[OOC] The Omamori Foundation - A Magical Girl/Tokusatsu-style Hero RP

[Tachi]

Established during the Sengoku period, the Omamori Foundation has served to protect Japan from superhuman threats for centuries. The organisation began as a trio of siblings fighting dangerous youkai and those who would ally with them from a small shrine, although it has grown immensely since then. The modern Omamori Foundation's HQ appears to be a completely unremarkable office building from the outside. The inside of the building is a different story.

The organisation now employs a multitude of heroes, ranging from cyborgs to magic-users to people empowered by gods and an assortment of other oddities and the HQ's facilities reflect this. With an assortment of training facilities, a library full of arcane tomes, a workshop to repair or improve on any weapons/mechanical body parts and a small medical bay.

More often than not, these individuals operate in teams of three to five. While the Omamori Foundation recommends their agents try to keep their actual identities secret to avoid endangering their family or friends, the higher ups won't take any action against people who want to fame unless they try to reveal the truth about the organisation as well.

A recent addition, created through a combination of science and magic, the GATE System uses beacons set in areas that have suffered frequent attacks in the past to allow the Foundation's agents to get where they're needed quickly. Whether it's a seaside resort town tormented by an island of animals mutated into sapient humanoids (who believe their rapid evolution to be a sign of their superiority and right to rule over mankind) by less than ethical experiments, an alien crime ring whose members don't mind hurting people to make a quick buck or any other dark force, the organisation aims to respond to any superhuman threats that arise.

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As the title says, characters should be either magical girl (or boy) or tokusatsu-style transforming heroes. The RP will revolve around this organisation of superhuman crime fighters based in a fictional Japanese city and their fight against an assortment of threats to humanity.

The RP is intended to be light-hearted for the most part, although there will be serious points. That said, it should still have the potential to bounce back after those events.

Support staff and villains are also acceptable characters, although I may be a bit stricter with villain profiles. In addition, people are welcome to run their own monster attacks, so long as they run the general idea by me first.

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[Rune_Alchemist]

Character moved to the tab!~

[VitaVitaAR]

Same here. Yuki's in for an interesting time.

[clanjos]

Name: Badurong Broadcasting Network Executive Spandez, Ordained Master of the Late-Night Timeslots, The Almighty Lord of Bloodsport
Age: Yes
Appearance: "IT'S TIME FOR THE LIGHTNING ROUND, FOLKS!"

Personality: On stage, Spandez is cheery, jovial, and constantly smiling. As a gameshow host should be. However, he is also a bloodthirsty tyrant who draws sustenance from sentient creatures' desire for violence. He relishes the sights and sounds of combat, and is eager to throw contestants at a planet until it's ready for conquering. He speaks Japanese, but it's obvious that he's a foreigner. He gets furious when someone mentions the word "Hiatus." He can't resist showing off. He also has a very low pain threshold until transforming, meaning he tends to chicken out fairly quickly. As the Almighty Lord of Bloodsport, he is easily angered and becomes incredibly bloodthirsty, lashing out at friend and foe alike. Thus, he will not return to his giant form unless absolutely necessary. Perhaps most damningly, he's bound by the most powerful force in the universe: ratings. While he COULD just have his ship blow a chunk out of Earth and render it uninhabitable for human life, that doesn't make for good TV.

Abilities: Spandez is, surprisingly, quite quick and quite heavy. His chitinous shell is fluted like a bird's bones, but due to his compressed body, his nerve endings are tightly packed. Thus, while his shell can stop tank shells, it will still hurt like the dickens. Being the Lord of Bloodsport, he's immortal. As long as something somewhere in the universe gets a kick out of violence, he'll be back eventually. Additionally, he can call for a "Lightning Round"- reviving a destroyed monster as a giant. When the situation gets dire and there's no other way out, he can return to his true form- an insect the size of a city block called The Almighty Lord of Bloodsport.

Skills: A talented presenter, a flawless spokesman, and a ruthless dictator. Also knows how to hype up fights like nobody's business.

Brief Backstory: Spandez is, in fact, older than many benchmarks for "old." He might actually be among the oldest living beings in the cosmos, as he was born when the first sentient creature thought how awesome it would be to see two animals fighting. Spandez is the literal embodiment of bloodsport, from gladiatorial combat to violent sporting events. He spent a long time as a spacefaring conqueror, setting up gladiatorial arenas to amuse and feed himself. But he began to notice that a lot of other creatures would pay to get in… which led to profits, which led to faster expansion, which led to more spectacular arenas, which led to more power for himself.

