What is your Minecraft username?
edelhalle
What is your discord username?
edelhalle
What is your time zone?
GMT+8
Link(s) to any previous applications on the server:
[ACCEPTED]
Chisato Shirasagi's Hungarian Application
What are your current roles on the server? (If you're college, specify your degree level):
All my characters are Grade 12. As of right now, all of them aren’t part of factions, clubs, or sports teams.
Describe your activity and roleplay experience on the server:
So I began playing around July 2022. I was very active up till the start of 2023 when my activity began to decrease because I had to focus on university. But I've finally graduated and landed a job this year that I can do mostly at home, giving me more free time and a consistent schedule for playing on the server. Past few months I'm consistently on from 9 pm - 12 am from Mon-Fri. On weekends, I can log on earlier as long as I’m not running errands or visiting my family.
I’ve been RPing on the internet for exactly a decade at this point, so I have plenty, maybe even too much, experience in this regard. I’ve also written fan fiction and original short stories with original characters.
My IRL friends first introduced me to the server. Even with the initial learning curve like figuring out commands, understanding the schedule, etc., I quickly adapted and was already making new friends and hanging out by day two. Because of a certain worldwide event, I was able to go from my online classes featuring cubical lattices (hi, im an engineer!) to my online class featuring cubical voxels in just a few clicks. I do have to say, it took me some time to modify my RP style as I made the switch from pure storytelling to a real-time game like Minecraft.
Regular RPing, or what some call SchoolRP, is where I’ve spent most my time on the server. I’m the type of person who likes to approach people randomly and strike up a convo with them. Even if I got my own friend circle, why not keep making more friends? It’s SRP after all! That’s what the community did when I was new, and I intend to keep doing that for all the people I see on the server, both veterans and newcomers.
Even if most my time is spent dabbling in SchoolRP, I have tried GangRP, but it turns out I was too much of a do-gooder to last long, (un)fortunately. Aside from that, I also joined the HS Swim team for a few months back in late 2022. It taught me the ropes of DetailRP, as it was required to do swim actions. Ever since I left that team, I’ve mostly spent my time just hanging out with friends and logging on sporadically for the next two years because, yeah, university, but we managed to save up for a house and car (yes, the 1.5 M one)! Yeah, I’ve been here quite long to reach that.
I may not be a student in real life anymore, but I’m still a student in this world; enjoying tales of regaling romance, dastardly drama, youthful indiscretions, the works. While I do have friends in factions (some have been teachers and professors themselves), I’ve never given it a shot myself… until now!
In your own words, why do you think professors are important to SchoolRP?
Somebody has to hammer in the minds of students the virtue of wasting your life away in a dead-end white-collar job where the only physical activity is getting up to get coffee, right?
Okay, all jokes aside, professors represent, well, professionalism: knowledgeable, wise, and more than willing to share their skills. College is where our recent high school graduates learn the ins-and-outs of being the strong, independent adult they will soon become. After all, these children come out of high school knowing things, but not what they are for: a blank block of wood, to be sculpted by a professor. As they represent professionalism, they also serve as the role models in the classroom as teachers are to high schoolers. No professor would act like a baboon and still be a professor!
In more SRP terms, professors are there to do that, but they’re also there to maintain discipline in both the classroom and school grounds. They have to do this while still being approachable enough to help students. Also, they exist to grant students the means of progression within the server to get to masters, PhD, and eventually into adults, and they do this by designing class activities to keep them active and engaged… like what my character will be doing!
Do you acknowledge that if you are inactive, you may face demotion or removal from the faction?
Yes
Do you understand if your application is accepted, you may have to undergo professor training?
Yes
edelhalle
What is your discord username?
edelhalle
What is your time zone?
GMT+8
Link(s) to any previous applications on the server:
[ACCEPTED]
Chisato Shirasagi's Hungarian Application
What are your current roles on the server? (If you're college, specify your degree level):
All my characters are Grade 12. As of right now, all of them aren’t part of factions, clubs, or sports teams.
Describe your activity and roleplay experience on the server:
So I began playing around July 2022. I was very active up till the start of 2023 when my activity began to decrease because I had to focus on university. But I've finally graduated and landed a job this year that I can do mostly at home, giving me more free time and a consistent schedule for playing on the server. Past few months I'm consistently on from 9 pm - 12 am from Mon-Fri. On weekends, I can log on earlier as long as I’m not running errands or visiting my family.
