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

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[HereComesTheSnow]

he cant keep getting away with it

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we're going to shitpost to one image and one image only

[The Horned Wolf]

To those within this RP:

I apologize for intruding, but it has just occurred to me that this might be a better place to post my question rather than the original Interest Check.

To the GM and Co-GM
@VitaVitaAR@RolePlayerRoxas

I am earnestly interested in this RP and would like to participate in it. Do you have space for a single character?

Here is the idea I want to run with:

Modern Day "Witch" or "Shaman"

Basically, his/her IE would be a their Familiar (I'm thinking a Ferret that is black with gray blotches)and their AE would call on spirits to aid him/her in tasks and battle. This AE would either give the spirit some sort of form or allow them to possess him/her. While this method would technically give him/her a rather wide range of possible abilities, he/her would have to maintain a constant relationship with the spirits themselves.

For accuracy with the spirits, I will be using actual spirits from mythologies and belief systems from around the world. As for how he/she would maintain a relationship I will be using a mixture of ancient and modern practices. If I write about a spirit or a practice that you are iffy about, I will send you all the information I have on it and explain why I wrote it in the manner that I did.

I plan on him/her only having access to 3 spirits at the beginning, and this number may diminish or grow depending on his/her actions and other happenings within the RP as according to the natures of the spirits themselves.

If this is something you're alright with, then I would absolutely love to finish this character design, just let me know!

PS. Spirits, in the context that I am using the word in, refers to any and all supernatural entities.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post and question,

Mikael

[Crowvette]

What did Fuko do ;~;

[VitaVitaAR]

@The Horned Wolf: Summons via a device are more along the lines of what @Rin's character does. They're sort of build-in "programs" so to speak.

[HereComesTheSnow]

what DIDNT fuko do

[The Horned Wolf]

@VitaVitaAR

Chill, ummm they wouldn't technically be built in programs, but it would be more of an uplink or downlink sort of mechanic. As such the spirits would be their own individual beings that help him/her out for some kind of payment.

Example:
Torin (my character) regularly maintains a relationship with a dryad (or similar plant based spirit) by caring for a group of plants in his/her room. Torin would call on this Dryad to lend him/her their power. At this point in time Torin can control plants (to a certain extent). Afterwards, He would repay the Dryad by either getting a new plant, giving his existing plants a really good type of fertilizer, or by finding a very fertile piece of land to plant one of his plants in, so that it can grow naturally.

Now the intricacies of each relationship would very based of the type of spirit that he is interacting with. The basic concept is that while Torin has a large breath of abilities, he needs to sufficiently repay the spirits that aid him, otherwise they can choose to leave him.

Since they would technically prove to be NPCs, the spirits themselves would fall under the purview of you as the GM.

Does this explanation make sense?

[Althiel]

Just got back from work, and holy moly.

Hider

Das a lotta students.

Will be making mine in a bit.

[VitaVitaAR]

@The Horned Wolf: No, I mean that spirits like that don't exist in this setting. Summons are actually part of your device.

[Rabidporcupine]

And finally, after a good few days of finding a scary looking character for his picture, I'm done. Yes, he went through a few changes over the course of writing the character sheet alone, but I'm hoping he's still ok!

Igarashi Daiji

Name:
Igarashi Daichi

Age:
17

Gender:
Male

Appearance:
"Nothin' better than hand signals when you're bein' hunted!"
A sincere attempt at a smile
A true monster of genetics, Daiji stands at 6'2", and generally looks like he's threatening you.

Personality:
Daiji, despite how it may seem, does not particularly enjoy how scary he looks. True, his voice may sound more or less like a growl at all times, his smile tends to give the impression of a young man who plans to steal your soul, and mutual eye contact sends most people into fits of terror but this is in fact due mostly to genetics, along with a little unwanted help from his inherent engine skill in regards to the final example. In reality, Daiji is a rather friendly person, who likes to talk to new people and help them out. It rarely works out of course, but he tries. When he is with people who aren't scared of him, he's the kind of person who rarely stops smiling, and usually enjoys a bit of good natured teasing. Unfortunately, outsiders tend to see this as just straight up bullying thanks to his facial expressions.

He also enjoys playing and spending time with animals, which is ironic, as they hate him. The number of times he's been swarmed by monkeys back in his home town, or more often in the last few days, cats. There have been a few close calls with... larger... animals, but thankfully he has been able to either avoid their notice or escape before they can catch him.

Ironically, when it comes to fighting, Daiji is actually a bit of a coward. While he can fight, and quite well at that, he prefers to avoid pain whenever possible. The way he sees it, either he gets hurt, or he hurts someone else. This is not optimal, as he doesn't like making people upset, but he also doesn't like feeling pain. So, rather than get stuck in this moral dilemma, he tends to avoid and/or run from fights.

