[OOC] Murder U OOC

[wingedcatgirl]

OOC discussion thread for the Murder U series, consisting of Murder U and Murder U Too. Murd3r U is currently in prototyping, but on the backburner.

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Original post

Speaking of MUToo: I'm calling an interest check. It'll have 13 slots, so if you're currently interested in taking one, speak up here and now.

I know I said that it'd probably not open til Sinister Starlight concluded, but then all the stuff happened and SinStar is now on pause and it's unclear how long... so we might be kicking it forward depending on, y'know, the results of this interest check.

[artsyGeek]

Interested!

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Me too!

[Huney]

I'm coming in and you can't Stop Me

[KungFuCutbug]

maaaybe... depends on when it gets up and running, and when the Pokémurdergame I have planned gets up and running (I can simultaneously host and play, as I did with both rounds of AGOM and the first two rounds of .EXE, but we'll see)

[wingedcatgirl]

depends on when it gets up and running

Well, if we get 13 positive responses to this interest check in a day or two, we'll open signups for... a week, maybe, and the game will start once that time period ends.

If we don't get 13 responses, we might put it back on the back burner for a while.

[Subparman]

Coming in hot. Better think of a new Danganronpa OC woo

[Florien]

Hell yeah, we're in, in the sense that we are interested!

And also that something something cheating at a card game, but very interested in this!

[SmilyCube112]

Adding my positive interest check for this - HELL YEA, 'COURSE I'LL SIGN UP!

[madface7]

I'm interested. Got a backlog of characters I need to put to use.

[Dookie]

Interested!

[Kennifer]

I'm interested in this too... why am I sighing up for all of these, oh well.

[GoldenCityBird]

I might join, but it'll probably depend on if I join any other games.

[wingedcatgirl]

Signups open!

... in this thread, not the RP thread.

And no "gogogogogo" this time cause we're doing a fair signup period thingy. You've got a week, and your chances of getting in don't care when in that week you post your app.

[TalesofUnder]

Name: Doug Grugg, goes by Dick Gumshoe
Appearance: (see attachment)
Gender: Male
Backstory: Dick is a golem who's wandered the Earth for centuries, and recently got a job as a detective. He's not very good at it, though. And yet, because nobody else showed up, he's the Ultimate Detective.
Distinguishing abilities: Uhhhh.... detective work. He's also a golem, with all the powers that entails.
Other: Speaks in orange text

[artsyGeek]

Name: Haruka Ito
Appearance: 
Gender/Pronouns: Female, she/her
Backstory and Personality: Her family life isn't exactly the best. Her mother is a single mother - her father passed away when she was a baby. Her mother, while caring, is definitely not healthy mentally, showing signs of depression. Seeing this makes Haruka concerned for her mother, and what inspires her to have a career in psychology. | She is joyful and determined, always trying to make sure everyone's doing well mentally. Sometimes, she comes off as naive, but she is most definitely not. However, she is rather stubborn, sometimes helping people who others deem as hopeless - and sometimes, the others were right.
Distinguishing Abilities: Being the Ultimate Psychologist, she has an ample amounts of knowledge in a lot of the branches in psychology, especially psychiatry.
Other: Speaks in light pink text. May or may not be here due to Ryo.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Name: Ronnie Pines
Appearance: Long black hair, Coke bottle glasses, big beard, with disheveled and stained clothing and a hole in one of his shoes.
Gender: Male
Backstory and personality: Comes from a family who looks after themselves and he tries to think of others, but comes across as conceited and arrogant and better than everyone. Loves to drink Monster energy drinks and chows down on Taco Bell. As a result of his love of Monster, he moves very fast.
Distinguishing abilities: Willing to do even the worse of jobs no one else wants to do.
Other: Speaks in green.

[madface7]

 Name: Eugene Harold Krabs
Gender: Male
Backstory: Is the Ultimate Penny-Pinching Crab! He grew up in poverty and joined the navy, fighting in a war. He later established the Krusty Krab out of an old retirement home, where he sells burgers and collects money. He has a daughter named Pearl who he loves dearly.
Distinguishing abilities: Making money! And clawfighting. And talking like a pirate.
Other: Speaks in bold red.

