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Valor Glade is an idea of mine that began as a potential 1x1 between Nico, who helped spitball ideas, and myself.
The basic concept is an alternate modern Earth in which everyone is born with potential superhuman abilities and powers, but they are blocked by subconscious mental gates that inhibit these abilities and prevent their use.
The only way one may access their abilities is if, at some point in their life, they experience an Awakening: a seemingly arbitrary short series of events that triggers mental sequences which, in turn, unlock that person's abilities.
Awakenings usually occur almost exclusively during childhood and the teenage years, when the brain is still developing and the subconscious's mental gates are easiest to break. By age 30 or so, all chances of Awakening have all but vanished. However, even among children and teenagers, the number of Awakened individuals remains around a constant of roughly 0.0001% of the world's population, almost all of them in the US (that's just for plot convenience >.>).
Awakenings, despite their seemingly commonplace description, are very rare and are nearly impossible to achieve intentionally. It can be something like glancing out the window and noticing the crows are perched on the telephone wires in a certain EXTREMELY specific pattern, and seeing that pattern sets off the mental sequences and Awakens you. Make sense? Of course, visual patterns aren't the only thing that can Awaken someone, it can be auditory, like accidentally slipping and catching yourself by leaning your elbow on the piano, and the specific note combination and length of note-holding could Awaken you. An Awakening can happen through any of the five conventional senses (yes, including taste).
Again, it might seem like, from the way I've described it, that Awakenings are so arbitrary that they happen left and right, so why isn't everyone Awakened? Well, Awakenings are very, very, very, VERY specific and unique, and the experience is always different for each person that gets Awakened, just as everyone's minds are different. One could try to recreate the events that Awakened one of their friends verbatim, and try again until they had replicated the event a million times, and they would never succeed in Awakening themselves.
The Awakenings began with the year 2020 and its generation. Scientists are baffled, and neurology and psychology quickly become the focus of scientific study in the country. Rumors spread that the government wants to use the children as weapons of war, foreign conflict disappears almost overnight as countries assume a defensive position in anticipation of a superhuman attack. US signs international peace treaty, most modernized countries sign, aside from the Middle East. Terrorist and Iraqi extremist groups quiet down slightly, but remain present. Life goes on.
Good, you made it this far. How about I start talking about the actual plot, eh?
The plot of the RP focuses on a large city, called Valor Glade. It's located in Wyoming, built in the most remote region of the state in 2024. The city centers around a school, known as the Valor Glade Academy for Awakened. No one is quite sure why the founder of the school ordered its creation, and the subsequent creation of the city around it, in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming, but there is an important reason for the creation of the school at all.
Once people began Awakening here and there, there were, of course, those who sought to use their unlocked gifts for crime and malicious purpose. They caused tons of chaos in society, but unfortunately, so did the "heroes" who sought to stop them. Inexperienced in their powers and ill-suited for vigilante work, these potential do-gooders wound up causing tons of destruction of public property, and, tragically, the deaths of many countless bystanders in these street battles between Awakened. The people cried out to the government to do something about it, and so the government passed the Superhuman Restrictions Act. It outlawed vigilantism, urging these would-be heroes to get off the street and let the police handle the situation.
When one Awakened psychology professor appealed to the government in light of the decreasingly effective efforts of the police, they amended the act: vigilantes could act legally if, and only if, they received a special government-sponsored certificate that deemed the individuals capable of stopping crime with minimal collateral damage and civilian casualties. The certificate would also indicate that the Awakened in question was registered with, and collaborated with, the police departments in their area, and could only be earned by attending and graduating from a special institution located in the Wyoming wilderness.
And thus, the Valor Glade Academy for Awakened was established.
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What do you guys think? Anyone interested? Anyone confused? Anyone ready to devote their waking lives to this roleplay? Anyone ready to hurl at the atrocity of such a preposterous and ridiculous idea?
The basic concept is an alternate modern Earth in which everyone is born with potential superhuman abilities and powers, but they are blocked by subconscious mental gates that inhibit these abilities and prevent their use.
The only way one may access their abilities is if, at some point in their life, they experience an Awakening: a seemingly arbitrary short series of events that triggers mental sequences which, in turn, unlock that person's abilities.
Awakenings usually occur almost exclusively during childhood and the teenage years, when the brain is still developing and the subconscious's mental gates are easiest to break. By age 30 or so, all chances of Awakening have all but vanished. However, even among children and teenagers, the number of Awakened individuals remains around a constant of roughly 0.0001% of the world's population, almost all of them in the US (that's just for plot convenience >.>).
Awakenings, despite their seemingly commonplace description, are very rare and are nearly impossible to achieve intentionally. It can be something like glancing out the window and noticing the crows are perched on the telephone wires in a certain EXTREMELY specific pattern, and seeing that pattern sets off the mental sequences and Awakens you. Make sense? Of course, visual patterns aren't the only thing that can Awaken someone, it can be auditory, like accidentally slipping and catching yourself by leaning your elbow on the piano, and the specific note combination and length of note-holding could Awaken you. An Awakening can happen through any of the five conventional senses (yes, including taste).
Again, it might seem like, from the way I've described it, that Awakenings are so arbitrary that they happen left and right, so why isn't everyone Awakened? Well, Awakenings are very, very, very, VERY specific and unique, and the experience is always different for each person that gets Awakened, just as everyone's minds are different. One could try to recreate the events that Awakened one of their friends verbatim, and try again until they had replicated the event a million times, and they would never succeed in Awakening themselves.
The Awakenings began with the year 2020 and its generation. Scientists are baffled, and neurology and psychology quickly become the focus of scientific study in the country. Rumors spread that the government wants to use the children as weapons of war, foreign conflict disappears almost overnight as countries assume a defensive position in anticipation of a superhuman attack. US signs international peace treaty, most modernized countries sign, aside from the Middle East. Terrorist and Iraqi extremist groups quiet down slightly, but remain present. Life goes on.
Good, you made it this far. How about I start talking about the actual plot, eh?
The plot of the RP focuses on a large city, called Valor Glade. It's located in Wyoming, built in the most remote region of the state in 2024. The city centers around a school, known as the Valor Glade Academy for Awakened. No one is quite sure why the founder of the school ordered its creation, and the subsequent creation of the city around it, in the middle of nowhere in Wyoming, but there is an important reason for the creation of the school at all.
Once people began Awakening here and there, there were, of course, those who sought to use their unlocked gifts for crime and malicious purpose. They caused tons of chaos in society, but unfortunately, so did the "heroes" who sought to stop them. Inexperienced in their powers and ill-suited for vigilante work, these potential do-gooders wound up causing tons of destruction of public property, and, tragically, the deaths of many countless bystanders in these street battles between Awakened. The people cried out to the government to do something about it, and so the government passed the Superhuman Restrictions Act. It outlawed vigilantism, urging these would-be heroes to get off the street and let the police handle the situation.
When one Awakened psychology professor appealed to the government in light of the decreasingly effective efforts of the police, they amended the act: vigilantes could act legally if, and only if, they received a special government-sponsored certificate that deemed the individuals capable of stopping crime with minimal collateral damage and civilian casualties. The certificate would also indicate that the Awakened in question was registered with, and collaborated with, the police departments in their area, and could only be earned by attending and graduating from a special institution located in the Wyoming wilderness.
And thus, the Valor Glade Academy for Awakened was established.
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What do you guys think? Anyone interested? Anyone confused? Anyone ready to devote their waking lives to this roleplay? Anyone ready to hurl at the atrocity of such a preposterous and ridiculous idea?
