At a first glance, Morimune High School looks like any other school in Japan, or even the world at large!
But taking a glance inside the classes reveal that the vast majority of the students possess unique, superhuman traits which defy explanation.
And as with the oddly political climate of usual schools, in Morimune, this leads to high stakes "chess games" between various factions of students, and even some teachers may well find themselves involved before long.
It is in this chaotic ecosystem of the most powerful kids in the world that we find a large number of people simply trying to keep moving through to a peaceful life.
Navigating this political land scape can be hazardous, and some times, even life threatening! Should students misuse their powers, they would find themselves in The Dark Path of the Academy, a ruthless criminal world with the likes of the Suiseiken and Judgment calling most of the shots.
And so, into this world of chaos we go...
Characters
Students
Mohan McKenzie
A first-year student at Morimune who has Seleighe and Djinn ancestors.
Tropes associated with Mohan:
- Glass Cannon: He's at least at maximum human strength, but he's very fragile.
- Half-Human Hybrid
- Pride Before a Fall: His pride ultimately led to his body getting turned hideous.
Shimizu Arashi
A second-year student who occasionally jokes around, but is fairly calm in general.
Tropes associated with Arashi:
Kaemon Nanashi
A second-year student, a bit naive and hot-blooded.
Tropes associated with Kaemon:
- Laser-Guided Amnesia
- Power Armor: He can summon this.
Aiko Kimura
A second-year student who's half human, half satyr.
Tropes associated with Aiko:
Rhyme Solei
A junior, quiet and serious with a strong sense of justic.
Tropes associated with Rhyme:
John Thornton
A freshman, with psychic powers, and an extreme case of split personality.
- Brainwashed and Crazy
- Butt-Monkey: He's even hated by his narrator.
- Deconstructed. This trait was, largely, what made Ignius select John.
- Crippling Overspecialization
- The Dragon: The most active of the bunch, in terms of relation to Ignius.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Correction, only the guys want him.
- Flanderization: Played with. Whatever he feels affects his personality, thanks to his unstable mind, and that feeling gets amplified. This means there is a huge difference between when he is angry, when he is sleepy, etc.
- Funny Schizophrenia
- Averted, after some meddling by Ignius
- Mind over Matter
- More than Mind Control
- Playing with Fire: His prefered method of attacking.
- Non-Action Guy: He is completely fine with staying in the sidelines.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: So far, he has been outclassed in every ground, by other individuals with mental abilities.
Suzuki Haruo
A third-year student who loves jokes and pranks. He is generally easy-going, and pretty trusting.
Tropes associated with Suzuki:
- Blow You Away
- Green Thumb: One of his powers is the ability to create clouds of mixed thorns and petals.
- What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: If he used his powers right and had the skill to do so, his powers could deal extreme damage. As it is, they're pretty weak.
The Esper Organization
Matthew Streika
A young man from America, this teenager has been working with the Organization for nearly a year now, and has a certain reputation with the nastier side of the supernatural. His ability is to create swords. He has come to Morimune hoping to make sure Ein Woe is not successful in what he has set out to do.
- Beware the Nice Ones
- Berserk Button: Do not try to assassinate his new friends. Just don't. It will not end well for you, as a certain vampire assassin found out the hard way.
- Fight Magnet: He has a Holy Artifact in him, so its really a given.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: It is all Matthew can use, really.
- Master Swordsman: Skilled in many, many, many styles and switches between them easily.
- Sword Beam
- Wave Motion Sword: The Aura Rave spell
- Idiot Hero: Though perhaps not as dull as he acts sometimes...
- Nice Guy: Almost incredible, really, that he can go through so much and come out of it so nice and well adjusted. Matthew is, identity issues and dark side aside, a very kind, industrious and understanding individual who doesn't care who or what it is that is in danger, he will help out.
- Perpetual Smiler: A hint that not everything about Matthew is peachy.
Antagonists:
Ein Woe
- Card-Carrying Villain: Ein deeply enjoys all the evil he does.
- The Chessmaster: Skillfully orchestrates events in this fashion.
