Mercurial

Shounen Battle School Anime RP - Institute for Young Channellers

Holy crap, this is the fastest paced int check I've seen in a while.

Still room for more, I hope?

Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP

"Well that's just it, officer..." Maiko began with a heavy sigh. "...'strange behaviour' was entirely in character for Masato. See, he was the kind of person that liked to do things to, uh, 'prove he could', if you take my meaning. It was almost as if he enjoyed making our folks worry. For instance, he once went into some dodgy nightclub, took pictures of it and everything, and then told dad exactly what he did. My dad's a real stodgy type, you see, so he knew it would tick him off to learn he went to some nutty place like that. It didn't even faze him when he got chewed out and punished for it." Maiko had a hundred and one anecdotes she could tell about her brother, but she imagined the detective didn't want to hear them all. Besides, talking at length about Masato would probably make her get all depressed.

"So yeah, he basically did things that would be considered weird like it was any old thing. He even kept checking that bloody app after the nuthouse content started showing up on it. He told me the images didn't bother him, and even claimed he'd seen worse. Not too sure about that though, considering what I'd heard. He was so sure they would fix it in a short while, like it was just some big prank that would blow over. Not long after, he up and vanished on us. You'd think it might help to know he went to strange places on a whim, but they checked around the city, and nobody saw him. Not one person. It's like he just vanished in the middle of the street somewhere. Poof! Gone in an instant!" She had gone over the events of the days surrounding his disappearance over and over in her own head. Even now, she couldn't think of a single thing that might actually explain where he went, or at least nothing they hadn't already looked into. Repeating it for the umpteenth time didn't help a lick.

Taking a deep breath, Maiko decided to wrap up her spiel. "That's really all I can think to say. Anything else would be speculation, and if you want that, I can just hand you one of these papers. It's really good speculation in our papers though, I'd recommend it over anything else!" Even if Hikaru wasn't interested, Maiko felt obligated to make a pitch for Mainichi.

@VitaVitaAR

Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP

As if her day couldn't get any weirder, Maiko was currently being interrupted by a police detective. But not just any police detective, but one Sasegawa Hikaru, the boy detective of some small fame. Maiko had a few friends that were already smitten with him. In fact, that was the whole reason she found out he existed; a whole lot of nattering gossip from her immediate social circle.

"Oh golly gee! The pretty boy detective is questioning me! My friends are going to be so jealous." She spoke in jest. Aside from the fact that she appreciated this meeting was almost certainly purely a matter of police business, she wasn't really all that fussed about Hikaru, unlike the rest. While it was curious to have a detective at their school, Maiko had never been one to swoon over random pretty boys. She was still going to tell certain people about this, if only to have a giggle at their reaction.

"I kid, I kid. But yeah, you can ask me whatever you want. But if it's about my brother, I don't know what I can tell you that we haven't repeated, like, a billion-trillion times now to just about everyone." Mostly it was her mom and dad doing the repeating, but she remembered that initial period after the disappearance all too well. She had heard the "basic facts" enough times to have them burned into her skull. She didn't know what Hikaru expected to learn from her, but she had no reason not to tell him whatever he wanted to hear.

@VitaVitaAR

Cloud✟Chasers [Fairy Tail AU]

To be honest, I have a lot going on right now. And it might be better for me to wait until the semester is over to seriously commit to an RP again.

I'm having a hard time juggling school work, professional work, and private life as-is, so my recreational hobbies have increasingly taken a backseat.

I'm gonna sit this one out for a little while. Once finals are over, I'll check in on you guys.

@BurningDaisies

Don't worry about it, nothing's happening here anyway.

Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP

After school, Maiko would always inevitably find herself at the local Mainichi Shinbun distributor. She worked there, after all, and she had a paper run to do today much like any other day, even if the city was going to hell in a handbasket. Strange Gospel had affected her life as much as anyone elses; more so in fact, as not everyone who had touched it had found their own family disappearing on them. But people were definitely disappearing, and stuff like that didn't go unnoticed.

Leaving her bike at the door, Maiko went in to her workplace, greeted by the familiar sight of one Mr. Kawachi, who was basically her boss. Before she started work, she always came in to chew his ear off for a while. "Heya, Mr. Kawachi. What's happening?"

"What do you think?" He held up a copy of the paper, the latest issue to be printed. "Strange Gospel. Everyday, Strange Gospel makes headlines. You'd think it was the only thing happening in the world."

"Well, it is super serious business, sir..." She had told him about what happened to her brother.

