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SEPTEMBER AU PLANNING
SEPTEMBER AU PLANNING
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Welcome to the September AU Planning Meme for Daybreak Academy! This post is intended to help prospective players plot their AU and figure out who their characters are in this setting and where they want to go, as well as work together with other players to plan future CR, build Secret Societies and Clubs, and generally determine where they want to start their characters, and where they want them to go. In addition to posting up the form, you are encouraged to tag around to other people's forms and discuss potential CR and plans with them. This post is an open forum for all prospective players to hash out interesting ideas for their characters ahead of joining the game.
Not sure where to start? Feel free to look through the Premise and FAQ for notes on what the game is about, and what to expect. We also encourage you to take a look at our information for in-setting Powers and Secret Societies to help flesh out your character's backstory.
Please note, simply posting here is not enough to guarantee your spot in the game. If you are interested in playing a character, you will want to Reserve them.
GENERAL INFORMATION
PLAYER NAME: (Your name/alias.)
CHARACTER NAME: (Your character's name in canon)
CANON: (Canon name, or Original Canon if applicable)
BLURB: (Use this space to give us a birds eye view of the character/canon.)
AU INFORMATION
CHARACTER AU NAME: (Can be the same or different from OU)
STUDENT OR FACULTY?: (Self-explanatory. Optional: Include grade for student it subject of study for faculty)
CHARACTER BLURB: (A short blurb about who they are and where they come from)
PRE-ESTABLISHED CR: (What are you looking for in terms of pre-established CR as you enter the game. Include information about what kind of family/clan or secret society your character might be a part of, or anything that might be a potential hook for others.)
DESIRED CR: (What kinds of CR would you like to build in the game?)
OTHER:(Put whatever you like here. Tagging schedule, cat gifs, you do you.)
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PLAYER NAME: Mari
CHARACTER NAME: Hibiki Shikyoin
CANON: PriPara
BLURB: On the surface, PriPara is an idol show intended to sell arcade game tickets to small children. The person who directed Milky Holmes was in charge of it, though, so it ended up a wacky character-driven gag comedy where all place names have the letter P in them (The Palps mountains! New Yorp! Historical famous idol Priopatra!), no pun goes unused, and the idea of "celebrating individuality" is taken to ludicrous extremes. Overall, the show is about respecting other people's right to be themselves, balancing the importance of expressing oneself with not inconveniencing others. "Everybody's friends, everybody's idols!" is the slogan.
And then there's this asshole.
Hibiki Shikyoin is the show's first season-long villain, a super celebrity from a rich & influential family who also became a world-famous movie star, model, theater actor, etc. for no good reason other than because she could. She is a "genius": she doesn't need to practice to be good at stuff. And she knows it. Hibiki is the kind of person who can't just attend school; she has to declare herself acting principal and erect a gigantic statue of herself on the school grounds while she's at it. She's utterly shameless, stunningly audacious, and a bit of a showoff even when she's talking. Why use only one language when you can switch back and forth between several simultaneously For The Aesthetic?
Despite her narcissism, Hibiki can appear friendly and flirtatious - she's a parody of the Takarazuka "otokoyaku," or actress who plays male roles in all-female Japanese theater. In-universe, she's been crowned Mister Handsome Universe Prince of the Year, and can generate purple sparkles and rose petals at will - but her attention is (usually) insincere. Due to a Tragic But Also Kinda Silly Backstory, she enters the show convinced that everybody is just....lying, all the time. About everything. Especially friendship. She has Friendship Trauma.
If everything's a lie, Hibiki figures, she might as well enjoy lying to the liars, and live according only to those rules which benefit her and get her closer to her dream of......HOLDING A ~REVOLUTION~, creating a shining Celebrity Paradise where only talented idols can perform, then turning herself into a living ideal and staying there forever because of the whole "rest of the world is lies and falsehoods" thing. (At least she does honestly think everyone will be happier in a world like that, not just her? As a Prince, she's an excellent party host/escort, and looks out for everyone as an older mentor figure....by being a jerk to them so they'll improve out of spite.)
On top of all THAT, Hibiki being the villain in a "hooray for wacky individuality!" show means that she has a phobia/physical allergy to "sentence enders", the little suffixes people put on their sentences in Japanese to sound cutesy or stand out (think -nyan, etc.) Hearing sentence enders causes her physical pain, and if she's surrounded by too many, it seriously endangers her health. She also has a low tolerance for other people's stupidity, which leads to a running gag about her dropping her teacup whenever something particularly Dumb or Not In Accordance With Her Aesthetics happens.
