Name: Jackal Christopher Abel

Age: 18

Appearance:





Personality: Jackal is a hot headed kid with a lot of energy and a rebellious attitude. He tends to be pretty slick and cocky but has a short temper, especially when someone pokes a whole in his ego. He has a unique attachment to his shade, viewing it more as a companion then a tool or demon. He looks down on others who dont show the same value to their shades.

Shade Name: Kilgarrah

Shade Abilities:

Heatproof
Kilgarrah can essentially absorb or channel heat away from his host, as if the host himself was fire proof. This method works even if the host is doused in molten iron.

Fire Spawn
Kilgarrah can create flames within his shade range, around the host, or shoot projectiles of fire such as fire breathe and fireballs. With use of manifestation fire breathing can become much more effective. However, the flames take a great deal if effort to produce from both the shade and the host, overuse of it can lead to exhaustion.

Manifestation evoking
Kilgarrah can vanish and recreate himself as enlarged body portions of his original form in a ghastly and transparent form. For example, a giant tail or claw. Doing this can be used to swing or hit things with great force though the manifestation wont last longer then a few seconds. He can also be used alternatively as a shield by either blocking with an arm or making serpentine manifestations around the host. Manifestations can only be used by using the host as an epicenter or source for it, essentially making Jackal vulnerable unless it is a defensive technique. However kilgarrah can not be in his normal firm while manifesting this ability, and cannot perform more then one manifestation at a time.

Personal Skills:

Athletic: Being well fit he can run fairly fast with plenty of endurance.

Pain tolerance: With frequent accidents or street fights occurring in his past, Jackal can definitely take a beating and not say "uncle".

Hardcore parkour:
His fair share of running from trouble across city obstacles has given him a nice talent of maneuvering through dangerous leaps and structures.
Street fighter:
With both the effects of his shade and his own physical finesse Jackal has a balanced blend of offensive and defensive capabilities, filling either role exceptionally well at any moment which certainly makes him a tough opponent. His past experiences in fighting other juvenile delinquents in the street strengthens this trait.

Intimidation:
Being raised on the streets and having a dragon for a shade Jackal knows definitely how to strike fear into most of your typical street thugs.

Creative:
To survive in the city against thugs and punks without any weapons all by yourself. Your mind tends to train itself more creative or unconventional methods to get out of a bad situation or turn a fight to your favor. This creativity will especially shine in combat whether it being a unique use of his shade's ability or the surrounding environment, or both.

Flaws/Insecurities:

Honorbound:
Jackal is too prideful to let himself stay out of a fight between two shades, and he believes that kilgarrah shouldn't be burdened with all the work. As a result and his experience as a street fighter Jackal's typical strategy involves him getting dangerously up close and personal to his opponents, though he will also mix it up In between rushing an opponent to blast his targets with fire or use his shade to deal with an enemy's shade so he can deal with the enemy himself. While him and his shade practically fight in unison, this puts him at a far greater risk then the typical shade user.

Season moody
hates cold weather and doesn't like going out of its below room temperature outside. He also tends to shift from a rather active individual into a moody and inactive kid when the weather is cold and/or miserable.


Pride
He has a large ego that suits his tend-to-be cocky nature. Arguably his biggest weakness since this is the cause for poor decision making in many different situations, overestimating himself and his shade, or underestimating others or a challenge at hand.

Stubborn
If he gets an idea he will most likely stick with it too the end, even if the odds are stacked against it. He also hates having to give up or listen to others' advice

too cool for school
he often has no problem ignoring the law or orders from other should he have reason to do so, or if he's feeling lazy. Rarely will he consider the consequences.

Greedy
He's not a thief, but to him its "Finder's keepers". Rarely will he give something up from his person easily.

