Lore Magus

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Posting Speed
  1. 1-3 posts per week
  2. One post per week
Writing Levels
  1. Give-No-Fucks
  2. Beginner
  3. Elementary
  4. Intermediate
  5. Adept
  6. Advanced
  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.
    [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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    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!
  • Currently Under Maintenance
    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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Perhaps, or she can just give him money to drive away the other more "imaginative" students.
 
I see you Bass :P

How goes the laptop's thingamajig?
Very slow and arduous =_= essentially no real progress was made last night, and I still lost a ton of potential sleeping hours...

Holy crap, it's a thing!

Hello! I am new person :D
Ah yes, I have summoned the attention of the other members from our Discord server that I seem to have neglected to mention to you guys yet :D (@conman2163 still waiting for you to accept friend request there btw)

.....

My special friends call it the dungeon
O-... Oh my... XD

Meanwhile, with my unimaginative character.....
Hey, no worries! I believe Kona-chan is adorable, and I'm glad to have more "normie" characters in the mix! I mean seriously, excluding NPCs there's only 1 other normie present. Also I just noticed while typing this message that her name is Kona which when given the -chan suffix makes her name exactly the same as the nickname of a certain iconic otaku girl... XD I love her even more now!

*shoots a nerf dart at Conman*

At least he can always hire Satori to be imaginative for him xD
Better check dem gender pronouns XD
 
Discord server....yes, you totally neglected to mention a Discord server. xD

Man, you gotta find some way to make it work faster. I'm new and I'm impatient darn it! D:< Not really tho :P
 
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@Bass Magus I got Machi's WIP app up. Still need to do most of her mortal side and some of her magical side.
 
Discord server....yes, you totally neglected to mention a Discord server. xD

Man, you gotta find some way to make it work faster. I'm new and I'm impatient darn it! D:< Not really tho :P
I wish I could; I really do. I mean, I've got homework due Monday that I need to complete too, and I can't do that unless my laptop is working! X( not to mention that when my laptop isn't working I can't really do a whole lot of ANYTHING productive...

@Bass Magus I got Machi's WIP app up. Still need to do most of her mortal side and some of her magical side.
Okay :) when I looked it over some of the information is kinda confusing, but that's mainly because of the lack of other information, so I'll wait until you finish it up :)
 
So if anyone wants to join the Discord server, which is primarily more for an emergency contact or attention grab than anything else (attention grab in the sense of informing other members when they need to check the forums and to confirm that they're still active in a quick and more reliable way), then go ahead and send me your ID via DM. Also, it seems that progress is finally being made on my file backup again! :D
 
Make ALL the progress!

*insert overused meme here*

Get that baby hard reset in time for posties!
 
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Alright! My files have FINALLY finished copying, and I am now initiating the hard reset of my laptop. I'll be heading to work shortly after, but by morning I should have freshly cleaned laptop :)
 
*gets confetti and streamers*
 
Hello members! Old and new! Time for a trivia!

In Weeaboland-ahem-Japan, the date today (August 7th or 8-7) can be read as ba-nana!

In short, today is Banana Day! Today is my day! Nyahaha!

Ahem, I mean...I'm alive! Hello everyone! Please don't kill me for being chased out of the planet for a while OTL

I'd love to be acquainted with the new characters too!
 
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Hello members! Old and new! Time for a trivia!

In Weeaboland-ahem-Japan, the date today (August 7th or 8-7) can be read as ba-nana!

In short, today is Banana Day! Today is my day! Nyahaha!

Ahem, I mean...I'm alive! Hello everyone! Please don't kill me for being chased out of the planet for a while OTL

I'd love to be acquainted with the new characters too!
Wow, I didn't know hachi was read as ba when used for calendar dates o.o I seriously need to put forth more effort into learning the language, because I suck lol

Anyways, happy Banana Day and welcome back Senpai! I think you'll like our newest additions to the roster ^-^ hopefully I can get my laptop to reset soon, but either way it may be some time before I can get over this hump of Maya project backlog that I need to do for school; until I can confirm the integrity of my laptop for sure I really won't know when I'll be able to make any IC posts but in the meantime please feel free to get acquainted everyone :)
 
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How goes it?
 
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I was unable to fix my laptop at all, so the other day I brought it in to a nearby PC repair shop and they got back to me telling me that my hard drive was shot... So I payed them a total of $164 and they replaced my hard drive! My laptop is now fixed and so far working properly, so now I just need to find some time after work that I'm not dog tired and get to work... on my schoolwork. I'll be honest guys, I'm 3 weeks behind on my 3D modeling class and need to catch up on it before even thinking about forums, so it'll likely be another week or so before I can make any more progress on Iwaku. I appreciate your patience m(v_v)m

@chaosheart13 @Banana-senpai @York @Takumi @Amayan @conman2163 @Iwazuma @IceQueen (wow... so many names to keep track of now... x_x)
 
