Silver Carrot

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

No that's okay. I was just clarifying

The Secret Lives Of Schoolteachers - A Magical Girl Mix-up RP

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Izumi sat on the sofa in the center of the teacher's lounge, using the coffee table as a desk for her laptop as she planned her lessons. She only stopped typing to take sips of the open can of energy drink beside her but her eyes never left the screen. The teaching part of this job itself was no problem to her. After dealing with corporate HR, the admin team, middle management and her old bosses, dealing with teenagers was easy. The challenge in her job came to lesson prep. She didn't want to put too much responsibility on the students to effectively teach themselves as this would only encourage shortcut finding and bad habits. But neither did she want them to only absorb what she told them without any critical thinking or understanding of the reasoning. It was her job to teach, not to shout out commands to a bunch of robots.

She greeted Kohaku with a 'morning' in return when she walked in, without looking up. It was only after the coffee machine spilled that Izumi's attention was snapped away from her lesson plans and back to reality, as she got up and helped Kohaku and Shinobu clean up the mess. Once the counter was clean, she returned to her seat and left Kohaku in Shinobu's care. She wuld be in good hands. Izumi knew from experience that Shinobu was very good at caring for the other teachers, and was always there for Izumi herself when she was having a bad week. Emiko arrived shortly after, who was another welcome ray of sunshine among the faculty. Though Izumi wouldn't call herself as grumpy as Amber or as cynical as Kohaku, she wasn't exactly the most exciting person either. Before Emiko arrived, most mornings in the faculty room passed with few if any spoken words. It was only during lunch break where they may have come alive and warmed up enough to have actual conversations. Yup, monday mornings especially were usually quiet and uneventful.

Izumi jumped when she heard the bang, and shut the laptop as she stood up to investigate. Her first thought was that make it was a bird, but the truth was far stranger. A little winged fairy! The sight right in front of her refused to sink in as reality and she stood and stared and watched as it spoke. She heard her colleagues react in various ways. Like her, most of them seemed more concerned about the message than about the fairy's existance, and Izumi got swept up in that. There would be time to think about a fairy existing later.

"Who's in trouble?" Izumi demanded. "And where are they?"

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

@Teyao

One question; is Lhoren's evolution just this ability, or does she have any range increase too?

Titans of Gotham

Natalie folded her arms as she listened to Animal Man's words. She felt prickly. There was a lot of things about this whole situation that were making her angry and she was making an active effort not to explode at somebody just trying to help. Still, she couldn't completely bite her tongue. She had to say something.

"Well, Oracle didn't see any need to rush to train us back when one of us was dead, the killer could have been trying to hunt the rest of us down and we were left on our own for a week. I can't believe it had to come to this before it was given priority either. But better late than never, I guess. I've been waiting to get some real training since I joined this team."

The Secret Lives Of Schoolteachers - A Magical Girl Mix-up RP

@shagranoz I love this character but do you know how [ img][ /img] works?

The Secret Lives Of Schoolteachers - A Magical Girl Mix-up RP

@geminironin The second idea reminds me of Naddy from 100 girlfriends. I think she's literally an English teacher too

The Secret Lives Of Schoolteachers - A Magical Girl Mix-up RP

Nōno Izumi

The Mundane

Name: Nōno Izumi

Age: 33

Regular Appearance:

Izumi

Subject: I.T.

Personality: Izumi does not have an excitable demeanour, instead being very casual and understated. She has an understated warmth to her when she talks. She rarely grins or laughs but always makes you feel welcome. She has a dry, cheeky wit that can match that of any troublesome student. Her in-depth knowledge of anime, video games and geek pop culture may also take many of her students by surprise, as her demeanor and style of dress are very demure, modest and unassuming. New students might even think she's going to be a boring and dry teacher the first time they take her class. But her spirit, passion and sincerity wins them all over in the end.

Bio: Izumi was a very bright student who had always been good with computers, owing to her nerdy passions necessating frequent and heavy usage. One of her particularly skilled hobbies was C++. So much so that in college she studied Network Administration for the sole reason that she didn't want to lose the joy of coding by having it be her gruelling day job.

At the age of 23, she graduated from college and went straight into an office job, being the floor I.T. Admin for the sales team of a big company. While not exactly a black company, Japanese workplace culture was rampant in that office. The more people stayed overtime to meet their deadlines, the more overyime she'd have to do becaue if the network went down, people couldn't do their jobs and she wasn't there, there would be hell to pay. And the more overtime became the norm, the more employees would stay, the more work for her.

It was when she was 29 that one of her friends from college wanted to catch up, and they compared lives, that Izumi woke up to what has happening. She wasn't having fun. She'd lost contact with her friends. She only saw her parents on holidays. She had never been on a single date since college. She barely had time for her hobbies anymore including coding, and most of her free time was spent idly scrolling her phone or watching television. 'recharging' was the term she used to justify a life where she was doing nothing constructive. Even at work, she never got thanked. The same problems came up over and over again with no end and people couldn't do their work, the blame was passed to her.

