The year is 2032.

Throughout human history, there have been incursions by the Phase. A strange, alien race of beings located in a dimension out of line with our reality, the Phase are impervious to conventional weaponry entirely. A single touch from the Phase causes a catastrophic chain reaction, the human body rendered into a fragile glass-like substance that soon crumbles into tiny shards. History has proven that, time and time again, any attempt to stop the Phase has ended in tragedy. The only saving grace has been the rarity of their emergence: Decades can go by without a single sight of the Phase.

And yet... in the last twenty years, there has been a sudden increase in Phase incursions. More and more Phase have emerged into the world and wreaked havoc, their attacks costing countless lives before they disappear as suddenly as they came. These newest attacks have most frequently surfaced in the nation of Japan, and it is for that reason that certain dark, secret projects have resurfaced.

The RELIC system. Using the ancient relics, even degraded as they are, as the catalyst to clad those on the appropriate wavelength in anti-Phase armor and equip them with weapons operating in both our reality and the out-of-phase sublayer inhabited by the Phase. A secret project designed to bring humanity's future into sharp relief, to provide a future for the human race.

A weapon to destroy the Phase.

But using the RELIC system is not so simple. Only those who operate on the appropriate wavelength and can properly communicate with these ancient artifacts and be clad in radiant anti-phase armor. Only girls known as Tuners can use the system. Extensive tests were conducted, every possible outcome studied, but only these girls can wear the Relic System made to destroy the Phase.

It is for this reason that the Kondo Academy for Girls was established, a girls school both intended for education and to gather potential Tuners for the use of the projection.

The Special Disaster Recovery Agency, known as SDRA, secretly constructed a base beneath the Academy, in order to monitor any potential candidates...

It's also a place of education for those who are already a part of the project.

But even in spite of the confidential nature of the Relic System, can it be truly said that the SDRA and the Japanese Government are the only ones privy to knowledge of the system itself?

Or even the only ones who have those who can wield it?

Will you become a Valkyrie clad in legends?

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So, this is a new, heavily-Symphogear-inspired RP!

It's basically Symphogear, for that matter. ^^; The only reason it's not actually Symphogear is due to how heavily involved music is with the series I believe it's impossible to do as an RP proper.

For anyone who doesn't know about the series that I used as inspiration, this RP will be a high-impact, fairly serious(but mostly not particularly dark) magitech magical girl RP mostly based around fighting strange extradimensional monsters known as the Phase. Naturally, you'll be playing as the girls using the RELIC system, some who have not yet learned about their potential and others who are already part of the project.

Additionally, I'll be allowing people to play members of SDRA as well as friends of the RELIC users, and on top of that I'll also allow antagonists(whose details will be revealed privately to those players) to be played, though there will be some limitations on their ability to post for a period of time.

Additionally, @Raineh Daze will be my co-GM for this RP.

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• Phase: Bizarre extradimensional beings that obsessively pursue humans soon as they materialize in the world through "cracking air". Indeed, on their appearance, the very air seems to break apart like fragmenting glass. This is the way the human eye perceives their entrance into this reality. Upon their entry, Phase appear as strange, semi-humanoid or animalistic, brightly colored shapes. Upon any contact with a human body, that human's body is converted into a glasslike substance which soon cracks and breaks apart. Only those clad in the RELIC system can touch them without being killed. Due to their out-of-phase nature with reality, conventional weaponry cannot harm them. Only the RELIC system is cable of damaging a Phase. Phase are categorized from least to most dangerous, ascending from TYPE: WOLF, to TYPE: KRAKEN, and finally TYPE: DRAGON.
• RELIC System: Relic Energized Linked Internal Computer, or RELIC, is a system utilizing ancient artifacts to form a suit or armor and weapons capable of resisting and destroying the Phase. These artifacts heard of only in legend have most frequently degraded to the point where they are absolutely useless on their own, but when a Tuner equipped with the RELIC system aligns with a relic this internal energy is converted int a suit of armor and weapons, that are used to destroy the Phase. The system also allows for special, named attacks that are more powerful then normal blows. (Given this is basically Symphogear, I fully encourage people to come up with attack name cards)

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Bios:

Tuners:

• Name:
• Age:
• Gender: Female
• Appearance:
• Personality:
• Skills:
• Brief Backstory:
• Relic:
  • Name:
  • Armor Appearance:
  • Capabilities:

Other:

• Name:
• Age:
• Gender:
• Appearance:
• Personality:
• Skills:
• Brief Backstory:

I feel like I've been picked solely for liking Symphogear too much, but whatever. D:

Im in, character incoming

Name: Ueno Amane
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance:


Personality: Amane is a leader, comfortable in taking charge in a situation and getting things under control. She seeks common ground between herself and others, avoiding unneccessary conflict and enemies. Her life is very organized and complications are quickly taken care of.
She is slightly uncomfortable with her role pretending to be a high school student, even as a girl she was uncomfortable in a uniform with a skirt and now more than ever prefers the JSDF uniform that she feels defines her life.

Skills: Amane excelled in armed and unarmed combat, absorbing the lessons readilly. Had her career gone on normally she would have ended up in the airbourne brigade. As such, she is incredibly fit for a high school student.

Brief Backstory: Graduating with high grades and the chance to pick any college she wanted, Yoshiro Amane was indecisive and aimless. Instead of picking a high paying career she chose to enlist in the military on her 19th birthday.
It's no surprise that taking orders agreed with her. She excelled at it in school and that habit continued. What was surprising was that she also did well in leadership roles. As Amane gradually took on more responsibilities she shouldered the added burdens easilly. Towards the end of her first year she was recognized as being a potential candidate for the Carnwennan Relic.
In 2031 the SDF deployed a unit overseas in concert with the SDRA to Northern Africa as a part of its expanding humanitarian role within the United Nations. The threat was due to a concentrated Phase outbreak that was being combated by other UN forces. Amane had her first taste of combat with the Relic System alongside western forces that expanded the knowledge on how the phase were to be fought.
In the following year she was enrolled in the Konda Academy as a student two years younger than her actual age. In this position she still retains her official SDF rank of sergeant.


