Just keeping this here for posterity and things regarding the future. You guys should really read it, for the new music if nothing else. I was previously doing a thematic thing with the themes that no one seemed to notice, and so I'm dropping it allowing for a ton of remixes everywhere.
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Name: "Kourin". To the best of his memory, Kourin is the closest thing to an established name he ever had, and even then never refers to himself by it, though may give it out if asked.
Appearance: Depends entirely upon the viewer, going as far as to appear a different gender in some cases. Clothing, face, physique, age, everything changes in the eye of the beholder, but generally keeps a thinner, 'young adult'-esque appearance.
Ability: Manipulation of the subconscious.
Weakness/Limitation: Has a very poor memory, to the point of frequent, random amnesia. Tends to remember facts and abilities rather than names and situations.
Personality: His personality is heavily influenced by the subconscious of those around him. Rather intelligent, making abusing his weakness a bit more difficult, but is also relatively fickle, doing things on whims just because he can and shaking influences.
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Name: Forgotten. Lost to the annals of time and a failure of memory. Never given another one.
Age: 495. Biologically, 17
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Resonates his wings to produce a small orb, which, in essence, is the 'eye' of his target; the weakest point. Applying physical force to the 'eye' would enhance the damage, essentially destroying the eye and vaporizing the entirety of the target object into stardust instantaneously.
Weakness/Limitation: His wings are incredibly vulnerable. Interrupting their resonation (ie by touching them) can leave him dizzy, disoriented, and unable to use his ability. Holding his wings in an uncomfortable position can paralyze him in pain.
Personality: Has a psychotic predisposition which has all but ceased existing, replaced with an insatiable curiosity with the world that left him behind.
Rather quiet and collected, but slightly hates to be.
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Orion
Name: Orion Sirius
Age: 515 (Biologically, 27)
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Can restrict/ban/forbid anything and everything, within his limitations. Those affected are unable to do that which was banned.
Weakness/Limitation: Cannot restrict relative or abstract things such as winning, losing, beauty, emotions, etc. The restriction often must be precise to have the intended effect. His restrictions must be put into words. Each restriction must also separately specify who the restriction affects and how long the restriction lasts, though there is no upward limit to how much he can set a restriction for. Each restriction puts a toll on his energy/concentration corresponding to the amount of people he affects and the amount of willpower to the contrary of that restriction. If enough willpower is put against it, it is possible to break the restriction entirely, basically abolishing the rule. Once abolished, it cannot be re-established for an amount of time corresponding to how much overall effort was put against it. This can range from a day to years or even decades.
Personality: Not very outgoing. Usually prefers to keep to himself. Responsible and can't pass by misfortune he can aid on good conscience.
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Rigel
Name: Rigel Dorado
Age: 513 (Biologically, 25)
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
Ability: The ability to create anything and everything (out of thin air)
Weakness/Limitation: Her ability is done in a sort of command-prompt fashion; she must decide what she wants and she will receive an item roughly meeting the criteria. The problem however lies in the discretion of the objects she receives. A great amount of them fail to resemble anything on Earth, much less what she had in mind. Usage of such items are often complicated and difficult, if possible at all, albeit usually outclassing their Earthen counterparts if indeed used effectively. Theoretically she could create anything up to an entirely new universe, but the discretion of the items received and both the ramifications and danger of such an action has prevented her from trying. Creating objects exhausts her to extents varying depending on the object created. The 'cost' of items are not linear.
Personality: Outgoing. Confident, capable of getting anything she sets her mind to done. Has a tendency to boss people around when it's good for them. She is a poet, politician, scholar, teacher, composer, musician, genius, psychologist, philosopher, astrologer, archer, fencer, detective, advisor, equestrian, zoologist, botanist, mathematician, nuclear physicist, philanthropist, therapist badass.
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Valen
Name: Valen Trazei
Age: 38 (Appears much younger)
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Invincible; Invulnerable; at any point immune to all forms of damage. Blades would be unable to cut him, fire wouldn't burn him, etc. Accordingly does not age properly, technically rendering him virtually immortal
Weakness/Limitation: Still feels pain, (Albeit has worked up a minor tolerance to it) including the pain he would suffer from things like acid. (It will hurt him even if it doesn't pierce the skin) and is still essentially a human regarding a lot of things. If he was crushed by something large, he would stay there until something lifted it off him.
Personality: An easy-going guy without a large sense of responsibility. Not tied down by morals much, but would refuse to personally participate in what he believed to be significant wrong-doing.
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Miina
Name: Miina Jackals
Age: 16
Gender: ♀
Appearance: Older than image implies.
Ability: Can create and manipulate "stars"- flat and shaped like stars, they aren't very special. When 5 align, they can create a portal into a dimension where Miina is literally the goddess. She is capable of removing things from her dimension, which quickly fade away into nothingness.
Weakness/Limitation: Anything she pulls out of her portals vanish after half a dozen seconds. The stars she creates are fragile and can be broken with relative ease, somewhat like glass. Miina must return to the same portal she opened.
Personality: Princess-like. Spoiled, stubborn, demanding, and petulant.
Also lonely, pessimistic, remorseful and self-damning.
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Shiki
Name: Shiki Hanekoma
Age: Really, really, really old. Except not at all.
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
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Gift: Able to definitively determine the nature of an offender a person (heavily influenced by their current state, but also affected by their overall state) as either "Black" or "White". This is based upon the persons morals and violation henceforth. This does not mean that one without a sense of morals will not trigger her ability, nor does it mean people with more morals trigger her ability more severely. Rather, if the trigger is someone who doesn't realize what they've done is "wrong" or otherwise unwanted, then they do not trigger her ability. If the trigger is someone who thinks they are doing right but knows people justifiably dislike what they are doing, then it can trigger her ability. The grayer the morals are, the weaker "black" or "white" she casts them as, thus reducing her abilities.
If the offender person is "black", she gains power equivalent to the severity of their crimes, misdeeds, etc. which she is capable of wielding in a variety of ways. With weaker strength comes less applications. Applications vary, usually with an eye to irony.
If the offender person is "white", she gains the ability to bolster a target equivalent to the significance of their behavior in a variety of ways, essentially imparting the abilities she would get if she found the action black. (albeit often in radically different ways)
Finally, her 'trump card':
If Shiki finds an person as "black", she is capable of initiating a ritual in which she summons a clone of the target from a mirror. When summoned, the clone will attack the trigger. Outside interference is negated against the trigger and his clone and only the trigger and the clone are capable of damaging each other. (This is to say, they are incapable of damaging other combatants) The power of the clone is a percentage of that of the trigger proportional to the weight of the action. If, for example, the trigger was used on a mass murderer and was deemed deeply black, the clone would be 'much' stronger than the original. Like, maybe 150%. 200% is the theoretical upper limit. Conversely, if the crime was a casual whack or theft and was deemed only slightly "black", the power would diminish anywhere to as far as 1%. This does not mean that it is impossible to defeat a clone with a higher percentage of power than 100%, and there's a lot of room for circumstance, luck, and tactics in such battles. Should the clone win, it will dissolve, returning her abilities.
She gains a black aura when she finds an action "black" and gives a white aura to whoever she uses her ability on would she find an action "white". She loses her black aura and it is given to the clone should she use her trump card. If the clone wins, the aura would return to her and continue with her only as long as her abilities would normally.
Weakness: Her abilities depend entirely on other people. Her abilities do not work (to any significant extent) on anything that isn't sapient. Her abilities depend entirely upon your actions. Her abilities fail if the intended target is completely unrelated to the trigger. Her abilities can fail or otherwise diminish with repentance if the trigger is "black". Her trump card is bound to mirrors. Should the clone be defeated, all of her abilities will be rescinded and she will not be able to select another action for several hours. If she uses her trump card, she is incapable of using her abilities for separate matters. Furthermore, if she feels guilt, her wielding of abilities diminishes until they would leave her control entirely, theoretically still being there, but out of her purview.
Personality: "Hell exists not to punish sinners, but to make sure nobody sins in the first place. I am here so that everyone realizes that. Even if I must hurt you a little, I must make you correct the error of your ways."
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John
Name: Johnathan Wisper
Age: 18
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Permanently bound to an incubus named Zweihänder and a succubus named Xiphos. They are near omnipotent and capable of many things.
Weakness/Limitation: They are bound to John, meaning that if you can take out John, his personal demons will also be incapacitated. They also require maintenance like that of their lore suggests and have clashing personalities, neither of which are good at taking orders. Their personalities are quite large obstacles in fact, and simply getting one to argue with another might as well be your victory.
Personality: Originally a shy boy with no spine. After dying hilariously and being revived, something in him snapped and he decided to take advantage of his abilities. He's been enforcing a crooked, cruel sense of justice (legitimate crimes, illegitimate punishments) as a vigilante ever since.
