No metagaming, no godmodding, auto-hitting, no controlling other people's characters, no doing things you shouldn't be able to do. This is all standard stuff.

No being a bully OOC. You can be a bully IC though. That's totally fine.

If you'll be taking a leave of absence, let me know so everyone doesn't wonder if you died. If you don't do this, tragic things might happen to your character while we're waiting for you to post, which would be really sad.

You are not always right. That said, neither am I. OOC debate is welcome, but let's not get too excessive, yeah?

Name: If you don't include a surname, I will deny you on face.

Gender: Male, Female, or Genderfluid Transabled Apocalyptic Disaster-kin.

Age: Um, yeah. The student age range should be 16-18. Nonstudents can be outside that.

Appearance: Yes, you can use a picture. Yes, you can put it at the top of the CS all nice and centered with a fun little italicized quote centered beneath it.

Personality: Don't skimp on here.

History: They are a high school student. Don't go crazy.

Skills: Anything notable that the character can do.

Other: ???

Name:
Karuta, Seiko
Seiko, Sei, Ko, or anything really, she's not that picky about names.
She could definitely come up with something worse for you if you call her something bad.

"Uhm...are you blind? Do I need to take my shirt off or something?"

Gender:
Female

"Young enough to get away with breaking and entering. Hehe~"

Age:
17

"I know, I'm hot stuff. Now quit drooling."

Appearance:
Seiko has red hair, and is somewhat on the tall side, standing around 5'6". Make-up isn't really her thing, though she does know how to use and wear it. Appearances are important, after all, and what better way to get a good story than to don a bit of makeup and do a bit of...flirting with the head of the sports team? Her dress varies, though is mostly unremarkable. In school, she's not one much for a dress code, preferring to wear jackets and other things that can easily conceal stuff. She carries her trusty camera and various notepads in here. Usually wears long jeans and sneakers.

Personality:
Seiko, well, to put bluntly...well, some would call her a mischievous little rascal who always stick her nose where it doesn't belong. She spends most of her free time looking for the next big story that would probably get her 'famous'. After all, its her dream to be a top investigative journalist/news reporter/best selling novelist.

Really, she's not picky as long as she gets to write. Messing with other people in the process is just a bonus.

This gets her into no small amount of trouble with everyone. Most people find her incredibly annoying - especially the staff, who on a few occasions have had to...'remove' her from areas of limits to students when no one was supposed to be there. Really, if she was an adult she'd have at least four trespassing charges.

Of course, that's only if she gets caught. But she's pretty good at talking her way out of things.

Despite this, she is rather friendly to most, though she does have a sharp tongue and a bit of a mouth on her. Just expect her to constantly be looking for dirt or other information on anyone or anything so she can write a little blurb about it on her blog. (which, she might add, has quite a few followers from around the area) And you, will be dragged along whether you like it or not. Also, be prepared for uncomfortable situations and questions. Her questions know no boundaries.

One thing, however, is that she denounces all thing supernatural as tricks of the light, wind, electricity or some other chance anomaly. Ghosts? Pfft. They don't exist. Just smoke and gas. Until someone shows her hard evidence, proof she can actually touch, test, and otherwise interrogate with her pen, she will not accept it as real. Other than writing and gathering stories, she herself likes reading, and will usually sit down with a good work of fiction for relaxing. Despite her love of fictional stories and such, she denounces all occult and ghost things as mere fantasy. She always carries a camera and a pen with her. Always.

"Me? Pfft, I'm more interested in you! Come on, any embarrassing stories? Gossip? Place I can get good pantyshots? I'll pay you~"

History:
Seiko has lived a relatively normal life. Her father is a retired police officer, and her mom is a librarian at a local library. She spent a lot of her childhood in the library helping her mom work, and reading a lot of books - from educational, to fictional, to some she probably she should not have read until she was older. (yeah, she's always had an insatiable curiosity. You tell her not to go somewhere or not to do something, she will find a way to do it.)

While this would have made some people shy bookworms, it turned her into a veritable fountain of information that wanted more. Whether it be useless, smart, or something completely unrelated, she was always a smart and somewhat crafty kid. She even had a healthy curiosity...and fear, of the supernatural for a time. Well, until she found out the ghost that was supposedly trapped in the basement was her dad and his friends playing pool and other games rather loudly. (and somewhat drunkenly).

