Aegis Monster Hunter Academy

[haremtrap]

Back in the 1980s, drilling for oil grew too extensive and too deep. Humanity started breaching ancient caverns miles below the Earth's surface. They weren't uninhabited caves either. This extensive cave network was the home of unknowable numbers of massively beasts who now regularly escaped to and rampaged across the surface.

Some of the beasts were not hostile, though. They wanted to protect the surface world, and found the best way to do so was to symbiotically bond with humans, combining the deadly power of the depths with the agile minds of humanity. People who took these creatures into their own bodies became Hosts, and they were the only hope humanity had int protecting themselves.

As most people who become hosts did so at a relatively young age, though, they still have to go to school. To learn how to control their newfound powers AND to learn how to be a productive member of society. YOU are such a Host, and YOU have been accepted in the best school in the world for Hosts:

AEGIS MONSTER HUNTER ACADEMY


Set on the Japanese coast, a few miles south of Tokyo Japan, Aegis is a marvel of modern architecture and a beacon of hope to the nation. It includes on campus housing for student, state of the art training facilities, and is practically a self contained town in and of itself. Kohaku Yuhara is just now becoming a first year student here. What adventures will the new kid have?

Possible thread hooks
- It's orientation day! Time for everyone to figure out where their classes are going to be and meet their classmates/roommates
- It's T-T-T-TIME TO DUEL! As graduates from Aegis are expected to be badass monster hunters, getting some combat experience is a must. That means it is accepted policy for students to resolve differences via public duels
- Combat training! This time it's not against each other, but against simulated monsters. How well do you work as a team?
- Class! This teacher is boring and never stops talking. Exchange whispered conversations. Pass notes. Doodle in the margins of your notebook.
- Day off! A good time to catch up on your studies/training, or to go and actually relax! Read a book! Go for a walk! Watch a movie! Go on a date!
- Or anything else you can think of.

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Ako Yuhara

[strongestimouto]

[CHARACTER: Kohaku's little sister, a born warrior who has gone toe to toe with monsters despite not being a Host. She trained Kohaku in the art of combat, and then, in search of the pinnacle of human strength, wandered into the Depths, and hasn't been seen since.

Spoilers: She's coming back. I'm down for whatever kinds of canon or non-canon threads here, since Ako's gonna be absent for a lot of the early parts if we do a proper PSL.]

[haremtrap]

Ah lunch. The one oasis of sanity and relaxation in a day otherwise full of extremely difficult classes. Kohaku sat down with a boxed sushi set and an appetite.

"Time to eat!"

Surely nothing would distract her from her meal.

[strongestimouto]

Nothing, at least, aside from a vibrating cell phone. Who could that be calling you?

[haremtrap]

Kohaku blinked, then grabbed her phone and answered around a mouthful of rice and tuna without looking at who was calling.

"Kohaku Yuhara speaking."

Hazuru Shogo

[timeforbed]

[Character: The Student Council Secretary and Kohaku's new roommate, a woman who takes her duties seriously even when no one else does. She's Host to a spirit-type symbiont that lets her manipulate time, and uses it to try and save-scum for the best diplomatic responses. Uses her powers in conjunction with a combat shotgun and sniper rifle to hunt monsters

The reality is that overuse of her ability tires her out and burns huge amounts of calories, so most moments when she isn't working are spent sleeping or eating. Her first interaction with Kohaku involved slapping them when they walked in on her changing, but she moved back in time so that she was hiding in her bed instead.

I'll be down for whatever you want, canon or otherwise, looking forward to working with you all. But now, imma nap zzzzzzzzzzz]

[haremtrap]

Okay let's see. Books for classes: check. Registered for meal card: check. Battled a dragon and won: check. Pressganged into student council president: check.

It had been a hell of a first day, and classes didn't even officially start for tomorrow, but now the only thing standing between Kohaku and her bed was meeting her new roommate. The paperwork had said "Hazuru Shogo" on it. Kohaku wondered what kind of person she was as she opened the door to their room.

