Nine teenagers from across the continental United States of varying age, gender, past and ethnicity are recruited - or I should say will be recruited - after an encounter with themselves. Who else would some punk kid listen to aside from themselves? Circa 1994, Bill Clinton is office, Schindler's List is wins 7 Oscars and abductions are rampant throughout the country, and probably the world, too. This generation is fed by the media with worldwide syndication becoming a reality with the popularity of Satellite television and the new-found internet. No single kid worried about a few disappearance across the country with so much input... until someone claiming to be them bursts through the door to their classroom one misty Tuesday morning.
Reality is, not every character has to be a punk. Teenage rebellion, however, is a common theme, and I want it to be part of character development. The characters involved should be between the ages of 14 and 18, and in high school, but. . . for the right creative purposes, I'll bend some rules!
Now, how can nine teenagers dictate the fate of Earth? The answer is, Earth doesn't mean a whole lot in the grand scheme. Countless worlds with countless potential are all being recruited and entire cultures are being used as sheep, harvesting those with high potential to become warriors in the next generation of intergalactic, yet some-how-still-mystic warfare. These people claiming to be you, bursting into your rooms, are from a decade or so into the future were they have already became War veterans, and already honed their powers. What they tell you is that its not enough and that they're nowhere near powerful enough to stop the new threat, whatever it may be. Warning you of your upcoming recruitment and unlocking your powers early as well as giving you advice on your own abilities and possibly a bit of insight to the future, these versions of yourself spend only a few brief minutes doing all they can to make the difference between their future and yours. The question is: is a few minutes enough to alter the fate of the entire world?
Yes, these people are from a variant of the future, and they will be played by me. The only live for five minutes or so before they 'dissipate' into essentially nothing, but what they tell you is this: you are, among a few others, some of the only people who have the ability to change the future and save the world, they just don't know how.
Doesn't seem like an anime plot, huh? A little bit of Terminator, maybe an element or two of Ender's Game with the youth of these characters, but the point is that the Anime element of this roleplay doesn't really come from its plot. It comes from how the powers will work. Earthly Science knows of energy, mostly kinetic, heat, potential, nuclear, so on and so forth. Those are physical energies. What they don't fully grasp are the metaphysical ones, and it is decades of not centuries past them. Dark matter, Quantum mechanics, the universe as a whole and the sub-atomic particles that even two decades later they will still be researching - all things they won't understand until science opens its mind to the meta-physical. Other worlds, however, already have. Inter-galactic Councils that utilize the powerful effects of Phase-Shifting and Dimensional Transportation through the meta-physical energy called Denkai, and know this: organic beings (intelligent humanoids) have the most potential to control Denkai, and use the powerful, destructive abilities that can come with it. Transportation is in and of itself an incredible aspect, but these users of Denkai - called Denizens - are trained to be soldiers, all fighting for a cause. Denkai has mechanics and works in ways similar to almost every energy from every anime, and that is the anime-element found here.
Denkai can be compared to Chi, Ki, Chakra, Reishi. It makes up souls, creates powerful effects, but also can be used similar to more conventional fantasy magics. It's a very versatile element, and a key one to this roleplay. When words like Inter-galactic come up, this won't be a Star Wars Space theme. Denkai makes doors to other worlds, but it doesn't allow for space travel. Don't worry or be concerned about trivial terms like those!
Interested yet? If not, I do apologize for the waste of time. If so, good! I'm looking for reliable, high-casual players. Nine is the max, but I'm aiming for three in the beginning. I have an OOC up, but this roleplay needs to get off the ground first! I know this roleplay might sound like a mash-up of things, but I assure you that its setting is sound and well-thought-out. In a roleplayer, I'm looking for creative perspectives, the ability to collab through titanpad, a good posting rate and the bare minimum of three paragraphs for single posts. This roleplay only needs one or two others to shoot off the ground, so c'mon!
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