[OOC] Persona: Crossroads

[Attis]

everything just happens so much

[Undinebutt]

@Atrophy Sounds like someone's not a real shin megoomee tensay fan™

spoilers neither am i

[Crimmy]

I'm a big fan of the entire SMT shiding.

[Attis]

So I hadn't realized it has only been a day since we opened and I have been like... trying to start the ball rolling TOMORROW which, NO PRESSURE OR ANYTHING RIGHT? Anyway. Don't panic!



Anyway, it is sleep time. Feel free to drop any questions you might have in my inbox and/or Undine's if you have a question. I'll answer it as soon as I can log on! I'll start writing up the establishing posts ect ect tomorrow and we will jump into this thing when everyone is good and ready.

[Atrophy]

Yo, read this son!

Taro Mori · 20 · Male
Tower Arcana

Appearance:
Taro stands about six foot two and has an average, unathletic build and lighter skin of a man who spent more time indoors than getting involved with sports. His hair and eyes are brown, although if one were to deeply inspect the roots of his hair they would be able to tell that it was a dye job. Although he would never admit it, Taro does spend a gross amount of time every morning trying to make himself look appropriately disheveled and often goes through several wardrobe changes before finding a flattering outfit that he could claim he just “slapped together”. His fingernails are immaculate and his skin is smooth thanks to a nightly routine of creams, lotions, and moisturizers. When he talks his voice is fairly loud and his face is heavily animated; when he’s quiet the man always has a small smirk on his face as if he knows a secret or just thought of a rude joke.

Personality:
Taro is an outgoing, upbeat loud-mouth who is on the surface both one of the friendliest and most irritating person you’d ever meet. On one hand, he goes out of his way to make more shy and anxious people feel welcome and recognized. On the other hand, Taro never learned how to “read the air” of a situation and almost never turns down his enthusiasm or excitement. As well, he’s generally used to being the center of attention and tends to clown around way too much, often to the point of being a distraction. Still, it is difficult for most people to stay in a slump when Taro is around.

However, most people do not want to be around Taro after they get to know the man. He lacks the drive and the focus to accomplish anything that requires hard work or dedication. Instead, he tends to leapfrog between interests and hobbies on an almost weekly basis—as a side effect, he knows a little about everything and a lot about nothing. Worse still, he tries to convince his friends to follow him and uses guilt as a weapon if they do not bend to his whims. People tend to call him out for the manipulative, pushy bastard he is trying, and thankfully failing, to be.

Still, it’s not that Taro enjoys manipulating or guilting people, he just unfortunately happens to be a control freak. He truly wants the best for everyone and for himself. However, in his mind the best has already happened in the past when everyone were kids who just screwed around, played games, and ate junk food while the future has him and others wasting away for the rest of their life as salarymen in some office building-shaped tomb. Deep down inside, what Taro really wants is for everything to stay the same—even if it ends up making him seem immature and petty.

Background: Taro’s the first born son of Haruki Mori, better known as the man who a quarter of the Commerce Sector paid their monthly lease to. Being the only son of some wealthy landlord isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—really, it’s better than what rich people let on, they just don’t want all of the poor folk to feel as bad as they should about not having trust funds. Taro spent a youth of being pampered and privileged thanks to his family name. Were you really going to be the restaurant that made Haruki’s heir wait, knowing that competitors were eagerly looking to buy up your lot? Were you really going to fail Taro because the stupid kid never studied when you knew that your brother who was already struggling to pay his rent on time? Nah, you were just going to smile and nod as the little snot nosed brat obliviously moved through the world under the assumption that people just must really like him.

Of course, since Taro was so used to getting everything handed to him the man never felt the need to apply himself to anything. It sort of became a little bit of a problem come middle and high school where his family name had less and less of an influence. People stopped completely coddling him, but it didn’t change the fact that Taro barely tried. Didn’t understand algebra? Whatever, grades didn’t matter and girls only really liked guys who played sports. Terrible at baseball? It was a boring sport anyway. Plus, he knew they were dying to recruit him into the drama club. Couldn’t remember his lines? Whatever, drama was for dorks.