Since then, she took a healthy interest in the occult, but not to try and prove it...rather, to try and disprove it through any logical means possible. An occult club? Well, how about that! She's always up for debunking nonsense and making people look like idiots. Its her favorite pastime, after all!

"I am incredibly talented, aren't I?~"

Skills:
-Blackmail
-flirting
-sneaking
-breaking and entering
-writing
-Is actually a fairly decent artist
-Knows how to get her hands on information. You want to know something? She knows people. Get rid of...evidence? She also knows people.
-frighteningly skilled with a Camera. Always carries multiple ones on her, from her high-tech digital camera, to a back-up disposable one.

"Spoiler alert: I'm not into guys~"

Other:
- She is, in fact, a lesbian. And doesn't care who knows.
-Secretly loves anime. (Hopes no one finds out)
-Writes fantasy short stories frequently in her down time if not reading or doing something else. (Will probably die of embarrassment if it gets out.)
-Secretly writes...questionable (and by that, I mean smutty) fan fiction among other things.
-Tends to click her pen a lot, especially if she's excited.
-Handwriting is surprisingly (well, can be unless she's scribbling furiously on her notepad or something)
-She, is in fact, a skeptic. While she doesn't exactly deny their existence, until she has undeniable proof, they don't exist. She joined the club simply so that she can disprove any shenanigans the club might have planned. (Oh, and get some material for her blog that involves messing with the club)

Name: Watanabe Yoshi

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Personality: If there is one thing that is an essential focal point of Watanabe Yoshi it is her devotion. She is incredibly loyal to her Protestant Faith, but she is also incredibly loyal in general. She patronizes the same arcades and shops that have proven themselves to be quality service and will refuse to go to another store unless the ones she went to shut down. If you win her friendship she will remain steadfast to you and probably overlook some bad behaviors, as long as they aren't enough to condemn you to Hell. Yoshi keeps secrets and takes appointments and commitments very seriously. As such it is safe to say that Yoshi is headstrong and fairly passionate in all of her dealings.

Yoshi views herself as a good Christian and as such she acts like a model citizen as much as she can. She has a very calm demeanor that can only get disturbed by either belittling of her faith, or by seeing supposed acts of devilry. When it comes to having her faith belittled or seeing Christian ideology shaken, Yoshi typically responds with very passionate and outraged speeches. If that doesn't solve the situation she is not opposed to flailing around to physically solve the problem. However when it comes to devilry, Yoshi is driven more by fear. She will throw out various protection charms and engage in superstitious rituals in order to supposedly protect herself from it alongside a probable shrieking and crying.

Despite her faith, Watanabe Yoshi is really quite easy to provoke into a fearful state. As such she avoids most things in the Horror Genre, and is not hesitant of using others as a shield behind her own personal luck charms.

History: Watanabe Yoshi has a peculiar bit of history, which is mostly peculiar due to the fact that both of her parents are Christians. Her family comes from the Protestant Faith and they instilled the faith of the church in both her but also in her siblings. As her father was a fisherman there were often periods of times that Yoshi did not see her father. Whenever she actually managed to see him it always seems as he collected some nastier scars upon his person. This in turn drove Yoshi's mother to pray more often in order to make sure her husband would come back safely so she wouldn't become a widow and so her children would remain with a father.

While Yoshi was not allowed anywhere near the docks her father worked she was allowed near various beaches, lakes and other of bodies of water. In fact her father encouraged her enjoyment of the ocean as he felt it was a good and honest life. So Watanabe got involved with swimming. As she got better at it, alongside other water based activities, she began to make friends who she could exchange interests with. One of her newfound friends was an actor who thought that Yoshi could possibly do a decent job at it. Yoshi took to it like a fish to water, and with that she found it to be a good way to help bring others towards the light of Christ. But the most important way came when the Occult Club was shanghaiing people to join in. Watanabe joined the club willingly in order to demonstrate the Awesome Power of the LORD, and keep any of these people from trying to consort with demons.

It is what a good Christian would do.

