Original No Matter What Happens, I Still Won't Become An Anime Character

Guessmyname

Tea-Powered Biscuit-Eater Riding A Flamingo
Location
The Land of Many Bregrets
I was born Sakura Kokoro on the 25th of December, 1998, with pink hair. The universe has been after me ever since.

When I was six, my memory still developing, my mother left us in tears. She said it would further my character development. My father offered to hire some abusive grandparents, but I declined.

The childhood friends I made when I was 10 all mysteriously moved away. One I believe went to France.

When I was 13, a sword threw itself up out of a lake. I handed it in to Lost and Found.

I am now 15. I have thus far avoided three claims of secret legacies, two mysterious amulets that fell out of the sky, four foreign princes seeking my hand in marriage and 17 small, sentient furry animals that are capable of human communication. I have, thus far, succeeded in preserving my ordinary life.

In ten weeks, I will be turning 16. For the defence of my ordinary life, I must be ready.

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NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, I STILL WON'T BECOME AN ANIME CHARACTER

Ten weeks remain.

Game start!

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When I wake up, the sun is shining through the windows; a cloudless day under a bright blue sky. There are no additional moons, floating godlike figures or alien spaceships hanging above. Good. This is a good start to the day.

Coming down to breakfast, I naturally find my father absent. It's not as if we aren't father and daughter; we still exchange Christmas cards every once in a while. It's just safer for him if he stays a distant figure in a foreign country. I have no other secret brothers or sisters that I'm aware of at this moment; this is an empty house, apart from me.

On the news, there's something about another dimensional rift opening up in the South Pacific. The mecha are being deployed already. I finish my orange juice and disregard the toast; I don't feel like running to school today.

I tap my finger, watching out of the window. Monday. The first day of the week. When things happen, they tend to happen on a Monday. With that in mind, I should probably...

[] Dig out the body armour, just in case.
[] Bring all of my emergency burn phones, just in case.
[] Skip. It might actually work this time.
[] If all else fails, pepper spray.
 

Guessmyname

Tea-Powered Biscuit-Eater Riding A Flamingo
Location
The Land of Many Bregrets
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Feng Lengshun

Super Cute Genius Alchemist
Location
Palembang, Indonesia
[x] Skip. It might actually work this time.

Aww yeaaaah! It's finally made! I've read this idea long time ago, on reddit I think. Great idea, and even better as a quest, though I believe this is going to be a test for all of us, as we try to do the opposite of what we always do.

Followed and watched.
 
[X] If all else fails, pepper spray.
We hadn't turned into a harem comedy yet. Pepper spray to fight that!
 

LanceGT0

Lurk Master
Location
GMT +7
[X] Skip. It might actually work this time.

Saw this concept once, I'm glad to see it finally become a quest!
 

Sinsystems

Protector of Hallownest
Location
Hallownest
[X] If all else fails, pepper spray.

Remember people, we need to avoid every starting point possible. If there is a mysterious transfer student we don't interact with them, to succeed in this we need to be the anti-Haruhi.
 
Bahahaha! Yes! Glorious. This will be most fascinating.

What precisely does the 'It might actually work this time' mean for skipping? Do we end up having to go to school anyway, something drops by our house like a homing missile, or something else?
 

Guessmyname

Tea-Powered Biscuit-Eater Riding A Flamingo
Location
The Land of Many Bregrets
Since it appears we have a consensus...
What precisely does the 'It might actually work this time' mean for skipping? Do we end up having to go to school anyway, something drops by our house like a homing missile, or something else?
You would have spent the day at home and nothing would happen. Honest. :V
(More seriously: In the interests of player agency I have notes and ideas - especially on what each week's theme is - but for the most part I'm slightly winging this. I know what would have happened if we'd skipped though.)

~=~​

If all else fails, pepper spray.
(+Emergency burn phone)


It never hurts to be prepared. I pull the last one out from the cardboard box, reflecting on the need to make another order in bulk. A testing rattle, and I know from long experience it should be good for 20 or so uses. At least on mostly ordinary people. Scrabbling around in the few minutes I have left, I snatch up one of the burn phones left lying around - never know when you need a lawyer to work you out of some magical contract signed before you were born - and hook that into my belt as well, but then I have to be off.

I snatch up the toast on the way out, even if it's cold. Since I'm going to be running anyway, I may as well ensure I arrive in at least the nick of time.

It's a long run, but I can make it whilst eating toast. The bus services are all still on strike after that time they got transformed into sentient robots, and bicycles have an irritating habit of trying to fly to the moon whenever I crest the hill. Better to always trust my own two feet. Or at least when I'm responsible for choosing my own footwear. Dashing down the footpath, I carefully avoid the masked robed people stopping passers-by at random, the trinket shop I know wasn't there yesterday, and all the signs and posters that tell me to 'visit the new sentient park, because it's totally a good idea!'

I skid to a halt inside seconds before the gates slam shut and activate their laser defence grid. It's a really, really bad idea to be late, here.

I adjust my satchel, check my pepper spray, and look up at the incredibly bland exterior of concrete, barbed wire and sandbags that make up my current choice of high school. Because all the other ones closed down.

This is St. Mary's Coed We-Swear-We-Didn't-Build-It-On-A-Hellmouth-This-Time School for The Vaguely Catholic Militant Church. It really isn't built on a Hellmouth this time. There's a few craters here and there but honestly it's lasted the longest out of any school I've ever been to.

I'm almost attached to the place.

Keeping my gaze straight ahead, I run through the dawdling crowd without ever making eye contact. I dump the forever breeding colony of letters in my shoe locker back in the bin, aware they'll have migrated back by lunchtime. At my customary 5 seconds before homeroom begins, I set my satchel down on my desk, positioned in the back corner as far from the windows as possible. As usual, everyone sitting down that column is already transfixed; obliviously brooding at the world outside.

It's dangerous, sitting near windows.

The Homeroom Teacher Who Is Definitely Not A Nun With A Sword enters with a beaming smile, and happily announces that she has an announcement. My shoulders tense immediately.

"Boys and girls, we have a new transfer student today!"

Damnit.

[] Jump out of the nearest window
[] Attempt to escape into the ceiling tiles
[] Hide under the desk
[] Sit very still and pretend not to notice them
[] Request to leave for the nurse's office
[] Immediate application of pepper spray, whoever they are (20 uses left)
[] Write in
 

Spector29

It Only Gets Worse From Here
We're in the prime position already, so...

[X] Sit very still and pretend not to notice them
 
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