[OOC] Digimon V3

[tobiax]

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Virtue, a firm and habitual disposition to the good. Even in the Digital World, constructed of raw data though it may be, the concept of virtue has a hold. However, not even the digital is ideal. Consumed with pride, a lone Digimon, formerly an Angel-type, sought to posses the Digital World itself. For its insurrection, it was cast down to the Dark Area, whence there is no return.

Now, the Dark Area stirs, and the beasts within threaten to consume the light. Only the Crests of legend can protect the Digital World now...

Digimon: Digital Monsters- V3

The Flame of War Burn in the Digital World!

The citizens of the DIGITAL WORLD are helpless against the onslaught brought onto them by
seven waring camps. Unable to hold their own against powerful Ultimate Digimon, they cry for aide.
History repeats itself as rebellion rages. Who will come to answer the cries of the Digimon?

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Welcome! The aim of this RP will be, as implied above, a journey to the Digital World, wherein our characters seek out the Crests and vanquish a threat to the Digital World. However, it's not going to be as cut-and-dry as one might think at first. The goal here is to have flawed characters- ones who aren't the sparkling embodiment of the Crest which they eventually end up possessing. Quite the contrary, we are seeking characters who have to learn more about their aligned crest than others. The activation of the Crests should, ideally, be something that doesn't come easy, is a struggle for a character, and will take quite a bit of doing- not ideal at all in fact.
This way, we can create a dynamic, character driven roleplay, focused on interaction and development as well as adventure and action (if not moreso). Also, due to the more complex, mature way the story is being handled, characters will be older than they typically are in the Digimon anime, to differentiate a little, and so you don't feel like you have to pull any punches.

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Now, let's get down to the nitty-gritty, shall we? The aim is for there to be around seven characters maximum. I understand that we may not be able to keep that, but it would be ideal. Also, the RP will be taking place in a non-specific 90's-y time period.
Digivolution paths can be pretty much anything within reason, from Baby to Mega, with a possibility for DNA Digivolution, and potentially an enhanced Mega stage. The Digivolution paths you choose should at least be thematically similar, but aside from that, the ball is in your court. The Digivice that will be used will be the Digivice 01, pictured below:



This Digivice will have all its appropriate functions- meaning facilitating Digivolution, Care of Digimon, DNA Digivolution, and the reversal of such (Partition), and the transmission of messages between Digivices and Digimon in the Digital World. Crests will be used to facilitate Digivolution above Champion level, and will trigger when the human character exhibits a set of behavior which is represented by their Crest. As such, when a Crest activates is up to the GM's discretion, and not that of the players.

Character Sheet

Name:
Age: (Late teens, early 20's, but can be shifted for certain character concepts)
Crest:
Appearance: (No real photos, please)
Bio: (The actual important stuff to writing a character)

Digimon

Name: (If Applicable: a Nickname)
Personality: (For the most part, what are they like? Note if it changes per stage either in "other", here, or under the stage, wherever you feel most comfortable putting it.)

Stage- Baby
Species:
Attribute:
Technique- (Max 1)
1:

Stage- In-Training
Species:
Attribute:
Technique- (Max 1)
1:

Stage- Rookie
Species:
Attribute:
Technique- (Max 2, usually 1)
1:

Stage- Champion
Species:
Attribute:
Technique- (Max 3, typically 2)
1:

Stage- Ultimate
Species:
Attribute:
Technique- (Max 3)
1:

Stage- Mega
Species:
Attribute:
Technique- (Max 3)
1:
Other:

Other:

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If such things interest you, then please, enter in, and experience Digimon V3!

CURRENT ROSTER

Courage: @EnterTheHero (Co-GM)
Love: @tobiax (GM)
Hope: @Zelosse+@Stern Algorithm
Reliability:
Sincerity: @Double
Friendship: @Mistress Dizzy
Knowledge: @Loony
Kindness: @sassy1085

SUPPLEMENTARY CHARACTERS
TBD

LOCATIONS
TBD

Let the games begin...

