[OOC] Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

[tipssyCalibrator]

I personally kind of feel like both of you have good points here, but I do feel like we should maybe play it safe. I have to admit that I flat out did not consider the possibility that @Zero Hex brought up. @Azereiah, do you think you could maybe nerf Jonathan's defensive potential a little bit? Like you said, it isn't very likely for him to use it in that way anyway so there's not much harm in toning it down, right? Maybe just say something like he needs to focus hard on changing the kinetic energy of the object and doesn't have much time to do that while in fast paced melee fight or something (maybe not the best solution, but I just woke up from sleeping <_<)

[Hammerman]

@Yuuta
I like that idea! I can certainly imagine Freyja being that!

[Yuuta]

@Hammerman Awesome! Looking forward to this.

[tipssyCalibrator]

@Yuuta
Sorry, meant to reply to you in my last post. But yeah, I could absolutely see Ryuuto as the Vegeta/Sasuke to Akiko's Goku/Naruto. I was already kind of looking for a character to fit that role already, so this works out perfectly

[Yuuta]

@tipssyCalibrator Great! And at some point they HAVE to get paired up for a team project. Haha... man, I love torturing my characters too much.

[tipssyCalibrator]

@Yuuta
Well that's perfect, because one of the first exams I have planned that will probably do exactly that (but no spoilers!)

[tipssyCalibrator]

(Double post, sorry)

[Azereiah]

@Zero Hex

Perhaps it could take some degree of extra mental effort to impart a force to someone who isn't willing to be moved, rather than specifically channellers? That'd totally bypass the issue of moving inanimate objects while still preventing someone who's only 80-90lbs. from being extremely easily flung like a shot-put. We're mostly looking at a minmaxed character at the moment - not very easy to put forth a 100% satisfactory solution that everybody can accept fresh out of the box if a character's powerset is a hard counter specifically to 'big hits', and more specifically, big melee hits.

Look at any boxer out there. They can typically block most punches without breaking a sweat, but in any reasonable matchup, punches will eventually get past their defenses simply by merit of their defense not protecting the one specific spot that a shot leaked through at that moment. Likewise with swordsmen and other weapon users. Nullification is extremely useful, but only impenetrable in specific circumstances - extremely one-sided fights, narrow corridor fighting, etc. We're talking about a huge guy with muscles for brains here - any number of things can completely bypass his tricks. I don't really consider it to be a big issue if he can stop, say, a greatsword, so long as the guy with the greatsword is perfectly capable of letting go of the weapon and quickly punching him in the face instead.

@tipssyCalibrator

I'll write in roughly a half second of preparation time for focusing his momentum modification tricks. Add in quarter-second reaction time, bringing it up to effectively 3/4ths of a second to block a strike. That should be sufficient to allow for extreme defense against massive strikes, but still long enough for the characters focused on rapid strikes to cause mayhem. Sound good?

[tipssyCalibrator]

@Azereiah
Alright, I feel that can work, especially if you were to combine it with some of the other ideas as well. This way it's still a strong ability and doesn't completely gut what makes it powerful, but there is at least a strategy around it and it doesn't completely nullify all melee encounters

[Azereiah]

@tipssyCalibrator

Fabulous. Kicking it up to a full second and throwing in the concept of mental resistance for living targets.

[Cu Chulainn]

The ultimate American Wavecaster element

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[Rin]

The ultimate American Wavecaster element

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@Cu Chulainn

How else are you going to deep fry everything, after all?

[Yuuta]

@tipssyCalibrator So, what would the students call their mentors? Professor? Or something else?

[tipssyCalibrator]

@Yuuta
Hmm, I haven't really thought too much about that, I figured everyone would just choose their own way to refer to them. If you want a formal way for them to refer to them, I guess it can just be "Mr/Ms/Mrs [last name]". But hey don't feel like you have to refer to them that way, it's all your choice really

[Mercurial]

I finally finished my student. As you will be able to tell from reading, she's basically the really really nice girl full of heart, obviously.

Delinquent Girl

Name: Yasu Hirabayashi

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Personality: Yasu is not the most pleasant person to deal with. She’s blunt, crass and coarse, and largely irreverent of any authority. She’s highly selfish, and finds it difficult to see past her own whimsy. She is type to live in the moment, and cares little for “long term investments”, preferring to indulge herself when she can. She’s also highly materialistic, placing great importance on having “nice stuff”, like clothes or jewellery. While she could be described as having a temper, Yasu is less inclined to explosive bursts of anger, instead favouring to reply with a cold, icy glare. If Yasu is angry with you, you’re more likely to realise it when you come home to your windows having been smashed in.

