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A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG] (New)

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OOC up.

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG]

Whoops, accidentally screwed your name @Jett Ryu, but I was gonna get another post up for @HereComesTheSnow@Krayzikk@Plank Sinatra because I've forgotten how many mentions we can do per post.

Also if you wanted to have any characters know I guess, the Youko Wakahisa character I threw up earlier, feel free to hit me up.

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG]

Chucking up the OOC right now. Feel free to discuss with each other if you want your characters to know each other or not while you're in the process of chargen, maybe what you wanna do, et cetera. I'll get to them in probably 16ish hours. But you can also hit up Plank Sinatra about like, general questions or "can I do a plot thing".

@GreenGoat@Cojemo@Duoya@Jett Ryu@ERode@DarkwolfX37@Crusader Lord@NaraK

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG]

Academy City. A sovereign city-state, renowned globally as an institution dedicated to the furtherment of science and education. Located in a walled enclave of Tokyo, Japan, its population of 2.3 million (of which 80% are students) are spread out across 23 School Districts, learning, growing and thriving for the neverending cause of advancement that has allowed the city to stay thirty years ahead of the rest of the world. Of course, an individual of said population (such as you), might not particularly care much for the specifics of something as vague as scientific progress, especially when it's really more of a footnote to Academy City's main attraction:

Psychic powers.

You see, the purpose of the city is to study psychic powers by creating beings known colloquially as Espers. These beings, usually members of the student population, have unlocked their potential to make use of a wide variety of extranormal abilities (some pretty cool, some useful, and some as pointless as a Creative Writing degree) thanks to the efforts of Academy City's local researchers and scientists. Ostensibly, the continued development of these abilities is core to the success of this "Power Curriculum Program", but the truth is that the students still continue to participate in a reasonably normal (albeit high-tech) school life, with regular testing by the institutions being the only difference to education anywhere else in the world.

Except when you've gathered up an entire technologically advanced city full of superpowered students, anything can happen, even if it may seem completely unbelievable. Strange happenings, shady organisations, and rumours coming true, all of these are almost "normal" in a place like Academy City.

For beneath its veneer of respectability, there are many dark mysteries waiting to be solved ...

Introduction

Academy City is a place of stories. No, let's try this again. Stories take place in Academy City. From the big to the small, the students of Academy City do things, whether they're powerful Level 4 Espers doing whatever a teenager does with immense power or a scrappy lower-levelled punk hoping to rise through the ranks or just being an overall drain on society. They do things, have their own little stories and whatnot, and sometimes, these disparate folks have their tales intersect.

And when at least two of them meet, that's how you get an incident.

Whether it's something small-scale like an argument over vending machines, or a bloody battle to assert the dominance of their respective ambitions, a meeting between inhabitants of Academy City is never going to be uninteresting. What goals do they hold? How will they succeed at them? How do they react to other people? And what happens if those others get in the way of their dreams? All these things can lead to a wealth of interaction, and the incidents that arise will be what they make of it.

And as more of them connect, the closer they might get to understanding Academy City as a whole.

What is an Esper?

Of course, you may also be wondering right now: what exactly is an esper, and what is this level thing you're yapping about? As the name suggests, espers are those who possess extranormal abilities, but to be more specific, espers in this setting are those who have undergone the Power Curriculum Program and cut themselves off from regular reality through drugs, surgery and other experimentation, thus giving them access to their powers.

Espers possess their own personal realities, and through the mysterious energy field they emit (known as AIM), they impose their own reality onto that of the world. Powers differ from esper to esper (although some types can be common, such as telekinesis), and each can only possess one type of power. These are ranked from Level 0 (essentially powerless) to Level 5 (of which there are only seven in Academy City) depending on their effectiveness. In this RPG, no characters are allowed to have already reached Level 5.