- Dark Is Evil: Although he is mostly pale white, he wears a cult-like black outfit.
- Driven to Madness: All it took was one bad day (the betrayal of Gabe, the almost-suicide of his perspective girlfriend, and then finding out why he was always a cast-out and that demons are "naturally evil".)
- Expy: One could make the case for Ein being, basically, a superpowered Joker.
- Facial Horror: Half his face is covered by a bone-like exoskeleton, his right eye is just a red slit.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: His canon backstory: abused bastard child, seeing hope for the first time in a certain school, and then having it brutally, utterly shot down right in front of him.
- Monster Clown: Has common characteristics attributed to them.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Like the Joker, Ein has a couple backstories.
- Slasher Smile: Always described as smiling. Always.
Ignius / Strife
A bizarre priestly boy from another world, Ignius seems to resemble Matthew to some degree, and has been orchestrating some events to seemingly avoid a catastrophe. However, his methods for accomplishing this are very dark indeed, and most of his traits and even his backstory remain hidden from sight. He appears to possess terrifyingly powerful reality warping abilities, enough to be a Dimension Lord.
- Ambiguously Evil: While his stated intentions are good, he seems to employ a lot of really morally dark gray / black methods to get to this, including mind raping an innocent girl just to put her brother into another body (long story), brainwashing and artificially aging the Plucky Comic Relief, and then he gave Black Blades to Tsuhiro.
- The Corrupter: He has corrupted John and Tsuhiro into being his Co-Dragons.
- Light Is Not Good: Priestly appearance, white robe that screams "Pope", and white hair? Check. Morally dubious ways of trying to save the world? Incredibly secretive? Check.
- Manipulative Bastard: He knew exactly what to say to get Tsuhiro on his side, and he made sure to give John "peace of mind".
- Reality Warper: Owns his own dimension, can control nearly everything in this dimension, including time and space, and is capable of "matter transmutation".
- The Stoic: Not much can phase Ignius.
Samael
A mysterious masked man who appeared during the fight with Ein Woe and Jae'yon, and displayed very high levels of talent with his Magical Eye power, the Shinjinme. Next to nothing is known about him, other than that he is possibly even more powerful than Ein Woe, and has very personal stakes in this war. A Hero Killer of high caliber, in New Dawn proper he has a high kill count attached to his name.
- Berserk Button: In story, do not withhold information or fool around on a mission. Don't. He hates that. Also, no female hostages. That will get you ripped apart. And heaven help you if you should try to rape your target. That's a quick way to be stuck in a Fate Worse than Death.
- Combat Pragmatist: This is a man who never, ever, fights fair. If he can easily win by exploiting his broken Magical Eye, he will do so. He won't attack you from the front. He'll teleport in and stab you from behind.
- Enigmatic Minion: Do we even know what he wants?
- Generic Doomsday Villain: Somewhat. He does not seem to have a motive for running around shanking people.
- Healing Factor
- Hero Killer: Of both heroes and villains in New Dawn. His complete count? Shouji Muzoku, Jack, Mary, Steven, Devin, David Reaver, Carmon Calan and Jill Levenheim, Antoine Reyva, and then the Phantom Claw Trainees.
- Kick the Dog: He really did not need to make the suppression that painful. He just decided to do so anyway.
- Magical Eye: Maybe an Expy of the Sharingan, but even more ridiculous. It lets him cast very powerful spells without even making necessary preparations, drops the Mana requirements for such spells to almost nil, and gives him some really powerful abilities.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: This guy does not fuck around. He barely even talks to people he's trying to kill.
Tropes found in Morimune High School RP
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council: Consists of a lot of heinously powerful individuals, including Physical God Ayumi Nabiki, her First Lieutenant Karasu, her scheming Vice President Akira Kuronuma, the Ax-Crazy? Captain of Security Kei Muramasa, The "Shadow King" Hayate, and numerous others, including most of the player characters at this point, with some exceptions.
- Ax-Crazy: Kei might just be insanely violent in his responses to "threats", and Kagetaro is just plain nuts.
