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Edmund O'Reilly
Name: Edmund O’Reilly
Player: BM
Concept: Photography Student/Wannabe reporter
Bio
Edmund’s face is rarely seen on school grounds.
It’s not because he’s ugly. He’s no loner; in fact, he’s always seen about the school, often in the strangest of places. In fact, if anything showy happens, Edmund O’Reilly is often there, either right in the thick of it or trying desperately to get into the thick of it.
The reason no-one sees his face much is probably due to the camera he’s always carrying, that rarely sees the inside of its carrying case when there’s something interesting going on.
A complete shutterbug, Edmund spent much of his childhood in New York State taking pictures of strange things he found, exploring and documenting strange occurrences, or conducting ‘interviews’ with bemused adults. When his parents moved to Sunshine City, he took it in stride; after all, there were so many new and interesting things to see there.
Edmund is a highly energetic individual, and extremely devoted to photography. He’s a rather upbeat, likable sort, as well as a prominent member of the yearbook committee and covers many roles in the school newspaper, and is often requested to cover school events. His enthusiasm and optimism generally leads to good publicity rather than bad, and most school organizations like him for his efforts to gain them attention. Edmund’s reviews and reports often carry startling levels of detail, his photos capturing events in curious detail.
Edmund has an eye for visuals, and can often spot things that most others would overlook. He is also attuned to patterns, and his paintings and drawings are extremely detailed, whether they are abstract or realistic. This attention to minutae and design makes his photographs and artwork powerfully evocative. While primarily visual, he also possesses well-tuned hearing, though he has little interest in music beyond the listening. His perceptive ability can border on the fantastical at times. In fact, his ability to always arrive at the right time to catch a particularly entertaining bit of drama or sudden unprovoked happening borders on the supernatural…
He has a love of detective novels and television shows, as well as journalism. He also has worked a series of part-time jobs in order to pay for his cameras and other equipment, including electronic stores and ramen shops. He has attempted to create several amateur movies, though he has trouble finding actors. He loves caramel coffee cake with an unnatural passion that rivals some of the greatest lovers in history.
Stats
Athletics: 2
Academics: 3
Charm: 3
Qualities: Psychic (1) – Guess it crossed the supernatural line after all…
Persona: Argus
Major Arcana: Hermit
Minor Arcana: Cups
Opposed Arcana: Swords
Strength: 3
Magic: 3
Defense: 5
Speed: 3
Quality: Gnosis
Appearance: Argus’ figure is that of a tall, muscular man, standing upright, with rich olive-tone skin. Less humanoid is his head – a mass of glittering blue eyes clustered at his neck. Long straight stalks extend from his shoulders in a fanned collar, all covered with the same eyes which, in fact, line his entire body.
Spells:
Glare (Attack – Water Element): A cold stare that literally chills the victim to the bone. The target so transfixed is blasted by a sudden eruption of ice shards and super-cold air. Cost: 1
Panopticon (Alter – Defense (Positive), Enhance): The target gains acute situational awareness so potent it’s supernatural. This awareness grants a minor degree of control, dulling disruptive influences upon the body. Cost: 2
Hp: 6
Energy: 6
Social Links
Fool: The party social Link. Gives generic points that can be allocated to any Persona Stat. Increases whenever a Void-bringer is defeated.
Rank: 3
Affiliation: None (Any)
Bonus: +2 Defense, +1 Speed
Star: Leon's Social Link. Initiated when Edumund asked him to write a script for an SF film for cultural week. Edmund has since joined the SF club.
Rank: 2
Affiliation: Wands (Strength)
Bonus: +1 Strength, Second Chance (May only be killed if he's at 1 hp when struck)
Devil: Kasumi's Social Link. Initiated during the photo shoot, where Edmund learned how Kasumi viewed the school as dull, until the discovery of the Otherworld gave her the possibility to do something great. They've currently pledged to protect each other.
Rank: 2
Affiliation: Cups (Magic)
Bonus: +1 Magic (Add Enhance to Panopticon), Telepathy and Interrupt with Kasumi
Justice: The Ozawa Student Press Social Link. Initiated with the first newspaper meeting, where Edmund proposed covering Vika and Faris' challenge to the Martial Arts club as a running feature.
Rank: 1
Affiliation: Swords (Speed)
Bonus: +1 Speed
Vika Tenori Stamford
Player: Mal
Appearance
Short stature, with shortish pink hair and a flat chest, but looks cute when out of her usual tomboy context. An unlikely looking delinquent; the 'Bike Shorts Bomb of Sakihito' (referring to how she wears bike shorts under her uniform, making her immune to panty flash while spinkicking people). As befitting the setting, she is somehow half Japanese.