I’ve been RPing on the internet for exactly a decade at this point, so I have plenty, maybe even too much, experience in this regard. I’ve also written fan fiction and original short stories with original characters.
My IRL friends first introduced me to the server. Even with the initial learning curve like figuring out commands, understanding the schedule, etc., I quickly adapted and was already making new friends and hanging out by day two. Because of a certain worldwide event, I was able to go from my online classes featuring cubical lattices (hi, im an engineer!) to my online class featuring cubical voxels in just a few clicks. I do have to say, it took me some time to modify my RP style as I made the switch from pure storytelling to a real-time game like Minecraft.
Regular RPing, or what some call SchoolRP, is where I’ve spent most my time on the server. I’m the type of person who likes to approach people randomly and strike up a convo with them. Even if I got my own friend circle, why not keep making more friends? It’s SRP after all! That’s what the community did when I was new, and I intend to keep doing that for all the people I see on the server, both veterans and newcomers.
Even if most my time is spent dabbling in SchoolRP, I have tried GangRP, but it turns out I was too much of a do-gooder to last long, (un)fortunately. Aside from that, I also joined the HS Swim team for a few months back in late 2022. It taught me the ropes of DetailRP, as it was required to do swim actions. Ever since I left that team, I’ve mostly spent my time just hanging out with friends and logging on sporadically for the next two years because, yeah, university, but we managed to save up for a house and car (yes, the 1.5 M one)! Yeah, I’ve been here quite long to reach that.
I may not be a student in real life anymore, but I’m still a student in this world; enjoying tales of regaling romance, dastardly drama, youthful indiscretions, the works. While I do have friends in factions (some have been teachers and professors themselves), I’ve never given it a shot myself… until now!
In your own words, why do you think professors are important to SchoolRP?
Somebody has to hammer in the minds of students the virtue of wasting your life away in a dead-end white-collar job where the only physical activity is getting up to get coffee, right?
Okay, all jokes aside, professors represent, well, professionalism: knowledgeable, wise, and more than willing to share their skills. College is where our recent high school graduates learn the ins-and-outs of being the strong, independent adult they will soon become. After all, these children come out of high school knowing things, but not what they are for: a blank block of wood, to be sculpted by a professor. As they represent professionalism, they also serve as the role models in the classroom as teachers are to high schoolers. No professor would act like a baboon and still be a professor!
In more SRP terms, professors are there to do that, but they’re also there to maintain discipline in both the classroom and school grounds. They have to do this while still being approachable enough to help students. Also, they exist to grant students the means of progression within the server to get to masters, PhD, and eventually into adults, and they do this by designing class activities to keep them active and engaged… like what my character will be doing!
Do you acknowledge that if you are inactive, you may face demotion or removal from the faction?
Yes
Do you understand if your application is accepted, you may have to undergo professor training?
Yes
What's your character's full name?
Suzune Saotome
Age (Minimum is 27)
27
Nationality:
Japanese
Preferred Subject:
Mathematics
Describe the character: How do they look and act? What makes them unique and different?
Suzune is the character that is featured next to the “IC Section” graphic I placed above. Okay, for her actual description, she is a 157 cm tall (5’2) woman who leaves a positive vibe everywhere. Her white sneakers leave behind a trail of vibrant pink, her signature color. Her bright pink hair takes the form of a wavy bob with loose, wispy strands dancing over eyes that glow lime green. She dons a hairpin featuring cyan and white eighth notes (or quavers) resting against her locks. She is wrapped in a wave-patterned orange shirt declaring "NO MUSIC, NO LIFE" complete with a pair of black shorts. Her work outfit is different; she replaces the shirt with a pink blazer and shorts with a brown plaid skirt.
From her clothes to her personality and even her hobbies, it’s impossible not to notice when Suzune’s around. Such strong light needs its release; she can yap and yap for hours talking about numbers, music, or whatever else she vibes with at the moment. It’s not for everyone, of course; one person’s sun tan is another’s skin cancer (okay, was that too much? Yeah, probably) but for those basking in her glow and her very pink hair, she’s nicknamed “Glowstick”.
Growing up in Harajuku, Tokyo, lil’ Suzune often helped out her mom in managing their clothing store. With the frequent flux of international tourists, Suzune had to learn English to communicate with those customers more easily. Her older brother is a musician prowling the streets of Tokyo. It was he who instilled the love of music into Suzune’s youthful heart, and taught her the way of the (musical) keyboard.
What are their plans for the future? Optionally, what is their past?