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Jake
Name: Jacob De'elCruz
Age: 19
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Capable of "charging" objects he has come into physical contact with. (Takes roughly one second, more if he can't concentrate and indiscriminate of size) At any given moment he can teleport said object anywhere, with accuracy depending on his vision. Has become specialized with guns, causing charged bullets to take on a more flashy, destructive form. Said bullets are also capable of expending their charge to ricochet themselves a few times without losing momentum.
Has been practicing making bullets (and shooting them) without a gun with mild success. Hurts, but isn't very harmful to more than an insect or small animal and has (very) short range. (Roughly 1 meter or so)
Weakness/Limitation: He can only give any object one charge at a time. He isn't very capable without his guns, and creating bullets himself expends a lot of energy for little payout.
Personality: A rather excitable person, he's an enormous romanticist, eager to dive into an Indiana Jones fantasy he's convinced exists.
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Xzyckxse
Name: XZY0^52 ("Xzyckxse")
Age: 1 (Modeled as roughly 15-16)
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Has a complex system revolving around 52 cards which he can store data on and apply other data to in order to produce certain effects. The primary effects available to him is to carry more than he should physically be able to store, to capture and enslave creatures, (In a way very much like pokemon) materialize weapons out of thin air, and to fire lasers (or other projectiles) within a certain pattern.
Weakness/Limitation: All of the abilities detailed above are complex processes, each with their own drawbacks and flaws. He can only use one of the offensive abilities at once, and everything he does drains battery life. When his battery is drained, he will struggle to perform basic tasks, such as getting from place to place, as his bodily processes are severely inhibited and his mechanical side weighs him down. He is normally water-proof, but sustaining heavy damage can cause electrocution and short-circuiting on water contact.
Personality: Very robotic in conversation. (Stiff, to the point) Is known to have random semi-philosophical bouts that usually comes to a productive apogee, producing things such as an oil painting or an improved method of transportation. Tends to be inwardly dissatisfied with such a finished product.
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Kira
Name: Kira Asomei
Age: 17
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Explosive detonation. Can violently cause concentrated explosions, comparably to that of rockets or extremely violent and volatile roman candles. Basically, a violent form of laser.
He can use this to fly on his broom at alarming speeds.
Weakness/Limitation: Continual use of his ability may cause the stream of fiery plasma to eventually lose control, making the stream of laser irregular and possibly causing himself to spontaneously combust, lose control of the aim, etc.
Personality: A thief who plays dirty. He wouldn't steal from a defenseless old lady, but he would rob a rich man out of house and home. Known to have an extreme hatred for transportation on anything but his broom.
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Murasa
Name: CAPTAIN Murasa
Age: 24
Gender: Physically speaking, ♂. Was born a female and swapped bodies with the body he is currently in before losing her other tie-ascot-thing. His chronological age is around 16.
Appearance:
Ability: Gains abilities based on current clothing. Each article of clothing brings a new ability.
Weakness/Limitation: Many articles of clothing have dubious abilities. He must figure out the ability of all clothing herself, which is very time consuming and often with little payout as the ability offered by many articles are useless. Removing his clothing makes him lose the associated ability.
His current outfit (of which he has several of) consists of:
Underwear (As of yet dubious)
Sailor Pants (As of yet dubious)
Striped Sailor Shirt (Ability to manipulate water, specifically dealing with waves and tides)
Sailor Jacket thing (As of yet dubious)
Sailor Hat (Ability to wield anchors effortlessly. Strength does not apply to non-anchor objects)
Spoiler: A bit of a creeper. He can act seriously if he wanted to, which is rarely. If he takes charge, he will go forth with all the ferocity of a driven anime protagonist. Otherwise he's liable to simply not care. He mostly does whatever he feels like doing because he can.
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Rana
Name: Rana Da'arcagnan
Age: 24
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
Ability: Ability to draw forth a large variety of things, whether certain circumstances or actual monsters of sorts. Basically, summoning.
Weakness/Limitation: Everything she draws forth requires preparation of sorts, usually of the ritualistic variety. There's an entire hierarchy and catalog for summoning circles along with the inscriptions, symbols, and requirements for each. She must sort through all of this to use her ability effectively.
Personality: "Go away; I'm reading." "Not now; I'm reading." "I'd rather stay here and read." "Give me back that book or I will burn down your house."
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Xheskha
Name: Xheskha Da'arcagnan
Age: 28
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
Ability: Capable of animating things she sees in stories. This includes settings, characters, or even events.
Weakness/Limitation: She cannot do this for nonfictional stories unless some aspects are off. She cannot do this for something she wrote herself and it hardly goes the way intended if she gets someone to write a story for these purposes. Also, the effect/power/significance the characters/events/etc. have in their respective stories does not always equate to the effect/power/significance of what she brings into the real world. Furthermore, each has a time limit, differing based on what she summons.
Never seen outside the library. Ever.
Personality: Rather shy. As the chief of staff in Brinkhaven library, she can be helpful, lecture workers, or be downright violent on thieves and vandals. Otherwise she's reserved and quiet.
Has unknown connections to military. Constantly loses bets to Rana
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Nex
Name: Nex Connessione
Age: 22
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Hair can be compared to incredibly sharp needles dipped in an extremely painful toxin. No actual toxin exists; they are charged with his mind without his control. He is accordingly capable of manipulating hairs that fall off and firing them. He grows and loses a lot of them regularly.
Weakness/Limitation: He is not immune to his own ability, meaning the back of his neck is constantly being torn to shreds because of how itchy it is. He's built up a resistance but it still stings. His hair doesn't come out by force. (it's stuck on there with glue or something)
Personality: Originally walked a much more psychotic path, he's more or less evened himself out by kicking his meds. (Which goes against his court order) While he's much more sensible, he's also much more likely to randomly assault someone, just in a more calm, collected manner.
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Aaron
Name: Aaron Feuhr
Age: 29
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Technomancy; the manipulation of machinery, their composition and capabilities.
Weakness/Limitation: Isn't as good at making weaponry as much as recreational devices. In the end, all of his machinery are just machines. If you were to separate him from them, he would be powerless.
Personality: Manipulative, scheming, intelligent, critical, and has just a tiny bit of a god complex.
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Ven
Name: Ven Akai
Gender: ♂
Age: 20
Ability: Dude's a cat.
Ven possesses features like that of a feline. He has cat ears and a cat tail and occasionally behaves like one against his better judgement, complete with purring. This slightly increases his physical speed, strength, allows him to hear sounds of a higher pitch, improves his sight when in the dark, and improves his sense of smell to roughly 7.5 times that of a normal human. He can hear better, not strictly because he is a cat, but because he has 4 ears. He also has retractable claws (basically his fingernails extend slightly and magically get sharper. That's not how actual cat claws work but whatever) and always lands on his feet.
Weakness: Cat hormones make him act stupid, his sight in light is slightly deteriorated, he has less self-control in regards to instincts, his tail and cat ears could be viewed as a weak point since the flesh on it is more vulnerable, (like a cats instead of a human's. Likewise I'd like to mention now that the ears and tail do indeed have fur on them) the wider hearing and increased smell could be used against him. He dislikes water. Not in the sense that it's evil but in the sense that his fur takes forever to dry, which leaves suspicious wet spots on his clothing if he has to show up in public afterward.
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Personality: Contrasting the butter he will melt into when you scratch him behind his cat ears, he's pretty stoic most of the time. He's usually friendly, though lately he has taken a turn for the feral. Very feral. So feral in fact that he has stopped living amongst society.
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Yuugen
Name: Yuugen Mirida
Age: Really old
Gender: ♀? Technically has no gender to speak of. Always appears female.
Appearance: Her appearance can differ greatly on her whims. In other words, she can control what she looks like, but generally (virtually always) takes on the appearance of a young, blond female.
Ability: Her existence is an illusion; she is a collection of five floating eyes. These eyes can project electricity, and when their beams align, they can create a projection of Yuugen. She is fully sentient and behaves oddly, given that she is made out of electricity. (It's as if she really can trip and fall) Yuugen is fully capable of manipulating this electricity and creating more.
A favorite weapon of hers is a certain solar sword made from and radiating pure electricity.
Weakness/Limitation: Her eyes. She is invulnerable to actual harm since she is made out of electricity, but her eyes are ordinary targets susceptible to damage, which her projection will act as if in pain in response to.
Personality: A very kindhearted person, she only fights for her friends and when she's forced to. (Or when she's dragged into it which she often finds herself in)
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Iradia
Name: Iradia Vanderschwanck
Age: 25
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
Ability: Capable of reviving the deceased with talismans. The resurrected are then under her command.
