[OOC] Our Daily Lives have Become a Battlefield: A Battle School RP

[Bartimaeus]

@VitaVitaAR am i accepted as well? ^^’

[VitaVitaAR]

@Bartimaeus: Oh right, yes, sorry.

[VitaVitaAR]

@King Cosmos: You can be de-ranked for extremely poor performances as well as punishment. Violate school rules hard enough and you get punished.

[Bartimaeus]

No need for apology ^^ just wanted to make sure ya didn’t forget little ol’ hat-throwing guy. Heh.

[Cerces22]

I am interested in this, I will work on a CS morrow as I have been up almost 48 hrs straight and I need to come up with a solid concept 😂

[MonkeyBusiness]

Shin Kawaguchi

Name: Shin Kawaguchi
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Appearance: Shin stands at five foot six.
Personality: Shin Kawaguchi is a relaxed person who is just fine enjoying life. He is an openly friendly person who enjoys meeting new people and sharing his love of music. Despite the fighting structure built into the school, he does not enjoy fighting others but sees it as a necessary thing to do for his club for them to enjoy some basic luxury during their school life. Even with his easy going style Shin can take stuff seriously depending on how it can effect him.
Backstory: Shin Kawaguchi came from an average family who are all basic musicians in their own right. He entered Shiroyama during the old combat system before the Student president took over and refers to them now as the good old days. He joined the music club shortly after his arrival at the school and took over as president of the club during his second year when his upperclassmen graduated from the school. After he attained the role of president of the club, people continued challenging him thinking they could try and take the club room under the new student council system. Shin has now gained a reputation as the defender of the music club and has even defeated lower ranked clubs by himself if required.
Inherent Engine Skill: All Seeing Eye- Shin has an ability to use sound waves as a form of radar to detect objects in a three hundred and sixty degree direction. He has an issue focusing on the power when there is to much information to take in, causing him a painful headache.
Active Engine Device: Ongaku no oto - The headphones the Shin wears around his neck act like normal headphones when flipped the proper way, but when the speaker heads are flipped around they can act like speakers allowing him to control the sound waves created by them. He can create multiple concussive blasts of air pressure that can knock his opponents around and can even create a limited defensive barrier to deflect attacks. The sound that comes from the headphones can also cause headaches to those that hear the sound as it fills the air with sound waves. This noise is uncontrollable and can even effect the user of the weapon.
Skills: Shin is skilled with playing guitar and piano.
Rank: 32th
Club: Shin is president of the music club for people who display talent in playing instruments and want to show an appreciation for music.

[Rabidporcupine]

So how much of the school year has passed? Is it possible for me to have my guy be a new student who doesn't have any BP yet?

[RoflsMazoy]

Alright, here we go >:)

The dead guy

Name: "The name of this unlucky schmuck who's body I stole? Let me check his ID for a sec. Here we go… Kisuke Kimura? The hell kind of boring ass name is that? Whatever, I can work with this."

Age: "IDs don't got age on them do they? Oi, birthday, right, right… Wait. This ID is fake as shit. This dude is not 23."

Gender: "To be honest I kind of forgot what I used to be, but this dude is definitely a dude."

Appearance: "Funny thing is anybody who's body I inhabit get their hair colour bleached out when they die. I didn't mention that did I? But one look at me and you'd think I was dead already. The bandages are so I can keep my flesh on me, and this dude isn't that tall so I don't have to use as many. I gotta admit, that's pretty good."

Backstory: "I don't remember enough for a full history. I can't even really try to remember when it all started, but I can at least give you a rundown of my last few bodies. You'd think somebody minding their own business would be free to just chill and stay alive, you know. But man, every time somebody just has to just up and ruin it for themselves and kill me. Yeah, I'm a ghost. I don't get how it really works, and I don't really care either. If someone kills me, the grudge gets them. It's like a part of me but not a part of me at the same time. I think every ghost has it, that's probably how poltergeists and whatever works, but my grudge is only for the person that ends me. It's like a curse, it instantly destroys their Mana Core and that usually kills them. I've never seen anybody live through that. Never tried it against anything without a Mana Core. I'm not tryna die here, that's the opposite of what I want."

