Alright, small update to the sheet to clarify the main thing points while also adding in the "In the Now" segment. Hopefully things are good and certainly excited to be around.

The Immortal Phoenix [+]

Name: Fujiwara no Mokou
Origin: Touhou: Imperishable Night

Appearance:

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Fujiwara no Mokou is a rather short woman with long white hair that goes all the way down to her ankles, along with bright red eyes. Her standard dress is a white shirt that has been discolored by her own fire along with a red hakama held up with suspenders, along with red shoes. Both her hair and hakama are adorned with paper talismans.

Personality: Due to her long lifespan, Mokou is effectively a loner, who generally chooses not to socialize with others if she can help it. However, this does not mean that she is cruel or mean, as she is very willing to help those who become lost, and those who get past her rough exterior find a blunt but lively soul hiding within.

This, however, does not extend to her rival Kaguya, who is still the subject of Mokou’s annoyances.

Background: Fujiwara no Mokou is often known as the immortal guardian and guide of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost and eternal rival to Kaguya Houraisan. Once a normal human, Mokou’s father became obsessed with earning Kaguya’s favor, resulting in them being humiliated by attempting to complete one of their impossible quests. As revenge, Mokou stole a Hourai Elixir from Kaguya’s family, resulting in her becoming immortal much like her rival.

For the next one thousand years, Mokou grappled with the blessing/curse of her newfound immortality, becoming ostracized by her fellow humans and living within the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, spending her time guiding those who become lost within, mastering sorceries, and regularly dueling with Kaguya, or surviving assassins sent by them. Despite the monotony, the ritual of her life had become something she was content with.

However, one day her normal life changed as Gensokyo was assaulted by a wave of light, and even the immortal Mokou was subsumed within her eternal forest.

In the Now: Due to her immortality and natural inclination to be alone, Mokou immediately found a ‘calling’ within Galem’s new world as a wanderer, exploring the world in search of a place to call home. While she has not yet found that place, she regularly takes up her old duties as a guide, often coming across lost travelers and guiding them to where they need to go, earning herself a significant reputation amongst certain groups.

In recent times, Mokou’s wanderings have led her to the Frozen Highlands… Or more specifically, ‘Krat Zoo’, answering a call for help from within.

Job: Guide for the Lost

Specialty: Mokou is a relentless fighter, combining martial arts and fire magic to create an endless array of attacks from both afar and up close, with her own glass cannon status offset by abusing her immortality to its absolute limit.

Inventory: Nothing of actual note.

Lv: 6
EXP: 0

Abilities:
- Revival: Using the power of the Hourai Elixer, Mokou is capable of returning from death indefinitely. Whenever brought down to 0 health/defeated, Mokou will revive herself back to full health in a burst of flames, damaging anyone near her. This can be used up twice before Mokou is knocked unconscious by the pain of near death.
- Phoenix Spell Cards: Mokou’s general focus in spells is her mastery over fire, which is best represented in her ability to launch waves of flame at her opponents in beautiful spectacles.

Skills:
- Hourai Elixir: Due to drinking a forbidden elixir, Mokou is gifted with eternal youth, inability to suffer illness, and can regenerate from any amount of damage dealt to her, no matter how serious or impossible, so long as she is given time. Significant pain is still capable of stopping her, however.
- Grazing: Thanks to her experience with Spell Card duels, Mokou is capable of ‘grazing’ projectiles, making her surprisingly difficult to hit at range if she actually bothers dodging.
- Master of Sorceries: Honing her skills for a thousand years, Mokou is surprisingly adept at magic, capable of noting and even reverse engineering other spells with just a glance. However, she generally sticks with her fire sorcery unless she is forced otherwise, and she still needs to dedicate time (and levels) to truly figure out how to use a new magical system.
- Immortal hobbies: Thanks to her long life, Mokou has dabbled in hundreds of small hobbies, and though she can hardly be called a master in all of them, she is certainly skilled at the ones she devoted time to, such as cooking.

Weaknesses:
- Curse of the Phoenix: Mokou’s immortality is potent, but it holds the flaw that it does not prevent fatigue or pain. Despite this, Mokou actively chooses not to engage in any acts of self preservation, burning her own life force and body to power up her attacks. As such, Mokou actively takes damage from her own attacks throughout a fight.
- Rival of Eternity: Mokou stands as the direct and sole rival to Kaguya Houraisan, and even the recreation and merging of worlds has not washed away their hatred of one another. Though they are incapable of truly killing one another, Mokou still finds herself subjected to Kaguya’s manipulations, from simple long distance pranks or assassins sent to harass her.
- Spell Card Rules: Though no longer being tied to the rules inherent to Gensokyo, Mokou still subconsciously abides by them, resulting in her ranged spells having notable holes in their patterns for enemies to dodge into.