Name:
Kaitlyn Watson

Age:
28

Appearance:
Kaitlyn isn't exactly dressed to impress. She wears black military-style pants tucked into large combat boots, topped off with a black sports bra. She also has a leg holster on her right leg in which she carries an untraceable firearm, and further down her leg is a knife holster with a tactical knife. She does have other outfits, and a couple of coats and hoodies, but this is her favorite, so she has multiple pairs of each article in the same color. As for her body, she's a staggering six-foot-three woman with a muscular, but not swole, build, despite having a relatively curvy frame. Although caucasian, she has very tanned skin, so you wouldn't be blamed for thinking she's Latino. Her hair is dark brown, almost black, and cut short for a woman, only reaching just past her ears. Her hair is also unkempt pretty much all the time, and taking a brush to it is next to impossible without loads of hair conditioner. Her eyes are a deep blue color, and in the right they look almost purple, like a demon's.

Personality:
At the center of who she is is a stark constrast in self-esteem and self-confidence. The woman has very high confidence, going into fights or talking to people without a doubt in her mind that she's going to be successful to some degree. But on the flipside, she has dreadfully low self-esteem, thinking of herself as something less than human; a monster. She feels she doesn't really deserve to live, nor that there's any real hope she could possibly redeem herself or become a good person. Of course, Kaitlyn wishes to be free from her nightmare of a life, and silently pleas for a savior, but that doesn't change that she doesn't think it'll ever come.

That's not to say she doesn't have a will to live, but hers is more instinctual than a lot of others. In a life-or-death situation, she doesn't actually think, "I want to make it out alive." She just kind of... does it. And the fact she's survived this long makes her genuinely believe she has the worst luck in the world, because she's forced to keep living, through a combination of her body practically acting on its own to save her and "bad luck" (read: really good luck).

Around people, she acts calm and cool, with a tinge of snark, sass, and sarcasm. She's rather blunt and rude, not really treating people with very much kindness at all unless she takes some kind of interest in someone for some reason (which basically doesn't happen). Especially when she's about to kill them, or commit some crime; she's remorseless, essentially, feeling very little as a result of either killing someone or ruining their life. And it's not necessarily out of spite for the world; she's simply apathetic to the plight of humans in general. And this is why she thinks she's a monster; when she hears of a tragedy, she doesn't care. Same when she causes one herself. Her emotions don't function like a normal human being's; she's lost something essential to being human, and she can't figure out what it is.

And lastly, she's not super hard to get angry. However, pushing her over the edge is a difficult task. Insulting her abilities is a surefire way to get her pissed at you. But to get her raging, you have to bring up her troubled youth, insult her father, and most importantly, side with her mother. But, who knows what the RP will bring! People who've seen her get angry enough describe her as developing the countenance of a demon and giving off an aura of killing intent that's palpable and suffocating. Although, this doesn't happen very often at all, because angering her to this point is extremely difficult. It's only happened twice in her life.

History:
You normally hear about an abusive, alcoholic father or stepfather that beats his wife and kid in backstories, especially for tragic characters such as Kaitlyn. However, this was very much the other way around during the woman's younger years. Her mother was alcoholic and did drugs and was the abuser in the family, scaring her father into staying with her despite almost daily beatings. She treated Kaitlyn even worse, having wanted a boy because she wanted to raise one to be an athlete, but unwilling to go through with an abortion because of her Christian faith. So, at an early age, she would regularly neglect Kait, leaving up solely to her father to feed her. As she grew older, Kaitlyn's mother began to beat her, growing more and more abusive as time passed.

But, eventually, Kaitlyn's father grew tired of it and bought a gun shortly after Kaitlyn's fourteenth birthday. But the mother found out and in a fit of rage shot Kaitlyn's father. In reaction, Kaitlyn stabbed her in the back with a knife from the kitchen and then shot her in the head. She just so happened to be wearing gloves after a cold day, so her fingerprints didn't show up and it was written up as a murder-suicide, while Kaitlyn was put into foster care.

