Hey, I'm interested in this idea. If you're still accepting, I'd love to join. Just gotta figure out what kind of character I want to play for this.

@Strosivadan: Aye, still open at the moment.

Name: Eustace Bagge
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Personality: Grumpy, Cantakerous, and Miserable are the three words to describe Farmer Bagge. He's characterized by his cynical attitude and tendency to complain about everything around him. Eustace is also depicted as somewhat cowardly himself, often relying on Courage to protect him from the various supernatural threats that plague their farmhouse. Despite his rough exterior, there are occasional moments where Eustace shows a softer side or displays moments of vulnerability.
Brief History: Eustace Bagge is a loathsome and lazy elderly farmer living in rural Kansas with his wife, Muriel, and their pet dog, Courage. Throughout the show, Eustace's grumpy demeanor and tendency to mistreat Courage are evident, reflecting his troubled upbringing and strained familial relationships, particularly with his abusive mother. Despite his harsh exterior, there are occasional glimpses of vulnerability and kindness, especially towards Muriel, highlighting his complex character. Eustace serves as both a comedic antagonist and a source of occasional sympathy, adding depth to the dynamic within the show's quirky and supernatural setting.
Universe of Origin: Courage the Cowardly Dog
Equipment: Wooden mallet, beartraps, shotgun, Green Mask, Chair, Truck, Hat, and wallet
Abilities:
Superhuman strength - Despite his old age, Eustace is more than capable of lifting and swinging his giant mallet as a weapon
Superhuman durability/recovery - He's survived, or healed from, all manner of ridiculously painful and deadly injuries daily. All his deaths are subject to negative continuity. He had been subject to demonic possession, alien experimentation, and getting eaten alive and still comes out fine for the next episode.
Superhuman sleep - In "Profile In Courage", Eustace slept through all the methods Courage used to wake him up, including a bomb.
Intimidation - With his green mask, Eustace can strike fear even in the hearts and/or minds of eldritch abominations and supernatural creatures.
Other: Despite his rough personality and exterior, Eustace Bagge does deeply care for his wife, Muriel, and his dog, Courage. He lashes out at everyone due to his rage built up from his miserable childhood and abusive family.

@Ever Faithful: I'm going to reject this form out of hand for a variety of reasons, detailed below.

• Eustace is, on a fundamental level, a character who does what he is able to do simply because of the nature of the medium he is from. Courage the Cowardly Dog is a comedy at heart—one that centers around a dog that is able to overcome all odds against all manner of horrors and supernatural beings, granted, but a comedy nevertheless. To claim that a character would be able to perform superhuman actions based solely off of the fact that the medium that he is from (more specifically, a cartoon comedy show that plays with extreme violence for laughs and wild gags for comedy) is ignoring the context in which the character is presented. By the same logic, could Tom and Jerry (from the titular cartoon) not be as gods unto men (or, well, cats and mice in this case) despite the comedic violence they are famous for being little more than just that?
  This is hyperbole, of course, but when everything else in the world (and all the characters therein, both from it and not) plays by similar rules, would it not be reasonable to assume that anything that so exceeds the threshold for one's suspension of disbelief that it wholly breaks immersion would not lend itself to breaking the semi-cohesive setup that is already reliant upon some basis in feasibility to function? A character needs to be presented as serious enough so as to not simply devalue or ignore the cohesion of what has been presented and what every other person involved in the RP has "bought into", so to speak. On that note...
• The character does not mesh with the cast as far as I can see, nor does he have any reason to mesh with them nor any reasonable willingness to follow along with their actions, whimsical or otherwise. Eustace is, as you have noted, a crotchety, grumpy old man who is prone to weakness and cowardice at his core. He's stubborn and seldom cares about anyone beyond himself, Miriam, and maybe Courage at times. In what world would someone like that ever be willing to place themselves on the front lines and fight instead of just letting someone else resolve it for him, especially when they show themselves to be more capable of handling what has been thrown at them?
  This is ignoring the fact that Courage the Cowardly Dog, as a cartoon show aimed at children, does not present Eustace's actions as anything more than comedy that oftentimes result in his comeuppance. Nobody is ever meaningfully hurt, nobody ever dies; who is to say that a person with those traits mentioned above—and who might otherwise may as well be a "normal" human at heart—could ever survive in a world like this to begin with?
• Linking back to the first point: being from an episodic show with no intent on continuity beyond the occasional two/three-part stories (after which everything returns to status quo anyways) does not, in my eyes, present itself as a valid argument for abilities in stories where the world is persistent and the actions of characters have meaningful, long-term consequences. Eustace is abused and ends up in ridiculous situations (often of his own making) because the setup of the show often desires it. It's not "fun" to see a character so mean to a protagonist and everyone around him escape consequences, so the show punishes him for his hubris. But with so many of those punishments being so meaningfully damaging both physically and mentally (and occasionally emotionally), retaining those results would change Courage on a fundamental level—because it is a gag show that has no intent of being bogged down in character development beyond the tropes that present the main trio as the archetypes they fit within (literally within the opening blurb of every episode, might I add) and nothing beyond that. Arguing that they should be taken seriously outside of that context—again, because the show must always return to the status quo for the next incident—does not mean that the character has anything that would given him those powers inherently, but rather that the medium is presented in such a way that the viewer doesn't have to care about what happened before.

