Puella Magi Madoka Magica Roleplay

[Cleopatra]

@PlatinumSkink

Experience: 1
ToF: 4
Despair: 7%

[PlatinumSkink]

@Cleopatra Oh, wow. Completely new, eh. And completely average. Gosh.

[Cleopatra]

@Cleopatra Oh, wow. Completely new, eh. And completely average. Gosh.

@PlatinumSkink

Rerolling is always an option, but you can only do it once.

Experience is out of 4(for the roll I'm doing). So the maximum you can get is 4; but if your character is older, they'll go above that.

[PlatinumSkink]

I am noticing that we have a lack of high-experience girls. I would almost want to request getting a reroll for experience to hopefully become a more experienced one, maybe to help the others out... but the problem with that, I would much rather be a 1 than somehow end up in the 3-4 scale with the rest. Hah.

[Antarctic Termite]

ima pop this here while i hand in an entirely different application- for employment at a supermarket IRL. Be right back to finish it.

WIP DON'T READ THIS IT'S TRASH

Name: Kei Wentz.

Age: Approaching fifteen in just a few days! Yay!

Appearance: SHHH, I'M STILL SKETCHING HER. tl;dr scrawny girl with messy hair and a deep tan, whose transformation consists mostly of a flowing sleeveless coat, slit dress, wrap skirt, gloves and leggings, I'll get to it.
Kei's soul gem is cyan green, and, when transformed, worn as a fine filigree anklet with a small ribbon attached to flow in the wind as she runs.

Nationality: Considers herself Australian, but was born to Polish/Japanese immigrants to that country. Though Kei's parents consider this something of a homecoming, Danzig still feels a little foreign to her.

Personality:

Afflictions: Still mostly healthy.

Wish: "I wish for Jason Viktor to insure his life and then die." Kei's wish was one made in anger, targeting the source of the hurt rather than the victim, and ultimately a very simple one. Jason acted mysteriously for a few days, talking to almost no-one and keeping uncharacteristically close to himself and a sudden morass of paperwork, leaving Katherine shakily perplexed and Kei waiting with enormous tension. Then, abruptly, news broke that the alcoholic man had, hours after finally putting it through the insurance company that his family would receive the full amount for cases of suicide, hanged himself.

Biography:

Skills: Kei considers herself a graffiti artist, and has learned to work in several media. Spray-paint of various colours is, predictably, one of them, but she has also been known to paint by hand with a brush, scratch and carve into concrete, scar letters into living wood, and occasionally pull something impermanent but creative, like spelling out messages by jamming plastic cups into the holes of a wire fence. She also likes fossils, for a similar reason- She admires their timeless etchings upon the planet's history.

Threads of Fate: 6- Kei's innate strength was stolid enough to safeguard her earliest weeks in the witch-harvesting industry, and she continues to learn new skills now, though she feels that her rate of development has slowed lately.

Magical Weapon: Pistol crossbows, repeating crossbows, and ballistas- If it strings like a bow but fires like a rifle, it's probably in Kei's arsenal. The shining arrows and bolts she shoots usually explode into paint flecks and glitter upon passing through a target. Kei considers the crossbow a handy compromise between the gratifying physical exertion of a spear or bow and the mechanical grace and ease of a firearm. Although pulling cranks and loading bolts has helped her put on a little muscle weight and she's generally satisfied with her choice, Kei still thinks her fragile build might be better suited for the gunpowder end of the spectrum.

Experience: 4- Kei has grown confident enough to start establishing a level of comfort with her new life, and is slowly starting to really hone in on her ability to manage witch populations.

Magical Ability: bleh bleh destructive instincts

██████: 24%- Knowing Kei's tendency to explore and mark territory with graffiti, and her ultimately extroverted nature, her expansion has been a predictable move, but between the pressure she puts on herself to find new witches and that which she has already endured watching the aftermath of Katherine's situation, she has already started to wear herself down. Every time her strive to establish permanence is thwarted, Kei sinks a little further back into feeling like nothing.

[The book of bad juju]

It also means nobody will be expecting you.

