo by her peers (particularly when some had gone to school with her earlier), the pink-haired girl, despite her background extra-like nature, proceeded to establish a niche for herself as someone studious and diligent, settling into her new school with requisite gusto. At first, she decided on trying to have a rather quiet life, but on a whim, she found herself throwing her name into the ring during the student council elections.

Much to her surprise, she was given a position.

Despite her relative youth, Shoukei was thrown straight-first into the position of Treasurer, forcing her to give up her dream of an entirely quiet life with the realisation that she was now in possession of great responsibility. The assignment also coincided with the introduction of Strange Gospel, which, while she did download, found itself being left to the wayside as she struggled to handle her new job. Being a treasurer was hard work, and the ever-responsible Shoukei decided that a random mobile phone app was of no import when compared to balancing the budgets and serving as a receptacle for school clubs complaining about funding cuts. With the sketchy rumours emerging around it, going back to using it has only become less appealing to her, allowing her to focus her efforts entirely on her work.

It might not be entirely fun, but the duty is one she must bear.

@Nerevarine: Accepted.

@Crimmy: Accepted.

@VitaVitaAR What month is it, in-game?

April.

Okay, start of the school year then.

Huhm, looks like Shoukei's probably in her second year?

Unless she just turned sixteen, yeah.