The Mirror Lies (Hi-Cas) (OOC)

[Ontos]

IC: http://roleplayerguild.com/showthrea...52#post8842252

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You wake up. Something's off about how you feel. Perhaps you feel some sort of strange sensation. Something that wasn't there yesterday.

You look at yourself. You probably scream. There might be wings. Perhaps a tail. Or an even more chaotic change in your physical form that cannot be explained by any natural phenomena.

Someone barges into the room, a family member of yours, wondering what made you scream like that. Obviously, you try to hide the little change in yourself, whether through blankets or just plain old hiding. They find you, and chide you for your stupidity.

They don't notice anything off. To them, you still look human. You look at yourself in a mirror, finding yourself looking perfectly normal.

But those physical changes are very real to you, even as no one else can see it. You go to school, a little disoriented.

And you meet me.

No ordinary person can see your true form.

No one, except me.

I know, I'm human.

But I know how you feel, even as I have never been the same as any of you. But many of your kind have come to me, demanding answers.

I cannot give you them.

But I can help you find it.

It may cost you everything. Your life. Your pride. And worst of all, your world view.

This land was never yours.

You were not born here.

You are no human, and now you have realised.

Where is your world? I can only guess, even as my guess is closer to the truth than I would ever dare wish.

Beyond a mirror that lies, is the truth.

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(This is a reboot. I'm trying my luck again.)

It's a modern day high school mystery RP about the supernatural! Sort of. Some things will be revealed eventually, but here are some details I'll talk about right now.

1. Yes, there will be combat. The basis of combat is around the exploration of a dark world, a scary place to be. But it is the only place where supernatural things exist naturally.
2. If there are any other students with supernatural powers, they will not be background characters.
3. I'll be playing a human that can see supernaturals, and has some powers, but not enough to be extremely effective in combat.
4. If you actually want to play a human who can see supernaturals, we'll need to collaborate on a lot of things. In fact, you'll might need to co-GM this with me, since there's an intriguing reason why my character can see supernaturals. PM me if you're interested, but be warned, you'll need to acquiesce to a lot of my request/demands about your character.
5. I would prefer that you use existing templates of supernaturals as a basis for your character's supernatural form.
6. There's a grand plot, but there should be character interaction as well.
7. Grammar and spelling are very much appreciated by me.
8. Applications are not on a first-come, first-served basis. Sorry. But the type of character you have is important, so I might not allow your character in if he/she doesn't seem to fit that well, or because of moon cycles that make me particularly distrustful of the colours of your avatar.

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Name:

Age: (High school level. 15-19.)

Gender:

Human Appearance: (pictures of any sort are okay. Well, except stick figures and stuff that doesn't really tell me how a character looks like.)

Supernatural Appearance: (ditto. I'd suggest relying on existing supernatural creatures, but I like to give broad leeway on this. Generally, your character should still be humanoid enough. Just because ordinary people can't see you doesn't mean they can't touch your wings/tails/horns/extra bits.)

Powers: (try to keep things balanced. My own character would be obviously weaker, but try to make sure that other characters are not significantly weaker than your own. Powers can grow and change.)

Skills: (Non-supernatural skills.)

Brief History: (you may update this as the story progresses. But stuff that makes a biography about Winston Churchill feel tiny is not what I encourage.)

Personality: (At the end of the day, I'd be looking for balanced personalities.)

Misc: (stuff they have that they always carry around, or is important to them)

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I'll be posting up my own character profile soon.

[Ontos]

Here's my character.

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Name: Tyran Barlow

Age: 19, 12th Grade (Held back 3 years)

Gender: Female (It's a little hard to tell. Well... somewhat. Uh... very?)

Human Appearance:

She's about 1.73 metres tall.
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Supernatural Appearance: N/A

Powers:

Of Two Minds: When under life-threatening (actual life-threatening, not socially 'life-threatening') situations, she becomes unnaturally calm, cold, focused and logical, and can analyse situations and determine strengths and weaknesses almost instantaneously. Sometimes, this state lasts even after the incident is over, leading to social situations that cannot benefit Tyran. This state can be cured by liberal use of a rubber hammer on Tyran's head until she falls unconscious.