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Approved, and welcome to the RP. You can put your sheet in the Characters tab. My updates are every Sunday evening, but you don't have to worry about getting one out this weekend if you already have plans. Would you like an invite to the Discord server?

Hello! I’m very new here. I’ve been looking around the site for a while, and this RP really caught my eye. It’s honestly exactly what I’m looking for: group setting, beautiful, great writing, interesting locations, deep lore, and video game-themed. I’d really like to join! Though it’s not unlikely that I’ll struggle at first to blend in with more experienced players, my first few posts might not be very long, and I may not be so sure of myself or what I’m doing just yet…

I’ve read through the entire OOC thread and a good chunk of character sheets. I’m not very far into the IC events yet and not at all caught up with what’s currently happening, but I’m super motivated to read through everything just so I can feel fully comfortable posting (even if it takes a week or two before I’m ready to officially jump in IC).

In the meantime, I’ve been quietly working away and have actually already prepared a character sheet (sorry! I may have gotten a bit ahead of myself…). I’ll leave it here so you can review it when you have the time. It was sooo fun coming up with abilities and skills for her. I honestly struggled a little to rein it in, but I feel like I trimmed it down to a good starting point. Please let me know if she’s doing too much! Super excited to level her up and expand her kit if I get the chance.

In particular, you may notice I left certain mechanical aspects a little vague – mostly around status effects, IC cast times, durations, and the like. Any help would be much appreciated if those things need to be more specific! I’m still figuring out what would be considered over- or under-tuned, so please feel free to guide me in balancing things however you think is fairest.

Thank you so much! Have a great day.

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'ello folks, been looking into this game since my friend Goggy is in it. I don't suppose I could submit my Warrior of Light (who isn't actually the Warrior of Light canonically, that's her girlfriend) as a character?

Do not underestimate my ability to develop unhinged OC lore.

I'll see about throwing together something this week. Yayama has a bit of a history with light-based corruption, so this ought to be interesting.

Hey there! First off, welcome to the forum in general, and welcome to the RP in particular. I'll gladly accept all your lavish praise for the World of Light, but there's no need to worry about fitting in, comparisons, or experience levels, we're all just here to have a good time and I think I speak for everyone in saying we'd be happy to have you! Kudos to you for doing your homework ahead of time, you've already pretty much gone above and beyond. It's great to see your motivation, and I'd be happy to extend you all the time and help you need to get situated and started.

Your character sheet is mostly good. A different flavor of support sniper than Sandalphon, definitely. I have no problem with your skills or abilities, I would encourage you to add more numerical details if you want, though you don't have to be too specific either. I do have a couple of small notes. One is that your starting level should be 5, the sum total of the number of starting Abilities and Skills.

The other note has to do with the 'In the Now' section. The whole 'starting cities' thing was more for new characters at the start of the RP. Right now, the PCs are divided into White Team (following the Midnight Walk on an expedition through the Frozen Highlands to Moon Mountain) and Gold Team (participating in tournaments in the fighting game inspired city Esaka). In order to link up with a group I would recommend some changes. You could keep Marie's situation at Meridi-at-han, but she would need to be in Esaka for a music festival or some such instead. Or, you could put her somewhere in our path in the Frozen Highlands.

Right now, the team is at Krat Zoo and will be for another 2-3 weeks. The next stop on the expedition, 2 weeks after we leave, is Orca Space Center. The Frozen Highlands may not work as well in terms of theming, but White Team would probably suit her better than Gold Team since she isn't a physical fighter. Of course, she doesn't need to participate in the tournaments to be part of Gold Team, but it is the main event we'll be focused on while there.

Regardless of what you decide, I'm eager to see what you can do, and to welcome you to this all-star roster!

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Hey, thank you so much!! That really means a lot. I admit this all felt super daunting at first, diving head-first into a hobby I haven’t participated in for a good while, out of the blue like this. But I feel really reassured now. Thank you and everyone else for such a warm welcome, I truly can’t wait to get started!

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I did try to lean more into an enabler/disabler role with Marie through crowd control yes, to help differentiate her from Sandalphon! And also with her being a total fish-out-of-water in close combat. Now that you mention it, maybe ‘Backline support’ does stray a little too close to Support Sniper, so I think I’ll change that to something a bit different. (I’ll also update the original Job title to Occupation, to give her an actual in-world job (class) in the RPG sense. Oh, and I’ll expand her abilities to include more precise numerical values too!)

