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Welcome to this Anime-style RP about the everyday lives of office workers... if those lives are suddenly upended by weird, supernatural shenanigans that is! The tone I'm going for is an offbeat action comedy type of deal; so if that works for you: welcome aboard! There is an underlying mystery here regarding the shadowy entity that purchased the company that our characters work for. Our goal will be to basically dig deep to find out what happened, and kick lots of our former co-workers' asses along the way. It's cool: they basically got corrupted by the evil stuff going around or whatever justifies it for you! Among the enemy ranks are also plenty of supernatural beasts and monsters abound.

Of course, plain old normal people can't beat the paranormal, but you're ✨🎉 S P E C I A L ! 🎉✨ After ingesting some questionably stale coffee a coworker brought in, you find yourself with the runs. BUT, after that, you're quick to develop some supernatural/psychic powers of your own, and so the lot of you decide to band together and form the Salaryman's Alliance to dole out some righteous punishment (or pent-up rage). While the main building looks normal from the outside, the interior is constantly shifting and morphing as if it's limboed in some other dimension. And every day at 10 PM on the dot, you find yourself teleported out of the building and onto the street with no way to get back inside until 8 AM the next morning.

Stranger yet: you're apparently still getting paid to do your work even while you take down middle management and beyond. Is this some kind of otherworldly social experiment? Regardless, it's time for the regular working stiff to be the hero!
INVISIBLE PARAGRAPH BREAK WHOO-HOO!

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One day, the visual of an office worker with a rocket launcher popped into my brain. And then I thought about what if an entire office of people were fighting in some great brawl? I was highly inspired by the concept of 'karoshi': the Japanese term for death due to being overworked/work-related stress. It's commentary on how brutally taxing—both physically and mentally—the work culture is like for the common salaryman. So the idea is to have a way for them to cut loose and release their frustrations by fighting back against that oppressing force. I added in the paranormal slant to create a tangible 'monster' and to allow weird/unexplainable/offbeat things to justifiably happen that mirrors the lack of control the average Joe would feel. It facilitates the transition of passive characters to active ones. The idea of the setting is derived from dungeon crawling wherein our 'dungeon' is an ever-changing office building. So I hope this gives you more understanding of the themes at play and will help your approach to character creation.

@Yasha @Crimson Flame @Vertigo @SouffleGirl123 @Dragonfly 9 @Sanity43217 Tagging interested parties here~

*kicks down the door* HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

Expect my sheet to be out soon! :D

*kicks down the door* HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

Expect my sheet to be out soon! :D

That was my favorite door... (But I'm looking forward to the sheet!)

What do you think?

Personal



Name: Kenji Yamamoto
Nickname: Ken
Age: 23
Gender Male
Date-of-Birth October 15
Height 6’0”
Weight: 170 lbs
Family: Ken is not on speaking terms with his family.
Personality: Upon first impression, Kenji is a sweet guy. He acts happy go lucky, and always has a smile on his face. He is friendly to everyone in the office, and is willing to strike up a conversation with anyone. He says hi to everyone in the office, and he’s been known to bring baked goods for the other employees to enjoy. Because of his job, people turn to him when they need to someone to vent to and listen to their problems, and he does his best to help them. He gets high ratings for his customer service skills.

This is really just an act. Deep down, he is very irritated with his job, and his life in general. He studied to be an actor, he was going to be a star! Instead, he’s stuck in an office listening to Karen’s complain about every little problem they have, and then demanding to speak to the manager when they don’t get exactly what they want. At one point, he really did want to help, but being yelled at by people for things you have no control over takes a toll on your mental health. Now, Kenji could not care less what happens to people, or their problems. He just puts on the act for the sake of his job. He keeps his true feelings of rage bottled up. When Ken feels overwhelming anger, something miraculous occurs...

Dealing: Rage Constructs: Kenji is able to feed off of negative emotions in his surroundings, and turns them into energy constructs. His power scale with his anger. The constructs are blood red, with black tv static. Because his powers are fueled by his anger, he is often blinded by rage when he uses them, and as such can’t think clearly enough to make complex constructs. Usually enegry blades, blasts of plasma, and maybe the occasional force field.

Miscellaneous

Occupation: Customer Service Representative
Skills/Abilities
Charismatic
Acting skills
Charming
Singing
Dancing
Baking

Extra: He’s gay. His parents do not support this.

He wanted to be an actor, but his parents wanted him to be a doctor or a lawyer or something. When he announced he was studying musical theater in college, they cut him off. He took this job to pay the bills untill he got his big break. That big break hasn’t happened.

He was bullied a lot when he was younger. That adds to his anger.

Going to work on the sheet over the weekend most likely, just wanted to share that my character will likely have coffee-fueled/related superpowers because of course she does. Maybe depending on the type of coffee? Hmm, hmm.

@Crimson Flame Great work! Handsome rage-y boi is accepted~ Move em over to the characters tab.

@Vertigo Hahah, sounds fun, can't wait to see what you have in mind :D

Karen: Why didn’t you tell me my house was haunted?

Kenji: I apologize for the inconvenience, but we did state in the contract you signed that a murder took place there.

Karen: You expect me to read all of that? That contract was 10 pages long! You people are trying to scam me. I want a refund!

Kenji: I’m sorry ma’am. All sales are final, we can’t issue any refunds… But we can…

Karen: I don’t want to hear excuses. Get me your manager! Ugh, you people can’t do your job properly. Don’t you know, customer is always right?

Kenji: *Eye twitches* You want to speak to manager? I’m sorry, he’s unavailable right now. But you can SPEAK TO THE FUCKING KNIFE BITCH! *stabs Karen with an energy blade*

*Karen dies*

Kenji: THE CUSTOMER IS WRONG!

