May OOC Intro / CR meme!

[jigokumods]

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Welcome Lost Souls! And also, welcome to this round's group of new players!

What's on the plate for this month? Well there's the Substories for this month you can get started on. Generally, the city is still recovering from the disastrous ending of the Night Parade last month. Clean up has been going well, but unfortunately the ongoing turf war over The Underground between the Tamamo and Shuten clans has kept tensions from winding down. On top of that, the Daitengu crashed their own funeral and implicated the Enma as being responsible, in some way, for the incident as well as their "assassination". Things are pretty chaotic!

And what's with this sudden infection of mysterious Haniwa figurines happening now? One can't help but wonder if this isn't coincidence...

What's gonna happen? Stay tuned and find out...

In the meantime, use the form below to introduce yourselves! Just copy paste this, fill it out, and and start to get to know one another and plot for the coming month! THIS IS A COMBINATION OOC INTRO AND CR MEME, so older players, feel free to introduce yourselves!

Also as a note, as of this post, all changes discussed from the Mod Feedback response have been implemented, including changes to the Reward page!

<b>Player Name:</b> Whatever you want us to call you. <b>Contact:</b> Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use. Don't forget to mention if it's OK for people to add you! <b>Pronouns:</b> Whatever they are, please include them so everyone can be respectful of who you are. <b>Tell us about yourself:</b> Hobbies, favorite times to tag, pets, quirks, favorite times/styles to tag, anything you'd like us to know. <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>Faction:</b> <b>Brief Rundown:</b> Give folks the skinny on what this character's deal is <b>Initial Ideas:</b> If you're fresh to the game, don't feel too pressured to jump in TOO fully. Just list what ideas you have for your character's first month in the game. We'll do a more thorough plotting post when the event post is closer along. <b>CR Desires:</b> What kind of CR are you after? Friends, enemies, frienemies, lovers, one night stands, co-workers, so on and so forth? Invite people to fill that dance card! <b>Anything else:</b> Permissions, opt-outs, shitposting, etc.

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[daragh]

Player Name: vandal
Contact: vandalisto & i'm a mod in the discord server @ magicant#0246! feel free to add me, just lmk who you are if you don't have who you play in your plurk profile.
Pronouns: he/they/ey
Tell us about yourself: hi i'm vandal and i like world of horror and hypnosis mic and that's it

alder daragh

[daragh]

Character Name: alder daragh
Canon: OC
Character Age: 27
Faction: tamamo
Brief Rundown: he's half angel and half demon because cringe culture is dead and we do what we want with our OCs now

no but really he's a jerk, but a jerk who loves his people. he's the leader of a faction of his own that fights guerilla-style against heaven's rule on earth. angels are terrified of him and there's a huge bounty on his head. he loves his auntie orion though

Initial Ideas: i wish to have alder stay back on the sidelines some; he probably won't be getting into the turf wars yet but will be watching and learning. :)

CR Desires: any? alder can be a jerk and offputting, but he's also interesting, and loving, and curious about people. so i'd like to just see what shakes out naturally but i'm looking for frieeeeeends for alder. especially leader-types and fellow demons or even angels!

Anything else:

i got nothing really uhhhhhhh [dial up tones]

blair's nobles (help)

[disagree]

Player Name: Blair!
Contact: Feel free to add me on flowerworks if we have/plan to have CR! I can also give out my Discord at request.
Pronouns: they/them
Tell us about yourself: i'll just copypaste from the previous ooc post -- im a mobage fiend, unfortunately. i mostly play joseimuke like ensemble stars, a3, and mahoyaku, but i also dabble in gbf, fgo, and i have recently picked up genshin again now that i got a new pc!! i also love nijisanji vtubers a normal amount so feel free to talk to me about them! and ofc i watch anime and read manga but it's been a while since i sat down and actually did those LMAO... spyfam is great tho. also heads up that my timezone is GMT+8 so if you get tags at weirdass hours, don't worry about it.

eula lawrence / genshin impact

[disagree]

Character Name: eula lawrence
Canon: genshin impact
Character Age: she's in her early to mid twenties! i put her at 23 bc im indecisive that way
Faction: enma
Brief Rundown: the queen of physical damage, babey!! but seriously, eula is one of mondstadt's knight's of favonius, the captain of its reconnaissance company. she is also a descendant of one of the aristocratic clans in mondstadt who used to rule the nation in an oppressive way, and while mondstadt is now free from the lawrence clan's toxic influence, its people have yet to forget their transgressions and aren't going to let eula forget it at anytime soon. eula is regal, carries herself in a classy untouchable air -- so long as you don't wrong her that is, because she WILL dole out vengeance on her ass and she will not shut up until she does so? but to be fair that is one of her ways to cope from all the shit she had to bear for being born in the wrong clan so... let her have this. she is a rather nice person deep down her cryo exterior, tbh.

Initial Ideas:

- okay first off im gonna get her acclimated and then make her get driving lessons because she keeps getting into accidents on the tdm LMAO. maybe a motorcycle bc she'd look hot in it, huhu.

- do some substories? i want eula to do #1 where she had to be forced to use a smaller sword since her strength has been halved so she couldn't use claymores at the moment, rip... and also #2 for a series of fetch quests that's like, the norm in genshin at this point, and #3 will leave her rather suspish? but she is from enma so let her take it off your hands a bit.

CR Desires:

- FRIENDS she desperately needs friends. since she's the only one from mondstadt at the moment, she'd be a lot more open because no one will know that she came from an awful clan. anyone who is willing to take a crack at her icy exterior would be more than welcome (cheery people, basically
- faction peeps? she's from enma so maybe they could patrol together or something. i rly like the good cop/bad cop thing the tdm had going on so maybe that could happen w our cr?
- anything and anyone, really? i don't wanna be too specific for now but. ye.

Anything else:

[kamisabro]

Player Name: Brion
Contact: PM or brion#2716 at Discord are probably the fastest method. HMU first if you're adding me on discord though!
Pronouns: He/Him
Tell us about yourself: My timezone is GMT+7 and therefore, I tag around the weirdest time if you're not close enough at that time. At the moment I'm enjoying my Eid vacation but in two weeks or so, I'd be back doing my usual 9-5 stuff and I'd probably only be able to do a lot of tags on weekends. I'd try to snuck in one or two tags every single day if I could find a time for that though! As for re:hobby, my favorite past time is currently just playing video games (mainly mobages like arknights and gbf and this canon I'm playing this dude from) and looking at cute critter videos and pictures. I seriously got my priorities right.

Character Name: Ayato Kamisato
Canon: Genshin Impact
Character Age: ~27 y/o
Faction: Enma
Brief Rundown: In a simple word, this man is the equivalent of fucking hokage in his own world.

Okay seriously, he's just... a relatively young, good natured politician who loves to play some string behind the scene who also happens to lead a ninja clan. Needless to say, he's a busy man and doesn't show his face in the public much. He's also (kind of) a boomer who is very sly and loves to trigger™ people just for the sake of witnessing their reaction through any means necessary in his spare time. Seriously, don't get any CR with him. He's a walking disaster.

Initial Ideas: Okay to be frank, I don't have any clear ideas on what to do with him except for being a good boi in Enma cos that's how he always roll?? Being a good follower first then go up in rank and start doing crazy shit?? Also, he's probably going to try to catch up on how to be Normal Person because he was too married to his job to enjoy a lot of cultural things hahahaha.

CR Desires: Why would you want his CR please god no just don't touch this man. You guys deserve better.

