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50,000 years ago, the world came to an end at the hands of an unstoppable calamity, a hostile existence beyond true comprehension. Yet, from the ashes of its victory, humanity rebuilt from scratch, rendered ignorant of the foe they had once opposed till the very end. It was as it had been for countless ages, the purging of a failure and birth of a new cycle, a fresh start and the latest perpetuation of a twisted Samsara. Empires rose and fell, humans lived and died. Civilization waned and flourished. And all the while, the overseer exerted their pressure. Natural disasters, plagues and hoards of monsters. It sent them all, presented challenges, and as humanity united and adapted, tempered by trial after trial, so too did it increase the pressure time and again. And so it would remain until they finally inevitably stumbled and failed. All was as had been seen... and would surely be seen many times to come.
But this cycle had a bit of a hiccup...
The previous Samsara, the Previous Era, had come close to defeating it, closer than any before them. Tenacious, talented and lucky, failsafes were developed by humanity, and so it would come to be that the aftershocks of their work affected the Era to follow, not only in the form of technology, but in hibernating survivors... and even modifications to the very gene pool of humanity itself. They had not won, but they had laid the groundwork for their successors to perhaps succeed where they did not. The 50,000 year Samsara had not been broken... but it had been cracked.
The year is now 2011, and humanity is at war. Though you'd often hardly know it. Civilization flourishes upon the planet of Earth, and the global national and political scene remains a familiar one to a far less supernatural one, just about all the countries you'd expect where you'd expect to find them. In this day and age of the Current Era, normal people still live normal lives and remain the majority. Yet, underneath the surface, all is not as it seems.
It has been millennia since the first whispers of the term "Honkai" were spread across history by remnants of the Previous Era. Nowadays, it is nearly a household name, something most people don't wish to think about but certainly something that can be researched and discussed online. What was once responsible for mere disasters now assaults settlements of all sizes with heartless monsters from beyond reality, along with a supernatural sickness with a horrific fatality rate. Against this foe, from amongst the sheep and the ignorant, humanity has long since marshaled its forces, creating organizations and supersoldiers to combat this global and ever escalating threat.
You are one of those soldiers, a Valkyrie, infused with the Honkai's own power in order to fight against it... with all the benefits -and risks- that entails. Whether by passion of misfortune, you have found yourself one amongst many under the banner of Fire Moth, one of the premier Anti-Honkai organizations and global peacekeepers. Though they are rumored to have had many less than moral dealings in the past, the results of their work cannot be denied, and so you are one of many who -for their own reasons- have thrown their lot in with them. Now, all but freshly graduated from Valkyrie training, your latest test results have deemed you worthy of field work, and you have been placed upon a new squad with other fresh graduates.
While none of you are considered particularly strong -as fresh off the presses as you are, there is something to be said for safety in numbers, and those that survive long enough to prove themselves something other than cannon fodder will come out the other end tempered into fighters more than capable of facing the forces of Honkai alone.
The world before you is wondrous and dangerous in equal measure. The Honkai looms omnipresent, as shadowy interests pursue their own ends behind closed doors. It is a world on the brink; yet very few are aware. It is a world in need of saving, but that naturally begs the question of who can do it. You? Hah. Who knows? Such things are for the future. In the now, perhaps before trying to save anyone else... you should worry about saving yourselves.
For those familiar with the setting, this is not the Current Era you may know. Though, it does have some connection to it. Instead, this AU asks what would have happened if Kiana and the crew failed, Project STIGMA collapsed and the Honkai won yet again and reset the world.
This, players, is the Third Era.
Due to the nature of the Finality Samsara effectively being a time loop, however, some events, organizations and people have at least managed to come into existence again, in name if not actions and personality. Naturally, however, as this is a disturbed time loop with remnants of the previous eras having made it past the end times, the world developed accordingly. So, yeah, there's probably a few canon characters from the Second Era out there in some form or another. In fact, I guarantee it. They aren't intended to be a focus, but the possibility of meeting them is there.
This RP will be run primarily on narrative with a supplement of a custom stat system to provide a framework for PC capabilities and maintain balance amongst the team (at least early on). To simplify things in a post-by-post format, I also intend to have a mandatory header that will contain certain critical information to keep track of during battles and such. Making sure that's tracked and displayed will make things much simpler on me and other players, avoiding the need to constantly comb through character sheets over every little detail. The inclusion of stats is in the pursuit of stakes, as I find hard "numbers" to be a reliable way of keeping things honest. Narrative will perhaps take a stronger lead over stats later on, but starting out, I feel it's appropriate for a bunch of rookies to be more "grounded" compared to the supernatural titans of the series.
In regard to plot structure, you'll start in a team that gets sent of various missions, some of which you may get to choose, which will otherwise generally be sandbox within that framework. And at some point, the "main plot" will creep to the forefront instead. Between missions, expect downtime periods where the plot allows to give PCs more chances for character interaction and provide an opportunity to allow training and other methods of self-improvement to incrementally increase PC's capabilities.
If that all sounds good to you, then welcome aboard.
I plan to take on roughly 8-10 players at most before cutting things off.
For those new to the setting, see the Honkai Impact wiki here for where I am primarily drawing core info for this setting. Of course, as this is an AU, not all of this is useful, but as an overview of the setting lore, it's pretty good if you want to dig in. There will also be a Discord to facilitate better OOC communication and discussion. I do have potential plans to have that available for character building if anyone is interested in working on it on there.
The birthplace of the multiverse and a higher dimensional construct, the Imaginary Tree is responsible for the creation of most universes and is the source of the Imaginary element. This all-powerful tree holds the worlds of the multiverse in its branches, each one represented as a leaf. If a leaf falls, it is considered the end of that particular world; though, some worlds manage to persist for a while beyond that as Bubble Universes.
The Imaginary Tree -at some unknown point in time- first emerged from the Sea of Quanta and immediately began an unending rivalry with it, determined to consume the Sea and continue growing. The Sea of Quanta protested. And so the Tree would continue to extend its roots and drink deeply of the Sea, and the Sea would swell and attempt to reabsorb the Tree. This rivalry would persist for an unfathomable amount of time, during which, a branch of the Tree grew a new bud. This was the birth of human civilization. Time flows in the trunk of the Imaginary Tree and branches out into an infinity of worlds. Every branch is a form of civilization, while every bud is their past and present etched onto the dimension of time. Each twig is a world timeline, and each leaf is a universe. The Imaginary Tree is, in part, a construct of time that brings order to chaos, providing a way for time to flow linearly where it wouldn't otherwise.
Some speculate that the Honkai is a form of natural "pruning" mechanic in the Tree that helps breed, nurture and test worlds to determine which are worthy of expending the Tree's resources to maintain, but this is only speculation with no particular certainty behind it. Regardless of the truth, the Honkai's influence is practically omnipresent and inescapable, and humanity has no choice but to press on or else fail and become wilted shadows in the Sea of Quanta.
A churning kaleidoscope of existence, the Sea of Quanta is the primordial soup of reality. It is from it that all things ultimately emerge, and it is to the Sea that all things eventually return to be recycled for the new. The Imaginary Tree was born from the Sea of Quanta. Since these two were the only living things in the multiverse and diametrically opposed to the other's purpose, they quickly began an eternal rivalry. The Tree wishes to absorb the Sea, while the Sea wishes to drown the Tree. In order to facilitate this cycle, worlds "grow" as leaves of the Tree, and when they fail to persist, "fall" from the Tree and into the Sea, becoming bubble universes. Being exposed to the raw energies of the Sea of Quanta has the potential to leave a defining mark on the recipient's existence, changing them irrevocably, which can be a source of the Quantum Type.
Much of the Sea's chaos and erosion effect can be traced back to the lack of linear time flow. If the worlds of the Imaginary Tree are like multiple overflowing glasses of different drinks, then the Sea of Quanta is the puddle of mixed liquids, a chaotic amalgamation of mixed data and ideas flowing in all directions at once, cast adrift by the loss of connection to the Imaginary Tree. Unlike the Tree that has order and can sustain data, the Sea lacks the one-directional time flow required to give any sense to it. Hence, it has no form or properties of its own and requires an observer to make any sense of it.
The Sea of Quanta is also known to manifest beings called Quantum Shadows to deal with particularly resilient invaders or other existences within it, taking the form of starry voids in the shape of various Honkai beasts, complete with similar and enhanced abilities. These creatures normally exist in a "superposed" state of various "Quantum Layers" that makes them incredibly resilient. This state can be collapsed by the skilled usage of Quantum energy or with timely use of Time Fracture, collapsing the creature to a single dimensional layer and rendering them decrepit and vulnerable. If this weakened state isn't capitalized upon, however, the Shadow will eventually reconstitute its superposed state.
Please keep in mind that you are playing Valkyries in a team of roughly equal individual strength (specialties depending). You should be generally new on the block, none of you old or overtly experienced. About the most remarkable achievement to your name is the fact that you actually have Stigmata at all. You are humans and novice psychics. Herrschers and MANTIS/ICHOR soldiers are not allowed (at least starting out).
Regarding lore information your PCs may know, generally speaking, the true nature, goals and functions of Honkai and Herrschers are completely unknown to the public, and those that do know have kept that information classified at the highest levels, as the Honkai has historically retaliated extra hard against information being dissiminated about its biggest secrets. Pretty much all you know as the average person and Valkyrie is that Honkai is bad and has been around for centuries, super monsters kill people, and Honkai radiation is no laughing matter. Herrschers are disasters that have been hushed as an existence, and the average Valkyrie isn't even aware they exist or what they are, since they don't appear very often.
If you have ideas regarding anything that hasn't already been addressed or are looking for a slight exception for the sake of a good idea, don't be afraid to ask questions. I can't promise satisfactory results, but I'll try to consider them. Honkai Impact 3rd has an incredibly high power ceiling and a power system with ridiculous potential for shenanigans. I would like to use every aspect of it and have those aspects available to players in some form down the line, but I'd like to be careful and generally fair how I go about it.
American | Anti-Entropy | 19 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Natural Stigmata | Quantum-Type | Ice | Blade (short/katana)
POW - D | END - C (+1) | AGI - C | INT - E | HON - C (+1) | BUR - D
Appearance:
A tall young woman at 5'10" with ashy-grey hair and oddly purple eyes, her perpetually pale skin often brings into question how much sunlight she gets, yet does not seem to burn under its light. This nearly doll-like pallor is accompanied, however, by most every other sign of exceptional health, her honed and shapely body speaking to an appreciation of hard work, the genetic lottery or some combination of the two. Her armored dress of a battlesuit gives off the image in battle of a black knight, as she zips around to slice and dice her foes.
Element: Ice.
Ice can freeze enemies (or parts of them) solid to hinder movement and provide breathing room. It can also counter the burning condition and counteract the effects of extreme heat. These are not the only things it can do, provided some creativity is exercised, but they are the primary and simplest ones.
Weapon: Pulse Katana Type-17
Honkai Arts:
Battlesuit: Void Knight
Burst: Quantum Heatsink
Skills:
Speaks fluent English, Spanish and Chinese. Her cooking skills are... existent, enough to follow the instructions on a package and make military rations seem edible. She can drive a car, pilot Anti-Entropy aircraft and operate AE mech suits and drones. She's skilled at first aid and quick on her feet when it comes to treating Honkai corruption. She also has enough competence in engineering and Honkai tech to perform maintenance on her weapons and battlesuit, though not modify them without assistance. She has firearm training, but nothing quite comparable to a Valkyrie gun specialist, and similarly, she is highly skilled in unarmed combat, though not in the operation of Fist discipline weapons. She's pretty good at video games.
Gear:
A bundle of tech items, including a smartphone, power bank, charging cords, USB drives and tools enough for light maintenance on her gear. She also carries her car keys, wallet, a lighter, a small flashlight and her handheld gaming console with a charger. She never leaves for duty without a medical kit, which contains all the essentials, including bandages, splints, disinfectant and tools for stitches (with a special needle for piercing Valkyrie skin). She additionally keeps a number of survival items on hand in the chance that a worst-case scenario occurs, including ration bars, water, dehydrated food, and a mess kit with eating utensils, a bowl and a lid that can double as a plate or frying pan. She also carries a FN High Power handgun as a sidearm that she usually keeps strapped under one arm, along with two spare 17-round magazines.
Personality:
Determined and congenial, Jessica is not exactly the social sort, but she tries her best regardless. With little ego to be found, she tends to carry a natural ease about her, not making friends with everyone around her per-say but easily getting along with most people she meets. Her relatively humble nature expresses itself in a habitual politeness, a sort of "treat others as you wish to be treated", and while she does have a temper, rare is the situation where it is allowed to take the wheel. She cares about doing the right thing for as many people as possible and prefers not to take sides unless there is objectively clear wrongdoing or foolishness to oppose.
In contrast to her friendly attitude on the daily, on the battlefield, other traits boil to the forefront. Her concern for the lives of not just civilians -but her comrades as well- is often seen in the form of almost great caution and cold efficiency. At no other time is it easier to earn her harshest words than to behave recklessly or otherwise put the team at risk for personal reasons. When her ire is raised, her fury typically does not burn, but rather chills, filtered through a harsh, calculating rationality guided by a framework of morality, as she channels her rather unnerving talent for killing her emotions for the sake of her goals.
When she isn't training or fighting, Jessica is a bit of a lazybones, taking any opportunity she can to goof off and absorb herself in her hobbies, among which number reading, playing video games, and eating junk food. She dislikes waking up early, being hassled by extroverts and getting saddled with extra work. Her dreams... she's considered the matter at length, and she's no certain she could say she has any. Whenever she considers what she'd like to do with her life... what she'd like to do for the world, she always finds those thoughts crushed by rationality and relegated to daydreams. So, if she had to say she had a dream? It's to keep living, to always pursue the next sunrise, day by day. Whenever she can get away with it, Jessica doesn't like to think about the future and simply lives in the present.
After all, she hasn't found a better cure to existential dread yet.
Biography:
As long as she can remember, Anti-Entropy has been Jessica's home. Her parents were -and are- Valkyries under their banner, primarily conducting experiments in Honkai energy heavy zones, and their little girl grew up with an admiration for the organization's ideals and fight against the Honkai. More times than she can count, she recalls spending her days following her parents around squeaky-clean headquarters, annoying a janitor and rifling through unattended stacks of paper and widgets. She admired her parents and -like many children- wanted to be just like them.
Unfortunately, as she grew up, she found she didn't have the same talents they did, hard work or not. Intellectual pursuits generally didn't suit her, but she had more than enough energy for other ones. And when her Stigmata finally manifested, it seemed as sure a sign as any that her future didn't lay within the tech divisions. Instead, she would use her rare gift to be a Valkyrie in the field and direct her energy towards fighting the enemy at humanity's doorstep. She would be one of many fighting on the front to ensure their backline had more time to develop a solution for the greater benefit of all.
Outside this training, Jessica, unlike many of her more zealous peers, did not experience great tragedy or hardship. Often surrounded by trainees with fires of revenge burning inside them or barely concealed traumas, Jessica felt strangely alone and guiltily relieved, not for the least of which reason because she felt almost apathetic to their struggles. She lived a life free of burdens on her heart, and she was glad for it. Her first condoned forays into the battlefield went well too, not a single time experiencing overt misfortune.
Until one day, very shortly after being deemed combat capable, she found herself assigned to The Deep. An expedition into the Sea of Quanta was to be taking place, the goal classified above her paygrade, but she wasn't concerned. After all, she wasn't going down there. She was just one of many being assigned to guard Anti-Entropy's side of things. They weren't expected to face any combat, barring the potential for a few Quantum Shadow stragglers that they would wildly outnumber. Everything was in readiness, every precaution taken...
It went wrong immediately.
Almost as if the Sea of Quanta had been waiting for them, chaos ensued. Hordes of monsters, a gateway refusing to be shut again, and many finding their footing disturbed. Jessica was one of many to fall into the Sea. In many ways, she isn't entirely certain how she survived in the place between worlds. She was trapped there for weeks, navigating the realm of Bubble Universes, trying to reconnect with as many of her comrades as possible. And eventually, she did. Not all of them were alive... and more than a few weren't quite sane, but most managed to pull themselves together enough to turn a disparate band of weaklings into an organized band of world raiders, taking whatever they needed to survive. And after two months, fortune decided to shine on them again. Finally, they made contact with reality again. With communications reestablished, it was only a matter of time before they were directed onto the right path to escape back into The Deep, the gateway closed behind them.
As with all those who had fallen with her, Jessica did not come away from the experience unchanged. While she had endured it mentally better than most, there was a harsh edge to her now at times. And more drastically, her body had been changed irrevocably, hair leeched of color, eyes bubbling with strange energies and skin nigh-on as porcelain as a doll. Her very existence had been altered in ways the doctors still didn't quite understand even months later, only able to tell her she was "stable" and seemed to have adapted to the changes relatively smoothly... something not all of the returnees could claim. Some suggested she step down from battlefield operations, concerned about potential side effects, but she rejected such nonsense without hesitation.
For many, such an event would have been... traumatizing, to say the least, but Jessica found herself in the strange position of almost feeling nostalgic whenever she thought back on it, when she remembered cavorting around strange lands and fighting weird things, adrenaline thundering in her veins whenever she and her comrades survived by the skin of their teeth yet again and only due to their sheer numbers. If anything, the most unnerving thing to her was to realize just how unconcerned and blithe she felt about what had happened. Not even a month after escaping The Sea of Quanta, and she had already practically shrugged her shoulders in a "what can you do?" and moved on. There was no use crying over spilled milk, no use fussing about the past. Again, her nature as a person that lived in the present first and foremost took the reins, and Jessica found herself easily adapting to the way her life had changed.
So what if she had been altered in unfathomable alien ways? So what if she had almost died? Regardless of her body, she was still herself, wasn't she? She hadn't died, and she didn't plan on that changing any time soon. She wouldn't stop being a Valkyrie. She wouldn't even consider it. Giving up was to admit that the Sea of Quanta had won... Well, not necessarily the Sea, but she simply had this feeling that she could accept the idea of giving up. It felt like losing, even if she couldn't say for sure what she'd be losing to.
Only months after her life had been made so much stranger, she was back in the field, acting like nothing had ever happened. Maybe that earned her some strange looks, but she didn't care, not as long as she was living her life the way she wanted. And only a few months after that...?
...she found herself being recommended to Fire Moth.
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Honkai Impact 3rd RP OOCOP
PREFACE
50,000 years ago, the world came to an end at the hands of an unstoppable calamity, a hostile existence beyond true comprehension. Yet, from the ashes of its victory, humanity rebuilt from scratch, rendered ignorant of the foe they had once opposed till the very end. It was as it had been for countless ages, the purging of a failure and birth of a new cycle, a fresh start and the latest perpetuation of a twisted Samsara. Empires rose and fell, humans lived and died. Civilization waned and flourished. And all the while, the overseer exerted their pressure. Natural disasters, plagues and hoards of monsters. It sent them all, presented challenges, and as humanity united and adapted, tempered by trial after trial, so too did it increase the pressure time and again. And so it would remain until they finally inevitably stumbled and failed. All was as had been seen... and would surely be seen many times to come.
But this cycle had a bit of a hiccup...
The previous Samsara, the Previous Era, had come close to defeating it, closer than any before them. Tenacious, talented and lucky, failsafes were developed by humanity, and so it would come to be that the aftershocks of their work affected the Era to follow, not only in the form of technology, but in hibernating survivors... and even modifications to the very gene pool of humanity itself. They had not won, but they had laid the groundwork for their successors to perhaps succeed where they did not. The 50,000 year Samsara had not been broken... but it had been cracked.
The year is now 2011, and humanity is at war. Though you'd often hardly know it. Civilization flourishes upon the planet of Earth, and the global national and political scene remains a familiar one to a far less supernatural one, just about all the countries you'd expect where you'd expect to find them. In this day and age of the Current Era, normal people still live normal lives and remain the majority. Yet, underneath the surface, all is not as it seems.
It has been millennia since the first whispers of the term "Honkai" were spread across history by remnants of the Previous Era. Nowadays, it is nearly a household name, something most people don't wish to think about but certainly something that can be researched and discussed online. What was once responsible for mere disasters now assaults settlements of all sizes with heartless monsters from beyond reality, along with a supernatural sickness with a horrific fatality rate. Against this foe, from amongst the sheep and the ignorant, humanity has long since marshaled its forces, creating organizations and supersoldiers to combat this global and ever escalating threat.
You are one of those soldiers, a Valkyrie, infused with the Honkai's own power in order to fight against it... with all the benefits -and risks- that entails. Whether by passion of misfortune, you have found yourself one amongst many under the banner of Fire Moth, one of the premier Anti-Honkai organizations and global peacekeepers. Though they are rumored to have had many less than moral dealings in the past, the results of their work cannot be denied, and so you are one of many who -for their own reasons- have thrown their lot in with them. Now, all but freshly graduated from Valkyrie training, your latest test results have deemed you worthy of field work, and you have been placed upon a new squad with other fresh graduates.
While none of you are considered particularly strong -as fresh off the presses as you are, there is something to be said for safety in numbers, and those that survive long enough to prove themselves something other than cannon fodder will come out the other end tempered into fighters more than capable of facing the forces of Honkai alone.
The world before you is wondrous and dangerous in equal measure. The Honkai looms omnipresent, as shadowy interests pursue their own ends behind closed doors. It is a world on the brink; yet very few are aware. It is a world in need of saving, but that naturally begs the question of who can do it. You? Hah. Who knows? Such things are for the future. In the now, perhaps before trying to save anyone else... you should worry about saving yourselves.
EXPECTATIONS
For those familiar with the setting, this is not the Current Era you may know. Though, it does have some connection to it. Instead, this AU asks what would have happened if Kiana and the crew failed, Project STIGMA collapsed and the Honkai won yet again and reset the world.
This, players, is the Third Era.
Due to the nature of the Finality Samsara effectively being a time loop, however, some events, organizations and people have at least managed to come into existence again, in name if not actions and personality. Naturally, however, as this is a disturbed time loop with remnants of the previous eras having made it past the end times, the world developed accordingly. So, yeah, there's probably a few canon characters from the Second Era out there in some form or another. In fact, I guarantee it. They aren't intended to be a focus, but the possibility of meeting them is there.
This RP will be run primarily on narrative with a supplement of a custom stat system to provide a framework for PC capabilities and maintain balance amongst the team (at least early on). To simplify things in a post-by-post format, I also intend to have a mandatory header that will contain certain critical information to keep track of during battles and such. Making sure that's tracked and displayed will make things much simpler on me and other players, avoiding the need to constantly comb through character sheets over every little detail. The inclusion of stats is in the pursuit of stakes, as I find hard "numbers" to be a reliable way of keeping things honest. Narrative will perhaps take a stronger lead over stats later on, but starting out, I feel it's appropriate for a bunch of rookies to be more "grounded" compared to the supernatural titans of the series.
