Herculean Academy:
The Top School For Aspiring Superheroes
The Top School For Aspiring Superheroes
"The measure of a man is what he does with power." - Plato
YOU are a normal teenager.
Well, almost normal.
You go to school, you takes your classes, you wish the teachers would give you less homework. Maybe you have friends, maybe a large group or only a couple. Maybe you're a loner. Maybe you're the top student, somewhat a teacher's pet who gets bullied for being a 'know-it-all'. Or maybe you are a bully, a delinquent who has been to the detention room so often, you pretty much have a seat with your name on it.
Either way, you're still pretty much an almost teenager.
An almost normal teenager who has superpowers.
You have superpowers. When you were nine, you may accidentally have accidentally frozen your neighbour's annoying terrier when you were simply trying to shoo it away. Or maybe you have super-strength, and when you angrily slammed the door to your room when you were just thirteen, you took the door right off. Maybe when you were on the run from a group of bullies and wished desperately that you could just disappear... you did. You literally became invisible.
Maybe you were shocked when this happened. Or maybe you weren't. Because you have superpowers, it's very likely to inherited them from your parents, who might actually be superheroes. Or villains. Or both. It's likely you know about this, unless your parents have been trying to protect you this entire time and have kept their identity so secret that even you, their own child, don't know.
Or maybe your parents are Average Joes and Josephines who simply carried a superpower gene. Or maybe you're adopted, secretly or otherwise.
Of course, you may not have been born with powers at all, but gained them through some scientific accident. Or maybe you gained them from magic. Maybe you don't have powers at all, but have some kind of object that gives you special powers.
Or maybe you were one of the many children who were kidnapped to be used in the illegal Esper program and were rescued by one of the many superheroes.
Either way, you have powers. You may be scared, or confused, or maybe excited. And then you receive a mysterious letter:
"Dear _____,
it has come to our attention that you have a gift. You might have known it for a long time, or maybe just realised. Whatever the case, you probably are uncertain as to what to do with your power.
This why we are inviting you to come join Herculean Academy, a boarding school built to house unique individuals such as yourself them and teach them how to control their powers and how to use them for good, and not evil. You have likely heard of the Elite, the most powerful group of superheroes in New York? Well, we trained them.
Well, some of them.
But we have trained many other superheroes, taught them to use their powers, helped them establish an identity and put them to work in a position that best suited their powers. Some of them went on to be solo heroes, others were part of group. Some may have been put up as a support team for another hero due to the fact that their powers may not have been, let's say, combat orientated.
But we have done our best for them and we will do our best for YOU.
If you wish to attend, please show this letter to your parent and/or guardian, who we hope knows of your powers. If not, you might want to have long, quiet chat with them. Once you've got that awkward situation out of the way, please fill in the attached form and send it to us at the return addressed.
Yours faithfully
Vice-Principal Smith"
So this is an roleplay that has already been running for three months (though surprisingly we've all spent way much more time in the OOC so we're barely into the first story arc and the characters have spent more time doing crazy shenaningans than fighting evil). We've also had several dropouts, and some of the players have had to go on hiatus for a bit due to personal reasons, though hopefully they'll be back some day.
However, the roleplay needs some new blood.
So...
If anyone is interested, please fill in the CS skeleton below. You can be either a teacher or a student. Fill in the CS (you can post WIP CSs below and work on them as you go), and post it here. I will then check on it to see if its acceptable. If it is, you're in. I might ask you to change some things, but considering I'm pretty lax, it might not happen.
