Roleplay / Rules Of Nature

All the stars in the sky are souls.

The world is a place many beings call home. Humans. Cats. Dogs. Whales. Trees. Vampires. The last one may have been a bit out of the ordinary, but even creatures as mythical as them can inhabit this world, though they currently prefer to conceal themselves from prying eyes for a multitude of reasons. It could be survival, or it could be the fact that they prey on humans and do not wish to be hunted down.

1995. The absolute decimation of almost all of India alerted all of Humanity to the supernatural. Previously, unnatural events were covered up and discreetly taken care of by groups properly equipped to handle these oddities. The efforts dedicated to those coverups were completely ruined by this chaotic occurrence. Now the whole world is aware of what was hiding under the bed and in the closet. The monster in the dark has manifested into a reality.

The powerful SDA (Supernatural Division of America), the organized EUMF (European Union Magic Forces), the cunning SEAJ (South East Asian Justiciars), and the brave ARC (African Restoration Committee). These main organizations with smaller Private Military Companies specialized in combating these monsters were created for the sole purpose of protection.

What’s left in the space of destruction is a pocket in the world that leads to where the unnatural ones make their home. They came pouring out into the world, creating their own smaller pockets and corrupting areas to make it their own. Normality was twisted into abnormality and humanity united against a common threat. It's these distorted areas where humans are preventing the normal world from being encroached upon by this crawling chaos of foreign and unknown malice.

Rules of Nature is an ongoing online quest run by Parasection on Space Battles that began in 2020. The protagonist of the story is a young man named Leo Wilton, a school student that used to be a delinquent until he went to juvenile prison and his brother begged him to stop. Now that Leo is going back to school, it is your job to keep Leo’s life straight and narrow while also helping him to add color again.

.....but come on, when has a quest about school life ever stayed about school life

Rules of Nature is a quest set in the Shinza Bansho Series, but canon flew out the window. So now it's up to you to find out just what the hell is going on.

"Come, gather and bear witness to my opera, now in the making. Its script is the height of cliché, I am forced to admit. And yet...Its actors are of the finest fold; beyond exquisite. Thus, I believe you will find it enthralling"

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• Abstract Apotheosis: Becoming a God means becoming one, which is one of the reason Akasha has to wait for a challenger. He Cannot Self Terminate because he is the law the universe depends on and his body composes the universe, so only another universe (Hegemony) can kill him.
• Absurd Cutting Power: The monster Blade exemplifies this trope, and he even has the ability to cut certain kinds of Perks.
• Achievements in Ignorance: What the entire Airport fight between Leo and the Progenitor Pride amounts to, because of what was essentially prioritizing the right skills, picking the right perks, having the Social Link Perk geared to survival, along with getting equipment that just so happens to negate Pride's Attack Reflector skills. What should have been a game-ending battle instead turned into a victory that was Beyond the Impossible.
• All-Loving Hero: Leo is this, as is Michael.
• An Ice Person: Yonah Wilton.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: Leo focuses primarily in hand-to-hand combat.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: This is what the quest players collectively realized when it was shown that this quest is in the Shinzaverse, as they had knowingly steered Leo to a build where he resembled a certain golden-haired All Loving Villain,and then they and Leo realized just how bad that would be for the world.
• Big Brother Instinct: Terry Wilton, Cool Big Bro to The Protagonist has this and desires to be an example of maturity and responsibility to his little brother Which of course includes hiding the fact that being a Blood Knight is In the Blood.
• Blood Knight: As a child Leo was one to the point Felix and Micheal had to place a Restraining Bolt on him.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Considering the source material this was all but guaranteed for most of the important characters, listing them all would consist of almost everyone Leo has ever met.
  • Every possible hegemony has this: For Micheal, his obsession with Status Quo Is God defines him and is explicitly called out for why the progenitors just want to End It All, as his obsession has led to him killing anyone who could possibly create a new world—with the only one he regretted being an All-Loving Hero.
  • For Haru, caring about fairness, only to see the world be filled with people in despair and just the horrible state of society in general, caused his craving to change from a World-Healing Wave into making him a Walking Wasteland, as he wanted to reveal to the world just how rotten he felt the world and its inhabitants are. Leo had to give him a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man in order for him to revert to his true desire, which was he wanted everyone to be saved-naturally as such a possibility is flat out impossible in Akasha's world, and his law is entirely non-confrontational, instead of having a battle between gods, Haru got No Final Boss for You.