The trick is in taking your falls and turning them into dives. If you're set back, it's only so you can get a good run up.

[Antarctic Termite]

I am noticing that we have a lack of high-experience girls. I would almost want to request getting a reroll for experience to hopefully become a more experienced one, maybe to help the others out...

@PlatinumSkink

On the plus side, that means it'll be more of a surprise when they learn about really weird quirks other than the despairification process, like what happens when you separate a girl from her gem- Since they do tend to be worn close to the body.

Also Incubators eating one another to live forever fuckin' priceless

[PlatinumSkink]

Experience is out of 4(for the roll I'm doing). So the maximum you can get is 4; but if your character is older, they'll go above that.

@Cleopatra

Ah. Hm. ... Can I negotiate the terms of this, "older" variable? Perhaps with an increase in despair... Haha...

Actually, is it, like, you get a random experience, then add one per year old over 1X, or something?

Edit: *sees "Gaining more experience is harder if it's above your Threads of Fate."* ... Oh.

[Cleopatra]

Ah. Hm. ... Can I negotiate the terms of this, "older" variable? Perhaps with an increase in despair... Haha...

@PlatinumSkink

If you're under 15, you get 1d2 more ToR; over 15 you get 1d2 more experience.

You may get extra despair depending on your bio.

[GrafRoy Zeppeli]

Yuniko

"Hm... I think I'd like a donut now."

Name: Touma Yuniko

Age: 14

Appearance: Yuniko is relatively average in terms of height, standing at 1.53 meters. Her weight is a secret though. If you wanna know it, you gotta risk a direct kick to the groin. (Weight=57 kilograms)

She's got long pink hair that he keeps in a pair of buns that fall by each of her shoulders. Her eyes are usually black in color, though they have a drastic change to star shaped pupils when she transforms.

Her build is slim and, though she doesn't like to admit it, quite developed for a girl her age. She says that it is only because she is fat.

She usually dresses in her school uniform OR with rather simple clothes, like a short-sleeved shirt and a simple skirt. When she is not out, her indoors look is usually a simple hoodie and some jeans, though.

When she is transformed, her attire is replaced by a more traditional, Japanese-looking armor.

Transformed Look

Her soul gem is embedded at the back of the corset she is wearing.

Nationality: Japanese.

Personality: A dreamy, almost ditzy kind of girl. It would surprise you to see how much time she actually spends up in her own little world. She may even just kind of space out if you are talking to her.

Of course, though she is this kind of girl, it doesn't take from her anxiety and overthinking habits.

She tends to get really nervous when talking to new people, and tends to overthink things a bit too much. She also believes she's got a pretty good hold on her own feelings, but more often than not, they get the best of her and her judgement.

She is aiming to become a mangaka in the near future, and so she tends to carry around a notebook or at least some kind of paper so she can practice her drawings whenever she has the chance. She loves shoujo manga over every other genre and hopes to one day have her own kind of romance.

Aside from this, she tends to eat a bit too much. She worries that her weight goes up whenever she gets nervous and starts eating a bit too much. Some of her friends hate the fact that all of her 'extra fat' goes everywhere but to her stomach.

Afflictions: blank Aside from the little trauma here and there because of how she lived, Yuniko is fairly healthy.

Wish: "I-I want to be the greatest shoujo mangaka in Japan. Make it so that the stories I write reach everyone in the world and make them feel if a bit more hopeful."

The result of this was that her drawing skills have become what she's called 'god-like' and that's not mentioning her story-telling skills. Also, her favorite mangaka is having a bad streak lately but she doesn't know whether this is because of her wish or not.

Biography: It doesn't need to be said, since you probably can see it, but Yuniko was actually a LOOOT more dorky when she was a kid. Per example, she used glasses and had her hair done in a braid.

She was also really shy, though she's kind of left that behind, and she also had kind of an aversion for men, or well, people in general.

To start with, her parents are divorced, which made her retract further into her shell. Her mother was an alcoholic and really did not care about whether Yuniko ate or not. She just looked forward to the next bottle she'd drink.

So, Yuniko had to learn to do a lot of housework to be able to even live properly. She washes her own clothes, cooks her own dinner and even cleans the whole house.

