OOC intro

[vellamods]

Hello and welcome to Vella! If you’re here, you know what the game is about: A short-term game based on Animal Crossing run by Coco, Avery, and Amber! And if you’re here, that means you’re a part of the game, too!

Feel free to use this post to introduce yourselves and greet your fellow players! Talk about yourself, share your contact info, tell us about your character… Let’s get to know each other!

We hope you have an excellent time in the game, and we hope you’re looking forward to getting the ball rolling with the introduction going up June 28th at 3PM EST!

Comments

[toushiro]

don't let the gif fool you. he's normally not this happy.

hello everyone, i'm coco and i'm one of your mods! welcome to the game! i have here toushiro hitsugaya from bleach, what a throwback. hitsugaya is SUPER tiny at 4'4". he looks like he's anywhere from 13-15 years old but he's actually a grandpa at 125 years old and looks serious 90% of the time. he's a grumpy boy with a heart of gold and i'm sure he won't be yelling at anyone at all whatsoever. that said, could he use some friends? absolutely. pls help.

forgot to add that hitsugaya is full wolf! i have a quick doodle of him here!

feel free to add me at amplitude if i don't have you already! i look forward to modding and playing with all of you!

[sugooooooooi]

Serval's age is a big old ??? so she'd bond with him over being Old but she probably doesn't even register it. People who need to make friends, however, she is all over.

[transfusionem]

Howdy y'all! I'm Avery, one of your mods! I'm the excitable one - if you see a post written with an excessive amount of exclamation points, it was probably written by me. I'm also gonna be doing the majority of the NPCing, so I will be all up in everyone's business. I'm CST and usually around in the day unless my internet decides to be a fuck. You can reach me at daintily or Avery#8156 if you have any questions, comments, or concerns!

For the game, I'm playing Adelaide Cooke, an OC! She's a 21 year old blacksmith who specializes in custom knives - despite her young age, she's built a successful business selling fancy af knives. This is largely thanks to her patron, a mysterious man named George Wells, who took Adelaide under his wing. And who may or may not be a vampire. Adelaide may or may not also be a capable blood witch with extremely potent blood. Who knows?? It's not important.

I look forward to playing with all of y'all and I hope y'all have a good time in the game!

[toushiro]

[afterword]

hello all!! i'm Zetsu, and i'll be bringing this idiot Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint! TL;DR he's the main protag of a novel that focuses on his journey when the premise of his favorite webnovel, Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World—an apocalyptic webnovel written by tls123—becomes reality. you can read more info here about him but-- he is very self depreciating , more focused on making his loved ones happy and failing to realize wow that includes him too? he's a very polite and kind guy outside scenarios, good with kids, and would love to learn more about your characters' stories! let him adopt you all. in this world he'll be part-fox so feel free to check out his cute foxy ears and tail of this related color scheme (one on the right!)

feel free to add me at burners if you haven't already, otherwise i'll be around the discord server but feel free to DM me directly at zetsu#0421 ! I'M VERY EXCITED TO PLAY WITH YOU ALL

[toushiro]

hi zetsu, welcome! good with kids you say....

hitsugaya might actually hate that but i'D LOVE TO SEE ZETSU TREAT HIM LIKE A CHILD (if you want), it'll make me laugh, ahaha

[turnaboutson]

That's Miles in a nutshell. Anyway, HELLO! I'm Alex, your local nonbinary dumbass prosecutor stan. I go by they/them so if you could use that, that would be cool of you. I'm Temujin#0712 at disco and Chatvert on plurk. I'm in EST but even during the work week I keep terrible hours because I have zero self-control.

Miles Edgeworth from Ace Attorney is a full kittykat and he is not going to be happy about it. It's because he's basically Knife Cat at all times. What an indignity. And no you may not poke his toe beans. He will go full Dad Mode on any angsty teens because while he is a hardass meanie prosecutor he has a squishy caramel center. Befriend him. Or bully him! Or both. Also he's a giant nerd.

