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Revelation Heart : A Yu-Gi-Oh Roleplay

Sorry for the delay in posting, everyone.
IRL issues are a bitch.

Revelation Heart : A Yu-Gi-Oh Roleplay

«♢◈❖⧰ Adrian ⧰❖◈♢»

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Waves gently crashed against the side of the ship. That alone was enough to bring back dark memories. Head laid in his hands, a somewhat bulky figure, notably out of place compared to his peers, mulls over why it had to be a damn boat to bring them here. Even without the grim reminder of his purpose for coming, he had issues with seasickness. His stomach churned, as if to echo the sentiment. Still... it'd be over soon. Lifting his head to look out the nearby window greets him with a stunning view of the coastline. Japan. It'd be a hard time adjusting, but the fact that he was headed anywhere was a miracle in his eyes. He clutched the letter in his right hand tightly. It was his only possession other than his wallet, a backpack with some necessities, and the clothes on his back - and arguably, the most important one of the four.

"I guess this is it..."

...a chance to finally put this curse to rest. The infernal card glared at him from its place on the desk. Not for much longer, he thought. ...He hoped.

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Adrian had managed to get lost several times on his journey from touching down to getting to the actual school. He didn't have the head for written Japanese, so even with the help of some very generous passers-by willing to give him detailed directions, he'd ended up taking a few wrong turns here, a few trains in the opposite direction there... but regardless, he eventually made it. The sleek, academic structure in front of him was a comforting sight to behold, when he finally found it. He was already late as it was, though, so he had no time to catch his breath out front. Someone his age and size, out of uniform and panting heavily, caught the attention of quite a few students.

"...Hey. You're not the new janitor, are you?", came a voice from somewhere in the back of the small crowd of faces staring at him. He was obviously out of place.

"N-no, uhh... heh... I'm just... hooo... oh boy... here for the entrance exams", Adrian managed to gasp out, bent over, holding his knees and trying to regain some level of composure.

There were snickers. Laughs. Even a pointed finger or two from some of the less subtle girls. But sure enough, another voice piped up. "Third floor, bud. Out back. Can't miss it." The muttering among the rest of the students continued, but he wouldn't be deterred. Couldn't be. Not yet, anyway.

"Thanks!", he proclaimed loudly, before starting to make his way towards the duel field. The crowd didn't disperse until he'd already pushed his way through them and continued onward. Heads continued to turn the rest of the way there. He wondered what kind of rumours people must be coming up with already, and he hadn't even played his first duel. "Ugh..." That was a reminder. He was anxious as hell about the actual test. He'd scraped and scrounged and even scavenged for cards to try and put together a deck that was even half-playable - but he'd been out of the game for so long, he really didn't have much in the way of options. Too bad he'd lost all his other cards behind that day in the river... They'd probably long been washed out to sea.

"Tch," Adrian muttered, looking at the Dokuroiso in his other hand. "Why couldn't it have been ANY other card that decided to follow me around?" Proceeding up the stairs, he found himself alone - aside from a young secretary, who was presumably keeping track of proceedings. He smiled at her, and she smiled back. He attempted to head through into the duel arena, and she looked incredibly surprised, standing up in a very flustered manner and babbling out that there were exams in progress and he couldn't just barge in there. Embarassed, he fumbled a quick apology, and explained that that's why he was here. She blinked more than a few times in apparent confusion, but nonetheless took down his details, and informed him of who his examiner was, and where to go to face them. He nodded, somberly, and thanked her, before heading through.

Heading to his quarter of the duel arena, he spotted a few other would-be students dotted around the seating, but the crowds were certainly thinning. Wether that was a reflection on his tardiness or the school's popularity, he wasn't sure. "Well," he gave a wry chuckle. "I guess this is it, then." Casting a quick gaze around the area, wondering who he could talk to to pass the time before it was his turn, he eventually settled on an extremely tired-looking fellow with messy black hair in the front row. "Hey there!" The boy seemed startled, perhaps even irritated by his presence - but he didn't object. That was plenty enough for Adrian to take a seat beside him.

He looked out onto the duel field in nervous anticipation. Seemed like someone was already dueling his examiner. Mikia Strusse. She certainly didn't sound Japanese. Like he was one to talk. Although, judging by the look of her current challenger, he felt he might not be waiting long. A young, bright-haired thing with looks of steel - it felt like she was going to drill a hole through the teacher with her gaze alone! If that kind of intensity was the competition he was up against... ugh. He could feel a pit in his stomach welling up. She even had her own duel disk. Must be nice. He'd have to use one of the rentals, like the joke he was. But surely someone with that kind of fire in their eyes could have some tips for him... Maybe he could catch her on the way back. In the meantime, he'd sit back, enjoy the match, and make one-sided conversation with his new and incredibly silent neighbour.

