"As you know, madness is like gravity... all it takes is a little push."
RippedZan's Black Market Application
"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos."
IGN:
RippedZan (Main)
aanomalistic (alt)
BlackEclipic (alt)
Describe your activity on the server:
Reporter:
From what most people know about me, I am the Editor of Karakura News, putting my position as second in command of the faction. I have been in the faction since April 1st, 2024, meaning my 2nd anniversary has just passed this spring. This faction has been my pride and joy since joining it, and I am happy to have been in it for so long. I don’t see myself leaving this faction anytime soon, so here is to another next few years of reports and articles for the community!
Builder:
I am a member of SchoolRP’s own build team, and now have been for a little over a year. My time is spent nearly everywhere on the map. I could be found working on a project up at the shrine, or I could be back down in the city sewers, tunnelling more ways around Karakura's growing population. There is no saying what is next on my project list until it is directly handed to me on a silver spoon. So, just for now, we must wait and see what is up next.
Criminal:
I have been a part of the crime community since November 2023, and I am thankful enough to have been taken under the wing of BMD DarkEclipic to help me learn the process of everything. I have seen the updates and changes from small to large, from the introduction of Nexus, and the loss of Ikigai club.
It is safe to say I am quite active on the server, and while I do have a busy OOC schedule, I always make sure to leave some room for SRP somewhere. The rare chance that I am not online, I am most likely playing another game with friends or on a rare break to help me keep going strong. How else do people think I have stayed on the server for so long?
Specify your Discord username and if you have a microphone:
rippedzan, and yes I do have a microphone
Specify your country of origin and time zone:
USA, and currently I am in EDT.
What are your motivations in applying for the black market dealer role?
It is known now that I have been involved in the crime faction for such a long time now. While I have not been in it for as long as others, I have quite the experience apart from others who have been involved in it as much as I have. Earlier this spring, I had taken my first step back from the crime faction. This was to join KPD and give myself a chance of peace, since I had been in that area of the community for years. As time went on, something was missing from my SRP life. I had my sports, my news faction, and my friends, but something was just not right. I was in the crime faction for YEARS, and the only limitation I ever had was sports. Being a part of KPD, made me realize I couldn’t do the thing I loved to do. As much as I loved being in the faction, running to calls, raiding houses, and arresting criminals.. I missed the chaos and thrill that came from committing those crimes. Truth be told, I waited to see if I could return to some crime while still being in KPD, but the longer I waited, the more desperate I became to return home.
Since the start, I have known some things about the black market. While I was not directly involved in the black market until I was taken into the Black Market as an associate for lumaflies in December of 2024. With Luma, I worked small jobs, gathered intel, hunted people down, and caused mayhem to an extent that I had never imagined that I could have done. I also never believed I could ever be writing this application, but yet here I am. Taking this step up as I have climbed the crime world is something thrilling and chilling to me. I spent so many days of my life listening to gang leads and BMDs, and now I am done. It’s my time to shine, to make a change, and to return home to my beloved crime world.
What helps you to stand out from other applicants & what can you uniquely provide to the team?
Activity: While it has been a few months since my last true interaction with the crime world, it is quite easy for me to relearn and quickly get the hang of everything. Prior to joining KPD, I was active in this part of the server. I obtained many roles through my time, because I gave the community my all. I shaped characters with their personalities to be just quirky enough to make roleplay more interesting than it would normally be.
"I want to be good.. and pure, but I'm not I'm not I'm not."
Experience:- BMDa: While I may not be a BMDa right now, I was prior to March 15th of this year, and that lasted all the way back to December of 2024, when I was taken under the wind of previous BMD lumaflies. I had quite enjoyed the role, and was quite sad to see it go once my acceptance into the KPD came forward. The opportunity that had been brought to me helped me expand not only my knowledge for the BMD faction, but for crime as well. I took part in plenty of deals and situations, looking into the darkest side of things that the BMDs deal with. Everything I know, I can thank this role for teaching me.
- Fight Club: I was in this role for so long, and I have seen many directors all the way back from Fifa, and now to DarkEclipic. I took part in nearly every role that Fight Club has to offer, going from Fighter, to Security, and lastly Bartender. This was my first job in the crime world, and the one I have been in the longest. With my return to crime, came with my return to Fight Club, and I am very happy to be back.
