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Character: Ichiyou
Series: Haigakura
Character Age: appears 20ish
Canon: So, what do you do when your country loses a couple a million gods? Train kids to sing and dance in order to retrieve them, what else? Called kashi, they learn the art of mikagura, a ritual performance of dance and song designed to lure and capture these rogue gods. Most of these gods are relatively weak and unrefined, more like demons or spirits, but some-the Lesser Gods-are stronger and more intelligent. An exceptional kashi can capture and train these Lesser Gods to work for them, to do any sort of job, from farming to fighting, controlling them with their sai, a special string of rosary beads which all kashi possess.
Cue the most useless kashi ever, Ichiyou. Yet despite having earned such a title, he somehow has two Lesser Gods in his service, Kaka and Tenkou, the latter of whom is almost always by Ichiyou's side, and winds up being his personal punching bag more often than not. Ichiyou is not only mildly abusive and belligerent, he's also tone-deaf, although what he lacks in singing ability, he makes up in dance ability and raw power. However, because he has little interest in being a proper kashi, he rarely does his job- and thus rarely has any money. His sense of morality is dubious at best, showing no shame in taking advantage of other people's good will, be they strangers or friends. It's a wonder he even has friends, with his abrasive personality and a tendency to start fights on occasion. Whatever faint glimmer of care or consideration he might have for others is entirely obscured by his somewhat scary demeanor and aggressive tendencies.
Sample Post:
Oh come on, you can't be serious... I came all the way out here for this? I was lied to, there's no actual god here! You can't just take a big old octopus, give it a cute girl's name- what kind of weird name is "Marcy" anyway?- put it in your shrine, and call it a god! That's not how it works, and that's not even what a shrine's supposed to look like. You didn't honestly think you'd fake me out, did you? If it's really that much of a pest, you shouldn't have put it there to begin with. You're not going to swindle me out of my time and effort just because you're too lazy to deal with your own problems.
Well then, that's just great. They told me this camp place had a problem, but they didn't tell me that problem was being boring and a dead end. What am I supposed to do now? If there's nothing here, I might as well just head back home and start over again. Oi, Tenkou! Get over here, we're- Wait, where the hell did he go? Lost again? I guess I can wait a while, and see if anything worthwhile shows up, or at least find someone worth talking to who can tell me what's going on here, with all the weird creatures. They're obviously not gods, or anything like that. More fakes! Why not just go with regular earth animals? Right now, it seems like someone's just trying too hard to be impressive.
Maybe I shouldn't be so surprised, even the people here are something special. I haven't seen so many undead who can't even keep it together. Literally! Leaving hands in weird places to be creepy is fine, and detaching your head to terrorize people is one thing, but letting it roll into the pond? Don't expect anything from me, I'm not going to get it for you! You're on your own. But hey, I'll pray for you to have better luck next time, how's that? Maybe you'll be a little less clumsy that way. Ehh, not that I can do much real praying without a proper shrine. So can we make it an IOU?
I'll have to take incoherent gurgling as a yes, so now that that's settled... Damn, am I starving. After all that disappointment, I guess I worked up an appetite. Maybe I should find out what this "Tuesday Special" at the cafeteria is.
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Character name: Tenkou
Series: Haigakura
Age: Looks 16-17
Canon: Once upon a time a country fell to crisis because its gods left. To catch them all and drag them back again is the job of so called kashi; people trained using a song and dance combination, mikagura, to seal the Gods into their rosaries called sai. Some kashi even keep minor Gods as servants after capturing them. The kashi Ichiyou's dance is considered perfect, but as he's completely tone-deaf, his song is horrible beyond belief. Despite this, he's got two lesser Gods at his service, one of them with a split personality, called Tenkou.
Childish, naive and with a sunny disposition, Tenkou is easy to get along with. Although he's a coward and cries very easily, he isn't late in giving Ichiyou patronizing and even angry comments, oft with a harmful result. Because Ichiyou abuses, ignores and leaves him behind to get lost during missions. In short, Tenkou is his Master's punching bag, and in Ichiyou's opinion, that's all Tenkou's good for. Unless, y'know, you need someone to take care of the evil spirits you encounter. Released from his seal, Tenkou does a complete 180 turn personality wise, and becomes a haughty, vicious and blood-thirsty creature who defies Ichiyou as often as he can, though, when least expected, his happy-go-lucky person from before pops back again, often met with a sucker punch from his Master.
Note: Manipulating water, Tenkou can among other things travel through it to different locations via wells and springs. He can even walk on it!
Sample: This is the CFUD Camp, right? Great! ♫ Because I thought I'd gone the wrong way, and I really hate to get lost. Though, it's a bit strange, since I can't feel the presence of any Gods around here! Yeah, because that's why we're here, to catch Gods, and especially the big and strong ones, so we can take them back to our world!
Yes, 'we'. I'm not alone! Master is with me-- . . . eh? He's not here . . . Ooooi! Master? Master where are you? Oooooi . . . ! D-did I let go of him traveling in the water again?! He can't swim-- MASTER YOU CAN'T SWIM IF YOU'RE DEAD YOU NEED TO WAKE UP AND TELL ME FIRST! I keep telling him to learn how to swim, because this always happens. It's his own fault that he's lost! This is bad, because he really gets into a lot of trouble on his own. Master really doesn't understand very complicated things and starts a lot of fights, so I need to find him quickly!
Aaah... I'm really hungry too. I don't want to be left behind, but I want to find foooood . . . and I have no money because we never do. This really really sucks. --wait. It's free? Really? That's so nice of you! Where can I find this wonderful place~? Ah, of course I want to eat! This 'Tuesday Soup' sounds awesome! Yes, yes, then this mess hall it is first! On the other side of the pond... ah, well I can just walk over it, it's faster. If I could just find a good spot . . . oi!
There you are, Master-- AH! You're molting! What happened?! You can't be molting, that's wrong. Look this way, I need to-- Oh, you're not that guy. Stop scaring me like that. I almost had a heart attack! But why do you all look like that? The only ones who are rotten are deceased people, and there are so many of you too. Is this really a place where living things are, because it feels like I haven't seen many of them. It's a little scary . . . I just wanted to find that octopus, not walking corpses! Oh yes, that's right, that's why I'm here, as I said. Because of the octopus God who's said to live here. It must be powerful to hide its presence so well; it wasn't even in any of the water when we got here. Eh? How I came here? Through the water, of course! See? I can walk on it, right? What? No, it's just regular water, not wine. I don't understand what you are talking about.