Weakness/Limitation: When giving an order, the servant's interpretation determines how they go about filling that order. The servants retain full memories of their life before death and their personalities remain intact. They are incapable of removing the tags themselves, but if a talisman would be removed, the servant would return to a corpse.
Personality: Adventurous, adaptable, full of sarcasm, maternal when it serves her, hostile when practical.
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Lesua
Name: Lesua Izarene
Age: 16 I AM THE SOUL OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. I AM ETERNAL AND I AM NEW.
Gender: ♀
Gift (Power): Power tripping.
Unknown circumstances (randomness and while in a pinch mostly) trigger her ability, granting her enormous amounts of power with a large variety of uses. Specifically it can be called granting "HOLY POWER OF THE SEVENTH KIND", as she puts it. This allows for blasts of "HOLY ENERGY" and the like, Forging such energy into weapons, summoning hurricanes and meteors in addition to a numerous array of "buffs" and support-based abilities, including but not limited to increasing strength, energy, healing, and even revival. Heavy likeness to a white mage archetype in general. Refer to personality
She can use her abilities to an extremely minor extent without going on a power trip, but it's quite weak and very limited. She'd take a long time to heal even a basic paper cut and can't revive anything. It's mostly for making light shows and similar recreational flashy nonsense with no practical use.
Weaknesses and Limits: Possibly a side-effect of her ability, possibly a serious mental disorder, but when her ability activates, her entire demeanor shifts into one of a crippling god complex-dominated lunatic. She attains delusions of being "A DIVINE AGENT OF ABSOLUTE POWER" and goes as far as insisting upon ridiculous lies for the sake of maintaining or even aggrandizing her persona. However, upon closer examination one would find she honestly believes what she says; while she's insane that is.
She also loses her abilities altogether if she were to become separated from her crucifix, however she is able to maintain a connection between herself and the crucifix within a short distance using her "HOLY ENERGY" while on a power trip. (Not much uses for that aside from temporarily separating from it.)
Refer to personality.
Appearance:
Personality: Sharply contrasting her personality while on a power trip, she is usually quite glum whenever she has to go outside. She memorizes everything that happens while on a power trip, so she doesn't really like socialization on account of how terribly she (feels she) acts. (She instantly assumes everyone hates her.) She's more of an "indoors" type of person. She is however quite light-hearted and energetic in her element, which would be video games. A serious otaku and a "gamer" if there ever was one, she likes to spend all her time in front of a screen. Competitive and hates to lose, she would rather challenge anyone to their video game of choice than have to actually participate in combat. (or any other form of competition for that matter) She regards her crucifix like it's a stuffed animal and calls it by several names including but not limited to Lenny, Albany, and Arkansas. Uses it as a body pillow nightly. She fears losing it and losing her abilities forever despite not particularly liking when they do kick in, a side effect of being very untrusting. She hates the church her "psychotic" side started to herself and thinks them treating her as a goddess is annoying, but does appreciate how they've stopped multiple assassination attempts. The more her church grows, the more anxiety she gets.
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Lì
Name: 力 (Lì) (never got a last name)
Age: 16
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Manipulation of Bagua.
Bagua consists of eight trigrams used in Taoist cosmology to represent the fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated concepts. Each consists of three lines, each line either "broken" or "unbroken," representing yin or yang, respectively.
☰ - 乾 (Qián) which represents 天 (Sky (Heaven))
☱ - 兌 (Duì) which represents 澤 (Lake)
☲ - 離 (Lí) which represents 火 (Fire)
☳ - 震 (Zhèn) which represents 雷 (Thunder)
☴ - 巽 (Xùn) which represents 風 (Wind)
☵ - 坎 (Kǎn) which represents 水 (Water)
☶ - 艮 (Gèn) which represents 山 (Mountain)
☷ - 坤 (Kūn) which represents 地 (Earth)
furthermore, each trigram has further meanings such as immovability for Gèn and rapid movement for Lí along with personality traits for each of them.
He is capable of manipulating these elements, applying the 'meanings' of the trigrams, and their other applications. He is also capable of storing a fairly hefty amount of each element.
He isn't very good at manipulation of any sort of Yin-Yang itself.
Weaknesses and Limits: Lì can only channel the world around him for his ability, meaning that he cannot make such things appear from thin air unless the materials were already there. (He would be able to induce combustion in an appropriate environment, but would need to take Earth in order to use it) Furthermore, the elements are basically the fuel to his ability, meaning that he can't make himself fast without fire, can't penetrate things without wind, etc.
His abilities are significantly less than what they are normally without assistance; they are highly susceptible to amplification to varying extents on a case-by-case basis, usually in regards to his view of the symbolism.
Personality: Was trained to be disciplined, and accordingly shows little emotion and a lot of drive. Every so often his true self shows, which isn't so disciplined. Not entirely fluent in English.
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Incursio
Name: Incursio
Age: 19
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Incursio is capable of making himself "the main character". This enables certain conditions to go in certain ways such so that it's as if he was the star of a movie/book/video game. This also has a tendency to cast those around him into certain tropes, cohesive toward clichés and can grant him certain abilities, (overall temporary) depending on the circumstance. If his ability activates in a cabin in the woods for example, expect zombies or psycho killers and that Incursio will either destroy them forever or find out whoever is responsible and (usually) put a stop to it. His ability can flex in many ways, but while active, Incursio 1. Has some degree of plot armor, as if he is the only one capable of resolving the conflict presented and 2. The conflict will be resolved, and furthermore Incursio will have something to do with it.
Additionally, Incursio is immune to such things as antinite; the workings of his ability are an enigma and the additional abilities he may or may not gain are consistently explained as part of his "story"-thus remaining as though separate from his ability altogether, until it is wiped away (most of the time) by the next time his ability reactivates.
Weaknesses and Limits: Incursio isn't actually capable of actively controlling his ability. He can vaguely control what his movie is about more or less and activate it himself, but he is not in control of what happens, and if he waits too long it is decided for him, forcing him it into activation.
Furthermore, when his ability is activated, additional conditions are applied to him, more often than not to spice things up. For example, it could wound him terribly, make him starving, or wipe his memory. As well, he cannot set up a simple task for himself and call it a day; if he attempts to make it about retrieving an apple, he will likely forget about setting up the task, ignoring said apple until it becomes the apple of discord and something is held ransom for the apple.
Personality: Able to look at problems from multiple perspectives. Somewhat kind. Likes soda a lot and has an unusual fondness for Hydra, Kobra, and other similar fictional organizations. Has a personal vendetta against several kid's shows. Not very serious overall.
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Laguna
Name: Laguna
Age: 15
Gender: ♂
Ability: Laguna is capable of aligning sounds to a grid of some sort-whether a musical staff, a literal grid, or like that of a midi player, he can turn music into an offensive weapon. His offense functions different ways depending on how he aligns the grid, (smaller for accuracy or bigger for range, different grid types for different offense) but generally anything in the grid corresponding to the note played is vaporized or otherwise heavily damaged. Anything on the wrong line of the staff at the wrong time will get vaporized or otherwise heavily damaged. Anything in the wrong key's line in the wrong time~ you get the idea. More informal forms of offense (launching notes off the staff for example) reduce the efficiency of his notes' power, but are much more versatile. He is capable of using the music notes in a variety of ways. Furthermore, while he cannot move the notes, he can move the grids.
His golden musical staffs are dangerous impaling weapons.
He is also capable of playing virtually any song, including the impossible ones. However, if he wouldn't be able to play it himself normally, it is strenuous (as if heavily using his ability) to do so.
Weakness: Although he can use music to varying ends, they all require music and they all cannot be controlled directly by Laguna. If Laguna messes up and plays the wrong note, the wrong corresponding grid box will not vaporize its contents. As such, he cannot mess up on purpose and has to be particular in his song selection. Furthermore, cutting a song short is usually a terrible idea-as if adding a cooldown. As well, one can make him mess up. Additionally, while he could do something like change the music notes into fireballs, he would only be able to do so with an appropriate song. A slow, calm song is usually unbecoming of fire.
Appearance:
Personality: Tries to portray himself as man full of hatred and vengeance, but is downright friendly and often fails to keep up such a facade. Not afraid to cause significant collateral damage as means to an end, but could never hurt something adorable and defenseless.
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Kirin
Name: Kirin
Age: 26
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Capable of synthesizing and manipulating any element on the periodic table
Weakness/Limitation: Manipulation of even basic materials require enormous alchemic and stoichiometric knowledge before performing even a simple action. It would be almost entirely useless in the hands of most.
Personality: A very dedicated scientist. Calculating and restrained, though he often finds himself sidetracked by the sheer quantity of woman who throw themselves at him. (404 error: No explanation found)
Much more physically able than his appearance would lead one to believe.
