The Idol

Name:

Soun Shounen

Age
16

Family Relationships:
Your little sister Shoujo is kind of like you, but because you're the older one people tend to look to you first. Still, you are one soul in two bodies.

Skills:

• Empathy 3. You’re great at reading people, not that you want to be.
• Delinquent 2. You’re good at sneaking, fighting, and other delinquent stuff.
• Student 1. You’re familiar with academics, sports, and student life.
• Snazzy Clothing 1. You know your way around a clothing store.

Connections:

• White River 1. You’re close to your dog.

Perks

• Bond 2: “Heart-Reader”

Sidebar: Heart-Reader +

You can’t help it. You’re connected to people.
You close your eyes and daydream and it’s like you’re there with them, you’re with their hearts, you can feel their dreams, their aspirations, the things their heart is wishing for.
You see people and it’s like you know them. It’s like you’ve been them, under their skin.
You try to keep them at a distance, you try to forget their names and act more important than everybody else, but it doesn’t always work. Sometimes they need something and…
you just can’t say no.

• Invoke Heart-Reader when you’re trying to understand someone—their dreams and hopes and wishes, in particular—and there’s an Obstacle or conflict in the way, and you can add the Bond’s rating (2) to your Intention level. You’ll face Obstacles when you have no real data to work from—when you don’t know the person well enough to know their hearts and dreams. Conflict comes from their affected inscrutability, or, a third party’s deceit.
• If you get into trouble because you can’t resist helping people, you can earn up to the Bond’s rating (2) in Will.
• It is notionally possible for you to replace food, water, sleep, and even air with the act of daydreaming about other people’s hopes, dreams, and wishes. You’ve never really tested this, though, and in the long term it’s probably hard.

• Affliction 0: “Mysterious Bishounen,”

Sidebar: Mysterious Bishounen +

You are mysterious. You are glorious. You are magical. You can generally assume that if you want butterflies to land on you or the wind to flutter your cape or flowers to bloom underfoot or whatever, that you can have that; if you want a ting from your smile; if you want a deer to approach you in the wilderness and lay its head on your lap; if you want to disappear when someone looks away for a moment—
If you want to be ridiculously glamorous and just a little bit dramatic and cool, in short, you can.
Sometimes it happens when you’re not even trying at all!

Emotion XP

Putting faith in you

Quests

Basic quest: Sparkle! (Over the Top!). 1/9

Knight 1 Quest: Just Another Day 8/24

Sidebar: Just Another Day +

3 XP for

• You’re given an unlikely, ridiculous detention or punishment.
• Someone needs you to save them.
• You lure a monster into a game of shiratori, kickball, Connect 4, or your established preference for a casual game.
• You’re given the mission to break into somewhere dangerous/forbidden.

1 XP/Chapter for:

• play shiratori, kick-ball, or some other casual game
• experiment with a ridiculous outfi t or disguise
• work on a project for class, despite possible distractions
• nap in the library or under a tree
• hang out with some friends. Kind of casual.
• check up on how somebody’s doing
• get challenged by someone whom you think is trying to rise in the delinquent or sports-team ranks
• hang out near the other PCs, reading a book

Tracking

Issues

Illusion 1
How does this stuff even happen?

Sickness 1
You feel kind of messed up. It’s harder than usual to just be happy and have fun. It’s harder than usual to cope with the little stuff.
Life’s wearing you out.

Wounds

Current Status

8 Will
1 MP