[Huney]

Name: Komaru Naegi
Gender: Female
Backstory and Personality: Komaru is normal as normal can get. You thought her brother was plain? Please. Sister of the Ultimate Lucky Student/Ultimate Hope Makoto Naegi, Komaru is a bit absent minded, but she's a good soul at heart. After fighting through perhaps the weirdest apocalypse she could imagine, she finds herself the sister to the new headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy and with a new best friend in Toko Fukawa! Yep, nooooothing can go wrong for her now. She's seen the worst of the worst!
... Right?
Distinguishing Abilities: Uh. Hm. She's a good shot? But specifically with hacked megaphones.
Other: Ultimate Lucky Student, maybe? Speaks in blue.

[Florien]

Hell yes, I'm in, and someone who's been on the sidelines for a while is in.

   

Name: Kellensea Harthdareiter

Age: 39

Gender: Female, She/Her.

Skills: The Ultimate Adventurer, capable of slaughtering entire villages without a second thought, wearing several layers of armor without questioning it, carrying around several hundred pounds of goods, and somehow being completely unimpeded by the multiple layers of armor, the probable war crimes, and the hundreds of pounds of "vendor trash" previously mentioned. Her deep-rooted instabilities are unmatched, and her ability to come up with utterly stupid plans that actually work despite how dumb they are has no equal.

Backstory: Kellensea always wanted to become an adventurer, with all that entailed in her world. When she saw the chance to get picked up by a group, at the age of 18, she immediately went along with it. She took up physical combat, mostly out of necessity, and became a terror. She really began to shine and haunt people's nightmares a few years later though, when she joined a government agency, rather uncreatively called "The Agents" along with the rest of her party. Over the course of four years, she participated in numerous adventures, ranging from simply killing things, to infiltration, to bodyguard work. After collecting several different bits of equipment from her various enemies, she fully covered herself in armor. No one except those she trusts have seen what she looks like underneath the armor since. After her career in The Agents ended, however, she found herself with a series of allegiances that simply didn't fit in with the new world she had forged with her friends through violence. She's been in a psychological death-spiral ever since, occasionally running off on some wild adventure, or overthrowing a tiny country's government out of a misguided sense of justice, as she never came to grips with the fact that her glory days are behind her, and that overthrowing governments doesn't help anyone in the new geopolitical system which she helped bring about. With her old adventuring injuries beginning to catch up with her, and her recklessness and obsessions only getting worse, her surviving two party members are becoming more and more worried that she'll be next funeral they'll have to attend. One of these governments will stop her, her luck has to run out eventually, right?

She speaks in Bold Cinnamon Smallcaps.

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Name: Monika
Appearance: Here's the link to her image.
Gender/Pronouns: Female, She/her
Backstory/Personality: She's the president of the Literature Club of an unknown high-school, making her the Ultimate Literature Club President! She was involved in an "Incident" involving said club... As for personality, she's quite sweet, friendly, and mature... However... It's possible that her demeanor is hiding something much more sinister from her past... Perhaps relating to that "Incident"...
Distinguishing Abilities: Fourth-wall awareness. She also has the mysterious ability to alter the source-code of reality itself. However... She's terrible at it. 
Other: Speaks in cinnamon text. (Hex #D2691E)

[Kennifer]

Name: Alexis
Appearance: See attachment. She's tall (around 5'10") and quite thin. Very fair skin, gray eyes, and thick black wavy elbow-length hair that tends to fall in her face. Generally wears gray pants and a striped or brightly-colored top. She's about 28.
Gender/Pronouns: Female, She/Her
Backstory and Personality: She's been performing in musical theater since she was a kid, and is quite good at it. She is quite friendly and tends to hum to herself or burst into song at random intervals. She likes getting to know about people and will generally try to figure out the layout of whatever building she's in. (OOC, this translates to "she actually looks at the damn map if there is one")
Distinguishing Abilities: In addition to being the Ultimate (Off)Broadway Diva, she's a pretty good swimmer. She can sing, dance, and act.
Other: Her favorite musical is Chicago. Speaks in gray text.