"But there's always going to be something that gets me killed. I was walking along, minding my own business when suddenly, boom, knife in the gut from one unlucky motherfucker. Couple seconds later, dead body, not me, although it was me up until that second. I'd been in that body for too long already, it rotted pretty quick. I burned it anyway just in case. I lucked out on this guy. He was already a weirdo, carrying around a normal knife instead of an AE Drive or whatever they're called. You can get good cheap ones if you just want to mug somebody, but he had a normal pocket knife. Weirdo."

"He also had dead parents and was also loner. Yeah he had classmates or whatever but none of them even asked about the bandages. People always ask about the bandages. Nobody even knew what this guy did in his spare time. Well he shanked me in that alleyway but I don't know what else he did in his spare time. I found his condo, with somebody else in it. He was behind in payments. I he'd have a job bot I had no idea what it was. I figured I should join a club to kill time because I didn't really care about much beyond not getting killed but I was getting really bored."

"I joined the Zero Rankers since it didn't seem like they were up to much. They're not up to much. They're never up to much. I made a good choice."

• IE Skill: Abhāgya Bāhya: Outside the Saṃsāra of Life and Death.
  The spirit has no knowledge of the inner workings of this Inherent Engine skill, although it's not significantly different from their impressions. As a sort of spirit grudge who has resisted the cycle of reincarnation, its Mana core has warped into something twisted. The spirit is a grudge which has persisted after death, the grudge of having been killed before their time. As a spirit this has conferred them with an insidious Internal Engine Skill. Upon being killed, the grudge activates and focuses all the power of its Mana Core to shatter the assailant's. The capacity of the Mana Core hardly makes a difference, an attack like this will pierce straight through most defences. If the rupturing of the Mana Core doesn't kill them, the shock will.
  
  The act of killing, regardless of if they are a sinner or a saint ranks highly amongst the transgressions. Retaliation, while not always justified becomes the lesser sin, and the grudge a lesser transgression. However, this spirit has already transgressed by refusing to become part of the cycle of life and death. This isn't just a gambit, this is desperation. Abhāgya Bāhya can only activate when the spirit has been consigned to death. There is no returning. If Abhāgya Bāhya fails, it's over. The spirit will finally experience a true death.
  
  The spirit's hold on its host body waxes and wanes over time. The weaker it is, the less likely the flesh will hold together. Weaker still, and the spirit's soul may even be forced to hide inside the Mana Core until the body regenerates to normal. This regeneration is caused by the world rebalancing, compensating for the presence of the dead leaving the body. Too long however and the body will die, but this sort of thing doesn't happen too often.

Active Engine Device: The spirit's Mana Core is completely non-functional outside of Abhāgya Bāhya. It won't even activate the weakest of AEDs. The human Kosuke Kimura wields a pocket knife and that's as good as it's going to get.

Skills: A spirit inhabiting a body needs time to adjust to it. Things like muscle memory exist, but they'll have no knowledge of the body's original fighting style or techniques. They may even have difficulties moving if the body is too incompatible. However, this spirit is extremely good at surviving with his unique condition. In all its time in this state it has never relinquished its hold on life. The spirit has an uncommon tenacity and willpower.

Rank: 0

Club:

• Zero Rankers
  Not all students are created equal. Some students are created far less equal than others. If you self-identify as any variation of "Shit", "Garbage", or "Sub-par Trash", this may be the club for you. Apart, we may be weak, but together we would still probably get breezed on, but at least we can pool our BP together to get some pizza for after the losses. What clubs are bold enough to get pizza delivered to the school? The Zero Rankers, that's who. Anyone over Rank 1 isn't allowed unless you're also above Rank 40 and if you are can you please join us so you can carry us? We're so tired of losing

[VitaVitaAR]

@MonkeyBusiness: Accepted.

@RoflsMazoy: Um... no-one like, actually dies in the school battles? ^^; I kind of thought it was obvious but like, students aren't killing each other. There's stuff in place to make sure people don't actually die from fighting, so students aren't just dying in droves. ^^;

[Cerces22]

Name: Relka Masers
Age: 17
Gender: Transfemale
Appearance:
Personality: Relka is very laid back, she remains cool and collected and prefers to use cunning and wits vs brute strength to win any battle she finds herself in. She is a bit of a smooth talker and will use deception and trickery to her full advantage.

As one of the smartest students in the school, and the only out transmember, she usually isn't very sociable. Although get past her smart mouthed nonchalant demeaner and you will find no friend more loyal. And adventure around many corners with her constant planning to quietly take that number 50 slot.

