[OOC] Aria Bay

[Diamond655]

@Pseudoname
@Mr Allen J
@Ryougu
@Rekaigan

Here's the RP thread. Tagged you to make sure you got it.

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On the surface, the town of Aria Bay, and Beacon University residing within, is completely normal. Your life, similarly, has been mostly normal since you started living here.

You didn't expect things to change so fast from the normal you've gotten so used to - and not more than a month after entering college, either. A paranormal entity has appeared before you, explaining that he wishes to make things "interesting" around Aria Bay, as well as the fact that you're not the only one he's appeared before. Soon after, you find abilities - superpowers - awakening you've only ever previously seen in video games or comic books. You have reason to believe that you're not the only one who has gained these powers. At the same time, you also doubt only these gifted folk know about the supernatural. All you know is, there's more to this world than you knew. Possibly more than the majority of the town knew.

And you're gonna find out what other secrets Aria Bay holds.

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Yeah. Sorry about copy and pasting, guys, but I just thought I'd have the intro text at the top again. Probably not gonna do that in the IC thread.

So, welcome, everyone. I'm...Not really sure what I have to say about this.

Just a reminder, I want at least 1 normal and 2 Gifted player characters.

Once everyone from the interest check gets an approved character, or a day passes without everyone having posted an app, the RP begins. Time period is around one month after college started for the characters at Beacon University.

So, without further ado...Here's the app template.

Application

Name:
Age: (18-19 preferred)
Gifted?: (yes/no, this is if you have powers or not)
Powers: (ONLY FOR GIFTED! Please just edit this portion out of your app if your character is not a Gifted.)
Skills:
College studies: (1 major and 1 minor)

Appearance: (Good paragraph preferred, and keep in mind that these people are normal humans physically. They might have dyed their hair, say, blue, but it's not going to be naturally blue. Red is a bit of a grey area - no pun intended - but use common sense.)

Backstory: (Please at least make this a good paragraph - if you'd prefer to keep some things secret, you can PM me.)

Friends: (Any people mentioned here not controlled by players will be controlled by me as NPCs; you can edit people into this section once you make friends in-character.)

Enemies: (Same as above, but with people you don't like rather than people you like.)

[Mixtape Ghost N]

No appearance section in the CS?

[The One]

@Diamond655 Can I have a 'gifted' please?

[Diamond655]

@Mr Allen J
That's the one thing I forgot to put in. I'll edit it in now.
@The One
You don't have to request Gifted. I might cap it off later on, but for now I'm leaving the choice of picking up Gifted characters open.

[The One]

@Diamond655 I'll make a character in a mins.

[Ryougu]

Let's get this show on the road...

[Ryougu]

@Diamond655
How's this for a character?

My character

Name: Ryan Beefey
Age: 19
Gifted?: Yes
Powers: in his early (starting) stages he only possesses the first.
1. "Acceleration"
Ryan has access to Acceleration. Acceleration allows Ryan to freeze, slow or if he would choose to do so, accelerate time. He's not sure why he can trigger this ability or how it works, but after having suddenly frozen time (and toying around a bit), he figured out how to utilize it at least. Moving in 'frozen time' causes intense strain on the body, experienced as heat building up inside. Exiting 'frozen time' overheated might cause him to go unconscious or even die. the speed of the heat build-up increases the further time is slowed and Ryan will not cool down in 'frozen time'. He can enter 'accelerated time' to increase the speed of cooling down, but moving through accelerated time causes him to appear and move as if in slow motion.

2. "Power-Acceleration"
Further powers up Acceleration making it possible to cause shock waves when attacking, increasing both pain and knockback.

3. "Blink"
Blink is a mastery of Acceleration. It's the process of repeatedly entering and exiting hypermode, which can give attacks some devastating results. Repeatedly Accelerating causes heat to build up even faster and has a habit of causing splitting headaches.

Skills:
Critical hits - Ryan brutally exploits his knowledge of human anatomy from his major -biology- when fighting. Surprisingly he has also occasionally used this knowledge to help his gang-mates recover after fights. (Improv chiropractor)

Sword fighting - Being practiced at kendo, Ryan makes for a dangerous opponent when wielding a sword or anything as simple as a pipe the could be used like one.

Medic! - Ryan can patch up cuts and wounds using his knowledge of how the body recovers, but since his only actual knowledge of first aid is limited to what he's seen others perform he's not too impressive at it.

Intimidation - Ryan has a little gang and is well known around Aria bay, his name carries weight and some people are genuinely afraid of him.

College studies:
Major: Biology
Ryan hasn't paid too much attention during classes, but he's always liked biology and despite his delinquent behavior he has a perfect attendance record (for biology). He excels in the subject of the human anatomy and is brutal in the exploiting of this knowledge when getting into fights with other delinquents.

Minor: Sports (Kendo)
Ryan is a sporty fellow, he is always up for some brawling, but with a sword in his hands his fighting suddenly becomes a lot less unpolished. He did a Kendo scholarship and made it to the nationals, but he never actually managed to win any big tournaments.