True Mind: She's also immune to the mind-affecting effects of all supernaturals.

True Sight: She can see supernaturals for what they are.

Skills:

The Silk Road: Tyran is skilled at procuring illegal goods, and selling them while maintaining as much anonymity as possible.

Wealth: Despite her family's status, she's actually much richer than most people think she is.

Gunner: She's also a damned good shot with pistols, preferring a Glock 17 pistol.

Brief History: Born in a single mother family (her mother had a tendency of getting arrested for crimes. She's currently serving a 5 year prison term for armed robbery and isn't coming out soon.), Tyran spent a lot of time alone. Fortunately, she got into studying and reading as a hobby, resulting in good grades in school. Unfortunately, she also got into dealing in dubious goods (over the internet) to help get money.

Tyran used to socialise a lot with the other students, until 3 years ago, when she was hospitalised for a coma after being involved in a mysterious abduction. After that, her grades suffered, and she grew distant from her old friends.

Personality: Usually non-confrontational and polite, Tyran is easily intimidated in social situations that do not revolve around money or life-threatening things. However, she is mostly firm on affairs to handle money, a trait that has kept her checkbook out of the red.

Other Personality: Ridiculously calm, logical and cold. Though not socially incompetent, Tyran is usually lacking tact at this point, and will likely accidentally offend others by stating some things matter-of-factly. She often finds herself suffering from sensory overload or tunnel vision when in crowded places when in this mode of thinking. The closest thing to emotion she can experience at this point is distress over this 'mode of thinking' not switching off when it needs to be.

Misc: Holds a Glock 17 pistol. She carries it everywhere she goes. (Even to school. Yes, that is illegal.)

[Nenshou]

Female (It's a little hard to tell. Well... somewhat. Uh... very?)

How can someone be somewhat or very female? ._.

[Ontos]

Looks, I mean.

[Nenshou]

Lemme just leave this here and fix it up later on... [scratch that, I'm done t(^o^t)]

Name: Blake Warden
Age: 15, Freshman
Gender: Male

Human Appearance


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Supernatural Appearance


Powers

• Intangibility: Blake can pass through most objects at will, but he has to hold his breath whenever his entire body is inside a wall. He is also able to ignore most physical attacks, but is not immune to other forms of attacks.
• Invisibility: Blake can bend the light around him and become invisible all together, although it is unsure if he is able to hide from the ones who can see supernaturals.
• Levitation: He knows how to do basic levitation, letting his body float just a few meters above the ground. Any more than that will cause him to plummet towards the ground until he could make his body float again. Or he could accidentally activate his intangibility instead and plummet to China.
• Telekinesis: He could lift any object from afar, so long as he could carry it himself with his bare hands.
• Emotion/Aura reading (to be developed)
• Possession (to be developed)
• Teleportation (to be developed)
  
• (More to come, as he gets stronger.)

Skills: Give him a pen and a piece of paper, and he'll start drawing just about anything he sees, be it the people who pass by or the scenery in front of him. He is also currently teaching himself how to play the guitar, but the intangibility thing is kinda hard to control. Yet whenever he holds his pen, he never seems to accidentally drop it. Maybe he's just not meant to play the guitar...?

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Brief History

Ever since he was born, Blake was often abandoned by anyone who ever tried taking care of him. First of all, he was abandoned by his parents and was just left in a box in the corner of the street. He was found by a foster care taker and was raised there for a few years. But he was often bullied because of his condition, causing him to often avoid any social interaction between anyone. Eventually, the time came when he couldn't take it anymore and he just had to run away. Ever since then, he had been jumping from foster care to foster care, looking for the perfect place to grow up and people he could call his family.

