[OOC] Katawa Shoujo: 2015-Nen no kurasu

[joeycbee]

@vFear
Good cause I would have wasted a hour of writing this CS if it wasn't XD

Almost done it'll be up in like 5 min.

[joeycbee]

Name:
Yoshi, Jiro

Age:
18

Birthday:
7/08

Year level:
11

Sexuality:
Heterosexual

Club:
None

Disabilities:
Epilepsy - Seizures can be induced if he is under lots of stress, dehydration, and intense strobe lighting. They can happen even if none of the triggers are present. He has a tough time remembering what happened during seizures and sometimes doesn't remember them at all, though it's not hard to tell if he has had one or not. He also become really tired after one tends to accidentally fall asleep.

Job/occupation:
Grocery Store Clerk

Appearance:

Jiro is 6 feet tall and has decent muscles, though nothing to brag about. His most noticeable feature besides the red hair, is his big scar that runs from his left side of his neck to the front of his chest. His eyes are deep sea blue as well and tends to dress in classy outfits, but wears them loosely so there comfortable. He still has his piercings from his time in North America and also wears a few wristbands which was quite fashionable at his school, though he's not one who obsessed over what he looks like to others.

Personality:
He is very reckless and never thinks about the consequences of his actions. He's looks real menacing but he's a kind person at heart but when he talks he seems like he's not really there, if you know what I mean. He doesn't care for school, he feels like they teach him useless stuff and he would skip it if he had something better to do. He is a B+ student though he retains most of the knowledge from the books he has read. He values very little but will do anything to keep the thing he does value. He also keeps most problems to himself whether big or small and it's hard to get him to spill anything on a secret.

He is enjoys reading books in his downtime or goes out to the store to earn some extra money. His relationship with his family if very distance and lives alone in a small apartment. His family still sends allowance and sometimes something extra on a holidays but that's the extent of it. His allowance is big but enough to pay rent and for the food but not enough to support all his needs. Most of the money he does make from his job goes to his medicine so he doesn't have much money to spend on luxury items.

His goal in life is to live it to the fullest. He loves to learn things that are in the moment or he can actually apply to his life, like cooking was one thing he learn and still loves to learn more about, for a example. The thing that seems to make him the most happy is to make others happy or just silence and sitting down, relaxing.

Backstory:
Jiro was born and raised in Miyagi Prefecture. He lived with his mother and father and with his grandma and grandpa of his father's side. They were more on the poor side of the middle class just barely getting by. When he was about the age of 3 his parents were offered a job that would make them a lot more money. They accepted it even though they knew they would rarely be home. They did get paid a lot more but then after a few months they had to start paying for the trips they needed to take. From there on there his grandparents raised him, with there life style slightly better.

At the age of five around summer time he was watering the plants when he suddenly fell down and began thrashing around, it was his first seizure. They took him to the hospital but at first the doctors said that he was fine. They said it was normal for someone to have one once in there life. After a few more quick test they released him. About two days later he had another and then the doctors took it more seriously. After about a 3 day study and a MRI they concluded that he had epilepsy. During this time his grandparents beg his parents to come and see him but they were to busy with work. They prescribed medicine for Jiro to take daily and released him.

The medication help stop the seizures but the bigger he grew the more pills he needed and the worse the seizures got. He felt self conscious about his epilepsy and did a surprisingly good job hiding it from most of his peers. He was usually able sense when he was going to have one by getting this weird aura or getting a metallic taste in his mouth, so he ran outside the classroom and had it in the middle of the hallway. His keep this up till he was in 6th grade when he had one with no warning. The staff was already told of his condition but now the entire school knew. Not much changed though since he was usually a loner in school to begin with. He did have a few friends that knew beforehand that he had epilepsy, so he looks back at it like it was a silly thing to do as a kid.

