Triad Creation Tourney Plot Role Info

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Information: You're the host of everything, and you're working your butt off in order to see that everything runs smoothly. It is entirely possible that some other matters could escape your notice entirely. (This is why you have staff, let them handle it.)

Strengths: You are a logistical genius. You can direct people to do things and delegate tasks and handle the acquisition and deployment of resources like no one's business.

Weaknesses: You get pretty wrapped up in the details and often miss the big picture. You're also perhaps not as involved with the students as you should be, for you're too wrapped up in the logistical side of things.

Plot Skill: Helpful Half-Dozen: As a benefit of your position at Majesty’s, you have exclusive command of a flock of a half-dozen animated statues (about the size of an awards show trophy and of whatever you as the player want them to be) who will do rote tasks for you, including the mounds of paperwork that you’re having to fill out for the Triad Creation Tourney. These statues are not sentient. (Think of it as a corporeal form of the Unseen Servant spell from D&D.) After the Jaunt, the Helpful Half-Dozen will remain under your exclusive command unless you authorize another character to be able to order them around.

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: You're just doing your best at this point.
Lone Star Academy Coach: Someone please shut them up, the competition venue will be ready.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: You are sympathetic to their overwhelmed plight.
Majesty's Champion: You are confident that your school's Champion will do well, though maybe you should have given them more personal attention, academically speaking.
Lone Star Academy Champion: You feel sorry for this kid putting up with that coach.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: You feel even sorrier for this kid who clearly doesn't want to be here.
Cranky Judge: You would like to turn whoever decided to invite this person to be one of the judges into a newt.
Plucky Trio of Destiny: You wish they could stay out of trouble for five minutes, because they're always surprising you with their ability to find it.
Teaboo: You have no idea they are in your midst and would throw them off of one of the ramparts if you knew. As things stand now, you think they're just a normal, bright student, and you would write them a nice letter of recommendation to whatever postsecondary school they decide to attend after graduation.

Information: In another life, you would have been a football coach for a high school in a small town in Texas. But here, magical competition is your sport. You make sure your students play hard and play to win, but you always want to keep it fair. Problem is, you aren't very good at showing that last part, and your aggressive enthusiasm often rubs people the wrong way.

Strengths: Excellent long-term planning skills--eye on the prize and all of that. Also very disciplined and willing to work very hard.

Weaknesses: Competitive as hell to the point it might allow someone to easily manipulate you by challenging you to do things. Also has a hard time realizing that not everyone is as into competition as they are and often comes off as more aggressive than they realize.

Plot Skill: Pre-Game Speech: Allows you to deliver a dramatic and rousing speech to inspire people to perform at their very best. They will actually see a noticeable improvement in their performance. Works best before competitions.

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: A worthy rival for this competition!
Lone Star Academy Coach: A WINNER.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: Their apparent ineptitude is actually kind of disappointing--you wanted a really good competition, and you doubt this person's dedication to everything.
Majesty's Champion: Your kid's going to beat this kid, easily, but you hope they have a good match.
Lone Star Academy Champion: ALSO A WINNER.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: You're kind of disgruntled this kid who obviously doesn't want to compete is your kid's competition, but what can you do about it? Not much.
Cranky Judge: You are determined to impress this person through your and your students' displays of skill and talent.
Plucky Trio of Destiny: Just some other Majesty's students. Not a competitor? Not important.
Teaboo: You would find their fixation on British culture utterly hilarious if you were aware they were a thing.

Information: The headmaster of Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen fell tragically ill mere days before you were scheduled to leave for Majesty's. You are now in charge of your school's contingent, and to the average observer, you look like you're in a bit over your head. In reality, you are solely responsible for the Headmaster's tragic illness, and you are planning to cheat like no one's business in order to secure the win for your school.

Strengths: You're good at putting on a false face and doing what needs to be done.

Weaknesses: You have absolutely no use for honor, and you lie so often that it's entirely possible that something will blow up in your face.

Plot Skill: Super Sneak: Perfect invisibility spells are widely thought to be impossible, but through your command of the Art of Mime you've mastered it. You do have to make sure you don't leave any footsteps behind or walk into anyone, but other than that, it's perfect--you can even handle having paint thrown on your head without it exposing your presence. The problem is this is all very taxing, and so, after about fifteen minutes of invisibility, you'll have to sleep it off for a couple of hours. (Taking this skill also gives you a free Artistic Proficiency in Mime. Note: please do have the Assistant Headmaster work in whatever other artistic media you were originally planning for! The Mime is meant to be in addition to that, not to replace it.)

