[OOC] Imaginary District: An Urban Fantasy RP reboot

[FallenTrinity]

@VitaVitaAR
I have begun working on my character now. (sorry it has been taking awhile, work has overtaken my writing for some bit but fortunately I have some time off coming up which will allow me to continue working on this character. So, over the next couple days I will start piecing him together.

[VitaVitaAR]

Alright.

[The White Devil]

Still interested, assuming I can get a workable idea soon.

[VitaVitaAR]

@The White Devil: Glad to hear it!

[VitaVitaAR]

I'll be posting the IC later today or tomorrow!

[AtomicNut]

Ohyeah should move shiki to the char tab

[Raineh Daze]

• Name: Mori Nana
• Age: 29
• Gender: Female
• Race: Human (Mage)
• Appearance

  Some things run in the family. Including height.
  
• Personality: Nana is a diligent and serious person at work or when out in public, striving to maintain an approachable demeanour without losing what little intimidation factor she has: she has to at least seem competent at her job rather than "small and cute mascot". Out with friends or at home in private, she's a lazy tease who seems to do nothing but take it easy, which doesn't do a lot for her ability to be a stern parent, though she can occasionally bring her professional demeanour out when trying to relax.
  Oh, and don't poke fun at her height.
• Abilities: She also has a version of her family's magical trait, though it's a considerably milder version than Hoshiko's. It can be activated or deactivated at will and gives her telepathic abilities--reading surface thoughts primarily, though it can be used to communicate with someone else or amplified with the appropriate spells to dig around a lot deeper.
  As a fully trained mage with a Perception affinity, aside from the very basics--such as reinforcing her physical strength and durability to not be immediately squashed by youkai she has to deal with in her job. It makes her especially good at scrying or any other magic aimed at gathering information and observing a place without being present. Or improving upon senses; it's not a good idea to assume she can't see in the dark just because she's a human being...
• Skills: Seeing as she works in a police force, Nana has a lot of martial arts practice, which is only enhanced when she actually needs to fight by being able to pick up what the other person's going to do before they even begin to do it. Or, calling on her own experience, Nana can be a straight-up brawler (especially if there's something nearby to use as a bludgeon). She's in general pretty good at her job, but not a domestic person--the average cleanliness and quality of food at her place went up when Hoshiko moved in with her.
• Equipment: Those (actual) earrings? They're enchanted and actually improve her eyesight. Without them, she'd need some pretty thick glasses to see clearly.
• Brief Backstory: Nana was born and raised in the Imaginary District, making her no stranger to the vast number of nonhuman entities that live in this world--or humans having to compensate for their comparative lack of natural abilities. The number of fights she picked with everything during her teenaged delinquency made that perfectly clear. Then she spent a few years after highschool studying more in the normal world, then returned to the Imaginary District and followed in her father's footsteps by joining the police force.
  Until just a year ago, her life was nothing much to write home about: she became a detective and maintained an inability to find a lasting romantic relationship. It was about that time that her family was looking for someone in the district with enough space (and willingness) to take in someone with powerful, and potentially dangerous, abilities. So Nana took Hoshiko in.
  Unfortunately, between her job keeping her busy and her own lack of parenting skills, she wasn't very good at getting Hoshiko to attend school or go outside much. It was a good thing that the mayor's daughter decided to help everyone then, wasn't it?

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted.

[VitaVitaAR]

The IC is up!

Don't worry if your don't have a character finished yet, though. These signups are staying open.

@Rin@Raineh Daze@Tachi@TheFake@easy modo@AtomicNut

[Raineh Daze]

Well, someone's going to need to accompany Hoshiko. No way she'd be around here on her own. XD

[easy modo]

lilliput!

[VitaVitaAR]

Could everyone maybe spread out a bit more? ^^; There's an entire festival and if you want to interact with my characters there's another one elsewhere that avoids everyone being in the same spot at first. ^^;

[Rin]

If it helps, I think I can make Yuina have an important meeting with a ramen stall or something.

[VitaVitaAR]

I'd actually like to maybe have one or two people sent towards Aoi right now, since we still have people who haven't posted yet and I don't want everyone crowding around Makiko.

[VitaVitaAR]

I hope my taking control of the NPC there was fine. ^^;

I figured it made more sense to try and keep things going rather then stretch the conversation with the little girl out over multiple posts.

[ERode]

Name: Hiraku Himura
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: Hiraku stands 5’8, always carrying himself with an aloof, carefree attitude. The crescent scar below his left eye always appears to be raw, an angry red mark, and his yellow eyes sparkle during stormy days.
Personality: Carefree and relaxed, Hiraku’s always someone who’s looking for a good time, even if that good time is silly, immature, or illegal. He likes to be part of a group, enjoying the vibes of the crowd, and is a fairly present-minded person. Reading? Doing homework? Listening to music? A person that fervently believes that all alone time is a bad time, Hiraku utterly abhors solitude and quiet. He even dislikes sleeping alone, but his attempts at picking up chicks to platonically sleep together with?

