Player Name: Lavender Contact:revelries Invited by: Me, Other Characters: Idia Shroud, Rutile Flores
Character Name: Haruka Isumi Canon: Idolish7 Canon Point: Post-Part 4 History: •When Haruka was very young, his parents died in an accident and his grandmother took him in. •Everything was going fine, even if raising a child was a lot of work for her alone, but one day Haruka met a man by chance who said that he would be willing to raise Haruka himself. •Haruka was very excited by this prospect because he thought it would ease the burden on his grandmother, but there’s a catch as there always is. This man - Takamasa Kujou - was looking to train someone who could become an idol even more legendary than Zero, an idol who revitalized the industry and kicked off a new love for idols who disappeared after three years. Kujou worked with Zero as a stage director, and he took his vanishing act very, very poorly. •Haruka agreed to this, because he was already quite good at singing and could only get better, right? •Right. That part is actually true, but Haruka was still not performing as well as Kujou wanted him to, and he never did adopt Haruka as he said he would even when he adopted two other children - Aya Yotsuba and Tenn Nanase - as part of their training as well. •Kujou dubbed Haruka a failure, even though the boy had done everything as he was told. Kujou said he would never become a popular idol, and he was a disappointment so Kujou was sending him back to Japan and would never see him again. •Naturally Haruka was pretty upset by this, and began to harbor a grudge against his replacement, Tenn. •Not long after his return to Japan, Haruka was approached by Ryou Tsukumo, a man who was set to inherit Tsukumo Entertainment. The company was looking to branch into the idol market, and he was offering Haruka a spot in their first group - ŹOOĻ • ŹOOĻ was comprised of four members in total - with Haruka himself as one of the centers, which meant he would be doing most of the singing and getting most of the attention. The other members included ŹOOĻ’s other center, Touma Inumaru, who’s idol group disbanded after their loss at the music competition Black or White against the group TRIGGER, as all but Touma decided there was no point in continuing in the industry as an indie group. They were joined by Minami Natsume, a former child actor who left acting to pursue what he actually wanted to do; he ended up being taught piano and music composition by the very same man who composed Zero’s songs. Torao Midou rounded out the group, but he’s just a rich guy jaded by being rich and having his family look down on him and his abilities because of his position as the second son. He does have a suspiciously familiar backstory to TRIGGER member Ryuunosuke Tsunashi, with his family running several luxury hotels and making a name and fortune from it all… Except, of course, that is Torao’s actual life, and Ryuu is just the son of a fisherman from Okinawa who’s step-father runs an inn. •Naturally, absolutely none of this is a coincidence. •ŹOOĻ had been formed for one purpose and one purpose only - Ryou Tsukumo wanted to destroy the idol industry, as he harbored a deep loathing for it after being snubbed by Zero as a child. (That’s it, that’s his villain origin story.) Ryou’s plan was to use an idol group unlike the rest on the market to make people question the industry, while also spreading rumors and exposing scandals tied to other popular idols he was able to discover thanks to his family’s connection to the entertainment world. •Also murder. Ryou was super down for murder, but we’ll get to that later. •ŹOOĻ was incredibly successful off the bat, thanks to having the power of an entertainment titan backing them, and because they were completely different from the other major idol groups. They weren’t as cheerful and sunny as the titular group IDOLiSH7, they didn’t care or cater to their fans as much as TRIGGER did, and they didn’t have the same friendly rapport and joking attitude as the duo Re:vale. They were… antagonistic, one could say, which caught people’s attention. •As ŹOOĻ grew in popularity, things began to change. While the only one of them who had initially been passionate for their group from the beginning was Touma, the others slowly began to turn around - while also growing increasingly more disturbed and worried by Ryou’s actions. The man was willing to sabotage other groups by straight up kidnapping the members of TRIGGER on the day of their concert, which led to the group being dropped by their publisher as a way to avoid dealing with the scandal and disappointment of what the public saw as TRIGGER ghosting their fans. Basically, they were realizing that Ryou was off his fucking rocker. •Eventually, Ryou got tired of ŹOOĻ and decided it was time to destroy the group he had created himself. He wasn’t making any progress towards his goal of destroying idols once and for all, after TRIGGER began making names for them as indie artists and he was making no headway exposing Chiba Salon, a scandal that would destroy IDOLiSH7’s reputation due to it centering around their leader Yamato Nikaido and Japan’s most beloved actor, Shizuo Chiba. He was also getting the runaround from Momo from Re:vale, so he couldn’t take them down, either! •Ryou’s plan to destroy ŹOOĻ was to destroy their credibility as musicians and put them into situations where they would fail - such as sending them to a metal festival in Denmark, because there was absolutely no way metal fans would enjoy their music and it would be an utter disaster. Unfortunately for him, ŹOOĻ are very good performers very good at winning over a crowd. •(The four might have also made a detour to the neighboring country of Northmare, after the insistence that Minami see the man who taught him music one last time before he passed away from an illness, and then they also got wrapped up in drama with Northmare’s royal family, but it’s fine. Everything worked out in the end, and they were able to gain a bit of trust with IDOLiSH7 and get closer as friends, too.) •Ryou continued to escalate after another one of his plans was thwarted, choosing Black or White as his next target. This is where the murder comes up, as he sends a bunch of goons to kill Momo and frame it as an accident in the lead up to the competition while also trying to pull even more strings to ruin even more reputations. •So he gets arrested for attempted murder, because none of his plans work out and it turns out he had been playing 5th dimensional chess with Momo this whole time while he thought he had the idol under his thumb, and was thoroughly outplayed. •Inevitably, ŹOOĻ lost at Black or White to IDOLiSH7, and they lost their manager with Ryou’s arrest, but they were determined to stay in this industry as all four of them are incredibly, incredibly stubborn.