Honestly speaking I am looking for anything: people who agrees with his chaotic good view of the world, people who disagree with it so he can butthead with 'em, people who wants to tap his surprisingly hot ass, wutevs. Bring it to me

Anything else:

[disagree]

HELLOOOOO so glad to see ayato in enma too so eula will be seeing him often, at least? i really like their thread in their tdm so i'd be totally okay in making in canon if that's aight with you!! these two and their differing opinions towards their respective clans...... clenches fists

[mahoraga]

Player Name: Lin ... I used to go by CAPS if anyone knows me from before
Contact: charsiu
Pronouns: She/her
Tell us about yourself: I'm 28 this year, currently living in the Land Down Under, and I am an occupational therapist (brownie points to whoever knows what that is). My main hobbies are animanga, karaoke and eating. Most of the series I'm into are of the shounen JUMP variety and there are too many to count

Character Name: Megumi Fushiguro
Canon: Jujutsu Kaisen
Character Age: 16
Faction: Sutoku
Brief Rundown: He looks like he might be the type to lock himself in his room and listen to linkin park, but he's actually a kind, sensitive and serious boy. Megumi is a tired exorcist who manipulates shadows and can summon a menagerie of animal shikigami (the cutest being ... an unholy swarm of rabbits). His philosophy in life is to Protect Good Beans. Because his parents were neglectful his self-esteem is not great

Initial Ideas:
To give the boring answer he'll lay low as he understands the situation, probably continue talking to people and making allies/friends?? He's not the kind to jump into a fight unless he has to. He'll probably be sneaking around a bit and going into the shady parts of town to gather info

The substories look adorable and I'd love to do them! He's easily roped into things so I'm up for threading out sub story #1, 2 and 4

CR Desires:
- Friends of all shapes and sizes. He's a friend for life
- Sunshine-types or chatty types to bounce off his stoic and serious attitude
- People to annoy him. He's usually the butt of pranks at home, sadly
- Abrasive people or jerks to clash with?
- idk parental figures ..... he has no concept of parental love
- Mentor types??
- people who want to play with his animals when he regains them
- Other sorcerers/exorcists or supernatural beings

That's just a convoluted way to say everyone ...

Anything else: I got nothing

[utsuge]

scoots over here just to be like hi ive really been enjoying our tag! i would love to do more with these two. especially since theyre in different factions now despite their little agreement (drama!!).

mika has never interacted with a singular animal in canon as far as i remember so spirit animals when you get them again please!

[starshepard]

Player Name: NoL
Contact: rubberspaceducky or DMs
Pronouns: xe/xir but i'll answer to p much anything that isn't "it"
Tell us about yourself: maybe a tiny bit addicted to FFXI and FFXIV. Spends too much time in Second Life making new characters. Loves Vtubers. Has one cat named Gracie. Sometimes does art. I'm really boring.

Character Name: Azem
Canon: Final Fantasy XIV
Character Age: ??? (a few hundred? a few thousand? who knows)
Faction: Tamamo
Brief Rundown: They're who the Warrior of Light once was so that should say plenty about them. Azem likes to help where they can, have a good time, and make certain people's day a little more stressful. They also don't really know how to be a normal person. They have no sense of fashion (after however long of wearing black robes and a mask) and often forget to eat (because they didn't need to do that very often before).

Initial Ideas: I'm down to do any of the substories. I'm a sucker for stuff like the side-effect mochi. Azem will probably go about the side/fetchquest hell because it's something to do and a way to meet new people/see new sites. Also interested in this little weird statue dudes. Azem's not spiritually sensitive and I don't know if that kind of stuff would be in the same category as aether so they probably won't pick up on anything weird (especially since they don't have access to their echo right now).

You can hit up Azem on Ember over here.

CR Desires: I'm down for anything, really so long as it's not negative CR for no reason. Azem is interested in people and likes to make friends and connections. They're pretty open with physical contact so I'm down for lovers/one-night stands. Actual romantic stuff would probably take some work, though. They also love to spar with people!

Anything else: Permissions/opt-out is over here.

[utsuge]

Player Name: Annie
Contact: plurk: blueseawitch discord: memedoka#7459
Pronouns: she/her
Tell us about yourself: Got my degree in STEM, looking for a job rn so schedule is wonky. Arknights and Soulsborne enthusiast. I paint figurines and draw in my free time.

Character Name: Mikaela Hyakuya
Canon: Owari No Seraph
Character Age: 16
Faction: Enma
Brief Rundown: Vampire apocalypse happened when Mika was eight, and he and his adopted family lived as feral orphans in a vampire city for four years. When he was twelve he staged an escape plan that resulted in all of the death of everyone in his family but one. Mika died and became a vampire in this event. Technically he should look twelve, but he managed to hold off drinking blood for four years so delayed his transformation into a full vampire until he was sixteen. He's very loyal and devoted to his only remaining family member Yuuchiro Hyakuya but otherwise has very little motivation to do anything with himself. He's a surprisingly thoughtful person under his curt way of talking and his obvious disdain for humans and vampires alike.

Initial Ideas: VAMPIRE COP. Really really funny to me. Who let this teenager have the power of the LAW on his side? I'm not saying he won't work hard but I would really enjoy playing him being a really annoying thorn in everyone's side as he discovers the joys of filing paperwork and submitting written reports of everyone he dislikes. Mika is a kinda apathetic, huge pushover and super conflict avoidant despite being a bloodsucking monster, so bureaucracy is going to be very fun for him to discover.

CR Desires: Hijinks! Friendships! I want to build CR and I like playing a variety of different dynamics from rivalries to friends. I want to get Mika out of his shell a bit. He also has to deal with the whole blood drinking situation if people think that would be fun to play out. Would like to build bonds both in and out of faction!

Anything else: Due to my schedule, if you wanna kick off any super negative CR arc just run it by me so I can plot time for it. I don't mind such things unfolding, but lets plan it out a lil!

[federates]

enma too EH

congrats on being stuck with barton, mika

mira | emily dyer | sutoku alliance

[medicative]

Player Name: Mira
Contact: moonjelly / PM
Pronouns: She/her/hers.
Tell us about yourself: PST for tagging. I'm a fan of music, video games, animanga, cooking, and taking photos of whatever neat things I find in life. This includes cute photos of my cat, who is more popular than me.

Character Name: Emily Dyer
Canon: Identity V
Character Age: 33
Faction: Sutoku Alliance
Brief Rundown:

General impressions for some key information. A polite, kind woman who's doing her utmost to pass as normal in Hell. In truth a survivor of an endless death game who's become very used to rolling with whatever life throws at her, no matter how crazy or horrific, and with a slightly skewed sense of what should be put up with. A trained doctor, who works as a singer in a Sutoku music club but still is ready to dispense aid to whomever requires it.

Emily's also a CRAU from slumscape, which means that she shares her body with a tengu spirit who influences her and takes over as they please, as well as her bearing wings. She'll do her best to keep the bird under control, but no promises. They go by the name Hibiki, and can be freely interacted with whenever. A far more open soul and versed in youkai antics, Hibiki never shies from getting in a bit of trouble, though they do want to protect their host since it's their body too.

Initial Ideas:

• Substories: Emily will be taking part in a few of these this month! For the mochi, she'll want to monitor whoever ate the treats as well as track down the gyokuto, but there's nothing saying she can't wind up eating one of the mochi herself and dealing with the aftermath. For the figurines, she'll want to collect them and carefully wrap them before delivering them to the Enma - not all of them, though, and she'll suggest keeping one out of their hands. For the Ember app, she'll have a profile set up without her immediately knowing (thanks, Hibiki), but will see the value in communicating with it and meetings. Please don't fight her, you'll win.
  
  
• Clinic: This is her major focus this month, and will take up a chunk of her free time. To summarize, Emily's been set on creating a medical clinic that will treat patients regardless of faction, and has been working to arrange things monetarily and physically to get it started. I have an indepth post HERE discussing more details, and I fully welcome anyone else that would like to get involved, newly arrived or not - and prior CR isn't required, as one can always assume the right sort of rumor got out to get in contact with her. As important as it is to her ICly, ultimately, I want it to end up as less "Emily's clinic" and more of a clinic to drop into the background for whoever has need for it. The mob always needs doctors, after all.
  
  
• General: Beyond that, this month Emily can be found singing at her day job, at the library, or in a dozen other places. I'm flexible when it comes to inventing ideas for custom starters - if there's a wish you have, name it! I'll be writing an open log in the next few days.

CR Desires:

I'm usually up for anything that comes my way but for a few specific notes!:

• Fellow Sutoku, always, since they're bound by association and she considers it her obligation to at least try getting along with them. Neighbors are welcome, and since she has a promotion, she feels as though she should keep an eye out for the rank and file.
  
• Those she could negotiate with to help out with the clinic, as mentioned above - though healer-types are beloved, everyone's wanted. She's willing to teach a few, but don't expect the lessons to be easy.
  
• Music lovers, to drop by the club where she works. Don't mind the staff, they're all a little dramatic...
  
• A good tailor, maybe? She doesn't want to have to alter all her clothes herself for her wings all the time.
  
