[CHAR] Shin Megami Tensei: The Final Avatar

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Miho Anzai

Name:
Miho Anzai

Age:
17

Personality:
At best, Miho comes across as indifferent, keeping her distance from others and preferring to spend time with herself. When she is forced to interact with other people, however, she's on edge, as if she expects a fight to break out at any minute, and her tone can make even the most innocent comments seem like verbal attacks. As such, people mostly leave her alone, and she spends most of her free time reading, studying or, as of recent, playing on the Demon Summoning app. She seems quite comfortable with her isolation, but there are times where it often seems like she has something to say to others, but holds herself back before she can say it. Because that's Miho's biggest flaw: she's afraid to express herself. She's afraid to voice her true thoughts and feelings, to let down her barriers and show people that beneath her frosty exterior, she's a very anxious and frustrated person who is often overwhelmed by her emotions and not really sure how to deal with them.

Because beneath the surface, she really does want to be part of a group, but is afraid that if she lets other people in, she'll only end up being hurt in the process. She fears that everyone is a liar who's kindness simply hides their ulterior motives, and doesn't want to put herself through that kind of heartache. So she keeps her head down and refuses to let people ket close to her, and all the while, she feels herself becoming more and more suffocated by her own bitterness and mistrust.

Appearance:


Backstory:
As the daughter of a policeman, Miho was raised to have a strong sense of justice: she was always well-behaved, got good grades, and never got into trouble at school. That was, until high-school came around, in which she decided to join the school's basketball team. She genuinely enjoyed the sport itself, in which she discovered she was quite the strategist, but found herself clashing often with the other girls on her team, specifically one of the team's star-players, Hinata Tomoe, who while a great athlete was not particularly nice person, and was constantly bullying the weaker members of the team. The whole team knew about Hinata's bullying, but did nothing to stop her. Miho constantly voiced how awful this was, but her teammates begged her not to say anything.

However, Hinata eventually ended up taking her bullying too far, and Miho ended up reporting her to the school principal, which lead to Hinata's expulsion, not long before the last game of the year. As you can imagine, Miho got a lot of flack the other members of the team for this, as well as several other members of the school's student body, and started to become a victim of bullying herself. It got so bad that at the end of school year, Miho's father was convinced to move his daughter to a new high school for her second year.

Miho didn't mind the move so much, as she had lost all of her friends as a result of her 'snitching'. However, during her time at her new school, she mostly kept to herself, either reading a book or studying in her free time and socialising much with ehr fellow students. She certainly didn't join any of the sports teams, for fear of history repeating itself, and was pretty much a loner for the first several months. However, after much pushing from her parents and students to take more of an active role in her school and not let one bad experience ruin her school life, she eventually decided to join the school newspaper. It was around this time that the Demon Summoning app first started making the rounds, and Miho's first real story was to write about how the app was affecting life at school. While Miho was at first skeptical about how relevant this story actually was, she downloaded the app herself as part of her 'research' and was soon hooked. She now spends less of her free time reading and more time playing on her phone.

Stats:
Strength: 4
Intelligence: 6
Vitality: 3
Agility: 5
Luck: 5

Weapon:
Knuckle Dusters. She started carrying them when she as being bullied at her old school, in case one of her classmates tried to jump her. Even though she's no longer at that school anymore, she still keeps them with her. Just in case.

[Veradana]

Hotaru Fujioka

Name: Hotaru Fujioka

Age: 16

Personality: Hotaru is a quiet, soft-hearted person around people she’s unfamiliar with. She hides it well, but it’s not hard to make her cry, and bullies have learnt to take advantage of her apparent spinelessness. The reality of the situation is that she believes that if she fought back she’d be the one who would get in trouble. When at school, she mostly tries to keep her head down and out of attention. She has a few close friends she feels she can be open with and is much more relaxed and cheerful when it’s just the small group.
She often feels sort of aimless in life, not being really excelling at anything academically, or being particularly interested in any given subject.

Appearance: Hotaru is 175 cm (5’9”) tall, but slouches a bit to hide it, and has an average build. She has a pointy face with sharp, narrow eyes and high cheekbones, and she tends to get mistaken for glaring at people. Her black hair is naturally curly, but the schools she’s attended have made her straighten it, so it has some heat damage. Despite the damage, she keeps her hair long enough that it almost reaches her chest, but doesn’t otherwise do much with it. Because of her height, she wasn’t able to get a girl’s uniform that fit and instead wears a male one, although it doesn’t seem to fit quite right either. Her casual clothes tend to be very plain.