Contrary to first impressions and common belief, Yasu is neither a bully nor a sadist. She is sure as hell vindictive, but it’s unlikely to find her chasing around people that haven’t crossed her in some fashion, though she can decide you’ve “crossed her” for fairly trivial reasons. She actually has a bit of a soft spot for “underdogs” and will stick up for a person she thinks is being treated unfairly. Granted, she’s usually too busy indulging herself to be going around looking after people, but if she happens to see someone being picked on, she’s more likely to try being a hero than a villain. She’s even capable of being perfectly friendly with someone, only they have to be someone willing to get past the selfishness and the foul language and the braying about the awesome piercing she just bought and the fact that she has committed crimes…

Backstory: Yasu was not born in the gutter, but some would say she ended up there in spite of it. Yasu’s parents were in fact fairly well off; not filthy stinking rich, but wealthy enough that Yasu was handed enough cash regularly to sustain a fairly self-indulgent lifestyle. The only hiccup was that since both of them were working rather demanding jobs, Yasu found herself on her lonesome more often than others. While she had a nanny as a child, as she grew older she began to tire of sitting around at home and started sneaking out to broaden her horizons. This is when she got introduced to the wrong crowd and fell in with a band of delinquent kids. She came to enjoy the odd sense of freedom she felt among them, and they encouraged her to be more and more rebellious. Eventually, after realising their child was almost at home less than they were, they stopped hiring nannies and started looking into how to correct their wayward daughter’s behaviour.

The funny thing about Yasu’s band is that they weren’t an needlessly violent lot. They were definitely a shifty lot that had many habits that weren’t palatable to society, and they certainly had truancy records as long as their arms, but they tended to react to provocations more than they instigated anything. For instance, a passing salaryman once mad an offhand quip about Yasu’s new tattoos, so she tailed him for two blocks and stole his briefcase while he wasn’t looking. Another case occurred when the building they were using as a meeting place was going to be torn down by an expanding business. That prompted Yasu and the gang to visit said business and help them ventilate the place by smashing their windows open. Yasu’s lot were without a doubt trouble, but they tended to keep to themselves if they had no reason to look for trouble.

But living a life like that couldn’t possibly continue without more serious incidents. One day, a far more violent band of delinquents moved into the area and provoked Yasu’s band into a fight. While they weren’t afraid of a scrap, they weren’t quite prepared for how vicious these people would turn out to be. One of them pulled out a switchblade and lunged at Yasu. It was at this moment her power awakened; a bolt of electricity lurched out from her hand and scorched the attacker’s face. Yasu ran away from the battle after that, but it wasn’t the last she would see of the events that day. Her parents saw how banged up she had gotten that night, and now they weren’t about to sit around and hope they could correct her behaviour passively. Fortunately for them, the people from the institute soon turned up and gave them their out. They figured Yasu couldn’t possibly get up to half as much trouble at an institution packed with super powered staff members. They made it exceedingly clear that Yasu was going to go to this place, threatening to never let her see a single yen of their money if not. Being far too shallow to stomach living without her expensive vices, Yasu agreed to go. Even though she was worried about her friends, she didn’t feel like she had much choice here. Besides, she was partially interested in exploring these weird new abilities too.

Appearance:


Yasu’s natural hair colour is a raven black, but she took to using dyes during her time as a delinquent, and has stuck with a vibrant pink colour for some time. She is 5’7”, being somewhat tallish for a woman. She has a number of tattoos that can’t always be seen due to being under her clothes, but one clearly visible one is on the back of her neck done in the pattern of two thorns entwined in a heart shape. She also has piercings in both ears.

Equipment: Yasu used a simple steel chain as a weapon during her time on the streets. She also tends to carry around a lot of completely useless but fairly pricey accessories, such as a silver bracelet on her left wrist and a golden hoop attached to her phone.

Abilities: Yasu is familiar with the art of the scrap, even if she didn’t always go seeking out random fights. Her fighting style is unrefined, but she is a tough girl through and through.

Channeller category: Wavecaster

Description of power: Yasu’s power is the ability to manipulate and produce electricity.

Names/descriptions of moves:
-Zap: Just a simple electric bolt that travels in a linear fashion, though it does have a fair range to it.
-Crackle: This unleashes a dangerous spray of electric energy over the immediate area, making it hard to get near Yasu, though it has a limited range and area of effect. It gets pushed out in a forward facing cone, so it doesn’t defend her at every angle.
-Pop: This is a close quarters technique that sees Yasu flow an electric current through the opponent’s body, giving them a nasty and continuous shock. Naturally, she has to actually touch the opponent to put this into effect.

Character theme song: youtube.com/watch?v=OEHLuXIM09Y

Other: She happens to possess a lot of random knowledge about clothes and fashion from the amount of time she’s spent fussing over such things.

Also, question; I dunno if this was answered elsewhere, but how will languages work in this setting? Will we have a convenient magical translator so everyone understands what everyone else is saying? Or will everyone just be expected to speak English or Japanese or something?

[SaberClass4242]

@tipssyCalibrator

I can male a staff character if need be!

[Silver Carrot]

I've just realised my character can also work as a staff character. It's that kind of 'older sister sadistic spectator' character. Think Nabiki Tendo from Ranma, Oyuki from Urusei Yatsura, Chizuru from Squid Girl, Rafael from Gabriel Droput, Kitsune from Love Hina, ect.

[Hammerman]

Oh yeah, how would Alternatives develop their power? We still don't have an alternative mentor and each alternatives come with their own unique power.

[Azereiah]

@Hammerman

I can put up an Alternatives memtor if need be.

I'm just assuming that any suitably experienced mentor would know enough about growing one's abilities that they can train students outside their specialty in a pinch.

[Dblade26]

I actually had a potential alternative mentor already lined up that I'm working on.