[OOC] Yokohama Midnights | Persona

[Marlowe]

JAPAN, 2071. For once, the planet is peaceful as technology continues to flourish. Hoverboards and airtouch devices are popular, major chain restaurants are almost completely managed by robot cat hosts, physical health is monitored through chips inserted into the bloodstream, and humans and domestic animals have strengthened their bonds through the use of interspecies speech translators. Despite everything, these technologies seem to fade in the presence of virtual reality. It’s ever present in Japan; with its help, doctors perform complicated surgeries, soldiers are exposed to hyper-realistic training, individuals even use it in place of hallucinatory drugs… and of course, almost everyone uses it to play video games.

When VIVIDREAM, an obscure VR-gaming company, sent prototype headsets out to one hundred lucky individuals in Yokohama, the city appeared to celebrate overnight. The VIVIDREAM headsets provided gamers with a completely new virtual reality experience. More vibrant displays allowed players to further immerse themselves in their games, there weren’t any instances of lag or delay, and instances felt much, much more realistic. The headsets were lauded as a godsend to both casual and hardcore gamers alike.

Then Uehara Masahiko, a popular student and hard-core VIVIDREAM technoid at Izumi Academy, slipped into a coma. The incident was enough to send a shiver through the student body. Whispers passed from class to class. He pushed himself too hard. He spent too long playing on the VIVIDREAM. Rumors flitted about, as well: there were claims that Masahiko hardly ever left his house and only left to go to school, that there were these strange games that appeared on the VIVIDREAM but only at midnight, that someone swore they saw Masahiko on it once before he fell unconscious. A month passed and students slowly went back to their lives. They had tests to pass, friends to watch out for. There was no need to dwell on an isolated incident. Everything was fine.

Right?

At the tick of midnight, the virtual reality presented by VIVIDREAM undergoes maintenance and morphs into the MIDNIGHT REALM. Sometimes it might display a sci-fi MMO. Other times it might display a fantasy single-player. The possibilities are endless, but they are always dependent on the type of game its victim (or host) usually plays. However, it is always riddled by dangerous creatures called Shadows that are extremely aggressive. If one dies in the Midnight Realm, they are consequently placed into a coma from which they may never wake up in the over-world.

Players should make their characters’ Personas, their choice of weaponry, and their get-up reflect the type of game they like. Someone who is devoted to a fantasy game should have a Persona that reflects that archetype, i.e. King Arthur, Gawain, Morrigan, other types of knights and mages, and so forth. On the other hand, someone who spends their time playing a lot of western games will have a Persona similar to legends like Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, etc. This also corresponds to their main weapon Midnight Realm, though their clothing will change once they enter other worlds beneath the umbrella of the Realm.

0. FOOL: ...
I. MAGICIAN: Hayakawa Kimiko
II. PRIESTESS:
III. EMPERESS:
IV. EMPEROR: Mori Kaito
V. HIEROPHANT:
VI. LOVERS:
VII. CHARIOT: Oda Junichiro
VIII. JUSTICE: Igarashi Kaede
IX. HERMIT:
X. FORTUNE:
XI. STRENGTH: CLAIMED!
XII. HANGED MAN:
XIII. DEATH:
XIV. TEMPERANCE: CLAIMED!
XV. DEVIL: Shinozaki Yurie
XVI. TOWER:
XVII. STAR:
XVIII. MOON: Aozora Torio
XIX. SUN:
XX. JUDGEMENT:
XXI. WORLD: ...

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[b]NAME:[/b] (Last, First)

[b]AGE:[/b] (They should be high school age.)

[b]GENDER:[/b]

[b]ARCANA:[/b]

[b]APPEARANCE DETAILS:[/b]

[b]PERSONALITY:[/b]

[b]SHORT BIOGRAPHY:[/b] (Remember that they are normal high school kids. Don't be overly dramatic or edgy for no reason.)

[b]TRIVIA:[/b] (Anything extra you want people to know. Do they snore loudly when they sleep, do they eat a lot of sweets, etc.)

[b]OTHER:[/b] (Anything extra not expressed in the sheet.)

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[b]ARCANA:[/b]

[B]APPEARANCE:[/B] (What they look like when they are within the Midnight Realm but [i]not[/i] in a specific world itself.)

[b]WEAPON PREFERENCE:[/b](The type of weaponry they prefer using; knives, blunt weapons, etc)

[b]MAIN WEAPON:[/b]

[b]PERSONA'S NAMESAKE:[/b] (The Persona you choose for your character must reflect your character's Arcana.)

[b]PERSONA'S APPEARANCE:[/b] (Can be an image or description.)