Skills:
- She can recite much of The Good Book from heart, and has a pretty good familiarity with the history of Christianity and its practices
- Fanatic Devotion; while this mostly applies to the teachings of Christ, if you have won her over she will be incredibly loyal
- Excellent Swimmer alongside being generally decent at many water-based activities
- Public Speaking
- Acting
- Calligraphy for Ofudas

Other:
- Yoshi sometimes dreams about becoming a member of an Idol Group, partially because it'd be fun but also in an attempt to spread Christian Rock and the like to Japan
- She is a fan of arcade games
- Besides carrying many magatamas on hand she also creates many Ofudas out of a superstitious fear revolving around Lucifer and his daemonic forces
- Speaking of superstitious Yoshi is indeed superstitious and often does peculiar rituals, such as revolving a doorknob twelve times of a room she thinks might be tainted by Satan

Name: Aika Aramachi

Gender: Female

Age: 16

Appearance:



Personality: On the surface, Aika seems to be nothing more than a vain and really quite vapid schoolgirl. Her life seems to revolve around fussing over her appearance and other equally vain pursuits. A conversation with her will most likely flow onto some topic about fashion or evaluating the looks of others or lamenting the fact the school doesn’t allow them to dress their best and instead thrusts these generic uniforms on them. Aika even joined the track team not out of any great love of fitness but simply because she heard it would help her maintain her figure. Her main concern on said track team is not to go at it too hard out of fear she would become too athletic.

However, while all of the above is still accurate, her true “passion” does not lie with clothes, accessories and the like. Aika is in fact a huge proponent of wild conspiracy theories and loves nothing more than to read way too much into any given situation. Going far beyond mere gossip (though she indulges in that plentifully), Aika is prone to taking the smallest of hints of a secret and turning it into something it likely isn’t; if she hears a student happens to be visiting a teacher after class, it means they’re having a steamy romp in the classrooms, and if she spies a man in a black suit outside the school, it’s clear that the government is keeping tabs on them to root out sedition. The occult is not safe from her fantasies too; a ghost seen stalking the corridors at night must be a former student that was murdered by the principal to keep them quiet, and if demons are being called into this world they would have to be summoned by a megalomaniacal villain hellbent on conquering the world with their demonic hordes.

Of course, Aika doesn’t advertise her conspiratorial tendencies. After all, you never know when the government is listening in, or whether the person in front of you is in on it all. But she isn’t perfect, and her excitement can get the better of her. If she really were to stumble upon clear “evidence” of a crime or conspiracy, she might just choose to inform everyone of the “truth”. As of yet, however, she has yet to be in such a situation, so Aika is presently just a vain little high schooler that just so happens to be interested in the occult and other weird things.

History: Aika’s family was always mildly wealthy; they weren’t some mega corporate Zaibatsu group, but they had enough money that Aika could go around buying whatever expensive little pieces she wanted. During her early life, that was what defined her; the girl that kept bringing expensive accessories to class and getting huffy when told they weren’t appropriate for school. Nothing cheered her up more after a bad day than spending money on some new piece of clothing or an even more garish trinket than she had yesterday. As she got older, she simply bought things more akin to girls her age, and never got past her desire for more things.

It was at age 12 that she discovered her greatest interest. While browsing the internet, she happened to stumble upon a web page filled with all kinds of weird theories about just about everything. One theory in particular happened to claim that Yakuza thugs were using local schools to traffic drugs. Aika thought nothing of it until she did indeed see a suspicious man loitering around the gates of her school, with one of her friends making a joke that he looked like a Yakuza. Now Aika was convinced that the rumours were true. It didn’t matter that one of her friends told her they actually knew the guy and he was just a cosplayer waiting for his friends; that just meant her friend was part of the Yakuza too. Aika now ate up every rumour and theory she could find on the site and by virtue of more than a few coincidences became certain that they were all true.

Aika’s new obsession followed her into highschool, though nobody knew it about her just yet. She had even started her own website where she created her own theories about what was going on in society and the world at large. She made up her mind to join the Occult Club for two reasons; first to see if any of the rumours about ghosts and spooks at the school are true, and which member of the faculty murdered them, and to investigate whether the club itself is involved in suspicious activity. Of course, if anyone asks, she joined because “it’s like, just a bit of fun and stuff”.

