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ROUND TWO
EDIT: YIP, the sound of a mod yanking an app off the round because it's actually a duplicate! IT WILL GO UP WITH ITS PARTNER LATER. M-mighty apologies.
Remember!
- Applicants, respond anonymously.
- If you're going to do the whole "ask me if I voted you out!" thing, please state who you voted out.
- No speculating about the identity of the applicants!
Now VOTE. CLOSED.
Character: Nagisa Kaworu
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku (Record of Heaven's Descent)
Age: 15 or 16
Canon:Nagisa Kaworu is the mysterious transfer student to Tokyo's prestigious NERV Foundation Academy. His likes include the Lilim (his affectionate term for humanity), Ikari Shinji, being oblivious to personal bubbles both physical and social, and bundling up against cold weather. His dislikes apparently just don't exist. His hobbies are internet gaming, where he plays the epic class 'Fallen Angel' with an avatar named Tabris, and saving the universe. His blood type? Blue.
Playing the ‘mysterious transfer student’ role to a T, Kaworu is the ever smiling type, always seeming to know more than he lets on, and never letting on what he knows. He tends to see-saw between polite commentary, oddball observations, and sly honesty that ends up with friends remarking that he has a bad personality. So despite his striking good looks and cheerful mannerisms making him instantly popular with female peers, it's not enough to keep him out of the ranks of the 'Weirdo Brigade', along with demanding Asuka, doll-like Rei, and recently recruited Shinji. Which is only fitting, since when the four of them aren't fudging up school plays or having homosexual moments in the hallways (and classrooms, and locker rooms, and secret underground bases), they moonlight as a team of superheroes. Using their EVAs, hand held weapons materialized out of pure will, Kaworu and co fight Angels to prevent all universes from collapsing together into a single point, as that would be bad. Kaworu himself acts as the de facto leader to the team, since despite never making any demands he always seems to be one the one calling the shots. But maybe that's just his manipulative side peeking through.
Sample App:
Aah. This is interesting, I didn't think this sort of weather was normal this far south in America. I guess I'll be needing to find a much bigger coat~
Though, first thing's first. I'm afraid I don't know why I'm here, but the welcome basket was thoughtful. Except that the track outfit is not really suitable for this cold, and the shotgun is rusting, and the laptop doesn't have enough RAM to support my games. It seems like a bit of a wasted effort, put like that, doesn't it? But this is the sort of situation where everyone should try their best, so I decided to take myself on a tour of your camp grounds. The living snowmen were quite different, rising out of the snow drifts almost like a true B class horror movie. I suppose that must be the purpose of the shotgun? But they were easy enough to out maneuver. It seems snowmen have a bad center of gravity and roll easily. I believe this is known as the snowball effect.
Afterward I took a walk out onto your frozen lake. It must have taken a lot of green dye to make the ice that color. And the beast that looked up at me from the depths of its icy cage was especially creative. Ahaha, I think it even blinked! All in all, the Director here has crafted something quite stunning, don't you think? A winter wonderland that shares ground with an active volcano. A campy 'horror' camp, with all the amenities of natural hot springs and a hotel. And below all the Lilim, poor deformed beasts cry out from endless miles of darkened corridors. With so many unique instances in one place, it's as if you can see the walls between realities melting away.
It's almost like a roleplaying game, isn't it? ♥
I'm beginning to think I must have arrived here for a special school project. NERV Academy must like to keep its students on their feet. I'll try to live up to the challenge. It's nice to meet everyone; my name is Nagisa Kaworu, I'll be staying with you all for a while. I have some friends I expect will be following me shortly, so if it's possible, I'd like to request two beds free up in the girl's cabins, and two free beds in my assigned cabin. But if that's too much to ask I'm sure we can make do with only one each. It is quite cold here, after all.
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Character: Ikari Shinji
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku (NGE Academy: The Record of Heaven's Descent)
Character Age: 15-ish
Canon: Welcome to NERV Academy, an elite of the elite Catholic school, and meet Ikari Shinji: A Normal Boy. He goes to school every day, stays out of trouble, hangs out with friends, and tolerates their over-excitement at rumors of Angels and prophesies of doom. One night on a routine vending machine run, Shinji finds a glowing red sphere, and sees Nagisa Kaworu for the first time. Ladies and gentlemen, it only gets gayer from there. After a near-death experience against a punk rocker with wings who shoots lightning, Shinji is led to a hidden base beneath the school, where the leaves of the World Tree Yggdrasil fall and wither. There he's hooked up with EVA, a weapon fueled by willpower, so he can fight the Angels with his classmates. They need their cores - red spheres that steal the form of living things - to restore the World Tree before all universes blend together and Everything Liquidates.
Shinji's still not sure he actually understands the depth of the world's danger - who could, when someone tells them something that crazy? But he can't do nothing when others are getting hurt in front of him, so he chooses to fight anyway. Shinji is mild-mannered compared to his friends, in particular his oddball Angel-hunting peers. But he's quite spazzy, and is quick to jump to somewhat outlandish conclusions, including the possibility that his classmates are aliens that want to put a chip in his head. He gets steamrollered by dominant personalities, flustered when his personal bubble is invaded, and is passed up by his crush Ayanami because she has more interest in a horse head prop than him. And oh yeah, he's a kind of a pussy. But if your local crazy bitch redhead whipped a bridge apart in a seething rage, you'd think it was really scary too.
Sample Post:
Is this really supposed to be a school field trip?