At the age of 14, About 5 days before Christmas, his grandma died. They had a funeral and such and for the first time in 2 years he saw his dad. He gave Jiro a hug and told him that mother couldn't make it and that he was going on another trip. He took up the job of preparing meals for his grandpa for a few months until he got caught in a accident. No one is sure how exactly it happens but as far as he has been told is that he was found on the kitchen floor, bleeding, especially around the neck, and was rushed to the the Emergency Room. They assume he had a seizure when trying to prepare dinner. They estimated it would take 2 months to recover, but it took three times longer due to the frequent seizures reopening the wounds and the different types of medicine they needed to try, do to the increasing seizures. During this time his grandpa die as well. His parents made a decision to sell the house and most of the things in it and rent a apartment since they needed to pay the hospital. His parents only came to see him once and only to tell him about there decision. For the rest of the school year he didn't show since he knew he would be unable to catch up on all the missed work and lessons so he fell a year behind.

He retook 7th grade in North America since his dad happen to be working there at the time. He "lived" with his dad, even though he rarely came home from work. His dad eventually went on a trip again this being the last time he has seen his dad and live there till the end of 10th grade. The day of his 18th birthday he demanded that they buy him a apartment and plane tickets, since he was now legally a adult, so he could go back and take school at Yumaku academy. They agreed and went back to his home town, bringing us to the present.

Notes:
Bringing up any injury that he has and he will immediately shut you out and sometimes also walk away. New injury appear every so often. A recent doctor visit also brought him unsettling news of his future.

[joeycbee]

Sooooooo, how's everyone's day been?

[Vulkan]

Meh, been better.

So when are we starting this IC? Im really hoping this starts soon.

[Ferris]

I believe we're either starting tonight, or sometime tomorrow. Fear said we would be starting in 48 hours about two days ago, I believe.

[joeycbee]

Fingers crossed, I'm involve with two other rps that are going at a snails pace, which isn't bad, it's just I've had nothing to post in IC for the past week.

[vFear]

@joeycbee This is a bit of an uh, awkward spot here. By rights, @RomanAria has the 8th spot, as they've been around since the interest check and let us know they'd be a bit, which is coo' - if not Aria, then @Keyguyperson who's sorta in the same boat. That being said though, I don't want to put your sheet to waste: if we end up short for whatever reason, whether it be dropping out or inactivity or such - which is entirely chill 'cause it's coming up the mad Christmas rush and all - I'm thinking I'll contact you to fill the spot. Does that work with you?

[joeycbee]

@vFear
...well...idk what to say, you gave me the ok and everything...whatever I guess it's cool...

[RomanAria]

@vFear Let him have my spot. My sheets are only about three-quarters done. @joeycbee

[joeycbee]

@RomanAria idk, I mean you are entitled to the 8th spot, (not that I mind of course) plus I think its @zellected he's been inactive for 4 days so I think there a good chance he might have dropped out unless the gm has heard otherwise. On a side note it seems the drama has already started XD

[Keyguyperson]

@vFear Let him have my spot. My sheets are only about three-quarters done. @joeycbee

@RomanAria

I've barely managed to get anything done at all. NaNo has eaten all my time except for the 1-3 AM period, which is where I actually do things that aren't work now. If one of us is going to give up a spot, it ought to be me.

@RomanAria idk, I mean you are entitled to the 8th spot, (not that I mind of course) plus I think its @zellected he's been inactive for 4 days so I think there a good chance he might have dropped out unless the gm has heard otherwise. On a side note it seems the drama has already started XD

@joeycbee

Buuuuut I'm not about to abandon ship while there's still hope to bring in my own character. Her disability is (unrealistically) early-onset Lou Gehrig's disease, because I use my own tears as a source of salt for my food.

[RomanAria]

Here we go, my CSes finally. If anything needs changed ping me and I'll fix it tomorrow afternoon when I get back to my computer.

Aimi Hayashi

Name: Hayashi Aimi

Age: 12

Birthday: September 1st

Year level: 7th

Sexuality: Asexual

Club (if any): Music club, book club, and band

Disabilities (if any): Hyperesthesia caused by nerve damage. Aimi is overly sensitive to any stimulus, but especially touch and taste/smell. Almost any touch on her skin is painful for her, and she’s found that she has a hard time eating any food with a stronger taste or scent than rice. Sound and light are less serious of problems for her, though fluorescent lights give her migraines (she wears tinted glasses for this reason) and she often has to wear earplugs or earmuffs during band rehearsals.

