Oki doki, welp, see you tomorrow! I'll get up those final two character sheet a.s.a.p.. I can get to one tomorrow, but the other, I will wait patiently for you.

Rebel

Name: Erik Schumann
Race: Vampire
Age: 243
Height: 6”2
Weight: 167 lbs
Build: Muscular, but lean, not bulky
Hair: Light brown, usually pulled into a short ponytail that extends just past his shoulderblades.
Eyes: middle gray

Clothes: Usually he's very casual, wearing black linen pants, black running shoes, and a dark green long sleeved shirt. His resistance cell doesnt have uniforms or anything, so he wears regular items that may not be designed for combat and stealth, but that generally blend with sneaking around at night and are easy to move around in.

Accessories: A single necklace, worn under his shirt, with tough and thing cloth “chain” and a charm made of tin. The charm depicts the symbol of the resistance cell, a pentagon with three letters in the middle. X:F They stand for Xani: Freedom. The Xani cell is the name for the group that he commands.

Powers/Skills: Erik is supernaturally strong, and can move at superhuman speeds, like any vampire. All of his senses are heightened compared to those of a human, so that he can see farther and more clearly, and hear sounds from a greater distance. In addition, tastes and smells are greatly enhanced, and both positive and negative tastes and aromas have a greater effect on him. This ability can be turned into a weakness by presenting him with a grating sound, or a particularly pungent and awful smell or taste, which would be unpleasant. In the case of sounds, anything too loud could be grating and even temporarily debilitating.

General Personality: Erik is outspoken, easily angered, and often rude when discussing his beliefs. Despite this, he does try to keep his anger in check when the situation requires it, for instance if he knows that shouting off in anger will give the other side an advantage. He has a strong prejudice against most humans for what they have done to his people. As far as he is concerned, all humans are slavers who care nothing for anyone not of their kind until proven otherwise. That last bit is important, however. He will adjust his preconceptions if given enough evidence to prove that he was wrong.

Background: Erik was born a vampire, the child of two factory slaves. He was raised technically owned by the head of the factory, but the man was relatively gentle and ignored him and the other children until they got older. Then they were to learn the trade for a year and be “bonded” by the age of thirteen. Erik spent lots of his short childhood reading, learning about the world, asking questions about why slavery existed. But none of it made any sense to him. Why punish a race of people for what previous generations had done to humans? So a week before his “bonding” was supposed to occur, he ran away from the factory compound. The vampire lived on the streets for a few years, fortunate in the fact that as a vampire he needed little to eat and drink to survive. Finally he was taken in by a rebel cell, where he learned their beliefs, and gradually came to hate humans more and more. They never forced him to fight, and for several years, he wished only to learn and study with them, doing chores to earn his food and lodging while inside the compound. But eventually he wanted to be a part of the action, and finally took up arms at seventeen.

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Finally finished my character sheet. I kept putting it off because I'm in a lot of rps right now and having trouble keeping up with them all. Also I HATE CHARACTER SHEETS SO FUCKING MUCH. Ahem. But today I decided I'd kept you waiting long enough. I hope you still want to push forward with these rps, however.

Also, would you mind talking to the admins about those erroneous posts? I feel really bad asking over something so trivial. Otherwise we could always ditch this thread and I'll summarize our OOC decisions in another OOC.

I'll ask about getting them removed today, and I'm sorry you hate them so much. I'm still interested, and don't worry about the wait. I make my partners wait often too, but for different reasons. Also *Looks at your pendant description* does that mean he is only out to free Vampires? I mean, does his cell specialize in vampire rescue, or does he only really care about vampires? Just wondering :P

Ahh, you are right. I kind of blanked and forgot there were other slaves there too. I'm editing out the V in my description.

For the record, they are out to save anyone they can... and they aren't interested in killing humans. However, they won't hesitate if one gets in their way. Erik's killed humans before as part of his missions and lost no sleep over it.

Oh wait! Yes! I didn't actually check to see if they got deleted! Whoo!

Lovely! Good to know.

Name: Joseph Moreau
Race: Vampire
Age: 642 (looks early thirties)
Height: 6”4
Weight: 157 lbs
Build: Thin and fit, but few defined muscles.
Hair: Dark red, wavy, cut short to about his ears, parted down the middle.
Eyes: Blue
Skin: Pale White

Clothes: He wears an old-fashioned suit, reflecting his station as lead servant in the household, and suiting his master's tastes. His suit looks like the one in the following picture, though the rest of his appearance is totally different.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Kuroshitsuji_Volume_1_cover.jpg

Accessories: A simple leather watch, and a simple leather collar bearing a small carving of the Vandros family emblem, which he has worn for many generations.

Powers / Skills: Same as other vampires, heightened senses and strength. The binding process weakens Vampires somewhat. But they are still far more powerful than most humans, just unable (and often unwilling) to harm them. In his spare time, he has also become an excellent musician, having learned the piano and cello.