Oh, and by the way, the gate guards you've got here look so much different from ours. The ones standing by the pond, over there. Is it normal that they are purple? Lesser Gods are not usually that flashy . . . of course, there are a lot of different ones, so I could be wrong. Yep! Eight million Gods, and we got to catch them all!
Ooh? Is Pokémon a kind of God? Ahaha, I've never heard of that one before~ ♪
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Character: Shadowchild
Series: Digger
Character Age: Unknown, but likely less than a year old.
Canon: Shadowchild was born from the body of a white bird in a forest near a human village, a hyena tribe, and a temple to the god Ganesh. It is a small creature made of living darkness who eats the shadows - or the negative thoughts and emotions - of other beings. This is usually a fatal process. Shadowchild quickly discovered that it was not like any other creatures in the forest, most of whom feared and rejected it. Curious, it set out to discover exactly what it was and in the process it befriended a wombat named Digger. Digger eventually hypothesized that it was (maybe) a feral demon child. Seeing that it was a very powerful and largely amoral young creature, who was more or less raising itself, the wombat took it under her wing and did her best to answer its questions and especially to teach it to be good.
Shadowchild is innocent and eager to please; it takes a great amount of pride in carefully following the ethical guidelines it has learned. It is very scrupulous, but also very literal-minded, and it struggles to grasp concepts such as moral ambiguity. Like any child, it has many questions about the world around it, and it will ask them to anyone it sees; it has no concept of "stranger danger." It can defend itself if attacked, but it prefers to avoid confrontations altogether, usually by shifting into a monstrous form in order to frighten the enemy away. More than anything, Shadowchild simply wants to have friends to talk to - and maybe someday, to find its own kind.
Sample Post:
Excuse me! Miss Bird! I don't suppose you can talk?
You can? Wow! I've never met a bird who could talk before. You have pretty feathers too. Most of the birds in the forest are just brown. What kind of bird are you? A toucan? Neat! I'm a demon! Well, probably. I don't really know yet. I've never met another demon before, so I don't exactly know what they look like. Have you seen any demons? Do you know what they are? Oh...that's okay. Nobody else did, either. I've been looking for one for a while now. That's why I came all the way out here!
I don't really know where I am now, though...
What? Okay, but what's a summer camp? Oooh! That sounds like fun! Can I stay, too? You said there's lots of different people there, so maybe some of them are demons! I really hope they are. I can finally ask if I'm one, too. Then maybe they'll talk to me, and we can go eat shadows together!
Oh, yes, shadows. Everything alive has light, so everything has shadows. They taste different, too. Like those plants over there, their shadows are kinda plain. No subtleties of flavor at all. I like oak shadows better. Their shadows get all deep and dappled as they age. The trees here are kinda weird, though. I went past one earlier, and it tried to grab me! Its branches moved just like hands! Its shadows were odd, too, all wriggly. I was going to eat it, but I decided not to. It was just too neat.
Look, here come some humans! They're a little strange looking, huh? And their shadows are very strange. Kinda like there isn't any light at all in them. Just little wispy pieces of shadow clinging to them like a broken spider web. Maybe they used to have real shadows, and that's all that's left? I wonder how that happened? Hmmm. I eat shadows, but I don't eat light. Maybe something ate their light and left their shadows behind? I can see why they wouldn't want them. They don't look very filling. I am kinda hungry, though, and here's an awful lot of them. Enough to make a good meal. I wonder what they taste like? I'm going to go see!
Eugh. That wasn't good at all. I don't think their shadows agree with me. They looked like they'd be dry, but they tasted all slimy and wet. Kinda like how a slug looks. I think maybe they were rotten. I didn't even know shadows could be rotten.
I don't feel so well now. Is this what being sick is like?
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Character: Female protagonist. (Note: The female protagonist currently has no canon name. There are a number of different fanon names; for the purposes of this app, I am going with Minako Arisato.)
Series: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable
Age: 16-17
Canon: Stop me if you’ve heard this before: between midnight and 12:01AM there exists an extra hidden hour. During this so-called “Dark Hour,” beings called Shadows reign supreme, targeting any unfortunate human who happens to be available. That’s where SEES comes in. SEES is a small group of high school students who spend the Dark Hour killing Shadows and saving people’s lives in large part through the use of Personas, aspects of one’s psyche which potentially grant the user a great deal of power. These Personas are typically summoned by shooting oneself in the head with a gun-like “evoker.” As one does.
Minako is friendly and cheerful, always willing to lend a helping hand to someone who needs it - whether it’s finding a lost pen or helping a child come to terms with her parents’ divorce. Her open demeanor has led to her making a wide variety of friends - from fellow students, to an alcoholic Buddhist monk, to an unscrupulous businessmen, all of whom seem to come away from their encounters with her somehow better off than they were. She’s able to stay calm in stressful situations, preferring not to dwell on things when she can do something about them. And she somehow finds the time to lead the team on numerous excursions to fight the Shadows in between her studies, socializing with her friends, occasional part-time jobs, and bonding with teammates via their favorite sentai show. She even manages to find the time to take the dorm dog out for nightly walks and slurp down the odd bowl of ramen with one of the guys. And once she decides on a course of action, she doesn’t give up easily - which is fortunate, because she may be all that stands between the human race and annihilation.
Note: Phoenix Ranger Featherman R is a sentai show in the Persona ‘verse.
Sample Entry: Hi! Are you Augghra? Oh, good! You’re just the person I was looking for. I’ve been assigned to be your camp mentor - kind of like a surrogate big sister. It’s nice to meet you! You know, I’m supposed to take you trick-or-treating next month, but it looks like you’ve got a jump on the holiday. That’s a really amazing zombie costume! ...Oh. It’s not a costume. Um. That’s - I’m sorry.