It was too late, however, to undo the damage her mother had caused and the trauma that came with killing someone for the first time. And instead of allowing people to help her, Kaitlyn turned to gang violence and discovered she had a knack for combat. She got involved in progressively more and more dangerous things, culminating in her current job as a "fixer," a person who "fixes" any problems for a price, whether that be getting rid of a loudmouth or kidnapping someone who needs to be taught a lesson. Kait actually makes a fair amount of money doing this, but prefers to live in cheap accommodations, and never for very long at a time; in fact, she moves from place to place fairly regularly.

Recently, on the search for a man who skipped town, she came to Mercer City, and acquired a strange new ability. And in light of an increasing crime rate and crazy folks rambling about gods, she found this rather strange and has taken it upon herself to investigate just what the hell is going on in this place.

Shade Name:
「Animal I Have Become」, after the Three Days Grace song of the same name.

Shade Appearance:
AIHB starts out looking like a "normal" human female slightly larger than Kaitlyn, except nude (without any "naughty bits") and completely monochromatic minus glowing purple eyes. However, the angrier Kaitlyn gets, the more demonic her shade grows. Its skin turns a deep, blood red as it grows scales, claws, horns, and fangs. In its final "form," its face is replaced with a horned cow skull, while black ridges grow on the back of its arms and along its spine.

Shade Powers:
As Kaitlyn gets angrier, her shade grows stronger and faster. However, it also becomes much harder to control, and until Kaitlyn learns to control it, it'll begin acting independently of her will. In its base form, she can have her shade walk long distances; its only real use is scouting, albeit slowly. It can also use light weapons to kill normal people from afar. Her stand also has the ability to manipulate anger, although she has yet to discover this ability. However, she sometimes does it unconsciously, but not to a very noticeable degree. It only works well on weaker-willed people, though it's possible for her to increase this ability's power through practice.

It should be noted that the transformation is continual and more of a sliding scale than a set number of different forms, although it does have what can be considered a final form since it stops changing at that point.

Destructive Power:
It starts out as a D, about as physically powerful as a child and thus able to do whatever a child is capable of, but when it gets to its final form its strength jumps up to an A+ ranking, capable of destructive output that surpasses Star Platinum.

Speed:
It starts out at E, being able to walk slowly, but at Kaitlyn's angriest it has an A rating, being able to punch about as fast as Star Platinum.

Range:
This goes from a B - being able to walk anywhere within two hundred feet of Kaitlyn. She can manipulate the environment and set traps, use physical weapons to try and kill people, and stuff like that.

Durability:
At its base, it gets a C, being about as durable as Kaitlyn herself is. In AIHB's final form, it jumps up to a B, making it somewhat of a glass cannon considering how strong other shades can potentially be.

Precision:
This stat starts out at a solid B, allowing for a decent amount of marskmanship for her stand. However, by the time the stand is in its final form, precision has been knocked down to a D, meaning it basically just attacks wildly.

Developmental Potential:
This gets a B because there is a yet undiscovered power, and Kaitlyn has the potential to control her stand better by focusing and channeling her anger instead of letting it consume her.

Drawbacks:
Unless she gets angry, Kaitlyn can't use her stand in one-on-one combat and must either run away or depend on her own physical body to do the fighting. On the flipside, if she IS angry and wants to fight, she needs to be very close to her enemies, which means having to possibly walk into traps or into the range of very dangerous abilities. Plus, it's hard to get her angry enough to unlock the full power of her shade. Not only that, but it's very unlikely she'll gain full control over her stand.

Manifestation of Flaws:
Kaitlyn thinks she lacks something essential to being human, and that a monster resides within her; her shade's black and white color is representative of her lacking that essential element, and the purple eyes represents the monster trapped inside her. She's also at her most monstrous when she's the most angry, and so the same goes for the stand. Since anger is more or less a sliding scale, so is the transformation of her stand.

Her base shade's ability to travel far and effectively manipulate the environment is symbolic of Kaitlyn's belief that she just keeps on keeping on despite what she actually wants (which is death), as well as her search for the critical component that she lacks.

Personal skills:
-Lockpicking.
-Information gathering.
-Proficiency in hand-to-hand combat.
-Proficiency with pistols.
-Proficiency with melee weapons (bats, knives, brass knuckles, etc.).
-Improvisation during combat.
-Strong and fast (but not superhumanly so).