• Those willing to pull her into lighter moments - she seems like the too serious one in the room, but she's easy to persuade and needs to remember to take a break every now and then.
  
• Got another idea or a specific wish? Throw it my way, and we'll see what we can do!

Anything else:

(thanks everblooms)

[breweries]

GURL i have been lame lately but once i get his broomstick back this month the dancing Will commence and emily won't know when it's coming

sakamoto ryouma | fate/grand order | sutoku alliance

[kaientai]

Player Name: min
Contact: koutenko | koutenko#5884 | PM
Pronouns: he/him
Tell us about yourself:

hi hello annyeong i am lifting some of this from last time's OOC intro because i am a deeply uninteresting person lmao. I write code for a living because idek I like pain? I really like planes and nerdy Japanese history things. I am also into animu and vidya and currently playing through Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Hades and I like space, robots, and various other random things. Getting into sword boi hell also!

I am on US Pacific time but I am kinda here all the time because what is a reasonable sleep schedule honestly?? I do occasionally end up getting slow/behind on tags but backtag infinitely so if you're patient with me it's all good! Feel free to add me on plurk but if you're adding me on discord just let me know who you are so I know you're from dwrp!

Character Name: Sakamoto Ryouma
Canon: Fate/Grand Order
Character Age: ??? because Servant weirdness but appears mid-20s
Faction: Sutoku Alliance
Brief Rundown:

As mentioned before, Ryouma is a Servant and also that one historical famous guy. Totally helped overthrow the government once. Big into boats and other cool stuff. Generally a chaotic gremlin with an extremely poor sense of self-preservation who is very driven to create a world where everyone can be happy. Y e a h, even in hell~

ngl I am speed writing this at 1am just to get it out there for CR/plotting reasons so I am gonna link to my far more thorough and dumb OOC post from last time so feel free to peep that too if you like.

Initial Ideas:

• Substories: Will probably get involved in a few of these. He might mess with the figurines??? I know not what happens if you mess with the figurines but haha oh boy. Down for just about everything with the small caveat that he probably won't do something if it would jeopardise his major focus, which is...


• Proposal for the Underground: This will continue to be Ryouma's major time sink this month because of course, time is of the essence. In short, he has a big idea he's planning to pitch to the faction leaders in order to settle the turf war with a least amount of violence. He is keeping his plans pretty quiet at this point but if things move forward he's definitely going to need help with things both inside and outside the Alliance so... stay tuned??


• Other than this, Ryouma is also around at a few music clubs in that niche traditional music scene doing his side job, helping out with the Kappa, or in a lot of other places so running into him is pretty easy lmao.

CR Desires:

• More Sutoku! Ryouma definitely wants to be tight with his own faction so he is always going to want to get to know people he doesn't know well yet and get to know the people he already knows better. Especially in the case of new folks, he'll be interested to know where they stand and what they think.
• Everyone else! Ryouma being the friendly dude he is just wants to know everyone! He is a bit wary of people connected to the Department of the Enma, but this is definitely not a barrier lmao
• People he might meet through his music job?
• Friends in general?? Ryouma tends to be deliberately evasive about himself and uses his attitude and energy to deflect from a lot. You want angst? I got angst right here omg.
• I had notifs die a bit back in March so still here to get CR I missed out on at the time ahhhh
• I am really down for anything tbh! Bring me your CR wishes and I shall grant them!

Anything else:

[localweirdo]

Oh look at that, they're in the same clan

Hu Tao | Genshin Impact | Sutoku

[localweirdo]

Player Name: Mio
Contact: Rosemotifs @ Plurk
Pronouns: She/Her
Tell us about yourself: Local wannabe teacher screaming into the void. I'm about a month away from graduating so my hours of tagging are a little strange. I'm usually faster in the evenings and over the weekends! My hobbies right now are crying over homework. But seriously, I'm more into fitness and I recently got into genshin impact! I'm getting back into YYH, Fullmetal Alchemist, InuYasha, etc. I don't really have a lot of time given my situation but I try my best!

Character Name: Hu Tao
Canon: Genshin Impact
Character Age: 16-19
Faction: Sutoku
Brief Rundown: Local funeral director has trouble making friends because people find her cheerful attitude about death to be off putting. Not a lot of people like her and she knows it. She has trouble opening up to people sometimes but she puts a lot of pressure on herself to keep her family business running.

Initial Ideas: To be honest, I'm not really sure. I really just want Hu Tao to just chill in and have 'fun' right now. I just want her to befriend as many people as she can get!

CR Desires: Give me more friendships because this poor girl is so use to people taking shit about her that she's shocked people aren't put off by her!

Anything else:

Let me show you the songs of my people. This music video is amazing and it has nothing to do with the lyrics. I love it

.・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。.

[rainswords]

I have a tissue for you Liyue Harbor Friends buddy!!! Ah! You mentioning yyh, it makes me want to have a glance back at it again, but yeah time is kinda... but but but. WELCOME TO THE SUTOKU ALLIANCE. Now time to stay with Xingqiu forever, sorry, Hu Tao that's just how things are. Kidding, I'm sure she's gonna want her own place given the layout of Xingqiu current residence: studio flat... she is a young lady! She wouldn't want to be there long. But maybe they can go look for a place nearby for her to stay but honestly, Xingqiu wouldn't mind her hanging... but he is messy so there is that.

Let's have them do stuff together though! points at substories.

What did I just watch... it was kinda amazing...

[sefirot]

Player Name: Nyan
Contact: coeurl Feel free to add.
Pronouns: She/Her
Tell us about yourself: I work in the evenings unfortunately. Eastern Time Zone. I can be slower to tag sometimes due to work, but I try to hit back things at night. I do graphics in my spare time (icons, etc) and I've found a small following taking screenshots from Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Otherwise I love to play RPGs but I'm into all sorts of games.

Character Name: Sephiroth
Canon: Final Fantasy VII
Character Age: 30
Faction: Shuten
Brief Rundown: One Winged Angel who's actually a human-alien-hybrid. May consider himself a god. Normally carries an overly long katana though currently he is without it. Also is very obsessed with the one person who's managed to kill him three times though will probably claim it is the other way around. Otherwise pretty calm and collected despite not really liking humanity all that much. He does enjoy sword fighting, so that's always a good common ground.

Initial Ideas: I super want to do all of the sub-stories. Nothing super concrete as of this moment, but I'll be down for any plans related to any of them. I'm especially interested in the Haniwa one, because there's a good chance he won't just leave one alone.

CR Desires: He needs more people to annoy him. And at the moment without the masamune or his overly long list of powers, it would be the best time to do just that. Or even people to drag him into something stupid. Just bother him.

Otherwise I'm okay with positive or negative CR. He's pretty hard to goad or rile up into anything drastic.

Anything else:

Without meaning to, somehow Sephiroth got sucked into Aerith's magial girl bullshit.

[fullgauntlet]

points at my eyes points at you

agatha 💐 aerith gainsborough 🦊 tamamo

[everblooms]

Player Name: Agatha
Contact: pm / hagclub, please feel free to add me if we've threaded before or you want to plot.
Pronouns: she/they
Tell us about yourself: Feel free to call me Eggie! My timezone is CST and I tag sporadically through out the day but usually before dinner and later in the evening. I work as a tarot reader in a metaphysical shop and it's wild. I default to brackets but I'm happy to match you if you prefer prose.

Character Name: Aerith Gainsborough
Canon: Final Fantasy VII (Remake)
Character Age: 22
Faction: Tamamo
Brief Rundown: From last meme—

I have a first impressions at the bottom of my permissions post for Aerith, if you would like something more in depth. The general impression, however, is a spirited woman who cares for others and is more than willing to jump into action for someone else's benefit. Your immediate impression of Aerith is likely to be that she can be a nuisance, but she's never too friendly unless she has reason to be. She's exceedingly charming and sweet, she just has a bite to her. In Jigokucho, she can't even hear the planet, and adjusting to her normie status will probably have her feeling a little unbalanced for a bit.

