Brainstorming Thread | Boku No Hero Academia

[Scio]

Concepts and Ideas

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As the title suggests, I'm hoping to run a roleplay based on the series, My Hero Academia. For those who's interests I piqued and/or are interested in joining in, instead of the typical AU and life at U.A. High, I was planning to go for something different to spice things up. Before I go any further, I just wanna point out that I'll be using ideas and tropes from other series, but only those that would appear appropriate to the setting we will be going for. Injuries and death will be possibilities, to make actions more well thought of. I think incorporating some sort of realism in the RP would be fun too. I'll be listing below the possible choices we can go with in terms of premise. Before I do that though, I just wanted to inform you that I'll be making use of information from the manga; those who only follow the anime might be spoiled. However, I won't be blatantly stating these facts out. So unless its actually mentioned, I don't think you'll even realize that you had actually read spoilers already. Once a plot is chosen, I'll be fleshing it out more to give everyone a more specific vibe to what I'm going for.

Call the Police!

• The death of All Might and the inability of society to create a new symbol of peace has caused the criminal world to go wild. Although still continuously producing heroes, crime rates have drastically increased. The government has deemed their over reliance on heroes as a mistake and has turned to the police force. They will be permitted to create a division of quirk-users, but only a few seasoned veterans/officials will be recruited. The rest of the members of this group will be the RPers; you'll be young individuals hoping to have a career within the police force. You'll be training along side them as a special task force that will be allowed to make use of your quirks as you deem fit. But to not stir up too much problems with the public, quirks that possess a large capacity of destruction will not be allowed to join. The story will be focused on some sort of police academy; when sufficiently trained, you'll be allowed to participate in cases and missions. The goal of the government is to create a team of eraserhead-like officers to lessen their excessive dependence on professional heroes. Aside from usual criminals, you'll also have encounters with vigilantes, aspiring heroes, and various types of villains.

Your Average Hero

• Examples of top-tier schools would include U.A. High and Shiketsu High, but what about the ones that aren't that popular? Well, that's what we're going to find out. It'll be your regular My Hero Academia RP but without the high-tech equipment and state of the art training facilities. Maybe we won't even have highly ranked heroes to guide us. But I suppose that wouldn't be a problem, right? The RPers will be a group of students enrolled at the heroics department of your typical high school. We just need to be a bit more ingenious when it'll come to training and developing our skills. In the past few years, there's no denying that there has been a gap in how successful graduates from these different schools have become. Hopefully, we'll be able to go against those from the top schools and show them that they can't let their guards down when we're around.

Bad Guys

• I know I used the word Hero, but what if we take the roles of the villains this time? For whatever reason you have, you despise the current status quo and the society that has been built upon it. So what do you wanna do about it? Cause chaos, kill, defeat some heroes, or something different all together? Honestly, this is an interesting story, but I'll definitely need everyone's cooperation if we go with this. This would be more sandbox-ish in a way since the goals of each individual would vary, hence what we do would also change based on what each RPer would want. You'll all be gathered by a single backer who will be your enabler, in a way. He'll be providing you with opportunities and the means to carry out whatever you plan on doing.

[Turboshitter]

The last premise sounds really cool in a Phantom Thieves-meet-the-Undersiders kinda way (if you don't know who the Undersiders are then you haven't read Worm, which means you need to read Worm). Could focus on a team of disgruntled or disenfranchised youths rebelling against the system and using their Quirks to commit heists or other vaguely anti-heroic crimes (maybe even while secretly attending a hero school under different identities).

[Scio]

@Turboshitter I think you're the second person who's suggested Worm to me, and I'm pretty sure I gave the first chapter a quick read. I guess I gotta stick to it.

That's an interesting idea, but that way, it'll be very team-oriented so RPers might end up relying on each other to post to get any progress done. I know that's kind of the point and not so uncommon, but I just fear that over reliance coupled with a few absentees might cause a bit of stagnation in the story. Otherwise, that's certainly one way to handle things.

With Shigaraki, he just had a backer and was free to do as he pleased. I'll probably do something similar to this, in a way. So it would just be a group of rebellious youths who're being watched by some random elder mook who'll just intervene when needed. Nothing similar to All for One though.

The idea of having them attend school as aspiring heroes is an interesting twist though, but maybe instead of making that the norm for the RPers, it'll only be a possible choice. The age range for the character would be more varied though, probably ranging from teenager to young adult.

[GreenGoat]

Villainy sounds great actually. We team up when necessary to do stuff, and if one or two leaves, we could simply chalk it up them being taken down.

[Scio]

@GreenGoat That's actually a great idea. Takes care of absentees. Those who leave could captured or killed off; most probably the former. If they come back, I guess jail break time.

[Polaris North]

A villain option? Sure, why not. I'm good for any but as you said, maybe focusing on the other side of the spectrum might be fun.

[Scio]

So that makes three. I'll trying fleshing out this idea a bit more and see if I can get some more people into this.

[Scio]

@Turboshitter@GreenGoat@Polaris North Just to be a bit organized, I made a different thread for the villain-based one.