NekoMizu

The Maple Neighborhood [Comedy / Episodic Slice-of-Life]

@NekoMizu It's looking good so far! Removing some of the commentary from it would help me greatly, however. ^^;

Although some of the commentary is honest such as the origins of your characters' inspirations, that kind of confused me when I first looked at it. Removing some of that commentary would make it cleaner! See my feedback to Keyenpeydee's character sheet in Page 3 to know what I'm referring to, as it's similar to what he had to fix initially.

Also, the identical names made me brainfart. Maybe you could change one of their names...? I'm intending on doing a special aesthetic for the Character Tab List but it might confuse other RPers if their names are the same. x-x

Looking good though. Sibling powah. o-o;

@NarayanK

Oh wow. I actually forgot the name change for the sister. Though her actual name might be a bit similar too. It's Mizu Koneko instead of Neko. I just forgot to do that part for some reason.

The Maple Neighborhood [Comedy / Episodic Slice-of-Life]

Appearance

Take out the sword, that's irrelevant to the rp lel.

Name: Mizu Neko

Age: I guess 20 lel

Gender: What is this? Male.

Occupation: Story writer for a few well known light novel series.

Personality: Oftentimes shuts himself inside the house since he doesn't like going outside. He's laidback and generally goes along with most things. He dislikes dogs, holes (trypophobia), and social activites. He likes cats, his sister, his computer, and food (Specifically orange chicken). He draws, but fails at it, making him upset quite often, so he just sticks with writing.

Background: The shut-in of shut-ins, staying indoors most of the time ever since he was young. He's been anti-social for as long as he can remember and the only thing keeping him from staying inside all the time is his sister.

Room Number: I guess 3.

Appearance

She looks like Neko, except with longer hair and green eyes as well as different clothing. She wears a similar jacket, but pink, as well as a yellow skirt.

Name: Mizu Neko

Age: 20 as well twins tend to do that.

Gender: Female

Occupation: Idol (At a young age; quit the job) and the artist for Neko's light novel series'.

Personality: Complains at Neko a lot about going outside and being social, and often forces him outside, to which he would just be on his phone or handheld game. When she isn't being uptight with him, she is very clingy to him. She doesn't like the fact her brother is a shut-in that's about it. She likes her brother, oranges, and secretly going on her brother's computer.

Background: She became an idol very young, after both of the parents died, she and her brother had to find a way of pulling in money. She was offered the chance to become an idol and chose to go through with it. At first, she enjoyed it, but she grew tired of it. She never got well known, so she wasn't getting much money (from the one fan she did have, her brother). So her brother decided to start making LN's and included her as the artist and she eventually quit her idol career. (I basically took Momo from Kagerou Project and altered it to make her not be an idol in the end. I guess it could be like a what-if thing for momo.)

Room Number: 3.

The Maple Neighborhood [Comedy / Episodic Slice-of-Life]

Showing a bit of interest. Not sure how it'd go, seeing as I've never roleplayed before, but gotta get used to rping somehow right? I have a question though. Can I make two characters, like siblings? Also I think this was covered in the first post, but do characters have to be in every episode or can just be in certain ones? I'll be making cs when I get on my computer.

The HEART Initiative (A Kingdom Hearts story)

@Volenvradica
Well, I'm interested, for any matter. But I doubt I'd be good at it.

The HEART Initiative (A Kingdom Hearts story)

Would this still have us going through disney worlds and stuff?

Neko no Shousetsu : Kiiro no Sekai. A cat's novel about the yellow world.

Pre-story:

My Hider

January 20, 2270. A man with short, mildly spiky brown hair with matching brown eyes, at the age of 18 was working in a small VR gaming company. He was a smart man, especially for someone living in such a beat-up town. A town where anyone could attack at any time without warning. Burned houses and stores. Wood patching up burnt holes in buildings. Graffiti everywhere, even on places that would otherwise seem impossible.

Perhaps a place like this could inspire anyone to want to make a business that could potentially become big so they can leave that place, but without the required intelligence, it's impossible. He had a group of workers, about four or five of them, they weren't as smart as him, but they were hard workers willing to do whatever he tells them to do. He was a true boss. Their latest game will be an MMORPG, one that once someone signs up and logs in, they will become physically brought into the world through nothing but a press of a button.

However, to do something like this, they needed a huge battery, big enough to last forever and still work with tons of people playing the game. They had big hopes of this game, they were going to become rich. This would be the biggest and most widespread MMORPG around. But something went wrong during the creation of this world. The battery despite the size, couldn't even handle one person being in the game. It exploded, killing everyone, except the boss. He completely vanished.

Except, he did not vanish, he made it inside the new world. But, it's not. It's nothing but black space everywhere. He was met by a robed woman. Long flowing green hair and scarlet eyes. "Nice to me you, creator." She said to him, flailing around excitedly, "I will grant you one wish, no law." And so the man wished for the world to be made and it all seemed great. Except, he couldn't leave.

The two went a year with just the two of them there, but they got bored of the fact they didn't see many people. So the Goddess sent things into Earth to get people into the world, and not just that, she also created other gods to help her maintain the world. She couldn't do it alone, there ended up being too many people within the first day.

Story:

My Hider

Now it's August 14, 2280, ten years later. News about a man and his apparent sister vanishing after eating a piece of candy comes in on the channel Neko was watching, waiting for the big announcement of his graphic novels. Neko becomes bored of being a shut-in, but he is too lazy to leave his house. "Hey sis I found one!" he says with glee as he points at his screen, displaying a decade old MMORPG. It had everything they demanded in a game like this, even though their tastes opposed each others'.