Speaking of treading close to other characters, I realised Bowser Jr.’s signature colour is also spring green! So I’ve gone ahead and changed Marie’s to an equally fitting yellow-green instead (which might come in handy to others too, as you can simply use the name yellowgreen without needing a hex code).

And oooh, I see. Sorry, I completely missed that somehow, but it makes perfect sense!

In that case, would it be okay for her to still start at level 1, just with a single ability (her signature, Low-Tide Ink Shot)? I can imagine the progression element being really fun and a good way to keep me engaged, levelling her up and gradually unlocking more abilities and skills. And Low-Tide Ink Shot seems strong enough to give her something to do even at just level 1. So if it’s alright with you, I’d like to stick with one ability for now, then. I’ll of course hold onto the others, and maybe we could even workshop those together in the future before they debut to ensure they’re good!

I do have a question (and apologies if this sounds dumb) – I’m not entirely sure how EXP scaling works here. I think I saw a reply where you mentioned that starting at a higher level gives you immediate access to more skills, at the expense of slower levelling. Does that mean that by starting at level 1, Marie will level up faster? In other words, will it always take 10 EXP to reach the next level, or does it scale with level (e.g. 20 EXP to go from level 2 to 3)? Hope that makes sense!

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Aaah, I love the idea of her being out for a music festival somewhere in the world, that sets up the scene perfectly for her to cross paths with the team. It feels like a really natural way for her to be approached (or to approach them), since under normal circumstances I think Marie would probably keep to herself. But being out of her element in a strange, unfamiliar place sounds like the perfect motivator for her to approach and form a bond with the others. I think putting her somewhere on the path to the Frozen Highlands is a brilliant idea! I’ll spend some more time this weekend reading through the IC events, and if it’s alright, we can work on her entry point together when I feel a little more prepared. (Thank you so much again for the patience you’ve extended to me!!)

I’ve gone ahead and edited my original post to implement a lot of this feedback, and made a few other changes here and there. Hopefully now, only the In the Now section needs to be developed further, but let me know if you’d like me to change anything else!

Small note: I’ve also de-aged her to 26. Splatoon characters age in real time, so originally I was going to make her 27 (which would be her age in 2025), but I decided it makes more sense to keep her at the age she was in her last canonical appearance, since, in my mind, the events of this RP follow directly from there. I also made a few other adjustments here and there, because I can never stop myself from the urge to keep prettying things up… Aaand I just discovered you can justify and indent text… Looks so neat now…

"You trash heap!" [+]

(Mr. Ant)
"Say it with him, folks!"

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Lvl 7 - EXP 0/70

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Origin: Deltarune Chapter 3

Appearance:

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Tenna's appearance is cartoonish in nature, wearing a bright red glossy tailcoat, basic black slacks, and bright yellow dress shoes. A small lapel pin reading "TV" is over his left breast, and a bright yellow tie is carefully adorned on his chest. His head shares the appearance of a CRT television come to life, with a mouth and nose flickering on the screen at all times. Tenna's facial and body expressions are incredibly expressive!

Personality:

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Ordinarily, Tenna presents himself as an energetic and enthusiastic TV host who just wants to play games and host television shows. He is often pretty persistent about keeping his "audience" around (whether that be an actual audience, or just whoever is with him at the time) and always loves the attention that being a television brought him in the Light World. However, when he loses this attention, he becomes erratic and will often go through any means necessary to keep his audience "captivated".

Background: POSSIBLE DELTARUNE SPOILERS!!

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While in the Light World, Tenna used to be a simple CRT television set with an old gaming console, VHS player, and antenna mounted atop. During a sleepover with their friend Susie, Kris Dreemur would open a fountain to the Dark World in the living room, unbeknownst to their friend, turning inanimate objects in the room into Darkners. Tenna was the first to assume leadership of this Dark World, turning all its inhabitants into his personal TV studio crew members. Tenna was "hired by the Roaring Knight" to keep Kris and Susie in the Darkworld as his forever audience. Tenna exists in the Dark World as a dying-in-popularity TV Host and convinces Kris, Susie, and Ralsei to participate in his game show. Once they threatened to leave, however, Tenna began to panic, begging them to play with him longer, and becoming erratic and angry once they further refused, trapping them in large gatcha balls, forcing them to participate until they escaped. In their final confrontation, Tenna was promised by Susie to find him a suitable home where he could always have at least one person watching his programs in the Light World, and was donated to Mettaton by Kris.

