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@Aeolian



I was like "oh it's a girl to balance out the ratio!"

how naive of me...

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Look, if it's too much of a problem we can turn Laki into a butch muscle girl and call it good lmao

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At this rate the entire school will be filled with mixed-race socially-isolated persona users

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Laki Hirata

Name

Laki Hirata || 平田 ラキ

Arcana

Chariot

Age

3rd Year High Schooler (18)

Personality Traits

Hardworking and decisive, Laki places great value on spending one's time intelligently. He's never idling–always reading a book, working with his hands, or earning money at a part-time job. He does have an easygoing and comedic side, but it's been largely suppressed by the urgency of his current situation. No time to relax when there's money to be made and material to study. He can easily overwork himself, but believes it's just a result of not being strong enough.

Due to his mixed parentage and current situation, Laki often feels a bit put out around others. He's never looked quite like everyone else (dominant Samoan genes will do that) and his Japanese is slightly accented. Combine that with the stigma around single mothers and foreigners, well, you get the idea.

Backstory

Laki's life is defined by his heritage–his mother a Japan-naturalized Samoan, his father a small-town doctor. The two parents met while his father was doing humanitarian work in the Samoan islands. They fell in love, married, and eventually moved to Japan when Laki was six. Laki's mother naturalized into a Japanese citizen after five years and picked up a job as a hairdresser.

Soon after, Laki's mother discovered that her husband had cheated on her, driving a crack into their relationship. Furthermore, Laki was struck by a deadly illness that confined him to a bed for almost an entire year. The fractured marriage alongside Laki's rapidly rising medical costs led to his father filing a divorce. With only the income of a hairdresser and little knowledge of Japanese, the single mother and child fell rapidly into debt.

Laki recovered and focused on strengthening his body. His mother worked hard to overcome the language and cultural barrier as best she could. Things were starting to look up–until Laki's mother was struck by the Yellow Plague.

Now, Laki spends almost all his time either caring for his mother, earning money to support himself, and making sure he doesn't drop out of school. It's only a matter of time until something goes wrong...

Gear

Laki is proficient in Limalama, as taught to him by his mother. He makes use of his large frame and strength in order to defend himself and subdue opponents. He hasn't practiced it in a while, though–there's no time!

If he were to use a weapon, he'd probably go for a shield.

Otherwise, the other thing he has going for him is his physical ability, honed through strenuous part-time work and long jogs/bike rides. He's likely the strongest a high schooler can get while balancing study, work, and training.

Persona

Laki's persona is Ti'i-Ti'i, the Samoan version of Hawaii's slightly-more-famous Maui. He appears as a muscular man wielding a huge fish hook carved from bone. His muscles are covered in swirling tattoos that glow with ethereal light. Some famous achievements of his include bringing fire to mankind, hauling islands to their proper places, and lassoing the sun itself.

Persona Abilities

Ti'i-Ti'i focuses on destroying enemies with physical damage, shaping the earth with his might, and protecting allies through buffs.

here he is!

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@DruSM157

Carpe Diem is such a good album. Here's another famous Lotus Juice song!

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speaking of which, @DruSM157, are we going with p3/p4 strike/slash/pierce and no nuke/psi/eiha/kouga? or p5 phys/gun + nuke/psi/eiha/kouga?

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To accomplish this, the sleazy magician employs pyrotechnics in the form of [Agi], wows them into a tizzy with [Dazzler], and prevents them from catching him during his escape with [Sukunda].

@Sarcelle Renard

Holy cow, I forgot [Dazzler] was a thing! That's super creative.

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I will not have this Ryuji heresy smh. At least he’s not Morgana.

Simple question: What kinds of RPs do you guys like?

I'm not a fan of Slice of Life RP. I really like plot lmao plus it's just more fun for me when things happen and characters develop in a thematic way, which happens less in SoL

The Worst Writing Advice

The worst advice anyone ever gave for ME PERSONALLY was "hey stone you should worldbuild a bit more"

I ended up sinking wayyyyy too much time into worldbuilding and not enough into literally everything else. i'm not a person who enjoys worldbuilding very much, but i thought it'd make my writing better (which it didn't because i kept trying to force it and ended up wasting too much time on the details)

I don't have a crusade against worldbuilding (in fact, if you do it for fun, all the more power to you). Worldbuild when it suits you/when it suits your writing.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm just saying to spend your time wisely. I put much more time into worldbuilding than I should have, and as a result the rest of my writing suffered.