Backstory: Hotaru’s mother abandoned the family when Hotaru was only a couple years old, so she has no memories of the woman. In fact, Hotaru sometimes jokes that she has more memories of the housekeeper her father hired to take care of her when she was a child than her actual mother. Once she started going to school, the housekeeper wasn’t needed and is no longer working for the family. She’s not really sure what she’s should feel about her mother, not knowing anything about her. Hotaru’s father hardly talks about the woman he had married, only that his parents didn’t approve, resulting in a falling out between them. They’re part of a branch of an old family, but Hotaru and her father have next to nothing to do with the extended Fujioka clan.

Even with just her father around, Hotaru has a good home life, and she trusts him enough that she’ll go to him with problems. Although, she’s become more reluctant to tell him about the bullying she’s received, since all it does is worry him, and his complaints to the school haven’t gotten any results.

She’s part of the school choir and enjoys singing and is pretty decent at it, but doesn’t make an effort to stand out.
Hotaru started playing the Demon Summoning Program on a whim when she saw it advertised on the app store as something new. Although she normally stuck to rhythm games, she got the hang of the rpg gameplay. She mostly just tried to collect demons she thought were cute and was vaguely disappointed that there weren’t any frog-like demons.

Stats:
Strength: 3
Intelligence: 5
Vitality: 4
Agility: 5
Luck: 6

[Duoya]

Juichi Nakada

Name: Juichi Nakada

Age: 18

Personality: If you had to describe Juichi at a glance, most people who didn't really know him would say he is boisterous, animated and arrogant. He demands recognition, and is always trying to show off his strength to others. He seems greedy for attention and respect, often seen when he exaggerates his abilities and feats, along with those of his companions and friends. Despite this, however, Juichi is a man of determination, refusing to give in, no-matter the odds and displaying a high degree of honor. He shows great loyalty to others, even if he has just met them, getting him in more than a few negative encounters. In addition to this loyalty, however, he has an immense force of personality and charisma, which he has developed and uses in order to encourage and train the other Kendo club members. This makes him able to inspire people easily, and he does his best to keep his friends and loved ones constantly doing the best they can.

Juichi will do everything in his power to protect not only every student he can, but also any human he finds in the tunnels. He prefers diplomacy to combat, but his strong moral compass will cause him to take the side of the victim if he finds people being attacked or harassed. Despite his reckless actions and bold personality, Juichi mainly uses his personality as a front in order to help support other people and encourage them to try as hard as they can, as well as a mask to hide his own anxiety and douobts. While he hates that some of the "wild" demons can be aggressive, he recognizes that they are useful tools. Juichi prefers supportive demons that use healing and buffing spells, but is complacent with any. His favorite demon from the app was Alice.

Appearance:

Appearance

When he got caught in the tunnel, he was wearing his usual outfit: A leather jacket, the shirt of his school uniform, the pants of his school uniform, dress shoes, and his infamous blue sunglasses. Tobei stands at 6'2, weighing about 195-200 pounds of mostly muscle. Tobei is of African-Japanese descent, and is prone to striking poses to complement his personality.

Backstory: Two Moroccan citizens move to Japan in order to pursue their careers, eventually having a daughter, Chinatsu Tazi. Chinautsu later married Ito Nakada, giving birth to Juichi Nakada a year later. From a young age, it was clear that Juichi was meant to be an athlete. He developed extremely quickly, and always loved spending his time outdoors. However, at an early age, he has shown a difficulty at delicate tasks and things that require intelligence, preferring to use brute force to succeed. While this was well and good for sports, he has shown difficulties in the classroom, struggling to keep up his grades. Juichi always idolized Shounen heroes as role models, marveling at how everyone loved them and that they were always protecting people who couldn't protect themselves. Because of this admiration, he soon adopted their over-the-top and meant for comedy personality, emulating it to this day in order to encourage his friends to try their hardest at anything they do. His favorite character and personal role model was Feather Owl of the "Phoenix Ranger Featherman R" Series.

