Veradana

Shin Megami Tensei: The Final Avatar

@Matador

That's too bad. If you ever decide to restart it, just give me a holler.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Shadows of the Past [Accepting]

Tinuviel listened closely as Aika and Fumi told their story. He'd calmed down after the initial shock of it, but even what they were telling him seemed extraordinary. Council or not, Legendary Pokemon could be dangerous. He was sure that if a Pokemon like Kyurem had even looked in his direction it would have frozen his fur right off.

"You could all easily be ice sculptures right now," he mumbled, shivering. It didn't seem like an appropriate type of story for such a temperate forest.

@Shiny Keldeo

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Shadows of the Past [Accepting]

Tinuviel gazed around at the forest as Aika spoke, nodding along.

"There are places like this back home too," he said, "wars, natural disasters, they all ran rampant back then, but you could never know anymore," It had been long before he was born, long before even his parents were born, but the Legendary War and the Meteor Disaster were still sometimes talked about as history lessons. It took him a moment before he realised what Fumi had said.

"What?!" he said, "The two of you fought Kyurem?!" and lived? and are still doing odd-jobs off a common board? he thought. She'd said it so casually, so he didn't think she was making it up, but at the same time, was he really working with two Pokemon who'd faced down a legendary Pokemon?

@Shiny Keldeo

Shin Megami Tensei: The Final Avatar

The recent murder had been in the news for most of the morning. Of course, they hadn’t shown most of the crime scene since the police were keeping the reporters out of the building. However, they had the victims’ neighbours to question even if they couldn’t get pictures of the blood. The fact that the killer was still at large, and that no one seemed to have seen or heard anything to form some sort of profile meant that it was unlikely that whoever had murdered that family was going to be caught anytime soon. The world couldn’t exactly just sit in fear, however, and life still moved on.

Hotaru would have been perfectly happy spending her day of Not-Having-To-Deal-With-The-People-At-School lounging around the apartment playing Mario Kart, but her dad had given her a list of errands to run while he’d been called into work. What did the office need him for anyway that couldn’t wait until Monday? She thought. Not that he could argue with the higher ups. She left the apartment shortly after he did after checking to see if she needed to add anything to their grocery list.

As she walked towards the train station, several imposing looking vehicles passed her. As well, there were several people in Defense Force uniforms gathering about. Hotaru figured it just had to do with the recent murders needing increased security, but it was still freaky to see so many of bunched together so close like this. The news hadn’t mentioned anything that had happened in their neighbourhood, so why were there so many around here? She didn’t want to seem like she was nosing around their important business, so she hurried along before they could notice her.

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Ueno Station was busy as usual, and Hotaru made that sure her phone was on silent as she moved through the crowd. The train would still be a while, and she glanced around at the other people around the station. One person who really stood out was someone she recognised from school; he was a year ahead of her and was in student council and the Captain of the Kendo team. It seemed as though people were giving him a wide berth, and Hotaru wondered what he was thinking, bringing a sword out in public with everything that’d been going on.

Strange music reached the edge of her hearing over the buzz of the crowd and rumbling of nearby trains. After checking how much time she still had until the train arrived, Hotaru decided to check it out, passing Nakada-senpai as she went. She soon found the source, although a large group of people surrounded the musician, and she vaguely noted that they seemed dazed as they listened. Hotaru could almost see the man despite standing behind everyone. His flute playing was very skillful, and it was really easy to get sucked in.

Shin Megami Tensei: The Final Avatar

@Matador

Either is good

you don't need an account for Discord, right?

(also I'm working on my intro now. and will have it done today. (I got distracted looking up sword laws in Japan lol)

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Shadows of the Past [Accepting]

Tinuviel looked between the two paths as Aika and Fumi discussed directions. He didn't want to laugh over Fumi not remembering, but as she herself laughed about it, he joined with a small chuckle. Yeah, it made sense that Fumi normally let others lead the way,

"You should keep trying," he said, "the only way to improve is through practice and training, after all." At least, that's what his parents told him when he talked about his trouble working alone. Fumi then asked which between him and Aika should lead the mission, to which Aika explained that leadership was normally her responsibility when the rest of their team was busy with other things.

"If that's the way you normally do things, then it's probably better if Aika leads," Tinuviel said, touching a wingtip to his chin. "She knows the way the two of you work best, so it'll be easier for her than me." He grinned back at Fumi, "Yeah, that sounds fine."

Shin Megami Tensei: The Final Avatar

@ Veradana Maybe Shoko could have stood up for Hotaru on the few occasions where she's seen the latter being bullied? Perhaps Shoko, while the thought was there, never really did enough to do anything beyond stop the immediate instances of bullying that she saw, not knowing the extent of it while also being unsure how to even help more if it was worse than what she saw.

-@Riegal

Yeah, that sounds good! I think it would also be interesting just to see them play off each other since Shoko seems to have such a forceful personality compared to Hotaru.

Shin Megami Tensei: The Final Avatar

Hotaru Fujioka

Name: Hotaru Fujioka

Age: 16

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Shadows of the Past [Accepting]

Tinuviel nodded in agreement before racing off alongside Aika. He smiled to himself at the nickname Fumi had given him. It certainly would be interesting working with these two. It was a shame that they hadn't had much time to work together during chore duty, but that came more from them having been there longer than him. They could probably have some fun talking together once the work was done. Now was no time for goofing off, especially since they'd be looking after a child. Fumi seemed serious enough, if a little impatient. Well, Tinuviel thought, wanting to get the job done promptly was admirable too.

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@Matador

She's here!

Hotaru Fujioka

Name: Hotaru Fujioka

Age: 16

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

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

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

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

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

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

If there are edits you need I'll have to get to it tomorrow because it's getting late here.