Player Plot: All Trenchy Karate/Combat Tournament

[strikefirster]

Hello, everyone! As presented by Johnny (Cobra Kai), Terry (Cobra Kai), and Ozpin (RWBY), please enjoy: THE ALL-TRENCH FIGHTING TOURNAMENT!

In canon, each teacher runs their own combat school. In Trench, they'll compete to see whose students are the most skilled! There are three phases to this plot.

1. JOIN A COMBAT SCHOOL

In early April, the three teachers will have a network post to advertise their services and announce the coming tournament.

Do you want mentor/student CR? Does your kid need to learn how to swing a sword? Consider training with one of these teams:

Johnny Lawrence's Cobra Kai: Johnny teaches "all-American karate": emphasis on kicking ass and getting babes. Unarmed training only. Includes wacky and dangerous junkyard obstacle courses. Learn '80s tropes from an earnest, well-meaning, deeply stupid man.

Terry Silver's Cobra Kai: Terry teaches Cobra Kai karate: emphasis on psychological warfare, merciless violence, and being terrifying but polished. Some armed training, mostly unarmed. Does not include wacky obstacle courses. Training emphasizes discipline, threat assessment, sparring.

Ozpin's Clockhouse School: Ozpin teaches shonen heroes to kill monsters. Emphasis on melee weapons (swordplay etc.), some unarmed training. Includes wacky and dangerous obstacle courses, but with a "rich English professor" vibe. Learn about teamwork, friendship, fairy tales, and drinking tea with too many sugars.

Start Your Own! Anyone can join the tournament so long as they have a minimum of one teacher and one student associated under the same name. Feel free to form your own competing teams.

Training can be handwaved or played out (see below). Generally, you can assume weekly training, either 1-on-1 or in a group. For an example of training exercises, consider Johnny's beach bullshit, Johnny's quicksand bullshit and Ozpin's forest initiation.

You can train with more than one team, but you'll only be able to represent one team in the tournament.

2. TAKE THE RIVALRY TOO SERIOUSLY

Also in early April, the teachers will have a catchall training log for teambuilding, mentor/student interaction, and shenanigans.

Please go hard on the shenanigans. We're talking property destruction. We're talking bullying of PCs on rival teams. Pranks, curses, drama, absolutely stupid shit. Switch sides and then switch back again. Escalate and then escalate some more. If you don't, the teachers will.

3. LET'S COMPETE!

Sometime in May, the teachers will have a tournament log plus OOC tournament coordination post.

The tournament should consist of two parts: armed and unarmed. Your character can join either or both. The use of powers will be discouraged.

Matchups will be determined by RNG. Players will then have 24 hours to decide a winner amongst themselves, or leave the winner up to RNG. This will continue until a champion is decided.

Champions will take home cool and possibly magical prizes!

Comments

Questions

[strikefirster]

Re: Questions

[verrostet]

If Tanya would need her magic/computation orb to be physically competitive (as in at all stronger than a small child) would she be allowed to use it to a certain extent? Like if she's matched up against ZANGIEF or something idk

If not then she can deal with it, I'm just curious!

Interested in joining as a student/participant

[strikefirster]

[forwantofahorse]

Sayo is gunning to be self-appointed team captain for Johnny Lawrence's Cobra Kai, and will be aggressively recruiting and helping train people despite their mildly noodly physique. (See, they were INCREDIBLY noodly before, that goes to show how Cobra Kai works!) What may not help is that their reputation is a little bit poisoned thanks to some drama with Ange and her CR. Whoops.

[violetlies]

Sayo's probably going to be dragging Kokichi in as a new student for Johnny, so we'll see how this goes and anyone on Team Johnny is perfectly free to reach out and establish CR (most of all ofc mentor/student cr). Glhf group.

[fattyhands]

Signing Vi up! Johnny’s training program sounds hilarious ( and lbr, Vi is all about kicking ass and flirting up the babes ), so hoping to shuffle her into Johnny’s team?? She’s already a baller when it comes to hand-to-hand ( and knee-to-face ) combat, so I don’t think she’ll need a lot of pointers, but.

… She’ll conquer these wacky and dangerous junkyard obstacle courses anyway. good thing she excels at parkour too???

[verrostet]

Tanya will be interested in touching up on her hand-to-hand combat skills and so will be willing to attend a lesson at each of the dojos! It sounds like Terry's style will be right up her alley though, so I anticipate she'll end up over there.

She isn't really interested in the competitive aspect of the tournament, but if she's strongarmed into doing it then she'll do it... Can't we all just practice our knee-breaking skills for the purity of knee-breaking?

[terriblepurpose]

Paul is here to take things way too seriously on behalf of Johnny Lawrence's Cobra Kai. He will largely be focused on supporting others' training and providing really intense opinions about how to win fights.

[bookbrawler]

Jake will be signing up on Terry's side! Jake loves fighting so he'll really be getting into the competition side of things, and will likely be easily convinced into some of the more harmless shenanigans.

[imaglyphwitch]

Luz has been meaning to take her mind of things recently as well as start some training. She'll likely find herself headed toward Ozpin's as she knows him and would embrace crazy obstacles herself.

