[OOC] Viscious Virtue (Dark Magical Girls)

Lore:

Magical Girls: What better way to fight negativity than with one's own positive attributes? Offered such a chance for a trait they exemplify, said abstraction determines their transformed appearance and the powers they gain. Even in civilian form, they keep certain advantages - for example, it's nigh impossible for one to die by mundane means. She may be injured in a car crash, but less so than an ordinary human, and would survive the ordeal. The only real threats are other beings of a magical nature.

Keepers: Small fluffy carbuncles, visible only to people they want to be seen by, namely those they seek out for their potential as magical girls. After granting power to these chosen few, the Keepers serve as loyal guides. Varying in behaviour, as well as fur and forehead gem colour, these beings nonetheless have a common goal: Recruit warriors of light to cleanse away the darkness. Of course, there may be more to this than they let on.

Vices: Monsters born from dark thoughts and feelings, be it despair, envy, hate, or anything else that can consume a person with negativity. Invisible to regular humans under most circumstances, they can nonetheless be sensed - a sudden shiver of dread, or that unexplained feeling of being watched, can indicate the presence of a Vice. Appearing in many forms, these creatures affect their targets in a variety of ways - draining physical health or positive emotion, exacerbating a person's harmful tendencies, sometimes even attacking directly when they reach a certain level of strength. Unharmed by conventional methods, the only way they can be destroyed is through magic.

Mana Crystals: A gem created when a girl first makes a deal with a Keeper, allowing her to transform into her magical self. Taking the form of a simple accessory, the crystal is surprisingly durable, remaining intact even in the heat of battle. If taken more than twenty feet away from its owner, it will simply vanish and reappear on her, so there's no need to worry about the loss of such a precious trinket. Once a magical girl, always a magical girl.

Mana Shards: When a Vice is defeated, a fragment of crystallised residual magic remains. This can be absorbed into a mana crystal to boost power and take on stronger enemies. The idea of harnessing dark energy may unsettle some, but the keepers are quick to quell such concerns. The virtuous base power within a mana crystal will cleanse the taint from a shard - at least, at first. Possible effects of continuous buildup on the mind and body are something new recruits have yet to discover...

[NiceSpice]

Calling all magical girls of Kaigo City!

[A dark theme-d, Madoka inspired Magical Girl RP.]

The Keepers have come to Kaigo City, and they’re looking for potential Magical Girls. Mysterious, fuzzy little carbuncles with magic properties, the Keepers have long since been keeping the balance of magic. In Kaigo City, that balance is sorely lacking!

Vices run rampant. Dark creatures, who can take any shape, any form, and are terrible for humans. Some latch on and spirit people away, others slowly eat away at them, leaving husks behind…

All that is going to change, though! Where there are Vices, there must be Virtues! Magical Girls driven by their own souls, their magic charged by their own personal characteristics! Perhaps they’ve already seen victims of Vices, perhaps they’ve hit rock bottom, and a chance to become a magical girl seemed like the only way out. One thing is for certain, Kaigo City needs them!

With Keepers watching over them, the girls will fight the dreaded Vices and grow stronger by collecting the shards of magic they drop, power bring up their own abilities! Some girls have quite strong, solo-fighting prowess, some are more suited to team-play, but whatever gets the job done, as the Keepers say.

However, magic is never to be trifled with. It is dangerous, even the brightest of souls are not safe from its reach, and humans are… chaotic, labile creatures, easily driven to madness. Once you make a deal with a Keeper, you’re not getting out of it so easily…

This RP deals with darker themes, including the downfall / corruption of magical girls. Really similar to Madoka, but without the Witch aspect. If that's not your cuppa-tea then that's A-OK, just a fair warning!