Revelation Heart : A Yu-Gi-Oh Roleplay

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Revelation Heart : A Yu-Gi-Oh Roleplay

Adrian Amore

Name
Adrian Amore

Age
19

Appearance


Personality
Open, friendly, and as thick as a sack of hammers, Adrian is the kind of guy that'll fight for you even if he doesn't know what he's supposed to be fighting, or why. Rambunctuous, excitable, and loyal to a fault, he has a bad habit of acting on impulse and often gets himself into trouble. He's not the brightest, which makes him easy to manipulate, but he makes up for it in wit, passion, honesty and a strong sense of justice. The idea of betraying someone is an alien concept to him, and while he gives his trust quite easily, it's very difficult to reclaim once lost.

History
Adrian was a less-than-stellar student from a less-than-well-off family even at the best of times, but he got by. He had friends, family, decent food, a part-time job, a place to stay, and even somehow managed to barely pass most of his exams. Sure, he wasn't the greatest duelist, and his academic ability left a lot to be desired, but his life was good enough as far as he was concerned, and so he maintained an indominably upbeat attitude.

That all changed when he opened a seemingly normal booster pack - something he saved up for every month with what little money he had left over, in the hopes of improving his terribly subpar deck - to find that it contained only a single card. Dokuroizo. The Grim Reaper. A feeling of dread washed over him at that moment, and he could feel the chilling aura of a bad omen radiating from this anomalous card. But... that sort of thing wasn't real, right? Just a weird mistake. Nothing to worry about.

He went home. Added the weird card to his collection, and went to bed, thinking nothing more of it. And yet, the next day, going through his deck before a duel... there it was, mixed in among the other cards. Unusual. Discarding it onto the table, it got left there, and eventually forgotten in the heat of the game. Later on, someone tried to return it to him, but he told them to keep it. But he guessed they didn't want it either, as it turned up in his locker later on. An odd string of coincidences, but nothing too alarming, even if the card itself was creepy. Tossing it carelessly into a dumpster behind the school before heading home, he tried to push the whole strange day out of his mind.

And yet, when he got home, and emptied his bag... there it was. Mixed in among his schoolbooks and other cards. Had he somehow forgotten to get rid of it? Or had it managed to end up in his bag again through sheer chance? That didn't make sense, but he was prone to making these kinds of mistakes, so he grimaced, reprimanding himself for his absent-mindedness. The card was promptly thrown away again, this time out a window. Homework was done, dinner was cooked and eaten, and just as he was preparing to retire for the day- there it was. In his room. Lying on his desk. He was starting to feel unnervingly paranoid about the situation...

One more time, away it went. Into the trash. And making sure it stayed in there this time. That should have been enough to forget about the whole thing, and get a good night's sleep. Instead, Adrian was tormented by a strange nightmare - this ghostly specter of death, looming over him. Taunting him. Haunting him. He awoke with a start, wide-eyed and covered in a panicked sweat, and could sleep no longer. Not until he checked. His deck. His cards. Among them, an intruder. Dokuroizo. How? Why? Why was this card following him relentlessly? This thought burrowed its way firmly into his mind. Days, and then weeks passed. Attempts would be made to dump the card. To hand it off. Destroy it. Trade it, sell it, even just leave it at home for a day. Every time, somehow or another, the damn thing would find a way to follow him. In his bag, his books, his locker, his bed, his clothes - more than once it had even been returned to him by friends, shopkeepers, teachers, his own family...

Fine. If the card was following him so badly, it clearly wanted to be played. And so, to put the damn thing out of its misery, that was what he did. He challenged a friend to a duel. Outside of school. By the old bridge, away from prying eyes. And he played his card. Dokuroizo. The Reaper. Almost immediately, he felt as though he had made a mistake. Like the world had gotten colder, and time had stopped. His friend seemed not to notice, but was acting nervously. Surely he knew something. He had to, right? He wasn't going crazy. It was the card. It was going to do something.

Adrian didn't win that duel. He didn't have to.
His friend, caught off-guard to begin with by the strange shift in attitude from someone he cared about, freaked out when Adrian lunged towards him, demanding information he didn't have. He took a wide step backwards, lost his balance. And plummeted into the river. Adrian came to his senses, and searched desperately for something to use to help his friend. After a few frenzied seconds that may as well have been an eternity, he knew he had to take matters into his own hands. He lept into the river and attempted to pursue his friend. Swam with all his power, clawing at the water like a deranged animal, to try and catch up with the limp body floating downstream in the current. After what felt like years, he managed to grab on to his clothing. Tangled up in the current, he pushed to try and make it to the river bank with the drowned weight in his arms. Body on the verge of collapse, he dragged them both up the rocks. But it had been too late. His friend did not get up. Not out of the water. Not after CPR. Not when the paramedics arrived.

