You toss and turn inside of your bed unable to sleep. In your dreams, you are walking down a long dark corridor you walk into a cozy but tacky-looking room. In this room, an androgyny-looking person is sitting in a large comfy chair. This person has a large book sitting on their lap. Speaking to you about how you have been chosen to help battle the evil forces that are planning to eradicate humanity and turn Earth into their new home. The figure speaks that this symbol would enable you to summon demons to protect yourself against evil. The figure says that the way to summon a demon would be to call forth their name. The figure burns a Symbol on the back of your hand. The pain is intense and causes you to jolt awake from your bed, thinking nothing of it and going on with your mundane life.
In the waking world, you hear on the news of strange occurrences happening around the city. People claimed that saw supernatural beings wandering the city, or seeing paranormal activities. Most of it was scoffed at and disregarded as crazy people hallucinating. You also hear whispers of a budding new age group that is talking about the end of days. As well as the sudden rise of murders. While you are going on with your day you are attacked by a Demon
The back of your hand starts hurting when you notice the symbol from your dream burnt into your hand. Calling forth your demon and fighting to protect your life. Can you figure out the appearance of the demons, and why supernatural events are happening? Or will you succumb to the hellish forces that want to destroy all of humanity?
Some additional information about his roleplay is that it will be set in Tokyo, Japan. So your character can be Japanese or of another culture that is visiting/living in the country. During the course of the roleplay, your character will be put in morally questionable situations. Being given a choice on how to deal with these morally questionable situations. Your character will be drawn into the many strange and supernatural events going on in the city. Trying to solve what is going on and being given the choice to pick which side you will be joining. This will be more of a mystery-orientated roleplay, but of course, I will be sprinkling a bit of combat in the roleplay to keep things exciting.
Still interested, will have a character up in a day or so!
I'm fine either way on Discord, I use it, but I've also found that sometimes the RP languishes because OOC-conversation and sharing memes tend to become more popular than posting. Up to you, GM!
@Eviledd1984 Question about the Alignments (Light-Law, Neutral-Law, Dark-Law, Dark-Neutral, Neutral-Neutral, Light-Neutral, Light-Chaos, Neutral-Chaos, Dark-Chaos): in the SMT series, do Light and Dark refer to how the person is SEEN by others, or does it refer to their actual nature like in Dungeons and Dragons?
Cause by DnD rules we'd assume Light is Good and Dark is Evil, but in SMT their take on certain mythologies seems to go against that--the game's take on YHVH/Ancient of Days/etc are usually labeled "Light-Law," but in the context of the games their goal is often to destroy/enslave humanity. So the only reason they're "Light" is because human beings have seen/worshipped them, as opposed to fearing/hating them like Satan, not necessarily because they're "good." So in that case for human characters would it be more about their reputation and/or how other people see them?
EDIT: Also, here's the first draft for my character! Let me know if anything needs to be fixed or changed.
Info
Akamine "Myu-tan" Miyuki
Female
20 yrs
5-ft 3-in; 110 lbs
College Student/Part-Time Bookstore Clerk
Light-Neutral
Personality
Miyuki is quite restrained with anyone she's meeting for the first time. Even after you've known her for a while, it can be hard to get her to open up very much and she doesn't tend to make smalltalk. If she's become familiar enough to be comfortable, and if she's not afraid of being judged, and IF you've indicated any interest whatsoever in the things she finds "cool," then she can be quite conversational. But if there's ever any indication that she's said something "awkward," she'll shut right back up.
She can be very pleasant and sweet-natured, but there's always a tension tugging at the edge of her soft smiles. She becomes flustered and anxious if she thinks she's offended someone or if she feels she's disliked by a group, but rather than ask anyone what's wrong she's more likely to try and make some kind of sudden change to her behaviors, or bring a lavish peace offering. If that doesn't work or, God forbid, makes things more awkward, she'll run away entirely and may ignore any attempts at communication for at least a week out of sheer shame.
The small girl has a tendency to throw people off in other ways, too. You'd think such a shy, timid, neurotic personality would be coupled with a sort of cute clumsiness, right? She trips over her words, so she'd trip over her own two feet as well? Not Myu-tan! The girl's athletic talent is somewhat uncanny in weird ways--she can't exactly dribble or shoot, but she's an excellent catch; even small, fast moving objects will be snagged out of the air on reflex. If she misses a step or is bumped into, she somehow never loses her balance and always seems to land gracefully. Her footsteps are fast, yet light--she often accidentally scares the daylights out of people when she taps them on the shoulder to ask an innocent question, because they never heard her coming. In a somewhat endearing, air-headed way, she doesn't see anything out of the ordinary about these qualities and is flabbergasted and embarrassed if anyone ever takes notice of them.
Backstory
As a little girl, Miyuki's father doted extensively on her and her mother. The toddler's nightly routine always included a bedtime story from an old collection of tales; she was particularly fond of both the traditional Japanese tales like Momotaro and Kintoki, but also the Arthurian mythos about knights in shining armor who saved princesses and slew dragons. Her father was a professor of literary history, and had a particular fondness of his own for these tales of chivalry that he shared with his daughter. When she got a little older, she also inherited her mother's love of whimsical romance stories. Little Myu-tan wanted nothing more than to be just like one of her favorite princesses, and to one day be swept off her feet by a brave, gallant gentleman.
Miyuki's mother took the house, half the family's savings, and Miyuki. For some reason, she told the court that Miyuki was "too traumatized" to testify during the custody proceedings--probably because she had asked her mother how long she could live with her father during the school year. So the girl couldn't speak out against all the lies her mother told, or speak up on behalf of her brow-beaten father who cried bitter tears when they hugged before he had to pack his things and leave.