The premise is deliberately vague, story elements will be revealed through the Roleplay. Any questions or queries, feel free to message myself or @LuckyBlackCat

Character Sheet! Courtesy of LuckyBlackCat

Name: (Self explanatory)
Age: (Between 14 and 18)
Appearance: (Civilian appearance and magical girl appearance)
Mana Crystal: (Describe the form your mana crystal takes. A simple pendant, bracelet, earring, something that can be easily hidden or look like an inconspicuous accessory, yet can become much fancier when you're transformed.)
Virtue: (Can be a variety of things - Kindness, Joy, Knowledge, Truth, Courage, Creativity, any positive abstraction. Describe what it means to your character.)
Magic: (Should be in some way tied to the virtue. Someone Truth themed may have detection magic, for example, and the virtue of Friendship could grant buffing abilities or other magic that works best with a team.)
History: (Keep it reasonably brief, and if you want your character to have a secret that will be revealed over the course of the RP, feel free to run it past us via PM)
Other: (Can be left blank)

Hit us up with your charry sheets, m'dears! Once they're approved, they can be moved to the Characters tab!

[Karkinos]

Justice girl is on her way! _{I see those two characters each. I see you.}

🐰🎵🍒

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^{Chloroform — Phoenix}

𝐔𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐢 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧;
^{𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞-𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞}

ᴀɢᴇ — Just turned 17;

ᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀᴀɴᴄᴇ —
> Civilian
> Costumed ... with dark tights.

ᴍᴀɴᴀ ᴄʀʏꜱᴛᴀʟ —
Information interweaving and infinitesimal — a bite-sized crystal invisible to the human eye. Its power hidden in the datal dimension of ᴋᴀʀᴇɴ'ꜱ phone. Her mana crystal, when dormant, is a .WAV file nestled in the ‘Music’ app among an eclectic library: 80’s city and synthpop; acid jazz; math rock from further East; hardcore punk from the West. Activated, the mana crystal runs magic through her headphones to form the signature headpiece of her magical girl costume; a walkman-esque device studded fairy kei-style hangs from her waist.
That elusive power presents itself to her, after so long. All she has to do is hit play.

ᴠɪʀᴛᴜᴇ —
Justice; impartiality, equity, balance, honor. It means a lot of weighted things to ᴋᴀʀᴇɴ at this point of her life, many of which she’s been denied in her “career.” Maybe justice is a response, she’s thinking — because if someone commits an injustice, there ought to be a karmic response. Always. Because the world would be less of a mess if people were held accountable for their actions, and she holds to this more than ever with quiet, impassioned resolve.

ᴍᴀɢɪᴄ —
Lapins dans la lune .

^{The Lord Rabbit was sent down from the moon by its goddess to save the people of Earth from a deadly plague. It pounded elixirs with its special mallet then transformed into a young woman to give to those in need across the city.}

• Au clair de la lune — Mirrors summon, hover, where she commands.
  ✦ Have a max height of her own, a minimum height of the average hand mirror.
  ✦ Are physical constructs; they are ostensibly glass with a sharp outer edge.
  ✦ Can reflect magical attacks though only through active command.
• La justice descend! — A bedazzled toy gavel manifests in her hand.
  ✦ Has a summoning process; she has to stand still and focus.
  ✦ Hits like a magical weapon but only against those thought “impure” to the Keepers.
• Oeil pour oeil — Swaps people, objects, or other entities if they are of similar mass.
  ✦ Occurs within line of sight.
  ✦ Ease of swapping depends on distance away and overall mass.
  ✦ Position-swapping will be exact so momentum is maintained if its present.

ʜɪꜱᴛᴏʀʏ —
In short, she’s been here before: offered, apparently out of admiration, something of a pipe dream, picturesque and permanent and perfect, a convenient contract with one condition, just one. Though what this Keeper is saying, it’s different this time.

Once, ᴋᴀʀᴇɴ was an ordinary, if talented, teenage girl. She found her voice as a twelve-year-old, a multi-instrumentalist and aspiring songwriter from a low-income family: a much younger brother, a single, busy, working mother scraping together what she could for the both of them. She wanted to make them proud. Worked hard, then salvaged the courage to perform at a young talent convention — lost, but won the heart of an onlooking manager who approached her with a lifetime opportunity: a music career.