[b]PERSONA'S SKILLS:[/b] (Should be about 2-3 at max. Do not make your Persona overpowered in the beginning of the roleplay.)

[b]PERSONA'S HISTORY:[/b] (A short line or two about the Persona. Who were they? What were they known for?)

[Marlowe]

[Marlowe]

ALSO don't post the Midnight Realm part in the ooc PM that to me please! If adds to the shock value/development/surprise

[vietmyke]

For your perusing-

Bad attitude, bad bitch:

Hayakawa Kimiko

NAME: Hayakawa Kimiko

AGE: 17

GENDER: Female

ARCANA: The Magician

APPEARANCE DETAILS:
Tall for a girl her age, Hayakawa possesses the build of one used to physical activity. She's lean and lithe, in fit shape but without considerable musculature or bulk. Hayakawa regularly wears a scowl on her face, combined with sharp facial features set on clear and clean skin, and amber eyes. Hayakawa dresses in street fashion when possible, and takes good care of her personal appearance, though not as meticulously as others might. Her dark hair is usually tied into a ponytail and she is almost always seen with her sticker covered hover board. She wears her 'signature' red bomber jacket at any opportunity, even over her school uniform.

PERSONALITY:
Confident, though not quite to the point of arrogance, and generally collected, Hayakawa carries herself with the air of someone steady and sure of themselves. Occasionally stubborn, and prone to being a bit hot-headed, with a rebellious streak a mile long and blatant disregard for authority, Hayakawa has earned a reputation within the academy of being a bit of a delinquent. She's loyal to a fault towards those who have earned her trust, even if she doesn't always agree with or even like them at the time. Hayakawa values freedom and hates being restricted, and has a tendency to lash out when she feels trapped.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Born an only child, Hayakawa's parents separated shortly after she was born, and after a few years of struggling on his own, Hayakawa's father passed her along to her paternal grandmother to raise. Her grandmother did her best, and meant well, but the family was always busy and short on money, and the older lady was never able to keep up with a growing child. As a result, Hayakawa spent most of her time away from the house, getting lost in whatever she found herself in at the time, from gaming, to graffiti, hover board joyriding, skipping curfew and generally causing trouble.

While bright enough as an individual, Hayakawa never paid much attention in school. Scraping by with her education, only barely making it into Izumi Academy, Hayakawa has managed to claw herself back from the brink and regularly scores smack dab in the middle of the pack nowadays. A bit notorious for her poor relationship with school faculty, Hayakawa has gotten into trouble with the police more than once throughout her school career. Her poor reaction to the rumor mill and trouble with authority have earned her the perception of a delinquent and bully.

Doing her best to ignore the perceptions of others, Hayakawa spends her days interacting with the few people she actually cares about and skating through school, using socializing and gaming as a coping mechanisms. As paying for University is well outside of her grandmother's meager means, and the fact that she is expected to carry on the family traditions whether she wants to or not, Hayakawa's future remains a constant source of turmoil and dread.

TRIVIA:
Hayalawa's grandmother runs one of the few Shinto temples left in Yokohama, which she is expected to inherit the running of when she gets older. While not an ardent practitioner herself, several of her grandmother's superstitions have rubbed off on Hayakawa.

Somewhere on the temple grounds, Hayakawa ran into a small black tuxedo cat and the critter has followed her everywhere ever since. Hayakawa has named him Merlin.

Hayakawa will take her hover board everywhere she goes, regularly using it instead of public transportation. The piece is highly modified.

Hayakawa's most recent obsession is biolight grafitti tagging. More easily cleaned off than regular paint, but bathes the streets in bioluminescent neon lights.

OTHER: Hayakawa's game of choice are typically games falling into the JRPG genre and old Final Fantasy games.

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[Marlowe]

Ya can plop her in the Char tab @vietmyke

[PrankFox]

I arrive once again.

Gonna go with moon

[Psyker Landshark]

Shinozaki Yurie

NAME:
Shinozaki Yurie

AGE:
17

GENDER:
Female

ARCANA:
Devil

APPEARANCE DETAILS:
Stands at about 5’6”. Lithe build, moderate to large bust. Her hair is naturally black, but has been dyed pink for a few years now. Typically wears flashier fashions. Carries augmented reality contacts, a microcomputer, and haptic gloves so that she's constantly online with all the computing power that she would have at home.

PERSONALITY:
Smart-mouthed, impulsive, and petty, but nonetheless laser-focused and determined when she sets her mind to something. She has an endless capacity for holding grudges, and never lets anything go once something’s set her off. However, treat Yurie well, and she’ll gladly return the favor several times over. She has something of an ego about her skills, and despises being disparaged or looked down upon to the point where she doxed another hacker and got him arrested over an internet argument once.