After this revelation, she quit her job and became an I.T. teacher. She has been working as a teacher for four years now and though it's certainly not easier, she finds it far more fulfilling. Just being able to ee the difference you're making, and being appreciated for it has hugely increased the quality of her life. Teaching basic code doesn't even feel like work to her and she relishes the opportunity to talk about it. She may still be called on if there is an I.T. problem in the school itself but she will always be thanked when she resolves the issue.

Other: Her fashion sense outside of school can range from casual t-shirt and jeans, to a more cosmopolitan brown coat, sweater, skirt, boots dark hose combination. Inside school, however, she almost seems to be dressing old on purpose, conforming to the idea of what 'teacher clothes' were when she was a teenager.

The Magical

Transformed Appearance:

Magical Girl Izumi

Weapon/Equipment/Magic: Izumi's equipment consists of four floating robots, a small tablet, and a visor and earpiece, all powered by her magic. The six robots take both her verbal and typed commands, and can both fire energy blasts as well as create personal forefields. Izumi can adjust their power output to either make their functions stronger, or to let them be used for longer periods of time albeit weaker. They can also work together to combine their beams into stronger ones, or chain their forcefields into a wider network of shields, protecting her or any human-sized target. Her earpiece can let her give commands to her robots as well as make or receive phonecalls. Her visor brings up a HUD display in her field of vision, and can scan or track targets.

The real bread and butter of her arsenal, however, is her tablet which is a magical supercomputer that lets her override the security of any other computer she can connect to the network of, as well as automatically creates a database of any enemy she scans, with any info she has managed to gather. It also lets her issue more complicated, written commands and subroutines to her robots.

Robot

Other: Izumi may be able to increase the number or size of the robots, as well as their max power output, as she becomes more accustomed to her transformations and grows in magical power. She will also need to figure most of these abilities out herself.

The Secret Lives Of Schoolteachers - A Magical Girl Mix-up RP

The Mundane

Name: Nōno Izumi

Age: 33

Regular Appearance:

Izumi

Subject: I.T.

Personality: Izumi does not have an excitable demeanour, instead being very casual and understated. She has an understated warmth to her when she talks. She rarely grins or laughs but always makes you feel welcome. She has a dry, cheeky wit that can match that of any troublesome student. Her in-depth knowledge of anime, video games and geek pop culture may also take many of her students by surprise, as her demeanor and style of dress are very demure, modest and unassuming. New students might even think she's going to be a boring and dry teacher the first time they take her class. But her spirit, passion and sincerity wins them all over in the end.

Bio: Izumi was a very bright student who had always been good with computers, owing to her nerdy passions necessating frequent and heavy usage. One of her particularly skilled hobbies was C++. So much so that in college she studied Network Administration for the sole reason that she didn't want to lose the joy of coding by having it be her gruelling day job.

At the age of 23, she graduated from college and went straight into an office job, being the floor I.T. Admin for the sales team of a big company. While not exactly a black company, Japanese workplace culture was rampant in that office. The more people stayed overtime to meet their deadlines, the more overyime she'd have to do becaue if the network went down, people couldn't do their jobs and she wasn't there, there would be hell to pay. And the more overtime became the norm, the more employees would stay, the more work for her.

It was when she was 29 that one of her friends from college wanted to catch up, and they compared lives, that Izumi woke up to what has happening. She wasn't having fun. She'd lost contact with her friends. She only saw her parents on holidays. She had never been on a single date since college. She barely had time for her hobbies anymore including coding, and most of her free time was spent idly scrolling her phone or watching television. 'recharging' was the term she used to justify a life where she was doing nothing constructive. Even at work, she never got thanked. The same problems came up over and over again with no end and people couldn't do their work, the blame was passed to her.

After this revelation, she quit her job and became an I.T. teacher. She has been working as a teacher for four years now and though it's certainly not easier, she finds it far more fulfilling. Just being able to ee the difference you're making, and being appreciated for it has hugely increased the quality of her life. Teaching basic code doesn't even feel like work to her and she relishes the opportunity to talk about it. She may still be called on if there is an I.T. problem in the school itself but she will always be thanked when she resolves the issue.

Other: Her fashion sense outside of school can range from casual t-shirt and jeans, to a more cosmopolitan brown coat, sweater, skirt, boots dark hose combination. Inside school, however, she almost seems to be dressing old on purpose, conforming to the idea of what 'teacher clothes' were when she was a teenager.