Job/occupation (if any): N/A

Appearance:
Aimi is a very short girl, about 135 centimeters tall (but she insists she’s still growing.) She’s somewhat underweight, as would be expected from her rice-and-tea diet. Her black hair is quite long and is usually braided and pulled into a bun: the one thing she hates worse than the pain of brushing her hair is the agonizing tickling of it on her back when she leaves it loose. Her skin is pale, not entirely even-hued due to the skin grafts she needed.

Her normal style of clothing is loose, seamless pants and shirts in cotton or other soft fabrics, usually dark, muted shades of purple, blue, and gray. There are never any tags on her clothing and seams and embellishments have to be kept to a minimum. She wears sunglasses all the time and can often be seen sporting a pair of noise-cancelling headphones (or holding her hands over her ears).

Personality: Aimi is a very quiet, subdued individual, at least at the outside. She prefers to observe from afar, rather than be involved in, social interactions: it’s easier to withdraw when you’re not actively taking part. In her heart she desperately wants to interact with people again, but given the events of her childhood she’s more likely to run away from someone than to talk to them.

Aimi tries very hard at schoolwork, maintaining an A average even though she’s a year ahead of her age group peers; she absolutely loves books and is well on her way to reading the whole library before she graduates. She loves books because they’re not noisy.

Ironically enough she loves music, despite her hatred of noisy things and social interactions—both of which the school band is infamous for. Music, well, when it’s played right, is one of the few loud sounds that she can tolerate.

Backstory: Aimi was the youngest of three daughters. Akira was five when she was born and Ayako was twelve. She had a relatively normal early childhood… until the car accident on her first day of kindergarten. Akira had been elected class president and was jabbering about it, entirely distracting Ayako, who was driving.

It was a freak accident. Their car slammed into a broken-down gasoline tanker that was stopped on the side of the highway. The impact killed Ayako, who wasn’t wearing a seat belt, instantly; the girls in the back fared only slightly better. When the car stopped rolling, Aimi was pinned under a crumpled piece of sheet metal. Akira freed herself from her seatbelt and tried to free Aimi. That was when she noticed the crackling sound and the heat. Of course, the collision with the gasoline truck had started a fire. Frantically, Akira tried to free her little sister, but she couldn’t, before the heat and her own sense of self-preservation made her struggle her way out of the shattered window.

Ten minutes later, the paramedics arrived, and ten minutes after that, they had freed Aimi. They expected the girl, covered in second- and third-degree burns, to not survive the night. But she hung on, and after an emergency surgery and critical care, stabilized and started to recover.

She spent almost a year in the hospital. With nothing to fill the time but spending it with her heartbroken sister and her equally shattered parents, she turned to studying, begging Akira to read to her until she herself learned how to read. Despite missing a year of being in class, she came out a whole year ahead of where she’d started.

But something was wrong. The formerly talkative, bubbly girl was nearly mute; she would always shut her eyes and plug her ears whenever anyone tried to talk to her, and would often cringe whenever people touched her. They ran some scans on her and found that the fire had all but destroyed her peripheral nervous system. There was no cure that they could think of: desensitization therapy caused too much anxiety and Aimi panicked whenever they gave her numbing medicine in an effort to stop the discomfort.

The doctors, and her parents, finally decided to let her go back to public school. She was enrolled in year 2, rather than kindergarten or year 1, given that she had learned how to read and write while she was in the hospital. Everything seemed fine, until one day almost four years later when the school counselor called home, very concerned about Aimi. She’d finally cracked and gone to the counselor crying, telling everything.

The other students had been, for the last four years, incessantly teasing and taunting her, poking her, pinching her, tickling her. Not seeming to understand how sensitive her skin was and how those things had actually caused her pain, how she wasn’t just acting. They’d pressured her into not telling for a long time, telling her that it was all “just playing”, but finally she couldn’t tolerate it any longer and told the principal and the counselor, right before the end of her sixth year.
Her parents had already been planning to send both Aimi and Akira to Yamaku, once Aimi was old enough. This helped them make up their minds, and away both girls went.