Yurie’s not that well known at Izumi, despite her looks and fashion sense, but that’s mostly because of her complete disinterest in school. Her grades are just good enough to slide by without notice. However, students who get on her bad side have a tendency of having embarrassing texts and videos leaked onto social media without a clue as to who was behind it.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
From a young age, Yurie was practically raised by the internet. Her parents were both busy professionals, more dedicated to advancing their careers than making sure their child was particularly well cared for outside of monetary needs. As a result, she took to being online for most of her entertainment and social interaction.

It was about the time she started middle school that Yurie inadvertently stumbled her way into becoming a hacker. An interest in programming had her speaking to an online friend of an online friend for tips. Upon seeing her skill, the mutual acquaintance, thinking the newbie he was talking to was older than she actually was, introduced her to his hacker group. Things progressed rapidly from there, with Yurie picking up the ins and outs of hacking in the modern age and becoming a full-fledged hacker by the time she entered high school. Her membership in the team didn’t last long after, however, as an argument between herself and a few others resulted in her leaving and bringing the entire group down out of spite.

Through the next few years of high school, Yurie has mostly lived alone in an apartment paid for by her parents, as Izumi was half a city away from her home. However, she’s been more focused on her side gig as a freelance hacker and programmer than bothering too much with school. She has few friends at Izumi, most being closer to casual acquaintances than anything else. It doesn't help that if one dig deeps enough, they realize that anyone at school who gets on her bad side meets with a bad case of doxing on social media not long after, but the few who have connected the dots tend to be under the assumption she's paying someone to do it for her.

TRIVIA:

• Is a proud member of the go home club.
• Obsessed with spicy food.
• Very good at VRFPSes, and can handily be described as a "shotgun ape" for her preferred method of play. Prefers sci-fi and cyberpunk shooters over anything else.

OTHER:
Voice claim: Brittany Lauda
Theme song

[Serei2477]

Igarashi Kaede

NAME:
Igarashi Kaede

AGE:
16

GENDER:
Female

ARCANA:
Justice

APPEARANCE DETAILS:
Kaede stands at around 5’2 with a slim build. She has long jet black hair that ends at her thighs and is cropped in layers, usually in a loose ponytail or completely free with an accessory or two to hold her bangs; she'll also have accessories in the form of necklaces and friendship bracelets. She has pale skin, ruby red eyes that seem to hold no warmth, and tends to prefer dark clothing when not in uniform (particularly turtlenecks and skirts). When in uniform, it is clean, proper, and holds no personalization to the uniform itself.

PERSONALITY:
Kaede, according to the students at Izumi, is a robot. She normally keeps her emotions in check and is incredibly difficult to read at a glance. Sure she’ll smile or her eyebrows will furrow, but her stoicism makes people think she’s unable to emote or a robot missing her personality program. Some students at the academy have taken to making it a game to try and make her show some sort of extreme emotion.

Aside from this, Kaede is a kind girl who is very mature for her age. She focuses a lot of her time on her studies or whatever club/hobby she's currently focusing on. She's also a known club jumper around Izumi and cannot seem to find a place where she feels she belongs. Because of this she's done a bit of everything but mastered nothing. The only hobbies she’s expressed interest in continuing and does regularly is playing video games, book collecting (though not actually reading them), and making friendship bracelets.

Though she does not show it, Kaede is actually a bit childish. Fart jokes are still funny and she'll occasionally write "8008135" in calculators for giggles. Kaede will always speak her mind regarding the things she dislikes, especially against things that are unfair or food going to waste.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Mr. and Mrs. Igarashi’s first mistake was becoming pregnant when they were struggling with money. Their second mistake was choosing a hospital that they heard was cheaper than the rest. There were supposed to be three beautiful daughters for the two to care for once Mrs. Igarashi had finished delivering, but that wasn’t the case. Kaede was the only one to be given to her father along with the news that two of the triplets as well as Mrs. Igarashi did not make it. They’d done everything they could, but they could not save them.

Her father was absolutely devastated, losing not just the love of his life, but his two other daughters as well. Be it the scorn of a heartbroken father or a man who wanted revenge, Mr. Igarashi was unable to accept that the hospital had done everything they could. So, he paid for lawyers and sued the hospital for the failure to rescue what should have been healthy babies and their mother, who had had no histories or warning of birth complications prior to the delivery. Especially with modern technology.

The court proceedings were long, many, and tiresome, but in the end, Mr. Igarashi was awarded a huge sum of money in compensation for the loss of his wife and daughters. The amount was large enough that Mr. Igarashi’s story had appeared on the internet, but after a month or so of popularity, the story and attention faded away.