Personality: •He’s super tsundere, being bratty and rude to everyone he meets, but he does care deep down and will do anything he can for the people he loves. He’s just bad at showing it and easily embarrassed.
•It takes Haruka a long time to open up and trust people, and he tries to keep everyone at arm’s length by being incredibly prickly. This prickliness means he does struggle when it comes time to communicate sincerely and openly, as he’s… not really sure how to do that, and struggles to get himself across the way he wants to.
•Once you get him to warm up to people and once he gains a bit more confidence that his life is going on an upwards trajectory, Haruka has the energy and enthusiasm you would expect from a teenager. He hasn’t been able to be a child for most of his life, so he’s especially eager when he gets to do the things he doesn’t usually do and appreciates the small pleasures in life. He doesn’t often get to be carefree and happy, but it’s not that he’s completely embittered by the world.
•Even if he doesn’t have the same life experience as the other members of ŹOOĻ, being the youngest, he’s incredibly perceptive and is one of the first to realize Ryou is up to no good. I wouldn’t quite say he’s the voice of reason as he’s too content to let everyone else fight it out, and has a tendency to leave when he’s frustrated instead of stopping conflict, but he’s very aware of what’s going on at all times.
•He just really wants people to acknowledge him and tell him he’s doing well, and to prove everyone who says anything bad about him that they’re wrong. He doesn’t want to be a failure any more. At his core he’s someone desperate to please others and be told he’s doing well.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: April 17th, he has no idea what’s going on. Items: •Smartphone •Wallet, with ID, a bank card, and transit passes. •Headphones, for use with his phone. •Hand-held gaming console, which is probably branded with a rabbit pun. Retained Ability: Absolutely nothing, as he has no supernatural abilities of any sort.
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Character Name: Haruka Isumi
Canon: Idolish7
Canon Point: Post-Part 4
History: •When Haruka was very young, his parents died in an accident and his grandmother took him in.
•Everything was going fine, even if raising a child was a lot of work for her alone, but one day Haruka met a man by chance who said that he would be willing to raise Haruka himself.
•Haruka was very excited by this prospect because he thought it would ease the burden on his grandmother, but there’s a catch as there always is. This man - Takamasa Kujou - was looking to train someone who could become an idol even more legendary than Zero, an idol who revitalized the industry and kicked off a new love for idols who disappeared after three years. Kujou worked with Zero as a stage director, and he took his vanishing act very, very poorly.
•Haruka agreed to this, because he was already quite good at singing and could only get better, right?
•Right. That part is actually true, but Haruka was still not performing as well as Kujou wanted him to, and he never did adopt Haruka as he said he would even when he adopted two other children - Aya Yotsuba and Tenn Nanase - as part of their training as well.
•Kujou dubbed Haruka a failure, even though the boy had done everything as he was told. Kujou said he would never become a popular idol, and he was a disappointment so Kujou was sending him back to Japan and would never see him again.
•Naturally Haruka was pretty upset by this, and began to harbor a grudge against his replacement, Tenn.
•Not long after his return to Japan, Haruka was approached by Ryou Tsukumo, a man who was set to inherit Tsukumo Entertainment. The company was looking to branch into the idol market, and he was offering Haruka a spot in their first group - ŹOOĻ
• ŹOOĻ was comprised of four members in total - with Haruka himself as one of the centers, which meant he would be doing most of the singing and getting most of the attention. The other members included ŹOOĻ’s other center, Touma Inumaru, who’s idol group disbanded after their loss at the music competition Black or White against the group TRIGGER, as all but Touma decided there was no point in continuing in the industry as an indie group. They were joined by Minami Natsume, a former child actor who left acting to pursue what he actually wanted to do; he ended up being taught piano and music composition by the very same man who composed Zero’s songs. Torao Midou rounded out the group, but he’s just a rich guy jaded by being rich and having his family look down on him and his abilities because of his position as the second son. He does have a suspiciously familiar backstory to TRIGGER member Ryuunosuke Tsunashi, with his family running several luxury hotels and making a name and fortune from it all… Except, of course, that is Torao’s actual life, and Ryuu is just the son of a fisherman from Okinawa who’s step-father runs an inn.
•Naturally, absolutely none of this is a coincidence.