Once, “ᴄᴇʀɪꜱ," the "cute one" of a three-part junior idol group, appeared on real-life, genuine television for her family to watch. She was on the precipice of her dream, to be an artist, and found her true best friends onstage. All she needed was to sacrifice her time and her family for a schedule choked with public appearances, practices, and televised interviews. If she sacrificed herself, and sold herself, in those unspeakable ways she's sick to death of describing. Then, ᴜᴇᴛꜱᴜᴋɪ really found her voice. She blew the whistle and ruined everything, exposed the pipe dream for what it was, so that she and her friends fell into obscurity, free, muted. They would never be musicians without a manager, and their manager was behind bars.

Now, ᴜᴇᴛꜱᴜᴋɪ is expected to return to her ordinary life. Despite how she can’t sleep. Despite how she isn’t songwriting anymore. What happened to that imaginative girl, a prodigy who excelled at her schoolwork — her grades dropped with her focus, and she’s had to be pulled out of school on “medical leave.” She’s been tossing, turning, mulling something in her mind for a long time; the Keeper is the only one who’s been able to rouse her with a call to action, a purpose. Because there are others in Kami City suffering silently like her and her old friends in this city. What they need is an idol — that’s what she needs to be.

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^{Would I long for you? / Is it up to you?}

@NiceSpice@LuckyBlackCat Ready! Lmk if there's anything to change

[Gisk]

Character

Name: Hiro Tsutomi
Age: 16
Appearance: (Civilian appearance and magical girl appearance)
Mana Crystal: A silver ring with an opal

Virtue: Industry

Magic:
- Helping Hands. Summons floating, opalescent hands that can act at a distance. They are capable of exerting enough force to hold about 300 pounds suspended in the air. This power is divided among any number of hands she chooses to summon. The more hands she has, the weaker they each are, and the dimmer they glow. Each is controlled as if it were an additional appendage, so doing multiple complex things is very difficult.

- Artifice. Tsutomi can create magical devices out of mundane components. It takes time and, like her virtue indicates, hard work.

History: Her father is a factory foreman, and her mother owns a cleaning service. As a couple, they make plenty of money, in exchange for hard work all day everyday. Though they value this diligence, and instilled it into their daughter, they wanted a better life for her, and so spent the money to put her in a good school.

And so, to meet expectations, Tsutomi has been putting in all the hard work to keep her grades up so that she can… what? She didn’t know. As she comes closer to graduation, she has become increasingly anxious and indecisive, only knowing that she must keep her work ethic, even without an end goal.

That is, until a Keeper found her, and gave her a new purpose.

I need pictures still, and would like it if someone weighed in on her power, I'm not sure what the power level is, so I don't know if she's too weak or strong at the moment.

[DrowsyPangolin]

Chinami

Name
Sugano Chinami
(AKA Fishbones)

Age
15

Appearance

Everyday

Magical Girl

Mana Crystal
A tiny, rose gold charm shaped like a koi, typically worn on a charm bracelet

Virtue
Curiosity. Chinami has always been an inquisitive girl, needing to know the hows, whens, and whys of things. She’s always been particularly interested in the ocean, so it’s only fitting she’d receive a curious proposition by the seaside…

Magic
Marvelous Creatures of the Past!
Chinami can conjure up skeletal familiars of animals that once inhabited the ocean. Given her extreme interest in marine paleontology, her potential familiars cover a wide range of creatures, from tiny fish to massive whales and prehistoric reptiles. Being a magical girl’s familiar has its perks, too: all of the creatures Chinami summons can swim through the air, ignoring pesky inconveniences like gravity. Some people might call her boney buds creepy, but Chinami thinks they’re pretty swell.

Diving Deeper Depths
There are many valuable discoveries to be made at the bottom of the sea, and Chinami is determined to see all of them. Through the wonders of magic, she can breathe underwater! In fact, water cannot harm her in any way.