Skills:
-Being a member of the track team, Aika is a decent runner if nothing else. Although she has curbed her enthusiasm for the sport out of fear of developing too much muscle, she is still reasonably fit and capable of fleeing in terror without losing her breath all too quickly.

-As an avid conspiracy theorist, Aika is keenly aware of the possibility that the government might realise she knows too much and attempt to track her down. That is why she invested much in figuring out how to protect herself online; she knows her way around code and whenever she’s online she’s hiding behind at least seven proxies. While it’s unlikely anyone will need to be e-safe in an occult club, if they ever need to use a computer, they just so happen to have someone who can wrap computers around her finger.

Name: Yamauchi Ai
Gender: Female
Age: 16

Appearance: Coming up at a measly 5'1 with brown eyes stuck behind the perpetually smudged glasses she wears, Ai is, outwardly, about as threatening as a dandelion. Her hair is a plain brown color, bobbed a few inches above her shoulders, with the only thing resembling "style" being a quick comb-through behind the ears. She dresses unnecessarily nicely no matter what the occasion - wrinkle-free button-down shirts combined with a pair of dark jeans, stud earrings, and heeled boots (not to compensate for height or anything, of course not!) are a wardrobe staple. Her build is lightly pudgy from the sweet tooth she was cursed with.

Personality: Ai likes to portray herself as being an easygoing person who is quick to action and slow to anger.

Unfortunately, this is often not the case.

No, Ai has inherited quite the temper from her mother, and as a result can be particularly cruel to those she sees as "inferior" to her intellect. A hard atheist, she sees no reason to believe in "childish things" like religion - or the occult. But more on that later. She is incredibly narcissistic, and this is obvious from one's very first interaction with her. She'll go into completely "pompous ass" mode, in which she pulls out every ounce of sesquipedalian loquaciousness she has to impress you. If you pass her "check", she may lower her guard and act more like, well, a human person. And if you don't? Well, prepare to be treated like the scum of the earth.

But if one is resilient enough to get a little bit closer to her (or, perhaps, if she thinks you're cute), a wholly different side emerges. When Ai sets down all pretenses of superiority, she becomes what she truly is: an insecure wreck who pushes away others to protect herself. Around these select few people, her jokes will soften; her body language will loosen; you might even catch a glimpse of that small, sincere smile, the one she usually masks with a scoffing sort of grin.

...But she's much more likely to just be an ass.

History
Her family history is about as vanilla as it can get, aside from the divorce of her parents. They have quite a bit of tension between them; her father threw himself into his work, while time seemed to stop for her mother. Since her mother can barely take care of herself, it is Ai who must keep up with things such as cooking and the rent while they feed off of child support money.

For years now, Ai has become increasingly dissatisfied with what she sees as a "boring, cookie-cutter life". She took up the guitar in attempts to make herself more interesting - but, fearing rejection, never plays it in front of others, let alone lets anyone know she has one.

Then she took up cryptography, which proved to be so interesting that she practically went into a month-long frenzy of codes, codes, codes, until she lost steam. She'll still scribble down a Caesar or two, but not the the fervor she once held.

The next logical step in the quest for the recognition she deserves was the student paper, which among its pages upon pages of sappy love-poems and angsty "open letters" towards society or whatever had the sorry lack of true intellectual material. So, she began to submit her essays: long-winded, arrogant, but ultimately coherent enough to warrant frequent publication. Hey, if nothing else it padded out the papers. Now they were big enough to be used as doorstops!

...And then she got bored. And when she first heard that voice over the school's loudspeakers tittering on about something as absurd as an Occult Club, she couldn't resist some old fashioned debunking. Yes, she'd show these blind sheep how the world really works...

Skills
- Writing nonfiction, such as essays; she is a frequent name in the student paper
- Quite good at recognizing patterns and cracking codes
- Is moderately 'okay' at the guitar

Other
- Unsure of her sexuality
- Allergic to cats
- Secretly listens to grunge rock
- Has unironically worn a fedora
- Creates codes in her spare time to the point that almost all of her school supplies are covered in ciphers
- Has a vast database of obscure and completely useless trivia