Meenah
Name: Meenah Bind
Age: 16
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
Ability: Can manipulate certain aspects of physics, allowing her to output significantly more than her input and vice versa, basically enabling her infinitely powerful strength, otherwise impossible speed, the ability to withstand most attacks and a complete and total violation of gravity and similar universal laws.
Personality: Youngest and somehow most responsible faction leader. She has a larger sense of duty and pride than most, but is prone to childish tendencies (ie. stubbornness and petulance) and has a large temper. She also may or may not be slightly insane, depending on how you view her behavior.
Crow
Name: Caedere Fiore
Age: 31
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Can mutate any part of himself in any way to accommodate virtually any change.
Weakness/Limitation: Changes aren't instant (fast, but not instant) and requires some good thought to be meaningful. Each change also brings some sort of biological downside. For instance, if he became a godzilla, he would still have to power that large body with the energy in his formerly normal sized body, which would likely quickly cause the godzilla to die of exhaustion.
Personality: Has something of a temper and has become a slight alcoholic ever since the girl he was hitting on died. Fails to get over her repeatedly. Quick to violence and quick to apologies.
Amadeus
Name: Amadeus Luxord
Age: 19
Gender: ♂
Appearance:Usually wears a dark (nearly black) purple cloak.
Ability: Complete and utter control of the volition of any mind within a certain range somewhere between 100 and 500 cubits radius
Weakness/Limitation: Going down his limbs are small lines (perpendicular to the length of his arm) that illuminate with each mind under his control, meaning there is an upward limit to how many minds he can control, but that number is unknown. Disrupting him can release his control over all of his victims, and he has very notable phobias of robots, violent plants, and other things he is incapable of controlling.
Personality: Rather princely, he likes to feel he is entitled, but doesn't outwardly show it. He has good manners and is well aware that his inner thoughts are hideously self-centered. His aforementioned phobias have developed into a tendency to commit hate crimes. (or rather, attempt to and fail) Despite this he is very far from a cold-blooded person and can be rationalized with at all times.
Akira
Name: Akira Ciago
Age: 20
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Extreme luck, to the point that everything goes his way.
Weakness/Limitation: He tends to never get anything done, going on back to back to back to back to back vacations instead of anything productive. If you're strong enough, he's also unlikely to bother you ever.
Personality: Mary Sue to the max. He may have (substantial, perhaps even crippling) character flaws, but no one ever notices due to his luck. He doesn't seem to be very responsible given that he is seen less than any other faction leader.
Rachael
Name: Rachael
Age: Somewhere between 17 and 25. She usually doesn't have time for people who have time to ask.
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
Ability: Limit Breaker. The ability to transcend any limits.
Weakness/Limitation: This does not mean band-aids can revive the dead. "Limits" aren't about what x can do, but rather what x does, and how it can do it much better.
*Before the Bishamonten incident, her ability fluctuated to work in different ways and was infinitely more useful, to the point of being able to do almost anything.
Personality: Incredibly kind and helpful, as she feels that with her gift, every little thing is her responsibility. This of course immediately poses the problem that she just can't plain handle the responsibilities she gives herself. She tends to work herself to the bone, accruing sleep deprivation in the process very often. Consequentially, she's known to be moody and sometimes heavy-handed, but she's usually more forgiving than not and always well-meaning. She's consistently way over her head, but will always get the job done. It's a burdensome fate she's saddled herself with, yet every day she'll put on a fake smile for those around her.
Her friends are constantly forcing her to take breaks.
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Snow
Name: Snow Jackals Christensen
Age: 0 (Biologically, somewhere between 13 and 16)
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Can manipulate various "cold" objects and change the way they behave in different temperatures; He can make water freeze without changing its actual temperature, making things like hot ice a reality.
His specialty is blood.
Weakness/Limitation: He is incapable of making objects behave like they would at a higher temperature; only how they would at a lower temperature and returning them to normal. He also becomes unstable in high temperatures, making his abilities behave in odd ways.
Personality: Neither Flamboyant nor Stoic, he's usually of a sullen tone. When he has something to latch onto, he has a drive and determination unlike most, willing to tear down a mountain stone by stone to get what he wants done. Has a few animalistic qualities and not in the least familiar with proper ways to communicate with another human being. Has very little social inhibitions.
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Ceft
Name: Ceft Michaels
Age: 15
Gender: ♂
Appearance: Chestnut hair that curls into cowlicks everywhere.
Ability: Capable of producing various herbs, chemicals and mixtures from his skin, usually of the drug/remedy variety. If for example, he needs acetylsalicylic acid, he can create acetylsalicylic acid. If he needs some aloe, he could grow aloe leaves from his skin, then rip them off. Generally speaking, he can produce any ingredient you could find in an apothecary.
Weakness/Limitation: Producing these items come at the cost of his energy; producing enough to treat large quantities of people can push him into exhaustion. He is also hopelessly crushing on his Goddess.
Personality: Youngest priest of the church of Lesua, he is a devout servant of hers, loyal to her beck and call. He's rather shy, unable to speak his mind often and easy to boss around. Despite this, he is very much filled with chivalry and will jump to the aid of those he feels need defending. Gets nervous in mundane situations easily but can defend an innocent or execute a killing order without mercy.
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Character count: 30
Thread advancement is primarily waiting on Matt's school.
I'm still not dead! I'm just unable to get on... like... ever... ;3;
I think it's best if you just say that I'm not going to be coming back, 'kay? If this is still up in a few years (two and a half, maybe? One? Idek...), I may be able to join again.
Until then, bai... ;3;
PS: I'm pretty sure that you already figured out that I can't get on anymore... this is just my official 'resignation' letter. x3
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;3;
Also: Ryik... again with the characters... YAY! <3
I love it.
x3
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OnceInALongTime: "You confuse me, Mage. Amazability should be a word so I could describe your words."
Oh my gosh. I can not believe that this actually survived as long as it did. Man, I really wish that I could focus on something for more than a few days, cause I would have loved to be a part of this.
For those that don't know, I was the creator of the original city of the gifted thread, which was about a year ago, which I stupidly abandoned after five or six pages. Then Zamot took over, and that lasted for however long, then this was made. I decided to drop in to see how Zamot's was doing, saw it was gone, and then saw this. I really hope that this doesn't die out again.
If this does stay alive, I actually might consider making the commitment and joining back in, I'll just make sure my character isn't too important and I'll make sure to kill him off if I ever feel like I'm going to quit again.
Anyways, just wanted to see how this was going, and wanted to drop in and say hey. I'll be sure to read up on everything before I join, however long that will take.
Oh my gosh. I can not believe that this actually survived as long as it did. Man, I really wish that I could focus on something for more than a few days, cause I would have loved to be a part of this.
For those that don't know, I was the creator of the original city of the gifted thread, which was about a year ago, which I stupidly abandoned after five or six pages. Then Zamot took over, and that lasted for however long, then this was made. I decided to drop in to see how Zamot's was doing, saw it was gone, and then saw this. I really hope that this doesn't die out again.
If this does stay alive, I actually might consider making the commitment and joining back in, I'll just make sure my character isn't too important and I'll make sure to kill him off if I ever feel like I'm going to quit again.
Anyways, just wanted to see how this was going, and wanted to drop in and say hey. I'll be sure to read up on everything before I join, however long that will take.
Hey bud, still lives but in a new home. Those who didn't jump ship have taken the RP to another forum (I don't know where) so you'd need to find them first. When I'm eventually ready to leave the MC forums I'm most likely going to try and find them again but until then I have loose ends to wrap up here. Best of luck to you in trying to find where they've left for.
Hey bud, still lives but in a new home. Those who didn't jump ship have taken the RP to another forum (I don't know where) so you'd need to find them first. When I'm eventually ready to leave the MC forums I'm most likely going to try and find them again but until then I have loose ends to wrap up here. Best of luck to you in trying to find where they've left for.
Crap. Had to dig to find this one, and I even knew that if there was a reincarnation it would be on these forums. Now I have to dig through all of the internet to find it. Do you have any idea where it is?
Crap. Had to dig to find this one, and I even knew that if there was a reincarnation it would be on these forums. Now I have to dig through all of the internet to find it. Do you have any idea where it is?
Not a clue, but Matt's post history might reveal something. If not the first place I'd look is some site call 'roleplayers gateway' or something along those lines. That's all the help I have to offer, now go young hero and discover your true purpose.
How did you find out they took it to another forum? I can't find any posts or anything saying they were moving. I wonder if they may have moved back to the runescape forums. I'll check there soon.
And the Runescape roleplaying forums is a no go, as that place is becoming more and more of a ruin.
Also, Matt's post history is a no go as well. Last post was also the last post he made on this thread.
