Alexander
That is not dead which can eternal lie
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"This is how my Trials as a God-Harem King began."
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Your name is Hyodo Issei. Your parents and friends at school, the few you have anyway, call you "Ise". You're a second year high school student who is currently experiencing the time of his youth.
And you're dying.
It all began when a cute girl with silky black hair and a slender body asked you out. For a guy like you who never had a girlfriend it was like a dream came true. Why did you never have a girlfriend? It's because you are famous for being a really lecherous person that even got accused of peeping inside the Girls Kendo Club's changing room. Which you didn't. You wanted to but Matsuda and Motohama, your equally perverted friends, didn't let you see from the peeping hole before the girls discovered and beat the lot of you.
Some call you a pervert, but you take pride in the fact you never did anything criminal. While you dream of being a Harem King, after you saw "School Days" you realized it isn't a good idea to treat women like objects of lust. So yes you're a pervert, but you like to think of yourself as a good person.
However, all of this changed the day the cute girl, who introduced herself as Amano Yuuma, confessed to you. At first you actually thought it was a prank. You even thought several times that it was the result of a penalty game and that her friends were looking at you from elsewhere.
That can't be helped. Until then you believed that you were a guy born to be unpopular with girls.
But ever since that day you became a guy with a girlfriend. The world around you changed. You don't know how to explain it but your heart was at peace. You wanted to say "It's my win!" to every guy you walked past.
Soon you had your first date. After a day passed doing various activities for couples, like watching a film and shopping, the two of you reached a certain park a little before the sunset. There was no sign of people, and no one was there besides you. You thought: 'This is it. I'm going to graduate from being a virgin!'
Yuuma smiled and said the magic words.
"Will you die for me?"
Words that you didn't expected. At all. In front of your confused self she grew a pair of dark wings before stabbing your stomach with a spear made of light.
And now you're on the ground, the hole in your stomach spilling out blood like a fountain. So yes, you're dying. Killed by your first girlfriend.
'What the fuuu-!' What did you ever do to deserve it? You didn't cheat on her and even if the date was awful you don't think it warrants killing you in cold blood. A beating maybe, but this is excessive!
"Sorry. You were a threat to us, so we decided to get rid of you early. If you want to hold a grudge, then hate the God who put the Sacred Gear inside you."
Yuuma's voice, so cold compared to earlier, says next to you.
'Sacred what? You have the guts to blame someone else when it was you who stabbed me?!'
This is what you are thinking, but you can't speak. Her footsteps get further away from you.
At the same time you start to lose your consciousness. The hole in your stomach must be fatal since you don't feel any pain.
Seriously? Are you going to die just like that? Killed by a woman with a pair of mysterious wings?
The same woman for whom you were ready to renounce your perverted ways if that was what it takes to make her happy? The woman you loved?
What the hell!?
How can you laugh if you die because you were stabbed by your girlfriend at this weird park!
Will Matsuda and Motohama be shocked? Will they cry for you? No way, not them...
Mother, Father... You haven't done anything to please them yet as their child...
Even as life leaves your body, your fists clench in determination. You can't see anymore, and yet the images of all the people you love burn in your mind.
'I don't want to die before having made my life worthwhile!'
And then from the darkness light blinds you. The pain disappears and your consciousness returns as your surroundings drown in a sea of white.
'Am I dead?'
For a few moments there is only you and the warm gold-yellow radiance. Warm, you realize, like the rays of the sunset you saw a few minutes ago.
Words form inside your mind.
Despite your misdoings you were ready to dedicate yourself to Love. At the moment of your death you cried out for a second chance, the opportunity to do something worthwhile with your life when the choice was taken from you. This is commendable. Your circumstances aren't exactly proper, but your destiny is too great to let it go to waste. For you, I will make an exception.
The light coalesces. It draws into itself, folding and molding into the shape of a sphere. Faster than you thought possible the ball soars in the air higher and higher, until it halts above your head. You know, rationally, that it is billions, trillions of miles away, but it fells so close, you could almost reach up and touch it... And the, from the Sun, He emerges.
For a moment He looks vaguely draconian, shimmering scales of the purest yellow gold. As he grows closer he starts looking more like a giant of a man, tall and broad-shouldered, clad in armor of Greek or Roman design you once saw in TV. In his four arms he held a Spear, Shield, Branch and Horn. The god-being looks at you, into you, through you and so much more. You feel naked before his gaze.
Your heart is full of Compassion and Valor. Compassion for those that unjustly suffer and those you love, Valor to stand up and defend your beliefs with your chest out and your head held high. You desire to bring happiness to this world that you love so much.
You find yourself nodding at the being's words, so great they are that you feel like they will burst out of your body if you let them overwhelm you.
In recognition for your determination I grant you this boon.
