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Aberration - An oddity among the Extra-Normal beings as they were created by Apparitions. Which isn't supposed to happen.

Abscised - A form of Aberration that either had their body taken over by an Apparition or were otherwise removed.

Abstraction - The term for an otherworldly and fantastical ability that all Extra-Normal beings possess 
in one way or another.

Adept - A type of Extra-Normal being from Glint that uses their abstraction similar to a wizard.

Adjoined - A form of Aberrant when a person is fused with an Apparition and is permanently fused or capable of transforming.

Affinity - An Adept's preferability to learn certain spells that correspond with them.

Affixed - A type of Extra-Normal being that has an Apparition bonded to them that they can control.

Afflicted - An Extra-Normal being that was cursed by an Extra-Normal Being.

Agent - An Agent is created when a Blind comes in contact with an Apparition that has been 
sealed and are allowed to use their power.

All-Verse - The multiverse, a collection of infinite worlds.

Apparition - An ethereal being created by Luminscience that is created and powered by belief and emotion.

Aura - An invisible field that surrounds all people and objects that Extra-Normal beings can sense to discern information (such as health, hostility, etc).

Awakened - A being from Shimmer that had strong emotion within them and during their Awakening event gained extra-normal abilities.

Awakening - An event where a normal person gains fantastical powers - usually a moment of intense emotion such as dancing with a lover or almost getting killed.

Blind - Someone who possesses no Extra-Normal abilities or even the slightest affinity towards it.

Casting - The act of an adept using their ability.

Channeler - A tool an Adept uses to use their abstraction.

Collective-Awakening - The phenomenon when a group of people Awakens in the same area where they share a piece of each other's powers. Each collective has their own "mechanics" which dictate how their abstractions interact with each other.

Counterpart - The phenomenon of there being another version of a single person from another universe. They can be drastically different or more or less the same.

Coven - A buncha idiots.

Emotional Field - An invisible barrier that exists between all Extra-Normal Beings that protects them from each other's abilities.

Exile - A former member of the League of Luminscience that, for one reason or another, was sent to another world.

Extra-Normal - The term used to refer to anything supernatural.

Farmer Hill - A place in Montana where the Glutton was originally sealed. After the Glutton's defeat the place was destroyed by an earthquake.

Glint - An alternate world where the Adepts and the League of Luminscience originated from.

Glutton - An eldritch abomination that consumed countless worlds and was sealed and eventually defeated at Farmer Hill. However, a small fragment of the Glutton remained.

The Hound - The grim reaper of the setting, a black world that claims lives and takes them to the other side. Actually a pretty nice guy.

Kindling-Event - An event where an Adept experiences a vision of either the future or one of their ancestors having experiencing emotions that correspond with their Lux.

Knights of Luminscience - The primary fighting force of the League of Luminescence.

Luminescence - The alternate term for magic used in Glint and by the Adepts and members of the League of Luminescence.

Lux - The terms for each of the eleven colors of Luminescence. They are known as Rage, Fear, Love, Happiness, Pride, Anticipation, Nostalgia, Sadness, Hope, Apathy, and Courage.

Nexus-Point - Little points that act as the web that connects the All-Verse, in the presence of a Nexus-Point an extra-normal being's abilities are far stronger.

One-Eye-Open - The state of a Blind gaining more of a sensitivity to the Extra-Normal and can perceive them.

Recollection - A flashback that can be experienced by Extra-Normal beings under certain situations.

Sealing - The act of sealing an Apparition into an object.

Shimmer - The universe in which the story takes place.

Sigil - A tattoo-like brand that appears on an Awakened somewhere or appears when an Adept casts.

Subsequent-Awakening - After undergoing great personal change, an Awakened's abstraction can completely shift to something completely new after being exposed to strong emotions.

The League of Luminscience - A massive, world-spanning, organization that worships the Luminscience and is comprised of thousands of different Adept families in the universe of Glint.

Traveler - A being that has traveled from their original world into another one.

White Rabbit Society - A massive resistance organization in Glint that arisen to oppose the League. It primarily consists of oppressed Apparitions and dissents from the League lead by an enigmatic woman known as White Archne.

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Welcome to Recollections: The Coven, another RP set in the supernatural horror/urban fantasy universe known as the Recollections universe. Set after Vivid Recollections where the world eating eldritch abomination known as the Glutton was defeated and a new timeline was created free of its influence - with the side effect of magic returning. This creates a wide range of different ramifications as new beings and problems turn the system upside down. 

And one of those problems is the Coven. They started out as an idea over the internet; a group of people who got together to talk about magic and their abilities - with problems that come from them. However, they eventually started getting ideas and formed their own group of wannabe witches. Their reasons for joining, and well working with, the Coven vary as they each have their own problem. However, the main thing that keeps them from being a threat is their sheer incompetence, backstabbing, and disorganized leadership. Everyone wants to steer the Coven in their own direction and it doesn't work the way they want. However, they eventually run afoul of one of the universe's actual threats and awaken a bigger threat. They'll have to come together to stop the bigger problem because hey, they live here too!

This story will be an urban-fantasy story that will cast a certain light on "magic" while leaving it ambiguous whether or not it's truly magic or not. The storyline will have elements of superpowers, urban fantasy, horror, and more. The RP will be character-driven and heavily guided by the cast; how the Coven turns out should be a natural progression of events rather than it being forced. Like other recollection RPs it'll have it's own pretentious thematic and in this case, it'll be Reaching out. In the case of the cast should have a problem that drives them to join the Coven and tolerate their bullshit in attempts to get what they want. Whether or not they get what they want is up to them. Like Vivid Recollections, it's secondary themes will be Memory and Emotion.

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 RULES 

⋗ 1 . 1 | Remember that everybody is here to have fun above all else. We may throw a few flowery jabs at each other, but remember it's all in good fun. The Golden rule is: don't be a dick.

⋗ 1 . 2 | That said, remember that I have the full right to deny anyone access to the RP, and I am willing to remove anyone from the RP should they get too unruly. I hope it doesn't come to that, but I'm just putting that out there.

⋗ 1 . 3 | I enforce a policy of not informing people of every time they should post (unless their character is in the middle of interactions). If you go inactive without a peep, I'm not going to babysit you. It's a player's responsibility to keep up with the RP.

⋗ 1 . 4 | Please be respectful towards all other players.

⋗ 1 . 5 | Please do not post a "wip" sheet in the thread. I find it very irritating when someone posts an incomplete character sheet. If you want me to read over what you have so far, just PM it to me. If you need a place to work on it just private message the sheet to yourself (or write it on one of many platforms).

⋗ 1 . 6 | This RP will strictly be "first come, first serve." Meaning I will not reserve any powers/character roles/etc, and they will go to whoever finishes their character sheet first. If there's a conflict over it, I will decide the outcome.

⋗ 1 . 7 | Character applications will go into the OOC (where we can work things out) until they are accepted. In other words, the character tab is for accepted characters only. Also, do not "reserve" a spot in the Character Tab unless you were given permission to by me.

⋗ 1 . 8 | Try to keep the OOC active as possible. Even chit-chatting about random games is perfectly okay.

⋗ 2 . 1 | No Powergaming, God-Modding, Metagaming, etc, etc... You know, the "don't"s of Roleplaying. You know the dealio.

⋗ 2 . 2 | Let me say now; the story will be pretty slow-paced at times. I have a job and college, so I won't be able to post constantly. If a slower RP is good for you, then go for it.

⋗ 2 . 3 | All I ask for is one post a week. If it's been a week since your last post, your character will be placed into the inactive section until they are written off (mostly by death). Once a character is inactive, however, they are officially an NPC and can be used freely by the GMs, or the players. Unless you give notice of your absence, then your character is off the table.

⋗ 2 . 4 | I am not a stickler for post length. I'd rather have a meaningful paragraph, over an essay full of filler. But, I request one paragraph.

⋗ 2 . 5 | This RP, at times, will get very dark. I plan for it to be a very mature, and down-to-earth Roleplay. There will be death, drinking, drugs, and tickle fingers.

⋗ 2 . 6 | Character death is a real possibility. By submitting a character, you understand that they have to take responsibility for their actions. They will not be bailed out by me and possibly get injured or die. I won't jeopardize the story for one character. They can also be killed by other characters. I won't go out of my way to kill off any character - that I like - but I may injure them for the sake of the story.

⋗ 2 . 7 | Romance/Sex/Whatever is allowed in the RP. "Fade to black" is so beaten into your heads by now that there's no point in even repeating it.