Quick Rundown

With the recent release of Index S3 (praise Battle Royale), I've decided to drag this thing back out from dormancy. This is an RPG set in the world of the Raildex franchise (with A Certain Magical Index and A Certain Scientific Railgun being its main representatives). You're all going to be students in Academy City (powers possibly optional, given the presence of numerous Level 0 Espers), hanging about and in most situations, enjoying your everyday springtime of youth as usual.

However, because it is Academy City, your springtime of youth is definitely not going to be what we'd consider normal. Whether it be a mystery of the week that you've stumbled into, or a plot of your own making that you're running for the sake of your dreams, you're going to be doing your best to get through it and get out in a way you want.

There's loads of stuff on offer for your characters to do. Loads of stuff that you might want to do (message me if you got ideas too). And hopefully, you can have fun with that.

Also if you got any issues, HIT ME WITH THE Qs.

Character Sheet

Name:
Nickname/Alias: (Optional)
Age:
Gender:
Appearance:
Biography:
Personality: (Likes and dislikes optional)
Esper Power: (If your character's an Esper, what is their power and what level is it from 0 to 4)
Skills: (what are they good at?)
Ambition: (What drives them? What is their goal in Academy City? What do they want to do? How will they go about doing this? How will they achieve it? How will they achieve it in the timeframe of this RPG? Eg. do they want to steal fragments of Tree Diagram and learn how to uplift dolphins? Is there a plot you wanna run to achieve this goal? Send me a message there as well).
Extra:

Post these in the OOC for approval before migrating them over to the CHAR tab.

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A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG] (New)

As an example of what I'd be looking for in a profile (ambition section is kinda lowkey 'cos this is a side character I drafted up):

Youko, Level 3, Shidarezuka Academy Student

Name: Youko Wakahisa (若久 陽子 Wakahisa Youko)

Nickname/Alias: N/A

Age: 16 (b. August 17)

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Her height is 1.60m and she weighs around 50kg.

Biography: A scion of the Wakahisa Conglomerate, the young girl given the name of "Youko" was born on the 17th of August in the city of Kyoto, where her family had run its businesses for several decades. As the heiress to the family fortune, her early upbringing was one of sophistication, instilling in her a foundation of propriety that would influence her massively over the following years, particularly after her parents chose to relocate to Tokyo when she was merely nine years of age. It was the wish of the Wakahisa clan that she participate in Academy City’s Power Curriculum Programme, viewing esper abilities as a great boon for their child.

Thus, it was with little fanfare that Youko prepared herself for the experiments that would transform her from just another simple little Japanese girl into a superpowered being, enrolling in a school within the walls of Academy City. It should have, in ideal circumstances, been a particularly simple state of affairs, but to much misfortune, a group of unscrupulous bad dudes, intent on grabbing cash from her family, kidnapped her not long after her tenth birthday when she was trying to buy a cheap boxset of her favourite superhero television show. However, another young girl had been in the store at the same time as her, and due to the inability of her kidnappers to differentiate between them, that girl was too held captive.

And so she found herself in shock and full of tears, trapped in a dark room with a remarkably unphased hat-garbed girl (whose hair had yet to turn blonde) as her only company.

However, it was truly the presence of that other girl that brought Youko salvation during those two weeks of captivity. The two found themselves bonding, discussing all sorts of random bits of kids' TV shows and arguing who was the cooler Disney princess. For the first time in her life, the Wakahisa scion had met somebody who resonated with her emotionally, and who she could talk to so easily. She soon grew to appreciate the hat-garbed girl as a great friend, relishing in the comfort her companion so readily provided. So it was unsurprising that they parted with great sadness upon Anti-Skill’s discovery of their location, but Youko vowed to someday return the kindness her new friend had shown her.

Indeed, by the time of her twelfth birthday, the Wakahisas had contacted the hat-garbed girl once more, setting her up as a ward of one of the family butlers to repay her for the company she had provided to Youko. The two would begin attending the same middle school together, deepening their relationship over the next few years until graduation, when they were forced to split ways. Youko had been accepted into the posh, all-girls Shidarezakura Academy in District 7's School Garden, while her friend instead left for the more mundane Noriaki North.

