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RP: Persona: AAO Edition

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Story Premise
New school, new life, and a large amount of new friends, what could possibly go wrong! That's where you would be wrong! Just as you start adjusting to you new life, rumors start spreading that if you sneak out of your dorm after curfew, demons will come and kill you. After multiple unexplained deaths, people start realizing that there might be more to this rumor than what is let on. With the rumor seemingly coming true, both people and students are refusing to leave their dorms, but is that the best course of action. Its up to you to get to the bottom of it and use your choices to reach out to the truth if you so want that.


System
The game system won't be to different from other role plays on this board, however acquiring new skills will be that of Persona 1 and 2 whereas your personas rank increases by the use of skills. Other than that, the role play will play out similar to that of the Persona 4 Animation giving you nonlinear actions and not worrying about being turn based. The role play will be separated between night and day though, so far I am planning on alternating night and day every week in RL, but if anyone else has any better ideas, please let me know. The players can choose if they already have their personas at the start or not, and if they choose not to, they will be presented to them near the start. Also, each player can choose their own way to summon personas as long as it is not to ridiculous. (EX: Just blue aura- no where near riculous, blue tarot card out of sky, getting a little, using evoker and making it look like you're shooting yourself- nearing blurred lines.)
Location

The game takes place in lovely Japafornia with the school being the ever so prestigious AAOU (Ace Attorney University) In the year 2014
Spoiler : Application :
Username:
Character Name:
Age:
Gender:
Character Description:
Backstory:
Persona Name:
Arcana:(List)
Persona Description:
First Skill: (List (first on any list except muliple attacks, passive, attributes, stat bonus/penalties, or almighty.Can be any of the first 3 of physical list.)
Stong Against: (No More than 1 Attribute) (phys, fire, wind, elec, ice, dark, or light)
Weak Against: (At least 1 Attribute)
Characters
Spoiler : Taka Akiyama (GuardianDreamer) :
Character Name: Taka Akiyama
Age: 17
Gender: Male

Character Description: This is his appearance that I made with a generator. It's pretty accurate, with one missing detail. He clearly has a ring on one of his hands, which is true, but he's supposed to have a ring on the other hand as well that's identical to the other ring. Just pretend that both rings are there. Other than that, he has a rather athletic build, and is slightly taller than the average person. His eyes contain the look of someone with great dreams, and he metaphorically glows with confidence. A smile is his default expression. Due to his personality, he tends to react in somewhat over-the-top ways, leading to cartoon-like expressions at times. From first impressions alone, you could conclude that he's very confident and capable of great things, but he still needs to become wiser before his true potential is unleashed. He's sometimes seen carrying a violin, which he handles with a great amount of professionalism.

Backstory: Taka is someone who tries to convince himself that he lives a life much more grand than it actually is. Whenever he tells his life story to anyone, he frequently takes creative liberties in an attempt to make it sound much more exciting than it actually was. In truth, Taka lived a more or less average life, with some irregularities. For starters, his parents died when he was too young to remember them. However, he was raised by his grandparents, and he doesn't seem to be particularly bothered by it. Which actually disturbs him at times, since he thinks that he should be angsting more about the fact that his parents are dead.

Still, Taka's life is relatively normal. One thing that sets him apart from other people his age is that he's a brilliant violinist, and he absolutely loves playing the violin, putting his heart and soul into it. He has even joined the school's music club (Or the closest equivalent, assuming there is one). A less positive trait that makes him unique is that he has a history of hitting on any woman that he finds attractive, though he'll show some amount of self-control when there are serious events happening. Aside from that, he's more or less just an average person who wants a more exciting life. He does not have his Persona yet.

Persona Name: Robin Hood.
Arcana: Magician

Persona Description: About what you'd expect the average depiction of Robin Hood to look like. Wearing the lincoln-green clothes of an archer that he's commonly depicted with, along with a green cap, he's instantly recognizable to anyone with even a passing familiarity of his stories. He appears as a young man, and obviously fights with a bow, though this depiction of him is also capable of using magic as well, or at least has abilities that he didn't have in any of his tales. (I'm not sure how skills will work, so I suppose I should leave that to the GMs.)