Things started getting rough for Taro come graduation. His father insisted that Taro try to get into the University of Tokyo, but the boy didn’t even take the entrance examination (although to be fair, he wouldn’t have passed it anyway). Taro had lived in Kantou his whole life, and said he didn’t want to move away from all of his friends—even though most of them were going away for college anyway. He was accepted to Kantou University largely thanks to a healthy donation from his father, who was an alumnus, and began studying for his business degree just so he could be like ol’ dad.

Of course, Taro didn’t take college seriously. He blew off more classes than he took, spending most of his time trying to fool around with girls, getting drunk at karaoke bars, playing video games, running with bad crowds, or just sleeping in his dorm. He switched majors after his first semester from business to journalism, and then from journalism to engineering before quickly switching back to journalism before finally settling on computer science at the end of his first year. His second year he moved off-campus, giving him even further reasons to not show up to class. Three-quarters through the year he changed his major once again, this time to music because of a crush he had on a singer he saw at the Blue Boulevard.

At the start of his third year of college, Taro was barely ahead in credits of the incoming freshmen. He was in the process of changing his major once again when the letter came from his father, commanding him to stop screwing around and to take school seriously or he would cut the damn kid off. With that new weight hanging over his head, Taro finds himself becoming more and more terrified that the rest of his life will be spent working for his father’s real estate company until he is a withered old man.

Weapon

Spear· Pierce

Persona

Bellerophon

Arcana: Tower
Strength: Zio
Weakness: Garu
History: Bellerophon was a Greek hero known largely for his ability to kill monsters of varying degrees of danger and for coming from a family of rather unfortunate fellows. His grandfather was Sisyphus, who was forced to push a boulder to the top of the hill only to watch it roll to the other side for all of eternity, and his father was Glaucus, who may have died by being eaten by his own horses. So, perhaps one could assume that Bellerophon felt that he was doing his brother a favor when he murdered him, since all of the men in his family ended up getting a pretty raw deal anyway—or maybe he was just jumping on the family killing bandwagon that was all of the rage in Greece those days. Regardless of why he did it, his punishment for fratricide was exile.

Now it turns out that exile wasn’t so bad when you’re living it up in a cushy castle with some king who pardoned your crime, and things were looking up for old Bellerophon until the king’s wife started batting her eyelashes at him. Bellerophon, of course, was a hero (brother killing aside), so he did not go for it. The wife got mad, spun a few lies, and now the king wanted Bellerophon dead but he can’t kill him because the Greeks are real weird about murdering guests. So the king sent Bellerophon to another ruler with a letter to do the killing for him, but Bellerophon was such a fun person that the other ruler didn’t read the letter until the point where Bellerophon, once again, qualified as a guest.

Instead of proceeding down some continuous loop where Bellerophon goes to another castle and avoids execution because he stayed the night and drank their wine forever, the ruler decided that he would indirectly kill Bellerophon by sending him to slay the Chimera. The Chimera was this giant monster with the head of a lion, a serpent for a tail, and the less-intimidating body of a goat, and taking it on in a fight was pretty much considered a suicide attempt because it breathed fire among many other horrible things. Of course, since everybody likes Bellerophon, he gets a hot tip that if he fought the Chimera from atop a winged horse he could actually best the beast.

So, Bellerophon went, got Pegasus, and flew off to fight the Chimera—and the guy takes it out by jamming a giant block of lead down its throat that the Chimera melts with its own fire breath and dies via lead suffocation. Now the ruler was not too happy about this because he still needed to kill Bellerophon for that other king, so when Bellerophon returned he was sent on another quest. And another. And another. And another. And so on, until the ruler just shrugged his shoulders and married Bellerophon to his daughter because clearly the hero wasn’t going to die and he did kind of kill all of the big, bad monsters in the land. Now more or less a king, Bellerophon would live happily ever after in peace…

...if the man did not let his ego get to him. Since he had slain all of the big, bad monsters in the land, Bellerophon was constantly being told of how he was a great hero. Unfortunately, Bellerophon decided to one-up that statement. In his mind he was not a great hero, but a god. To prove this, Bellerophon mounted Pegasus once again and flew to Mount Olympus to live with the other gods. Zeus, seeing a mortal try to claim godhood, had a fly bite Pegasus so that the horse bucked Bellerophon off of its back. Bellerophon fell from the sky and landed, uncomfortably, in a thorn bush. Crippled by the landing and blinded by the thorns, Bellerophon spent the rest of his life as a miserable hermit until he died alone.

