[OOC] Imaginary District: Youkai, Magic, and Youth, An Urban Fantasy RP

[VitaVitaAR]

To be honest, I'm not really sure the origin of futakuchi-onna, as well as some other youkai who were formerly human, actually IS that they were once human in-setting. ^^; I mean I guess aside from the ones who are more or less ghosts.

[Jedly]

@VitaVitaARSo I take that as a yes to my prior question?

Just had dinner with family, toasted and stuff since I'm embarking for post-secondary education tomorrow. Gonna make the edits soon.

[ghastlyInc]

Hider

Name: Sho Baba
Age: 140, (looks 17)
Gender: Male
Race: Demon (sheep)
Appearance:

Hider

Personality: Like most sheep demons, Sho is exceptionally friendly, excitable, eager to please and perhaps a little on the vapid side things. He easily forgets things and has a tendency to lose his train of thought. More often than not, any work space he has becomes a refuge for forgotten projects and piled up comic books, to the frustration of coworkers. Still, he’s fearless when it comes to meeting new people (even when it would probably be wise ) or getting into a good old fashioned street brawl.

Abilities: <in need of approval/editing Possibly too weak offensively to be viable and too strong defensively to be fun to play against?>
Golden Fleece: sheep demons are notorious for a durability that, on average, rivals some princes. Sho is hearty enough that you could drop cars on him all day and he’d walk off with only a few bruises and cuts worse for wear (provided you were nice enough to lift the cars off of him). However, the tradeoff is that their regenerative abilities barely work, taking 70% longer than most demons. And if they are decapitated or lose a limb, barring medical intervention, its going to STAY off.
Demon Muscles: Bog standard increased strength and agility over humans. Boring but useful.
Skills:
Brawler: While Sho lacks the discipline and focus needed to learn a proper martial art, he’s become quiet adept in hand to hand combat and has made a small name for himself as a street brawler.
Street wise: While not exactly brilliant, Sho is well verse in petty street crime tactics, at least on the criminal end.
Equipment:
Knuckle dusters: For adding a little more punch to his er….punches.
Cell phone
Brief Backstory:
Sho, like many a young sheep demons, grew up in a poor neighborhood, populated largely by other sheep. Not that he seemed to mind much. His parents working little meant more time to be with the family and there was a literal horde of other kids to play with. As for school, he learned to read and add numbers, which as far as he could figure was all a person needed to know.
As he grew older, Sho eventually got involved with a minor street gang. The group spent most of its time menacing arcades, restaurants, or getting into fist fights with other local gangs. A nuisance, to be sure, but a minor one that the I.D.P.D often turned a blind eye to in favor of bigger menaces. Sho, for his part, didn’t do much to rock the boat, enticed by free food and games (and only having to occasionally knock some jerk Oni on their butt when they came to the wrong set of streets). It barely registered as a big deal to him until one day a back alley brawl grew out of control, spilling over into the streets. By the time the police had shown up, the small scuffle between a few kids had grown into a street wide riot, and Sho was unfortunate enough to get caught. He spent a two years in a juvenile detention center, charged with destruction of property, assault, and disturbing the peace. By the time he’d gotten out, his friends had upgraded from threatening Burger King employees for free fries to a full on extorsion racket, trafficking, and more. Disgusted with how much his neighborhood degenerated, he volunteered for the Miura Youth Organization.

A CS for critique and probably revision. Woo! Will probably have to give this another work over, but I am tired for now.

[Rin]

@VitaVitaARLeviathan and Beelzebutt are still the best. :D

[13org]

@ghastlyInc I look forward to it. Seems interesting, especially his personalty :-3

Sho seems to be the kind of guy that wont ignore Aamuu... Right? T___T

[VitaVitaAR]

@ghastlyInc: Okay, um... You're underestimating how strong the Princes of Hell are, I think. Levi is physically the least durable and physically weakest Prince, and she can take a full-speed freight train to the face and not even get bruised. Also, demon regneration is based on a "reversion to a previous state". Their body reverses its personal time in order to completely negate injury by making it, effectively, never have happened. That's why it generally takes supernatural forms of harm to do damage, and holy items to completely outdo regeneration on some tougher demons(alternatively REALLY powerful spells work but that's on the really high end of demon power scales).