By the time he entered Middle school, his grades weren't much better, but he was far stronger - He had started weightlifting in order to try and get a sport scholarship to a college. He was extremely popular among most of the students, mainly because of his exaggerated personality and impressive charisma. Some students, however, seemed to dislike Juichi - maybe they didn't like that he was always yelling while they were trying to study, or maybe they were a little racist or something. Either way, middle school saw a significant increase in the number of fights that Juichi participated in. Luckily, however, Juichi was one of, if not the strongest person in the student body, and he was always able to repel his attackers. Eventually, he graduated middle school, enrolling into the local high school

Juichi's life continued monotonously, and besides from the occasional scolding for bad grades, it passed without much incident. Juichi, after much deliberation, finally decided on a sport to choose for scholarships: Kendo. In his freshman year of high school, he entered into the Kendo club, rapidly gaining reputation for his impressive strength and natural talent. In addition, since he didn't seem fond of the idea of finding a part-time job, Juichi also joined the Disciplinary committee, viewing it as a way to protect the innocent like the heroes he respected in his youth and accepting that he couldn't become a hero in the real world. Juichi retained his explosive personality, which led to a massive reputation among the student body. A friend of his even recommended that Juichi sign up for student council president, but Juichi felt like he wouldn't be smart enough to manage the plethora of responsibilities that came with the title. As time went on, he eventually made it to his final year of high school. His senpai passed down the title of Kendo club president when he graduated, and Juichi accepted it somewhat apprehensively. He still didn't feel good about being in a position of authority, but everyone else in the club agreed that he would be the best choice. His position in the disciplinary committee didn't really rise, mainly due to his low grades, but he was well-respected for his ability to convince the school delinquents to follow the rules.

Meanwhile, the stress was slowly building up. With higher rankings in both of his clubs, Juichi had barely any free time to himself, and the time that he did have to himself was taken up by his father lecturing him on finding a job and his mother complaining about his grades. Nevertheless, Juichi's personality remained the same, with very few, if anybody, being able to tell that he was severely stressed. While lying in his bed ready to sleep, he decided to check the app store for something to relieve stress and, after searching for awhile, he found it - The Demon summoning program. Despite the strange name, the app itself seeemed to be a game, and there were tons of positive reviews, so Juichi downloaded it onto his phone. He didn't have much time to spend on it between clubs and household chores, but it was doing a good job of relieving stress whenever he played - The game play was addicting, he could conect with a lot of students at school over it, and the games graphics were incredibly realistic, almost too much so considering it was a phone app. Time passed on for about three weeks, until Juichi was called out to Osaki station.

To his surprise, the Kendo club was planning on throwing him a party for winning a recent match against a neighboring school! They said that after they went to a restaurant and ate, they would head to an actual dojo and practice with real blades! Of course they would only be cutting tatami mats, but It still sounded like an awesome time, and Juichi was extremely thankful to the group. Juichi grabbed his favorite katana from his collection (Which he only had because his father was merciful and convinced his mother it was okay), being sure to put it in it's casing and taking his carrying permit for good measure. Just wait until the guys in the club saw it, they'd be super jealous! Of course, Juichi did plan to share. Hell, he took his sharpening stone as well so that they didn't dull the blade and didn't need to use the dojo's katanas. He didn't live near Osaki station, so he would have to take the Yamanote line to make it there. Deciding to waste time, he opened the demon summoning app, only to see that all his demons were gone, vanished into thin air. Before he could comment, the tunnel was encased in darkness as the power cut out.

(I can change or add stuff if anybody wants to tie their characters into his backstory.)

Stats:
Strength: 8
Intelligence: 3
Vitality: 6
Agility: 3
Luck: 3

Weapon: As the president of the Kendo club, Juichi owned numerous swords at his home. Luckily, he was bringing his favorite with him to show off to some of his kouhai. He has a sharpening stone which he planned to use to show his friends how to sharpen a blade. Other than that, he's only got his fists.

Misc:Theme song, just for fun

[Riegal]

Shoko Iseki

Name: Shoko Iseki

Age: 18

Personality:
Shoko is a young woman that exudes a tremendous intensity, especially when she has something to direct her laser-like focus at. She carries herself with great confidence, rarely doubting her own thoughts or decisions, and tends to be a leader by example. While not shy in the slightest, she is often of few words—she only speaks when she feels she has something of value to say, and when she does it’s with a gentle but firm tone that matches the self-confidence she displays.

While not far from her true nature, this way that she most often presents herself is a bit of a front, crafted to gain the respect and admiration of her peers. Though obviously no where near as perfect as she wishes to be perceived, a lifetime of being treated as a step above those around her by the very same people has lead to an ego, though she’s level-headed enough to keep it in check, helped by the knowledge that she’s worked for what she has. Balancing good grades in school and playing volleyball at a national level, she’s no stranger to long, arduous days, and can push past the point of exhaustion when most others would mentally check out and quit.

Being quite sociable, she is nearly always surrounded by a group of friends, though due to her desire to be viewed as a role-model she feels she hasn’t made a single true friend in her life, having never opened up to anyone about any of her worries. She does not show weakness, and the thought of being viewed in such a light makes her terribly uncomfortable and even sick to her stomach. She’s the one that people turn to for help. Never the other way around.