Weaknesses:
-Can be overconfident and underestimate opponents.
-Just as susceptible to wounds as any other human.
-She's a bigger target because of her body size.
-She's often reckless in combat.
-Despite proficiency in hand-to-hand combat, she doesn't have actual skill or technique; it's just straight-up brawling.

Flaws/Insecurities:
-Kaitlyn can be overconfident.
-She believes that she's subhuman and a monster.
-When she gets REALLY angry, she totally loses control of herself.
-She's a remorseless killer.
-She just doesn't give a damn.
-She doesn't work well with others.
-It's difficult for her to make personal connections.

Name: Lilith Jukodo



Age: 23

Shade's name: Calhoun (Of Celtic Origin meaning Warrior)


Shade's abilities: At the start, Calhoun starts out almost like a defensive Shade with a mask where a face would be. During the period in which the mask is in place, the Shade is diligent in protecting the intended target. When the Mask breaks, or is willingly removed from Calhoun, the Shade goes berserk, the attack raising exponentially, yet its defense drops leaving it as a glass cannon and ensuring that Lilith needs to chose her battles carefully when alone.

Character traits: Lilith is known for her extremely flexible moral standards

Positive:

• Adaptable
• Healthy
• High Stamina

Negative:

• Aggressive (Randomly)
• Deceitful
• Sadistic

Personality: Often seen as a pretty face, Lilith is able to get by with smiles and kind words in order to mask her real self. In an attempt to hide her real self, she puts on a kind facade in an attempt to hide her unstable mind from those who are around her. On occasionally her psychosis shows through and she becomes far more aggressive than she intends to be, often scaring people and giving her the appearance of a bipolar female or someone who suffers from MPD.

Skills:

• Cooking
• First Aid
• Survival
• Musician
• Being able to remain ridiculously calm

Insecurities: Oh no… is my facade slipping? Can they see me for who I really am? No… no they didn’t notice that… good, they don’t expect a thing, they still think I’m a sweet woman with nothing to hide… yes… nothing to hide at all. No… no don’t pay too much attention to what I said, don’t read into it… come on, I don’t want to have to hurt you… just believe I am as you see me and not as I really am.

Name: Uriel Jukobo



Age: 23

Shade's name: Aasim (Of African Origin meaning Protector/Guardian)


Shade's abilities: Built to give the illusion of an attacker, Aasim is a defense based Shade who protects whomever Uriel wishes him to. With a high defense, Aasim’s offensive capabilities are pretty much non-existent, forcing him to rely on his sister, Lilith, when the two are together. When alone, he utilizes Aasim as a means of escape as he does not enjoy confrontation despite his ‘tough guy’ appearance.

Character traits: Uriel’s Morals are much more firm than his sister’s, but flexible when pushed.

Positive:

• Healthy
• Adaptable
• Calm

Negative:

• Blunt
• Calculating to the point of Brutality
• Impatient

Personality: A much nicer individual overall without needing a facade, Uriel hates fighting and would rather talk his way out of a situation than use his fists. However, should he be forced to fight, he has mastered the defensive aspects of as many martial arts styles as possible. Often seen as Charismatic, when with his sister he does most of the talking as she is known to snap at unexpected points, breaking the illusion her pretty face grants her.

Skills:

• Defensive Martial Arts
• First Aid
• Survival
• Weapon Restoration
• Mechanically inclined

Insecurities: Do I really have to fight them? Come on… lets just talk about this, I don’t want to have to fight… its not worth it. So what if that’s what she said? You don’t have to resort to hurting someone to get your point across. Come on, don’t… just put your Shade away… don’t make me have to… I don’t want to fight… Don’t pull her into this too… I can’t stop her if she loses it. Stop, just stop, I’m can’t do this, I can’t…

Name: Ozias Wyatt

Age: 25

Appearance:



Personality: Ozias presents himself as a kind, reliable and dependable man. He tries to seem like someone who is willing to help you, as someone who can be a great friend of yours. Beneath the surface, however, is a man who only sees others as his stepping stone. He keeps up his façade in order to attract the people he needs and manipulate them to achieve his goals, only before ultimately discarding them after they have outlived their usefulness. He can switch between his façade and real, apathic self within moments.