Initial Ideas:

gen; Aerith has gotten her Reinforced Staff and Pray back. Pray is a lower level healing spell that can do things like heal scratches, help with headaches, replenish minor amounts of energy, etc. I would love to do some stuff with this. She will definitely be bringing it down into the turf war this month. As an aside, she had a handwaved meeting with Tenkohime that she'd be open to talking to factionmates about— she thinks that they can help the Kappa get their jobs back if Tamamo wins the underground, so she sees it as a chance to strengthen Tamamo's ties with Sutoku. (AS A NOTE: I don't, OOCly, know if this is the case, it's just what Tenkohime has let Aerith think so far. The handwave happened in PMs, also, so I'm happy to grab caps for your reference if you ask!)

Otherwise, she's very happy to see Cloud again and will likely spend some time being a nuisance in his general direction.

substories; I'm likely going to play this by ear for the most part, but I'm pinged mainly by swipe left and hani-wha?. Aerith will be trying to prevent people from moving the Haniwa figurines. Might even try to hide some in her apartment and then put them back, so stay tuned! She thinks they're delightful and adorable, but also feels they're likely a funerary rite and would like them to be undisturbed. AT ALL COSTS... As for moon medicine: I'm open to trying some stuff with pre-existing CR for any options!

As a note, I am not planning an open post this month so I can pace myself a bit better than the last cycle, so please let me know if you're planning one or would like me to write a starter for you when I am able to!

CR Desires:

Tamamo newbies! Let Aerith lead you around. I'd love for her to play tour guide and introduce newbies to some business owners and friends of her's. She played delivery girl for her first month in game, so she's pretty familiar with the district and makes a lot of friends wherever she goes.

Neighbors! This is similar to the last but I would love for Aerith to get some neighbors, either from new Tamamos or old Tamamos. I've been writing her apartment building as being flower themed, if that pings you.

Someone suggest her some actual jobs; she's still trying to run delivery but I'm handwaving that the scuffle over the underground is making her life harder. She's pretty hard to pin down but if you push her, she'll buckle. Basically, I Need An Adult.

In the same vein as the above: If someone wants to bring up the florist thing, I'd love to get the idea going in Aerith's head again so she can try and shake down a gardening job or something, or at least ask around about one.

Spiritual people, come to me. Aerith's starting to open up about being a Cetra! Which is great, but she's still very disconnected from Life as an energy force and I'd love for her to connect with others on this.

Speaking of: if your character is helping with the clinic, let's chat! I'd love for Aerith to get a sense of really working with people in an actual like. job environment, so even sillier stuff works.

Hyper specific but: If anyone wants their to get hit in the head with a steel chair in the underground turf war, let me know. (Aerith would not instigate but like, we can hash out something lmao)

In general, I'm up for anything!

Anything else:

i got out of a dead sleep to post this

[sefirot]

hit sephiroth with a chair by accident

Hizen Tadahiro | Touken Ranbu | Shuten

[harimaya]

Player Name: eski
Contact: eski | eski#9874 | PM
Pronouns: she/her
Tell us about yourself:

I'm a tired Korean-American teaching English in Japan which explains my weird tag hours. My main fandoms are Fire Emblem and Touken Ranbu but I dabble a bit in Genshin, FGO, SpyxFamily, and misc. webtoons. Feel free to add me on plurk!

Character Name: Hizen Tadahiro
Canon: Touken Ranbu
Character Age: 500+ but he looks somewhere between 18-20.
Faction: Shuten
Brief Rundown:

Hizen is tsukumogami-- a sword spirit. He's tired, prickly, direct, very rough around the edges, and in general not a very pleasant person. He's only had a human form and feelings for a short amount of time so he's kind of emotionally stunted. Hizen regards himself as more of a tool than an actual person but... he's learning.

His master used to be one of Japan's most famous assassins, Okada Izo, so he specializes in assassinations and dirty work which he kind of hates. All sword boys are good boys but because of certain self-esteem issues, he's convinced no one would ever believe him if he tried to be good. He's highly food motivated and gets weak whenever someone acknowledges him with basic human compassion and respect.

Initial Ideas:

It's been 2 months, Jigoku-chans.

My personal goal this month is for Hizen to be a little nicer and open up more now that he's settled in and used to the place. He still has the social skills of a potato so don't expect anything too big but please... acknowledge his progress. I'm down for all of the substories this month so we can do something with those but I'm also down for setting up general threads, too.

He isn't super involved in the plot and he honestly feels like he's too dumb for the conspiracies and stuff to want to get involved more. He does have potentially valuable skills that could help others. He's skilled at sneaking around in the dark, observant, organized, follows orders well, can take care of himself, and has some familiarity with traditional youkai lore. He's easy to bully so feel free to drag him into messes.

CR Desires:

✧ Food, drinking, and fight buddies. Because this is the kind of person he is.
✧ People who will help him learn how to act like a decent/basic person and not a gremlin spirit. Look, ya boy doesn't even know how to process certain emotions without shutting down.
✧ Friends. Please. He's still learning that he needs them and he's learning how to be one.
✧ Honestly, I'm open to anything. Positive, negative, complicated, silly, etc.

Anything else: If your character is sensitive to spirits/etc, feel free to have them recognize he's a spirit. They can even recognize he's a sword spirit if you want since he probably has some weird spirit connection with his sword. Also if anyone wants to talk some handwaved CR things, I'm down.

HOW IT STARTED... HOW IT'S GOING...

[breweries]

hamzen.............

kim kitsuragi | sutoku

[aceslow]

Player Name: Fey
Contact: Feel free to contact me on plurk @ wisdombitch or PM me! Discord ID available upon request as well.
Pronouns: she/her
Tell us about yourself: Hello everyone, Fey here! I generally tag evenings/nights (PST) and I have a wonky sleeping schedule, so don't mind those timestamps. I'm a great lover of all sorts of media. Musical theatre, anime, western animation, live action film & tv and video games are all my jam. In non-fandom hobbies, I'm an avid cook/baker and I knit very, very slowly. Nice to meet you all.

Character Name: Kim Kitsuragi
Canon: Disco Elysium
Character Age: 43
Faction: Sutoku Alliance
Brief Rundown: Kim Kitsuragi is a 43-year old police detective who invests a great deal in maintaining his image as an aggressively ordinary and professional man. He has no special powers or secret identities to maintain! He's just Like That -- so tightly wound it's a miracle he hasn't snapped yet, keeping every aspect of his life regimented and controlled and uncomfortable with blatant showings of emotion. It's a lonely way to live.

Underneath it all is a person who would secretly like to go just a little batshit, as a treat. He has a seemingly infinite well of patience, a cool head, a tendency to write everything down, an incredibly dry sense of humour, a protective streak and a tendency to lecture that he's actively trying to curb. He's wildly passionate about his secret hobbies (cars, loud terrible music, big machines that make big noises, board games, going really, really fast) and has a poorly concealed competitive streak. He's also just kind of a weirdo! His permissions post has a little more detail about his appearance & demeanor, so check that out if you'd like to know more.

Initial Ideas: First off, I plan on making an open log soon! I'll have some open prompts to see what tickles people's fancy, ofc, but if you have something you'd like to play out, I'd be happy to make up a custom starter! For this month, the substories he'll be participating in Vend Me A Dream if you have any silly fetch quests to send our characters on and Haniwhat? in which he's going to be seriously discomfited by these little guys. Otherwise, some of Kim's priorities are to:
- Continue getting himself well-situated in this new world and get a proper adult apartment set-up (he can help others do so as well!)
- Check out some of the tech available (are those racing games??)
- Truly be in hell as he works at 7-11 and sees all of your characters' nighttime purchases
- Begin percolating the idea of going to work for a tailor instead (maybe he can help tailor some of your characters' clothes to get the idea!)
- Try to talk more to the yokai of his community and get a feel for how they feel about life and leadership here
- Maybe hit up a gay bar? He wants to see what the Homosexual Underground looks like here!
- He's too private to have this show up much, but as a background theme, I'm having him internally grapple from being born and raised in the diaspora to suddenly being thrust into fantasy hell Asia (he feels real weird about it)

CR Desires: TBH I'm up for anything! Some ideas would be to get some more friends his own age that he can gripe to as equals and co-workers, CR with younger characters for that protective instinct in him despite his aversion to teens, Sutoku neighbours, more people interested in digging into the community of the city, people able to worm some of his deeply held secrets (like liking very trashy music) out of him... and whatever else you can think of!

Anything else: a very important idle animation

Also, if you're interested in opting into Kim's morale power (he can strengthen or weaken other characters' morale), please leave a comment HERE!