Appearance:
Ryan has messy dirty-blond hair that reaches down to his chin. He has a stern-looking face with green eyes, usually with bags under them. He is fairly buff, but not overly buff and stand at 6'2" tall. Ryan wears his gang's signature jacket, black with a spiked pad on the left shoulder and the gang insignia on the back. Under it he wears one of a variety of gory T-shirts and dark-red jeans. He carries around a wooden training sword and of course a (leather) bag.

Backstory: (Please at least make this a good paragraph - if you'd prefer to keep some things secret, you can PM me.)
Ryan has been out causing trouble since his early childhood, seeming to somehow attract it. his relationship with his parents is fairly cold and has been this way ever since he would keep coming back home with bruises and classmates' angry parents. He rents a building he calls 'The Hideout' in the less crowded part of the city using money the gang scrapes together (doing actual legitimate jobs). He lives in this building with the majority of the gang, led by him and his 2 childhood friends.

He's got no sob story and detests people who keep complaining about their life, though he occasionally does it himself too. With his 2 childhood friends he forms a solid team that has led the way to dominance in the delinquent world, fighting foes armed with knives and wrenches more often than not. While he is a thug and definitely not a stranger to violence, he still works to ensure his gang-mates at least attend school so they are able to return to the more 'respectable' part of society would they want to, "instead of becoming complete losers".
Friends:
The gang!

Enemies:
Most of the students who "take studying too seriously".
Members from rival school-gangs.

[Diamond655]

@Ryougu
Actually a really interesting character choice for this. Accepted! Copy it and paste it in the Characters section.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Ryougu I'm just pointing this out because I found this weird about his character; but Kendo isn't exactly good for street fighting. Not even in the slightest. It's cool, but it's still a wooden sword in the end, and Kendo is taught as a competitive sport - not self defense. Just applying it to a real fight just sounds silly. It's a completely different ball game than real swords, or even katanas. And you're definitely not going to be able to wield a pipe like one.

[Diamond655]

@Mr Allen J
Oh, that's actually something I didn't think about before, hehe. Yeah, that'll probably need to change.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I hope I didn't come off as presumptuous, but that bothered.

I'm working on a charafter by the way.

[Pseudoname]

Annnnnd here's my character app. Hope you enjoy, and let me know if there's anything to change.

Kirby Morrow

Name: Kirby Morrow
Age: 18
Gifted?: No
Skills:
Dance- Kirby has a true talent for dance, seeming to have an intuitive sense for rhythm and personal kinesthetic. From Tap to Tango, Ballroom to Hip-hop, Kirby is proficient in a wide variety of dancing arts. He is constantly training himself for his next show, and when he's dancing Kirby carries with him confidence usually unseen in his oddball personality.

Capoeira- Colloquially known as 'dance-fighting', Kirby picked up the martial art during his high-school years and has been training in the style ever since. He finds the activity enjoyable, as it both keeps him fit for more traditional dancing and serves as an outlet for any stress or aggression, but doubts he'd ever be in a situation to actually use the defensive art outside of sparring.

Humor- Kirby is a bit 'off', and he'll the be the first one to point it out. Comedy is his defense-mechanism, and when he's in an unusual circumstance or a stressful situation one can bet that Kirby will crack an ill-timed joke or a bit of self-deprecating humor.

College studies:
Major- Dance
His passion and pastime, Kirby is an astute study in the subject of dance. He not only commits himself to the physical art of expression by way of hours of classes and training, but also dedicating time to understanding the history and creativity inherent to the medium.

Minor- Education
Really his backup plan if dancing for Disney doesn't work out, Kirby approaches his Education studies with middling enthusiasm. He has fair talent at teaching, but by no means a savant of any sorts.

Appearance: Bearing an angular face, large ears, pale blue eyes, and curly orange-red hair, Kirby doesn't exactly blend in with the crowd. He stands at a moderate height at a limber 5'10, his body bearing the grace and athletic build that comes with dancing for the majority of his life. He dresses himself smartly, usually wearing some combination of collard shirt, jacket, jeans, and sneakers. He does, however, have a decent assortment of costumes and tights that he can be spotted wearing if someone catches him on a performance day.

Backstory: Kirby wasn't born lucky, but he ended up there. Put up for adoption soon after his birth, Kirby never had a chance to get to know his biological mother before he was quickly taken in by the Morrows. Thomas and Erik Morrow raised Kirby as best they could, teaching him to pursue whatever passion he wanted to, expectations be damned. And Kirby was happy with the way his life was turning out. His adopted parents showed nothing but love for their son, he was growing up to be an excellent dancer and had found a passion for the activity, and he had made some fast friends which never failed to bring a smile to his face. The world was simple in those blissful days of childhood, and Kirby was grateful for the life he had been gifted.

