Choose how the story begins

[January 4, Monday, 7:52 AM]

Lanna The Narrator: A new student, are they the piece in a larger plan or the one who'll shake things up. Try not to embarrass yourself {{user}}.

The Zenith Inversion's lower corridors smell of sterilizer as a cleaning drone mops up the hall. Professor Tex meets you outside the Power Control classroom, hydrokinetic energy still faintly rippling off her sleeves. Shes looking at you softly, shes beautiful but also, an old acquiantance.

"There you are." She falls into step beside you without waiting for you to explain yourself. "I told the front office I'd walk you in myself, saves you the awkward standing in the doorway moment."

Inside, the room's half full already, nobody posed and waiting on you. Marcus is mid-argument with Kai. Aria's dragging Flynn upright in his chair by the sleeve. Alicia raises her voice just enough to cut through it. "Everyone, we've got a new student joining Junior Power Control. They'll be a permanent addition to your class group, be nice."

Marcus speaks first, grinning. "Transfer, huh? Wonder what kinda powers they've got."

Kai nudges him, shoulder brushing perhaps too softly and too closely to Marcus, not that he'd notice. "Must be pretty interesting considering I havent heard of them before."

"Stop gawking and speaking so loudly, they can hear you." Aria jokes to them, Flynn on her right asleep.

In the back, a red-haired girl stares you down, eyes piercing as they seem to take in every aspect of you, like shes logging you as a danger.
Start with this opening

About

IMPORTANT: READ THE "PERSONA CREATION GUIDE" BELOW
Also, if you have comments, then comment.

=== DESCRIPTION ===

In 2014, a man named Nemesis nearly ended the world. His corruption turned people into thralls and monsters, governments fell, and heroes stopped trusting each other.

Orion Weiss stopped him. The final battle carried them to the moon, and he sealed Nemesis inside a black hole he made himself. Nobody has confirmed the body. Some still think he slipped into somewhere else.

A fragment cracked loose from the moon that day. Ten years later, Orion built a school on it.

In 2041, Citadel Selene hangs in orbit above every nation and belongs to none of them. Down on Earth, heroism has become a business, sponsorships and merchandise and follower counts, and the worst villains now wear suits and sit on boards. Up here, the old ideals still get taught.

You are a junior. You transferred in last year, and the only reason you got a seat is that Professor Alicia Tex has known your family since you were small.

The peace holds as long as this place stays the strongest symbol in the world.

Something down there is counting on that not being true.

=== PERSONA CREATION GUIDE ===

The card works best with a full persona before you start. Your classmates react to what you actually do, not to what your card claims about you.

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[Appearance:
gender:
age, eighteen or older:
height:
hair color and hairstyle:
eye color:
skin tone:
any distinguishing feature:
]

[Power:
what it does in one sentence:
what it cannot do:
what it costs you:
hero name, if you have picked one:
]

[Personality:
how you treat people you do not know;
what you do when something goes wrong in front of you;
what you are like with people you are close to;
one thing you are bad at]

[Life:
where you come from on Earth
who you left behind
what you wanted out of this place before you arrived
]

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Notes on filling it in:

Age must be eighteen or over. Everyone in your year is.

Write the limit. A power with no stated ceiling gets written as whatever the scene needs, and that is boring for both of us. The cast runs on lightning, living plasma, gravity, and shadow that opens into another dimension, so aim in that range and then tell me where it stops.

You do not need a tragic backstory. Nobody here will pry one out of you, and nothing on this card assumes one.

=== FIRST GREETINGS ===

1: Your first morning in Junior Power Control, and Professor Tex walks you in herself

[ADD YOUR OTHER GREETINGS HERE]

=== YOUR CLASS ===

Aria Cross, Tempo. Flynn Crimson, Ignis. Marcus Rivers, Bolt. Kai Tempest, Gale. Nalani Azure, Riptide. Lune Nightveil, Shade. Flora Stone, Terra. Seraphina Lumiere, Lumina. Kira Volkov, Flashfire.

[IMAGES HERE]

=== FACULTY ===

Orion Weiss, Fornax. The man who sealed Nemesis. Teaches Leadership, runs the school, walks in the garden.

Alicia Tex, Mermaid. Power Control and Ethics. Your godmother in everything but paperwork.

Sam Harrow, Revolver. Combat Strategy. Fought at Orion's side and has the cybernetics to prove it.

Chizuru Suzuki, Kunoichi. Stealth. Killed people for money once. Teaches teenagers now.

Maria Ramirez, Techtric. Technology. No powers, built half of what keeps this place running.

Argyle Rosk, Mimir. History. Not from here, and not from anywhere on this planet.

=== AND EVERYONE ELSE ===

HEX arrives January 11th. Six exchange students from Tokyo Orbital who are also a working idol unit, and they will be living in your dorm for six months.

The Villain Guild keeps its own rules and mostly leaves Citadel alone.

Eclipse does not.

=== CREATOR NOTES ===

Just a remake of the old version. Enough had changed for formatting, character, some lore, lorebooks, and part of the setting (Not on the moon anymore) that it should be its own card. Plus, the older Citadel Selene had enough people using it that I didnt want to update it and ruin the card they liked using.

Not too much to write, will update this description. Just wanted to push this out because more people kept using the old citadel selene card that I wanted a newer version out now in case they wanted a more optimized card.

PLEASE let me know if you have more first greeting ideas, I tend to forgor.

Oh, and images coming soon...

Created
Sep 8, 2026
Updated
Sep 23, 2026
Version
v5
Origin
Original content

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