In regard to plot structure, you'll start in a team that gets sent of various missions, some of which you may get to choose, which will otherwise generally be sandbox within that framework. And at some point, the "main plot" will creep to the forefront instead. Between missions, expect downtime periods where the plot allows to give PCs more chances for character interaction and provide an opportunity to allow training and other methods of self-improvement to incrementally increase PC's capabilities.
If that all sounds good to you, then welcome aboard.
I plan to take on roughly 8-10 players at most before cutting things off.
For those new to the setting, see the Honkai Impact wiki here for where I am primarily drawing core info for this setting. Of course, as this is an AU, not all of this is useful, but as an overview of the setting lore, it's pretty good if you want to dig in. There will also be a Discord to facilitate better OOC communication and discussion. I do have potential plans to have that available for character building if anyone is interested in working on it on there.
INFORMATIONAL
The birthplace of the multiverse and a higher dimensional construct, the Imaginary Tree is responsible for the creation of most universes and is the source of the Imaginary element. This all-powerful tree holds the worlds of the multiverse in its branches, each one represented as a leaf. If a leaf falls, it is considered the end of that particular world; though, some worlds manage to persist for a while beyond that as Bubble Universes.
The Imaginary Tree -at some unknown point in time- first emerged from the Sea of Quanta and immediately began an unending rivalry with it, determined to consume the Sea and continue growing. The Sea of Quanta protested. And so the Tree would continue to extend its roots and drink deeply of the Sea, and the Sea would swell and attempt to reabsorb the Tree. This rivalry would persist for an unfathomable amount of time, during which, a branch of the Tree grew a new bud. This was the birth of human civilization. Time flows in the trunk of the Imaginary Tree and branches out into an infinity of worlds. Every branch is a form of civilization, while every bud is their past and present etched onto the dimension of time. Each twig is a world timeline, and each leaf is a universe. The Imaginary Tree is, in part, a construct of time that brings order to chaos, providing a way for time to flow linearly where it wouldn't otherwise.
Some speculate that the Honkai is a form of natural "pruning" mechanic in the Tree that helps breed, nurture and test worlds to determine which are worthy of expending the Tree's resources to maintain, but this is only speculation with no particular certainty behind it. Regardless of the truth, the Honkai's influence is practically omnipresent and inescapable, and humanity has no choice but to press on or else fail and become wilted shadows in the Sea of Quanta.
A churning kaleidoscope of existence, the Sea of Quanta is the primordial soup of reality. It is from it that all things ultimately emerge, and it is to the Sea that all things eventually return to be recycled for the new. The Imaginary Tree was born from the Sea of Quanta. Since these two were the only living things in the multiverse and diametrically opposed to the other's purpose, they quickly began an eternal rivalry. The Tree wishes to absorb the Sea, while the Sea wishes to drown the Tree. In order to facilitate this cycle, worlds "grow" as leaves of the Tree, and when they fail to persist, "fall" from the Tree and into the Sea, becoming bubble universes. Being exposed to the raw energies of the Sea of Quanta has the potential to leave a defining mark on the recipient's existence, changing them irrevocably, which can be a source of the Quantum Type.
Much of the Sea's chaos and erosion effect can be traced back to the lack of linear time flow. If the worlds of the Imaginary Tree are like multiple overflowing glasses of different drinks, then the Sea of Quanta is the puddle of mixed liquids, a chaotic amalgamation of mixed data and ideas flowing in all directions at once, cast adrift by the loss of connection to the Imaginary Tree. Unlike the Tree that has order and can sustain data, the Sea lacks the one-directional time flow required to give any sense to it. Hence, it has no form or properties of its own and requires an observer to make any sense of it.
The Sea of Quanta is also known to manifest beings called Quantum Shadows to deal with particularly resilient invaders or other existences within it, taking the form of starry voids in the shape of various Honkai beasts, complete with similar and enhanced abilities. These creatures normally exist in a "superposed" state of various "Quantum Layers" that makes them incredibly resilient. This state can be collapsed by the skilled usage of Quantum energy or with timely use of Time Fracture, collapsing the creature to a single dimensional layer and rendering them decrepit and vulnerable. If this weakened state isn't capitalized upon, however, the Shadow will eventually reconstitute its superposed state.
When a leaf "falls" from the Imaginary Tree into the Sea of Quanta, it becomes a fragmented version of itself, called a bubble universe, with some having more stability than others. No matter what level of stability they appear to have, however, their time is ultimately finite under the wear and tear of the Sea of Quanta, which forever seeks to chew up and assimilate them back into its primordial soup. Being now cut off from the Imaginary Tree's direct supply of energy, in order for them to continue to exist, bubble universes must either have a surplus of Imaginary energy to fall back on or attach themselves to more abundant worlds and feed off the energy in those ones to sustain themselves. Otherwise, they will falter and dissolve under the Sea of Quanta's erosion.
Within the Sea of Quanta, bubble universes do not always follow conventional sense or contemporary rules. Some people's memories are enough to create entirely new bubble universes, and creating such bubble universes is even a skill that can be learned with enough exposure to and experimentation with the Sea. Some can be artificially created and maintain stability through an Ether Anchor. An Ether Anchor is what tethers and holds a bubble universe together. It holds the world in place but cannot do much to combat the lifespan of a bubble universe. It is possible for a bubble universe to be disconnected from the Tree yet held out of the Sea of Quanta's reach for a time, but this is an especially unusual phenomenon.
Within the Sea of Quanta, bubble universes do not always follow conventional sense or contemporary rules. Some people's memories are enough to create entirely new bubble universes, and creating such bubble universes is even a skill that can be learned with enough exposure to and experimentation with the Sea. Some can be artificially created and maintain stability through an Ether Anchor. An Ether Anchor is what tethers and holds a bubble universe together. It holds the world in place but cannot do much to combat the lifespan of a bubble universe. It is possible for a bubble universe to be disconnected from the Tree yet held out of the Sea of Quanta's reach for a time, but this is an especially unusual phenomenon.
Based out -and encompassing most- of Europe, Schicksal was founded by three families that carried Stigmata Bloodlines: House Apocalypse, House Kaslana and House Schariac. Together, these Three Houses have led the organization for centuries with House Apocalypse as the hereditary leader -lacking power but blessed with intellect, and Houses Kaslana and Schariac as their knights -blessed instead with extraordinary strength. An organization of legacy and prestige, they have existed long enough that their founding escapes much of human record, dating back to an unknown BC period. While at one time, they masqueraded as a religious organization that had presence across nearly the entirety of Asia as well, corruption and ambition led to a crusade that would heavily damage their forces and reputation, driving their presence back to merely European territories. Since then, ambitions checked, they have come under more reasonable leadership and are working to restore public trust. With their focus on Stigmata bloodlines, Biologic fighters often hail from here.
In their constant "holy war" against the "demons" of Honkai, Schicksal is historically perceived to be highly associated with the Catholic Church, and their motifs and generally acknowledged religious authority support this. While this aids them in some ways, in others, it only leaves them stained by the association of such events as the Crusades. In the 1400's, they were acknowledged as the largest Anti-Honkai organization in the world, and even to this day, that perhaps remains the case.
There is something to be said for the idea that success smooths over all sins, however, as no matter their past mistakes, it's undeniable that the "protection" they offered -and still offer- is genuine in quality. They are the largest source of Valkyries on the planet, whether they wield Natural or Artificial Stigmata, boasting staggering superhuman manpower and no small quantity of S-Rank Valkyries. Combined with their possession of a large number of "holy artifacts" they have unearthed over the centuries to arm their greatest warriors with and otherwise study to create lesser derivatives of, they are truly a titan on the world stage and wield massive influence just about anywhere they go, even if it's often begrudging outside Europe.
Schicksal has a rather chilly relationship with Anti-Entropy, many members seeing them as deserters and "rebels" that abandoned the pride of their heritage and "holy bloodlines"; as a result, they tend to be rather condescending towards them. By contrast, the School of Taixuan is treated cordially, to the point you might even call if sickly sweet, and naturally, the Taixuan have remained suspicious at nearly all times, no matter what mask of cordiality they wear in return. World Serpent is respected as a competitor and rival... and simultaneously eyed with greed and hunger for the ancient knowledge they possess.
In their constant "holy war" against the "demons" of Honkai, Schicksal is historically perceived to be highly associated with the Catholic Church, and their motifs and generally acknowledged religious authority support this. While this aids them in some ways, in others, it only leaves them stained by the association of such events as the Crusades. In the 1400's, they were acknowledged as the largest Anti-Honkai organization in the world, and even to this day, that perhaps remains the case.
There is something to be said for the idea that success smooths over all sins, however, as no matter their past mistakes, it's undeniable that the "protection" they offered -and still offer- is genuine in quality. They are the largest source of Valkyries on the planet, whether they wield Natural or Artificial Stigmata, boasting staggering superhuman manpower and no small quantity of S-Rank Valkyries. Combined with their possession of a large number of "holy artifacts" they have unearthed over the centuries to arm their greatest warriors with and otherwise study to create lesser derivatives of, they are truly a titan on the world stage and wield massive influence just about anywhere they go, even if it's often begrudging outside Europe.
Schicksal has a rather chilly relationship with Anti-Entropy, many members seeing them as deserters and "rebels" that abandoned the pride of their heritage and "holy bloodlines"; as a result, they tend to be rather condescending towards them. By contrast, the School of Taixuan is treated cordially, to the point you might even call if sickly sweet, and naturally, the Taixuan have remained suspicious at nearly all times, no matter what mask of cordiality they wear in return. World Serpent is respected as a competitor and rival... and simultaneously eyed with greed and hunger for the ancient knowledge they possess.
- Factional Benefits/Knowledge: To hail from this faction is to have the potential to hail from any of the bloodlines of the three Noble Houses. If you are part of this faction, have a Natural Stigmata and decide to choose one of these bloodlines, your stats are altered in different ways than normal. Kaslanas gain +2 Endurance. Schariacs gain +2 Honkai. Apocalypses gain +2 Intellect. They do not gain any other stat boost in exchange for a single massive boost to a one stat. In addition, due to the unusual commonality of Natural Stigmata here within bloodlines, you don't count against the normal limit of Natural Stigmata in the party. Outside this, Schicksal has the greatest access to Divine Keys, weapons forged from Herrscher Cores in the ancient past, along with the Sacred Relics -weapons developed through study of the former, and if your character proves themselves worthy and hails from this faction, they could be bestowed with one.
Compared to their competitors, Anti-Entropy is a fairly young organization amongst those that hunt Honkai. Nonetheless, it has more than 60 years under its belt and is no less effective for it. Originally founded by dissatisfied elements of Schicksal, who were becoming increasingly disillusioned with the corrupt titan, they used their experience in that organization to build their own and sever ties. One of the biggest catalysts of this eventual severance would be the discovery of the Core of Reason... and the influence of the Herrscher consciousness still preserved inside. More attuned to modern sensibilities and technologies and largely lacking the "legacy" of old and established Stigmata bloodlines, they style themselves a "forerunner" of human ingenuity, sporting a high focus on Mecha-type methods of fighting the Honkai. Their arguably peerless laboratories and reputation draw intellectuals for all over, looking to seek greater heights of learning and make their own mark in the war against Honkai. Mecha type Valkyries often hail from here.
Anti-Entropy has a reputation as something like arms dealers in the public eye. With their heavy focus on mechanized and cold unfeeling infantry to blow up the enemy in a firestorm of ammunition, they sacrifice reputation for effectiveness in many respects. It doesn't help that they are based in the United States and get associated in more than one respect with the global superpower's penchant for "peacekeeping". As such, their leadership perhaps spends an inordinate amount of time having to court high political society to ensure their backers remain nice and secure while also making their own investments on the technological patent spheres.
Anti-Entropy generally holds mistrust and thin tolerance towards Schicksal. Similarly, they are wary of World Serpent but not outright borderline antagonistic they way they are towards Schicksal. They are, however, generally very accommodating and respectful towards the School of Taixuan and -by extension- are more inclined to friendliness towards World Serpent for also managing to stay in Taixuan's good graces.
Anti-Entropy has a reputation as something like arms dealers in the public eye. With their heavy focus on mechanized and cold unfeeling infantry to blow up the enemy in a firestorm of ammunition, they sacrifice reputation for effectiveness in many respects. It doesn't help that they are based in the United States and get associated in more than one respect with the global superpower's penchant for "peacekeeping". As such, their leadership perhaps spends an inordinate amount of time having to court high political society to ensure their backers remain nice and secure while also making their own investments on the technological patent spheres.
Anti-Entropy generally holds mistrust and thin tolerance towards Schicksal. Similarly, they are wary of World Serpent but not outright borderline antagonistic they way they are towards Schicksal. They are, however, generally very accommodating and respectful towards the School of Taixuan and -by extension- are more inclined to friendliness towards World Serpent for also managing to stay in Taixuan's good graces.
- Factional Benefits/Knowledge: AE are led by the Herrscher of Reason from the Second Era, Bronya Zaychik. Through this, behind closed doors, the higher ups have learned much of what has been and what is doomed to come, and they are scrambling to make preparations for it. For this reason, they are also the least prejudiced faction against Herrschers and the most willing to attempt to save and recruit the humans possessed to create them. They also have in their possession several Herrscher cores from the Second Era or otherwise have some idea where to find them, just waiting for the right trustworthy hosts to take up their power in defense of humanity. Anti-Entropy also hold control over a special undersea facility known as The Deep, which contains a portal to the Sea of Quanta, something that can facilitate the justifiable acquisition of the Quantum Type for those that seek it.
An organization that once worked from the shadows and engaged in less than moral activities, the revamp of its leadership has seen the modern iteration become a figure upon the public stage in the fight against Honkai. Even so, some roots of their clandestine nature remain, with high-ranking officers often operating from behind masks and animal code names. Founded once upon a time by the being known as Grey Serpent, in this Era, it's initial reformation was at the hands of the ELF, Klein, having survived the destruction of Earth twice over through stasis. The ELF rebuilt what was lost, keeping some things that were useful and discarding some things that were less... palatable.
While the organization has seen a complete turnover with the death of even Grey Serpent, the legacy of the past members has remained in the borderline fanatical devotion of even today's followers towards the Thirteen Flame Chasers. Klein has done her best to temper this, but her efforts have seen little success in the face of the survival and eventual leadership bestowed upon two of the surviving Flame Chasers. Both now ancient beings that have survived planetary annihilation twice over, they are seen as borderline gods by most members of World Serpent.
On the world stage, World Serpent makes an interesting habit of being almost philanthropic, acting as a source of a steady trickle of advancements and improvements to quality of life across the world. As such, despite their name and less than heroic aesthetic, in the public eye, they are perhaps ironically one of the most trusted of the factions, their formerly clandestine methods leaving them with no untoward history to stain their reputation once they went public.
While the organization has seen a complete turnover with the death of even Grey Serpent, the legacy of the past members has remained in the borderline fanatical devotion of even today's followers towards the Thirteen Flame Chasers. Klein has done her best to temper this, but her efforts have seen little success in the face of the survival and eventual leadership bestowed upon two of the surviving Flame Chasers. Both now ancient beings that have survived planetary annihilation twice over, they are seen as borderline gods by most members of World Serpent.
On the world stage, World Serpent makes an interesting habit of being almost philanthropic, acting as a source of a steady trickle of advancements and improvements to quality of life across the world. As such, despite their name and less than heroic aesthetic, in the public eye, they are perhaps ironically one of the most trusted of the factions, their formerly clandestine methods leaving them with no untoward history to stain their reputation once they went public.
- Factional Benefits/Knowledge: With access to the vast archives of the Ark, World Serpent has the greatest leg up on uncovering the ancient technologies of the First Era. For example, while others like Schicksal have inklings of the process and even limited success, no other faction shares even half the mastery WS does at creating MANTISes. And should one wish to submit themselves for candidacy for the project, no other faction is more likely to accept, nor as likely to succeed. World Serpent has spies planted in both Anti-Entropy and Schiksal, and so key members are generally aware of what they know should a member seek classified info derived from another faction. Unbeknownst to the other factions, the current Overseer of World Serpent, Mobius Ormr, and her second in command, Griseo Ormr, are both legendary MANTISes from the First Era. Between the former's unrivaled ambition to improve humanity in any way possible and the latter's altruism and positive influence on the former, these factors have pushed World Serpent from the shadows into... some semblance of light.
A supernatural martial arts order, based out of Asia upon Mt. Taishan (commonly referred to as Mount Taixuan after the primary occupants), the School of Taixuan boasts 7 different sects spread across China, India and Japan, each one led by one of the seven disciples of the Celestial Emperya, who resides upon Mount Taixuan and only leaves to address major threats to the land. These disciples, in turn, each manage derivative schools that host between 100-200 students apiece, around a third of which are accomplished enough to be considered graduates ready to face the Honkai. For indeed, that is the primary purpose of the School of Taixuan, to teach humans to defend themselves against and exterminate Honkai beasts.
The order teaches a form of highly efficient Honkai manipulation that's purpose is to get the greatest effect for the least amount of risk of corruption. To do this, they use the legacy technique from the First Era, SWARA (Subliminal Weaponization & Artificing Of Reflex Arcs), to radically increase the muscular strength and neural responses of candidates, allowing them to carefully cultivate increased Honkai adaptability and utility. The true beauty of the subliminal hypnotic therapy inherent to SWARA is that it is something that can actually be taught, despite originally originating as merely the modifications applied to a single person. Through martial arts and teaching students to identify the Honkai energy within them as "Ki" and carefully and gradually stoke and master it over time, students learn to alter the flow of Honkai energy in their bodies, forever changing them into superhumans that cannot be technically considered "Valkyries", even though the vast majority of people do not perceive this distinction, given that there is functionally no difference between them in combat.
That being said, in order for this training to work, students must be taken on as early as possible and dedicate just about their entire lives to the Art. A potential student that has already passed puberty is considered a lost cause, and only those experiencing -or yet to experience- puberty are seriously considered and taken on as acolytes. If a student shows consistent promise and improvement, on average, they are considered a "graduate" of the school by age 18, becoming known as a Disciple of Taixuan. Greater mastery still sees them worthy of being promoted to a Blade of Taixuan, which is equivalent to being considered a Master. Disciples are considered accomplished enough to face Honkai beasts without risking being corrupted and comprise the majority of representatives you'd expect to see in Fire Moth, such is the adventurous and often foolhardy nature of youths.
Despite the traditional nature of the order, they have a surprisingly cordial relationship with World Serpent. Though their ideals do not always match up, the two factions usually take extra care not to come to blows and generally stay out of each-other's way. Similarly, they are generally warm towards Anti-Entropy but neither offer nor tolerate interference in the other's business. Conversely, they treat Schicksal with thinly veiled distaste, long memories far from pleased by the territory disputes they've shared in the past. On the world stage, the School of Taixuan has a relatively positive reputation. Given the tangible and public results of their training, they cannot be dismissed as kooks or crazies, and their oath to fight against the Honkai and defend the helpless associate them with the legends of mythological heroes, getting by with hard work and righteous hearts. Whatever some may say about them being "outdated", their results cannot be denied, and global acclaim and admiration belongs to their members as a result, with them widely regarded as the most difficult but safest path to obtaining the power to fight Honkai.
The order teaches a form of highly efficient Honkai manipulation that's purpose is to get the greatest effect for the least amount of risk of corruption. To do this, they use the legacy technique from the First Era, SWARA (Subliminal Weaponization & Artificing Of Reflex Arcs), to radically increase the muscular strength and neural responses of candidates, allowing them to carefully cultivate increased Honkai adaptability and utility. The true beauty of the subliminal hypnotic therapy inherent to SWARA is that it is something that can actually be taught, despite originally originating as merely the modifications applied to a single person. Through martial arts and teaching students to identify the Honkai energy within them as "Ki" and carefully and gradually stoke and master it over time, students learn to alter the flow of Honkai energy in their bodies, forever changing them into superhumans that cannot be technically considered "Valkyries", even though the vast majority of people do not perceive this distinction, given that there is functionally no difference between them in combat.
That being said, in order for this training to work, students must be taken on as early as possible and dedicate just about their entire lives to the Art. A potential student that has already passed puberty is considered a lost cause, and only those experiencing -or yet to experience- puberty are seriously considered and taken on as acolytes. If a student shows consistent promise and improvement, on average, they are considered a "graduate" of the school by age 18, becoming known as a Disciple of Taixuan. Greater mastery still sees them worthy of being promoted to a Blade of Taixuan, which is equivalent to being considered a Master. Disciples are considered accomplished enough to face Honkai beasts without risking being corrupted and comprise the majority of representatives you'd expect to see in Fire Moth, such is the adventurous and often foolhardy nature of youths.
Despite the traditional nature of the order, they have a surprisingly cordial relationship with World Serpent. Though their ideals do not always match up, the two factions usually take extra care not to come to blows and generally stay out of each-other's way. Similarly, they are generally warm towards Anti-Entropy but neither offer nor tolerate interference in the other's business. Conversely, they treat Schicksal with thinly veiled distaste, long memories far from pleased by the territory disputes they've shared in the past. On the world stage, the School of Taixuan has a relatively positive reputation. Given the tangible and public results of their training, they cannot be dismissed as kooks or crazies, and their oath to fight against the Honkai and defend the helpless associate them with the legends of mythological heroes, getting by with hard work and righteous hearts. Whatever some may say about them being "outdated", their results cannot be denied, and global acclaim and admiration belongs to their members as a result, with them widely regarded as the most difficult but safest path to obtaining the power to fight Honkai.
- Factional Benefits/Knowledge: If you're part of the School of Taixuan, you are no Valkyrie. You have no Stigmata and instead receive stat boosts from your SWARA training in the Taixuan Martial Arts. Even without a Stigmata, the "Ki" flowing through your veins grants you equivalent abilities. The Celestial Emperya is also known as the Immortal Phoenix and -by close acquaintances- Fu Hua. Despite her reclusive and traditional nature, she is known to be unusually positively minded towards the leaders of the technological behemoths, Anti-Entropy and World Serpent.