I mean, I know this has to be at least the tenth time I've asked this but w-why am I the only one on this bus? I had to have gotten on the wrong one, seriously, the bus driver is just grunting at me to be quiet every time I ask and that's not helping. And the more I look at the back of his head at it the more it doesn't look like the guy I saw when I boarded at all. I - I could've sworn I was barely on time, not early! Is another bus with everyone else really coming? The fog is getting kind of green and I keep hearing gunshots and the doll in the back of the bus is like three seats closer, and that's a little much for me to swallow, and I'm one of the people that knows something. . .different might be up. Would NERV really send one kid out all by himself like this? Or - did the bus driver get swapped out with a kidnapper and he took me to a remote location to take my body apart and sell my organs?! O-oh, thank God, there's a sign. CFUD, just as Misato-sensei said. T-thanks. That guy was still weird. . .
Geez, this place. . . is kind of a dump. Would an elite school really send even one kid here? Something has to be up. I guess the residents are supposed to be part of the attraction, but it's a little disturbing to see them wandering around like that. What kind of actors did they get to do that all the time? Maybe they're carnies from a broken-down circus, and this is their only way to live? But instead of setting up a theme park, they could have set up another circus. And the setting doesn't match the a "greatest show on earth" mentality. Not that... I even know what mentality metal cows represent. M-maybe. . . they're really zombies?!
Nah, that can't be. . . I feel so ridiculous. It's just the mood getting to me, the stupid bus ride. Even knowing there are things like Angels in this world, that doesn't mean every creepy rumor is a reality, right? That's taking it too far. Still, this whole thing is a really weird mission -- AAAAH!
S-sorry! I didn't mean to startle you! You startled me! Y-you overheard? Uh, never mind about the Angels thing, that's just an in-joke with my friends-! Eh? Oh, er, you're saying you're real? Ha ha ha I didn't mean any disrespect or anything! You're doing a great job, really-- Oh my God your arm. I believe you, I definitely believe you! This is definitely a zombie camp! I take back what I said about actors, you're really scary! Just don't eat my brains--!!
E-eh, he went past me? What? I thought for sure he was charging right at me--. . . Oh. Oh, he was after the. . . gorilla behind me. I see. W-what is he doing, wrestling him do-- Well, that's. . . what. . . I'm just getting the hell out of here. R-relocating, strategically. T-this doesn't count as running away.
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Character: Ayanami Rei
Character Age: middle school student (14-15)
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion Academy: Record of Heaven's Descent
Canon: Evangelion, that most milked of franchises, is back for another round of alternate-universe spinoff hilarity. This time around, the setting is the NERV Academy, an elite Catholic school where Ikari Shinji discovers that a few of his classmates are involved in an odd sort of extracurricular activity--Angel-hunting. Rather than being giant monsters, the Angels manifest as little red balls that can possess humans and animals. The Angel-hunters are trying to retrieve those balls (the Angels' cores) in order to prevent the death of the World Tree that supports their little corner of reality. Were the tree to die, their universe would lose cohesion and start to blend with other universes until all of reality was reduced to a chaotic soup.
Ayanami Rei is one of those Angel-hunting classmates, wielding the infamous Lance of Longinus in battle. Much like her original incarnation, this story's Rei is a mostly quiet girl who occasionally shows up wearing a worrying number of bandages. That's about where the resemblance ends, though. Besides the fact that she's a bit more talkative than the original, this particular Rei's introverted demeanor hides an oddball personality prone to making strange attachments--such as to a horse head mask she was assigned to wear for a nativity play, which she holds onto and continues to wear to school because she "feels calm" with it on. And then there's her thing about missions. Rei is all about missions, and will do just about about anything that's presented to her as one, which is how she got recruited into the horse role (for which she switched to an all-carrot diet, in order to more perfectly emulate a horse). This obsession with missions, besides being fodder for comic relief, also makes her one of the more dedicated Angel-hunters on the team, willing to suffer just about any injury if it means defeating an enemy.
Sample Post:
This mission has been different from the norm, but that is unsurprising in and of itself. Missions can take many forms. Earlier, for example, I received a card containing specially encoded instructions. It reads "How To Keep Ayanami Occupied For Hours," followed by "For mission details, see other side of card." The other side bore a similar message, and in spite of my best efforts, I have yet to decode the actual instructions. During my attempts to do so, however, it would appear that I was moved to another location--an isolated stretch of swampland. This, too, was a new way of receiving a mission, but such things are trivial compared to the mission itself. And according to the letter in the unmarked envelope I was left with, my mission here is to gather brains. At any rate, the word "brains" was scrawled repeatedly across the paper inside. Since a required number or species was not specified, I set out to gather as many different kinds as possible.
My first target: a gorilla encountered in the woods. This should be an interesting specimen, as it seemed unusually skilled in communicating through gesture and body language. I was able to neutralize it with minimal difficulty, though there was a moment in which I hesitated, as it appeared the target was attempting to give me another mission; however, I eventually realized that the word it was actually trying to convey was "missionary." Specimen obtained, I moved on to target number two, a toucan. I did not obtain a specimen from this target. After gazing into its eyes for a few seconds, it became clear that my efforts would be of no avail against it; additionally, I found myself compelled to repeat the phrase "all glory to the HypnoToucan" for the next hour and a half. In that time, I was able to acquire an artificial brain from a robotic cow, an unopened can of pork brains found in a garbage can behind a mess hall I stumbled upon, and what appeared to be a freshly removed human brain that was simply lying on a rock. (Upon closer inspection, the latter was determined to be cauliflower. I took it anyway, just in case, and also because its weight tucked under my arm was soothing.)
