While we're bitching about IC details;

There's a time and a place for edginess. In a Dark Fantasy setting, it can work. But the amount of times there's an anime high school setting and somebody tries to bring in a character who carries swords or knives, grew up on the streets in a gang and/or was abused as a kid.

We get it, you think that's cool and you want to be a snowflake. We're all laughing at you.