I am Ignis Divine, the Unconquered Sun, and you are now my Chosen. Go forth in my name, Lawgiver.
You feel the being's radiance flowing through your body, giving you new strength and vitality. You blink, and suddenly you are back in the park, the wound in your stomach quickly closing itself.
Yuuma has stopped and turned to stare at you, mouth agape in shock. "W-What the hell? I pierced your stomach! You should be dead!"
"Sorry, but I can't afford to die yet." You tell her. You stand up, a sense of calm and unwavering confidence permeating your entire being.
Your forehead burns.
"W-What are you?"
Rise, Oh Copper Spider!
"I am the Twilight." You answer, the descending sun on your back surrounding you in a halo of warm, reddish golden light as if to bless your rebirth.
[] Attack her.
-[] Stunt? (Write in)
[] Ask why she tried to kill you.
-[] Stunt? (Write in)
[] Escape.
In the deeps of Hyodo Issei's soul an ancient being's eyes widen in shock and excitement as it feels the new surge of power wash over it.
"Mmmh! This power...!"
And at the same time...
"...How odd."
Another ancient being opens its eyes again after more than a thousand years of sleep.
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Choose Difficulty Level:
[] Easy
[] Normal
[] Hard
[] Advanced
[] Lunatic
[] Phantasm
[] Insane
Choose Anima Banner
[] Write in
Issei has gained the Solar Exalted Twilight Caste.
Choose a Virtue Flaw. You must choose a Compassion based Virtue Flaw.
[] Write in. Make sure to have a clear description, with a partial control, a duration, and a break condition.
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And we try again. Between this and Eclipse Lelouch I will continue the one who receive more attention in the future. If both fail we will try with Kill La Kill I guess.
Important changes:
1) For make things easier for those who don't know both settings (or know little) it will be implemented a system of options and explanations. Meaning that, even without prior knowledge, you will have everything you need to know to make a decision. Based on the MC's POV of course. So just choose the option you like more.
2) In contrast to Lelouch, who was a monster in social skills, Issei is just a normal guy. So you have a certain number of Bonus Points that you can able to use to increase Issei's Attributes and add Charms. Use them well.
3) For the initial Charms I will choose the initial 10 myself.
Now for the first serious task: for those of you who know Highschool DxD, Issei still have Boosted Gear. The problem now is how to translate it into Exalted mechanisms.
[] I have a suggestion (Write in)
[] Do it yourself.
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Your name is Hyodo Issei. Your parents and friends at school, the few you have anyway, call you "Ise". You're a second year high school student who is currently experiencing the time of his youth.
And you're dying.
It all began when a cute girl with silky black hair and a slender body asked you out. For a guy like you who never had a girlfriend it was like a dream came true. Why did you never have a girlfriend? It's because you are famous for being a really lecherous person that even got accused of peeping inside the Girls Kendo Club's changing room. Which you didn't. You wanted to but Matsuda and Motohama, your equally perverted friends, didn't let you see from the peeping hole before the girls discovered and beat the lot of you.
Some call you a pervert, but you take pride in the fact you never did anything criminal. While you dream of being a Harem King, after you saw "School Days" you realized it isn't a good idea to treat women like objects of lust. So yes you're a pervert, but you like to think of yourself as a good person.
However, all of this changed the day the cute girl, who introduced herself as Amano Yuuma, confessed to you. At first you actually thought it was a prank. You even thought several times that it was the result of a penalty game and that her friends were looking at you from elsewhere.
That can't be helped. Until then you believed that you were a guy born to be unpopular with girls.
But ever since that day you became a guy with a girlfriend. The world around you changed. You don't know how to explain it but your heart was at peace. You wanted to say "It's my win!" to every guy you walked past.
Soon you had your first date. After a day passed doing various activities for couples, like watching a film and shopping, the two of you reached a certain park a little before the sunset. There was no sign of people, and no one was there besides you. You thought: 'This is it. I'm going to graduate from being a virgin!'
Yuuma smiled and said the magic words.
"Will you die for me?"
Words that you didn't expected. At all. In front of your confused self she grew a pair of dark wings before stabbing your stomach with a spear made of light.
And now you're on the ground, the hole in your stomach spilling out blood like a fountain. So yes, you're dying. Killed by your first girlfriend.
'What the fuuu-!' What did you ever do to deserve it? You didn't cheat on her and even if the date was awful you don't think it warrants killing you in cold blood. A beating maybe, but this is excessive!
"Sorry. You were a threat to us, so we decided to get rid of you early. If you want to hold a grudge, then hate the God who put the Sacred Gear inside you."
Yuuma's voice, so cold compared to earlier, says next to you.
'Sacred what? You have the guts to blame someone else when it was you who stabbed me?!'
