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HIGHSCHOOL RP yay! Of course, i wish onee-chan will play Kei and Kai again. I wanna be Miki and Diana again it's possible ^^ I love HS stories about Beyblade. ne ne, onee-chan what is it about mainly?

CANON CHARACTERS

Name: Hiwatari Kai
Age: 17 years old
Team: Team BBA Revolution
Bit beast: Suzaku/Dranzer
Played by: flameangel_child524

Name: Ivanov Yuriy
Age: 18 years old
Team: NeoBorg/Blitzkrieg Boys
Bit beast: Wolborg
Played by: Random--Obsessions

Note: Other canon characters will be roleplayed by flameangel_child524, or someone else she assigns the character/s to, until another roleplayer auditions for the role.

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ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Character Name: Fujiwara Kei
Age: 16 years old
Physical Description: Standing at around 5'3", Kei is of average height with a slightly heavy build. Her eyes range in color from a gentle purple to a flashing dark amethyst, depending on her emotions. Her purple-black hair falls just to her shoulder blades, middle-parted bangs framing her oval face. Despite her heavy-looking frame, she moves with the lethal grace of a martial artist and quite often surprises others with her agility, speed, and strength. When not in the SSJH school uniform, her signature outfits consist of a black shirt or tank top paired with either dark blue or black jeans, trainers, and the occasional armband; failing that, she will don a similarly dark-colored skirt (black, dark blue, or blood red), striped knee-high socks or black opaque tights, and boots.
Personality: Kei is a relatively mild-mannered girl, but she knows her rights and she knows where she stands. She may let the occasional insult pass, but once she reaches her breaking point, those who've known her for a relatively longer time know that they should duck and cover. when she's in front of a dish - having bladed ever since she first knew about the sport - she gets down to business and lets no one tell her how to play it. It is here, in the stadium that one may see what seems to be the true Kei: strong-willed, passionate to the point of being stubborn, and with a tongue that can cut you just as she encourages you.
The saying "Beware the quiet ones for they are the most dangerous..." seems to apply to this teen, for she holds distinction of being the current champion of Class 3-A from the senior year.
School: Sento-Sasaki Junior High
Bit beast: n/a
Played by: flameangel_child524

Character Name: Shimamoto Taichi
Age: 15 years of age
Physical Description: Floppy, light copper-colored hair and teal eyes that just seem to jump out at you because of cheerfulness. These are usually the first things people notice about Taichi. He is also a bit tall, standing at around five feet, five inches at only 15 years old. Because of the amount of time he spends outside goofing off with friends, he is pleasantly tanned. One of the few teens with a ready smile for anyone he comes across, and is oddly proud of being the only one in his class who likes wearing the colors green or blue in varying shades.
Personality: Taichi is a pretty happy-go-lucky teen, who tries not to let anything bother him. He'd much rather go skateboarding, Beyblade with a few friends, play video games or watch television than do schoolwork, mainly because he still gets decent grades without trying too hard. He doesn't like it when his companions are too serious, and so tries to get them to laugh, even just a little bit.
His one weakness is procrastination: he just loves putting things off until the last minute. He also tends to be disorganized and so forgets things easily.
School: Sento-Sasaki Junior High
Played by: flameangel_child524

Character Name: Fubuki Miki
Age: 16 years old
Physical Description: Miki stands at around 5 feet, one inch, with a pleasant, open face and only slightly tanned skin. Her cheerful, dark brown eyes peer out at the world through layered bangs that frame her visage perfectly, the paleness of her skin off-setting her two-toned dark blue hair. She seems to like covering her upper body, hence her usual outfit consisting of a purple shirt, a dark long-sleeved jacket that she buttons almost all the way up. She has also been seen to favor black shorts and black boots.
Personality: Fubuki Miki is a kind and sweet girl, but rumors have spread in her class that she can be vicious in the beydish.
School: Jounankoku Preparatory School
Bit beast: n/a
Played by: BloodyFoxy

Character Name: Diana Marie Murphy
Age: 16 years old
Physical Description: Diana stands at around 5'4" - she's pretty tall for her age, actually - has long black hair that she wears loose, or in ponytails or swept back with a headband. She has naturally dark brown eyes, but she wears red-colored contacts for reasons known only to her. She's also pretty athletic and fit, with a slim, wiry build. Like her best friend Miki, Diana prefers dark-colored clothing, with her signature colors being black, red, and white.
Personality: Diana is somewhat serious and cold, and can be vicious when angered. She has something of a temper and a sarcastic wit. So far, the only person she can tolerate is Miki; other people tend to get on her nerves fairly quickly.
School: Jounankoku Preparatory School
Bit beast: n/a
Playd by: BloodyFoxy