   

[Subparman]

Name: Kai Satou
Appearance: Ta-daaah.
Gender/Pronouns: Male (he/him)
Backstory and Personality: Polite and well-spoken young ex-assassin slash househusband. Complicated, but he's never actually killed anyone, so he's got that going for him.
Distinguishing Abilities: An excellent eggs benedict. And uh, underhanded manipulation. And hacking. And being useful but only posthumously.
Other: Speaks in #e62e00.

[Billy5545]

Finally posted in the correct place
Name: Rosa (Poca is the Cyrillic writing)
Appearance: Here
Gender/Pronouns: Female, She/Her
Backstory and Personality: Rosa was born to a noble family and one of the higher elites, the Rostova, who lived in the mobile city of Chernobog in the Empire of Ursus. At some point, she went to a high school, where she served as the student council president. Then one day, disaster struck when an Infected terrorist group, the Reunion Movement, attacked Chernobog. After they took control of the city, one of their leaders, Patriot, decided to lock all the students, including Rosa, into one school, the Peterheim High School for their safety.

However, another leader, Mephisto, was then assigned to oversee it. He deprived the students of food and basically forced them to succumb into infighting for survival. From this point, Rosa managed to gather a group of other students from the nobility. They would pillage and steal from other students who came from less privileged backgrounds, though Rosa would come to regret it. One day, it all came to head when her group's storage got attacked by the group of another student, Sonya/Zima, resulting in its destruction. As it contained the last food supply in the school, it resulted in the situation deterioratating even more, leaving a lot of the students dead and Rosa traumatized.

She would then join the Ursus Self-Study Group, which was led by none other than Zima, before they all got rescued by Rhodes Island days later. Her whole experience has been humbling to her, and thus she decides to renounce her noble identity and try to integrate herself with the commoners of Rhodes Island. After overcoming the worst of her trauma from the incident, she eventually applies to become a combat operator.

For her personality, she is pretty nice, polite and helpful to everyone as she tries to make herself equal to them. She is also pretty mature for her age, and she looks out for others. However, the trauma still left her with PTSD and it's effects, or misery in her heart as she says.
Distinguishing Abilities: As an Ursus (the bear race in Arknights), she is naturally more powerful than an average human, even though her files say that it's standard. This is manifested in her ability to wield her harpoon gun, which is actually a modified version of a small siege engine that was designed for inter-city warfare.

Aside from that, she is intelligent and able to lead people as a former student council president (even though it went disastrously the last time), and perhaps also well-versed in combat tactics, considering her excellent tactical planning.
Other: Her name is merely a codename. Her real name is Natalya Andreyevna Rostova. Oh yeah, also an edit, but I'll be using white text color for her.

[Caret]

(After over one month in backlog limbo, I finally managed to enter her in a murdergame!)

Name: Bow

Appearance:    

Gender/Pronouns: Female (she/her)

Backstory and Personality: Bow one day met a Pokemon Trainer named Ry, and together, they journeyed through the Kanto region to defeat the 8 gym leaders and become Champion while stopping Team Rocket and you know the rest if you ever played a Gen I game. While normally sweet and cuddly, albeit a bit shy, she is basically a fluffy war machine, and will not hesitate to use her firepower if you get on her wrong side.

Distinguishing Abilities: You know what, I'm just going to post Bow's current moveset because I am too lazy to describe all of her abilities in detail:

• Buzzy Buzz
  
• Double Kick
  
• Bite
  
• Quick Attack
  

Being a Partner Eevee, Bow also technically has access to Veevee Volly, but that requires Power Of Friendship B.S. to use, so the chances of her actually using it are very slim.

Other: Has absolutely no relation to Katana/Ikufu despite both being Partner Eevees named after weapons. Speaks in brown.