DruSM157

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Still working on my own character as well, trying to look at who all we have so far and what would be a good contrast. Still kind of want to do the Persona 2 thing and have an adult be a persona user.

Drew's testy place.

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Naoki Murata

_{“The sky is beautiful because it's free up there.”}

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Before being involved in the fatal train accident that would cost his life, Naoki Murata was a well-to-do engineering student at Kyoto University. He came from a relatively middle-class family, being the only child of an overworked salaryman father and a home-making mother. He participated in multiple clubs in school, excelling well in track and field and becoming vice-president of the science club at his high school. Naoki's major interest was in mechanical engines, and his desire was to design new kinds of electrical engines for various modes of transport. His greatest dream was to create a completely electric airplane.

For personality, Naoki is affable, albeit a bit unassuming. He is extremely conflict-avoidant and tends to shirk away from overbearing people. His best idea for resolving the tension between multiple people is to simply buy a nice bottle of whiskey and have everyone enjoy drinking together. He has never been in a fight before, and the idea of hurting another person causes him to freeze in anxiety.

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The body that Naoki inhabits is one of a young engineer enlisted in the royal engineer corps.

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Speaking of the yellow plague, my blonde priestess has had some edits. I didn't want her to be a first year so she is now older and still without a boyfriend. N-not that's any of your business!

@Inkarnate

the smell of desperation is strong on her

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@DruSM157

Carpe Diem is such a good album. Here's another famous Lotus Juice song!

@stone

One of my favorite JoJo songs!

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While we're at it, why not have some Lotus Juice/Shoji Meguro collaboration that wasn't used in a Persona game!

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I think I’m going to go with Galahad as my character’s Persona. Any objections to a Persona that manifests as a wearable piece/suit of armor? I can always have it just appear as an empty suit of armor behind her but I figured that I’d ask, since we’ve seen Personas can be more than just Stands.

@Turboshitter

I'd ask that they appear as a suit of armor. Even Personas that appear more than simple figures standing behind the character (for example Makoto's Johana motorcycle) are still complete physical beings.

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Aha, thank you but I really can't take too much credit seeing as I had to hit up the wiki to make sure I was thinking of the right move.

@Sarcelle Renard

There’s nothing wrong with consulting the wiki for stuff. I’m pretty open to most skills that appear in the persona series, including aqua and magna if someone wanted to bring one of those super old elements back.

speaking of which, @DruSM157, are we going with p3/p4 strike/slash/pierce and no nuke/psi/eiha/kouga? or p5 phys/gun + nuke/psi/eiha/kouga?

@stone

We’ll find our own groove when we see more character sheets. But I’m pretty open to most of the abilities and skills from the persona series, though since we’re not dealing with the metaverse in this rp, Gun skills wouldn’t be applicable (since getting a firearm in Japan is very difficult and impossible for high schoolers)

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Yaaaaaaas. Need to think of character concepts but some Personas that immediately come to mind could be Gilgamesh, Koschei the Deathless, Nicolas Flamel, Count of St. Germain, Cartaphilus, Galahad, Merlin, Sun Wukong, etc. Some of those are admittedly better than others because a couple of them didn't really seek their immortality quite as purposefully as others, but they're all ideas.

@Turboshitter

Some great ideas. Gilgamesh was one of the first ones I thought of with this theme.

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Alright how would you have me fix it then Hero? Just scrap the idea and make a whole new character? I'm asking genuinely not trying to be a smartass.

@vancexentan

This is your character and it's someone you should be happy roleplaying; that's first and foremost. Hero and my purpose for examining what you have is to see if they would be a good fit for the themes of the RP and if they would make an interesting dynamic with the other castmembers.

So if you want my ideas on how to narrow the character's focus, let's look at good character arc ideas and build from there. First: he's a rich kid; family owns a big corporation, there's a lot there. They have ties to the medical world and maybe he's invited by the school due to the research hospital's connections. He could be interested in new medical technologies and wants to make radical new changes to his family's corporation: whatever his goal is is important. And yes, we've looked at the backstory stuff you want to keep in the dark; which is fine. I think that kind of backstory feeds well into his desires and where he may go with the ideas of medicine.

Let's also take into account this: he grew up rich. That means that he misses out on things that 99% of kids do growing up, due to his status. Ultimately there is going to be a disconnect to what he knows about life and what others know, due to that gap in privilege. That leads to interesting character dynamics, as he may feel disconnected from the other members of the group because of this. It could also be a source of comedy as he struggles to understand the more "baser" things in life that aren't as cultured as his upbringing.

Again, none of this is me telling you how to make your character. That's your decision. But these are just ideas I had in mind on how to give your character more focus with their personality and backstory.

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@DruSM157Any comment on Allen? I already sent you the rest of his details via pm.

@vancexentan

Alright, I can give some initial impressions since you asked:

[*]The name: Evillious is a little on the nose. Look for other languages usage of evil to make a less "on the nose" last name. For example, "Malcio, Malumon," both use the romantic "malum" as a base (also seen in French, Italian and Spanish) for bad/evil.

[*]He's a North American, so why is he going to the school in Japan? If his family works in medicine, the connection to the Research Hospital would be good, so think about going further into that with your backstory. Is there anyone else who has influenced his life for this interest?

[*]Fencing as a sport is fine, but he shouldn't carry a practice sword anywhere but to practice. That's a good way to get in trouble, even in videogame based RP world.

[*]His Arcana is the Hierophant, which is interesting because he's fairly young. Usually, the Hierophant arcana would be an older figure. There's also a lot going on with his personality: mature and childishness is one I struggle with.

[*]I think the biggest issue with the CS is that right now it's unfocused. I'd suggest reworking the backstory and really looking at the personality to figure out how this character is.

There's still a lot of time to work on the CS, since the OOC has only been up for a few hours. Just take some time and look back over it to see what you really want to stand out about this character.