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Hopefully I'm not too late to apply? I've been kind of busy; sis is graduating high school, and I've gotta be there for her, so life is a little hectic right now. Hoping this is ok.

EDIT: For some reason in every instance of the word I spelled "Somabra" "Sombrada". Idk why, probably sounds nice to my ears. Either way, I fixed it all, I think.






Name/Nicknames
Chase Amelio

Race
Werewolf

Age
28

Appearance

Human

Chase stands tall at 6'3". He has a chiseled face often adorned with a light shadow. By nature, his dark hair, chin length, is straight but wild, a tangled and frustrating mess when unkempt. Chase has taken to oiling it down with gel and slicking it back, as stiff and neat as it will go. Even then it has been known to fall out of place, a sorry metaphor for his life. He has bright blue eyes, thick eyebrows, and a sharp nose. Chase is physically fit to an extent; his body is decorated with a few scars from his brief run with the Hunters.

Werewolf

Chase's lycan form is a tall, strapping creature, standing about two inches higher than his's human height. It's fur color are various shades of a creamy gold, dulled by overlaying hues of dark brown.


Personality

Chase has a gruff but friendly way to him. He is not easily trusted, though a good deal of it has to do with his job. He can be stubborn to the point where no amount of arguing can make him change his mind (next best solution would be to beat him senseless). He has a calm outer appearance, even when panicking, once again due to his job. Chase displays a good level of independence and leadership in the right situations, but as a man that prefers to stand back and watch events unfold, he will often give the leadership wheel to someone else, opting to work on his own. He's not adverse to partnerships or long standing friendships, but he's found they're hard to come by when you have a secret like his. It doesn't seem like a smart idea, letting just anyone into his personal life. He can be a charmer, and sometimes looses himself to the other pleasures life has to offer before getting back on track. As often as he enjoys friendship, Chase also revels in solitude. In a strange mix between the desire to socialize and the desire to strike out on his own and leave behind any and all problems, his or Santa Somabra's.

As a child, Chase was known as a troublemaker, often sticking his nose where it didn't belong. Even up to today, he's been known to be a bit too inquisitive in places he shouldn't be. His excuse is "it's all a part of the job."

Bio

Born and bred in Santa Somabra, Chase grew up in the rough hands of the city's life. Raised in a middle class family (albeit a struggling one) he counts himself among the blessed in this city, praising his hardworking parents for the ability to provide their children with comfortable housing and food to eat every day.

For as long as Chase can remember, he's been investigating places he shouldn't. The nosey, trouble making child out of himself and his younger brother, he was the leader, neigh the catalyst for any and all adventures taken in childhood. If life was boring, Chase made it exciting. Days with his brother were spent at ease, running around the neighborhood exploring any and all nooks and crannies that were to be explored.

Of course, lot of kids have their rebellious phases. Not all, but Chase was, unfortunately, not among those. For the early part his childhood, he remembers sticking closer to the inner parts of the city. Even his neighborhood was borderline skyscraper (poor people skyscrapers to be exact...so like tall, red brick apartment buildings). Remember all those adventures? They weren't without copious amounts of reprimanding from his parents about the danger of the city and the luck of their two children. But sometimes luck is not enough.

To get straight to the point, a rebellious adventure at fifteen years old to the outskirts of the city left Chase with lycanthropy. Even today, he's not sure why it didn't kill him. He was small, scrawny, killable, edible if we're being frank. Easy prey. But it let him live. Chase likes to think it was an accident. Some poor wild uncontrollable beast out on a rampage. It had probably struck him in its fury and in that same fury, quickly forgotten the poor scraggly boy it had attacked.

He kept it secret for as many months as he could. He would leave home for days to run as a man beast in the emptier parts of the cities. His temper spiked out of control in that time of depression and frustration. And life became a blur, a sad pattern of destruction and blood in the wake of whatever path he took.

In those scary months of isolation, Chase was given an in depth look of the crime world of Santa Somabra, a world that had always loomed over his head. Crime was everywhere; the antics of the various gangs and organizations of Somabra had not escape his or anyone else's notice. But Chase had never experienced it. Adventurous as he was, his parents had kept a tight enough grip on his life to shelter him as much as they could from the very worse. But with some amount of freedom and his new "abilities," the reeking crime life of Santa Somabra began to unravel around him.

For a small while, Chase stayed with the Hunters, living a somewhat vagabond life. During this time he lived a hectic and unhealthy life trying to balance some semblance of normal life with the savage killing sprees of the Hunters. Since leaving he has few, if any real, friends among them.

In time, when he regained control of himself as a human, as an individual with personality and independence, Chase made the conscious decision to become a part of the crime fighting force in Santa Somabra. It seemed stupid and hard, the whole thing, and all the while he worked his way up, he would wonder for what reason he had chosen this life. Not to mention the fact that he seemed like a total hypocrite. No stranger to needless murder, his rise to detective status was almost ironic, if not, subtly corrupt.

There were a variety of reasons he chose this life, some admirable, others not so much. A point to his moral compass for desiring to fight crime, at least to some degree, in Santa Somabra. But there were other benefits. Who would suspect a Santa Somabra detective to be a werewolf?

No one, that's who. Chase does his job admirably enough, sniffing out criminals (both figuratively and literally) to the best of his ability. Its perhaps wrong on his part that his effort will drop to 0% when he believes the criminals aren't worth the pursuing; crime bosses too big for the as of yet comparatively weak (and probably corrupt) SSPD to fight. And he's has his moments. He's no stranger to working with criminals to get what he wants.

But it's all in a day's work anyway.