[toushiro]

that gif is SENDING ME -- god, hitsugaya is an angsty teen (???) and i think these two might actually get along okay!

[conceptualize]

Hello! I'm Haki and I'm playing Laurent Heath, an original character. He's a 24-year old cryptic guy who just wanted to live a good, mundane life until the plot kicked in and he got sent to time out in an alternate dimension for spoiling the fun of people who control the world's functions because they were killing his friend over and over. Fun... Vella will definitely be a much better place, I'm sure. He's friendly, but tends to be a little vague when talking to people. He also worked as a uni TA, translator, and being an absolute card shark dealer at a casino. Despite everything, he's still sociable, if not very, very tired. lol.

His first impression post is here and I'll be working on making a more thorough info post for him sometime in the near future. My plurk is factious and I look forward to playing with everyone!

[toushiro]

hi haki, welcome to the game! i love OCs and laurent is super interesting to me, i definitely want to tag him. a tired boy and a tired man...sounds like good cr

[pinkmacaron]

Hello! I'm Dany, and I'm bringing in Super Sonico from Super Sonico: the Animation! She's super cute and sweet and a complete klutz. Her headphones are a part of her that can't be removed and anyone who questions them gets the feeling of dread! She's 18, a gravure model, a marine biology student, and the guitarist and singer to a band called First Astronomical Velocity. She loves rock music, cats, and macarons.

Now as for me, I'm Dany, and you can find me at danybel! I don't know what to say.... oh! I'm EST, work during the early morning on weekdays, and then the afternoon on every other weekend, I'm super excited to be here and to play a cute girl!

[toushiro]

SONICOOOOO i have no idea how these two are going to get along but sonicoooooo! welcome, dany!

[gallopolis]

Hi there, I'm Redd! I've been around in several games including murdergames and some other short-term things, and usually I play terrible people but this time I'm bringing you Faris from Dragon Quest XI! He's actually not a horrible person! He's very dumb, but not horrible. For the canon familiar, he's coming in right before the battle with the Slayer of the Sands.

For those who aren't canon familiar, Faris is the prince of Gallopolis, a desert nation with a big focus on knighthood and horse racing. Guess who sucks at both but pretends he doesn't and has somehow fooled everyone (including his parents) into thinking he's actually amazing?? Yeah. So Faris is kind of a mess who is doing his best to pretend he has his shit together. You can check out his first impressions and permissions post for more info if you'd like!! He's coming in as part-cat; he's the floofiest orange cat you can imagine, which will absolutely not cause any problems whatsoever with his hat.

I'm really looking forward to playing with you guys! You can reach me on plurk (pokerap) or Discord (Redd#5105) if you'd like to plot or chat or whatever!

[toushiro]

HI REDD! welcome! that image is making me lose my mind and i think hitsugaya will not be able to stand this dude (at least initially). i love that this is our resident royal clown, bless.

[lightsmith]

what up i'm nao/lollichop (she/they) and i'm playing scintilla caminus, because lore-compliant names are for people who knew what they were doing when they started the game that there warrior of light/darkness/what have you from ffxiv, i'm in est and perpetually tired/just went back to work, so my online presence is a little erratic but usually around in some capacity

her impressions post is here and she'll be in the same form as pictured; so, ninja catgirl.

[toushiro]

naoooo, welcome! please don't steal anyone's pants scintilla......... scintilla no

[hypnowhip]

Pavé, eat your heart out

Hi all! I'm Seto, and I'm bringing in The Great Sylvando from Dragon Quest XI! In canon, he's an absolutely fabulous traveling circus performer and is a self-proclaimed Knight in Smiling Armor. It's his mission in life to spread smiles all over the world. Outside of the circus, he is the best Mom Friend that you could ever ask for, and is always here to lend a hand or a shoulder to cry on. He'll totally be one to help people get settled into the island life, especially those who might be lacking in life skills. Let's get nice and settled in, darlings!

Also, he'll be part-peacock because obviously.