Akira Hayashi

Name:Hayashi Akira

Age: 17

Birthday: March 14th

Year level:10th

Sexuality: Bisexual.

Club (if any): N/A.

Disabilities (if any): Conversion disorder that manifests itself as loss of feeling in her limbs; scarring all over her body. Depression/anxiety as well.

Job/occupation (if any): N/A

Appearance:
Akira is short like the rest of her family (though not nearly as short as Aimi), standing about 156 cm. She’s of normal weight. Her skin is pale, her hair dark, and her eyes bright green. Her most noticeable feature is the very old, faded scars that run mostly on her shoulders and back, and the new scars on her forearms and thighs.

Her wardrobe usually consists of long sleeved, flowy blouses and loose pants in shades of gray ((okay, bad phrasing, Aria)) to accommodate her sister’s sensitivity to bright colors.

Personality: Akira has let herself grow very much cold and distant. The only person she’s ever warm to is Aimi, and her mother and father to some degree, but not really.

Her heart isn’t in her schoolwork. Mostly she just wants to be able to feel things again, either emotionally or physically. She keeps a C average, as is to be expected from such a lack of enthusiasm. Really, she’s just unenthusiastic about everything, but tries to put on a brave, happy face for Aimi’s sake.

She’s ashamed of herself, in her heart. She is furious with herself for fleeing the accident, furious with herself for not standing up for Aimi and pretty much watching her little sister being tortured for four years.

Backstory: See Aimi’s backstory.

As Aimi was recovering in the hospital, they kept Akira there too. The whole time, she couldn’t understand how all this had happened to her. How she’d gone from class president and having a happy family to not having a big sister and probably not having a little sister by morning, if what the doctors said was true.

Two months later, they judged Akira healthy enough to go back to school. She found a very different class than the one she remembered so fondly from just two months before. They’d replaced the class president; everyone treated her like a stranger, mocking her for the scars on her shoulders and neck and back, the scars she’d gotten when she pulled herself out of the broken car window in her desperation to flee the flames, mocking her for her clumsy flailing movements that happened because she had no perception of her muscles moving.

She hated it.

She withdrew into herself, not talking to anyone. She watched Aimi being bullied every day, but she couldn’t do anything about it, because she was too afraid. Her mother and father noticed how grief-stricken she was, noticed the cuts she had gotten in the habit of making on herself, and wanted to help their daughter however they could. They offered to enroll her in Yamaku for her seventh year, but she refused until this year, when Aimi was finally old enough to attend with her. She had lost a sister before, and didn’t intend to lose the other.

Notes: Is quite clumsy in her movements because she can’t feel her limbs. She can still move them, just not feel them.

[vFear]

@RomanAria Both accepted~ Aimi is a disability and a shrine maiden outfit away from being Rika, but we can change that last one... hau~

^{Also Akira is a suit, beer, and short blonde hair away from being best girl.}

So now that we have a full cast, I'm gonna' head out for a drive then come back and start writing up the IC. I'm thinking of doing something of an opening ceremony instead of first class, unless anybody has any objections?

[Ferris]

I'd be down for that, go for it, yo.

[Ogo]

Sounds good here. I've got to leave for work in an hour so I'm pretty much tied up for the next thirteen hours. Joy. I'll definitely have something up after that though :D

[joeycbee]

@vFear
So I guess shoot me a pm when you've decided that @zellected has dropped out.

And @Keyguyperson

Thanks for that spot!

[Little Loser]

Wowzers, all my wildest dreams are finally coming true. Prepare for angst people, I've got plenty and I'm gonna spread it around like butter on bread.

[Vulkan]

Im fine with that.

[vFear]

GO MY SWEETS. GO FORTHHHHH.
THE IC IS OPENNNNNNN~

[joeycbee]

@vFear
So how exactly did you get your steam profile on the signature area? If I'm not on the rp guild then I'm on steam so I would find this very useful.