In the Now:

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After being consumed by Galeem's light, Tenna originally found himself wandering aimlessly through the World of Light, trying to participate in whatever public entertainment he could to satiate his hunger for attention... Until he heard rumors of a dull-looking child with a striped sweater near the Frozen Highlands and Snowdin. Of course, assuming that the mentioned child was his friend, Kris, he left to go investigate, and now waits lonely around the Frozen Highlands in hopes of seeing his original owner once again...

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Job: CRT Support
Specialty: Backline battle-support, comedic relief, ranged attacker

Inventory:

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ONE pipis - "That's the last time I trust that Spammy Mailman!" The last belonging Tenna kept from Spamton
Tommy Gun - A regular Tommy Gun that can split apart with the Tennalings.
Cowboy Hat - Gives +1 cool
Chefs Hat - Gives +1 culinary
2000 POINTS - (can be converted to generic currency... somewhere.)

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Lv: 7
EXP: 0/70

Abilities:

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Snap-cut: A support attack where Tenna, in a "action!" snapping motion, can cast an attack that disorients the enemy's vision. Lasts for about 15 seconds and enters a cooldown that lasts a couple of minutes.
Minigame: When out of combat, Tenna can have the option to initiate a "minigame" where "participants" can "win" "prizes" (This is a support ability that makes non-canonical events/interactions to help build rapport). Can only be used on long rest periods.
All-Star Cast: An attack that fires a large barrage of obnoxious, laughing stars, essentially creating a simple bullet-hell hail. Cannot hit allies, but has the chance of damaging terrain. Deals star-element damage, which would deal more than an ordinary attack.
Tennalings: An ability where Tenna can turn himself into dozens of mini-Tennas with one-shot health. Tennalings can ride on the All-Star Cast attack if already split. Tenna returns to his normal form once all Tennalings are either defeated or regroup, but suffers a major health debuff the more that die.
Summon Crew Member: Twice per in-roleplay day, Tenna can summon one Shadowguy, who can be equipped with a deadly saxophone, a tommy gun, or a large, unusual ball of yarn that can momentarily stun enemies. The Shadowguys are basic grunts and have low health.

Skills:

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Electricity Mastery: Outside of his abilities, Tenna has a mastery of electricity, which allows him to charge up and support his own and allies' attacks, and he gains resistance to electricity.
Darkner: As a Darkner, Tenna gains resistance to dark-based elemental attacks. He also has improved vision in the dark, thanks to his residency in the Dark Worlds. Tenna is ordinarily an inanimate CRT television set.

Weaknesses:

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Popularity Hog: In the context of Tenna's background, the CRT craves the attention of an audience and becomes erratic when those "viewers" no longer want to give him the spotlight. (Craves attention constantly and becomes upset if he doesn't have it)
Darkner: Being a Darkner, ordinarily, Tenna would be stuck as a CRT television in any place that isn't a Dark World. That doesn't seem to affect him in the World of Light, but who knows...
Sometimes Glooby: Nobody knows what "glooby" really means, but Tenna insists that he isn't! (He is.)

Spirits:
None

Rapport:
None

With Mokou finally gathering enough power, I am comfortable enough to throw a new villain(ess) into the ring for the Esaka tournament

The Fell Dragon [+]

Name: Grima
Origin: Fire Emblem: Awakening
Appearance: Grima takes the form of a young, white haired woman of average height, with red eyes that occasionally glow with magic. Their general outfit is that of a stylized cloak purple cloak that covers a waistguard and a simple tan shirt and baggy pants, along with a basic pair of dark gloves and boots.

Grima’s true form, however, is that of a colossal, serpentine dragon, easily capable of dwarfing entire cities, and bearing six red eyes, six feathery wings, jagged teeth, two massive horns that create ridges along its back, and covered head to tail in black plating.

Personality: Cruel, tactical, and manipulative, Grima is a being who makes their hatred of humanity, and in truth, all of creation, abundantly clear. Even those who follow the Fell Dragon are not safe from Grima’s hatred, and Grima refuses to follow those that they view as inferior (which is to say, everyone). To themselves, Grima’s age and power makes them a god, only hampered by their vessel’s limitations, a fact that constantly frustrates them.

However, due to Galeem’s intervention in their original world, Grima’s mind is plagued by another soul: The unwavering spirit of Robin. While without much sway, Robin continuously pushes against Grima’s worldview and see the good in humanity. Thus, Grima is slightly more amicable and cooperative than they normally would be with the beings they claim to despise.