That said, I'm really looking forward to getting to play with you all! I've been practically glued to ACNH since it came out, so getting to play in an AC-themed game is like a dream! Feel free to add me at Arystar if you'd like! I'll try to hop on the game Discord ASAP as well.

[toushiro]

hi seto, welcome to the game!! hitsugaya is going to be so :| at sylvando but you know what. please bother him, it'll be great. he just doesn't take well to super friendly types but god, what a good.

[whereswalder]

HEY ALL... I'm Ran and I'm bringing you guys Walder from Granblue Fantasy! Unlike other Walders from certain franchises I can think of (or maybe just the one), he's a good forest ranger boy who's maybe just a little bit chuuni. Okay, maybe a lot chuuni. He's all about them sentai poses, even if sentai doesn't exist in his world. Or maybe it does... there was the time the crew formed a team, after all. Granblue Fantasy sure is a ride. Anyway, he's here to protect the environment, and he'll do his best! Please tell him he's cool!

Anyway, I'm way more active on Plurk than Discord even if I'm in the chat, so hit me up at RandomProphet!

[transfusionem]

sweet dabs walder

[turntoashes]

Hi! I'm Fae, and I've got this fiery showy bastard from Promare, one Lio Fotia. He's the leader of a "terrorist" organization and a Burnish and also one half of a mech piloting team because he's from a Trigger property so like. What did we expect.

You can find me on plurk at FaeRose, where I am most of the time if I'm not having a rough day of it. You'll probably find a lot DnD, FE3H, Final Fantasy, and random other stuff I'm currently into (atm it's The Arcana and MDZS).

Oh also Lio is part-cat as in he has the ears and the tail but otherwise is humanish.

[transfusionem]

Hi Fae, welcome to the game! Please don't set everything on fire.

[livefreely]

heyooooo vella!

i'm len, and i'll be bringing in iori nagase from the kokoro connect light novel series - she's specifically coming in from the end of yume random, so if anybody who might be interested in getting into the series wants to avoid spoilers, feel free to give me a heads up!

anyway - iori herself acts like an energetic happy-go-lucky 17 year old teeange girl a lot of the time even though a lot of that is a facade because she truly doesn't know what kind of person she is really just yet (she's working on it!) and kind of just has a bit of a personality crisis to the point of where, well... she can easily get along with people and make friends easily, she puts people very much at an arms length a lot of the time, but she's also very much and unpredictable girl who wants to try doing basically whatever the hell she wants, damn it!!

...did I mention that she was also experimented on by an entity for the last year and some change, having to go through things that make her canon get nicknamed Bakerstreet Memes: The Series? because yeah. she's also the club president of the cultural research club, too, even if she might not look it.

she'll be one of the full humans here and be rather surprised and shocked at all the animals and people with animal parts here. you can also find her first impressions + content warning opt out (as iori's background does carry some heavy stuff) over yonder.

feel free to at me at tsundereban (i'm on pacific timezone so you'll see me online at Really Weird Peak Hours) if i don't have you already - i'm super excited for this game so much as it will be my only way to play animal crossing since I do not have a Switch yet, wheezes and playing iori for y'all. ❤

[transfusionem]

Hiya Len! Welcome to the game! I'm rooting for Iori... She can find herself, I Believe!! I hope you have a good time, though!

[compendiem]

HIHI I'm Ori, with Minato Arisato from Persona 3 bad ending because... yeah. He's still a good boy! A very nice, sleepy boy who is here to chill and hang out and make friends, no longer liable to shoot his friends now that he doesn't have his soul monsters, so it's all good now. He is only a little bit of an asshole. He is also part-dragon, with horns and three pairs of wings as a reference to some of his Personas, and more information about him can be found on his impressions page.

My plurk is birdseed and my discord is hatysa#6066 and people can feel free to add either/both!