Oh, please don’t look so sad, sweetheart - I didn’t mean to frighten you. You’re not worried that I’m scared of you, are you? Because really, I’m not. I mean, I’ve never really met a zombie before, so I was kind of startled, but I don’t think you’re scary at all - well, unless you want to be scary, in which case we can work on it. Besides, everyone dies, you know? Yeah, it’s a scary thought, especially if you haven’t been through it, but that just makes life more precious. A good friend taught me that. And you - you’ve gotten a second chance of sorts. That’s a precious gift, too. And it makes you really special, as far as I’m concerned. I mean, I don’t imagine life as a zombie is the easiest thing, what with the physical changes you’ve gone through and all, not to mention the way living people tend to react to zombies, but the world is so full of wonderful things. Even a lot of living people forget that.
But this is kind of a hard thing to talk about, especially since we’ve just met, so why don’t we try to do something fun instead? Hey, have you heard of Phoenix Ranger Featherman R? We could play that! Hmmm... Did I confuse you? Your eyes are a bit glazed over. Unless they’re that way normally... well, anyway, why don’t I explain it to you? The Featherman R team are like superheroes! They dress up in masks and costumes and save the world from bad guys with their superpowers, and each one has their own color to wear. There’s red, blue, yellow, black, and pink - red is the leader. What’s your favorite color, sweetie? Purple, hmm? No, it’s fine! See, in a lot of shows like this, rangers with different colors will show up. Like green, or white. Purple’s a fabulous color; you have good taste. Now, pick a color for me, okay? Don’t worry - I’m not going to get mad at you, no matter what color you choose. I just want to know what you think. It doesn’t have to be one of the “official” colors, either... Color of brains? Well, okay. I’ve got to admit I never would have thought of that one.
Now, normally there’d be some sort of cool theme music, too, but, well, we’ll just have to use our imaginations there. Besides, I think we’re pretty powerful even without it. Now let’s go stop some bad guys and save the world!
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Character: Shay
Series: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Character Age: 16
Canon: Humanity was a plague, violent and greedy... until somebody released an artificial bacteria that made all the petroleum fuel on earth blow up when exposed to oxygen, and almost everyone died. But that was centuries ago. People know better now -- they recycle everything, live in smallish, self-contained cities with capped populations, have shiny futuristic technology, and turn everybody uniformly, stunningly Pretty (and brain-damaged) at age sixteen with drastic surgery. There’s no war, no disease, no poverty... but also very little freedom of choice, and a whole lot of secret government skullduggery.
Shay never wanted to turn Pretty; she didn’t need a cookie cutter face or a vapid, compliant new brain. Always independent and temperamental, she ran away before her sixteenth birthday to join a group of rebels living in the wild. Unfortunately, the secret police forced her best friend to track her down, and destroyed the rebels’ home. Shay’s subsequent Pretty operation repressed her anger and feelings of betrayal, but her buried rage allowed her to rewire her brain, impressing the City’s keepers into giving her different surgery -- making her, more or less, into a superpowered psycho ninja cop. Later, the psycho part was cured and she helped take down her City’s oppressive government. Now she is an emancipated teenage ninja: the best kind! Shay speaks in a slangy, futuristic valley girl dialect, which in Camp’s ancient culture may mask her intelligence and tactical abilities.
Note: “Rusty” refers to pre-apocalyptic culture.
Sample Post
Log: 7:12pm: Well, this is bogus. I mean, I like the wild as much as anybody, but this is a total monoculture. I am so over corn already. The whole seeing crops out in the open thing was neat for like, an hour, but it’s just so... land-wasting. Some bubbly mission this is turning out to be. Gee, I’d sure like to find out if the Emerald City wants to open immigration talks with my hometown, if my coordinates weren’t apparently totally missing! Why couldn’t they have given this trick to somebody who’d actually heard of the place? There’s nothing even close to a city here. All I see is some kind of dead-tree Rusty town and a sign saying “Not In Kansas”. I’m supposed to be meeting live people, not brushing up on my archaeology.
Wait -- seems like there’s something moving out there after all. Better switch on the sneak suit. Just stay icy, Shay-la, and try not to spook them. Those are humans down there, alright, but they’ve got some seriously messed up surge going on. They look like the zombies from old horror movies. Very icky. Why would you do surge to make yourself look diseased? That is majorly weird, and kind of taste-missing, if you ask me. I get wanting to keep a unique face, but a zombie plague clique? I don’t really see the point, unless it’s like a political statement thing. Still, if there’s surgery, then obviously there’s a hospital, which means there’s some kind of city here somewhere. So, duh, Shay, start looking for it.
Log: 8:19pm: Still no trace of a city, but there is definitely something beyond weird going on down here. One extra freaky fact: there are live cows in the fields! Aren’t those supposed to be extinct since, like, centuries ago? The way these people are living is definitely Rusty level technology or lower. I wonder if they eat those cows. I’m getting this creepy feeling like maybe that zombie clique isn’t a clique after all... maybe those people are really sick. Guess I’m glad I went under the knife for at least one reason; otherwise I could have caught it by now, if it’s airborne. Thank you, modern immune system upgrades. I mean... living right next to animals bigger than you? How safety-missing is that? They probably all have some kind of brain eating crazy cow disease.
Oh, come on, Shay-la, get a grip. Crazy cow disease? Like that could ever happen.
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Character: Yuuri Shibuya
Series: Kyou Kara Maou
Character Age 15
Canon: KKM is about Yuuri, a boy from Earth, who gets flushed down a toilet and ends up in a magical world, by traveling through water, where he finds out he’s the demon king. A world with odd customs and odder creatures, where a slap to a face can leave two boys engaged, picking up a knife is an acceptation for a duel, and koala bears are huge and vicious. Fortunately, he is helped along through his the trials and tribulations of being king in a very strange world by his loyal followers (aka man harem).
Yuuri is happy-go-lucky, a bit oblivious, has a big heart, and is always up for anything baseball. He will always help anyone out, be it friend or foe, he’s also rather naïve that way, and wants to, and usually will, trust anyone. Once he ends up becoming king, and even before, he tries his best to keep peace between everyone. He is very persistent and is not afraid of standing up for something it he believes it's the right thing.