First go around!

[timeforbed]

Shogo was going to kill Toyo. Picking a fight with the new kid was awful on its own, but intentionally losing just to get out of her job as StuCo President was not something she could tolerate! For gods sake, he could have died in that battle!

"Lousy, no good, idiot lizard bitch!" She ranted and raved in her half dressed state, exhausted completely by the day's events. "She couldn't have waited to graduate and pass on the position! No, she had to go and pass the buck at the nearest opportunity!" Killing her with a headshot was too good for Toyo, she was going to strangle her with her bare hands for foisting her duties off to some no-nothing noob first year!

So lost in her state of delirium, clawing her hands around a neck that wasn't there, she never noticed the door to their room being unlocked and opened.

Behold, Kohaku, Hazuru Shogo, the StuCo Secretary and your new right-hand woman.

[haremtrap]

"Ah..."

Kohaku stared at this rather unseemly display for a moment, trying to decide how to proceed from here. Eventually she came on something that seemed relatively unlikely to end up in being strangled by this madwoman:

"Hello."

Loop the second

[timeforbed]

"You should knock next time," A voice came from the side of the room. Sprawled out on the couch was the dark-haired secretary of the Student Council, and your new subordinate. "I know we're sharing this room, but it would have been troublesome if you walked in on me doing something embarrassing."

For all that she seemed disheveled and exhausted, there's an intelligence shining in her visible eye. Propping herself up on her arm, she introduced herself. "I'm Hazuru Shogo, the Student Council Secretary." Slowly, she got into a proper seated position as she explained things. "As StuCo President, you've been assigned to the same suite as me. This was to ensure you would always follow up on your duties to both the council and the school as President."

[haremtrap]

Kohaku paused in the doorway for a moment, chasing a nagging feeling of something being not quite right. The feeling passed before she could identify it, though.

She was also bemused by Shogo's rather brusque greeting. "Kohaku Yuhara. I didn't realize I was expected to knock before entering my own room."

"Jane Doe"/Yasu Moto

[totallyahuman]

[Character: A mysterious new transfer student! Totally a human, and seems to be bound to a Stealth-type symbiont that allows her to stretch and shapeshift her body in weird ways.

Really, though, Jane is the symbiont, and the Host is Yasu Moto, a shy girl who's willingly along for the ride. Jane is intensely curious about the human world, and formed a sort of pact with Yasu to take over her body and enroll in the academy to get closer to human society and learn as much as she can.

I'm cool with literally any sort of thread, canon or not. She'll try to be friends with everybody, so be prepared for that.]

Kohaku Yuhara

[haremtrap]

[CHARACTER: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our protagonist. Kohaku is a 1st year at Aegis, and came here from an all boys school. However, Kohaku is a girl. It was a really weird situation, don't think about it too much. She has a boy's haircut, wears boy's clothes, and generally acts kind of boyish out of habit, so people mistake her for a boy more often then not. She kind of fine with that though, and doesn't really care one way or the other.

She is a stealth type host. Her symbiont invaded and replaced most of her nervous system, giving her superhuman reaction speeds, supercharged senses, and the ability to manually turn off her sense of pain. As Hosts go, she's not very powerful, but she is a skilled sword fighter and is clever.]

[slackdragon]

What does Kohaku do in her room during the weekend? Study? Watch TV? Play games? Skype?

Whatever it is, it is being rudely interrupted as Toyo practically (bot not actually) kicks in the door. "Kohaku!"


[ At some vague point post-loss ]

[haremtrap]

Apparently she makes card castles. The sudden intrusion creates enough vibration to knock the whole thing down, leaving Kohaku holding the ace of clubs and three of hearts two feet up over a pile of cards. She drops them both and slumps on the couch.

"You know, I think I heard somewhere that some people consider it rude to kick down someone's door."

1/2

[slackdragon]

"That doesn't matter!" Kohaku seems oddly determined today. She marches into the room. "All that matters..."