Character Name: Kanazawa Kana
Age:15
Physical Description: 4 feet and 9 inches, Black short hair boy cut. Most ly seen with either both or one hand in a fist covering her lip.
Personality: Timid and shy. She is always quiet. Always alone and beyblade in her alone time. She has no friends and because of her short built and personality she is most of the time ignored. She has no confidence and speaks in a low volume that only some can understand. Due to her always being alone she has trained to have good control, but hesitant to attack. She likes Math. Is afraid of boys and becomes more silent. A good girl but always follows others orders except to change who she is.
School: Daitou-Fuujin Middle School
Bit beast: n/a
Played by: goddessanime

Character Name: Rei Kuusho (Japanese orientation)
Age: 15 years old
Physical Description: Kuusho - or, as some people call him, Sho - stands at aorund 5'5" or 5'6" and weighs about 100 lb. He has long black hair that looks as though it were never cut, and his eye lids are barely separated from his face due to a problem during childbirth (too graphic to be detailed here). When not in school uniform, he wears a black vest, loose black pants, and a large black cloak with a hood that covers where his eyes should be. On his belt, he carries a katana and his Beyblade, and he wears a watch-like "smart device" similar to a palm pilot.
Personality: Sho is quiet and extremely apathetic. It shows in his philosophy, which is "If you're strong, you live; and if you're weak, you die!". He generally tries to stay unnoticed.
School: Saikyoku Junior High
Bit Beast: n/a
Played by: duodrake



As soon as flameangel_child524 recieves the PM containing original character information, she herself will edit it, adding information as indicated or implied in the rules stated in the previous post.

A peaceful day it was in Jounankoku Preparatory School. A young bluenette walked silently as she clutched her bag with her white hands. Her dark brown eyes were like they were just staring out in the world. Her brilliant smile was plastered on her face as she continue to walk inside. The 1st thing she saw was a bulletin board where students can sign up for a beyblading training program and they will be able to compete and be trained by a world-class beyblading team.

She was so happy! Finally, a chance to show her stuff. She instantly went to sign up. grabbing the pencil, she quickly wrote her name. "Fubuki Miki" she silently whispered and was about to put down when she saw a name on top of hers. "Murphy Diana" She smiled and shrugs. "Figures she will sign up as well" she thought as she walked away while some were busy writing their names on the sheets. She decided to go to her secret hiding place.

Rooftop of the Jounankoku Preparatory School. Only a few can come there, and those few are 2 girls. A bluenette girl was standing near the railings, admiring the view as the gentle breeze decided to blow her hair."I guess you signed up too, huh Miks?"the blunette girl looked behind her and there was a dark-haired girl with red eyes, sitting on top a fence. She smile softly "I guess you noticed too...Diana"

yay! i managed to make an intro ^^

((OOC://Looking good, guys! At least I know I have some ready participants! It's encouraging me to write more RPs! xD ))

Kei looked up from her test paper, searching out the clock that was a standard fixture in all classrooms at Sento-Sasaki. This, Integrated and Applied Mathematics, was her last class of the day before Physical Education, and there was no hiding that she was positively itching to begin... well, whatever training program the soon-to-be school team's trainers had cooked up. Would it be like the programs at the local beystadium and gym, where one mentor taught a whole group - as much as ten participants - or would it be a mostly one-on-one program?

The amethyst-eyed girl glanced down at her paper, eyes roving over her particularly messy 'math scrawl', as she called it. No, she wasn't reviewing - she was pretty sure her answers were as accurate as she could get them - just passing the time. Her glance at the clock had told her she had to wait only five more minutes before class ended.

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"Taichi! Hey!"

Copper-haired Shimamoto Taichi looked up from where he was tying his shoelaces. It was one of his friends, Kozue.

"Hey yourself," the teal-eyed teen replied, leaning back against the wall behind the bench. PE wasn't supposed to start for ten more minutes - fifteen minutes were alotted before PE sessions to allow students to change into appropriate attire - and he was just about to go into the indoor gymnasium, where people who'd signed up for the newly-instituted Beyblade training program were supposed to meet for the orientation. "Why aren't you out there with the rest of the volleyball team?"

Kozue smiled. It was so easy to smile around Taichi; what with him being so laid-back, it was hard to feel anything negative. "I just wanted to know if we were still on for later after school. You know, the movie..."

"'course we're still on!" Taichi replied, going back to tying his laces. He didn't want his trainers suddenly getting left behind if they had to do laps. He nearly shuddered at that; he'd had enough of running and jogging laps as a track-and-field member. "You let the others know, all right?"

"Sure." A curt nod, and the girl was off at a slow jog, out the swinging doors of the common locker room - it was actually the section with benches located between the girls' locker room and that of the boys - out into the field where most of the physical education classes went on.

