I think it's really cool this place has an RP forum. I used to do that a lot when I was younger! Anyway, since it's not that active anymore I thought of creating something that was simple and accessible, but also flexible and potentially deep. Suffice it to say, I got kind of carried away instead, I guess! I hope some people will be interested.

I want to warn you that if you're sensitive to Christian imagery, you will probably not like this. Other than that, it's a little inspired by how Final Fantasy XV mismatches eras of technology, and also supposed to be slightly in the style of creepy, philosophical animes from the 90s like Serial Experiment Lain and Evangelion.

If you want to join, please read all "canon" posts carefully. Consistency is the only thing that keeps our RP world real.

Background

It's 1995, New York City.

One rainy September day a spaceship resembling a crystal, twice the height of the Empire State Building, lands in Central Park crushing 40 dogs and 316 people.

Upon being surrounded by the military a single man appears in the its shadow. He is almost 8 feet tall with red eyes, white hair and is dressed in a glimmering, white jumpsuit. The strange man introduces himself as the archangel Michael.

Later the same week representatives from each country are invited from the nearby UN building to be given an audience with God. As it turns out, God is a giant vat of bubbling water. Communicating telepathically in the ethereal, white inner environment of the ship, much larger inside than on the outside, she explains that she has tired of the modern world's denial of her existence. Instead God wishes to rule the world directly. God then proceeds to give every single person in the world a 5 minute trial of hell.

After this display of power, the world's governments -- no matter their ideology -- see no other choice but to comply to God's demands. Among other commands, some of them secret, all citizens must carry pagers. Every morning they give each person tasks they have to complete for that day. Many of the tasks are nonsensical, such as standing in a specific street corner at a specific time of the day. Others are cruel though. One of the most common is parents being asked to kill their children like in the famous story of the Binding of Isaac, when Abraham was asked to kill his son Isaac. Contrary to the story though, God never stops the parents at the last moment.

Even with the memory of hell fresh, some people begin to rebel against their commands. In return, a certain group of people given supernatural powers by God (such as levitation and telepathy) called Saints begin to hunt them down so their souls can go directly to hell. On the other hand, another group dubbed Sinners discover that the angels can in fact be killed. If you take a picture of them, they become vulnerable for the next 15-20 seconds. Since it takes an awful lot of bullets to take down an angel even in that state, most Sinners carry a Polaroid camera and a sword.

The leader of the Sinners believes that the angels and God are in fact not what they claim to be. Instead they are aliens manipulating us with their superior technology and understanding of our cultural heritage (Christianity). Like any other invaders they must be fought. A science experiment called the Surabahm Quadrat Incession is said to disprove this theory which is why governments ignore them, although it's details are secret to the public.

Our story begins on the morning of September 22nd, 1996.
It's been more than one year since God and her angels came to Earth in their crystal.

List of players

Open the spoiler box to read player descriptions.

Homura - Hayleigh Elizabeth Wilkins
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Name: Hayleigh Elizabeth Wilkins
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Sinner/Saint/Civilian: Civilian
Occupation: Unemployed
Personality: Elizabeth is by nature very down-to-earth, hard-working and courteous, but when it's time to be social and have fun - she is just as good at it and takes great delight in it as long as it does not get out of hand. Having grown up very rich and around people who always accepted her the way she was, she can be a bit spoiled though and act childishly or passively-aggressively when good spirits and hard work doesn't get you anywhere. When pushed even more she can have a bit of a temper and act cruelly and selfishly. Elizabeth also dislikes everything that is too strange, different or complicated and is quick to begin mocking it, especially if with her friends.
Interests/Abilities: Elizabeth's great passion has always been fashion. Since she was small she has sewed a lot and her dream is to become a fashion designer. Socializing with all manners of people since she was small, due to her family's social status, she is also very good at reading and organizing people, or sometimes manipulating them.

Appearance: Elizabeth is about 5'7" tall. She is skinny and blonde, with some darkness at the roots and dark eyebrows. Her eyes are huge, piercing blues and her nose is small like a button, her fingers long and thin while her feet are tiny.
Clothing style: Though Elizabeth sometimes wanders around in her apartment by herself just wearing sweatpants and huge t-shirts, mostly she is known for slick, expensive, colorful dresses -- some of which she has designed and sewed herself. It's also rarely she does not have a very large bow in her hair.

Life before the crystal came: Through (private) high school Elizabeth was the most popular girl in class while also having the best grades. After applying to all of the best fashions school in the world, she was accepted to nearly all of them. All she had to do was choose.
Life after the crystal came: Being subjected to 5 minutes of hell severely traumatized Elizabeth who now suffers from intense PTSD, agoraphobia and a return of the anorexia she suffered from in her early teens. The psychological harm was worsened by her father, her only living parent, being paged only two weeks after to drive a truck into a small restaurant. He killed both himself and all the people in it. Locked up in the penthouse apartment she inherited with his fortune, she wanders the big rooms aimlessly as if looking for the answer to a question she hasn't thought of yet. Sometimes she watches fashion TV and cries holding her old dresses. Other times she opens the windows and hangs outside it, looking down on what might be an escape, until the tickling in her feet becomes too uncomfortable.