- Karakura Autos: While I have not spent a lot of time in the Karakura Auto’s group, I have enjoyed my time. Not only does crime roleplay come through here, but I can also get some regular roleplay involving the garage. Since my role is a mechanic, it allows me to be able to fix cars, or just simply mess with them and make them fail.
- Gangs: For gangs, I had been in a small amount of them, but my time in them has gone on for long enough. I have been a part of Alteri, Hanazono Clan, and Parabellum. I had known of Parabellum since they started, but I only joined later in their time, joining them during their UVG era.
What previous experience do you have in working with a team?
I have quite the experience when it does come down to working with a team. A lot of the main important information for team work is communication and effort. Without either of those two, the team work begins to fail and makes things more difficult to make any progress on what you are working on. Down below, I have listed a few examples of where I have to do team work on SchoolRP.
Community Team: As most people know, I am a part of SchoolRPs wonderful build team, this means I go around the map creating, redesigning, or fixing builds that are being updated around the map. I spend most of my time working alone, but when it comes to events or larger projects that I need assistance on, this requires me to build with others on my team as well. With certain builders, they have more strengths in other builds than I do. I have better expertise when it comes to building some trees, while someone else might be extremely well on terrain. With this, we can come together and make the project collaborative and run more smoothly.
Factions: With factions, I have been in quite the number of them. I am someone who enjoys exploring all types of factions, to get an idea of what happens behind the scenes and how it runs. These were a lot of my reasons to apply for factions. Now with my amount of faction experience behind my back, I can explain the team work that is required to be in these factions. Let us take News as the first example. Previously I have stated that I am the Editor, and I have been since June of 2024. During my time, I have seen reporters come and go, some I was quite sad to see go. For news, it takes a lot of communication between reporters and higher ups to get reports out. Sometimes, those reporters need help, and when no one is available to assist, I step in. When I step in, I ask what needs to be done for them to get this report done, and I receive a list of items. Depending on how much is left, I will take at least half of the work and complete it for them. This could be writing, gathering interviews, or formatting for the reports.
My second example is Town Hall, or the Government faction. There are plenty of jobs to go around for the gov faction, but the thing that takes the most work are the trials. During my time in Government, I was a judge, which means I would be up on the stand determining whether people were free of their charges, or they were demanded back to their cells for their sentence. With this, it is where the communication comes in. These trials happen live, and it is a large roleplay experience and could take a lot out of some. But the big thing is communication, where the lawyers are defending their person straight to the Judge. For these, you also need to put in the effort to understand their actions or else the entire trial could fall apart.
Lastly, my final example is KPD. Just like the Government faction, KPD has a lot of roleplay experiences where you need communication and effort to get through different situations and challenges that you could face from day to day. When we would go out on calls, we relied on our radios to communicate, this could be positions, locations, or orders from the higher ups. Along with communication, you needed the effort to be put into this as well. Without one person putting in the effort, the situation could become dire to the rest of the team, putting them at a risk of being hurt or getting lost.
Teams: Team work on a sports team should be quite easy to understand, with communication and effort it just exists in the team. You spend a lot of your day either running around with your teammates or with other sports members. Your team work comes into play when you join games, or get involved in tournaments. The best example I have of this was during scrims while I was on College Swim. We were up against the High School team, and we were playing a game that the swim team made just for themselves. I won’t explain the game, but the importance of this is the team work that we had to do. It took constant communication to score our points, and without the effort our team could lose. Thankfully, my team ended up winning the swims at 2-1.
"Too many people confuse loyalty, with blind obedience."
What suggestions do you have to help better the crime faction?
Suggestion 1: Communication
Back when I was active in gangs, or more when I started Gang roleplay, there was a discord server, I believe the name was Gang Talk. This was a discord just to discuss gang roleplay. This could be from the problems that people were having with gang roleplay, or it could be solutions that people were bringing forward to fix issues. This was used during a greater time period for criminals. You wouldn’t have just anyone in there, it would be for the gangleaders, the dealers, higher ups in gangs, or just more of the better well known criminals in the community. Sadly, this discord has gone quiet and from what I understand is no longer used.
My suggestion is to bring this server back from the dead. Recently in the past, there had been efforts to try and redo this on their own terms, and at that time I denied joining it because I was not sure on how well it would turn out not being run by the faction lead. With the Crime lead present, there would be the required rules and regulations put in place to make sure everyone would express their desires or woes within the gang and crime community. At the moment, there is not a lot of communication in the crime community, and there has not been any in quite awhile from what I have heard. I want to bring back that communication, because with the communication, gangs get more activity, which means more events, and roleplay opportunities.
