Noblebandit

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

I’m just missing a picture.

@leyroyjenkins

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Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

Minato no Tenshi, let's go!

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

So far, it looks like we're making a girl-gang 😂

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

Mai Li

Name:
Mai Li

Image - Quite big!

Favourite School Subject:
History

Favourite Food:
Yakisoba, especially when it's flavoured with ginger.

Theme Song:


Why They Fight:
Half-Japanese, half-Chinese, Mai has struggled to fit in anywhere her entire life. Everywhere she goes, it seems someone will judge her for her heritage. She's had enough. She's going to make sure that everyone knows her as her, not just as “that Chinese girl”.

Background/Personality:
Born to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother, Mai Li has always struggled to fit in. On one hand, she has very little connection to China; she has never been there, as she was born and raised in Japan, and her only knowledge of the country comes from her father and grandparents. But on the other hand, her heritage is not something that can be discarded so easily. Memories of the war are still fresh in the minds of the Japanese people, and it's hard to find someone willing to trust a “sangokujin” easily.

She's sick of being seen as a foreigner in the country that she calls home, and she's sick of being associated with people an ocean away. Why can't anyone see her as herself? Why does she have to act this way or that way in order to be seen as a “proper” Japanese? Who cares where her dad came from?

So she's thought of an alternative: if people won't treat her like just another person, then she's going to do what she can to stand out. She's going to be loud. She's going to be boisterous. She's going to do everything in her power to make it so that when people think of the name Mai Li, their first thoughts aren't going to be “that's the Chinese girl, isn't it?”

And that means putting in the effort to stand out. “Orthodox” is the one word no one could ever use to describe Mai. She's as stubborn and as insubordinate as they come, openly defiant of any authority and totally willing to give something a go just because it isn't what's expected of her. Above all else, she values her individuality, and hates the thought of being seen as just another part of the crowd.

That said, she does have limits. Her rebellious attitude is more of an attempt at expressing individuality than it is a genuine rebellion against authority, and it isn't like she's going to kill a man just because she feels like it. She's tomboyish and bratty, but she isn't an out-and-out thug, and although she can definitely finish a fight, she isn't so keen on starting them. At the end of the day, she still cares about her reputation, and she'd wants to be known as cool and unique, not violent and unhinged.

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

I'm just waiting for the boss to review my character. I hope she's alright.

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

I just want to hit things with a big bat.

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

@Noblebandit IRL there weren't really female gangsters (outside of the all-girl sukeban groups, that is) until the boys started bringing their girlfriends along to rallies and New Year's parties at gang hangouts. This was around the early 80's.

But it's a fictional anime and I suspect OP doesn't care about "realism" if it excludes half the human population in this case

@pugbutter

I'm not worried about myself which one it is, because I'm okay writing a boy or a girl. But there is no gender tab in the Character Sheet, so it's a little hard to tell which one it is.

Street Punk Serenade: Delinquent Days

Is it a mixed gender gang, or is it all boys?

Anime Delinquent Gang

This could be cool! I'm up for it!

Dungeon Denizen || A Monster RPG (Closed For Now)

Eyes-Like-Gold

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So this was the Warren, was it? Spooky. Not exactly the most welcoming place, with its gouged stonework and its ragged entrance, but then again, it wasn't like it was supposed to be welcoming, not to civilised people, anyway. Still, it wouldn't kill them to put up a totem or a banner or something just to add a little bit of colour. But it was the Warren nonetheless! After all this time, all this exploring, she was starting to lose faith that the darn thing even existed in the first place! There are only so many false leads and wrong turns a goblin can follow before she starts questioning her own sanity.

The stories told her that dungeons like these were perfect places for creatures like goblins and kobolds and the like to gather. They were the cities for the uncivilised. Elves and dwarves and humans got to spend time in their fancy castles and palaces and towers, but monsters like her were forced to dwell in these nasty, damp, dirty caves. Of course, Eyes-Like-Gold knew nothing about all that. She grew up in a little tent village, the way a goblin ought to be raised. And besides, these dungeons couldn't be that bad, right? If they were, then why were the civvies constantly trying to break into them and raid them?

Well, whatever the case, it wasn't like she planned to live here forever. The dungeon was just a stepping stone towards her real goal: the orcs. Someone in here had to know about the orc warbands and where to find them; maybe if she was lucky, she might actually meet an orc inside the dungeon. That would be a turn up for the books, eh?

Well, there was no point just standing out here and hoping for it to happen. It was time to enter the dungeon! With a skip in her step and a whistle on her lips, Eyes-Like-Gold took her first step into the Warren, eager to face the challenges that awaited her inside.