1. Single Shot - Deals light pierce damage to one foe.
2. Zio - Deals light electric damage to one foe.
3. Rakunda - Lowers one foe’s defense.
4. unlocked at first social link, upgraded at rank 6.
5. Unlocked second social link, upgraded at rank 7.
6. unlocked after having a rank 4 social link w/ someone, upgraded at rank 8.
7. unlocked after having a rank 4 social link w/ someone else, upgraded at rank 9.
8. Unlocked after rank 5 social link w someone, upgraded at rank 10.

Social Link Rankings

• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10
• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10
• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10

[Attis]

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go right on ahead and post it to the character roster

[nichinichisou]

IM ALMOST DONE
ALMOST THERE

[Attis]

@LowKey123 YASSSS

[DrewVonAwesome]

Alright I'll need the fortune arcana but I should be set to go. I'll hopefully get this done quickly since I have the original profile sheet from the last RP he was in ready in a PM.

[DrewVonAwesome]

((WIP))

Shinji Hasebe - 19 - Male

Fortune Arcana

Appearance:

Stands at around 6‘0 Shinji usually wears old bowling shirts and khaki pants. He has prescription glasses that he’ll fiddle with when his nervous.

Personality: Friendly and tries to be a buddy for people who need one, Shinji has a warm disposition and really tries to be everything for everyone no matter how much that might be the best thing to do. Although Shinji takes his bowling seriously, he never tries to be too competitive with things. Even though Shinji himself realizes that doesn't help him in the long run.

One thing about Shinji that he can't even really explain himself is how girls seem to really gravitate towards him and his charms. Considering how he feels deep down it does make things difficult. He becomes shy, avoiding, and for the most part that only serves to give him a hard to get look that only makes things worse. Shinji hasn't really come to terms about it all himself. Since Japanese culture doesn't favor such a thing, but also when Shinji was little, and realizing for the first time that he was attracted to men. A man in his neighborhood was the victim of a vicious attack for reportedly being a homosexual. The experience of seeing it first hand severely scarred Shinji and made it even harder for him to accept it.



Background:

Shinji was practically born to be a bowler. His parents own one of the few bowling alleys in Kantou City, Golden Lanes Bowling Alley. Where Shinji would spend his free time helping run things and play himself. He ended up developing a two handed bowling style after seeing a visiting man from Australia do it. Which Shinji was able to perfect with lightning fast speed and borderline pinpoint accuracy.

When Shinji was in high school he helped develop the then medicore bowling team and eventually led them to two years in a row high school bowling champions. After graduation many people expected Shinji to turn pro and start competiting professionally. Even to the point where sponsors were coming to the bowling alley to try and recruit him. However Shinji refused stating he didn’t feel comfortable going pro yet. Truth was, his worries about his own sexuality left him worried that if he does go pro, and people found out he was gay, things would get ugly quickly.

Shinji still works at the bowling alley, and does so between classes at the university where his studying sports medicine. Although Shinji hasn’t quite put as much into his academics has he had in the past, and his grades have slowly slipped as a result. His parents are concerned, and know something is severely bothering him. Shinji though has tried to feign being okay, but deep down, he is defiently not okay.

Weapon

Baseball bat - Strike

Persona

Phoenix

Arcana: Fortune

Strength: Fire

Weakness: Ice

History: ( Give us some history. ) )

1. ( freebie. pick your low level skills. )

2. ( freebie )

3. ( another freebie )

4. unlocked at first social link, upgraded at rank 6.

5. Unlocked second social link, upgraded at rank 7.

6. unlocked after having a rank 4 social link w/ someone, upgraded at rank 8.

7. unlocked after having a rank 4 social link w/ someone else, upgraded at rank 9.

