[OOC] Faces In The Shadows [A Fun And Child Friendly Magical Girl RP]

[TheHangedMan]

A crack in the night;

a bone chilling roar;

a soundless scream.

Since before civilization, mankind has always feared the dark - or rather, what lies beneath it. Horrors that roam as ideas for us in the safety of day, and come to a wretched life at dusk. Ever and always, man has devised ways to fend off the darkness, methods both real and imagined. This fear led to the explosive expansion of man - this fear developed fire, agriculture, medicine. From this fear, civilization was born. The mad scramble to drive away the darkness had urged mankind ever forward.

And yet, it is also this same fear that kept the darkness alive.

The fear that gave birth to civilization had also borne with it . . .

Murder . . .

Genocide . . .

Evil

And with the birth of evil, the abominations that resided alongside us laughed and swelled in numbers and strength. They fed upon evil, and grew into true, living horrors. And with evil as its sword and fear as its shield, horror encroached upon mankind. The corruption eroded at the roots of a budding civilization, threatening to kill humanity before it even existed. Man was nearly driven back into the darkness, were it not for one thing:

Sacrifice

Just as fear had borne evil, evil had birthed sacrifice and courage. With the tools given to them by the enemy itself, mankind pushed back. The idea that death meant nothing, so long as those around them could live and love as they wished, resonated throughout the earth, and the horrors were driven back into the dark, and faded into legend, to be forgotten.

Still, humanity would not easily forget that which nearly eradicated them. Though society as a whole has forgotten what it meant to fear the darkness, there are those that still carry the burden of those memories, and the responsibility that comes with it; the responsibility to fight with your life on the line, knowing that they are the only one's that can. They stand as stalwart sentinels against the night.

The Kispu Sinnis Wardatu

The Magical Girl.

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As advertised, this is a totally fun and child friendly magical girl RP!

. . .

I'm sorry, I couldn't help it.

In any case, this is, indeed what is called a magical girl RP, in the sense that you are going to play out the lives of young to prepubescent girls that have, through a series of fantastic circumstances, obtained powers beyond normal understanding, which are used to combat the forces of 'evil'; similarities with the conventional magical girl fare end there, however, as this is more than just young girls with powers dispensing their brand of colorful justice, with some yuri-goodness on the side, and neither is it a world of grim-darkness that seeks to ruin a magical girls innocence. No, this is RP was born from a much more terrifying perspective:

This is the world of a Magical Girl, taken to the logical extreme.

RP General Rule's (i.e. Stuff We All Know)

1.) This is a Casual-level RP; I'm sure we all know what this means, but just in case: Casual-level is at least a paragraph long, with understandable grammar and spelling. A focus on character development is apparent.

2.) At least one (1) post everyday.

3.) Let's not be overly aggressive to the opinions of others here; disagreements, yes - disagreeing is a fundamental tool for the growth of society - but, also agree to disagree, and learn to leave it be. I want to have as much fun here as possible, and we're all aware arguments

4.) Ask the GM (That's Me!) in case you're confused, rather than make assumptions which are generally followed by arguments.

Character Sheet

Name:

Age: (Ages 11~16)

Nationality: (Whether by blood or by residence)

Picture/Description: (If you want a picture, you can send me a description of you're character, and I'll have a picture up in a week or two, generally)
Abilities: (Leave this blank for now! Your abilities will be gained at the start of the RP, but I'll be the one deciding on them)

Personality:

Bio:

Take note, that as of now, this OOC is incomplete - it is currently missing the 'Rankings', 'Events', 'Bestiary', and others. This is a deliberate decision! As the RP progresses and more information is revealed, I'll be updating the OP. This is because I'm attempting to simulate players having about the same amount of information as their characters!*

*_{The moment this paragraph disappears is the moment when the OP is completely updated}

[Flamelord]

You are a lying GM who lies, just so you know.

[Oz]

This looks like fun!! Very appealing summary! I'll have a character up soon!