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: You're very concerned with making sure they think you're well in over your head.
Lone Star Academy Coach: You think they're a dumbass and that this can be leveraged to your advantage.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: The only one truly playing the game.
Majesty's Champion: You plan on quietly feeding the rumors that this Champion only got picked because of their illustrious parentage. Anything to play mind games with the competition.
Lone Star Academy Champion: A roadblock to be sure, but you've got this covered.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: You don't relish working with such an unwilling student, as this will make your life harder, but you know they have the raw talent to succeed. The trick is in getting them to use it.
Cranky Judge: You know you need to be cautious with this one--they're abrasive, yes, but they're also fair.
Plucky Trio of Destiny: You only see some more troublemaking students here.
Teaboo: If you knew what they were about, you'd be willing to ally yourself with them if they'd help you win the competition. (Like you really care who's in charge of Britain, I mean, really.)

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Information: The heir of one of Britain's most illustrious and aristocratic families, your lineage - and the fact that both your parents sit on the school's board - made your schooling at Majesty's inevitable. Regardless of whether you had any talent. Fortunately, you do have talent - but your parentage and the fact that you are practically the blue-blooded poster child of stuffy, privileged aristocracy means that people tend to look at you and see a stereotypical upper class twit, and not someone with real ability.

Strengths: You have old money, peerage, a title, and connections. You possibly can trace your lineage back to several royal families. You are essentially the cream of the British Aristocratic Crust, with all that entails.

Weaknesses: You tend to come off to people as snobbish, pompous, and extremely privileged. You also tend to look down a bit on the Lower Classes, and don't quite get why everyone keeps thinking of you as an upper class twit and won't believe that you actually have talent.

Plot Skill: Blue Blood: No matter how you act or how you’re dressed, you always come across as high status. People think that you’re Important, even when you’re not - which makes it much easier to impress people, or make them think that you’re someone they should listen to. (Does NOT come with buckets of money outside of this jaunt.)

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: You wish they were a better coach and teacher.
Lone Star Academy Coach: You are glad you do not have this coach, as you think they're crazy.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: You feel kind of bad for this poor overwhelmed soul.
Majesty's Champion: You're going to prove yourself as more than just your parents' child.
Lone Star Academy Champion: You know they'll be strong competition, and you don't know how far they'll go to win.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: You hope they don't die during the competition. They seem the type.
Cranky Judge: You are going to impress them, dammit.
Plucky Trio of Destiny: Younger friends of yours. You kind of hope they don't drag you into even more trouble; being the Champion is bad enough.
Teaboo: You can't put your finger on it, but something about them is weird. You would prefer to keep your distance.

Information: You had it tough growing up. Your family has often struggled financially, and no one else ever practiced magic. But you had a knack for it, and with a lot of hard work, you won a valuable scholarship to Lone Star Academy. You’re determined, now, to become one of the best and to lift your family out of poverty. The Tourney is your best chance to make a name for yourself and kick-start a successful career, and you don’t plan to waste it.

Strengths: Your determination is legendary, and you're very good at buckling down, focusing, and staying on task.

Weaknesses: You've spent so long focusing on the competition and your studies that you're maybe not as up on your social game as you should be.

Plot Skill: American Grit: When you have an important task, you are able to draw on your sheer determination to work tirelessly on the task until it is complete, without any need for food, drink, rest, or any kind of break.

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: Another adult. You'll treat them with the respect they're accorded but have no strong opinions.
Lone Star Academy Coach: You really don't want to disappoint them because you know they don't take loss well.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: Another adult. Again, you'll treat them with the respect they're accorded but have no strong opinions.
Majesty's Champion: Your competition. You want to be nice and respectful to this person, but socializing isn't your strong point.
Lone Star Academy Champion: In it to win it.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: Also your competition. Once more, you want to be nice to them but aren't the greatest at being social.
Cranky Judge: You are confident they'll love you despite their everything.
Plucky Trio of Destiny: Seems to be a walking disaster; avoid.
Teaboo: They're absolutely hilarious and you think you want to annoy them with good old fashioned American superiority.

Information: You’re talented with a brush and a pen, sure, there’s no question about that. But while your teachers at Teikoku Majutsu-shi are trying to get you to become a traditional artist, you mostly just want to be left alone in a corner to doodle silly little cartoons. The only reason you signed up for this is so you could go on the trip to Britain--participation was mandatory for all who wished to travel. You didn't think you'd actually get picked to compete, but here you are, stuck in a legally binding magical contract.

