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Name: Clarinet Melody Mozart
Nicknames/Aliases: Net
Gender: Female
Age: 20

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Personality: Lover of all things lacy and lovely, Clarinet is a lot of a girly girl. She adores anything cute, and anything pretty. She's a dreamer, and a romantic, and a little bit spoiled. Perhaps because of her name, Clarinet adores music and dance. She'll pause in the street to listen to people busking, and will sing or dance with children at the drop of a hat. A little flighty, and easily distracted, Clarinet is often likened to a small, beautiful, slightly annoying, but pleasant to listen to bird.

Skills: Clarinet is skilled at blowing sour notes on her namesake, and pulling sweet ones from strings. While blowing is not in her talents, her long slender fingers are perfect for almost any stringed instrument, bowed or plucked, and she is very quick to pick up on most of them. Her favorite is the harp, and the most practical is the guitar.
Socially, Clarinet excels. She can make a new friend anywhere she goes, and pull genuine smiles from even the Grinch, before his heart grew.
Net has a talent for dealing with masses of small children without feeling an urge to strangle them.
Net can knit.

History: Clarinet is the only daughter of a wealthy business man and a hippy mother. Both in stature and in practice. Her father was away on business when her mother was rushed into the hospital to go into labor three weeks early. Net arrived perfectly safe, and with a very 'unique' name filled with 'song energy' and 'peace bringing skills'. Clarinet had no idea what that meant, but she loved to listen to how her mother had named her, so she didn't mind the pretty terms. Her father was slightly less pleased, but enjoyed her mother's hippy ways, and after a night or two of wrestling around, submitted to the mother's decision.

Clarinet grew up happy. She dreamed of being a ballerina, but hated the shoes with the blocks in the toes, so she never went to class. She wasn't much fond of the teacher, either, who pronounced her name 'Clar-in-it' because she refused to accept that a child could be named for an instrument. Other than her one teacher, however, Clarinet has always loved her name.

Growing up was very easy for Net, and she lived a life of privilege. Her parents shielded her from hurt and destruction, and built her a little artificial shelter to hide in whenever the world turned bad. Net usually wears rose tinted glasses, and only takes them off to put on violet tinted glasses for a change of style. Fashionable and friendly, she's everyone's slightly ditzy girl next door.

Not feeling she had much need to go on to college, Clarinet was none too picky about her choice in schools, and simply decided to take business classes at the local community college. She misses most of them.

Other: Net has a mild allergy to strawberries, which she ignores in the manner of a cat. Net also goes into hysterics if people break laws, fearing the absolute worst punishment for every simple crime. In middle school she had to be sent home from school, sobbing uncontrollably because her friend asked to copy her homework at lunch. She has gotten somewhat better at controlling herself in these situations, but it still very quick to upset about such things.

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Name: Theo Cyprus
Nicknames/Aliases: Cy / Ciro
Gender: Male
Age: 17

Appearance:
Theo stands at 5’7 and has an athletic frame of a lean gymnast. His hair for the most part is semi-short and messy with dark auburn locks that are hard to tame. With strands of curls going whichever directions, he either gels it back or just leave it be, depending on his mood. A light set of freckles are dusted across the bridge of his nose and cheeks.

When choosing his clothes, a personal preference for him is various jackets, fur-trimmed vests, and long sleeves shirts – all things that you often see one wear during the fall or winter due to his poor blood circulation.

Personality:
Although easygoing and respectful, Theo can seem rather indifferent and standoffish at first. He is awfully calm in most situations and has a tendency to nod patiently – with disinterest – to all things not relevant to him. Impartial to most things in life, he hardly ever speaks out and remains in the background. In truth, the silence stems from his indecisiveness and a personal habit of taking situations lightly when the problem itself is a lot more dire than he makes it out to be. He hates to make decisions without the opinion of others and often frets when alone, wondering what to do next while hiding his anxiety with a confident persona. To him, the world is all gray with the roads too blurred so why not just walk down the path that people had already set for him?

Despite his cold demeanor, Theo holds a surprising yet hidden amount of optimism and patience. He cares for the feelings of others – which may cause him to sugarcoat his words – and is an acute listener when needed. Having no qualms with taking orders if it's for the better good, he is quite dependable when he takes responsibility of a project or a person, doing whatever is necessary to see to his duties with persistence.

Skills:
Theo is notably athletic and flexible as he was once a gymnast since the young age of 5, He can work his way through vaults, tumbles, and bars with relative ease after rigorous training at gyms and high competitions. Utilizing his skills in hand-eyes coordination and balance, he can swing his way around a pole and land on his feet without so much of a struggle. His upper body strength allows him the ability to do multiple pull-ups and carry heavy objects. High pain tolerance is another subject to point out after many mistakes and accidents he had to endure in order to perfect his flips and explosive tricks.