⋗ 2 . 8 | To keep things a bit more organized, please say where your post is taking place at the start of your post.

⋗ 2 . 9 | If you're also expecting me to hold your hand every step of the way, then you're going to be disappointed. This is going to be an RP that rewards taking initiative, and starting plotlines of your own. I'll provide a storyline, but I'm not going to be railroading everyone.

⋗ 3 . 1 | Everyone should be a member of the Coven but I'm willing to allow characters not apart of the Coven long as they're associated with them in some way. The RP's about the Coven and if you're not with them or against them, well...

⋗ 3 . 2 | I expect some moderate detail when writing your character sheet. Remember, this RP is more grounded in realism, and I want each character to feel like a person. Try to give them a believable past, goals, personality, etc.

⋗ 3 . 3 | If your goal is to basically make the strongest/best character, and try to "win" the roleplay, let me stop you here and say you won't get far. This is a story, not a place for you to wank your OP self-insert. Nothing says "I'm a bad writer" to me than giving your character the strongest abilities (along with an ass ton of skills). I will not hesitate to ask you to change whatever I dislike about your character sheet.

⋗ 3 . 4 | If your character is a sociopath/psychopath, complete badass, perfect character, edgelord, then they're likely not going to get accepted.

⋗ 3 . 5 | You can create a character of any ethnicity, gender, sexuality, background, etc, within the bounds of realism of course. You can definitely get creative here.

⋗ 3 . 6 |  Following abilities are banned: Anything related to "power manipulation" (such as replication, removal, etc), Gravity Manipulation, Magnetism, and any other science-y powers, "instant death" powers, reality-warping, anything with "Omni" attached to it, and complete defense/indestructibility.

⋗ 3 . 7 | I'm not placing a hard character limit, but I'm going to recommend you have no more than three characters. Afterward, you better bring something new to the table.

⋗ 3 . 8 | I suggest writing a description of your character's appearance to get everyone in that writing mood. If you must, you can use a picture. Just no anime. The pictures have to be of real people, or realistic art (but, let's shy away from A/B List Celebrities).

⋗ 3 . 9 | When creating a character, try to be diverse. Look at the character sheets and try to fulfill a role that no one has. No one wants a million street fighters, or nice girls. You can be pretty creative within the bounds of the lore.

⋗ 3 . 10 | Please refrain from tacking skills onto characters. Try to make everything feel natural to your character.

⋗ 3 . 11 | On the other hand, I'm going to be allowing more powerful abilities such as time manipulation, immortality, mind control/suggestion, memory manipulation, etc. There are limits in place to keep the playing field even, so keep that in mind.

⋗ 3 . 12 | Powers reflect some aspect of the character, so keep that in mind when creating one. I'm not asking for something super symbolic, but maybe something loosely related to your character.

⋗ 3 . 13 | Also, don't fill out the weaknesses/limits section of the character sheet. I'll fill that out for you!

⋗ 3 . 14 | This is optional, but I can choose a power for your character. It'll be a fun little thing for both of us.

⋗ 3 . 15 | The lore is left mainly blank for you all to come up with your own events, monsters, etc, etc. I want this RP to be community-focused with everyone bringing something to the table.

⋗ 3 . 16 | The cast will start out knowing each other.

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The Coven is lead by Claudette Jones... at the moment.

The Coven is a collection of different Extra-Normal beings centered in the Tampa bay area of Florida - primarily situated in the outskirts of Tampa. They started out as a bunch of people talking over social media and Reddit and eventually got the bright idea to join together for their own reasons. It could be out of protection, community, or maybe even a desire to delve into the supernatural world. The Coven attempts to become one of the big players in the supernatural world, however, due to how terribly it's run all their attempts fail. They seemingly change leadership every other week because they vote one person out and vote a new person in. They're a relatively recent invention and most of their stunts seem to be social media stunts and other such things in an attempt to gain more followers (and more members). 

The Coven seems to have no real process for vetting people as they'll take anyone who comes in. They have had many arguments and discussions on just who should be let into the organization as at some point they argued that it should be a girls-only group. They are witches, after all, but they decided to be all-inclusive. They have decided to be all-inclusive. They don't have a base of operations or anything solid - they meet up in various abandoned places. At the moment their current goals are a complete mystery as they seem to take votes on what exactly they should do next. And this probably one of their main issues.

Maybe. Maybe. By some miracle, they'll become a big player in the supernatural game.

 ALLIES/MINIONS 

Kimberly Walton & Rowan Campbell: Kimberly Walton and Rowan Campbell, the minds behind the hit "show" Project Worlds Unknown investigated the Coven one day. They met the previous leader of the Coven, Agatha Loom, and Nina Norell and after some talking they exchanged information. While telling them about the dangers of Annabelle Heart, she said that she would be in touch and if they needed anything to contact her.

The DENS: The Department of Extra-Normal Security, a "sort of" ally that attacked the Coven one day posing as the FBI. They are a strike team of eight Extra-Normal individuals that are lead by Meifeng Liao. After the attack on Greenwoods, they conducted a raid on the Coven and struck a deal so they don't all go to jail. The DENS keeps very close tabs on the Coven, while their mission is to eliminate Annabelle Heart at all costs. Their relationship is strenuous with the Coven and could collapse at any moment. However, some members of the DENS are trying to improve the relationship with the Coven so that makes working together much easier.

 THEIR LAIR 

The current lair of the Coven is a very nice and fancy beach house gifted to them by Blake Schmidt after they scared the piss out of him. It's right on the Tampa beach and it's big enough for the entire Covent to stay and have their meetings in peace. Free from the threats of methheads wandering in to piss on them, but not safe from the threat of Florida man (the second you step into Florida your ass is his). Currently, a few members of the Coven resides in the Beach House.

The lair of the Coven started with is an abandoned casino on the very outskirts of Tampa known as the Lucky Strike. The casino went out of business ages ago due to bankruptcy and hasn't been torn down yet. Thus, it was perfect for the Coven to take over as its in a rather secluded area bordering Tampa and Seffner. It's where they generally hang out and conduct their experiments and other such things... even though many of the members are trying to figure out how to turn the power back on.

After the attack by the DENS, the Coven left their previous lair behind for an amusement park known as Fantasy Land. It's east of Tampa on the outskirts of the city towards Seffner and Brandon. It was a simple amusement park that had a child-like, adventurer theme, and it was fairly big. Too big, actually. The owners couldn't keep up with the costs due to the fact that the visitation wasn't matching its size and it was closed down. Now it's a rotting mess left for the methheads and other losers. This place was a "plan B" for the Coven due to its size and the number of methheads didn't make it all that viable of a location. After the attack by the DENS, the Coven was forced to relocate to a new place... which the DENS tracked almost immediately.

 ENEMIES 

The Greenwood (Vampire) Coven:An entire trailer park was converted into a family of low-tier Afflicted after their patriarch Benard "Pa" Mitchell was attacked by another Afflicted. He quickly transformed the rest of the Greenwood Estates into his own little vampire Coven and it enhanced their little crime family. However, most of the time they are either doing drugs, selling drugs, or committing petty crimes in Tampa and beyond. Kayla Foster and the Coven ran afoul of the organization after the former sold them fake drugs and the Coven launched an attack on them. Now they seek revenge. They were wiped out by Annabelle Heart.

The sunny city that is famed worldwide as much as the rest of the state. Tampa Florida is densely populated with a large number of different peoples from all over settling. Given the place a distinct feel as you walk the streets - even though that could just be the sunshine bearing down. If it's not sunshine then it's raining. Tampa has a large number of diverse neighborhoods: North Tampa, South-Tampa, Interbay, University West, West Tampa, Carrollwood, and Tampa Palms. However, with the return of the supernatural, there has been a great change throughout Florida. Various supernatural organizations and creatures have come out of the shadows... including the Coven themselves.

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....................................................................................................."The world of the Extra-Normal is the gateway to infinite possibilities."
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There out there exists a force, a force like no other. One that allows a person to go further beyond the limits of what is considered natural and become something more... or less, depending on how you look at it. The simplest word for it all is Magic, and it's the gateway to infinite possibilities. Magic was always a secret in the old timeline, but in the new timeline, magic returned just one year before the story started. The collective term for it all is Extra-Normal, and there are many different types of Extra-Normal beings. Each of them gets their abilities depending on mere circumstance. Some get their abilities from a moment of powerful emotions, others inherit it, some are phantasms of the deceased or spawned from belief and emotion, and others are the result of a chance encounter with those phantasms. 

