Post by Celly on Dec 3, 2007 18:51:38 GMT -5
Welcome to the Kanon RPG
This RPG ish based off the Anime, Kanon, made by Key.
Story
Kanon's story, set in the middle of winter, regards a group of five girls who are connected back to the same boy. Yuichi Aizawa, the main protagonist, had visited the city where the story takes place seven years prior to the story's beginning.
In the beginning Yuichi is very detached from the city and its inhabitants. Prior to his return, it is decided that he is to stay with his cousin, Nayuki Minase, and her mother, Akiko. After his long absence, Yuichi has forgotten almost everything except minor details of what happened seven years before and is in need of being reminded of what he left behind.
On the day after Yuichi's return, he is out with Nayuki who is showing him around town. Nayuki remembers that she has to buy things for dinner and Yuichi is reluctant to go with her, arguing that he might get lost. Moments after Nayuki left him waiting on the sidewalk, a strange girl named Ayu Tsukimiya barges into him with little warning. Upon recovering, she drags him away to a nearby caf¨¦ and confesses to inadvertently stealing a bag filled with taiyaki after being accidentally scared away by the salesman before she had a chance to pay. Yuichi then drags Ayu back to the salesman, they both apologize for the trouble, and Ayu is forgiven. They decide to meet up again another day and Ayu scampers off.
Yuichi is not aware at first, but three other girls which he had forgotten are familiar with him. Throughout the story, as he learns about the supernatural undertones of the town, Yuichi is reminded of each girl and the events of seven years ago in the city covered in snow.
Rules
1) Please, if you know nothing of Kanon, go look it up.
2) Please, stick to the main storyline.
3) Only take two pre-mades please.
4) Same gender relationships are allowed. Why? Because I don't care.
5) Please, do not make all girls charries, even though there are so many female pre-mades >>
5) Be atleast Semi-Literate
6) Ice cream...*-*
7) Please be kind to others
8) Keep this PG 15
9) No Mary Sues and the other one, male version Dx
10) Curse all you want. I don't care
11) Um...You can have as many OCs you can handle. But if you do that, make atleast one male
12) I'll add more rules later xD
13) Have fun.
Setting and Themes
There are several important locations featured in the Kanon story that are based on those of the city Moriguchi and Sapporo, located in Japan. The location names are seldom mentioned explicitly in their works.
The time of year the story occurred in was during winter, and since it often snowed periodically over the course of the entire story, the city was always presented covered in a layer of snow. The covering snow helps to develop the mysterious mood that the story flows through.
There are recurring themes that appear throughout the story. One theme would be the presence of snow around the entire city which helps to develop a mysterious mood coupled with a supernatural theme which the story revolves around. Furthermore, miracles play a large part in the story; Kanon's plot line and characters are influenced by various instances where miracles occur. The act of promising and keeping promises is found throughout the story. Yuichi eventually makes important promises to the five main girls while at the same time fulfilling past promises he had made with them when he used to visit the city as a kid.
One of the sub-themes in the story is amnesia, or the loss of memory; three of the main characters ¡ª Yuichi, Ayu and Makoto ¡ª suffer from amnesia in varying degrees; this is used as a plot device to advance the story. Another sub-theme deals with the favorite foods of the five main heroines. Newtype USA stated in an article on Kanon that, "it's when the characters are eating something really tasty that they seem most beautiful and alive," despite the somber setting and overall tone of the series.[13] These five foods of choice are: taiyaki (Ayu), strawberries (Nayuki), nikuman (Makoto), ice cream (Shiori), and gyudon (Mai).
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Pre-Mades
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Name: Yuichi Aizawa
Age: Around 17
Gender: Male
Bio and Personality: Yuichi Aizawa is the main protagonist of Kanon. He is friendly and outgoing, and though as nice as of a person he is, he has yet to learn the sensitivity of women. He constantly teases the main cast of girls throughout the story which varies in severity depending on the girl. Despite this, he does have a soft side that likens him to an older brother as noted by Shiori Misaka. He used to visit the city in which the story takes place, but his memories of that time are gone, slowly coming back to him as he interacts with the people he met in the past. As noted by himself, he is afraid of heights.
While not aware of it at first, Yuichi slowly begins to take notice in the supernatural events occurring within the city. During these times of revelation when he will discover something outrageous, he stays strong with the girls he has made close friendships with. Since Yuichi is a normal person, he tries to help them anyway he can and will usually go out of his way in order to protect one or more of these girls.