To be clear, this is where the gifted saga ends. For now.
A new thread is eventually to be erected on a new forum, as it was decided that this one was dying. The primary problems are in determining that new thread and actually getting things going, as everyone is perpetually busy forever, and when they aren't they aren't not busy at the same time.
As such, it has been stalling for quite a while.
As far as foreseeable future goes, the prime candidate for the new thread seems to be the Starbound forums. Of course, this is not definite and is subject to change, as we (me and Matt) have had little time to hammer out details.
Depending on how busy Matt is and how fickle I am at the time, it is possible I will be taking over handling the thread for Derika.
Update: the new thread is almost definitely going to be in Starbound forums, and should be posted there soon. Matt should be sending out a PM to everyone when it's up.
Additionally, for the sake of tidiness, new RPers and rebalancing, you'll (we'll) need to reapply our characters. Due to a change of plans, this will be more than a formality. Most of the time your character won't be denied, but they may need to be tweaked in an effort to preserve cohesiveness. For example, Rachael will be nerfed.
Also, it is highly likely that a Derika server will be put up at some point because of how much easier it is to build Derika in Starbound than in Minecraft.
After you make your Starbound account, post your app in the OOC section for it to be re-accepted. All characters will be reaccpeted so we can get some rebalancing done. You guys can use this opportunity to make the changes to your character you've always wanted, provided that the changes aren't too drastic.
Once your app is accepted in the OOC, post the finalized version in the IC.
Appearance: Depends entirely upon the viewer, going as far as to appear a different gender in some cases. Clothing, face, physique, age, everything changes in the eye of the beholder, but generally keeps a thinner, 'young adult'-esque appearance.
Ability: Manipulation of the subconscious.
Weakness/Limitation: Has a very poor memory, to the point of frequent, random amnesia. Tends to remember facts and abilities rather than names and situations.
Personality: His personality is heavily influenced by the subconscious of those around him. Rather intelligent, making abusing his weakness a bit more difficult, but is also relatively fickle, doing things on whims just because he can and shaking influences.
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Age: 495. Biologically, 17
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Resonates his wings to produce a small orb, which, in essence, is the 'eye' of his target; the weakest point. Applying physical force to the 'eye' would enhance the damage, essentially destroying the eye and vaporizing the entirety of the target object into stardust instantaneously.
Weakness/Limitation: His wings are incredibly vulnerable. Interrupting their resonation (ie by touching them) can leave him dizzy, disoriented, and unable to use his ability. Holding his wings in an uncomfortable position can paralyze him in pain.
Personality: Has a psychotic predisposition which has all but ceased existing, replaced with an insatiable curiosity with the world that left him behind.
Rather quiet and collected, but slightly hates to be.
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Age: 515 (Biologically, 27)
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Can restrict/ban/forbid anything and everything, within his limitations. Those affected are unable to do that which was banned.
Weakness/Limitation: Cannot restrict relative or abstract things such as winning, losing, beauty, emotions, etc. The restriction often must be precise to have the intended effect. His restrictions must be put into words. Each restriction must also separately specify who the restriction affects and how long the restriction lasts, though there is no upward limit to how much he can set a restriction for. Each restriction puts a toll on his energy/concentration corresponding to the amount of people he affects and the amount of willpower to the contrary of that restriction. If enough willpower is put against it, it is possible to break the restriction entirely, basically abolishing the rule. Once abolished, it cannot be re-established for an amount of time corresponding to how much overall effort was put against it. This can range from a day to years or even decades.
Personality: Not very outgoing. Usually prefers to keep to himself. Responsible and can't pass by misfortune he can aid on good conscience.
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Age: 513 (Biologically, 25)
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
Ability: The ability to create anything and everything (out of thin air)
Weakness/Limitation: Her ability is done in a sort of command-prompt fashion; she must decide what she wants and she will receive an item roughly meeting the criteria. The problem however lies in the discretion of the objects she receives. A great amount of them fail to resemble anything on Earth, much less what she had in mind. Usage of such items are often complicated and difficult, if possible at all, albeit usually outclassing their Earthen counterparts if indeed used effectively. Theoretically she could create anything up to an entirely new universe, but the discretion of the items received and both the ramifications and danger of such an action has prevented her from trying. Creating objects exhausts her to extents varying depending on the object created. The 'cost' of items are not linear.
Personality: Outgoing. Confident, capable of getting anything she sets her mind to done. Has a tendency to boss people around when it's good for them. She is a poet, politician, scholar, teacher, composer, musician, genius, psychologist, philosopher, astrologer, archer, fencer, detective, advisor, equestrian, zoologist, botanist, mathematician, nuclear physicist, philanthropist, therapist badass.
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Age: 38 (Appears much younger)
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Invincible; Invulnerable; at any point immune to all forms of damage. Blades would be unable to cut him, fire wouldn't burn him, etc. Accordingly does not age properly, technically rendering him virtually immortal
Weakness/Limitation: Still feels pain, (Albeit has worked up a minor tolerance to it) including the pain he would suffer from things like acid. (It will hurt him even if it doesn't pierce the skin) and is still essentially a human regarding a lot of things. If he was crushed by something large, he would stay there until something lifted it off him.
Personality: An easy-going guy without a large sense of responsibility. Not tied down by morals much, but would refuse to personally participate in what he believed to be significant wrong-doing.
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Age: 16
Gender: ♀
Appearance: Older than image implies.
Ability: Can create and manipulate "stars"- flat and shaped like stars, they aren't very special. When 5 align, they can create a portal into a dimension where Miina is literally the goddess. She is capable of removing things from her dimension, which quickly fade away into nothingness.
Weakness/Limitation: Anything she pulls out of her portals vanish after half a dozen seconds. The stars she creates are fragile and can be broken with relative ease, somewhat like glass. Miina must return to the same portal she opened.
Personality: Princess-like. Spoiled, stubborn, demanding, and petulant.
Also lonely, pessimistic, remorseful and self-damning.
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Age: Really, really, really old. Except not at all.
Gender: ♀
Appearance:
Minecraft Forum can't handle the better version of the image.
Gift: Able to definitively determine the nature of
an offendera person (heavily influenced by their current state, but also affected by their overall state) as either "Black" or "White". This is based upon the persons morals and violation henceforth. This does not mean that one without a sense of morals will not trigger her ability, nor does it mean people with more morals trigger her ability more severely. Rather, if the trigger is someone who doesn't realize what they've done is "wrong" or otherwise unwanted, then they do not trigger her ability. If the trigger is someone who thinks they are doing right but knows people justifiably dislike what they are doing, then it can trigger her ability. The grayer the morals are, the weaker "black" or "white" she casts them as, thus reducing her abilities.If the
offenderperson is "black", she gains power equivalent to the severity of their crimes, misdeeds, etc. which she is capable of wielding in a variety of ways. With weaker strength comes less applications. Applications vary, usually with an eye to irony.If the
offenderperson is "white", she gains the ability to bolster a target equivalent to the significance of their behavior in a variety of ways, essentially imparting the abilities she would get if she found the action black. (albeit often in radically different ways)Finally, her 'trump card':
If Shiki finds an person as "black", she is capable of initiating a ritual in which she summons a clone of the target from a mirror. When summoned, the clone will attack the trigger. Outside interference is negated against the trigger and his clone and only the trigger and the clone are capable of damaging each other. (This is to say, they are incapable of damaging other combatants) The power of the clone is a percentage of that of the trigger proportional to the weight of the action. If, for example, the trigger was used on a mass murderer and was deemed deeply black, the clone would be 'much' stronger than the original. Like, maybe 150%. 200% is the theoretical upper limit. Conversely, if the crime was a casual whack or theft and was deemed only slightly "black", the power would diminish anywhere to as far as 1%. This does not mean that it is impossible to defeat a clone with a higher percentage of power than 100%, and there's a lot of room for circumstance, luck, and tactics in such battles. Should the clone win, it will dissolve, returning her abilities.
She gains a black aura when she finds an action "black" and gives a white aura to whoever she uses her ability on would she find an action "white". She loses her black aura and it is given to the clone should she use her trump card. If the clone wins, the aura would return to her and continue with her only as long as her abilities would normally.
Weakness: Her abilities depend entirely on other people. Her abilities do not work (to any significant extent) on anything that isn't sapient. Her abilities depend entirely upon your actions. Her abilities fail if the intended target is completely unrelated to the trigger. Her abilities can fail or otherwise diminish with repentance if the trigger is "black". Her trump card is bound to mirrors. Should the clone be defeated, all of her abilities will be rescinded and she will not be able to select another action for several hours. If she uses her trump card, she is incapable of using her abilities for separate matters. Furthermore, if she feels guilt, her wielding of abilities diminishes until they would leave her control entirely, theoretically still being there, but out of her purview.
