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Yōkai Academy
A mysterious school hidden behind a special barrier somewhere in Japan. With facilities for Elementary and Middle school in addition to the primary High School campus, as well as dorms for all students and staff, the school is dedicated to teaching young monsters to coexist peacefully with humans. Ever since a major incident roughly 25 years ago during which the existence of monsters was revealed to humans worldwide, this mission has become ever more important. In addition to standard curriculum, the school guides young monsters in maintaining human guises and enforces a rule against revealing one's true nature (not that the rule doesn't get broken on occasion) in order to maintain secrecy among humans to avoid alarming them. In addition to this, it is forbidden for any humans to enter the school, for even though humans are now aware of monsters the school must still remain secret in the event of hostile human groups seeking to hunt monsters and destroy the ideal of peaceful coexistence. That said, there have been rumors spreading around that humans have occasionally entered the school and left unscathed, and even that some had attended as students, but these rumors have yet to be verified with concrete evidence.

As we enter a new year, we meet many more new students entering their first year of high school at Yōkai, with a special focus on those joining the school's Newspaper Club. What mysteries will the new club of sleuths uncover? What kinds of articles will they write? What kind of trouble will they inevitably involve themselves in? And why are all the pretty girls drawn to that club every year?!

This is a lighthearted RP with focus on character interaction and growth, with potential for comedy, romance, and moments of conflict and heroism that will likely increase in frequency as the story develops.

Rules/Notes
  • All Players must have a character join the Newspaper Club.
  • All Players are allowed to make up to 3 Main Characters
  • As long as at least 1 of their Main Characters is planned to join the Newspaper Club, Players may have Main Characters that do not join the club
  • Up to 1-2 characters throughout the party may be humans; all others must be monsters. If no one else makes a human character, I most likely will myself
  • Monster characters can be from any walk of mythology as long as you can provide info resources about them
  • Monster info for your characters may also be altered from the traditional info about them, as long as you detail how they differ
  • Characters may be new to the campus or students that attended the Elementary and Middle schools that are part of the campus, but they must be High Schoolers as of the start of the RP
  • Children of canon or extremely likely ships from the original work are allowed, but not preferred
  • At least 1 character per player must be a first-year student
  • Players may also play Side Characters (NPCs), and generally don't have a limit to how many they're allowed to play
  • Side Characters can range from a nameless 1-time mention to a recurring role, as long as they are shown to be having less focus in the story than Main Characters
  • Once the Characters Tab is set up there will be some up-for-grabs NPCs presented with varying levels of criteria filled out that I would like players interested to play; more information on their specific roles will be shared privately with whomever shows interest
  • IC posts should contain at least 1-2 paragraphs of content, with proper grammar and spelling; try to be as descriptive as you can
  • Although not required, it is preferable to include your character's name & image in their posts to make telling them all apart easier
  • The maximum deadline for posts is 2 weeks, but it's preferred for posts to be out in under 1. If something comes up and you need more time, please let me know and we can work around it, but otherwise if a deadline is missed without communication as to why then you may be skipped or kicked from the RP
  • Discord is available for more reliable communication, but be warned that this is my own multi-purpose server so there will be channels not dedicated to the RP. There will still be dedicated channels, which will require certain roles to access, so please acquire the yellow-colored role upon joining and let me know in the associated channel who you are so I can give you access to the channels exclusive to the RP
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Assuming there are no changes in current interest, we still have 1 slot open for the party, so if anyone sees this and is interested please let us know!
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Yay found it
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Yay found it


did I mess up the hyperlink in the Interest Check? Or did you not see that I linked it or something?
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either way, glad to have you on board, and I'm excited to see your Oni Girl in action!
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did I mess up the hyperlink in the Interest Check? Or did you not see that I linked it or something?


Just happy to see it's up
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Just happy to see it's up


oh good lol I was concerned there for a sec ^^; anyways, the Character Sheets are ready for use, so go ahead and post your character whenever you get the chance ^-^
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MAGUS!! And fellows! I live!!
You'll get three characters out of me. I think. We'll see!

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Is the GPA thing a US grading system? We don't have it in my country so I don't know how to calculate it, and afaik Japan doesn't use it. I found this and this but nothing about GPA in Japan.

Just wanna ask first before I make something up.

Another thing:
Monster characters can be from any walk of mythology as long as you can provide info resources about them
Monster info for your characters may also be altered from the traditional info about them, as long as you detail how they differ

Where on the profile can I do this? History maybe?

Also I know my image is HUGE rn, really sorry, I'll uh think of something.

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Is this still open?
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MAGUS!! And fellows! I live!!
You'll get three characters out of me. I think. We'll see!

*Edit
Is the GPA thing a US grading system? We don't have it in my country so I don't know how to calculate it, and afaik Japan doesn't use it. I found this and this but nothing about GPA in Japan.

Just wanna ask first before I make something up.