Strengths: You’re highly intelligent, and extremely talented. You’re also the kind of student who gets high marks easily, allowing you to rise to the top of your year without having to do much hard work at all.

Weaknesses: You’re lazy, unambitious, and you just don’t want to be here at all. You’d much rather spend your time doodling then actually doing any real work.

Plot Skill: Doodle Knowledge: You’ve mastered the art of mindless doodling - so much so, in fact, that you can avoid work altogether with it. Your magical doodles allow you to instantly understand everything in the document you drew on, without even having to read it.

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: They're running this thing this year, right? Maybe if you talk to them you can get out of it.
Lone Star Academy Coach: You heard that Americans are loud but this is ridiculous.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: Leave me alone! Ugh!
Majesty's Champion: Wow. You didn't think real people like them existed out of manga. But you guess they're not a bad person.
Lone Star Academy Champion: They're basically everything your teachers want you to be. But you guess they're not a bad person either.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: You don’t want to be here and it shows.
Cranky Judge: What is their problem?
Plucky Trio of Destiny: Maybe if you got in as much trouble as they do, they’d stop making you compete?
Teaboo: You’ve seen weird foreign anime fans act like this about Japan, but this is the first time you’ve seen someone get this obsessive over England. What a weirdo.

Information: You are infamous throughout the magical world for your blunt and acerbic wit. Calling you in as one of the judges has been widely seen as a publicity stunt, though it's unclear as to exactly who decided this was a good idea. Think Paul Hollywood. Think Simon Cowell. Think the unholy lovechild of Paul Hollywood and Simon Cowell.

Strengths: You're impartial, and you're very to-the-point.

Weaknesses: People skills? What's that?

Plot Skill: Dream Crusher: Utterly wreck the motivation of any character you direct a particularly scathing tirade at--this will render them listless and unmotivated for at least an hour. Can be used pretty much at will on the Jaunt, and outside of the Jaunt, can be used once a week.

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: You are unimpressed with how they're running things so far.
Lone Star Academy Coach: You are unimpressed with their meatheaded enthusiasm.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: You are unimpressed by their sniveling sense of being overwhelmed.
Majesty's Champion: You are unimpressed by their riding on Mummy and Daddy's coattails.
Lone Star Academy Champion: You are unimpressed by their seeming lack of a life outside of this competition.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: You are unimpressed by their lack of interest in competing.
Cranky Judge: The only one who has an opinion worth anything.
Plucky Trio of Destiny: You are unimpressed by their ability to get into trouble.
Teaboo: You would absolutely verbally eviscerate their plans if you knew of them, for you would be unimpressed.

Information: At least one of you lost your magical parents at a young age, and grew up with your decidedly nonmagical relatives before being whisked away to Majesty's. (All three of you can be orphans, or even orphaned siblings, or you can decide amongst yourselves which one or two of you is The Orphan, and the others can be their friend(s) a la Ron and Hermione to Harry.) At one point, a bit of accidental trouble on a school field trip led to the three of you accidentally stopping the Teaboo's plans to take over Britain, and they have never forgiven or forgotten this. You don't realize the extent of that field trip trouble--you all find trouble so easily, it's not something that sticks out too badly in the long list of trouble you've become entangled in.

Strengths: You're very resilient, and you bounce back quickly from adversity.

Weaknesses: Your knack for trouble means that you sometimes have trouble getting people to listen to you when more trouble pops up.

Plot Skill: Nose For Trouble: You have the uncanny ability to find plot in the form of trouble. (For example, finding out that the school's security has been breached by finding a troll in the washroom.) OOCly, taking this skill means that once a week you can ask the mods for a hint towards the Jaunt plot--but the form of that hint will always come through your character getting in some form of trouble or another.

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: You don't mean to cause so much trouble for them! It just happens!
Lone Star Academy Coach: A teacher. You expect they'll probably yell at you in their loud American way before they leave.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: Another teacher. If they didn't come off as a nervous wreck you'd be expecting them to yell at you too.
Majesty's Champion: An older friend of yours that seems to have everything together. You really look up to them.
Lone Star Academy Champion: Your friend’s competition. They don't seem like a bad person, but they're still not going to win this year.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: Your friend’s other competition. They also don't seem like a bad person, but they're still not going to win this year.
Cranky Judge: Mean. Way meaner than anyone needs to be. And quite possibly evil. ~~You wonder if they're working with the Dark Magician you thwarted.~~
Plucky Trio of Destiny: YOU DIDN'T MEAN TO DO IT HONESTLY IT JUST HAPPENED
Teaboo: Even though they act friendly enough around you, you get this weird feeling sometimes that they're mad at you for something--and you have no clue what that something is.

