You’ve always experienced odd things. An inexplicable sense of dread, the feeling of being watched when alone. And misfortunes may have consistently happened around you, or to you, as if you were being targeted. You may brush it off as mere superstition and coincidence, you may look deeper into it, or you may wonder if there’s something wrong with you.
There isn’t. The odd happenings aren’t your fault; rather, by responding to the hidden presence of another entity, you’ve alerted them to your ability to sense them.
Onryo, the spirits of those wronged in life, unable to find peace. The longer they remain bound to Earth, the more their stability wanes and the more their anguish consumes them. Most living people can’t see or sense them, but can still be harmed by the onryo’s grudge. Such a malevolent spirit lashes out at the living by cursing them, or causing disasters. Merely getting back at the one who wronged them in life rarely satisfies them, and these lingering regrets will continue to wreak destruction until put to rest.
This duty falls to you. You have been lucky enough to draw the attention of a more benevolent spirit, a tsukumogami. An object of 100 years old or over may acquire a soul, hence sentience, and gain the ability to bond with a mortal who has such potential. When their abilities combine, the human gains their true power, becoming a hunter.
Lore:
So, here's the premise in a nutshell. In the fictional Japanese coastal city of Agawa, you'll be playing fairly new hunters, battling the spirits of the restless dead, granting them their final repose. All the while, you'll be balancing your new secret lives with your mundane ones. You'll have to learn to work together and hone your abilities, to take on the growing threat ahead.
Now for the boring stuff...
Rules:
1) Be respectful of each other. If conflict comes up OOC, please resolve it in a civil way.
2) Please be involved in the RP. You can play a shy, introverted or misanthropic character if you want, just make sure they interact with others if only for practical reasons. Some onryo are much too powerful to take down alone.
3) Due to the nature of the premise, dark themes like suicide, abuse and murder will come up. Please treat such issues with due sensitivity, and let us know if something’s making you uncomfortable.
4) You may have up to two characters. Note that although this RP is magical girl inspired and ultimately hopeful, character death is a possibility. If you decide to kill one off or otherwise write them out, you can bring in another.
5) I’m not too fussy about post length, and quality is much more important than quantity. That said, please try to write at least a decent sized paragraph, to give people plenty to work with.
6) Please be active both IC and OOC. Try to post at least once every 1-2 weeks if you can, and if something comes up, let us know. On a related note…
7) No ghosting, if you’ll excuse the pun. I know it’s far from easy to say if you’re unwilling/unable to be part of an RP any more, but we’d much, much prefer it if you said something rather than just disappearing.
8) To prove you read the rules, mention the last anime you watched somewhere in your application post.
9) Most importantly, have fun!
Character Sheet:
