THE ACADEMY AGE MEME

[sunshinenpcs]

The Academy Age Meme



"No, you can't eat yourself if you henge into a bowl of ramen, go sit back down"


Ah yes, another long-awaited Sunshineverse meme!

As the name suggests, this meme is fairly straightforward: bring out the cute academy aged icons, because we'll be playing everyone as their young, academy aged selves! This time it's pretty straightforward, but here's a step by step anyway.

Step one: Post a top level comment with your character's name and affiliation at the time of their academy training. You should probably include their age--again, at the time they'd be in the academy--along with it. If, for whatever reason, your character didn't go to a ninja academy, probably just post them as a child around the time other kids would have been in the academy

Step two: Given the nature of this meme, you may want to include a scenario or two for people to tag into, but otherwise, it's a good idea to include relevant information people will need if they tag your character. If during their childhood they refused to leave trees, preferred to henge into a puddle to make people slip on them, or killed people indiscriminately, these are good things for people to know.

Step three: Tag to others, and relive your high school Academy days!

NOTE: Ages in this meme are synched up. That means school-kid Karin won't be able to kick it with school-kid Kushina. But! A school-kid Karin could end up interacting with a somewhat younger than current canon Kushina!

BONUS NOTES!

1: Although it isn't required to, all tags and threads in this meme can absolutely count toward actual in-game history for the characters involved!

2: Threads that count for history also count for activity! Just like the test drive meme, if the threads count for history, they also count for activity

3: Don't forget the NPC journal! This is a great opportunity to interact with dead/distanced/etc characters that would still be around or would be prominently involved with the history of your characters, and that's what this NPC journal is there for! Use it!

4: Most important - Have fun, you cute little ninja terrors

Comments

[pinnedbangs]

Rin bounced in place, unable to contain his excitement for a second longer.

"Does that mean you're my friend now?" One gift doth not a friend make, but Peter seemed like a good person. And he actually spoke to Rin as if he were another kid instead of challenging him to a fight for breaking someone else's nose.

[lostmarauder]

"Ah... I guess we can be, but it might be a really long time before I see you again."

[pinnedbangs]

"...Oh." He looks younger than his age in that moment, with his quivering frown and glassy eyes. He's not going to be sad about this, no sir.

"Fine. For today only."

[lostmarauder]

"That doesn't mean I'll forget you." It's weird, actually feeling like he should do the protecting for someone. But... nice.

[pinnedbangs]

"It's okay if you forget. It happens when you get bigger." These were the facts of life, after all.

"But let's go do something now before you have to go!"

[lostmarauder]

"I won't forget!" He already had one person he had to be sure to never forget, he could make it two. Easy. "But okay. As long as I don't have to get back up a tree."

[pinnedbangs]

"...If you say so." He's not going to believe it until he is an enormous adult with bulging muscles and a goatee. "I wanna ... I wanna do something only a big kid can do! What is it?" Why, yes, he is asking Peter what older kids did for fun.

[lostmarauder]

"Um. I don't know? I read a lot..." He was not gong to be helpful for this line of questioning Rin, he was that kid people chased up trees.

[pinnedbangs]

Nonsense! There had to be something on his big kid mind that was absolutely barred from little kids!!

Oh, ew... Rin pulls a face at that. "Reading? Like sitting down forever and only looking at words? That's what my brother does and it's booooooooooring."

[lostmarauder]

"But a couple shinobi I know snuck me scrolls that have jutsu, so it can't be all bad, right?" He doubts the other boy will be convinced but...