Sample Post:
Pfffblt! Ugh. You’d think I’d be used to the water travel by now. All I wanted to do was get my baseball back! I really need to stop hitting it into the lake. Guess I’m back in Shin Makoku now though… At least I hope so, I don’t really remember any of the lakes being near a cornfield, and usually Conrad or Wolfram or someone is around to greet me-oh wait. There’s a Kohi, I guess he came to greet me inste-Ah! Ahem! I mean, uh. H-hey mister, you’ve got some skin on you… sort of. I mean a lot of it is falling off, but uh, are you related to the Kohi? They look just like skeletons with wings, which is sort of what you look like, minus the wings of course… well you did from a distance at least, I mean I just thought you guys could’ve started wearing clothing... You know what, hold on, lemme just get out of this pond first.
Ah, actually it’s a little steep, do you think you could give me a hand? Thanks-Oh god, that’s just your hand!! I wasn’t being literal! I just wanted you to let me grab your hand and you could help pull me out! Wait, no! What are you doing?! Keep your other hand, please! I’ll manage getting out myself!
Oh phew, all right, I feel better now. Oh! Here’s your hand back! Um… thanks for trying to help. I think. ...Uh, hello? Did you hear me? Oh! Sorry, sorry, I forgot the proper greeting, didn’t I? I was just surprised with the hand incident, but right, this is one of those places where you have customs of greeting and such, right? If only I could figure out where he (...she?) was from... Maybe I can just use a proper greeting for somewhere else and they‘ll accept it? Okay, so on the one foot. Hopping, hopping, I’m hopping, stop to touch my toes, and then the spin, and…. Was it a bow or a curtsy? Let’s go with bow. And that‘s it….Right? Oh! Yes, hello, I’m glad I got that right, I’m still not the best with all the rituals and proper customs and everything. I am trying my best though! Now that we’ve gone through the proper greetings, where exactly are we? Hm? I’m sorry, could you re-groan that? Camp? I’m at a camp? Camp Fu- oh. I think I would’ve remembered a name like that in the history books. Is it a new camp? Or maybe it’s really old and I haven’t gotten that far back yet. I’ll definitely ask all about it when I get back home! Which reminds me, can we head somewhere so that I can send a message to my friends? I should really let them know where I am, I wouldn’t want them to get worried and I have important duties and such and…
Oooh, is that a baseball field?
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Character: Lyner Barsett
Series: Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia
Character Age: 18
Canon: So you know about that whole theory about humanity will be the reason why the world will go all to hell? Well that’s Ar Tonelico history in a nutshell that happened many many years ago which made people forced to live in large towers that stuck over the clouds by using the awesomeness of science and a bit of magic due to the planet’s surface not being inhabitable because of the pollution. Aside from humans going through this situation, we also have an all-female race known as Reyvateils tagging along.. Ar Tonelico is pretty much an RPG filled with good guys, corrupt people and lolis that will demand you to dive inside them with a hint of innuendo on the side. The key points in Ar Tonelico though is that you’re going through a world that involves facing racism, betrayal, people never being able to stay dead, and choosing the third option!
So about this Lyner person. He’s a pretty cool guy. Going on adventures, having a world tour while on a mission, forgetting about people he knew in his childhood being his most notable features. Unlike most knights who are stiff and strict, Lyner is pretty chill for the most part and only serious if the situation at hand is serious and being the main character, he beats the average NPC in having a conversation. His view on the world is pretty much an idealistic one where he believes that humans and reyvateils can live together in harmony while snacking on fatty snacks called Funbuns that nobody really likes at all except him, but he will fight hard to make sure that dream becomes a reality. And whenever he is not busy doing his duties as a knight, playing boy scout or snacking on Funbuns, he is busy being lazy. Lyner also happens to be very good when it comes using grathmelding, which is simply a way to create items ranging from healing items to weapons to other materials to make other stuff by combining ingredients to form an object.
Note: Occasionally in the game small ‘note’ pop ups often appear to explain the game mechanics if the characters themselves aren’t explaining them.
Sample Post:
Man, talk about being worn out so quickly after going through with all of those exercises. But I did agree to Miss Sayre that I’ll do some grathmelding real soon for being an invited guest here, no point in complaining on being tired when there is still more work to do. Still, with all of the things I’ve seen lately here in this camp then there’d be no harm in making something of my own since I’m going to stay here for quite a while! Good thing I’ve kept this last Funbun with me for emergencies! I’m pretty sure I can make a Funbun tree since I have the recipe card and just the right material to use make one!
Pretty sure any plain ol’ seed would do the trick for base element. Next would be some swampy muddy dirt to for both moisture and soil for it to grow properly which should be just about anyway Next would be some swampy muddy dirt for both moisture and soil for it to grow properly which should just about anywhere. Aaaah let’s see what else this card calls for… oh! Hey! I guess adding in this ‘rotten eye” shouldn’t be a problem since a lot of monsters tend to drop these things… and other gross stuff. At least it’s not a dragon heart and finally for the key part it all, one very special Funbun. Man, it kind of hurts me to see it get all dirty like this but it’s for a good cause. And hey! That means I can get ALL the Funbuns I could ever want! I wonder if anyone else would want to try some too? If not then more for me. I’m just glad I won’t have to pay for snacks ever again! Uh-oh. I’m starting to drool thinking about it. Better get busy. I can’t wait to see this thing start popping out Funbuns from it’s branches with all of it sweet and deliciousness-- oh right. I should start digging and mixing all of this together… here looks like a good spot as any. Alright, maaaaking a hole and planting in the stuff heeeeeere and all done!
It might take a while to grow but I’m sure the camp owner would be excited to see it when it’s all finished grow…ing? What the… why is the ground movin-- Whoa! WhoaWHOAWHOOOOOAA! Where did you come from?! Tch! I was hoping there weren’t any monsters around in this part of the camp-- hey wait! You just came from the ground. … OH GOD! OH MY GOD! DOES THAT MEAN YOU’RE MY FUNBUN TREE?! W-WHAT HAPPENED?! HOW DID MY TREE BECOME A ZOMBIE?! I FOLLOWED THE INGREDIENTS IN EXACT DETAI-- huh? Note. Twelve crushed dreams are needed for this to be successful or else it will result in automatic failure. Earning you one crushed dream. Oh give me a break here!!