A Brief History of Life
Chinami has spent a lot of time learning about living things, and being a Magical Girl means she can learn even more! If she touches a living (or once-living) thing, she can look into its past by simply closing her eyes. When she uses this power, she experiences the past through the senses of the creature she is touching. If the creature moves away, though, the connection is lost.

History
Chinami was raised by her grandparents from a very young age. Her father had never been around, skipping town shortly after her birth, and her mother had a host of mental problems that ultimately made her unfit to be a parent. Thankfully, Chinami’s grandparents were good, kind people who took their granddaughter in without the slightest hesitation.

Chinami’s grandfather was a simple man, working as the head of janitorial services at a local aquarium. Her grandmother, meanwhile, was a beloved community librarian. Visiting the aquarium as a child awoke a deep interest in the sea, and despite her young age, Chinami took to studying everything she could find about the ocean and all its wonderful inhabitants. She would spend long hours with her grandmother at the library, poring over books about the ocean. It was through these studies that she learned about the amazing sorts of creatures that had once dwelled within the sea: great sea-serpents and ancient whales swam through her dreams at night. Once she was old enough, she began taking classes at the aquarium in addition to her school work, and learned that the field she was so interested in was called marine paleontology.

Of course, marine paleontology is a rather odd hobby for a young girl to take up, and her feverish enthusiasm about the subject didn’t make her particularly popular at school. The other children took to calling her “Fishbones”, and generally treating her as an outcast. Still, Chinami’s dedication remained unwavering, and she studied hard, doing very well in her scholarly endeavors.

Still, Chinami was more than a bit lonely. Her only real friend was the sea, and she would spend the evenings walking along the coastline and skipping stones out into the water, pondering what sorts of mysteries surely slept beneath that great blue expanse. As luck would have it, though, one such evening her ponderings were interrupted by a strange visitor. The little creature called itself a “Keeper”, and told her about all sorts of curiosities she’d never dreamed of. Furthermore, it told her that with a simple contract, she could gain magical powers that would let her pursue her curiosity even further. To top it all off, she was certain to make friends, after all, Magical Girls had lots of friends! All she had to do was fight some monsters called Vices.

She pondered over the offer for a while, but ultimately her curiosity got the best of her.

Heya, so here's Curiosity Girl of Many Fish, please let me know if there's anything wonky!

[LuckyBlackCat]

@Gisk Looks good to me! Feel free to put her into the Characters section once you get Spice's approval. The power level seems fine, magical girls in this are meant to start out reasonably low level and gradually get stronger, so Tsutomi could make fairly small, simple devices at first, and learn to create more complex ones over the course of the RP.

As for pictures, how about something steampunk styled, like one of these?

Inventor girls

@DrowsyPangolin Ooh, very unique! Again, she looks fine, now to wait for what Spice says.

[NiceSpice]

I LOVE THEM, I LOVE THEM ALL, MOVE THEM TO THE CHARACTER PAGES AT ONCE, I MUST HAVE THEM! OuO

@DrowsyPangolin @Gisk

[Gisk]

Got my pictures chosen!

[LuckyBlackCat]

@Gisk Love the outfit! And who knows, maybe she could become a rival, a friend, or both to Kichi (good luck vs hard work).

[PrincessVampora]

ied like to join if you dont mind i need to come up with an OC but i think i can get the basics ^^

[sassy1085]

WIP

My Hider

Name: Akumi Shizuka
Age: 16
Appearance: (Civilian appearance and magical girl appearance)

Civilian appearance

magical girl appearance

Mana Crystal: (Describe the form your mana crystal takes. A simple pendant, bracelet, earring, something that can be easily hidden or look like an inconspicuous accessory, yet can become much fancier when you're transformed.)
Virtue: Orderliness- Akumi
Magic: (Should be in some way tied to the virtue. Someone Truth themed may have detection magic, for example, and the virtue of Friendship could grant buffing abilities or other magic that works best with a team.)
History: (Keep it reasonably brief, and if you want your character to have a secret that will be revealed over the course of the RP, feel free to run it past us via PM)
Other: (Can be left blank)

[Skyswimsky]

Yay, it's up \o/.