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Name: Ayu Tsukimiya
Age: 17-ish
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Ayu is the main female character in the series' marketing, followed closely by Nayuki Minase. Ayu is a short, strange, and mysterious girl that literally bumped into Yuichi early in the story. She is immediately recognizable by her winged backpack, red headband, and tendency to refer to herself with the masculine pronoun boku (ƒW, boku?), meaning "I". Ayu is notorious for her catch phrase, "Uguu"which she mutters as an expression of various negative emotions such as frustration, anger, and fear.
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Name: Nayuki Minase
Age: 17-ish
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Nayuki is Yuichi's cousin, with whom he moves in with at the beginning of the story. She has always been in love with him (in Japan, such relationships between first cousins are legal) and must learn how to deal with these feelings, especially with the threat that he may fall for one of the other girls. She adores strawberry sundaes, but the mere mention of her mother's "special" homemade jam makes her sick.
Nayuki is a heavy sleeper, which has led her to collect dozens of alarm clocks; they do not work on her, but instead wake Yuichi every morning. Since she has such trouble waking up, she is always running for school and is in fact the school's star runner because of this. Similarly, she became the captain of the school's female track team despite being in her second year. She takes a long time to get up in the morning and will pass out several times during the morning before completely waking up. Despite her attempts to stay conscious, she still tends to fall asleep a lot in class.
Nayuki has a fondness for animals and never misses an opportunity to try to pet one, even wild animals, such as cats, dogs, or even the occasional fox if she can help it. Unfortunately for her, she is allergic to cats. One of her defining features is that she tends to talk slower than the rest of the characters. She will often state the obvious to Yuichi, such as when lunch break occurs or when school ends.
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Name: Makoto Sawatari
Age: Around 17
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Makoto is a young girl who attacked Yuichi Aizawa out-of-the-blue in the middle of town early on in the story. She was then carried back to Yuichi and Nayuki Minase's house, where she lived as a guest for the remainder of her story. Despite having lost her memories, she remembered what her name was and is sure of is that she holds a grudge against Yuichi from the past when he visited the city back when he was younger. Makoto's amnesia, or memory loss, is much more severe than Yuichi's or Ayu Tsukimiya's, but from an entirely different source. When it comes to her opinion on taking in small animals as pets, she feels sad that pets sometimes are abandoned when their owners cannot take care of them. Due to this attitude, it takes her a while to warm up to a stray cat she finds halfway through her story which she later names Piro. Makoto is shown to love Piro very much and will often carry the cat around on her head.
From early on, it becomes obvious that Makoto has a mischievous personality, which leads to her performing various pranks. These are done exclusively on Yuichi because of her strong dislike for him, something she constantly reaffirms. Her persistent attempts at pranks on Yuichi vary in severity, such as simply dropping food on him or once even throwing lit firecrackers in his room. As time passes and Makoto beings to feel more as a member of the Minase family rather than a stranger, she honestly grows to like Yuichi, effectively looking beyond her latent distaste for him.
Makoto can be clueless about things that people her age should know, such as the fact that she can buy her own meat buns and manga; Yuichi had commented once how she lacked common sense due to a lack of social experience. Like Ayu, she too has an idiosyncratic expression, "A¨±" (Auu~), which she says when she is frustrated or sad; likewise, it has no real meaning. Another unique speech pattern of hers is that she always refers to herself in the third person. Near the end of her story, Makoto starts to wear two bells around her right wrist and enjoys the sound they make.
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Name: Shiori Misaka
Age: 16-ish
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Shiori is a first-year student who has suffered from an illness since birth. Her affliction has caused her to become very physically weak, and is almost always absent from school because of it. She loves drama and is always inventing reasons for things that happen in her life, but the real-life drama of a sister who denies her and a life threatened by illness is encroaching on her. Strangely enough, sick as she is, Shiori thinks nothing of sitting outside the school for hours on end while eating ice cream in the middle of winter, despite Yuichi telling her several times to go home and rest. Due to her illness it is not strange for her to carry around an array of different pills and drugs for her many ailments.
She has a noticably quiet voice, though is not afraid about adding a smart-alec remark during a conversation in an attempt to sound cooler. Shiori informed Yuichi early on that the reason she disobeys her doctors' advice and comes to school so frequently is that she wants to meet someone she knows. She is the only heroine in Kanon whom Yuichi did not meet in the past.
Shiori's first appearance in the Kanon story is the day after Yuichi arrives in town. He is out with Ayu Tsukimiya when Yuichi finally remembers that he had known Ayu from seven years ago. Ayu, very happy about meeting him again after so long, goes in for a hug, but Yuichi dodges causing Ayu to smack into a tree. The result of which causes snow to fall from the tree onto a passing Shiori. She had been carrying groceries she had bought earlier which were now strewn on the ground around her. Seeing the trouble Ayu and he caused, Yuichi helps to pick up her things and Ayu helps out as well. Once Shiori has everything, the three of them go for a little walk down the snowy pathway and they discover that Shiori is a first year high school student. The next day in school Jun spots a young girl in casual clothes on the school grounds below their classroom. Yuichi recognizes her as Shiori and during lunch break goes down to meet her.
