[OOC] Swords, Coats, and Anime Tropes

Known Locations

More locations will be added to this list as they are created or discovered.

• Sentinel Peaks: A rugged and difficult to traverse - for the uninitiated anyway - region that is home to Kawa's clan.
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• TBD.
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• TBD.

[DELETEDUSER007]

~Swords, Coats, and Anime Tropes~

Welcome one and all to Aeldun! A fantasy world filled with mysteries and dangers galore that totally isn't just another generic copy-paste of what already exists! You have been called here, heroes and villains alike, from other worlds - by some god or another. Y'know, probably. That tends to be the usual way things like this happen at least, provided the universe isn't having an off day and just decides to fling you into the closest parallel reality of course. On the bright side though, there isn't a demon lord that needs to be fought! Well, not at the moment anyway.

In any case, feel free to make yourself at home! I'm sure there's some brigand that needs to be slain or quest that needs to be fulfilled somewhere...

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Alright, first thing's first, rules!

1.) No god-modding, puppeting, etc.

2.) Don't be a dick. Also don't break the Guild's rules.

And that's literally it. I expect most people who join this have RP'd for a while at this point, both here and elsewhere, so I'm sure you're all keenly aware of the etiquette used in this hobby. As far as my expectations go regarding posts, I expect quality over quantity, but I'm willing to be lax overall. We're in Free for a reason after all. To clarify though, I don't need paragraphs if all you need is a sentence or two for quick interactions, but if you feel like adding or describing more then go right ahead. In regards to posting frequency let's try for once a week at the latest, and if you cannot post for whatever reason do attempt to let your fellow players know so we aren't waiting to continue a scene.

We won't be using a Discord, so please make use of the OOC tab. Character sheets will be accepted following examination, but given the satirical nature of this roleplay practically anything you make should be fine.

Finally, here's the template. Feel free to modify it to fit your character or theme, but be aware that anime faceclaims - or art that is adjacent - are accepted only. Additionally, clicking on the map above will take you to its Imgur page if you need a closer look. As for where our characters start, well that I'll leave up for group discussion since we'll all have a hand in describing and creating locations in the world.

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[Dragonfly 9]

Foxley

Foxley

Male || 16 || Critter
_{"Watch out, world! I’m gonna be a hero, whether you like it or not!"}

Personality

Foxley is the classic, stars in his eyes, wannabe hero. He's up for anything that'll help the people, including saving cats(that are usually bigger than him) from trees, saving princesses from dragons(whether they want to be or not), and just saving innocent civilians from anything dangerous in general. He would love to save the whole of Aeldun from an evil overlord, not really understanding the full scale of evil an evil overlord would have to be to be, well, an evil overlord, and also not thinking about how many atrocities they would pull, but anyway, because there (thankfully) isn't one, Foxley settles for helping others instead.

He also hates being seen as helpless and feeble, and will often work himself to exhaustion to get stronger and be seen as weak, often collapsing in his mech suit(whether it looks like a normal human or has Gundam-like armor on) when his body gets to a certain point that it can't handle the pain anymore.

As for how he acts while being in his mech suit, he acts like how he thinks one of the heroes in the storybooks he read as a kid would act: loud, friendly, and larger than life(he would be flirtatious, too, but for some reason, he isn't into any species(including other Critters) of any gender, so he just doesn't bother). He often regales anyone who will listen about all the things he's supposedly done(but which most of them he can do with his mech suit), but will readily help people, too, both because he genuinely wants to and he also secretly loves all the attention and praise he gets when he does.

Appearance

I've already drawn his real form(just pretend that his tail is attached to his butt; I forgot to do that while drawing him), so just know that his fur and ears are orange and white, and his eyes are a light green. He's also 2 feet and 9 inches tall.

As for his mech suit, its default form is a handsome, square-jawed "hunk of a man" named Rob Lightning. He has a lot of "muscles", he's 6 feet and six inches tall, and he's totally not what Foxley would want to look like in a perfect world plus all his Critter features, what are you talking about-

Also, don't worry, he also comes with clothes(the typical fantasy adventurer clothes, to be precise)!

Its battle form, meanwhile, has armor that looks exactly like the main Gundam from Mobile Suit Gundam, except the armor is mainly orange, white, and silver.

Biography

Okay, so-

Basically, Foxley is from a more technologically advanced society than the rest of Aeldun.

Living in the far away mountains, the Critters have a very distinct niche of being able to build incredible inventions and machines, though they’re also very secretive and only give the things they make to “a select few people”(AKA, Isekai heroes, chosen ones, and chosen Isekai heroes).

They’re usually not in the spotlight, and are side characters/cute mascots in another hero’s/hero team’s story.