Otherwise known as MOTH (Myrmidons of Taskforce Honkai), this organization was developed as a form of compromise between competing interests. Overseen by such entities as the United Nations and ASEAN and endorsed by all the major Anti-Honkai organizations, it is a place where they pool their efforts, comprised of members from all walks of life and organizations. In Fire Moth, politics are (ostensibly) tossed to the wayside for practicality, no other concern to remain than the collaborative extermination of Honkai. For this reason, MOTH has global presence and influence, sending teams anywhere and everywhere that they are needed to face humanity's long-time enemy. Ostensibly, through membership in Fire Moth, you can access the resources of any of the three factions that act as its patrons. In practice, however, they still keep many of their cards close to their chests, not sharing all their trump cards and individually feeling out the other members of the trio's intentions, always wary of untoward interests.
Fire Moth's primary headquarters is based out of England in the United Kingdom. Given their relatively chilly reputation with the other factions, this was one concession made to Schicksal to encourage trust and earn their agreement to contribute to the collaborative project with their support. The area it resides is considered to be United Nations territory and is under similar diplomatic protection, bolstered by the raw firepower of so many invested parities.
Fire Moth's primary headquarters is based out of England in the United Kingdom. Given their relatively chilly reputation with the other factions, this was one concession made to Schicksal to encourage trust and earn their agreement to contribute to the collaborative project with their support. The area it resides is considered to be United Nations territory and is under similar diplomatic protection, bolstered by the raw firepower of so many invested parities.
- Factional Benefits/Knowledge: Being a member of Fire Moth is more than just being a defender against the apocalypse. It also means being a representative and agent of whomever might have sponsored your entrance into the organization. Usually, this is one of the big names, like Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, World Serpent or the School of Taixuan. As long as you remain in good standing with your faction and pursue their interests, your deeds may earn you enough trust to not just avail yourself of the more high quality resources and assets of your faction, but to also vet outsiders -like other members of Fire Moth- to also recieve similar accommodations, even if they hail from competing factions. As a member of Fire Moth, you otherwise generally recieve respect and accommodation in most places you go worldwide just by having your insignia and identification on hand, your duties acknowledged as being of utmost importance as long as you don't make a nuisance of yourself.
Powerful warriors, who have high Honkai resistance and who either have natural or artificial stigmata. Due to the constant exposure to the volatile Honkai energy and Honkai Beasts, many Valkyries are at risk of losing their lives not only in battle but due to the possible Honkai cascade as well, which is a phenomenon when a human with mild adaptability is corrupted by the Honkai and turns into a zombie, mindlessly seeking to destroy humanity.
Valkyrie ranks run from D to S. D-Ranks are generally relegated to a support role at HQ and do chores, support and logistics duties far from any real fighting. C-Rank is the minimum required to go on missions to fight even the lowest level Honkai beasts (usually under the supervision of a higher-ranking mentor/watcher Valkyrie. While B-Rank and above is an acknowledgement that you're strong enough to fight on the frontlines of major incursions, most often in teams but even solo. S-Rank is assigned to only the most powerful Valkyries, who are often in some ways more comparable to forces of nature than mere superhumans.
No matter what rank they are, all Valkyries are explicitly superhuman to some degree, the vast majority of them capable of easily overpowering even peak human combatants. Trained to use Honkai energy to enhance themselves and empower their weapons and battlesuits, Valkyries can massively outperform any mundane soldier in stamina, strength, agility and durability by leaps and bounds, able to shatter materials that might otherwise take a bullet's and artillery to penetrate, leap buildings and take inhuman punishment. The average B-Rank completely nullifies most mundane weaponry through sheer speed and reflexes or durability alone.
Valkyrie ranks run from D to S. D-Ranks are generally relegated to a support role at HQ and do chores, support and logistics duties far from any real fighting. C-Rank is the minimum required to go on missions to fight even the lowest level Honkai beasts (usually under the supervision of a higher-ranking mentor/watcher Valkyrie. While B-Rank and above is an acknowledgement that you're strong enough to fight on the frontlines of major incursions, most often in teams but even solo. S-Rank is assigned to only the most powerful Valkyries, who are often in some ways more comparable to forces of nature than mere superhumans.
No matter what rank they are, all Valkyries are explicitly superhuman to some degree, the vast majority of them capable of easily overpowering even peak human combatants. Trained to use Honkai energy to enhance themselves and empower their weapons and battlesuits, Valkyries can massively outperform any mundane soldier in stamina, strength, agility and durability by leaps and bounds, able to shatter materials that might otherwise take a bullet's and artillery to penetrate, leap buildings and take inhuman punishment. The average B-Rank completely nullifies most mundane weaponry through sheer speed and reflexes or durability alone.
Massively Augmented Neo-Tech Integrated Soldiers, abbreviated to MANTIS. A procedure once thought lost to time and remnant of the First Era, it was rediscovered and revitalized in the Third Era. In a way, this can be considered the precursor to the far milder procedure that creates Valkyries. In the Present Era, while the project has been refurbished, it has seen far less success compared to the Previous Era, largely due to -of all things- an overall drought of sufficiently powerful Honkai beasts to be worth using for it.
The procedure involves extracting DNA from Honkai beasts and integrating them into human soldier using ICHOR (Intra-Chromosomal Honkai Gene Repeats) in order to grant them superhuman abilities and innate Honkai resistance. Before they were wiped out nearly to the last by the Herrscher of Binding, the First Era had been successful in making dozens -even hundreds- of MANTISes to defend humanity. There is a balance to play, however, as those that survived having truly powerful Honkai beasts integrated were vanishingly rare, and even when they did, often times, it came with some form of consequence or imperfection, including physical or mental mutations.
A successful MANTIS becomes generally superhuman all around to a similar degree as a Valkyrie. They have a strong innate resistance to Honkai radiation, able to naturally feed upon it, and in most cases, they stop aging, only known to perish due to being slain or from complications with their Honkai DNA. All MANTISes gain some measure of power from their beast, usually able to use any unique abilities the beast once possessed to some degree or another. It is for this reason that powerful Honkai beasts of at least Emperor-class with unique abilities are preferred for the costly and dangerous procedure. After all, if you only have one shot, best to gamble on the best possibility each time. Of course, weaker beasts are possible to use too, but the mediocre results are often considered to outweigh the risk.
The Active Honkai Reaction (AHR) is the final ability all MANTISes possess. It transforms them into a beast-like form either identical to -or drawing traits from- the Honkai beast that was infused into their DNA. Doing so, however, reveals a MANTIS's true nature, that they are no longer truly human but rather a Honkai Beast in the shape of a human that just happens to have a human mind. Unleashing this form, however, destabilizes that balance, the surge of Honkai power and instincts being allowed to run wild, as the alien DNA is brought to the forefront. Furthermore, unleashing this form risks heavily irradiating the area with Honkai energy, which can be dangerous to anyone with little to no Honkai resistance, like mundane allies. Most MANTISes cannot control this form and so avoid using it, lest they go on a rampage and need to be put down like any other Honkai beast. Those that can control it consist largely of those with iron will and focus.
The procedure involves extracting DNA from Honkai beasts and integrating them into human soldier using ICHOR (Intra-Chromosomal Honkai Gene Repeats) in order to grant them superhuman abilities and innate Honkai resistance. Before they were wiped out nearly to the last by the Herrscher of Binding, the First Era had been successful in making dozens -even hundreds- of MANTISes to defend humanity. There is a balance to play, however, as those that survived having truly powerful Honkai beasts integrated were vanishingly rare, and even when they did, often times, it came with some form of consequence or imperfection, including physical or mental mutations.
A successful MANTIS becomes generally superhuman all around to a similar degree as a Valkyrie. They have a strong innate resistance to Honkai radiation, able to naturally feed upon it, and in most cases, they stop aging, only known to perish due to being slain or from complications with their Honkai DNA. All MANTISes gain some measure of power from their beast, usually able to use any unique abilities the beast once possessed to some degree or another. It is for this reason that powerful Honkai beasts of at least Emperor-class with unique abilities are preferred for the costly and dangerous procedure. After all, if you only have one shot, best to gamble on the best possibility each time. Of course, weaker beasts are possible to use too, but the mediocre results are often considered to outweigh the risk.
The Active Honkai Reaction (AHR) is the final ability all MANTISes possess. It transforms them into a beast-like form either identical to -or drawing traits from- the Honkai beast that was infused into their DNA. Doing so, however, reveals a MANTIS's true nature, that they are no longer truly human but rather a Honkai Beast in the shape of a human that just happens to have a human mind. Unleashing this form, however, destabilizes that balance, the surge of Honkai power and instincts being allowed to run wild, as the alien DNA is brought to the forefront. Furthermore, unleashing this form risks heavily irradiating the area with Honkai energy, which can be dangerous to anyone with little to no Honkai resistance, like mundane allies. Most MANTISes cannot control this form and so avoid using it, lest they go on a rampage and need to be put down like any other Honkai beast. Those that can control it consist largely of those with iron will and focus.
An alien force of nature not incomparable to a living (and hostile) law of reality.
The Honkai is not just the monsters it creates but a force that provokes apocalyptic disasters, and it was responsible for both the black plague and the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. The Honkai scales its attack to the resistance before it, with each following attack adapting to counter the counter or attack from a new devastating angle, increasing in both frequency and intensity over time.
It spreads monsters, heralds (known as Herrschers) and influence through invisible, one-way gaps in reality, corrupting whatever it can reach with a miasma spread by the selfsame monsters and heralds, which also empowers Honkai creatures in the area as the corruption grows. The radiation spread by the miasma is aggressive, contagious and deadly to non-Imaginary beings, which as it happens, is generally everything except the Honkai. Even a brief encounter (as in, merely passing a monster on the street) is enough to be infected with the deadly Honkai Radiation, which rapidly induces fatigue, crippling pain and irreversible organ failure. Once contracted, the sickness painfully kills most patients in days if they are "lucky", if not hours or less with continued exposure. For the unlucky, sufficient exposure can transform them into zombie thralls, lesser beasts of the Honkai and puppets of destruction.
The only real defense against the infection is immediate amputation of the corrupted flesh/limb. Outside that, the only known proper cure is a vaccine that needs the condensed antibodies of 1,000 subjects, a one-shot miracle cure that can purge a normie victim of the corruption... or even lessen a Herrscher's power enough for the human consciousness within to take over once more and have a fighting chance.
The Honkai is not just the monsters it creates but a force that provokes apocalyptic disasters, and it was responsible for both the black plague and the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. The Honkai scales its attack to the resistance before it, with each following attack adapting to counter the counter or attack from a new devastating angle, increasing in both frequency and intensity over time.
It spreads monsters, heralds (known as Herrschers) and influence through invisible, one-way gaps in reality, corrupting whatever it can reach with a miasma spread by the selfsame monsters and heralds, which also empowers Honkai creatures in the area as the corruption grows. The radiation spread by the miasma is aggressive, contagious and deadly to non-Imaginary beings, which as it happens, is generally everything except the Honkai. Even a brief encounter (as in, merely passing a monster on the street) is enough to be infected with the deadly Honkai Radiation, which rapidly induces fatigue, crippling pain and irreversible organ failure. Once contracted, the sickness painfully kills most patients in days if they are "lucky", if not hours or less with continued exposure. For the unlucky, sufficient exposure can transform them into zombie thralls, lesser beasts of the Honkai and puppets of destruction.
The only real defense against the infection is immediate amputation of the corrupted flesh/limb. Outside that, the only known proper cure is a vaccine that needs the condensed antibodies of 1,000 subjects, a one-shot miracle cure that can purge a normie victim of the corruption... or even lessen a Herrscher's power enough for the human consciousness within to take over once more and have a fighting chance.
Former humans granted godlike power by the Will of Honkai, they possess both a True Stigmata and a Herrscher Core that grants them control over an individual concept or otherwise defined word, their abilities being only roughly limited to their imagination and what they can justify falling under their Authority with mental gymnastics.
When humanity simply is becoming too organized and tough a nut to crack, the Honkai can make these special heralds, called Herrschers, who are former humans at their lowest, offered power and then possessed by the Honkai to enact genocide in a more direct fashion as generals, beacons and summoners for the lesser Honkai beasts. Herrschers usually result from a cumulative series of misfortunes and tragedies, culminating in "one bad day" and then being imbued with the power and will to end all life. Preferred candidates are those that didn't just have "one bad day" but those that have grown to actively hate the world and humans around them, which is then extended to encompass everyone else and turn them into zealot godling harbingers of the Honkai collective. It's possible for the human consciousness to take back control and usurp the Honkai power they've received to fight for humanity instead, but it tends to be no simple task and often requires outside interference.
Interference which, mind you, will have to succeed while not getting slaughtered by a being that commands a fundamental concept of reality. The 7th Herrscher of the First Era wiped out the entirety of Australia in a week with its control over "molecular acceleration" with a focus on flame and plasma. The continent burned. The Herrscher of Earth of the same era one-shot a whole continent with a black hole. Meanwhile, the Second Era Herrscher of the Void hurled apocalyptic meteors at the earth by making portals to deep space and could have destroyed humanity with just that if they weren't sadistically playing around. This is without even mentioning that they are each massive living power plants of Honkai Radiation, to a degree that can accidentally wipe out a city just from their presence if they lack either control or the desire to hold back.
Generally speaking, Herrschers (assuming one simplifies things to the pre-existing rotation used by the Will of Honkai) follow a set series of concepts. They do not necessarily appear in any particular order except for whichever of the set seems most appropriately devastating for the target civilization.
Known Are:
1st - Herrscher of Reason/Truth - Instantly (de)construct any creation that a civilization has ever achieved. Superhuman mental processing.
2nd - Herrscher of the Void - Portals, control over void-space, flow of time, distance. Ability to control/bend the imaginary space.
3rd - Herrscher of Lightning - Can control and generate all forms of electromagnetic currents.
4th - Herrscher of Wind - Manipulation of molecules in the gaseous state. Weather control. Can create the ideal fluid.
5th - Herrscher of Ice - Can de-energize matter, slowing movement to near absolute zero temperature. May be able to freeze time.
6th - Herrscher of Death - Can deconstruct/disintegrate and compose/regenerate matter.
7th - Herrscher of Flames - Can accelerate atoms to high speeds to generate massive amounts of heat, flames and explosions.
8th - Herrscher of Sentience - Can read and manipulate minds on a grand scale. Illusions, dreams and even memetic mind plagues.
9th - Herrscher of Earth/Stars - Can control and manipulate mass/gravity and can create black holes large enough to one-shot a continent.
10th - Herrscher of Domination - Can spread self/power among 1,000 bodies. Can manipulate/mimic/redirect other Herrscher powers.
11th - Herrscher of Binding - Can create a field that nullifies opposing Honkai energy and affects other energy forms to various extents.
12th - Herrscher of Corruption - A sentient infection that can corrupt/possess/hack anything, be it biological, artificial or psychological.
1st13th - Herrscher of Human Ego/Origin - A "mistake" that allied with humans. Has no innate "authority" but does have broad talent/capacity to manipulate Honkai energy. Eventually developed the capacity to personally restore a Herrscher's human ego/consciousness to primary control over the body. Doesn't need a human host/body to manifest and is self-sustaining until slain.
14th - Herrscher of Finality - Has/is the source of all other Herrscher powers. Meant to end an Era and reset for the next. Can control time.
Given that they are ultimately created with only the knowledge of their hosts for the most part, Herrschers don't tend to start with full mastery of their powers. While they have an innate understanding of what they can do, there's still a learning curve and certain amount of gaining experience involved. A young Herrscher is one at its most vulnerable, often drunk on power and arrogance. It is in their earliest days that is the best time to slay or otherwise remove a Herrscher from the board. As such, they have a bit of a defense against this. A newly born Herrscher most often unleashes an initial, wild burst of their power, which causes mass devastation and mayhem, attracting and spawning Honkai beasts to act as diversions/minions, along with corrupting the land and killing/corrupting any living being it can into zombies with Honkai radiation.
This devastating event, the initial awakening of a Herrscher, is what is known as a "Honkai Impact" namedroptitlecardhoh or "Honkai Eruption". Though, a Honkai Eruption can still occur without a Herrscher due to the usual escalation from Finality, a Herrscher's awakening usually integrally initiates one.
When humanity simply is becoming too organized and tough a nut to crack, the Honkai can make these special heralds, called Herrschers, who are former humans at their lowest, offered power and then possessed by the Honkai to enact genocide in a more direct fashion as generals, beacons and summoners for the lesser Honkai beasts. Herrschers usually result from a cumulative series of misfortunes and tragedies, culminating in "one bad day" and then being imbued with the power and will to end all life. Preferred candidates are those that didn't just have "one bad day" but those that have grown to actively hate the world and humans around them, which is then extended to encompass everyone else and turn them into zealot godling harbingers of the Honkai collective. It's possible for the human consciousness to take back control and usurp the Honkai power they've received to fight for humanity instead, but it tends to be no simple task and often requires outside interference.
Interference which, mind you, will have to succeed while not getting slaughtered by a being that commands a fundamental concept of reality. The 7th Herrscher of the First Era wiped out the entirety of Australia in a week with its control over "molecular acceleration" with a focus on flame and plasma. The continent burned. The Herrscher of Earth of the same era one-shot a whole continent with a black hole. Meanwhile, the Second Era Herrscher of the Void hurled apocalyptic meteors at the earth by making portals to deep space and could have destroyed humanity with just that if they weren't sadistically playing around. This is without even mentioning that they are each massive living power plants of Honkai Radiation, to a degree that can accidentally wipe out a city just from their presence if they lack either control or the desire to hold back.
Generally speaking, Herrschers (assuming one simplifies things to the pre-existing rotation used by the Will of Honkai) follow a set series of concepts. They do not necessarily appear in any particular order except for whichever of the set seems most appropriately devastating for the target civilization.
Known Are:
1st - Herrscher of Reason/Truth - Instantly (de)construct any creation that a civilization has ever achieved. Superhuman mental processing.
2nd - Herrscher of the Void - Portals, control over void-space, flow of time, distance. Ability to control/bend the imaginary space.
3rd - Herrscher of Lightning - Can control and generate all forms of electromagnetic currents.
4th - Herrscher of Wind - Manipulation of molecules in the gaseous state. Weather control. Can create the ideal fluid.
5th - Herrscher of Ice - Can de-energize matter, slowing movement to near absolute zero temperature. May be able to freeze time.
6th - Herrscher of Death - Can deconstruct/disintegrate and compose/regenerate matter.
7th - Herrscher of Flames - Can accelerate atoms to high speeds to generate massive amounts of heat, flames and explosions.
8th - Herrscher of Sentience - Can read and manipulate minds on a grand scale. Illusions, dreams and even memetic mind plagues.
9th - Herrscher of Earth/Stars - Can control and manipulate mass/gravity and can create black holes large enough to one-shot a continent.
10th - Herrscher of Domination - Can spread self/power among 1,000 bodies. Can manipulate/mimic/redirect other Herrscher powers.
11th - Herrscher of Binding - Can create a field that nullifies opposing Honkai energy and affects other energy forms to various extents.
12th - Herrscher of Corruption - A sentient infection that can corrupt/possess/hack anything, be it biological, artificial or psychological.
1st13th - Herrscher of Human Ego/Origin - A "mistake" that allied with humans. Has no innate "authority" but does have broad talent/capacity to manipulate Honkai energy. Eventually developed the capacity to personally restore a Herrscher's human ego/consciousness to primary control over the body. Doesn't need a human host/body to manifest and is self-sustaining until slain.
14th - Herrscher of Finality - Has/is the source of all other Herrscher powers. Meant to end an Era and reset for the next. Can control time.
Given that they are ultimately created with only the knowledge of their hosts for the most part, Herrschers don't tend to start with full mastery of their powers. While they have an innate understanding of what they can do, there's still a learning curve and certain amount of gaining experience involved. A young Herrscher is one at its most vulnerable, often drunk on power and arrogance. It is in their earliest days that is the best time to slay or otherwise remove a Herrscher from the board. As such, they have a bit of a defense against this. A newly born Herrscher most often unleashes an initial, wild burst of their power, which causes mass devastation and mayhem, attracting and spawning Honkai beasts to act as diversions/minions, along with corrupting the land and killing/corrupting any living being it can into zombies with Honkai radiation.
This devastating event, the initial awakening of a Herrscher, is what is known as a "Honkai Impact" namedroptitlecardhoh or "Honkai Eruption". Though, a Honkai Eruption can still occur without a Herrscher due to the usual escalation from Finality, a Herrscher's awakening usually integrally initiates one.
WIP, so be aware that any stat ratings are subject to change.
Honkai Beast Sizes/Classifications:
Honkai Beast Sizes/Classifications:
As terrifying as it might be to consider, there exist even beasts above Judgement-class. These creatures are closer to a force of nature than a mere monster and can rival a Herrscher in power.
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- Power: NA
- Endurance: NA
- Agility: NA
- Intellect: NA
- Honkai: NA
- NA.
Varying in size and form, these Honkai beasts are walking calamities that have the power to end an entire nation or civilization, usually created in response to instances of unusually accelerated and widespread advancement of Humanity.
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- Power: NA
- Endurance: NA
- Agility: NA
- Intellect: NA
- Honkai: NA
- Benares:
- Chiyou
Typically tower over ten meters in height. Anti-tank weaponry levels of force are the required minimum to penetrate their armor. Can shrug off multiple hits from a main battle tank gun.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
- Power: B+
- Endurance: B+
- Agility: B+
- Intellect: D
- Honkai: B+
- Ganesha
- Son of Dawn (pink)/Son of Darkness(blue)
- Assaka (pink-blue)
- Imperator/Queen/Flame Emperor(orange)/Frost Emperor(blue)
A singular Flame Emperor is tough enough to take on an army of 10,000 fully-armed mundane soldiers, including tanks, and slaughter half of them before dying to attrition.
Towering up to 4-5 stories tall, these beasts are armed with a massive tower shield on one arm and have a spear for their other. They can levitate above the ground and despite normally being slow moving are agile enough to leap into the air.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
- Power: B
- Endurance: S (A from behind)
- Agility: C
- Intellect: E
- Honkai: F
- Storm Templar: A variant with even greater defenses and paralyzing attacks, rippling with electricity.
A horse-like creature that carries a Honkai zombie on its back, which is in turn armed with a lance capable of punching giant holes straight through armored mecha. Highly mobile and best avoided in a head-to-head confrontation.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
- Power: C (B if charging)
- Endurance: C
- Agility: C (B if charging)
- Intellect: E
- Honkai: F
- WIP
The most common Honkai beast, these gorilla-like beings are generally slow and clumsy but strong, pummeling victims to death. Stands about 1-3 stories tall.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
- Power: C
- Endurance: C
- Agility: E
- Intellect: F
- Honkai: F
- Chariot
Slow & clumsy standard, but strong enough to bulldoze through a stone overpass. - Alloy Chariot
Has a highly mobile pounce and can release a roar powerful enough to deafen a Valk for over 2 weeks. - Blazing Chariot
Explodes on death. Passively releases enough heat to cripple armored mecha. - Frost Chariot
Mostly spotted in cold areas. Fighting it up close risks severe frostbite.
