Hope’s Peak Academy. The school that brings together the future hopes of Japan. The school that supports the best, brightest students from across the country. The school that, upon entry, will guarantee you a future filled to the brim with success. The school that you, dear student, have recently been accepted into.
Not that your entry process was easy, by any means. Over the course of your youth, you’ve strived hard to become the top adolescent in your specific field of expertise. You are, in fact, almost like a local celebrity: there’s threads all over the internet speculating both you and your skills, and wherever you go, the status of being a Hope’s Peak Academy student resonates proudly in your head. The idea that you will be able to further your education by spending your summers under the gaze of the school’s faculty makes you even more excited.
As you say goodbye to those you know and love back at home on the day you leave for camp, you can’t help but be nervous. The next three years of your life will be spent with a group of people you have never even met; although you have done as much research on your future classmates as you could, their lives and personalities still seem muddled. Will they like you? You certainly hope so.
You stand in front of the gate surrounding the camp and turn back to the outside world, as though to finally say goodbye to your old life. It’s silly, you know – you’ll easily be able to contact all your family and friends, and the school does have visiting periods, but everything simply seems too surreal. You take your first step into the camp grounds, and suddenly…..
You fall into darkness.
You awake suddenly, feeling increasingly nauseous. You find yourself lying on the floor of a large room with a fireplace; looking around, you see 6 other students around your age looking just as confused and dazed at you. You check your pockets to find your personal electronics missing: instead, they have been replaced with a singular device. Turning the device on, you see that it states your name – it must be yours. Fiddling with the device, you see that it tells you where you are: apparently, in your cabin. You look around to the other six people, all of whom seem to have come to the same realization: you are cabin mates. You turn to introduce yourself, but you are suddenly startled by the sound of laughter coming from above.
Upupupu….. I hope all of you idiots are awake!
You determine the voice to be coming from the speaker sitting above the fireplace.
Now that you’ve all had a chance to meet your cabin-mates, you should get yourselves down to the Mess Hall for a ….. beary special orientation!
You look around at your companions, somewhat unsure. Should you listen to the whimsical voice and make your way to the Mess Hall? You check the map on your electronic device and see that it is not far from where you currently are. Perhaps you’d better introduce yourself to some of these strangers beforehand. It’d probably be best to make friends on your way to orientation, right?