The Magical

Transformed Appearance:

Magical Girl Izumi

Weapon/Equipment/Magic: Izumi's equipment consists of four floating robots, a small tablet, and a visor and earpiece, all powered by her magic. The six robots take both her verbal and typed commands, and can both fire energy blasts as well as create personal forefields. Izumi can adjust their power output to either make their functions stronger, or to let them be used for longer periods of time albeit weaker. They can also work together to combine their beams into stronger ones, or chain their forcefields into a wider network of shields, protecting her or any human-sized target. Her earpiece can let her give commands to her robots as well as make or receive phonecalls. Her visor brings up a HUD display in her field of vision, and can scan or track targets.

The real bread and butter of her arsenal, however, is her tablet which is a magical supercomputer that lets her override the security of any other computer she can connect to the network of, as well as automatically creates a database of any enemy she scans, with any info she has managed to gather. It also lets her issue more complicated, written commands and subroutines to her robots.

Other: Izumi may be able to increase the number or size of the robots, as well as their max power output, as she becomes more accustomed to her transformations and grows in magical power. She will also need to figure most of these abilities out herself.

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

Lhoren Ashdale

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Day 1 ◈ Time: Evening ◈ Weather: Light Rain ◈Location: Harold's Academy, Main Ballroom ◈
Participants: Lhoren Ashdale @Silver Carrot, Sylvia Copeland @LuckyBlackCat, Myrion Stevar @Teyao, Fasha Sumbul
@jasbraq ◈ Mentioned: Anastasia Arslan @Ti, Leah Eusebia Clearwater @vietmyke

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Lhoren didn't quite know what the melody in the air was at first, but several dancers around her knew all too well. Lhoren felt her blood go cold. Her back was to the approaching Ni-Seraphi, but she looked straight ahead at Sylvia's face as her dance partner looked up in terror, and Lhoren heard every resulting thought of just exactly what Sylvia was seeing. Lhoren tried to make her body turn around, but she couldn't. She was frozen in fear.

"Listen carefully. The Hunting Melody of the Ni-Seraphi is exactly what you are hearing now. This is not a drill. Those monsters are here and will be at our doorstep any moment. Do what you can to prepare. We're initiating ESP. Remember your training. You know what to d--"

Lhoren had been listening intently to the message but there was a sudden rush of air followed by a crashing, and then everything went hazy. The panicked thoughts of the dancers around her falling were overwhelming her senses. She felt the wind rushing past her as she fell but couldn't even figure out which way up she was, or how high. Down was left? Up was north? Lhoren shut her eyes tight, braced for impact, and hoped the fall wouldn't hurt too much or break anything.

When she opened her eyes again, she was safe in Sylvia's arms. Her adreneline was pumping so hard it was making her dizzy, and the screaming thoughts of panic and horror around her were making it hard to concentrate, but she tried to shut it all out for the moment to focus on Sylvia.

"I'm not hurt. I don't think. Just....overwhelmed. Thank you for saving me," she replied, as she held onto Sylvia's shoulder for support as she got back on her own two feet. Sylvia could feel the hand on her shoulder shaking. This time, she genuinely didn't seem to notice any shapeshifting mishap at all. The girl who seemed to constantly see through Sylvia and read her like a book during their dance was now trembling like a leaf with wild, darting dilated eyes that could not seem to settle anywhere.

It was Ana's voice, followed by Leah's, cutting through the cocophany that snapped her out of her haze and brought focus back into her mind. That's right. They all needed to help. But Lhoren didn't have her rapier, and it likely wouldn't do much good against a Ni-Seraphi anyway.

Sylvia moved to join Leah's lines of defenders, and turned back to offer her hand to Lhoren. Lhoren considered carefully whether she was best suited to help, or whether there were other roles that she could be more useful in contributing to, such as rallying, or...

"Those with Recoinscense and Rescue abilities with me! We are going to make a sweep of the school for those who couldn't assist the ball!"

Lhoren turned to look. As well as Leah's lines of defenders, Mrion was calling for those more suited to recon. Lhoren turned back to Sylvia and shook her head.

"I'll only get in the way here. I don't know how I could help fighting against Ni-Seraphi. I'm going to help the Recon team sweep the school. Sylvia, good luck, and please don't get hurt."

Lhoren approached the small group surroinding Myrion, her nerves calming down now she was focused on a mission. Fasha, the Illuminaire for her house, was also there and offering to use her gift to herd people. Lhoren's mind started to explore the possibilites of using her gift in comjuction with Fasha's and how easy that could make rounding up any students unaccounted for.

"I'll help too!" she shouted as she jogged towards them. "I'll be able to find anyone within 20 feet of me even if they're not visible, as long as they're still thinking something."

The Secret Lives of Schoolteachers - A Magical Girl Mix-up RP

I am leaning towards the IT teacher, definitely. I know about IT, I love the Kobayashi/A-chan archetype, I like that kind of powerset where you can scream about "power output 70%" during a climactic battle as well as maybe even do some Sailor Mercury stuff on top of the Magilumiere stuff

Yeah, locking in IT