Background
Vika is the token orphan girl perpetually on the edge of falling through the cracks in the system - that is, she would be falling through the cracks if she weren't rising through them. Currently, she is technically under foster care, but actually lives alone on government money instead. She gets an athletic scholarship as well, but her marks are too poor for her to actually participate in club activities.
Stats
Athletics: 5
Academics: 1
Charm: 2
Qualities
- Martial Arts
- Lucky
- Issues - Super Impulsive
Malcurion 9
Sword = Yes
Stats
Strength: 5+2 [7]
Magic: 1+1 [2]
Defense: 2+1 [3]
Speed: 2+1 [3]
Arcana: Chariot (and how!)
Suit: Wands
Opposed Suit: Swords
Quality
- none
Powers
- Wrath (Alter: Attack Up, Enhance) Greatly buffs the power of Malcurion 9's physical attacks.
Social Links
- The Fool III (+1 Magic; +1 Strength; +1 Defense) The party Social Link. Gives generic points that can be allocated to any Persona Stat.
- Sword of Temperance II (+1 Speed) Vika's link with Naoko whom she pushed around through the library to help her study. Vika also leapt into the burning maw of a monster to save Naoko.
- Wand of Chariot I (+1 Strength) Vika's link with FARIS whose training in martial arts she is overseeing.
Vladimir (Vlad) Sakharov
Player: Shrike
"You want me to start with my family? Well, ok.
"My dad's Russian, originally from Moscow. He spent two years in the army as a conscript, like most men in Russia back then, and ended up working with some guys he'd served with. A few years later the company expanded into Japan and he ran into the women who he was eventually going to marry as the chairwoman and heir apparent to a Japanese outfit down on their luck. Apparently they fought like cats and dogs for the first bit but eventually they stopped being angry at each other and fell in love. I don't get to see him much; he took an early retirement and mostly does consulting these days so he's all over the world.
"Mom's Japanese, the only daughter of an entertainment tycoon. Grandfather Inagawa unfortunately died in a car crash when mom wasn't even out of her teens and she had to take over his company. Which she did, better than anyone expected. Her company and dad's officially merged around the time my brother was born. These days she claims to be happy as a housewife, though I've never seen her do one bit of housework - we have maids for that. She always wears a kimono too. I think she's enamoured with the idea of being a Yamato Nadesico.
"Brother Mikhail is the eldest of us, nine years older than I am. He's a spitting image of my dad and is already on the fast track in management in dad's old company. He splits his time between Russia and Japan, mostly.
"Aoi's my twin sister, though she takes after mom and you'd never know we're twins. She doesn't go here though, she's at the Lillian Girls' Academy. Yes, the hyper-exclusive all-girls school on Astraea Hill. I think they sent her there so she didn't torment any more boys - she's amazingly polite but well . . .
"Is she pretty? She's my sister! . . . But yes, she is, I guess. And no I'm not giving you a picture so you can sell more papers.
"And me? My native - if you can call it that - language is English. It was the only language my parents shared and what they mostly used to talk to each other so I ended up learning it pretty much by default. I can speak Russian and Japanese as well, though I'm told my accent is atrocious. I think my parents are a bit dissapointed I came out so normal."
Stats
Athletics: 2
Academics: 2
Charm: 2
Qualities
Opulence (2)
Streetwise
Svarog
Major Arcana: Magician
Minor Arcana: Pentacle
Strength: 1
Magic: 4
- Sheen: Alter (increases magic defense)
- A reflective aura that helps to defend against magical attacks.
- Dawn's Breaking: Attack + Area
- A blast of golden light from the sky that sends out a soundless shockwave.
- 1 unspent point
Defense: 3
Speed: 3
Qualities
- Almighty
- Inviolate
Social Links
Fool: The party social Link. Gives generic points that can be allocated to any Persona Stat.
Rank: 3
Affiliation: None (Any)
Bonus: +1 Defense, +1 Magic, +1 Speed
Catherine: Igor's assistant who has a deepening relationship with Vlad.
Rank: 2
Affiliation: Coins
Bonus: +1 Defense, unknown special
Naoko: Asked her help in getting a gift.