Only when he was around ten that he finally found people that accepted him. It is also around that time that he finally started smiling. He had kids he could play with and care takers that understood him. He lived happily these past few months in the foster home he found. But some turn of events lead to the next, and he found his real parents just beyond the footsteps of the front entrance, and they were there to reclaim their beloved son again. Never was Blake so... furious. They made him endure all the pain and sadness for all those years, only for them to return ten years later? Blake couldn't accept it. He ran away, again. This time, as fast as he could. Tears rolled down his cheeks as he tried to hide from the people that made him endure the all those years. He never experienced what a real child's life could've been since his parents abandoned him. He hid in a dark alley where no one could find him, specifically his parents. It was around that time that things started going weird. His skin started turning pale, so pale that he looks almost dead. That's not the end of it, his entire body started turning transparent. At first he thought it was just his imagination, but things turned even weirder. His back started losing the feeling of a wall leaning on it. Until his entire upper body dropped and he was able to peer inside the building he was just leaning on. A very busy restaurant, with chefs running around cooking as fast as they can. Yet, no one ever noticed that half a boy was staring at any of them.

There it was, the weird thoughts that suddenly came into his head. Is he... dead? Is he just a spirit of his former self? But how did he die? He feels perfectly fine, besides the real-parents-trying-to-take-him-away-from-his-new-home part. He stood up, trying to get out of the restaurant and back to the alley he was in before. Weird... he's back to normal. The frail but solid body of his, the pale but not-so-pale skin he adorns... It's as if nothing happened. He just ignored it and started walking the lonely path he always took before.

Eventually, the time came when a husband and wife finally took him in their care. He was taken in by an animator for a father and a chef for a mother. In the care of a new and happy family, he was able to almost forget the pain and sorrow he felt years ago. He finally has a family of his own. This time, it doesn't feel like he's just hiding from his past. Rather, he's being protected from it, attempting to make him forget his past entirely.
His father, Edwin Warden (Mr. Warden by most), is a kind and caring man that takes up animation for a living. He taught Blake how to draw, and to his surprise, he was quite the fast learner.
His mother, Lily Warden (Mrs. Warden by most), gave him a sort of motherly love that made him feel like she's his real mother. She cooks for a gourmet restaurant not too far away from their house. She tried teaching Blake how to cook, but it was a... disaster. Though that doesn't mean she loved him any less.
They gave him the things he always wanted, though he didn't ask for too much. The couple treated Blake as if he was their own, despite Blake's past and condition.
They eventually found a school good enough for their son to go in, for the education Blake always deserved but never got until now.

School, huh...? Blake thought about it. A place like school is bound to have bullies, especially for his case. He eventually ignored that possibility and just went anyway, since he couldn't prevent that from happening.
Through the years in school, he had been making lots of friends. The occasional bully tried making fun of him or just generally made him feel bad, but the entire experience wasn't like what it was in the foster homes he used to be in.
Eventually, his freshman year came. He's finally in High School. He's finally living the ordinary life he always wished for. He had loving parents, a house he could finally call home, and friends that accept him as he is. The phenomenon that happened before was forgotten, and he just lived life like it was his last day.
But at some point in freshman year... it happened again.

Blake is an orphan who used to move to different foster homes, since he used to get bullied quite often. By the time he was ten, he found one foster home that accepted him as he is, but it's only that time when his real parents tried taking him back. Furious and emotional by what they had done to him these past few years, he once again ran away and hid from them in a dark alley. It's around that time that the phenomenon started, which led him to think he was dead. Eventually, everything went back to normal and he's yet to start finding a foster home again, just so he could run away from his real parents. But he eventually stumbled upon a family that actually took the time to care of him. He started going to High School like a normal kid, until freshman year finally came.
And the phenomena he experienced before started happening again.

Personality

On the outside, Blake could be cheerful and would always smile at any time of the day. He loves the company of other people so long as they don't try to make fun of him. He could usually be found in a large group of people and is more comfortable with them around. He loves talking about generally anything, considering it's not about math or history or politics. He tends to like it better if he's ignorant about current events because nothing could bring him down like news about a large earthquake hitting a country or a group of people at war.
On the inside, Blake tries to hide whatever sorrow he still has left about the first ten years he was alive. He hides the fact that whatever attempt to make fun of him, be it as a joke or just plain tormenting, hurts him inside and just makes him want to run away. His cheerful disposition and positive outlook towards just about anything is just a mask to hide the sadness that he felt long ago. Currently, he's been trying his best to completely eradicate the sadness he still feels, but ever since the phenomenon that happened years ago started happening again, the sorrow has been growing inside him again and he's one step closer to breaking down each day that passes by.