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Character: Ichiyou
Series: Haigakura
Character Age: appears 20ish
Canon: So, what do you do when your country loses a couple a million gods? Train kids to sing and dance in order to retrieve them, what else? Called kashi, they learn the art of mikagura, a ritual performance of dance and song designed to lure and capture these rogue gods. Most of these gods are relatively weak and unrefined, more like demons or spirits, but some-the Lesser Gods-are stronger and more intelligent. An exceptional kashi can capture and train these Lesser Gods to work for them, to do any sort of job, from farming to fighting, controlling them with their sai, a special string of rosary beads which all kashi possess.
Cue the most useless kashi ever, Ichiyou. Yet despite having earned such a title, he somehow has two Lesser Gods in his service, Kaka and Tenkou, the latter of whom is almost always by Ichiyou's side, and winds up being his personal punching bag more often than not. Ichiyou is not only mildly abusive and belligerent, he's also tone-deaf, although what he lacks in singing ability, he makes up in dance ability and raw power. However, because he has little interest in being a proper kashi, he rarely does his job- and thus rarely has any money. His sense of morality is dubious at best, showing no shame in taking advantage of other people's good will, be they strangers or friends. It's a wonder he even has friends, with his abrasive personality and a tendency to start fights on occasion. Whatever faint glimmer of care or consideration he might have for others is entirely obscured by his somewhat scary demeanor and aggressive tendencies.
Sample Post:
Oh come on, you can't be serious... I came all the way out here for this? I was lied to, there's no actual god here! You can't just take a big old octopus, give it a cute girl's name- what kind of weird name is "Marcy" anyway?- put it in your shrine, and call it a god! That's not how it works, and that's not even what a shrine's supposed to look like. You didn't honestly think you'd fake me out, did you? If it's really that much of a pest, you shouldn't have put it there to begin with. You're not going to swindle me out of my time and effort just because you're too lazy to deal with your own problems.
Well then, that's just great. They told me this camp place had a problem, but they didn't tell me that problem was being boring and a dead end. What am I supposed to do now? If there's nothing here, I might as well just head back home and start over again. Oi, Tenkou! Get over here, we're- Wait, where the hell did he go? Lost again? I guess I can wait a while, and see if anything worthwhile shows up, or at least find someone worth talking to who can tell me what's going on here, with all the weird creatures. They're obviously not gods, or anything like that. More fakes! Why not just go with regular earth animals? Right now, it seems like someone's just trying too hard to be impressive.
Maybe I shouldn't be so surprised, even the people here are something special. I haven't seen so many undead who can't even keep it together. Literally! Leaving hands in weird places to be creepy is fine, and detaching your head to terrorize people is one thing, but letting it roll into the pond? Don't expect anything from me, I'm not going to get it for you! You're on your own. But hey, I'll pray for you to have better luck next time, how's that? Maybe you'll be a little less clumsy that way. Ehh, not that I can do much real praying without a proper shrine. So can we make it an IOU?
I'll have to take incoherent gurgling as a yes, so now that that's settled... Damn, am I starving. After all that disappointment, I guess I worked up an appetite. Maybe I should find out what this "Tuesday Special" at the cafeteria is.
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Character name: Tenkou
Series: Haigakura
Age: Looks 16-17
Canon: Once upon a time a country fell to crisis because its gods left. To catch them all and drag them back again is the job of so called kashi; people trained using a song and dance combination, mikagura, to seal the Gods into their rosaries called sai. Some kashi even keep minor Gods as servants after capturing them. The kashi Ichiyou's dance is considered perfect, but as he's completely tone-deaf, his song is horrible beyond belief. Despite this, he's got two lesser Gods at his service, one of them with a split personality, called Tenkou.
Childish, naive and with a sunny disposition, Tenkou is easy to get along with. Although he's a coward and cries very easily, he isn't late in giving Ichiyou patronizing and even angry comments, oft with a harmful result. Because Ichiyou abuses, ignores and leaves him behind to get lost during missions. In short, Tenkou is his Master's punching bag, and in Ichiyou's opinion, that's all Tenkou's good for. Unless, y'know, you need someone to take care of the evil spirits you encounter. Released from his seal, Tenkou does a complete 180 turn personality wise, and becomes a haughty, vicious and blood-thirsty creature who defies Ichiyou as often as he can, though, when least expected, his happy-go-lucky person from before pops back again, often met with a sucker punch from his Master.
Note: Manipulating water, Tenkou can among other things travel through it to different locations via wells and springs. He can even walk on it!
Sample: This is the CFUD Camp, right? Great! ♫ Because I thought I'd gone the wrong way, and I really hate to get lost. Though, it's a bit strange, since I can't feel the presence of any Gods around here! Yeah, because that's why we're here, to catch Gods, and especially the big and strong ones, so we can take them back to our world!
Yes, 'we'. I'm not alone! Master is with me-- . . . eh? He's not here . . . Ooooi! Master? Master where are you? Oooooi . . . ! D-did I let go of him traveling in the water again?! He can't swim-- MASTER YOU CAN'T SWIM IF YOU'RE DEAD YOU NEED TO WAKE UP AND TELL ME FIRST! I keep telling him to learn how to swim, because this always happens. It's his own fault that he's lost! This is bad, because he really gets into a lot of trouble on his own. Master really doesn't understand very complicated things and starts a lot of fights, so I need to find him quickly!
Aaah... I'm really hungry too. I don't want to be left behind, but I want to find foooood . . . and I have no money because we never do. This really really sucks. --wait. It's free? Really? That's so nice of you! Where can I find this wonderful place~? Ah, of course I want to eat! This 'Tuesday Soup' sounds awesome! Yes, yes, then this mess hall it is first! On the other side of the pond... ah, well I can just walk over it, it's faster. If I could just find a good spot . . . oi!
There you are, Master-- AH! You're molting! What happened?! You can't be molting, that's wrong. Look this way, I need to-- Oh, you're not that guy. Stop scaring me like that. I almost had a heart attack! But why do you all look like that? The only ones who are rotten are deceased people, and there are so many of you too. Is this really a place where living things are, because it feels like I haven't seen many of them. It's a little scary . . . I just wanted to find that octopus, not walking corpses! Oh yes, that's right, that's why I'm here, as I said. Because of the octopus God who's said to live here. It must be powerful to hide its presence so well; it wasn't even in any of the water when we got here. Eh? How I came here? Through the water, of course! See? I can walk on it, right? What? No, it's just regular water, not wine. I don't understand what you are talking about.
