Written by:  Pentarou
    Thanks to:  #renaiengine (DALnet) & all you project folk ^__^

07/11)  Eh, a bit late...Just some more modifications and hammering out of things.  By the way, it has been suggested that the game have the ability to rename the characters--perhaps an option at the beginning of the game with a set of screens with a bio, a sketch, and a naming dialog?  I don't think the support characters require the same ability, though...just the main eight / nine characters plus yourself.

Added a couple of new names from Ashitaka (David Banz).  Personally, I'm a bit opposed to the name Ken, but I don't know, what do you guys think?  The others look good to me...

07/01)  Version 0.8... okay, so I said I was away, but I really wanted to take some time off and do this.  =)  I do have Sundays off...Expect version 1.0 to be completed next Sunday.

Anyhow, I will be adding shortcuts (links) throughout this file as time provides...if I can, I'll also clean up Opal_Armor's character draft and add in the anchors for the links as well.

Notes)  Again, we denote other characters via [G#] where G is the group, and # is the number (See the main character draft, which is being worked on by Opal_Armor).  I am splitting up the support characters now.

Also, you may find a list of Things We Need at the bottom of this page.

You.  Um, you.  You know, on the side, what would be kinda fun would be to have a multiplayer dating sim with netplay, where you can "compete" for the main characters and otherwise interact.  Oh, well, nevermind ^_~

1. [T1] Librarian
   • Gender:  Female
   • Age:  Mid-thirties.  Old, but not that old.
   • Personality:  Possibly the most-liked faculty at The High School, quite often students go to her with their troubles and talk things over.  You are no exception; in fact, you are probably the student she speaks to the most.  And she, unlike many, can keep secrets.
   • Concept Sketches:  None yet.
   • Additional Details:  What good is a librarian without books?  Not much.  The Librarian has an extensive book collection, but also keeps a large collection of videos and DVDs, American, Japanese, Chinese, and whatever else is in existence.  This could explain her popularity among the students. ;P
   • Suggested Appearance:  Deep purple hair and eyes.  Long hair is preferable.  Appropriately business-like attire.  Glasses?  If so, thin rectangular spectacles are good.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  Support throughout the entire game (or at least most of it); you may go to her and speak with her as you like.  Perhaps if you are in a scenario involving Manami/Tetsuya (F2/M3), there may be a period of time in which she is gone for some reason (hospitalized?  vacation?)
   • Character Relations:  Librarian can help you with Manami [F2] and Tetsuya [M3] immensely (making them the easiest characters to win over in the game in terms of difficulty).  She also knows a bit about Tomoko [F3], Aki [F4], Shinichi [M1] and Jiro [M4]...
     • [F2] Librarian is Manami's mentor, in all ways.  She can tell you about Manami's ... hell, everything.  Mood.  Things that make Manami happy.  Likes.  Dislikes.  She can even tell you how much Manami likes you.
     • [M3] Librarian is, in some ways, also Tetsuya's mentor.  She knows what he likes... in fact, that would be quite specific  Anime, videogames, and popular music (J, K, C, standard, or whatever).  Listen to what she says.  If she says to drag his hell-bent ass out of the dorms, do it.  She knows his habits purely based upon his anime tastes.  And Tetsuya loves romantic comedies.  If that doesn't make him easy to win over, I don't know what does.
     • [F3] Since Librarian is...a Librarian, she knows what kind of tastes Tomoko has.  She's also quite observant:  If Tomoko is in a bad mood, she checks out more books.  That's about all she can tell you, though.
     • [F4] Aki... likes Chinese kung-fu fighting books (you Asians should immediately know what I am talking about upon hearing the three words "Chinese Soap Operas."  Non-Asians, think along the lines of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but often cheesier and in book form, and without Ma Yo-Yo cello solos or Coco Lee theme songs).  Okay, that's all you'll get out of her.  ^_^
     • [M1] Shinichi has varied tastes, and his fancies seem to change periodically.  This is reflected in his book-borrowing habits.  Librarian can tell you what he's interested in at the moment.  She can also tell you if he's feeling up, or down (up:  more books, down:  few books, or no books).
     • [M4] Librarian talks to Manami a lot, so she knows a significant amount about Jiro as well–his style and his taste.  However, since this is indirect information, it is sometimes wrong...in addition, Librarian cannot tell you if Jiro likes you, hates you, or what kind of mood Jiro is in, since Jiro is one of them wacky poet-types whose minds cannot easily be read.
   • Background:  We don't know too much about her, but she may have gone to The University, and ended up here because the Headmaster offered her a position.  And she does love them books & videos, so...
2. [T2] Teacher
   • Gender:  Male
   • Age:  Late twenties.
   • Personality:  A strict, but loving teacher who is consistently voted in as the "best teacher" at The High School.  Gets along quite well with The Librarian, and some of the other teachers.
   • Concept Sketches:  None yet.
   • Additional Details:  Really loves nature, and you can see that his room is plastered with posters of various parks and mountains.  Has an affinity for classic rock.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  Well, if you get in trouble...
   • Character Relations:  He's a teacher, so he isn't always as in touch with the students as, say, Leader-Boy [C1], but still he pays special attention to the quiet students (Jiro, Manami), and can tell you when they're feeling down.
   • Background:  Did not go to The High School (it hasn't been around that long--after all, they only adopted a mascot in recent years).  Could have gone to the University?  He's just a teacher; he ended up here once upon a time, and now he's teaching your class.  Maybe we should have some kind of longer story (ie, "The eldest child in an upper-middle class family, ... " blahblah etc.)
3. [T3] Principal/Headmaster
   • Gender:  Male?  Female?  Undecided.
   • Age:  Late fifties.
   • Personality:  Strict, and always keeping track of time.  As we all know, however, all strict principals are soft and kind-hearted deep, deep down underneath.
   • Concept Sketches:  None yet.
   • Additional Details:  Likes clocks, and has a large grandfather clock in his office.  Always tries to act in the interests of the school, no matter what.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  Well, if you get in BIG trouble...
   • Character Relations:  Can't help you for the most part.  If you're working on a big big project (hint hint...possible plot path), or if you're in, um, big trouble along with a particular character, he may have a few things to say dependent on the situation.  Hmm, maybe we should make one of the main characters (F1-4/M1-4) his child or something.  Perhaps the hardest-to-get character; this way you can only get information from him if you are very good and nice and such ^_~ ... My suggestion would be Tomoko [F3].

