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I can't go bumping it yet, but I've updated my 1x1 interest check with pairings and fandoms. If you were looking at that before and waiting for those, I've taken care of it now.
5 yrs ago
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I can't go bumping it yet, but I've updated my 1x1 interest check with pairings and fandoms. If you were looking at that before and waiting for those, I've taken care of it now.
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6 yrs ago
I came out of lurking because I heard there were lesbians.
Stratus. That was a name she was well familiar with. Somebody who came to the arcade just as much as Tomoko did, and was able to keep on square footing with her at all times. It wasn't uncommon for her to set a high score just above Stratus's, then return a couple days later to see Stratus had just barely gotten over her own high score. Whoever they were, they were an interesting opponent, always upping the ante just a little bit at a time. Today, like many days, Tomoko had discovered one of her high scores had been topped. And, as always, it was Stratus.
And, as always, Tomoko was not leaving this arcade until she took her #1 spot back.
Stepping up to a fighting game machine, Tomoko slipped a couple of tokens into the slot and started her game. As long as Tomoko didn't mess up, getting her #1 spot back would be a doable task by all means. Moving the cursor to select her character, she...
Tomoko messed up. She accidentally chose the character right next to her main. A garbage-tier character she had never played for that very reason. She wasn't winning this. No way. She had been defeated. Gently, Tomoko leaned forward and placed her head on the arcade machine, waiting for the AI opponent to put her out of this arcade run's misery. She would have to try again once this was over.
"Eventually there's a point where gaming becomes very advanced mathematics. Luckily, I'm also good at math."
Name: Tomoko Kimura
Age: 19
Height: 5'3" Weight: 115
Tomoko isn't by any means a tall person, nor a strong one. By no means is she overweight, but it's not going to really take more than one look to tell she has no interest in physical exercise. Similarly, other than keeping it cut short and combing it so she isn't walking around with bedhead, she makes no real effort to pretty up her simply brown hair either. Typical Tomoko fashion includes a green waist-length raincoat with frog eyes on the hood (her favorite), jeans, and green rubber boots.
Likes: Winning, video games, math, frogs, wet weather, minty foods, hot drinks, trying new things, being good at whatever she's doing, praise, competition
Party Trick: Human calculator. Tomoko's brain uses the areas associated with speech to perform math. This means math literally comes to her as naturally as speaking; she's fluent in the language of numbers, one could say. She can solve ridiculous equations in about the time it would take anyone else to put it into a calculator, if not faster depending on the length of the equation.
Profession: Student at Shine City Academy, pursuing a programming major. Has also been starting to take to tournaments, considering the possibility of becoming a pro gamer.
Bio/Personality: Tomoko strives for greatness in everything she does, and it shows. When she's doing well she's high on victory, and when faced with defeat she quickly falls into apathy and the single-minded desire to claim her place at the top again. The life in her eyes and the spring in her step correlate with her win/loss ratio, or any winning/losing streaks she may be facing. Sometimes a losing streak can cause Tomoko to just isolate herself from everyone else, not leaving her room for days, weeks, or sometimes even months at a time. As long as she can pull a victory out of her hat though, rest assured she'll bounce back eventually.
This insatiable thirst for greatness stems from a very not-so-great past. Tomoko was and still is an extremely intelligent child, years ahead of other children her age in many subjects. However, at least from her perspective, this amazing brainpower of hers was being squandered and wasted by a nomadic lifestyle and the only school she ever knew being her homeschooling. Sometimes she'd get angry and run away. Other times she'd get depressed and lock herself in her room. When she was 12, eventually Tomoko had just given up. No more anger, no more sadness, no more anything really. On all levels except the physical, she'd accepted that maybe not all stars got to shine, and had completely shut down. For a time, she was certain that the scattered few video games she'd get on occasion were her only release from this wasteful existence.
For a time.
Part of the reason for her family's nomadic lifestyle was her mother having more than a little bit of a gambling problem. Whatever money was made quickly found its way into casinos, then underground gambling dens, and eventually lottery tickets. Well wouldn't you know it, one day Mrs. Kimura's existential losing streak had come to an end. Things started improving, and eventually Tomoko - 17 at the time - was able to finally enroll in a real school. Being able to compare her grades to other students and seeing that she was still doing better than more or less the entire school started to snap her out of her long depression. Finding more and more people to play video games with and ultimately besting all of them sealed the deal.
By graduation, she was back on top in grades, gaming, and in spirit. She moved on to get scholarships to Shine City Academy, certain of the path she wanted to take in life. A year later, we have the Tomoko of today. She can sometimes have random fits of anger or sadness, and she takes terribly to losing, but she can be a very thorough and helpful teacher to those not so good with games. She also likes to try and analyze a pattern in any given thing as often as possible, claiming that the whole world can be broken down into numbers, and that as long as she knows what numbers she's working with, she'll become unstoppable. This star is determined to shine.
As a gamer, uses the tag "Kerokero Kyuukyoku" (ケロケロ 究極, lit. "Ribbit Ribbit Ultimate".
In games, Tomoko's path toward determining a main begins with finding out who is in the highest tier, then finding out who has the highest skillcap among them. Once she's picked a main, however, it almost never changes.
I'll go post her up in the Characters tab shortly. With that said, I do have a small handful of other RPs to take care of on other sites real quick. If I can keep a steady workflow without getting sidetracked, I should be able to swing back round to this one before the end of the day and have a post in the works.