Name: Carnwennan
Armor Appearance:


Capabilities: Carnwennan grants the user the ability cloak themselves in shodow and to hide their presense. It's weapon system is a number of edged daggers that cut with absurd sharpness though lack the impact of a heavier weapon. Other than its superior stealth capabilities it has little show for defense.

• Cutting Wind — An dash forward cloaked in darkness that strikes with a blade in each hand.
• Bladefall — Similar to Cutting Wind but with a piercing attack from above.
• Impaling Storm — A series of blades fall from the sky to injure and immobilize the target with daggers.
• Driving Edges — A formation of blades follows Amane, striking as she does and working in tandem with Cutting Wind and Bladefall.
• Relentless Daggerstorm — Daggers rain from the sky in a series of massive waves, engulfing an entire area.

@TheFake: Accepted.

@Raineh Daze: Accepted.

@VitaVitaAR (I hope this OC idea works!)

Name: Mina Miyamoto

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Appearance:



Personality: Mina is the type who tends to seem relaxed on average, the sort of person who gets things done and does not try to “sweat it out” more than she feels necessary, and who tends to behave themselves as they see fit without an ounce of regret. She even has a friendly side that is not afraid to approach others new to her, and give her opinions out without hesitation when she feels it is needed. As a student Mina allows her grades to be rather average, but not bad, though in reality she knows if she put in just a little more effort that she would be “one of those A-grade students going into the best college one day without any major effort”.

However, she also possesses a great fondness of snacks, from small chocolates to chips to the things one can generally find out of vending machines. She was called in the past the “vending machine master” of her middle school, know just where the best machines were for the best food and snacks from them. This being noted, she does tend to watch her weight and do some personal exercise routines at home to stay in that skinny, curvy shape that she has maintained even through her life even until this time, not wanting to let her habit of snacks and vending machines go too far.

Skills:

Snack Food/Vending Machine Food Finding Extraordinaire- She has what seems like a “sixth sense” for finding quality local vending machines and quality snack foods in stores and supermarkets. Though not actually a form of precognition, she just has a natural penchant for this honed by years of experience back home with her father.

General Fitness- She is a generally fit teenager, actually, through her home exercising, not the most in the world but enough to be rather capable in general athletic matters and feats.

Kenjutsu- From her many years spent in learning kendo, as well as the fact she is joining the Kendo club at the Kondo Academy for Girls when she starts going there, she has some experience with a sword that the average person would not have.

Brief Backstory: Mina Miyamoto is the daughter of her father Hideki Miyamoto and her mother Yuki Miyamoto. Both of her parents and her originally lived in the Aichi Prefecture whilst Mina’s father worked as a monk at the Atsuta Shrine, a Shinto shrine that contains many treasures from Japan’s past and is one of the most important religious places in Japan on top of that. For years Mina grew up with the expectation from her father that she would one day become a priestess, a “miko”, as her mother had been in the past before stopping to become a homemaker after marrying her father. Though this matter generated some arguments, her father did still go out with her at times to get snacks from vending machines in the city, a habit he had formed himself after high school many years ago before seeking to become a priest. In this the two bonded, with her mother sometimes coming out with them on rare occasion, though eventually her general performance in school, and signing up into her school's kendo club to try to appease her father, left her father eventually giving in to not push her to enter becoming a miko.

However, as she was going to choose a high school to go to, the Atsuta Shrine was approached by top government officials that were part of the RELIC program, with a request of them for relics or at least parts of them for their project. This shocked the priests when their most famous relic was requested for as well as part of the project, though after some negotiation and governmental muscle flexing, the shrine revealed that a broken fragment of said “famous relic” existed that had been recovered along with the sword the last time it went missing. This part of this holy relic was placed within a sealed western-style reliquary necklace, and was to be kept watch over by one of the priests of the shrine to ascertain its integrity through the course of the project. Said priests would, as part of the shrine’s deal, have their home host the wielder of this fragment of a relic when its wielder was discovered as a sort of formality.

So with her father chosen, unbeknownst to her, to be that special priest to stay with the relic and keep tabs on it during the RELIC program’s course, as well as potentially keep tabs on the other things RELIC had taken for its use. Mina and her family were moved to a certain city to a large apartment provided by the leaders of the RELIC program as such, with Mina herself being enrolled in the Kondo Academy for Girls as a result as well without knowing the true nature of the place or her father’s new “job” he was doing in this area for the Atsuta Shrine. Even so, Mina determined to continue on with life as was the normal, at least for an area of the world becoming more troubled by Phase attacks. Little did she know that this would come to change her life in more ways than one.....

Relic:

Name: Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi

Armor Appearance: ???

Capabilities: ???

Attack Card(s): ???

Accepted.

@Noodles: Hmmm... I think her Gear is a little underwhelming. Give it some more attacks and functionality, keep in mind that everyone's weapons can transform and change shape and function(to some extent).

@VitaVitaAR - Updated with Flicker & Chain Lightning ^_^ ~

I'd also note a lock on capability doesn't need to be considered an attack, just something she can do. You can replace it with a more involved function if you want and just mention she's capable of locking on.

@VitaVitaAR - Made another tweak on the CS :3

@Noodles: Accepted.

IC post is gone! Villain introduction pending, trying to work out how to handle it. ^^;

I'm not quite sure how this flew under my radar, I like magical girl Roleplays... Permission to participate if you'd have me Vita!