As for skills outside of athletics, only his poker plays are worthy a mention. With a natural disinterest in almost just about everything, it wasn’t hard for Theo to be known his poker face and carefully crafted expressions to fool his enemies into folding or betting it all. His skills in poker are not exceptional, but they’re decent enough.

History:
Theo was born the youngest of his three siblings – the first two oldest being twin brothers while the third was an adopted sister. Both of his parents were the breadwinners of the family, providing for their needs and financing any extracurricular activities the children might be in. A mother who's a teacher and a father as a coach, his family may not have been the richest, but they were well put with their current income as middle class folks.

Ever since from a young age, Theo had always surrounded by athletes and a home that have shelves filled with golden trophies. With his father being the high school’s soccer coach, his sister as a professional gymnast, and the twins being renowned tennis players with multiple medals beneath their belt, Theo’s future career was pretty much set in stone early in his life. Sports were held on a pedestal in this family and often associated it with pride and good health. It was also made as a way to bond with the family as, whenever given the chance, his mother would bring Theo high on the stands and watch every game his siblings were in. Ironically, this made other's view Theo as inferior when compared to his siblings, the benchmark of success already too high by the time he was born. His parent's high expectations didn't help as well.

When Theo turned 5 years old, his sister retired from balance beams and bars as soon as her liver started to fail due to a genetic disease. Jealous of the twins who share the same sport together and could still play, His sister convinced their parents to enroll Theo into gymnastics to continue in her name; thus, resulting in his current status as a gymnast with his sister being both his advisor and coach.

Other:
Theo has a good sense of beat and rhythm since his gymnastics training called for it, but his musical talents are practically nonexistent. At most, he can play the drums barely decently.

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Well, I like both character sheets. Just get the sample posts in at some point and I'll talk to Martyr about if we're continuing our search or leaving it at this. I think we're both getting anxious to start things.
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Alright, my sample post is up. Thanks for waiting for that.
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Yes, thank you. I have a much clearer idea of what kind of RP this will be, and I'm interested.

Name: Vladmir Krasus
Nicknames/Aliases: Vladdy (a nickname he personally detests but deals with it)
Gender: Male
Age: 22

Appearance: Vladmir stands at 6'1", with a thin but healthy build. He has jet black with hints and streaks of silver straight hair that extends a bit past the shoulders. He has no piercings, although there is an opening for one on his left ear. He has silver blueish eyes that match with his expression for a mature and elegant face. Vladmir is garbed in a red leather tailcoat, usually buttoned, with a black vest and white dress shirt underneath, black dress pants and dress boots. He has a pocket watch that he greatly admires, for it is something ancient that took quite some time to find. He keeps it chained and hidden to his inside tailcoat pocket. After all, he truly wants to appear elegant and refined.

Personality: Vladmir has a unique personality, one hardly seen nowadays. He doesn't care for fame and fortune much, only to enjoy the rest of his time in peace. And elegance of course. The one thing he truly values above all else is appearing refined, though he has his reasons. Vladmir is usually courteous and polite, but is surprisingly easy to knock off his groove. When this happens, he will act very flustered, usually freezing up or try to hide his face. It is always an amusing sight for everyone else when he becomes embarrassed. Hardly angry, highly tolerant with exceptions, sexually uninterested, he is indeed a terribly, terribly boring person, but incredibly easy and enjoyable to torment and pick on. But he doesn't care. Vladmir only wants to remain unknown, if he can. Fighting for survival.

Skills:
Charisma: Because of his appearance and how he acts, Vladmir can be very charismatic, and he uses this ability well, able to lie with remarkable skill, few being able to tell it as false. This includes his ability to ignore anything that he never wanted to see to begin with. He can also persuade with relative, which comes hand in hand with his intelligence, but almost always fails against the hard headed and stubborn.
Wavering Luck: For some reason, he has usually been incredibly lucky, but at other times, rather unlucky. But this luck only came to him in life when he needed it least; After his shameful past. With his grace, he can often react to seriously lucky or unlucky situations, used to the random occurrences.
Premonition: Having gone through horrid experiences in the past, he now can recognize when anything bad will happen. The hair will stand up on the back of his neck, a shiver down his spine, and his wrist will itch uncontrollably. He has honed this ability to be able to use it efficiently, being able to avoid the accident should his luck allow him.

History: Vladmir wasn't always... well... Vladmir. He had a past life, one which he regrets greatly, for it was filled with one of today's greatest common enemies; shame and self hatred. Anyone else would think it was a normal and enjoyable upbringing, but half the stuff he did in the past for some reason he just absolutely despises and regrets. Such as the reckless teenage years, where he was often labelled as a loser or desperate wannabe, and the pathetic childhood age, where he was a self centered brat who only really cared about himself. Now that he is older, he's realized just how lame those selfies are, how pitiable his attempts at acting cool were, and the dread of the Chalkboard Eraser Incident (Never forget '03). And so, with an impressive amount of money he "borrowed" from his parents, he fled his hometown, even further, going as far as hundreds of miles so he could forget it all. He changed his name, dyed his hair, and now acts as he believes is elegant, not caring anymore to be cool, only hoping no one would recognize him.