For the next few years, Miyuki's mother told lie after lie and tried to manipulate her daughter into hating her father. That plan never fully took root, but it did deeply confuse and hurt Miyuki, as did the difficulties in ever finding time to spend with her dad. The man her mother started bringing into their home, "to be Myu-tan's new daddy," wasn't nice to begin with...and he only got worse.
Despite her mother trying to intercept phone calls, social media, and even old-fashioned letters, and screaming at Miyuki for daring to "go behind her back," she was still able to have a relationship with her father. But the man never fully recovered. And it seemed like everything else in his life started falling apart too.
When Miyuki had just started high school, she woke up on a weekend and took an early train. She showed up to her father's smaller apartment, in a worse part of town, to surprise him. She was a day late for his birthday, but that was her mother's fault so she knew he would understand. She had brought a little cake and a rare edition of old medieval literature as a present...
But her father was already gone. All he'd left behind was a note, apologizing profusely to her...and even to her mother, forgiving her for everything she'd done. And nothing Miyuki did could bring him back, even when she cut the rope and called the ambulance, sobbing...
After that, she gave up on ever meeting some knight in shining armor to take her away from it all. No one would ever rescue her from her wicked witch of a mother, or her cruel stepfather. And even if someone ever came along, how could they ever compare to her real hero?
Life went on. She graduated as one of the top students in her class and got a scholarship to help pay her way to college--she picked one far away from her mother, just so that she could move out. The memories in her heart were starting to feel more and more like the storybooks she'd read as a child. Perhaps it was because she feared overwriting those memories, that she closed herself off from making new ones. Miyuki had always been shy, but now she was downright reclusive. Only her books, and her computer, and her dreams kept her company now...
Then, one of those dreams turned out to be a little too real...
Theme Song
Other
Obviously loves books, games, anime, etc about anything even tangentially related to medieval history, fairy tales, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, and so forth.
Despite how shy she is around "normies," Miyuki is part of a small but dedicated otaku group and visits a few different fan conventions every year. She even put together her own cosplay for a certain popular sci-fi fandom!
The reason for her strange physical prowess is because she's been doing Kendo ever since middle school--one thing she learned about manipulation from her mother, is that in order to keep Miyuki on "her side" she was willing to spend a LOT of money on lessons, gear, etc... Now that she's in college, though, she's actually found a small group with ties to "Castle Tintagel," Tokyo's own HEMA organization! She loves her new club's official hoodie and often wears it while practicing for hours.
Has a folder over 2 gigabytes filled entirely with memes.
Lham Dearg
This demon of Scottish lore is said to be a soldier who died while still thirsting for battle, and his spirit became one of the Faerie Folk. Dressed in armor and bearing weapons, he raises his blood stained hands to challenge passerby. He is said to linger on the roads near water. Those who challenge him, even if they win, are said to perish within a fortnight.
STATS
Jaki Race
Dark Law
RESIST: Phys/Gun
WEAK: Ice/Poison/Magic
SKILLS:
Gram Slice - Weak Phys Slash dmg to 1 foe
Power Punch - Medium Phys Blunt dmg to 1 foe, chance to Daze
Critical Wave - Weak Phys dmg to all foes. High Crit, Low accuracy.
Light Life Aid - Auto-skill. Recovers HP lightly after victory.
@Zeroth From Apocalypse, it seems like Light is friendly and Dark is antisocial. The other games don't really expand on a player being able to choose one or the other directly, it's more complex, so IV:A seems like the best example.
@Zeroth From Apocalypse, it seems like Light is friendly and Dark is antisocial. The other games don't really expand on a player being able to choose one or the other directly, it's more complex, so IV:A seems like the best example.
Huh, I'm wondering if an introvert like Rhia should be Dark instead of Light then? She's driven away from people more out of fear and trauma than dislike, but if it weren't for that she'd be pretty amicable I'd think...
The sheet looks good, but I just to let you know that this RP is set in Japan. So would it be possible to include in her backstory what she is doing there? I also changed the alignment to make it more simple, so please make those changes as well.
Personality: Yuri is a fifty year old man. He is friendly, somewhat out going, constantly striving to improve himself by reading on the side. This man enjoys making friends and occasionally can be humorous, though he is very serious about his profession. He has recently left medicine for the sake of his mental health.
Backstory: Yuri's parents both had cancer and died together just after he graduated from college. He had already, being inspired to help the sick and wounded by his parents, studied to become a doctor. However, over the years, seeing so many sick and dying began to take it's toll on his mental health. In fear for his patients, and himself, he has left his position as a physician and has gone into research.
Other: (Let me know what other information you want us to know about your character)
Name: Evander
Race: Holy Ghost
Alignment: Law/Good
Resistances: Resists Magic
Weakness: Weak to Curse.
Skills:
Bufu 3 MP Light Ice damage to a single foe. Zan 2 MP Light Force damage to a single foe. Hapilma2 MP Inflicts Happy ailment to 1-3 foes. (Magical-type) Patra 2 MP Removes all "light" status ailments, one ally. Dia 4 MP Recovers a small amount of HP, one ally. Mapper 2 MP Displays a mini-map on the screen until the next new moon.
The sheet looks good, but I just to let you know that this RP is set in Japan. So would it be possible to include in her backstory what she is doing there? I also changed the alignment to make it more simple, so please make those changes as well.
Oh shoot sorry I somehow either missed that paragraph or completely forgot it, lol. Yeah, I can easily tweak her to be Japanese, gimme a bit!