[Potemking]

_zop

[Mistress Dizzy]

Delinquent

Name: Jin (Jinayah) Takahashi
Age: 17
Crest: Friendship
Appearance:
Bio: Jin’s parents, Richard and Yumiko, met at an international university in a political science course. Despite a myriad of personal, cultural and social differences, they fell tumbling into love and married after graduation. Richard became a detective and Yumiko worked with the the city’s mayor. They were happy and successful, and together nearly 7 years before having a bouncing baby girl named Jinayah.

Another 5 years saw tragedy strike. A break in occurred at their home one winter night, and Richard and Yumiko were found dead, shot by an unknown assailant. Their daughter, who had just started kindergarten, was nowhere to be found. It was another year before they found Jin, who was caught trying to break into a convenience store. With her father having no living relatives in America, Jin was sent overseas to live with her mother’s brother.

Jin’s uncle Tairo, and aunt Misaki were both happy to take in their niece, and yet hurt by the circumstances. They did their best with the little girl and tried to help her fit in. They changed her name officially to her their family name, they took her to theme parks and festivals, and tried to be the best parents they could. It took a very long time for Jin to be able to open up and trust again.

Jin was never quite sure of the first time she understood she was different. Maybe it was elementary, in a class photo, where she was far too easy to pick out. Maybe one summer when someone told her that she didn’t have to worry about tanning, or when she overheard someone referring to her as “Hafu” for the first time, and she had to go home and ask her aunt and uncle about the word.

Whatever the cause, her personality shifted dramatically in her first year of middle school. She went from trying to fit in to actively going against the grain. She stood up for the outcasts, and didn’t even try to pretend she was “normal”. In her mind, someone had to defend the people on the outside. The ones who weren’t like everyone else, the ones who didn’t fit in or fall in line.

Name: Oni-ko ( or “Pest” as Jin refers to it)
Personality: Adorable and childlike; will change as Digimon grows

Stage- Baby
Species: Jyarimon
Attribute: Virus
Technique- (Max 1)
1: Fiery heated bubbles – inexplicably heart shaped

Stage- In-Training
Species: Gigimon
Attribute: Virus
Technique- (Max 1)
1: Hot Bite

Stage- Rookie
Species: Solarmon
Attribute: Vaccine
Technique- (Max 2, usually 1)
1: Shiny Ring
2. Shiny Tackle

Stage- Champion
Species: Mechanorimon
Attribute: Virus
Technique- (Max 3, typically 2)
1: Twin Beam
2: Gyro Break

Stage- Ultimate
Species: Locomon
Attribute: Data
Technique- (Max 3)
1: Wheel Grinder
2. Steam Bomb

Stage- Mega
Species: Grand Locomon
Attribute: Data
Technique- (Max 3)
1: Wrecking Ball
2. Limited Express Attack
Other: Despite the frown and delinquent pink leather jacket, Jin is extremely intelligent. Her grades are near impeccable, and could easily land her in a university if she cared to go.

Other:

[tobiax]

We've come into some openings.

[Demon Shinobi]

Hey!
So @soren told me about this roleplay, and I thought it seemed interesting.
If you guys, @tobiax and @EnterTheHero would allow it, I'd like to try my hand at creating a character.
Right now, I think I could make a character who would work for the Crest of Sincerity.

[tobiax]

@Demon Shinobi Give it a shot. We won't know until you show us the character.

[Vongola_Hasayo]

I've had the concept of a digidestined who wasn't the first choice and rather his older brother who passed. Something that would play into a pre existing inferiority complex.

[tobiax]

@Vongola_Hasayo That sounds... familiar. I don't know how that would work out with this particular game, due to timing elements and such. If you'd like to talk about it in depth, shoot me a PM. The inferiority complex isn't outside of the tone for this RP, but the brother having died before the RP starts basically renders that element moot. Someone who isn't alive currently can't be 'picked', even assuming the Digital World can asses mentality, potential, or any other number of other incalculables, people who aren't currently able to think won't really be counted in such a hypothetical type of scan.
It's not that it's a bad idea, just that the sequence is problematic, and a bit strange.

[Double]

@tobiax My idea is for a character who gives the impression of an entitled jerkoff due to his upbringing. Many in his family pursued careers in the legal field, most notably his father who is a Prosecutor. As such the guy was expected, if not outright pressured, to major in the same field, something that's fairly typical in Japanese culture. Truth is, he has no passion whatsoever for law, only pursuing because that was what was expected of him. In school played Soccer used that as a sort of outlet for venting his frustration and thus gained the reputation for being this strong-but-also-agressive-and-ruthless player. His Crest will be sincerity, ultimately forcing him to confront the fact that he's been putting on a front all these years and the only way forward is let his true self shine through. So basically using the Crest of Sincerity as an allegory for someone who's been lying themselves for years about who they want to be and needing to confront that fact and actually be honest about what they really want to do their life.

[tobiax]

@Double Sounds grand. I'd love to see it both in detail, and in practice. Have any idea for which Digimon you want to use?

[Double]

@tobiax I do actually. I'd like Wizardmon, but I'm stumped on what Mega form to end it with. I'm not overly fond of any of the available options for Wizardmon. The Ultimate is great, I like Mistymon quite a lot, I just dont care for any of the evolutions beyond it.

[tobiax]

@Double Sorry, someone else is already making a character sheet and is going for Wizardmon.

[Double]

@tobiax What about TigerVespamon then?

[Bosco]

I am writing my hero of hope now!

[Double]

@Bosco All the jazz about "hope" and you pick Sincerity as your Crest? *facepalm*

@tobiax I'm in no mood to compete with someone over a Crest, so I guess this means I'm out.

[Bosco]

@Double Oops, meant to put hope down, I was writing one for sincerity when I saw all the other potential applicants and did a change up

[tobiax]

@Double No one mentioned TigerVespamon
@Bosco So... the character tab is for accepted character sheets... It's not an enormous deal, but I still have to read it is all.
Edit: That being said, I have read it now, and it needs a bit of work. The sheet doesn't really tell me all that much about the character. Please make your revisions in the OOC until such time as a clear judgement can be made about the character.

[Double]

Ando

Name: Kougawa Ando
Age: 19
Crest: Sincerity
Appearance:


Bio:

The only son of Kougawa Gorou, a powerful and connected Prosecutor. The Kougawa family in general has close ties to the legal world, be it through police or even judges. It's rumored they possess political connections as well. Ando is someone who appears to the outside world as a young man living a life of privilege and luxury. He grew up in a family estate, cared for by servants more than his actual parents. In fact the only interactions he had with his parents was at dinner time and when he needed to be present for one of their social functions. His father in particular didn't spend much time with him, sometimes seeming more like an employer than a parent. And of course, the boy was expected to follow in Gorou's footsteps and become a lawyer of some description. It seemed only fitting, and Gorou himself refused to hear a single word suggesting otherwise despite Ando having no passion for law nor any true desire to pursue it.

Thankfully, Ando was not without various outlets to bide his time with. Soccer was one of his biggest outlets during Junior High and High School, wherein he used the sport as a means to vent his frustrations. This made him aggressive, ruthless even, on the field but that in turn made him a rather strong competitor and easily his team's Ace. But even outside of the Soccer Field, Ando sometimes found himself instead sitting at the table of a challenging game of Chess, wherein his aggressive and ruthless tendencies made him a tough player to beat. But none of it was ever truly satisfying. What good did competing in any of these areas do if he knew he was eventually going to be shackled to a law degree and some desk in his father's law offices? He'd become smart enough not to voice his opposition to his father directly, instead wearing the "Mask" of an obedient son who did what was expected of him. That "mask" became so profoundly a part of who he is that it became his default persona, though with the aggressive strength and ruthless competitiveness he'd adopted from Soccer and Chess mixed in for good measure. But was this really who he was meant to be?