8. Unlocked after rank 5 social link w someone, upgraded at rank 10.

( First three skills will upgrade as the story progresses. GM will notify when power ups occur. )

Social Link Rankings

• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10
• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10
• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10

[nichinichisou]

OMG I DID IT R U PROUD

Yuumei Akimoto · 17 · Female
Lovers

Appearance:
Yuumei has dyed red hair that looks well with her green eyes. Her facial features, that she got from her mother, are often described as average. She usually has her hair covering her left eye, for no particular reason, really. Her normal attire consists of an unzipped checkered blue jacket and a black t-shirt underneath. She wears with jeans or shorts, depending on the weather. She wears black trainers to finish the outfit.

Personality:
Yuumei avoids opening up to people in fear of them betraying her or judgement from them. She tries to make friends with as many people as she can, but makes sure to not have them too close to her because of her trust issues. It's also because of these that if someone wrongs her, it's very hard for her to give them a second chance.

If she's not socializing or making friends, then she's either in her room studying or meditating. She's very spiritual, and follows a strict diet that, in combination with deep meditation, yoga and carious exercises, is supposed to bring you inner peace. It helps her deal with the stress of schoolwork and her relationships.

Background:
Yuumei was born into the upper class. With her education, she held high expectations of herself, not only because of her job of choice, but because her parents were both doctors and they wanted to see her succeed. Her parents gave her an amazing teacher at home, so she could actually be able to understand the subjects. When she was twelve, her parents had to enroll her into a public school to balance out their budget.

While she was in the public school, she was able to get very high grades and understand things easily, and even skipped a grade in secondary school. It was very easy for her to make friends because of her mother teaching her manners and social skills that she practiced while out for dinner with other families. However, while in 8th grade, it seemed she had trusted too easily. One of her "friends" had told the whole school about one of her secrets, in order to ruin Yuumei's reputation, which it did. It seemed that she had done the whole thing out of jealousy and spite. When Yuumei wanted to get on good terms with her again, she had said something that still sticks to her with this day. That friend was walking around with a whole new group of people that Yuumei didn't recognize, and said with a smile, "I don't even know why I was your friend in the first place."
That experience gave her trust issues for the rest of her life.

Somewhere along the line, she had changed her career choose from a crime scene examiner to forensic science, possibly an influence from her parents and her love of mathematics and the sciences. So, she now goes to university for an undergraduate in biology with focuses on genetics and biochemistry to specialize in DNA testing.

Weapon

Yumi · Pierce

Persona

Danae

Danae appears as a fit woman with sholder-length light brown hair. She is covered in a shiny golden robe that appears to be from a bed canopy. She holds a blue chest.
Arcana: Lovers
Strength: Aqua/Water
Weakness: Fire
History: Danae is the mother of Perseus, a famous hero. After Zeus had impregnated her, Acrisius, her father, put her and Perseus into a chest in the sea.
1. Single Shot - Does light pierce damage
2. Aqua - Does light aqua damage.
3. Dia - Slightly restores one ally's HP.
4. unlocked at first social link, upgraded at rank 6.
5. Unlocked second social link, upgraded at rank 7.
6. unlocked after having a rank 4 social link w/ someone, upgraded at rank 8.
7. unlocked after having a rank 4 social link w/ someone else, upgraded at rank 9.
8. Unlocked after rank 5 social link w someone, upgraded at rank 10.

( First three skills will upgrade as the story progresses. GM will notify when power ups occur. )

Social Link Rankings

• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10
• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10
• Arcana / Character Name · Rank 1-10

[Attis]

@LowKey123 I AM VERY PROUD! And sounds legit to me! Go on and post her up on the thing when you're ready!

[nichinichisou]

I'm always ready.

[Conflagration]

On a bit of a Persona binge recently: I'd love to throw a character together but it might take me a little while. Is Temperance taken, and if not could you put my name against it?

[nichinichisou]

Temperance is already taken.

[Conflagration]

Aye, I see that now. Was trying to sift through the OOC but I should have just checked the characters thread.

Edit:

However, I don't see a Chariot Arcana anywhere so I have a new character idea!

