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Closed.

Count me in. Though I do have to ask, is there going to be a main storyline, or is it just gonna be a bunch of teenagers doing teenager stuff?

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@Boomrocker

I assumed that since you joined this RP, you'd be familiar with a long running anime such as Naruto. For the record, I'm not accusing you of plagiarism or anything. It's just an observation I made.

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@Shisa Crocodavid seems like a brand of cereal.

By the way, am I the only one who noticed that El Ruidoso and Augur are near perfect expies of Rock Lee and Shikamaru. One is extremely energetic, has no real powers, values training and honorable fights. The other is extremely smart, an excellent strategist (in the case of Augur, it seems to be implied) and also lazy.

One could also argue that my character could be a male expy of Sakura, what with all the anger management issues and what not, but I drew more inspiration from Shizuo of Durarara!

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@RoflsMazoy I fixed the part about the Fighter Club.

And,

He pulled the cellphone out of his ear and glared at it for a split second, before taking a deep breath and violently slamming it down the tiles, effectively shattering it to pieces.

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The phone did break.

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Posted. I apologize if the post doesn't match your standards. I was trying to launch at least something in before you guys flipped onto the next page.

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Just outside of the boxing gym stood Raymond, who desperately tried to ignore the commotion going inside by pressing his phone harder to his right ear, while he stuck his finger in his left. There was literally no spot around the school where one could have a decent phone conversation. There were either fights going on or there were the overzealous students who were thinking of enlisting in this famous tournament. Even in the dorms, which were supposed to be private shelters, you'd be waken up at 3 a.m by someone enthusiastically shouting his name or listing all his daily achievements. It was a place even Willy Wonka would brand as weird.

Following a succession of beeps, a voice was heard on the other end of the line. "Yo, Ray!", the man pronounced excitedly, hints of an Asian accent detected. While initially not vocal about it, Ray was seemingly pissed off by the man's buoyant attitude. He went silent for a while, before echoing the man's word back as loudly as possible "Yo Ray? YO RAY?!" His facial expression got ugly by the second, and his tone got so intense that a vein bulged out of his head. He then proceeded:

"You leave me in this god forsaken place and YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO BE ALL CHEERY WHEN I CALL YOU?!"

"What's wrong, son?", the man, now revealed to be Ray's father, Yosuke, replied after a brief intermission, his tone now showing concern instead of optimism. While he would never admit, Yosuke's happiest day was the day his son joined Kagetora. He was so committed to creating a decent human being out of his son that both he, and his wife, forgot to live their own lives. Even now, when they had the chance, their misfit son was going to keep bothering them. He was understandably concerned.

"I thought you'd like the place. I thought it would be like home to you", he continued.

"NOTHING in this place even slightly resembles home. People fight here for no reason, and most of them are way out of my league. Heck, there is one who is rumored to be a God of sorts. A God, Yosuke!", Raymond exclaimed, stepping a few feet away from the Boxing gym due to the noise becoming significantly louder.

"Good, right? You'll finally put your abilities to a test.", Yosuke said.

"Did you even hear a word I said?! This place isn't like any other High School! Besides, I thought you wanted me to stop fighting once and for all.", Raymond shot back, visibly annoyed by how lightly his father treated the entire situation.

"I-I've changed my mind", Yosuke stammered. "Turns out some people have made careers off your back. Besides, can you guarantee me that you'll stop punching people if I pull you out of there?"

His father's last sentence proved to be an armor-piercing question for Raymond. Surely, he would never cease fighting, not with his current mindset. To be clear, Raymond was not someone who would beat people indiscriminately. He just had a very short fuse and, much to his dismay, there were plenty of assholes who were willing to light that fuse. His parents made no mistakes either. His father was retired, so he spent a lot of time with him, while his mother had nothing to give him but love. They had enough money to fulfill all of his childhood wishes, and everything was dandy. That is, up until he reached seven years old. That's when something clicked on his head and he became the violence obsessed yellow haired monster he is now.

After a silence, which appeared to last for ages, when in reality it was merely seconds, Raymond spoke, his tone getting calmer. "No, I can't.", he lowered his head in desperation, almost as if submitting to his fate, when something in his head popped. "Wait, wait, hold on a minute! What do you mean with 'people made careers off your back?"

"Oh yeah, remember Timothy? The guy you beat up in Elementary because he gave you an origami rose, and you considered that to be an insult to your manhood? He actually became an anti-Bullying advocate, and is holding awareness tours throughout schools in England.", Yosuke recapped.

Raymond raised his head up, still holding his phone against his ears. "Timothy, Timothy..", he couldn't quite recall who the kid was. There were a lot of guys called Timothy who fell prey to his wrath, but only one flamboyant enough to give the guy with the worst impulse control an origami flower. Truthfully, even Ray was of the opinion that Tim didn't deserve the punishment he got, but he was still a kid back then. His anger wasn't as refined as now.

As soon as he visualized the kid's face, Ray nodded to no one in particular, glad that he could remember one of his victims. Well, as glad as a socipath can be. Then something dawned on him. "I'm certain I broke Timothy's jaw, though. How the hell can one speak in front of people with a broken jaw?"

