The Jade Seal Academy For Non-Magical Girls

DEFINITELY JOINING THIS

I love her!

Also, Annasiel had DMed me with some questions, so I am going to copy them here with my answers for everyone's benefit:

Q: Where is this set?
A: TotallyNotJapan™️

Q: How common are Magical Girls
A: Let's say 1 in 10

Q: Are supernatural threats a common occurrence in this society?
A: Not uncommon although most of the weirdest stuff happens on deserted islands or alternate dimensions or through mystical portals or some other thing where you generally watch it on TV and don't run screaming through the streets

Q: What sort of tone? Realistic / silly / etc?
A: I'd say tone is something I'm willing to be flexible on, it's gonna be at least a *little* lighthearted because you don't start an RP entitled "Academy for Non-Magical Girls" if you're not feeling at least a bit silly, but I'd like to see some serious vibes as well.

Sounds interesting. I feel a few ideas sparking so I’ll give it a go

Name: Riet Zetari.



Age: 15



Physical Description or image reference: 5’1”; short black hair and yellowish-brown eyes. Extremely pale and a touch sickly; clearly doesn’t get out much. Rarely stops smiling; ranges from enthusiastic to merely polite. Knows how to use makeup, to the surprise of some.



Brief Bio: The elder Zetaris distrusted magic. They viewed it as an intrusion on ordinary life–something external; something that turned the comprehensible mundane world into a nightmarish flood of broken formulae and impossible results. It was, in their minds, a disruptive and crude force–something bright and flashy; something that was only allowed because it’d captured the public eye. Its dangers, in their opinion, were not receiving the attention they were owed.



So when their eldest daughter, Riet, became almost obsessed with the subject at age 8, they took what they felt were appropriate precautions. M-Blockers were not exactly FDA approved for use by children, much less children without any magical abilities of their own, but this was an extreme situation. It was just a phase. When she grew up a little more, she’d realize how foolish she was being. And if she ever found out, maybe she’d thank them.



The thing was, it wasn’t a phase. And while her desire to become magical started out primarily as a way of pleasing her very accomplished parents, it slowly grew into more than that. Her parents’ disapproval of her want for magic leaked into other parts of her life, until Riet felt like nothing she could do would ever be good enough for them; to compensate, she began coming up with more and more grandiose schemes for what she’d do when she eventually did have magic. As her health began to deteriorate, and she began to feel more and more exhausted at all hours, she shifted her focus to the forces of life and death–that being, of course, necromancy. This, obviously, shocked her parents. They suspected that the M-Blockers were responsible for her declining physical condition, but with her interest in magic not only not gone but somehow stronger than ever, they couldn’t conceive of taking her off them.



Feeling that they lacked any other options, and that they’d failed in their obligations as parents, they cast around for another option. It was at this point that they found Jade Seal–a school exclusively for nonmagical girls.



Desperate to cure their daughter of the notion that she could somehow acquire magic–especially at this age–and hoping at the same time that the people in charge there might do a better job of raising her, they signed her up for a dormitory and sent her off–though not without securing a way to make sure she’d keep eating their own cooking.



At first, Riet was reluctant to go. It was, after all, very far from home. Then she did a little more research into the school–more than her parents had, at least. That led her to the rumours about the exact nature of the school's Jade Seal. There wasn't much there--just some vague conspiracy theories and old anecdotes--but suddenly she was all eager smiles and excitement. It was the best chance she’d had in ages.



And, well, if it felt like her parents were trying to get rid of her… They’d understand eventually, when she’d accomplished what she was trying to accomplish. Magic wasn’t just an empty space in reality, good for nothing but dissolving the pre-established rules; it was its own system. You could learn it and understand it, and use it to do things that should have been impossible. You could use it to force things to be the way they should be. Once she had it for herself, she could figure out how to cure herself–and then, beyond that, there were bigger targets waiting for her attention.

Name: Kaya Antares
Age: 15



Brief Bio:
Kaya's family is normal. They take pride in it. If there were an award for being normal, the Antares family would not have won it, because awards are far too exciting. There has never been a magical girl in Kaya's family, except for those rumors about her fourth cousin once removed Juliet, and we don't talk about Juliet. The Antares family have been alumni of the Jade Seal Academy going back four generations now, from Kaya's great-grandmother to her grandmother to her mother to her older sister, who just graduated last year as valedictorian - as well as countless aunties and cousins.

Kaya has a lot of nothing to live up to. She is expected to work hard and study and get good grades and maybe end up as valedictorian, but certainly not have anything to do with magical girls, because that is just not done in the Antares family. Perhaps Kaya will end up being an accountant one day - there's nothing wrong with being an accountant, after all.

The worst part about Kaya having her entire life planned out for her was that the life that was planned was so mundane. Kaya can't help but feeling like maybe she would have liked to be different. Of course, there was no way she was going to bring up any other possibilities around her family, and when she disappointingly did not become the first person in her family (not counting her cousin Juliet, who we don't talk about) to manifest a magical ability and turn her family's ideals upside-down like a fairy-tale heroine, Kaya... ended up going to the Jade Seal Academy just like everyone else.

At least she knows what to expect.

I'm going to try to kick this one off early next week, Monday or Tuesday.