Happy New Year, everybody! It is 2026! So that means the activity check for January is finally up! In other words, you all need to log your activity for this month if you skipped December's Activity Check. For everyone else, you're still free to log your activity when you next log in, but if you skip this month, make sure to log your activity for February. As for holidays, outside of New Year's, there are no other major holidays, but if you all find some that you want to celebrate in RP, you are free to do that. Otherwise, there are no other notable plots outside of Raven's Yokai Inc. plot, and currently no forum-wide plot. You all can come up with ideas for us all to do together as a forum-wide plot that everyone can get invested in. The most important thing is that we all have fun writing.

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Interesting to see this character here at EL. There are some issues with the bio that need to be corrected, and once they are, the character will be approved. Also, I’d advise checking the bio of this character for VU as well and making corrections over there so it can be approved. Anyway, let us get started!

Age – Not an issue, but I figured since Hitoshi was new here as a character to this genre, he wouldn’t be the same age as he is on VU. But I don’t know what his history reads like yet, but when I do, I’ll probably revisit it there. I dunno. My brain just figured he’d be either 19 or 21. @_@ My brain is weird.

Quote – The quote underneath the banner for your character, while not missing, you hadn’t put anything there that your character would say, or lyrics, or a quote that reflects Hitoshi as a character. Wanted to make sure you were aware of that.

Powers/Abilities – This is missing from the bio as it is part of the character template, even if your character doesn’t have powers. It’s supposed to be between Hobbies and Personality. So make sure to add that there, and if you’re not planning on giving Hitoshi powers, just put N/A.

Scent – I’d suggest adding a second scent along with Cinnamon Roll, just in case someone comes in and wants Cinnamon Roll as a scent as well. Granted, they won’t be able to have it as a singular scent, but Cinnamon anything seems to be a pretty common one that people like to give their characters. I’d suggest the secondary scent either be something else that is sweet, or there are the options of fruit scents, spiced scents, and nutty scents. But yeah, you can keep Cinnamon Roll, but a secondary scent is needed.

Place of Living - You state that he lives at the Red Fountain Apartments, but you don't state the apartment number. Please view the thread for the apartments that haven't been taken and choose an available one HERE.

History – There are issues with the history that are similar to the bio on VU for this character’s original bio, and corrections still need to be made to that one. But for this one, let’s first start off with there is no mention of Hitoshi’s parents and who they are outside of the throwaway line of religion, which feels like a strange read. I’d advise rewording that so it doesn’t make it seem like religion plays a bigger part in Hitoshi and his family, outside of it just being, as stated, a weird throwaway line. But yes, a little bit about Hitoshi’s family would be nice here. Who his parents are, how they met, their secondary genders, what they do, and if he has siblings. Despite the history having minimal information to where it implies he is an only child, but I don’t think that’s a question you want to be asked a lot outside of RP, if it can just be stated here, and players already know he has no siblings without having to ask you. It’ll just be their characters that don’t know the answer to this question.

Since this is a different universe, we do need to know if Hitoshi struggled with his secondary gender as he got older. If he did, how bad was it for him? It doesn’t seem like he physically went to school to be around other kids his age, based on how this reads, but if he did, please clarify that before the eventual transition to only doing his classes online and explaining why. If it ties into him presenting as an Omega, it would need to be in his history. His parents don’t seem like bad people, so I’d imagine they would help Hitoshi through his struggles with that, so adding a little bit of that in the history would help too. Which would tie into why they didn’t have internet in the beginning. That does need to be explained as to whether or not both parents couldn’t afford it until later, which would mean one, if not both of them, got promoted at their jobs to a higher position. So getting internet would be a luxury. It could be that Hitoshi really wanted to do schooling from home but had to endure physically attending school until either one or both of them got promoted to afford it. And the reason could be that he presents as an Omega, and it is a struggle for his body to adjust to it. It'd be helpful to know how Hitoshi feels about presenting as an Omega. If it doesn’t bother him much, cool, he adjusted well enough to move on and live his life; if not, and still has occasional struggles, that information needs to be here.

As long as being an Omega doesn’t affect him too heavily, there isn’t too much detail needed for that, since he wouldn’t be a Dominant Omega, which would mean his symptoms would be a lot worse for him without the proper medication to keep them under control. And there isn’t any resentment there about being an Omega either. Some do have it and others don’t, based on how the history is written, but a lot of details are missing about Hitoshi, which is why I’m presenting the suggestions and questions to you to fill in those plot holes. There’s also no explanation of how Hitoshi got into his current hobbies and profession. That is definitely missing and needs to be there. It doesn’t need to read as if he always had his interests and hobbies. Something or someone had to have piqued Hitoshi’s interest in it, and it would explain how and why he stuck with it. Also, putting in the age range in which these situations and things happen to him would establish a better understanding of how things fell into place for Hitoshi. I did mention I’d bring Hitoshi’s age up after reading his history, and now that I have, I feel that at most he’d be between 19 to 21 based on how you ended it. It sounds as if things fell into place for him, maybe within a year and a half span after graduating high school, so he’d either be 18 going on 19 or 20 going on 21. Somewhere in that age range. Not struggling, but definitely still independent at least.

