@Databug
Honestly, I have a joke too, but it will probably never come up over the rp.

Such rude.
Ya'll just jelly o' Milla's thiccness. :<

Anywhoodles, it's 1 AM, and I should probably go skeep. Even if I gots the vacations, dun wanna mess up my sleeping schedule too much. :v

@Databug
I enjoyed that post a lot. xD

So, do you want me to just reply with Camilla giving some pointers and... Other stuff? Or do you want to do a full-on collab with some actual conversationifications?

What exactly does a collab entail? How is it different from us just posting as reacting to each other?

Collabs allow for shorter responses, so you can get more conversation completed in less words/sentences.

@XaltwindLet's go for a collab then.

The contestants:

Gotta love how everyone is such a total badass already and all the NPC contestants are apparently just bumbling flunkies who can't even put up a bit of resistance. xD

@Databug
Very well, I've sent you a PM to get the collab started. ^^

The contestants:

Short chat?

@SilverPaw

Yeah sure.

@Xaltwind

Eh, how I see it is that this is a test really meant to cull the actual bumbling contestants since by the end there will be way less than half by the time this test concludes. Once that happens, I imagine that those who are left are the actually competent or the lucky and those are the guys we fight in what I am going to assume in sparring test where I think they will pose an actual challenge. Either that or we're about to be victims of the Worf Effect.

What is this Worf you speak of? :o

@Xaltwind

You know, the guy that Startrek that's supposed to be tough so they use him to show how much stronger an adversary is?

I never really watched much Star Trek.... Was he the guy with the blue shirt and pointy ears?

@Xaltwind

That's Spock. I only really know a few characters, but I heard of the Worf Effect from a skit

Ah, alright.

Well, anyways... I dunno if there'll be any culling. I mean, in the original series, the only person who wasn't picked by a knight squadron - as far as we know - was Asta. But he man-childedly stubborned his way into the Black Bulls by not leaving when nobody raised their hand for him.

So, unless the Magic Knights in this 150 year future are waaaaaaaay too overstaffed, I don't imagine the 250~ something peeps who don't get their hands on a flying gold ball will just get tossed to the curb and get a participation medal. xD

EDIT:

Then again, given what the announcenrs and master of ceremony said, I fully imagine there'll be some applicants who don't make the final cut, and that's is less of a "Haha, you loser!"-deal these days then it was back in Asta & Co's time.

Ah, alright.

Well, anyways... I dunno if there'll be any culling. I mean, in the original series, the only person who wasn't picked by a knight squadron - as far as we know - was Asta. But he man-childedly stubborned his way into the Black Bulls by not leaving when nobody raised their hand for him.

So, unless the Magic Knights in this 150 year future are waaaaaaaay too overstaffed, I don't imagine the 250~ something peeps who don't get their hands on a flying gold ball will just get tossed to the curb and get a participation medal. xD

EDIT:

Then again, given what the announcenrs and master of ceremony said, I fully imagine there'll be some applicants who don't make the final cut, and that's is less of a "Haha, you loser!"-deal these days then it was back in Asta & Co's time.

I mean, in the manga it was pretty clear there are people who no one chooses. Given Asta was the only newcomer for his squad, Yuno for his, and in general there only seeming to be a handful of trainees from what I've been able to tell so far...I don't think a culling is unusual?

Huh, I don't recall that's how it was in the anime. But I might be wrong. In which case, whoopsies~ Muh bad.

From what I could tell, it wasn't so much a "there can only be X number of accepted applicants," it's "there's a bar of expectations we expect junior knights to pass, if you're not there yet then nobody's gonna let you in."

That Sekke guy ("Zeke the Bronze") got absolutely bodied by Asta in the spar, and wasn't anywhere close to Yuno in terms of power, but still got picked by the Green Mantis squad. Meanwhile, Yuno himself had the approval of every captain so he got his free pick of who to join. Essentially, it depends on the standards of the captains themselves and whether or not they think someone qualifies after they've seen what that person's capable of.

Also, Asta wasn't the only newbie--Noelle was stated to be a new recruit from the same batch. It's just that nobody wanted to be on the Black Bulls even if Yami raised his hand, cause, before Asta joined up, they were too dysfunctional. They were at -30 Stars for their missions because of their screw ups, lol.

I'm also gonna guess that, since there's only one big "recruitment drive" per year, many of the squads would wanna replace or recover their losses from stuff like injuries, retirements, dismissals or deaths from the past year as well. Only accepting 11~ new people per squad PER YEAR seems a bit low to me. But, hey, like I said, I don't really remember the start of the series that well. :<



I did like how "Zeke the Bronze" became BFF with King Silvarillion though. xD

@Duthguy planned on writing parin interacting w the ball that albie had shot at, lmk if ur abt to post smth cause i'll prioritize finishing it up if so (wont come any later than thurs either way)