One day, thousands of years later, an agent for the Badurong Corporation came to Spandez's Skull-Palace of Pain and explained the wonders of television to the Dark Lord of Bloodsport. The Network could not only broadcast his gladiatorial matches to the universe, but harvest the energy created by those enjoying the battles. They even offered to provide more unique equipment and gladiators (be they insubordinate employees, a bored Action Commander, or a prisoner from another world), provided they got a cut of the advertising revenue. Spandez even got a free cable package, which led to him discovering a gameshow.

His gladiatorial matches had many contestants, but very few were volunteers. It had many fans, and many viewers, but also many decrying the barbaric spectacle. But gameshows… people were willing to do insane things for those prizes. They would humiliate themselves in public. They would take candy from children. They would leave people stranded on alien worlds with no food and water if the prize was great enough. And that's when Spandez hit upon the idea that all his gladiatorial matches needed was a fresh spin. And thus he hit upon an idea. Badurong would offer prizes to his contestants. The contestants would sow chaos and discord on planets. If the contestants won and managed to conquer the planet, they'd get legal ownership of it and a choice between becoming a planetary governor or handing it over to the Network's Mining and Exploitation Branch for a hefty prize. If they lost, they'd often do enough damage to the planet's infrastructure through the gameshow's challenges to make conquering the planet much easier for the mercenary forces of Badurong. This brilliant stroke elevated Spandez from a powerful warlord to chief executive of the Badurong Broadcasting Network and a trusted enforcer of the CEO.

Now, for the Spandez Conquest Hour's 5,104th season, the show has come to an unassuming little planet in the sol system to continue the Badurong Corporation's systematic subjugation, exploitation, and commercialization of all sentient life.

[shagranoz]

I'll have something up tomorrow.

[Starberries]

Name: Kino Aiko
Age: 17

Appearance: Standing at a rough five-foot-four with a small, slender build, Aiko's most distinctive features are her soft, pale skin and her red hair and eyes which she emphasizes with carefully chosen frilly dresses and other clothing with an elegant-yet-cute look to them. Her "work uniform" by comparison is much the same, albeit a bit flashier, with a primary black color accompanied by pale red frills and accents. Her magic tome is always kept close, typically hidden in a bag or purse when in her casual attire, or strapped to her side while transformed.

Personality: Aiko is gentle and soft-spoken, typically keeping a "proper" and polite demeanor in front of most people, though her speech tends to become far more excitable and playful in front of people she's more comfortable with. Overall she is a kind and trusting person, unwilling to betray innocents or those that she cares about, but she can show a surprisingly harsh side as she is fully capable of taking part in trickery or manipulation if it provides her an advantage or if she thinks the target is deserving of it.

Hero Name: Moonlit Pink Rose
Abilities: Aiko's transformation into her magical alter ego comes with an increased agility and strength, as well as access to several magical techniques granted by the tome she carries. The tome is durable and resistant to all but severe forms of damage thanks to its magic, but as it is the source of Aiko's powers, her magic and transformation fade if she is too far from it (it has a range of roughly 50 feet).

• Claws of Night - Conjuring claws of darkness over her hands, Aiko is able to turn her own bare-handed attacks into a formidable weapon.
• Wings of Shade - Shadows form into bat-like wings on Aiko's back, allowing her to fly short distances.
• Shadow Cloak - Aiko is able to coat herself in a veil of darkness when in the shadows, rendering herself invisible while she remains out of direct light.
• Night's Embrace - Grasping vines of darkness reach up from the nearest surface, wrapping around Aiko's chosen target and constricting them, holding them in place. The vines are durable, though breakable by an enemy of exceptional strength, and can only be conjured while Aiko is within a few yards' distance. Only one set of vines can be maintained at a time, making them difficult to use against multiple targets.
• Moonlit Rose Thorn - Aiko can briefly conjure a large spear of shadows and toss it at a foe, dealing severe damage if it hits. Typically used as the final blow, especially on a target held by Night's Embrace, as the spear only lasts for a few moments and summoning it leaves Aiko exhausted and vulnerable to counterattacks.

Skills: She's not terrible at knitting or painting. Not as good as she'd prefer, but she can do it.