[TheHangedMan]

@Flamelord I do my very best to uphold the honor that is not telling unfalse untruths.

@Oz Looking forward to it!

[FernStone]

I'll start writing up a character over the weekend :)

[FernStone]

Also where is the rp going to be based? :)

[TheHangedMan]

@FernStone it's an international roleplay, so don't worry about where your character lives, you'll all get dragged in together :)

[WaddleDaisy]

I'm going to get a character in today c:

[WaddleDaisy]

Name
Ingrid Mihashi

Age
15

Nationality
United States

Picture/Description


Abilities
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Personality
Ingrid is a massive tomboy, she continuously loves to play video games and browse the internet in her spare time, she's considered as one of the best MMO players in the United States. Ingrid loves watching anime and reading manga as well, but she wouldn't go as far as to never leave the house for it. Ingrid is seen as extremely outgoing, nearly always seen eating food that she loves, mostly donuts. Ingrid has never exactly felt what love for someone out of family is, all of her friends tend to get boyfriends but she has never exactly had feelings for anyone. She would be asked out by the nerdy boys, but she would always turn them down saying that she didn't want to be in a relationship.

Ingrid is very logical when playing video games, she always plans out her moves minutes before she actually does the action for it. When she is in the battlefield, will she be able to plan out her moves at something she barely even knows? But the real question we have here, will she be able to survive the madness she was pulled into?

Bio
As a child Ingrid wasn't all that happy, she didn't feel complete and just felt completely empty most of the time. Then her father introduced her to video games, which was the right hobby to complete her. Ingrid had started to become extremely happy and played video games all the time, becoming her favorite hobby of all time. All of these hobbies lead her to becoming one of the best video gamer in the United States, which both of her parents were proud of as they played video games themselves. But eventually, something happened to Ingrid, which had to give her a break of doing what she loved.

She had been diagnosed with Brain Cancer.

Ingrid had to stay in the hospital for two years, she got visits from her friends which made her really happy, and her parents would tell her about the upcoming games in future months. She then met a girl named Rachel, who was paralyzed from her legs down, who was expected to have her system collapse in the coming months. The two of them were the same age at the time as well. Ingrid dedicated herself to keep Rachel happy for as long as she could, which made Rachel feel happy and live for a lot longer than she could of. In the end, Rachel passed away peacefully at Ingrid's side.

Now, Ingrid was in her first year of high school, she managed to find a group of friends to hang out with every day. They were all getting boyfriends, and yet she had no love for anybody there.

She was jealous.

Theme Song

[TheHangedMan]

@WaddleDaisy Looked over it, and no problems :) Move 'er over to the Character Tab.

[FernStone]

Holly Kerr

Holly Catriona Kerr
15 years old

Nationality: UK (Scotland)

Abilities: TBC

Personality: Holly is something of an introvert. This in part comes from her shyness and anxiety, but also from the fact that she struggles to spend a lot of time with people. She prefers to spend her time alone with her own thoughts. She spends a good amount of her time on a computer and has a passion for computing related things, especially programming. When she isn't doing this she is writing or reading.

Even when Holly spends time with people she isn't socially confident. She tends to mess things up, say the wrong things at the wrong time or say something that could be taken as hurtful. She tends not to mean to do this, even if a lot of what she says is sarcastic or could come across as mean. Even though she often dislikes social interaction part of her wants to have close friends and people that she could have an attachment to. However she believes that she is unlikely to make friends due to avoiding people quite often. So instead she just creates characters in her stories that she would want to be friends with, and engrosses herself in her programming.

Bio: Holly is the youngest child of three, with an older brother and sister. She grew up in the city of Edinburgh with her family. At a young age she spent most of her time playing make believe games alone in a made up world. She never grew close to any of the children that she went to nursery with and was quite shy when she was young. She preferred to talk to her imaginary friends over real people.