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I was unable to fix my laptop at all, so the other day I brought it in to a nearby PC repair shop and they got back to me telling me that my hard drive was shot... So I payed them a total of $164 and they replaced my hard drive! My laptop is now fixed and so far working properly, so now I just need to find some time after work that I'm not dog tired and get to work... on my schoolwork. I'll be honest guys, I'm 3 weeks behind on my 3D modeling class and need to catch up on it before even thinking about forums, so it'll likely be another week or so before I can make any more progress on Iwaku. I appreciate your patience m(v_v)m

@chaosheart13 @Banana-senpai @York @Takumi @Amayan @conman2163 @Iwazuma @IceQueen (wow... so many names to keep track of now... x_x)
Oh! well, at least your laptop's back, but good luck with your cass! o.o I guess I'll just keep waiting till stuff works out xD
 
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Um... hey guys, so I know y'all are probably getting really impatient with me and this probably isn't the best time, but we've got some new sub-characters that are going to get mentioned in my post and I need some help. I've already fully typed up the post, but before I can submit it I need to decide on an image for one of the characters which may also affect their color scheme (in text). The first character I'm going to tell you about is already a completed character created by @Banana-senpai, the school's Student Council President:
---3rd Year HS NPC---
Name: Sho Murakami (村上翔)
Gender: male
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Age: 18
Class: 3-A
Club: Soccer, Student Council
Personality: hardworking, serious when it comes to school but has a "dad jokes" side, "dad" friend
Connections: classmates with Meiko, Miyako and Satoshi
Trivia:
  • afraid of Meiko and Miyako but will not admit it, witnessed Meiko's incident in first year
  • aware of Miyako and Satoshi's "condition" and often makes excuses to cover up for them when needed; aware of Chuunibyou in general because of his constantly looking after Satoshi


The character I need help with is in fact the Vice President character I briefly commented about a while back. She's meant to be a character that's fairly kind, caring, and affectionate, but very critical about following rules and regulations to a degree that she even scares the president at times (namely if he ever slips up himself such as what's going on in the IC right now). I also have her speaking extremely formally as an extension of her rules-driven personality quirk, since we seem to also have a major lack in that character type. I also sort of view her to have a bit of a Kuudere air to her, but not exactly the emotionless aspect that many people tend to link to Kuudere. Anyways, without further ado, here are the 2 faceclaims I managed to bring it down to. It's less of an appearance choice than an art style choice, but each of them caries a different feel to them and I can't decide between them:

 
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Um... hey guys, so I know y'all are probably getting really impatient with me and this probably isn't the best time, but we've got some new sub-characters that are going to get mentioned in my post and I need some help. I've already fully typed up the post, but before I can submit it I need to decide on an image for one of the characters which may also affect their color scheme (in text). The first character I'm going to tell you about is already a completed character created by @Banana-senpai, the school's Student Council President:
---3rd Year HS NPC---
Name: Sho Murakami (村上翔)
Gender: male
fDktXfhm.jpg
Age: 18
Class: 3-A
Club: Soccer, Student Council
Personality: hardworking, serious when it comes to school but has a "dad jokes" side, "dad" friend
Connections: classmates with Meiko, Miyako and Satoshi
Trivia:
  • afraid of Meiko and Miyako but will not admit it, witnessed Meiko's incident in first year
  • aware of Miyako and Satoshi's "condition" and often makes excuses to cover up for them when needed; aware of Chuunibyou in general because of his constantly looking after Satoshi


The character I need help with is in fact the Vice President character I briefly commented about a while back. She's meant to be a character that's fairly kind, caring, and affectionate, but very critical about following rules and regulations to a degree that she even scares the president at times (namely if he ever slips up himself such as what's going on in the IC right now). I also have her speaking extremely formally as an extension of her rules-driven personality quirk, since we seem to also have a major lack in that character type. I also sort of view her to have a bit of a Kuudere air to her, but not exactly the emotionless aspect that many people tend to link to Kuudere. Anyways, without further ado, here are the 2 faceclaims I managed to bring it down to. It's less of an appearance choice than an art style choice, but each of them caries a different feel to them and I can't decide between them:

Totally prefer number 1.
 
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@Bass Magus Can you please sort out the coding of the first post? I want to be able to read it so then I can make a character.
 
@Bass Magus Can you please sort out the coding of the first post? I want to be able to read it so then I can make a character.
oh right, in your phone's browser there should be an option to request desktop site, which will allow you to properly view the head post. sadly there isn't really any coding changes I can make that will conform to the mobile version of the site while still holding the appearance I arranged for it, but using that feature I mentioned in your mobile browser will correct how it's displayed for you, especially if you're using Chrome. I'm not entirely sure if the feature is on other browsers as well, but I know that Chrome definitely has it since that's what I use when I'm on mobile
 
I honestly prefer #1 as well
 
#1 comes off of as a subtle kuudere vibe, which I think is what you're trying to get out of her. So yeah, I agree with #1.