Think of this alternate reality as the lovechild born from the tropes for both magic and professional heroism. To give you a better idea of what I'm trying to go for, I'll be drawing inspiration from various manga, but core concepts will potentially come from My Hero Academia, Rave: Groove Adventures, Onepunch Man, and HunterxHunter. Hopefully, you've got a better grasp on the foundations I'm trying to build off from. It's kinda necessary later on once we go into more detail with the world building for this story.

For now, let's just settle for the gist of things. The year is 2020 and the world has been co-existing with magic for over 300 years. The reason behind the relative peace that's currently being maintained around the world is primarily due to the strict magical energy regulation laws observed by most countries. In this world, people with superpowers (referred to as Peculiarities) are the norm, and being a professional hero is a dream commonly strove for by many; and if it wasn't that obvious yet, you will be playing the role of one of these individuals. Cool, right? Or at least kinda interesting, I suppose.

By now, you probably have a vague idea on what the setting for this story. Next, we can talking about magic a bit more. When I say magic, it's more of an ambient energy that exists throughout the world. How it translates into Peculiarities is less spell conjuring and sorcery, and more of biological mutations. Peculiarities are special, superhuman abilities an individual can possess and are generally unique to their user. Aside from the occasional alteration and mutation of peculiarities, they are inherited genetically and typically manifest in children by the age of four at the latest. There are several laws and procedures to ensure the conscientious use of peculiarities. During elementary school, children receive counseling, in order to learn how to use and moderate their powers responsibly.

Aside from Peculiarities, magical energy is also used to fuel and create various artifacts, be it a common household object like a self sustaining lightbulb or kitchen knife that never goes dull, to prehensile and indestructible cloth bandages or a sentient mallet. Yeah, things can get weird here.

Anyway, before I go any further, maybe I could get a show of hands on those who wanna join in?

Curious.

I'm interested ^^

Interested!

I'm in.

Interest piqued~

Sounds cool, will we be deciding our own powers or will they be assigned randomly? I always find it interesting when people don’t get to choose their power since you don’t get to choose your genetics in real life

I like this, interested!

I'm down.

More than I expected, but cool.

@duskshine749 I'm all for the idea, but won't require it. The last thing I'd want is someone to leave out of the blue because they aren't happy with their ability. If anyone wants to get stuff at random, they can request for it along with how random do they want to get with it. Giving me a theme to work on is fine too.

Anyway, I'll see how much more I can flesh out before starting the OOC thread. Just so you guys know, this'll be more of a stress-reliever for me. I'll try to keep this alive, but when I get swamped with work, me being MIA for a few days to a week would probably something to be expected.

@Scio totally understandable, for me I find I tend to drift towards the same couple powers for things like this. So I think it’s be good for me to get a list of like 3 to choose from.

As for getting swamped with work I get that. Sometimes I come home and just wanna veg out and do nothing. If I may suggest a couple things, 1, if two characters are talking, and one person doesn’t reply for a while (4 days to a week maybe?) then they can feel free to just say something along the lines of “we finished talking and I went on my way” or whatever just to keep things moving.

The second is depending on how story focused this will be maybe have a co-gm who can help do plot things if you’re not around?

@duskshine749 Yeah, sure thing. Once I get the character sheets out, just tell me if you wanna get some random stuff. Any themes or type of abilities, and if you wanna have it before or after making your character and stuff.

As for another GM, maybe later down the line if this thing lasts and things get a bit messy with the whole world building thing.

@Scio We'll do our best to keep your baby alive GM-sama. :D

the picture reminds me of Yoga Hosers. This RP isn't like that awesome movie but screw it I'm in.

I’m in.

*raises hand*

You have my attention.

@Scio - I'm a sucker for superhero roleplays but before I commit I must ask: Are profile pictures required? If so, what type? Photo or drawn?

i'm interested

Im in if there is too many people who are playing heroes Ill gladly play the part of a student that makes tools to help the students (think Mei Hatsume from MHA)