Backstory: Relka always knew she was different growing up, as a young boy she felt completely out of place in the world. Her family tried to get her to join sports with the other boys, but Relka had no taste for sweat or rough housing. Instead she had found passion in learning, usually taking one of the top spots in class. But her awkwardness to participate in what was viewed as boys hobbies made her a socal pariah, which was fine with Relka, it gave her more time to study and grow in knowledge.

By Middle School Relka had come out as transgendered, which had alienated her from all the other students. Some even targeted her for being so different, after a particularly hellish year, her parents had her transfer to a new middle school were she finally began living as Relka full time.

Now in High School Relkas transition is complete and she is fully out and proud. Though going to Shiroyama with its battle philosophy has left a bit of a sour taste in her mouth. Relka plans to rise to the top to end this foolish farce and bring the school back to its core fundamentals of learning rather than fighting. But to do that she has to partake in the battles themselves. So she has been devouring every piece of information she can on the other students. And strategizing the fatest way to reach her goal, knowing who is best to take on and when.

Inherent Engine Skill: Mimicry Relkas mana core allows her to rapidly study an opponents mana core ability and use it for herself. The downside is that the copied power is only 75% the power of the original owner and lasts only for 2 hours at a time with a 4 hour recharge rate.

Active Engine Device: Loki Bangle Relka wears a green bracelett on her left arm that allows her to access a limited illusionary abilities.

Einherjar: One of the functions of her bangle allow her to split herself up to three different clones. Of course the drawback being that the new clones take up to 25% of her base strength each, giving her more numbers at a weaker state.

Prankster: Relkas Bangle is able to refract light around her making her virtually invisble. Although this does not make her intangible, a well trained individual would be able to see foot prints in dirt, or hear her breathing.

Ragnarok: Lokis Bangle has the power to transmutate small objects it whatever Relka can think of. The item cannot change its inherent propetry so sorry no gold from lead. It cannot gain mass unless multiple objects are combined at one. And Relka must have some understanding of how the object she is making is constructed.

Skills: As one of the top 5 smartest students in the school, Relka relies more on her brain than her brawn. She is a sound tactician and strategist, using deception ans misdirection to win her battles. Able to read opponents in midbattle Relka can spot weaknesses and exploit them. She is an average fighter, but isntrying to learn mixed martial arts.

Rank: 28

Club: Clubless

[VitaVitaAR]

@Cerces22: While the character herself seems fine, as a lesbian I kind of feel um...

I guess a good way to put it is I would feel kind of wrong placing a club just for representation for LGBT students in a context where if they lose anything they could be openly degraded by Atsuko, but at the same time it wouldn't make sense in-universe for them to be exempt from that.

[Cerces22]

@VitaVitaAR

Than Inshall make her clubless 😂 I just wanted her to have a club. And I figured if the other clubs were held to the same standard that discrimination couldn't be claimed its easy to prove that the other clubs are held to the same standard. But I don't want to go against the grain and drop the club lol

[VitaVitaAR]

@Cerces22: I'll admit it's just my personal feelings here. Atsuko tends to be pretty harsh towards losing clubs in an effort to make them try and prove her wrong, and given how that would feel to me writing it I just wanted to bring it up. Thank you for being accommodating. ^^; I was worried I'm come across badly or something, which especially given I'm part of the LGBT community I really wanted to avoid. If it helps, you could note she tries to be encouraging to others facing similar struggles as she did or something.

[RolePlayerRoxas]

For what it's worth, Chie's Decadent Failures club is open to all! You just need to hang around at the school gate and mug at people a lot.

[Cerces22]

@VitaVitaAR

As an openly transwoman herself who has faced discrimination I fully understand. And its your RP your rules it really wasn't to big a deal to me in the end just wanted her to belong somewhere instead of being a loner like I usually have 😅

@RolePlayerRoxas

I don't think that Relka would fit in there lol shes not mean

[RolePlayerRoxas]

Neither is Chie! Usually. She is strange.