[moondregs]

I BEEFED OUR THREAD

But I still want more with Kim! Maybe we can do something with one of the substories if they intetest you?

[kikuichi]

Player Name: Doji
Contact: Sonica, PMs. Feel free to add me on Plurk, just lemme know who you are or have your plurk profile mention Jigoku somewhere.
Pronouns: She/her
Tell us about yourself: I'm in AEST/AEDT (GMT+10/11), since I'm Australian. My interests include otome, VNs, shoujo, JRPGs, various gacha games! At the moment, I play Tears of Themis, Nu: Carnival, Arknights, Twisted Wonderland (EN), Granblue Fantasy, FFXIV (whenever I'm subbed), Genshin Impact, Shin Megami Tensei and any VNs/dating sims in my collection. Touken Ranbu is my current main fandom, so I plurk about it often.


Character Name: Ichimonji Norimune
Canon: Touken Ranbu
Character Age: 1000+
Faction: Department of the Enma
Brief Rundown: Norimune is a sword tsukumogami, not just any sword but the one made by the first of the Kiku-Ichimonji swordsmiths. Due to some guy writing a very famous novel, he got some personal issues with the "Okita Souji owned a Kiku-Ichimonji sword" fictional story attached to him. popular headcanon gone too viral

He won't talk too much about that, since he prefers talking like an retired old man and having fun. If you need an annoying old man teasing you and trying to make younger people do hard labour for him, he's the one. When he's not fooling around, he can be pretty sharp and occasionally offer advice (whether you ask for it or not is another thing).

Local old man who wants to enjoy his retirement and will convince young people to do chores for him. Pretends to have a sore back, despite being in tip top shape as a warrior. Will likely be nosy because he hates being bored. The very essence of silly old man who is more than he seem.

Initial Ideas: Always up for starting new CR, as well as continuing old ones. Either with substories or outside of them.

Norimune is a Sergeant rank in the Department (hurray promotion), and generally he's behaving and following orders. It doesn't stop him from having fun and bothering befriending folks. All things are fine as long he didn't break the law, right?

Moon Medicine: Definitely want Norimune to get affected by them. Most likely he'll get too cold for most folks (anyone wanting a gen/sfw option), so please hug him and share your warmth. I'm also interesting in the fight or fuck effect, but I might limit fighting to a few people. Not sure about sex part, depends on how many interests I get.
Vend Me A Dream: He'll like tag along your character, or rope another person in to help. Whether he do any work or make his partner do most of it is another thing (someone please challenge him).
Swipe Left: Yep, I'll toss him around for this. :)
Haniwhat?: Being in Enma, Norimune likely would go around and collect/investigate the haniwas. This is a chance for him to meet your character around.

CR Desires: Younger people (both in actual age and general vibe) to look out for and rope into doing tasks for him, fellow older people to chat with, fighters to spar with (he's a solid swordsman!), fellow non-humans to vibe with.

And god please I want someone to challenge Norimune and call him out on his bullshit.

Anything else: Permission/Info post, mostly for folks who might notice certain things about him.

[kaientai]

gimme more of this weird old man

[fuckdogramagra]

Player Name: gaa (yes, i do prefer it lowercase)
Contact: add me freely on plurk @ gaanetto, or DM me on disco at gaa#9912
Pronouns: they/them please!
Tell us about yourself: the easiest way to define myself is by asking everyone to please play legend of mana now on sale on steam for $20.99. i'm gaa, i like a lot of dumb things, like trying to figure out horror game timelines, or smt overarching plot threads. i play XIV on brynhildr/crystal datacenter, and i also ironically rp raidou kuzunoha the 14th and ryunosuke naruhodo psl-side so i am unfortunately typecasting myself in to the very specific era of japanese history from 1900 to 1930s and it's slowly driving me mad as i google agonizingly over when things were made. i used to DWRP like ten years ago then fell off the train and now i'm clambering back on like a zombie. i am sorry for me, and i am even more sorry for tamamori's existence. speaking of,

Character Name: Tama Mizumori / Tamamori
Canon: Hashihime of the Old Book Town
Character Age: 21ish
Faction: Sutoku (lol And lmao)
Brief Rundown: local mentally ill and spiritually-empowered writer and college entrance flunkie from 1922 ends up in a timeloop to try and stop a friend's murder, and instead is a huge whiny baby about everything. somehow this eventually ends with him dating his two best friends? miracles do come true, kiddos. Please Don't Play Past The Second Route, Ask Me Why I'm So Adamant If You Must.

Initial Ideas: well, for one thing he's going to be smuggling his s/o minakami in to whatever horrible quarters he's given because he's a moron and does not play by the rules. frankly i keep joking about him buying bath bombs and soaking in the tub for three days trying to figure out zen writing apps and drinking fancy sodas, so please understand that dumb things are the name of the game here. he is, and can be a very serious character, but he's just coming off of a lot of murder and death and he needs vacation time Stat. so at least for the first while, i'm going to try to keep things mostly chill, within reason. if stuff goes down i'm still all for it!! this canon already threads the needle between whiplash from humor to despair, so it comes with the territory to be unable to predict where things land honestly,,,,

CR Desires: please don't be afraid to have negative CR with tama. he is a recovering spoiled brat, but that emphasis is on recovering. he used to care very little about others outside of his inner circle of friends, so he's not really fully figured out how to be great at people due to that, and a variety of other mental illness issues- so like, everything goes. if you can conceivably put up with a guy who hallucinates a little and whines a lot, then come jab him with a stick. make fun of him. shove him down some stairs, he weighs like nothing. or make friends with him, that's fine too.

i have a warnings post here due to this canon getting in to some Very Sensitive Subjects that some might want to be wary of, and an info and permissions over here for those more curious about smaller details. its 6am and im horrible at describing things. i just finished watching half of fatal frame 4 with friends via stream and my thoughts are as mush as applesauce. i'll tag this with more concrete ideas after i've slept.

fast and dirty edit: i don't know about the other substories yet, but he is just stupid enough to steal one of the haniwa. that's gonna happen.

Anything else:
thank you van for this gift of art and also for my life. i'm sorry i got you back in to dwrp with me.

[localweirdo]

Since these two are in the same clan and given how Hu Tao is a troll…

[baofeng]

Player Name: Star
Contact: starlitsunset. Feel free to add!
Pronouns: She/her
Tell us about yourself: Hey! I’m Star, I tag from GMT+8. I’m an office worker with chronic wrist pain, so I’m a slow tagger, but I’ll try to reply within 1-3 days. In practice this means I won’t tag around that much to reduce my tagload, so don’t take me not tagging in as disinterest, I’m sad about it too ;w;

Right now I’m also into Minecraft and DnD! I also love milk tea, I need it to power my withering soul

Character Name: Gao Yizhi
Canon: Iron Widow
Character Age: 18
Faction: Tamamo
Brief Rundown: The book pitch: There are GIANT MECHAS inspired by Chinese mythology that DEFEND HUMANITY from MONSTERS trying to invade them. Sounds like a crazy ride? Yeah, it is.

This guy doesn’t pilot the mechas though, his boyfriend and girlfriend do. Iron Widow also features the extremely satisfying resolution to the classic love triangle problem in YA novels: “fuck it, what if all three of them held hands”. Gao Yizhi is a rich young master whose type is exclusively bad boys and girls. His polycule partners are the most feared and hated mecha pilots on this stretch of the Great Wall, and they do absolutely murder people, but still Yizhi is there every step of the way to nurse them through any injuries - and also plant crime tools for them. Hooray for crime!

Initial Ideas: I'm a very go-with-the-flow roleplayer, so I have no concrete plans beyond hopefully exploring a bit on Yizhi's new rank-up and the improvement in lifestyle that affords. Either that, or tag out more in the substories! The moon viewing mentioned in Substory #1 seems like something he'd get into particularly. But tbh I've reneged on plans so much in the past in favor of doing funny shit, so who knows what I'll end up doing in the end.

CR Desires: Are you a big, sexy Shuten looking for a prettyboy schemer to make a comedic duo with? Yizhi is particularly interested in making more Shuten connections (he's trying to get connections in both Shuten and Sutoku so he's informed if his canonmates ever show up). If you're dangerous but still interested in getting a co-conspirator, feel free to sign up too regardless of faction, he finds that sexy.