In that time, I also encountered what I assume to be the beneficiaries of this mission: roving packs of disfigured, decaying humanoids, whose constant groans of "brains" indicated they were in dire need of the specimens I was collecting. When they noticed me, however, it appeared as though the brain they were most interested in was my own, which presented me with a quandary. Ultimately, though, there is only one real option--the mission always comes first. Hopefully, their needs can be satisfied with a minimally-damaging bite or two. I will report back with details of the outcome as soon as possible, should I be in a condition to do so. Until then, this is Ayanami Rei, signing off.
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Character: Roxas
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Character Age: Looks to be around fifteen.
Canon: Kingdom Hearts is Disney’s take on Final Fantasy: meaning they get just as many belts, huge feet, and the ability to save a bunch of princesses. The hero is Sora, a boy whose heart is so strong that he gets a giant … key so he can save his friends-and kill Heartless, beings that take over hearts and fill them with Darkness. Like most heroes, Sora is successful in his quest. However, he’s briefly overcome by a Heartless. This leads to the creation of his Nobody, Roxas. Nobodies remain after a strong-willed person’s heart has been filled with Darkness; they are shells of people who believe they lack hearts and real emotions, but instead appear to have a hard time dealing with the remaining emotions. The sociopathic Organization XIII recruits Roxas, and there he meets his best friend, Axel. Ultimately, Roxas has a mid-life crisis and takes off, but gets captured and placed into the simulated Twilight Town. He’s given a false memory and personality and learns that “finding himself” means “becoming Sora again.” His acceptance is marked by the announcement of the end of his summer vacation, where he ate too much digitized ice cream and worked hard for the munny.
Roxas essentially has two sides that come in varying extremes. The first is bitter and angry, and reluctant to accept his lot in life, whereas the second is pretty laid back, willing to mess around and make jokes. The sum of this is a sarcastic, somewhat lazy kid, who loves ice cream. However, his status as a Nobody makes it hard for him to balance the more extreme traits of his personality. This leaves him lashing out on occasion, though he does bottle up his emotions. Lashing out aside, he’s really just a selfish kid who likes ice cream a little too much. Even when he’s too caught up in himself, he can usually be bribed with it. Toward others, he’s somewhat guarded, but he remains sociable because he likes making friends.
Note: Permission granted to mention Axel in the app!
Sample Post:
These “new lives” really aren’t working out for me.
In my first, I found myself with a bunch of sociopaths and a guy named Axel. Can’t say he’s any different, but he’d whine about not getting a special mention. Second was in a place with good ice cream, but no beach. That doesn’t really cut it. You could say this is my third-maybe “third time’s a charm,” but this isn’t so charming. I had some high hopes for this try: infinite amounts of ice cream, conveniently placed clock towers, and my best friend-though that’s more his promise than mine. I was kinda attached to the idea for a while. I guess I hadn’t been thinking my next life would involve camping.
I might not have minded the whole summer camping thing if the place wasn’t covered in snow. Last I checked, summers were filled with sun and sand, but I don’t really have a lot of experience with that sort of thing. Still, I wish it was warmer here so it’d be easier to take care of those gorillas and zombies that keep harassing me. But I’m okay with settling down here for a little. This guy helped me find this place … “this guy” because he doesn’t have a name. Where I come from, at least they still give toucans names. Even I got a name, and I’m just a Nobody.
And now I’m just a Nobody sitting outside of a lake with a giant tentacle monster and a bird I named Tunacox-yeah, I don’t think it’s that great of a name, but at least it has something-waiting before I have to go fight the gorillas and zombies again. It would be nice if Marcy wouldn’t keep trying to grab me with her tentacles, though. She keeps losing one every time it comes near me, and though it looks like she has enough, you’d think she’d care about me hitting them with my Keyblade. Hopefully, Marcy’ll still be a bit desperate for some action when the zombies show up again; it might make my job a bit easier. Man, I kinda wish I was getting paid for all this work-but maybe munny doesn’t matter in a place you apparently can’t leave. It’s not like the zombies can import crates of brains or export leftover body parts from campers.
I’m just hoping this isn’t camp’s idea of a welcome. I dunno what’s worse, though-fighting off an army of undead or sitting around some lame boy scouts camp fire. But with the way it’s cold out here, it doesn’t seem like that’d be so bad, as long as there wasn’t any lame singing. If there was singing, I’d rather three armies of them.
… Heh, sounds like the gorillas are back for more! Don’t worry, Tunacox. I won’t let them get a piece of me.
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Character: MOMO Mizrahi
Series: Xenosaga
Character Age: 12 (in appearance)
Canon: MOMO (an acronym, short for 'Multiple Observative Mimetic Organicus') is one of the main characters of the Xenosaga game series. She is a Realian-a synthetic human created for a specific purpose. In MOMO's case, that purpose is locating Gnosis-mysterious, hostile beings from a different dimension-and helping materialize them into real space so they can be dealt with. Being an Observational Realian, she is also able to detect and analyze various things with her sensors.
But there's much more to her than that. Created in the image of his late daughter, infamous scientist Joachim Mizrahi left something extremely potent deep in MOMO's subconscious: the "Y-Data", a code with very great significance that is sought after by many organizations (for varying purposes). This makes MOMO a hot commodity in the Xenosaga universe, despite the fact that what she really wants is just to be a "real", normal girl.