Oh, and when she can't get what she wants by flirting or yelling at people, she dresses up in a mask, cloak, and tremendously stupid hat, calls herself "Phantom Thief Genius", and steals her objective while monologuing about A SINGLE CASABLANCA LILY APPEARING IN THE DARKNESS. As, you know. You do.
tl;dr - Hibiki Shikyoin is Much. All the time. Help.
AU INFORMATION
CHARACTER AU NAME: Hibiki Shikyoin
STUDENT OR FACULTY?: Either "faculty" or grad student (see below)
CHARACTER BLURB: I'm still working out the particulars here, so input is encouraged! I know I want Hibiki to come from a super rich Celeb family, so I figure she's the heir to some fancy Mage family with a ton of influence and prestige. She'd still be convinced the world is all lies and falsehoods, and I'd like her to still be an entertainment superstar since her "all the world's a stage" mentality and total commitment to ACTING! are integral to both her aesthetic and her worldview.
To that end, I'm thinking she also awoke to some sort of Flame that activates only when/because she sings and dances (and comes with its own musical accompaniment out of nowhere, because if we're already that corny, let's add the whole ham). There will probably be flowers and swords and purple flame and giant gold Hibiki statues involved, but I'm still trying to decide whether I want her to be an illusionist or actually able to generate certain objects at will while singing. (Can one do both? The illusions seem to have solid heft while she's focusing, but if you knock her out, keep her from singing, or say "how are you doing today, Hibiki, pri?" everything poofs?)
As far as what she's doing at Daybreak, Hibiki is fixated on the Outlands. But not the yucky bad negative parts. She wants to ensure that Nightfall isn't a Nightfall but a dawn instead - the dawn of HER REVOLUTION, at which point beautiful and shining magic rises to prominence. To that end, she wants to increase everyone's Radiance (especially those who already have talent), and is ultimately looking for a way to turn herself into a being made of pure magic. She's keeping mum about that bit, though, and wants to hold a class on how to strengthen Radiance. She has a lot of ideas about how to do that. They mostly involve absorbing High Class Culture and/or competing with rivals.
This isn't exactly an academically-rigorous idea, though, and she'd just plain never attend class if she enrolled herself as a grad student. So I'm thinking maybe she's just.....not faculty, but acts as if she is. She shows up to faculty meetings. How did she know where to go? She's Hibiki. (And she spies on everything...canonically...so she probably makes use of surveillance magic here, too - with OOC permission.) She announces her class to the students as if she's fully affiliated, but holds it in swanky digs she had set up herself - because she's Hibiki. Did I mention she's 15? She's 15. But it's all good. She's Hibiki Shikyoin, Number One In The World. At what? Irrelevant. At everything.
PRE-ESTABLISHED CR: Anyone already involved in the entertainment fields would probably at least have heard of her, if not crossed paths with her! Same with the other Mages. It might be fun to say that certain families have marriage ties, though I am heartily sorry to anyone who ends up with Hibiki as a cousin.
One other possibility is my bringing Hibiki in a little further in her character development. Without the people who help her see that she's wrong about...a lot of stuff...I'd figured I would be bringing her in still distrusting everything, and then see how interacting with everyone influenced her opinions. But if someone plays a sweet, loving, extremely patient young lady and would like to establish that they've already helped Hibiki realize she's wrong about a lot of stuff, that's an option too. And then Hibiki is unable to say no to your character. She is devoted, but high-maintenance.
DESIRED CR: Related to the above: anyone playing a girl who's at least part fae or some other fancy pretty Outlands race who wants to play out DISGUSTINGLY STUPID flirtation threads, hit me up. Hibiki Has A Type and is a master of cringey bad romance novel pick-up lines. So if you want your character to be told things like "Look, this lobster is blushing at the sight of your radiance" in the middle of dinner.....I can provide?
She's also always searching for fellow geniuses, and would want to hand-pick her class instead of having open enrollment. Anyone also playing a supertalented character - she wants to be their mentor, and polish their radiance (and hopefully Radiance) until they shine.
On the exact opposite end of the spectrum, anyone playing a character who believes in the Power of Effort (and/or Friendship), or a character who uses a sentence ender, who wants some rival or outright negative CR, I love that too. There were Prinnies in the last game I took her to, dood. Those were GOOD TIMES.
I also know there are some Phantom Thieves in the game, and while Hibiki's brand of Phantom Thievery is a little more...literal....the idea of encountering each other out and about in masks and capes is funny. So I would be up for exploring something there!
OTHER:
I wasn't kidding about the allergy. Also, her voice is super low.
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(yes hi I'm totally here for this potential dynamic, Lia is a hard-worker and would consider this "chosen" idea total nonsense, and the idea of a rivalry is hilarious to me)
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I shall look forward to Hibiki looking down on Lia, then! It's almost but not quite quaint, the way the opening act thinks they can handle this stage.
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