CO-CONSPIRATORS ASIDE this boy could do with more mentor figures to learn from, characters from Chinese canons to share a culture with, or just other 18-year-olds to be young adults with!

Anything else: Permissions Page! In terms of major opt-outs, let me know (PM or plurk) if you’d like me to avoid the following:
> Needles mention , specifically acupuncture needles
> Major Iron Widow spoilers, which are pretty important at Yizhi’s canonpoint but very spoiler so if you’re thinking of picking the book up, I’d advise you let me know to not spoil you!

Obligatory shitpost:

by IsaChocoMuffin on Twitter!

[fuckdogramagra]

“fuck it, what if all three of them held hands”

HELLO, MY POLY ASS IS INTERESTED. especially given i am playing a character who picked the `screw this, i am date two boys` ending himself, it would be sort of neat if tama realized this wasn't something that he just kinda flat out made up and Exists Elsewhere.

he would absolutely assume that yizhi is older than him, but to be fair tama himself acts like an eighteen year old weenie. he's also very bad at being sneaky even if he is conniving, so maybe teach him how to be a prettyboy sutoku schemer so he can impress his own shuten boyfriend

[moondregs]

Player Name: Tanuki
Contact: tentaclemonster Feel free to add if you’re interested in CR!
Pronouns: She/her/they
Tell us about yourself: I am an ancient weeaboo who’s been journal RPing for over fifteen years, played on a MUSH and newsgroups as a teen before that. I also draw goofy cartoony art, mostly of the furry variety but some humans sprinkled in too! I love games like Pokemon, Story of Seasons, The Sims, Animal Crossing, and Style Savvy if it ever comes back from the war.

I’m EST and usually tag in the evenings and weekends. Even though the character I play is very serious I am not and love wacky hijinks.
Character Name: Junpei Yoshino
Canon: Jujutsu Kaisen
Character Age: 17
Faction: Sutoku
Brief Rundown: Once fairly chipper movie nerd teen is violently bullied to the point he drops out of high school and decides humanity sucks (except for his mom). Runs into a curse born from human hatred and is given the ability to summon a jellyfish that can do the pokey and the stingy and the poisony to get revenge. Runs into human sunshine who makes him conflicted about his choices.

Now he’s been in hell for a couple months and he’s less angy - but still kind of a priss and not exactly a social butterfly. He’s been forcefully adopted by a dragon who keeps him fed and from being lonely along with the friends he’s made here. He works in a movie theater and is trying not to end up drugged again as he’s had a bad habit of that here. (He probably won’t succeed oops.)

CR Desires: More friend but also more people to pluck at his nerves because that’s fun to play out.

And now that certain events have occurred he’s getting ... curious about more intimate things. He’d told himself initially that kind of thing was a WASTE OF TIME and A DISTRACTION and he was a rock and an island and blah blah. But now he’s had a taste and finds he liked it and kind of wants more.

Anything else: Yuuji and Junpei:

[ahost]

TAKE THOSE IMAGES DOWN RN!!!

[watermemory]

Player Name: Van
Contact: PM / plurk: piratopteryx. I do not post much but feel free to add me there and I'll see pings/etc. (I would prefer not to list my discord#, but I am haunting the game's discord server, so hello from there too!)
Pronouns: they/them
Tell us about yourself: I like surreal/New Weird horror and having strong opinions about food and going overboard with farmsims and building vibbeogams (don't ask me about my storage/npc system in Terraria or how long I spent designing farms in DQ Builders 2). I haven't been in dwrp for nearly a decade which is a terrifying thought, but as I'm still getting back in the saddle I might be slower tagging than I'd like. I see your tags!! I promise I am just overthinking my responses way too hard.

Character Name: Minato Suizenji, a.k.a Minakami
Canon: Hashihime of the Old Book Town
Character Age: 21
Faction: Shuten
Brief Rundown: Minato is a (would-be) university student from 1922 Japan, and the focal point of the murder mystery in his canon -- he's a pathological bookworm who exudes Just Some Guy energy, which is an impressive feat from someone who inherited spiritual powers from a yokai that's been passed down through his family for generations, lost said powers jumping through time to save someone, and, when his friends are threatened, can go full-on Ballroom Blitz on the fly with a sword that, uh, he doesn't have with him. Honestly he misses his cat way more than that.

Initial Ideas: Long story short, he's found himself at a weird loose end in his life and would be feeling a little overwhelmed even without getting dragged into Hell, which is what tends to happen when your soulmate decides to invent ot3s. He obviously has to get up to speed with the tech from the FAR FLUNG FUTURE of 20XX. He's grown up with intimate knowledge of at least one yokai and given ample reason to respect and fear them, and is now seeing every variety of them everywhere. Despite having the build and skills for it, he is very much not the stereotypical image of a Shuten jock enforcer, and is Uncomfortable(tm).

Sidestory-wise, I will look at them in more detail later but he is curious and methodical enough to be following down the nested trail of a terrible shirime's vendor quest, at the end of which is no moral, only butt.

CR Desires: He is infamously easygoing and mildmannered, and getting him to admit that he doesn't like someone is like pushing a boulder up a mountain... which is not to say he doesn't form strong opinions about people, or that I don't want negative CR! Just that it'll take time for that to come to blows, figuratively or literally. Besides that I'm down for pretty well anything. Mina's a sweetheart who hasn't really had many friends outside his tiny inner circle, while also needing people willing to call him on his evasive-ass bullshit.

opt-out: His canon is a minefield of content warnings, and Mina himself has issues that may be of concern, even though they should not ever come up in 99% of threads. Listen to Tamamori's player, don't play past route 2 of this VN, it gets brutal from there.
permissions: ......which are mostly empty right now but I'll fill it in asap.
inbox: hewwo

Anything else:

this is all you need to know about this character

[fuckdogramagra]

stop being in hell and also stop being near oni



hes gonna fistfight the enma and stand on the daitengu's shoulders to do so

[psionicmolotov]

Player Name: Ruka
Contact: rukafais ! Feel free to add me but it's totally not compulsory.
Pronouns: He/they/she are all good
Tell us about yourself: I live in Australia and I also do data entry shift work so my tagging times are even more topsy-turvy than normal. I'm a freelance artist and I do a lot of stupid doodles.

Character Name: Kimmuriel Oblodra
Canon: Legend of Drizzt
Character Age: 500+
Faction: Sutoku
Brief Rundown: Local emotionally repressed drow psychic/straight-man who would love the world to make more logical sense than it does currently. Not impressed about being depowered and stuck in hell but he really can't argue with it.

Initial Ideas: Gonna tag around mostly + continue old CR stuff! He'll likely be getting a power back this month so his open log will tentatively be based around that...which will mean him showing up to deliver shit and being very cranky about it. Of the substories he'll likely show up to scrape Sutoku people off the ground if things go badly for any of them out of a vague sense of responsibility. Go team Alliance.

CR Desires: Pretty much anything! This is not helpful at all but seriously I just love playing with folks and I'm willing to roll with anything. Negative CR and positive CR are both totally fine (frankly Kimmuriel is so deeply unpleasant sometimes as like, a person that kicking him down the stairs is warranted and justified, lol).

Anything else:
i just think its very important for people to know that he canonically sits like an asshole

[fuckdogramagra]

i am literally sitting like that right now i need you to understand. im legit just commenting here to say that given we have an above thread already, but still.

herlock sholmes | the great ace attorney | tamamo

[retroductions]

Player Name: Jen
Contact: Feel free to add me over at aurajen
Pronouns: she/her
Tell us about yourself: Hello everyone! I'm Jen and I play a lot of video games, my tastes run all over the place generally, though I tend to gravitate towards RPGs, narrative-heavy games (big surprise, considering), and Soulsborne nonsense. I'm also perpetually stuck in MCU hell. I work as an artist in a screenprinting shop! Hit me up anytime you like.

Character Name: Herlock Sholmes
Canon: The Great Ace Attorney
Character Age: 34
Faction: Tamamo
Brief Rundown: Herlock Sholmes is, yes, that famous detective with his name jumbled around for localization purposes, albeit his canon's version of the man. He will be quick to tell you that he is the world's only consulting detective even in hell, and seeks out exciting mysteries to solve in order to keep his mind occupied. Sholmes is a bit of a mystery himself; he is eccentric and sometimes wildly goofy for someone who claims to be competent, but there are hints of an actual great detective beneath the surface of this performance. He is easy to approach and talk to, though he often only keeps a small circle of friends. He may aggressively annoy your character or get along swimmingly with them... TAKE YOUR CHANCES AND FIND OUT

Note that I will default to keeping his threads spoiler-free unless otherwise noted!