Truthfully, she just wanted to hurry up and finish high school so she could work and get away from the woman that was her mother.

Her father often visited her, though, and it was the only time she actually felt safe and sound. Her father had the intention of taking the custody of Yuniko away from her mother, but the woman always made a good case of how she took care of her daughter, even if it was all lies.

Things never really got physical with her mother, until that other man appeared. Whenever Yuniko did something wrong while her mother's boyfriend was in the house, like not cleaning a corner of dust or quickly giving the man another beer, she would respond by hitting Yuniko.

A drunk woman isn't a careful one, though, and her father quickly discovered one of the bruises. It didn't take long for her to change locations and start living with her father. But the damage was already done.

Yuniko, who had always been mild-mannered, did not want to go to school anymore. Her father understood this and let her stay at home for as long as she wanted which... truthfully wasn't long.

Her father left her a shoujo manga magazine so she could entertain herself with something, and just as she started reading she had a revelation. Perhaps it was her odd habit of imagining and overthinking things too much, but she started to firmly believe that making a change to her image would help her make friends, and would also help her overcome her shyness.

Friends and lovers... perhaps that's what she needed.

So, she started going to school, all thanks to a manga she had read. Yep, pretty much just because she is kind... ditzy, did she ever become able to get out of her shell and actually try and go to school.

While she did succeed on making more friends, she always did feel that she had to do something to return the favor to the manga that had helped her so much.

And that's when QB appeared.

Skills: Really, reaaaaally good at housework and cooking. Excellent drawing and story-telling skills. Average at sports.

Threads of Fate: 6 (+1)

Magical Weapon: The brush she is holding in her full appearance image. Using her magic ability along with the brush allows her to transform it into a long range weapon or short range weapon, dependging on what she needs to do.

Experince: 3, Yuniko's been in her fair share of fights. Mostly as support, but she's been there nonetheless. The territories she had were almost always shared with another magical girl with whom she shared a lot of moments, before she had to left for Danzig.

Magical Ability:

Ink Soul Yuniko can write with her brush in the air, and make constructs with it. She can make weapons and even animals that will move on their own, but this obviously exhausts her the longer she lets them roam about. The constructs aren't exactly durable, but are indeed quite dangerous. Most of them get dispelled after a single strike.

Ink Realize Yuniko writes something in a piece of paper and when she activates it, the paper will become the element she just wrote. This only works with Japanese kanjis and can only be used to summon elements, such as fire, water, ice and others. A single paper can only be used once.

Ink Buff Writing a kanji on someone's body to provide some kind of beneficial effect or even accelerate healing. This can only be used on others as of now and has no effect on herself.

Signature and Finisher: None right now.

██████: 34%. Battles are taxing. Very much so. The fact that she often feels that she could and should be doing more also helps to add to her stress.

Kind of done but it is late. IF there are any problems or if she is kind of OP, I'll edit her tomorrow. Hasta la vista, babies.

[PlatinumSkink]

If you're under 15, you get 1d2 more ToR; over 15 you get 1d2 more experience.

You may get extra despair depending on your bio.

@Cleopatra

Oooh. Alright. Then the experience will be accounted for by other people. Hm. Alright, then. Then I don't need to worry about it. I can stick with my 1. Heh.

[Cleopatra]

@GrafRoy Zeppeli

It's OP time to burn you at the stake

See you tommorrow! I'm happy to see @GrafRoy Zeppeli and @Antarctic Termite have their applications in so quickly. I'm not used to that. Call it a pleasant surprise.

[Yidhra]

Ready~!

[Cleopatra]

@Yidhra

Experience: 3
ToF: 6
Despair: 28%

[Yidhra]

Kk, working on stuff now!

[Antarctic Termite]

@Cleopatra Done!

I tried to match Kei's backstory to her relatively high levels of Despair in advance, though, rather than as well as having an angsty backstory for its own sake, so I'm not sure if her Despair will need adjusting further.

Kei

Name: Kei Wentz.

Age: A little over fifteen.