[conceptualize]

when will card ever play good end minato again

[jokersonyou]

Hiiii everyone! I'm Relika, she/her, and I'm going to be playing Ren Amamiya aka Joker from Persona 5 Royal. He'll be taken from post-game. Ren is good responsible boi by day, nasty crimeboy by night. Well, the only thing he's stealing is hearts (which tbh he does by day too if all the romance options are any indicative). He along with his group of fellow rag tag teenagers work to fight injustice by changing the hearts of horrible people. He's pretty Tired after a year of all that combined with studying and working out and part time jobs and hobbies and shoving ungodly massive burgers down his throat and basically saving the world twice now but he still be goin'.

His totally-not-a-cat Morgana isn't here but I had to have a part of him that was, so Ren's gonna be sporting black cat ears and a tail.

This is my first short term game, and the first game I've played Ren in, so I'm excite! I'm on EST and since I'm furloughed I got nothing better to do but play games and be on the internet, so I'm always around. hmu at relika, Discord: Relika#7801, messages here on DW, whatever works best for you. I haven't gotten a first impressions post up for him as of posting this yet but it should go up in his journal sometime today.

Meanwhile, enjoy what apparently is Ren's first choice of a disguise.

[sugooooooooi]

Nice to meet you! I'm glad to see so many new people.

[guideyouhome]

Hello everyone! I'm Emma (she/her), and I will be playing Kairi from Kingdom Hearts! She's coming from the end of the KH3 Re Mind DLC, where she's taking a big nap in order to (hopefully) help a missing friend. So probably when she arrives on the island she'll think she's dreaming LOL. Also talking animals? Totally normal to her! Thanks Disney!

When she's not taking a big snooze, she enjoys writing, training, spending time with friends, and maybe even crafting! She grew up on island, so she'll probably adapt greatly here! Maybe even be really helpful! I'm honestly very excited!

If for some reason you don't want to rp with Kairi or need to know about some CW's with her, I have a CW/Opt-out post here! And if you need to get in contact with me, I'm on the discord server (I recommend @'ing me) or you can find me on plurk at sekoshi.

Also as an aside, I actually don't know most of the canons here so I'm so excited to learn about them and your characters! I hope we have a lot of fun!!

[sugooooooooi]

Same, I'm canonblind to about half of them. This will be fun! And highfive for animal people.

[gohomeivar]

Hi everyone! I'm Luna and I bring you Milla Maxwell from Tales of Xillia 2. She'll be taken from the end of Xillia 2 when she returned to the spirit realm with Muzet. She obviously doesn't have her artes here, but she does have a foam sword replica and the Four Great Spirits in plushy form.

If you're unfamiliar with her, she's Maxwell, the Lord of Spirits (for real this time). She watches over spirits initially and then very quickly comes to love humans just as much. Her goal is to create a world where humans and spirits could live together in peace. The problem is that she doesn't really know any thing about the human world aside from what she's observed and the books she's read before meeting Jude. She also really likes food.

I'm really bad at intros, so my apologies! I have a lot of you added on plurk already, but if I missed anyone, you can find me at byefelicia

[sugooooooooi]

Serval doesn't know much about humans either, bonding time.

[sugooooooooi]

Hello! I'm Jisu (she/her), here playing Serval the Serval Cat from Kemono Friends! Specifically the one from the main anime series, since this canon has multiple identical characters with the same species name, and taken from the end of season 1 for... ahaha, obvious reasons if you know the canon and the meta behind it.

Serval's a Friendly Sidekick and overall a simpleminded, energetic catgirl from the happiest post-apocalypse you've ever seen. She's only recently learned what a human is and will get up in your face to learn about them. She's part wildcat just because she kind of already was, and she looks vaguely like a Generic Anime Teenager despite possibly being thousands of years old.

You can hit me up at jisusushi or in the Discord. Looking forward to this!

[rupturingheaven]

I can't wait to play off of Serval, she seems so cute...

