Lore Magus

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  1. Give-No-Fucks
  2. Beginner
  3. Elementary
  4. Intermediate
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  7. Adaptable
Preferred Character Gender
  1. Male
  2. Female
Genres
Romance is a big plus for me, but I can be pretty adaptable
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  • Tell me, have you ever heard of the term "Chuunibyou", or "Eighth Grader Syndrome"? For those not familiar with this Japanese term, you might understand better by hearing it's more common English synonym: "Delusions of Grandeur". This is a sad affliction that typically affects young adolescents, its most drastic form making those who contract it believe they have special powers or are somehow connected to and surrounded by the occult. For those such patients, the period in which they retain these delusions later develops into an embarrassing period of shame that forever haunts their memories, despite how much fun they seem to have at the time. In most cases this behavior subsides by the beginning of one's first year in high school, but there are some cases where patients retain their status as chuunibyou patient for the remainder of their school days and sometimes longer.
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    About
    This is an RP loosely based on the anime "Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai". I say loosely because it recycles similar themes and setting, but with all original characters. No canon characters will show up in this RP, and only characters approved in the CS thread for this RP should be posting in the IC. If someone is interested in joining they can post here in the OOC about their interest as well as infer as to where the plot is moving, and then fill out a CS, which should only be posted in the CS thread (linked above soon). The rules for this RP are as follows:
    • 1. First and foremost you need to adhere to the standard rules of RPing: no powerplaying or meta-gaming, but mild godmoding or auto-hitting is allowed as long as it's to the point of, say, occasionally having a perfect counter, flicking someone too close on the forehead, or sneaking up behind someone who is distracted and tickling them or the likes, but anything beyond is forbidden. That said, many acts of light auto-hitting like the tickling will still need to be discussed between players in the OOC for permission.
    • 2. The next thing I can't stress enough is that characters don't necessarily need to get along, but players should still show respect to each other in the OOC and retain a positive environment here.
    • 3. Players are not allowed to post in the IC unless their character has been approved and it is that character's turn to post.
    • 4. The IC will be conducted in an orderly manner with an episodic style where character posting order will be determined prior to each episode. Depending on how things turn out it may be possible that some posting orders will be reused, but that is to be determined. Players may also use a posting profile to spruce up their posts should they wish to use one.
    • 5. Even though this is based on the Chuunibyou series, one does not need to have actually seen or read the series to join as long as they can match the setting, though it is nonetheless highly recommended as the series is great!
    • 6. Like in the series there will be delusion battles on occasion. Make sure that all actions performed in the realm of fantasy during such events are justifiable within the constructs of the realm of reality.
    • 7. Despite this RP focusing around the concept of chuunibyou, it does not mean you can't have a character like Kumin or Isshiki from the anime: one who's either completely oblivious to chuunibyou or doesn't quite have it but is mildly interested in the idea.
    • 8. On the subject of characters: there will be a max cap of 2 per player to begin with. This being said, both characters do not need to be submitted or enter the fray at the beginning. In other words, you could go ahead and submit a CS for 2 different characters if you want, and have one enter in later on in the RP, and you could also submit just one in the beginning and then submit another one at a later date when inspiration strikes you. This goes without saying that you can also submit 2 characters and start RPing as both right from the get-go. If the latter is done then, when character posting order is chosen, you may have influence over which of your two characters you'd like to post as before the other, but they will still adhere to the randomly generated order and they can not switch places after the order has been set. One more thing to note is that although the initial character limit is 2 per person, if, later on down the road, anyone feels that they want to have another character they are free to submit a third as long as they can still keep up.
    • 9. Bear in mind while you are creating your character that since this RP is anime-based all FCs need be in anime style and of decent quality; whether they are official anime/manga art, anime-style game art, or fan art/commission. Sources won't need to be cited, however, so no need to stress there.
    • 10. Another point to note is that, similar to the original series, there will be a dedicated junior high school connected to the high school where most of the setting takes place, so the possibility for making a junior high character like Dekomori is open as long as they have relevance to the setting. Despite this, characters at the high school are not barred from having attended a different junior high school.
    • 11. Touching up from earlier on character limitations; family members and random NPCs can be used independent of your character limit, as long as they are not used as frequently as a PC would be; the occasional one liner from a random person or RPing as a character's family when around them at home or whatever is acceptable.
    • 12. Oh, romance? Sure, there can be an element of romance to this RP between characters; just remember that if one or both parties are patients of chuunibyou it will be a long and bumpy road before they can officially be called an item as those suffering from the affliction typically aren't well versed in such deep, complex relationships and will frequently cause problems or misunderstandings. Granted some characters can already be in a relationship upon RP launch, as long as it is specified by both parties in the CS and at least briefly explained in their bio. if players would like to discuss various inner plots such as this among each other they may do so in the OOC.
    • 13. Lastly, this RP will be taking place in modern Japan (specifically: the Minato ward in Tokyo, a.k.a. Minato City), and as such it will be following typical Japanese customs. High school and junior high school each have only 3 years, and classes will begin in April; typically when cherry blossoms begin or are close to blooming. Also, there are no dedicated school buses to pick up students; they will commute to school by either train, public bus, and/or foot depending on the distance between their home and the school. Classes will take place Monday-Saturday, with Saturday being a half day. Also don't forget that all students have foot lockers at the entrance of the school where they switch between their indoor and outdoor shoes which are provided by the student's family. Lastly on the subject is that while there is a cafeteria within the school where students can buy lunches via purchasing vouchers at a machine and then bringing them to the service area, a large percentage of students typically tend to have packed lunches (bentou! XD) brought from home often consisting of leftovers or a small, balanced lunch prepared by family alongside white rice, so make sure to keep these factors in mind.

