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Name: Makoto Daken
Age: 16
Gender: Male
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Equipment: Essentials packed into his travel bag, 5 throwing knives, and two Wakizashi blades, usually wielded Reverse Grip style, as that is the way he was trained.
Abilities: Makoto has immense skill with short blades, trained in many different types of blades, usually wielding them Reverse Grip style unless in a situation where he could not. This being said short blades are his main weapon type. He also has somewhat accelerated agility and reflexes. He has some skill with a gun, though not much. All in all he as mainly a agility based combatant using evasive techniques and quick slashes and blocks to defeat his enemies. Basically a modern day ninja.
Weaknesses: Makoto's agility may be amazing, but his strength frankly isn't. He isn't immensely weak, but he's weaker than your average student. He also has limited skill out of the short blade weapon type, therefore wouldn't be caught using a rapier, rifle, longblade or most other things except maybe a pistol from time to time. He is also quite cocky, thinking he can do things others cannot.
History: To be revealed in roleplay.
Other: Alpha+Beta is finally reborn! Welcome back everyone who applied before, and everyone who is new as well!
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((Sorry, I was busy last night so I couldn't post more than my app, but here's the starter!))
The students gathered to begin their school lives at Alpha&Beta Academy, were anything but ordinary. I say this because, these students were all gifted in some way, or else they wouldn't be here. There may have been a few students who were gifted, they just didn't know it, but nonetheless, everybody here was indeed gifted. Anyway, as they were gathered there they may have noticed something about the school, it was partly underwater! But cutting their observations short, there was an announcement. All of the students would have heard this announcement unless they had a medical problem which prohibited them from hearing. The announcement was: "All students, please make your way to the auditorium for essential prepping and team assignment." She said, leaving all of them with just that comment.
Jack got into the Floridan airport in the early morning for his layover flight. He was excited and nervous at the same time. He had never been out of state, much less out of the country. He was finally getting on with his life after he had been put into this chair. For so long, he had been living off of the his parents' salary and never gave anything back to society. Now, he was finally able to do just that. His parents didn't come to see him off. Jack felt upset about that fact but he knew that his parents would have been busy, they always were, but he secretly hoped that they would have taken a little bit of time out of their day in order to see him off for possibly the last time.
Jack looked down at his ticket. Though he had a ticket, it didn't look like your average plane ticket. The ticket was inlaid with gold leaf and had the number 1197 written on it along with a series of bar codes. Jack assumed that that was just what a caribbean first class ticket looked like but he could not have been more wrong. Jack looked at the screen that said where to find his flight as it was not listed on the card but he didn't find any flight number 1197. Jack walked up to the counter and asked, "Where is flight 1197?" The person at the desk looked at him with a confused look. Jack proceeded to show her the ticket he was given and her look of confusion changed into a look of surprise. The clerk immediately picked up the phone and called her manager. Jack could not make out what she said but he knew she was talking to her superior.
Soon a man came out from behind the desk and asked Jack to come with him. He was wearing a black suit, sunglasses and an earpiece. "Come with me please," he states plainly. Jack decided to follow him just as Franklin turned on once again. INITIALIZING AI SYSTEMS VERSION 5.0. ALL SYSTEMS NORMAL. Hello Jack, how what's up? Said Franklin. "I'm fine Franklin. Do you know what is happening here?" Searching... searching... It seems you are in a unique situation. Nobody else has experienced this before.
"Hey," said the man, "quit messing with your toy, we are here." The man gestured towards a helicopter outside.
"Wait, you want me to get in that?" Said Jack.
"I have been instructed to lift you into the helicopter if you need." With that, Jack rolled outside the door and onto the helipad. The Man lifted him into the helicopter along with his chair and Franklin. Soon, they were off in the helicopter. They flew over the ocean for a little while until they finally ended up at an island. But, the helicopter still didn't end up on the island they landed on a base just off of the island. Jack became instantly scared due to the fact that he was rendered unable to swim when he was paralyzed. Suddenly an announcement came on over the intercom. It told him to go to the auditorium for "team assignment." Though he wondered what this was, Jack decided that it would be best not to argue. He began towards the auditorium, making a point to figure out the layout of the wheelchair ramps and elevators in this school.
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Oki woke up. Since he was the swords fight teacher he decided to sleep there and keep the place guarded while everyone was gone.
"All students, please make your way to the auditorium for essential prepping and team assignment."
"Oh yeah! I love this part of the year"
Oki went to the auditorium and stood there, waiting for the new students.
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Than sat in the helicopter, wondering. He had received an invitation to some Academy, one which he had never heard of. Now he was flying towards it in a some advanced stealth vehicle, passing over miles of ocean. Eventually an island came in view, a tropical place. Except the helicopter didn't slow down, it passed right over it. He wondered if there were more islands, until he saw a massive structure rising above the water. The chopper slowed and sat down on it, and he heard a voice saying All students, please make your way to the auditorium for essential prepping and teamassignment. As he was released from the inside of the vehicle, he decided to try to heed the orders, and followed other students he saw arriving from other helicopters, and some other vehicles, into the building and down to said auditorium.
Rune is already in the Auditorium when the announcement goes out. He prefers to be ready, and being early gave him the ability to view the students as they arrived, and pick out the trouble-makers.
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My arrival was less than spectacular, as I had chosen a more 'low profile' approach. Taking the third ferry from island to school, I glanced over the simple letter I was mailed, detailing the Academy's many wonders. I noticed some students seemed uneasy about joining such an awe aspiring school, but others appeared to be quite excited. They had already broken into little groups, friends I guess. I began thumbing around with something new I added to my arsenal just before departing for my first semester at the Academy, a set of metallic needles about six inches long.