She started writing stories as soon as she could form the letters on paper, spilling all of her imagination into the words. Her parents were exasperated with her unwillingness to be social and when she started primary school at the age of five they started to try and organise for her to spend more time with other children in her class. Holly wasn't happy with this, and after her making no progress towards making friends her parents gave up. As a result she spent most of her years in primary school as a loner, spending her time reading or writing.

It was in her second last year of primary school, when she was 10, that she first got into programming. It was the basic things at first but she got enough into it to convince her parents to get her a cheap laptop that she could program on. Her parents hoped that if this when she moved onto high school she'd make friends through mutual interests.

This wasn't the case. The high school that Holly started at twelve had very people as into computing as she was. All those that were were boys, and they disliked the fact that Holly had more knowledge in the subject than they were. Nothing came of her interests but bullying and as a result she withdrew more from people and avoided the others in her year at school even more than she had in primary school.

She did begin to talk to people more as she moved through high school however has not gotten very close to them. Another thing that separates her from girls her age is the fact that she never seems to get crushes and boys, and this made many struggle to talk to her.

Holly is now in S4 (fourth year of highschool) and spending most of her time alone programming and writing. While she loves both of these things she hopes that some day in the future she will properly make friends.

[FernStone]

Just for reference S4 is the same as 10th grade in America xD It's the third last year of highschool basically (and in Scotland it's normal to start S4 at the age of 14/15)

[TheHangedMan]

@FernStone I think it's actually the equivalent of (U.S.A's) 4th year of highschool (if we're talking about the Scottish S4, anyway); this is from what I've read, anyway.

Accepted, btw. Move 'er over to the character tab. Now we just wait for @Flamelord & @Oz character's and we can start :)

[Oz]

I'm sorry!! Feel free to start without me!! ;A;

[TheHangedMan]

@Oz aw, you're not joining anymore~? :O

[Cinderella Man]

I should have a character up within the day!

[TheHangedMan]

@Cinderella Man good to hear :D

[Oz]

I am!! I just need a little time!! I have some applications to do!! Dx I'm sorry! Can I sign up after the RP has started?

[FernStone]

@TheHangedManI thought fourth year of US highschool was the last one? I have I got my facts messed up for US highschool then? xD Whoooops. I've got the Scottish bit right at least, considering I've been through Scottish education (Well I'm in S6 anyway) xD

[Flamelord]

Not the best, but here's a thing

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Name: Genevieve Darrows

Age: 14

Nationality: French

Picture/Description:


Abilities:

Personality: Genevieve is a kind soul, respectful of authority and her parents, and always willing to lend a hand to those who need it. she has a stern side to her, and likes to think that she is above 'childish' things, but does have a sense of humor to her that can manifest when she isn't in formal situations. When in formal situations, she is courteous, acting with poise and grace, though she can be cold towards strangers.

She is also a calm, collected, and a thoughtful person, who always thinks before she acts, though this can lead to not taking advantage of all opportunities when they appear. She also has no eye for romance beyond what she has read in novels, since she believes that that has been determined for her, though she does have the slightly romantic wish of meeting someone and being swept off her feet, but that is something she only tells those she can trust. She also enjoys reading.

Bio: Genevieve is the sole daughter and the heir to the Darrows family, a family that can trace it's lineage back to minor French nobility, and is fairly well off themselves now. It was into this situation that she grew up, educated and groomed to be the heir of the family, to take over their business empire, and everything else that that meant for the young girl as she began to get older.

Growing up, she was tutored and trained, subjected to lessons and not given much time for herself. Yet as an only child she accepted it without complaint, doing the best she could to please her parents. It's only recently that she has begun to chafe somewhat under this rule, and to wonder if there might be something more out there that she has missed. Yet being enrolled in an Academy for the privileged and the miles of schoolwork that it means, she hasn't had much time to wonder about that. Instead she acts as she ought to, interacts with her peers who will eventually become business associates and political contacts, and does her best to live up to the burden of the family name and what it represents.