Foxley, however, doesn’t want to be a cute mascot; he wants to be a hero, and has wanted to be one ever since he was a little kid, reading about various heroes from storybooks while the other young Critters were learning the trade of machinery.

He knew he wouldn't be taken seriously if he went out as himself, however, so he built Rob Lightning fairly easy and, after running away from his small mountain town at age 15, made a new life for himself as Aeldun's Friendly Neighborhood(?) Critter/Mech Suit.

To this day, nobody knows what Rob Lightning really is, or that Foxley is piloting him. All they know is that he's seemingly a capable, if childish, adventurer, though no one says that he's childish to his face.

Powers & Abilities

When he's piloting Rob Lightning, Foxley has access to a vast array of abilities, including super strength(can only easily move things three times his size and smaller; anything more than that, and he starts to struggle), super durability, super speed, and limited flight(can only handle going seven feet in the air without problems, and doesn't often use this ability due to Rob's feet and hands going into its body in order to make room for its giant propellers).

Foxley himself has no powers, but he makes up for it with his genius level intellect(concerning machinery and robotics, anyway), his quick wit, and his sharp observation and resourcefulness skills.

[DELETEDUSER007]

Foxley

Foxley

Male || 16 || Critter
_{"Watch out, world! I’m gonna be a hero, whether you like it or not!"}

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@Dragonfly 9

Approved. Move him on over to the characters tab.

[Mae]

@Dragonfly 9 would you consent to a sidekick who thinks Rob Lightning is the absolute bees knees and is too daft to know about Foxley?

I'm looking to play the 'overly loyal but daft squire' type character and I think it could be fun with Foxley's predicament. No sweat if that's not what you want for Foxley though!

I also have a character concept for 'android who does not understand humans even slightly' which is also fun to play and I'm trying to decide between them.

[Dark Cloud]

SWORD (translation: sword on main in-coming)

[Dragonfly 9]

@Mae That would be hilarious, but I'll have to think about it.

The android idea also sounds interesting, though!

[DELETEDUSER007]

SWORD (translation: sword on main in-coming)

@Dark Cloud

>Another user of edged weapons! Excellent.

>Also once everyone's sheets are in I want to go over where everyone wants to start, and what that location should look like. Personally I'm leaning towards the City of the First Light since it sounds like the perfect place for your generic lawful good city, and also has a dungeon/threat within a few miles of its borders.

[Mae]

There's so many evocative locations it's hard to pick. I'm leaning to near the Hall of the Goblin King/ glitterhold forest sounds like a cool early play location. City Under the Moutain has alot of awesome places nearby too...

[DELETEDUSER007]

There's so many evocative locations it's hard to pick. I'm leaning to near the Hall of the Goblin King/ glitterhold forest sounds like a cool early play location. City Under the Moutain has alot of awesome places nearby too...

@Mae

>True. Hell, the City Under the Mountain itself could be a somewhat subverted or altered take on the trope of dwarves too, maybe have it be some ancient bastion of magitech or something.

[Dragonfly 9]

Those all sound super cool!

[BreathOfTheWoof]

Still around, woop

[DELETEDUSER007]

Still around, woop

@BreathOfTheWoof

>Good to hear. I look forward to seeing what you'll come up with.

[Dark Cloud]

@Zyx The real question is can I be a literal sword, sword-wielder?

[DELETEDUSER007]

@Zyx The real question is can I be a literal sword, sword-wielder?

@Dark Cloud

>I'd prefer you to be an actual character if possible.

>Don't get me wrong. The idea sounds humorous, but also not really like much of an anime trope or subversion thereof. Or even a parody really, unless we're talking about someone who's a living sword with a humanoid - or humanoid adjacent - form who wields a sword as a weapon because they themselves have no one to wield them, then it might work.

[Dark Cloud]

@Zyx I was thinking like a literal sword with stick man arms and legs.

[DELETEDUSER007]

@Zyx I was thinking like a literal sword with stick man arms and legs.

@Dark Cloud

>That's a no-go I'm afraid. Doesn't fit the theme of the RP.

[Sniblet]

Two ideas

-Comically mysterious raven-haired/white-haired woman from the ancient race of plot devices- I mean elves ("comically" might mean no one can remember her name, no one can read her handwriting, and/or the adventurer's guild she works for doesn't remember hiring her, much to her elegantly concealed annoyance)

elf-chan

elf-chan

F || ~70 (69 this year, but she’s not telling anyone) || Light Elf/Dark Elf
_{"Come find me… where the waters meet dreams…"}

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Personality

(elf-chan) is an ancient(?) elf. She is stuck in a permanent state of perfect composure, and dangerously addicted to speaking in riddles and vaguenesses. The way she talks, it seems possible that she knows the cycles of time, but if she did, maybe she’d know that acting this way will always just confuse people?