Their thin yet ultra-dense silicon-base carapace is tough enough to make them virtually immune to small-arms fire. They typically appear in large numbers and attack with their sharp wings. They can fly at high speeds and are able to release short-range energy blades from their wings that can cleave through solid brick.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
- Power: D
- Endurance: D
- Agility: C
- Intellect: F
- Honkai: E
- Archangel/Cassiel(armor)/Scarlet Uriel/Baradiel
The result of a human with some resistance to Honkai radiation that is overwhelmed by it or a Valkyrie that experiences cascade, these creatures possess none of the intellect and humanity they once had, merely seeking to destroy and kill like any other Honkai beast.
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
Standard Variant Threat Grades:
- Power: E
- Endurance: E
- Agility: E
- Intellect: F
- Honkai: F
- WIP
1.) Cooperative storytelling comes first.
2.) I won't tell you not to godmod within the bounds of reason, as this setting's power system is rather... flexible at the upper levels, and you'll need every advantage you can get. However, I will warn you that your primary enemy basically has godmod countering built into it. So, you know... play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
3.) In principle, auto-hits/successes that are not mechanically backed are not allowed. Declare your intent, and the receiver's post will decide the result, whether that be the GM or another player. To avoid this devolving into constant games of "can't touch me", however, there will be a mechanic for determining if your opponent falls within autohit/autododge territory; if they qualify, you do have otherwise unspoken permission to style all over them unless specifically told otherwise. This will go both ways, however, so play it careful.
4.) A backstory that fits various 'story beats' doesn't make your character good if their purpose is to defeat everyone and establish themselves as a superior top dog in an RP arms race. If you're not going to use your backstory to make a good story, expect to be retaliated against appropriately IC. Assuming it isn't just vetoed before it ever hits the IC.
5.) Powerful characters will be permitted (eventually), as the PCs grow to match stronger foes and learn and adapt from each battle. Various special items and circumstances may also provide individual PCs a boost, provided they take the appropriate steps IC-ly to not have it blow up in their face. The expectation is that power will be granted down the line, so don't be in a rush.
6.) Keep it cordial OOC. Nothing complicated.
7.) Post length is 2-3 multi-sentence paragraphs minimum, but longer posts are encouraged and welcome. That said, bear in mind, a shorter post is better than no post at all, just as long as it moves your character along and responds appropriately to the most critical IC stimuli.
8.) GM's ruling is final, but that goes without saying. Polite negotiation is one thing, but if I don’t budge, that’s that.
9.) I’m generally flexible on posting speed, but posting at your easiest convenience is preferred. Strictly speaking, the IC will move as fast as works for the majority, and anyone that's holding up the party will get passed over or sockpuppeted as necessary to move along. I don’t like doing this, so I’ll only resort to it if necessary. And I will inform the relevant player when doing so, if at least to give then one last chance to make a short post.
2.) I won't tell you not to godmod within the bounds of reason, as this setting's power system is rather... flexible at the upper levels, and you'll need every advantage you can get. However, I will warn you that your primary enemy basically has godmod countering built into it. So, you know... play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
3.) In principle, auto-hits/successes that are not mechanically backed are not allowed. Declare your intent, and the receiver's post will decide the result, whether that be the GM or another player. To avoid this devolving into constant games of "can't touch me", however, there will be a mechanic for determining if your opponent falls within autohit/autododge territory; if they qualify, you do have otherwise unspoken permission to style all over them unless specifically told otherwise. This will go both ways, however, so play it careful.
4.) A backstory that fits various 'story beats' doesn't make your character good if their purpose is to defeat everyone and establish themselves as a superior top dog in an RP arms race. If you're not going to use your backstory to make a good story, expect to be retaliated against appropriately IC. Assuming it isn't just vetoed before it ever hits the IC.
5.) Powerful characters will be permitted (eventually), as the PCs grow to match stronger foes and learn and adapt from each battle. Various special items and circumstances may also provide individual PCs a boost, provided they take the appropriate steps IC-ly to not have it blow up in their face. The expectation is that power will be granted down the line, so don't be in a rush.
6.) Keep it cordial OOC. Nothing complicated.
7.) Post length is 2-3 multi-sentence paragraphs minimum, but longer posts are encouraged and welcome. That said, bear in mind, a shorter post is better than no post at all, just as long as it moves your character along and responds appropriately to the most critical IC stimuli.
8.) GM's ruling is final, but that goes without saying. Polite negotiation is one thing, but if I don’t budge, that’s that.
9.) I’m generally flexible on posting speed, but posting at your easiest convenience is preferred. Strictly speaking, the IC will move as fast as works for the majority, and anyone that's holding up the party will get passed over or sockpuppeted as necessary to move along. I don’t like doing this, so I’ll only resort to it if necessary. And I will inform the relevant player when doing so, if at least to give then one last chance to make a short post.
Stats: Generally speaking, regarding physical stats, F is roughly human, with E-rank as clearly superhuman with a minimum of peak human. D-rank is more blatantly superhuman, boasting feats like being able to shrug off small arms fire with only bruises most of the time. At C and B-rank, it's getting genuinely questionable if mundane means even have an answer to you. And at A-rank and beyond, it's probably easier to pray. More ethereal stats like Intellect aren't quite so simple, but it's a good rule of thumb.
Health: Your HP is equal to your Endurance stat with a minimum of 1 at F-Rank. At a C-rank, you would have 4. At A-rank, you'd have 6 and so on. Losing a health point is a big deal, not something a superhuman like you will lose from little things like cuts and bruises or even necessarily getting smacked around, but from a major injury like a lost or broken limb, gunshot wound, or other blow to a part of the body that would typically be considered lethal. You regain lost HP with appropriate medical care and downtime.
Being at 0 HP: Being at 0 HP doesn't necessarily mean you are dead, but it does mean you're incapable of continuing to fight/resist. So, you could potentially be conscious, but the most you can do is drag yourself away. Until someone helps you regain your strength, you're out of the fight. So, going to 0 isn't an insta-kill unless someone basically executes a finisher on you after the fact (which is still possible, of course). For most enemies, 0 is still insta-death, however.
Taking/Dealing Damage: Outside narrative influence and conditional circumstances/extenuating factors, as a rule, damage is a simple contest of Power vs Endurance. As long as you have equal Power to the Endurance you wish to overcome, a successful strike can by default deal a single point of damage +1 for each additional point that you Power exceeds the defense. This is, of course, mitigated by how well the participants write out their responses. While, on the surface, a C-Rank Power could not harm a B-Rank Endurance, if the attacker is smart and/or the defender careless, they can use such things as weak points to still harm them as if they were an equal rank. That said, if the rank difference is 2 ranks or greater in the contest, it is a gap that simply cannot be closed or overcome without exceptional circumstances.
Stat Contests: This goes for pretty much all contests, whether it be damage, dodging or status effects. Equal stats and a successful hit from an attacker grant an effect worth 1 point.
Status Effects: A contest of Honkai vs Endurance. To inflict a status effects, you must build up successful stacks of your element on the target. This can happen even if you otherwise deal no damage to them. On a successful hit with your weapon/attack/element of choice, you can attempt to inflict your elemental effect. If your Honkai is equal to the opposing Endurance, you automatically earn one stack, along with another for each level further that you exceed their Endurance. Once the target has accrued stacks equal to their maximum Endurance/Health, they are afflicted with the status effect. Status effects can be inflicted as a team effort, with multiple users of the same element able to contribute their stacks to the same attempt to inflict the effect,
Honkai Corruption/Exhaustion: Tracked separately from your health, you have a threshold at which your body simply cannot risk intaking more Honkai energy without experiencing a Honkai cascade and becoming a mindless zombie or otherwise simply burning up from strain. Once you reach your threshhold, you begin to cascade, becoming completely incapacitated, either through unconsciousness or a failing body. If this corruption progresses to completion, you die, full-stop. You gain a point of Corruption whenever you are overexposed to Honkai energy, either as a result of the environment or from your own abilities, and you are cleansed of points either via specialized treatment or extended downtime, allowing your body to filter out the excess. Higher Endurance grants you a hardier constitution against this, but the risk is always there. Death or madness. Pick your poison.
Honkai Miasma: When you fight the Honkai, often times, the area will be irradiated by Honkai energy. This will be noted by such things as "Miasma Level 1", and while inside such an area, your effective resistance to Honkai energy is lowered, as your body will already be occupying part of its resistance fighting against the passive area effect. Where normally, you might could use your Burst without any risk to yourself, in such an area, you may be vulnerable in ways you weren't while training.
Health: Your HP is equal to your Endurance stat with a minimum of 1 at F-Rank. At a C-rank, you would have 4. At A-rank, you'd have 6 and so on. Losing a health point is a big deal, not something a superhuman like you will lose from little things like cuts and bruises or even necessarily getting smacked around, but from a major injury like a lost or broken limb, gunshot wound, or other blow to a part of the body that would typically be considered lethal. You regain lost HP with appropriate medical care and downtime.
Being at 0 HP: Being at 0 HP doesn't necessarily mean you are dead, but it does mean you're incapable of continuing to fight/resist. So, you could potentially be conscious, but the most you can do is drag yourself away. Until someone helps you regain your strength, you're out of the fight. So, going to 0 isn't an insta-kill unless someone basically executes a finisher on you after the fact (which is still possible, of course). For most enemies, 0 is still insta-death, however.
Taking/Dealing Damage: Outside narrative influence and conditional circumstances/extenuating factors, as a rule, damage is a simple contest of Power vs Endurance. As long as you have equal Power to the Endurance you wish to overcome, a successful strike can by default deal a single point of damage +1 for each additional point that you Power exceeds the defense. This is, of course, mitigated by how well the participants write out their responses. While, on the surface, a C-Rank Power could not harm a B-Rank Endurance, if the attacker is smart and/or the defender careless, they can use such things as weak points to still harm them as if they were an equal rank. That said, if the rank difference is 2 ranks or greater in the contest, it is a gap that simply cannot be closed or overcome without exceptional circumstances.
Stat Contests: This goes for pretty much all contests, whether it be damage, dodging or status effects. Equal stats and a successful hit from an attacker grant an effect worth 1 point.
Status Effects: A contest of Honkai vs Endurance. To inflict a status effects, you must build up successful stacks of your element on the target. This can happen even if you otherwise deal no damage to them. On a successful hit with your weapon/attack/element of choice, you can attempt to inflict your elemental effect. If your Honkai is equal to the opposing Endurance, you automatically earn one stack, along with another for each level further that you exceed their Endurance. Once the target has accrued stacks equal to their maximum Endurance/Health, they are afflicted with the status effect. Status effects can be inflicted as a team effort, with multiple users of the same element able to contribute their stacks to the same attempt to inflict the effect,
Honkai Corruption/Exhaustion: Tracked separately from your health, you have a threshold at which your body simply cannot risk intaking more Honkai energy without experiencing a Honkai cascade and becoming a mindless zombie or otherwise simply burning up from strain. Once you reach your threshhold, you begin to cascade, becoming completely incapacitated, either through unconsciousness or a failing body. If this corruption progresses to completion, you die, full-stop. You gain a point of Corruption whenever you are overexposed to Honkai energy, either as a result of the environment or from your own abilities, and you are cleansed of points either via specialized treatment or extended downtime, allowing your body to filter out the excess. Higher Endurance grants you a hardier constitution against this, but the risk is always there. Death or madness. Pick your poison.
Honkai Miasma: When you fight the Honkai, often times, the area will be irradiated by Honkai energy. This will be noted by such things as "Miasma Level 1", and while inside such an area, your effective resistance to Honkai energy is lowered, as your body will already be occupying part of its resistance fighting against the passive area effect. Where normally, you might could use your Burst without any risk to yourself, in such an area, you may be vulnerable in ways you weren't while training.
Totally aped from Exalted: Essence, but it's way too perfect for my needs. This is how distance will be treated in combat and for abilities. If some effect modifies "range" or "area of effect", it is based in these narrative measurements. Generally speaking, Agility determines how efficiently you can close or make distance, with every point difference, allowing you to close or gain distance on a target by that many distance degrees, regardless of their desire.
At close range, characters are close enough to quickly engage. They aren’t necessarily touching already, but a simple shift of stance or two-step forward will get you there. Melee happens at close range.
At short range, characters are too far apart to swing a sword, but near enough to close the distance with a few fast steps.
At medium range, characters are far apart. One would need take a concentrated action to get to the other, and conversations must be shouted to be heard. This is the range band that covers the maximum distance for thrown weapons.
At long range, characters are so far apart that while they can see to one another, they cannot speak without a device or signal. The characters are too far apart to get to in a single movement action without supernatural assistance, and the only way to engage in combat is with ranged weapons.
At extreme range, characters are effectively so far away from each other that they cannot engage in any meaningful way. They can barely see each other, even the longest ranged weapons cannot reach a target. Combat is effectively impossible without supernatural assistance.
At close range, characters are close enough to quickly engage. They aren’t necessarily touching already, but a simple shift of stance or two-step forward will get you there. Melee happens at close range.
At short range, characters are too far apart to swing a sword, but near enough to close the distance with a few fast steps.
At medium range, characters are far apart. One would need take a concentrated action to get to the other, and conversations must be shouted to be heard. This is the range band that covers the maximum distance for thrown weapons.
At long range, characters are so far apart that while they can see to one another, they cannot speak without a device or signal. The characters are too far apart to get to in a single movement action without supernatural assistance, and the only way to engage in combat is with ranged weapons.
At extreme range, characters are effectively so far away from each other that they cannot engage in any meaningful way. They can barely see each other, even the longest ranged weapons cannot reach a target. Combat is effectively impossible without supernatural assistance.
Character Building
Please keep in mind that you are playing Valkyries in a team of roughly equal individual strength (specialties depending). You should be generally new on the block, none of you old or overtly experienced. About the most remarkable achievement to your name is the fact that you actually have Stigmata at all. You are humans and novice psychics. Herrschers and MANTIS/ICHOR soldiers are not allowed (at least starting out).
Regarding lore information your PCs may know, generally speaking, the true nature, goals and functions of Honkai and Herrschers are completely unknown to the public, and those that do know have kept that information classified at the highest levels, as the Honkai has historically retaliated extra hard against information being dissiminated about its biggest secrets. Pretty much all you know as the average person and Valkyrie is that Honkai is bad and has been around for centuries, super monsters kill people, and Honkai radiation is no laughing matter. Herrschers are disasters that have been hushed as an existence, and the average Valkyrie isn't even aware they exist or what they are, since they don't appear very often.
If you have ideas regarding anything that hasn't already been addressed or are looking for a slight exception for the sake of a good idea, don't be afraid to ask questions. I can't promise satisfactory results, but I'll try to consider them. Honkai Impact 3rd has an incredibly high power ceiling and a power system with ridiculous potential for shenanigans. I would like to use every aspect of it and have those aspects available to players in some form down the line, but I'd like to be careful and generally fair how I go about it.
Appearance: An image is preferred, along with a physical description in text.
Name: You know the drill. Any monikers should also be here as alternate names.
Nationality: Valkyries operate globally and draw their talents from just about anywhere as a result.
Faction: Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, World Serpent, or School of Taixuan. Choose your faction and have your resources (and perhaps reputation) determined accordingly. This will likely be where you primarily received your Valkyrie training. You may also choose "other", and we can hash out the details of a custom option. However, be aware that it will be inferior to any of the major factions. You are also automatically assumed to be part of Fire Moth, no matter what option you pick.
Age: The work of a Valkyrie is not a profession for the old. The wear and tear of Artificial Stigmata has a nasty habit of killing the host as much as any monster they're fighting. As relative newbies, your age should range from somewhere between 16-19 years old. Age is barely a consideration in determining who is old enough to fight in the perpetual struggle against Honkai, but pure rationality dictates avoiding sending out those that aren't fully physically developed. 16 is therefore the absolute minimum to enter battle, no matter what "genius" traits or talents they might hold, but the majority of new fully-fledged Valkyrie range closer to 18-19 as graduates.
Valkyrie or Chevalier: Valkyries can be female or male, but due to the fact that Stigmata are more attuned to female genetics, females are generally noted to be more compatible with Honkai energy. If you play a male, you will be in the minority, and a cap will be enforced on how many male PCs can be in the whole party to reflect this rarity. Generally speaking (at least statistically for this), only 1-3/10 Valkyries are male. It will generally be first-come, first-serve on playing a male PC. If you're going for female, you can ignore most of this and do as you will. A male Valkyrie is instead known as a Chevalier. If you are from the School of Taixuan, this limitation still applies, and -though it is not technically correct- you are still referred to by one of these two terms.
Origin: Human, Psychic or Disciple of Taixuan.
Rank: You start at C-Rank and will have opportunities to be classed higher later, upon proving your metal. Playing a higher rank or "experienced senior" type is explicitly disallowed. You are all rookies. You may choose to play a D-Rank if you wish, but be aware that it will severely limit your combat opportunities until you rank up.
Grades: How you were ranked upon your last testing period, the score that said you were ready for field work. Grades for the typical Valkyrie run from F-A with particularly exceptional abilities being worthy of the S (Special) grade. You start with an average of "points" enough to have a D in every statistic, which you may adjust as you like. To have a "passing grade", you must have at least some semblance of competence in just about all areas, so only a single stat can be dumped further than an E. Conversely, no stat may be higher than C (unless the bar is raised by your Stigmata).
Type: Choose from among Mecha, Psychic or Biologic. Quantum and Imaginary are not necessarily absolutely restricted starting out, but due to their exotic nature, they cannot be taken casually, requiring a sufficient lore-compliant justification for them that doesn't overstep other character creation restrictions. Your type determines the delivery method of your element.
Element: Choose from among Fire, Ice, Lightning or Physical and theme your other abilities appropriately. Each element provides appropriate utilities and advantages. Fire can set things on fire and generally inflict additional damage over time, able to inflict a searing heat that can ignore Endurance. Ice can freeze enemies (or parts of them) solid and provide breathing room, slowing or stopping foes. Lightning can paralyze foes with a large enough shock or enough cumulative blows. Physical can inflict bleeding wounds and lower physical integrity in a supernatural way, dealing damage with raw brute force. These are not the only things these elements can do, but they are the primary and simplest ones when channeling them with Honkai energy.
Discipline: Dual Pistols, Blade (short/katana), Heavy (cannon), Two-Handed (greatsword), Cross, Fists (gauntlet), Scythe, Lance, Bow or Chakram. Your character may have competent skill in the usage of a single one of these disciplines, which comes with an innate understanding for handling any weapon that falls under that type with either equal skill or an intuitive understanding of its operations at minimum. You can wield any weapon from your discipline with at least a bare minimum of competence if you so much as pick it up, and with time to study its functions, you can use it as well as any other you've acquired. By contrast, you are unable to use weapons outside your discipline efficiently, and you won't be able to use their unique supernatural abilities, only wield them in their most basic surface capacity as a weapon.
Weapon: Choose or otherwise create your weapon. Your weapon will be equivalent to a three-star in-game. It's possible for it to have a unique ability of some stripe, but nothing crazy. You can pick an in-game weapon (this is preferred), and I will help decide what that weapon's ability translates to in narrative, rather than stats. Or if you want to go completely custom, we can perhaps work something out. Available weapons can be found on this wiki.
Stigmata: Choose from among Artificial or Natural Stigmata (if qualifying). Stigmata (singular Stigma) are the visual indicator that a human has mutated to have Honkai adaptability. Your Stigmata may potentially provide narrative abilities, based off in-game abilities altered to equivalent benefits or from a standing lineage, like Kaslana or Schariac. Your Stigmata is the primary source of your ability to manipulate Honkai energy, making you inclined to a specific element, and you recieve stat changes based on which one you have. This stat change effectively lowers and raises the maximum starting threshold for certain stats. For example, an Artificial Stigmata means the maximum starting Endurance is D instead of C. Conversely, however, a +1 will allow you to overcome the normal statistical threshold for your rank, and it can allow you to have a starting stat at B if you wish to invest that far. Even if you don't use the increase to go above the threshold immediately, it is still raised, and you can invest a point later into that empty spot. Mark any alterations of this sort as (+1), (-1), (+2), etc in your stats section.
SWARA: If you aren't a Disciple of Taixuan, remove this section. Otherwise, delete the Stigmata section instead. If you have SWARA, your martial training has taught you to manipulate the "Ki" inside your body to gradually cultivate and improve your natural adaptability to Honkai energy. Through extensive hard work and mystical teachings, you learned to alter the flow of Honkai energy within you, forever changing you into a supernatural existence. As a benefit of allowing your body to gradually adjust, you suffer none of the reduced lifespan issues Artificial Stigmata inflict. Conversely, however, your more grounded human nature leaves you more vulnerable to Honkai corruption than a Natural Stigmata would provide, and you are -generally speaking- a lot more "squishy" than a Valkyrie, relying far more on skill and not getting hit at all to carry the day. +1 to two stats of choice other than Endurance or Agility (cannot be the same stat), +1 to Agility, -1 to Endurance.
Honkai Arts: This covers your ability to -broadly speaking- freely manipulate Honkai energy in a number of ways. Each "Art" generally covers a category of capabilities and represents your capability with them. To learn Honkai Arts, you recieve 2 points per level of your Honkai stat past F. You also receive a third point that is automatically allocated to your chosen starting element each level. At E-Rank, your points are automatically assigned to the basics, your element, Time Fracture and Honkai Sensing. Beyond that, you can use points to unlock new Arts or upgrade a current one, and no Art can ever be more than one rank higher than your Honkai stat, demonstrating a specialty. Using Honkai Arts requires your battlesuit or that the relevant Art be rank B or higher. Not wearing your battlesuit treats your Arts like they are 3 ranks lower than normal, which is why B is the minimum, and they will always be weaker in that state.