Yosuke snickered, a snicker which then would evolve into a faint colorless laugh. "Y-yeah, you're not wrong. I've heard his sister does the speaking, and he writes the speeches.", the man stammered.

"Oh.", Ray replied, only now realizing that his Dad was trying to avoid the main topic. With that in mind, he decided to get them back on track. "So, what's it gonna be? You gonna pull me out of here, or leave me here to deal with these rejected Cirque du Soleil mascots?"

"Sorry buddy, but I can't. You left me with only two choices; a teenage correctional facility or this school. This seemed like the best option. Try and have fun while you're at it, join these clubs, kick somebody's ass and who knows, you might even make friends. And when the time comes that I'm sure you're past those violent outbursts, I'll come by myself and take you home. I promise.". Finishing his final pronouncement, Yosuke hung up the phone, leaving a distraught Ray with the typical beeping sound that the phone makes. He pulled the cellphone away from his ear and glared at it for a split second, before taking a deep breath and violently slamming it down the tiles, effectively shattering it to pieces.

"GODDAMMIT!", no longer withholding himself back, Ray shouted as much as his vocal chord would allow it. This had never happened before. He had this deep rooted feeling on his heart that he was unwanted by his parents, but he always convinced himself otherwise. Now though, it was painfully obvious.

Sliding with his back down the wall, on the verge of tears, he took a seated position on the ground and decided to assess his situation. He was a freshman, with no friends and a school where simply beating people to assert dominance wasn't an option - in other words, a fish out of water. There were clubs he could join, but most of the clubs didn't suit his style. He disliked guns, he hated boxing mainly for promoting fairness in a fight, his skills as an archer were lackluster and he considered cooking to be a waste of time. The only club that would fit him was the Fighting Club, but that one was too chaotic for his tastes. His only option left; The Kagetora Rumble. That was where he could prove his might.

TL;DR - Ray asks his Dad to get him out of the school via phone call, he refuses, Ray slams the phone down and decides to participate in the Kagetora Rumble

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Great!

I'll get myself familiarized with the current events, and then once that's done, I'll launch a post.

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Name: Raymond Sakamura

Appearance:

"Raymond" [+]

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Year Level: 1st Year

Faction/Club: Unaffiliated (for now)

Power: - Inhuman agility and dexterity - while it's still unknown if there is a hereditary factor involved in his powers, what truly makes Ray unique from the rest of the fighters is that he has no real, distinct powers. If observed closely however, his fighting skills do have traits that don't show in your average joe, such as his ability to change positions and move freely while mid-air, allowing him to dodge projectiles and so forth. His erratic movements also allow him to be extremely unpredictable and, coupled with his unmatched speed, grant the young Sakamura the ability to deliver fatal blows and finish the battle in record time.

That being said, with powers come weaknesses. While he is very good at pinning down an opponent in a fair fight, he has trouble keeping up with those who employ long range attacks. He is also rather fragile. If you're skilled enough to pin him down, you might knock him out with a few nicely timed hits. Good luck with that, tho'.

As for his fighting style, Sakamura is self-taught and as such uses no single type of martial art. Rather, his style is comprised of several different arts such as Krav Maga, Jiu Jitsu and Pencak Silat, all moves he has learned by watching different action films. His execution is flawed, but the blows he delivers are lethal nonetheless, courtesy of his physical blessing. In most battles, he goes with a hit-and-dodge tactic, unwilling to let himself be cornered by his adversary.

"Biography" [+]

Biography: Born to Yosuke Sakamura and Elisabeth Payne - Sakamura.

Raymond's father, Yosuke, was a world renowned Japanese athlete who was the main representative of his country during the World Olympics. As such, Ray grew into a fairly rich family. Following his son's birth, Yosuke decided to move into his wife's hometown, England, specifically London, and planned to stay there permanently, considering England to be a better place to raise a child than Japan. He was quite wrong.

It was at the age of eight that young Sakamura began to exhibit behaviors unusual for a kid. He wasn't bringing any friends from school, he was eerily quiet everytime he was around the house, and he spent most of his spare time locked up in his room. Suspicious, Yosuke decided to go out one day and visit his son at the local playground, after his wife told him that that's where he could be. What he saw that day completely changed how he viewed his son.

There was sweet, young Raymond, dragging a screaming boy by his wrists, as a little raven haired girl lied down in the ground, sobbing and bleeding a few feet away from him. He then proceeded to stomp the little boy to smithereens as his cries for help became muffled following each stomp. Sure, there was a desperate offensive launched by the other boys who were his age, but he just shook them off like they were a minor nuisance. Appalled by his son's display of brute strength, Yosuke barged in and managed to calm the beast down before his beatdown turned into murder. Turned out that wasn't Ray's first temper tantrum. There was a couple more of them which ended terribly, with both the other students and the school's staff receiving gut wrenching injuries. Upon being briefed of his son's shenanigans, the former athlete took measures almost immediately, but his measures proved to be fairly ineffective. His appointment with a famous therapist ended with said therapist having his ear bitten off. They also tried to hire a witch doctor, believing his bursts of anger to be related to witchcraft, but the entire practice was interrupted after the shack inexplicably was caught on fire. And let's not even talk about that time he killed the neighbor's dog after he caught him take a leak on his yard. Long story short, the kid was pure evil and after a while, even Yosuke threw his hands in the air and gave up. His last resort was to take him back to Japan, believing that their strict practices would somehow heal him.