Another thing:
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Where on the profile can I do this? History maybe?

Also I know my image is HUGE rn, really sorry, I'll uh think of something.


yeah, GPA (Grade Point Average) is traditionally a US system I guess. I took inspiration for the character sheets from the official Rosa-Vam teaser application, and am mainly using it as setting fluff. The way the system works is basically each grade is given a certain amount of points:
A (90%-100%) = 4.0
B (80%-89.9%) = 3.0
C (70%-79.9%) = 2.0
D (60%-69.9%) = 1.0
F (<60%) = 0.0
All the points from each grade you get is averaged together for your GPA, so a straight A student would have a 4.0, and a student that's had mostly a mixture of A's and B's would have anywhere between 3.1-3.9, and so on. I'm excited to see your characters! :3 Also, did any of the side characters up for grabs interest you at all? As for where to add alterations, you can do that either as a spot under the Monstricity using a list tag or under Notes

Is this still open?


Yes it is! Only reason I've been inactive was due to some work constraints combined with being busy outside work, but I should be a bit more free to work on characters after tonight.
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All the points from each grade you get is averaged together for your GPA, so a straight A student would have a 4.0, and a student that's had mostly a mixture of A's and B's would have anywhere between 3.1-3.9, and so on. I'm excited to see your characters! :3 Also, did any of the side characters up for grabs interest you at all? As for where to add alterations, you can do that either as a spot under the Monstricity using a list tag or under Notes


Agh okay, got it. I'll put some grades on in a bit.

I'm interested in the Art Club President, actually! But that's gonna be four characters for me since I really wanna play my character's brothers too. So I'll probably not. :')

edit: It's done-ish.
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Agh okay, got it. I'll put some grades on in a bit.

I'm interested in the Art Club President, actually! But that's gonna be four characters for me since I really wanna play my character's brothers too. So I'll probably not. :')


Side Characters traditionally only have brief moments of relevance, unless otherwise stated. The Art Club President is one of those that will likely get referenced on occasion, but will only see a lot of actual use if and when the party decides to look into the connection. This is mostly me setting things up for later into the story when things start progressing more, so feel free to take your time deciding. Also, on the topic of the brothers: having them as Main Characters would entail putting equal attention on their day-to-day lives, whereas if you made the older 2 simply Side Characters then they'd only need to be focused on when they're interacting with Main Characters, who are preferably members of the Newspaper Club or have a lot of interaction with said members. I was hoping setting it up this way would help organize what characters get obvious priority in the story, and by extension make it easier for everyone to know how characters are categorized, as opposed to just PCs and NPCs (since I'm requesting that Players also take on some of the Side Characters).

To put it into perspective: Tsukune Aono in the original is a Main Character, whereas Ms. Nekonome is a Side Character. Tsukune gets watched by the audience most of the time, whereas Ms. Nekonome only shows up when she's relevant, such as the first day of homeroom, the time she invited Tsukune and Moka to the Newspaper Club that she managed, and when her class took a trip to the beach. This is the kind of divide of attention I'm trying to convey to our RP characters. So in your case Saburo would get full screen time as a Main Character, and his brothers would only get screen time when they're relevant to the story, like an occasional visit to check on/mess with Saburo or something, since I assume you weren't planning on all 3 of them joining or being closely involved with the Newspaper Club, right? I don't want to make you feel like I'm forcing this, just wanted to try and help explain the categorization better so you can make your decision with more understanding of my intentions for the roles ^-^
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@Lore Magus Glad to hear that! I think it's time to start working on a kitsune, then.
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@Lore Magus Glad to hear that! I think it's time to start working on a kitsune, then.


oh fun! That'll make two of us! XD nice
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I know the monsters aren't supposed to show their true forms, but are they allowed to tell each other what they are, or are they not supposed to talk about it at all?
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I know the monsters aren't supposed to show their true forms, but are they allowed to tell each other what they are, or are they not supposed to talk about it at all?


I believe the rule was that they aren't supposed to reveal what their true form is to anybody, since that would defeat the purpose of being taught to blend in with humans if they had such a loose tongue, but obviously that rule isn't exactly the best kept one lol
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just double checking, but @Bartimaeus & @RumikoOhara, are you guys still interested in this? It's been a while since I heard from you so I got a little concerned

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Yeah I haven't been entirely feeling RP-ready lately, it's been a rough few months. Probably won't be joining anything unless it really holds my attention.
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Yeah I haven't been entirely feeling RP-ready lately, it's been a rough few months. Probably won't be joining anything unless it really holds my attention.


I totally know that feeling, in fact I was experiencing it for a while until just recently, so I definitely get that. Thanks for getting back to me about it, and I hope you enjoy your breather :)

If at some point you get back into the mood to RP and think back on us, please feel free to check in! It's likely we'll have room to work you in if we don't get any more interested parties at this point, and even if we do we still might have the space so please do check in ^-^
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Thanks very much ^^
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