Backstory:
Born to farmers in a small, relatively isolated town in the mountains, Daiji spent the majority of his childhood either helping his parents with the farm or running around in the mountains and forests. This made it easy to avoid accidentally affecting people with his eyes, which was a fairly common concern until somewhere around the age of six. Thankfully, the town was small enough that everyone quickly found out about this issue and learnt to avoid eye contact. Even at school, if you could call an old building with just four students a school, no one would meet his gaze out of fear. Daiji accepted this, of course, because why wouldn't he? He didn't want to upset anyone, and there was a roughly 70/30 chance that looking him in the eyes would do just that.

But it hurt.

By the time he was fifteen, he realized he couldn't do it anymore. The near complete lack of eye contact was left him feeling disconnected from everyone else, and despite his attempts to hide his pain, his friends and family had noticed. This was when his mother, Igarashi Mari, came up with a plan. When she was young, she lived in a town named Shiroyama and attended the towns battle school, where she made quite a name for herself due to her ability with the staff. However, the part that she focused on now were the lessons focusing on Inherent Engine Skills. She believed that, if he were to attend the school, he would be able to learn to control his eyes. However, she also knew that he would more likely than not have to fight, and so, despite already having spent some time teaching him how to defend himself, made a plan. From then on, she would teach Daiji how to fight in earnest, and when she thought he was ready, she would help him move to Shiroyama and enroll in Shiroyama High School.

After two long, painful years, Mari finally decided Daiji was talented enough as a fighter that she wouldn't have to worry about him too much, and started making preparations. Before he left, she presented him with her old staff from her own days in the school, Sarufuemaru, the Monkey Flute. With this final gift, Daiji was finally ready to set off and begin this new chapter of his life, and hopefully one day, he'd be able to look her in the eyes with pride, and tell her he had accomplished what he'd set out to do.

Inherent Engine Skill:
Gaze of the Hunter
Daiji's inherent engine skill is another rather unfortunate factor adding to his reputation. Whenever he makes eye contact with a living thing, that person will immediately feel an intense pressure wash over them, as if they were being hunted by some great, inescapable hunter. Around eighty percent of the time, this pressure becomes utter terror, particularly in those with weaker wills. In the other twenty percent, the pressure will instead come out in the form of great anger, which while occasionally a boon in combat, causing the opponent to act recklessly, it usually just makes things even harder for him. It is only those few with extremely powerful wills who can look him in the eyes without being affected.

Sadly, although he knows he can as he has done it before, Daiji doesn't really know how to turn this on or off, which has made life quite difficult for him. Due to this, he generally tries to either cover his eyes or just avoid other peoples gazes, lest he accidentally make another enemy.

Active Engine Device:
Sarufue
Sarufue is a seven foot long staff with holes that line the sides from top to bottom. Despite this, the staff is actually still incredibly sturdy, able to hold out against even the hardest blows as long as it's wielder can as well. However, it is these holes that are the source of the weapons power, catching and collecting wind within it whenever it is swung. The wielder can then release this wind at will, using it to push away opponents and divert attacks. And yes, it can technically be played in a manner similar to a flute, but the size and number of holes generally makes this difficult without help from others.

Skills:
Despite his size, Daiji is actually quite agile thanks to spending his childhood running around the mountains of his hometown, clambering over rocks and up trees, and more than once having to escape from animals that took a dislike to his presence. Along with this, he has been trained in marital arts by his mother, particularly in the use of bo staffs.

Outside of combat, Daiji is quite good at gardening, cooking and sewing, all of which he finds quite enjoyable.

Rank:
Right now, 0. He just got there.

Club:
None at the moment, but he'd be pretty happy to start a gardening or sewing club if there isn't already one, or he doesn't find anything else to interest him.

[The Horned Wolf]

@VitaVitaAR

Ok thank you for the clarification. In that case I'll come up with something different.

[Melkor]

Hi! I just wanted to see if you're still accepting for this? It looks really fun!

Edit: I guess I applied. So I'll find out.

[Melkor]

REMOVED

[VitaVitaAR]

I've noticed a lot of people aren't in clubs, and that was supposed to be important. ^^; The school is built around pitting the clubs against one another, and while some who aren't yet in clubs is okay, it's getting a bit extreme.

[Rabidporcupine]

By the way, just to justify Daiji's height and genetics, here's the picture I'm using for his parents.

Hider

[Rabidporcupine]

Also I'll try to have Daiji join a club soon, but it's still his first day.

[Melkor]

@VitaVitaAR If it helps, assuming Gray's accepted, I can make him the president of like the Martial Arts club or something. That bit of his character isn't vital.

[King Cosmos]

Guess I'll have to start forcibly recruiting people onto the baseball team. First I'm gonna kick your ass and then I expect you to show up for practice tomorrow.

Come to think of it, since fights between clubs are so important wouldn't there be a tactic to recruiting people solely for their combat ability? Like the knitting club just convinces a couple of really strong students into the club who have no interest in knitting just to handle fights for them?

[HereComesTheSnow]

If that’s what’s stopping my approval, I’ll just fully join the boxing club or something. Or perhaps an aforementioned general Martial Arts club— Whichever, really.