[Dead, Pre-Reboot IntCheck, Please Ignore] Persona - Academic Akrasia

[HereComesTheSnow]

who's the fool

[demonspade64]

who's the fool

@HereComesTheSnow

Probably the host.

[Inkd Bull]

@CrimmyAlrighty then! Thank you.

SooOoo... Who is interested in joining team Reiji setting up the best group evar!!!! a group?

[Rakurai]

I'm surprised to find myself still lurking about...
But yeah, just thought I'd chip in on the whole splitting into groups aspect.

No matter how competent a GM Crimmy is, running a roleplay ultimately comes down to the players themselves. AKA "How well your characters interact with one another."
So it's good to see some initiative.

Unfortunately I don't support team Reiji
... I don't know if splitting into solid teams would be such a great idea.
I mean if people are going to stick to small cliques, you might as well grab half the players and start up another Persona roleplay~ (Sarcasm, I'm not actually suggesting this). xD
I guess smaller friendship groups are inevitable, but it'd be nice to see people being more liberal and flexible when it comes to character relations.

[banjoanjo]

@Rakurai

so are you going to join or are you just gonna keep making random comments?

[Rakurai]

Not sure if I'll join yet xD
Hence the reason I'm lurking about
I'm interested in joining, but have a few concerns I'm trying to figure out before I properly put down a character.
So I guess I'll keep making random comments? :P

[banjoanjo]

fair enough

[Crimmy]

IC/OOC goes up tomorrow. Well, it's 1am at the moment for me, so therefore expect it within the next twenty-four hours.

[Rosalite]

I think my 2 cents about the group thing: it's definitely easier to split into smaller groups--which kind of ends up happening naturally when there are a lot of characters in the same space anyways--but I'd love to randomize the teams every time, at least in the beginning. I think this gives more of a opportunity for everyone to play with everyone else and to test out different dynamics!

[Mistress Dizzy]

I think my 2 cents about the group thing: it's definitely easier to split into smaller groups--which kind of ends up happening naturally when there are a lot of characters in the same space anyways--but I'd love to randomize the teams every time, at least in the beginning. I think this gives more of a opportunity for everyone to play with everyone else and to test out different dynamics!

@Rosalite

I think that's a great idea. Mixing up the dynamics keeps things fresh.

[Onarax]

Regarding the groups, when Crimmy and I are talking about them, we are referring to the naturally tendency of players to group up. Both of us have a lot of experience in an off site game where there's like 40 players, most of whom control multiple characters, so dealing with large groups isn't too difficult.

But yeah, none of the groups would be solid so to speak but rather a case of almost right place right time. Some of them will be more naturally as characters gravitate to one another, and some will more random as the circumstances of the event mean a couple people just happen to be in the same area.

Long story short, I wouldn't worry about the size of the game impeding our ability to GM or making the game flow less smoothly. Trust me, we've dealt with larger.

[Rakurai]

Well if everyone that's currently submitted a character continues to stick around there's 12 characters (11+Crimmy) so would people want to stick to the traditional 4x3, or expand it to 6x2?
Or would it just be whoever clicks, clicks? xD

Rosalite's idea of randomizing teams sounds great, though who'd do the randomizing, Crimmy?
Or would it be more along the lines of friendship groups with the occasional switch in/out?
I like the idea, just not sure how it'd be implemented :P

Edit: 13, forgot about Onarax xD

[Krayzikk]

"Sis, cover your ears."

Daisuke Miyamoto

Name: Daisuke Miyamoto
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Arcana: Strength
Equipment: School uniform, work uniform, bicycle. Also a pretty standard smartphone, a set of boxing gloves, and a pair of knuckledusters a friend once gave him as a joke.
Skills: Good runner, pretty strong, and a shockingly effective brawler. Not because he’s exceptionally skilled (though he doesn’t lack too much in that regard, either) but because Daisuke is known to never, ever stay down. Efficient worker, too, and one of the best in his restaurant. Almost supernatural ability to commute from home, to school, to work, to home in exceptionally low amounts of time.
Appearance: A little taller than most young men his age, Daisuke could probably be called handsome. If you’re not one of the people who only get to see his face when it’s schooled into an expression that could be called “demonic smirk”. That’s an admittedly small group, though. Most people see the casually irreverent grin, set under bright green eyes and slightly untidy brown hair. He wears the school uniform (begrudgingly), but the jacket doesn’t usually stay fastened. Or necessarily actually on his body. A pair of sunglasses are usually tucked into his chest pocket, and they usually go on his face the instant he’s outside. When he doesn’t have to wear the uniform, he generally defaults to jeans, a simple shirt, and a black jacket. An outfit that generally shows his musculature much more easily.