•ŹOOĻ had been formed for one purpose and one purpose only - Ryou Tsukumo wanted to destroy the idol industry, as he harbored a deep loathing for it after being snubbed by Zero as a child. (That’s it, that’s his villain origin story.) Ryou’s plan was to use an idol group unlike the rest on the market to make people question the industry, while also spreading rumors and exposing scandals tied to other popular idols he was able to discover thanks to his family’s connection to the entertainment world.
•Also murder. Ryou was super down for murder, but we’ll get to that later.
•ŹOOĻ was incredibly successful off the bat, thanks to having the power of an entertainment titan backing them, and because they were completely different from the other major idol groups. They weren’t as cheerful and sunny as the titular group IDOLiSH7, they didn’t care or cater to their fans as much as TRIGGER did, and they didn’t have the same friendly rapport and joking attitude as the duo Re:vale. They were… antagonistic, one could say, which caught people’s attention.
•As ŹOOĻ grew in popularity, things began to change. While the only one of them who had initially been passionate for their group from the beginning was Touma, the others slowly began to turn around - while also growing increasingly more disturbed and worried by Ryou’s actions. The man was willing to sabotage other groups by straight up kidnapping the members of TRIGGER on the day of their concert, which led to the group being dropped by their publisher as a way to avoid dealing with the scandal and disappointment of what the public saw as TRIGGER ghosting their fans. Basically, they were realizing that Ryou was off his fucking rocker.
•Eventually, Ryou got tired of ŹOOĻ and decided it was time to destroy the group he had created himself. He wasn’t making any progress towards his goal of destroying idols once and for all, after TRIGGER began making names for them as indie artists and he was making no headway exposing Chiba Salon, a scandal that would destroy IDOLiSH7’s reputation due to it centering around their leader Yamato Nikaido and Japan’s most beloved actor, Shizuo Chiba. He was also getting the runaround from Momo from Re:vale, so he couldn’t take them down, either!
•Ryou’s plan to destroy ŹOOĻ was to destroy their credibility as musicians and put them into situations where they would fail - such as sending them to a metal festival in Denmark, because there was absolutely no way metal fans would enjoy their music and it would be an utter disaster. Unfortunately for him, ŹOOĻ are very good performers very good at winning over a crowd.
•(The four might have also made a detour to the neighboring country of Northmare, after the insistence that Minami see the man who taught him music one last time before he passed away from an illness, and then they also got wrapped up in drama with Northmare’s royal family, but it’s fine. Everything worked out in the end, and they were able to gain a bit of trust with IDOLiSH7 and get closer as friends, too.)
•Ryou continued to escalate after another one of his plans was thwarted, choosing Black or White as his next target. This is where the murder comes up, as he sends a bunch of goons to kill Momo and frame it as an accident in the lead up to the competition while also trying to pull even more strings to ruin even more reputations.
•So he gets arrested for attempted murder, because none of his plans work out and it turns out he had been playing 5th dimensional chess with Momo this whole time while he thought he had the idol under his thumb, and was thoroughly outplayed.
•Inevitably, ŹOOĻ lost at Black or White to IDOLiSH7, and they lost their manager with Ryou’s arrest, but they were determined to stay in this industry as all four of them are incredibly, incredibly stubborn.
Personality: •He’s super tsundere, being bratty and rude to everyone he meets, but he does care deep down and will do anything he can for the people he loves. He’s just bad at showing it and easily embarrassed.
•It takes Haruka a long time to open up and trust people, and he tries to keep everyone at arm’s length by being incredibly prickly. This prickliness means he does struggle when it comes time to communicate sincerely and openly, as he’s… not really sure how to do that, and struggles to get himself across the way he wants to.
•Once you get him to warm up to people and once he gains a bit more confidence that his life is going on an upwards trajectory, Haruka has the energy and enthusiasm you would expect from a teenager. He hasn’t been able to be a child for most of his life, so he’s especially eager when he gets to do the things he doesn’t usually do and appreciates the small pleasures in life. He doesn’t often get to be carefree and happy, but it’s not that he’s completely embittered by the world.
•Even if he doesn’t have the same life experience as the other members of ŹOOĻ, being the youngest, he’s incredibly perceptive and is one of the first to realize Ryou is up to no good. I wouldn’t quite say he’s the voice of reason as he’s too content to let everyone else fight it out, and has a tendency to leave when he’s frustrated instead of stopping conflict, but he’s very aware of what’s going on at all times.
•He just really wants people to acknowledge him and tell him he’s doing well, and to prove everyone who says anything bad about him that they’re wrong. He doesn’t want to be a failure any more. At his core he’s someone desperate to please others and be told he’s doing well.
Time of Arrival to Kaisou: April 17th, he has no idea what’s going on.
Items: •Smartphone
•Wallet, with ID, a bank card, and transit passes.
•Headphones, for use with his phone.
•Hand-held gaming console, which is probably branded with a rabbit pun.
Retained Ability: Absolutely nothing, as he has no supernatural abilities of any sort.