Each of them has innate abilities that each of them has across the board. To begin many magical abilities are completely invisible to those who aren't Extra-Normal (Known as Blind). Only the Extra-Normal can perceive them but there are certain abilities that can be seen by all. The Extra-Normal can read the auras of things that they have a connection through walls and over distances, have a barrier around them known as an Emotional Field which protects them from each other's abilities (but some abstractions can bypass it), and can experience a Recollection, a vision of the past that is somewhat related to them.
However, these are merely sub-abilities, and every Extra-Normal being has an ability that is unique to them known as an Abstraction. Abstractions are the collective term used for a magical ability of any time and it's determined by the type of being. However, Abstractions are vast, strange, and no two abstractions are ever the same. However, abstractions are fueled and connected to the very soul and emotions of a person. If you were to take the soul out of an Extra-Normal being's body and put it in another, the abstraction would follow. Removing their emotions would remove their abstraction but an abstraction that can not only negate emotions but bypass emotional fields is extremely rare.


AWAKENED

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"Open your mind, heart, body, and soul to the universe..."

......................................................................................................The Awakened are the most common and versatile type of Extra-Normal beings. They open their minds to the greater universe via a moment of powerful emotion, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a negative emotion. The abstraction they gain reflects them in some way or another (Such a person who desires control would get a telekinetic power or an angry person would gain pyromancery) and they have a brand on them known as a Sigil on them that denotes their ability. However, they would never get a biological or physical ability such as super strength or regeneration, they would get a spiritual, elemental or psychic one. Sigils are invisible to the Blind and the Awakened have their own set of abilities. The Awakened are capable of transferring their abstractions amongst other Awakened (or to Blind that they have a particular connection to), either wholly or bits and pieces. However, once an Awaken dies their abstraction is up for grabs. 

An Awakened can have several abstractions but they can only use one at a time. In addition, they have to replicate and understand the emotions behind that abstraction in order to use it to its fullest potential... unless they're in a Collective-Awakening. Which many people Awaken at the same time and they each get a piece of everyone's ability in the Collective along with a mechanic in which their abstractions interact. A member of the Collective can use every ability at the same time. However, there's something known as a Semi-Awakening in which a person changes enough so that the finer details of their abstractions shift - while still retaining the core abilities and possibly gain or lose new sub-abilities. They won't have a shell of their former abstraction, however. Finally, there's the Subsequent-Awakening, in which, after great change, an Awakened can manifest a brand new ability to reflect them. It's possible for a Subsequent-Awakening to be a Collective.

The bread and butter of the setting and probably the most common and simplistic of the types. All I ask for is that the abstraction reflects some part of their character, I'm pretty loose about that. Just don't be lame and say something like "Likes running so has super speed". I'm thinking stuff like somebody gets the ability to launch people because they were attacked, someone with kindness gets healing, etc. The Collective-Awakening can also be interesting.
ADEPTS

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"Transcend the limitations you have placed on your mind and soul."

..................................................................................Adepts are individuals from a different universe known as Glint, a universe owned by a collective known as the League of Luminescence. Ages ago the world of Glint was nearly wiped clean by the universe eating abomination Glutton and after its defeat, the magical families that once were in the shadows took over. Establishing the League of Luminscience, but most of the people in this universe are one of the exiles or runaways that were cast away and carried their genes. However, Adepts can gift their abilities to the Blind that they have a particularly strong connection to. The Adepts are more in line with traditional wizards and mages, and they use an object known as a Channeler to cast their spells. A channeler is an object in which the Adept has an emotional connection to and it's possible to use an object that they don't have a connection to but the casting is far weaker. 

Each Adept is connected to a different light known as Lux which unlocks different magical abilities, the more kinds of Lux an Adept is attached to, the less powerful they are overall. Each light of Lux corresponds with a particular emotion and when the Blind carrying Adept genes experiences that emotion they undergo a Kindling Event. A Kindling-Event is when the Blind receives a vision of their ancestors who tells them about their heritage, or alternatively a vision of the future of them using their spells. An Adept can in fact have several Kindling-Events and interact with their ancestors whenever they go through a high-stress situation. However, it's possible for a Severence to occur during one of these events. A Severence is when an Adept cuts their spiritual connection to the Lux during a Kindling Event or their ancestor severs it when they feel sufficiently disgraced.

In any case, an Adept has a collection of Spells they must learn and practice before they are able to utilize them - Adepts find it easier to learn spells that correspond with their personality. This is known as an Affinity. Older Adepts are among the most powerful due to practicing a wide range of different spells. It's possible for an Adept to seal an Apparition within their channeler for a power boost if it corresponds with their color. This will grant an increase in all the current spells, however, the Apparition inside can cause some problems. They can make the casting unstable, dangerous, and there's a risk for the Apparition to break free. There's also such a thing as Joint-Casting. It's the event where two Adepts of the same and different Lux put their minds together and cast a powerful Spell. It usually requires an emotional bond with each other and some practice in order to pull.
Red (Rage/Hatred): Elemental Lux, the most common type of Lux. Examples: Fire, ice, electricity, earth, plant manipulation, and similar abilities.

Green (Happiness): Biological Lux, the second most common type of Lux. Examples: Healing, shape-shifting, wing generation, etc,

Yellow (Fear/Caution): Stealth & Shielding Lux. Examples: Invisibility, barrier generation/forcefields, dumbing sound down, etc.

Pink (Love/Lust): Mental & Emotional Lux, and the fourth most common type of Lux. Examples: Emotion manipulation, mind control, telepathy, illusion creation, etc.

Gold (Pride): Summoning & Minion Creation Lux, the third rarest type of Lux - allows an Adept to create or summon a minion. Examples include: Creating minions of choice, summoning a defeated monster, etc

Purple (Anticipation): Movement Lux, the third most common type of Lux. Examples include: Teleportation, Portal Creation (a common abstraction in the League), telekinesis, etc

Cyan (Nostalgia): Sight & Sensory Lux. Examples include: Observing locations remotely, seeing into the past/future, enhanced vision, etc.

Orange (Courage): Infusion Lux, the ability to infuse objects and people with Extra-Normal properties. Orange Lux synergizes well with every other type of Lux. Examples: Creating a magic sword, making an object levitate, etc, etc.

Blue (Sadness): Curse-Lux, the rarest form of Lux. The ability to cast curses, but needs a stipulation to be broken - synergizes often with Black and Gold Lux. Examples: Cursing someone to turn into a monster, creating a deadly illness, cursing someone to be haunted by the dead, etc

Lavender (Hope): Purification and Strengthening Lux. Examples: Boosting other Extra-Normal beings power, removal of curses, removing diseases, etc

Black (Apathy): Necromancery Lux, the ability to manipulate the dead. Examples: Creating zombie minions, manipulating apparitions and spirits, etc
Adepts are probably my second favorite out of the types so I'm biased. They're probably the most complex given how Lux n' shit works. I should note that newer adepts (aka what should be most of the cast) should only have access to three or five spells at a time - and I demand a list of spells they can cast in their abstraction section. Keep in mind the more types of Lux they have access to, the overall weaker their abilities should be. Also please run any new spells by me first.

APPARITIONS

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"They emerge from a world that shouldn't even exist."

......................................................................................................Ghosts, Phantasms, Demons, whatever you call them, they are strange beings. Apparitions are likely the vaguest and esoteric of all the Extra-Normal beings but are among the most impactful. They are in line with ghosts as they are not comprised of flesh and blood, but instead, magic. They are beings that were created a particularly powerful emotion or belief or they're the phantasm of a deceased with strong emotion in them. The Awakened are more likely to become Apparitions just from their nature. They are powered by the same emotions/belief that created them and can grow exponentially powerful depending on how great it is. 

However, on the flip side, they can fade from existence if it wanes - this is why some Apparitions are ancient in age. Apparitions can have any type of abstraction reflecting their belief or the person they once were when they passed - but their abstractions can shift in time. If an Apparition is destroyed they'll merely regenerate in time, which is why a technique known as Sealing is used to imprison them in an object. Apparitions are invisible to the Blind unless they choose to be visible.
It's simple to seal an Apparition. First one needs an object to seal them inside of, something small preferably so it can be easily hidden. Then a person has to draw sigils, or any symbol that they truly believe will seal the Apparition into the object. Then they must battle the Apparition, damage it enough, and get it to the sigils. Then they can activate the seal and trap the Apparition inside the object. Larger and other more powerful apparitions require bigger sigils to be drawn or for them to be far weaker, but all an Apparition has to do is be in the area to be sealed.