As they log in, they are taken into the world of KiiroSekai.

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Laws of KiiroSekai

My Hider

-A newcomer must choose one of three fighting classes (whether they use the fighting class or not isn't important), Warrior, Mage, or Archer.
-Only Warriors can use non-thrown blades and metal armour. (Except shields)
-Only Mages can use elemental powers (Which they have to choose as well between the four main elements: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. There are two other magic elements that are unlocked when they have mastered every spell of their element, and the element they get is chosen by their alignment. Void and Metal)
-Only archers can use wooden weapons that do not resemble blades and throwing metals.
-In guarded areas, you may not wound or kill an individual, unless a PVP pact is made, if a PVP pact is made, there must be guards around to take the bodies away. If you are caught attacking another person in a guarded area you will be killed on the spot by unpassable leveled guards (many of them as well) If you kill someone outside of guarded areas, you must wait a week before returning to a guarded area, otherwise a bounty will be placed and you will be open to attack by anyone in the area.
-Trades may not be done in buildings, as it is very difficult for guards to see what's going on. This isn't really against the law, but it's highly advised, since you could get killed very easily and have it get past guards.
-Do not break into other people's houses. A bounty will be placed.
-Mages can only learn moves after a battle, not during a battle.
-Death is a very known thing in the animals guild
-Everyone in this world are from Earth, only exceptions being the gods.
-Gods are not invincible, nor are they immortal.
-You cannot die by natural causes. I.E. Age.
-You age 1k (1000) times slower in this world, making people assume it's possible to die by age, but it's not possible.

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Genres:

My Hider

Modern (Partial)
School (Somewhat)
Fantasy
Medieval (Mostly)
Future (Only certain parts)
Romance
(double)Harem
Incest (Somewhat)

My first RP ever. I'm making this my first because I know about it the most since it's the story I've been working on for years alongside a couple of friends. One of my two main stories, and my most developed and worked on story at all that is still being worked on. (I am constantly restarting because of dissatisfaction, so I decided to try to learn how to write good and feel satisfied which is why I am here)

Anyway, I suppose that's it. Unless a character sheet should be included here.
General Interest thread: roleplayerguild.com/topics/150638-neko..

Neko no Shousetsu : Kiiro no Sekai. A cat's novel about the yellow world.

@Polaris North

Wait, is it against forum rules to post this in Casual and general? Like both areas?

Modern + Medieval?

@NekoMizu I suggest you do some research on google about what people are discussing here. Particularly Steampunk and the stuff Aix was talking about. you don't need to read the entire wiki page, but it'll help you understand what a genre is. Steampunk is most certainly not future anything though, despite having technology that has never and will never be invented.

You also need to state what "the way you are thinking of" representing a "modern/future/past" world is. I've seen post-apocalyptic settings where it's the future, but due to resource shortages people rely on modern and old technology. Is that what you're talking about?

@BrokenPromise

I'm just thinking about a fantasy world that simply has future technology in some regards, modern technology in others, and medieval/past technology as well and it taking place in one of those eras. Most likely past or future. If we're talking about a mix of all three, anyway.

If we're talking about mix of modern and medieval I mean a fantasy world that takes place in a medieval type era, where swords and bows are the most prominent types of weapons (as well as magic), but has modern/semi-modern technology already set in the world, so not taken in by the main character like in Re:zero or No Game No Life. Think of like SAO or Log Horizon, but the game world has phones, computers, and other modern technology.

I'll read about it to get a general idea of what steampunk is, yeah. Thank you for the suggestion.

Modern + Medieval?

Watch A Knight's Tale. It's a really love it or hate it film and you'll realize whether you love it or hate it in the very first scene as you watch a bunch of medieval peasants at a joust pound out the beat to Queen's We Will Rock You

@Gentlemanvaultboy

That sounds amazing not gonna lie.

Modern + Medieval?

A lot of current Japanese fantasy fiction seem to be a mix of modern day and medieval fantasy, generally explained by magic significantly raising the quality of life. Major examples of this that come to mind are Fairy Tail and Re:Zero.

@Aix

Would you really consider re:zero modern? I mean, it starts off in modern Japan, yes and there is a phone, but besides that there's nothing related to modern day at all. I'm talking about modern or like maybe a little bit in the past technology preset in the world that is mostly medieval. Not sure much about Fairy Tail, since I've only seen one episode.

The idea of mixing the medieval ages and the present is pretty incompatible. Why bother stabbing shit with a sword when you can shoot it from a half mile away? Why put a guy on horse-back to deliver a message when it's quicker to call the person up on the telephone?

@Dinh AaronMk

"Why stab shit with a sword when you can shoot from a half mile away?" I never said there had to be guns, just any modern technology, computers for example. It doesn't have to be completely modern. Plus why stab shit with a sword when you can get a bow and shoot shit from a half mile away?

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If we're going to be super duper technical...

While Steampunk is considered a sub-genre of science fiction, it often takes place in an alternate past where industrial steam powered machinery progressed a lot further and became mainstream. So it's not science fiction because it takes place in the future, but because these worlds rely on steam powered machinery that never existed. Science fiction is actually defined by the scientific advancements of it's world, which are usually in the distant future.

As for a modern/Sci-fi/Fantasy mix, the closest things I can think of is Magic Realism.

As Aix said, the Japanese love to do modern fantasy. It's hard to look at an anime list and not see at least one like that.

@BrokenPromise

I personally do not understand what steampunk is, I just get from what I've seen that it is past/future mix. Is a modern/future/past even possible to do? I understand that there are a lot of modern fantasy, but not in the way that I am thinking of.