Yuichi asks her what she is doing here, and Shiori says not to worry since she a student at this school, but has the day off due to a sickness. When Yuichi asks what she is sick with, Shiori tells him it is a simple cold, though she has had it for a long time. Yuichi then asks why she is here if she is sick, and Shiori explains that she has come to try to meet someone she knows. When Yuichi asks what person she is waiting for, Shiori tells him it is a secret and leaves it at that. At the end of this conversation, Yuichi introduces himself using his full name, though Shiori only uses her given name. Upon asking what her family name is, Shiori simply walks away as if she did not hear what he said.
During the next few weeks, Yuichi starts to regularly meet Shiori at school whether it is during or after school has gotten out. Yuichi repeatedly tells her to go home so that she will get better sooner instead of standing out in the cold all the time, though Shiori never listens to his pleas. One day, Yuichi asks Shiori if there is anything she would want to eat and Shiori tells him that she would like to eat some ice cream (her favorite food), despite it being very cold outside.
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Name: Mai Kawasumi
Age: 18-ish
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Mai is a third-year student of the same high school that Yuichi goes to. He met her standing alone in the school building at night, with a sword in her hand. She apparently takes it upon herself to fight and defeat demons at night while the school is deserted. Due to this, she is constantly blamed for accidents because she never denies them, being too sincere to say anything and knowing that no one will believe that there are demons in the school. Her best friend is Sayuri Kurata, the only person besides Yuichi that does not believe that Mai is a dangerous delinquent. Yuichi eventually starts bringing her dinner at the school while she is fighting and during these times Mai begins to warm up to Yuichi.
Mai's idiosyncrasy is her unwillingness to carry on conversation or even to merely utter the meekest of responses when addressed. Due to this, and her reputation as someone who causes trouble, she is most often avoided when at school, and is talked to behind her back. This cold side of her is shown to stem from having very little insight on other people's emotions.
Before Mai met Yuichi or even lived in the town where the story takes place, Mai was living in another town with her mother who was admitted into the hospital with a serious illness. It did not look good for her mother's condition and with her father already gone, Mai would be alone if anything happened to her mother. Mai's mother did not want to see her daughter cry or be unhappy, so she tried to fight the illness as well as she could but knew that she was losing to it. Mai loves animals, and her mother told her that after she got out of the hospital that they could go to the zoo. One day, Mai's mother lies to Mai and tells her that she is feeling much better today and that they can go to the zoo if she wants to. Mai is reluctant to listen to what she is saying, but eventually goes along with it, believing at such a young age that her mother would not lie to her. They do not get far from the hospital before Mai's mother has to rest however, and as Mai's mother falls asleep on a bench outside, Mai starts making a large amount of snow bunnies which are snow balls formed in the shape of an oval with some leaves attached to the top for ears and two rocks or berries as eyes. Mai sets these in front of the bench and when Mai's mother finally awakens, she tells her mother that there is no need to go all the way to the zoo since they have their own private zoo here to enjoy. Perhaps due to this small outing, Mai's mother's condition becomes worse and she is expected to die soon. Mai at the point starts to pray that her mother will be all right and starts to cry on her mother's hand. Miraculously, Mai's mother recovers somewhat by the morning and is soon cured of her sickness.
The explanation of this stems for a magical power Mai has within herself. When she cries, her tears carry incredible healing powers which even has the power to bring things back from the dead. Soon after, the media finds out about this power she beholds and Mai appears on television programs showing how her power works. Before long, Mai starts to get bullied and terrorized from people in town as being a freak, and Mai's mother decides that it would be best if they moved away. The town they move to is the town where the story takes place.
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Name: Akiko Minase
Age: Dunno. 30-ish
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Akiko is Nayuki Minase's mother and Yuichi Aizawa's aunt whose main role is in Nayuki's story. She works at an unspecified job and takes care of the house, cooking various types of food, most of which is good except for her infamous "special" homemade jam which she alone enjoys the taste of. She appears to not realize exactly what is going on around her, taking in strays such as Makoto Sawatari and assuming lame excuses for her behavior. She may just realize that Makoto is a good person and can be cured of her anger, which is true. Akiko certainly exhibits more knowledge of the situation than Yuichi as far as the origins of Ayu Tsukimiya and Makoto are concerned, hinting that she is familiar with the supernatural goings-on in the town and how they apply to Yuichi. Akiko is very important to Nayuki since she does not have a father.