Presently, the light brown-haired teen stood up, tugged the unruly hem of his green-gray sweatshirt down over the waistband of his exercise pants, and made his way to the much larger swinging doors leading to the indoor gymnasium.

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Kei crossed her arms over her chest, leaning against the wall beside an occupied cubicle. "Yuuko, aren't you done yet?" she called, impatient.

"Hang on... my shirt got stuck in my bag's zipper..." Yuuko half-whined from within. Blowing stray bangs out of her line of vision, the brunette stood up straighter and reached for the handle. "Here, let me help you with that..."

After another minute or two of struggling with the stubborn zipper, the two girls emerged from the cubicle, looking harried. "C'mon!" Kei was saying, snapping her locker closed and locking it. "They called the training program participants three minutes ago already; they're probably going through roll call now." Aware of their apparent predicament, the brown-haired girl stuffed her bag in her locker and made for the door, not bothering with the lock; Kei was close on her heels.

Through the swinging doors now, into the gym, braced for the reprimand they would no doubt recieve for being tardy.

"...okay..." The brunette looked around, slightly confused. Only a few students had gathered - she could see three of her classmates over in a corner - and the trainers, whoever they were, were no where in sight. Some of the students were sitting, however, close to a newly-constructed platform in the middle of a huge space that had been cleared in the center of the indoor gym, solely for accomodating the participants of the training program. Motioning quietly for Yuuko to follow, Kei went to a spot that was still more or less empty, and the two girls sat down.

"What now?"

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"... Are you sure this is the place?" A slightly worried voice, its owner's finger perusing a sheaf of paper.

"Well..." another, much more calm voice replied, this one coming from behind a small map; the owner was reading it, no doubt. "Its the only school with that name in all of -"

"Then this is it!" A third, energetic voice cut in, sounding extremely excited.

A laugh that sounded something like a deep-throated purr. "Okay, guys, let's get on with this thing. Our trainees may be waiting already."

"Gotcha! Last one to the gymnasium has to make the opening speech!"

Feet pounding the concrete walkway that started at the school gate, receding into the distance, towards the series of pale gray buildings that marked the different school buildings.

Only a slate-haired teen remained where the group had been earlier, maroon eyes following his companions' progress. He shook his head at the louder one's - Takao's - childishness in starting a race; nonetheless, Hiwatari Kai picked up the pace as he walked, although he wasn't worried.

He wasn't really inclined to making speeches of any kind, and he knew he'd be able to make up most of the distance the others had covered by the time they'd begin to tire out. If they'd read the school map properly, they would have seen that there was a shortcut through one of the buildings that led straight to the gym; but they hadn't, and so they would surely have taken the longer, roundabout way.

Tsk.


((OOC://I haven't exactly thought of an intro for the other training teams, so I guess those'll have to follow... ^^; ))

((OOC:// I'm going to need ideas for the other schools' training programs; they don't necessarily have to follow each other's format, so send in your suggestions, all right?))


"Ivanov, byi shtot odwn?" Disbelief apparent in the lilac-haired teen's voice. The one called 'Ivanov' stopped, but only to throw his companion a glance.

"This is it, Kuznetsov," the flame-haired teen - Yuriy Ivanov - replied in Russian. "Daitouji said it was something-koku Prep; the is the only one so far."

His lilac-haired 'comrade' - were Russian terminology to be applied - glanced over his shoulder at the other two who lagged behind, speaking again in Russian.

"All right; let's go."

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"...and so," Kinomiya Takao went on, folding up the list of mechanics Kyouju - or Chief - had typed up for the team to follow during the training program, "once the participants in our 'mini-tournament' are narrowed down to four, we'll have the school team!" He looked around at the relatively small group of forty students - he'd seen a lot more outside, really - and smiled brightly. "Any questions?"

At the back, a hand shot up, and a decidedly bored voice piped up. "So... when does this mini-tournament start?"

"Now. Does anyone have a problem with that?"

Takao blinked, a bit surprised at his captain's sudden intrusion, able only to watch as Kai stepped forth, his face as emotionless, as masklike as ever. His gaze was challenging, calculating at best; no one spoke, not one protest was made, despite the suddenness of the announcement.

When Kai said nothing more, Kyouju stepped up flashing something like a chart on the projection screen that had been set up only minutes earlier.

"To start, the entire group will be diveded into two, and each student will be given a number that corresponds to another student in the other group. Student 10 from Group A fights Student 10 from B, something like that. The winner of each match will then be sorted into one of four groups - 1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B, as you can see here-" zooming the projection in slightly, and then cutting to a sample listing of such a group.

"As there are only five people per block," Kyouju went on, the slide changing to that of a scoreboard, "the second round is a round-robin knock-out match. Points will be awarded for every win, depending on how you won."