Before I knew it, the boat stopped, and the other students began to depart. Am announcement rang clear, calling for us all to immediately head to the auditorium. In all actuality, it was little more than a bother. Teams would be practically useless to me, as solitude was my only true companion. Regardless, if I wanted to train myself, I would need to play by their rules.
I clearly was not the first student to arrive in the auditorium, countless others were sitting around, waiting for something to happen. I took a seat toward the back and on the end of the row, just in case of emergencies. To hide my awkward and unnatural ability, I put my hand on my face, specially over my eyes, then slightly separated my middle and ring fingers, then leaned back in my seat. With a bit of concentration, I activated my Perfect Eye and began looking around the room, calculating many details near instantly.
The nearest exit was three point four seconds away at my average walking speed, much less if I chose to sprint. The stage was thirty six point one seconds away, which seemed to be useless knowledge, but any information was useful. One other person was looking around the room, examining the other students as well. The man was taller than me by several inches, that calculated in addition to the miniature details on his face made me believe he was in his middle to later twenties.
Nobody else, really, caught my attention in any way.
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Ariane yawned softly, walking into the school, keeping her head down. Yawning, she enters the school, a little nervous, but also excited for the new school year. With one hand she drums her fingers on one of her guns, and with the other she taps her leg to a random beat as she awaits for something to happen or someone to approach her. Whichever comes first.
"Motoring, what's your price for flight. You've got him in your sights" The horrible singing inside of the helicopter belonged to none other than me, "Alexis Helix. Heir to the Helix throne and soon to be super spy extraordinaire"
"Uhhh Alexis exactly who are you talking to?" The helicopter pilot asked
"Oh no one I was just imagining what my life would be like if I had my own narrator." I answered and resumed narrating my flight including exciting commentary on how bored I was getting.
This continued until the island was in view much to the relief of the pilot. "Ohhh the island looks even better than I remembered, although I do wish that they gave that base a nice paint job. Maybe a nice floral pattern to really say "Inconspicuous building." We landed on the helipad of the base where a few other helicopters had already landed. "Alright we're here, get out" he said while I grabbed my stuff. Getting out of the helicopter I take a few moments to take a breath and get a plan. Alright first day back at the academy. That means we're basically going to be picking our equipment and picking teams. As soon as the thought went through my mind the announcement was made for all students to report to the auditorium. Well that was convenient.
Taking out a pair of ear buds I put them in my ears before I plug them into my smartphone and go into my music. I put the music on shuffle and began to walk to the auditorium. I really hope that I get paired up with another girl this year, having your own room is nice but you don't have anyone to talk to either. Had to make up my own friends inside of my head just to have a decent conversation. I barely noticed that I had walked into the auditorium until I almost walked straight into a wall. Hopefully no one saw that I thought as I looked around before leaning against the wall and zoning out.
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Oki watched as a student walked in. It was Alexis. He had kept his eye on her for a long time, he KNEW she would be great with swords.
Oki walked up to Alexis. "Hey! When are you going to join swordfighting classes? What happens when you run out of ammo?"
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Than reached the auditorium filling with people, and looked around. He decided to head for an empty chair, and wait to see what would happen next.
Rune noted several of people entering the room. Someone sitting in a wheelchair, someone obviously trying to remain unnoticed as they watched the room with a decidedly sharp game. And one of the other teachers. This year would almost surely be interesting, then again that wasn't any different from normal around here.
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Ariane heads off to the auditorium, looking between the crowds of people. She fiddles with her thumbs, clearly a little nervous about her first year at this new school. Glancing around, she walks over to a spot with the least amount of people and sits, observing the people around her.
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Makoto had just arrived at the school, just in time to hear the announcement. "Phew, glad I'm not late or anything." He muttered under his breath, already hurriedly entering the school. Once he was inside, he was astounded by how high-tech the school was, the outside was great, but the inside was just... amazing! He couldn't help but let out a soft and quiet, "Wow". Remembering what the announcement said, Makoto continued to make his way to the auditorium, presumably there would be some kind of entrance ceremony. By following some of the other students around, he easily made his way to the auditorium, and sat down with the rest of the kids, waiting to see what was going to be there for them.
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Ariane looks around and sees a boy around her age sitting not too far from her. Desperate to fit in at Alpha&Beta, she heads over to the boy, Makoto, and puts on her friendliest smile. "Hey there! I'm Ariane! You are..?" She sits by him and faces him, wondering if he was new or not.
"Huh" I take my earphones out of my ear and turn to the teacher. It was one of the combat teachers, Oki I think his name was. I never really knew what he looked like because of the masks he wears. Seriously everyone has their own style but what could he be hiding under there? I thought before responding. "Well if that happens then I'll just hit them with one of these and then one of those." I say while throwing out a few jabs in the air. "And if that ever fails I guess I can always go down low and hope for the best." I shrug before putting my earphones back in, but now I kept the volume of my music low just in case someone else tried to talk to me.
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Makoto looked up turned around to face Ariane. "Oh, hey! I'm Makoto, nice to meet you." He said, smiling. ""I'm a freshman here, what about you?" He asked, looking around at the other students as they filled the auditorium, the principal and some teachers were standing on the stage, presumably waiting for all of the students.
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Ariane smiles bright. "Nice to meet you, too, Makoto!" She chuckles softly. "I'm a freshman, too! Neat." She looks to the principal and blinks a few times. "I wonder what they're doing?" She murmurs, not really expecting anyone to hear her, but Makoto would easily be able to hear her.
Jack eventually found his way into the auditorium and soon noticed the crowd. "Franklin?" Asked Jack, "Can you find me a good place to sit?"