I'm still waiting on approval from @Dynamo Frokane on my character before acting any further. Have the character but need the okay from the boss before doing anything with her.
Took a bit longer than it should have (I got sidetracked several times), but as promised, an app by the end of the day. One I'm quite proud of at that.
"Eventually there's a point where gaming becomes very advanced mathematics. Luckily, I'm also good at math."
Name: Tomoko Kimura
Age: 19
Height: 5'3" Weight: 115
Tomoko isn't by any means a tall person, nor a strong one. By no means is she overweight, but it's not going to really take more than one look to tell she has no interest in physical exercise. Similarly, other than keeping it cut short and combing it so she isn't walking around with bedhead, she makes no real effort to pretty up her simply brown hair either. Typical Tomoko fashion includes a green waist-length raincoat with frog eyes on the hood (her favorite), jeans, and green rubber boots.
Likes: Winning, video games, math, frogs, wet weather, minty foods, hot drinks, trying new things, being good at whatever she's doing, praise, competition
Party Trick: Human calculator. Tomoko's brain uses the areas associated with speech to perform math. This means math literally comes to her as naturally as speaking; she's fluent in the language of numbers, one could say. She can solve ridiculous equations in about the time it would take anyone else to put it into a calculator, if not faster depending on the length of the equation.
Profession: Student at Shine City Academy, pursuing a programming major. Has also been starting to take to tournaments, considering the possibility of becoming a pro gamer.
Bio/Personality: Tomoko strives for greatness in everything she does, and it shows. When she's doing well she's high on victory, and when faced with defeat she quickly falls into apathy and the single-minded desire to claim her place at the top again. The life in her eyes and the spring in her step correlate with her win/loss ratio, or any winning/losing streaks she may be facing. Sometimes a losing streak can cause Tomoko to just isolate herself from everyone else, not leaving her room for days, weeks, or sometimes even months at a time. As long as she can pull a victory out of her hat though, rest assured she'll bounce back eventually.
This insatiable thirst for greatness stems from a very not-so-great past. Tomoko was and still is an extremely intelligent child, years ahead of other children her age in many subjects. However, at least from her perspective, this amazing brainpower of hers was being squandered and wasted by a nomadic lifestyle and the only school she ever knew being her homeschooling. Sometimes she'd get angry and run away. Other times she'd get depressed and lock herself in her room. When she was 12, eventually Tomoko had just given up. No more anger, no more sadness, no more anything really. On all levels except the physical, she'd accepted that maybe not all stars got to shine, and had completely shut down. For a time, she was certain that the scattered few video games she'd get on occasion were her only release from this wasteful existence.
For a time.
Part of the reason for her family's nomadic lifestyle was her mother having more than a little bit of a gambling problem. Whatever money was made quickly found its way into casinos, then underground gambling dens, and eventually lottery tickets. Well wouldn't you know it, one day Mrs. Kimura's existential losing streak had come to an end. Things started improving, and eventually Tomoko - 17 at the time - was able to finally enroll in a real school. Being able to compare her grades to other students and seeing that she was still doing better than more or less the entire school started to snap her out of her long depression. Finding more and more people to play video games with and ultimately besting all of them sealed the deal.
By graduation, she was back on top in grades, gaming, and in spirit. She moved on to get scholarships to Shine City Academy, certain of the path she wanted to take in life. A year later, we have the Tomoko of today. She can sometimes have random fits of anger or sadness, and she takes terribly to losing, but she can be a very thorough and helpful teacher to those not so good with games. She also likes to try and analyze a pattern in any given thing as often as possible, claiming that the whole world can be broken down into numbers, and that as long as she knows what numbers she's working with, she'll become unstoppable. This star is determined to shine.
As a gamer, uses the tag "Kerokero Kyuukyoku" (ケロケロ 究極, lit. "Ribbit Ribbit Ultimate".
In games, Tomoko's path toward determining a main begins with finding out who is in the highest tier, then finding out who has the highest skillcap among them. Once she's picked a main, however, it almost never changes.
As far as I know this is always open. Shine City could always use another lovely lad or lass.
Right on.
We're going to need more male characters XD We're sellin like hotcakes 'round here.
Shame that I suck at RPing males then lol. I've already done a quick overlook of the characters thus far, and will get to work on mine very shortly. She should be up by the end of the day.
Well, I was lurking around in search of an RP to join, and it looks like this one's not only doing really well, but still has room for more applicants? Please correct me if I'm mistaken and you in fact aren't taking further characters, but if you are, this looks like something I could get behind.
I swing into this site every few days to see if anything good crops up, and it looks like I found something :)
Don't suppose you have room for another RPer at this point in time? (also, not related to the RP itself but to GMing, I would like to suggest perhaps trying to establish a Skype chat for the RP if you haven't already. In my experience, this keeps the OOC far less cluttered and encourages RPers to hang out with one another)
I swing into this site every few days to see if anything good crops up, and it looks like I found something :)
Don't suppose you have room for another RPer at this point in time? (also, not related to the RP itself but to GMing, I would like to suggest perhaps trying to establish a Skype chat for the RP if you haven't already. In my experience, this keeps the OOC far less cluttered and encourages RPers to hang out with one another)
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