"Essentially," blond Mizuhara Max put in, his customary smile in place, "you guys will battle each other to get to the Top Four - huh? Yes?" He looked up; another hand at the back of the group had been thrust into the air.

"The Top Four are the ones with the highest score from each block, right?" the speaker - a girl - asked. When Max nodded, she went on. "Will they still battle each other?"

"Perhaps they will," this time, it was neko-jin Rei Kon who spoke, one fang catching the dim light and reflecting it. "But strictly as a demonstration. By the time the Top Four have been selected, the mini-tournament is considered over."

In the group of students, Kei leaned towards Yuuko and whispered, "Who knew we'd actually be trained by Team BBA?" Her brown-haired companion only nodded in reply; she was too busy gazing at Rei. In spite of herself, Kei gave a little chortle and sat up straight again.

Names were being called and numbers assigned, the students who'd been called on already getting up and following one of the world-class bladers to dishes that had been stationed around the makeshift training area.

"Group B, Number 11!" Kyouju called, glancing up from the computer-generated list he held in his hand, "Fujiwara Kei, B11!"

Oops. Sheepish, the brunette stood up, looking for the dish where she'd be assigned for her first battle. She glanced back at the researcher-mechanic, who motioned towards - of all people! - Kai, who stood off to the side with another student, some guy from Class 3-D, and Kei hurried over.

Once at the dish, Kai held out a duffel bag, the top ends of launchers and the tips of rip cords peeking out of the opening. "Get what you need and start the match immediately," he instructed curtly. "There are other students waiting,"

Wordlessly, Kei reached into the pouch she wore at her hip and brought out her own launcher and blade - the blade, though was a commercially-bought Dranzer F that she had customized, was a hardy one, and would suffice - and watched as her opponent turned away from the slate-haired blader to face her, borrowed blading equipment in hand.

She didn't notice the slightly interested look Kai gave her before going back to the central platform.

The amethyst-eyed teen returned her schoolmate's gaze and offered a small smile. "Ready?"

He nodded.

Her smile grew wider. "All right, then; 3... 2... 1... Go, shoot!"

Bryan Kuznetsov opened the door to the gym - well, what must have been the gym - just a crack and peered in.

"There's no one here," he reported, looking back at his companions. "We should probably set up now, while there's no one to get in the way..."

The shortest of the four, Ivan Papov, shifted his giant launcher - it was nearly, if not exactly, twice his height - from one shoulder to the other and smirked. "Dunno why you agreed to this, Ivanov; we'll be dealing with junior high school kids-" this last part the olive-haired blader said as though the words were poison in his mouth - "The old man could have suggested someone... local. How good can these kids be?"

The biggest of them, Sergei Petrov, remained silent, as he usually was. It was pretty safe to guess that the three were waiting for Yuriy to speak up and tell them what to do.

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CRASH!

"What was that?" Kyouju looked up from his laptop, glancing around worriedly. Max, ever helpful, jumped up at once.

"I'll go see," he volunteered, before hopping down off the center platform and walked towards the source of the sound. It was an old glass window that had been broken, Genbu's wielder realized, and that it had been propped up against the wall near several of the battling trainees. He picked up the light green blade lying amongst the shards; it could have been anyone's -

"I'm sorry, that's mine," one of the students ran up. Max handed him the blade, and followed as said student walked back to where his opponent was waiting. He had to check if that was an ill-aimed launch, or something else.

"So... what happened here?" he asked, noting the number on the stadium: 11. The girl to his left raised her hand slightly, looking sheepish. "Yes?

Kei gave a small sigh; here goes. "I'm sorry, sensei; I... misjudged the angle of attack and the strength I put behind it. I never meant to knock Minato-san's blade out of the dish..."

Max instantly perked up. Here was something you didn't see everyday. Well, among rookies, anyway; the broken window was several feet away, yet this student's attack, whatever it was, had been strong enough to knock her opponent's blade out, and still have it smash aforementioned window. That took quite a bit of strength, the blond knew from experience.

"Don't worry about it," he said, still smiling. "This mini-tournament is supposed to test your skill, after all. Besides, aren't you glad you won your match? It means you advance to the next round, remember?"

Kei flushed slightly. She was happy - ecstatic, actually - to have made it to the second round, but to have attracted attention... it wasn't the most pleasant of feelings. She was startled, quite suddenly, by Max's hand clapping onto her shoulder.

"Hey, don't go jumping for joy-" he checked his list - "Hiyomura; you're in, at any rate. I'll just go and tell the Chief..." And he walked off.

"Say, Hiyomura-san..." Minato cleared his throat, and Kei looked back at him.

"Yes?"

He held out his hand, smiling now, too. "Great job, getting into the next round." he said. Kei smiled, and her schoolmate's hand in hers; they shook.

"Thanks."