Appearance: Although she likes to tell herself that having perfectly on-fleek eyeliner 100% of the time makes up for the fact that she doesn't otherwise care much about her appearance, Kei is often wrong. With her hair in a mess despite the effort she went through to get a characteristic pale green dip-dye, limp muscles and a faint hunch that speaks volumes of her time spent online, and a stubborn determination not to shave her legs at any point- Other than on the rare occasion that she manages to get a date, Kei can actually be described as dumpy, or as a tryhard. She prefers to introduce herself as 'rocking a scrawny-chic tumblr aesthetic'. Her eyebrows are usually half-raised and one corner of her mouth twitched up in a half-smile.
Kei's transformation is fairly typical in a flaunty, over-the-top, show-off kind of way. She matches her hair with a cyan split dress, cut so generously as to be more of an elegantly extended shirt, and not quite brave enough to be backless but at least shoulder-less. A fashionably triangular wrap skirt falls down almost to her knees and allows surprisingly free movement, for which Kei has described it as a 'glorified utilitarian kilt'. High garter socks lead into similarly green ballet shoes. Kei's skirt, elbow-length gloves, and long sleeveless coat are all stark white trimmed with black; Her socks invert the pattern.
Kei's Soul Gem is cyan green, and, when transformed, worn as a fine silver filigree anklet with a small green ribbon attached to flow in the wind as she runs. Her fingernail mark is a cyan green chambered spiral, like an ammonite fossil.

Nationality: Considers herself Australian, but was born to Polish/Japanese immigrants to that country. Though Kei's parents consider this something of a homecoming, Danzig still feels a little foreign to her. At this point, when someone asks her where she's from based on her name and appearance, she just cracks her knuckles and stares. Her nationality comes complete with a deep tan, something of an accent, and a fascination with rain and snow.

Personality: For the vast majority of her upbringing, Kei Wentz was far from poverty, and the casual affluence of her environment has left obvious marks on her personality. She's a practiced user of the internet, and at that something of a meme queen, who claims that online culture helps foster her sense for abstract humour. Kei is generally sufficiently easy-going about her own life to avoid serious conversations, and despite the circumstances of her wish, most of her worries remain relatively trivial social issues. That said, these tend to be numerous, and pool ultimately into a single cause and insecurity- Her need to feel memorable.
Kei is constantly looking for validation from others, and this has made her noticeably social. She'll never turn down an offer to meet or do something together, even with only loose acquaintances. The confidence she has gained from being a Magical Girl has amplified this behaviour considerably. Her words, however, tend to be few, as she lets pass chance after chance to ask questions or say something about herself, until the exact moment at which she can make a sufficiently sassy, funny, or dark comment. This has often left her hanging out with friends for hours, following and listening closely, without saying very much of anything out loud, although her body language is rather practiced. Interestingly, Kei has also lost count of how many times she has been a third wheel because of this.
To some extent, Kei's privileged life has also allowed her to carry a lingering attitude of entitlement. Her hobby of graffiti started out early, when she noticed that certain places tended to accumulate it naturally but were always repainted anyway, not really noticing that this was only due to the damage. Although she now chooses her sites more consciously and rationalises her habit better, she still scoffs at anyone who tells her to stop. Additionally, Kei sometimes turns out to be much more rude than she or her friends expected. She's been caught in the past making cheap humour based on immigrants, the disabled, and short people. Though she generally doesn't intend harm, it shows that Kei sometimes listens to herself in all the wrong ways. In any case, whenever her comments are taken negatively, or, worse, ignored, Kei tends to sink into a slump of gloomy teenage angst and anti-social feelings.

Afflictions: Still mostly healthy.