History: Ozias was always the type that never accepted second place. This attitude was pushed onto him by his overachieving parents, who wouldn’t accept a ‘failure’ for a son. Luckily for his parents, Ozias was just as dissatisfied with giving the spotlight to others. He didn’t always succeed, oh no. There were many occasions where he was left bitter, defeated at what he attempted. Be it academics, sports or simple games. But These drove Ozias to try harder, because defeat was unacceptable.

As an adult he started to study medicine, as was suitable for someone of prestige. Through the years he had quickly learned that performance was very much tied to one’s contacts, however. No matter how much you excelled in studies, those with the better contacts simply got further In life. He had created his own ‘kind’ personality in order to draw people to him. He didn’t care about these friends in the least, but one simply needed these tools to get further in today’s society.

With the recent gain of his abilities and the city turned upside-down by crazed folk, Ozias simply seeks a way to profit as much from the situation as possible while safeguarding his own life. He figured that seeking some new ‘friends’ to cover him while finding out what is happening here would be a good way to start.

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Shade Name: Flight of Verity

Shade appearance: FoV is a comprised of three components: Firstly there is an apparition that looks identical to Ozias, just slightly larger. This apparition is very defined in its features and even seems make itself appear to wear similar clothing. The facial features seem surprisingly detailed for a shade and depict a friendly, smiling face. Then there are two smaller shades, which seem to be about 20cm at most. These usually rest on the shoulders of the major shade. One seems to have an arrogant glare, while the other possesses an indifferent stare.

Shade Abilities: The two smaller shades are able to turn into two durable bladed arrowhead-like object about the size of a hand each. These are capable of freely moving through the air at incredibly high speeds. The speed and durability make these highly destructive. They are usually very capable of ripping through objects and piercing defenses in order to attack their intended target. They possess a high effective range, and therefore also effective for surprise attacks.

In the meantime, the larger shade usually hangs around close to Ozias. Unlike the smaller shades it is very fragile, only capable of taking between 1 to 5 hits depending on the attacker’s power, and has no offensive capabilities. Its arm movements seem to direct the arrowheads, but nothing is less true. The larger shade is simply a trick. It serves no other function than to give the impression that it is important and take attention away from Ozias, buy time, and take a few hits for him while the arrowheads attack the enemy.

The weakness of this shade is that the arrowheads themselves are still shades, and not simply projectiles. Therefore they sustain any damage Ozias sustains. Should Ozias take enough damage, their effectiveness will drop significantly. All in all, FoV is an extremely offensive shade with very little defensive qualities. This shade intends to quickly dispatch the enemy shade user before Ozias can sustain damage. This style suits Ozias well, for his time is too important to waste on squabbling.

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Personal Skills and positive traits:
Athletic; Ozias is a fast runner and has quick reflexes.
Always has a man; He has a broad network of contacts that might be able to help.
Skillful actor.
Marksmanship, always carries a gun for self-defense.
Extensive medical knowledge.

Flaws/Insecurities:
Extremely selfish.
Always upkeeping a façade.
Can not stand someone doing better than him in something he considers himself proficient at. Surprisingly easily swayed by a pretty face.
Incredibly oppurtunistic

Name: Rachel Lilian

Age: 26

Personality: Lilian is the type of lady to know exactly what she wants, and she can easily maneuver herself to get it. She's very smart and attentive, and can easily devise a plan to get in and out of a desired situation. For all of her 'go-getter' traits, she can be notably manipulative and draining. She has the tendency to swindle her friends, family, and acquaintances out of what she wants. Of course, she does have a shred of respect for certain people, but that could just be her realizing there are some people in the world you don't screw around with. Narcissism, recklessness, and manipulative tendencies are her most apparent negatives.