    That's it for rules and the like! More information on the current events and direction of the IC can be found on the Summary tab, but if you have any questions not answered feel free to ask away! Let's all have fun alright?!​
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    Tell me, have you ever heard of the term "Chuunibyou", or "Eighth Grader Syndrome"? For those not familiar with this Japanese term, you might understand better by hearing it's more common English synonym: "Delusions of Grandeur". This is a sad affliction that typically affects young adolescents, its most drastic form making those who contract it believe they have special powers or are somehow connected to and surrounded by the occult. For those such patients, the period in which they retain these delusions later develops into an embarrassing period of shame that forever haunts their memories, despite how much fun they seem to have at the time. In most cases this behavior subsides by the beginning of one's first year in high school, but there are some cases where patients retain their status as chuunibyou patient for the remainder of their school days and sometimes longer.
    [btn=moda|https://www.iwakuroleplay.com/threads/inside-identity-ic.149827/]IC[/btn][btn=moda|https://www.iwakuroleplay.com/threads/inside-identity-cs.149323/]CS[/btn]
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    Characters of Note
    A quick look at the characters that are in the IC

    Active Characters

    • Bass Magus as:
      • Aria Sakai
    • chaosheart13 as:
      • Kazami Ueda
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      • Nariko Hideyoshi
    • Banana-senpai as:
      • Meiko Tanaka
      • Satoshi Saruyama
    • Amayan as:
      • Akemi Kurokawa
  • Tell me, have you ever heard of the term "Chuunibyou", or "Eighth Grader Syndrome"? For those not familiar with this Japanese term, you might understand better by hearing it's more common English synonym: "Delusions of Grandeur". This is a sad affliction that typically affects young adolescents, its most drastic form making those who contract it believe they have special powers or are somehow connected to and surrounded by the occult. For those such patients, the period in which they retain these delusions later develops into an embarrassing period of shame that forever haunts their memories, despite how much fun they seem to have at the time. In most cases this behavior subsides by the beginning of one's first year in high school, but there are some cases where patients retain their status as chuunibyou patient for the remainder of their school days and sometimes longer.
    [btn=moda|https://www.iwakuroleplay.com/threads/inside-identity-ic.149827/]IC[/btn][btn=moda|https://www.iwakuroleplay.com/threads/inside-identity-cs.149323/]CS[/btn]
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    The Story Thus Far...

    Week one of school has come and gone, and some of our rambunctious new students have begun meeting new faces. The energetic second year Kazami Ueda has tried and failed to find any new members for her rather unique club that got reduced to just her at the end of the previous year, but her drive to rebuild the club burns hotter than ever! Meanwhile a small group of third years are becoming aware of and interested by each other, but due to complications one Miyako Mitsuoka has given her cousin Satoshi Maruyama the task of investigating the happenings around the school, as well as the intentions behind their classmate, Meiko Tanaka.