"Yeah, I know." He sighed. "I dunno, it used to be these things would resolve themselves eventually, but despite how long this has been going on, nobody seems to know the first thing about it. Even these stories are mostly scuttlebutt. I just wish something will be done about it sometime soon."

"You and me both, sir."

"Yeah....something up with you, Maiko? You don't look as chipper as usual."

"Oh, uh, I guess I'm just feeling a little tired lately." That wasn't entirely true, however. Even with her brother's disappearance, she had been keeping up her regular schedule without missing a beat. Anyone that knew her knew how full of energy she could be. But on today of all days, she had fallen asleep at school. She never slept at school, even when she was bored stiff. Not to mention there was that wacky dream she had, which was the same dream she had many times before. More than feeling tired, she felt worried. Like something weird was happening to her. "Surely there's something else in the good ol' Mainichi?" She asked, trying to change the subject.

"Eh, there's the usual about politics and war and climate change. Well, there is a local story that's worth a laugh..." He pointed to the story in question. "'Mysterious trench-coat girl seen again!' Honestly, who cares about a random girl wearing a trench-coat running around? It's like they felt they had to write about something other than Strange Gospel just to pretend there's something else going on. It's stupid, I tell you."

"Haha, yeah, that's weird." Maiko had heard about this one. She had to agree that she couldn't see why anyone would raise a fuss about one person. "Anyway, I guess I had better get to work. See ya later, sir!" She grabbed her delivery bag and made her way to leave.

"See ya...and be careful! Goodness knows there was enough reason to worry on the streets before." Maiko could guess Mr. Kawachi was talking about the disappearances. Between Strange Gospel and these weird dreams, Maiko did worry she was going to go the same way as her brother. Sometimes she cursed herself for having too strong a work ethic not to just go home and lay low. All she could do was try and get her run done faster than ever.

Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP

Maiko

Name: Umeda Maiko
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Appearance:

Hider

Personality: Maiko is a spirited and energetic young woman. She has a real get up and go attitude and a drive to work hard and play harder. For her, work is less about earning a pay check and more about doing her part for the people around her, like her family. However, she has become quite invested in her current line of work and wishes to pursue it further in the future, even if it’s not terribly prestigious. While far from intentionally careless, Maiko favours a highly direct approach to any task given to her, preferring to just try and get the job done rather than find some subtle third way of succeeding. If at first she doesn’t succeed, she will simply throw herself at the problem until it is solved, whether there might be a more efficient way or not.

Maiko is prone to speaking plainly with people. While not necessarily rude, she tends not to indulge in formalities and will often speak with far too much familiarity with people she really shouldn’t. She often assumes a certain level of friendship with the people she meets, even if they’ve hardly begun to approach any real sense of camaraderie. Unless met with explicit hostility, she will carry on acting as if she’s great friends with anyone she has made an acquaintance of, and even if met with hostility, she won’t stop pestering them. As far as she sees it, an enemy is just a friend that hasn’t learned to like you yet, and they will with enough hard work and effort.

Skills: Maiko has always been a semi-athletic sort. She is hardly a professional, but she took to riding a bike from an early age and she continues to ride hers extensively, especially as her bike is integral to her part-time job. Her legs are basically her number one tool of her trade, and she is well suited to moving swiftly as a result. Maiko also happens to possess a wide variety of general knowledge on a number of subjects due to doing a whole lot of random reading. However, this is all fairly inconsequential knowledge, and nothing that has ever given her more than a bunch of random facts to throw into conversations.

Equipment: Just a phone for her own purposes. Coming from a mildly technophobic family, she doesn’t use it as extensively as others.

Soul Arts: Gale Force: This art allows Maiko to create forceful gusts of wind to either assault an enemy with or to propel herself, and make concentrated slashing attacks. At the moment, the strength of these gales doesn’t amount to much more than a fairly strong push, and the slash attacks are only mildly more powerful than, say, a regular steel blade. Maiko’s chip slots into her left thigh.

Brief Backstory: Maiko is the daughter of a local office head for the Mainichi Shinbun. Her father ushered her into her current part time job of delivering newspapers as well as impressing upon her his own respect for the written word. Having seen the decline of interest in newspapers and reading around the world, Maiko’s father has always been invested in trying to promote the use of traditional media, and no one more than his own family knew how hard he pushed the stuff. Where others might have received the latest trendy gizmos and gadgets, Maiko got books, books, and more books. The only reason she even got a phone was because her mother insisted she needed to be contactable in an emergency. Last year was the first time their house ever had a t.v., and that was only because her older brother saved up enough to buy a cheap one. He was only allowed to keep it after having a lengthy argument with their father.