Background: Originally the creation of an alchemist named Forneus using the blood of the Divine Dragons, Grima began its life known simply as ‘the Creation’, a being of malevolent will who quickly killed their own creator due to their fear of them. Several thousand years passed after its birth and subsequent parricide, the Creation revealed itself to the world as the Fell Dragon, only to be sealed away by the First Exalt of Ylisse. However, Grima’s being was not truly severed from the world, and through its cult of the Grimleal, Grima plotted their return by having the Grimleal spend centuries creating the perfect host for Grima to inhabit, eventually giving birth to Robin.

Initially, Grima’s plot was a success. While Robin had escaped the Grimleal, their connection to the acting Prince of Ylisse allowed Grima a perfect opportunity to assassinate them and revive themselves, paving the way for world domination under the wings of the Fell Dragon. However, before their ultimate victory, the daughter of the prince had traveled back through time in order to stop the Fell Dragon’s plan from succeeding, requiring them to travel back as well. In this new timeline, the bonds of Robin and their friends allowed the vessel to resist Grima’s influence, though the Fell Dragon was still able to return through their vessel from the ruined future. In a final battle, Grima clashed with Robin and their friends, and the Fell Dragon was posed to finally achieve the victory they had worked for for centuries… Before a brilliant light enveloped the world. In their moment of distraction, Robin had chosen to sacrifice themselves to slay the Fell Dragon, using their connection to fatally stab them through the heart as the world itself faded into white.

In the Now: Drowned in light, Grima has become a relative nonthreat to the World of Light, largely due to their body being sealed away in a location even the Fell Dragon doesn’t know, eternally confined.. However, their vessel is still at large, actively attempting to garner influence and intelligence in order to find and release their true form.

Job: Fell Dragon
Specialty: Overwhelming power and dark magic, with summoning potential to make up for their relative slowness.
Inventory: (Your character’s starting equipment and items, including currency. Unless you specifically have the Inventory skill, your characters must carry everything physically)

Lv: 4
EXP: (The amount needed to level up is your Lv*10)

Abilities:
- Fell Wings: Using their magic, Grima is capable of conjuring a spectral, miniature variant of their true form, less the size of a mountain and more the size of a building. This form is capable of physically interacting with the world and casting Grima’s apex spell, Expiration, but its form is still tied to Grima’s host and can be disrupted through enough damage to either vessel.

Skills:
- Tactician of War: Grima’s vessel has a natural history of fighting directly in combat, and while Grima detests getting their vessel’s hands dirty, they are actually a fairly accomplished swordsman.
- Fallen magic: Grima is a master of abyssal arts, capable of using a variety of dark magics, from summoning spikes or conjuring dark manifestations of their true form.
- Conqueror of Valm: Grima’s vessel was instrumental in conquering the military nation of Valm, and that experience, coupled with Grima’s cunning, allows them to quickly analyze tactical information and formulate a plan… If they feel the battle warrants their effort.

Weaknesses:
- Fallen Dragon: While only a vessel, Grima’s body and their true self are still one and the same, and tools made to specifically counter draconic beings can bypass this connection to damage Grima’s original self.
- God’s Arrogance: Grima views themselves as a flawless god, without equal and without peer. While this trait is somewhat lessened thanks to their vulnerability within their vessel, they still lack any sort of humility and firmly believe their victory is assured in any situation. As such, they do not even think about possible failures, and while their quick thinking can mitigate it, they are quite easily caught off guard.
- Lance Vulnerability: While Grima’s vessel is a good swordsman, their technique (coupled with Grima’s arrogance) actually makes them rather ineffective against lance-wielding foes.

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Looks quite good overall! I have just a couple notes.
-My eyes aren't so good and the shade of purple you've chosen is dark enough to blend in to the guild's background for me. I can just highlight it in order to read it, but it is a slight inconvenience
-At level 4 your starting EXP max should be 40
-At first glance, Grima seems limited in what she can do, since I assume she can't just summon her building-sized dragon form and blast everything to smithereens with an apex spell willy-nilly. Especially for stuff that strong, I would prefer to define specifics and limiting factors like cooldown times or mana costs. Her sword skills offset this somewhat, but I still think it would be a good idea to maybe start with a weaker and more generally usable dark magic and work up to an ultimate magic
-What sword does she have? I'd say to put it in her Inventory section
-I assume she's in Esaka in order to seek intelligence on her true form in order to find and release it? How does this play into her joining a tournament? And which tournament is she joining? Right now, I'd say that Mortal Kombat and King of Fighters have enough participants, so I'd encourage her joining World Warrior since it's the biggest and probably needs the most participants