About Mithril Academy

I'll edit this post later to make it clean, but here's the idea so far...

Mithril Academy is a pseudo-military high school. The school has regular classrooms as well as various combat training and field exercises.

The students are categorized in 2 ways--
1- By program. Some students are focused on infantry, some spec ops, some intelligence, etc. (Will work out details, welcome to suggestions)
2- By team/squad. Teams compete with each other (sorta like the houses in Harry Potter)

Each team is comprised of x-amount of kids from each program. Each team also has members from every year (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior)

This allows for established enemies to be present, and still have a reason to be opposed to the main crew, and it allows for allies to be present without being part of the main crew.

For canon characters-
Those that are students or of student age are, of course, students.
Those who are adults are among the faculty. (Mao as an instructor, for instance)
Those who are at an in between age have a choice - If they're borderline old enough, they can be aged to be a teacher. If they're borderline young enough, either de-aged to be a student, or have some reason for still being a student. (Such as Kurz. At 19, you'd think of him as graduated, but he's much too young to age enough to be a teacher)

When it comes to adapting characters from other fandoms, keep the above rules in mind, but use your best discretion.

For original characters, just make sure they fit! Having a 20-y/o might sound good, but what could they possibly be doing there? Have they stayed back a few years? Or are they the person who graduated and keeps hanging around anyways? A 20-y/o would be too old to be a student and too young to be a teacher, so just keep that in mind when making an OC for this.

Jindai High teachers will retain their subjects. (Kagurazaka teaching English, for instance)

That's all for now. ^.^ We'll figure out the basic faculty using the most major of characters later, just so that way threads will have a clear idea of which character (whether in play or not) should be the instructor for which class.

I welcome your ideas on the matter.

Are there any of my original or other fandom characters you'd like to see participate in this? I've been thinking of playing Yun Yun, but if there's any others you'd particularly like to see let me know.

Whoever you want, there's no real specifics in mind, so whoever you think would be fun to have there. ^^

I think we were planning to use simunitions. They're paint rounds that can be fired out of modified 9mm and 5.56mm service weapons. They have reduced range compared to live ammo and require protective equipment like goggles for safe use, but they still considered an excellent training tool.

At this point, whatever looks best, 'cause I dunno what XD The Halo rounds sound good, we can go with that. Whatever works the best

Works for me. Yay Black Technology!

Personally, I would have stuck with simunitions and maybe added some black technology created virtual reality simulations to things as well. While VR is not entirely realistic, it might allow for a lot of things that would be difficult, impossible or expensive to accommodate with real world training (such as barrier penetration, elaborate scenarios, or certain exotic locales). Plus trusting miniaturized fuses on live ammo to work properly 100% of the time seems like a bad idea to me. :p

I'll leave the final decision to other(s) though.