1. [C1] Classmate One, The Leader (Suggested Name: Ken [that sounds...American])
   • Gender:  Male
   • Height:  Tall.
   • Personality:  Strong, bold, but alas, taken.  The de facto leader of your class, who makes friends with everyone.  Most people realize that while he is strong on the outside, he is not quite as strong on the inside.
   • Concept Sketches:  None yet.
   • Additional Details:  Plays on the football (soccer) team.
   • Age:  One year older than you.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  Does his own thing, unless certain plot events beckon.  You can talk to him often, but he will mostly be talking about past and future class events.  Usually he is around Ebil Girl [C3] and occasionally Yuko [F1]; you will have to hear a mouthful from each of them before you are allowed to leave the room ^__^;; If you are popular by the end of the game, make that two or three mouthfuls, and if you are going after Yuko, then make that four or five...
   • Character Relations:  Can tell you if a character is feeling down (anyone but Manami, Tetsuya, Jiro).  After all, he is the leader...however, he does not know too much else about most of the characters.  May have some amount of inside information on what the faculty are doing; in particular, what the Teacher [F2] is up to.  Has a slight amount of power over Ebil Girl [C3].  Leader-Boy talks to Akira [M2] and Shinichi [M1] from time to time. 
2. [C2] Classmate Two, Joe Average (Suggested Name:  None yet)
   • Gender:  Male
   • Height:  Average
   • Personality:  An average guy.  He likes sports, in fact, quite a lot, but he also has a bit of a taste for all things animated, and so unfortunately ends up around the Otaku and University Student 1.
   • Concept Sketches:  None yet.
   • Additional Details:  Likes girls.  Cute girls.  Very cute girls.  Plays on the basketball team, and quite possibly for that reason alone.  Enjoys being the center of attention, and is often joking around.
   • Age:  One year younger than you.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  The requisite character in any romantic story...If you're female, he'll constantly be hitting on you X_X, if you're male, he'll be constantly pushing you in the general direction of whomever you are interested in at the moment >_<.  Don't know which is worse, really.  He is available to talk to most of the time, though...and when you are interested in any girl, you can ask him for information on said girl (if you are female, he may ask a "price" for the information).
   • Character Relations:  Has an unfortunate amount of data on girls in the class.  Can tell you everything you need to know about the sizes and heights and blood types/zodiac of the girls.  Probably can't help you with moods, tastes, likes, dislikes, and such, however.  With the guys... I suppose he can help you with Tetsuya [M3].
3. [C3] Classmate Three, Ebil Girl (Suggested Name:  Noriko)
   • Gender:  Female
   • Personality:  Attached to Leader-Boy [C1].  Very tricky, evil, and sneaky, but otherwise a nice person.  Extremely outgoing when with friends, but otherwise somewhat shy.  Comparative to Manami [F2], Ebil Girl is not shy at all; even so, around strangers, you probably couldn't tell the difference between the two.
   • Concept Sketches:  None yet.
   • Additional Details:  Oddly enough, has a high affinity for practical jokes.
   • Age:  Your age.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  Does stuff with The Leader, and so talks about approximately the same things.
   • Character Relations:  Knows a lot about Akira [M2] (moderate difficulty), and is an accomplice of sorts in playing practical jokes with him.  Unlike Akira, Classmate 3 can and will go overboard with the pranks.  (However, she will never, ever victimize Classmate 1 [C1].)  Can help you a little with Shinichi [M1]'s likes and dislikes.
4. [C4] Classmate Four, Loudmouth (Suggested Name:  Yuki)
   • Gender:  Female
   • Personality:  A gossip-mate of yours [regardless of your gender?].  The one you always talk to if you have questions about who is going with what, when, and where.  Has a very big, big mouth, and once in awhile gets the wrong idea.  Nonetheless, she is very kind-hearted and tries to pay attention to others around her.
   • Concept Sketches:  None yet.
   • Additional Details:  Completely attached to her cell phone, and will never leave it.
   • Age:  Your age.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  She's almost always there to talk to you.  Perhaps if you are involved with Yuko, she will talk to you more.  (Geez, that itself would be more than enough to stop ME from going after Yuko...)  If she's gone [choose one:  vacation, hospital, project, work], you're going to sorely miss her presence, especially if *hint hint-big event* Yuko becomes moody and needs your help...
   • Character Relations:  Always knows about recent events, and usually before you do ;).  Oh, you went on a date yesterday?  That was wonderful!  But you did ___ and ___ wrong, and you should instead do ___ and ___... and ___ would also have been a nice touch...The Loudmouth knows a lot (that is to say, very very much) about Yuko [F1] (moderate difficulty).
5. [C5] Nichole, Cheerleader
   • Gender:  Female
   • Concept Sketches:  www.nekonekowai.com
   • Additional Details:  Likes the color blue.
   • Age:  About your age.
   • Physical Description:  (Sizes, perhaps?)
   • Hobbies:  Cheerleading and cats.
6. [C6] Your Friend (Suggested Name(F):  Hiroko, no suggested name for M yet)
   • Gender:  Opposite of you.  Will need two sets of graphics.
   • Personality:  Passive, and introverted.  Aptly enough, [he or she] supports you throughout most of the game, and in whatever you do.  Your very best friend:  If [he/she] gets mad at you, you immediately know something you're doing must be completely wrong.  (Could even be a large plot point involving the character you are involved with...)
   • Concept Sketches:  None yet.
   • Additional Details:  As a possibility, we could have the friend be either male or female, but keep the script completely gender-neutral (the only changes would be in imagery, and possibly the name).
   • Age:  Same as you.
   • Suggested Appearance:  Obviously, this will depend on gender.  Probably the opposite of your gender.  Demure mannerisms.
   • Hobbies:  Cats.  (You have no chance to survive make your time)  In the Friend's room, you find pictures of cats, and more cats.  Hmm...maybe cycling or something along that vein.  Very similar to you, though.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  As mentioned, a support for you throughut the majority of the game.  Childhood friend of yours.  Supposing you fail miserably at getting any of the other characters to like you, a new branch should open in which Your Friend becomes available.  And if you fail there, then ... suffice it to say, you lose.  Badly.
   • Character Relations:  Can give you some hints on whoever you're most interested at the moment.  Nothing that you couldn't have learned by listening to other people talk, though.  Your Friend is personally interested in either Tomoko [F3] or Shinichi [M1], dependent on gender.