@PKMNB0Y

I would be intersted in joining, I have a few characters I was thinking of playing. Let me know which one would be a good fit for the RP.

1. Duke Nukem
2. Seigfried from Soul Calibur
3. Alucard from Hellsing
4. Ash Williams from Evil Dead
5. Sora from Kingdom Hearts
6. Caleb from Blood
7. Frank West from Dead Rising
8. Jotaro from Jojo's Bizzare Adventure
9. Kenshiro from Fist Of The North Star
10. Kiryu Kazama from Yakuza
11. Kuma from Tekken
12. Deadpool

@Eviledd1984: Well, putting aside how placing the onus on the GM to study twelve characters from twelve franchises is a bit rough (to put things lightly)...

I think that the only ones workable off that list are Siegfried and Jotaro (maybe?), as a majority of that list otherwise is either "normal person with guns", "normal person", or "too insane/insanely strong to function in context of the world without heavily altering their powerset".

Even then, Jotaro's iffy because Star Platinum the World is... Not something I will ever willingly consider. Then there's all the other crazy stuff that Star Platinum can do normally, and well... Problems can arise if he isn't pulled in line.

@PKMNB0Y

I would be intersted in joining, I have a few characters I was thinking of playing. Let me know which one would be a good fit for the RP.

1. Duke Nukem
2. Seigfried from Soul Calibur
3. Alucard from Hellsing
4. Ash Williams from Evil Dead
5. Sora from Kingdom Hearts
6. Caleb from Blood
7. Frank West from Dead Rising
8. Jotaro from Jojo's Bizzare Adventure
9. Kenshiro from Fist Of The North Star
10. Kiryu Kazama from Yakuza
11. Kuma from Tekken
12. Deadpool

I personally like 2, 5, 9, and 11. 🙂

Playing Kuma would be super hilarious since he's just a bear. A bear that knows martial arts, but still.

@Eviledd1984: Well, putting aside how placing the onus on the GM to study twelve characters from twelve franchises is a bit rough (to put things lightly)...

I think that the only ones workable off that list are Siegfried and Jotaro (maybe?), as a majority of that list otherwise is either "normal person with guns", "normal person", or "too insane/insanely strong to function in context of the world without heavily altering their powerset".

Even then, Jotaro's iffy because Star Platinum the World is... Not something I will ever willingly consider. Then there's all the other crazy stuff that Star Platinum can do normally, and well... Problems can arise if he isn't pulled in line.

You make a fair point boss. How do you feel about number 11? A bear that is skilled in martial arts? It's much different from normal guy, guy with gun, and guys who are OP.

@Eviledd1984: Problem with Kuma is that he, uh... Can't speak... Normally?
Comedy gold given how Tekken has everyone be natural polyglots, but still.
I am also unsure how well he matches up to, uh... Everyone else in the cast. Even if he can throw out electrics (and is—and let's be honest here—Heihachi's actual favorite child), I'm not sure if he has the combat power or a "vibe" that meshes with all the PCs currently in play.

@Eviledd1984: Problem with Kuma is that he, uh... Can't speak... Normally?
Comedy gold given how Tekken has everyone be natural polyglots, but still.
I am also unsure how well he matches up to, uh... Everyone else in the cast. Even if he can throw out electrics (and is—and let's be honest here—Heihachi's actual favorite child), I'm not sure if he has the combat power or a "vibe" that meshes with all the PCs currently in play.

Okay, I would be okay with playing as Siegfried or if you will allow me I could play as Ivy from Soul Calibur. Or since there are a few Touhou characters I wouldn't mind playing DIO Sakuya Izayoi if you will allow it.

@Eviledd1984: Uh... No Sakuya. Nah, ain't gon' let timestop fly, and Sakuya without timestop ain't Sakuya in my eyes.
I will admit that I'm not suuuuper well versed in Soulcalibur stuff, but both of those characters seem fine to me after a brief glance at info stuff? Would have to see how that pans out, though.

@PKMNB0Y

I will also think of some other characters i could play, if you want to of course.

@Eviledd1984: Honestly, if there's nothing you feel strong enough to just try and ask for the committal go-ahead, it might be worth spending some more time to consider what you might want to run (especially in the context of the cast as it stands right now).

@PKMNB0Y

Thanks boss. I'll think up a list of characters i wanna play as.

Or since there are a few Touhou characters I wouldn't mind playing DIO Sakuya Izayoi if you will allow it.

Pssst, Touhou has literal hundreds of characters, so... maybe pick another one? 😁

Y'all still open? I got character that you won't see comin'.

@Rezod92: Aye, still open. Would like to be aware of what's cooking, though.

i return with something

less serious?

@Raineh Daze: Mokotan ok. Gotta figure out how to handle the Saria stuff, but we can probably do what we did for Lily or something.

Do believe that we're at capacity for Touhou characters now though. Honestly did not expect this many to begin with, but, well, here we are now.

Only thing to note might be how the possession in this case isn't a one in the traditional sense and doesn't take direct control of the possessed, but regardless.