ADMIN: Our Alternate Universe
Because I've been writing several fics lately that take place in the AU created by Michiru and I for our ongoing verbal RPG, I thought I'd write up a few details about it as reference, in case anyone is confused about some of the basics when they read those fics.
Michiru’s and my current verbal RPG crossover takes place in an Alternate Universe. Various anime family groupings all live in a privately-owned, combination school/hotel. The school teaches all grades from Kindergarten through University. For security reasons, the real name of the school won’t be revealed, so I’ll just call it Hotel School here.
Attending the school is not always voluntary. If a kid from another school is caught playing hooky, or otherwise breaking laws, a truant officer from Hotel School (usually Kurama from YYH) can legally nab the kid and force them to move in and attend until they graduate from high school.
All students must wear tracking bracelets. In the case of those who are there involuntarily, there are limits placed in the bracelet that control how far they can venture from the school. If they go past that, they are instantly teleported back to their own rooms. On the plus side, a student can use the bracelet to trigger their own teleportation back to the school if they’re caught in a bad situation outside or just need to get home quickly. The adults/parents/teachers can track every student’s location through the bracelets via their computers. The bracelets can’t be removed except through magic.
Relationships and families are mixed and matched from various fandoms. There are yaoi, yuri, and het lovers. Same-sex couples are able to have babies together. A sorcerer (Kunzite from Sailormoon) employed by the school (and living there) has magically impressed birth control into the bracelet (which means the kids are a lot ‘friskier’ than they otherwise might have been.)
There are no entrance exams to high school there, which is a big draw for junior high students. If someone is a voluntary tenant, they also don’t have to attend Hotel School’s classes, if they prefer to attend a different school. They can just live there.
Tenants can eat in the cafeteria for free, and weekly deliveries of basic food/necessities are delivered to each room. If they want something that varies from the norm, tenants have to pay for it themselves.
There are several adult (aged 18+) Floor Monitors to stop trouble, help tenants, and make sure everyone is in by curfew.
There is an underground mall which is accessible to both the school tenants and outsiders. A magic barrier means no outsiders can enter the school without being let in by someone who lives there. In the mall there is an all-ages dance club where a lot of the kids hang out (although it is owned by a 400-year-old vampire and his lycanthrope boytoys.)
All tenants have access to an interschool message board where they post surveys, polls, points of interest, and otherwise interact and get to know each other. My wife and I play the game characters in this community, and have racked up thousands of posts there through them.
Some of the fandoms represented by characters are Prince of Tennis (and Tenimyu), Sailormoon, Fruits Basket, Hunter x Hunter, Loveless, Sukisyo, Rurouni Kenshin, Yuu Yuu Hakushou, Fushigi Yuugi, Chouja Reideen, Kaikan Phrase, Anita Blake, Okane ga Nai, X-Men: Evolution, Koko wa Greenwood, Sohryuden, and more.
Michiru’s and my current verbal RPG crossover takes place in an Alternate Universe. Various anime family groupings all live in a privately-owned, combination school/hotel. The school teaches all grades from Kindergarten through University. For security reasons, the real name of the school won’t be revealed, so I’ll just call it Hotel School here.
Attending the school is not always voluntary. If a kid from another school is caught playing hooky, or otherwise breaking laws, a truant officer from Hotel School (usually Kurama from YYH) can legally nab the kid and force them to move in and attend until they graduate from high school.
All students must wear tracking bracelets. In the case of those who are there involuntarily, there are limits placed in the bracelet that control how far they can venture from the school. If they go past that, they are instantly teleported back to their own rooms. On the plus side, a student can use the bracelet to trigger their own teleportation back to the school if they’re caught in a bad situation outside or just need to get home quickly. The adults/parents/teachers can track every student’s location through the bracelets via their computers. The bracelets can’t be removed except through magic.
Relationships and families are mixed and matched from various fandoms. There are yaoi, yuri, and het lovers. Same-sex couples are able to have babies together. A sorcerer (Kunzite from Sailormoon) employed by the school (and living there) has magically impressed birth control into the bracelet (which means the kids are a lot ‘friskier’ than they otherwise might have been.)
There are no entrance exams to high school there, which is a big draw for junior high students. If someone is a voluntary tenant, they also don’t have to attend Hotel School’s classes, if they prefer to attend a different school. They can just live there.
Tenants can eat in the cafeteria for free, and weekly deliveries of basic food/necessities are delivered to each room. If they want something that varies from the norm, tenants have to pay for it themselves.
There are several adult (aged 18+) Floor Monitors to stop trouble, help tenants, and make sure everyone is in by curfew.
There is an underground mall which is accessible to both the school tenants and outsiders. A magic barrier means no outsiders can enter the school without being let in by someone who lives there. In the mall there is an all-ages dance club where a lot of the kids hang out (although it is owned by a 400-year-old vampire and his lycanthrope boytoys.)
All tenants have access to an interschool message board where they post surveys, polls, points of interest, and otherwise interact and get to know each other. My wife and I play the game characters in this community, and have racked up thousands of posts there through them.
Some of the fandoms represented by characters are Prince of Tennis (and Tenimyu), Sailormoon, Fruits Basket, Hunter x Hunter, Loveless, Sukisyo, Rurouni Kenshin, Yuu Yuu Hakushou, Fushigi Yuugi, Chouja Reideen, Kaikan Phrase, Anita Blake, Okane ga Nai, X-Men: Evolution, Koko wa Greenwood, Sohryuden, and more.
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