What is MROU?

So, you're new to the community and want to know just what this place is, or maybe you've been here for years and still have no clue. Whatever the case, this page should give you a good idea of what MROU and its community is!

How MROU Came to Be
The origins of MROU can be pretty confusing to newer members when veterans bring up past servers and events. If you'd like more in-depth information regarding any of the servers mentioned, please see their dedicated pages.

Pre-Discord (~2014)
"Well, I guess it started all back around... I'd say 2014... or ever before? I always fantasized about my characters entering new or existing worlds, joining the main character(s) on an adventure and helping. It was my favorite thing to daydream."

-Brett, creator of MROU Before MROU was conceptualized as its own universe, letalone as a small part of another RP in general, the seeds of its inspiration were sourced from Brett's fascination for having his own characters interact with ones from other worlds, such as those from videogames. He would often take part in roleplaying, but notes that most of the time, it was typically simple one-off styled RPs without a large central plot. Though "MROU" wouldn't come into existence quite yet, it was his experience in RPing and talking to people who enjoyed playing with existing universes that would be the foundation for the concepts years following.

SiIva Forces (SF) (2016)
"SF was the first time I was in an RP with a plot. It was so cool... everyone had roles, it was my first time using discord... It was so fresh and new, I had to jump in like I always had!"

-Brett, on MROU's origins in SF In the later half of 2016, YouTube group SiIvaGunner (spelled "Sii-va-gunner" with two i's, not an L) began to put out lore-heavy videos as part of a series titled The SiIvaGunner Christmas Comeback Crisis (CCC). The videos revealed a story in which beloved characters were kidnapped, and an evil force took over Grandiose City, and in turn, the SiIvaGunner channel. This event led some fans to begin to roleplay in the comments of new videos, pretending to be a part of the fictional world, and acting out in rebellion of their new corrupt leader. As a result, several groups and servers spawned for the sake of expanding on the roleplay concept beyond YouTube's limits, two of the most important being SaniSpark's Rebellion Google+ Community, and SpookiTomb's Rebellion Discord Server, the latter of which was eventually renamed to SiIva Forces (SF). The google+ community dissolved into the discord server only a day after both were created.

SiIva Forces was a simple server with a single RP channel, a character bio channel, and only a couple of chat channels. Despite this, the server boasted a passionate RP community, as everyone joining shared the common passion of games and music, thanks to the fact most came from the SiIvaGunner community. Brett would join the RP a couple months after it had just begun, and was excited by the idea of a long-running, continuous server with a plot and several characters from different universes coming together to tackle a common enemy. He introduced his characters by having them suddenly fall out of the sky, a common way he had done so in other RPs, and made up an organization called MROU, or the Multiversal Realm Overvation Unit, to explain where they came from in the RP where many characters came from other planets and game worlds. Though MROU wasn't the main focus of SF, most community veterans consider SiIva Forces to be the first true MROU community server, as it's where many of its members originated from.

MROU Heroes (2017) and Beyond
"That first MROU server, the one that came after SiIva Forces collapsed... It was really something else. It took the idea of having everyone's favorite worlds collide from SF, but expanded on it to the point where the entire plot felt like it wasn't just written by one person anymore. We all made MROU Heroes what it was."

-Sani, on MROU Heroes About six months after the formation of SiIva Forces, internal conflict among some members of SF resulted in the server's downfall, as many people began to leave and were too struck with negative feelings to want to keep the RP going anymore. As a result, Brett offered invites to a server he had made for his own, smaller side RP content a couple of months prior. Many of SF's regulars decided to join, while others stayed behind in SF for some time to cope with the drama that had occurred. Eventually, everyone would end up joining the new server, which hosted a rich RP full of new ideas and plot points, taking inspiration from SF's ambition to create a new RP based on Brett's own premise. The server was named MROU Heroes (MROU1), following the naming convention SiIva Forces started of taking the subtitle from the name of Sonic the Hedgehog games (Sonic Forces and Sonic Heroes respectively).

MROU Heroes, mostly referred to as MROU1 by most people today, was the first RP in which the in-universe MROU organization was the primary focus of the setting. Not only was it noteworthy in the regard it was the first true MROU RP, but the server is also where many regulars of SF began to grow closer as friends, building tight bonds and beginning to hang out much more outside of simply roleplaying. This group of people, often referred to as "The Veterans" or "The SFMROU Community," would go on to make several servers for the next few years, up until MROU Resurrection in 2020, in which the original group of friends mostly split paths, several of them moving on to new things.