During his time in Japan, Raymond's outbursts didn't get any better. They had to move different cities, regions and thus change schools on several occasions. He never got the chance to make any friends. However, one day, as Yosuke was driving to get him to his school, he observed as he dismantled six attackers, possibly people he's pissed off, with relative ease. That is when he realized that not only was he an abusive jerk, he was extremely good at delivering said abuse. So, seeing as his thirst for violence couldn't be quenched, he decided to enroll him in an ever growing high school that promoted violence, holding onto the hope that if he meets a fighter more formidable than him, then he'll learn to bow his head down.

Score: 1000
Dorm: C-Tier

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I seem to be awfully late for this, but is there an opening? 'Cause I really like the concept and I haven't joined an RP in a while.

E: You know what? I'll just throw this in. If there is an open slot, then you can review this. If not, then too bad, I guess.

Name: Raymond Sakamura

Appearance:

"Raymond" [+]

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Year Level: 1st Year

Faction/Club: Unaffiliated (for now)

Power: - Inhuman agility and dexterity - while it's still unknown if there is a hereditary factor involved in his powers, what truly makes Ray unique from the rest of the fighters is that he has no real, distinct powers. If observed closely however, his fighting skills do have traits that don't show in your average joe, such as his ability to change positions and move freely while mid-air, allowing him to dodge projectiles and so forth. His erratic movements also allow him to be extremely unpredictable and, coupled with his unmatched speed, grant the young Sakamura the ability to deliver fatal blows and finish the battle in record time.

That being said, with powers come weaknesses. While he is very good at pinning down an opponent in a fair fight, he has trouble keeping up with those who employ long range attacks. He is also rather fragile. If you're skilled enough to pin him down, you might knock him out with a few nicely timed hits. Good luck with that, tho'.

As for his fighting style, Sakamura is self-taught and as such uses no single type of martial art. Rather, his style is comprised of several different arts such as Krav Maga, Jiu Jitsu and Pencak Silat, all moves he has learned by watching different action films. His execution is flawed, but the blows he delivers are lethal nonetheless, courtesy of his physical blessing. In most battles, he goes with a hit-and-dodge tactic, unwilling to let himself be cornered by his adversary.

"Biography" [+]

Biography: Born to Yosuke Sakamura and Elisabeth Payne - Sakamura.

Raymond's father, Yosuke, was a world renowned Japanese athlete who was the main representative of his country during the World Olympics. As such, Ray grew into a fairly rich family. Following his son's birth, Yosuke decided to move into his wife's hometown, England, specifically London, and planned to stay there permanently, considering England to be a better place to raise a child than Japan. He was quite wrong.

It was at the age of eight that young Sakamura began to exhibit behaviors unusual for a kid. He wasn't bringing any friends from school, he was eerily quiet everytime he was around the house, and he spent most of his spare time locked up in his room. Suspicious, Yosuke decided to go out one day and visit his son at the local playground, after his wife told him that that's where he could be. What he saw that day completely changed how he viewed his son.

There was sweet, young Raymond, dragging a screaming boy by his wrists, as a little raven haired girl lied down in the ground, sobbing and bleeding a few feet away from him. He then proceeded to stomp the little boy to smithereens as his cries for help became muffled following each stomp. Sure, there was a desperate offensive launched by the other boys who were his age, but he just shook them off like they were a minor nuisance. Appalled by his son's display of brute strength, Yosuke barged in and managed to calm the beast down before his beatdown turned into murder. Turned out that wasn't Ray's first temper tantrum. There was a couple more of them which ended terribly, with both the other students and the school's staff receiving gut wrenching injuries. Upon being briefed of his son's shenanigans, the former athlete took measures almost immediately, but his measures proved to be fairly ineffective. His appointment with a famous therapist ended with said therapist having his ear bitten off. They also tried to hire a witch doctor, believing his bursts of anger to be related to witchcraft, but the entire practice was interrupted after the shack inexplicably was caught on fire. And let's not even talk about that time he killed the neighbor's dog after he caught him take a leak on his yard. Long story short, the kid was pure evil and after a while, even Yosuke threw his hands in the air and gave up. His last resort was to take him back to Japan, believing that their strict practices would somehow heal him.

During his time in Japan, Raymond's outbursts didn't get any better. They had to move different cities, regions and thus change schools on several occasions. He never got the chance to make any friends. However, one day, as Yosuke was driving to get him to his school, he observed as he dismantled six attackers, possibly people he's pissed off, with relative ease. That is when he realized that not only was he an abusive jerk, he was extremely good at delivering said abuse. So, seeing as his thirst for violence couldn't be quenched, he decided to enroll him in an ever growing high school that promoted violence, holding onto the hope that if he meets a fighter more formidable than him, then he'll learn to bow his head down.

Score: 1000

Masks, A Tale of Heroes (CLOSED)

Is this thing going, or did we just give up on it?