    We now enter the second week of school, and club recruitment has officially begun! The first years end their Monday with an assembly where a selection of clubs are showcasing to the students in an attempt to gain fresh new members, however everything gets thrown off balance when Kazami causes a scene at the gym where the assembly is being held. With teachers hot on her tail, Kazami flees the scene, dragging along with her a hapless, unsuspecting first year student named Akemi Kurokawa who happened to be in her path. Will Kazami manage to find enough members to revive her club? Only time (and your participation) will tell!
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    Tell me, have you ever heard of the term "Chuunibyou", or "Eighth Grader Syndrome"? For those not familiar with this Japanese term, you might understand better by hearing it's more common English synonym: "Delusions of Grandeur". This is a sad affliction that typically affects young adolescents, its most drastic form making those who contract it believe they have special powers or are somehow connected to and surrounded by the occult. For those such patients, the period in which they retain these delusions later develops into an embarrassing period of shame that forever haunts their memories, despite how much fun they seem to have at the time. In most cases this behavior subsides by the beginning of one's first year in high school, but there are some cases where patients retain their status as chuunibyou patient for the remainder of their school days and sometimes longer.
    [btn=moda|https://www.iwakuroleplay.com/threads/inside-identity-ic.149827/]IC[/btn][btn=moda|https://www.iwakuroleplay.com/threads/inside-identity-cs.149323/]CS[/btn]
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    Past Characters of Note
    A quick look at the characters that were in the IC

    Inactive Characters

    • DANAsaur as:
      • Miyako Mitsuoka
    • Jesse Knight as:
      • Sagu Jackson
 
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Alright >.< that's good to know.
if you could fix that on your copy of the profile that'd be great ^.^

Yeah, pretty much that. I just thought that having one bigger power would make a bit of sense due to backstory and just kinda the rules of powers y'know? :P
yup, that's exactly the goal! :)

Anyways @Saralaxy & @Jesse Knight, I got your characters set up in the head post of the CS
 
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woot, when is the next episode?
 
woot, when is the next episode?
we're setting aside a little extra time in case anyone else show's up who wants to join, so it should start in about a week or so
 
@Jesse Knight welcome to 3-A!

Since our characters are classmates, let's talk about them, please?
I love Sagu, he seems pretty cool and chunni side aside, he seems to be Meiko's type! :'D She'd be nice and friendly to Sagu, and depending on how Sagu is to him, Satoshi could be friendly too.
 
@Banana-senpai that sounds like an awesome idea, Sagu would be super friendly, all be it kind of awkward, he likes people. He's new to Japan, so what did you want to know?
 
@Jesse Knight one thing I think would be interesting to see would be his reaction when he finds out that he won't just be there for half a year, but a whole year because of the differing school years between America and Japan XD like, maybe Meiko or Satoshi mention the unusual time of him transferring in a week after the school year starts and he freaks out a little or something XD
 
@Bass Magus i totally didn't think of that, that's sooooooo awesome. He will freak out.
 
Hey guys. So I'm finally feeling better now and I've decided to be active on Iwaku again. I hope its not too late for me to join in again? Because I really like this RP. Please? *begs for mercy*
 
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Hey guys. So I'm finally feeling better now and I've decided to be active on Iwaku again. I hope its not too late for me to join in again? Because I really like this RP. Please? *begs for mercy*
You were never kicked out, Dana! If anything, I'm just so glad you're back. :')
 
@DANAsaur as the others said, you will always be welcome here. I'm glad to see that you are feeling better, and you just so happened to come back with perfect timing; we were going to start up episode 2 in a couple of days :)
 
@chaosheart13 @Banana-senpai @DANAsaur @york @Saralaxy @Jesse Knight Okay guys, we'll be starting Episode 2 within the next few days, but before that we need to talk about a couple of things. First matter on the table is which characters will actually be introduced this episode. I know we have a few new characters and that everyone wants to jump in, but we really need to plan out how the new characters are introduced to the others and when, particularly the junior high schoolers. The next matter is of the subject of the episode itself: it was planned to be the episode where clubs begin recruiting members (approx. a week after the first day of school) which means Kazami would most likely buckle down hardcore and make serious attempts at recruiting new members from the groups of first years. With this in mind we need to discuss who she manages to recruit in this episode as well as how she's going to discover them and eventually convince them to join or how they convince themselves or have others convince them to join. Also, are they going to all meet each other after joining or should we save that for a separate episode?

I want everyone's immediate input on these matters; which of your characters will be participating in this episode as well as your opinions on how the episode should play out in relation to the above topics.