"I'm sorry Jack, you know I can't do that. I could possibly be damaged when moving through the crowd." Replied Franklin.
"Looks like I'm on my own," muttered Jack, obviously irritated by his own design, "at least I won't need to fight for a seat." With that remark, Jack rolled his way into the crowd of people, searching for people in which to make friends. He assumed that if he was to be separated into a team, he might as well meet his future teammates. He looked around the room and noticed a pair of individuals, one boy and one girl, who seemed just around his age. Perfect, thought Jack, I can befriend these people and we could be on a team together. Hopeful, Jack wheeled his way up to the group, waited for them to pause in their speaking, and said, "Pardon me but do either of you know what is going on here? I am a freshman and just got to this school not 30 minutes ago."
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Name:He calls himself and is nicknamed by three names: Bash, Blake and Blaze. However, at times when he is needed to be referenced to as a single person formally, he is called Zake.
Age:17.
Gender: Male.
Appearance:
He has a somewhat untidy reddish-brown hair, and is usually seen with a jacket, blue shirt, white belt and black pants. He has relatively pale skin, and is often seen wearing a plain watch and carrying a small bag which would contain certain important items. At times however, he has to wear one of three items he usually keeps next to him as part of keeping his mind in a somewhat stable state(more information further in the application).
Equipment: He uses two pistols, a pair of brass knuckles, a jagged dagger, and a kukri/machete like blade as his weapons. Zake wears either one of three items: a blue scarf, a red and slightly damaged bandana or green headphones. Other essentials, including medication(pills) and some bandages, are kept in a bag, along with a phone, yo-yo and two books, one would be a normal one while the other would be a sketchbook.
Abilities: Due to his condition(as explained in his history) of having a somewhat augmented multiple personality disorder, he can wield certain sets of weapons, and if done with concentration without mental distractions, can use them skillfully against his opponents. He is moderately trained in martial arts, more on the defense side rather than offense. Bash is known to be smarter than average, can make strategic plans and moves, and speak a relatively good amount of Mandarin and Spanish; Blake is more capable of boosting morale; and Blaze is more sociable and slightly stronger than the rest. All of them can seem to pick things up and learn slightly faster than average if interested in the subject, and have quick reaction speeds/reflexes and can adapt to an environment faster than usual, due to the experiments conducted on him.
Weaknesses: He gets headaches at certain times, sometimes during personality switches and from time to time gets it out of the blue. Occasionally, he also forgets about past recent events, as the three personalities might not be able to share information efficiently and/or quickly enough. Zake also doesn't have a good grip on the personality switches. The current persona might be able to suppress another one from taking over for longer after the urge to change is felt, but after a while, more rounds of headaches are felt before he has no choice but to give in. Same goes for the opposite, the current persona won't be able to force a switch until a certain amount of time has passed, and even then, upon trying to force a switch too early, more mental side effects will be felt.
This unreliability can result in situations of which the character is placed in wrong times, as only a certain persona knows how to wield a certain weapon properly and certain weapons and abilities are more effective than others during different times. Two different consciences might even clash at times with differing opinions and change the tide of an action he was in the middle of doing completely. And while his current persona might be able to interact with another one or the other two in his mind, it doesn't take long for a connection to get severed if used too often without cooling down.
The time between switches can also differ, the largest amount of time it can sustain itself would seem to be around a day, however, the urges can come randomly at times and sometimes even form into regular patterns, but these patterns would only last for a while.
Also, as part of a treatment to make sure things remain stable in his mind, he has to wear or keep certain things close to him during different personas. Bash would require the scarf on him, Blake needs the bandana, and Blaze uses the headphones. Without them at his side, the mental effects could grow more significant over time unless the items are returned to him. Bash also has a small weakness, of which under stress, he doesn't work as efficiently without it, despite his quick thinking skills.
Another downside is that as a result of the experiments and mental trauma conducted on him, if stressed too deeply or reminded too much about his past, whether subconsciously or consciously, more mental reactions will come into play other than headaches. The effects include things like stuttering, less control over himself, shivering and more. Even more serious effects are minor panic attacks, slight somewhat unexplainable body pains, hallucinations and the such. These things also take place randomly and during transitions just like the headaches, but happen less frequently depending on their seriousness. Flashbacks to his torment as a child also happen, but they occur rarely.
Lastly, sometimes his condition would create other unseen mental/physical effects under certain circumstances. This happens rarely and doesn't occur often though, and can be either good or bad, depending on the way you see it and how lucky you are.
History:
Zake was an orphan, and actually lived on the street for a very long time, without any parents and only other orphans to accompany him when he grew bored. He had no recollection of his parents, and had a hard life, as most orphans usually have. He did whatever he could to sustain himself, mostly doing begging for money. Due to the amount of free time and dangerous living conditions he was in, he often trained himself to fight in order to have an adequate level of self defense.
However, when he was ten years old, he and the group of kids he had lived with were kidnapped by a secret sector of the government in the night. When he woke up, he was in a dark cell, with many other people located with him. Looking out of the iron bars which kept him in, he saw nothing but a long hallway of other cells, some empty, and some filled with people in straightjackets. It was unknown to him at the time, but the group which had caught them were authorised by the government to do so, as they had needed to conduct human tests. And what better guinea pigs to use than abandoned children with no parents? With practically no history, no one was going to ask questions as to where they went when they were abducted.
Over the months, Zake had seen people go out of the cell and never return, being led by men covered from head to toe in military equipment. Some never returned and were simply forgotten, and the ones that did came back were altered and... different. He had seen his old friends become insane slowly over days, and he knew it was just a matter of time before he had to go and become a madman as well... or something even worse. Unimaginable horror took over him, and for weeks he just sat in a dark corner of the cell, hearing nothing but other scared children and other test subjects mumbling words of the unknown. Some guards had even took out their anger upon the prisoners, hitting and beating them, including Zake. The mental torment was unbearable. And then finally, the day had come.