Suggestion 2: Roleplay opportunities
Leading off from my previous suggestion, I want there to be more roleplay opportunities within the crime faction. During my days as an associate, there would be plenty of times where I would need to do things that required perms or intel work, but as the days went on, that slowly dropped to nearly none. Openings became dull, and slowly less and less people were buying weapons and not reselling them on the streets. The job became dull in the nicest way I can explain it, so I had a few ideas to fix this.
Idea 1: As a builder, I always think about what could be added to things, or what isn’t used enough. Let’s look at the sewers, the last time it was properly worked on is when I assisted in updating and fixing it after the new sports houses were added in. These sports houses messed up the tunnels, forcing us to create underground tunnels to bypass them to allow BMDs to get through them. Now, these also mess up where the crates spawn in, and we often need staff help to get access to these crates, especially when it involves the sports houses.
My main idea is to fix the sewers again. While I do not mean we require a big remodel, I do wish to have them fixed enough that we can receive the areas lost back into our possession. With the addition to the sports houses, we lost almost the ENTIRE new black market office. We also lost small rooms, good access to the artist den, and a few other spots that are now lost to memory. I want to rebuild these areas, and give them a bit more life.
Idea 2: Going off returning some areas we had lost, I want to add new ones. This could technically be put into the same idea, but it is like a tree expanding onto its branches. On one branch, you have the fixing of the sewers, and the other is this idea! I want to add more roleplay opportunities for the community, or areas where events could be held FOR GANGS. Right now for builds, the largest area we have for events is on the beach, or one of the plaza parks. With there being an event area in the sewers, this allows builders to rework, remodel, and rebuild a section of the sewers to fit each event to whatever gang decides to use it. After the events are done, we can leave small areas unclean, leaving the gang’s mark as a reminder for those who come to visit it during the hours it is unused.
While the event area is not in use, it could be quite a nice spot to roleplay in. As I stated a moment ago, some of the more uncleaned areas could be small areas where people can stop to chat, or make a deal. We used to have the old sewer maintenance office for small multi-use gang meetings, but since that became a turf area, we cannot access it without messing with the gang that has laid claim there. Let’s have an area where multiple gangs could come to talk, make deals, or fight it out in a brawl. The sewers are meant for the criminals, so let us give it back to them, that allow it to keep collecting cobwebs and dust.
Are you familiar with all rules pertaining to weapon profiles, combat, permissions, and player conduct on the server?
I am familiar with all of the rules pertaining to the weapon profiles, combat, permissions,and player conduct for School RP.
Are you familiar with that if you leave the black market at any point, the black market lead will have permanent kill permissions on your character?
Yes, I am familiar with the fact that, if I were to leave the black market at any point, the black market lead will have permanent kill permission on my character.
Are you familiar with that if your character(s) is/are killed or permanently arrested twice, you will be removed from the black market?
Yes, I am familiar that if my character were to be killed or arrested twice, I will be removed from the black market.
Are you familiar with that you cannot reveal any out-of-character plans or potential addition to the black market to others?
I am familiar with the information that I cannot reveal any plans or potential additions to the black market with others.
"Those young eyes, saw too many horrors."
Full Legal Name: Luka Levan-Komorebi
Criminal Alias: Anomaly
It is a chosen name for myself, as the way I act makes me look anomalistic.
Age & Occupation: 19 years old and I’m an ex-bmda
Gender & Marital Status: Male, he/him, and not married
Ethnicity & Race: Japanese & Georgian
Known Languages: JSL, Japanese, and Georgian.
Former Associations/Occupations: Fight Club, Karakura Autos, and Black Market associate.
Highest Level of Education: High School, I’m currently a College Bachelor
"I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result."
Physical/Mental Ailments:No Physical Ailments, unless you count the knife I received to my shoulder when I was 18 by my god mother’s ex-husband.
Cyclothymia - My mood disorder I’ve had for over a decade now. I have my highs and lows with this condition. During my highs, I can be energetic, lose sleep, and make risky decisions. During my lows, I draw back, and feel a lot of the more common feelings of depression. My mood can shift multiple times a day without help, but I get enough help to assist me to function.
