Interest Check: Académie de Soleil et de Danse

[lesyay]

Do you wish to cast off your fate?

Do you believe that a new path can be opened?

Attend the Moonlight Waltz in the Académie de Soleil et de Danse courtyard at midnight.

As the planet turns, the moon and sun watch overhead. Do not neglect this chance, lest you be eclipsed.

Académie de Soleil et de Danse is the premier dance school of Paris, France, hosting students from around the world. Graduates become ballerinas, choreographers, and dancers that lead the world through their movements.

CASTOR.
But all is not as it seems. You're all students of the Moon Class, right? Tough break.

POLLUX.
The Moon Class has to compete with each other. Every student is a rival. To fail is to be expelled.

CASTOR.
But hey! Maybe this whole Moonlight Waltz thing is just what you need. If you cast off your fate, maybe you can move on up to the Sun Class, right?

POLLUX.
You will have to compete for this chance as well. A series of duels... that is what the Moonlight Waltz is.

CASTOR.
Nothing in life is ever free, huh? Still, it has to be better than the life you live now... right?





CASTOR + POLLUX.
Come. Let us open the doors to defy fate together.




Académie de Soleil et de Danse is an original setting based on anime series like Revolutionary Girl Utena, Revue Starlight, and Princess Tutu. The game will be run in the tabletop system Valor, and be run over text using the online system/website roll20.

This is an interest and vague planning post, as we're looking at a start date in 2020 (barring one of my current games ending prematurely.) I'll ask for availability and finalize a player list once we approach that time.

Go ahead and comment if you're interested, and start workshopping a character concept if you'd like.

QUESTIONS

Q. Is the school co-ed?
A. Académie de Soleil et de Danse accepts students of any gender. Some traditional dances specify routines for men or women, but modern teachers will allow students of any gender to perform even those.

Q. How will duels be conducted?
A. Under the open night sky in the school courtyard. The duelists will be divided into pairs, each pair representing one of the eight planets. Students will also get a full transformation sequence, spiffy outfit, and cool weapons - whether these actually exist or is some sort of metaphor is uncertain.

Q. What about powers?
A. Characters, normally, have no powers. In the context of a duel, students may gain abilities that are outside the realm of normal physics, brought forth by their movements and hearts.

Q. Who are Castor and Pollux?
A. They are the judges, referees, and observers.

Q. Can I ask more questions?
A. Go right ahead and ask in ur comment.

Comments

[playitagain]

Tagging with a character journal because I never made a personal one, haha.

I am definitely interested! I am debating a girl with a very expensive classical education who, uh, wants to do something more modern and is frustrating the hell out of her parents.

I am not sure on all the details yet!

[playitagain]

I have more!! I am putting it as a reply here because sometimes my memory is a little shoddy, and having it written down where I can refer to it helps me out (and finding old Plurks is hard). Lemme know if this should go elsewhere!

Maria von Kreutzer is from Austria and was expected to go into ballroom dance by her parents, who were old school Austrian artists (and former nobles, 'til the whole World War I thing happened). Von Kreutzers were always supposed to go into some traditional art, and had since the 1600's. Maria wants, however, to go into modern dance and even singing, to their horror.

Which they are not so down with. This complicated by the fact that she's the second eldest, and her sister disappeared when Maria was 12. Before that, her family let Maria do what she wanted -- her sister Theresa was going to be this generation's famous starlet. After she vanished, Maria had all that dumped on. Her parents literally threw away her magazines about modern dance.

So she's into the Moonlight Waltz as a way to make this happen for herself and have the future she wants, instead of the one she's been assigned.

Some quick blurbs!

PERSONALITY: Animated, brash, and confident; Maria is loud and proud, and she's friendly, but she can end up imposing on others because she's a force of personality. She needs to learn to chill out. She is, however, pretty refined in her mannerisms. Under that, she's a softie that just wants friends who appreciate her for who she is. And under that, she's got a lot of self-loathing and wants to scream "I AM NOT MY SISTER, I AM MY OWN PERSON."

NOTABLE NPCs: I... I want her to have a butler named Oskar. Who is a nice old man but is also kind of keeping tabs on her for the parents' sake.

I was also thinking she may have a best friend who is mostly her friend because she's genuinely into waltzes, ballroom dances, and the stuff that Maria is like "uuuugh must we" over.

COMBAT ROLE STUFF: I'd like to give Maria a fencing sword and a wheel lock pistol, like a dual-wielding thing, because it's stylish. I am pretty new to Valor as a system and will need some help, but I'd be fine with any number of roles that can incorporate that?

DISAPPEARING SISTER: I don't have a specific plan but if you can use it, Emily, please do!!