Oh, and by the way, the gate guards you've got here look so much different from ours. The ones standing by the pond, over there. Is it normal that they are purple? Lesser Gods are not usually that flashy . . . of course, there are a lot of different ones, so I could be wrong. Yep! Eight million Gods, and we got to catch them all!
Ooh? Is Pokémon a kind of God? Ahaha, I've never heard of that one before~ ♪
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Character: Shadowchild
Series: Digger
Character Age: Unknown, but likely less than a year old.
Canon: Shadowchild was born from the body of a white bird in a forest near a human village, a hyena tribe, and a temple to the god Ganesh. It is a small creature made of living darkness who eats the shadows - or the negative thoughts and emotions - of other beings. This is usually a fatal process. Shadowchild quickly discovered that it was not like any other creatures in the forest, most of whom feared and rejected it. Curious, it set out to discover exactly what it was and in the process it befriended a wombat named Digger. Digger eventually hypothesized that it was (maybe) a feral demon child. Seeing that it was a very powerful and largely amoral young creature, who was more or less raising itself, the wombat took it under her wing and did her best to answer its questions and especially to teach it to be good.
Shadowchild is innocent and eager to please; it takes a great amount of pride in carefully following the ethical guidelines it has learned. It is very scrupulous, but also very literal-minded, and it struggles to grasp concepts such as moral ambiguity. Like any child, it has many questions about the world around it, and it will ask them to anyone it sees; it has no concept of "stranger danger." It can defend itself if attacked, but it prefers to avoid confrontations altogether, usually by shifting into a monstrous form in order to frighten the enemy away. More than anything, Shadowchild simply wants to have friends to talk to - and maybe someday, to find its own kind.
Sample Post:
Excuse me! Miss Bird! I don't suppose you can talk?
You can? Wow! I've never met a bird who could talk before. You have pretty feathers too. Most of the birds in the forest are just brown. What kind of bird are you? A toucan? Neat! I'm a demon! Well, probably. I don't really know yet. I've never met another demon before, so I don't exactly know what they look like. Have you seen any demons? Do you know what they are? Oh...that's okay. Nobody else did, either. I've been looking for one for a while now. That's why I came all the way out here!
I don't really know where I am now, though...
What? Okay, but what's a summer camp? Oooh! That sounds like fun! Can I stay, too? You said there's lots of different people there, so maybe some of them are demons! I really hope they are. I can finally ask if I'm one, too. Then maybe they'll talk to me, and we can go eat shadows together!
Oh, yes, shadows. Everything alive has light, so everything has shadows. They taste different, too. Like those plants over there, their shadows are kinda plain. No subtleties of flavor at all. I like oak shadows better. Their shadows get all deep and dappled as they age. The trees here are kinda weird, though. I went past one earlier, and it tried to grab me! Its branches moved just like hands! Its shadows were odd, too, all wriggly. I was going to eat it, but I decided not to. It was just too neat.
Look, here come some humans! They're a little strange looking, huh? And their shadows are very strange. Kinda like there isn't any light at all in them. Just little wispy pieces of shadow clinging to them like a broken spider web. Maybe they used to have real shadows, and that's all that's left? I wonder how that happened? Hmmm. I eat shadows, but I don't eat light. Maybe something ate their light and left their shadows behind? I can see why they wouldn't want them. They don't look very filling. I am kinda hungry, though, and here's an awful lot of them. Enough to make a good meal. I wonder what they taste like? I'm going to go see!
Eugh. That wasn't good at all. I don't think their shadows agree with me. They looked like they'd be dry, but they tasted all slimy and wet. Kinda like how a slug looks. I think maybe they were rotten. I didn't even know shadows could be rotten.
I don't feel so well now. Is this what being sick is like?
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Character: Female protagonist. (Note: The female protagonist currently has no canon name. There are a number of different fanon names; for the purposes of this app, I am going with Minako Arisato.)
Series: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable
Age: 16-17
Canon: Stop me if you’ve heard this before: between midnight and 12:01AM there exists an extra hidden hour. During this so-called “Dark Hour,” beings called Shadows reign supreme, targeting any unfortunate human who happens to be available. That’s where SEES comes in. SEES is a small group of high school students who spend the Dark Hour killing Shadows and saving people’s lives in large part through the use of Personas, aspects of one’s psyche which potentially grant the user a great deal of power. These Personas are typically summoned by shooting oneself in the head with a gun-like “evoker.” As one does.
Minako is friendly and cheerful, always willing to lend a helping hand to someone who needs it - whether it’s finding a lost pen or helping a child come to terms with her parents’ divorce. Her open demeanor has led to her making a wide variety of friends - from fellow students, to an alcoholic Buddhist monk, to an unscrupulous businessmen, all of whom seem to come away from their encounters with her somehow better off than they were. She’s able to stay calm in stressful situations, preferring not to dwell on things when she can do something about them. And she somehow finds the time to lead the team on numerous excursions to fight the Shadows in between her studies, socializing with her friends, occasional part-time jobs, and bonding with teammates via their favorite sentai show. She even manages to find the time to take the dorm dog out for nightly walks and slurp down the odd bowl of ramen with one of the guys. And once she decides on a course of action, she doesn’t give up easily - which is fortunate, because she may be all that stands between the human race and annihilation.
Note: Phoenix Ranger Featherman R is a sentai show in the Persona ‘verse.
Sample Entry: Hi! Are you Augghra? Oh, good! You’re just the person I was looking for. I’ve been assigned to be your camp mentor - kind of like a surrogate big sister. It’s nice to meet you! You know, I’m supposed to take you trick-or-treating next month, but it looks like you’ve got a jump on the holiday. That’s a really amazing zombie costume! ...Oh. It’s not a costume. Um. That’s - I’m sorry.