Known Family Members:
Komorebi Family:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Komorebi (Father)
Koizumi Komorebi (Aunt)
Souta Saiky-Komorebi (Uncle)
Miosa Saiky (Cousin)
Circe Komorebi (Cousin)
Hera Komorebi (Cousin)
Levan Family:
▇▇▇▇▇ Levan (Mother)
Rori Levan (Older Brother)
Dahlia Gairil (God Mother)
Rayleigh Tachitsu (Brother Figure)
Describe your character's appearance to the greatest detail:
Short brown curls covered his head, a single blonde streak laid in front of his face, separating his eyes from one another. They laid in a mess upon his head, not unkept, just curling in random directions without assistance to look neat. Tired eyes laid on his face, his eyes matched his personality, mismatched. Heterochromia was the way to explain it, his left eye a soft chocolate brown, where his left was a dark emerald green. He had pretty eyes, but they had a manic look behind them, one of power and control. The remainder of his face was neutral, hard to read and decipher. Scars riddled the rest of his body, which is surprising for his slim frame, but do not take that for weakness.
Describe your character's personality to the greatest detail:
Just like a flip of a coin, there were two sides to Luka or Anomaly. On one side of the coin, or his public figure side, Luka is a sweet young adult, one full of life and chaos, and nearly liked by all. While chaos still follows him, that is just simply who he is as a person. He can be protective of his partners, both verbally and physically with a lot of will power to hold him back. On the other side, one hidden behind a skull crown mask is Anomaly, one with no morals for human life. He does not care for who you are, where you have come from, or who you are related to. This is the side of him that he doesn’t hold back, if he wishes to attack, he does so precisely. For him, power is everything to this personality. It is the control and the key to his success and survival.
Describe your character's backstory to the greatest detail: (200+ words minimum)
March 16th, 2005, late into the day a baby would be born into the world. He wasn’t fussy or crying, he was now just brought into a world that would change her for the worst. Luka was born late into the night, which would be oddly fitting for the later in life night adventures that would last well into the next morning.
Luka’s early childhood was fine for the most part. He was the youngest of two, having an older brother by a few years. Then, he had his mother. A wonderful woman full of love, and a general workaholic to make sure her kids are provided for. Luka’s father was in the picture for a few years up until Luka turned 9. Now, he was a father’s kid, favouring his father more than his mother. Watching his father leave, broke his heart, forcing forward an issue that had gone undiagnosed for years up until this point.
He was dragged to his god mother, a younger lady by the name of Dahlia Gairil. She checked Luka over a period of a few months as his behavior fluctuated between highs and lows. For quite a bit, this left Gairil baffled, as it wasn’t extreme as some people with BPD, but it still presented with the same symptoms. It wasn’t until the age of 12 before Luka was properly diagnosed with Cyclothymia, a rare and milder case than BPD. This explained his symptoms and his behaviours that had turned his life upside down.
As the years went on, he was pulled into the wrong crowds. He would stay out late, often get caught into trouble that often made him be brought home by officers of the law in early hours of the morning. This got him that taste for crime that he desired, for a thrill that kept him in those heightened highs and feelings that came from his illness, his Cyclothymia. This made him want more, made him crave the chaos and the thrill when it came for his drive for crime. When his brother moved to Karakura to take on a role as Vice Principal at Karakura High, he begged his mother to allow him to transfer to stay closer to his brother. After weeks of relentless begging and pleading, his mother finally agrees and sends him off to Karakura.
Upon arriving in Karakura, he immediately started his rampage, taking on fights with people who were seemingly more dangerous than the ones he previously took on back home. But of course, his brother wasn’t the only one his mother kept an eye on him with. His god mother was also working in Karakura, but over at the local hospital. Despite the constant eyes on him, making sure he was behaving and getting his school work done, he still escaped into the crime world that he called his home.
"I am not challenging your authority. I'm denying it completely."
Describe an interaction that your character may have as a black market dealer: (This can be anything — a weapon deal, an event they may be involved in, or maybe an interaction with a gang)
A tapping echoed throughout the room, fingers drumming against a dark wooden desk. Papers covered it, orders and orders laid in words upon the surface. They laid in semi-organized piles, the smaller orders laid more to the side, while the larger ones laid in the hands of the man tapping. He laid the papers down, taking out a phone, adorned in dents and scratch marks, yet the screen remained spotless and in terrific condition, somehow..