Much less commonly, mostly because he works far from the school, closer to his own neighborhood (and because his pride would take an irreparable hit if someone did) he can be found almost every afternoon in a fast food uniform in the low-income district’s most efficient McDonalds.
Personality: At a glance, most people would say ‘delinquent’. Daisuke is not a meek young man, and doesn’t seem like he’s ever been afraid to speak his mind in his life. He doesn’t go looking for trouble, but he generally seems to find it anyway. If someone has thrown down the gauntlet, verbally or physically, he won’t hesitate to pick it up. He has no patience for bullies, either, or arrogant people. He doesn’t strike most people as exceptionally bright, either, and his grades are pretty average.

Beyond that first glance, though, Daisuke is driven to succeed. He works his job enthusiastically and without complaint, and never misses an assignment for school no matter how little time he has. He has an exceptionally soft spot, albeit one rarely glimpsed, for the downtrodden. And his little sister. Especially his little sister. Most people who get to know him would agree that there aren’t many people you could trust more to have your back, even if he wouldn’t admit it.
Biography: If the Miyamotos were ever wealthy, it was a long time ago. That’s not to say they don’t get by; Daisuke’s parents work hard, and they make enough money to support their family. Their frugal spending ensures they always have a little to fall back on, but even the most efficient expenditures can’t make more money out of thin air. Daisuke and his little sister, born three years after him, grew up in Shikatsu’s lower income districts. Neither their neighborhood nor their school were the nicest of places, and if you didn’t keep your wits you were liable to lose your money. The first time someone tried to rob a young Daisuke of his money, he capitulated out of fear for the consequences. And the second time. And the third time. Then he started to decide he’d had enough. His sister went to the same school, and he realized it wasn’t the example he wanted to set. Timidity, he decided, had never gotten a Miyamoto anywhere. The fourth time he refused, and earned himself a bruise or two and a trip to the headmaster’s office with his would-be robber. The fifth time he hit back. And after the fifth, despite some disciplinary action, his lunch money was never unsafe again.

That time as a little kid pretty much set the tone for the rest of Daisuke’s life. Bold, stubborn, and the antithesis of timid. He had a little sister looking up to him, and that made the almost larger than life refusal to leave bullies be worth it. Not that it was all sunshine and roses. Those visits to the headmaster weren’t the last, and as he got older playground scuffles turned into schoolyard brawls.

Which he just couldn’t keep up. He had a job to hang onto, almost the instant he was in high school. The fast food industry wasn’t much, but it paid. Education was paramount to the young Miyamotos’ parents, too, and they started pressuring him to perform better in school. So he forced himself to mellow out a little. Employ a little more diplomacy before he jumped straight to “punch the problem in the face”. His parents’ frugal habits had paid off, too, enough for him (and his sister, when she was old enough) to get into Uchima Senior High instead of the closer, less prestigious school he had been attending. Keeping on top of it all tends to take a lot of his time, but hey.

He had an example to set.

Persona
Name: Benkei, formerly Oniwaka
Appearance:

My Hider

Traits:
-Reflects: -
-Absorbs: Fire
-Void: -
-Resist:Physical
-Weak: Electricity
Abilities:
-Evil Touch
-Cleave
-Bash
-Single Shot

[HereComesTheSnow]

I like him

[Suku]

benkei huh now we need yoshitsune to make a appearance and Taira

edit
looking at all the char sheets my char is going to have a really hard time fitting in with anyone at this rate lol

[banjoanjo]

Me too

[Krayzikk]

I like him

@HereComesTheSnow

shenanigans intensify

benkei huh now we need yoshitsune to make a appearance and Taira

edit
looking at all the char sheets my char is going to have a really hard time fitting in with anyone at this rate lol

@Suku

I'm fond of using Benkei for things like this, to be honest. Cool history to work with.

[Crimmy]

@Krayzikk Drop one of the physical skills.

Or, you could drop Agi, seeing that Benkei's more of a physical attacker.

Also, no appearance?

[Onarax]

I'm fond of using Benkei for things like this, to be honest. Cool history to work with.

@Krayzikk

This is entirely my fault for showing him to you.

[Mistress Dizzy]

@Suku

Calling Jin being very... puzzled by your character. Like 'how can you stand wearing all of that and being all... all you know, cute and shit, on a regular basis?"

Jin has MASSIVE tsundere tendencies by the way.