Apparitions are going to be heavily restricted for a number of reasons, you can only make an Apparition if you get permission for me. Apparitions apart of an Aberration are fully allowed.

ABERRATION
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"Freak, monsters, predators, prey, Aberrations. Do not take them lightly."
Aberrations are what are considered to be "outside the lines". Aberrations are people who have had contact with the Extra-Normal and gained either a blessing or a curse from their abilities. Almost all Abberattions are created from Blind interacting with Apparitions in one way or another but there are cases of Aberrations being created from other Extra-Normals. Unlike the other types of Extra-Normals; Animals and humans alike can become Aberrations due to their strange nature. Aberrations are considered to be extra-normal beings, so they can use all of the baseline abilities, but only the Blind can become an Aberration. Due to the odd nature of the Aberrations, they are separated into five subclasses:

Affixed: Are those who have an Apparition attached to their soul and utilize their abilities. Either the Apparition uses their own abstraction or the Affixed is allowed to use it - or both.

Afflicted: A person who gained an abstraction through being cursed by an Apparition.

Agent: A person who has contact with an Apparition that has been sealed inside an object and can use their abstraction by proxy.

Adjoined: A person who has been fused with an Apparition on a physical or mental level. Is either capable of shifting into the Apparition's form, mentally combined and can use their abstraction, or is a full fusion.

Abscised: An Abscised is an Apparition that has taken over somebody's body and can use their abstraction through them. The Abscised are varying amounts of undead.


My favorite type of Extra-Normal beings. They'll require a bit of thought as you'll have to come up with how they'll become an Aberrant (mainly running into an Apparition). But with Aberrants you aren't limited by belief or personality or whatever and can come up with anything.
OTHER.BEINGS

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"They live blissfully unaware of the bigger picture."

......................................................................................The Blind: The term used for people who do not have an Extra-Normal ability of any type. After coming in contact with the Extra-Normal enough a Blind can become One-Eye-Open and perceive the Extra-Normal.

Traveler/Counterpart: A person from one of the many strange universes out there. In proximity to their counterpart, they'll gain a mental link that'll allow them to share thoughts/memories and possibly see each other's auras.

The Hound: The embodiment of black death that leads souls to the other side. An absolutely ancient and powerful being that is beyond even the other types of Extra-Normal. Strange and mysterious, but takes the shape of a black wolf. If a person doesn't die when they're supposed to, he'll know and hunt them down to the end of the earth. The only other time you'll see him is if you seek him out and he deems you worthy of his time. He acts in mysterious ways; he will sometimes cut deals with people for his help or a bit of his power... but he always has a price. The Hound is universally feared across the multiverse.

You can be a Blind or have One-Eye-Open along with being a Traveler (If you're making a traveler run the universe they're from by me first; certain things are out the question). Just know that your character won't have an Emotional-Field and will be susceptible to the wide range of powers!

And no, you can't play the Hound.


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......................................................................................."After turning a blind eye to the carnage going on around them for so long; they really had it coming."
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.Farmer Hill, Montana.

A place few people have heard of, being a small town in the middle of nowhere. However, it couldn't have been more important. Eons ago, all the magic in the universe was used to seal a powerful God-like being known as the Glutton. This thing was an incomprehensible ball of orange light that tortured countless universes and then devoured them and has feasted to the point where it was near invincible. Its rampage was brought to an end in the universe of Glint where combined forces brought the thing down and sealed it in a mountain in a different universe. That different universe is the world where the story takes place, and that mountain was Mount Ever Reaching in Farmer Hill.
It was where the Glutton lied dormant for ages upon ages - the League of Luminscience manipulated Farmer Hill to keep the citizens away from the mountain and the existence of magic a secret. However, it all changed when the seals that kept the Glutton dormant were broken by somebody's foolishness and it was allowed to feast off of what sustained it: emotions. The Glutton's first action was attacking a campsite full of people by corrupting one powerful minion and inadvertently Awakened the people that would defeat it. It tormented this group as they tried to find a way to defeat it; ultimately knocking them into a coma for a few months. 

In this few months, the Glutton turned Farmer Hill upside-down - mind-controlling countless people and turning the town into a chaotic warzone. Anyone who entered Farmer Hill was enthralled as well and in this chaos; the Glutton slaughtered any Awakened or Extra-Normal beings that it could with impunity and tortured them endlessly in its domain. However, the Awakened that was put into a coma, well, awakened from it and rebelled against it. Ultimately, they engaged in one final battle against the Glutton in the mountain, and, out of desperation to escape, the Glutton broke the seals that were binding it. However, by doing this the Glutton injured itself to the point where it was eliminated and the multiverse was free from it.

However, these events were reversed as a new timeline was born from the "death" of the Glutton. A new timeline where Farmer Hill was destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake and the Awakened that the Glutton killed were resurrected. However, with the death of the Glutton, the magic was returned.


Click here for a more detailed explaination. .....................................................................................................	^{"The world of the Extra-Normal is the gateway to infinite possibilities." ____________________________________} . . . There out there exists a force, a force like no other. One that allows a person to go further beyond the limits of what is considered natural and become something more... or less, depending on how you look at it. The simplest word for it all is Magic, and it's the gateway to infinite possibilities. Magic was always a secret in the old timeline, but in the new timeline, magic returned just one year before the story started. The collective term for it all is Extra-Normal, and there are many different types of Extra-Normal beings. Each of them gets their abilities depending on mere circumstance. Some get their abilities from a moment of powerful emotions, others inherit it, some are phantasms of the deceased or spawned from belief and emotion, and others are the result of a chance encounter with those phantasms. Each of them has innate abilities that each of them has across the board. To begin many magical abilities are completely invisible to those who aren't Extra-Normal (Known as Blind). Only the Extra-Normal can perceive them but there are certain abilities that can be seen by all. The Extra-Normal can read the auras of things that they have a connection through walls and over distances, have a barrier around them known as an Emotional Field which protects them from each other's abilities (but some abstractions can bypass it), and can experience a Recollection, a vision of the past that is somewhat related to them.

AWAKENED
^{________________________________________________________________} _{"Open your mind, heart, body, and soul to the universe..."} ......................................................................................................	The Awakened are the most common and versatile type of Extra-Normal beings. They open their minds to the greater universe via a moment of powerful emotion, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a negative emotion. The abstraction they gain reflects them in some way or another (Such a person who desires control would get a telekinetic power or an angry person would gain pyromancery) and they have a brand on them known as a Sigil on them that denotes their ability. However, they would never get a biological or physical ability such as super strength or regeneration, they would get a spiritual, elemental or psychic one. Sigils are invisible to the Blind and the Awakened have their own set of abilities. The Awakened are capable of transferring their abstractions amongst other Awakened (or to Blind that they have a particular connection to), either wholly or bits and pieces. However, once an Awaken dies their abstraction is up for grabs. An Awakened can have several abstractions but they can only use one at a time. In addition, they have to replicate and understand the emotions behind that abstraction in order to use it to its fullest potential... unless they're in a Collective-Awakening. Which many people Awaken at the same time and they each get a piece of everyone's ability in the Collective along with a mechanic in which their abstractions interact. A member of the Collective can use every ability at the same time. However, there's something known as a Semi-Awakening in which a person changes enough so that the finer details of their abstractions shift - while still retaining the core abilities and possibly gain or lose new sub-abilities. They won't have a shell of their former abstraction, however. Finally, there's the Subsequent-Awakening, in which, after great change, an Awakened can manifest a brand new ability to reflect them. It's possible for a Subsequent-Awakening to be a Collective. The bread and butter of the setting and probably the most common and simplistic of the types. All I ask for is that the abstraction reflects some part of their character, I'm pretty loose about that. Just don't be lame and say something like "Likes running so has super speed". I'm thinking stuff like somebody gets the ability to launch people because they were attacked, someone with kindness gets healing, etc. The Collective-Awakening can also be interesting.

