Big Book of Writing

Neo World RPG (Void, SDRA2)

Prompt: https://otpprompts.tumblr.com/post/170608271337/imagine-your-otp-in-a-fantasy-rpg-world-whether/amp

"Imagine your OTP+ in a fantasy RPG world, whether in a game or through interdimensional shenanigans. Who plays the wise wizard? Who plays the charismatic sorcerer/sorceress? Who's a martial artist? Or a bard? Or a rogue? And out of all of them, who wears sensible armor and who gets tricked into wearing absurdly skimpy outfits for "added mobility." BONUS if the wizard enchants those skimpy clothes to ACTUALLY PROVIDE MORE PROTECTION THAN STEEL PLATE."

I spent more time writing this than I should have, but I'm kinda proud of this, not gonna lie.

Warning: spoilers for the members of Void!

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Hope's Peak was full of geniuses, everyone knew this. The academy only chose students who were the best in their respective fields, after all. But nobody knew that some of them had been working on a project together at the academy's request to strengthen and develop their talents.

But once these people had a prototype of their talent development project, they needed people to test it out to see if revisions had to be made.

"Huh? You guys want me to test your project?" Iroha questioned. She had been pulled off to the side, secluded so nobody else would know about the project. "But I-I'm not really that smart, I don't see how I can help here-"

"Oh, quit complaining, will ya? You're getting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity here!" Miu snapped back.

"Miu, you really shouldn't be so harsh," Chihiro chided her, and the female inventor shrank back from being scolded.

"...Anyways, you don't have to worry about anything, we just want to test if the format works," Kazuichi assured the painter. "You'll be completely safe in here, we got a whole bunch of failsafes if shit hits the fan."

Iroha considered that for a moment. "Am I going to be testing it alone, or am I allowed to bring someone else in? I know Mikado's gonna freak out if he finds out that I joined a potentially-dangerous project, haha."

Kazuichi grimaced as the wizard's name was brought up. Mikado Sannoji wasn't known in the student body for his tolerance of things not going to plan, and Kazuichi had been on the receiving end of his ire for 'throwing a wrench into them,' as Emma told him.

Nobody knew how the group of five that Iroha and Mikado were in found each other in the first place, but it might have had something to do with their occasional talks about a certain 'master' of theirs. But they could be found either together or with members of their group, though the wizard and journalist were often solitary.

"Yeah, go ahead and bring him!" Yamato happy agreed, to Kazuichi's dismay. "I wanted to test how the program would handle inhuman forces like luck, foresight, and in your man's case, magic!"

"Actually, you can bring however many people you want," the programmer added. "Meet us back here in front of the elevator in an hour okay?" Chihiro led the others away to help them make preparations, leaving Iroha alone at the secluded stairway.

After looking back and forth, Iroha took out her phone and sent a mass text to the other members of Void, telling them what she had been told and relaying the instruction to meet at the elevator in an hour. The others reacted with confusion, but agreed to arrive anyway.

Iroha sat with her sketchbook near the elevator and doodled for a while until the other Voids showed up. "Iroha, we're here," Emma called to her, and the painter quickly closed her sketchbook and went over to the actress.