Battlesuit: Where the Stigmata acts as the power source, a Valkyrie's battlesuit provides the structure for their abilities, channeling the Honkai energy flowing through their bodies in the ways they desire. Whether it was developed in a lab or summoned from the Imaginary ether, your battlesuit is always on hand, able to be stored in a form of subspace while not in use and summoned back onto your body at a moment's notice. Battlesuits are rather unusual in the capacity of "armor", as they are less focused on protection and more on channeling Honkai energy safely. This, as a result, tends to mean they come across as "skimpy", as they are often designed to leave "breathing space" for excess energy to escape to not cook the wearer alive inside them like a microwave oven. After all, what use is there in protection from outside threats if the wearer suffers cascade from their own power? Of course, this is simply the commonality rather than an absolute rule, but the results speak for themselves, leaving most Valkyries to come across as rather eccentric in appearance. Your battlesuit provides no statistical benefits, being more like a work uniform than armor. Whatever protection it could provide is assumed to be inferior to the Valkyrie's own durability. However, most Valkyries cannot use their elemental supernatural abilities without donning it.
Burst: The special move of your battlesuit, a release of power that can typically only be pulled off sparingly. Your burst is a custom move or ability over which you have full creative freedom (within reason), either releasing the normal safety constraints upon your battlesuit or otherwise using a gathered excess of power to exert a higher tier of ability for a short time. You gain points of Burst modification for each point of your Burst stat, which you can use to determine how your burst strengthens you. This is typically a very draining effort that takes a toll on the body and puts you at greater risk of Honkai corruption. Your burst energy reserve charges over time, requiring preparation. Typically, it charges by post and is available (or otherwise held in reserve) approximately every five rounds, so use it tactically. This length can be modified by your Burst stat. Your Burst does not begin recharging until a previous use has fully resolved. Be warned that if your Burst rank is higher than your Endurance rank, every time you use it, you will take points of Honkai Corruption equal to the difference. You can mitigate this by deliberately casting your Burst at a lower rank, weakening it but subsequently making it safer. This way, it is available to you in some form even in areas with extremely high Honkai Miasma lowering your effective resistance to corruption.
Psionics: If you have chosen the Psychic race, this is where any talents derived from your nature will be described. While broadly speaking, you have creative freedom, your abilities here should remain within the bounds of the typical "cerebral" abilities you'd expect from a psychic. That means stuff like telekinesis, empathy, telepathy, remote viewing/scrying, and even perhaps precognition. Of these things, you are innately inclined to one or two and no others. Psychics are specialists that individually access only a limited few "skill trees" from amongst those available to their kind. Your rank of investment in the Intellect stat will partially influence what level of power and flexibility your abilities may have. It's also worth noting that psychic abilities are considered "useless" against the Honkai in most cases, so be sure to account for the fact that you can only fight Honkai with them indirectly. Psychics are best at anti-human operations over anti-Honkai. That being said, however, this means they have a potential niche use against Herrschers, who are simply humans empowered by the Honkai. If you didn't choose the psychic race, delete this section.
Skills: List any notable mundane skillsets or talents you might have, but do keep them within reason. As a rule of thumb, I expect your backstory to explain or otherwise easily imply exactly where each skill originated from. Example skills could be wilderness survival, cooking, piloting planes, any languages you know (at least passable English should be among them as a mandatory skill), and any particular acumen with technology (whether constructing or manipulating it).
Gear: Include notable assets, utilities and other equipment here. You are free to draw from any existing Present Era tech from the series within reason. Keep in mind you are low-ranking Valkyries, and the resources you can requisition for your missions are limited until you prove your worth. You should typically keep this within what you can carry on your person, either on hand or in your battlesuit's subspace.
Personality: You know the drill. Give us an idea of what they are at least like at a casual impression. What drives them? What annoys them? Likes? Dislikes? Dreams? Consider the Kakashi introduction as a template for the absolute minimum. A single paragraph is fine, of course, but more than that certainly wouldn't go amiss.
Biography: A couple paragraphs preferred. You don't need a novel, but this section should answer such questions as: What lifestyle did they grow up under? Why did they become a Valkyrie? Please note that whatever your backstory, your character should remain by the end of it a relative rookie to fighting the Honkai, pretty much freshly graduated/ranked up to a point where you're allowed to fight. Playing an "experienced senior", "ancient hero" or other archetype that would narratively only justify exceptionally honed skills and abilities is not allowed.
Other: Anything not covered by the rest of the sheet that you'd like to add, like interesting trivia or theme music.
Name: You know the drill. Any monikers should also be here as alternate names.
Nationality: Valkyries operate globally and draw their talents from just about anywhere as a result.
Faction: Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, World Serpent, or School of Taixuan. Choose your faction and have your resources (and perhaps reputation) determined accordingly. This will likely be where you primarily received your Valkyrie training. You may also choose "other", and we can hash out the details of a custom option. However, be aware that it will be inferior to any of the major factions. You are also automatically assumed to be part of Fire Moth, no matter what option you pick.
Age: The work of a Valkyrie is not a profession for the old. The wear and tear of Artificial Stigmata has a nasty habit of killing the host as much as any monster they're fighting. As relative newbies, your age should range from somewhere between 16-19 years old. Age is barely a consideration in determining who is old enough to fight in the perpetual struggle against Honkai, but pure rationality dictates avoiding sending out those that aren't fully physically developed. 16 is therefore the absolute minimum to enter battle, no matter what "genius" traits or talents they might hold, but the majority of new fully-fledged Valkyrie range closer to 18-19 as graduates.
Valkyrie or Chevalier: Valkyries can be female or male, but due to the fact that Stigmata are more attuned to female genetics, females are generally noted to be more compatible with Honkai energy. If you play a male, you will be in the minority, and a cap will be enforced on how many male PCs can be in the whole party to reflect this rarity. Generally speaking (at least statistically for this), only 1-3/10 Valkyries are male. It will generally be first-come, first-serve on playing a male PC. If you're going for female, you can ignore most of this and do as you will. A male Valkyrie is instead known as a Chevalier. If you are from the School of Taixuan, this limitation still applies, and -though it is not technically correct- you are still referred to by one of these two terms.
Origin: Human, Psychic or Disciple of Taixuan.
- If Human, your supernatural abilities most likely stem entirely from your Stigmata; you were born with a natural resistance to Honkai energy that makes you one of the precious few that can survive this process and (relatively) safely use the powers it provides afterwards. Unlike a psychic, it's possible that you have a Natural Stigmata, but the trait is still very rare and will be treated as such.
- If Psychic, you are still human and still likely use an implanted Stigmata, but you are a distinct variant of human. You may have a unique psychic ability or talent of some type, the details of which should be hashed out with the GM, but if your ability is anything other than unrefined and/or weak, your Type will automatically be Psychic to reflect this focus in your training. Psychics are about as rare as male Valkyries and will be restricted similarly in number.
- Disciple of Taixuan: It's also possible that your abilities are derived from receiving SWARA training and that you have no Stigmata at all. You are still human. You have simply undergone extensive training to cultivate the natural Honkai adaptability of your body. If you choose this, remove your Stigmata section entirely and use the optional SWARA section on the sheet.
Rank: You start at C-Rank and will have opportunities to be classed higher later, upon proving your metal. Playing a higher rank or "experienced senior" type is explicitly disallowed. You are all rookies. You may choose to play a D-Rank if you wish, but be aware that it will severely limit your combat opportunities until you rank up.
Grades: How you were ranked upon your last testing period, the score that said you were ready for field work. Grades for the typical Valkyrie run from F-A with particularly exceptional abilities being worthy of the S (Special) grade. You start with an average of "points" enough to have a D in every statistic, which you may adjust as you like. To have a "passing grade", you must have at least some semblance of competence in just about all areas, so only a single stat can be dumped further than an E. Conversely, no stat may be higher than C (unless the bar is raised by your Stigmata).
- Power: Governs physical strength or weaponry. The general capacity to do damage. Contested by Endurance.
- Endurance: Governs damage resistance, overall "health pool", resistance against status effects and constitution. Also governs how resistant you are to the corruptive properties of Honkai energy.
- Agility: Governs a combination of swiftness and precision. Generally contested by the selfsame, but can be used to get around Endurance to a degree through sheer skill and/or weak point targeting.
- Intellect: Skill with knowledge-based pursuits. Governs psychic strength if the user has the potential. Also partially governs mental fortitude against certain types of trials, contributing to resisting mental influence and attacks, like from a Herrscher Ego or a MANTIS AHR.
- Honkai: Governs manipulating Honkai energy, energy pool and inflicting status effects. Displays how skilled at manipulating Honkai energy you are with or without gear. This effects how much Honkai energy your body naturally gathers and can safely hold on the day-to-day, and the higher the rank, the more you have to work with at the start of combat. When battle starts, you get a one-time discount on the rounds needed to use your Burst at a rate of 1 round per rank above F.
- Burst: How often you can use your "Burst" with a base of 5 rounds. A lower rank than D increases the required rounds. Higher than D decreases them. This stat also governs your Burst’s potency. Every point above F grants a “modifier point” for the Burst, representing the release of suppressed power, and you have one modifier point by default for a minimum of two. Your Burst stat limits how far effective boosts from it can go, and your burst cannot raise any stat beyond a single rank higher than your Burst level (ie. A D-Rank Burst can raise a D-Rank stat to C temporarily but no further, no matter how many points are dedicated to it). The same applies to your other stats. You cannot raise them directly more than one rank above their base using your Burst, as your body can only contain so much power. You can’t use your Burst to increase your Burst stat, and you can’t use it to raise your Endurance for the purposes of defending against Honkai corruption caused by your Burst; the corruption applies first, before any buffs.
Type: Choose from among Mecha, Psychic or Biologic. Quantum and Imaginary are not necessarily absolutely restricted starting out, but due to their exotic nature, they cannot be taken casually, requiring a sufficient lore-compliant justification for them that doesn't overstep other character creation restrictions. Your type determines the delivery method of your element.
- If you're Mecha, you probably use machinery and other pure high-tech; you rely on your equipment and have the training or some other capacity necessary to maintain and repair it.
- If you're Psychic, you've likely got the rare natural trait that allows you to manipulate things with your mind and naturally tap into a sort of spiritual energy; you rely on your mental stamina and intellect.
- If you're Biologic, you fight with primarily physiological traits, being the most physically dominant type of Valkyrie; you rely on your honed body and physical training to get by, fighting with brute force, agility and skill.
- If you're Imaginary, your abilities draw from a closer connection to Imaginary Space and the Imaginary Tree. Imaginary is exactly as it says: literally imagination wielded to impose a personal view on reality, usually subconsciously. In a lot of ways, they have many similarities to other types, but the fundamental reason behind your abilities is different. However, all Honkai energy is generally Imaginary in nature, so what separates a true Imaginary type from the crowd is that they usually look at the world in an unusual or inhuman way. It might not even be incorrect to call them "deluded", except that the nature of Imaginary imposes the user's own reality, thereby making them not delusional. Suffice it to say, this type is very strange and extremely uncommon. Fundamentally, Imaginary abilities hew towards a nature of "creation and control", and it is the type closest to the nature of the Honkai itself.
- If you're Quantum, you have been exposed to the Sea of Quanta in some capacity and been changed by the experience. It is quite possible that you are no longer entirely "grounded" in reality, attuned to the nature of things that exist in more than one place at once. To say the least, the opportunities for this to occur are vanishingly rare, but the results speak for themselves. Like the Sea of Quanta, your abilities hew towards destruction, chaos and dimensions. You rely on manipulating space in some fashion.
Element: Choose from among Fire, Ice, Lightning or Physical and theme your other abilities appropriately. Each element provides appropriate utilities and advantages. Fire can set things on fire and generally inflict additional damage over time, able to inflict a searing heat that can ignore Endurance. Ice can freeze enemies (or parts of them) solid and provide breathing room, slowing or stopping foes. Lightning can paralyze foes with a large enough shock or enough cumulative blows. Physical can inflict bleeding wounds and lower physical integrity in a supernatural way, dealing damage with raw brute force. These are not the only things these elements can do, but they are the primary and simplest ones when channeling them with Honkai energy.
Discipline: Dual Pistols, Blade (short/katana), Heavy (cannon), Two-Handed (greatsword), Cross, Fists (gauntlet), Scythe, Lance, Bow or Chakram. Your character may have competent skill in the usage of a single one of these disciplines, which comes with an innate understanding for handling any weapon that falls under that type with either equal skill or an intuitive understanding of its operations at minimum. You can wield any weapon from your discipline with at least a bare minimum of competence if you so much as pick it up, and with time to study its functions, you can use it as well as any other you've acquired. By contrast, you are unable to use weapons outside your discipline efficiently, and you won't be able to use their unique supernatural abilities, only wield them in their most basic surface capacity as a weapon.
Weapon: Choose or otherwise create your weapon. Your weapon will be equivalent to a three-star in-game. It's possible for it to have a unique ability of some stripe, but nothing crazy. You can pick an in-game weapon (this is preferred), and I will help decide what that weapon's ability translates to in narrative, rather than stats. Or if you want to go completely custom, we can perhaps work something out. Available weapons can be found on this wiki.
Stigmata: Choose from among Artificial or Natural Stigmata (if qualifying). Stigmata (singular Stigma) are the visual indicator that a human has mutated to have Honkai adaptability. Your Stigmata may potentially provide narrative abilities, based off in-game abilities altered to equivalent benefits or from a standing lineage, like Kaslana or Schariac. Your Stigmata is the primary source of your ability to manipulate Honkai energy, making you inclined to a specific element, and you recieve stat changes based on which one you have. This stat change effectively lowers and raises the maximum starting threshold for certain stats. For example, an Artificial Stigmata means the maximum starting Endurance is D instead of C. Conversely, however, a +1 will allow you to overcome the normal statistical threshold for your rank, and it can allow you to have a starting stat at B if you wish to invest that far. Even if you don't use the increase to go above the threshold immediately, it is still raised, and you can invest a point later into that empty spot. Mark any alterations of this sort as (+1), (-1), (+2), etc in your stats section.
- Artificial Stigmata: Developed to mimic natural stigmata, these imperfect stigmata are made through DNA sampling and artificial DNA of a compatible bloodline infused with Honkai energy. While this method does allow for higher Honkai energy adaptability, allowing people to fight that never could otherwise, it significantly shortens the life of the user and also has a higher risk of cascade as time continues. It is only used on Valkyries that are not Stigma Awakened. You do not gain any stat boosts from your Stigmata, as your starting stats are assumed to already be partially the result of it. +1 to a stat of choice other than Endurance; +1 to Honkai; -1 to Endurance.
- Natural Stigmata: These stigmata are naturally found on individuals with high Honkai adaptability. They are often passed through bloodlines, such as the Kaslana or Schariac families. Those that naturally develop a Stigma are known as Stigma Awakened. Those with these Stigmata are immune to Honkai cascade, able to live normal lives with regular lifespans if they wish. That said, they can still be burnt out by the overuse of Honkai energy; the only thing their mutated blood really defends them from is a fate worse than death. Psychics do not develop Natural Stigmata. +1 to Endurance; +1 to Honkai.
- True Stigmata: These stigmata are granted to humans who have the potential to become a Herrscher. A True Stigma acts like a visual marker but can cause pain and emotional instability at high concentrations of Honkai energy. Owners of these do not experience normal Honkai cascade but instead fall prey to their Herrscher Ego, who may take over the body until suppressed. True Stigmata are often mistaken for Natural Stigmata. In fact, it's quite possible for a "Natural" Stigmata to turn out to have actually been a True one, awakening and becoming more powerful under the right conditions. They are generally restricted entirely and may be privately discussed/bestowed or otherwise granted upon appropriate candidates at GM discretion. In addition, your cascade threshold instead scales off the average of Intellect and Endurance, rounded up, as for you, Honkai energy is not at all harmful but rather a highly intoxicating substance. +1 to stat of choice, +1 to Endurance; +1 to Honkai; +1 to Burst.
SWARA: If you aren't a Disciple of Taixuan, remove this section. Otherwise, delete the Stigmata section instead. If you have SWARA, your martial training has taught you to manipulate the "Ki" inside your body to gradually cultivate and improve your natural adaptability to Honkai energy. Through extensive hard work and mystical teachings, you learned to alter the flow of Honkai energy within you, forever changing you into a supernatural existence. As a benefit of allowing your body to gradually adjust, you suffer none of the reduced lifespan issues Artificial Stigmata inflict. Conversely, however, your more grounded human nature leaves you more vulnerable to Honkai corruption than a Natural Stigmata would provide, and you are -generally speaking- a lot more "squishy" than a Valkyrie, relying far more on skill and not getting hit at all to carry the day. +1 to two stats of choice other than Endurance or Agility (cannot be the same stat), +1 to Agility, -1 to Endurance.
Honkai Arts: This covers your ability to -broadly speaking- freely manipulate Honkai energy in a number of ways. Each "Art" generally covers a category of capabilities and represents your capability with them. To learn Honkai Arts, you recieve 2 points per level of your Honkai stat past F. You also receive a third point that is automatically allocated to your chosen starting element each level. At E-Rank, your points are automatically assigned to the basics, your element, Time Fracture and Honkai Sensing. Beyond that, you can use points to unlock new Arts or upgrade a current one, and no Art can ever be more than one rank higher than your Honkai stat, demonstrating a specialty. Using Honkai Arts requires your battlesuit or that the relevant Art be rank B or higher. Not wearing your battlesuit treats your Arts like they are 3 ranks lower than normal, which is why B is the minimum, and they will always be weaker in that state.
- Arts are usually less like a single "spell" and more like and collective practice of multiple techniques. You can propose new ones beyond the base set to be judged by GM discretion. You can also use this as your way to attain the ability to use more than one element.
- F-Rank indicates total ineptitude in an Art, unusable; E-Rank indicates basic usability, allowing the infliction of status effects for example; D-Rank indicates an increase in raw power to the basic usage; C-Rank displays the beginnings of flexibility with its usage, allowing one the creativity to -for example- actively shape fire rather than merely generate it and display basic "kinesis"; B-Rank edges further into flexibility, allowing one to perform greater and more elaborate feats; A-Rank demonstrates conventional mastery; and S-Rank demonstrates being a cut above.
- Pyrokinesis, Cryokinesis, Electrokinesis or Bleed: ? (whichever matches your starting element)
- Time Fracture: ? (Every two ranks in this Art grants another use of Time Fracture in battle, the first use unlocked at E. Time Fracture is unique in that it is completely unusable outside the battlesuit and inflexible compared to other Arts, as it is the act of accessing a very narrow portion of the [Authority of Void] or rather [Finality]. All Herrschers are innately capable of it.)
- Honkai Sensing: ? (Your range and finesse with this Art follows the Range Grades. Higher ranges allow you to not just locate and track areas of Honkai corruption but also to eventually detect the presence of individual beasts and even determine their species before ever encountering them. This applies to anything with Honkai running through its body, allowing extreme skill to pick out the nuance of Honkai flow between a Valkyrie or a SWARA practitioner, for example.)
Battlesuit: Where the Stigmata acts as the power source, a Valkyrie's battlesuit provides the structure for their abilities, channeling the Honkai energy flowing through their bodies in the ways they desire. Whether it was developed in a lab or summoned from the Imaginary ether, your battlesuit is always on hand, able to be stored in a form of subspace while not in use and summoned back onto your body at a moment's notice. Battlesuits are rather unusual in the capacity of "armor", as they are less focused on protection and more on channeling Honkai energy safely. This, as a result, tends to mean they come across as "skimpy", as they are often designed to leave "breathing space" for excess energy to escape to not cook the wearer alive inside them like a microwave oven. After all, what use is there in protection from outside threats if the wearer suffers cascade from their own power? Of course, this is simply the commonality rather than an absolute rule, but the results speak for themselves, leaving most Valkyries to come across as rather eccentric in appearance. Your battlesuit provides no statistical benefits, being more like a work uniform than armor. Whatever protection it could provide is assumed to be inferior to the Valkyrie's own durability. However, most Valkyries cannot use their elemental supernatural abilities without donning it.
- Features: Outside its ability to channel Honkai energy, your battlesuit is typically possessed of a conglomeration of other utilities, including communications, GPS and sensors to measure local Honkai Miasma levels. Whatever weapons or other tools you use can be stored within or retrieved from your battlesuit's subspace storage, which can hold a limited amount of possession and automatically absorbs the wearer's normal clothes and possession into it when the battlesuit is summoned. Most modern battlesuits also grant you access to the Time Fracture ability.
- Time Fracture: A legacy ability from a past Era, this technology and technique was developed after extensive study of the core of the Herrscher of the Void, eventually culminating in a mimicry of a single aspect of its abilities. Time Fracture partially displaces the user's temporal and spatial profile, casting the world around them into shades of purple from their viewpoint and -furthermore- into slow motion while leaving the user -from their perspective- moving at normal speeds. When a Valkyrie uses this ability, they effectively increase their Agility by one level for a single post or about 5-10 seconds, whichever is shorter IC, giving them the opportunity to dodge some form of peril and potentially retaliate in the same timeframe. Time Fracture accrues a very particular kind of strain, and as such, it has a large enough cooldown that it can usually only be used once per battle.
Burst: The special move of your battlesuit, a release of power that can typically only be pulled off sparingly. Your burst is a custom move or ability over which you have full creative freedom (within reason), either releasing the normal safety constraints upon your battlesuit or otherwise using a gathered excess of power to exert a higher tier of ability for a short time. You gain points of Burst modification for each point of your Burst stat, which you can use to determine how your burst strengthens you. This is typically a very draining effort that takes a toll on the body and puts you at greater risk of Honkai corruption. Your burst energy reserve charges over time, requiring preparation. Typically, it charges by post and is available (or otherwise held in reserve) approximately every five rounds, so use it tactically. This length can be modified by your Burst stat. Your Burst does not begin recharging until a previous use has fully resolved. Be warned that if your Burst rank is higher than your Endurance rank, every time you use it, you will take points of Honkai Corruption equal to the difference. You can mitigate this by deliberately casting your Burst at a lower rank, weakening it but subsequently making it safer. This way, it is available to you in some form even in areas with extremely high Honkai Miasma lowering your effective resistance to corruption.
- Rank: Equal to your Burst stat.
- Duration: 1 round +1 for each Burst rank above F. You can sacrifice rounds of duration for more modifier points, creating a more powerful but short-lived burst. You can lower this to a minimum of one round.
- Modifier Points: 1 point +1 for every rank above F. A point is required to be spent for every "notable feature", which will be determined by GM review.
- Effect: Describe your custom ability here. Keep in mind, your ability should stay "on brand" for your type and element, and anything that strays into the domain of outside ones will likely be vetoed.