ADEPTS
^{_______________________________________________} _{"Transcend the limitations you have placed on your mind and soul."} ..................................................................................	Adepts are individuals from a different universe known as Glint, a universe owned by a collective known as the League of Luminescence. Ages ago the world of Glint was nearly wiped clean by the universe eating abomination Glutton and after its defeat, the magical families that once were in the shadows took over. Establishing the League of Luminscience, but most of the people in this universe are one of the exiles or runaways that were cast away and carried their genes. However, Adepts can gift their abilities to the Blind that they have a particularly strong connection to. The Adepts are more in line with traditional wizards and mages, and they use an object known as a Channeler to cast their spells. A channeler is an object in which the Adept has an emotional connection to and it's possible to use an object that they don't have a connection to but the casting is far weaker. Each Adept is connected to a different light known as Lux which unlocks different magical abilities, the more kinds of Lux an Adept is attached to, the less powerful they are overall. Each light of Lux corresponds with a particular emotion and when the Blind carrying Adept genes experiences that emotion they undergo a Kindling Event. A Kindling-Event is when the Blind receives a vision of their ancestors who tells them about their heritage, or alternatively a vision of the future of them using their spells. An Adept can in fact have several Kindling-Events and interact with their ancestors whenever they go through a high-stress situation. However, it's possible for a Severence to occur during one of these events. A Severence is when an Adept cuts their spiritual connection to the Lux during a Kindling Event or their ancestor severs it when they feel sufficiently disgraced. In any case, an Adept has a collection of Spells they must learn and practice before they are able to utilize them - Adepts find it easier to learn spells that correspond with their personality. This is known as an Affinity. Older Adepts are among the most powerful due to practicing a wide range of different spells. It's possible for an Adept to seal an Apparition within their channeler for a power boost if it corresponds with their color. This will grant an increase in all the current spells, however, the Apparition inside can cause some problems. They can make the casting unstable, dangerous, and there's a risk for the Apparition to break free. There's also such a thing as Joint-Casting. It's the event where two Adepts of the same and different Lux put their minds together and cast a powerful Spell. It usually requires an emotional bond with each other and some practice in order to pull. Red (Rage/Hatred): Elemental Lux, the most common type of Lux. Examples: Fire, ice, electricity, earth, plant manipulation, and similar abilities. Green (Happiness): Biological Lux, the second most common type of Lux. Examples: Healing, shape-shifting, wing generation, etc, Yellow (Fear/Caution): Stealth & Shielding Lux. Examples: Invisibility, barrier generation/forcefields, dumbing sound down, etc. Pink (Love/Lust): Mental & Emotional Lux, and the fourth most common type of Lux. Examples: Emotion manipulation, mind control, telepathy, illusion creation, etc. Gold (Pride): Summoning & Minion Creation Lux, the third rarest type of Lux - allows an Adept to create or summon a minion. Examples include: Creating minions of choice, summoning a defeated monster, etc Purple (Anticipation): Movement Lux, the third most common type of Lux. Examples include: Teleportation, Portal Creation (a common abstraction in the League), telekinesis, etc Cyan (Nostalgia): Sight & Sensory Lux. Examples include: Observing locations remotely, seeing into the past/future, enhanced vision, etc. Orange (Courage): Infusion Lux, the ability to infuse objects and people with Extra-Normal properties. Orange Lux synergizes well with every other type of Lux. Examples: Creating a magic sword, making an object levitate, etc, etc. Blue (Sadness): Curse-Lux, the rarest form of Lux. The ability to cast curses, but needs a stipulation to be broken - synergizes often with Black and Gold Lux. Examples: Cursing someone to turn into a monster, creating a deadly illness, cursing someone to be haunted by the dead, etc Lavender (Hope): Purification and Strengthening Lux. Examples: Boosting other Extra-Normal beings power, removal of curses, removing diseases, etc Black (Apathy): Necromancery Lux, the ability to manipulate the dead. Examples: Creating zombie minions, manipulating apparitions and spirits, etc Adepts are probably my second favorite out of the types so I'm biased. They're probably the most complex given how Lux n' shit works. I should note that newer adepts (aka what should be most of the cast) should only have access to three or five spells at a time - and I demand a list of spells they can cast in their abstraction section. Keep in mind the more types of Lux they have access to, the overall weaker their abilities should be. Also please run any new spells by me first.

APPARITIONS
^{________________________________________________________________} _{"They emerge from a world that shouldn't even exist."} ......................................................................................................	Ghosts, Phantasms, Demons, whatever you call them, they are strange beings. Apparitions are likely the vaguest and esoteric of all the Extra-Normal beings but are among the most impactful. They are in line with ghosts as they are not comprised of flesh and blood, but instead, magic. They are beings that were created a particularly powerful emotion or belief or they're the phantasm of a deceased with strong emotion in them. The Awakened are more likely to become Apparitions just from their nature. They are powered by the same emotions/belief that created them and can grow exponentially powerful depending on how great it is. However, on the flip side, they can fade from existence if it wanes - this is why some Apparitions are ancient in age. Apparitions can have any type of abstraction reflecting their belief or the person they once were when they passed - but their abstractions can shift in time. If an Apparition is destroyed they'll merely regenerate in time, which is why a technique known as Sealing is used to imprison them in an object. Apparitions are invisible to the Blind unless they choose to be visible. It's simple to seal an Apparition. First one needs an object to seal them inside of, something small preferably so it can be easily hidden. Then a person has to draw sigils, or any symbol that they truly believe will seal the Apparition into the object. Then they must battle the Apparition, damage it enough, and get it to the sigils. Then they can activate the seal and trap the Apparition inside the object. Larger and other more powerful apparitions require bigger sigils to be drawn or for them to be far weaker, but all an Apparition has to do is be in the area to be sealed. Apparitions are going to be heavily restricted for a number of reasons, you can only make an Apparition if you get permission for me. Apparitions apart of an Aberration are fully allowed.

ABERRATION
^{_________________________________________________} _{"Freak, monsters, predators, prey, Aberrations. Do not take them lightly."}	Aberrations are what are considered to be "outside the lines". Aberrations are people who have had contact with the Extra-Normal and gained either a blessing or a curse from their abilities. Almost all Abberattions are created from Blind interacting with Apparitions in one way or another but there are cases of Aberrations being created from other Extra-Normals. Unlike the other types of Extra-Normals; Animals and humans alike can become Aberrations due to their strange nature. Aberrations are considered to be extra-normal beings, so they can use all of the baseline abilities, but only the Blind can become an Aberration. Due to the odd nature of the Aberrations, they are separated into five subclasses: Affixed: Are those who have an Apparition attached to their soul and utilize their abilities. Either the Apparition uses their own abstraction or the Affixed is allowed to use it - or both. Afflicted: A person who gained an abstraction through being cursed by an Apparition. Agent: A person who has contact with an Apparition that has been sealed inside an object and can use their abstraction by proxy. Adjoined: A person who has been fused with an Apparition on a physical or mental level. Is either capable of shifting into the Apparition's form, mentally combined and can use their abstraction, or is a full fusion. Abscised: An Abscised is an Apparition that has taken over somebody's body and can use their abstraction through them. The Abscised are varying amounts of undead. My favorite type of Extra-Normal beings. They'll require a bit of thought as you'll have to come up with how they'll become an Aberrant (mainly running into an Apparition). But with Aberrants you aren't limited by belief or personality or whatever and can come up with anything.

OTHER.BEINGS
^{_________________________________________________} _{"They live blissfully unaware of the bigger picture."} ......................................................................................	The Blind: The term used for people who do not have an Extra-Normal ability of any type. After coming in contact with the Extra-Normal enough a Blind can become One-Eye-Open and perceive the Extra-Normal. Traveler/Counterpart: A person from one of the many strange universes out there. In proximity to their counterpart, they'll gain a mental link that'll allow them to share thoughts/memories and possibly see each other's auras. The Hound: The embodiment of black death that leads souls to the other side. An absolutely ancient and powerful being that is beyond even the other types of Extra-Normal. Strange and mysterious, but takes the shape of a black wolf. If a person doesn't die when they're supposed to, he'll know and hunt them down to the end of the earth. The only other time you'll see him is if you seek him out and he deems you worthy of his time. He acts in mysterious ways; he will sometimes cut deals with people for his help or a bit of his power... but he always has a price. The Hound is universally feared across the multiverse. You can be a Blind or have One-Eye-Open along with being a Traveler (If you're making a traveler run the universe they're from by me first; certain things are out the question). Just know that your character won't have an Emotional-Field and will be susceptible to the wide range of powers! And no, you can't play the Hound.