[Attis]

@Conflagration

You got it dude. I'll throw a reserve up there for you.

I'm throwing up the establishing post by tomorrow at the latest though! Even if the party has (technically) started, people will still have time to finish their character sheets. It's not like it doesn't take a bit of time for six people to post.

Worst case scenario, people end up being introduced later. I'm leaning more towards the kidnapping route, which, basically just means your character gets the whip sooner rather than later.

[Conflagration]

Well, getting to work on my character finally.

Question - looking at the character page, a guy would be best to even up the numbers, yes? I don't really mind which I play, so if we're looking at a really mismatched party I can roll either.

[Archangel89]

Ito Ishioka

Name: Ito Ishioka Gender: Male Age: 22 Arcana: Death

Personality:
Ito is a very arrogant young man believing himself to be the greatest thing since sliced bread often bragging about how great he is and how great it is to be him.

He takes great pride in telling those around him how insignificant they are and how everyone should strive to be like him. He is known to be a bit of a spendthrift barely willing to give anything he has to anyone for any reason. Through all of his pomp and fluff Ito seems to be hiding something deep withing himself that he keeps bottled up, possibly from his lack of trust of anyone around him.

Despite all of his pomp and grandeur Ito is a very troubled young man, having lived a great deal of his childhood alone. Because of his parents single minded determination to their career Ito has never really had a loving relationship with his family and his aunt and uncle treat him more like hindrance than a nephew.

Weapon:

Taurus Raging Bull revolver- Pierce damage



Background:
Ito grew up as the literal embodiment of being born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Born as the son of a wealthy businessman and successful lawyer for a mother Ito was given everything that he ever wanted the whole of his life. As he grew older and made his way through middle school he began bullying other kids in his school to get what he wanted, which included everything from coffee drinks to lunch money.

It wasn't until that a girl killed herself after she came home from school one day, supposedly because of Ito's bullying, that his parent's started taking notice. When he was confronted about his behavior in school Ito simply replied that it wasn't his fault that the other kids couldn't be like him. Seeing a disturbing tend arising in their son, Ito's parents sent him to live with his aunt and uncle in Kantou City just outside of Tokyo in the hopes that he might learn to temper his destructive behavior.

After moving to Kantou City Ito continued his reign as the hell spawn he had become. As he ran through highschool and up to college Ito found that his influence did not reach as far as he thought but he still commanded his own circle of minions, but deep down Ito has been lonely ever since his parents kicked him out.
Persona: Minos

Appearance:

Hider

Abilities:

Abilities

Mudo- Darkness: instant kill, 1 foe. (25% chance)
Evil Smile-Instills Fear in all foes. (25% chance)
Mind Charge-Doubles magic damage dealt next turn. (2.5x damage)

Strength Dark-affinity

Weakness Light-affinity

History
Asterion, king of Crete, adopted the three sons of Zeus and Europa, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthus. According to the Odyssey he spoke with Zeus every nine years or for nine years. He got his laws straight from Zeus himself. When Minos' son Androgeos had won the Panathenaeic Games the king, Aegeus, sent him to Marathon to fight a bull, resulting in the death of Androgeos. Outraged, Minos went to Athens to avenge his son, and on the way he camped at Megara where Nisos lived.

Learning that Nisos' strength came from his hair, Minos gained the love of Scylla and her aid in cutting off her father's hair so that he could conquer the city. After his triumph, he punished Scylla for her treachery against her father by tying her to a boat and dragging her until she drowned. On arriving in Attica, he asked Zeus to punish the city, and the god struck it with plague and hunger.

An oracle told the Athenians to meet any of Minos' demands if they wanted to escape the punishment. Minos then asked Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos' wife Pasiphae with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build. The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos' daughter Ariadne.

After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in Hades together with Aeacus and Rhadamanthus. Rhadamanthus judged the souls of Asians, Aeacus judged Europeans, and Minos had the deciding vote.

EDIT: Completed CS any thoughts

[Undinebutt]

@ConflagrationYou're free to go with whichever you like! We're not too worried about a gender balance, so run free~!