2/2

[slackdragon]

....and then she marches right over to Kohaku's bed.

And then flops down onto Kohaku's bed.

"...is that I needed a place to nap."

[totallyahuman]

Lunch time! A few days after orientation, when all the new students are still getting used to life at Aegis. Things seem to be going pretty smoothly this time.

Except when some kid streeeeeeetches her arm and casually grabs a rice ball off of Kohaku's tray, as well as all the trays on the way, starting to chow down on them without a care.

Incredibly rude. Clearly somebody needs to talk to her about this.

[haremtrap]

Kohaku's fingers moved with superhuman quickness, and the weird kid got one fewer riceball than she was expecting.

A few seconds later, Kohaku walked over and swallowed her bite so she could speak. The other students had started to react angrily, but then they saw that the new student council president was moving in to deal with it and sat down to watch how "he" would handle this.

"Excuse me."

[totallyahuman]

"Hrfm?" She's blithely munching on one of the riceballs, not super aware that something's wrong with what she did.

"Wrfsh mmp, sfhool prfmshidrmt?" Just. Speaking with her mouth full of rice. Great.

1/3

[timeforbed]

Ah, lunch, the one time of day aside from dinner where she didn't need to worry about her duties as secretary or focus on her schoolwork. Nothing but eating food and recharging for the rest of the day!

And what better way to start it off than to bite into a rice ball? "Itadakimasu!" Shogo cheered to herself as she went and took a bite out of thin air.

... what.

2/4 I'm a liar

[timeforbed]

She looked at her hand. Nothing. There was nothing there. She was about to take a bite of her rice ball, and it just... vanished.

"..."

3/3 nevermind, lied again

[timeforbed]

It is at this point that Shogo promptly broke down into tears.

"M-my Rice ball~!!!"

Lunch was serious business to Hazuru Shogo, to have her food just disappear without warning was simply too much for her.

Not that the rest was gone, no, it was still there, but that was meaningless to the fact that the rice ball was missing.

TOYO SEIRYU

[slackdragon]

[ CHARACTER: Every light novel battle series has one person who is whispered about as "the strongest fighter in school."

At Aegis, that student is Toyo Seiryu.

As the daughter of the school's founder and headmistress, great things have been expected of her. She has lived up to those expectations and more. The students gave her the moniker of "the dragon" as both a reference of her powers and of her strength in combat. And as the strongest character in school, she was the duly appointed student council president. Since appointments are carried out by combat duels, the strongest gains that title.

At least until she meets Kohaku and throws the fight against her so that she can be free of that title. Because natural ability aside, she wants nothing more than to coast through life without responsibility. That's her true character.

As her title of "the dragon" might suggest, she is a mutation type host. It's visible in her hands, which are claws with golden/red scales that run halfway down her wrists, giving her arms super strength, making them impervious to damage, and giving her razor-sharp deadly claws. Less visible, she also has the ability to breath fire. It gives her a reputation as somebody not to be crossed. ]

[strongestimouto]

[After some number of persistent attempts to annoy her into it, Ako has finally gotten Toyo to agree to a duel. The stakes: Nothing whatsoever.

Ako stands on the far side of the arena, unarmed, in no particular fighting stance. No apparent powers at work.]

All right, don't hold anything back. Come at me like you want to kill me.

[slackdragon]

[ This is all pointless. Why is she even doing this again?

Toyo removes her gloves, revealing her clawed hands, before shoving the gloves in a pocket. The inevitable crowd that's gathered mutters. ]

I'm not very good at holding back anyway. [ Look at this girl. Toyo knows that she's Kohaku's sister, and strong enough to make Kohaku break out into a sweat, but... look at her. No stance, no weapon, no powers.

This would take ten seconds, tops. ]

Don't cry when I'm done here! [ And she moves in!

Toyo's pretty quick - not on Kohaku's level, but it's not all about speed. That punch she throws... yeah, that's all power. ]