Biography: Until barely a year before she was approached by Kyubey, Kei's life was lax, happy, and somewhat naive- Sheltered, in other words. Her parents were both employed and her elder brother had moved out, and Kei was left to simmer out her childhood in an Australian suburb. Sufficiently academic to have developed something of an ego from parental encouragement and primary school awards by the time she transferred into high school, when Kei was thirteen, she met someone whose story shook her cramped worldview harshly.
Katherine Viktor was everything Kei wanted to be and more. Smarter than she was, more popular, and infinitely more determined to go far in life, Kathy immediately got along with Kei and just as soon gave her a light for Kei to look inside herself and realise her true mediocrity. The fact that she could be so easily eclipsed by a relatively humble figure like Katherine very quickly helped Kei's personality establish itself as a desperate validation-chaser. But Katherine's story ran deeper and cut further.
Before, Kei had known about domestic abuse from a kind of detached, clinical perspective. Her empathy was underdeveloped and, until Kathy, was never close enough to anyone to really appreciate how perfect her own upbringing had been. But the biggest factor in drawing the two so close together- Their desire to act perfectly in front of their peers- Was not a native trait of Katherine's. Her mother an unemployed trophy wife, her father a well-dressed and well-connected figure in a large mining company, Katherine was intended to have been born a male and an heir. Her parents had even chosen a name, which they soon gave to her younger brother Ethan instead. Kathy had underperformed just by being born, and the weight of perfection that Jason Viktor expected from the women in his life forced her further and further down. Any appreciation that Kathy earned was piled upon Ethan. Little by little, anecdote by anecdote, the story unravelled into Kei's memory.
The two had come from environments that were polar opposites. Kei had been hospitalised for a sprained finger, told to get better; Kathy had been denied access to medication for her anxiety, told to get over it. Kei had been praised for a sticker at school, Kathy had been screamed at for scoring lower than 90%. Kei stayed indoors for her safety. Kathy was locked in alone. Kei. Kathy. First as a trickle, and shortly as a monsoon, all the fury for a childhood lost, all the unfairness that Kathy had been taught to treat as normal, every painful question answered by something darker than had raised it- For the first time, Kei learned to feel hatred.
There was nothing she could do about it but fruitlessly try to talk Kathy out of self-harm night after night. Jason was rich and his friends were lawyers and judges and all the other parents at their school. He was loved. He would be remembered for decades as a Good Bloke, and Kei, and Kathy, and all the suffering he spread, would be forgotten. Kei could do nothing, until Kyubey came.
For the first time in a long while, Kei felt that she had finally done something really memorable by killing Jason. But the illusion didn't take long to break. Her fathers death threw Katherine into panic, and her mother and brother took much of the money. The depression that had been planted found other sources of water in the wake of Kei's wish, and Kathy would be worse before she had any hope of getting better. Kei didn't say a word. Nothing of Jason's behaviour came to light, and he became a suburban martyr. A few days later, the Wentz parents announced that they were moving back to Poland. Kei wouldn't even see the aftermath of her decision when it eventually turned to the good.
All that remained to her was to leave a legacy of hope and salvation where it really lasted, by destroying the things that were truly at the heart of human misery.
Transplanted into Danzig, Kei's territory began to grow, and witches learned to fear.

Wish: "I wish for Jason Viktor to insure his life and then die." Kei's wish was one made in anger, targeting the source of the hurt rather than the victim, and ultimately a very simple one. Jason acted mysteriously for a few days, talking to almost no-one and keeping uncharacteristically close to himself and a sudden morass of paperwork, leaving Katherine shakily perplexed and Kei waiting with enormous tension. Then, abruptly, news broke that the man had, hours after finally putting it through the insurance company that his family would receive the full amount for cases of suicide, hanged himself.

Skills: Kei considers herself a graffiti artist, and has learned to work in several media. Spray-paint of various colours is, predictably, one of them, but she has also been known to paint by hand with a brush, scratch and carve into concrete, scar letters into living wood, and occasionally pull something impermanent but creative, like spelling out messages by jamming plastic cups into the holes of a wire fence. She also likes fossils, for a similar reason- She admires their timeless etchings upon the planet's history.

Threads of Fate: 6- Kei's innate strength was stolid enough to safeguard her earliest weeks in the witch-harvesting industry, and she continues to learn new skills now, though she feels that her rate of development has slowed lately.