Demons are also a bit... um, how to put this... the divisions in their race are taken right out of the Ars Goetia and the Bible and stuff like that, I guess. The animal-trait demons are more unique. Beelzebub isn't an insect demon, she just has insectoid features in her antenna. Sheep demons wouldn't be a race, though that trait might end up in the child of a demon with such features.

Speaking of which, the child of a demon is always a demon even when they're born from a human-demon union, buuuuut the birthrates are extremely low.

Also, demon childhood is... weird. They're born and reality takes a bit to recognize they're a demon, but once that happens they just flat-out stop aging as their abilities really kick in. There's a reason Levi is a thousand years old and still looks like she's ten(though she's different then Sho would be given she's one of the originals).

On the bright side of things I don't think he's too weak offensively.

@Jedly: I mean I don't think they'd have been human. That being said, it's fairly easy to excuse them showing a clearly-magical human the Imaginary District as well. ^^;

@Rin: Of course you think that.

[13org]

@VitaVitaAR WOW!!! Its been a while since I heard someone mentioning Ars Goetia!!

Something tells me that i will be a regular visitor on your RPs!



(Loves to study mithologies/religions/myths etc.)

[Raineh Daze]

Leviathan's real power is maid armies, though.

[VitaVitaAR]

Also spawning a void in her hand that can destroy any material because envy is all-consuming and destructive.

But the maid army helps.

[Raineh Daze]

Also spawning a void in her hand that can destroy any material because envy is all-consuming and destructive.

But the maid army helps.

@VitaVitaAR

Let's be honest: which one sees more use?

[13org]

Maid army FTW!!!

[VitaVitaAR]

@Raineh Daze: ... I mean to be fair the maid army is probably more often used.

[Jedly]

@VitaVitaARErm... Futakuchi-onna literally are women transformed into youkai. But since you've stated it's different in-setting, then I'll edit. And what I meant was they had to live as human as in only being able to eat in private since they can only intake sustenance through their rear mouths, which is a task that can't be committed in public or at the work place, which sounds like a pretty drab lifestyle tbhq.

Making edits shortly.

[VitaVitaAR]

Even if at some point there were human women turned into futakuchi-onna, modern ones probably never were. Though given they're youkai the old ones would likely still be around too, but, um, yeah.

[Rin]

If it means anything, Yuina's mother was a futakuchi-onna, whose mother was a futakuchi-onna, whose mother was a futakuchi-onna... Etc. etc. I'm assuming it was just the first futakuchi-onna who were transformed humans, really. XD

...I think the thing we'd figured out was that all the female offspring of a futakuchi-onna were more futakuchi-onna, whilst the male offspring were regular humans. Or... Something. ^^;

[VitaVitaAR]

@Rin: That's about right, yes.

[Rin]

...Although it begs the question of whether the female children of the sons of futakuchi-onna end up as futakuchi-onna or not buuut I am overthinking things right now. XD

[ghastlyInc]

@VitaVitaAR
Just setting a list of things I need to do, tell me if they're right or wrong:
1) Remove reference to Princes, since scale is off. Though, on the upshot, that means I might be able to make him MORE durable for comedy. Dunno, thats up to you (I think he's fine where he's at)
2) Remove caveat of regeneration limitation as its inconsistent with how demonic regeneration works.
3) Clearify where Sho fits in the demon hierarchy? I might be a little confused there as I'm not sure what you mean by divisions. It seems like the gripe is that there is no specified sheep demon (as opposed to something like a succubus), but I think I might be misunderstanding.
4) Change backstory to reflect that demons arent born demons. So awkward teenage baaing phase might happen.

[VitaVitaAR]

@ghastlyInc: He's fine where he's at.

That's correct.

Well, um... more that there's probably not going to be a type of demon specifically based around an animal unless it's actually something out of mythology related to them. He'd probably be unique and just have sheep features.

They're technically born demons, but it's just reality itself takes a while to catch up to that fact given the nature of demons in general.

[Natsu]

@VitaVitaAR Ahhhhhhh adorable babies please let me hug.