Maiko was a little hesitant to even try the Strange Gospel app, knowing her father would have a fit if she used her phone for anything unnecessary. However, her brother, ever defiant, decided to make use of it, and she did so too in secret. Of course, the moment the creepy stuff started, Maiko immediately stopped using it. Her brother didn’t, thinking it was just the work of some punk hacker and would be corrected eventually. He disappeared one day like some of the others that used it, and now Maiko wonders just what became of him.

Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP

@Mercurial: That's fine, as long as it's not hugely powerful to start with.

@VitaVitaAR

Edited something in. I assume it's okay like this?

Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP

@Mercurial: She's pretty much entirely fine, but do keep in mind we'll be using Soul Arts to fight monsters, so if you have an offensive one you might want it to be a little bit stronger so it can hurt them more.

Unless you plan on having her improvise weapons until it gets strong enough.

@VitaVitaAR

Is something like this alright?

Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP

Finally finished.

Maiko

Name: Umeda Maiko
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Appearance:

Hider

Personality: Maiko is a spirited and energetic young woman. She has a real get up and go attitude and a drive to work hard and play harder. For her, work is less about earning a pay check and more about doing her part for the people around her, like her family. However, she has become quite invested in her current line of work and wishes to pursue it further in the future, even if it’s not terribly prestigious. While far from intentionally careless, Maiko favours a highly direct approach to any task given to her, preferring to just try and get the job done rather than find some subtle third way of succeeding. If at first she doesn’t succeed, she will simply throw herself at the problem until it is solved, whether there might be a more efficient way or not.

Maiko is prone to speaking plainly with people. While not necessarily rude, she tends not to indulge in formalities and will often speak with far too much familiarity with people she really shouldn’t. She often assumes a certain level of friendship with the people she meets, even if they’ve hardly begun to approach any real sense of camaraderie. Unless met with explicit hostility, she will carry on acting as if she’s great friends with anyone she has made an acquaintance of, and even if met with hostility, she won’t stop pestering them. As far as she sees it, an enemy is just a friend that hasn’t learned to like you yet, and they will with enough hard work and effort.

Skills: Maiko has always been a semi-athletic sort. She is hardly a professional, but she took to riding a bike from an early age and she continues to ride hers extensively, especially as her bike is integral to her part-time job. Her legs are basically her number one tool of her trade, and she is well suited to moving swiftly as a result. Maiko also happens to possess a wide variety of general knowledge on a number of subjects due to doing a whole lot of random reading. However, this is all fairly inconsequential knowledge, and nothing that has ever given her more than a bunch of random facts to throw into conversations.

Equipment: Just a phone for her own purposes. Coming from a mildly technophobic family, she doesn’t use it as extensively as others.

Soul Arts: Gale Force: This art allows Maiko to create forceful gusts of wind to either assault an enemy with or to propel herself, and make concentrated slashing attacks. At the moment, the strength of these gales doesn’t amount to much more than a fairly strong push, and the slash attacks are only mildly more powerful than, say, a regular steel blade. Maiko’s chip slots into her left thigh.

Brief Backstory: Maiko is the daughter of a local office head for the Mainichi Shinbun. Her father ushered her into her current part time job of delivering newspapers as well as impressing upon her his own respect for the written word. Having seen the decline of interest in newspapers and reading around the world, Maiko’s father has always been invested in trying to promote the use of traditional media, and no one more than his own family knew how hard he pushed the stuff. Where others might have received the latest trendy gizmos and gadgets, Maiko got books, books, and more books. The only reason she even got a phone was because her mother insisted she needed to be contactable in an emergency. Last year was the first time their house ever had a t.v., and that was only because her older brother saved up enough to buy a cheap one. He was only allowed to keep it after having a lengthy argument with their father.

Maiko was a little hesitant to even try the Strange Gospel app, knowing her father would have a fit if she used her phone for anything unnecessary. However, her brother, ever defiant, decided to make use of it, and she did so too in secret. Of course, the moment the creepy stuff started, Maiko immediately stopped using it. Her brother didn’t, thinking it was just the work of some punk hacker and would be corrected eventually. He disappeared one day like some of the others that used it, and now Maiko wonders just what became of him.

Strange Gospel: An Urban Fantasy RP Interest Check and Signups

I'll jump on board too.