1. [U1] University Student One, Part-Time Lech
   • Gender:  Male.
   • Age:  20.
   • Personality:  A lecherous young man, who has some charm (he's nice deep, deep ... REALLY deep down), but for the most part is just a slob with heaps of intelligence.  Likes high school girls, for whatever reason.  Probably the uniforms...
   • Concept Sketches:  None.
   • Additional Details:  Chemistry major at Big University.  Works a part time shift doing computer work at your school.  A good friend of Tetsuya [M3].  Did not come from The High School.  For some reason, University Students 1-3 are all very good friends (although they do seem mismatched at first) and are often seen together.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  You see him all the time after hours, working in the computer labs or in various rooms (on teachers' computers).  Evenings, if he's not with Helpless Romantic [U2] and Model Alumnus [U3], you may occasionally see him with Tetsuya [M3] and Joe Average [C2], or even the Librarian [T1].
   • Plot Path-Detailed:  Any and all computer-related side plots are bound to involve him.  (Ooh, it's time for a round of "Steal Aki's Password!")
   • Character Relations:  He'll help you out if you're going after Tetsuya, for sure...under the assumption that he's not hitting on you first to try you on for size.
2. [U2] University Student Two, Helpless Romantic (Suggested Name:  Aiko)
   • Gender:  Female
   • Age:  20.
   • Personality:  A very nice girl, but has the unfortunate curse of being attracted to University Student 1.  (Oo, do I hear "subquest-plot point?")  The poor thing.  ;_;
   • Concept Sketches:  None.
   • Additional Details:  Strong affinity for all things Sanrio.  Is this good, or bad?  Your call.  University Student 2 is an alumnus of The High School, majoring in English.
   • Plot Path-Basic:  You may end up helping her out with [U1] at some point, especially if you're going after Tetsuya [M3].  She doesn't appear too often, though.
3. [U3] University Student Three, Model Alumnus
   • Gender:  Male
   • Age:  Maybe 19 or so.
   • Personality:  Often a role model for the students at your school, University Student 3 is an A student at Big University(tm).
   • Concept Sketches:  None.
   • Additional Details:  University Student 3 is an alumnus of The High School.  Is majoring in psychology, so he feels a bit of a responsibility to tell you right from wrong.  Sometimes he does, however, go over the line.  Maybe he tutors students?
   • Plot Path-Basic:  If you are doing poorly in school (due to plot event or low intelligence), you may ask him for help, in which case you'll be talking to him lots and lots, either way.  [...on the side, has anyone realized just how damn much script-writing this game is going to take to finish?]
   • Character Relations:  He talks to Aki and Jiro a lot (although he is quite intelligent and would never talk to both of them at the same time), so you might want to ask him a thing or two about them.  Yuko annoys him.  Don't ask him about Yuko, he'll give you somewhat warped and biased information.  ^_^;;