Programmed to have real human emotions, MOMO is, overall, sweet and optimistic. She's very attached to the people closest to her, as she was intended to speak and act like a child. She is being taken from the end of Episode III, the last game.
Sample Post:
Dear Mommy,
Well, I have to admit, of all the places I could have woken up in this morning, a Summer Camp on Lost Jerusalem would have been my very last guess!
I'm writing this hoping I can find a way to send it to you, since I wasn't left any kind of communication device. From what I've observed so far, technology as a whole seems to be severely behind what we know in our world. My biggest question, of course, is how I got here without the help of the U.M.N. Does this mean Jr. and Shion found their way here somehow? It would be so great to see them again! Then again, Lost Jerusalem is a big place, and I don't know why they'd be at a Summer Camp... especially not in the middle of March. Oh, well. If they're here, I'll find them!
Since I've never been to a camp before, I can't tell if this is normal or not, but there are some odd-looking campers here. They were acting a little like berserk Realians, or contaminated URTVs... but I confirmed them to be humans, in advanced stages of decay, and yet still mobile. I introduced myself (cautiously, of course!) to some of them, but no matter how many times I said my name was MOMO, they kept calling me "moe moe." Isn't that strange? Maybe they have their own language!
Not all of them were quite that complacent, though. There was one in particular who became a problem. He asked me if I was "legal" (he might have been with security!) so of course I said yes, I was created in full legality! Well, I thought that meant I was okay to go, but he still wanted more of me. He said his name was Krayd L. Robber, and that I was a "succulent peach"-and he kept trying to touch me! It was really scary! Luckily, though, that was about the time that some kind of disembodied voice caught him off-guard-it told him to "have a seat over there." And it actually worked, just like that! What kind of power could that be, I wonder? If we could harness it somehow, we might be able to stop bad things like that from happening!
Well, Mommy, I guess I should go now. It's starting to get dark, and I haven't found somewhere to stay yet. Also one of the weird campers is trying to get my attention. I think he wants something, but there's nothing in my data on the term 'dolla', so I definitely don't have one, much less five of them.
Lots of love,
MOMO ♥
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Character Name: Amuro Ray
Series: Mobile Suit Gundam
Character Age: 16
Canon: Amuro Ray is the main protagonist in the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. When we first meet him, he's a teenage recluse who spends most of his time focusing on technology and engineering, building things like Haro and various devices just for fun. He moved to the Side 7 colony when he was still fairly young, after his father was assigned there to work on military weaponry for the Earth Federation.
When Side 7 is attacked by a Zeon unit lead by Char Aznable (AKA The Red Comet), Amuro crosses paths with a white prototype mobile suit nicknamed "Gundam", and he takes it upon himself to pilot it after becoming frustrated with the Zeon attack. After a series of events, he joins the Earth Federation and stays with White Base (the battleship which houses the Gundam) to officially become the Gundam's pilot.
Amuro's relationship with his friends and comrades gradually declines, as he begins to obsess over the Gundam, Char, and war itself. At his worst, he became completely selfish and angry-pushing away the girl who liked him, Frau Bow, as well as receiving several slaps from the White Base's captain, Bright Noa. As the series progresses, he sheds himself of his self-absorbed personality and mends his friendships, though his obsession with Char never ceases. Like Char, he also acquires his own nickname: "The White Devil", after downing 14 mobile suits in one battle.
Sample Post:
Rgh, damn Char...that was a cheap shot...
Hello? Is there anyone out there? I need a phone or a radio! My Core Fighter crashed a couple of miles away! ...No one?
Man, this place really gives me the creeps. My mind is starting to play tricks on me, I could've sworn someone was following me. Whoever it was, he had a real strong smell. It almost looked like some kind of...monster.
Don't panic, Amuro. Stay cool. It's just a swamp. Just stay on the road and you'll be fine. Pretend you're walking down the store aisle, looking for parts for your dream computer.
...I think I see some kind of settlement up ahead! They've got to have phones, I'm sure they'll be kind enough to let me use one. Though I'm not looking forward to returning to White Base after losing that Core Fighter; I know Bright will talk down to me and embarrass me in front of everyone some more. As long as he doesn't slap me, because I swear I won't let him hit me this time. I'm the pilot of the Gundam, he should respect me, because he's not out in the middle of battle by himself, putting his life on the line. He should be grateful I'm even doing it. Yeah, I'd like to see him do any of that, he'd be toast in an instant. Char would eat him for breakfast, or a light snack at the very least.
Speaking of which, I'm getting pretty hungry, and I could sure use a drink. It figures that the one time I actually want Frau and Haro bothering me about eating, they're nowhere in sight! I could stop and look at some of this...swamp vegetation...for some food, but the only thing I know about what's safe to eat is what I overheard while the television was airing a documentary on wilderness survival, and that isn't very much. I don't even think the Federation has a manual for this kind of situation. Ugh, I should've paid less attention to that stupid motherboard and more to the show, considering I ended up frying it anyway.
Finally! It took me forever to get h-is this a summer camp? People actually come here of their own free will?! This place is a dump, there's trash everywhere! Is that a bloody knife in the garbage can? ...Maybe this is some kind of cult. Either way, I'd better watch out-it's certainly a good thing I remembered to bring my gun with me, just in case things get unpleasant. Now how do I use it? The Wikipedia article said there should be a safety switch on this side...got it.
Okay, here goes nothing. Amuro Ray, moving in!