Oh, and he's kinda cranky if he doesn't get any sleep.

Misc: He always keeps a drawing pen his adoptive father gave him in his pocket.

[Ontos]

*bump*

While this thing will have limited slots for obvious reasons, it's still looking for folks.

[drewccapp]

Name: Celeste LeBlanc

Age: 18 12th grade

Gender: Female

Human Appearance:
Height: 5'6"
Build: Athletic (like a runner)
Hair: Black often in a ponytail

Supernatural Appearance: Her hair has turned from black to a leafy green and her skin is slowly gaining a bark-like texture mostly her arms and legs. Also her skin at her hands and feet are changing colors to an oak brown.

Powers:
Natural Affinity - She has a strong connection with things of nature and can in some senses communicate with animals and trees although the most she gets are simple images or desires.

Camouflage - So long as she is near a forested area she has the ability to blend in with her surroundings and only with close scrutiny can you tell her from the trees.

Healing Magic - Using the power of nature she can given time heal wounds of varying degrees.

Skills: For the last several years of her life she has been put through serious mixed martial arts training. She is also very much an all star athlete.

Brief History: Celeste was born into a well-off family that took care of her needs, but they also were quite strict and taught her the meaning of earning what she wants. She had to work for the martial arts lessons she received by doing chores and a part-time job. She also became a track star and soccer star at her school, but when she discovered her transformation she began to stop everything.

Personality: She is a bit distant due to her transformation, but overall she is a friendly person. She is a hardworking woman and dislikes any laziness she sees in people. She enjoys writing in her free time when she's not with her friends or other people.

Misc: She carries around an Armani purse with a fair amount of cash and several writing utensils with a couple of journals to write in.

- - - Updated - - -

I debated bringing back my old character, but then I got inspired by this idea.

[Jinxlynx]

Name: Renee Luchelle Luxford

Age: 11th grade, 16

Gender: Female

Human Appearance:

Spoiler

Supernatural Appearance:

Spoiler

Powers:
Some kind of Zombie Thing - Renee as a supernatural is a Lich, her body can tade as much damage as a regular human but it will usually not be enough to stop her, torn limbs can be picked up and reattached, and the bounds of known strength do not effect her as she can push herself past mortal limits.

Magic - A lich can use magic, ironically it is mostly based around ice and frost for her. What she can do has to be discovered as the story progresses, so far she is just a ice cube dispenser.


Skills:
French Born - Elle peut parler Français. (She can speak french.)

English Fluent - She can speak English (Elle parle anglais.)

Rich Girl - Renee has money, she does not flaunt it but her parents have left her with a very very large inheritance.

Brief History: Renee was born in Paris France, she is French by birth. When she was young and just starting the 7th grade her family moved and she was forced to leave all her old friends behind. She had no choice in the matter, her mother and father are very rich and they had to go where their business moved. Renee went to middle school not knowing a word of English and this lead her to isolate herself from most of the other children, there was the few that made the effort to get to know her but she only had one friend and never tried to meet new ones. Middle school ended and during the summer her new friend moved away leaving Renee alone and only able to contact them with email and letters. Entering high school Renee was different, she was not that strange french girl, she had changed over the summer into a beautiful young woman and her personality of avoiding people had her labeled as an ice queen, this has been her role even after she started to notice the changes about herself. Renee is also a straight A student.

Personality: Renee has been hurt a lot with having to leave friends and having them leave her, she has never been in a relationship and has a shy personality, this leads her to often push people away who try to get to know her, interpreted as giving them the cold shoulder. This is what makes people think she is the unapproachable ice queen. On her own she is more relaxed, isolation suits her. (Note: this does not mean I do not want anyone trying to be her friend, for the sake of the story force your friendship on her!!!)

Misc: Renee carries a smoking pipe she often twiddles with when she is thinking, how she obtained the pipe is a mystery. In her pockets are also some wadded up bills and a cell phone.

[Ontos]

I thought Wendigos were monstrous-looking!

Either way, I like what I see. Carry on.

[Ontos]

Also, just throwing this out.

Unlike the previous RP, your characters could have been supernatural for quite some time, though usually less than a month.