Psionics: If you have chosen the Psychic race, this is where any talents derived from your nature will be described. While broadly speaking, you have creative freedom, your abilities here should remain within the bounds of the typical "cerebral" abilities you'd expect from a psychic. That means stuff like telekinesis, empathy, telepathy, remote viewing/scrying, and even perhaps precognition. Of these things, you are innately inclined to one or two and no others. Psychics are specialists that individually access only a limited few "skill trees" from amongst those available to their kind. Your rank of investment in the Intellect stat will partially influence what level of power and flexibility your abilities may have. It's also worth noting that psychic abilities are considered "useless" against the Honkai in most cases, so be sure to account for the fact that you can only fight Honkai with them indirectly. Psychics are best at anti-human operations over anti-Honkai. That being said, however, this means they have a potential niche use against Herrschers, who are simply humans empowered by the Honkai. If you didn't choose the psychic race, delete this section.
Skills: List any notable mundane skillsets or talents you might have, but do keep them within reason. As a rule of thumb, I expect your backstory to explain or otherwise easily imply exactly where each skill originated from. Example skills could be wilderness survival, cooking, piloting planes, any languages you know (at least passable English should be among them as a mandatory skill), and any particular acumen with technology (whether constructing or manipulating it).
Gear: Include notable assets, utilities and other equipment here. You are free to draw from any existing Present Era tech from the series within reason. Keep in mind you are low-ranking Valkyries, and the resources you can requisition for your missions are limited until you prove your worth. You should typically keep this within what you can carry on your person, either on hand or in your battlesuit's subspace.
Personality: You know the drill. Give us an idea of what they are at least like at a casual impression. What drives them? What annoys them? Likes? Dislikes? Dreams? Consider the Kakashi introduction as a template for the absolute minimum. A single paragraph is fine, of course, but more than that certainly wouldn't go amiss.
Biography: A couple paragraphs preferred. You don't need a novel, but this section should answer such questions as: What lifestyle did they grow up under? Why did they become a Valkyrie? Please note that whatever your backstory, your character should remain by the end of it a relative rookie to fighting the Honkai, pretty much freshly graduated/ranked up to a point where you're allowed to fight. Playing an "experienced senior", "ancient hero" or other archetype that would narratively only justify exceptionally honed skills and abilities is not allowed.
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Jessica Richter
American | Anti-Entropy | 19 y/o | Valkyrie | Human
C - Rank | Natural Stigmata | Quantum-Type | Ice | Blade (short/katana)
POW - D | END - C (+1) | AGI - C | INT - E | HON - C (+1) | BUR - D
Appearance:
A tall young woman at 5'10" with ashy-grey hair and oddly purple eyes, her perpetually pale skin often brings into question how much sunlight she gets, yet does not seem to burn under its light. This nearly doll-like pallor is accompanied, however, by most every other sign of exceptional health, her honed and shapely body speaking to an appreciation of hard work, the genetic lottery or some combination of the two. Her armored dress of a battlesuit gives off the image in battle of a black knight, as she zips around to slice and dice her foes.
Element: Ice.
Ice can freeze enemies (or parts of them) solid to hinder movement and provide breathing room. It can also counter the burning condition and counteract the effects of extreme heat. These are not the only things it can do, provided some creativity is exercised, but they are the primary and simplest ones.
Weapon: Pulse Katana Type-17
- Ability: Channeling a practically trivial trickle of Honkai energy through this weapon, it launches 6 ethereal blades, each blade dealing Ice DMG and greatly slowing enemies struck with them for a single post or 2.5 seconds, whichever is shorter. The ice creeping through their veins lowers their Agility stat by one rank for the duration of this effect. While this duration isn't impressive, the negligible Honkai energy cost and relatively "okay-ish" damage makes it plenty useful if well timed. This ability counts as a status effect and can be resisted with Endurance contested by your Honkai.
Honkai Arts:
- Cryokinesis: C
- Time Fracture: E (1 use)
- Honkai Sensing: C (medium range, honkai corruption level detection)
- Quantum Manipulation: D (Space-time sensory capacity and manipulation solely in regard to the Sea of Quanta. Allows the countering of the Superposed state and Quantum Layers of Quantum Shadows. Allows the creation and maintenance of Bubble Universes in the Sea of Quanta.)
Battlesuit: Void Knight
- Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, and sensors to measure local Honkai Miasma levels. While this battlesuit was once normal, after exposure to the Sea of Quanta, it became an ethereal mantle fused to Jessica's existence like the superposed layers of a Quantum Shadow. Thankfully, she can remove it as easily as rearranging her superposed state, shuffling it off to subspace, but it will never truly leave her. It seems to naturally reconstitute and repair itself over time as a result of this new state, but as a result, it is very difficult to modify or improve. Only Jessica or others touched by the Sea of Quanta are capable of interacting with it properly and making lasting alterations.
- Time Fracture: An ability that increases a Valkyrie’s Agility by one level for a single post or about 5-10 seconds, giving them the opportunity to dodge some form of peril and potentially retaliate in the same timeframe. Can usually only be used once per battle.
Burst: Quantum Heatsink
- Rank: D
- Duration: 2 rounds.
- Modifier Points: 4 (+1 Miasma Suppression, +1 Corruption Cleansing, +2 AOE)
- Effect: Calls forth a chilling cold by opening her body as a gateway to the Quantum void, coating her vicinity in frost out to a MEDIUM distance. This gate to the void has a special effect in that zone, as the radical temperature drop can counteract Honkai corruption, the rapid decrease in thermal energy "freezing" the particles to halt the imminent cascade and drawing them away. Her connection to the Sea of Quanta allows her to do as it does and consume and shunt Imaginary energy. For every round that an ally remains in her zone of cold, a single point of Honkai corruption is cleansed. This also effectively lowers the Honkai Miasma level in her vicinity by 1 for the duration.
Skills:
Speaks fluent English, Spanish and Chinese. Her cooking skills are... existent, enough to follow the instructions on a package and make military rations seem edible. She can drive a car, pilot Anti-Entropy aircraft and operate AE mech suits and drones. She's skilled at first aid and quick on her feet when it comes to treating Honkai corruption. She also has enough competence in engineering and Honkai tech to perform maintenance on her weapons and battlesuit, though not modify them without assistance. She has firearm training, but nothing quite comparable to a Valkyrie gun specialist, and similarly, she is highly skilled in unarmed combat, though not in the operation of Fist discipline weapons. She's pretty good at video games.
Gear:
A bundle of tech items, including a smartphone, power bank, charging cords, USB drives and tools enough for light maintenance on her gear. She also carries her car keys, wallet, a lighter, a small flashlight and her handheld gaming console with a charger. She never leaves for duty without a medical kit, which contains all the essentials, including bandages, splints, disinfectant and tools for stitches (with a special needle for piercing Valkyrie skin). She additionally keeps a number of survival items on hand in the chance that a worst-case scenario occurs, including ration bars, water, dehydrated food, and a mess kit with eating utensils, a bowl and a lid that can double as a plate or frying pan. She also carries a FN High Power handgun as a sidearm that she usually keeps strapped under one arm, along with two spare 17-round magazines.
Personality:
Determined and congenial, Jessica is not exactly the social sort, but she tries her best regardless. With little ego to be found, she tends to carry a natural ease about her, not making friends with everyone around her per-say but easily getting along with most people she meets. Her relatively humble nature expresses itself in a habitual politeness, a sort of "treat others as you wish to be treated", and while she does have a temper, rare is the situation where it is allowed to take the wheel. She cares about doing the right thing for as many people as possible and prefers not to take sides unless there is objectively clear wrongdoing or foolishness to oppose.
In contrast to her friendly attitude on the daily, on the battlefield, other traits boil to the forefront. Her concern for the lives of not just civilians -but her comrades as well- is often seen in the form of almost great caution and cold efficiency. At no other time is it easier to earn her harshest words than to behave recklessly or otherwise put the team at risk for personal reasons. When her ire is raised, her fury typically does not burn, but rather chills, filtered through a harsh, calculating rationality guided by a framework of morality, as she channels her rather unnerving talent for killing her emotions for the sake of her goals.
When she isn't training or fighting, Jessica is a bit of a lazybones, taking any opportunity she can to goof off and absorb herself in her hobbies, among which number reading, playing video games, and eating junk food. She dislikes waking up early, being hassled by extroverts and getting saddled with extra work. Her dreams... she's considered the matter at length, and she's no certain she could say she has any. Whenever she considers what she'd like to do with her life... what she'd like to do for the world, she always finds those thoughts crushed by rationality and relegated to daydreams. So, if she had to say she had a dream? It's to keep living, to always pursue the next sunrise, day by day. Whenever she can get away with it, Jessica doesn't like to think about the future and simply lives in the present.
After all, she hasn't found a better cure to existential dread yet.
Biography:
As long as she can remember, Anti-Entropy has been Jessica's home. Her parents were -and are- Valkyries under their banner, primarily conducting experiments in Honkai energy heavy zones, and their little girl grew up with an admiration for the organization's ideals and fight against the Honkai. More times than she can count, she recalls spending her days following her parents around squeaky-clean headquarters, annoying a janitor and rifling through unattended stacks of paper and widgets. She admired her parents and -like many children- wanted to be just like them.
Unfortunately, as she grew up, she found she didn't have the same talents they did, hard work or not. Intellectual pursuits generally didn't suit her, but she had more than enough energy for other ones. And when her Stigmata finally manifested, it seemed as sure a sign as any that her future didn't lay within the tech divisions. Instead, she would use her rare gift to be a Valkyrie in the field and direct her energy towards fighting the enemy at humanity's doorstep. She would be one of many fighting on the front to ensure their backline had more time to develop a solution for the greater benefit of all.
Outside this training, Jessica, unlike many of her more zealous peers, did not experience great tragedy or hardship. Often surrounded by trainees with fires of revenge burning inside them or barely concealed traumas, Jessica felt strangely alone and guiltily relieved, not for the least of which reason because she felt almost apathetic to their struggles. She lived a life free of burdens on her heart, and she was glad for it. Her first condoned forays into the battlefield went well too, not a single time experiencing overt misfortune.
Until one day, very shortly after being deemed combat capable, she found herself assigned to The Deep. An expedition into the Sea of Quanta was to be taking place, the goal classified above her paygrade, but she wasn't concerned. After all, she wasn't going down there. She was just one of many being assigned to guard Anti-Entropy's side of things. They weren't expected to face any combat, barring the potential for a few Quantum Shadow stragglers that they would wildly outnumber. Everything was in readiness, every precaution taken...
It went wrong immediately.
Almost as if the Sea of Quanta had been waiting for them, chaos ensued. Hordes of monsters, a gateway refusing to be shut again, and many finding their footing disturbed. Jessica was one of many to fall into the Sea. In many ways, she isn't entirely certain how she survived in the place between worlds. She was trapped there for weeks, navigating the realm of Bubble Universes, trying to reconnect with as many of her comrades as possible. And eventually, she did. Not all of them were alive... and more than a few weren't quite sane, but most managed to pull themselves together enough to turn a disparate band of weaklings into an organized band of world raiders, taking whatever they needed to survive. And after two months, fortune decided to shine on them again. Finally, they made contact with reality again. With communications reestablished, it was only a matter of time before they were directed onto the right path to escape back into The Deep, the gateway closed behind them.
As with all those who had fallen with her, Jessica did not come away from the experience unchanged. While she had endured it mentally better than most, there was a harsh edge to her now at times. And more drastically, her body had been changed irrevocably, hair leeched of color, eyes bubbling with strange energies and skin nigh-on as porcelain as a doll. Her very existence had been altered in ways the doctors still didn't quite understand even months later, only able to tell her she was "stable" and seemed to have adapted to the changes relatively smoothly... something not all of the returnees could claim. Some suggested she step down from battlefield operations, concerned about potential side effects, but she rejected such nonsense without hesitation.
For many, such an event would have been... traumatizing, to say the least, but Jessica found herself in the strange position of almost feeling nostalgic whenever she thought back on it, when she remembered cavorting around strange lands and fighting weird things, adrenaline thundering in her veins whenever she and her comrades survived by the skin of their teeth yet again and only due to their sheer numbers. If anything, the most unnerving thing to her was to realize just how unconcerned and blithe she felt about what had happened. Not even a month after escaping The Sea of Quanta, and she had already practically shrugged her shoulders in a "what can you do?" and moved on. There was no use crying over spilled milk, no use fussing about the past. Again, her nature as a person that lived in the present first and foremost took the reins, and Jessica found herself easily adapting to the way her life had changed.
So what if she had been altered in unfathomable alien ways? So what if she had almost died? Regardless of her body, she was still herself, wasn't she? She hadn't died, and she didn't plan on that changing any time soon. She wouldn't stop being a Valkyrie. She wouldn't even consider it. Giving up was to admit that the Sea of Quanta had won... Well, not necessarily the Sea, but she simply had this feeling that she could accept the idea of giving up. It felt like losing, even if she couldn't say for sure what she'd be losing to.
Only months after her life had been made so much stranger, she was back in the field, acting like nothing had ever happened. Maybe that earned her some strange looks, but she didn't care, not as long as she was living her life the way she wanted. And only a few months after that...?
...she found herself being recommended to Fire Moth.
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Jessica Richter
Power: D; Endurance: C; Agility: C; Intellect: E; Honkai: C; Burst: D
Health: 4/4; Honkai Corruption: 0/4; Burst Charge: 3/5; Time Fracture: 1/1
Health: 4/4; Honkai Corruption: 0/4; Burst Charge: 3/5; Time Fracture: 1/1
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Name: Hinode
Nationality: Japanese
Faction: World Serpent (formerly Mount Taixuan)
Age: 18-19
Valkyrie or Chevalier: Valkyrie
Origin: Disciple of Taixuan
Rank: C
Grades:
- Power: C (+1)
- Endurance: D (-1)
- Agility: C (+1)
- Intellect: D (+1)
- Honkai: D
- Burst: D
Type: Biologic
Element: Lightning. Lightning can paralyze foes with a large enough shock or enough cumulative blows, empower or fry electronics, and generally unleash much mayhem.
Discipline: Blade (short/katana).
Weapon: Lightning Soul
- Ability: St. 7308 Labs designed this saber for arming Valkyries. Vast amounts of Honkai energy particles adhere to the surface of the blade. The blade has a unique shape, not to enhance its performance but rather a personal design choice. This weapon is essentially a super-taser, to a rather lethal degree. Arcs of electricity snap off its surface upon contact with any surface. It also seems to mildly enhance the penetrative power of lightning attacks performed by the wielder. Not quite enough to ignore a rank of Endurance normally, but when the user channels a Burst-tier feat of Honkai manipulation through the blade, it finally magnifies it enough to do so.
SWARA: If you aren't a Disciple of Taixuan, remove this section. Otherwise, delete the Stigmata section instead. If you have SWARA, your martial training has taught you to manipulate the "Ki" inside your body to gradually cultivate and improve your natural adaptability to Honkai energy. Through extensive hard work and mystical teachings, you learned to alter the flow of Honkai energy within you, forever changing you into a supernatural existence. As a benefit of allowing your body to gradually adjust, you suffer none of the reduced lifespan issues Artificial Stigmata inflict. Conversely, however, your more grounded human nature leaves you more vulnerable to Honkai corruption than a Natural Stigmata would provide, and you are -generally speaking- a lot more "squishy" than a Valkyrie, relying far more on skill and not getting hit at all to carry the day. +1 to two stats of choice other than Endurance or Agility (cannot be the same stat), +1 to Agility, -1 to Endurance.
Battlesuit: ???
- Features: Communications, GPS, subspace storage, and sensors to measure local Honkai Miasma levels.
- Time Fracture: A legacy ability from a past Era, this technology and technique was developed after extensive study of the core of the Herrscher of the Void, eventually culminating in a mimicry of a single aspect of its abilities. Time Fracture partially displaces the user's temporal and spatial profile, casting the world around them into shades of purple from their viewpoint and -furthermore- into slow motion while leaving the user -from their perspective- moving at normal speeds. When a Valkyrie uses this ability, they effectively increase their Agility by one level for a single post or about 5-10 seconds, whichever is shorter IC, giving them the opportunity to dodge some form of peril and potentially retaliate in the same timeframe. Time Fracture accrues a very particular kind of strain, and as such, it has a large enough cooldown that it can usually only be used once per battle.
Burst:
- Rank: D
- Duration: 1 rounds/instant.
- Modifier Points: 5 (+1 Ranged Slash, +1 to Honkai, +1 Paralysis) (2 points to spend)
- Effect: Unleashes a single, monstrous slash of thrumming plasma and lightning out to 60 ft/20 meters. Or multiple/seven cuts? Raises her Honkai stat by 1 rank for one round, as she enhances her control over lightning and attempts to inflict paralysis on any creature struck by the beam. If successful, paralysis lasts for a single round.
Skills: List any notable mundane skillsets or talents you might have, but do keep them within reason. As a rule of thumb, I expect your backstory to explain or otherwise easily imply exactly where each skill originated from. Example skills could be wilderness survival, cooking, piloting planes, any languages you know (at least passable English should be among them as a mandatory skill), and any particular acumen with technology (whether constructing or manipulating it).
Gear: Include notable assets, utilities and other equipment here. You are free to draw from any existing Present Era tech from the series within reason. Keep in mind you are low-ranking Valkyries, and the resources you can requisition for your missions are limited until you prove your worth. You should typically keep this within what you can carry on your person, either on hand or in your battlesuit's subspace.
Personality: You know the drill. Give us an idea of what they are at least like at a casual impression. What drives them? What annoys them? Likes? Dislikes? Dreams? Consider the Kakashi introduction as a template for the absolute minimum. A single paragraph is fine, of course, but more than that certainly wouldn't go amiss.
Biography: A couple paragraphs preferred. You don't need a novel, but this section should answer such questions as: What lifestyle did they grow up under? Why did they become a Valkyrie? Please note that whatever your backstory, your character should remain by the end of it a relative rookie to fighting the Honkai, pretty much freshly graduated/ranked up to a point where you're allowed to fight. Playing an "experienced senior", "ancient hero" or other archetype that would narratively only justify exceptionally honed skills and abilities is not allowed.
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Still waffling on the FC, but these are some of the forerunners.
"Sometimes, I'm certain I was born in the wrong era. Whatever this is... finally corrected that oversight."
Name: Jennifer Buckley
Age: 24 years old
Country on Earth: Texas, United States of America
Appearance: Height - 5' 9"; Weight - 125 lbs; an athletic young woman sporting a body refined by martial training. She's somewhat on the less curvaceous side, as most "fat" has been exchanged for muscle, but good genes and the advent of an Adventurer's peculiar body mean she is still clearly feminine, more-so than she once was even. The only thing "marring" her appearance is the crystal imbedded in the back of her left hand.
Personality: Strong-willed and fairly straight-forward, Jennifer is a woman on a mission, taking life by the reins and bending it to her will. While on average a fairly agreeable person, she has a stubborn and prideful streak, even to her own detriment, willing to stand by what she believes in not just because she might believe it's right but also simply to spite those that oppose her. There are also certain injustices that have the potential to ignite her normally contrite temper into a cold, furious storm, and she can be seen as utterly ruthless towards those that commit them, even to the point of depersoning them in her mind. On the whole, she can be defined as "chaotic good", trying to do the right thing according to her own convictions and her standards of what qualifies as overall good, but when necessary, she's more than willing to get her hands dirty to see her ideals through. Towards her allies and those she considers to be "under her aegis", she is encouraging and protective, even charismatic, especially in matters of self-betterment of the martial variety. She can be something of a "gym bro" and has no problem leading by example. She fights boldly from the front and lives life in the moment, relishing in the feeling of battle and being a hero. Jennifer became immediately attached to her new life in a fantasy world, and her desire to return to her old one is completely nonexistent, having decided to dedicate her future to this world instead.
Brief Backstory: Daughter of an average pair of city-folk, Jennifer was a creative and energetic child from a young age, always eager to feed her vivid imagination through art and fictional mediums, like video games. But as she grew older, the world started to grow duller, and she became increasingly disillusioned with life and thoughts of the mundane future. She thought more than once that she wished she had been born in another era or world, rather than this dull existence as another face in the crowd. She had no desire to be another cog in society, but realism and practicality crushed her down. So, she lived on and fed her escapist fantasies with dedication to martial arts and video games. Her motivation to go anywhere in life was staggered by the lack of options she liked, until one day when she was caught up in a bog-standard convenience store robbery... she felt compelled to act. Unable to stomach the idea of not taking the chance to throw off the yoke of bystander syndrome, she engaged the thieves, wrested away one of their guns and gunned them down in defense of the other people. For her trouble, she received fatal gun wounds in return. Her adrenaline carried her to victory, but she had long since bled out before an ambulance arrived.
Adventurer Class: Paladin
Starting Common Gear: Plate armor that is strategically lighter in some places to allow for greater flexibility. One-handed longsword. Heater shield. Backpack. Water skin. Rations. Bedroll. Mess kit (bowl that doubles as a cooking pot and container for eating utensils and a lid that doubles as a plate or frying pan. Utility knife (for skinning food, cutting ropes and such). Tinderbox (contains materials for firestarting). Medical kit (contains bandages, splits, thread and needles).
Special item: TBD (maybe a magical sword that's not awakened yet?)
Notable skills or abilities:
- Adventurer: Jennifer's martial prowess has translated to her new adventurer body very well, making her stronger, faster, tougher and more coordinated across the board. Even though she'd never handled medieval weaponry before this life, her intuition with them is far from unnoticeable -helped along by knowledge attained from online studies of medieval fighting, allowing her to instinctively wield her sword and shield and move in armor like she's already gone through a hardcore boot camp, with her proficiency beyond that continuing to improve at a remarkable pace.
- First Aid: She's pretty decent at mundane medical treatment as long as it doesn't require knowledge of how to makes salves or antidotes. She can wrap wounds, sew stitches, make splints, set bones, fix dislocations, perform chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth, and so on.
- Cooking: She can cook pretty okay, well enough to feel her way around cooking raw prey safely.
- Oath of the Paladin: Unlike some divine casters like Clerics, Jennifer's holy magic does not come from faith in any god but rather her own raw conviction and faith in herself and her ideals. She is empowered by her beliefs and dedication to seeing her vision through. She perceives her magic as a "Light" that embodies the unvarnished concept of good, and when she is fighting for justice and against the evil and unholy, that Light swells to self-reinforce her convictions and empower her to see them to fruition.
Spells:
- Holy Senses: Focusing her senses, she can detect the location and nature of unholy entities in her near vicinity, particularly demons, undead and eldritch beings, along with areas and persons corrupted by evil magics. Conversely, this also makes consecrated areas and righteous entities stand out to her senses, revealing divine beings and those that use their powers, like Clerics. It's possible for the wary to defend against this magic preemptively, of course, but that will only get harder the more proficient Jennifer grows.