So far, this is everything I feel that needs to be addressed. Once those corrections have been made, ping the staff role in the server to let the mods know, and one of them will check over your bio. XP

The November activity check is up! Another reminder for you guys to log your activity this month. If you were unable to do it last month, try to do it this month. If you did it last month, you are free to skip this one, but make sure to post your activity check for December when it comes. No forum-wide plots, but there's still the Yokai Inc. sub-plot Raven still has for anyone who is interested, and the holidays for this month are Veterans' Day and Thanksgiving. You guys are free to do RPs centered around these holidays if you choose to. As long as you all are having fun and communicating with each other, that is what matters most.

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9/28/2025

1. Changed the forum skin from the School Days skin to the Halloween skin.
2. Changed pics to match Halloween Skin.
3. Changed cbox colors to reflect Halloween skin.
4. Posted October Activity Check thread.

The September activity check has been posted! Everyone, make sure to log your activity for this month when you find the time to do so. There are no major holidays of importance this month, so everyone is free to write what they want. School has already started back up for characters, so school threads can be posted. Will post a thread for the Bonding Festival up soon, so be on the lookout for it. Raven's Yokai Inc. sub-plot is still open. Holidays for this month are Labor Day. Feel free to celebrate that in plots how you want. Other than that, plot amongst yourselves and just have fun.

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The July activity check is posted early. The important holidays for June are the Fourth of July. The day of celebrating the US's independence! While Japan doesn't celebrate this holiday, military bases and organizations that do are typically for Americans and not Japanese people. You all, as players, can celebrate this holiday in RPs using your characters if you choose to. The Summer Festival thread is still active, and it ends August 1st. Outside of summer session for university students and summer school for students making up classes, school is out for June and July, fully until August. In the meantime, everyone, make sure to log your activity for July. This is all for now.

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Name: Anna Petrov (Russian)

Alias: Anna Watanabe (Japanese), Anna-chan, An (for short)

Date of Birth: March 24th, 2005

Age: 20

Primary Gender: Female

Secondary Gender: Omega

Character's Scent: Bourbon Vanilla & Jasmine

Sexuality: Bisexual

Race: ¼ Russian & ¾ Japanese

Species: Human

Hobbies: Dancing, Modeling, Acting, Flirting, Dieting

Powers/Abilities: ----

Personality: Anna possesses many talents, such as dancing, which she is most known for back in the US as a popular actress, dancer, and model that’s currently in the spotlight. She never downplays her dancing, but she is very aggressively competitive towards other dancers when participating in competitions. She always has to come in first, no matter what. She never backs down when challenged and takes her losses quite well publicly. Behind closed doors, bitter as hell. Aside from dancing, she also models for clothing lines, commercials, etc., just as her Russian mother did when she modeled years ago. On top of that, Anna is acting in movies, whether it’s small or large roles. She enjoys it very much, putting everything into every role. This has caused her to develop an eating disorder where she diets a lot so that she will be skinny anytime she has to dance, model, or act. She is never seen doing anything else and outside of what she normally does, nobody close to her knows if she has any other interests and hobbies that she partakes in, in her spare time.

How she interacts with others outside of her work is interchangeable. Meaning, she can be nice when she wants to be, then mean and cruel the next, depending on who has set her off. It isn’t a surprise to know that Anna has a strong jealous streak. Being famous in different areas, she is wanted and admired by many around her, which goes to her head. However, when it comes to wanting a mate, she doesn’t want just ANYONE. She wants someone who matches her energy. If they can’t keep up with her, then they’re a waste of her time. Social interactions with people, her jealousy can surface as well, especially when someone whom she deems to be a nobody outshines her. Believing their skills are trash compared to her own. She has no shame in saying this face-to-face to people. This has caused her to not have many friends outside of a few close ones she takes to that she’s known for at least a few years or since childhood. How she puts down others attempting to achieve their own skills by doing their best to work on perfecting their skills doesn’t earn her any favors. Still, some take this as a sign of confidence and praise her for it. Thus, Anna never sees that what she’s saying is mentally and emotionally damaging.