Magical Weapon: Pistol crossbows, repeating crossbows, and ballistas- If it strings like a bow but fires like a rifle, it's probably in Kei's arsenal. The shining arrows and bolts she shoots usually explode into paint flecks and glitter upon passing through a target. Kei considers the crossbow a handy compromise between the gratifying physical exertion of a spear or bow and the mechanical grace and ease of a firearm. Although pulling cranks and loading bolts has helped her put on a little muscle weight and she's generally satisfied with her choice, Kei still thinks her fragile build might be better suited for the gunpowder end of the spectrum.

Experience: 4- Kei has grown confident enough to start establishing a level of comfort with her new life, even estranged from her country of origin, and is slowly starting to really hone in on her ability to manage witch populations.

Magical Ability: Kei's wish was almost purely destructive, and as such, so is her magic.
Chronic Vandalism- When Kei or her weapons come into contact with a foe, or even anyone she is feeling significantly angry at, tangles and loops of crude and indecipherable cyan green graffiti will radiate outwards over their skin or clothes from the point of contact. These markings can be removed by washing or vigorous rubbing, and propagate in a radius that increases by about fifteen centimetres per second (considerably faster via contact with crossbow bolts). These etchings resemble spray-paint, and leave shallow chemical burns as they move.

Harsh Words- Interestingly, both the final acts and death of Jason Viktor occurred by his own volition, distorted as it was by Kei's wish. After the fact, other humans have also proved oddly and occasionally susceptible to Kei's voice when she is feeling hateful. An ominous feeling rises in non-Magical Girls when they are addressed by Kei in such a mood, and most find it rather intimidating.
A Memory in Stone- When transformed, Kei sometimes moves using props that don't exist- They seem to flash into being for a split second and vanish as soon as she stops making contact with them. Oddly, they all have the shape of fossils, mostly branching leaves or spiralling shells.
Coat of Paint- Incoming damage to Kei while transformed will sometimes disappear upon contact, leaving only an inked or painted likeness where it would have otherwise impacted. This tends to happen mostly when she catches a spell or weapon on her white coat, and almost exclusively to projectiles- Melee weapons tend not to have this problem. Notably, once an attack has been caught on her coat as paint, another projectile that manages to hit the exact now-painted spot will always pass through. De- and Re-transformation cleans her outfit, but not her skin.

██████: 24%- Knowing Kei's tendency to explore and mark territory with graffiti, and her ultimately extroverted nature, her expansion has been a predictable move, but between the pressure she puts on herself to find new witches and that which she has already endured second-hand from Katherine's situation, she has already started to wear herself down. Every time her strive to establish permanence is thwarted, Kei sinks a little further back into feeling like nothing.

Notes: Kei is still unaware of the true nature of witches and Magical Girls, but has begun to have increasingly dark suspicions, noting the correlation of Barrier architecture and Kathy's used sketchbooks. Prior injury in fighting witches has lead her to discover the connection between her Soul Gem and soul, with Kyubey's prompting, though as an atheist, she doesn't seem to care all that much- Though she does keep her Gem closer than ever. Her parents, permissive and loving as they've ever been, assume that she sneaks out to go on cute dates with a boy- or girl-friend, and suspect nothing of the truth.

[Flamelord]

Oh boy, Madoka. I am definitely interested. Now to decide if I want to be the dashing hero, or a villain who screws with you all >:3

[Antarctic Termite]

Oh boy, I went on a wild goose chase through Wikipedia and found a really, really tenuous coincidental(?) connection.

The city of Gdansk in Poland was formerly named Danzig, as in this roleplay.
An early record states Danzig as a city in which the practice of adopting the Grain Mother (a good-luck figure fashioned at harvest from the last sheaf of wheat) occurred.
One theorised example of the Christianisation of the Grain Mother tradition is an early depiction of a particular female saint associated with grain and holding stalks of grain.
That saint is Saint Walpurga.
Whose saint's day is celebrated in Europe as Walpurgis Night.

fkn' grain-based illuminati bullshit right there, guess who's not eating corn flakes tomorrow morning (hint it's me)

[sassy1085]

this look Interested~ May if I join too? if that ok with you...

[The book of bad juju]

Hey, @Flamelord. It's been a while, hasn't it?

And you haven't changed your avatar in all that time.