Suzune graduated with a degree in Mathematics at Osaka University, and took her graduate program in Applied Mathematics at Tokyo’s Waseda University. To fund her studies, Suzune worked as an assistant professor teaching pre-calc and basic calculus to freshmen. Getting her Master’s at 24 years old, Suzune entered the private sector as a data ****yst, eventually moving to Karakura island to join one of the company’s branches there. A few months ago, said branch collapsed, leaving Suzune unemployed.
After that, Suzune put her newly-acquired eight hours of do-nothing time to use, walking along the coast in deep introspection, catching up with her friends, and deliberating on all her life’s mistakes. After a certain conversation with Nanoha (ooh, foreshadowing!!), Suzune, after a few more introspection sessions, made up her mind; she’s coming back to teaching, and she’s going to make it her lifelong passion. Her prior experience as an assistant taught her one thing: math is an art, one that students simply need to learn how to appreciate, to partake in. It takes a certain kind of person, perhaps not an entirely sane one, to pursue math for as long as she did, but she won’t let that stop her, if the few paragraphs of her biography were any indication.
Giving her a less professional outlook on life, Suzune is rather content with what she has. She has the choice to marry a man that can handle her energy, or let that light fade out alone in the far future. But she has a simple dream she longed to achieve in her lifetime, one that started when she was just a little girl: start her own cafe. Her very own creative space where she can serve customers her version of strawberry shortcake that her mom would bake for her. Her favorite treat she would ask for when she returned home with good grades or when it was her birthday or Christmas.
Suzune would have loved to have her mom be her first customer when she eventually achieves that dream. Alas, she’ll have to wait till they inevitably meet in the afterlife.
What is their outlook on students and their co-workers?
Suzune believes that college-aged students should be capable of independence and proper time management. She shows leeway to students who lack such things, but will not hesitate to put her foot down; after all, they aren’t high schoolers anymore, are they? That’s not to say she abandons stragglers and slow learners. Suzune thinks everyone has potential, from the greatest to the least; it is her duty to these young adults to coax it out. They may never reach the heights of the best mathematicians in history, but it’s okay as long as they did their best!
Suzune is more than willing to mingle with anyone and everyone (faculty, students, staff, even that one guy stuck at the bus stop with her) while still maintaining a separation between work and personal life. She’s laser focused when at work teaching and grading, but she lets her hair down just as easily once she’s done; if someone wants to chat, her words flow as freely and quickly as the Niagara Falls passing through a drinking straw. Nobody is safe from her deluge, not the freshman wet behind the ears, not the taciturn professor in caffeine withdrawal, and most certainly not whoever’s reading this!
What is their motivation for becoming a professor?
Suzune made quick friends with the denizens of Karakura island. She grew especially close to the Murasaki family, forming a bond so strong she may as well be another member. A month into unemployment, Suzune found herself in a long chat with her de-facto-sibling Nanoha, where they eventually touched on the topic of Suzune’s future.
“Y’know, Suzu,” Nanoha said, “I jus’ don’t get it.”
“Get what?” Suzune replied.
“Why you’re wastin’ yer potential doin’ some stupid ****ysis work fer a company that left you mopin’ around in the gutter.”
“I’m not moping. I’m meditating! Introspecting!”
“Meditatin’, introspectin’, who cares? All I know is, you went and got yerself a degree from a good university, got a graduate degree from another good university, then wasted it on some white collar job, doin’ work you don’t care about, helpin’ a company who doesn’t care about you!”
Suzune sighed. Nanoha sure doesn’t beat around the bush.
“Look, you enjoyed teachin’, right?” Nanoha said, her expression mild and understanding. “I know you were havin’ lots of fun back when you were an assistant prof.”
“Yeah, true. Those kids were a joy to work with.” Suzune loved reminiscing about that time.
“Then why don’t you go back to that? Go teach some kids how to enjoy math like you do. Stop puttin’ your mind to work on things that don’t matter.”
Nanoha had a point, and its sharp tip pierced Suzune’s heart. Nanoha was completely right. Suzune only took that job because of its higher pay, and now that it’s gone, what’s the point? She was grateful to the company leading her to Karakura island, but things have changed. It was time for a new chapter in life; it was time to follow her heart.