1. [O1] Wai
   • Personality:  Strong-minded and always insists on getting his way.

   • Sketches:  http://www.nekonekowai.com

   • Details:  Blue cat with stripes on his back.  Likes all things blue, and chasing mice.  Is picky about food.

   • Age:  17 cat years. (18? ... Oh, maybe older ... see below) 

   • Plot Path:  School mascot.  Cannot help you with much.  Has a wide repertory of "miao"s and "nyao"s.  Was found by Headmaster many years ago, and subsequently was named the mascot.  Everybody loves him. 

   • Character Relations:  Knows a lot about his slave [C5].

2. [O2] Andante (Cat #2) ... (Alternative Names:  Piro, Tsubasa, Ping, etc etc)

   • Personality:  True to his name, takes things at a leisurely pace.  It's not his(her?) fault that you're always tripping over Andante, rather, you're just really unlucky.  O_o

   • Details:  The pet of Tomoko [F3].  Hmm... calico!  I'm all for calico.  :)  Or Jellicle, if they still make them in that variety.

   • More Details:  Let's not get into the name...I've always wanted to stick in a bad pun somewhere.  ^__^

1. Names:  We need more names.
2. Physical Description:  Same as before.
3. Plot Path-Basic:  Probably need more information for most of these.  I'll be filling these in ASAP.
4. Plot Path-Detailed:  Need everything here.  Backstory is not as important, unless it is seriously related to one of the main characters, and that is, of course, what the plot path is all about.  Again, you'll see these people a whole lot, but hey, they're not available.  ^_^
5. Character Relations:  More detail would be nice.