Thread: Strike Witches RP: 501st OOC

Because Kata has decided to beg out on GM-ing the strike witches role play, i've decided to host it for him. we just need 3 players beside me and him to keep it running and with said RP activity, he might consider the strike witches worthy of a sub forum.

First off, copy/paste your character here in the ooc thread. also, here's the link to the original thread which tells you how to make said character.

http://www.animeb.com/forum/anime-manga/12861-recruiting-animeb-strike-witches-force.html

make sure i's approved my kata before posting it here, lest you go through a storm of editing.

list of characters:

Haley Campbell {t0k0}
Jean Elysse Blackburn {Okazaki Tomoya}
Hiroko Yoshizawa {Sakurazaki}
Karin Kittel {Aeris Aisaka}



i will add more characters as they come along.

Name: Haley Campbell
Nationality: Liberion
Age: 16
Familiar: Pit bull
Striker unit model: F6F hellcat, Standard blue
Primary Arm: Modified M1919A4 medium machine gun (trigger mechanism, ammo storage and grip)
Secondary Arm: Modified Johnson M1941 LMG (stock length increased to be cradled by underarm)
Pilot Archtype: David McCampbell

Overall Description:
Personality: Thoughtful/kind, playful, cool and collected during battle, goes berserk if friends get injured.
Magical Specialties: Excellent Shielding, and specialty is to give herself insane short bursts of speed (for the story context, she has broken the speed of sound, but was never able to sustain it)
Appearance: Pale Skin, Black hair, Brown eyes, somewhat short, 5'2"-ish

Growing up in Liberion, she never really had a passion for anything other than friends. When her older brother returned from the war as an amputee she decided that she'd join the armed forced and put her seemingly useless magic to use. All she used it for was sports, and was consequently banned from playing due to her special abilities to make herself move that much faster for a short bit)
She enjoys practical jokes, lounging around and sweets.

Actually, a gamemaster and two players would suffice in my opinion, if they are active enough. Pretty active, that is.

Add in my witch from AIVAS. Jean Elysse Blackburn from the Liberion Navy

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- Name: Jean Elysse Blackburn
- Nationality: United States of Liberion
- Age: 16
- Familiar: Golden Retriever
- Striker unit model [pre-1950 aircraft]: Chance Vought F4U Corsair
- Primary arm [pre-1950]: M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
- Secondary arm [pre-1950; optional] M1911A1 Semiautomatic Pistol or a Naval Saber.
- Pilot archetype: Lt. Cdr. John T. "Tommy" Blackburn

Jean Elysse is a somewhat...rowdy 16 year old from the western Liberian city of Seattle. Her reservation is merely a farce, as she really just doesn't want to show her younger childhood days of living in the streets, picking fights with boys and learning the value of a hard day's work by defending every penny she ever owned from older kids in her block.

A rare intellectual in the orphanage she was raised, she often argued with the religious leaders in the Catholic-run orphanage due to the appearance of the Neuroi and how they weren't signs of a benevolent God. She did treat the Neuroi as the enemy they were, and when she was revealed to be a witch at the age of 10, wished constantly to be part of the illustrious Strike Witches, who fought back the seemingly useless battle against the spreading dark.

Her chance came when she was 12, when using her powers, she singlehandedly prevented a bunch of naval airmen and officers from being splattered all over Pine Street by a runaway truck. A fool had forgotten to leave the brake on and rolling down the hill, it had nearly squashed a group of retreating people when she stepped in, activated her barrier, and stopped the moving vehicle cold.

Recruited into the Liberion Navy, she held some friendly rivalries with Liberion Army Air Force witches, who used the comparatively fast Mustang Unit, although she trusts her life to her Corsair Unit. She lacks much special power, other than forming strong barriers and having an extraordinary sense of spatial awareness, she is a formidable dogfighter, most likely learned and picked up from her rough and tumble childhood.

While some would applaud her spatial awareness, it doesn't come close to some witches, and some would only rate hers as above average. Her use of the Corsair Strike Units was also not free from problems, and as a result she spent more time in training and RnD than actual combat in comparison with other Liberion Navy witches who used the Wildcat and Hellcat Units. That though was no problem, as she can easily outperform others, earning her an ace in a day status with 12 enemy shot down on her first combat mission from the Liberion Navy Carrier Bunker Hill.

Her ace in a day status was achieved when she engaged the Neuroi alongside 5 other more experienced witches off the southern continent's coast. This action saved the naval convoy that was sending supplies and materiel to the southern continent, where a Neuroi hive smaller than the ones over Europe had formed, sending raids and laying waste to the vast Oil reserves there. Her assignment on the Bunker Hill was short lived, as she was soon transferred to a new unit.


Personality wise, she is initially shy, somewhat distrustful of others, but she is really a happy person to be with, placing loyalty first and generally being playful. Her preferred tactic has always been to dive from the sun and using her unit's better performance over other Navy Strike Units to basically get into dogfights where she seems to regularly get up close and personal, taunting the Neuroi to shoot her only to have her impressively strong barrier deflect the enemy attacks.

A point of contention between her and other witches, is her modesty in dress. Growing up in neighborhoods of loose morals and in a Catholic-run orphanage, she did not follow the style of the day, which were to go pants less and only show their panties. She had seen many of her female friends back in Seattle be in the recieving end of unwanted advances by males and she has adopted to wear shorts or short, modest skirts. This extends to when she is on duty, wearing a relatively modest short skirt that does not reveal her panties, and wears a pair skin-tight tan stockings that allow her use of her striker Unit, while at normal times would be tucked into a variation of the regulation boots the Liberion Marine Corps wears, the difference being that it has zippers on the side for easier removal when being scrambled. She wears her sidearm at all times, and has been known to produce a pair of brass knuckles sometimes.