- Beam Spam: Allan's default setting for his weapon, Aziero.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Zak gets two big ones during his Oracion state.
- Blood Knight: Dex Anthem, as usual for him.
- Most of Anti-Thesis could also count.
- Butt-Monkey: John Thornton isn't exactly everyone's favorite...
- The Chessmaster: Akira, Ayumi and most especially Hayate, who is somehow keeping up in scheming with a seemingly omnipotent Ayumi.
- Fero is one too, but is more of a Guile Hero only doing this to save his friends.
- Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive: Hayate, numerous times.
- Co-Dragons: Jae'yon alongside several others.
- Delinquent: Kagetaro has a whole gang of them.
- Demonlords And Archdevils: Ein Woe is stated to be a Demon Lord. Specifically of the Grand Duke Class. This means nothing good for our heroes.
- Depraved Bisexual: Hayate not only has girls draped all over him in his gardens, but openly flirts with Fero...while implicitly threatening to kill him.
- Dissonant Serenity: Has Ayumi ever shown any hint of a change in behavior? This changed recently, but it might not last.
- Elite Mooks: What Allan and even Zak are in the long run.
- Gambit Pile Up: Everyone is planning something, or so it seems. The only parties who are not doing so may well be Rhyme, Yuki and an oblivious Minato.
- Gambit Roulette: Ayumi is running one with so many details and chance events it's amazing she could keep all that shit straight in her head.
- Enemy Mine: All conflict at the school has come to a grinding halt as Ein Woe's Anti-Thesis group and Dolph's Odessa have shown up.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Allan's demise.
- Hero Killer: Akira Kuronuma
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Minato / Fenton, as a result of "damage".
- Nigh-Invulnerable:
- Zakarias Agruera, Ein's "Invulnerable Servant." He also hits very, very hard when he chooses to use barehanded attacks, and moves very fast.
- Matthew is even moreso, being a superhuman from the start, but being able to amp his abilities further via Mana.
- Master Swordsman: Matthew, with one style of fighting per sword he creates.
- Mind Rape: Ignius does this as a matter of course.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: Hayate, the smiley little gardener kid, who turned out to be a horrifyingly depraved bisexual who has enhanced speed and strength, and has definitely shown why he has the title of "The Shadow King."
- One-Winged Angel: All of Anti-Thesis has a habit of doing this. Currently, we have:
- Allan Descardo: From psycho bishonen to basically a walking artillery platform.
- Zak Agruera: From oddly bipolar teen to a skeletal monster with Renji's Bankai coming out of its shoulders. Though it did not help very much.
- Jae'yon turned into a giant squid-spider-fox-dragon-thing with a lot of eyes. And then a giant dragon knight. And then a smaller dragon knight which is now a sniper...
- Outside-Context Problem: Ein Woe and Dolph have come outta nowhere, and have caused a large shake up in terms of the school power structure.
- Powered Armor: Matthew gets a suit of it with wings attached, as do everyone else in the 317th.
- Reverse Shrapnel / Flechette Storm: Dolph's magic, which makes clouds of Sakura Petals made of nanites, which can just as easily turn into eviscerating blades.
- Shout-Out: Anti-Thesis is a big one to Bleach. Demon Flare = Cero, Demon Pistol = Bala, the Anti-Thesis Elite Mooks can even use something very similar to Resurreccion.
- Sword Beam: Dolph's Ultimate Spell, the devastating Aura Rave.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Dolph's whole group is made up of them.
- The Trickster: Gamma and Zeta are identical twins who just love taking advantage of how closely they resemble one another.
- Yandere mixed roughtly with Tsundere: Karasu to Ayumi. Cemented recently when she was insulted by Fero, Karasu went all the way to Murder Is the Best Solution.
- Ayumi is also the same exact way with Karasu.
- Hidden Depths: Just about every character has these in some way, as does the RP itself initially appearing to be a Slice of Life Highschool RP that just happens to star Differently Powered Individuals before morphing into a massive Gambit Pileup.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ignius seems to give off this vibe. He apparently wants to save the world, but his plan for doing so involves killing Yuki.