The MROU Community
The MROU community consists of both, friends from the old servers, and new members who have joined since the creation of MROU Resurrection. Everyone is considered an equally important part of the community, despite where or when they joined. However, for classification purposes, sometimes the older members are referred to as a different group, for the sake of explaining the history of the server.

Overall Community
The MROU community consists of many fans of different media, such as videogames and anime, coming together to express their interests through text & voice chats, as well as through writing and art via the RP. MROU can be classified as a crossover server, as well as a hangout server, due to its nature of not being limited to a single fandom or medium. Initially, it was much more heavily focused on videogames than anime, due to its members originating from the SiIvaGunner community, but eventually more anime began to be discussed and integrated into a part of the group around the time of MROU1.

SFMROU / Veterans
The group of people who joined the community anywhere from 2016-2019 are considered to be the veterans of the community. Many ideas that went into the creation of servers such as MROURes were the result of many of these members' ideas and desires over the year culminating into a final, public server, as opposed to the more private ones following SF and predating MROU-EX. Though many have left to go to new places and do new things, those who remain are still fairly active, and have a generally close bond as several year-long friends with similar passions and ideals.

MROU Roleplaying
An integral part of MROU since the beginning has always been the various roleplay universes that have been introduced over the years. As mentioned in the "How MROU Came to Be" section, the discord servers have always been heavily revolved around RPing. Even so, one doesn't need to be a part of the RP to be part of the community, and vice versa.

MROU Resurrection
MROU Resurrection is the current official MROU discord server. It offers places for people to talk, and a large-scale, semi-casual RP for members to partake in. The general premise of Res is similar to that of other MROU RPs: Your character(s) have been invited to join a mysterious, problem-solving organization with a team of rookies, in which you explore the world, and go to other planets and universes to tackle problems. It should be noted that since SF, MROU RPs have become increasingly more open, allowing for all kinds of worlds to be explored, from original ones to places from other stories. The main trait of any MROU RP is its ability to allow for much more freedom than most typical RP servers do, while maintaining a fairly cohesive main setting that lasts for more than one or two sessions.

Timeline of MROU RPs
The following is a brief timeline of MROU's RPs. This may not include more niche ones that took place in non-MROU servers.

2016-2017: SiIva Forces / ''A resistance comes together to fight a great evil who's taken over Grandiose City... even if they're all from pretty different worlds.''

2017-2018: MROU Heroes / A group of rookies are formed in a mysterious, problem solving organization to tackle the issues of Neo Earth and beyond...

Mid-Late 2018: Phoenix Revolution ~ Reflected Cosmogony / An unstable world formed by elements of past universes and new, those who live in the Aether solving conflicts in civilization, while those on the surface of the planet fight for their lives in the wastes...

2019-2020: MROU-EX: FiNAL REMIX / A reboot of MROU, inspired by MROU Heroes, now featuring new characters and people!

2019-2020: Realms of Ifrit / ''In a world with 5 vastly different realms, a group of high schoolers have to face conflicts from the contrasting cultures and the rest of the world... along with dealing with school.''

2020-Present: MROU Resurrection / The current MROU RP.

Beyond Discord
Outside of the MROU RP servers, MROU itself is also being adapted into a comic by its original creator, Brett. More info will be added here soon!

Noteworthy People + Server Invite...
If you're still lost, or need help on anything else, here's some people you can talk to!

Brett (Aeternum#0104) - The original creator of the MROU concept, and most of the servers after SF.

Sani (Tsukomasi#6344) - Old veteran of the community who knows a lot about the past, and created this wiki.

Haz (Haz#0234) - Another SF veteran who helped with tons of wiki formatting, editing, and making it generally look as nice as it does-- oh, I mean- his only contribution to the community is the RP infobox.

Nope (Nope#3034), Hikari (Hikari Yukihana #2695), Ren (Professor Renderer#6448), Lucas (LucasDoofus#0949), Jet (Jet#3678), Someguy (Someguy117#1608), Chirp (CapitalChirp#7555) - Current moderators of the MROURes server!

If you haven't already, feel free to join the MROURes server if you're interested! For more info, see: https://disboard.org/server/747214746905870506