Other: He doesn't have many hobbies, aside from reading or just simple thinking. He is rather frail, so most hits while usually end up taking him out. His wallet is usually filled with money, having stolen quite the small fortune from his rich parents.



Is this acceptable?
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My sample post is done and is currently in my previous post. Thanks for the wait.
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Well, I believe we're going with Bleu Chess for this one. While both characters were interesting, the whole premonition thing was a little bit worrying for us as well as the way the sample post went. For one, it sounds like it'd be close to magic in the sense that he can just sense when something bad would happen. Magic is being given on a luck based system. Along with that, the idea that he knows when bad things will happen kind of defeats the purpose of what we want to happen. It's too easy to avoid everything. So we were a bit worried about that.

Along with that, the sample post was worrying for the sake that he just knew he had a past life. It was stated that you have odd dreams that you can't piece together easily. So, he wouldn't know that much about the situation. Overall, we were both kind of worried about letting someone like that into the RP. So we're gonna choose Theo for our last slot.

Tiger was one of the ones who were accepted privately and there's one more person that we're waiting on who has also already been approved. So once that last one comes in, we can set up a thread and start things.
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Ah. I didn't know that that kind of thing would be off limits. I was thinking that the way it would work is he would have a bad feeling about stuff, and it'd depend on his luck if he could avoid the situation or not. I also didn't notice the part about the past lives as hazy dreams, so it was my fault on both accounts. Sorry. I hope the RP goes well for you all
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“Trust is the only currency I recognize. If one can’t trust others, all other currencies become worthless.”
Name: Gilbert Solberg
Nicknames/Aliases: Gil
Gender: Male
Age: 27

Appearance:
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Personality:
Gil has an ever present, but strange sense of duty and honor. He has no problem manipulating and destroying those around him for his own gain, and yet if he makes an agreement with someone he always keeps not just the letter but the spirit of the deal. Possibly an undiagnosed sociopath. Gil believes in the laws of Economics and Game Theory are the only true laws of human discourse. A worshipper of the concept of Enlightened Self-interest, to Gil the greatest evil is not murder or thievery, but going back on your word.

Skills:

Physical Abilities: Gil worked a construction job when he was a little younger, and has taken the effort to keep in shape ever since. He is in good physical condition over all, but tends to be better at heavy lifting and tasks related to arm strength, rather than being fast.

Mental Swiftness: Gilbert is capable of amazing feats of mental agility. In addition to being extremely smart in general, Gil almost thrives under pressure. Gil is rarely taken off guard, and tends to come to solutions quickly and effectively even in the most pressing circumstances.

Deep Analysis: Gil tends to be good at approaching a problem and figuring out hidden implications of any information presented. However, this also comes with a weakness. Gil tends to come to some conclusions with paltry evidence, and has a hard time acknowledging that his solution might be wrong. When new evidence comes to light he will rethink his position, but he tends to overcommit based on conclusions he’s come to without considering the idea that it might be wrong.

Statistical Anomaly: Gil tends to be good at calculating odds (and other numbers).

History:
Gil was a promising student with a bright future. Nearly perfect grades, a 2100 on his SATs, and an acceptance letter to just about any college he applied to. However, he was never given a chance to use this advantage. On the day he graduated high school, his younger brother Alter Solberg collapsed, his breath ragged and heart palpitating. He was rushed to the hospital, and put on a respirator. He continued to have intermittent attacks, with no diagnosis in sight.

As the hospital bills climbed, Gil realized he would have to go into the workforce full time to help cover his brother’s medical bills. So he abandoned his college prospects, and came to a friend of his father who worked in the construction industry. Gil was a spindly little bookworm, but the man knew the kid’s work ethic was too great to let him fall behind. Gil took heavier loads, worked longer hours, and took fewer breaks than anyone else on site. Eventually his arms hurt less, and his lungs wouldn’t gasp for air.

It wasn’t enough. Even with the extra income the family continued to spiral down into debt. Alter continued to get worse. His only hope was a specialist the family couldn’t afford. So Gil decided to get the money. One way or the other.

And get it he did. In cash. And no one ever figured out how he did it.

But all the money in the world couldn’t save Alter.

Gil never did go to college. He put his money in an investment account, and continues to receive mysterious payments that no one can track. He pays his taxes, and no one can prove the money is dirty. He walks around the world listless, gambling mostly. He tends to put money on the longshot and lose it all with neither a care nor a smile.

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The OOC and IC are officially up. Hero was the other person we had accepted privately, and we're ready to move ahead now.

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