Other

  • Chase lives alone in a surprisingly neat (thanks for the manners mom and dad) one bedroom apartment. The bachelor life is fun, kinda.
  • He has two mutts for pets. One big headed pitbull looking brindle pup, and an older black lab mix looking dog. They're illegal in the apartment, but surprisingly quiet, so all is good.
  • His brother is the only one that knows about his lycanthropy. His parents still live a blissful life in deceit.
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A bit late on this bandwagon, but I saw you all talking about established relationships so I thought I'd add my two cents.

I sort of imagined Lilith as the "anti-social slaughterer" kinda girl. She's been changed so much into this gruesome killer for the Reapers that she really doesn't get out much, if at all. So anything anyone knows of her, information wise, would likely be from fellow Reapers, or if they somehow knew her during her average drug junkie days, before she became a Reaper.

Though, I wouldn't be surprised if a few people knew of her exploits, given she likes to leave her tiger face business card on all her targets. After all, you don't get a name like "The Predator" without a few people noticing.
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@Strawberry425 Chase is accepted. Welcome to the party! Feel free to put him in the character tab.
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Right when I finished Max's banner, too.
I'll get started on Chase, another werewolf for the pack!

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@Rockette Thank you so much! It's amazing. And I love the line from the Vampyre, very nice touch.
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So glad you like it, I've mostly been looking up poems when I can't pull a quote from the character sheets.

I finished this one rather quickly, so here's one for Chase.
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@Mystic Hmm, that is something to consider indeed. I was wondering how all our characters, from such backgrounds, would eventually meet (or not). This setting isn't as conducive to conversation as most, in fact, I bet talking to a stranger is like playing a risky game of russian roullete here. I mean you never know who will shoot you, send you flowers, drug you or rat you out just for saying the 'wrong words'. Right?



I should really write down that my first post may not be happening in Real Time IC, it's probably maybe a night or at least a few hours ago. But I don't know where to indicate.
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If there are characters who like old, exotic antiques, like possibly Maharet (who is an old antique herself) then maybe they've heard of the place.




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@fantasyfan28
Look! New PMJB video!
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@Kingfisher Thank you! He is put. Going to work on a post ASAP

@Rockette Also thank you! It's great! I'm still not quite up to speed yet so I'm not sure why we have banners, but I still think its awesome.

I plopped my CS in here last night and then dumped my sorry behind in bed and went to sleep. The black bags I have right now...are actually kind of subsiding. But before they were insane. Either way, I'm about to play the catch up game. So I'm off to read all the IC posts and put one of my own in. I just finished reading everyone else's CSs, so I shall conjecture on what ways Chase could possibly interact with or have any relationship of some sort with other characters. And, so I'm off.
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I enjoyed that renditon of Boulevard of broken dreams, I was listening to it whilst I was writing my post lol.

I might have tied Nightshade in with the Canonness in some way as well. I mean 300 years is quite a long time when you think of who my "elf lady" might have had a run in with lol.

The daugther of the former mafia boss might also be interested to know Nightshade knew her daddy lol. Just to make a couple of connnections available to those who wanted ideas on who or how etc.

In reality, Nightshade probably knew of most of the characters, parents, grandparents etc unless they are older then they might have known her when she was but a wee elfling lol

Anywho, back to my cave.
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I still haven't started on a post yet. I should probably do that soon. Glad to see we have another werewolf joining us, though.
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never mind
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@Kingfisher

So I had a lot of free time on my hands, so I thought I'd write up a location and short lore on the city itself. I felt it necessary, since we're currently map-less.

I'm leaving most of the locations with very vague, simple descriptions, and not actually going into high detail about it. Leaves more room for creative freedom. What places I have gone into detail about are the places I feel require the most fleshing out.

If anyone else has things to add, feel free to post. The more we have, the better.


  • East coast United States. Akin to San Francisco in terms of size and population density.
  • Divided into two main halves: Upper and Undercity.






I really appreciate the effort put in here, and it all looks solid, but if anyone wants to do anything like this in the future then please reach out to me first. I don't mind little bits of worldbuilding, but as the GM I feel like mapping out the entire city should be something I'm a part of that. I understand the need for an city map though, which I'll get working on soon. Oh, Santa Somabra is on the west coast, as stated in the intro OOC post.
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I wonder, it is easier for everyone if dialouge or whichever is coloured coded?
Last time I was in a group, the BBcode was a poor shamble of what it is now. And I noticed that some of you have done some, so it made me curious.

Oh, also:

@Strawberry425 -Oh, it's something I thought about doing, considering the large number of characters we're sure to have [I double up more often than not, for example] and I love making graphics so I talked about it with King and viola - character banners! Might make more, later on, for certain areas - iunno yet.

@fantasyfan28 - I consider that Night and Maharet would know one another, being some of the older cast, there's no doubt they've had dealings in the past. Not sure exactly what, but, their ages are enough that they've crossed paths before Maharet slept and such.
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(This post is an example of posting while sleep deprived. What should be in IC was posted here in OOC. Bear with me as I edit.)

(Done!)

I'd like to know too, like @Rockette said, if there is a preference amongst everyone for colour coded speech or the plain white text? Heaven knows I'm running out of descriptors for every line to show whose saying what.
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@Rockette @potatochipgolem I'm kind of on the fence when it comes to using colour. Sometimes I won't, sometimes I will.

It really depends on each person's individual preference towards their own IC posts. I don't usually find it hard to distinguish between characters, the colour really just adds flair and draws one's attention. So I don't mind either way what you guys choose to go with, either colour, or non-colour. :D
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@LoneSparrow I see. That's relieving to know. Maybe I'll reserve it for the collaborative posts when differentiation becomes crucial. :].
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Hmm, that's a thought.
I might do so when I get into heavy dialouge, which will probably be in my next posts! And for collaborations, I just know some find colored coding to be annoying - for whatever reason.
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