First Skill: Garu.
Strong Against: Wind.
Weak Against: Electricity.
Spoiler : Ichiro Yamada (Enigma) :
Username: Enigma
Character Name: Ichiro Yamada
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Character Description: Ichiro has a young, typical slender anime face shape and body. He has constantly closed eyes, and a calm (but not malicious) smile. He has a small "idiot hair swirl" in his mostly neat but uncombed hair. He's physically weak, and thus, tall and thin (but not lanky). He wears a blue version of the P4 school uniforms at all times, though it's unbuttoned and put on extremely sloppily. He also wears a red tie with a picture of a chibi cat on it.

Personality wise, Ichiro is your typical lazy but calm guy. Unlike Yousuke, who may spring to mind, nothing really fazes Ichiro. He's the kind of guy who is constantly tired, but always has a happy empty-headed smile. However, contrary to this, Ichiro is actually quite smart. Not brilliant or a genius, but he has a healthy intellect.

Backstory: Ichiro was born in the city. He lived an extremely monotonous life there. He spent his life in a constant everlasting routine of schoolwork, tests and the pointless. Highly antisocial, he spent pretty much zero time with the others in his class for most of his life. He saw no need to. At his school, people didn't socialize much. And, besides, he was constantly avoided anyway due to his personality and the high-achieving nature of most of the students clashing. He was relentlessly mocked as an idiot. Stupid. His rich parents did the same. Ichiro ignored it all. He blocked the world out. That's when he was forced into his next "prestigious" school, AAOU...
Persona Name: Bakaneko
Arcana: The Fool
Persona Description: A humanoid cat (see Baron from "The Cat Returns") with a tabby colour scheme and black furred belly. On his head is a helmet like Feudal Lords used to wear, and on his back is a sword. His face is hidden by the shadow of the helmet, except for his two extremely shiny green eyes. He wears Hakama pants, too.
First Skill: Dia
Stong Against: Phys
Weak Against: Light
Spoiler : Mayoi Tsukimiya (Topaz) :
Username: Topaz

Character Name: Tsukimiya (Family name) Mayoi (Given name)

Age: Appears 16 (Can't remember)

Gender: Female

Character Description: Mayoi is a short girl with a fragile build and pale skin.

She has long, black straight hair that reaches down to her waist. Her bangs are flipped to the left and cover most of her forehead. She has a small crescent moon hairclip that keeps the flip in place.

In school, she wears the school uniform properly with calve high socks. In school during the winter, she wears the uniform properly with a white parka over it. For casual clothes, she wears a modest white sundress that reaches her knees and sandals. In the winter for casual clothes [See].

Backstory: A young girl who lost her memories after falling off a building and surviving but nobody remembers her. She's now unfamiliar with how the world works.

Persona Name: Kaguya (If we ever have ultimates, it would be Kaguya-Hime from Persona 4 The Golden)

Arcana: Aeon

Persona Description: Kaguya appears as a young japanese girl in a kimono with long black hair in a hime-cut [See]. She holds a jewelled branch in her right hand, and a jewel and a cowry shell in her left. In front of her is a stone begging bowl which she strikes with the branch to use spells. To attack, she casts the branch forward.

First Skill: Agi

Stong Against: Wind

Weak Against: Dark
Spoiler : Sayuri Yao Lin (S.S. Sleuth) :
Username: S.S. Slooth

Character Name: Sayuri Yao Lin

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Character Description: Sayuri is a young girl of average build, about 5'6" tall. She has golden-blonde hair, short near the front and tied into a long braid behind, with three black stripes in the front, which curve to the right, and blue eyes, and a golden earring in the shape of a diamond with a circle inside on her left ear. She typically wears her school uniform, but when out of class, she wears a formal red dress, with white trim and puffy sleeves. Underneath she wears a dress shirt and pants, along with a frilly cravat.

Sayuri is a kindhearted and gentle young girl, who enjoys helping others. She is typically quite polite and formal, even around others, and keeps calm in any situation. She dislikes violence and conflict, but is fiercely loyal to her friends, perhaps to a fault. She loves to clean, and will impulsively clean/fix things if she sees them in disarray, which can sometimes be a detriment. She can be a bit too "professional" at times, which may impair her ability to get to know others or to have "fun". She hates being dirty, and may lose her cool if she suddenly ends up drenched in mud.