I'll work on a CS as soon-ish as I'm home! Pretty much got most laid out in my head except a majicl transform costume.

Not sure what exact virtue yet, but definitely something along the lines of being headstrong, to never give up. Someone who goes full fisherman until all the mind-breaking happened, hehe.

Also, just to confirm, melee focused people are a thing, too?
Will there be a Discord?

[Epsir]

Howdy everyone, this is your tank for tonight.

[Skyswimsky]

@NiceSpice@LuckyBlackCat
Everything's done except getting a theme and a majicl girl outfit which goes hand-in-hand with the Mana Crystal, but I'm sure you can take a look nonetheless?

Kyouko

Name: Kyouko Hiruma
"It means 'best girl', or something!"
Age: 15
Appearance:

No Mayo

Magical Transformation:

long gloves instead of gauntlets

Mana Crystal: A simple choker, gifted by her father.
Virtue: Perseverance

Magic: Neuanfang - The Restored World
Take my arms. Take my legs. Take my Soul and take my Heart. I will keep climbing. I will keep walking. I will keep trying. No pain is too great to bear, for our promised Happy End.

Kyouko's Virtue manifests in the ability to reset certain properties of entities to an earlier state in time. She could throw a pebble and turn it into a powerful projectile, punch an enemy harder multiple times despite landing a single hit, or return an attack to a state before it existed, and so on. Currently, her ability can restore the properties of things to up to a 10-second time frame in close proximity.

History:
"Want to know more about me, the one and only, Kyouko Hiruma, eh? Well, first you have to know I. Am. Special! The bestest. Special enough to tell you about MY history! All in first person! Oh look at THAT unique snowflake, shame on her! Well, screw you! Ahem. I was, and am, happy. Sure, I've never got to know my mother. Sure, my nonetheless awesome father has-slash-had pretty much never time AND SURE, a lot of people in school simply haven't realized how awesome I am yet - instead trying to raise their pitiful self-esteem by making fun of those greater such as I, Kyouko. BUT!... What counts is what you do with yourself! No one but yourself is responsible for your emotions, and how you feel.

So, instead of holing up inside my father's rich mansion and crying myself to sleep each night, I rather punch Mr. self-pity in the gut! Go out there. Do things, do more things. All the fun things. And I guess some school, too, urgh. Anyway! No matter how often you fail climbing a, uh tree! If you give up climbing, you'll never make it to the top, y'know? And once you're at the top, you look for a taller tree! Because climbing the same tree again would be boring, right? Right. And, uh, ah! Look at me talking and talking. Guess that's enough!

If you wanna know more about the awesome I, Kyouko Hiruma, you can pre-order my biography now!... It's called biography, right? Right. Just gotta wait a few many years!"

Other:
This never gets old
Some other Theme

[Thanarosa]

Meguca complete. Let me know if anything needs to be changed.

Kasumi

Name: Kasumi Yonaga
Age: 14
Appearance:

Civilian

Transformed

Mana Crystal: A small, purple bead attached to a tattered, grey scarf.
Virtue: Responsibility | The world failed her. I lost her, so I'll bring her back.
Magic:
In Her Presence | Kasumi treasures every memory spent with her sister, and can manifest it into the world as a pulse of light, originating from her clasped hands. Anyone that comes into contact with the pulse will be healed. The more precious the memory, the more powerful the healing is. Each time this ability is cast, the memory used gets just a little fainter.

My Thousand Worries Weep Away | Clenching her fist hard enough to break skin, the drawn blood flows into the shape of a rose then crystallizes. The deeper the wound, the larger the flower. Anyone that ingests its petals will feel a surge of power flowing through their veins, granting immense pain resistance and enhanced physical capabilities. The rose has only one thorn, protruding from the center of the petals. Said thorn is unusually large and sharp, resembling the blade of a knife.