[aggroculture]

Eyyy, I'm not as prepared as everyone else because I've been going through a double computer headache, but I can still do right by the basics and let you know I'm Goblin and I'm bringing in my original character, Theo Maraj. He's a tsundere witch that thinks he's much cooler than he is, but no matter what, plants are the coolest of all. He's going part-animal, with that animal part being bear cub! the smoller of bears.
His icons, when I get them up and running, will all be in black and white, but here's a dollmaker image of him: I'm in the US Central timezone and only work weekday mornings, so it's pretty easy to reach me at either goblinhood or discord at giveupgoblin#1469. This is my first short term game... please take care of me. anyway time to keep racking up points in the bug-off.

[guideyouhome]

Hello Goblin! I'm Emma; it's nice to meet you!

Looking forward to learning more about about the tsun! He and Kairi can bond over a love of flowers.

[regression]

hello! i'm Hei and i'm bringing Yoo Joonghyuk from the popular Korean webnovel Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. this novel... is literally my life and it has destroyed me in so many ways, but anyway!!

Yoo Joonghyuk is the protagonist of a webnovel (Three Ways to Survive in a Ruined World, shortened to Ways of Survival) in... Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint. Yes, a character in a webnovel in a webnovel. He started as a professional gamer, then turned into a Regressor (someone that returns to a certain time in the past, fake time travel) when his world went to shit in a "the apocalypse is gonna start" kind of way. He's lived A LOT of lives where he watched everyone he loved die over and over, but he's still searching for an ideal world where he can protect everything he wants to protect. When the webnovel's world merges with reality, he goes on the same journey again with the sole reader of Ways of Survival, Kim Dokja, except the reader's influence changes the direction of the story.

As a person, Joonghyuk is rough around the edges! He's... Curt. Rude. And is quick to reach for his sword sometimes. Despite his aloof exterior, he's rather emotional (emotionally fragile too) and shows kindness in his own way. Actions speak louder than words. Also, he's a good cook, very important. You can read more about him here.

you can add me on plurk (aftertaste), but as a warning i seldom use it. it's easier to reach me through pm or dm on discord (hei#2323) for plotting. i'm very excited to be here and look forward to playing with everyone!!

[afterword]

if he's an idiot sandwich then by contrary yjh is also an idiot sandwich, yes that is how it work

[winterforecast]

N'yello, all! I'm Doom, TheDoomkitten on Plurk and The Doomkitten#8383 on Discrod (she/her). I'm bringing the one and only Alexis Rhodes from the dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (say it with me now, generation next!), a sweet, sassy, independent mom friend who would lay down her life for those she cares about. That is, if she wasn't currently under the influence of her resident big bad's brainwashing, which has done surprisingly little to alter her personality. Other than completely remove any inclination to be nice and turn her sarcasm factor up to eleven, and also make her terrifyingly ruthless, and erase all of her memories of her friends, and... okay, maybe the brainwashing did do a number on her, but you'll never catch her admitting that.

Warning, Alexis Society of Light Edition is going to be extremely crabby for her duration on the island, and will take every opportunity to insult and belittle your characters if they so much as twitch in the wrong way while in her general vicinity. If you'd rather not deal with that, please let me know. I am planning on at least partially undoing some of her conditioning, so if you think your character could help with that, hit me up! Alexis will also be coming in as part-snow leopard and will be none too happy about becoming a catgirl. Until she realizes that she has claws now, and suddenly she'll be very happy to the detriment of everybody else. I'm really looking forward to playing with all of you!

[toushiro]

welcome, doom! hitsugaya may not be the best at helping her undo her conditioning because he's very :| but if she needs some tough love he's here to deliver. i think these two will not get along until then and tbh i'm here for that.

[spiritoso]

hello!! i'm amber #2 (you're all welcome to just call me amb if you want) and i'm bringing in kaede akamatsu from new dangan ronpa v3!! kaede is a very upbeat and optimistic girl that is obsessed with playing the piano. she's always mentioning the best classical pieces to go with any situation, whether that be for encouragement, teamwork, etc. she's always on the lookout for friendships and will definitely want to befriend everyone here!!

i have a first impressions/permission post for her here! i also have a link to spoiler opt-out post if anyone would like to use that to avoid spoilers or just the general backstory with dangan ronpa games that she comes with.

my plurk is secondhandmagic if anyone wants to add me! i'm always up for chatting so my discord is also amb#8597 if anyone wants to message me!