Kaede's father, unable to stomach the thought of even touching the money, decided to put most of it into a trust fund and the rest into a savings account to accumulate interest over time for Kaede's benefit. He’d give the debit card linked to the savings account to her once she was 15 years old and told her she could do whatever she wanted with the money. To this day she hasn't used the money for anything besides her computer and video game consoles.

While growing up, Kaede’s father’s mental health deteriorated. He only left the house to go to work or to run any errands Kaede was too young to do herself. He wallowed on the couch depressed and devoid of life. His loss of motivation to even be alive kept him from lifting a finger to even care for himself. It got so bad that Kaede’s grandparents would come to support their son. Though they talked to her and made sure she was well, they weren’t exactly parental figures as they were too busy caring for her father. They had even gotten her a cat to try and make her less lonely; a calico that jiggled every time she walked, which Kaede appropriately named "Jiggles".

Of course this didn't change that Kaede was left to raise herself. Since she was 7 years old, she would do the cooking, cleaning, using her father’s money to pay the bills, and making sure the house was running smoothly. When she’s not at home, she is jumping from club to club at Izumi for activities or hanging out with whatever friends she has.

TRIVIA:
-Kaede, even if she hates the food she's eating, will finish it because she hates things going to waste.

-Kaede does not make friendship bracelets for other people. What she’ll do is she’ll make a bracelet that she feels represents her friend the most then she’ll wear it every day until she’s not friends with them anymore.

-Despite having a good chunk of money at her disposal, Kaede is pretty frugal.

-Her phone is full of pictures of her cat. Her wallpaper is a picture of her cat as a kitten and her lock screen is a video of her cat in a harness.

[PrankFox]

Aozora Torio

NAME:
Aozora Torio

AGE:
16

GENDER:
Male

ARCANA:
Moon

APPEARANCE DETAILS:
Torio stands about 5' 11" and has a solid build with blond hair that is kept somewhat messy. He dresses nicely at the behest of his parents, but when he can get away with it he prefers more loose fit clothing. Even then though what he wears is indicative of the fact that his family has money. Even on warmer days he wears his jacket that is covered in patches.

PERSONALITY:
Despite his father constantly lording over others how much money they have, Torio tries to keep it under wraps as much as he can. He doesn't necessarily want people looking at him differently for who his family is, so he tries to be generally friendly and as helpful as he can be. He is more than willing to help his fellow students out in their studies. Even if he's having a rough day it's easy for him to slip on a comfortable mask of indifference or amiability depending on what the situation calls for.

Torio, in contrast with his outward appearance, doesn't actually like people all that much. At least not the people that his father has him dealing with in the house on a regular basis. He finds the situations tiring and unnecessary when all they do is talk in circles. Given this he tries to be blunt and straightforward with people when he feels the situation calls for it rather than beating around the bush.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Born to the CEO of a booming tech company that makes all manner of devices there was a lot of pressure but on Torio from the start. He is expected to take over his father's company whenever the man decides that he wants to retire. Which meant studying from the moment he could process a business deal how to live a successful life. Given how quickly the company grew he never had to worry about wanting for anything throughout his childhood, and had the opportunity to get the newest prototypes of his father's tech. It would've been a relaxing, and likely pleasant, number of years had those expectations not gotten in the way.

As much as he wanted to sit around and enjoy his childhood, and the benefits his family provided him, neither of his parents gave him the opportunity. From a young age he was given tutors, taught art, made to practice the piano, amongst other things. He was even dragged along to his father's interviews only with his mother since the man wanted to show off the fact he was a 'family man' for the media. He quickly learned how to work the cameras, and subsequently get what he wanted from his parents most of the time.

At the very least school was never overly difficult for him, in fact he was usually far ahead of his peers given his at home schooling, but he continued to work hard as it was expected of him. He didn't mind helping out his fellow students with their studies if it meant that he could keep away from home for just a bit longer. He preferred being out of the house where he could be more himself rather than the face he puts on for his family.

The one reprieve at home is the myriad of gaming consoles his father has bought, or given, him over the years that allowed for hours upon hours of escape. When he could get away with it. While he plays a number of games he usually finds himself looping back around to horror based ones that provided a mix of strategy and enough of the disconnect from reality to easily get dragged in. Even after starting at Izumi he found time to weasel himself away in order to decompress. When not being dragged around by his parents for various practices and business lessons that is.

TRIVIA:
-Incredibly talented at the piano (despite not really wanting to learn in the first place)
-Knows a lot of people in a lot of places
-Has a cat named Meeko
-Plays a lot of horror games so doesn't react to them much anymore

OTHER: Mostly survival horror games