Digimon

Personality: Subservient to Ando more often than not. He can get fired up and defensive when someone insults his partner or tries to berate him in some form. For whatever reason he seems to see a good in Ando that no one else seems capable of, even Ando himself.

Stage- Baby
Species: Pupumon
Attribute: None
Technique-
1: Poison Bubbles

Stage- In-Training
Species: Puroromon
Attribute: None
Technique-
1: Stinging

Stage- Rookie
Species: FanBeemon
Attribute: None
Technique-
1: Gear Stinger

Stage- Champion
Species: Waspmon
Attribute: Virus
Technique-
1: Turbo Stinger
2: Bear Buster

Stage- Ultimate
Species: CannonBeemon
Attribute: Virus
Technique-
1: Nitro Stinger
2: Sky Rocket

Stage- Mega
Species: TigerVespamon
Attribute: Virus
Technique-
1: Mach Stinger V
2: Gear Stinger
3: Royal Meister

[Bosco]

Here's an update

Ferris Boschi

]Name: Ferris Boschi
Age: 18
Crest: Hope
Appearance:

Ferris

Bio: "I think you chose the wrong house... I'm nothing special." Ferris was born with his twin sister, Ferra, who was his guiding light for 16 years. She was the leader of their group of friends, the president of their class, and the life of the party. At the time, Ferris never thought of it as living in her shadow, but basking in her light, as she always found ways to include him and make him feel welcome like she was. He organized their game and movie nights, vice president to her student body, and it all came to an abrupt end when she was killed on her way home from school. The driver was never caught, Ferra was without justice and her duties somehow seemed to be placed on his shoulders. It was a month before Ferris dropped out due to stress, finishing school online from home. He will never be the beacon of hope like his sister was, a guiding light in the dark as well, it was snuffed out and he was alone.

While Ferris doesn't get out much, he still keeps up a garden he and Ferra started ages ago. While he loved to grow vegetables in his half, he keeps growing flowers in Ferra's even though he never understood the appeal. He had always believed in function over form even when gardening, so to grow flowers where no one could see them and not to sell was strange to him. Even though runs the flower garden now, he still can't imagine anyone liking what he grows enough to sell it.

Other: Utilitarian, not creative, gardener, Like board games, movies and planning. Grid paper is his favorite kind of paper, depressed, painful social anxiety, never dated. Not sure if he likes pets, taking care of one would be harder than plants, but it would be nice to have something else in his life that won't ask him how he feels about his sister, knowing the answer is "I miss her". If he had to choose between the primary colors he would choose Yellow, it reminds him of Ferra, the Sun, and is warm but not hot.

Digimon

Name: Fiore
Personality: Determined, Pushy, and Stubborn

Stage- Baby
Species: Nyokimon
Attribute: None
Technique-
1: Seed Cracker

Stage- In-Training
Species: Budmon
Attribute:
Technique-
1: Poison Thorn
2: Acid Bubble

Stage- Rookie
Species: Lalamon
Attribute: Data
Technique-
1: Seed Blast
2: Sing a Song
3: Nuts Explosion

Stage- Champion
Species: Sunflowmon
Attribute:
Technique-
1shine Beam
2:Cactus Tail
3shine Explosion

Stage- Ultimate
Species: Lillymon
Attribute: Data
Technique-
1: Flower Wreath
2: Vicious Vine
3: Flower Cannon

Stage- Mega
Species: Rosemon
Attribute: Data
Technique-
1: Thorn Whipping
2: Ivy Hug
3: Danger Thorn
Other:

[tobiax]

@Bosco It feels... unsculpted. Kind of like a block of clay containing ideas, but only the most vague gesture of a shape. The bits in "Other" that could be worked into his personality via the bio give it a "some assembly required" vibe, which isn't something that makes me want to accept a character.