Personality: "Hell exists not to punish sinners, but to make sure nobody sins in the first place. I am here so that everyone realizes that. Even if I must hurt you a little, I must make you correct the error of your ways."
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Age: 18
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Permanently bound to an incubus named Zweihänder and a succubus named Xiphos. They are near omnipotent and capable of many things.
Weakness/Limitation: They are bound to John, meaning that if you can take out John, his personal demons will also be incapacitated. They also require maintenance like that of their lore suggests and have clashing personalities, neither of which are good at taking orders. Their personalities are quite large obstacles in fact, and simply getting one to argue with another might as well be your victory.
Personality: Originally a shy boy with no spine. After dying hilariously and being revived, something in him snapped and he decided to take advantage of his abilities. He's been enforcing a crooked, cruel sense of justice (legitimate crimes, illegitimate punishments) as a vigilante ever since.
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Age: 19
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Capable of "charging" objects he has come into physical contact with. (Takes roughly one second, more if he can't concentrate and indiscriminate of size) At any given moment he can teleport said object anywhere, with accuracy depending on his vision. Has become specialized with guns, causing charged bullets to take on a more flashy, destructive form. Said bullets are also capable of expending their charge to ricochet themselves a few times without losing momentum.
Has been practicing making bullets (and shooting them) without a gun with mild success. Hurts, but isn't very harmful to more than an insect or small animal and has (very) short range. (Roughly 1 meter or so)
Weakness/Limitation: He can only give any object one charge at a time. He isn't very capable without his guns, and creating bullets himself expends a lot of energy for little payout.
Personality: A rather excitable person, he's an enormous romanticist, eager to dive into an Indiana Jones fantasy he's convinced exists.
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Age: 1 (Modeled as roughly 15-16)
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Has a complex system revolving around 52 cards which he can store data on and apply other data to in order to produce certain effects. The primary effects available to him is to carry more than he should physically be able to store, to capture and enslave creatures, (In a way very much like pokemon) materialize weapons out of thin air, and to fire lasers (or other projectiles) within a certain pattern.
Weakness/Limitation: All of the abilities detailed above are complex processes, each with their own drawbacks and flaws. He can only use one of the offensive abilities at once, and everything he does drains battery life. When his battery is drained, he will struggle to perform basic tasks, such as getting from place to place, as his bodily processes are severely inhibited and his mechanical side weighs him down. He is normally water-proof, but sustaining heavy damage can cause electrocution and short-circuiting on water contact.
Personality: Very robotic in conversation. (Stiff, to the point) Is known to have random semi-philosophical bouts that usually comes to a productive apogee, producing things such as an oil painting or an improved method of transportation. Tends to be inwardly dissatisfied with such a finished product.
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Age: 17
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Explosive detonation. Can violently cause concentrated explosions, comparably to that of rockets or extremely violent and volatile roman candles. Basically, a violent form of laser.
He can use this to fly on his broom at alarming speeds.
Weakness/Limitation: Continual use of his ability may cause the stream of fiery plasma to eventually lose control, making the stream of laser irregular and possibly causing himself to spontaneously combust, lose control of the aim, etc.
Personality: A thief who plays dirty. He wouldn't steal from a defenseless old lady, but he would rob a rich man out of house and home. Known to have an extreme hatred for transportation on anything but his broom.
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Age: 24
Gender: Physically speaking, ♂. Was born a female and swapped bodies with the body he is currently in before losing her other tie-ascot-thing. His chronological age is around 16.
Appearance:
Ability: Gains abilities based on current clothing. Each article of clothing brings a new ability.
Weakness/Limitation: Many articles of clothing have dubious abilities. He must figure out the ability of all clothing herself, which is very time consuming and often with little payout as the ability offered by many articles are useless. Removing his clothing makes him lose the associated ability.
His current outfit (of which he has several of) consists of:
Underwear (As of yet dubious)
Sailor Pants (As of yet dubious)
Striped Sailor Shirt (Ability to manipulate water, specifically dealing with waves and tides)
Sailor Jacket thing (As of yet dubious)
Sailor Hat (Ability to wield anchors effortlessly. Strength does not apply to non-anchor objects)
Spoiler: A bit of a creeper. He can act seriously if he wanted to, which is rarely. If he takes charge, he will go forth with all the ferocity of a driven anime protagonist. Otherwise he's liable to simply not care. He mostly does whatever he feels like doing because he can.
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Age: 24
Gender: ♀
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Ability: Ability to draw forth a large variety of things, whether certain circumstances or actual monsters of sorts. Basically, summoning.
Weakness/Limitation: Everything she draws forth requires preparation of sorts, usually of the ritualistic variety. There's an entire hierarchy and catalog for summoning circles along with the inscriptions, symbols, and requirements for each. She must sort through all of this to use her ability effectively.
Personality: "Go away; I'm reading." "Not now; I'm reading." "I'd rather stay here and read." "Give me back that book or I will burn down your house."
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Age: 28
Gender: ♀
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Ability: Capable of animating things she sees in stories. This includes settings, characters, or even events.
Weakness/Limitation: She cannot do this for nonfictional stories unless some aspects are off. She cannot do this for something she wrote herself and it hardly goes the way intended if she gets someone to write a story for these purposes. Also, the effect/power/significance the characters/events/etc. have in their respective stories does not always equate to the effect/power/significance of what she brings into the real world. Furthermore, each has a time limit, differing based on what she summons.
Never seen outside the library. Ever.
Personality: Rather shy. As the chief of staff in Brinkhaven library, she can be helpful, lecture workers, or be downright violent on thieves and vandals. Otherwise she's reserved and quiet.
Has unknown connections to military. Constantly loses bets to Rana
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Age: 22
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Hair can be compared to incredibly sharp needles dipped in an extremely painful toxin. No actual toxin exists; they are charged with his mind without his control. He is accordingly capable of manipulating hairs that fall off and firing them. He grows and loses a lot of them regularly.
Weakness/Limitation: He is not immune to his own ability, meaning the back of his neck is constantly being torn to shreds because of how itchy it is. He's built up a resistance but it still stings. His hair doesn't come out by force. (it's stuck on there with glue or something)
Personality: Originally walked a much more psychotic path, he's more or less evened himself out by kicking his meds. (Which goes against his court order) While he's much more sensible, he's also much more likely to randomly assault someone, just in a more calm, collected manner.
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Age: 29
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Technomancy; the manipulation of machinery, their composition and capabilities.
Weakness/Limitation: Isn't as good at making weaponry as much as recreational devices. In the end, all of his machinery are just machines. If you were to separate him from them, he would be powerless.
Personality: Manipulative, scheming, intelligent, critical, and has just a tiny bit of a god complex.
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Gender: ♂
Age: 20
Ability: Dude's a cat.
Ven possesses features like that of a feline. He has cat ears and a cat tail and occasionally behaves like one against his better judgement, complete with purring. This slightly increases his physical speed, strength, allows him to hear sounds of a higher pitch, improves his sight when in the dark, and improves his sense of smell to roughly 7.5 times that of a normal human. He can hear better, not strictly because he is a cat, but because he has 4 ears. He also has retractable claws (basically his fingernails extend slightly and magically get sharper. That's not how actual cat claws work but whatever) and always lands on his feet.
Weakness: Cat hormones make him act stupid, his sight in light is slightly deteriorated, he has less self-control in regards to instincts, his tail and cat ears could be viewed as a weak point since the flesh on it is more vulnerable, (like a cats instead of a human's. Likewise I'd like to mention now that the ears and tail do indeed have fur on them) the wider hearing and increased smell could be used against him. He dislikes water. Not in the sense that it's evil but in the sense that his fur takes forever to dry, which leaves suspicious wet spots on his clothing if he has to show up in public afterward.
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Personality: Contrasting the butter he will melt into when you scratch him behind his cat ears, he's pretty stoic most of the time. He's usually friendly, though lately he has taken a turn for the feral. Very feral. So feral in fact that he has stopped living amongst society.
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Age: Really old
Gender: ♀? Technically has no gender to speak of. Always appears female.
Appearance: Her appearance can differ greatly on her whims. In other words, she can control what she looks like, but generally (virtually always) takes on the appearance of a young, blond female.
Ability: Her existence is an illusion; she is a collection of five floating eyes. These eyes can project electricity, and when their beams align, they can create a projection of Yuugen. She is fully sentient and behaves oddly, given that she is made out of electricity. (It's as if she really can trip and fall) Yuugen is fully capable of manipulating this electricity and creating more.
A favorite weapon of hers is a certain solar sword made from and radiating pure electricity.
Weakness/Limitation: Her eyes. She is invulnerable to actual harm since she is made out of electricity, but her eyes are ordinary targets susceptible to damage, which her projection will act as if in pain in response to.