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ROUND TWO
EDIT: YIP, the sound of a mod yanking an app off the round because it's actually a duplicate! IT WILL GO UP WITH ITS PARTNER LATER. M-mighty apologies.
Remember!
- Applicants, respond anonymously.
- If you're going to do the whole "ask me if I voted you out!" thing, please state who you voted out.
- No speculating about the identity of the applicants!
Now VOTE. CLOSED.
Character: Nagisa Kaworu
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku (Record of Heaven's Descent)
Age: 15 or 16
Canon:Nagisa Kaworu is the mysterious transfer student to Tokyo's prestigious NERV Foundation Academy. His likes include the Lilim (his affectionate term for humanity), Ikari Shinji, being oblivious to personal bubbles both physical and social, and bundling up against cold weather. His dislikes apparently just don't exist. His hobbies are internet gaming, where he plays the epic class 'Fallen Angel' with an avatar named Tabris, and saving the universe. His blood type? Blue.
Playing the ‘mysterious transfer student’ role to a T, Kaworu is the ever smiling type, always seeming to know more than he lets on, and never letting on what he knows. He tends to see-saw between polite commentary, oddball observations, and sly honesty that ends up with friends remarking that he has a bad personality. So despite his striking good looks and cheerful mannerisms making him instantly popular with female peers, it's not enough to keep him out of the ranks of the 'Weirdo Brigade', along with demanding Asuka, doll-like Rei, and recently recruited Shinji. Which is only fitting, since when the four of them aren't fudging up school plays or having homosexual moments in the hallways (and classrooms, and locker rooms, and secret underground bases), they moonlight as a team of superheroes. Using their EVAs, hand held weapons materialized out of pure will, Kaworu and co fight Angels to prevent all universes from collapsing together into a single point, as that would be bad. Kaworu himself acts as the de facto leader to the team, since despite never making any demands he always seems to be one the one calling the shots. But maybe that's just his manipulative side peeking through.
Sample App:
Aah. This is interesting, I didn't think this sort of weather was normal this far south in America. I guess I'll be needing to find a much bigger coat~
Though, first thing's first. I'm afraid I don't know why I'm here, but the welcome basket was thoughtful. Except that the track outfit is not really suitable for this cold, and the shotgun is rusting, and the laptop doesn't have enough RAM to support my games. It seems like a bit of a wasted effort, put like that, doesn't it? But this is the sort of situation where everyone should try their best, so I decided to take myself on a tour of your camp grounds. The living snowmen were quite different, rising out of the snow drifts almost like a true B class horror movie. I suppose that must be the purpose of the shotgun? But they were easy enough to out maneuver. It seems snowmen have a bad center of gravity and roll easily. I believe this is known as the snowball effect.
Afterward I took a walk out onto your frozen lake. It must have taken a lot of green dye to make the ice that color. And the beast that looked up at me from the depths of its icy cage was especially creative. Ahaha, I think it even blinked! All in all, the Director here has crafted something quite stunning, don't you think? A winter wonderland that shares ground with an active volcano. A campy 'horror' camp, with all the amenities of natural hot springs and a hotel. And below all the Lilim, poor deformed beasts cry out from endless miles of darkened corridors. With so many unique instances in one place, it's as if you can see the walls between realities melting away.
It's almost like a roleplaying game, isn't it? ♥
I'm beginning to think I must have arrived here for a special school project. NERV Academy must like to keep its students on their feet. I'll try to live up to the challenge. It's nice to meet everyone; my name is Nagisa Kaworu, I'll be staying with you all for a while. I have some friends I expect will be following me shortly, so if it's possible, I'd like to request two beds free up in the girl's cabins, and two free beds in my assigned cabin. But if that's too much to ask I'm sure we can make do with only one each. It is quite cold here, after all.
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Character: Ikari Shinji
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku (NGE Academy: The Record of Heaven's Descent)
Character Age: 15-ish
Canon: Welcome to NERV Academy, an elite of the elite Catholic school, and meet Ikari Shinji: A Normal Boy. He goes to school every day, stays out of trouble, hangs out with friends, and tolerates their over-excitement at rumors of Angels and prophesies of doom. One night on a routine vending machine run, Shinji finds a glowing red sphere, and sees Nagisa Kaworu for the first time. Ladies and gentlemen, it only gets gayer from there. After a near-death experience against a punk rocker with wings who shoots lightning, Shinji is led to a hidden base beneath the school, where the leaves of the World Tree Yggdrasil fall and wither. There he's hooked up with EVA, a weapon fueled by willpower, so he can fight the Angels with his classmates. They need their cores - red spheres that steal the form of living things - to restore the World Tree before all universes blend together and Everything Liquidates.
Shinji's still not sure he actually understands the depth of the world's danger - who could, when someone tells them something that crazy? But he can't do nothing when others are getting hurt in front of him, so he chooses to fight anyway. Shinji is mild-mannered compared to his friends, in particular his oddball Angel-hunting peers. But he's quite spazzy, and is quick to jump to somewhat outlandish conclusions, including the possibility that his classmates are aliens that want to put a chip in his head. He gets steamrollered by dominant personalities, flustered when his personal bubble is invaded, and is passed up by his crush Ayanami because she has more interest in a horse head prop than him. And oh yeah, he's a kind of a pussy. But if your local crazy bitch redhead whipped a bridge apart in a seething rage, you'd think it was really scary too.
Sample Post:
Is this really supposed to be a school field trip?
