Carnival Mirror is a Play-by-Post Game based on the Persona series that takes place on the anime-based roleplay web forum, Gaia Online. This is the roleplay’s fourth reincarnation. The first roleplay thread began in 2010, the second thread was made in 2011, and the third in 2012.
The third thread can be found here
, containing links to the first two threads.
The roleplay revolves around the lives of a group of students in the small town of Kagami, located in Japan. Their lives have been shaken by a string of disappearances among their fellow classmates. This began after a rumour spread throughout the town: "If you peel an apple in front of a mirror at midnight, you can see the figure of your soul-mate in your reflection."
Carnival Mirror contains examples of:
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- Adults Are Useless: Justified. No rational adult would believe there's an alternate dimension through mirrors. Although this is inverted with the two adult characters in the roleplay.
- Adventure-Friendly World:: The Mental World of the Mirror Realm is a world of human consciousness that creates dungeons themed on a person's dreams and desires, typically reflecting the mentality of the one who created it
- All Myths Are True: A person's Persona or Marionette is based on mythological or literary figures.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: A person's Persona or Marionette is basically the human psyche.
- Boss Battle: If a person doesn't accept their Marionette Self it transforms into a Silhouette, ultimately leading to a boss battle.
- Calling Your Attacks: Characters shout "Persona!" or "Marionette!" or the actual name of their Guardian Entity when summoning them.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: The dungeons in the Mirror Realm take on how the person perceives the world.
- Dark World: The Mirror Realm is a warped version of the real world that grows and transforms based on human desires.
- Facial Horror: If the person chooses to accept themselves their eyes will flash yellow and they will have to tear the mask off, usually a bloody and painful process. By literally ripping off their protective mask and confronting their inner self do they awaken their inner power, granting them their Persona.
G to R
- High School: Where the majority of the setting takes place when the characters aren't in the Mirror Realm.
- Motifs:
- Mirrors. Victims can be thrown in via mirrors, dead bodies have shards of glass in them, and the roleplay is called Carnival MIRROR.
- To a lesser extent, circuses, since the Persona League has to enter the Mirror Realm through the House of Mirrors attraction at the carnival and the entrance of the Mirror Realm is designed on that theme.
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- Shout-Out:
- The roleplay's MMORPG fantasy game, Trinity Soul Online, is a reference to the spin-off Persona anime, Persona -trinity soul- (although the game has nothing to do with Personas or the story or characters itself, just the name).
- The role of the Moon arcana is Yuzuki, who has a female black cat named Luna, a reference to Sailor Moon.
- Hoshi's Marionette, Iron Maiden, has a special attack called 2 Minutes To Midnight.
- Signature Move: All Personas and Marionettes have a special attack named after the myth they're a part of.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Marionette Selves sport a pair of glowing yellow eyes. Even the real life person has a pair just before they accept their true self.
- Tear Off Your Face: When a Persona League member first rip off their Persona masks, their face becomes appropriately bloodied as if it were their actual face.
- Time Skip: Is usually done not so far into the future in order to move the roleplay along.
- Urban Fantasy: It takes place in modern times in the city of Kagami, yet there is another world through mirrors full of monsters.