For all her confidence, that inability to show weakness is itself her greatest flaw, and the source of most of her doubt and insecurity. She feels the pressures of life as much as any other teen, brought on most by the expectations placed upon her by both those around her and herself, which grow higher and higher with each success she earns. The reality that all it takes is one mistake for everything to come crashing down—for the perfect image of herself she’s built, and so desperately wants to protect, to be torn apart—hangs over her head ominously. Though she fights against it with all her being, she can’t help but feel that such an outcome is inevitable.

And she dreads nothing more than being unable to turn to anyone once she makes that one bad mistake, courtesy of her unnatural aversion to outside help.

On a lighter note, she uncharacteristically is quite a huge tokusatsu fan, especially the superhero subgenre. It's not something she particularly tries to hide, having a few Kamen Rider and Ultraman figures on display in her room, but she certainly doesn't go out of her way to let people know. She views it as a childish indulgence, but the often cheesy shows capture her attention and keep her mind off any troubles the rare times she has the chance to sit down and watch them.

It was this interest that led her to download the Digital Demon app—after she had seen the designs of a few demons that brought to mind both villains and heroes from the shows she so enjoyed watching (a standout favorite being Kouga Saburou), she began to play the game and found herself enjoying it greatly.

Appearance:
Shoko stands at 173 cm tall, with a slim, athletic build. When not wearing her school uniform, she wears plain but professional enough clothing usually consisting of a white dress shirt, a mono-colored skirt, and a matching tie, changing things up as appropriate for the weather or her current activity. She always carries around a small gym bag with her whenever she’s out of the house, even if she has no plans to do any exercise at the time—she has simply become so used to having it on her person that it makes her feel a bit anxious to not have it with her. Though she uses it more like a sort of purse, it still carries her volleyball equipment as well.

Backstory:
Born and raised in Tokyo, the only child of two white-collar worker parents, Shoko’s family made enough money for a nice and comfortable life, allowing the girl to participate in the various sports that she found herself interested in during her early years. Even at such a young age, it was clear that the girl had natural athleticism, and a terribly competitive personality that led to her standing out amongst her peers. The sport she fell in love with the most was volleyball, and so she began dedicating much of her time to it in particular. As she grew, the fire that drove her to completely outdo everyone she played with did as well, and the girl began to learn exactly what it meant to stand out in such a way.

For all the praise she received (and basked in), there were always numerous dissenters who made little effort to hide their distaste for the girl. Teammates that disliked the extra play time she earned, parents who were not happy about their children being shown up by another kid, opponents who understandably did not enjoy losing so badly. Shoko was called plenty of unpleasant things by both kids and adults. Her own father had gotten into a couple near fist-fights with other fathers of her teammates, always after hearing them insult his daughter.

It hurt, but she learnt quickly to take it with the good—in the end, they hated her because she was too skilled at what she did. And that was better than being hated for being weak. She loved the sport enough to spend every free moment she had practicing. She was talented enough that she nearly single-handedly won tournament after tournament for her middle school. The attention she got, the way so many people looked up to her, whether impressed or jealous; she became used to and learned to take pleasure in it all.

The life lessons she took from her sports were useful, and shaped her into a tremendously hard working person who took little for granted. She had created the position she occupied through that hard work—staying hours late at the gym for extra practice, sacrificing sleep to study and keep up great grades in school, finding enough time to be social enough that she wasn’t just viewed as ‘that volleyball girl.’ She was known by most everyone that had ever crossed paths with her, and she made sure that the vast majority respected her for her excellence, if not dislike her for the same reason.

High school was much of the same as middle school, though the attention she gained for her volleyball play grew to be nation-wide when she made Japan’s u20 women’s volleyball team in her second year. The whole experience had been something of a shock to the girl, for one big reason—for the first time in her life, she wasn’t the center of a team she played for. Brought on as a sub player, she took a backseat to several other incredibly talented women. Though Shoko understood she was young, and even just being a sub for a national team was an incredible feat itself, she couldn’t help but feel a measure of inadequacy.

Despising the feeling, she began to push herself even harder. That extra drive has continued into her third year of high school, and she’s poised to make the team again, this time aiming to be a starter—as well as fearing that it’s something she might not be able accomplish.

Like many others, she recently began playing the Digital Demon app, mostly as a form of quick stress relief; it's something easy to pull out and focus on for a few minutes whenever she has the time.

Stats:

Strength: 5
Intelligence: 4
Vitality: 6
Agility: 6
Luck: 2

Weapon:
Whatever she can get her hands on.