Slowly but surely the days grow darker and darker.. The city of Seiver Falls, Maine is the average small city where buildings don't reach the sky and residents that define the word middle class. It was a boring but safe place...until two months ago during the dog days of July when strange events plagued the city. Many residents started developing stands or a phenomenon where a persons fighting spirit manifests itself physically around its user. However just as more and more people started gaining these strange abilities residents started rapidly disappearing. Just as this was happening mysterious beings started attacking people without even moving. With each disappearance and attack the police were more and more puzzled, but that all changed September 2nd when a body was finally found. The victim which wasn't identified had holes and was sucked dry of all blood. Once this news was released many people started panicking as to what could have done this but as some ran away others came. Some looking for answers to the disappearances others wanting to protect the city while some just came for a bizzare adventure.
Hello, as you may have already guessed this RP will be based around the long running excellent series of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure. However if you are new to the series or have no idea what jojo even is have no worries as all you need is the most basic knowledge of the series to hop in. Which I shall try to explain below.
Stands: Stands are the fighting spirt of someone physically. Usually a stand presents itself hovering near the user and possesses abilities beyond a normal human. Stands however can present themselves anyway shape or size and are as varied as the human mind(so go crazy on how you would want your characters stand to look). A stand unless bound to a specific object or automatic are attached to the user. So any damage done to the stand will result in the user being dealt the damage also vice-versa. If enough damage is done to the stand it is destroyed the user also dies with it. Stands obey all rules of the user unless they are sentient in which case the stand can talk and advise the user on anything. Unless automatic stands still have to be summoned consciously. Thus allowing sneak attack possible to stand users. Stands can also only been seen by other stand users unless if it is bound to something physical such as a sword.
Stand Acts and Potential: Some stands go through an evolution over time growing new moves and growing to become the final form. The first form is called act 1 (the weakest) and can have many more after that if you wish. Stands like this usually evolve at a time of desperate need and have new sets of moves for the user to learn. Stands that don't go through an evolution instead master there moves and over time the Devlopment rank goes down as they master it further. A stand with an A in development still has a lot of practice to hone its skill or find new ones but a stand with an E has learned all of its moves and cannot learn anymore.
Ripple: The ancient form of martial arts. Through self-controlled breathing a trained person in the art can channel the identical energy of the sun through the body. The ripple can be seen by ordinary humans and manifest itself as sparks coming from the body. Ripple can heal wounds and combat creatures such as zombies and vampires. Living organisms can be affected by ripple but not automatically hurt by it. Stands can be infused by ripple however in this RP ripple stands must be very weak as ripple is nearly a dead art now.
Vampires: These creatures are just like the ones you should know by now possesses super human strength , regeneration, blood sucking ablitites, and near immortality. Vampires can also manipulate their bodies in creative ways. Vampires will serve as the main antagonist and can also create zombies by sucking blood and giving the victim its essence.
Zombies: Are almost the same as vampires with all the ablitites execpt to create more zombies. They can hide their identities and look like normal humans but most have a stronge smell of death around them.
Stand Name: Throughout the manga stands have generally been named after musical bands or songs however anyway will do. Description of Stand: Ablitites of Stand: Weakness of Stand: Stand Parameters(delete this after reading it please)- All stands have six categories from E (very weak) to A (Excellent)of how good that stand can preform a certain ability. I will not have a point system but instead trust that no one will create an overpowered monster. Destructive Power: (Measures stands strength and ability to cause destruction) Speed: (Agility and reflex of stand) Range: (Stands range of manifestation,range of ability influence, now far it can move from user.) Durability:(Stands endurance and level of damage it can take) Precision: (Stands accuracy and range of ablitites to specified target) Development Potential/Learning:(see crash course in jojo for this)
1. No overpowered stands such as time manipulation, world ending, no weakness having ones. If you would like to have a stand with a very strong ablity such as wiping things out of existence it must have glaring flaws as to be fair. An example would be a stand must touch someone for 5 minutes before it can be wiped out of existence. 2. Please be active. This will have a story and would be amazing to finish with some people as an accomplishment. If you would like to have some short stories won't your character please PM me and I am sure we can do one. 3. I will play as all main antagonist however if you would like to be a minor one please tell me beforehand. 4. Let's have fun after all this is the purpose of a RP. So let's go out there and defeat the undead.
Name: Paul Townsled Gender: Male Age: 260 years old Description: Paul Townsled is of average height (6'0") mbut well built, with white shoulder length hair. Townsled wears the British Red Coat from the American Revolution however it is tattered and ripped. In the center of his neck is a hole from a musket that killed him but covers it up with a white scarf. He has dark brown eyes and is extremely pale.
Personality: Townsled has a blank expression most times and obeys all orders from his masters that brought him back from the ground. He cannot speak due to the hole in his neck. The fatal wound brings great shame to him and if anyone else sees it Townsled goes into a blind rage.
Bio: Townsled was a die hard British Loyalist during the Amercian Revolution and thought of the colonists as below him. His die hard nature was even a little much for his officers who found his words and action a little extreme. During the Burning of Falmouth in which he lead the company of soldiers to burn down the town, he was fatally wounded by a local militia men. As he struggled for air for a few seconds Townsled couldn't believe his death was at the hands of a colonist. Legend says his eyes glowed with rage before chocking on his blood. After the battle he was hastily buried in Maine and almost forgotten. However in 2010 he was brought back by a vampire and eventually gained a stand through a nefarious way. He is one of the many zombies brought back but he differs from the rest by not blending in but fully embracing his brutal ways. Only attacking at night he stalks Seiver Falls looking for lonely souls.
Stand Name: St. John Passion Description of Stand: St. John Passion is a thin bright red humanoid figure. It has a very smooth surface execpt for its head which is covered with four eyes two on each side. The eyes are bright white with tiny hollow pupils. Ablitites of Stand: St. John Passion has the ability to launch up to 8 penny sized bubbles from the eyes (2 from each eye). It can launch these from a range of 800 feet(244 meters) and travel at around 10 mph(16 kmh). The bubbles will follow the target until out of range win which they will pop. The bubbles are a clear color expect in the middle where a pea sized red gas is barely visible. If the bubbles get within 5 inches of the target or are popped they release a corrosive acid unto the target. The corrosive acid will instantly melt anything less then titanium. Weakness of Stand: The stand can only launch 8 bubbles a minute and other then that it's punches are that of an average human. By getting out of range the bubbles will instantly pop.
Destructive Power: C Speed: C Range: B Durability: C Precision: B Development Potential/Learning: D
Jason is a 6'00" tall male with a pale complexion, blue eyes, and jet black hair that is usually combed back. His face shows his youth better then his attitude. He typically wears the black, brown and red jacket in the FC, with black jeans or sweat pants to match, and brown or black sandals. He has a pair of black sports gloves as well.
Personality
Jason has a seldom demeanor, but has a light-hearted and optimistic tone; Perhaps due to his young age. As a hamon user he is a calculative combatant and rarely performs any rash or risky actions unless as a last resort, as he is very careful not to waste his energy. Despite having arguably a more offensive stand, Jason's conservative nature renders him more attuned to be at the defensive side and analyze his opponents while drawing out the fight until he can decide on a killing blow-or a strategy to give him the upper hand. Outside of a fight, He has a bit of light sense of humor and typically tries to come off as humble or meek.
Biography
The Alexander family has traditional ties with the ripple, though only a select few in the family practice and use such power. At a young age, Jason was taught by his uncle the basics of hamon. When he was first able to use the ripple, the stand he was born with awoken and displayed the young ripple user and his uncle its great power by shattering through a boulder. After that revelation, Jason was taught both the basics of hamon, and practiced using his stand. Due to relying more on the stand for hamon use however, he never quite learned how to use non-stand related hamon aside from simple training methods like being able to stand on water or keeping it in a glass upside down. His uncle left long before he could ascend from a novice's status as he went to go investigate rumors of what he believed to be undead in Maine. His uncle never returned, and five years later Jason decided to journey to the designated to town to both uncover the mysterious that have yet to be solved, and the fate of his uncle (Though he presumes him to be dead.)
Ryujin's total size is roughly 1.8 meters in diameter and 13 meters long from head to tail. However Ryujin's exposed form's size is often smaller and varies depending upon how much he sticks out of Jason. The stand resembles that of an oriental dragon; Jade-Green scales (and a pale belly), five fingered claws, a mane and beard of white fur that spreads into an ore-like shape at the tip of his tail, golden shimmering eyes, a small pair of wings down the length of its snake-like body, and several horns that jut out from the back of its skull with one more prominent horn sticking out of the snout like a thin blade. Its body is somewhat translucent, even more so then others stands, giving it the appearance of some kind of spiritual force.
Ryujin's body is always bound to the user, from its manifestation it can reach outward to 12 meters with the part near the tip of the tail still within and attached to the user. Since the stand channels hamon around it like a veil or aura, those that do not have stands can see the dragon's outline as an electric-like current of hamon.
Ablitites of Stand
Summoned through hamon, Ryujin is a powerful stand that can move as swift as a snake around its user in every direction with a total range of 12 meters. Its swift, able to break both bone and stones with its thrashing body and sharp claws/teeth. Its horns are the most powerful parts of its body and its full potential it can puncture through an iron wall. It can extend and retract its body to and from the user within its 12 meter limit, and its flexibility isn't bounded by gravity either. While the stand can't give the user flight, it can grab onto something and pull its user towards that grabbed point like a grappling hook. The overall durability of the stand is like iron, making it tough to injure without a great enough force to bend/damage metal. As a passive, both the stand and its user are incredibly resistant to fire.
Weakness of Stand
The stand can only manifest itself through the use of hamon, Jason cannot bring out this stand without steadying his breathe and using his hamon energy. Merely having the stand manifested also exhausts a great deal of energy, each minute Ryujin will get both weaker and slower by a marginal amount; 10 minutes is the limit for how long the stand can be out continuously, and after using his stand weather he got to its limit or not; it takes time for him to recuperate his hamon energy. If Jason uses the stand for over 7 minutes he will be completely drained of hamon which will leave him vulnerable and unable to use the ripple until he is well rested. If Jason can't breathe properly, loses too much blood, or exhausts his energy not only can he not use the ripple but he won't be able to use his stand either.
@Gurren1 Hey, I really like the battle of wits aspect of Jojo's, is there still room for another player?
I made a character sheet:
Name: Will Jay Gender: Male Age: 20 Description: 5'9" with stocky build (like a less muscular Jotaro), short, black, hair, styled like Elvis Presley, though with less gel. He wears a gray shirt with a pink, chevron highlight going from his chest to his hips. He also wears a dark blue unbuttoned button-up-shirt over it, the sleeves folded. His pants are some sort of dark khaki-colored cargo/carpenter pants with all the straps torn and hanging lose. He hangs a green, unplugged headphone around his neck.
Personality: Used to love chess as a kid, loves when he outplays people and gets very frustrated when his plans fall apart, very hammy in both situations. Besides that, he enjoys the company of people he's gotten to know and is outspoken, but not loud, and will only defer a plan if he thinks it's bad. His signature pose is like that of Jotaro's one-finger point but much much less subdued.
Bio: Born into an average, middle-class family, Will, at a young age, loved his father's movie collection that starred, burly 80's action heroes and their absurd ultraviolence against faceless mooks. Will also had a strategy, as he constantly, at every possible moment, tried to play chess with his father, who he would always beat.
As time went on, Will wanted something more complicated than chess, so he started playing video games, strategy games, in particular, for a few years, he was an avid gamer. Life was good and Will never complained, as long as he could live in peace and continue absolutely dominating people in battles of wit and mind, he'd be happy.
Will went on to study law, thinking that was the next step in his passion for battling wits, but before he could even apply, out in the middle of the day, while walking to the university, he was shot with an arrow that pierced is abdomen and downed him, the few people that were there fled the scene.
A few hours later, Will regained consciousness and looked around to find himself passed out in the middle of the sidewalk, he picked himself back up and went home, thinking he needed to rest and what happened earlier was a result of sleep deprivation. He arrived home and noticed his mother in a panic. His father was missing.
Now he wanders Seiver Falls, looking for clues in every corner of the town, trying to piece together where his father could have gone, and why, if it was criminal or otherwise. Though, the more clues he digs up, the more he finds out that there may be a correlation with his father's disappearance and the other missing people lately.
To add to the bizarreness there now seems to be a ghost that follows his every command and movement.
Stand Name: Caltrop Elvis Description of Stand: A dark purple, humanoid stand, with white highlight-lines along its limbs, torso, and head. Its face's only features are two yellow eyes, and a thick white line in between them.
Ablitites of Stand: Return to Sender - The stand can absorb force dealt to it and dish it back out ten-fold. The reflected force can be projected from any part of Caltrop Elvis' body
Weakness of Stand: Though the stand has decent durability, it is not very powerful on its own, requiring it to always take the first hit before it can counterattack.
If an attack has enough force to knockout or kill Caltrop Elvis/Will himself, then it will connect as Will will let the opponent hit him first to counterattack instead of dodging. Power-type stands would also be strong against Caltrop Elvis as they have enough speed and power to stun-lock it without risk of retaliation.
The stand also has a short range, being only able to operate in a 10 meter radius around Will, so, while attacks from farther ranged stands can still be absorbed, Will still has to close the distance to throw it back at them.
Temperature is its worst weakness, unless the flames have some force behind them, Caltrop Elvis cannot absorb heat nor cold, so it is easily beaten by flame users or even vampires that can control the body's temperature.
Stand Parameters- Destructive Power: D/A Speed: C Range: D Durability: A Precision: B Development Potential/Learning: C
@Cyanic Very good pros and cons for the stand. Accepted!
@Vulkan Of course it is open. I would recommend if you are a little short on ideas to check out the tumblr page stand stand where there is hundreds of stand ideas.
Stand: [Iron Maiden] Description: A large (7') metallic sarcophagus, wrapped in heavy chains and glowing from within with a crimson light. The front of the sarcophagus is covered in jagged, arcane glyphs, and the trailing ends of the chains end in armored gauntlets that it uses to attack.
Abilities: [Lockdown] - Lisbet touches an inanimate object and creates a lock on its surface, anchoring that object in place completely, defying physics. To Stand users, the object appears to be wrapped in chains similar to Iron Maiden's.
Weakness: Objects must be touched to be locked or unlocked, and a lock cannot be applied to living things.
WIP character, getting this up so @Gurren1 can check out the Stand for approval.
Name: Shaun Colbert Gender: Male Age: 28 Description:
Personality: Calm as the sea, Shaun likes to take things slowly and has almost infinite patience. He's friendly with most people and doesn't really like fighting, though if push comes to shove he won't back down from a fight. He likes to help people and can get taken advantage of because of he is very gullible and trusting. Bio: A man of the sea since he was born, Shaun lived near a port all his childhood and soon as he learned to walk helped his dad to bring food to the table in his fishing business. Shaun manifested his stand at the age of 18 when he and his father in a bad streak of luck accidentally hooked a shark. The shark in a fit of range leaped into their own fishing boat, and it was dangerously close to Shaun as he tried to move away. The small boat made moving away very difficult so Shaun had no option but to confront the animal. As he became determined to somehow throw the shark out of their boat Shaun felt something awakened inside him, and that something appeared in front of him not too long after.
While he didn't understand what exactly that thing was, Shaun cared more about taking care of the shark problem. Instinctively Manaeater released one of his fish like creatures that quickly ate the shark while it thrashed around trying to escape something it couldn't see.
Returning to the mainland Shaun noticed that his father did not see the mermaid nor the fish that had eaten the shark. He would bring his stand out every once in awhile to see what it was and what could it do. Eventually, he would take over their fishing business while his father and mother moved back to her mother hometown in Sliver falls, however not too long after her mother contracted an illness and soon died. Visiting her before she died Shaun noticed that this illness unknown to the doctors and his father was the manifestation of her Mother's stand. Determined to find who made her awaken her stand Shaun decided to stay in town for a little more time.
Stand Name: Manaeater Description of Stand:
Abilities of Stand: Despite its look of a siren, Manaeater is, in reality, a swarm type stand, capable of dividing itself into dozens of fish like creatures. These fishes are capable of swimming in any type of surface like it was water, they also can chew and rip through flesh just as if they were chewing paper, with stronger materials taking more time to break through.
Weakness of Stand: The fishes that Manaeater divides into don't have any eyes, instead relying on their advanced hearing to detect the presence of their prey, combined with their viciousness it makes them attack friend and foe without regard. Another disadvantage of Manaeater is that they are as durable as normal fish, and enough of the fishes are killed/damaged it can begin to damage Shaun too.
Well there are still people interested who (I assume) are still working on making character sheets. Me personally I'm in no rush with all the bullshit I'm doing this semester so I don't mind waiting a few days for a larger roster. That's said I'm comfortable with the idea of a four man group to start