He was brought to a room in utter fear, as the guards had dragged him by both arms in a struggle. Upon being tied to an inclined chair, men in lab coats surrounded him. The only words he could muster at that moment was: 'Please don't kill me...'. Looking at one of the files the scientist held, one of the men replied, saying: 'The past test subjects have greatly improved upon your chance of survival. The percentage of lethality is currently at 65.3%. This is dose number 794Z.'. Now shaking upon the belts that held him on the chair, the scientist had then put him under anesthetics to calm him down. He watched as they then began to conduct their work, bringing in syringes, chemicals and other apparatus before falling asleep.
'Help me... please... help... me...'
Thinking to himself in his dream, it was as if he was lost in a dark and black void. Cursed to be alone and forever wandering. After some unknown time however, he had slowly come into consciousness, struggling to hear what was going around.
'So, the boy has survived.'
'Indeed. It looks like his genetic makeup was perfect for this dose. With future observations of the changes this child goes through, we will greatly improve our work. Cheers.'
'Sir! I just received news from one of the higher sectors.'
'Hmm... oh no! They've found out about last year's incident!'
'... Planning an investigation huh? ... I suppose we have no choice. There's only one thing we can do now. Quickly, dispose of all the evidence. All of the test subjects must be terminated immediately! No one must find out anymore about our work.'
Things from then on were shady and he fell back to sleep due to lack of energy. Upon waking up again, he noticed that he was still in the dark void, however, things were much more cramped than usual. It was then when he was knocked on his head on one of the sides. Rubbing his head, he then listened to the rumble of an engine come to a stop. Realising that he was in a vehicle, he immediately pretended to still be asleep. After a minute, the boot had opened up, with two soldiers carrying him out of the car's back. Zake opened his eyes slightly, able to catch a glimpse of the night sky before the men had thrown him off their hands.
Falling down, he saw a body of water below, and had registered that they had just thrown him down a bridge. Splashing down into the water, he struggled not to rise up for air until he had heard the vehicle drive away. He slowly swam up to the surface, next to what looked like the area below the bridge. Climbing back up onto land, water dripped off him as he wiped away some of the blood on his head which was bleeding out due to the small injury which was sustained to his head. Resting himself on a brick wall next to a lamp post, the immense pain from the fall then came in it's full power. He attempted not to make any noise whatsoever to attract attention, but couldn't help but make a soft groan of agony. A crack of thunder was then heard, before rain began to fall upon the ground. At this moment, a man in a coat carrying an umbrella was walking down the street, and had noticed the tormented boy next to a puddle of blood. Rain, which was the man's name, immediately rushed to Zake, carrying him back to his home in the dead of night.
He had unofficially put him into his care, technically adopting him. After explaining to the boy as to what had happened, things didn't seem to change much in his life. Zake never seemed to leave the bedroom that he was kept in, and whenever Rain brought food, Zake did nothing but thank him kindly. He seemed emotionless and apathetic, and for a while, it was just like that. He mostly stayed in bed, and other than that, he would look out of his window and just stare at the outside world. Something seemed to have been broken in him, as if his psyche had been torn apart due to the traumatising experience he went through. After a few months, Rain had actually noticed that the boy had eyes which were pure white in colour. It came as strange to him, but he had then realised that maybe it was due to the experimentation conducted by the men Zake said he was kidnapped by. And after a year of this going on, he had decided that maybe it was good to ease him back into society. He had then occasionally brought him out to a restaurant every week or maybe even a stadium to watch some sports. As a psychiatrist, Zake's new father had saw some improvement in him, but things seemed to be going at a very slow rate.
It was at the age of 14 when things got moving. Rain had actually decided to make the day he found Zake his birthday, as the teenager didn't actually remember when he was really born. So for his birthday, Rain had actually said he could pick any reasonable thing in his house for his birthday present. Zake took a look around the house for one hour, before he had brought out of the closet a blue scarf, a red bandana and green headphones. It seemed like an unusual and odd gift, but Zake insisted on it as it had caught his eye instantly. Over the weeks, Zake's behavior seem to be getting out of the ordinary. He would act really reserved and quiet at times, and the next day he would be mischievous and quick-witted, and the day after that, he would be happy-go-lucky and honest. Rain found his changing behaviour pretty peculiar, but at least he started to become more active around the house. Over the next few months, the personas only became stronger and it got easier to distinguish the three of them from one another, not to mention that Zake's personas now began to switch during the day rather than reset during every 24 hours. The different characters even began to call themselves differently and would formally insist that Rain called them by their new names. Bash, Blake and Blaze.
By 15, Zake's old self seemed to be no more, it was as if he was reborn and split into three new different minds. With the perplexing things that Zake had been doing, including wearing the scarf, bandana or headphones for different personalities, the psychiatrist had considered that he had dissociative identity/multiple personality disorder, but passed it off, as a lot of the symptoms he had didn't seem correlate or match with certain ones that came with the disorder. Looking pass that though, their relationship was still very good, better than before that was for sure. For Zake's 15th birthday though, Bash had came forward, wrapped in his blue scarf, asking whether they could get start getting trained in firearms and martial arts. At first, their father seemed hesitant, but had decided that maybe his son should learn some self-defense skills.
With that, Zake started to have three hour trainings three times a week, each lesson in a different category with a different student. They were all slowly but surely progressing in each training, getting better and better every week. Bash trained himself in firearms, Blake in martial arts, and Blaze slowly learned how to use blades. They even seemed to be enjoying it and picking it up and learning at a considerably fast speed. 'Perhaps it was due to the experimentation?', Rain often though.