Appearance

Tall, slender, pale, with piercing blue/golden eyes that may rarely well up with annoyance or frustration, only to be swiftly concealed as she looks away, leaving a beautiful sparkling trail of tears. Her pure white/raven black hair flows to her knees.
Her idle animations usually involve crossed legs or folded hands. She will always wear a hideously expensive-looking dress that matches her hair.

Biography

(elf-chan) belongs to a venerated clan of elven sages who have foreseen the coming plot thousands of years hence. Being one of the youngest of the clan, not quite an adult in elf years, she was, to her dismay, sent out to warn The Heroes. But no one told her who The Heroes were.

Powers & Abilities

Vague and mysterious arcana that glows a stunning white/purple and probably involves nature or light/the welcome darkness within us all.
She is capable of foreseeing the near future, but certainly not of clearly expressing what she sees.

-The chuuni catgirl little sister who actually does have powers but they just never go her way (she poses and yells a spell name and something unrelated in the background explodes)

catgirl-chan

catgirl-chan

F || 13 || Catgirl-chan
_{"You would challenge my Superior Divine Intellect?! ANTI-PEACEU!!"}

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Personality

She is a prideful creature; a towering ego built on goose eggs, with a soul that burns, too often, with embarrassment.
(catgirl-chan) is your chuuni little sister. You don’t have a little sister? I mean, you might as well now. Who else is going to put up with her? She’s sure she can do anything, even though she literally can’t do anything. When she fails, she was holding back, or maybe a demon possessed her left hand for a moment. When she succeeds, her pride is insufferable.

Appearance

(catgirl-chan) is an impetuous barely-adolescent neko, relieved when she’s not the shortest person in the room, and bearer of a permanent catface. Her favorite expressions are in the family of the >:3, and her tail is usually moving in some form of agitation. She likes sweaters and skirts, and wears a cloth bracelet with a power-focusing garnet hanging from it.
She looks up at her lessers with one eye concealed (for their own good) behind her upper-back-length light green hair; the eye that can be seen is blue, while the other looks more purple – but that could just be the light.

Biography

(catgirl-chan) got isekai’d. It wasn’t a truck – she fell from something trying to fly, landed in a washerwoman’s pot in a different world, and ran screaming until she realized what had happened. She’s pretty sure her powers or a demon did it.
F-family? Her family all fears her! They fear her power! That’s… why she can’t find them.

Powers & Abilities

(catgirl-chan) is uniquely awful at everything she puts her mind to. She can even do magic super badly!
With a dramatic pose, a loud invocation in nonsensical bad English, and a heaping degree of conviction, she can easily destroy anything she’d rather not! She twirls, presents an upside-down V-shape with her fingers and cries “ANTI-PEACEU” – her favorite right now – and behind her, the mayor’s roof turns into cockroaches! Run!!

[DELETEDUSER007]

Two ideas

-Comically mysterious raven-haired/white-haired woman from the ancient race of plot devices- I mean elves ("comically" might mean no one can remember her name, no one can read her handwriting, and/or the adventurer's guild she works for doesn't remember hiring her, much to her elegantly concealed annoyance)

elf-chan

elf-chan

F || ~70 (69 this year, but she’s not telling anyone) || Light Elf/Dark Elf
_{"Come find me… where the waters meet dreams…"}

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-The chuuni catgirl little sister who actually does have powers but they just never go her way (she poses and yells a spell name and something unrelated in the background explodes)

catgirl-chan

catgirl-chan

F || 13 || Catgirl-chan
_{"You would challenge my Superior Divine Intellect?! ANTI-PEACEU!!"}

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@Sniblet

>I think we could do with an elf. Maybe one who can't be remembered because she randomly shifts between her dark and light forms, possibly with a personality change in the process? Not saying that has to be the case, just an idea. Also, do close both hr tags, so remove the space between the r and closing ], that way they display properly on the final sheet.

[Sniblet]

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>I think we could do with an elf. Maybe one who can't be remembered because she randomly shifts between her dark and light forms, possibly with a personality change in the process?

@Zyx

I was leaning toward catgirl-chan but I have just been told by a friend that imouto characters are lame and I have to agree
I didn't really know where I was going with the elf - this helps
I'll spend maybe two hours mostly looking for good pictures and get back to you with something more coherent

[Dark Cloud]

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>That's a no-go I'm afraid. Doesn't fit the theme of the RP.

@Zyx

Alrighty, I think I'm going to pull my interest for now. Thanks for having me!