Initial Ideas: Oh boy. Obligatory "I'm new so everything" BUT I will try to specify a few things.

Maybe some substory shenanigans? Find Sholmes in the most random places of the city, checking out those haniwa figures, or doing the worst vending machine fetch quest ever.

Tamamo clan CR! Time to get to know his fellow factionmates.

Investigative endeavors! Obviously, this is what Sholmes is best at, and what will really keep him engaged in the setting. Instances of crime? MURDER? Let him unravel a few mysteries, and come help or hinder him!

Checking out the technology in the setting. As a man from the Victorian era, so much is going to blow his mind, and he may or may not need an explanation for much of it.

CR Desires: Friends, rivals, frenemies, co-workers! Positive and negative CR both! He is new so I am open to practically anything.

Anything else:

[nerine]

Oh my god he's in Tamamo we're Clan buddies

Julieta Juris | Gundam IBO | Dept of the Enma

[sharpestsword]

Player Name: Neon
Contact: add me on nekone or discord neonfoxfire#0469
Pronouns: he/him
Tell us about yourself: Gundam! I draw things. I work at conventions so I'm all over the place. I'm playing Fire Emblem Three Houses.

Character Name: Julieta Juris
Canon: Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans
Character Age: 23
Faction: Enma
Brief Rundown: Julieta is a giant robot pilot from a futuristic world. She spent most of her life on a space colony and fighting for the military so she's adjusting to civilian life. She's already busted down a few doors on Enma orders and will do it again. Recently she acquired the ability to manipulate metal so it could be fun to do something with that.

Initial Ideas: She'll be around for getting info stolen on the Ember app and confiscating any figurines she sees. She's also inclined to put questionable things in her mouth...

CR Desires: Help her relax and have fun and she might help out with tech things. Most of the people she knew back home were men so she'd like to meet more women/others here.
Anything else: Fight her! That's the best way for her to know if she's going to respect a person or not.

Guts | Berserk | Shuten

[aswordsoheavy]

Player Name: Danii
Contact: yarnzipan / yarnzipan#1228
Pronouns: she/they
Tell us about yourself: all-purpose geek, comic book fan, anime/manga obviously, plays TTRPGs as well, makes dice, fiber crafts, soap maker, Yakuza fan, EST and happy to be added on plurk! Also play Haruka (though sorry, had a slow month, should be better soon!)

Character Name: Guts
Canon: Berserk
Character Age: late 20s
Faction: Shuten
Brief Rundown: Guts is a mercenary/swordsman/demon killer from a dark dark DARK fantasy world. He comes off like an asshole 99% of the time but he's actually a pretty decent guy once you get past it. Lots of damage in there, though, so some of the prickle has some bite. Also, he's missing his left forearm and his right eye so... there's that.

Initial Ideas: Someone might have just lost his beloved traveling party and he's going to be a little lonely and acting like he doesn't care and he doesn't need anyone; he's just here to do a job. Close CR will take time with him, and he's going to fight it every inch, but I am okay with plotting and setting things up and getting some stuff going. He's going to be all business but giving him someone to look out for would be great.

CR Desires: Coworkers and friends. 'Apprentices'/sidekicks/youngersmallerlessexperienceds to look out for even if he grouses about it. The ship (haha) has very much sailed on romance to a very specific port so not really looking (though always willing to entertain the possibility as long as you're okay with glacial movement).

Anything else: His permissions are on his journal but the big one is 'don't touch him without permission or he is going to react HARD. Permissions re: threading WITH him are on there too: fair warning he's like a walking trigger warning so lemme know if there's something to avoid for you but I'll do my best to warn.

[harimaya]

WELCOME TO SHUTEN, SCRUB.... but not really because I'm sure he'll be fine.

Hizen here is in Shuten, too. He's pretty prickly and bad at talking/dealing with people but while he's not trying to make friends, he's trying to be... decent. So they can probably run into each other and we can see how they go haha. Hizen is allergic to friendly people so Guts might actually end up OK in his book. Maybe.

Matoba Seiji | Natsume Yuujinchou | Sutoku

[worldbent]

Player Name: Kit
Contact: PM or kitsoru Please ask before adding!
Pronouns: she/her
Tell us about yourself: My main fandoms are Pokémon, Gundam and various fighting games! I plurk pretty exclusively rp/a bit of fandom chatter, My timezone is EST and I tend to be an evening+weekend tagger since I work a very hands-on job, but I will occasionally sneak in morning or breaktime/downtime tags

Character Name: Matoba Seiji
Canon: Natsume Yuujinchou (manga)
Character Age: 22
Faction: Sutoku

Brief Rundown: Shameless copy paste from last meme:
NatsuYuu is a slice of life about a boy living in rural Japan who inherits the ability to see youkai from his grandmother along with the book of spirits' names that she made while alive (the titular 'Book of Friends'). But it's ACTUALLY about interpersonal relationships and forming connections with others, so the series is heavy on the idea of 'how do people operate/interact with each other when they see a world others can't see' and also conflicting worldviews in general, and it's very bittersweet and soft despite Matoba often being the source of the... unsoftness. He's not quite a 'villain' (not in small part because the manga does a great job of making everyone sympathetic and human! everyone read Natsume), but his views are definitely at odds with the main character's.

Matoba is the current head of the largest exorcist family in his series, a massive body including dozens of clans that basically operates like a yakuza organization within the exorcist community, and with a reputation for being liars and bullies. He's inherited a curse that massively boosts the clan's spiritual powers in exchange for him being at constant risk of death and maiming (because his ancestor broke a contract with an ayakashi, tsk), and his whole ~emotional connections~ schtick is that the safety and continuation of his enormous clan rests solely on him not screwing up and getting his eye stolen... leading to much emotional distancing. Conceal Don't Feel is the exorcist way!

(For reference because it will undoubtedly come up a lot, youkai are usually called 'ayakashi' in his universe which is more of an all-inclusive term for youkai, kami, and other types of spirits! Also just a warning: his canonpoint has a chance to bring up major spoilers especially for anyone who is anime-only, so please feel free to let me know if you would like me to avoid them in your tags!)

Initial Ideas: State of the Matoba! He’s recently regained both his aura/power of Sight as well as the ability to create warded spaces and protective charms; he’s also received a promotion within the Sutoku. His arm is still healing from being shot during the Night Parade incident, but he should be pretty well healed by early-mid this month and will be working at getting himself back into shape to handle firing a bow again. With his regained powers he’s been working at the Tengu Temple to make charms, and that also gives him a rather convenient point to gather information and clan-schmooze....

And with his power back, that has also re-attracted the attention of the curse youkai that is after his eye: New as of last month and very important!!! NEW PERMISSIONS for interacting with the ayakashi after the Matoba’s right eye! Please read them if you’re going to tag him! This will be an ongoing monthly minor player plot centered around the attacks that Matoba suffers thanks to his inherited curse. I’ll handle it a different way each month depending on how the game plot as a whole is going, but the important thing to know is that player characters can become possessed by the curse as a vehicle to attack him, so consider filling out the permissions there if you’re interested in that! With his aura back I am happy to say that Matoba’s vibes feel absolutely rancid. Enjoy.

He still has a lot of Thoughts and Feelings about the Daitengu’s not-death and the disarray the clan was sent into as a result, so I think he will be doing a lot to drum up political goodwill and favors where he sees the opportunity. He’s already been sarcastically asked once if he was going to make a power grab for the Daitengu but the real ass truth is it remains in the back of his mind...... the Daitengu is not so dissimilar a position to the head of Matoba, and he was rather unimpressed with the clan response. He has a vested interest in the idea.

Lastly, as far as specific substories, he will definitely be interacting with and probably.... experimenting with the Haniwa because he just cannot ever have any chill, and I’m contemplating regaining a level of his sealing powers specifically for that. Because he and Natori are the kind of idiot children that experimented with mystery curses by slapping each other with ofuda when they were teenagers and obviously this needs to happen again. He will probably network with other spiritually sensitives to figure out what’s going on with these?? Stay tuned.