^{______________________________________________________________} .......................................................................................	^{"After turning a blind eye to the carnage going on around them for so long; they really had it coming." ____________________________________} . Farmer Hill, Montana. A place few people have heard of, being a small town in the middle of nowhere. However, it couldn't have been more important. Eons ago, all the magic in the universe was used to seal a powerful God-like being known as the Glutton. This thing was an incomprehensible ball of orange light that tortured countless universes and then devoured them and has feasted to the point where it was near invincible. Its rampage was brought to an end in the universe of Glint where combined forces brought the thing down and sealed it in a mountain in a different universe. That different universe is the world where the story takes place, and that mountain was Mount Ever Reaching in Farmer Hill.

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Note: This is not a guide or anything like that. You're free to come up with symbolism and your own interpretations of what's below and I've probably gone against it a few times myself. This is just how I interpret mechanics n' shit about abstractions.

Elemental Abstractions:

In general: Connection to the world, creativity, focus on the outside, being outrospective, desire to build/shape, change.

Fire: Passion, rage, raw and destructive emotion.

Water: Calmness/Peace, easily influenced, having multiple states.

Ice: Sadness, death, fridigity.

Earth/Metal/Crystals: Confidence, pride, inner-strength, leader. 

Sand: Time, patience, abrasiveness, flexibility.

Air: Mobility/Flexibility, spirituality, logic, destructiveness.

Soil/Dirt/Dust: Progress/productivity, old patterns, misery.

Lightning/Electricity/Storm: Fear/worries, energetic, wild.

Flowers/Plants: Love/intimacy, patience, compassion, new beginnings, desire to see things grow.

Ash: Loss, death, penance.

Glass: Fragility, sight.

Darkness: Being an edgelord, nothing/empitness, loss.

Light: Happiness, hope, desiring notice/sharing information.

Paper: Worthlessness, having something that needs to be done, 

Ink/Paint: Creativity, intellect.

Wood: Wisdom, having built up something.

Ocean: Chaos, unchanging, calmness/peace.

Sound: Creativity, happiness/love, connection, desired to be understood/listened to.

Stars/Cosmic: Dreams, change, ambition.

Plastic: Moldable, fakeness, insincerity.

Fabric/Clothes: Individuality, value, taking opinions in high regard.

Transmutation: Desire to change things, dissatisfaction with how things about.

Mental Abstractions

In General: Introspectiveness, knowledge/desire to understand/learn, open-mindedness, awareness.

Telekinesis: Control, intelligence, outwardness, mastering self.

Telepathy: Invasiveness/lack of boundaries, desire to communicate, wanting information/secrets.

Inventor/Gadgeteer Desire to find a solution to a problem, having a singular goal that cannot be solved with the present tools.

Intelligence/Minds: Lack of knowledge, perceived worthlessness, presented with problems that cannot be physical solve.

Dreams: Imaginative, wishes, interpretiveness.

Memory: Stress/past grievances, desire to forget/inform, desire to change things, looking to the past, external struggle.

Emotion Compassion, understanding people (or lack thereof), closer connection to people, internal struggle. 

Mind Control: Desire to control, feeling out of control, social isolation/exile.

Illusions: Deception (on both sides), belief/thought being proven wrong, desire for something that cannot be gained.

Other Abstractions

Animal: Noticeable lack of connection to people, outcast, connection to nature/love of nature. (This was going to be its own section but I was like nope fuck that lol)

Summoning/Minion Creation: Desire for companionship, social isolation/exile.

Transformation/Shape-Shifting: Issues involving identity, self-hatred/wanting to be different. 

Teleportation: Feeling trap/stuck, desire to escape, needing something.

Speed: Impatience, desire to get to goal instantly, has problem approaching, a problem that can be ran from, down to earth.

Flight: Needing to reach goals/expectations, freedom, idealism. 

Strength: Being faced with situations that can't be mentally solved, violence/rage, perceived lack of strength/desire to grow stronger, authority.

Healing/Repairing: Desire to help people, compassion/kindness, other people's mental scars/past trauma, seeing beauty in something, restoring something else.

Regeneration: Desire to fix self, fixing own mental/physical wounds, a goal that they need to see through, self-restoration.

Time: Past/Future mistakes, pressure of time, having limited time, lack of management

Shields: Protection/desire to protect, danger/damage, caring, imminent threat to self.

Creation/Building: The need for something, wanting to build up something new, creativity/self-expression, having problems.

Close-Range: Immediate up in your face issue/question, close and personal problems/struggles, problems/solutions being in reach, single or few problems/threats. 

Long-Range: Looming/upcoming problems, threats approaching/attacking from a distance, multiple threats/problems, things being out of reach. 

Enchanting/Imbuing: Inadquency, current tools not being sufficient.

Beam: Focusing on one thing/task.

Enhanced Senses: Desiring awareness or understanding of environmental/task.

Stealth: Hiding, secretiveness, unwanted attention, isolation.

Death/Necromancery: Loss of family/friend, mourning, going to dark corners, also being an edgelord.

Extra-Normal Related: Knowledge of the supernatural, problem/goal/question related to the extra-normal, desire to interact with the extra-normal.

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If no one else wants to, the second character I'm working on could work for the "Leader" character

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Are we doing multiple characters? It's cool if the GM is okay with it, personally I'm not the biggest fan of it as it tends to get the character tab flooded quite quickly. Plus, it always sucks when a person nabs a character idea you really wanted to play, when they already have another character... You greedy bastards.

Not much of a leader person myself, so I'll pass on that position.

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Yeah, frick being a leader, so I'm happy to give up that role.

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Are we doing multiple characters? It's cool if the GM is okay with it, personally I'm not the biggest fan of it as it tends to get the character tab flooded quite quickly. Plus, it always sucks when a person nabs a character idea you really wanted to play, when they already have another character... You greedy bastards.@Cleverbird

Up to three characters according to the character creation rules, I plan to make two cause I have the ideas for em but hopefully won't step on someone's else territory idea wise

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The leader position is going to get passed around... mainly because I imagine the group infighting a lot.

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Just read the thing about collective-awakening, so I understand why in some cases doing multiple characters might be interesting to explore.

Oh! Is the general public aware of all these supernatural shenanigans? Or is it all being kept hush hush? I imagine since we're doing social media campaigns its probably common knowledge, but I figured I ask just in case. Also, how long has this supernatural thing been going on? Is it something new, or have several generations passed already?

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Oh! Is the general public aware of all these supernatural shenanigans? Or is it all being kept hush hush? I imagine since we're doing social media campaigns its probably common knowledge, but I figured I ask just in case. Also, how long has this supernatural thing been going on? Is it something new, or have several generations passed already?@Cleverbird

1. Right now, because normies can't see it, it's relatively kept a secret except to certain knowledgable circles. It's kind of like a "if you know, you know" kind of thing. 

2. A few months to a year.

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This looks really interesting. I'll have to see about joining but I just might!

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This sounds super interesting! I'd love to get started on a character if you're still open to new people joining.

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I would also love to express interest in this! 

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@Ghost Note here's the finished first character, wow didn't know I had the ability to write a sheet in one evening 

Choi Myeong-Suk, Maya

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"Fuck anyone that tries to control me."
[ 21     |     5’2”     |     South Korean     |     She/her     |     91lb ]

[Spite]

   APPEARANCE       

"Yes I’m pretty, no I won’t date you."

At first glance Maya is on the shorter side, even though she’s of average height for a Korean woman. She’s very pretty with a delicate sort of look to her. This is very quickly destroyed by the expression on her face - often some for a disgust or displeasure. She has what many would call a resting bitch face, though unlike many it’s because she's probably internally bitching about you. She is rarely found without makeup on, with the minimum of lipstick and eyeliner at all times (but often a full face). She has a naturally defined jawline even as the rest of her facial features are rather soft.

Maya has skin of a tanned, light brown colour with yellow undertones often offset by blush across her cheeks. Her eyes are dark and delicate. Her hair falls midway down her back and is naturally black but currently dyed a lighter, more orange brown. It is naturally fairly straight but she often curls it or leaves it in braids overnight to do the job for her. Her ears are pierced at the lobe and she often wears dangling earrings of various forms. 

Her body is naturally slim, with a reasonably sized chest even if she is lacking in curves elsewhere. She’s not got much weight to her, both in muscle mass and fat due to a naturally high metabolism and not exactly being the kind to work out. She’s normally found in loose, flowing dresses of pastel colours or oversized sweaters and skirts or shorts. 

Maya speaks with a noticeable accent due to English being a second language to her, and only living in an English speaking country for three years (though she is fluent). She has a sound wave sigil on the back of her neck.