[rupturingheaven]

Kaedeeeee!!! I can already tell you Byleth's gonna be fond of her.

[pr159]

Hello! I'm Eric and Rideaux from Tales of Xillia 2 is here, whether anyone wants him or not. He's a doctor/medical researcher/corporate director who holds intense grudges and is generally unpleasant despite having a pretty admirable reputation. HE HAS VERY LEGITIMATE REASONS, but it doesn't make him any less shitty to deal with, so rip.

He's from the same world (sort of) as Jude and Milla, but he is Not A Fan of either of them (because fuck spirits tbh) so that will be fun.



He's part fox here, specifically a cross fox, because look at this guy.

Feel free to add me at kokichi! And I look forward to potentially being a villain of Animal Crossing.

[winterforecast]

Crabby mess handshake?

[rupturingheaven]

Yoooooooo, I'm Amber #1 and I'm the third of your mods!! And over an hour late with Starbucks, whoops. I'm the nocturnal mod!! But when I am awake I'm very rarely not around! Yeah!!! You can grab me at twistingkage on plurk, or novakaisers#5079 on Discord.

Anyway, as for the important info, I'm bringing in Byleth from Fire Emblem Three Houses. She's a mercenary-turned-teacher who's sort of working on figuring out that whole 'emotions' thing. She's gotten better than she was at the start of canon! She also tends to run herself ragged looking out for other people, so get ready for that!!!

... She's gonna be part-cat with Scottish Fold ears and a tail because she's already basically an Espurr in human form.

[winterforecast]

I know you're bringing Bylass from BL route, but god, Alexis is proooobably going to remind her just a little bit of Edelgard if. Edelgard was far less concerned with being nice.

[worldregeneration]

hi all, i'm pom, and i'm bringing in colette from tales of symphonia! she's a good girl who's the Chosen of her world, which basically just means that she's meant to give up her humanity to act as a vessel for someone's dead sister. good times, good times. she's very warm and sees the best in everyone, which is good when basically half of the people she meets is some kind of traitor.

i can guarantee her mission is going to be making friends with everyone, whether you want it or not, so get ready for that!

she also, really, really likes dogs, so i felt like it would be sacrilege if i didnt give her dog ears and a tail. she's gonna be so excited



hit me up at hnnng or on discord at ｓｈｉｎｉｎｇｂｉｎｄ#7694! i really look forward to getting to hang out with you guys for the next couple weeks! ;u;/

[toushiro]

'ello pom, welcome to the game! she's SO cute, lmfao that shitpost. she'll probably remind hitsugaya a lot of hinamori, his childhood friend/sister figure, so he'll have a soft spot for her. it'll be cute!!

[kouhou]

HELLO!!! Also late with starbucks but I'm Hana and I'll be bringing Syl-- I mean, Kiyosumi Sengoku from Prince of Tennis. Wow, it's 2020 and I can't believe I'm playing from a canon that's over 10 years old but here I am. For those unfamiliar, Sengoku's a cheerful, optimistic teenager full of energy aka he's kinda annoying sometimes. He's extremely approachable and loves making new friends, so he's definitely going to want to befriend just about everyone here and encourage teamwork. I also apologize in advance to every single girl since he also really likes girls and is a huge flirt. :l Please tell him to bugger off. As the name of his canon suggests, he plays tennis.

Sengoku's first impressions/permissions post is here for more information on him. I'll also be playing him as a full human.

As for myself, I'm in the CST timezone and due to my work hours being a little unstable, I'm around more often in the evenings. This is my first short term game and I'm beyond stoked. You're welcome to add me on plurk at konimi or hit me up on discord at konimi#3505. I'm super looking forward to playing with everyone!

[conceptualize]

That prince of tennis clip is always the most memorable...

Hey, Hana!! We're finally in a game together again! I'm slowly getting the feeling that Laurent will just be watching Sengoku's antics from afar with a tired look on his face...