Personality: Joseph has become a kind of advisor to the men and women who have owned him in the Vandros family. He is kind, distant, respectful, and always follows orders. But, he will speak his mind if he feels his master or mistress is acting unfairly. He helped to raise many of his charges before serving them, and as such has often developed a rapport that extends beyond mere servitude to a distant friendship.

Background: He was only 70, young in Vampire years, when the humans took over. But even at that young age, he had been a typical “violent” vampire. The kind who stalked the night and sucked the blood of virgins and all. When his kind were overrun, he was as furious as anyone else, and his first binding was of the strongest variety to get him to cooperate. But over the first two hundred years or so, he began to see that humans and vampires were at least equal, and that he deserved this life for the trouble he had caused, for the lives he had taken. After the first three bindings, the Vandros family no longer found it necessary to bind him completely to a new master, and only used the milder bonding measures. He stayed with them faithfully, and had learned to play the role of the perfect servant. In his mind, new Vampires who were not around during that time, and other more peaceful species do not deserve slavery. On a whole, he thinks that the idea is deplorable. But on a personal level, in his mind he is still serving a sentence for those he killed in his early life. His life as a slave has been a good one, as all but a few of the Vandros family have been fair masters that allowed him a relatively fair schedule, living quarters, and even the freedom to pursue his own interests during his free time.

Let me pause for a giggle here *Giggles* So, he's wearing that outfit, and has the name of the character wearing them, but it looks nothing like him? Oki, I can buy that :P Sorry, don't mean to pick on you, it just made me giggle. "Name and clothes, but different physical appearance" I haven't actually watched/read Kuroshitsuji, but I hear it's good.

ANYWAYS! I think we're set for characters now. . .And I think it's almost time to start! Or is it time already. . . I think it might be! What do you think?

Believe it or not, I've never seen it. Which is why I felt comfortable using those little pieces because it wouldnt be a real copy. Heard a little about it from other rpers. The personality and appearance would be totally different since I've never actually seen the anime. I just liked the name and clothes from pictures and what I've heard of it. I'll change the name if that really bothers you. ;-)

His name is Joseph then. Edited in the CS post.

Yes, I think it's time to start.

So, want me to start since you have to start the other one?

Yes please. :-)

Is there any way I can hold off on my intro until I see yours? I dont want you to laugh at me again for not living up to your expectations.

I'll do the CSs for the third rp within the next few days, huge test coming up tomorrow night.

I'm sorry if my giggling felt mean spirited. And sure, no problem. I should get my intro here done soon. Don't worry about my expectations, just try to have fun :P

Logically, I knew it wasn't meant that way, but it did hurt my feelings a little. I really didn't think stealing name and clothes from a different character was all that bad, mainly because I don't see those things as terribly important. I think of the whole of the character as a series of experiences and emotions, the name is just a label for that set, and the clothes are whatever makes sense as dressing for it.

So yeah, I guess I'm a little afraid of what you will think now. Which historically makes it difficult for me to write. For me, this is something I do completely outside of any kind of career aspirations, since in my chosen career, I would have to do Technical writing, not fictional. Two totally different things really. It's a stress reliever, so I dont like to feel stressed about meeting someone else's expectations.

As a writer I see everything about characters important. Every part of a person makes up what they are when making up a story, or at least,t hat's how it's always made sense to me. That's why I have the character sheet I do. Each of those details are a part of the character, and having those firm and solidified in my mind helps me to see them, to understand them, and to work with them. Emotions are only a part of a character, just like the name, clothes, background, and physical appearance. True some are more prevalent than others(I think that's the right word) but it's the reason I disapprove of using other people's artworks. True, I use reference pictures sometimes, but my guys are always different, and every part of them is precious to me. I really didn't mean to be mean about the comment, it really was just a giggle for me. I just want to let you know why I have such insistence on character building and stuff like that. It's all important to me. :P

And again, don't stress. I work with all levels/types of writers so just do what makes you feel good, and I'll work with you to set up a pace and style we are both comfortable with. I'm really flexible when it comes to that part of RPing. :P I'ma go write the intro now. Not too long, right?

TShara? *Poke* *Poke* You dead? Dead is not a good way to be y'know :P

No, just got a lot going on right now. I was having trouble with a good reply for this, and even appropriately responding to our OOC conversation felt a little difficult for the moment. It's been a busy week by my standards, and it's already very difficult for me to get anything done at all. So I just need some time please.

No problem. I just worry about my partners. When they've been gone a while my over imaginative brain comes up with reasons, and not all of them pleasant, but all of them plausible, so I like to know they are not dead, hospitalized(That one has happened to me before), or otherwise incapacitated. The only thing I ask for, if gone for around a week, is a "Still alive!" in the OOC so I can stop worrying :P

Ok, well, in that case.



Struggling through the AndroidXHuman CSs I've been putting off. I hope you don't hate them too much.

Y'know, I've only ever watched others play that game, but her songs plus this most awesome animation made about the beginning of the second game(I think) and her coming back to life(In this case in the form of a beautiful woman and the robot dude is a nerdy guy) have my absolutely loving that female sounding machine computer thingy :P She rules. That, and she's evil, in that special way that makes me smile :P