History:
Kasumi was born to a fairly affluential family, being born 2 years after their first daughter, Mizuki. Naturally, the two became inseparable. Kasumi looked up to her elder sister and never really made friends in her own age group, though she did get along reasonably well with her sister’s friends. However, when Kasumi was 13, tragedy struck as Mizuki began to feel ill. Her health took a rapid, unexplainable downturn and she fell into a deep coma that no one could rouse her from. Kasumi became borderline catatonic, barely paying attention to the world around her. She began to drift from the world, fading into the background. A few months later, that changed when the resident class weirdo had started to talk about some strange things, about creatures from another realm that would steal away people’s souls for some nefarious purpose. While dismissed by the other class members as being another one of her wild conspiracy theories, Kasumi took notice. If that girl knew more, perhaps she could find a way to save her sister.

After school, she stayed behind to talk with the other girl and using a little gentle persuasion, had learned absolutely nothing. In a foul mood, she left to the hospital to visit her sister. No progress, no changes, absolutely nothing. The hospital staff were worthless, the girl was worthless, everyone was worthless. When she returned home that night, she caught a glimpse of something outside her window. On a whim, she grabbed the scarf that her sister knitted for her all those years ago, and went for a walk. She left behind her phone, wallet, almost everything. Just the scarf and the clothes on her back as she walked through the eerily quiet streets of Kaigo City. Eventually, she tired and found a place to sit in a bus stop. While she hadn’t noticed because of her movement, it was an oddly cold night. Wrapping herself in the scarf, she closed her eyes and began to drift away. It was then that she heard a voice right besides her, a Keeper. She learned about Vices, and about the girls that fought against them. At that moment, she knew what needed to be done. The others couldn’t do anything, of course they couldn’t. They lacked the power, so she would obtain it, through any means necessary. She would need to do it with her own two hands, to find the Vice that stole her sister and bring her back. It had to be possible, her sister used to say that nothing was impossible, and she was never wrong. She couldn't be wrong.

Other: Has a special designer jacket that she wears often. Her sister had a matching outfit.

[LuckyBlackCat]

Sorry everyone, had to go to work but am back now.

@PrincessVampora Nice choice of virtue, although her magic needs to be more specific. What can she make besides potions and how long do the items last? I know the character sheet is a work in progress though, so when you're done, just run the finished sheet past me and NiceSpice. If you have any questions or want to discuss the character concept, ask away!

@Skyswimsky Ohh brilliant, I love her attitude already xD You have my approval, now to wait for Spice's.

@Thanarosa Mostly good, I like the backstory, motive and magic, there are just two things to point out. One, a mana crystal is created when somebody becomes a magical girl, rather than being a preexisting item. So it could be a bead attached to the scarf, instead of the scarf itself. Secondly, I recommend giving her some kind of combat ability as well as those moves, unless you're going for a purely support character.

@Karkinos Very creative take on Justice! I didn't get the notification, sorry about that, but she looks good to me.

Anyway, the IC should be up soon, can't wait for this to start!

[NiceSpice]

I conquer with Lucky, there's not much she's said that I need to add on to! Also @PrincessVampora just for future reference, it's usually best to post the CS's in the OOC thread before they get approval to go into the actual Char thread. :)

@Skyswimsky@Karkinos Free free to move your CS's into the char thread, LOVE 'EM!

[PrincessVampora]

@NiceSpice sorry about that im a bit rusty and when i was last on here it was before 2015 lolz

[PrincessVampora]

and Black cat ill just post it on my OC sheet ok?^^

[LuckyBlackCat]

@PrincessVampora It's ok, though it'd be best to copy and paste the CS, flesh it out, and post it in this section for approval. Then feel free to replace the WIP in the Characters section with the finished version.

[PrincessVampora]

@LuckyBlackCat ok and again its still a work in progress, and to be honest all my ocs develup thorw days weeks and even months of work as i like to re read and edit and stuff i will live to start the rp with what i got right now. so when we do start i will be refining her and editing her so i hope thats ok