Oh, please don’t look so sad, sweetheart - I didn’t mean to frighten you. You’re not worried that I’m scared of you, are you? Because really, I’m not. I mean, I’ve never really met a zombie before, so I was kind of startled, but I don’t think you’re scary at all - well, unless you want to be scary, in which case we can work on it. Besides, everyone dies, you know? Yeah, it’s a scary thought, especially if you haven’t been through it, but that just makes life more precious. A good friend taught me that. And you - you’ve gotten a second chance of sorts. That’s a precious gift, too. And it makes you really special, as far as I’m concerned. I mean, I don’t imagine life as a zombie is the easiest thing, what with the physical changes you’ve gone through and all, not to mention the way living people tend to react to zombies, but the world is so full of wonderful things. Even a lot of living people forget that.
But this is kind of a hard thing to talk about, especially since we’ve just met, so why don’t we try to do something fun instead? Hey, have you heard of Phoenix Ranger Featherman R? We could play that! Hmmm... Did I confuse you? Your eyes are a bit glazed over. Unless they’re that way normally... well, anyway, why don’t I explain it to you? The Featherman R team are like superheroes! They dress up in masks and costumes and save the world from bad guys with their superpowers, and each one has their own color to wear. There’s red, blue, yellow, black, and pink - red is the leader. What’s your favorite color, sweetie? Purple, hmm? No, it’s fine! See, in a lot of shows like this, rangers with different colors will show up. Like green, or white. Purple’s a fabulous color; you have good taste. Now, pick a color for me, okay? Don’t worry - I’m not going to get mad at you, no matter what color you choose. I just want to know what you think. It doesn’t have to be one of the “official” colors, either... Color of brains? Well, okay. I’ve got to admit I never would have thought of that one.
Now, normally there’d be some sort of cool theme music, too, but, well, we’ll just have to use our imaginations there. Besides, I think we’re pretty powerful even without it. Now let’s go stop some bad guys and save the world!
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Character: Shay
Series: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Character Age: 16
Canon: Humanity was a plague, violent and greedy... until somebody released an artificial bacteria that made all the petroleum fuel on earth blow up when exposed to oxygen, and almost everyone died. But that was centuries ago. People know better now -- they recycle everything, live in smallish, self-contained cities with capped populations, have shiny futuristic technology, and turn everybody uniformly, stunningly Pretty (and brain-damaged) at age sixteen with drastic surgery. There’s no war, no disease, no poverty... but also very little freedom of choice, and a whole lot of secret government skullduggery.
Shay never wanted to turn Pretty; she didn’t need a cookie cutter face or a vapid, compliant new brain. Always independent and temperamental, she ran away before her sixteenth birthday to join a group of rebels living in the wild. Unfortunately, the secret police forced her best friend to track her down, and destroyed the rebels’ home. Shay’s subsequent Pretty operation repressed her anger and feelings of betrayal, but her buried rage allowed her to rewire her brain, impressing the City’s keepers into giving her different surgery -- making her, more or less, into a superpowered psycho ninja cop. Later, the psycho part was cured and she helped take down her City’s oppressive government. Now she is an emancipated teenage ninja: the best kind! Shay speaks in a slangy, futuristic valley girl dialect, which in Camp’s ancient culture may mask her intelligence and tactical abilities.
Note: “Rusty” refers to pre-apocalyptic culture.
Sample Post
Log: 7:12pm: Well, this is bogus. I mean, I like the wild as much as anybody, but this is a total monoculture. I am so over corn already. The whole seeing crops out in the open thing was neat for like, an hour, but it’s just so... land-wasting. Some bubbly mission this is turning out to be. Gee, I’d sure like to find out if the Emerald City wants to open immigration talks with my hometown, if my coordinates weren’t apparently totally missing! Why couldn’t they have given this trick to somebody who’d actually heard of the place? There’s nothing even close to a city here. All I see is some kind of dead-tree Rusty town and a sign saying “Not In Kansas”. I’m supposed to be meeting live people, not brushing up on my archaeology.
Wait -- seems like there’s something moving out there after all. Better switch on the sneak suit. Just stay icy, Shay-la, and try not to spook them. Those are humans down there, alright, but they’ve got some seriously messed up surge going on. They look like the zombies from old horror movies. Very icky. Why would you do surge to make yourself look diseased? That is majorly weird, and kind of taste-missing, if you ask me. I get wanting to keep a unique face, but a zombie plague clique? I don’t really see the point, unless it’s like a political statement thing. Still, if there’s surgery, then obviously there’s a hospital, which means there’s some kind of city here somewhere. So, duh, Shay, start looking for it.
Log: 8:19pm: Still no trace of a city, but there is definitely something beyond weird going on down here. One extra freaky fact: there are live cows in the fields! Aren’t those supposed to be extinct since, like, centuries ago? The way these people are living is definitely Rusty level technology or lower. I wonder if they eat those cows. I’m getting this creepy feeling like maybe that zombie clique isn’t a clique after all... maybe those people are really sick. Guess I’m glad I went under the knife for at least one reason; otherwise I could have caught it by now, if it’s airborne. Thank you, modern immune system upgrades. I mean... living right next to animals bigger than you? How safety-missing is that? They probably all have some kind of brain eating crazy cow disease.
Oh, come on, Shay-la, get a grip. Crazy cow disease? Like that could ever happen.
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Character: Yuuri Shibuya
Series: Kyou Kara Maou
Character Age 15
Canon: KKM is about Yuuri, a boy from Earth, who gets flushed down a toilet and ends up in a magical world, by traveling through water, where he finds out he’s the demon king. A world with odd customs and odder creatures, where a slap to a face can leave two boys engaged, picking up a knife is an acceptation for a duel, and koala bears are huge and vicious. Fortunately, he is helped along through his the trials and tribulations of being king in a very strange world by his loyal followers (aka man harem).
Yuuri is happy-go-lucky, a bit oblivious, has a big heart, and is always up for anything baseball. He will always help anyone out, be it friend or foe, he’s also rather naïve that way, and wants to, and usually will, trust anyone. Once he ends up becoming king, and even before, he tries his best to keep peace between everyone. He is very persistent and is not afraid of standing up for something it he believes it's the right thing.