- Healing Hands: With physical contact with a single target, draws from her pool of Light to soothe over wounds or purge a single poison or disease. At the moment, she doesn't have a lot to spare, having enough in the tank per day to cure up to two afflictions in total or cure enough physical wounds to bring a single person from the brink of death to full health. Lesser expenditures of this Light can mend broken bones and regenerate lost flesh (though not lost limbs/appendages), typically leaving no scars.
- Holy Smite: Flooding her body or something she is holding with holy energy, she can execute an enhanced blow that is enough to cleave mundane steel in twain normally (with a sword or the like). When used against evil targets, this effect becomes more pronounced, and against the likes of the blatantly unholy, like undead, demonic, fiendish and eldritch entities, it experiences its greatest effect. Jennifer can instinctively sense when the Light flares on contact against a favored target and so can summarily identify the nature of one such being, even if it is magically disguised otherwise.
- Stabilize: On physical contact, allows her to mystically stabilize a dying person. Even if they are suffering from grievous, lethal wounds, as long as those wounds aren't immediately fatal, against all odds, they will not die. Though, they will be locked into a healing coma until they recieve treatment from some additional source for the wounds merely held in stasis. Conversely, further injuries taken will immediately dispel the healing coma and potentially finish the subject off, depending, of course, on the total accumulation of wounds and whether or not they can be reached for some other form of treatment before succumbing.
Still waffling on the FC, but these are some of the forerunners.
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It started, as many such tales tend to, with a crash. More specifically, the sort of crash that results when one decides to introduce a fleshy unsuspecting human and a high-speed construct of metal into the same general area. The sort of crash that results when a roller coaster doesn’t get as much maintenance as it should. Or when Truck-kun or Ambulance-kun decided today was your lucky day! This was, needless to say, neither pleasant or painless as far as ways to go for you.
Not for any of you.
Yet, without warning, you soon find your drifting, disembodied soul pulled into a space between spaces, a mysterious goddess -introducing herself only as “Kami”- beseeching your group of misfortunate souls, taken before your time, for aid in saving her world. Unfortunately, she has little to offer you, she claims, in terms of rewards other than the chance to live again (which some might say is a pretty good deal all on its own).
Kami tells your disembodied souls a tale of woe, of a terrible future gone mad, as the natural course of Fate and Destiny was suddenly and mysteriously twisted into an warped mess. She is unable to perceive the cause, nor oppose it directly. According to her, divine treaties presently prohibit the gods from interfering overtly in the mortal plane; yet, what is occurring now, she suspects, can only be the work of another of her kind breaking the covenant. Because of that, she now has a bit of room to work with.
Which is where you come in.
Kami presents herself as the Lifegiver, the master of the Wheel of Reincarnation and the flow of souls. Through this, though she cannot strike living beings in the world dead directly, she has the capacity to incarnate souls into new bodies. Even under the divine treaty, she has retained this much authority to interfere with the world, according to her natural role. Once a soul enters her realm, she has free reign, and she's prepared to reincarnate all of you into her world with your past life memories intact, hoping your presence can disrupt whatever terrible plans may be afoot for her realm.
Naturally, questions are asked by several, and thankfully, Kami had some answers to give. She is able to describe her world and some of the recent events that have occurred on its surface, and upon her doing so, several of you certainly don't fail to notice how familiar it sounds. Kami cheerfully explains that such knowledge is exactly why she has chosen you, knowing that most of you have a rough idea of how things should have been destined to go in the future... and subsequently will be some of the best to identify what is wrong where Kami's clouded sight cannot.
For those that think to ask, Kami provides that she can at least catalyze a reincarnation into a specific family or bloodline; though, she can only do so within a certain reason and only after a certain point in time, unable to precede the Nine Tails attack on Konoha. For those that care less, Kami promises to reincarnate them as close together as she can arrange, so that her champions can most easily unite. Any questions about incarnation into new bodies are rebuffed gently but firmly. Your old bodies are dead, and -more importantly- lack the local chakra systems. The best way to acquire the local tools to survive is to start from the ground up.
And so it would be that for those that heard Kami's plea and chose to accept, you awaken soon after in the body of a wailing infant, a bright and dangerous new world laid out before you to flourish in... should you be up to surviving it.
In summary, potential players, what you are looking at is a Naruto Mass-Isekai, as a group of unwitting reincarnates soon come to find that the world they might have first assumed was canon... has been warped into something one might define as a "Bad Fanfic abomination", rife with exploitable tropes and fanon. The world's Fate and Narrative sport grave wounds, as the future twists under the machinations of an unknown overarching threat.
Tonally speaking, this RP is potentially to have a few dark or possibly disturbing and/or mature themes, especially several themes that are rather unnerving if you remove them from the vacuum of an eye-rolling "bad fanfic" and actually had to deal with them in reality (if you've had any experience with Naruto fanfiction, you can probably guess what I mean). That's not to say there's isn't room for humor, of course, but the tone of the world definitely leans more to the serious than comedy. Essentially, we aren't writing crack here, and the world won't generally respond amiably if it isn't taken seriously. In fact, in a sense, you could say the world takes itself too seriously in general, deliberately evoking cringe edginess in accordance with the corruption caused by Bad Fanfic Tropes.
This is functionally an open-world sandbox, where the endgame is shaped by the actions of the PCs. To help facilitate the feel of a "collaborative story", players are given a lot more control over the world than you might normally expect, able to create or manipulate NPCs and be the direct cause of major events (within a certain reason). This structure is largely to take much of the burden of micromanaging such an expansive world off myself and allow things to flow more smoothly, without a single poster (myself) being the crux of interactions with the world. Of course, there's limits, and important NPCs, like the Third Hokage, notable villains and most named characters, are generally the domain of only GMs to portray unless permitted otherwise.
Speaking of GMs, knowing myself as I do, I know my muse is a fickle creature, and it's not guaranteed that my inspiration will hold completely steady at all times, which could lead to unfortunate and undesirable delays. To mitigate this, I'm in the market for some co-GMs to help run important NPCs and plan world events. If my muse takes me elsewhere or IRL otherwise drains me too much to write, I'd like to have backups that can keep things ticking in the meanwhile.
If you are totally new or otherwise inexperienced with the Naruto fandom, don't feel afraid to join anyway. Playing a reincarnate without metaknowledge or localized savvy is perfectly viable too and adds some extra flavor to the cast. This RP concept welcomes all comers, so don't be afraid to ask questions if you need any quick or dirty lore drops to help participate.
If all that sounds like a good deal to you, here's some more details on how I hope for this to work.
As far as character sheets go, these may start off fairly basic, but they should be expected to be updated many times as things progress, accounting for any developments to the characters brought about by the IC. I've done my best to cover what should be necessary without bogging things down, but if there's anything in this template you think I've missed that would be particularly important, let me know. I'm absolutely open to potential improvements.
(This next section may be subject to change, as I'm still trying to strike a particular balance of progression that hopefully avoids any real focus on "stats" or anything really "gamer-adjacent". So, I might not be fully happy with this yet.)
Naruto Mass Isekai 3rd RP OOCOP
An Isekai Upon This Land of Accursed Tropes
It started, as many such tales tend to, with a crash. More specifically, the sort of crash that results when one decides to introduce a fleshy unsuspecting human and a high-speed construct of metal into the same general area. The sort of crash that results when a roller coaster doesn’t get as much maintenance as it should. Or when Truck-kun or Ambulance-kun decided today was your lucky day! This was, needless to say, neither pleasant or painless as far as ways to go for you.
Not for any of you.
Yet, without warning, you soon find your drifting, disembodied soul pulled into a space between spaces, a mysterious goddess -introducing herself only as “Kami”- beseeching your group of misfortunate souls, taken before your time, for aid in saving her world. Unfortunately, she has little to offer you, she claims, in terms of rewards other than the chance to live again (which some might say is a pretty good deal all on its own).
Kami tells your disembodied souls a tale of woe, of a terrible future gone mad, as the natural course of Fate and Destiny was suddenly and mysteriously twisted into an warped mess. She is unable to perceive the cause, nor oppose it directly. According to her, divine treaties presently prohibit the gods from interfering overtly in the mortal plane; yet, what is occurring now, she suspects, can only be the work of another of her kind breaking the covenant. Because of that, she now has a bit of room to work with.
Which is where you come in.
Kami presents herself as the Lifegiver, the master of the Wheel of Reincarnation and the flow of souls. Through this, though she cannot strike living beings in the world dead directly, she has the capacity to incarnate souls into new bodies. Even under the divine treaty, she has retained this much authority to interfere with the world, according to her natural role. Once a soul enters her realm, she has free reign, and she's prepared to reincarnate all of you into her world with your past life memories intact, hoping your presence can disrupt whatever terrible plans may be afoot for her realm.
Naturally, questions are asked by several, and thankfully, Kami had some answers to give. She is able to describe her world and some of the recent events that have occurred on its surface, and upon her doing so, several of you certainly don't fail to notice how familiar it sounds. Kami cheerfully explains that such knowledge is exactly why she has chosen you, knowing that most of you have a rough idea of how things should have been destined to go in the future... and subsequently will be some of the best to identify what is wrong where Kami's clouded sight cannot.
For those that think to ask, Kami provides that she can at least catalyze a reincarnation into a specific family or bloodline; though, she can only do so within a certain reason and only after a certain point in time, unable to precede the Nine Tails attack on Konoha. For those that care less, Kami promises to reincarnate them as close together as she can arrange, so that her champions can most easily unite. Any questions about incarnation into new bodies are rebuffed gently but firmly. Your old bodies are dead, and -more importantly- lack the local chakra systems. The best way to acquire the local tools to survive is to start from the ground up.
And so it would be that for those that heard Kami's plea and chose to accept, you awaken soon after in the body of a wailing infant, a bright and dangerous new world laid out before you to flourish in... should you be up to surviving it.
INFORMATIONAL
In summary, potential players, what you are looking at is a Naruto Mass-Isekai, as a group of unwitting reincarnates soon come to find that the world they might have first assumed was canon... has been warped into something one might define as a "Bad Fanfic abomination", rife with exploitable tropes and fanon. The world's Fate and Narrative sport grave wounds, as the future twists under the machinations of an unknown overarching threat.
Tonally speaking, this RP is potentially to have a few dark or possibly disturbing and/or mature themes, especially several themes that are rather unnerving if you remove them from the vacuum of an eye-rolling "bad fanfic" and actually had to deal with them in reality (if you've had any experience with Naruto fanfiction, you can probably guess what I mean). That's not to say there's isn't room for humor, of course, but the tone of the world definitely leans more to the serious than comedy. Essentially, we aren't writing crack here, and the world won't generally respond amiably if it isn't taken seriously. In fact, in a sense, you could say the world takes itself too seriously in general, deliberately evoking cringe edginess in accordance with the corruption caused by Bad Fanfic Tropes.
This is functionally an open-world sandbox, where the endgame is shaped by the actions of the PCs. To help facilitate the feel of a "collaborative story", players are given a lot more control over the world than you might normally expect, able to create or manipulate NPCs and be the direct cause of major events (within a certain reason). This structure is largely to take much of the burden of micromanaging such an expansive world off myself and allow things to flow more smoothly, without a single poster (myself) being the crux of interactions with the world. Of course, there's limits, and important NPCs, like the Third Hokage, notable villains and most named characters, are generally the domain of only GMs to portray unless permitted otherwise.
Speaking of GMs, knowing myself as I do, I know my muse is a fickle creature, and it's not guaranteed that my inspiration will hold completely steady at all times, which could lead to unfortunate and undesirable delays. To mitigate this, I'm in the market for some co-GMs to help run important NPCs and plan world events. If my muse takes me elsewhere or IRL otherwise drains me too much to write, I'd like to have backups that can keep things ticking in the meanwhile.
If you are totally new or otherwise inexperienced with the Naruto fandom, don't feel afraid to join anyway. Playing a reincarnate without metaknowledge or localized savvy is perfectly viable too and adds some extra flavor to the cast. This RP concept welcomes all comers, so don't be afraid to ask questions if you need any quick or dirty lore drops to help participate.
If all that sounds like a good deal to you, here's some more details on how I hope for this to work.
1.) Cooperative storytelling comes first. Above all else, in concept, this RP is preferably more of a collaborative story than it is a proper RP. Everyone has the freedom to do their own thing, but they should at least make it interesting and be aware of how their actions might affect other players' enjoyment. At least, that's how I'd like it to work, but only time will tell.
2.) I won't tell you not to power-game within the bounds of reason, as this setting's power system is rather... flexible at the upper levels. Powerful characters will be permitted. Of course, you need to justify the growth of that power sufficiently IC, but generally speaking "overpowered" isn't a taboo concept, given the party's primary enemy. You just have to work for it, and make sure it's interesting. Be aware that the world won't just roll over for the PCs by default the way it would for a normal "bad fanfic" protagonist; while the PCs have meta-knowledge advantages, they don't innately have fate on their side. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
3.) Due to the interesting way I want to run this, I actually intend to give players a lot more freedom than the usual fair, even to the point of allowing limited control of NPCs. As long as they are unimportant, no-name or original entities, you largely have free reign as long as you give me a heads up first before introducing a new notable NPC. Allowing players this sort of control takes much of the burden off me having to run such a massive/expansive world. Beyond that, however, leave the results of actions open ended unless given the go-ahead otherwise. Basically, (if it comes up) no auto-hits/dodges against other players or powerful NPCs unless it's already been hashed out OOC. While you can't just go out and control or kill important figures (like Danzo, for example), to random civilians on the street or nameless OC shinobi, you have permission to do whatever... within reason. I'll generally try to leave this up to participant's best judgement, but don't abuse the privilege; the power of hard retcon can and will be used to retroactively nullify anything that steps over the line.
4.) Meta-gaming is discouraged. While the OCs are (unless you choose otherwise) assumed to have at least some level of meta awareness of the Naruto setting, they shouldn't be magical mind-readers, able to adjust themselves to dialogue they shouldn't be aware of, like thoughts or events they didn't personally witness/experience.
5.) Keep it cordial OOC. Nothing complicated.
6.) I generally expect a certain level of writing to help with immersion and legibility for fellow participants. As such, preferred post length is 2-3 multi-sentence paragraphs, but longer posts are encouraged and welcome. That said, a shorter post is better than no post at all, just as long as it moves your character along and responds appropriately to the most critical IC stimuli. At absolute minimum, however, a single multi-paragraph post should be expected to respond sufficiently. In short, avoid one-liner posts or long walls of text.
7.) GM's ruling is final, but that goes without saying. I hope to not need to exercise that much, but the biggest thing I will control wholly is what tropes and world-building the setting has been warped by. Anything that would have major or disruptive setting implications needs to go through me first before being approved.
8.) I won't make any particular posting speed requirements, as in my personal experience, the "obligation factor" has the capacity to damage motivation severely. I'll simply ask participants to try to respect their fellow writers by not leaving them hanging where possible or finding a way to narratively disengage the interaction so things aren't deadlocked if you need to take a hiatus. In short, at least trying to wrap up an existing interaction, no matter how abruptly, before dipping.
2.) I won't tell you not to power-game within the bounds of reason, as this setting's power system is rather... flexible at the upper levels. Powerful characters will be permitted. Of course, you need to justify the growth of that power sufficiently IC, but generally speaking "overpowered" isn't a taboo concept, given the party's primary enemy. You just have to work for it, and make sure it's interesting. Be aware that the world won't just roll over for the PCs by default the way it would for a normal "bad fanfic" protagonist; while the PCs have meta-knowledge advantages, they don't innately have fate on their side. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
3.) Due to the interesting way I want to run this, I actually intend to give players a lot more freedom than the usual fair, even to the point of allowing limited control of NPCs. As long as they are unimportant, no-name or original entities, you largely have free reign as long as you give me a heads up first before introducing a new notable NPC. Allowing players this sort of control takes much of the burden off me having to run such a massive/expansive world. Beyond that, however, leave the results of actions open ended unless given the go-ahead otherwise. Basically, (if it comes up) no auto-hits/dodges against other players or powerful NPCs unless it's already been hashed out OOC. While you can't just go out and control or kill important figures (like Danzo, for example), to random civilians on the street or nameless OC shinobi, you have permission to do whatever... within reason. I'll generally try to leave this up to participant's best judgement, but don't abuse the privilege; the power of hard retcon can and will be used to retroactively nullify anything that steps over the line.
4.) Meta-gaming is discouraged. While the OCs are (unless you choose otherwise) assumed to have at least some level of meta awareness of the Naruto setting, they shouldn't be magical mind-readers, able to adjust themselves to dialogue they shouldn't be aware of, like thoughts or events they didn't personally witness/experience.
5.) Keep it cordial OOC. Nothing complicated.
6.) I generally expect a certain level of writing to help with immersion and legibility for fellow participants. As such, preferred post length is 2-3 multi-sentence paragraphs, but longer posts are encouraged and welcome. That said, a shorter post is better than no post at all, just as long as it moves your character along and responds appropriately to the most critical IC stimuli. At absolute minimum, however, a single multi-paragraph post should be expected to respond sufficiently. In short, avoid one-liner posts or long walls of text.
7.) GM's ruling is final, but that goes without saying. I hope to not need to exercise that much, but the biggest thing I will control wholly is what tropes and world-building the setting has been warped by. Anything that would have major or disruptive setting implications needs to go through me first before being approved.
8.) I won't make any particular posting speed requirements, as in my personal experience, the "obligation factor" has the capacity to damage motivation severely. I'll simply ask participants to try to respect their fellow writers by not leaving them hanging where possible or finding a way to narratively disengage the interaction so things aren't deadlocked if you need to take a hiatus. In short, at least trying to wrap up an existing interaction, no matter how abruptly, before dipping.
A trope as is relevant to this RP is a specific common narrative theme or occurrence, identified and isolated from the story itself. What is defined as a trope is determined by its presence in the relevant media. It's a replication of a narrative tool or warp slotted into other stories. Tropes are effectively storytelling tools, defined by how commonly they appear, sort of like a meme but in a narrative sense.
It's like "this isn't even my final form" is a trope across ridiculous amounts of fiction, expressed any time the seemingly defeated final boss (or protagonist) reveals another power/transformation under their sleeve. That's a trope.
If you read a ton of Naruto (or any fandom's) fanfics and then sat down and listed out several things you read that remained present across all -or many- of those stories, those things would likely be tropes. Like "pink banshee" Sakura, asshole/"hnn" Sasuke, Naruto getting banished, everyone and their grandma going out of their way to use Japanese honorifics, insults or attack names (often badly translated).
You can create your own tropes, of course, but if you're struggling to understand the concept, here's some examples to hopefully get across what I mean. Though, to preface, it should be noted, that many tropes require a certain amount of foundation or particular circumstances to acquire and can't just be chosen like picking a new spell in a video game.
It's like "this isn't even my final form" is a trope across ridiculous amounts of fiction, expressed any time the seemingly defeated final boss (or protagonist) reveals another power/transformation under their sleeve. That's a trope.
If you read a ton of Naruto (or any fandom's) fanfics and then sat down and listed out several things you read that remained present across all -or many- of those stories, those things would likely be tropes. Like "pink banshee" Sakura, asshole/"hnn" Sasuke, Naruto getting banished, everyone and their grandma going out of their way to use Japanese honorifics, insults or attack names (often badly translated).
You can create your own tropes, of course, but if you're struggling to understand the concept, here's some examples to hopefully get across what I mean. Though, to preface, it should be noted, that many tropes require a certain amount of foundation or particular circumstances to acquire and can't just be chosen like picking a new spell in a video game.
- Crystal Memory: Flexible and subjective to the series being used for the insert, this is the trope of the reincarnate/insert somehow always retaining perfect -or at least nearly so- memory of their metaknowledge and past life, unaffected by time and what should be the natural degradation of memories.
- Fandom Omniscience: Much like Crystal Memory but much bigger. Rather than the author setting the insert's knowledge at a certain level and leaving it there regardless of developments outside the story to the lore, this plays out almost like the character can effectively just read/watch the manga/series/wiki in their head. Basically, the author probably has those open in another tab.
- Chakra Awareness: A classic that manifests in various ways. The trope is that some excuse is made why the MC should be aware of their chakra more keenly than the average person. Usually, this is played out as a hyper-awareness of what they simply didn't have before reincarnating, with chakra basically being a brand new limb that they can't manage to ignore, suddenly being filled and surrounded by it.
- Early/Stress Induced Bloodline: The trope of the MC awakening a hidden or condition-gated bloodline due to "exceptional" or stressful circumstances. This trope is usually accompanied by a certain amount of "fudging" the requirements for awakening that certain bloodlines possess.
- Yin Chakra Imbalance: Being a reincarnate, with memories of being an adult naturally shifts the chakra balance of these individuals more towards Yin, the spiritual component, than Yang (the physical component) at the moment of birth. This makes them more proficient in techniques that rely more on the spiritual or mind component such as Genjutsu at the expense of having less than average proficiency in pure physical Taijutsu.
- Unwavering Precision: Usually a trope with the prerequisite of starting with low chakra reserves. Normally high chakra reserves mean more waste and a harder time with control in casting techniques, and low reserves generally mean the reverse. With this trope, the MC will always maintain the same insane precision they had when they had little to work with, even after they build up their reserves by various or sudden means. Usually, no matter what it is, they never have trouble maintaining their proficiency, almost like they maxed of chakra control as a video game skill.
As far as character sheets go, these may start off fairly basic, but they should be expected to be updated many times as things progress, accounting for any developments to the characters brought about by the IC. I've done my best to cover what should be necessary without bogging things down, but if there's anything in this template you think I've missed that would be particularly important, let me know. I'm absolutely open to potential improvements.
Name: The name they were given upon their rebirth (though, you can include their past name too).
Titles: Includes any nicknames they acquire due to their actions, along with their shinobi rank (if acquired).
Gender: Self-explanatory.
Age: Self-explanatory. Starts at 0. Update as needed.
Affiliation: List out any factions they might be a part of (village, clan, etc).
Physical Description: You can stick with something basic if you like. An image header is an acceptable substitute for this section. There's no particular need to match an image to their age starting out; you can use a FC that depicts how they will most likely grow up too.
Personality: Self-explanatory, but as a guideline? Try the Kakashi method. Likes, dislikes and dreams for the future. It doesn't have to be in-depth, but at least provide a basic grasp of who the character is. Fair warning, Kami's domain of souls mean she has seen everything about these potential "heroes", and in the pursuit of not actively making the world worse, she will not have provided this rebirth opportunity to anyone that would clearly abuse it and her world for unrepentant evil. Basically, no effectively Chaotic Evil alignments.