I mean, I know this has to be at least the tenth time I've asked this but w-why am I the only one on this bus? I had to have gotten on the wrong one, seriously, the bus driver is just grunting at me to be quiet every time I ask and that's not helping. And the more I look at the back of his head at it the more it doesn't look like the guy I saw when I boarded at all. I - I could've sworn I was barely on time, not early! Is another bus with everyone else really coming? The fog is getting kind of green and I keep hearing gunshots and the doll in the back of the bus is like three seats closer, and that's a little much for me to swallow, and I'm one of the people that knows something. . .different might be up. Would NERV really send one kid out all by himself like this? Or - did the bus driver get swapped out with a kidnapper and he took me to a remote location to take my body apart and sell my organs?! O-oh, thank God, there's a sign. CFUD, just as Misato-sensei said. T-thanks. That guy was still weird. . .
Geez, this place. . . is kind of a dump. Would an elite school really send even one kid here? Something has to be up. I guess the residents are supposed to be part of the attraction, but it's a little disturbing to see them wandering around like that. What kind of actors did they get to do that all the time? Maybe they're carnies from a broken-down circus, and this is their only way to live? But instead of setting up a theme park, they could have set up another circus. And the setting doesn't match the a "greatest show on earth" mentality. Not that... I even know what mentality metal cows represent. M-maybe. . . they're really zombies?!
Nah, that can't be. . . I feel so ridiculous. It's just the mood getting to me, the stupid bus ride. Even knowing there are things like Angels in this world, that doesn't mean every creepy rumor is a reality, right? That's taking it too far. Still, this whole thing is a really weird mission -- AAAAH!
S-sorry! I didn't mean to startle you! You startled me! Y-you overheard? Uh, never mind about the Angels thing, that's just an in-joke with my friends-! Eh? Oh, er, you're saying you're real? Ha ha ha I didn't mean any disrespect or anything! You're doing a great job, really-- Oh my God your arm. I believe you, I definitely believe you! This is definitely a zombie camp! I take back what I said about actors, you're really scary! Just don't eat my brains--!!
E-eh, he went past me? What? I thought for sure he was charging right at me--. . . Oh. Oh, he was after the. . . gorilla behind me. I see. W-what is he doing, wrestling him do-- Well, that's. . . what. . . I'm just getting the hell out of here. R-relocating, strategically. T-this doesn't count as running away.
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Character: Ayanami Rei
Character Age: middle school student (14-15)
Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion Academy: Record of Heaven's Descent
Canon: Evangelion, that most milked of franchises, is back for another round of alternate-universe spinoff hilarity. This time around, the setting is the NERV Academy, an elite Catholic school where Ikari Shinji discovers that a few of his classmates are involved in an odd sort of extracurricular activity--Angel-hunting. Rather than being giant monsters, the Angels manifest as little red balls that can possess humans and animals. The Angel-hunters are trying to retrieve those balls (the Angels' cores) in order to prevent the death of the World Tree that supports their little corner of reality. Were the tree to die, their universe would lose cohesion and start to blend with other universes until all of reality was reduced to a chaotic soup.
Ayanami Rei is one of those Angel-hunting classmates, wielding the infamous Lance of Longinus in battle. Much like her original incarnation, this story's Rei is a mostly quiet girl who occasionally shows up wearing a worrying number of bandages. That's about where the resemblance ends, though. Besides the fact that she's a bit more talkative than the original, this particular Rei's introverted demeanor hides an oddball personality prone to making strange attachments--such as to a horse head mask she was assigned to wear for a nativity play, which she holds onto and continues to wear to school because she "feels calm" with it on. And then there's her thing about missions. Rei is all about missions, and will do just about about anything that's presented to her as one, which is how she got recruited into the horse role (for which she switched to an all-carrot diet, in order to more perfectly emulate a horse). This obsession with missions, besides being fodder for comic relief, also makes her one of the more dedicated Angel-hunters on the team, willing to suffer just about any injury if it means defeating an enemy.
Sample Post:
This mission has been different from the norm, but that is unsurprising in and of itself. Missions can take many forms. Earlier, for example, I received a card containing specially encoded instructions. It reads "How To Keep Ayanami Occupied For Hours," followed by "For mission details, see other side of card." The other side bore a similar message, and in spite of my best efforts, I have yet to decode the actual instructions. During my attempts to do so, however, it would appear that I was moved to another location--an isolated stretch of swampland. This, too, was a new way of receiving a mission, but such things are trivial compared to the mission itself. And according to the letter in the unmarked envelope I was left with, my mission here is to gather brains. At any rate, the word "brains" was scrawled repeatedly across the paper inside. Since a required number or species was not specified, I set out to gather as many different kinds as possible.
My first target: a gorilla encountered in the woods. This should be an interesting specimen, as it seemed unusually skilled in communicating through gesture and body language. I was able to neutralize it with minimal difficulty, though there was a moment in which I hesitated, as it appeared the target was attempting to give me another mission; however, I eventually realized that the word it was actually trying to convey was "missionary." Specimen obtained, I moved on to target number two, a toucan. I did not obtain a specimen from this target. After gazing into its eyes for a few seconds, it became clear that my efforts would be of no avail against it; additionally, I found myself compelled to repeat the phrase "all glory to the HypnoToucan" for the next hour and a half. In that time, I was able to acquire an artificial brain from a robotic cow, an unopened can of pork brains found in a garbage can behind a mess hall I stumbled upon, and what appeared to be a freshly removed human brain that was simply lying on a rock. (Upon closer inspection, the latter was determined to be cauliflower. I took it anyway, just in case, and also because its weight tucked under my arm was soothing.)