Lilian has no cares for random people, and focuses her (frankly short) amount of metaphorical fucks on only her closest friends and family. Lilian does do her damnedest in keeping her few 'allies' on her side. While you can easily say her motives aren't the best when she does it, she'll get you exactly what you want or need, occasionally before you realize you may need it, which is why she's surprisingly popular and respected in her small circle of friends.

Appearance: Lilian is somewhat tall for a woman at 5'8, and her shoulder-length pony tail of wine red hair is usually hidden by the hood of a jacket. She has an injured left eye, a bandage kept in place with a piece of cloth that wraps around her head. However, this isn't easily noticeable at a distance due to her affinity for keeping her hood up at all times. She near always wears a baggy jacket over a simple t-shirt and a pair of track pants. Due to the amount of funds she has laying around, she could get clothes for a special occasion easily, she just has no desire to and probably wouldn't bother unless there was a pressing need.

History:


Skills:
* As evidenced by her well earned PhD in engineering, Rachel is adept at maintaining and constructing many mechanical systems. She could easily deconstruct a firearm or sabotage a car, not to mention construct simple objects out of common items.

* She can throw handheld objects quite far and with decent accuracy, due to some childhood experience playing baseball with her father.

* She knows how to wrap someone around her fingers and keep them there, as long as she has decent information on them beforehand. Without the information, the accuracy of her little white lies and the effectiveness of her sympathy-gaining stories decreases.

* Rachel has a surprisingly strong will, and she's cocksure of what she wants, when she wants it, and what she doesn't want. In other terms, she'd be hard to manipulate or take control of.

Other Information:
Rachel has roughly 40,000 dollars (USD) available to her, in two separate bank accounts from different banks.

Rachel has connections to both the criminal underworld and intellectual communities of Mercer City.

She lives by herself in an apartment that she pays for, near the edge of the city.

Rachel enjoys making money, spending money, creating graffiti where no-one would realistically find it, and prank calling people she doesn't like alongside people she does.

She'd never admit it, but she has an extensive collection of tiny multicolored horses that she's gotten a hold of both legally and illegally.

Name: Beware the Friendly Stranger

Appearance: Beware the Friendly Stranger shares the same general silhouette of its host, Rachel, being a somewhat tall female figure wearing apparently baggy clothes. However, its frame is shrouded by a 'pixellated' mirage, likely due to Rachel's affinity for lying. Steel thorns, akin to syringes, dot its shadowy surface, looking akin to a recent addition. For all of its 'darkness', it appears to still reflect light to some extent, brightening up the night when the moon is visible.

Powers: Beware the Friendly Stranger has a multitude of powers, all derived from Rachel's tendencies of lying, manipulating, selfishness, and recent drug usage.

* BtFS's primary offensive ability is its power to drain 'energy', metaphorical and actual, from targets in physical contact. To biological targets, such as a human or animal, it can erode its mental 'will to live', rendering the target brain dead or catatonic at will in one-half to three-and-three-quarter seconds of maintained contact, depending on the awareness of the target, and its will. To a mechanical target, it can consume electrical, mechanical, chemical, or kinetic energy to feed itself, causing it to temporarily move faster.

* BtFS, stemming from Rachel's manipulative tendencies, can cause hallucinations, false images, and incite desired emotions in targets to distract and disorient enemies, and to cloak itself and its master from enemy Shade users. However, its ability to cloak itself and its master doesn't work properly on non-Shade users, due to it being invisible in the first place, and it requires a recent feeding from a considerably energetic mechanical object, such as a car battery, or something moving very fast, to name a few.

* BtFS, influenced by the highs and lows of an incoming morphine addiction, isn't hindered by a Shade's usual rule of mirroring damage. In simpler terms, Rachel can use BtFS much more offensively, since its pain and damage isn't shared to her as well. From the same ability, BtFS can recover from damage mildly quicker compared to others, but due to Rachel's own relative fragility, it is easier to damage in the first place.