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"I know I can be hard to get on with but I really don’t care."

MAIN GOAL  ⫻ Graduate University and then live the life she wants - preferably with a well paying job, loads of fun and friends to hang out with. Her other main goal is to get revenge on her ex and all the friends that turned on her. She also deep, deep down wants to be recognised by her parents. 

WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF THE COVEN  ⫻ First of all Maya is looking for companionship, because she’s suddenly alone and without friends. Second she’s looking for something fun to lighten up her now boring life. Third, and most importantly, she wants to be able to get revenge on her ex and any others that might harm or control her in the future - and a group of wannabe witches seems like a pretty good place for that. 

PHILOSOPHY  ⫻ Live for yourself and fuck what others think. She also believes in living fast and loud, filling your life with all sorts of things you enjoy even if they’re not the best for you. She believes that you shouldn’t let others control you and should do exactly what you want with your life, even if others think its a bad decision. She’ll actively encourage people to live for themselves rather than others, but also has a bad habit of talking down those who don’t. 

SECRETS  ⫻ Maya hides how desperate she is for attention and companionship that she lacked growing up. It was this that led her to her previous relationship, something she also keeps a secret from others. 

SEXUALITY  ⫻ Pansexual, with a preference for girls. Maya isn’t fussy about gender when it comes to dating. 

FEARS  ⫻ Violence. Maya fears physical violence due to her previous relationship and will automatically flinch if someone raises a hand to her. 

REPUTATION  ⫻ Maya doesn’t have much of a reputation in Tampa aside from being a foreigner who hasn’t lived there long. Within her university she has a negative reputation - someone who went along with a bad crowd only to shun them all. 
(What is your character's reputation in Tampa, the Coven, and/or beyond?)

FLAWS  ⫻ Maya is incredibly stubborn and spiteful and absolutely refuses to do what she’s told. She’s been controlled enough in her life, but this means often she’ll do the complete opposite of what someone asks her to do - even if that’s also negative for her. She’s also very argumentative and fairly insensitive which means that she can be quite hard to get on with, and she actively sabotages her own friendships by being a bit of a bitch. When she’s enjoying herself she’s good company but as soon as she’s bored or disagrees with someone, she’s not good to be around at all. She also has severe trust issues with men now due to her last relationship.

   BACKSTORY      

"Pretty standard affair until I moved over here, honestly."

Maya was born in Seoul, Korea to a businessman father and a university professor mother. She was brought up in a strict, no nonsense household where “fun” was equal to educational activities and most of her time was spent raised by a nanny rather than her very absent parents. She was three when her younger sister, Eun-Ji, was born. It didn’t make many changes to her life - just even less attention from either parents.

The rest of her childhood wasn’t anything special. She went to school, made a few friends and got chewed out whenever she obtained anything short of perfect grades. She acted out a few times in an attempt to get attention from her parents only for it to fail. So instead she turned to taking it out on her younger sister, who she had a bad relationship with, and other people in her class even as her anger and dislike for her parent’s grew. But still, she kept herself top of the class with the slight hope they might recognise her. She both complied and rebelled as she grew up, neither of which had much effect on the attention she got. 

It was when she reached the end of school that she finally rebelled against her parents - by getting into and accepting a place for University in Florida doing chemical physics. It was a long shot from where her parents had wanted her to go - in fact she turned down a place at Seoul National University. She didn’t particularly care about the academic credentials of where she was going, all she knew was that she wanted to get away from her parents. 

So she moved to Florida, choosing to go by the English name Maya in the hope that it would further distance her from her family. Going to America gave Maya exactly the change she wanted - even if it wasn’t really good for her. She fell in with what many people would see to be the bad lot with whom she partied, drank, smoked and did a lot of drugs. Even with this she was the envy of all her new friends as she somehow managed to keep her high grades. But she was enjoying herself far more than she ever had before, even relishing in the way people outside of her group told her she was throwing her life away (and continuing to do it anyway).

It was after just over a year in America that she got her first boyfriend, Dean White. It was pretty great - they skipped class together and with their friends and had a lot of fun. However the longer they were together the more controlling Dean got. He started policing who Maya saw and hung out with, growing especially envious of her friendships with other men (which she thought was ridiculous considering she was pan). This spiralled into loud shouting matches between the two that went on and on… until they ended with violence. 

From then on Dean got control he wanted through fear, because there wasn’t anything Maya could do against him when he threatened her physically. Her life was taking a sudden downwards spiral as he isolated her from the rest of the group - she only got to spend time with them when they were all together, all while he spread rumours that she didn’t actually like hanging out with them.

After months of this treatment something inside Maya finally snapped during one of Dean’s particularly violent rages, awakening and emitting an explosive burst of sound energy. This was enough to shove Dean back from him and injure him, partly from how hard he slammed into a wall. With a sudden newfound power she told a very dazed and angry Dean that she never wanted to see him again, before running away. 

Now with no friends and some strange magic that she had no idea about, Maya was at a loss for what to do. It was during her time locked up in her studio flat browsing the internet that she found other people talking about Extra-Normal happenings and the talk of a Coven forming. With no one else on her side and nothing better to do, Maya decided she might as well join - maybe it could bring a little fun back into her life.

   SKILLS & TALENTS      

"Being at the top of my class is easy, impressing my parents isn’t."

Korean  ⫻ Maya is fluent in Korean, as it’s her first language and she speaks it better than she does English. 

Academic Intelligence  ⫻ Always top of her class growing up, Maya is incredibly academically gifted and continues to get good grades with ease. However this intelligence is only for academics (she’s certainly not street smart). She makes sure to keep her grades up to keep her parent’s happy - as much as she dislikes them, she likes the money they send her. She’s especially good at her degree field, chemical physics, and maths. 

Photographic Memory ⫻ In a way coming hand in hand with her intelligence, Maya has a photographic memory meaning she only needs to see things once or twice to remember them.

    ABSTRACTION    

"Being loud means I'll be the centre of attention."

TYPE  ⫻ Awakened 

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Sound Blast, the ability to release damaging blasts of sonic energy. 

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION  ⫻ Born from her spite and constant need for arguments and attention, Maya can emit blasts of sound waves that cause physical damage to people and objects. She is able to do this in two ways. The more powerful, but less controllable, way is a burst of sound in a radius around her emitted from her entire body itself. This is powerful enough to break materials such as wood and to badly damage (non supernatural) humans. Along with this it’s powerful enough to push back whatever it hits, as if they were hit by a “physical” force of sound waves. The other way is focused through her hands, a less powerful burst that can be targeted. This requires far more concentration and does not cause as much sheer damage or pushback but it doesn’t affect everything in a radius as the other way does. 

LIMITS  ⫻ 

WEAKNESSES  ⫻

   OTHER      

"This better end up being fun."

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LIMITS  ⫻ The Emotional-Field around Extra-Normal beings prevents them from receiving the full brunt of the damage. They may be launched back but they'll still retain their hearing... well, they'll get it back eventually. The area of effect blasts of sound has a range of ten meters, while the focused blasts have a range of around thirty meters. However, the blasts lose damage the further out they go - so their max effective range is around half their max.

WEAKNESSES  ⫻ Using the sound blasts has the side effect of killing her own hearing for a few minutes as she'll only hear ringing. The focused blasts will do it for a minute or two, while the area of effects blast will remove her hearing for quite longer. In addition, the sound blasts interfere with her sense of equilibrium and her balance will go to trash while she's using her ability. Also, the more focused sound blasts have a recoil that'll physically throw off her balance.

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Honestly absolutely no idea

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K A Y L A   F O S T E R

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"Not ALL of my ideas are ‘ass and a half’ as you so eloquently put it."
[ 22     |     5'8     |     Caucasian-American     |     she/her     |     138lbs ]

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   APPEARANCE       

"Mom and dad did right by me, I guess."

Kayla is a rough and tumble-looking girl, with an athletic body and well-developed musculature from her constant traveling and many endeavors. She has sometime tanned skin, and freckles which dot her body. She carries herself with somewhat of a devil-may-care attitude- oozing confidence and generally unconcerned with most things- her head high, shoulders back, with a ladylike gait. She has a large variety scars and burns on her body. Her hands, particularly, are covered in light burn scarring, and her favorite and most noticeable scar in her collection is a huge jagged line that runs across her shoulder blades.

