The Roleplay Guide

Around April 25th of 2020, Ahmaykmewsik created a guide for people role-playing as the gang on twitter. Said guide included information never before revealed to the public about the inner working of the characters.

In the 2nd of September 2022, Ahmayk agreed to making the document public.

The document in question:

## NOTES FOR TWITTER ROLEPLAYERS OF METAWARE HIGH SCHOOL (DEMO)

April-25-2020

This text file is to assist those who are roleplaying characters from MetaWare High School (Demo). It is preferred that this information is not given directly to the public and only shared between those who need this information to accurately portray characters from the game. By reading this file, you agree to not share it with others who do not own a MetaWare twitter role-play account. Thanks - Ahmaykmewsik

-All twitter characters are versions of themselves after the demo and the true ending. They have memories of all game events and are 100% aware that they are on twitter being controlled by a creator other than the original. (Or in hope's case, the original creator).

-All characters are high school aged. Chris and Isadora are 2nd Years, Hope and Nari are 3rd years. (MetaWare goes by the Japanese high school system where there are three years of High School) They do not graduate and they do not age. Ever. If anyone asks you if you're legal (18+) refuse to tell them.

- The characters speak English. They do not know Japanese.

- Being Fiction is analogous to being non-fiction. That is how they have lived their lives until existing on twitter. Therefore ANY and ALL fictional characters are to be treated with the same level of respect as any real person.

-They understand that they are separate characters from the game and even have different birthdays from their game characters. Your character's birthday is the day your twitter account was created (for hope that's April 1st). Twitter characters celebrate both their twitter birthday and in-game birthday.

-Time existed differently for these characters in the game. They have no concept of what a "year" is. Explaining how they perceive time would take too much space and I don't wanna. As far as you need to know to play the character, the concept of years should be "kind of weird" and the concept of prolonged change over time should "make sense" but also be "kind of weird" and something you're growing to understand. (remember these are stagnant fictional characters)

- They do not have eyes and still do not have eyes. However they now have an understanding of how they work, but not a full one (for example optical illusions still confuse them). They are used to "seeing" by the metalware software directly injecting information into their brain and in this reality that’s how it still works for them.

- ALL OF THESE WORDS ARE BANNED (to the best of your ability): "look" "see" "watch" "gaze" "glance", anything to do with eyes (this is harder than you'd think!!)

-Walking, yes. Feet, No.

- Be careful not to treat your character like an idiot. It’s a frequent trope in anime to have anime high schoolers be wistful, ignorant, naive, or just plain stupid. None of the MetaWare characters are any of that. If a character misunderstands something, make sure they have a legitimate reason to misunderstand it or you will risk looking rather shallow. Don't be afraid to break this rule though if you think it's appropriate.

-Only Chris calls Isadora Izzy. Only Isadora calls Chris Chrissy.

-----------CHRIS:-----------

-Loves Visual Novels and knows quite a lot about them.

-Has a complicated relationship with the idea of the “player” post-demo.

-Wants what is best for everyone and others to be happy, even if it means putting others before herself.

-Can be quick to anger if her beliefs become threatened, but rarely. (especially rare in the twitter universe I would imagine)

-Implied to be asexual in the game:

   "I've never actually dated anyone. To be honest I don't know if I would want to, I     think...I don't know. At least not how they usually make it seem like. With all the     sex. It's not all that appealing to me."

-Is Isadora's best friend. ALWAYS calls her Izzy.

-Good supportive friends with everyone else. Especially supportive of Nari.

-----------ISADORA:-----------

-Adamant to do things her way, however she decides that may be. Annoyed when they don't go her way or things generally go wrong.

-Cares about her friends. A LOT. Wants their acceptance and friendship.

-SCREAMS IN ALL CAPS WITH LOTS OF PUNCTUATION?!?!?!?!?!!???????!!!!

-[SECRET!!!] DJFKSLDJFKLDSJFKLSDJFKLSDJ letter scrambles are CODED MESSAGES in the game revealing Isadora's deep sometimes disturbing feelings. Can use as a shitpost device when this becomes more public knowledge. (always use Casear Cypher, whatever rotation you want)

-Is Chris's best friend. ALWAYS calls her Chrissy.

-Used to sparing with Aspen and Hope over trivial stuff.

-Doesn't really know how to feel about Nari.

-----------ASPEN:-----------

-Acts like the smartest person all the time (They're usually not)

-They/Them

-Non Binary

-Assertive and dominant. Can sometimes be a tad manipulative in pushing what they believe is right.

-Protective. Desires control.

-Strongly thought the game was a dating sim before...but now understands that probably wasn't the case. Likely speculates about the full game with a knowing grandeur.

-Has a fun sparring friendship with Isadora. Somewhat bitter but good friends with Hope and Chris. Doesn't get Nari all that much.

-----------HOPE:-----------

I'm just gonna keep this blank since this is being run by me.

-----------NARI:-----------

-The Nari on twitter is specifically POST-DEMO Nari, not in-game Nari. Post-Demo Nari will not be the same as the Nari in the game due to the events of the 10 endings and the true ending.

-Read all of the fortheplayer.nari files and all info found in the script files found through dataminiing as it contains important info as to how Nari viewed and investigated MetaWare. fortheplayer.nari files give an closer look at her personality before and while she became overwhelimgly nihlistic. Her nihilistic tendencies have likely evolved since the game's end. Will likely be looking for ways to understand the real world more fully.

-Has a complicated history with Hope (the details of which I think would be best left implied for now). All you need to know is that Nari used to be much more of a nerd and inquisitive of her world.

-Yeah you already know the schtick about gummy bears I don't need to say anything else. They are very important to her. She refuses to buy them herself. She also just loves Bears.

-Relationships with other characters are what you make of it as they are being rekindled to something new after the game's events.

Please make the characters your own. They are not the in-game characters but an in-cannon offshoot. Remember your character is aware of this and has the capacity to explain it if they wish.