At this time, his three individual personas stopped becoming even more distinct from each other, and the time between his personality switches stopped decreasing. However, they began to at times get headaches, some were mild, while some were quite strong. Rain had provided them with some pills to lessen the pain of the strong ones. Other than that, their father at times also examined him, and noticed that his colour of eyes also seemed to change with the personality switches... and it wasn't of a pure white colour anymore. Blake would have calm blue eyes, Blake with red ones and Blaze with green. Yes indeed, this was certainly no normal condition. In the meantime, Blake interested himself in sophisticated books, Blake found himself always drawing in a sketchbook of his, and Blaze would often just play around or exercise in the park or backyard.
After two years, Zake's life was about to change even more. Upon going to a convenience store with his father to buy some food, a robbery took place. A lone robber had told the cashier to hand over the cash, and took Blake as hostage. He held him by the arm with a gun aimed at his head. The cashier had then collected all the money and threw it in a bag towards the robber. Using it as a distraction, Blake then immediately took the opportunity, overpowering the thief and tossing the gun away, before knocking the thief into unconsciousness by slamming him into some glass. This was responded by the crowd of customers cheering for the hero, and even a news coverage on the situation.
A week later, a mail had actually came in talking about how Zake could enroll into Alpha&Beta Academy, as the recent incident had attracted their attention. Rain seemed reluctant to allow him to join, but he could see that Zake had really wanted it, so he let him join the academy. So packing up his essentials, he left his home for his first year in the academy.
Personality and character:
Bash is known for his intelligence and strategic thinking skills, but can be overwhelmed and make bad decisions if under stress. His character colour is blue, having eyes and a scarf of that colour. He is often calm, reserved, and at times may even be snobby. Bash often wants to learn more, and actually is trying to learn Mandarin and Spanish, and has learned it at an adequate level. The other two things he's attempting to study in is coding and engineering, but this is currently at a very small scale, and he still doesn't know much. He's trained more in using firearms, being more experienced in his set of two pistols.
Blake can be mischievous at times and is sometimes quick-witted in certain situations. He is very competitive, whether or not this is good or bad is up to the situation. His character colour is red, having eyes and a bandana of that colour. He likes being the leader of any group and takes pride in certain stuff he does. He's trained more in martial arts, and uses brass knuckles frequently.
Blaze is a very happy-go-lucky, outgoing, optimistic and carefree person, and is very sociable and friendly to pretty much anyone. Because of this, he's often found not being mean or cruel. Sometimes, he might even trust people slightly too much. His character colour is green, having eyes and a set of headphones of that colour. He's trained more in using blades, being more experienced in using his dagger and kukri/machete like blade.
Zake is the original personality which he had before being overtaken by the three others. There's not very much significant about him, he's a very apathetic and quiet person the last time he was seen due to the trauma of the experiments and mental torment he has endured. His character colour is white, having eyes of that colour. This persona is currently dormant and maybe even dead.
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Equipment: Essentials packed into his travel bag, 5 throwing knives, and two Wakizashi blades, usually wielded Reverse Grip style, as that is the way he was trained.
Abilities: Makoto has immense skill with short blades, trained in many different types of blades, usually wielding them Reverse Grip style unless in a situation where he could not. This being said short blades are his main weapon type. He also has somewhat accelerated agility and reflexes. He has some skill with a gun, though not much. All in all he as mainly a agility based combatant using evasive techniques and quick slashes and blocks to defeat his enemies. Basically a modern day ninja.
Weaknesses: Makoto's agility may be amazing, but his strength frankly isn't. He isn't immensely weak, but he's weaker than your average student. He also has limited skill out of the short blade weapon type, therefore wouldn't be caught using a rapier, rifle, longblade or most other things except maybe a pistol from time to time. He is also quite cocky, thinking he can do things others cannot.
History: To be revealed in roleplay.
Other: Alpha+Beta is finally reborn! Welcome back everyone who applied before, and everyone who is new as well!
The students gathered to begin their school lives at Alpha&Beta Academy, were anything but ordinary. I say this because, these students were all gifted in some way, or else they wouldn't be here. There may have been a few students who were gifted, they just didn't know it, but nonetheless, everybody here was indeed gifted. Anyway, as they were gathered there they may have noticed something about the school, it was partly underwater! But cutting their observations short, there was an announcement. All of the students would have heard this announcement unless they had a medical problem which prohibited them from hearing. The announcement was: "All students, please make your way to the auditorium for essential prepping and team assignment." She said, leaving all of them with just that comment.
Jack looked down at his ticket. Though he had a ticket, it didn't look like your average plane ticket. The ticket was inlaid with gold leaf and had the number 1197 written on it along with a series of bar codes. Jack assumed that that was just what a caribbean first class ticket looked like but he could not have been more wrong. Jack looked at the screen that said where to find his flight as it was not listed on the card but he didn't find any flight number 1197. Jack walked up to the counter and asked, "Where is flight 1197?" The person at the desk looked at him with a confused look. Jack proceeded to show her the ticket he was given and her look of confusion changed into a look of surprise. The clerk immediately picked up the phone and called her manager. Jack could not make out what she said but he knew she was talking to her superior.
Soon a man came out from behind the desk and asked Jack to come with him. He was wearing a black suit, sunglasses and an earpiece. "Come with me please," he states plainly. Jack decided to follow him just as Franklin turned on once again. INITIALIZING AI SYSTEMS VERSION 5.0. ALL SYSTEMS NORMAL. Hello Jack, how what's up? Said Franklin. "I'm fine Franklin. Do you know what is happening here?" Searching... searching... It seems you are in a unique situation. Nobody else has experienced this before.