Personality: A very kindhearted person, she only fights for her friends and when she's forced to. (Or when she's dragged into it which she often finds herself in)
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Age: 25
Gender: ♀
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Ability: Capable of reviving the deceased with talismans. The resurrected are then under her command.
Weakness/Limitation: When giving an order, the servant's interpretation determines how they go about filling that order. The servants retain full memories of their life before death and their personalities remain intact. They are incapable of removing the tags themselves, but if a talisman would be removed, the servant would return to a corpse.
Personality: Adventurous, adaptable, full of sarcasm, maternal when it serves her, hostile when practical.
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Age:
16I AM THE SOUL OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. I AM ETERNAL AND I AM NEW.Gender: ♀
Gift (Power): Power tripping.
Unknown circumstances (randomness and while in a pinch mostly) trigger her ability, granting her enormous amounts of power with a large variety of uses. Specifically it can be called granting "HOLY POWER OF THE SEVENTH KIND", as she puts it. This allows for blasts of "HOLY ENERGY" and the like, Forging such energy into weapons, summoning hurricanes and meteors in addition to a numerous array of "buffs" and support-based abilities, including but not limited to increasing strength, energy, healing, and even revival. Heavy likeness to a white mage archetype in general. Refer to personality
She can use her abilities to an extremely minor extent without going on a power trip, but it's quite weak and very limited. She'd take a long time to heal even a basic paper cut and can't revive anything. It's mostly for making light shows and similar recreational flashy nonsense with no practical use.
Weaknesses and Limits: Possibly a side-effect of her ability, possibly a serious mental disorder, but when her ability activates, her entire demeanor shifts into one of a crippling god complex-dominated lunatic. She attains delusions of being "A DIVINE AGENT OF ABSOLUTE POWER" and goes as far as insisting upon ridiculous lies for the sake of maintaining or even aggrandizing her persona. However, upon closer examination one would find she honestly believes what she says; while she's insane that is.
She also loses her abilities altogether if she were to become separated from her crucifix, however she is able to maintain a connection between herself and the crucifix within a short distance using her "HOLY ENERGY" while on a power trip. (Not much uses for that aside from temporarily separating from it.)
Refer to personality.
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Personality: Sharply contrasting her personality while on a power trip, she is usually quite glum whenever she has to go outside. She memorizes everything that happens while on a power trip, so she doesn't really like socialization on account of how terribly she (feels she) acts. (She instantly assumes everyone hates her.) She's more of an "indoors" type of person. She is however quite light-hearted and energetic in her element, which would be video games. A serious otaku and a "gamer" if there ever was one, she likes to spend all her time in front of a screen. Competitive and hates to lose, she would rather challenge anyone to their video game of choice than have to actually participate in combat. (or any other form of competition for that matter) She regards her crucifix like it's a stuffed animal and calls it by several names including but not limited to Lenny, Albany, and Arkansas. Uses it as a body pillow nightly. She fears losing it and losing her abilities forever despite not particularly liking when they do kick in, a side effect of being very untrusting. She hates the church her "psychotic" side started to herself and thinks them treating her as a goddess is annoying, but does appreciate how they've stopped multiple assassination attempts. The more her church grows, the more anxiety she gets.
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Age: 16
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Manipulation of Bagua.
Bagua consists of eight trigrams used in Taoist cosmology to represent the fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated concepts. Each consists of three lines, each line either "broken" or "unbroken," representing yin or yang, respectively.
☰ - 乾 (Qián) which represents 天 (Sky (Heaven))
☱ - 兌 (Duì) which represents 澤 (Lake)
☲ - 離 (Lí) which represents 火 (Fire)
☳ - 震 (Zhèn) which represents 雷 (Thunder)
☴ - 巽 (Xùn) which represents 風 (Wind)
☵ - 坎 (Kǎn) which represents 水 (Water)
☶ - 艮 (Gèn) which represents 山 (Mountain)
☷ - 坤 (Kūn) which represents 地 (Earth)
furthermore, each trigram has further meanings such as immovability for Gèn and rapid movement for Lí along with personality traits for each of them.
He is capable of manipulating these elements, applying the 'meanings' of the trigrams, and their other applications. He is also capable of storing a fairly hefty amount of each element.
He isn't very good at manipulation of any sort of Yin-Yang itself.
Weaknesses and Limits: Lì can only channel the world around him for his ability, meaning that he cannot make such things appear from thin air unless the materials were already there. (He would be able to induce combustion in an appropriate environment, but would need to take Earth in order to use it) Furthermore, the elements are basically the fuel to his ability, meaning that he can't make himself fast without fire, can't penetrate things without wind, etc.
His abilities are significantly less than what they are normally without assistance; they are highly susceptible to amplification to varying extents on a case-by-case basis, usually in regards to his view of the symbolism.
Personality: Was trained to be disciplined, and accordingly shows little emotion and a lot of drive. Every so often his true self shows, which isn't so disciplined. Not entirely fluent in English.
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Age: 19
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Incursio is capable of making himself "the main character". This enables certain conditions to go in certain ways such so that it's as if he was the star of a movie/book/video game. This also has a tendency to cast those around him into certain tropes, cohesive toward clichés and can grant him certain abilities, (overall temporary) depending on the circumstance. If his ability activates in a cabin in the woods for example, expect zombies or psycho killers and that Incursio will either destroy them forever or find out whoever is responsible and (usually) put a stop to it. His ability can flex in many ways, but while active, Incursio 1. Has some degree of plot armor, as if he is the only one capable of resolving the conflict presented and 2. The conflict will be resolved, and furthermore Incursio will have something to do with it.
Additionally, Incursio is immune to such things as antinite; the workings of his ability are an enigma and the additional abilities he may or may not gain are consistently explained as part of his "story"-thus remaining as though separate from his ability altogether, until it is wiped away (most of the time) by the next time his ability reactivates.
Weaknesses and Limits: Incursio isn't actually capable of actively controlling his ability. He can vaguely control what his movie is about more or less and activate it himself, but he is not in control of what happens, and if he waits too long it is decided for him, forcing him it into activation.
Furthermore, when his ability is activated, additional conditions are applied to him, more often than not to spice things up. For example, it could wound him terribly, make him starving, or wipe his memory. As well, he cannot set up a simple task for himself and call it a day; if he attempts to make it about retrieving an apple, he will likely forget about setting up the task, ignoring said apple until it becomes the apple of discord and something is held ransom for the apple.
Personality: Able to look at problems from multiple perspectives. Somewhat kind. Likes soda a lot and has an unusual fondness for Hydra, Kobra, and other similar fictional organizations. Has a personal vendetta against several kid's shows. Not very serious overall.
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Age: 15
Gender: ♂
Ability: Laguna is capable of aligning sounds to a grid of some sort-whether a musical staff, a literal grid, or like that of a midi player, he can turn music into an offensive weapon. His offense functions different ways depending on how he aligns the grid, (smaller for accuracy or bigger for range, different grid types for different offense) but generally anything in the grid corresponding to the note played is vaporized or otherwise heavily damaged. Anything on the wrong line of the staff at the wrong time will get vaporized or otherwise heavily damaged. Anything in the wrong key's line in the wrong time~ you get the idea. More informal forms of offense (launching notes off the staff for example) reduce the efficiency of his notes' power, but are much more versatile. He is capable of using the music notes in a variety of ways. Furthermore, while he cannot move the notes, he can move the grids.
His golden musical staffs are dangerous impaling weapons.
He is also capable of playing virtually any song, including the impossible ones. However, if he wouldn't be able to play it himself normally, it is strenuous (as if heavily using his ability) to do so.
Weakness: Although he can use music to varying ends, they all require music and they all cannot be controlled directly by Laguna. If Laguna messes up and plays the wrong note, the wrong corresponding grid box will not vaporize its contents. As such, he cannot mess up on purpose and has to be particular in his song selection. Furthermore, cutting a song short is usually a terrible idea-as if adding a cooldown. As well, one can make him mess up. Additionally, while he could do something like change the music notes into fireballs, he would only be able to do so with an appropriate song. A slow, calm song is usually unbecoming of fire.
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Personality: Tries to portray himself as man full of hatred and vengeance, but is downright friendly and often fails to keep up such a facade. Not afraid to cause significant collateral damage as means to an end, but could never hurt something adorable and defenseless.
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Age: 26
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Capable of synthesizing and manipulating any element on the periodic table
Weakness/Limitation: Manipulation of even basic materials require enormous alchemic and stoichiometric knowledge before performing even a simple action. It would be almost entirely useless in the hands of most.
Personality: A very dedicated scientist. Calculating and restrained, though he often finds himself sidetracked by the sheer quantity of woman who throw themselves at him. (404 error: No explanation found)
Much more physically able than his appearance would lead one to believe.