CR Desires:
Spellcaster/Possessed/Exorcist adjacent everyones: IF YOU ARE AN EXORCIST MATOBA WILL FIND YOU. That’s not a threat that’s a promise. That’s if he didn’t find you already; networking with other humans with Sight or who are adjacent to dealing with spirits is one of his priorities and if he senses you he will stalk you until he can make your acquaintance. This is normal exorcist behavior.

Youkai/Spirits: Matoba can’t actually immediately tell from aura alone if someone is human or not but he’s old hat enough at this that he can usually tell..... If you aren’t human, this is fair warning that he will be blatantly nasty because he hates non-humans, but if he thinks you are useful and powerful he’ll schmooze and learn everything about you that he can. He is a passive aggressive king.

Politics and shady assholes: Hello, he knows there’s more of you out there. He would love to make your acquaintance. You’re all such wonderful and interesting people to know.

Cats....: He’s just a weirdo cat lover I’m sorry but he will probably get around to finding all you cat people eventually........

Anything else:
I’m on mobile so I hope I didn’t break anything 🤞

[psionicmolotov]

kimmuriel is a-ok with being HUGELY shady and entering a purely transactional relationship with matoba ngl. this is terrible. he's terrible.

Natori Shuuichi | Natsume Yuujinchou | Tamamo

[paperpusher]

Player Name: Rinne
Contact: spoilers or via PM; feel free to add if we have/are planning CR!
Pronouns: she/her
Tell us about yourself: I'm in EST! I work in legal advocacy related to abortion access so work has been. interesting. lately. Apologies for a more-eclectic-than-usual tagging from me in the next few ????? wwweeks? Outside of RP I play the violin, quilt, and do aerial hoop/lyra in descending order of skill. I tend to plurk once every few days and always keep work talk that touches on politics in a specifically marked plurk for ease of avoiding it!

Character Name: Natori Shuuichi
Canon: Natsume Yuujinchou
Character Age: 23
Faction: Tamamo
Brief Rundown: Romance movie star by day, exorcist by night. Insists on using the term "ayakashi" to refer to any and all non-humans even if they explicitly tell him that they're not. Currently working in a host club and about to see a surge in popularity thanks to the release of his most recent film. He likes to think he's a cool shady mentor in a shounen series but the truth is he's a softie shoujo who canonically has no friends except for a 16 year old boy and no food in his fridge except for the jam given to him by said 16 year old boy's foster mother.

There's a weird lizard youkai that lives on his body and he hates it! It looks like a solid black tattoo flat against his skin, except it moves around with a gross skittering noise. He's extremely buttmad that everyone can see it here and it's making him extra cranky, so please feel free to point it out.

Initial Ideas:

• Coming soon to a theater near you: Sparkling Detective Akeboshi Koutarou: Fiance of the Funeral Procession! Aka Natori's latest film has made its way to hell. He'll be making a network post about it (today???) to announce its release, since he might as well make some money off of it. Bizarrely, it's canonically a very good movie. Summary of the movie is here!
  
• He's going to be trying a lot of ill-advised experiments involving exorcist spells on the haniwa. watch this space for how it bites him in the ass.
  
• Fellow Tamamos: Natori specializes in a lot of the magic spells that Tenkohime released for use in the turf war, and he is willing to train you on the basics!
  
• He is not, however, willing to die on the hill of fighting over the stinky underground. Catch him completely half-assing it just enough to look like he's participating, set up a few traps, and then booking it out of there. Fully open to people confronting him about this, either fellow Tamamos who want him to pull his weight or other clan members who correctly size him up as a squishy wizard target!
  
• Natori tried to read all of the terms and conditions on the dating app but accidentally accepted them because he predates touch screens. RIP. He's going to end up turning his phone off rather than try to figure it out. Find him anyway.
  
• Speaking of, he's going to start giving his CR paper dolls that will fly back to him! He'll say it's to use if they're in danger and need his help but will also point out that they can have messages written on them, and that he can easily send more. Use these for passing notes and avoiding the network via magic carrier pigeon!
  
• People can feel free to visit him at work to try and embarrass him. He is truly incredible at dropping cheesy lines with no embarrassment.

CR Desires: in lieu of saying 'everything' I'm just going to start spitballing

• Co-workers at the host club
  
• Fellow timtams for apartment building shenanigans (he always forgets what day is plastics day)
  
• Other exorcist types to talk shop
  
• Youkai to be passive aggressive with
  
• Nonhumans who are not youkai to be mistaken for youkai
  
• Terrible dating app matches (disclaimer: Natori will not be fucking, nor, if he had his way, fighting)
  
• idk fans who want him to autograph their movie pamphlets for $$

Anything else: Here's three minutes of Natori sparkling and acting like a romance hero in real life. This is not a complete compilation of all the times he's done this in canon. This is what you get if you see the movie.

[worldbent]

I would like to formally announce that Matoba will be scalping tickets to Natori’s movie in Sutoku theaters for clan profit

danni 👁️‍🗨️ kamui uehara 🐯 shuten

[metafictions]

Player Name: Danni
Contact: smithsyndicate, feel free to add if we have/you'd like CR!
Pronouns: she/they
Tell us about yourself: I'm in PST and try to tag a couple times a week (work's A LOT rn sobs thanks for your patience). I like VNs, music, pro-wrestling, queer lit, zines, and poetry! Fandom-wise I like Suda51/Grasshopper, Ace Attorney, Zero Escape & other Uchikoshi works (who's ready for AI2!!), Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, and assorted Sherlock Holmes media yyyyeah GAA woke those brainworms up real fast lmao. I also just started Disco Elysium!

Character Name: Kamui Uehara
Canon: No More Heroes (but he's originally from The Silver Case & the Kill the Past series)
Character Age: physically 25, mentally (confused noise, gestures to timeloop nonsense)
Faction: Shuten
Brief Rundown: His backstory is insane I'm sorry blame Suda51. Tl;dr - he's a recovering government sleeper agent, he's a brain clone of a serial killer of the same name, he's a detective whose coworkers were just terrible, and he lived through a crazy timeloop and all he got was this t-shirt! And trauma! He's not great at being a normal person, which translates to him being very good at pretending to be a normal person, so he's polite, sort of awkward, and only a little bit of a weirdo. But he's a very nice young man if you ignore his cursed vibes and his silver left eye's evil mojo. At the very least you can trust him with any puzzles and mysteries to solve...

Initial Ideas:

Kamui has regained part of his ability to sense a trait called criminal power! Please check out these permissions if you're interested; I'll only ever use these powers with player permission :)

also if he tries to use his powers too much he will get a terrible headache and nosebleed and i would LOVE to inconvenience this poor dude.

substories! i want to do them all! not interested in smut, but Kamui may be broke enough to test out any of the mochi for a quick buck; he's a whiz at fetch quests so the vending machine and haniwa quests are absolutely a go; Kamui wouldn't use Ember of his own will but we can blame stuff on glitches or Very Helpful Friends making his profile for him lmao.

he's in a vulnerable place right now called "wow i don't have to wear a suit all the time anymore", please help him figure out what his non-work fashion sense even is & talk him out of cutting his bangs awfully

he has figured out his Shuten stipend sucks. come visit him at his side gig at the 7/11 graveyard shift, he's not judging your purchases or creepily watching you browse. probably.

i want to start leaking out his terrible backstory to CR soon: i dont have any specific ideas as to HOW but let's start wriggling in there >:)

CR Desires: Shuten coworkers, fellow detectives, cross-faction co-conspirators (he still doesn't trust this place OR think he's really dead or in hell), normal (or "normal") friends, annoying people to test how far his patience will actually go. also most importantly he's FRIGHTFULLY easy to bully so bring on the Girls Who Are Mean

Anything else: local murder hamsters just chillin (thank you eski)

[fuckdogramagra]

i am that idiot who is most familiar with suda's feverish masterpiece killer7 of all games but even for me the thought of silver case being in the NMH universe is doing me a damage. but hey! murder timeloop pals! eye curse bullshit! theyve gotta stick together!!!

that said, tama is already stealing one of the shuten newbies/his bf from the faction so he's not very inclined to buy in to faction loyalty either...he's not uh, exactly detective smart, but he is quicker witted than he gives himself credit for being. and he's eager to fistfight the enma, so conspirators totally works.