Suzune, after all, loved being an assistant professor. She loved teaching math. She loved showing how the tangled mass of a hieroglyphic mess of a formula could be stripped bare and revealed to the world with a simplified view. The numbers weren't cold; they spoke of the world. A few simple rules, used over and over, built the whole, logical tapestry of everything. But most of all, she loved her students. Quiet students. Brash students. Students who choked down bile the second a letter shows up in their math class. Students who come into her class with a smorgasbord of expectations and fear, and it was Suzune’s job to turn their fear into love: a love for the numerical art. For every anxious glance a newcomer threw her way, was a confident smile from a graduate leaving her class. The students loved her as she did them, and Suzune shared their pride when they graduated with top grades, with high honors, or even just graduated at all, as long as they did their best.
Really, why did she even leave this life?
Luckily for Suzune, Karakura island had openings for a math professor. So she dropped everything she was doing, which wasn’t really much (thanks, unemployment!) and rushed to fill out the form and submit.
A jock is ignoring your lesson and throwing paper balls at another student, what would your character do?
Such immature behavior. Suzune sighed to herself. She hoped that college students would be past this, but evidently not. Suzune glances at the victim. They don’t seem all that into it. A little friendly horsing around during class was tolerable (I mean God knows how insufferable she was as a student) but this crossed a line. She puts down her pen.
“Hey.” Suzune flashes the jock a smile. It wouldn’t do to be too hostile from the off. “Mx. Jock, are you listening?”
“Of course, ma’am.” The jock smiles back.
“Good.” She turns back to the board.
Not even a minute later, the corner of her eye catches the sight of another crumpled ball. It’s action time.
“Mx. Jock.” She turns back to the class, a faint smile still on her face. “Can you tell me what it is you’re doing?”
“Just listening, ma’am.”
“Really? You mean to say that crumpled-up ball flew by itself?”
“We’re just friends, ma’am, friends!” said the Jock, laughing a little too loud. “Why’re you even sticking your nose in our business, huh? You a high school teacher or somethin’?”
“Look, setting aside-”
“-we pay you to teach, so teach! Stop yappin’ about pointless shit and go back to your numbers.”
“I’m just saying that-”
“Shut. Up. And. Teach!”
Suzune felt the pangs of frustration welling up inside her. The jock’s baiting her, she knew that. The wrong choice of words and it’s a trip to the principal for her... she would really, really prefer not to lose this job. Suzune took a deep breath. She saw another student ready to rebuke the jock, but she waved them off. She knew what she had to do.
Suzune walked toward the door as the silence in the room began to grow so heavy it could crush diamond. She opened the door, pointed to the hallway, and looked back at the Jock.
“Out.”
“Huh? But I didn’t-”
“I don’t want to hear it. I treat you like an adult, and I expect you to act like one. If you want to act like a child, the classroom is not the place for you to do it. Come back when you’re ready to learn. Understand?”
The brighter the sun shines, the darker the shadows it casts. And that sunshine that was Suzune was definitely not present anymore. Her face didn't twist into a frown or scowl, but it was blank, with a terrifying, neutral mask where her sunny warmth used to be.
Suzune waited. The jock, realizing the audience had turned against him, and unnerved by the sudden shift in atmosphere, grabbed his bag and slunk out. Suzune closed the door gently. She turned back to the class, the bright, "Glowstick" smile instantly returning to her face as if nothing had happened.
“Now! Where were we? Ah, right, we were just about to graph this equation!”
A student doesn’t seem to understand the material, yet hasn’t requested help, what would your character do?
Well, you could call Suzune a very observant owl. You know that feeling where your pen’s just hovering uncertainly over your paper, your sweat starting to trickle, your brows starting to furrow… suddenly, your eyes dart to the board as if realizing something but no, it fades and you’re back to square one? Yeah, she knows that very well. In fact, it’s a look she wore often enough even when she was a wee student herself. But she wouldn’t call them out publicly; after all, mortification is rarely a good teacher.
Suzune lets the class work on an exercise she had written on the board. As she patrols the rows of desks, she’d drift toward the struggling student, perhaps humming a tune to make her approach less predatory.
“Hey there,” she’d whisper, crouching down to eye-level. “You’ve been staring at that problem for a good five minutes. I think it’s starting to get shy.”
She’d offer a soft, disarming chuckle to the student who looked up and eyed her worriedly. To her, Math is just a foreign tongue, and her students just need to find the right way to translate it to a way they understand.
“Walk me through your thought process. Where did the numbers and the letters stop making sense?”
Aside from in-class discussions, she’s also open to some tutoring outside class sessions! She’d invite them to her office as long as her schedule’s free, letting the students tackle the lesson together with her judgement-free. She also gives Strawberry Pocky after!