The room around them was dark and damp, fitting for the sewers they resided in. Two chairs sat in front of the desk, empty and unused, however they shared their wear and tear just like everything else in this office. It has seen its own history, fights and discussions that were won there. It was a Dealer’s office after all, why would he lose?
He texted on his phone, a small chuckle from behind the mask. A small glistening against his mask as a video played on the screen, a funny video sent from someone, but who? Soon, his quiet laughter was interrupted by a distant drum of footsteps, coming closer and closer.. Were they coming to this office?
A knock, knuckles gently hitting against the door 3 times, then… BANG.
The door, once closed off from the rest of the hideout, swung open, the door handle was smashed inwards as a masked figure stood on the other side, his boot still raised in the air from where they had kicked in the door. The masked figure stepped forward, soon gripping the back of one of the worn chairs before swinging his body over and taking a seat. With his feet now kicked up onto the desk, papers scattered across the floor, the BMD losing the somewhat organization he had obtained.
That man seemed to want control of the room and the conversation that soon came forward.
‘A lot of time has passed since I put in my order. So, I have come to collect it. Is the brat that took it originally around?’
Brat? Brat?! Did that man, who just stormed into the room, broke the door in, and now demanded his order, call the BMD in front of him.. A BRAT? Laughter erupted from Anomaly, that gut wrenching laughter that sent him leaning back in his chair and holding his stomach. This only angered the figure before him, forcing his boots down onto the floor and slamming his hands upon the desk as he rose from the worn chair.
‘Now, what is so damn funny, brat?’
There it was again, the same word that started his laughter. He could hardly come down from that fun high or emotions. He took a moment to collect himself, moving the mask over just a bit to wipe his tears away. Once he was collected, he sat back up in his chair and took a breath.
‘You think, you can waltz in here, and demand an order without giving me any information about who you are, or what the order was. I cannot do anything unless information is given. Bitch.’
The figure exhaled, slowly returning to his seat with a huff and crossed his arms.
‘I ordered something for me and a few others, and for the inconvenience, I want a discount, it’s under REDACTED. So, make it snappy, I need to get b-.’
Interrupted with a single hand movement, a gloved hand raised to the air to silence him as Anomaly began to shift through the papers of orders. He wasn’t happy about the demand for a discount, but he would discuss that in a moment. He found the order, looking over the piles of papers laid between them. It took a moment, but once it was found, he pulled out the paper and looked over it.
‘Let’s see.. 3 naginatas, a fire axe, and a few katanas? Quite the order.. And quite pricey.’ He chuckled, enjoying the thought of the money. But, of course he had to do his job. Picking up the phone he had placed to the side previously before, he looked up the order, checking for something.
Tsk tsk tsk, a bright red light mirrored off of his mask, a flashing error that denied the man from ordering items. Not just the normal block that made people have to climb the crime ladder, it was the blacklist from the entire market itself.
‘Ah, well from what it seems here. You fucked up, naughty naughty.’
He raised the paper, placing his hands on top as he slowly ripped the paper before him. Now, this really angered the man, forcing him forward to try and grasp onto the BMD that denied him those weapons that allowed him to control the streets.
‘WHY YOU FUCKING BRAT, JUST YOU WAI-’
Without error or wait, suddenly the man was tossed back into the cold stone wall, getting the air knocked out of him. His gaze lifted, Anomaly sat in his chair, leg crossed the other as two people now stood beside him, weapons out and protecting the BMD from his attempted assailant.
Anomaly slowly raised from his chair and onto his feet, the BMD who was just called a brat, now stood over the man with a crazed manic expression that turned the atmosphere of the room fearful.
‘You, have been blacklisted from the Black Market, your order is cancelled, your access to weapons, GONE. Spend your pitiful blood money elsewhere, as you cannot order from me.’
He turned to his one associate, placing a gloved hand to his mask before turning his gaze to the other.
‘Get rid of him, drop him off into the water, let him go home soaked in sewer water.’
A nod before a whistle, other associates came in to drag the now fearful man out of the room as he left kicking and screaming for his items that had been denied to him. His screams echoed well down into the sewers before he turned back to his associate, a soft smile across his face. His associate turned to face him as they bumped their masks together.
‘Show me that video of the cats again, it made me laugh.’
Describe any other additional information that is notable in considering your character for the role of a black market dealer: (If inapplicable, put N/A)
I took, the absolute BEST NAP, after writing this.