His world was shattered. His friend was dead. His friend was dead. By his own hand? No. That card had killed someone. Not him. He started to spiral out, wracked with both guilt and grief. He started losing sleep. Avoiding people. Eating less and flunking classes. His attendance suffered. Became overcome with paranoia and lost his job. He even started hallucinating the damn thing was talking to him. But that was impossible. He might have been going crazy, but even he knew that much. One, two, three years went by. The scars never went away. Not the mental pain, the wounds on his arms, or that godforsaken reminder of what had happened. No matter what he tried. Boxing. Alcohol. Skipping town. There was no escaping that day.

But... maybe he could at least put things to rest. Make sure it didn't happen to anyone else. If he could get into a good duel school... well, if anyone would know about weird cards, it would be them. So maybe. Just maybe. They could help him get rid of this one. His grades were in shambles, he had to build a new deck out of leftover cards, and everyone avoided him when he returned, but... he finished school. Pulling all-nighters for months on end, and even cheating on some tests, but he did it. Passed just enough of his classes so that he went on to graduate, and then applied to every single option he had.

There was only one response.
But that would be enough.

All I Have

Monsters
Dragon Horn Hunter x 1
Overdrive x 1
Lord of the Lamp x 1
Moon Envoy x 1
Guardian of the Labyrinth x 1
Invader from Another Dimension x 1
Blocker x 1
Mystical Elf x 1
Protector of the Throne x 1
Dokuroizo the Grim Reaper x 1
Hurricail x 1
Monster Egg x 1
Mystical Capture Chain x 1
Firegrass x 1
Petit Dragon x 1
Curtain of the Dark Ones x 1
Hinotama Soul x 1
Oppressed People x 1
Change Slime x 1
Left Leg of the Forbidden One x 1
Mokey Mokey x 1
Zushin the Sleeping Giant x 1
Knight of the Red Lotus x 1
Dawnbreak Gardna x 1
Emissary of the Afterlife x 1
Man-Thro' Tro' x 1
Mystical Sheep #1 x 1
Spirit Caller x 1
Woodland Sprite x 1
Monster Eye x 1
Golden Ladybug x 1
Skull Guardian x 1

Spells
Enchanting Fitting Room x 1
Mooyan Curry x 1
Natural Tune x 1
Polymerization x 1
Sparks x 1
Tri-Wight x 1
White Elephant's Gift x 1
Novox's Prayer x 1
Order to Charge x 1
Deck Lockdown x 1
Dust Barrier x 1
Heart of the Underdog x 1
Two-Man Cell Battle x 1
Broken Bamboo Sword x 1
Lucky Iron Axe x 1
Sword of the Soul-Eater x 1
Symbols of Duty x 1

Traps
Common Charity x 1
Justi-Break x 1
Magical Hats x 1
Order to Smash x 1
Phantasm Spiral Power x 1
Attack of the Cornered Rat x 1
Birthright x 1
Copy Knight x 1
Dwimmered Magicite x 1
Human-Wave Tactics x 1
Safe Zone x 1

Extra Deck
Soul Hunter x 1
Giltia the D. Knight x 1
Darkfire Dragon x 1
Kamionwizard x 1
Charubin the Fire Knight x 1
Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth x 1
Scrap Archfiend x 1

Ace Monster
Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth

Revelation Heart : A Yu-Gi-Oh Roleplay

[moved because whoops I guess?]

Revelation Heart : A Yu-Gi-Oh Roleplay

So if I'm not mistaken there's currently one more free slot?
Or are you full by now?

Well, hey there.

can confirm, am that friend

@Ammokkx

Can confirm, him that friend.

Well, hey there.

Thanks for the welcome, @Glyph. 👍
Nice that there's a tag system. Can't say I've seen that before.
Now I wonder if my old friend spoiler-in-spoiler works around here.
If it does, then we'll really be cooking...

Well, hey there.

I'll be honest, its been a dogs age since I've even been on a forum.
I was referred here by a friend who said I might be interested, so I'm sure we'll get on well enough.
I'll look forward to getting aquianted with you all in due time, in any case.

I guess it's probably worth noting that I used to be a fairly prolific forum game creator, so even if I'm a bit out of practice at this stage, I'm sure you'll see me in there throwing around interesting but ultimately unpolished ideas sooner or later.