Backstory: Sayuri was a young girl, who moved to Japanifornia to be enrolled in AAOU. From a young age she had always had a love for order and cleanliness, and took pride in keeping her room orderly and clean. This led her to become interested in work in service, so she could achieve her dream of becoming a Butler. She has nothing really abnormal about her past, but after enrolling in AAOU, she quickly joined the Janitorial Club, and eventually becoming the club President, a title she wears with pride.

Persona Name: Cai-Zhe (Xiezhai)

Arcana: Temperance

Persona Description: Taken from SMT Wiki: "A mythical creature of Chinese lore that looks like a sheep with a single horn on its head. It can see through lies and is said to appear on Earth periodically to punish the guilty. Xiezhai is currently the official symbol of gavels in Chinese courts."

First Skill: Zio

Strong Against: Elec

Weak Against: Wind
Spoiler : Ami Cloverfield (Guess who? Ami) :
Username: Ami
Character Name: Ami Cloverfield
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Character Description: Image
- Those are only her formal clothes, though.
- Her casual wintery wear consists of a baggy, grey zip-up hooded jacket (always unzipped), dark pink camisole, blue jean skorts, loose knee-high socks, and black tennis shoes with neon pink laces, black fingerless gloves, rainbow-striped nail polish.
- Summer casual clothes have all of the above, sans the jacket. Wears white cardigan.
- Her mid-winter casual wear consists of a lavender hoodie that is too big for her with a pink cutesy bunny skull and crossbones, blue jeans, knee-high brown snow boots, dark pink mittens.
- When wearing her uniform in the summer, she'll keep the gloves and socks.
Backstory: Held back four years due to circumstances she's not willing to divulge, first-year Ami sticks out like a sore thumb in high school due to her age. Known for being somewhat boisterous and forward, she is well-known but little-liked. All of her friends were her age or senpais, and all have graduated, none have kept in contact with her. Ami's blunt, but she's not (intentionally) mean, and often misunderstood. However, she's come to dislike those she brands as "liars" due to her awareness of rumors surrounding her.
Persona Name: Jeanne D'Arc
Arcana: Emperor
Persona Description: Middle-aged French armor, no helmet. Blond Caucasian woman with a bowl cut. Carries a French artillery sword.
First Skill: Bash
Stong Against: Phys
Weak Against: Fire
Spoiler : Kazushige Kakinomoto (The Eternal Chaos) :
Username: The Eternal Chaos.

Character Name: Kazushige Kakinomoto

Age: 18.

Gender: Male.

Character Description: He looks like this: Image

Personality wise, Kazushige is a total Hazama rip off appears to most people as polite, mild mannered, harmless, and friendly, often wearing a smile on his face. He has a quiet and calm demeanor, and claims to hate fighting and avoid conflict, often running away at the first sign of danger or letting others lead. This however, is merely a facade he uses to keep face. In realty, he is extremely arrogant and selfish, believing himself to be above others and manipulating people for his own gain, not caring about what happens to them. He hates people who appear to be better then him at a task, no matter what it may be. He also has no problem with doing whatever he deems necessary to complete a goal, even killing others who have nothing to do with the situation. He loves to drink tea and enjoys inspecting and learning about small firearms.

Backstory: Kazushige's life was, for the most part, ordinary except for one specific detail: Since the day he was born, he was unable to care about or feel empathy towards his fellow human beings. Even his parents were nothing more then 'there' as far as he was concerned. As he grew up, this way of living twisted into a belief that he was, in some way "Special," and that everyone else was beneath him. After gaining his Persona, he made it his goal to erase individualism and unite humanity under his own rule.

Persona Name: Cu Chulainn.

Arcana: Tower.

Persona Description: From the wiki: "A gallant Celtic hero who wields the mighty spear, Gae Bolg.
He is the son of the sun god Lugh and Deichtine and had mighty strength ever since childhood. In battle, his normally beautiful appearance turned fearsome and is said to have singlehandedly turned away an army. He was cursed to die for spurning the war goddess Morrigan's love and was impaled on his own mighty Gae Bolg. Even then, though, he tied his body to a pillar and died without ever falling."