Yeah, doesn’t work out too well.

A good person at heart, he’s nevertheless known as a riotous troublemaker by most, constantly showing the law his middle finger in the name of fun.
Ability: Dragon Descending
Embedded beneath Hiraku’s scar is the scale of a dragon, and it is through this ‘amulet’ that he can call forth a portion of its power. However, borrowing even a fraction of the might of such an entity requires sacrifice, either in the form of food (sugary foreign delicacies), dance (preferably fan dances), or prayer (long-winded conversations with a narcissist). These offerings must be made in advance with no exception whatsoever, making it fairly useless for actual fighting.

Which, of course, is fine with Hiraku, for he never was about serious deathmatches to begin with. No, the invocation of a dragon is not to bring forth calamities upon one’s enemies, but to bring forth blessings upon the land. Once an offering is accepted, Hiraku will gain the power to influence weather, as well as flight and fabulously long hair. Utilized offensively, he can bring out gales and deluges, as well as call lightning from the heavens, but at the same time, he is unable to fully control a storm once he calls it.

Because it feels good to become a dragon, and it’s much too easy to lose sight of his own objectives once he fully utilizes the scraps of power he’s been given.
Skills: Hiraku’s a good dancer, but only compared to people who never spent five years learning the sport. He’s also a fast runner and an excellent sweets-maker, due to his ‘training’ as a ‘priest’. Running away from angry parents was a childhood specialty, after all, and girls (and narcissitic dragons) always like a dude who’s good at cupcakes.
Equipment: Only his roguish charm, his smartphone, and his bag of dark chocolate cookies.
Brief Backstory:
The Himura family serve as agents of the dragon, a great spiritual beast akin to a land god. Historically, they provide offerings in exchange for rain at times of drought or for the clearing of the clouds in times of floods, but in the current era, where food can be shipped from another continent within a day, the Himura family now just runs a sweet shop in the Imaginary District to appease their overbearing great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of a dragon, and in exchange, the dragon sticks one of its scales into each member of the Himura family.

Hiraku always thought that it was a pretty dick move, like a present that no one asked for, but at the same time, such an object was fused with his very being, and he ultimately just had to deal with it.

Also didn’t help, of course, that the Himura family tradition was for the eldest son to inherit the family business. With such a limited amount of time left before he was chained down by responsibility and duty, he made a decision early on to go wild. After all, he didn’t REALLY need an education if he was going to bake sweets for cute high school girls and a senile dragon, right? A truant and a troublemaker, he was famous amongst the police by the time he was 13, mainly for trespassing. Apparently, you weren’t allowed to climb up construction cranes even if you were wearing a safety vest and a helmet.

But his ‘crimes’ were too minor, and all he got were lectures and slaps on the wrist…until the Miura Youth Organization was made.

Why NOT make him do community service? Why NOT have him work to keep the places he loved safe? Why not put that Himura bloodline ability to good use?

He didn’t really complain in the end. Lotsa cute girls in the Org, after all.

[VitaVitaAR]

@ERode: I actually like this character and a lot of ideas you have here. I've been meaning to work on how deities in a religion like shinto work in-setting as well(well, the most powerful ones have developed their own plane of existence like many other gods of varying religions but yeah).

But there's a bit of an issue in that true dragons are a very specific thing in-setting. ^^;

However, it's easy enough to tweak it to be a spiritual being/deity taking on a dragon's form and traits, thereby making it something different.

[ERode]

Chinese dragon, actually, but sure, we can just say that it's a diety taking the form of a snake will little baby arms and a fabulous mane.

If real dragons are a very specific thing, what would other, more traditional dragons be considered as then? Such as western fire breathing winged shits and all that?

[Raineh Daze]

Chinese dragon, actually, but sure, we can just say that it's a diety taking the form of a snake will little baby arms and a fabulous mane.

If real dragons are a very specific thing, what would other, more traditional dragons be considered as then? Such as western fire breathing winged shits and all that?

@ERode

They come from space.

[VitaVitaAR]

@ERode: Well, the idea is that all dragons actually stem from the ones from space. Many look like western dragons, some look humanoid, some look like Asian dragons, others look like incredibly bizarre.

They've come to earth multiple times, one time being when Saint George slew one. They only show up when something has gone very wrong(well, aside from a few rare cases), but most people aren't aware of that.

In any case, spirits and deities taking the form of dragons works perfectly fine for purposes like this.

Here's the specific post about true dragons.