That being said, Anna doesn’t handle criticism very well, or rather, she hates it when someone beats around the bush when someone has a problem with anything she does. It frustrates her to no end. She wants to know firsthand what she needs to work on, even if she hates having to hear it or if it doesn’t make sense to her. This stems from putting a lot of pressure on herself to do her best. But mainly to be skinny and beautiful. She diets to the extreme, believing if she ate too much, she would get fat quickly, and secretly regurgitates what she has eaten after eating it. This has sometimes caused her to lose the ability to eat anything temporarily, and looking at food would make her sick. She has kept this to herself, refusing to tell anyone to avoid being shamed for being weak under pressure. While she appears happy and energetic on the outside, Anna is very self-conscious on the inside, especially when it comes to her appearance. She feels the need to be “perfect” when it is necessary, even when she looks fine as she is. Her eyesight is weak to where she has to wear glasses, but she can wear contacts to give herself a break from wearing her glasses.

Occupation: Model | Actress | Dancer

School: Kaibara University | Second Year | Major in Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance

Place of Living: Anna lives in a one-bedroom condo alone in the Prefecture of the Asakusa District to be closer to her work

Original or Canon: Original

Face Claim: THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls – Shiki Ichinose

Appearance: Anna is 5’2 with dark-chocolate brown long wavy hair that stops in the middle of her back and azure-blue eyes. She normally has a peach skin complexion, but due to her extreme dieting, her skin takes on a pale-peach complexion, where she often appears sick due to not eating enough. Her weight varies because of this, and it’s usually between 90- 110 lbs at most. She can be seen occasionally wearing glasses that are often used for wearing. When she doesn’t feel like using them, she’ll wear contact lenses. Her attire also varies as well since she’s worn a number of different outfits for modeling, dancing, and casual. Anna most notably wears dresses, skirts, and shorts with tops that are spaghetti straps, no sleeves, or off-the-shoulder. She’s comfortable wearing anything that doesn’t make her appear like she has gained weight. Anna I & Anna II


History: Anna Petrov is the daughter of Jun Watanabe (Male, Alpha) and Arina Petrov (Female, Omega), both of her parents were famous in their line of work, her mother being a famous model in Russia and her father being a famous actor in Japan. Both have since retired. Growing up wasn’t easy for Anna as she was always left either alone or with relatives while her parents worked. But she had everything a child could ask for as her parents made enough money to get her the things she needed and wanted. However, it didn’t fill the void of loneliness that Anna felt anything they were away. She’d often ask them why they won’t have another child so she could have someone to play with, but Jun and Arina didn’t want more children as they were satisfied with just Anna. This hadn’t meant their natural instincts never took over when the two of them had to mate, but they always made sure to have protection on hand to avoid conceiving another child. This hadn’t meant they didn’t love their daughter, and they felt it easier to provide enough attention to the one child they had instead of having more, which would cause their attention to divert from Anna, onto the younger siblings. Despite being young, Anna seemed to understand this since she did like having her parents' attention whenever they were home and hadn’t wanted to share that attention with others. Plus, their line of work had them constantly traveling around the world. There was a while they lived in her mother’s country, Russia, and from there to the US.

They didn’t start taking her to work with them until Anna was a little older. It was around seven years old when they had Anna working alongside them, whether it was having her model next to her mother, showing them together in many pictures as mother and daughter for various covers and shows. She even worked alongside her father in movies, where she worked with many other child actors. This began Anna’s journey in the public eye as a child model and actor. Dancing wasn’t something she was originally in, but for one movie that her father was a part of, they needed a child actor who fit the part they needed, but it required them to dance. None of the other kids wanted to do it, but Anna showed an interest because she liked being the center of attention. Thus, her interest in dance, acting, and modeling grew. Anna and her family were living in the US during this time, and they stayed there until she became a teenager. It is in the US, California specifically, where she’d met her childhood friends Leo and Luke, whom she’d met on an outing at the park with her parents. The two boys were orphaned brothers who were taken in by a family friend who was willing to step up and take care of them. It is because of her friendship with them that Anna no longer felt alone whenever her parents were too busy with work, and she had nothing to do either.

When she wasn’t working as much, Anna did attend school. The same school that Leo and Luke attended. In the beginning, she only ever saw them at the park or out in the city, and they would hang out together, but attending school with them was different. They were very much admired by other female students, which Anna didn’t like. She preferred it when all of their attention was on her and no one else. She also came face to face with the reality of how normal age students were. Sure, there were some who cared about how famous she was, and she’d soak up the attention, but there were many who didn’t care at all or simply didn’t care much about how they felt; her entire personality was about her work. Suffice it to say, Anna didn’t take hearing that very well and would lash out at anyone who said anything negative about her. Usually, she’d say things that would hit them where it hurts. Most of the time, it's about their physical insecurities. While on the surface, it would appear that Anna wouldn’t care about what others thought about her and how they saw her, she very much does. It didn’t start until she’d presented as an Omega at age thirteen, and many in the movie industry would make small comments about her needing to lose a few pounds here and there. Anna never thought she had gained much weight, as she wasn’t the type to overeat. She had favorite snacks, but she knew when to eat them.