"Hey," said the man, "quit messing with your toy, we are here." The man gestured towards a helicopter outside.
"Wait, you want me to get in that?" Said Jack.
"I have been instructed to lift you into the helicopter if you need." With that, Jack rolled outside the door and onto the helipad. The Man lifted him into the helicopter along with his chair and Franklin. Soon, they were off in the helicopter. They flew over the ocean for a little while until they finally ended up at an island. But, the helicopter still didn't end up on the island they landed on a base just off of the island. Jack became instantly scared due to the fact that he was rendered unable to swim when he was paralyzed. Suddenly an announcement came on over the intercom. It told him to go to the auditorium for "team assignment." Though he wondered what this was, Jack decided that it would be best not to argue. He began towards the auditorium, making a point to figure out the layout of the wheelchair ramps and elevators in this school.
"All students, please make your way to the auditorium for essential prepping and team assignment."
"Oh yeah! I love this part of the year"
Oki went to the auditorium and stood there, waiting for the new students.
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Rune is already in the Auditorium when the announcement goes out. He prefers to be ready, and being early gave him the ability to view the students as they arrived, and pick out the trouble-makers.
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My arrival was less than spectacular, as I had chosen a more 'low profile' approach. Taking the third ferry from island to school, I glanced over the simple letter I was mailed, detailing the Academy's many wonders. I noticed some students seemed uneasy about joining such an awe aspiring school, but others appeared to be quite excited. They had already broken into little groups, friends I guess. I began thumbing around with something new I added to my arsenal just before departing for my first semester at the Academy, a set of metallic needles about six inches long.
Before I knew it, the boat stopped, and the other students began to depart. Am announcement rang clear, calling for us all to immediately head to the auditorium. In all actuality, it was little more than a bother. Teams would be practically useless to me, as solitude was my only true companion. Regardless, if I wanted to train myself, I would need to play by their rules.
I clearly was not the first student to arrive in the auditorium, countless others were sitting around, waiting for something to happen. I took a seat toward the back and on the end of the row, just in case of emergencies. To hide my awkward and unnatural ability, I put my hand on my face, specially over my eyes, then slightly separated my middle and ring fingers, then leaned back in my seat. With a bit of concentration, I activated my Perfect Eye and began looking around the room, calculating many details near instantly.
The nearest exit was three point four seconds away at my average walking speed, much less if I chose to sprint. The stage was thirty six point one seconds away, which seemed to be useless knowledge, but any information was useful. One other person was looking around the room, examining the other students as well. The man was taller than me by several inches, that calculated in addition to the miniature details on his face made me believe he was in his middle to later twenties.
Nobody else, really, caught my attention in any way.
"Uhhh Alexis exactly who are you talking to?" The helicopter pilot asked
"Oh no one I was just imagining what my life would be like if I had my own narrator." I answered and resumed narrating my flight including exciting commentary on how bored I was getting.
This continued until the island was in view much to the relief of the pilot. "Ohhh the island looks even better than I remembered, although I do wish that they gave that base a nice paint job. Maybe a nice floral pattern to really say "Inconspicuous building." We landed on the helipad of the base where a few other helicopters had already landed. "Alright we're here, get out" he said while I grabbed my stuff. Getting out of the helicopter I take a few moments to take a breath and get a plan. Alright first day back at the academy. That means we're basically going to be picking our equipment and picking teams. As soon as the thought went through my mind the announcement was made for all students to report to the auditorium. Well that was convenient.
Taking out a pair of ear buds I put them in my ears before I plug them into my smartphone and go into my music. I put the music on shuffle and began to walk to the auditorium. I really hope that I get paired up with another girl this year, having your own room is nice but you don't have anyone to talk to either. Had to make up my own friends inside of my head just to have a decent conversation. I barely noticed that I had walked into the auditorium until I almost walked straight into a wall. Hopefully no one saw that I thought as I looked around before leaning against the wall and zoning out.
Oki walked up to Alexis. "Hey! When are you going to join swordfighting classes? What happens when you run out of ammo?"
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Rune noted several of people entering the room. Someone sitting in a wheelchair, someone obviously trying to remain unnoticed as they watched the room with a decidedly sharp game. And one of the other teachers. This year would almost surely be interesting, then again that wasn't any different from normal around here.
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"I'm sorry Jack, you know I can't do that. I could possibly be damaged when moving through the crowd." Replied Franklin.
"Looks like I'm on my own," muttered Jack, obviously irritated by his own design, "at least I won't need to fight for a seat." With that remark, Jack rolled his way into the crowd of people, searching for people in which to make friends. He assumed that if he was to be separated into a team, he might as well meet his future teammates. He looked around the room and noticed a pair of individuals, one boy and one girl, who seemed just around his age. Perfect, thought Jack, I can befriend these people and we could be on a team together. Hopeful, Jack wheeled his way up to the group, waited for them to pause in their speaking, and said, "Pardon me but do either of you know what is going on here? I am a freshman and just got to this school not 30 minutes ago."
Name: He calls himself and is nicknamed by three names: Bash, Blake and Blaze. However, at times when he is needed to be referenced to as a single person formally, he is called Zake.
Age: 17.
Gender: Male.
Appearance:
He has a somewhat untidy reddish-brown hair, and is usually seen with a jacket, blue shirt, white belt and black pants. He has relatively pale skin, and is often seen wearing a plain watch and carrying a small bag which would contain certain important items. At times however, he has to wear one of three items he usually keeps next to him as part of keeping his mind in a somewhat stable state(more information further in the application).