Brief Backstory: Aiko was raised from a young age amongst a rather diverse family with equally diverse skills, yet few of these skills really stuck with Aiko at all, leaving her mediocre at best in most subjects or absolutely atrocious at worst (as in the cases of housework and cooking) in a few others. As she grew, she yearned for her own talent and skills that she could take pride in, but none came as easily as they seemed to for her family. That was, at least, until the evening she discovered an old trunk that belonged to her late grandfather, gathering dust in a corner of her home's basement as no one had bothered to look through it in years. Amongst the contents - mostly artifacts and antiques of various cultures that Aiko's uncle had researched over his life - was a strange book with a dark cover and some indecipherable language written on its pages. The moment Aiko opened the book out of curiosity, a shadowy black magic flooded forth from it, attaching itself to Aiko. Though panicked at first, Aiko found herself quickly learning how to use the magic of the tome and became quite fond of it, realizing this could be her own, unique talent. Aiko adopted the identity of Moonlit Pink Rose, an identity which she now wishes to make famous as the ultimate proof of her skill, even now as she works under the Omamori Foundation. Albeit, the "fame" part is a bit difficult with powers of shadow rather than something showy and flashy, but she's working on it.

[Tachi]

@Starberries: She looks good to me. Accepted!

@clanjos: He looks fine too. Accepted!

[Musoka]

Shiiit. Am keen. Will write a guy up.

[shagranoz]

Midori Kawamura- Aqua Princess

Name: Midori Kawamura

Age: 15

Appearance: Midori is tall and slender, with blue hair and a mischievous spark in her brown eyes. She tends to dress in eye-burningly bright colored skirts and shirts, Western-style, when not in school.

Personality: Midori is, to put it mildly, flamboyant. She believes that anything worth doing is worth doing in a loud and attention-getting manner. Naturally, this tends to be off-putting, especially in a conservative society like Japan, but she simply doesn't give a damn. She also has a love of adventure and exploring, and this also has a habit of getting her into trouble, but also enabled her to find the Great Sea Sapphire, so there's that. One other notable thing is that she is fully outed as a magical girl.

Hero Name: Aqua Princess. Her costume consists of skirt, top, boots, gloves and a short cape, all in a solid blue-green. The Great Sea Sapphire transforms into a necklace made of water that magically holds its shape.

Powers and Abilities

Passive- Water Breathing- Midori can magically extract oxygen from water, so she doesn't have to worry about holding her breath while transformed.

Water Transmutation- Midori can transform her body into living water to flow around obstacles, like a locked door. She can only hold this form for about thirty seconds before she has to become human again.

Hydrokinesis- Midori can manipulate water in her immediate vicinity, up to about a home swimming pool's worth. She can also use this water as fuel for her spells by negating the need for creating water from nothing, thus saving her magical energy

Aqua Shield- Conjures a wall of water to stop physical attacks, though it doesn't do squat against energy or magic.

Aqua Shot- Creates a ball of water in her hand, which she then throws. Her basic attack.

Aqua Barrage- A rapid-fire chain of Aqua Shots.

Rain of Justice- Midori summons rain clouds, which take about a minute to form before raining down watery projectiles. Covers a wide area, but the projectiles are low damage and friendly fire is a possibility.

Ocean Breath- Midori takes a deep breath in, then breathes out a stream of water at a single opponent. Hits hard, but only has a range of 5-6 feet.

Maelstrom- Midori's ultimate attack creates a massive ball of water between her hands before shooting out a massive torrent straight ahead. Downside is that once the floodgates are open, she can't turn them off; this attack takes whatever magic she has remaining and she has to wait sixty seconds before transforming again. If she's alone and the attack misses...

Skills: Not much to write about here. She's decent at improvising battle strategies, but that's about it.

Backstory: Midori's a tomboy, through and through. She was always running through the local woods, or exploring the many nearby caves. It was in one of these caves that she found an ancient shrine, with a massive sapphire at the center of it. She doesn't know who put it there or why, but what she does know is that it contained the power of the ocean. Becoming a magical girl, Midori started protecting her small town from D-list monsters, and it wasn't long before she was contacted by Omamori.

[sassy1085]

WIP

My Hider

Name: Hitomi Kodachi
Age: 15
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Personality: Like most samurais, samurais are serious, cold hearted, lone wolf, quiet and most of all they do not make jokes. Hitomi however she is the opposite, she outgoing, kind hearted, friendly, loud and most of all she made some jokes then and there.
Hero Name: sapphire samurai Her magical girl Outfit
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• Copycat: Hitomi can make clone of herself to attack near by target and if the clone get attack they disappear like Poof
• Blue slash:
• Blade rocket: her blade shoot out like a rocket

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[Tachi]

I'm sorry to say this, but I'm going to have to cancel this RP. Sorry for wasting people's time.