Rank: 1
Affiliation: Swords
Bonus: +1 Speed
Naoko Daidoji
Player: Screwball
Stats
Athletics: 2
Academics: 4
Charm: 4
Qualities: Cripple
Persona
Name: Jeanne d'Arc
Strength: 2
Magic: 5
Defense: 3
Speed: 4
Minor Suit: Wands
Major Suit:
Powers:
Attack 2 (Enhance 2)
Alter 1 (Magic Increase)
Social Links
Party (Fool: +1 strength)
Vika (Cups 2: +1 magic, telepathy & take blows for Vika)
Vlad (Swords: +1 Speed)
Kasumi Fukatsu (or Fukatsu Kasumi)
Kasumi is a popular and academically successful girl who coasts through school as fast as she can with as little effort as possible. She’s secretly very depressed, feeling closed in by the school, the smallness of it, desperate to leave and get on with what she considers real life and unwilling to really commit to anything at school, personal or as an activity.
Kasumi is quiet charming and hides her sadness well, and behind activities such as piano, dancing and the like. She’s quite willing to date but it never seems to go anywhere.
Personal
Athletics 3
Academics 4
Charm 3
Flaws
Issue (Claustrophobia)
Social Links
Edmund (cups) 3
-Male love interest
Reiko (sword) 2
-Female Love interest
Louis (cups) 1
-Female Love interest/Fangirl
Fool 3
Persona: Hippolyta
Description: a gleaming goddess with four angels wings on its back, each feather a sword. Her face is beautiful but her open mouth shows inside she is hollow. In its hippolyta carries a long sword of glowing white fire.
Statistics:
Strength: 4
Magic: 4
Defense: 3
Speed: 5
Major Suit: Devil
Minor Suit: Swords
Powers: Attack x2, Enhance (speed)x2
Weakness: wands
FARIS
Farrealm Android Reaction Intelligent System
Descriptor: Silver haired, red eyes, robot girl, with the Sword arm for a weapon
Athletics: 5
Academics: 3
Charm: 1
Qualities: 1 robot
== Persona: Aeneas ==
Description: An Greek Hoplite looking figure, encased in ruby red armor, with its head looking a bit devilish with a cylon eye visor
Defense: 3
Strength: 2(+1)3
Speed: 1
Magic: 2
- Magic Heal: 2
- Magic Heal: 2
Quality: Savior (2)
Quality: Inviolate
Party Link 2:
Arcana thing: Swords, opposed pentacles
Social Link: Vika +1 Strength
Sent to India
Bhavak Rangaram
Name: Bhavak Rangaram
Nickname: Bravo
Player: Singh
Concept: Foreign Exchange Student
Appearance
Somewhat skinny and weak-looking; almost akin to a tall, walking skeleton. Bald head, but with the rough formations of a beard on his cheeks and chin despite being fairly young. Usually goes around wearing a set of simple saffron robes that appear to be hand-woven and maybe an undershirt or two for when its cold - at least when its appropriate for casual attire. Otherwise he's in uniform like the rest; but is apparently discussing with the school faculty for an exemption on religious reasons.
Bio
Little is really known about Bhavak Rangaram's history, save that he is a strange foreign student; reported to have originated from a school somewhere in the Himalayas and is in the school as part of a foreign exchange program for at least another year and a half. A Bhuddist in origin but more of a free thinker, he rarely speaks - but when it does it is usually with a heavy air. He's earned a reputation on campus for being the strange foreign child in an even stranger place. Even stranger is his reputation for avoiding many forms of vice, living an incredibly humble existence on scraps and the bare minimum, while giving away everything else to the poorer elements of the city.
Personality & Ambitions
He has three desires: reach enlightenment, help as many other people as he can and be happy. To that extent his personality is incredibly easy-going but at the same time disciplined. His greatest fear is not that he wont reach enlightenment, but that one day he'll become old and start to forget all that he's learnt - especially since his family's suffered heavily from hereditary Alzheimers
Stats
Athletics: 2
Academics: 2
Charm: 4
Qualities
Martial Artist (1)
Equilibrium
Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Chakra07.gif
Description
The Sahasrara, or crown Chakra, is an embodiment of pure consciousness and will - and in this case, Bhavak's conciousness. It manifests itself as a giant lotus with a thousand petals; each one representing connectivity to an element around it - this manifests largely by connecting itself to the people around it; healing them of worry or problems and bringing them closer to a state of peace and rest. But even as it appears to be beneficial externally, the fact remains that the Chakra is always in motion - always in combat with itself to either swing towards Complexity or Simplicity.
Major Arcana: Temperence
Minor Arcana: Fire
Strength: 2
Magic: 2
Defense: 2
Speed: 1
Qualities
- Almighty
- Savior
Magical Powers (2 points):
Heal
Enhance