In that time, I also encountered what I assume to be the beneficiaries of this mission: roving packs of disfigured, decaying humanoids, whose constant groans of "brains" indicated they were in dire need of the specimens I was collecting. When they noticed me, however, it appeared as though the brain they were most interested in was my own, which presented me with a quandary. Ultimately, though, there is only one real option--the mission always comes first. Hopefully, their needs can be satisfied with a minimally-damaging bite or two. I will report back with details of the outcome as soon as possible, should I be in a condition to do so. Until then, this is Ayanami Rei, signing off.
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Character: Roxas
Series: Kingdom Hearts
Character Age: Looks to be around fifteen.
Canon: Kingdom Hearts is Disney’s take on Final Fantasy: meaning they get just as many belts, huge feet, and the ability to save a bunch of princesses. The hero is Sora, a boy whose heart is so strong that he gets a giant … key so he can save his friends-and kill Heartless, beings that take over hearts and fill them with Darkness. Like most heroes, Sora is successful in his quest. However, he’s briefly overcome by a Heartless. This leads to the creation of his Nobody, Roxas. Nobodies remain after a strong-willed person’s heart has been filled with Darkness; they are shells of people who believe they lack hearts and real emotions, but instead appear to have a hard time dealing with the remaining emotions. The sociopathic Organization XIII recruits Roxas, and there he meets his best friend, Axel. Ultimately, Roxas has a mid-life crisis and takes off, but gets captured and placed into the simulated Twilight Town. He’s given a false memory and personality and learns that “finding himself” means “becoming Sora again.” His acceptance is marked by the announcement of the end of his summer vacation, where he ate too much digitized ice cream and worked hard for the munny.
Roxas essentially has two sides that come in varying extremes. The first is bitter and angry, and reluctant to accept his lot in life, whereas the second is pretty laid back, willing to mess around and make jokes. The sum of this is a sarcastic, somewhat lazy kid, who loves ice cream. However, his status as a Nobody makes it hard for him to balance the more extreme traits of his personality. This leaves him lashing out on occasion, though he does bottle up his emotions. Lashing out aside, he’s really just a selfish kid who likes ice cream a little too much. Even when he’s too caught up in himself, he can usually be bribed with it. Toward others, he’s somewhat guarded, but he remains sociable because he likes making friends.
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Sample Post:
These “new lives” really aren’t working out for me.
In my first, I found myself with a bunch of sociopaths and a guy named Axel. Can’t say he’s any different, but he’d whine about not getting a special mention. Second was in a place with good ice cream, but no beach. That doesn’t really cut it. You could say this is my third-maybe “third time’s a charm,” but this isn’t so charming. I had some high hopes for this try: infinite amounts of ice cream, conveniently placed clock towers, and my best friend-though that’s more his promise than mine. I was kinda attached to the idea for a while. I guess I hadn’t been thinking my next life would involve camping.
I might not have minded the whole summer camping thing if the place wasn’t covered in snow. Last I checked, summers were filled with sun and sand, but I don’t really have a lot of experience with that sort of thing. Still, I wish it was warmer here so it’d be easier to take care of those gorillas and zombies that keep harassing me. But I’m okay with settling down here for a little. This guy helped me find this place … “this guy” because he doesn’t have a name. Where I come from, at least they still give toucans names. Even I got a name, and I’m just a Nobody.
And now I’m just a Nobody sitting outside of a lake with a giant tentacle monster and a bird I named Tunacox-yeah, I don’t think it’s that great of a name, but at least it has something-waiting before I have to go fight the gorillas and zombies again. It would be nice if Marcy wouldn’t keep trying to grab me with her tentacles, though. She keeps losing one every time it comes near me, and though it looks like she has enough, you’d think she’d care about me hitting them with my Keyblade. Hopefully, Marcy’ll still be a bit desperate for some action when the zombies show up again; it might make my job a bit easier. Man, I kinda wish I was getting paid for all this work-but maybe munny doesn’t matter in a place you apparently can’t leave. It’s not like the zombies can import crates of brains or export leftover body parts from campers.
I’m just hoping this isn’t camp’s idea of a welcome. I dunno what’s worse, though-fighting off an army of undead or sitting around some lame boy scouts camp fire. But with the way it’s cold out here, it doesn’t seem like that’d be so bad, as long as there wasn’t any lame singing. If there was singing, I’d rather three armies of them.
… Heh, sounds like the gorillas are back for more! Don’t worry, Tunacox. I won’t let them get a piece of me.
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Character: MOMO Mizrahi
Series: Xenosaga
Character Age: 12 (in appearance)
Canon: MOMO (an acronym, short for 'Multiple Observative Mimetic Organicus') is one of the main characters of the Xenosaga game series. She is a Realian-a synthetic human created for a specific purpose. In MOMO's case, that purpose is locating Gnosis-mysterious, hostile beings from a different dimension-and helping materialize them into real space so they can be dealt with. Being an Observational Realian, she is also able to detect and analyze various things with her sensors.
But there's much more to her than that. Created in the image of his late daughter, infamous scientist Joachim Mizrahi left something extremely potent deep in MOMO's subconscious: the "Y-Data", a code with very great significance that is sought after by many organizations (for varying purposes). This makes MOMO a hot commodity in the Xenosaga universe, despite the fact that what she really wants is just to be a "real", normal girl.