Though they remain in contact, Youko still misses her friend's presence in her life. With the everyday stress of schoolwork and her own relationship issues, it's no wonder that she wants a shoulder to lean on.

Personality: As the characters in her name would suggest, Wakahisa Youko is for the most part a warm and kind hearted girl, waking up every morning to face the rising sun with a smile and good cheer. She’s polite and friendly, doing her best to try and get along with most people she meets, whether it be cracking jokes or making casual gossip. It’s a generally amicable demeanour, as expected of a Wakahisa heiress, but sometimes one can notice that there isn’t really a deep amount of substance to her relationships, or what she says about herself.

Indeed, despite her friendliness to all, it can be hard for her to really connect properly with others, and that has become a growing source of dissatisfaction and pain to her. Youko doesn’t trust herself to be really open to anyone, nor does she trust her ability to be a true friend. She doesn’t know if she’s good enough, a problem that also intersects with her questions of who she really is. Although her relationship with her rather hands off parents is perfectly fine, sometimes she feels constrained by the identity of the Wakahisa heiress, but also tries her best to repay them for all the care and affection they’ve showered on her. She doesn’t want to be a burden, but her growing identity crisis makes her think that she’s already become one.

Youko is a nice girl who hates having to trouble others.

Thus it isn’t particularly rare for her to grow quiet and introspective even if she had been laughing and cheerful mere moments before. Her struggle to find herself and gather her feelings, whether they be about love or the future, have become a defining aspect of her interactions with others, and the substance of them suffer as a result.

While it may not be as obvious to some, it’s also pretty clear that she’s a massive geek, particularly towards sentai shows. There’s a childish enthusiasm to her love for the small things, but even despite her adoration she tends to refrain from showing it off to too many people. She doesn’t want to overwhelm others with her enthusiasm, and she tries her best to be interested in what her classmates like instead.

The sun is supposed to shine for everyone.

Esper Power: Level 3 - Seamstress
Wakahisa Youko is capable of producing ‘threads’ made up of whatever substance she has on hand, as well as manipulating them to carry out her will in a myriad of ways. Her production cares little for what the threads are made of, but her power works with greater ease the more flexible the substance is. The amount she can produce every day is limited to a tenth of her mass, and doing so is also particularly energy intensive, necessitating her to eat large portions. The maximum range for her control over the threads is a half-kilometre radius.

Skills: Well-educated and well-informed, Youko is a particularly knowledgeable individual (although you’re more likely to hear her spout trivia on kids’ tokusatsu shows), and also a very sharp student. She is proficient in cooking and sewing due to the lessons of her traditionalist mother, and is also quite familiar with first aid (having actually attended some classes on a whim with Hat-chan during middle school). She’s also decently athletic.

Ambition: Wakahisa Youko does not know who she is. She doesn't know what she wants to do with her life, how she should act around others. But she does know that she doesn't want to be the person she is right now; she wants to find a way to get past her complicated, adolescent emotions and to find herself. And so, she's following in the example of her friend, throwing herself into any activity that might give her some purpose.

Right now, that's helping out with costumes in some student theatrical production, because that's a way for her powers to be of some use, right?

Extra: She carries around a sewing kit everywhere she goes, as well as small camping medical kit in case of any issues. Youko’s fondness for reading also means that she can be found time to time with her nose in a book outdoors (such as when waiting for her tutor at cafes).

Final exam's in 31 hours (and finishes in 35 hours) and then I'll be fully available to get things started, so you folks want me to chuck an OOC up soonish?

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG] (New)

@Crusader Lord You could, but most of the time you'd probably be hanging with your fellow OCs.

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG] (New)

*sits in corner alone*

(T__T)

Haha, just kidding a bit there. But still this place looks cool for sure. ;)

@Crusader Lord

Hopefully it will be lol.

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG] (New)

I know I only said a few hours ago that I wanted in, but due to some sudden circumstancese, I'll have to withdraw that interest. Sorry ^_^;

@Yui

Don't worry, it's all g.