Alright, time to start hashing things out before I go into the IC proper.
@VertigoSo, first off, with regards to Ryuu’s hijinks. Chance encounter sounds great. Maybe they both encountered each other in the mountains then? This could be when they were both fairly young, so Junko would’ve still been a dainty little girl who was doing stuff like lifting small rocks or pushing/pulling trees or stuff like that. Kinda giving the image of a kiddo replicating hardcore training. Kinda like a sealed childhood memory that is vaguely incongruous to their present selves so neither of them made the connection. That being said, maybe later down the line, Junko encountered Ryuu in a scrap with some bullies/delinquents and stepped in? That’d be the incident where she broke her nose, which she treats as a badge of honor because she definitely tossed the dude into the stratosphere immediately afterwards. And maybe there’s some form of ‘fight buddies’ connection afterwards, with Junko offering a hand whenever Ryuuichi needs backup in a scrap, and Ryuuichi never taking that hand because he’s a lone alpha wolf in his head.
@YankeeWith Takaya, yeah, I’m expecting that they’d have interactions just from an administration sorta view, yeah. I think that she’d be generally aware of him, but more owing to his relationships with others. Oh, but imagine. Imagine if his parents told him that he should strive to make better connections in high school. That he should focus on earning the favor of the Arashiyama ojou-sama rather than waste his time with the mediocres in his class. Huhuhu…
Oh, but I’m not really envisioning that they’d have played together all that much in childhood, or been aware of each other at all. At early elementary school, Junko would still have been very much a proper young lady (outside of having a big appetite), and would still have been keeping her mountain training a bit of a secret.
@KensaiWhich leaves me with Koharu. Depending on the timing, I think it’d make sense if Junko only knew the post-dead-parents Koharu. Since the diner was set in Minamikawa, and Minamikawa is the premium Aogumo-hiking destination, maybe it was the case that during late elementary school/early middle school, she was also one of the regulars there? Something like a sweaty-ass, pudgy-faced girl, sunburnt and scratched up from whatever was on that mountain, descending every afternoon to order a whole table’s worth of food for herself and just chomping industriously at it. Always paying with a black credit card, despite her relatively rough attire.
And then, when they re-encounter each other in high school, they could’ve bonded over memories of that diner, becoming closer-than-normal friends. There’s probably a sense of noblesse oblige on Junko’s part; she’s entirely willing to help Koharu with her money problems, but she also holds back on that offer, because she wants to see how far Koharu can go with her own strength. Whenever she needs it though, that credit card will be ready.
Also wanted to check real quick. Is this the kinda RP where we decide on pairings ahead of time and then more or less settle into them? Or is it more of a vague kinda thing, with the possibilities of love triangles and rivalries and complicated hijinks like that?