Programmed to have real human emotions, MOMO is, overall, sweet and optimistic. She's very attached to the people closest to her, as she was intended to speak and act like a child. She is being taken from the end of Episode III, the last game.
Sample Post:
Dear Mommy,
Well, I have to admit, of all the places I could have woken up in this morning, a Summer Camp on Lost Jerusalem would have been my very last guess!
I'm writing this hoping I can find a way to send it to you, since I wasn't left any kind of communication device. From what I've observed so far, technology as a whole seems to be severely behind what we know in our world. My biggest question, of course, is how I got here without the help of the U.M.N. Does this mean Jr. and Shion found their way here somehow? It would be so great to see them again! Then again, Lost Jerusalem is a big place, and I don't know why they'd be at a Summer Camp... especially not in the middle of March. Oh, well. If they're here, I'll find them!
Since I've never been to a camp before, I can't tell if this is normal or not, but there are some odd-looking campers here. They were acting a little like berserk Realians, or contaminated URTVs... but I confirmed them to be humans, in advanced stages of decay, and yet still mobile. I introduced myself (cautiously, of course!) to some of them, but no matter how many times I said my name was MOMO, they kept calling me "moe moe." Isn't that strange? Maybe they have their own language!
Not all of them were quite that complacent, though. There was one in particular who became a problem. He asked me if I was "legal" (he might have been with security!) so of course I said yes, I was created in full legality! Well, I thought that meant I was okay to go, but he still wanted more of me. He said his name was Krayd L. Robber, and that I was a "succulent peach"-and he kept trying to touch me! It was really scary! Luckily, though, that was about the time that some kind of disembodied voice caught him off-guard-it told him to "have a seat over there." And it actually worked, just like that! What kind of power could that be, I wonder? If we could harness it somehow, we might be able to stop bad things like that from happening!
Well, Mommy, I guess I should go now. It's starting to get dark, and I haven't found somewhere to stay yet. Also one of the weird campers is trying to get my attention. I think he wants something, but there's nothing in my data on the term 'dolla', so I definitely don't have one, much less five of them.
Lots of love,
MOMO ♥
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Character Name: Amuro Ray
Series: Mobile Suit Gundam
Character Age: 16
Canon: Amuro Ray is the main protagonist in the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. When we first meet him, he's a teenage recluse who spends most of his time focusing on technology and engineering, building things like Haro and various devices just for fun. He moved to the Side 7 colony when he was still fairly young, after his father was assigned there to work on military weaponry for the Earth Federation.
When Side 7 is attacked by a Zeon unit lead by Char Aznable (AKA The Red Comet), Amuro crosses paths with a white prototype mobile suit nicknamed "Gundam", and he takes it upon himself to pilot it after becoming frustrated with the Zeon attack. After a series of events, he joins the Earth Federation and stays with White Base (the battleship which houses the Gundam) to officially become the Gundam's pilot.
Amuro's relationship with his friends and comrades gradually declines, as he begins to obsess over the Gundam, Char, and war itself. At his worst, he became completely selfish and angry-pushing away the girl who liked him, Frau Bow, as well as receiving several slaps from the White Base's captain, Bright Noa. As the series progresses, he sheds himself of his self-absorbed personality and mends his friendships, though his obsession with Char never ceases. Like Char, he also acquires his own nickname: "The White Devil", after downing 14 mobile suits in one battle.
Sample Post:
Rgh, damn Char...that was a cheap shot...
Hello? Is there anyone out there? I need a phone or a radio! My Core Fighter crashed a couple of miles away! ...No one?
Man, this place really gives me the creeps. My mind is starting to play tricks on me, I could've sworn someone was following me. Whoever it was, he had a real strong smell. It almost looked like some kind of...monster.
Don't panic, Amuro. Stay cool. It's just a swamp. Just stay on the road and you'll be fine. Pretend you're walking down the store aisle, looking for parts for your dream computer.
...I think I see some kind of settlement up ahead! They've got to have phones, I'm sure they'll be kind enough to let me use one. Though I'm not looking forward to returning to White Base after losing that Core Fighter; I know Bright will talk down to me and embarrass me in front of everyone some more. As long as he doesn't slap me, because I swear I won't let him hit me this time. I'm the pilot of the Gundam, he should respect me, because he's not out in the middle of battle by himself, putting his life on the line. He should be grateful I'm even doing it. Yeah, I'd like to see him do any of that, he'd be toast in an instant. Char would eat him for breakfast, or a light snack at the very least.
Speaking of which, I'm getting pretty hungry, and I could sure use a drink. It figures that the one time I actually want Frau and Haro bothering me about eating, they're nowhere in sight! I could stop and look at some of this...swamp vegetation...for some food, but the only thing I know about what's safe to eat is what I overheard while the television was airing a documentary on wilderness survival, and that isn't very much. I don't even think the Federation has a manual for this kind of situation. Ugh, I should've paid less attention to that stupid motherboard and more to the show, considering I ended up frying it anyway.
Finally! It took me forever to get h-is this a summer camp? People actually come here of their own free will?! This place is a dump, there's trash everywhere! Is that a bloody knife in the garbage can? ...Maybe this is some kind of cult. Either way, I'd better watch out-it's certainly a good thing I remembered to bring my gun with me, just in case things get unpleasant. Now how do I use it? The Wikipedia article said there should be a safety switch on this side...got it.
Okay, here goes nothing. Amuro Ray, moving in!
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