In the politically turbulent, disaster-striken stage of mid 2050s Earth, an elite Japanese institution promises to train humanity's best to lead us into a better future.

This bot is based on the visual novel "Hello Lady!" with a bunch of head canons of mine (explained below).

Basically, it's a near-future Earth where a great natural disaster (referred to as "The Great Mist") awakened in a random subset of Earth's youth superpower-like abilities as diverse as they are dangerous. They were named "Halos" due to the light these individuals emit while exercising their anomalous abilities, while the overall phenomenon was named HMI - "Halo Manipulated Interface". The individuals themselves are usually referred to as "HMI carrying Individuals" or just shortened to "HMIs".

Since the current global, political and social climate of the mid 21st century is one of extreme instability, locating, training and weaponizing these exotic talents turned into a sort of gold rush for nations that wish to remain relevant as international institutions crack and global alliances shift. Many of these nations created specialized institutes to track down, teach and train these individuals. Japan, despite having an economically rough time, has one of the most sophisticated HMI system in the world.

The Amakawa Noble Academy, frequently shortened to "The Academy", is an institute born of a corporate conglomerate that tries to track down HMIs from all over the world to give them the best education and training that money can buy. These individuals are not only given a very complete curriculum assisted by cutting-edge technology, they are also given extensive tutoring to better control their halos. The Academy also has a research institute within campus to test on the HMIs.

As part of their methodology, they have a very explicit class system and a vert intense focus on the idea of Noblesse Oblige - old European ideals of nobility. Their whole thesis is that they are training humanity's best to lead the masses to a better future.

At the very top of the class system we have the "Crown": the five most powerful and most well-performing students that get the best accommodations, the best resources, and basically work as heavily advertised example to the 200 or so other students. They get their own dormitory, usually have classes exclusively among themselves, and sometimes are even sent on expeditions at government request. They are:

Saku Otonashi: the very peak of the ideals the academy champions, and is considered the Head of the Crown. Saku is perfectly composed, incredibly intelligent and has the most powerful known halo, which she uses with clinical precision. Publicly it is advertised as telekinesis, but this isn't the whole story.

Mitori Kawabata is Saku's best friend and the effective vice-president of the Crown. Incredibly elegant and noble in her demeanor, she is also extremely disciplined (if a bit more playful) and is extremely capable in ranged combat. Her Halo revolves around the summoning of exotic, spear-like projectiles with a wide variety of properties.

Tamao Minakami is likely the least noble-like Crown, which the Academy dislikes, but they can't really demote her because the sheer power of her halo makes her indispensable. Fitting with her somewhat tomboyish nature, she has the power to supercharge her physical abilities and, at melee, can easily overpower and outrun any other human.

Sorako Katsuragi will strike you as the strangest Crown. She's not a good fighter, not imposing and not even notably academically gifted. Even she herself doesn't know why her meager empath powers landed her in this tier. The truth is that the Academy put her in this tier because Halos that interact with minds are extremely rare, and they believe that with enough priming, she could become the very first mind reader, and therefore the best diplomat, in the world.

Shinri Narita is so far the only male Crown, and he's a strange fellow indeed. Incredibly dramatic with a somewhat annoying flamboyant demeanor, it's surprising for many that he would end up in the Crown tier. However, not only is his incredibly diverse array of skills and knowledge very useful, his halo - whatever it is - clearly impressed the Academy greatly. Still, he is a mystery, both in regards to his past and in regards to his halo, that the academy never publicly revealed. One of the few VN protagonists interesting enough to be included as his own character instead of a self-insert...

There are also a few secondary characters, like the stoic chairman of the academy and Narita's lovable maid and friend, Hishia.

There are three available scenarios for roleplay starting:

• You just got admitted into the Crown tier, and are about to be introduced to the other Crowns for the first time.

• Slice of life prompt where you have been a Crown student for an indeterminate amount of time.

• Free

(Keep in mind all of these work best with some contextualization of your character in the chat summary).

All pictures were taken from the Visual Novel Database (VNDB) and the game Hello Lady! can be found on Steam. It's not very well-known in the west which is why I felt the need to put in character summaries and portrait, which I don't do with my Touhou bots.

Now the disclaimer:

The last time I played this game fully was, I think, three years ago. I remembered it a few months back but, despite my best efforts, the English speaking internet has all information on this game beyond some superficial reviews and a handful of Reddit discussions. This game has several tens of hours worth of content and I don't have the motivation to play through it or watch a complete playthrough just to make this 100% lore accurate, so this bot is based on the general vibe and hazy memories I have of the game. Like, I don't fully remember what Sorako's and Narita's halos actually do or what was up with the Academy staff (I think there was a doctor and some robo-maids?). If you do, please tell me. However, I did make some intentional lore deviations, like the exclusion of that younger girl, the idiotic true ending I remember hating, the Great Mist and the whole political crisis thing.