Information: You love Britain. You love it so much, in fact, that you want to rule it. Unfortunately, your last attempt was somehow unwittingly thwarted by the Plucky Trio of Destiny, and you are now convinced that they are your true and eternal nemeses. You've been attending the school for the past year-and-a-half in deep cover so you could slowly recover from your brush with the Plucky Trio of Destiny and get in real close to Majesty's power.

Strengths: Intimate knowledge of everything British. You are not British (exactly where you're from is up to the player), but you still manage to eat, sleep, and breathe British everything in between your attempts at taking the country over. You're also pretty patient when you need to be, and your affected British accent is spot-on.

Weaknesses: Being called out on not actually being British enrages you to the point you become illogical and can focus on nothing else, and you're almost unreasonably concerned about the Plucky Orphan and getting your revenge on them.

Plot Skill: Dark Disguise: Using the powers of your dark teaboo embroidery* magic, you can craft a flawless disguise that can mask both your true age and gender. This disguise doesn't wear off unless you say it does--for example, getting knocked unconscious wouldn't break it. (Taking this skill also gives you a free Artistic Proficiency in Embroidery. Note: please do have the Teaboo work in whatever other artistic media you were originally planning for! The Embroidery is mean to be in addition to that, not to replace it.)

Relationship to Other Characters:
Majesty's Headmaster: Why is this person not prouder of everything they have going here?! Also their security stinks, since you were able to enroll and pass as a student so easily.
Lone Star Academy Coach: Their silly American passion for competition will be their undoing.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Assistant Headmaster: You don't think much of them; they don't seem to have anything together at all.
Majesty's Champion: A potential thorn in your side, but perhaps they could be used as a pawn to get at the parents...
Lone Star Academy Champion: They are not British, and therefore, you do not think they will win.
Teikoku Majutsu-shi no Gakuen Champion: Also not British, also not likely to win.
Cranky Judge: You specifically arranged for them to be called in here as a bit of a distraction from your actions. No one has any idea you were behind this.
Plucky Trio of Destiny: CURSE YOOOOOOU
Teaboo: The Most British.

*Why embroidery? During the middle ages, England was known for the quality of her embroidery, so much that some places called it English Work.

I love you guys

BRILLIANT

This was supposed to be his sister's trip, just let him sightsee and go home in peace, jeez.

I feel I should also note he's totally going to phone in the competition aspect because Fuck This.

Edited 2018-03-06 21:44 (UTC)

All the Hayami jokes. all of them

fucking

YeeHAW

they were being made in our jaunt running plurk

Edited 2018-03-06 21:48 (UTC)

The second you realized the actor joke eh? :D

Oh yes. Exactly. :3

I predict at least one 'I'M NOT HERE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE' blow-up. Gonna have your work cut out for you.

I don't doubt it :D (Gonna get good mileage out of all the megapout icons~)

Kitty and Phillip are biological siblings. Prompto and Phillip are friends. Prompto and Kitty are in the same house and Prompto is trying to look after Kitty. Kitty used to tag along with big bro and his friend as much as she could before she came to Majesty's and during her first year there (which is when the dark magician shenanigans happened) and they still spend a good amount of time together.

They are all orphans - Prompto is being fostered by nonmagical relatives, Kitty and Phillip are currently in state care though they started out as being fostered.

Edited 2018-03-06 23:39 (UTC)

Phillip swears he's not trying to get into trouble.

Really.

Honest.

Oh man, this is a train wreck waiting to happen.

This can either go beautifully, or down in flames.

This is amazing.

I am so fucking hype for these two AMERICA-ing it up and making fun of the teaboo.

Sorry your magical sportsball coach doesn't know how to take it down from 11

IT SOUNDED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME!

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Triad Creation Tourney Plot Role Info

Majesty's Headmaster - Minerva

Lone Star Academy Coach - Kinji

Teikoku Assistant Headmaster - Tachibana

Majesty's Champion - Leo

Lone Star Champion - Ochre

Teikoku Champion - Naoki

Cranky Judge - Sabetha

Plucky Trio of Destiny - Kitty, Prompto, Phillip

Teaboo - Yakumo

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YeeHAW

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the plotting so far...

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