This is what you are thinking, but you can't speak. Her footsteps get further away from you.
At the same time you start to lose your consciousness. The hole in your stomach must be fatal since you don't feel any pain.
Seriously? Are you going to die just like that? Killed by a woman with a pair of mysterious wings?
The same woman for whom you were ready to renounce your perverted ways if that was what it takes to make her happy? The woman you loved?
What the hell!?
How can you laugh if you die because you were stabbed by your girlfriend at this weird park!
Will Matsuda and Motohama be shocked? Will they cry for you? No way, not them...
Mother, Father... You haven't done anything to please them yet as their child...
Even as life leaves your body, your fists clench in determination. You can't see anymore, and yet the images of all the people you love burn in your mind.
'I don't want to die before having made my life worthwhile!'
And then from the darkness light blinds you. The pain disappears and your consciousness returns as your surroundings drown in a sea of white.
'Am I dead?'
For a few moments there is only you and the warm gold-yellow radiance. Warm, you realize, like the rays of the sunset you saw a few minutes ago.
Words form inside your mind.
Despite your misdoings you were ready to dedicate yourself to Love. At the moment of your death you cried out for a second chance, the opportunity to do something worthwhile with your life when the choice was taken from you. This is commendable. Your circumstances aren't exactly proper, but your destiny is too great to let it go to waste. For you, I will make an exception.
The light coalesces. It draws into itself, folding and molding into the shape of a sphere. Faster than you thought possible the ball soars in the air higher and higher, until it halts above your head. You know, rationally, that it is billions, trillions of miles away, but it fells so close, you could almost reach up and touch it... And the, from the Sun, He emerges.
For a moment He looks vaguely draconian, shimmering scales of the purest yellow gold. As he grows closer he starts looking more like a giant of a man, tall and broad-shouldered, clad in armor of Greek or Roman design you once saw in TV. In his four arms he held a Spear, Shield, Branch and Horn. The god-being looks at you, into you, through you and so much more. You feel naked before his gaze.
Your heart is full of Compassion and Valor. Compassion for those that unjustly suffer and those you love, Valor to stand up and defend your beliefs with your chest out and your head held high. You desire to bring happiness to this world that you love so much.
You find yourself nodding at the being's words, so great they are that you feel like they will burst out of your body if you let them overwhelm you.
In recognition for your determination I grant you this boon.
I am Ignis Divine, the Unconquered Sun, and you are now my Chosen. Go forth in my name, Lawgiver.
You feel the being's radiance flowing through your body, giving you new strength and vitality. You blink, and suddenly you are back in the park, the wound in your stomach quickly closing itself.
Yuuma has stopped and turned to stare at you, mouth agape in shock. "W-What the hell? I pierced your stomach! You should be dead!"
"Sorry, but I can't afford to die yet." You tell her. You stand up, a sense of calm and unwavering confidence permeating your entire being.
Your forehead burns.
"W-What are you?"
Rise, Oh Copper Spider!
"I am the Twilight." You answer, the descending sun on your back surrounding you in a halo of warm, reddish golden light as if to bless your rebirth.
[] Attack her.
-[] Stunt? (Write in)
[] Ask why she tried to kill you.
-[] Stunt? (Write in)
[] Escape.
In the deeps of Hyodo Issei's soul an ancient being's eyes widen in shock and excitement as it feels the new surge of power wash over it.
"Mmmh! This power...!"
And at the same time...
"...How odd."
Another ancient being opens its eyes again after more than a thousand years of sleep.
-----
Choose Difficulty Level:
[] Easy
[] Normal
[] Hard
[] Advanced
[] Lunatic
[] Phantasm
[] Insane
Choose Anima Banner
[] Write in
Issei has gained the Solar Exalted Twilight Caste.
Choose a Virtue Flaw. You must choose a Compassion based Virtue Flaw.
[] Write in. Make sure to have a clear description, with a partial control, a duration, and a break condition.
-----
And we try again. Between this and Eclipse Lelouch I will continue the one who receive more attention in the future. If both fail we will try with Kill La Kill I guess.
Important changes:
1) For make things easier for those who don't know both settings (or know little) it will be implemented a system of options and explanations. Meaning that, even without prior knowledge, you will have everything you need to know to make a decision. Based on the MC's POV of course. So just choose the option you like more.
2) In contrast to Lelouch, who was a monster in social skills, Issei is just a normal guy. So you have a certain number of Bonus Points that you can able to use to increase Issei's Attributes and add Charms. Use them well.
3) For the initial Charms I will choose the initial 10 myself.
Now for the first serious task: for those of you who know Highschool DxD, Issei still have Boosted Gear. The problem now is how to translate it into Exalted mechanisms.
[] I have a suggestion (Write in)
[] Do it yourself.