Sample Post:
Pfffblt! Ugh. You’d think I’d be used to the water travel by now. All I wanted to do was get my baseball back! I really need to stop hitting it into the lake. Guess I’m back in Shin Makoku now though… At least I hope so, I don’t really remember any of the lakes being near a cornfield, and usually Conrad or Wolfram or someone is around to greet me-oh wait. There’s a Kohi, I guess he came to greet me inste-Ah! Ahem! I mean, uh. H-hey mister, you’ve got some skin on you… sort of. I mean a lot of it is falling off, but uh, are you related to the Kohi? They look just like skeletons with wings, which is sort of what you look like, minus the wings of course… well you did from a distance at least, I mean I just thought you guys could’ve started wearing clothing... You know what, hold on, lemme just get out of this pond first.
Ah, actually it’s a little steep, do you think you could give me a hand? Thanks-Oh god, that’s just your hand!! I wasn’t being literal! I just wanted you to let me grab your hand and you could help pull me out! Wait, no! What are you doing?! Keep your other hand, please! I’ll manage getting out myself!
Oh phew, all right, I feel better now. Oh! Here’s your hand back! Um… thanks for trying to help. I think. ...Uh, hello? Did you hear me? Oh! Sorry, sorry, I forgot the proper greeting, didn’t I? I was just surprised with the hand incident, but right, this is one of those places where you have customs of greeting and such, right? If only I could figure out where he (...she?) was from... Maybe I can just use a proper greeting for somewhere else and they‘ll accept it? Okay, so on the one foot. Hopping, hopping, I’m hopping, stop to touch my toes, and then the spin, and…. Was it a bow or a curtsy? Let’s go with bow. And that‘s it….Right? Oh! Yes, hello, I’m glad I got that right, I’m still not the best with all the rituals and proper customs and everything. I am trying my best though! Now that we’ve gone through the proper greetings, where exactly are we? Hm? I’m sorry, could you re-groan that? Camp? I’m at a camp? Camp Fu- oh. I think I would’ve remembered a name like that in the history books. Is it a new camp? Or maybe it’s really old and I haven’t gotten that far back yet. I’ll definitely ask all about it when I get back home! Which reminds me, can we head somewhere so that I can send a message to my friends? I should really let them know where I am, I wouldn’t want them to get worried and I have important duties and such and…
Oooh, is that a baseball field?
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Character: Lyner Barsett
Series: Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia
Character Age: 18
Canon: So you know about that whole theory about humanity will be the reason why the world will go all to hell? Well that’s Ar Tonelico history in a nutshell that happened many many years ago which made people forced to live in large towers that stuck over the clouds by using the awesomeness of science and a bit of magic due to the planet’s surface not being inhabitable because of the pollution. Aside from humans going through this situation, we also have an all-female race known as Reyvateils tagging along.. Ar Tonelico is pretty much an RPG filled with good guys, corrupt people and lolis that will demand you to dive inside them with a hint of innuendo on the side. The key points in Ar Tonelico though is that you’re going through a world that involves facing racism, betrayal, people never being able to stay dead, and choosing the third option!
So about this Lyner person. He’s a pretty cool guy. Going on adventures, having a world tour while on a mission, forgetting about people he knew in his childhood being his most notable features. Unlike most knights who are stiff and strict, Lyner is pretty chill for the most part and only serious if the situation at hand is serious and being the main character, he beats the average NPC in having a conversation. His view on the world is pretty much an idealistic one where he believes that humans and reyvateils can live together in harmony while snacking on fatty snacks called Funbuns that nobody really likes at all except him, but he will fight hard to make sure that dream becomes a reality. And whenever he is not busy doing his duties as a knight, playing boy scout or snacking on Funbuns, he is busy being lazy. Lyner also happens to be very good when it comes using grathmelding, which is simply a way to create items ranging from healing items to weapons to other materials to make other stuff by combining ingredients to form an object.
Note: Occasionally in the game small ‘note’ pop ups often appear to explain the game mechanics if the characters themselves aren’t explaining them.
Sample Post:
Man, talk about being worn out so quickly after going through with all of those exercises. But I did agree to Miss Sayre that I’ll do some grathmelding real soon for being an invited guest here, no point in complaining on being tired when there is still more work to do. Still, with all of the things I’ve seen lately here in this camp then there’d be no harm in making something of my own since I’m going to stay here for quite a while! Good thing I’ve kept this last Funbun with me for emergencies! I’m pretty sure I can make a Funbun tree since I have the recipe card and just the right material to use make one!
Pretty sure any plain ol’ seed would do the trick for base element. Next would be some swampy muddy dirt to for both moisture and soil for it to grow properly which should be just about anyway Next would be some swampy muddy dirt for both moisture and soil for it to grow properly which should just about anywhere. Aaaah let’s see what else this card calls for… oh! Hey! I guess adding in this ‘rotten eye” shouldn’t be a problem since a lot of monsters tend to drop these things… and other gross stuff. At least it’s not a dragon heart and finally for the key part it all, one very special Funbun. Man, it kind of hurts me to see it get all dirty like this but it’s for a good cause. And hey! That means I can get ALL the Funbuns I could ever want! I wonder if anyone else would want to try some too? If not then more for me. I’m just glad I won’t have to pay for snacks ever again! Uh-oh. I’m starting to drool thinking about it. Better get busy. I can’t wait to see this thing start popping out Funbuns from it’s branches with all of it sweet and deliciousness-- oh right. I should start digging and mixing all of this together… here looks like a good spot as any. Alright, maaaaking a hole and planting in the stuff heeeeeere and all done!
It might take a while to grow but I’m sure the camp owner would be excited to see it when it’s all finished grow…ing? What the… why is the ground movin-- Whoa! WhoaWHOAWHOOOOOAA! Where did you come from?! Tch! I was hoping there weren’t any monsters around in this part of the camp-- hey wait! You just came from the ground. … OH GOD! OH MY GOD! DOES THAT MEAN YOU’RE MY FUNBUN TREE?! W-WHAT HAPPENED?! HOW DID MY TREE BECOME A ZOMBIE?! I FOLLOWED THE INGREDIENTS IN EXACT DETAI-- huh? Note. Twelve crushed dreams are needed for this to be successful or else it will result in automatic failure. Earning you one crushed dream. Oh give me a break here!!
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