Short Biography: This can be as basic as you like, but it should effectively be a short, clear summary of who the character was in their past mundane life. And it should mention what circumstances they've been reborn into in this new world and life. It should also mention briefly how familiar the PC was with the Naruto world/series prior to being reborn.
Inventory: What possessions are important to your character? This can include what they have on them and what they simply have available as an easy asset at home or the like. Most likely starts empty. This would include any weapons, sealing scrolls, tools or other materials they have of particular note.
Skills: Both mundane and ninja, update this growing arsenal as needed. You can include skills from your past life, which may potentially provide unique advantages; though, naturally, those skills should be entirely mundane, since your past life lacked any supernatural aspects.
Tropes: These are special advantages, unique to this world. They are notably distinct from regular skills and are more like "inherent advantages" or "cheats". It encompasses the act of taking advantage of the warps in reality known as "fanfic tropes". When you have successfully done so, a trope should be added to the list you have acquired. You might start out with a trope or two under your belt right out the gate, depending on your circumstances.
Chakra Affinity: Your chakra affinity is inherent at birth and starts predetermined, allowing you to learn and use jutsu of that type more easily. Given that it's a natural inclination, it's not normally possible to expand your chakra affinity with training, even if you can use other jutsu types, so only one or two elements are usually natural for you. If you're part of a particular bloodline, you may have an additional affinity common amongst your clan.
Bloodline Limit: This encompasses any genetically inherited abilities you might have, including the Sharingan, Byakugan, Uzumaki bloodline, Ice Release and Bone Release, amongst many others. These abilities (and the jutsu they often allow) are usually completely unique to your lineage and cannot be replicated even by bloodlines that have the capacity. As far as what to put here, list any bloodline limit you have along with all derivative abilities and jutsu, keeping the latter separate from your main jutsu list. Any clan-unique jutsu -otherwise known as Hiden Jutsu- should go here as well, even if there aren't (technically speaking) derived from and dependent on a bloodline limit to function, like Akimichi and Nara.
Jutsu: The bread and butter of the setting, bullshit ninja magic using the cultivated energy of chakra. Update this as you acquire them. Unless allowed otherwise, you should start out with this section empty.
Current Goals: Pretty straight-forward. What sort of things are they planning to do with their new life? Optional, but a nice thing to have perhaps; it can help sort of plot out your character's path.
Short Term:
Long Term:
Extra: Any bonus trivia you feel it might be neat to include could go here in this totally optional section. If you have any music you used as inspiration for character creation or other tunes that serve as themes for them, feel free to include them too.
Titles: Includes any nicknames they acquire due to their actions, along with their shinobi rank (if acquired).
Gender: Self-explanatory.
Age: Self-explanatory. Starts at 0. Update as needed.
Affiliation: List out any factions they might be a part of (village, clan, etc).
Physical Description: You can stick with something basic if you like. An image header is an acceptable substitute for this section. There's no particular need to match an image to their age starting out; you can use a FC that depicts how they will most likely grow up too.
Personality: Self-explanatory, but as a guideline? Try the Kakashi method. Likes, dislikes and dreams for the future. It doesn't have to be in-depth, but at least provide a basic grasp of who the character is. Fair warning, Kami's domain of souls mean she has seen everything about these potential "heroes", and in the pursuit of not actively making the world worse, she will not have provided this rebirth opportunity to anyone that would clearly abuse it and her world for unrepentant evil. Basically, no effectively Chaotic Evil alignments.
Short Biography: This can be as basic as you like, but it should effectively be a short, clear summary of who the character was in their past mundane life. And it should mention what circumstances they've been reborn into in this new world and life. It should also mention briefly how familiar the PC was with the Naruto world/series prior to being reborn.
Inventory: What possessions are important to your character? This can include what they have on them and what they simply have available as an easy asset at home or the like. Most likely starts empty. This would include any weapons, sealing scrolls, tools or other materials they have of particular note.
- Holder:
Skills: Both mundane and ninja, update this growing arsenal as needed. You can include skills from your past life, which may potentially provide unique advantages; though, naturally, those skills should be entirely mundane, since your past life lacked any supernatural aspects.
- Holder:
Tropes: These are special advantages, unique to this world. They are notably distinct from regular skills and are more like "inherent advantages" or "cheats". It encompasses the act of taking advantage of the warps in reality known as "fanfic tropes". When you have successfully done so, a trope should be added to the list you have acquired. You might start out with a trope or two under your belt right out the gate, depending on your circumstances.
- None.
Chakra Affinity: Your chakra affinity is inherent at birth and starts predetermined, allowing you to learn and use jutsu of that type more easily. Given that it's a natural inclination, it's not normally possible to expand your chakra affinity with training, even if you can use other jutsu types, so only one or two elements are usually natural for you. If you're part of a particular bloodline, you may have an additional affinity common amongst your clan.
- Holder:
Bloodline Limit: This encompasses any genetically inherited abilities you might have, including the Sharingan, Byakugan, Uzumaki bloodline, Ice Release and Bone Release, amongst many others. These abilities (and the jutsu they often allow) are usually completely unique to your lineage and cannot be replicated even by bloodlines that have the capacity. As far as what to put here, list any bloodline limit you have along with all derivative abilities and jutsu, keeping the latter separate from your main jutsu list. Any clan-unique jutsu -otherwise known as Hiden Jutsu- should go here as well, even if there aren't (technically speaking) derived from and dependent on a bloodline limit to function, like Akimichi and Nara.
- Holder:
Jutsu: The bread and butter of the setting, bullshit ninja magic using the cultivated energy of chakra. Update this as you acquire them. Unless allowed otherwise, you should start out with this section empty.
- Holder:
Current Goals: Pretty straight-forward. What sort of things are they planning to do with their new life? Optional, but a nice thing to have perhaps; it can help sort of plot out your character's path.
Short Term:
Long Term:
Extra: Any bonus trivia you feel it might be neat to include could go here in this totally optional section. If you have any music you used as inspiration for character creation or other tunes that serve as themes for them, feel free to include them too.
(This next section may be subject to change, as I'm still trying to strike a particular balance of progression that hopefully avoids any real focus on "stats" or anything really "gamer-adjacent". So, I might not be fully happy with this yet.)
One of the advantages of going fully narrative and starting from zero is that it puts all participants roughly on the same level. No-one starts out overpowered or shining brighter than the rest, and everyone has to work for what they have available at each notable event. You start with (mostly) nothing and have to work for everything, actively writing out how and when you acquired each resource and ability, rather than just throwing out a backstory and claiming you acquired all these [insert assets/powers here] in that time.
The earliest portions of this RP will consist of the PCs growing up, with each year providing them greater and greater capacity to improve themselves across a wide spectrum of possibilities. This "from zero" structure is also meant to help better manage the potential butterflies caused by the PCs actions, but that's a bit of a digression.
As newborn infants, lacking fine control of your bodies or speech. you have very little control in all aspects of your lives, unable to influence the world around you in any meaningful way. There's not much to do except focus inward. To avoid a narrative slog, the earliest years of each PC's life should be possible to summarize in a single post each. That is, from years 0-1, for example, you should be able to succinctly lay out everything you do that year in a single post. That being said, having little else to do can be an advantage for you, being a baby with an adult's mind. Even if the time you can stay awake is limited by your infant body's need to sleep more, the time you spend awake can be used to accomplish one Major Goalpost.
Major Goalposts: There's only so much time to train, so many paths you can walk. Depending on how wisely you spend that time, you can accomplish greatness. As such, you can describe ways you might be aiming to increase your personal capabilities, and GMs can award you Tropes and Traits accordingly as occasional bonuses. As you grow and become more capable, you'll gain the capacity to better manage your time and take on more paths of training, but starting out, you'll only have the capacity to succeed in one or two goalposts a year. Each year increases what you can accomplish in that timeframe until you eventually reach a point where you are operating in much smaller time increments to accomplish goalposts, like months or weeks.
The earliest portions of this RP will consist of the PCs growing up, with each year providing them greater and greater capacity to improve themselves across a wide spectrum of possibilities. This "from zero" structure is also meant to help better manage the potential butterflies caused by the PCs actions, but that's a bit of a digression.
As newborn infants, lacking fine control of your bodies or speech. you have very little control in all aspects of your lives, unable to influence the world around you in any meaningful way. There's not much to do except focus inward. To avoid a narrative slog, the earliest years of each PC's life should be possible to summarize in a single post each. That is, from years 0-1, for example, you should be able to succinctly lay out everything you do that year in a single post. That being said, having little else to do can be an advantage for you, being a baby with an adult's mind. Even if the time you can stay awake is limited by your infant body's need to sleep more, the time you spend awake can be used to accomplish one Major Goalpost.
Major Goalposts: There's only so much time to train, so many paths you can walk. Depending on how wisely you spend that time, you can accomplish greatness. As such, you can describe ways you might be aiming to increase your personal capabilities, and GMs can award you Tropes and Traits accordingly as occasional bonuses. As you grow and become more capable, you'll gain the capacity to better manage your time and take on more paths of training, but starting out, you'll only have the capacity to succeed in one or two goalposts a year. Each year increases what you can accomplish in that timeframe until you eventually reach a point where you are operating in much smaller time increments to accomplish goalposts, like months or weeks.
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An Isekai Upon This Land of Accursed Tropes- Naruto Mass-Isekai CS
Name: Nabiki Uchiha [Hannah Livingston]
Titles: None.
Gender: Female.
Age: 0
Affiliation: Konohagakure Village, Uchiha Clan.
Physical Description: Coal-black hair and eyes, as is typical of her ancestry. Will likely peak at 5’5-7” in height at adulthood. Hair grows to hang straight and be kept roughly chin-length.
Personality: Cautious and suspicious, yet usually outwardly silver-tongued and sardonic, Nabiki is a naturally private girl that is -at least in a general sense- fairly pleasant and amiable, yet possesses a sharp tongue and occasionally spiteful temper, along with a rather ruthless sense of justice. She is creative and fairly power-hungry, determined to exploit this new life to her best benefit and achieve immortality (or the closest she can manage). Though she is no sociopath, she has a frightening talent for dehumanizing those that meet certain criteria, allowing her to deal with them callously. It can be said she means well in the end, but she is certainly an example of power revealing one's true nature.
Short Biography: Hannah never had much in the way of grand ambitions in her past life. She'd worked a number of minor, mediocre jobs but never really found a true calling in life. One could perhaps call her a drifter, a jack of several trades, master of none, who preferred to indulge online hobbies. Her flighty attitude led her to never want to settle for one thing and fully commit out of a professed desire to "not spend her life on something she wouldn't enjoy". Yet, in the end, she could never find that one thing that sparked her interest and so languished in mediocrity. The things she was truly passionate about didn't make enough money to truly live on or were locked behind time and experience requirements she wasn't able to provide, and Hannah came to believe somewhere in her heart that -in many ways- she was simply born in the wrong era. She was adrift and aimless, struggling to find a path and growing more concerned and downtrodden the longer it evaded her. The beginnings of depression and hopelessness were beginning to creep in by the time she met her untimely demise and was brought before Kami.
Once the initial fear and panic were worked through, Hannah saw the opportunity for what it was, recognizing the world Kami described. Grief largely set aside, she made the choice to be reborn into the Uchiha Clan of Konohagakure in the only family that she had any surety would be mostly safe if things went as they were originally destined to, and so, she would be born as the younger sister of Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha, one year the junior of the latter. Born in a time of grief, recovery and reignited grudges, Nabiki sits at the epicenter of a brewing calamity. After the recent attack of the Nine Tailed Fox, the Uchiha (whose eyes have been historically known to be capable of controlling it) have been placed under great suspicion and observation, forced to all live in a single section of the village and stewing in increasing resentment and hatred from the undeserved mistrust and isolation.
Her online experiences delving into various escapist stories and fandoms mean Hannah was very well acquainted with the Naruto setting, canon and fanon alike. Well... pre-Boruto anyway. While she's aware vaguely of a few particularly crazy things that went down, she mostly knows nothing about the sequel to Shippuden and generally prefers to pretend it doesn't exist.
Inventory:
Skills:
Tropes:
Chakra Affinity:
Bloodline Limit:
Jutsu:
Current Goals:
Extra: Any bonus trivia you feel it might be neat to include could go here in this totally optional section. If you have any music you used as inspiration for character creation or other tunes that serve as themes for them, feel free to include them too.
Name: Nabiki Uchiha [Hannah Livingston]
Titles: None.
Gender: Female.
Age: 0
Affiliation: Konohagakure Village, Uchiha Clan.
Physical Description: Coal-black hair and eyes, as is typical of her ancestry. Will likely peak at 5’5-7” in height at adulthood. Hair grows to hang straight and be kept roughly chin-length.
Personality: Cautious and suspicious, yet usually outwardly silver-tongued and sardonic, Nabiki is a naturally private girl that is -at least in a general sense- fairly pleasant and amiable, yet possesses a sharp tongue and occasionally spiteful temper, along with a rather ruthless sense of justice. She is creative and fairly power-hungry, determined to exploit this new life to her best benefit and achieve immortality (or the closest she can manage). Though she is no sociopath, she has a frightening talent for dehumanizing those that meet certain criteria, allowing her to deal with them callously. It can be said she means well in the end, but she is certainly an example of power revealing one's true nature.
- Likes: Sweet and spicy food, reading and writing fiction, sparring, gaining power, discovering secrets and acquiring knowledge, the thrill of specifically doing and getting away with something she shouldn't, seeing "justice" done unto evil.
- Dislikes: Pumpkin flavored anything, bitter food, wind messing up her hair, infringements on freedom and human rights, Genjutsu, being humiliated or humbled, the military, being beholden to any authority she did not specifically choose and approve of.
- Fears: Death, threats to her mind, selfhood and free will.
- Dream: Immortality... probably. Before, she lived day to day and hobby to hobby, never quite sure where she wanted to end up at the end of it all. She just knew she wanted to be happy in the end. So, maybe if she can just give herself endless time to figure things out, the answer will be revealed to her.
Short Biography: Hannah never had much in the way of grand ambitions in her past life. She'd worked a number of minor, mediocre jobs but never really found a true calling in life. One could perhaps call her a drifter, a jack of several trades, master of none, who preferred to indulge online hobbies. Her flighty attitude led her to never want to settle for one thing and fully commit out of a professed desire to "not spend her life on something she wouldn't enjoy". Yet, in the end, she could never find that one thing that sparked her interest and so languished in mediocrity. The things she was truly passionate about didn't make enough money to truly live on or were locked behind time and experience requirements she wasn't able to provide, and Hannah came to believe somewhere in her heart that -in many ways- she was simply born in the wrong era. She was adrift and aimless, struggling to find a path and growing more concerned and downtrodden the longer it evaded her. The beginnings of depression and hopelessness were beginning to creep in by the time she met her untimely demise and was brought before Kami.
Once the initial fear and panic were worked through, Hannah saw the opportunity for what it was, recognizing the world Kami described. Grief largely set aside, she made the choice to be reborn into the Uchiha Clan of Konohagakure in the only family that she had any surety would be mostly safe if things went as they were originally destined to, and so, she would be born as the younger sister of Itachi and Sasuke Uchiha, one year the junior of the latter. Born in a time of grief, recovery and reignited grudges, Nabiki sits at the epicenter of a brewing calamity. After the recent attack of the Nine Tailed Fox, the Uchiha (whose eyes have been historically known to be capable of controlling it) have been placed under great suspicion and observation, forced to all live in a single section of the village and stewing in increasing resentment and hatred from the undeserved mistrust and isolation.
Her online experiences delving into various escapist stories and fandoms mean Hannah was very well acquainted with the Naruto setting, canon and fanon alike. Well... pre-Boruto anyway. While she's aware vaguely of a few particularly crazy things that went down, she mostly knows nothing about the sequel to Shippuden and generally prefers to pretend it doesn't exist.
Inventory:
- None yet.
Skills:
- Languages - English and Japanese:
Having a language that (presumably) doesn't exist in this new world allows her the advantage of making unique coded messages that (among other things) would only be immediately legible to other PCs. Having learned enough Japanese to parse the more archaic local version, she has the early opportunity to spy on conversations that wouldn't be held in front of anyone but a baby and can waste spend less time on learning the local version of Japanese fully, furthering her "Genius" reputation. - Calligraphy:
While her dexterity has naturally temporarily suffered due to her age and physical abilities, writing was Nabiki's passion in her past life, and while most of that was done using keyboards, learning Japanese correctly required a steady hand to depict kanji and hiragana. She is therefore a deft, practiced hand with articulating the local linguistics, and if she wanted to, she'd find herself having an easier time with Fuinjutsu (at least the drawing of it) than the average person. - Poker Face/Acting/Manipulation:
A result of roleplaying and being in many customer service industries in her life, when she actually tries, Nabiki is an able manipulator and deceiver, having even been told in her past life she was "quite the negotiator". Concealing her true feelings is second nature to her, and "playing a part" is something she can slip into like putting on her favorite shoes, wearing whatever face she needs to in order to get what she wants. - Martial Arts: At one point, due to increasing disillusionment with cerebral pursuits, Hannah pursued Tae-Kwon-Do and generally found it to her liking, enjoying the feeling of self-improvement and the ability to vent her burgeoning battle junkie tendencies under controlled conditions. Owing to her nature as a drifter, however, she advanced decently high but never committed enough to reach black belt, bowing out before the finish line. Despite this, she got far enough to successfully attain an instinct for the "flow of battle" as well as largely ridding herself of the burden of hesitation inflicted by a peaceful society. As a result, if she were ever to get into a real fight, especially one of life and death, she would immediately resort to ruthlessly efficient violence, rather than freezing or cowering like the average civilian.
Tropes:
- Early Sharingan: The combined trauma of a violent death and being reborn awakens her bloodline at birth from the stress. Grants access to the Sharingan at its first stage, but this obvious awakening draws undue attention and expectations even before she can walk.
- Chakra Sensitive: A combination of awakening her bloodline limit -experiencing the draw of chakra- early as well as her memory of a life without chakra makes her particularly aware of the presence and flow of chakra from even an early age, able to feel it far more distinctly and intuitively than the common person. Allows her to manipulate chakra with greater finesse and could likely make her a skilled future sensor if she chose to pursue it.
Chakra Affinity:
- Fire (Uchiha) and Wind (Personal).
Bloodline Limit:
- Sharingan (One tomoe): While active, provides (at a basic level) chakra sight, near perfect memory of things seen with it, the perception of the world in slow motion, prediction of movements, copying jutsu and -with eye contact- the ability to use the Sharingan as a Genjutsu casting focus without any other motions or hand-signs.
Jutsu:
- None yet.
Current Goals:
- Short Term: Survive and gain power and independence. Survive and/or avert the Uchiha Massacre.
- Long Term: Escape the shinobi system and live life to the fullest. Gain immortality if at all feasible.
Extra: Any bonus trivia you feel it might be neat to include could go here in this totally optional section. If you have any music you used as inspiration for character creation or other tunes that serve as themes for them, feel free to include them too.
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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure RP (Name Pending).
I am currently tossing around the concept of starting a Jojo RP. It's something I've had a hankering for for a while. Things are still in the workshopping stage, so nothing plot-related is necessarily set in stone, but I'm looking to gage interest, even if it's unlikely to start anything up during the holidays. But I tend to be a more ponderous mover in RP-ing, so there's no particular rush for anything anyway.
For those unfamiliar with Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, a decent broad premise is that the series largely follows the generation adventures of the Joestar family, which start out as righteous battles against vampires and aztec gods using the power of sunlight breathing bullshit... before evolving into using manifestations of one's fighting spirit and soul, called Stands, to fight other people wielding the same soul bullshit. Characters in the series have a reputation for being muscular, eccentrically dressed or both, along with being rather "extra" in behavior and often posing for no good reason but flexing. I could try to explain Stands, but it's honestly easier to just link the wiki, here.
Plot/Pitch:
The RP will most likely be set in either a full AU or a post-Part 6 AU, given how that ended making just about anything technically viable; I haven't settled on the primary locale for the plot to either start or be centralized. Right now, the primary direction I'm leaning in (and it's difficult to decide what is or isn't going to be spoilers) is that the central -or perhaps overarching- conflict of the RP will be a battle over possession of one of the Stand Arrows. I haven't entirely ruled out the inclusion of vampires/pillar men or the holy corpse parts, but I don't have any plans for them to be overtly relevant either. Maybe the former end up as side/warm up enemies. Who knows.
Basic Character Creation:
The cast will consist of OCs. I'm planning for the focus to be on Stands (obviously enough, since the central conflict is one of the Arrows), but I'm open to allowing Hamon or the Spin as powersets. On the matter of Stands, I only plan to have original Stands. Canon Stands will only be granted to canon characters, and I've no plans to allow canon characters to be played. Since Stands are unique to the soul and individual, that holds true here; so there won't be any canon Stands appearing in the hands of OCs. That goes for PCs and NPCs alike, so expect enemies to have generally unique Stands as well.
Stands: I intend to possibly make some slight RP-specific alterations to how Stands will function in this RP. For one, I want to more solidly define Range, as that is one of the most confusing stats in the entire series. Secondly, I intend for the Stand Stat system to largely entirely represent the Stand's physical capabilities (with understandable exceptions like Developmental Potential). A Stand's Power being E, for example would solely address their physical strength and not (for example) the ability to shoot lava from their hands; unique Stand abilities will largely be entirely self-contained from the rest of the Stand's stats. If necessary, I may institute a "sub-stat" system, where there are extra stats in parenthesis to indicate the Stand's unique ability(ies). As for what powers I'll allow to Stands, I sadly can't say "anything goes", as some abilities are either just inherently broken, narratively difficult to play with or both. I want to be as flexible as I can, but any form of time/fate manipulation or resurrection -just to start- are completely off the table.
On nonhuman PCs: Vampires -for those that consider them- are unfortunately completely out of the question; all evidence in canon suggests that they are inherently maliciously evil due to the way the Stone Mask rewires their brains, and the act of becoming a vampire would be likely considered equivalent to character death, turning them into an NPC. They are villains, not protagonists. Pillar men are also not allowed. Well, I suppose it would be clearer to say "only humans" are allowed as characters, but that's not entirely true. Multiple times in Jojo, animals with enough sentience to develop a Stand have been featured prominently, so I'm willing to consider allowing them.
On canon relevance: I am waffling heavily on the allowance of any relation to notable canon elements, like playing a Joestar or Brando, despite being an OC. I'm leaning towards "no" for the time being, as I'd prefer all the OCs and their backgrounds to be entirely self-contained. So, no star-shaped mark of destiny for anyone, if only so no-one is basically rocking a "main character" indicator.
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