Had a lot of issues with posting and editing (im relatively new to the site) but eventually found out about editing. Anyways my SU is done

Personal

Name: Shigure Mishima
Nickname: N/A
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date-of-Birth: March 10th
Height: 178 Cm
Weight: 69 Kg
Family: Kaito Mishima (Father) The relationship is not a very deep one, and they aren't on the greatest terms. However, as long as Shigure does as he's told, his father looks out for him.

Personality: Shigure is normally a pretty quiet guy not making a big deal out of most things. In social interactions, he normally only speaks when spoken to outside of the normal everyday greetings and polite interactions which at this point are running on autopilot. At a quick glance one can easily just determine that he's just "That kind of character" allthough upon further inspection it's not too difficult to see he has somewhat of a defeatist attitude, barely ever doing any more than the bare minimum required of him. Despite this, he tries to keep a positive outlook on things, and keep his feelings to himself. However, it's not too uncommon to find him staring dreamingly out of a window or towards the elevator.

The reason behind his defeated attitude is quite simple. Throughout his entire life, Shigure has always been mr. Popular. The star athlete of his high school and college years, it is safe to say he peaked during those times, and now that he's confined to what he calls a "Boring office job i didn't even want in the first place" in order to please his bigshot father, he can't really do anything else but look back on his former glory days where he thought he could do anything he wanted.

Despite his feelings though, he takes his job seriously and puts on a facade when needed. He's quite decent in what he does, even though he gets very little joy out of it. All he does is trying to keep his father off his back, and avoiding the topic of marriage, which has started coming up more frequently as of late. Things are looking quite bleak for Shigure in his current state, however When he feels overwhelming hopelessness, something miraculous occurs...

Dealing
Weapon Energizing: Shigures ability is to psionically turn anything he touches into an energy-based weapon, which gives him a vide range of versatility. His main weapon of choice is a cardboard tube, which when energized by his ability, essentially becomes a lightsaber. Shigure would also create weapons out of entirely non-lethal objects found around the office such as coins, floss, twigs and even a coworkers laptop.

The energy itself is pale blue in color, and is easily capable of cutting through almost anything with little resistance. A drawback of this ability is that the energized weapons turn back to normal a few seconds after shigure physically let's go of them.

Miscellaneous

Occupation: Human Resources (HR)

Skills/Abilities
- Hand-to-hand Combat
- Soccer
- Fencing
- Level-headed
- Great stamina
- Creative

Extra
- He jogs every day to stay in peak shape.
- He used to play soccer with friends from college, however with his work schedule, he barely have time anymore.
- He really appreciates the coffee Netsu brings to everyone in the mornings, however he doesn't know it is Netsu doing it.
- He missed out on a big sporting oppurtunity after college because his father threw away the letters without telling him.

If you can delete posts just delete this one.

@Yasha Loving the cardboard tube laser sword as his go-to. Always nice to have that one swordsman type in the party. Accepted~

I'll habe a sheet up late tonight :D

Personal

Name
Ayaka Hirota

Age
25

Gender
Female

Date-of-Birth
30th June

Height
160cm

Weight
56kg

Family
Haru Hirota (husband), Kasumi Hirota (daughter, age 2), Kenji Takahashi (father), Tamiko Takahashi (mother), Kawaii (dog)

Personality
Ayaka Hirota is the chirpy young woman who sits behind the front desk of the office. This chirpiness is beyond a facade but translates to her everyday life. She is a gentle soul with a big heart. She loves good a conversation (even if she'll usually resort to talking about her family) and will happily drop everything to hear some of the workplace gossip. Ayaka has a good sense of fun and used to love a good party but since the birth of her daughter she hasn't been able to get out much.

Ayaka is extremely organized and detail orientated. She never really knew what she wanted to pursue as a career. None of her school classes really struck her nor did any certain degree ever sound all that interesting but she can reorganize files and write schedules like no-one's business so she got into the easiest role that allowed her to do as such. Ayaka is a bit of a busybody and likes to know everyone's business, which has gotten more fervent in the past years. Although Ayaka enjoys what she calls the 'trials and smiles of motherhood' she misses the freedom it takes from her and will try and live vicariously through her peers. Ayaka is a surprisingly anxious and timid woman, of which she is able to hide to varying degrees and successes depending on the situation. When Ayaka feels overwhelming anxiety or fear, something miraculous occurs...

Dealing
TELEKENESIS
Ayaka can mentally manipulate the movement of an object for a short period. The heavier the object the shorter the time she can control it. She primarily uses it to turn surrounding objects into projectiles or help weapons ammo reach their target but either pushing them onto the right trajectory or controlling their whole path.


Occupation:
Receptionist
Skills/Abilities:

• Very agile
• Extremely fast typing speed
• Can organize things rapidly in her head
• High stamina
• Cooking

Extra

• Ayaka was a gymnast in her teen years and although she is out of practice she is still rather agile and can do the occasionally trick or 2
• Ayaka initially quit her job when her daughter was nearly due but about a year ago her husband got into an accident at work meaning he cannot work full time in his labouror job so Ayaka returned to Taishi

@SouffleGirl123 Very cool to have a family woman among the cast. I think Netsu would get along great with her. Loving the diversity of characters ^^ Accepted~

@Blu Thanks! I love how different all the characters are!

Kenji has the same name as Ayaka’s dad.

Kenji has the same name as Ayaka’s dad.

Omgee I didn't even think about that. Literally read through all the characters before too bahahahaha

So just to summarize @Vertigo is working on their sheet over the weekend, @Sanity43217 won't have internet access until after, and @Dragonfly 9 is presumably working on their sheet atm. So timeline-wise, I'm hoping to start the IC mid-to-end of next work then.

Okay everyone, I plan to start the IC on Friday. For those still working on their sheet, that's the soft deadline.