• Calling Your Attacks: Averted: Leo noticeably tries to avert this in one of his battles, as actually, Calling Your Attacks would have drastic consequences on reality.
• Death Seeker: Most people and Monsters who are aware of the nature of the world are this, as to the monsters the world of Akasha is a place they want to leave, as there is a certain point when they became aware of the world via The Reveal, that they can no longer get stronger as they are paralyzed by the infinite possibilities afforded to them. Lust even mentions that only humans have ever had the chance to be gods and to replace the world and that she's sick of Failure Is the Only Option being only for her side.
• Central Theme:A major theme of the world of Rules Of Nature is that actually living in a world of shonen is actually pretty awful, The Broken Masquerade might be cool on the surface level —but actually living in a Adventure-Friendly World isn't as great as it sounds with Surprisingly Realistic Outcome being one of the biggest problems and it's not uncommon for the Creature-Hunter Organization (primarily the North American one) to have Total Party Kill of some of their forces on the daily to the point where one of the top guys even remarks they'd actually lose effectiveness if they didn't operate on the idea that We Have Reserves. The constant fighting between humans and monsters has affected everyone's lives: People are tired and broken by living in a world where the best they can do is keep Status Quo Is God despite numerous efforts to change and trying to Screw Destiny because the two God in Human Form want the opposite of each other. As noted in one possibly canon side story, there are some people who are so scared of entering the supernatural world that they consider Death Is the Only Option. Much like every Shinza Bansho setting, the universe is hell for those living in it. Everyone remotely aware of the world's situation besides Leo has hit the Despair Event Horizon in different ways, even The Big Guy just wants it to end.
  • Another theme is whether or not one should be content with their lot in life simply because to many people, Hard Work Hardly Works when The Chosen Many can casually upstage what you have been spending your entire life on in a week. Leo, while noting that having The Gift or being a Born Winner does help out to the point it's unfair in life—him basically winning the lottery on that—genuinely believes that people should be able to Earn Your Happy Ending, no matter their situation in life as long as they work hard at it regardless of circumstances. Ben however believes that there is a clear difference in terms of will and ideals between those who can become heroes who save the world and normal guys,and there is no way to cross that gap..

• Deity of Human Origin: Anyone who becomes either a Hadou (those whose desires relate to the world around them) or Gudou (those who have desires related to themselves) God is one—only a Hadou God can take the throne and become a Hegemony God: the Hegemony God is a Cosmic Entity.
• Despair Event Horizon: Akasha had three, one was understanding that one can't experience everything in the universe due to time still being a thing, so he could not fulfill his wish of exploring every possibility. The second was a collective despair event horizon with his friends when they fought an Eldritch Abomination known as Naraka, just when they finished their Goal in Life of reaching the origin coordinate it was taken away. The third which just went From Bad to Worse was reigning so long as a hegemony god, to the point he was Driven to Suicide along with all the sensories: they just want his world to end and have tried numerous times to get someone to Destroy The World.

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• Failure Is the Only Option: There's been pretty much one constant of the universes besides Naraka, anyone who's a sensory of Mitra has this. Which makes seeing Lust fail at all her plans sad and hilarious at the same time, to date she's failed 245 times to kill one single man.
• God in Human Form: Hegemony gods have something like this, called a sensory. As a God who reaches the throne, and the Naraka rangers are way too big conceptually to interact with people in the world, beings who act as their sense of touch and sight are born into the reigning Gods world—they might not know if they are sensories, but a lot of them are exceptional one way or another. The Progenitors are this to the Naraka Rangers, one of their members is even the sensory of the reigning god himself.
• Godhood Seeker: Everyone with the potential to become a hegemony god is this on some level.
• Good Is Not Soft: Micheal dreams of Ye Goode Olde Days and has no problem killing all monsters because their trying to destroy the world.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Envy, for obvious reasons. Yonah showed signs of this when Leo asked her the whereabouts of another monster.
• Hu Mons: Much remains unknown about certain parts of the game setting but quite a few monsters certainly fit this.