As for my reactions to the above, I want you all to type your own before reading mine since I realize that being the GM means I hold a certain level of influence over everything and I want to know your honest and uninfluenced reactions and opinions on the matter before reading my own, and then of course I don't mind y'all reading and reacting to mine. When you do finish with your own thoughts, here are mine: [spoili]Personally, I feel like this should be a chuuni-exclusive episode since they are who Kazami is looking for, but obviously the decision is up to the individual if they want their non-chuuni characters participating, but you'll need to think of a way to include them. Obviously that means I'm including Aria in the roster of participants, and Ryuu is being excluded as it is not yet his time to be introduced. As for when characters get recruited I think it would be funny if Aria and Nariko were the final members to join and the club needed them to be established as an official club; something like there being a rule requiring 4 or 5 high school level-level members minimum in order for a club to be established, and these two randomly missing Kazami's recruitment attempts by hilariously short amounts of either time or distance until they finally collide or something last minute when Kazami is feeling desparate XD maybe even have a moment earlier on when she's recruited the junior high students and 3rd years (or some of the 3rd years; the cousins to be specific) and feels accomplished, only to find out that it's not actually over until she has the current member count's worth of actual high school-level students, since half the members are only junior-level XD By the way, with a plan like this there are obviously going to be time skips of entire days to keep consistency as well as realism. As for if they all meet in the episode, I can go either way, but if we end up following the idea I typed here then I can see having the 3rd years and juniors all meeting after being recruited, or even just some of them meeting due to chance, but only Kazami meeting the 1st years after her frantically finding them, and saving the big group reveal for another episode. Heck, we could even keep the big group gathering for the episode where Ryuu is introduced XD a thing like "We've only just come together for the first time and already this is happening?!" XD Anyways, what do you guys think about this idea?[/spoili]
 
Of course, I'm going to shove both Nariko and Kazami into this since they both have chuunibyou. Though honestly, I think it would be alright to have non-chuunibyou characters get in on the action too? As for how the episode should play out...that's a bit of a tough one to answer. I mean, Kazami tried her best to get others to join her club on the first day and that didn't go too well. XD I guess this period can go on for several days where Kazami would try to recruit anyone to join her club? But I feel like we should have the members meeting each other held at a later time, not sure when though, maybe about the same time Ryuu comes in?

*reads Bass' thing* That sounds kind of adorable, actually, having Kazami panic and the two girls meeting her at a really odd moment. I wouldn't mind for the recruiting to go that way, pfft. XD
 
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who she manages to recruit in this episode
I volunteer Satoshi (and likely Miyako, for that matter @DANAsaur) since it'll be easier to keep them relevant that way. Meiko may join later on but would probably snoop around often enough to know what's going on (which is how she begins writing about them).

Also, are they going to all meet each other after joining or should we save that for a separate episode?
I suppose so. I think it'll take some writing to gather them all to begin with so we can save the group meeting and discussion of agenda on another episode (probably 3rd).

which of your characters will be participating in this episode
Welp, I've tied Meiko to the cousins so they'll both be involved. Although it may be that Meiko will have to take a backseat.

For the record, I do like your idea about the gathering happening immediately. I just can't picture it out happening all in one episode at the moment since there are more of us now. Unless of course, you recruit in groups.
Or hijack the PA system with a weird "the world is in danger" message or something. XD
 
Of course, I'm going to shove both Nariko and Kazami into this since they both have chuunibyou. Though honestly, I think it would be alright to have non-chuunibyou characters get in on the action too? As for how the episode should play out...that's a bit of a tough one to answer. I mean, Kazami tried her best to get others to join her club on the first day and that didn't go too well. XD I guess this period can go on for several days where Kazami would try to recruit anyone to join her club? But I feel like we should have the members meeting each other held at a later time, not sure when though, maybe about the same time Ryuu comes in?

*reads Bass' thing* That sounds kind of adorable, actually, having Kazami panic and the two girls meeting her at a really odd moment. I wouldn't mind for the recruiting to go that way, pfft. XD
looks like we were having the same train of thought a bit there on the subject of the full get together, and I'm glad you liked my idea XD

I volunteer Satoshi (and likely Miyako, for that matter @DANAsaur) since it'll be easier to keep them relevant that way. Meiko may join later on but would probably snoop around often enough to know what's going on (which is how she begins writing about them).


I suppose so. I think it'll take some writing to gather them all to begin with so we can save the group meeting and discussion of agenda on another episode (probably 3rd).


Welp, I've tied Meiko to the cousins so they'll both be involved. Although it may be that Meiko will have to take a backseat.

For the record, I do like your idea about the gathering happening immediately. I just can't picture it out happening all in one episode at the moment since there are more of us now. Unless of course, you recruit in groups.
Or hijack the PA system with a weird "the world is in danger" message or something. XD
I like that idea about hijacking the PA system :D it totally feels like something a chuuni kid would attempt XD especially as a last resort, or maybe even to call the emergency meeting when Ryuu is introduced in a later episode (3 or 4 most likely, depending on the content of each one). By the way, based on your wording am I to assume you don't want me to include Meiko's slot in the posting order draw?

Anyways, waiting until either everyone responds or next week rolls around before setting up the next episode, obviously excluding anyone that doesn't reply by then
 
I love the idea, and cant wait until we start EP #2
 
I'm with Banana-senpai. Think of it this way: where Satoshi goes, Miyako goes xD