We'll have to see. A lot of my new media studies are pilling on work. Esp. with this new speech class. BUT! I will try.

Name: Hiroko Yoshizawa
Nationality: Fuso
Age: 17
Familiar: Kai Inu - Kai Ken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; Kai Inu
Striker unit model: Mitsubishi A6M "Zero-sen" - A6M Zero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Primary arm: Katana - Katana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Secondary arm: 13 mm Type 99 Machine Gun
Pilot archetype: Hiroyoshi Nishizawa - Hiroyoshi Nishizawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Character created by: Sakurazaki

Bio: A serious individual Hiroko willingly volunteered to help fight against the Neuroi. She takes pride in being what many would call a "kamikaze" fighter, in other words rushing in blindly and defeating the enemy with the raw power of a katana. Despite what many think of her, Hiroko actually chooses her targets carefully before attacking them. When at a disadvantage she does not back down, claiming to defend her pride as a citizen of Fuso.

Her mother and father both enrolled in the military as well, leaving Hiro to fend for herself at the age of 10 when an officer told her that both of them had been killed in an attack by the Neuroi. She was born in a mountain village in the Nagano prefecture.

Hiroko has long jet black hair that is loosely tied back. Her brown eyes glare at those who look down upon Fuso.

Rumored to have killed 100 enemies so far, Hiroko has recieved the nickname of "Devil"

cool cool, i'll start bringing my campaign together. currently working on some dogfight work and whatnot.

Karin Kittel http://german.about.com/library/blname_Girls.htm (the name is legit)

- German(whatever the name is, haven't found the time to watch the show)
- 17
- Tiger
- Blohm und Voss BV. P194
- Saber/portable 20 MM cannon
- Otto Kittel (KIA 1945)

She is short, with long ish white hair, and a stunning build hiding behind her ammo belts. her specialty is the elimination of hardened targets, but corner her and she puts up a fight. like her striker unit, she values both old and new philosophy, very traditional, but always looking ahead.

http://wrestlingarena2.free.fr/eddie...illyasviel.jpg

im going to start the RP either today or tomarrow. planning on having the base for our strike group based almost identically to that of the 501. oh and we need to chose a wing unit number. any suggestions?

32nd kriegsarmiedelairforce wing


lol

but for real:

82nd air wing

Originally Posted by Aeris Aisaka

Karin Fittel http://german.about.com/library/blname_Girls.htm (the name is legit)

*facepalm* You really don't get it, do you?

Yes, Karin is an existing German female given name. (Thanks for the source, could come handy some time later.) But it has no connection whatsoever to the male name Otto. If we went the strictest way, which is preferred here, Ottilie Kittel would be your only choice.

But as stated before, even the anime is lax with a few names, so I will let the given name bit slide. (A side note: I did like Sakurazaki's nifty, almost poetic, way of being creative with her character name.)

So, what about Fittel? Never heard that one, and most of the sources I can access have no knowledge of such family name.

So once again I do the research you should have done yourself, and finally I find a record of a Franz Fittel. Sounds German, but he was American. Turns out that Fittel has been an alternate spelling, among emigrants, of the indeed existing German name Fichtel.

What if I let you choose between Karin Kittel and Karin Fichtel? Would you still come up with something different?

umm. i knew a friend of german descent who's last name was fittel but ok

Karin Kittel it is

anyways, ottilie is complicated, i muc like the simpler names.

i would consider naming my child Karin(after aeris of course)

Karin Kittel it shall be

Originally Posted by Aeris Aisaka

i knew a friend of german descent who's last name was fittel

If that is the case, I do apologize for being a harsh above. However, until proven otherwise, I believe your friend's ancestors changed the spelling because Fichtel would bring about confusion among English speakers.

Karin Kittel accepted, I will check your character's details again tomorrow and probably add it to the roster in the main thread.

alright, with one vote for the 82nd air wing (and cus it sounds legit) and the name change from fittel to kittel i think we're set. be on the lookout for hte actual rp thread. oh, and if you have questions complaints accusations of hated ect ect, let me know here.

I thought we'd discussed the unit number previously, in the Recruit thread. Didn't Jusu venture the 442nd as a possible name/number?

I'm looking forward to seeing what you can make of this, t0k0. I could chip in from time to time, but I've never been much of an RPer and would only get on Sakurazaki's and Jusu's nerves if I tried to participate

Originally Posted by hinarei

I thought we'd discussed the unit number previously, in the Recruit thread. Didn't Jusu venture the 442nd as a possible name/number?

EH? ****, i KNEW i'd miss something (if you let me know about any plot holes, i'll fill them in asap)

Originally Posted by hinarei

I thought we'd discussed the unit number previously, in the Recruit thread. Didn't Jusu venture the 442nd as a possible name/number?

Frankly, I had totally forgotten. Jusuchin/Tomoya came up with a good reasoning there, so why not?

no problems here

I just created an NPC for the campaign: Saki Katō of Fuso, 11 years. She is a maid-in-training (not a witch!) who has volunteered to help defend her country, and has been assigned to assist the maintenance personnel at the Urashima-wan Airbase. Pick up Saki-chan's personality as I write about her, and feel free to use the character in ways that benefit the campaign.

Saki-chan was partially inspired by pikkulotat, the underage members admitted to the Finnish unarmed paramilitary Lotta Svärd organization during WWII. I would gladly read if there is information on similar women's organizations of wartime Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotta_Sv%C3%A4rd

ah, so kinda like the WAVES from america, eh? alright thanks for the heads up. btw, i need a comander character. like mina only for us. any thoughts?

question: will we be able to use the actual aircraft at any point?( like if the stryker is damaged)

cuz i'm a plane fanatic


i like the aircraft....

I'd like to see myself as a leader for once