[OwO]

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• Name: Sakuraba Yasu
• Age: 16
• Gender: Female
• Appearance: Standing at 5'9" with a slender build, Yasu appears as a bit boyish. Even though she has naturally slate eyes, she chooses to dye her hair a similar grey.
• Personality: Yasu is a bit of a subdued person. She doesn't have much of a drive to do anything. This includes getting a high rank. At times, she is more interested in the crappy manga that she reads than battles. This has lead to her constantly sandbagging most fights. Even though she's subdued, she's pretty poisonous and rude to most people. Filled with sarcasm and genuine insults at others, she's more seen as a mild bully to most people. In regards to insults, her skin is pretty thick. She literally doesn't give a single hoot about what other people say about her.
• Backstory: For Yasu, school was always a chore. Learn, sleep, repeat. That's all it was. Her family was rather militant; she would learn beyond her abilities, train beyond her body, and become the perfect society member. It was pretty miserable for the lazy Yasu. All she wanted to do was relax in life. Why did she have to put up with studying for 6 hours a day? Well, she found a way out of her grind. Battle schools, as they were called. She could practically emancipate herself and live on her own.
  
  So she did just that. She found a nice, cheap apartment and a nice job and began to take control of her own life back. Battling was just a nice place to break up the monotony of constant studying. Really, she just wanted to get away from her parents. With an old, since retired AED that she had taken from her father, she battled and studied in no particular order. She was good at it, too. She quickly climbed the ranks and became a bit of a notable figure in the school. That's when she realized something; being high on the ranks sucked. Sure, it was good to get the benefits, but having to deal with the notoriety, constant challenges, and actually having to deal with club politics?
  
  That was hot garbage.
  
  Wanting out of the grind once more, Yasu began to sandbag every single fight. Her rank plummeted and she was back to a healthy rank 3. Leaving her previous club, she joined a similar club of low-rankers: the manga club. Though, she really just chose the club because she could be left alone. Actually reading manga was just a nice bonus.
• Inherent Engine Skill: Yasu can inherently perceive mana as a 6th sense. The range of this is technically indefinite, but it reaches 0% accuracy at about 20 meters. Beyond that, Yasu typically says that it's like a wall of fog and fuzz since she can't parse such a complex feeling. The specifics of what she can read are a bit confusing to outsiders; while she can reliably sense humans and the activation of most AED, things that are unique or nonstandard have to be carefully learned by her.
• Active Engine Device: Taking the form of an ivory six-shot revolver, Highwayman is an Active Engine Device designed for ranged combat. Rather than simply damaging the physical aspect of those struck by the bullets, Highwayman also absorbs mana and redirects it back to the user. Because of this, Highwayman is a considerable threat to those who attempt to block it by most means. People who block with their AED soon find their weapons deactivated from repeated blows. A well placed shot on an AED could even temporarily disrupt the usage of it. If someone has the durability to eat the shots, they might find themselves slowly being sapped of their defense.
  
  The bullets that Highwayman fires aren't ordinary shots. Based on how the user pulls the trigger, the bullet can either be fired as though it were a real round or it could be fired and, after a short distance, float in mid air. Because of this, the user can ricochet bullets off of their floating bullets, creating a miniature game of billiards. Except, you know, with guns and bullets. In order to reload Highwayman, the user simply pops out the barrel, gives it a spin, then swings it back in. If a bullet collides with a hard surface, it embeds itself on it, acting as a perfect point to ricochet bullets off of.
• Skills: Yasu is insane at math. She's probably the smartest person at the school in regards to numbers. Besides that, she's incredibly good at seeing things that are far away. Less so when she has to look at things up close. She's also rather athletic, which is surprising. She also has a part time job, which is a skill of it's own when it comes to high schoolers.
• Rank: 3
• Club: Manga club

[RoflsMazoy]

@VitaVitaAR
I'm completely aware of that, and so is Kosuke. He hangs out at school because that's where his body used to go and he's got nothing better to do. To be honest that ability is mostly flavour for why he can body-swap and his body being weird. It's not really meant to be used, but I think I can add something to it so that he could fight normally, although I don't really intend for him to fight anyone to any serious degree.

I could add something like he can't feel anything in his body so he can drive it beyond its limits if he feels like, and as long as the necrosis stage is beginning the damage could be reversible given enough time, but it isn't too consistent.

So he'd be a real zombie but he can't really win fights and after fights he wouldn't be able to heal if he was unlucky, but he's mostly supposed to be a heckler anyway. How's that sound?

[RoflsMazoy]

@OwO Oh hey, what would Yasu think about Kosuke? His mana core's a bit weird so I'd think he'd be able to sneak up on her. Although I think the smell would give him away. :D

[VitaVitaAR]

@OwO: Accepted.

@RoflsMazoy: I'm going to have to be honest and say while there's a pretty broad range of things I'll accept for this RP, this falls outside of that. ^^;