First Skill: Agi.

Strong against: Fire.

Weak against: Ice.
Spoiler : Hayato Yoshida (deHughs) :
Username: deHughes
Character Name:
Age: 18
Gender: Male

Character Description: An inveterate womanizer and party boy, Hayato's appearance screams confidence, style and wealth while still maintaining a characteristic display of control over whatever situation he is presented with. Decorated only in the best clothing, Hayato forsakes the school uniform and dons his own personal wardrobe made from much higher quality materials than the largely polyester default. They are all tailored to perfectly hold his lean, sleek silhouette. Hayato finds the recent trend of having multiple versions of the exact same outfit to be completely perplexing and ridiculous. Instead, he takes the more sensible approach and wears something different with each passing sun. Donning business casual and preppy wear, his wealth and presence make themselves immediately known. Any one of his numerous blazers or sweaters promises to be well pressed and sharp, and compliment the remainder of his outfit. A wide variety of button-down and polo shirts and pants of varying levels of formality all present the collected, suave confidence Hayato demands.

A big shot not without his own strange form of charm, Hayato looks more in place on the cover of a fashion magazine than in the halls of a supposedly prestigious high school. As fitting of one who prides themselves on their appearance, his body is athletic and built around well-developed lean muscle. He stands tall at an even six feet, with a excellent posture that exudes confidence. His angular face shines with sharp, well-kept brows, expressive almond eyes, a narrow yet sharp nose, and strong jawline. His clear tan skin remains clean-shaven around the clock, highlighting the cupid's bow on his often smiling lips. His coarse black hair is kept in a short fade. The top of his head and bangs are gelled up, almost giving the illusion of constantly being blown up by the wind.

Backstory: The Yoshida family excelled to wealth years ago with the formation of a software company that grew to be located in almost every home nation-wide. Hayato was born during the rise of the family business, and has lived in luxury since he exited his toddler years. This lead to a largely hedonistic and self-centred lifestyle in which all came to him, and all was enjoyed. Largely ignored by his parents as they travel the world, and disliked by his older sister for his naive attitude, Hayato resorted to the lavish life of parties, women and booze as a form of escape and attention seeking. In an effort to force humility on the boy, he was taken from his private academy for the extremely privileged and placed in a more common school, hoping he would learn humility from his peers. Hayato instead enjoys taking advantage of the easily abused value of large sums of cash that the region seems to have, and furthers his vices night after night.


Persona Name: Asmodeus
Arcana: Devil

Persona Description: Asmodeus takes the form of a demonic man adorned in dark grey robes and armour. His skin is red and jagged, almost flaking off from his very body in places. Veins and callouses paint over his burnt, decaying flesh. Brows, furrowed and rough, point inward to the blank white voids that are his piercing eyes. His teeth, yellowed and rotten, spread wide in a taunting smile while a spear point of a goatee hangs below it. Large pointed ears, pierced with golden earrings and torn apart with missing chucks and scars of sharp fangs. Two roughly textured horns protrude from the peaks of his forehead and truly indicate his devilish nature. A rough, wild and uncontrollable black mane sprays loose behind him in a knotted shamble, though it remains entirely behind the base of his horns aside from two short, arrow-like sideburns. His robes open at the chest, revealing a prominent display of muscle and scar, and close at the bottom in baggy cloth tucked into two highly decorated black boots. A shawl wraps itself around his waist and drapes the back of his legs, offset by the reptilian tail protruding from his body. Large pauldrons of dark, twisted steel cover ragged white cloth arm wraps, which run all the way down his arms and cover each individual finger. Arcane patterned leather gloves begin at the base of the twisted, claw-like fingers and run to the elbow, where they end in an outward taper. He carries two jewelled stiletto daggers at his hips, and a shining silver claymore whose hilt runs unabashedly with arcane runes.

First Skill: Mudo
Stong Against: Bufu
Weak Against: Light

Has not yet encountered his shadow or gained his Persona.
Also, Due to my busy schedule, I'll need a co-GM, who is well versed in the majority of the persona games. If anyone is interested, please contact my skype: Trybien. SS Sleuth has took this mighty honor.
If there are any questions or if their is anything that needs to be included/fixed in this OP, let me know. I didn't have much time to check through it.
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...Where is this taking place? Specifically, I mean.