Age: 16
Gender: ♀
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Ability: Can manipulate certain aspects of physics, allowing her to output significantly more than her input and vice versa, basically enabling her infinitely powerful strength, otherwise impossible speed, the ability to withstand most attacks and a complete and total violation of gravity and similar universal laws.
Personality: Youngest and somehow most responsible faction leader. She has a larger sense of duty and pride than most, but is prone to childish tendencies (ie. stubbornness and petulance) and has a large temper. She also may or may not be slightly insane, depending on how you view her behavior.
Age: 31
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Can mutate any part of himself in any way to accommodate virtually any change.
Weakness/Limitation: Changes aren't instant (fast, but not instant) and requires some good thought to be meaningful. Each change also brings some sort of biological downside. For instance, if he became a godzilla, he would still have to power that large body with the energy in his formerly normal sized body, which would likely quickly cause the godzilla to die of exhaustion.
Personality: Has something of a temper and has become a slight alcoholic ever since the girl he was hitting on died. Fails to get over her repeatedly. Quick to violence and quick to apologies.
Age: 19
Gender: ♂
Appearance:Usually wears a dark (nearly black) purple cloak.
Ability: Complete and utter control of the volition of any mind within a certain range somewhere between 100 and 500 cubits radius
Weakness/Limitation: Going down his limbs are small lines (perpendicular to the length of his arm) that illuminate with each mind under his control, meaning there is an upward limit to how many minds he can control, but that number is unknown. Disrupting him can release his control over all of his victims, and he has very notable phobias of robots, violent plants, and other things he is incapable of controlling.
Personality: Rather princely, he likes to feel he is entitled, but doesn't outwardly show it. He has good manners and is well aware that his inner thoughts are hideously self-centered. His aforementioned phobias have developed into a tendency to commit hate crimes. (or rather, attempt to and fail) Despite this he is very far from a cold-blooded person and can be rationalized with at all times.
Age: 20
Gender: ♂
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Ability: Extreme luck, to the point that everything goes his way.
Weakness/Limitation: He tends to never get anything done, going on back to back to back to back to back vacations instead of anything productive. If you're strong enough, he's also unlikely to bother you ever.
Personality: Mary Sue to the max. He may have (substantial, perhaps even crippling) character flaws, but no one ever notices due to his luck. He doesn't seem to be very responsible given that he is seen less than any other faction leader.
Age: Somewhere between 17 and 25. She usually doesn't have time for people who have time to ask.
Gender: ♀
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Ability: Limit Breaker. The ability to transcend any limits.
Weakness/Limitation: This does not mean band-aids can revive the dead. "Limits" aren't about what x can do, but rather what x does, and how it can do it much better.
*Before the Bishamonten incident, her ability fluctuated to work in different ways and was infinitely more useful, to the point of being able to do almost anything.
Personality: Incredibly kind and helpful, as she feels that with her gift, every little thing is her responsibility. This of course immediately poses the problem that she just can't plain handle the responsibilities she gives herself. She tends to work herself to the bone, accruing sleep deprivation in the process very often. Consequentially, she's known to be moody and sometimes heavy-handed, but she's usually more forgiving than not and always well-meaning. She's consistently way over her head, but will always get the job done. It's a burdensome fate she's saddled herself with, yet every day she'll put on a fake smile for those around her.
Her friends are constantly forcing her to take breaks.
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JackalsChristensenAge: 0 (Biologically, somewhere between 13 and 16)
Gender: ♂
Appearance:
Ability: Can manipulate various "cold" objects and change the way they behave in different temperatures; He can make water freeze without changing its actual temperature, making things like hot ice a reality.
His specialty is blood.
Weakness/Limitation: He is incapable of making objects behave like they would at a higher temperature; only how they would at a lower temperature and returning them to normal. He also becomes unstable in high temperatures, making his abilities behave in odd ways.
Personality: Neither Flamboyant nor Stoic, he's usually of a sullen tone. When he has something to latch onto, he has a drive and determination unlike most, willing to tear down a mountain stone by stone to get what he wants done. Has a few animalistic qualities and not in the least familiar with proper ways to communicate with another human being. Has very little social inhibitions.
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Age: 15
Gender: ♂
Appearance: Chestnut hair that curls into cowlicks everywhere.
Ability: Capable of producing various herbs, chemicals and mixtures from his skin, usually of the drug/remedy variety. If for example, he needs acetylsalicylic acid, he can create acetylsalicylic acid. If he needs some aloe, he could grow aloe leaves from his skin, then rip them off. Generally speaking, he can produce any ingredient you could find in an apothecary.
Weakness/Limitation: Producing these items come at the cost of his energy; producing enough to treat large quantities of people can push him into exhaustion. He is also hopelessly crushing on his Goddess.
Personality: Youngest priest of the church of Lesua, he is a devout servant of hers, loyal to her beck and call. He's rather shy, unable to speak his mind often and easy to boss around. Despite this, he is very much filled with chivalry and will jump to the aid of those he feels need defending. Gets nervous in mundane situations easily but can defend an innocent or execute a killing order without mercy.
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I think it's best if you just say that I'm not going to be coming back, 'kay? If this is still up in a few years (two and a half, maybe? One? Idek...), I may be able to join again.
Until then, bai... ;3;
PS: I'm pretty sure that you already figured out that I can't get on anymore... this is just my official 'resignation' letter. x3
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;3;
Also: Ryik... again with the characters... YAY! <3
I love it.
x3
OnceInALongTime: "You confuse me, Mage. Amazability should be a word so I could describe your words."
-Perpetually inactive-
Ability- ice manipulation
Weakness- heat
Plot- got lost in the mountains and gained his gift, but lost his parents.
For those that don't know, I was the creator of the original city of the gifted thread, which was about a year ago, which I stupidly abandoned after five or six pages. Then Zamot took over, and that lasted for however long, then this was made. I decided to drop in to see how Zamot's was doing, saw it was gone, and then saw this. I really hope that this doesn't die out again.
If this does stay alive, I actually might consider making the commitment and joining back in, I'll just make sure my character isn't too important and I'll make sure to kill him off if I ever feel like I'm going to quit again.
Anyways, just wanted to see how this was going, and wanted to drop in and say hey. I'll be sure to read up on everything before I join, however long that will take.
Hey bud, still lives but in a new home. Those who didn't jump ship have taken the RP to another forum (I don't know where) so you'd need to find them first. When I'm eventually ready to leave the MC forums I'm most likely going to try and find them again but until then I have loose ends to wrap up here. Best of luck to you in trying to find where they've left for.
Oh no, it's a link to an awesome flash game!
Crap. Had to dig to find this one, and I even knew that if there was a reincarnation it would be on these forums. Now I have to dig through all of the internet to find it. Do you have any idea where it is?
Not a clue, but Matt's post history might reveal something. If not the first place I'd look is some site call 'roleplayers gateway' or something along those lines. That's all the help I have to offer, now go young hero and discover your true purpose.
Oh no, it's a link to an awesome flash game!
And the Runescape roleplaying forums is a no go, as that place is becoming more and more of a ruin.
Also, Matt's post history is a no go as well. Last post was also the last post he made on this thread.
Mattie will be back on Saturday.
(Lots of planning undergoing)
A new thread is eventually to be erected on a new forum, as it was decided that this one was dying. The primary problems are in determining that new thread and actually getting things going, as everyone is perpetually busy forever, and when they aren't they aren't not busy at the same time.
As such, it has been stalling for quite a while.
As far as foreseeable future goes, the prime candidate for the new thread seems to be the Starbound forums. Of course, this is not definite and is subject to change, as we (me and Matt) have had little time to hammer out details.
Depending on how busy Matt is
and how fickle I am at the time, it is possible I will be taking over handling the thread for Derika.I hope this explains the situation well enough.
Additionally, for the sake of tidiness, new RPers and rebalancing, you'll (we'll) need to reapply our characters. Due to a change of plans, this will be more than a formality. Most of the time your character won't be denied, but they may need to be tweaked in an effort to preserve cohesiveness. For example, Rachael will be nerfed.
Also, it is highly likely that a Derika server will be put up at some point because of how much easier it is to build Derika in Starbound than in Minecraft.
Find it here: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/derika-land-of-the-gifted.82460/
After you make your Starbound account, post your app in the OOC section for it to be re-accepted. All characters will be reaccpeted so we can get some rebalancing done. You guys can use this opportunity to make the changes to your character you've always wanted, provided that the changes aren't too drastic.
Once your app is accepted in the OOC, post the finalized version in the IC.
Hope to see you soon! ^-^
OOC Thread: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/derika-land-of-the-gifted.82461/