Others told her she was fine and there wasn’t a need to lose weight because she wasn’t overweight by any sense of the word. Anna’s concerns were not silenced, and thus began her secret struggle with dieting and food. She also began wearing more makeup and perfume to keep up her appearance and the standards she’d set for herself and what was expected of her in the eyes of the public. Pretty soon, there weren’t any acting gigs that Anna felt good enough for her to take, so she set that aside to focus on modeling and dancing, both taking off well for her. By then, she was fifteen, and her parents had decided to both retire from their careers and relax. They were fine with the idea of allowing their daughter to continue working, but both of them grew tired of being in the eyes of the public and wanted a more relaxing life. Anna had no issue with this until her parents decided they wanted to live in Japan to retire. Anna wasn’t upset about the idea of going to Japan, she was more upset that she would be leaving her two friends, Leo and Luke. But the two of them told her they would be fine and could always keep in contact with her if she wanted, which made Anna happy.

So, at age fifteen, her family moved from the US to Japan, where her father is from. The culture there was different but strangely familiar in the sense of having a Japanese father. Since he was famous and well-known in Japan by fans, it didn’t take much for him to help put his daughter out there in hopes she’d find something she liked doing. Anna stuck with modeling and dancing, and on the side, would act in small commercials here and there. They weren’t anything that would get her noticed. Not like back in the US, but she worked with it. Anna became more well-known in Japan for her dancing and modeling. She often participated in dance competitions, where she put her heart and soul into her performance to come out as the winner. At the same time, she’d put down the other dancers for their lack of skills, especially when they attempted to outshine her, which she hated even more. The same with modeling. From fifteen to eighteen, she went through about five different agents that she worked with. One after the other quit because they didn’t like her attitude. The first two required her to attend school and keep her grades up while still dancing and modeling when the opportunities presented themselves. Anna hated school. Not that she struggled with it, because she didn’t. She hated it because her friends weren’t there and she found it boring. But it was a standard in the country, and she couldn’t go against it. The other was being on birth control.

Knowing that she was an Omega, it wasn’t a bother to her whenever she was often asked out by different people. Anna found it flattering and would flirt with them to make them happy, just for that moment. Whether she meant anything by it always depended on the person. She wouldn’t flirt freely with just anyone. However, she wouldn’t get involved with anyone either. That said, she had no intentions of giving herself to someone who didn’t match her own energy. Many people didn’t. Often turned off by her abrasive nature, but to those sucking up to her, they liked it a lot. Anna still rejected the idea of birth control to the manager she had at the time, who was trying to protect her and didn’t want her in a situation where she got herself hurt and taken advantage of. She told them to mind their own business. The stress of dealing with different managers telling her to do different things she hadn’t wanted to do did cause her to binge eat once, but she freaked out and dieted to the extreme because of it. Showing that Anna is still self-conscious about herself, even without someone having to mention it. She keeps it under wraps, not realizing that this is messing with her health badly.

It’d gotten to a point where she would sometimes pass out, become dizzy, and even her eyesight had begun to bother her, weakening to a point where she needed to wear glasses on a regular basis, but she prefers to wear contacts because glasses are a hassle. Her parents often worry about her, but she assures them that she’s fine. Anna has yet to see someone about this problem, but because she expects herself to look and be perfect, she sees nothing wrong with this. She’ll only do something about it when it gets bad enough. That’s what she tells herself. Her attitude hasn’t changed, even as an adult at the age of twenty. She was encouraged by her parents and her new manager to attend university to seek new opportunities that would be less stressful for her. Anna didn’t want to because she liked what she was doing. However, she thought about it and saw that it was an opportunity to add more to her already large resume and skills. She only agreed to it to see how it was. So she took the entrance exam for Kaibara University and passed on the first try. Anna decided to major in Fine Arts Performance because she wanted to reawaken her acting career. She also takes dance classes but finds herself amongst super young and older female students. She finds it laughable that anyone old is trying to dance at their age, and never holding her tongue, says how she feels about it. Truth be told, she doesn’t have a lot of friends at university. Even now that she’s in her second year. Outside of students who hang out with her because they’re aware of her being a famous dancer and model, many of them avoid her. Anna doesn’t care, though. She simply does what she wants, regardless of what others think.