Re: Interested in joining as a student/participant

[peripheries]

Kaworu is already dragged into being trained by Johnny but mostly he's there to keep Paul on a leash so he doesn't scare everyone away!!

[unphase]

Rose will go along with Johnny, while Tinya follows Terry. Both Rose and Tinya are high class broads and have their pride, but they express it differently.

Rose is Very Serious about what she's being asked to do, whether it's restraints (which she used properly in the TDM, she's so glad it worked!) or playing parkour in a junkyard. However, she's still a BB badass, so it prrrrobably wouldn't take much to beat her in an actual fight.

Tinya insists on remaining elegant and poised and looking for psychological weaknesses in opponents (thanks, mom) so she's a natural for Terry's teaching style, being graceful but can and will fuck someone's shit up. She'd been a super-hero back home and got plenty of practice of fighting there.

[EDIT] And apparently Lexi wants to side/study with Sasuke! I swear to Jesus, these characters get their own minds and volunteer on occasion.

[adaine]

Adaine is going to be a student under both Terry Silver and Ozpin, before eventually settling for Ozpin after she picks up on the whole secret grudge vendetta thing going on there which she doesn't super want to participate it.

She'll be entering the tournament for Team Clockhouse ultimately.

[snakesdonthavelegs]

Jessica will be joining in on Terry's side to beat up her ex to prove herself!

[fabrications]

Akechi will be signing up in the armed division as one of Ozpin's students!

[wannasmash]

Izuku "Deku" Midoriya is with Clockhouse School, having trained in Ozpin's forest initiation, but he could switch if a reason came up. Regardless, he wants to train with EVERYONE. He regularly spars with (checks current list) his friend Paul (JLCK), who also takes things too seriously. This will be Fine And Normal. He's friends with Luz (OCS) and Kaworu (JLCK). He has met Tinya (TSCK). He's yeeted Johnny Lawrence several feet.

Deku is good at parkour karate(-like?) kicks, but he'll throw and punch too. He's "armed" with armored shoes that give blowback, but idk if that qualifies for the armed bracket? If so, cool! I'm also interested in adapting his capture technique with rope-like things. His background comes from combat capture/incapacitating. He can train and be trained. Safety first. Don't damage property. He can take a lot of pain. A fight isn't over until it's over. Threading with Deku will be MHA spoilers. I'll try to keep it to the anime, but no promises.

This is rather public, so he could quit at any time, a warning he will ICly give due to "Hero stuff". He might sign up under a pseudonym. Sucks when you're a potential target of a supervillain. OOCly we have no plans for that, but who knows, maybe some KARATE DRAMA will happen!

[detonating]

Not sure who Bakugou would sign up under... He just hopped in Sasuke's training deal but since he ain't listed (yet???), can/will have him join one of the others too if not! Probably Johnny.

=|a IDK for CERTAIN, but sign him up

He's a force to be reckoned with and he wants to WIN ALL OF THE THINGS.

[floatsaway]

Ph man, this sort of karate training is Ochako's fucking JAM, my dudes. She canonically knows a variety of martial arts, but Judo is the one she's most skilled at - using an opponent's weight and momentum to throw and knock them to the ground. She's be hella interested in learning other styles, and MAYBE some ranged weapon training since she's mostly a melee fighter (think Monk if you know DND classes - fighty fisty pow pow gorl).

Probably leaning toward Johnny, but still unsure 100%.

Re: Interested in joining as a student/participant

[alternia_strength]

Well, I think we kind of knew this was coming. Cobra Kai will likely get another sweaty idjit cause it's in his nature to side with this camp.

[fogsong]

Sharon's here for Johnny's ridiculous over-the-top antics. She might not have much interest in competing in the tournament but she'll definitely play along when it comes to the rivalry and shenanigans!

[asas]

shōyō’s going to be signing up under sasuke’s super badass ninja school to test where his skill is!!

he’s not exactly adept in fighting since he’s just your average pro volleyball player, but he’s been training diligently for a few months already with quite a few people! he knows a thing or two to at least attempt to handle his own via knife-fighting, hand to hand, some sword stuff and spears/staff work! thank you friends who have pitched in to help!

who knows, he might even have a surprise jutsu up his sleeve……… 👀 tho look at all u natural fighters and shounens, he probably won’t get too far but he gets points and gold stars for trying his best!!

[wapples]

Billie will be joining with Johnny's Cobra Kai. He might be tiny, but he's fighty.

[slayerskiss]

I'm not actually sure whether Faith will join on team Ozpin or team Johnny. It'll probably depend on how intense the competition gets since... all her friends are team Ozpin even if she personally thinks he's a little cringe ass loser man and gets along much better with Johnny. Meanwhile Johnny's got.......... Sayo, enemy number one to half her CR (except Oscar.)

[kyley_b]

Yeah, Johnny got him to join up with Cobra Kai.

Interested in joining as a teacher/mentor

[strikefirster]

[retsuden]

Sasuke is going to start up his ninja training shit sometime in the next week or so SO HE'S ABSOLUTELY GETTING DRAGGED INTO THIS.