[h2]Love Live! Mirage[/h2]
[i]A story of school idols coming together for a blindingly brilliant performance[/i]
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[h3]Background[/h3]
[i]The School Idol scene in Japan is at its height, with the Love Live championship reaching a fever pitch. The Karasugadai School Idol Club, comprised of mainly third-year students, had a legendary performance that won Karasugadai's first Love Live championship. However, at the start of the new school year, the School Idol Club is in danger of being disbanded. The only remaining member has resigned as an idol after winning Love Live, and if no students step up to reform the club, Karasugadai's shining moment may never be repeated.[/i]

[i]Your character, whether they were a first year attracted to Karasugadai because of the school idol club's achievement, or a third year who ignites a newfound passion for performance art through school idol activities, will be a part of the group that saves the club from disbanding.[/i]

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[h3]So what's this about?[/h3]
This RP takes place at a fictional girl's school in the fringes of the Tokyo Metropolis, Karasugadai Girl's High School. Karasugadai had a history of a strong arts program, but only recently gained popularity with school idol fans due to a dark horse idol unit sweeping the Love Live championship and then dissolving soon afterwards.

This RP takes place the school year after this legendary performance. The PCs will be tasked with saving the Karasugadai School Idol Club, and ultimately trying to perform in events ultimately leading to the Love Live championship itself. The focus of the RP will primarily be on the idols coming together as a club for the first arc, so characters may not even start as idols - but obviously they should have some kind of reason to join.

There isn't any continuity with existing Love Live series, other than there being a Love Live competition that every school idol aspires to win. I would say that the themes and tone of previous Love Live series are what I would like to use as a model.

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[h3]What if I don't know anything about Love Live[/h3]
Well, since there's no continuity you don't need to know any particular facts. Just that there are idols that sing and dance to perform while still being students (school idols) that often put on performances to compete, with Love Live being the name of the national championship that is seen as the apex of school idol competition.

But to elaborate more on the tone and themes I talked about:
-Focus on the relations between the school idols, how they come together, and how they work together to win
-Less of a focus on "idol industry" activities, lots of finer details and logistics are kind of handwaved (i.e. they may have a songwriter student but it's never really explained how they put together entire well-produced songs for performances)
-Keep an optimistic outlook in the end even if things can get heavy / relationships can become strained
-Around the second season there's a few points where the characters always do something really silly for comedic effect

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[h3]Character Sheet[/h3]
[hider=Char Sheet Template]Appearance: A verbal description helps along with a faceclaim.
Name: Unless they're a transfer student they probably should have a Japanese name
Year of School: First, second, and third years.
Why they joined Karasugadai: This may not have anything to do with school idols, but it may give some background about their interest in the arts which might help the school idol club when they join.
School Idol Status: At the start of the RP the school idol club is in shambles. PCs may have varying states of interest in school idols, but they [i]must[/i] be made with an intention to end up joining the club. State how interested they are at the outset, and if they aren't, state some kind of reason that they would become interested.
Idol Specialty: What would they bring to the club? For example: Making costumes, writing songs, dancing, fitness training, etc. You can get creative with this but it's best if it's something that ties in with their reason for joining the club and/or their reason why they are at Karasugadai in the first place.
Idol Alignment: There are three alignments: Smile, Pure, and Cool. There can be a major and a minor alignment (i.e. major cool, minor pure) or just one. This one is really self explanatory so you should all just get it.
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Once character sheets are accepted there will be an addition to the character sheet for connections to other PCs. Since interaction dynamics and relationships between characters are extremely important, it might be best to try and think of how to have at least two direct connections to other player characters, but that's best done after sheets are vetted, so just keep it in mind.