Equipment: He uses two pistols, a pair of brass knuckles, a jagged dagger, and a kukri/machete like blade as his weapons. Zake wears either one of three items: a blue scarf, a red and slightly damaged bandana or green headphones. Other essentials, including medication(pills) and some bandages, are kept in a bag, along with a phone, yo-yo and two books, one would be a normal one while the other would be a sketchbook.
Abilities: Due to his condition(as explained in his history) of having a somewhat augmented multiple personality disorder, he can wield certain sets of weapons, and if done with concentration without mental distractions, can use them skillfully against his opponents. He is moderately trained in martial arts, more on the defense side rather than offense. Bash is known to be smarter than average, can make strategic plans and moves, and speak a relatively good amount of Mandarin and Spanish; Blake is more capable of boosting morale; and Blaze is more sociable and slightly stronger than the rest. All of them can seem to pick things up and learn slightly faster than average if interested in the subject, and have quick reaction speeds/reflexes and can adapt to an environment faster than usual, due to the experiments conducted on him.
Weaknesses: He gets headaches at certain times, sometimes during personality switches and from time to time gets it out of the blue. Occasionally, he also forgets about past recent events, as the three personalities might not be able to share information efficiently and/or quickly enough. Zake also doesn't have a good grip on the personality switches. The current persona might be able to suppress another one from taking over for longer after the urge to change is felt, but after a while, more rounds of headaches are felt before he has no choice but to give in. Same goes for the opposite, the current persona won't be able to force a switch until a certain amount of time has passed, and even then, upon trying to force a switch too early, more mental side effects will be felt.
This unreliability can result in situations of which the character is placed in wrong times, as only a certain persona knows how to wield a certain weapon properly and certain weapons and abilities are more effective than others during different times. Two different consciences might even clash at times with differing opinions and change the tide of an action he was in the middle of doing completely. And while his current persona might be able to interact with another one or the other two in his mind, it doesn't take long for a connection to get severed if used too often without cooling down.
The time between switches can also differ, the largest amount of time it can sustain itself would seem to be around a day, however, the urges can come randomly at times and sometimes even form into regular patterns, but these patterns would only last for a while.
Also, as part of a treatment to make sure things remain stable in his mind, he has to wear or keep certain things close to him during different personas. Bash would require the scarf on him, Blake needs the bandana, and Blaze uses the headphones. Without them at his side, the mental effects could grow more significant over time unless the items are returned to him. Bash also has a small weakness, of which under stress, he doesn't work as efficiently without it, despite his quick thinking skills.
Another downside is that as a result of the experiments and mental trauma conducted on him, if stressed too deeply or reminded too much about his past, whether subconsciously or consciously, more mental reactions will come into play other than headaches. The effects include things like stuttering, less control over himself, shivering and more. Even more serious effects are minor panic attacks, slight somewhat unexplainable body pains, hallucinations and the such. These things also take place randomly and during transitions just like the headaches, but happen less frequently depending on their seriousness. Flashbacks to his torment as a child also happen, but they occur rarely.
Lastly, sometimes his condition would create other unseen mental/physical effects under certain circumstances. This happens rarely and doesn't occur often though, and can be either good or bad, depending on the way you see it and how lucky you are.
History:
However, when he was ten years old, he and the group of kids he had lived with were kidnapped by a secret sector of the government in the night. When he woke up, he was in a dark cell, with many other people located with him. Looking out of the iron bars which kept him in, he saw nothing but a long hallway of other cells, some empty, and some filled with people in straightjackets. It was unknown to him at the time, but the group which had caught them were authorised by the government to do so, as they had needed to conduct human tests. And what better guinea pigs to use than abandoned children with no parents? With practically no history, no one was going to ask questions as to where they went when they were abducted.
Over the months, Zake had seen people go out of the cell and never return, being led by men covered from head to toe in military equipment. Some never returned and were simply forgotten, and the ones that did came back were altered and... different. He had seen his old friends become insane slowly over days, and he knew it was just a matter of time before he had to go and become a madman as well... or something even worse. Unimaginable horror took over him, and for weeks he just sat in a dark corner of the cell, hearing nothing but other scared children and other test subjects mumbling words of the unknown. Some guards had even took out their anger upon the prisoners, hitting and beating them, including Zake. The mental torment was unbearable. And then finally, the day had come.
He was brought to a room in utter fear, as the guards had dragged him by both arms in a struggle. Upon being tied to an inclined chair, men in lab coats surrounded him. The only words he could muster at that moment was: 'Please don't kill me...'. Looking at one of the files the scientist held, one of the men replied, saying: 'The past test subjects have greatly improved upon your chance of survival. The percentage of lethality is currently at 65.3%. This is dose number 794Z.'. Now shaking upon the belts that held him on the chair, the scientist had then put him under anesthetics to calm him down. He watched as they then began to conduct their work, bringing in syringes, chemicals and other apparatus before falling asleep.
'Help me... please... help... me...'
Thinking to himself in his dream, it was as if he was lost in a dark and black void. Cursed to be alone and forever wandering. After some unknown time however, he had slowly come into consciousness, struggling to hear what was going around.
'So, the boy has survived.'
'Indeed. It looks like his genetic makeup was perfect for this dose. With future observations of the changes this child goes through, we will greatly improve our work. Cheers.'
'Sir! I just received news from one of the higher sectors.'
'Hmm... oh no! They've found out about last year's incident!'
'... Planning an investigation huh? ... I suppose we have no choice. There's only one thing we can do now. Quickly, dispose of all the evidence. All of the test subjects must be terminated immediately! No one must find out anymore about our work.'