Akiko is known to be very easy-going and is constantly smiling. She will not even resort to stern lectures, such as when Makoto spends money on herself that Akiko gave her to buy food. Akiko can be assertive, though she never has once raised her voice in anger or otherwise. She will often give responses to questions within one second of being asked, the answer almost always marking approval.
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Name: Sayuri Kurata
Age: 18-ish
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Sayuri is Mai Kawasumi's only friend before she meets Yuichi, and thus her biggest part is in Mai's story. She is the daughter of a wealthy family, and always tries to smile and help others. She uses more formal Japanese honorifics for Yuichi when she addresses him, even when they become close friends. Sayuri cares very deeply about Mai, as it shows since they not only hang out together constantly, but Sayuri will get worried if Mai is in trouble; she also never forgets Mai's birthday. Initially, she is completely ignorant about the demons but even though some begin to target her near the end of Mai's story, she stubbornly stays by Mai's side. Sayuri, as with Ayu and Makoto, has a cute quirk; when she laughs, she voices a distinct Ahaha. Sayuri always addresses herself in the third person due to an event in her past.
Despite Sayuri being a supporting character, she gets some back story to explain some of her current situation and how she came to become such good friends with Mai. Sayuri's story begins many years ago when Sayuri was still a young girl. She had been raised primarily by her father who did not spoil her, so she grew up with manners. When her younger brother Kazuya was born, Sayuri decided to be rather strict with him as her father had been with her so that he would grow up to be a better person. In her heart, she really wanted to console him when he was crying or scared, but Sayuri believed that it was for Kazuya's sake that she was strict. Kazuya himself was slow to develop and did not talk even after entering kindergarten; he hardly ever laughed. Kazuya was always alone; he had a weak body so Sayuri would walk him to and from kindergarten.
Kazuya eventually starts to get more sick and weak and is admitted to the hospital. For the first time in Sayuri's life, she decided to go against being strict with Kazuya and went out buying many toys and junk food which she brought to Kazuya's hospital room. Soon after that time, Kazuya died, which completely changed Sayuri's attitude and personality. After he died, Sayuri began to address herself in the third person. Sayuri explained that she could only see herself from a third-person point of view from then on; she did not smile either until after she met Mai.
Sayuri first met Mai in their first year of high school. They were in different classes so the two did not know each other at first. One day, there was a dog scaring some people in front of the school and Mai managed to scare it away with a shovel. Later, Sayuri found Mai feeding the dog her lunch and Sayuri offered to give her lunch to the dog as well. After that point, Sayuri and Mai started to hang out and soon became best friends. Sayuri believes that Mai saved her and has been a much larger help in her life than what Sayuri has been able to do for Mai since they met.
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Username: Taiyaki
Name: Kaori Misaka
Age: 17-ish
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Kaori is mainly in Shiori's story, but is regularly seen due to her being Nayuki's best friend and Yuichi's and Nayuki's classmate; she is also their class representative. She is very smart and knows a lot about the schoolmates and townspeople, but doesn't appear to be aware of any of the supernatural things that happen, even after Yuichi's caring saves someone close to her. Her surname and appearance indicate that she is Shiori's sister, and Shiori affirms this, but Kaori vehemently denies it. Jun Kitagawa once commented how she started to act differently since they entered their second year in high school.
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Username: Taiyaki
Name: Mishio Amano
Age: 16-18?
Gender: Female
Bio and Personality: Mishio is a key player near the end of Makoto Sawatari's story; she does not appear so much in this story as the other characters in this section. She mysteriously warns Yuichi to stay away from Makoto when Makoto's health begins to fail. That is because Mishio knows the mysterious and magical workings of the town, and she has experienced the loss that comes from asking for a miracle first hand. Due to this experience, she has shifted her personality and thus does not show much emotion or even smile, much like Mai. Mishio has shown herself to have a wild and girly imagination, as noted by Yuichi. She can immediately tell when someone is not normal or not even human.
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Name: Jun Kitagawa
Age: 17-ish
Gender: Male
Bio and Personality: Jun is a friend of Yuichi's who sits behind him in high school. Before long they even start making odd jokes, such as the fact that they always wear the same clothes to school due to the dress code. Viewers do not see a lot of him in the first anime adaptation. Jun has a crush on Kaori Misaka and will often follow her around despite Kaori's dismissal of his romantic affections. He is seemingly there for little more than character development, as well as being one of the male characters with a name.
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Original Characters
And Postie~ xP