NOT-DONE-IN-3-SECOND VERSION:

I believe the OP is missing a few details; namely, where the game is taking place (we know it's a school, but a little more detail would be nice. I'm presuming it's in Japan?) and how the Personas work in this story. Is it like P4, where you have to face your Shadow, and all, or something else entirely? Do we use evokers, Tarot cards, or what? Do we begin with our Personas, or do we gain them? Unless you plan to reveal this all in-game. I am interested in joining, but I'd just like to have that cleared up.
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I would gladly join but I'd like to see some progress on getting a co-GM first. Otherwise this might die like Type 99 xP
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I'll think about it.
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I might join if the majority of people playing are people I don't hate.

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Edited my last post with a few questions. Also, I would be willing to co-GM when I return home.
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I mean, I could go for co-GM. I've filled the compendium of P3 and P4, and am also very into mythology and tarot reading. However, GMing might be too much of a hassle...
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S.S. Sleuth wrote:...Where is this taking place? Specifically, I mean.

NOT-DONE-IN-3-SECOND VERSION:

I believe the OP is missing a few details; namely, where the game is taking place (we know it's a school, but a little more detail would be nice. I'm presuming it's in Japan?) and how the Personas work in this story. Is it like P4, where you have to face your Shadow, and all, or something else entirely? Do we use evokers, Tarot cards, or what? Do we begin with our Personas, or do we gain them? Unless you plan to reveal this all in-game. I am interested in joining, but I'd just like to have that cleared up.
Thanks for posing those questions, I kinda had to leave right after I posted, so this will helpme alot. Unless there are any objections, the school will be the ever prestigious AAOU (Ace Attorney Online University) and will be in the ever so populated Japafornia! Its up to the players if they have their persona's already or not, and I will leave it up to the players how they personally summon their personas, definetly could add to the creativity. Personas work the same as in the Animation as in they use the spells, but if they are damaged, so is the player. You do not need to face your shadow to gain you persona, but that doesn't prevent them from facing you. For those who choose not to have their personas already, I'll leave how we are gaining them a surprise.
S.S. Sleuth wrote:Edited my last post with a few questions. Also, I would be willing to co-GM when I return home.
Great! Just give me a date and we can work it out! Just contact my skype.



Anyways, off to edit OP!
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Would it be okay to reserve an app (Since I'm in the mood to make a character) and then decide whether I actually want to join or not when more players have applied?
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Topaz wrote:Would it be okay to reserve an app (Since I'm in the mood to make a character) and then decide whether I actually want to join or not when more players have applied?
Sure, there's no problem. And even if there are users who you aren't to fond of, you can always design your character to be the red to their blue. I'm allowing full character creativity as long as it falls within the Persona universe.
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So this IS in the Persona universe? Or is it a meta-game, as in "AAO users in Persona"?

Also, I'll reserve a spot too. If I need to. Maybe.
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S.S. Sleuth wrote:So this IS in the Persona universe? Or is it a meta-game, as in "AAO users in Persona"?

Also, I'll reserve a spot too. If I need to. Maybe.
Its in universe, you can use yourself as your character, but it isn't "AAO users in persona", use of AAOU and Japafornia are only products of my laziness ;P
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Trybien wrote:
S.S. Sleuth wrote:Edited my last post with a few questions. Also, I would be willing to co-GM when I return home.
Great! Just give me a date and we can work it out! Just contact my skype.
I don't think I'll be able to do Skype, I'm afraid. Can we work it out through PMs?
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S.S. Sleuth wrote:
Trybien wrote:
S.S. Sleuth wrote:Edited my last post with a few questions. Also, I would be willing to co-GM when I return home.
Great! Just give me a date and we can work it out! Just contact my skype.
I don't think I'll be able to do Skype, I'm afraid. Can we work it out through PMs?
Tis fine, besides, I'm heading off to work at camp tomorow,


Speaking of which, unless I can somehow establish an internet connection at camp, I will be unavailable to respond to anything posted here or sent via skype or pm till sunday evening.
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I'll be joining this. Expect an application from me sooner or later.
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