Things from then on were shady and he fell back to sleep due to lack of energy. Upon waking up again, he noticed that he was still in the dark void, however, things were much more cramped than usual. It was then when he was knocked on his head on one of the sides. Rubbing his head, he then listened to the rumble of an engine come to a stop. Realising that he was in a vehicle, he immediately pretended to still be asleep. After a minute, the boot had opened up, with two soldiers carrying him out of the car's back. Zake opened his eyes slightly, able to catch a glimpse of the night sky before the men had thrown him off their hands.
Falling down, he saw a body of water below, and had registered that they had just thrown him down a bridge. Splashing down into the water, he struggled not to rise up for air until he had heard the vehicle drive away. He slowly swam up to the surface, next to what looked like the area below the bridge. Climbing back up onto land, water dripped off him as he wiped away some of the blood on his head which was bleeding out due to the small injury which was sustained to his head. Resting himself on a brick wall next to a lamp post, the immense pain from the fall then came in it's full power. He attempted not to make any noise whatsoever to attract attention, but couldn't help but make a soft groan of agony. A crack of thunder was then heard, before rain began to fall upon the ground. At this moment, a man in a coat carrying an umbrella was walking down the street, and had noticed the tormented boy next to a puddle of blood. Rain, which was the man's name, immediately rushed to Zake, carrying him back to his home in the dead of night.
He had unofficially put him into his care, technically adopting him. After explaining to the boy as to what had happened, things didn't seem to change much in his life. Zake never seemed to leave the bedroom that he was kept in, and whenever Rain brought food, Zake did nothing but thank him kindly. He seemed emotionless and apathetic, and for a while, it was just like that. He mostly stayed in bed, and other than that, he would look out of his window and just stare at the outside world. Something seemed to have been broken in him, as if his psyche had been torn apart due to the traumatising experience he went through. After a few months, Rain had actually noticed that the boy had eyes which were pure white in colour. It came as strange to him, but he had then realised that maybe it was due to the experimentation conducted by the men Zake said he was kidnapped by. And after a year of this going on, he had decided that maybe it was good to ease him back into society. He had then occasionally brought him out to a restaurant every week or maybe even a stadium to watch some sports. As a psychiatrist, Zake's new father had saw some improvement in him, but things seemed to be going at a very slow rate.
It was at the age of 14 when things got moving. Rain had actually decided to make the day he found Zake his birthday, as the teenager didn't actually remember when he was really born. So for his birthday, Rain had actually said he could pick any reasonable thing in his house for his birthday present. Zake took a look around the house for one hour, before he had brought out of the closet a blue scarf, a red bandana and green headphones. It seemed like an unusual and odd gift, but Zake insisted on it as it had caught his eye instantly. Over the weeks, Zake's behavior seem to be getting out of the ordinary. He would act really reserved and quiet at times, and the next day he would be mischievous and quick-witted, and the day after that, he would be happy-go-lucky and honest. Rain found his changing behaviour pretty peculiar, but at least he started to become more active around the house. Over the next few months, the personas only became stronger and it got easier to distinguish the three of them from one another, not to mention that Zake's personas now began to switch during the day rather than reset during every 24 hours. The different characters even began to call themselves differently and would formally insist that Rain called them by their new names. Bash, Blake and Blaze.
By 15, Zake's old self seemed to be no more, it was as if he was reborn and split into three new different minds. With the perplexing things that Zake had been doing, including wearing the scarf, bandana or headphones for different personalities, the psychiatrist had considered that he had dissociative identity/multiple personality disorder, but passed it off, as a lot of the symptoms he had didn't seem correlate or match with certain ones that came with the disorder. Looking pass that though, their relationship was still very good, better than before that was for sure. For Zake's 15th birthday though, Bash had came forward, wrapped in his blue scarf, asking whether they could get start getting trained in firearms and martial arts. At first, their father seemed hesitant, but had decided that maybe his son should learn some self-defense skills.
With that, Zake started to have three hour trainings three times a week, each lesson in a different category with a different student. They were all slowly but surely progressing in each training, getting better and better every week. Bash trained himself in firearms, Blake in martial arts, and Blaze slowly learned how to use blades. They even seemed to be enjoying it and picking it up and learning at a considerably fast speed. 'Perhaps it was due to the experimentation?', Rain often though.
At this time, his three individual personas stopped becoming even more distinct from each other, and the time between his personality switches stopped decreasing. However, they began to at times get headaches, some were mild, while some were quite strong. Rain had provided them with some pills to lessen the pain of the strong ones. Other than that, their father at times also examined him, and noticed that his colour of eyes also seemed to change with the personality switches... and it wasn't of a pure white colour anymore. Blake would have calm blue eyes, Blake with red ones and Blaze with green. Yes indeed, this was certainly no normal condition. In the meantime, Blake interested himself in sophisticated books, Blake found himself always drawing in a sketchbook of his, and Blaze would often just play around or exercise in the park or backyard.
After two years, Zake's life was about to change even more. Upon going to a convenience store with his father to buy some food, a robbery took place. A lone robber had told the cashier to hand over the cash, and took Blake as hostage. He held him by the arm with a gun aimed at his head. The cashier had then collected all the money and threw it in a bag towards the robber. Using it as a distraction, Blake then immediately took the opportunity, overpowering the thief and tossing the gun away, before knocking the thief into unconsciousness by slamming him into some glass. This was responded by the crowd of customers cheering for the hero, and even a news coverage on the situation.
A week later, a mail had actually came in talking about how Zake could enroll into Alpha&Beta Academy, as the recent incident had attracted their attention. Rain seemed reluctant to allow him to join, but he could see that Zake had really wanted it, so he let him join the academy. So packing up his essentials, he left his home for his first year in the academy.
Personality and character: