Malum Island is a large island nation in the Mediterranean. The island is about the size of Corsica, and has a bit of everything you’d find in the region. Including volcanoes, abandoned Roman fortresses, eerie old towns full of dark alleyways, bizarre megaliths, and ruins of ancient palaces which may or may not include a maze that houses a terrible beast. It is a bit Sardinia, a bit Crete.

Said to have once housed the infamous witch Circe, the island has always had a reputation for being a strange place, in modern times even being called “the European Bermuda triangle”. Though until recently all of the weirdness in the island were merely minor oddities and rumours.

Since the local DWMA chapter was taken over by mad fanatics, the main characters will be assisted by a resistance member who used to rent out bungalows and apartments to tourists. The locations are now a bit run-down, but nothing a bit of love can’t fix.

Outside of the main plot-line, the story will be mostly divided in incidents and crisis. Please mention what incident or crisis you are dealing with when making a post.

Incidents are plots that the players can pick to explore. These can include hunting a criminal, raiding an enemy base to give the resistance a foothold, investigating bizarre situations such as an entire village being turned into animals, explore the ruins of an ancient Greek temple and many other things. These can be tackled in simple weapon / meister duos or in groups.

Outside of the ones given by me or any other GM, players can create their own incidents, including controlling enemies if they wish, just needing a quick approval before playing it.

Crisis are incidents of a major scale that cannot be ignored, meaning all characters must acknowledge or react to it. In many cases these will be major changes in the status quo… but it can also include just the typical madness of the island acting up. A curse that forces everyone to use hats is technically a crisis.

These will be handled by the staff only, though players can suggest events.

Initially the players will make one character that will either be a Meister or a Weapon. Once the initial / introduction phase is over there will be the option to create one or two secondary characters. These require less complex Character Sheets, and will (outside of resistance members) be initially Neutral or Hostile towards the DWMA students.

This way players can also take the roles of recurring villains, wildcards and allies, creating a diverse cast of characters outside of the ones I and any potential staff members make. Examples include:
Witches
Meisters and Weapons of the rogue group (unlike main characters, you can play both if you wish)
Monsters
Strong Souls
Resistance Members (If a witch, weapon or meister you must add a curse to them)
Or even things like fairies, provided they are a concept of the show or manga that can still exist in the world (So no Clowns)

Beyond that, players are free to make NPCs to enhance their play, be it local people, one-off enemies and whatnot.

Name / Nicknames:

Age:

Gender:

Role:
Meister / Demon Weapon

Special Trait:
A single special ability or aspect of your character. Ex: Being a witch meister, multiple weapon forms, having a special wavelength, soul perception, soul menace, abilities such as extreme strength, agility or reflexes. In other words, your character’s trumpcard.

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Partner:

Soul Type and Appearance:
(Type will typically be normal, unless your Special Trait is being a witch or grigori)

Appearance:
(Picture and/or Short Description)

[If weapon] Weapon Appearance and Description:

Personality:

Backstory:

Name / Nicknames:
Full name: Jackie Marilyn Jett
Nickname: JJ and Jackie the Music Meister (she call herself that -_-)

Age:
16

Gender:
Female

Role:
Meister

Special Trait:
Wavelength Control-Mostly with Soul Menace, JJ can channel her own Soul Wavelength pretty well, she release a electrical-like attack from her leg, kicked the target. She called it, The lightning round-house.

Strengths:

• Playing instruments-being born in a rock and roll family, you got to have some music trait right? Her electric guitar, Soul Catcher, is her pride and joy
• Hand to hand combat

Weaknesses:

• Rushing without thinking-JJ is more of a "Ok, time's up, let do this! Leeroy Jenkins!" type of person
• Cooking-"What?! my cooking is not that bad, you guys are being over-dramatic....Um, guys? why is your faces turning green?"

Partner:
Ji-Ho Kwan

Soul Type and Appearance:
It a happy, grinning rock and roll pink soul that has her wild hairstyle!

Appearance:


JJ that height 5'3" and weight 42 kg, she has pale skin with pink eyes, along with long multi-colored hair consisting of black, pink, blue and white, some of which is tied into two oni horns on the top of her head.

Jackie wears a sailor uniform but with punk look into it that has with a black pleated skirt and ripped thigh highs, along with both of her ears have six needle earrings, three piercings under the left side of lip, black nail polish and a necklace

Personality:
When you first meet Jackie, she is very loud, very energetic and very upbeat, which matches perfectly with her rock star like appearance. With this hyper personality, Jackie rush into the battles without any strategy and ready to swing weapon around to hit her target, feeling really confident to beat every kishin in her path.

Although she is loud and hyper, Jackie know that deep down, she feel like she is not good enough. She feel like she going to fail as a meister and just going to be stuck on one thing that she good at for the rest of her, being overshadow by students and falling from grace like all other famous rockstars. that why Jackie want to do her best, she want to be the greatest meister in the world.

Backstory:
Jackie was born on the open road with her rock-and-roll father and her very talented mother, just traveling around the world to show everyone their music. Jackie dreams about becoming a rockstar like her parents but sometimes, she feel like she is living in her parents shadow. Jackie wishes to be something more than becoming rockstar, like something that is strong, confident and brave, something that won't shadow her for the rest of her life but she doesn't know what....But then, Jackie finally got answer when her and her parents go to a little place called Death City.

While her parents are getting prepared for their show tonight, Jackie decided to just walk around the city just bit, looking around to see what so great about this place. Jackie ultimately find herself in some forest, behind it was the biggest building that she have ever seen, she wonder what that place is and what going inside. Jackie thinking was quickly interrupting when she hear something in the forest, she spot of group of teenagers with weapons, she thought why they have weapons? What are they going to do? what happen next that leave Jackie in complete amaze. They heck and slash their weapons around and did some badass moves while Jackie watch in awe, that was it, that was something she need to be, she want to become meister!

So, after a bit of training (and permission of her parents), Jackie finally enrolled DWMA and ready to show everyone what she made of!

Name / Nicknames: Evan Coldwell

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Role: Meister

Special Trait:
Though Evan has considerable charisma it is not usually notable in terms of combat. As such he has practiced for a long time in order to train himself physically for combat. His main strength in this regard is his dexterity. Evan's ability to dodge, and move quickly is quite notable, and makes him hard to hit unless carrying considerable weight, or a weapon that hinders his ability to move.

Strengths:
Charisma - Evan is a gentle soul, and as such is able to show considerable empathy for those around him. To those receptive to the young man his presence is a constant reassurance. If one is willing to listen, and hear him out he can inspire those to continue on in spite of themselves, stress, or other issues. However Evan is no messiah some may find his kindness to be foolish, and immature and thus have the opposite effect.

Speed - Never much of a power player Evan trained his body to be deftly capable of twisting, turning, running, and other handy things. As such his stamina, and ability to dodge attacks are considerable.

Weapon Versatility - Evan has no specific preference when it comes to partners, or what weapons they are be it guns, swords, maces, or scythes or otherwise. He is usually capable of at least fighting with some sort of proficiency with many different weapon types.

Weaknesses:
Physical durability - Evan lacks particular constitutional benefits he is not particularly hardy and though he can maybe take one seriously painful blow he is below others who have more experience taking their punches, and also lacks physical strength making heavy weapons, and obstacles an issue.

Believer in Light - Evan's empathy is a double edged sword though he can make friends easily he also suffers from being too trusting of others. Though he is not dumb he is willing to give even enemies the benefit of the doubt as long as they have not intentionally killed, or maimed other people. Evan's kindness can be exploited if specifically preyed upon.

Sickness Prone - Poisonous, and otherwise physically degrading attacks take a big chunk out of Evan's stamina though he has trained it well his physical body is frailer than some others. That means his immunue system and body can take more damage from illness, or other sorts of similar damage.

Partner:
N/A

Soul Type and Appearance:
Soul is standard, and normal by all appearances shows no special nature. Evan's specific soul is color a light green and looks to apparently have some goggles above its eyes.

Appearance:


Personality: Evan is extremely kind, and generous willing to put himself on the line in order to offer people the chance others may not see. He believes in the fact that people aren't evil, and that evil itself is just an inheritant lack of good in themselves, or life. He doesn't hold grudges, and it takes something truly dark to make him angry, or upset. Always willing to smile even if he is hurt he wants to be friends with as many people as possible. But he is not bubbly, and joyful more so he is calm, and peaceful. He enjoys life, and wants others to do so as well. Life has many problems, and the weight can hurt people. While he has his own baggage he has made peace with himself. A serene sort of person Evan loves stories, and is perfectly willing to take on a hard job just as much as he is to sit down and relax with someone.

That being said Evan as a combatant is decisive when it comes down to it. While he is still receptive to the plight of others, especially those whom he has talked to, if an enemy is attacking him with the intention to kill he will put his life on the line to protect himself. He is no a martyr, and he has no intention of being so. Nor he is trusting without reason if someone is a known liar, and or he is well aware of someone purposely trying to lure him away to his death he will not comply. He is kind not impulsive, or moronic.

In summary Evan is reliable, and well mannered a kind young man with a big heart but willing to do what must be done if it comes down to it.

Backstory:

Born to unknown parents Evan never really grew up with a family he was raised by a kind nun, and her brother who lived in the same town. Evan was quiet as a child inquisitive, and bright he often experimented with things. As he grew older he had many friends a natural product of his kindness as he was willing to share even with the more pushy kids. He helped the nun with her chores around the camp, and even helped her cook some basic things. He took his studies seriously, and tried his best to get ready for his own life. Despite not being adopted by anyone Evan took his life very much in stride making friends who he would consider almost his own family in the orphanage some of which turned out to be capable of becoming weapons later on in life. Though he didn't intend to become a meister he did start training physically shortly before he became a teenager. His life changed the day Evan went out to buy some food and ran into a witch who tried to kill him to take his soul. However a veteran soul reaper by the name of Garth Mcbride saved his life as he had been hunting the demon for about a week. Evan spent the remainder of the day with the man who had felt bad and offered to take the scared boy to eat lunch with him. On that day Evan explained to Garth that he was an orphan and had been on his way to shop for some food for his orphanage. Garth took note of the boy despite being easily scared he had a good heart.

When Garth found out the boy was an orphan he returned with him to the orphanage and asked if he could adopt Evan much to the boy's surprise. Garth stated he, and his partner Sam had both been looking to have a kid but never had the chance to settle down much. Garth's busy life, and the fact that his partner was a nurse at the famous Death City. After the process was complete Evan said goodbye to his family, and left for a new life. His mother Sam was a kind woman who loved him from the moment they met since she was an inherently maternal woman who had been looking out for kids since she herself had graduated from medical school. Enrolled into the DWMA Evan quickly made a lot of friends there and trained hard to catch up never afraid to ask for tips, or help from others. A model student Evan learned his wasn't quite cut out for combat but tried his best to hone himself as a meister. He worked with many different weapons to get a grasp for combat scenarios including his dad's weapon a man named Joseph Null the same man who had helped Garth save him. Some partnerships fell apart, and others stuck but when the deal between the DWMA and witches was complete Evan just was happy there would be no more violence, or at least less. Being sent on this trip to the islands he was excited for a new adventure on the horizon. Maybe a chance to meet new people, and thus new friends as well.

Name / Nicknames: Judea

Age:18

Gender: Female

Role:
Meister

Special Trait:
Witch(Capybara)

Strengths: As a witch, she can very much fight without a Weapon, utilizing her own magic. Based around body modifications, she could modify her own body on the fly for various effects. Should she manage to get into contact with another's body, she could very well modify those as well. Otherwise, she has other smaller spells like any witch, but her best works needs a workshop, time and materials to produce, which was why she started looking towards more mundane gears to protect herself. Has no qualms using anything to gain the upper hand. If she was near water however, she can empower many of her abilities, as well as being able to move easily inside them.

As a Meister, she's proficient with mostly melee weapons, ironic considering she was compatible with most Weapons due to her own personality and her nature as a Capybara witch. While she can shoot ranged Weapons, CQC was where she was best at. She works best in a group as a supporting role, but was strongest if working with another Witch as Witches tend to be.

Weaknesses: As a witch, she lacks the explosive power many Witches have, or even the stronger familiars some have, her repertoire being very much close ranged in nature. While she does have some spells for longer ranges, it has no where near the sheer power a certain pumpkin witch has, or even that certain frog witch. Most of her spells are also supportive in nature. Any good opponent that can fight in range, can and will overpower her should she not be able to get closer for a more decisive strike.

As a Meister, while she was no pushover solo, it meant that she cannot bring out her potential; a capybara witch works best with strong minions surrounding them after all.

Partner:

Soul Type and Appearance: An oddly laidback looking soul, purple in color, with a vague facsimile of her hair style.

Appearance:


Personality: A friendly caring sort of person, the type to persuade someone gently on why they shouldn't do certain things. Gives off a feeling of that older sister, warm and forgiving. Takes a lot to anger or rile up, with a certain level of protectiveness to those she considers her charges. She was still a Witch however, and like an older sister, tends to be overbearing and headstrong when riled, or roused. Has no qualms digging up someone's weaknesses and using it against them, or any other sort of moves other would call conniving or underhanded. This doesn't happen often however, as she was mostly pleasant and calm most of the time. Has a habit of stocking up on food while simultaneously also eating almost all the time. Extremely selective of what she eats.

Backstory: Not every Witch shared the same sentiments of being at peace with DWMA. It was hard to forget that fear after all. That fear that some day, you would be hunted, and your soul eaten to make a Death Scythe which would hunt down more of your kind. It was hard to forget that fear, even if your higher ups decided to make peace.

Judea wasn't one of the stronger witches, thus she has been hiding for quite some time before peace was made, and even more after that. She lived as far as she could from people, going out only from time to time when she was forced to. But as time passes, and she had the opportunity to join DWMA as a Meister. It was a unique opportunity, and she told herself she'd just join to see what it was like, before bailing out if she didn't feel like continuing. It was a bit worrying at first, with her Soul Protect never letting up even with those close to her, but soon, as the days passed, she relaxed a bit more, enjoying her time a little more.

She went to school regularly, she helped with the assignments, did the trainings, complained about the trainings, and generally got along with the other students. While that fear never really disappeared, at the very least, she was finally surrounded by people and socializing, something she realized she had been starved of.

Name: Sloane Vinicula Maddox

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Role: Demon Weapon

Special Trait:
Power Amp – While Sloane has a very narrow range of compatibility, her ability to boost the soul wavelength of a meister is actually very strong, allowing a strong resonance to be built in very little time, which in turn supports potent soul-enhanced techniques.

Strengths:
Sloane's strengths typically only see the light of day if she is able to overcome her mental hurdles. If somehow able to apply herself to a situation and extend effort without fear of failure, Sloane is a fairly talented individual. She's observant, intelligent, able to learn quickly and solve problems, physically fit, and a good fighter. A natural affinity plus lots of training allow her to partially change into her weapon form, manifesting her halberd's axehead or spearhead almost anywhere on her body. Overall, she's pretty strong offensively if she can be coaxed into it. Around friends -people who've treated her well and supported her, with patience and kindness, despite her shortcomings and built up mutual trust- she feels able to try and be the person she wishes she could be all the time, a good friend and companion who's always there for those she cares about.

Weaknesses:
Under the weight of a self-imposed pressure to be flawless and brilliant, she can't stand to fail and let people down. As such, she appears reluctant to put any effort forward, gets moody if she has to, and even moodier if she messes up. Sloane's typical standoffish attitude makes her difficult to deal with as a person and difficult to handle as a weapon. Her behavior makes her unlikable as a companion and teammate, and when in weapon form, she's poorly balanced and unwieldy at best but literally caustic to a wielder's hands at worst. It's difficult for her to get along with others. In addition, her ability to take hits is pretty poor.

Partner:
N/A

Soul Type and Appearance:
A maroon, disinterested soul. Its eyes are downcast and its face scrunched-up, while there's a bow behind it.

Appearance:
Fairly tall and overall slender (except where she shouldn't be), Sloane cuts a striking figure only further aided by her choice of attire.


Weapon Appearance and Description:
As a weapon Sloane takes the appearance of a gleaming halberd, a weapon that combines the strength of an axe with the reach and precision of a spear. With vivid color and masterful contours, it makes for a dazzling weapon, but it's actually fairly impractical. Its shaft is hard to get a good grip on, and with a lot of weight in the axe-head the halberd's balance is pretty unusual, making the weapon unwieldy.


Personality:
Cold, unapproachable, pessimistic, snappy, sarcastic, even churlish—Sloane is all these things and more. She gives off the air of someone fixated on Number One, uncaring about anyone else. However, she wishes this wasn't the case. If she could, Sloane would be outgoing, supportive, friendly, humorous, and enthusiastic, but instead her natural perfectionism fills her with anxiety and inadequacy. Having convinced herself by numerous incidents and failed attempts that she can't be a better person, and that her only inherent qualities that make herself worth anything in the eyes of others are superficial, she possesses rock-bottom self-esteem. This sustains the surly, morose mood that leads her to be unkind to others, be it by assuming the worst or making fun. In most situations she would rather not try than risk failure.

Despite all this, if able to get past her own mental hurdles to apply herself, she is both a kind and principled person, even cheerful and funny, as well as an intelligent and capable problem-solver. In order to manifest this side of herself, however, she needs the unflinching goodness of others.

As side-notes, Sloane is fond of sleeping, clothes, cars, horror and monsters, history, and poetry.

Backstory: Ambrose Maddox and Millicent Roads suited one another perfectly. Ambitious, smart, headstrong, vivacious, hailing from poor families, and perpetually down in their luck, they found in each other the perfect partner in their shared vision of the good life. Married fresh out of university mostly paid for by scholarships and looking to square their debts before making it big, they started up a daring business and got to work. Years passed and business fluctuated wildly, sometimes landing the couple a few months of blissful comfort and sometimes sending them sleepless nights in crippling debt, counting on that next shipment. They worked hard, demanding the best from one another, and though it strained their relationship at times, they finally achieved something like their dream of success. It wasn't quite the peak they hoped for, but they were happy. When they had children, a son and two daughters, they sought to bring them up as just the sort of hard-working, self-made successes they themselves had been.

Unfortunately, their luck did not hold. Their son Verne, a kind and self-effacing soul without any more ambition that helping out others, proved to be a disappointment to them. Their oldest daughter, Minette, turned out startlingly like Millicent's mother, who'd been a primary factor for her drive to earn a better life; she was lazy and a slob, and frightfully overweight. That left Sloane, quiet and smart, clearly gifted, and eager to achieve. The cost of raising three children plus a sudden downturn in the couple's ever-changing business gradually brought around tough times for the family, and so it was that the parents' ambitious turned to Sloane.

Sloane's parents raised her with sky-high expectations. Having fallen short of the good life they sought, her mother and father strove to make her into the perfect, golden child. They imposed high standards and seldom rewarded her successes, instead punishing and correcting her mistakes. She was taught to be the best and settle for nothing less, and for a long time she tried very hard. Eventually, however, Sloane hit her breaking point. In her teens, with the pressure mounting of getting into a good school with huge scholarships, her attempts to be perfect started to backfire. She started getting angry with herself and those around her when she failed, and refusing to try when success wasn't assured. Her parents, worried that their star was burning out, increased the pressure. In time the bright girl became standoffish, rude, and withdrawn, unwilling to open up and brutally critical of herself. Despairing, her parents wrote her off as another failure.

It was at that time, however, that her abilities as a demon weapon manifested. The product of a recessive gene long-hidden in her father's family line, she revealed herself to be a stunning weapon, and suddenly a new avenue was open to her parents. They reached out for meisters about her age, making offers to try and get her paired with an up-and-coming meister bound for success. If their daughter could become a Death Scythe, after all, no shortage of fame and fortune would be forthcoming for her family. Sloane tried one match, regretted it immensely, and promptly abandoned her mother and father. She wandered for a time, finding shelter and work where able. She spent some time with her brother and sister (working toward becoming a butler and a chef, respectively), her only confidantes for many years, but ended up at the DWMA.