Kayla is an attractive woman. She has a somewhat angular face, long and narrowing down to her chin. Her eyes are vaguely almond-shaped and are a grayish blue color like her brother. Her teeth are straight and white, but a few are artificial from her candy eating habits as child. Her hair, as well as her eyebrows, is a dark brown, and is quite long, coming down to the middle of her back when let down. She generally keeps her hair in a neat braid down her back or over her shoulder.

As far as attire goes, Kayla is pretty easy. Her closet primarily comprises of leggings or jeans, sports bras, athletic material like Under Armor or Nike. She likes to wear a maroon jacket most of the time, claiming that the extra pockets give her extra storage and give her a little extra protection from the many things she's dealt with that try to hurt her. She always wears a pair of black combat boots. Most of her clothes are whites, blacks, and reds. She wears jewelry, mostly silver. She wears several silver rings on both hands as well as a leather band with a silver clasp. However the important pieces are two wedding rings- a simple gold band on her right hand and a silver diamond ring on her left. Kayla has well decorated but minimalist sleeves of tattoos depicting runic symbols from various cultures that she has used as reference for various incantations. Her Sigils are hidden among them.

    PSYCHOLOGY       

"Apparently a lack of consistent parenting has left me with a chip on my shoulder."

MAIN GOAL  ⫻ Kayla's primary goal is to eek out a way of life that she's happy with. Just like anyone else. Everyone moves to Florida to die. Kayla moved to Florida to live.

WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF THE COVEN  ⫻ Connections. People of similar power provide challenge to grow oneself- and people like her are few and far between. Kayla enjoys friendship, just like anyone else, and a group of people that can at least keep up with her on a good day sounds like a solid time. She isn't in this for money. She isn't in this for power. She isn't in this for revenge or anger or whatever. She's in this for fun, and anyone joining a group of wannabe witches for any other reason than for fun has screws loose.

PHILOSOPHY  ⫻ "Listen, I'm going to do what I think is right because I think it's right and I don't need another reason. You don't have to agree, and I don't have to care. You're either with me or your not, and if you're not, stay out of the way." 

SECRETS  ⫻ Kayla, despite her constant assurance that she does in fact know what she's doing and knows it all, does not.

SEXUALITY  ⫻ Questioning.

FEARS  ⫻ Losing her dog.

REPUTATION  ⫻ That's... a difficult one. Kayla is a popular individual, and her seemingly boundless energy has made her an excellent addition to any jobs she has taken up. However, her consistent misbehavior has resulted in more than a few convenience store and gas station bans and slaps on the wrist from the law. Generally harmless, but a documented nuisance.

QUIRKS  ⫻ Kayla's insistence in wearing her parent's wedding bands, I suppose. She doesn't tweak out about much else.

FLAWS  ⫻ Oh boy we'd be here all week.

   BACKSTORY      

"My parents died when I was little. It doesn't bother me now."

Making the trip from being a child to being an adult is oftentimes marked by a series of milestones throughout one's life. Kayla has lacked many, and is somewhat emotionally stunted as a result. While far from not functioning in society, Kayla's lack of respect for the world and people around her makes her destructive and to a certain extent disrespectful.

Kayla was raised well, initially. In 2006, Arnold and Elizabeth Foster were murdered on their way home one night by some remnant of work left undone in the past. Her husband, her uncle, Milo Crane, brought six-year-old Kayla into his home after her grieving was over. Kayla is a trouble making, loud, and easily distracted young woman. Since birth Kayla has had an affinity for sticking her nose where it doesn't belong.

Kayla is sarcastic and treats most things like a joke (whether appropriate or not) and maintains a fairly calm demeanor even in stressful situations, ranging to mildly annoyed as her worst most of the time. She's just not one to freak out. Kayla likes to hear herself talk, and if no one is around, she often takes to talking to herself. Kayla is a textbook extrovert and makes fast friends wherever she goes. She tries to keep to herself mostly on personal matters, but somewhat hypocritically she tends to ask about others due to the insatiable curiosity she was born with.

In short, Kayla is brash and leaves a wake wherever she goes. She causes trouble for herself and others with little regard for the long term effects her actions might have. As this setting progresses, Kayla will get a grip on the consequences of her actions and come to the realization that she has a responsibility to do what is right regardless of whether it is the easy or fun choice, and that she can still be responsible while still having high energy and enjoyment of what she does. Kayla will start this story close to a teenager or child, and she will end it as an adult.

   SKILLS & TALENTS      

"I've been told I'm somewhat of an eclectic mixed bag."

Media  ⫻ Kayla is extremely well versed in all forms of media- movies, books, magazines, video games, comics, you name it and she has almost definitely seen it, read it, or played it and will understand the reference. She is also a massive history and sports buff. If you go up against her on trivia night, she is incredibly sorry for the massive ass whooping you are about to receive.

Naturalist  ⫻  Years of curiosity has landed her in the wild and in some fairly compromising positions. She's fairly adept as an outdoorswoman. Years of camping, bird watching, hiking, fishing, and generally exploring has made her an excellent survivalist. She is very familiar with most species of animals and plants in all areas of the USA and knows all of the constellations and other celestial objects in the sky.

Shooting  ⫻  She and her uncle are regular hunters, and she is a hell of a shot.

Dangerous Book For Boys/Anarchist's Cookbook  ⫻  Kayla has... done a lot of really dangerous stuff. I'll let your mind fill in the blanks.

    ABSTRACTION     

"You know what they say, two's company."

TYPE  ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION  ⫻ Blazing Soul - Kayla is a spitfire, and when she so does desire she can quite literally spit fire.
ABSTRACTION  ⫻ Familial Bond - As a result of her unborn twin's soul existing in her body, Kayla can gain access to her unborn brother's abstraction, granting her a variety of secondary abilities.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION  ⫻ Kayla has the ability to use both pyrokinesis and telekinesis in dramatic and disastrous fashion.

Blazing Soul  ⫻ Kayla's own abstraction, and the one she has the most direct control over. Simply put, Kayla is capable of pumping out some intense heat. She can produce jets of flame from any limb of orifice, ranging from a light that's just enough to start a cigar to a jet and wall of fire capable of melting steel from thirty feet away. She is completely immune to her own heat. Her clothing not so much.

Telekinesis  ⫻ When under duress, Kayla is capable of using telekinesis in sudden, extreme outbursts of energy that usually result in throwing everything (and one) away from her as if struck by a tidal wave. While capable of situational precise use that doesn't require much distraction or movement- such as barricading or reinforcing a door or choke point with a wall of telekinetic energy, or manipulation of force sensitive objects such as living beings, Kayla almost exclusively relegates this ability to area denial and 'get away from me' maneuvers that give her breathing room.

Familial Bond  ⫻ Her second ability comes with a secondary ability set. Sometimes, usually when she doesn't even mean to, Kayla shares head space with the soul of her fraternal twin brother Kyle. While Kyle doesn't or cant talk- he is capable of watching the world through her eyes and sometimes notices or sees things that she doesn't. In this state Kayla temporarily gains the situational knowledge of her counterpart- most notably related to firearms, machinery, and other information that should only belong to a person of her own age rather than an entity that died in the womb. She is... unsure of what to make of this.

LIMITS  ⫻ Kayla's fire is still hampered by Extra-Normal being's innate resistance to each other, which makes them half as useful against them. She can produce flames but it's tiring for her, so the more fire she produces the more tired she'll be. She has an indefinite range, but the further out Kayla goes the less effective her fire gets. So she could in theory fire out a blast of fire a mile out, but it'd only mildly make someone mildly uncomfortable. Her Familial Bond also is less effective against Extra-Normal beings and she doesn't have complete control over it. It's more of raw force than anything and is completely unconscious. However, the ability has a range of about twenty feet and has a cool down of at least fifteen minutes before she can access it against.

WEAKNESSES  ⫻ Kayla is immune to her own flames but she's not immune to the side effects. Her fire dries up the area quite a bit and it causes dehydration in her body so she'd have to drink lots of water. She also isn't immune to smoke inhalation, and I doubt her allies are either. The telekinetic aspect of her ability also causes intense headaches and the usual psychic nosebleed.

   OTHER      

"Good dog."

Oleander was her Uncle Milo's pet Siberian husky. Oleander is extraordinarily well trained- on par with police dogs and other working dogs, making him a force to be reckoned with when he joins her in her excursions. Oleander is also an aberration, having the inability to permanently die. In accordance with being an entity of unknown origin, he also possesses eerie levels of intelligence for an animal.