When in the faculty lounge, how does your character act?
So like I described in a previous question, Suzune is either an unstoppable force or an immovable object. If she’s in a good mood, she’s gonna be the lounge’s podcast. She’ll make coffee (lots of it, with an unholy amount of condensed milk; don’t judge her!), bounce between desks, and chat up anyone unfortunate enough to make eye contact. She’ll regale the History professor with a theory on how geometry built civilization, or pester the Physics teacher about rounding pi to 4 (why is that a thing?). She is vibrant and loud, and decompresses by letting all her energy out at once.
But what if she’s grading papers or planning her next lecture? Silence. Absolute, terrifying focus. She’ll sit in her cubicle with her headphones blasting her favorite Blockify playlist as her red pen flies across the papers. In this state, you may as well treat her like a furniture piece that screams “DO NOT DISTURB”, only breaking the trance to reach blindly for her overly sweet coffee. Sometimes she’ll dip Strawberry Pocky inside. Ugh, why?
Provide at least 2 interactive class ideas and one field trip idea related to your subject
Interactive Class Idea 1
Geometry is usually where fun goes to die for most people; I mean, what will a student aspiring to be a chef or businessman do with sines and cosines? Suzune knows that feeling, but she’ll do her best to make learning it fun anyway! Instead of boring chalkboard drawings, she turns the lesson into an adventure; an adventure for angles. She hands out to each group a kit containing protractors, string, and popsicle sticks. The mission is simple: find the angles hiding in plain sight and recreate it with their materials. She guides the swarm of students out to the open-air section of the school in the middle and groups them; one group may measure the acute angle of a stair railing, another the obtuse angle of a tree branch, the perfect right angle of a window frame, and so on. They have to physically measure the vertices with the protractor, replicate the angle using their string and sticks, and join them together on a board. Suzune is constantly buzzing around checking if the students are just eyeballing their work, and if not, if they are doing their work correctly. It forces the students to realize that the world isn’t a random mess; it’s a wireframe of math, and they just need the right perspective to see it.
Interactive Class Idea 2
This is where students learn why the house always wins! Or why it sometimes loses disastrously (but mostly the former, please don’t gamble your life away). Suzune turns the classroom into a workshop of fate by setting up stations with the tools of probability: coins, dice, decks of cards. "You’re now game designers!" Suzune announces. Their task is to invent a game with a clear win condition and calculate the theoretical probability of victory. Once the math’s done, the real fun begins: playtime! The class rotates, playing each group's game to gather data. They then compare their theoretical math against the experimental results they gathered. When the numbers inevitably don't match, they get into the world of statistics where sample sizes can only be so aligned to theory. It teaches the students that theory will always differ from cold, hard data. You either win big, or lose terribly.
Field Trip Idea
Field trip time! Suzune leads her class on a walking tour through Karakura armed with her characteristic infectious energy. Her goal is to show her students how math isn't locked away in textbooks or online tutorial videos but practically screaming at you from every building, bridge, and storefront.
The students are asked to bring sketchbooks, and they are instructed to make good use of it: they sketch the angles they observe in architecture, the proportions in doorways, even patterns they may find in objects of nature such as flowers. They note down the possible math concepts they discover alongside their sketches. Sometimes, Suzune might pause in front of an object and ask the whole class a question. "So can anyone identify what mathematical concept is being addressed with this spiral staircase? That’s right, they’re making use of limited area!" Or for a more technical exercise, she'll have them estimate the height of a building using basic trigonometry. One student stands a distance away from the building, acting as the vertex of the right triangle and another will measure the angle and run some math, thus determining the building’s height!
Suzune will also tell stories about how all these engineers and architects actually use these concepts, demonstrating how if one element of this particular design was changed, the whole building would crumble. She will have the class find patterns such as the golden ratio or Fibonacci sequences that appear in nature. She will even have the students design their own mathematical solutions for a problem that they think of. After the field trip is done, the students will then return to class with their sketchbook and present their insights on how math literally shapes the world around them.
By the end, even the creme de la creme of math haters starts to understand: numbers aren't just some boring obstacle they have to deal with in school, they're the reason why we, everyone, everything, in the universe are shaped that way. After all, this is the message Suzune wants to spread, and is the reason why she became a professor.
Additional Info
Thanks for reading my first faction app and Merry Christmas <3
Thanks for reading my first faction app and Merry Christmas <3