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• In Their Own Image: Alluded to by the universe being called a "heaven", as the act of a Hadou God becoming Hegemony God dyes the universe in said Gods colors, making it their heaven even if the resulting new universe might be more like hell to everyone else.
• Invocation: Surprisingly few in the setting, might be explained as the first Shinza(Universe) being close to the age of Zero which didn't have any invocations. The only ones shown are for invocations of a law.
  • Leo and Haru use one when invoking their respective laws that are almost the same:"—Om— Abokya Beiroshano Makabodara Mani Handoma Jinbara Harabaritaya Un.Vajra Thathuvam.Naumaku Sanmanda Bodanan Abila Unken Sowaka!Tenchi Genmyo, Shinbe Hen Tsurikiji."Translation: "Praise be to the flawless, all-pervasive illumination of the great Mudra. Turn over to me the jewel, lotus, and radiant light.O Vajrayana, omnipresent in earth, water, fire, wind, and sky. Now universally devoted to the light! Heaven, Earth, Mystic, and Divine, have transformed their power to" with the last word being different in that Leo wishes to ravage the heavens, while Haru wants to save everyone

• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Hegemony Gods being the universe themselves cannot kill themselves—sorta. As a defense mechanism in case a god or in some cases a high-powered being ever gets tired of living, an Apoptosis is born. They are the self-destructive factor of gods and others, and exist to help them fulfill their true wishes. They always help the one they are born from, even if in not so obvious or counterintuitive ways. The only problem is if the being they came from dies, then they die as well.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Leo performs a fantastic example of this during the final battle of the Japan Arc.
• Love Interests: Subverted as far as The Protagonist is concerned according to Parasection.

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• Nigh-Invulnerability: Over the course of the game Leo has certainly developed into a Stone Wall, first by obtaining limited Resurrective Immortality through The Power of Friendship then becoming an Attack Reflector through his Fantastic Fighting Style and later on gaining a Healing Factor and Super-Toughness.
• Non-Lethal K.O.: Hinted as being the only solution to some enemies. A Fate Worse than Death is likely to await their capture though.
• Ominous Latin Chanting: When characters engage in this the effects are bordering on Black Speech
• Our Giants Are Bigger: These are veritable Experience Points pinãtas in the game, if you're strong enough to take them down.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: George is The Patriarch of the SDA and beyond being a Colonel Badass he's also considered by Leo to be a Benevolent Boss

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• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Later in the story it was revealed that Leo was a sociopathic murder machine as a kid and an expy of the antagonist from Dies Irae, Reinhard Heydrich. He would've become a Hegemony God while in the middle of a fight with the Vanguard, Michael, if his brother hadn't convinced both of them to back down. After that, Felix put seals all over his mind, body, and soul, locking away his memories and power before the start of the quest.
• Spirited Competitor: Through the trials and tribulations of Leo has developed and asserted himself as a Boisterous Bruiser with just a hint of Sociopathic Hero.
• Stalking Is Funny if It Is Female After Male: Cute Monster Girl falls for the Action Hero after what she believes is a Roaring Rampage of Rescue on his part and becomes a Stalker with a Crush in the background. However, Parasection might see this as a Villainous Crush by an Abhorrent Admirer.
• Standard Evil Organization Squad: What the Progenitors basically are, with each of them representing one of the Seven Deadly Sins down to their very names (or what they're called at least).
• Terror Hero: How do you pass a an intimidation check when that skill is at zero? With an Intimidation Demonstration.
• The Before Times: What Michael's true desire was, to return to the past and happier days. He doesn't want the world to stop, nor does he want an ending—what he wants is for the world to be happy, and for people to live their lives as the selves they feel is their best.
• World of Badass: the world is one, noticeably it does resemble our original world with additions such as mana—the real divergence for the Alternate History was only in the 90's after all.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Leo has been accused of being this more than once and is a bit annoyed at people telling him My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours.

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