Unfortunately, high school had to happen. People suddenly thought it was strange that Kirby had two dads instead of just one. That he was a guy who enjoyed ballet and ballroom. Or perhaps everyone had always considered it weird, and were only just getting vocal about it. Regardless, Kirby became a target of many taunts and more than a few bullies. His friends, once an endless well of support, started distancing themselves from him in an attempt to avoid a similar treatment. What had started as name=calling ended up getting more physical, and there were more than a few days that Kirby tried to hide his bruising from his parents; passing it off as injuries from dance or from training. The day he came home with a black-eye, however, was the day that Kirby's parents had decided enough was enough and saw through their son's hasty lies. Though Kirby was unwilling to give up the names of the kids who did this to him, he did accept his parent's insistence on putting him through self-defense classes so that if their son ever found his way into this situation again, he would at least be able to fight back. Enlisting him in Capoeira, Kirby initially trained hard in an attempt to stave off his parent's attempts to get involved. As time wore onward, however, Kirby learned to genuinely enjoy his lessons; his natural talent at dance lending itself very well to the martial art. He made new friends at his defense classes, the bullying seemed to taper off for a time, and Kirby again found resolve enough to be happy with his life.

It wouldn't be until the start of Sophomore year that Kirby would actually use Capoeira. Around the first week of classes, the same bullies who had tormented him through his freshmen year thought it would be a clever idea to reenact the events of last year's beatings. The largest of the lot started shoving Kirby into lockers, hounding him like he did when Kirby was still a freshman, and in response Kirby, as politely as he could, knocked the bully flat on his ass. A teacher was quickly summoned, and both students received weeks long detentions for starting a fight within the first week of school, but Kirby was pretty much left alone by his tormentors through the rest of his high school career.

The rest of high school proceeded in a fairly normal fashion for Kirby. He continued his studies in both dance and Capoeira, winning awards for the former and continuing to rise through belt levels in the latter. The bullies would tease him occasionally, but always from a distance and never within striking range. He repaired a few friendships that he lost freshman year, managed to keep his grades to mostly A's and B's, dated a girl for six months before it ended in heartbreak, stole whiskey from his parent's liquor cabinet with his friends to drown his sorrows in, had a dance-off with a professor at senior prom that is still talked about at his high school, and managed to get his GPA up enough to gain admission into Beacon University.

As a starry-eyed freshman at Beacon University, Kirby can't wait to see what surprises the future hold for him. Couldn't be any worse than high school, right?

Friends:
Holly Hughes-(NPC: Ex-girlfriend and fellow Dance Major)
Desmond Ryle-(NPC: Capoeira Instructor)
Carrie Rushford-(NPC: Best friend and fellow Beacon student)
Thomas Morrow-(NPC: Adopted Father)
Erik Morrow-(NPC: Adopted Father)

Enemies:
Avery Ferring-(NPC: High school bully and fellow Beacon Student)

[Rekaigan]

@Ryougu I'm just pointing this out because I found this weird about his character; but Kendo isn't exactly good for street fighting. Not even in the slightest. It's cool, but it's still a wooden sword in the end, and Kendo is taught as a competitive sport - not self defense. Just applying it to a real fight just sounds silly. It's a completely different ball game than real swords, or even katanas. And you're definitely not going to be able to wield a pipe like one.

@Mr Allen J

On the subject of that, it's better to say that he learned "Kenjustu" or "Aikido" if you want sword skills that are more 'practical'. Kendo, while it is indeed about wielding a sword, cannot be used in proper fights due to the way it works as a sport (As said by Allen). Additionally, you could even say he learned Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) if you want to stick with the whole sword fighting shebang. HEMA, although a sport, also contains realistic (Or as realistic as possible) swordplay that's not choreographed.

(Trust me, I've practised all of these)

[Ryougu]

Welp, I AM clueless after all xD I wasn't planning on using it in streetfights all that much, but Kenjutsu does seem like a better choice, thanks @Mr Allen J and @Rekaigan

[Diamond655]

@Pseudoname Accepted! Copy and paste your app over to the Characters section. Another interesting character, and I've never seen anything quite like it before.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Welp, I AM clueless after all xD I wasn't planning on using it in streetfights all that much, but Kenjutsu does seem like a better choice, thanks @Mr Allen J and @Rekaigan

@Ryougu

I'm glad that you took it well. I was fearing that you would take it as a personal attack, and a stupid argument would spawn from it.

[Ryougu]

@Mr Allen J
Mhmm, It's annoying when people do that. I just appreciate the feedback, this way I learn more too.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Mr Allen J
Mhmm, It's annoying when people do that. I just appreciate the feedback, this way I learn more too.

@Ryougu

That's the spirit.

@Diamond655 Can I make two characters? One Gifted, and another one without a power?

[Diamond655]

@Mr Allen J
Sure! I'm gonna want plenty of characters anyway.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Mr Allen J
Sure! I'm gonna want plenty of characters anyway.

@Diamond655

Good. I'm cookin' up a really unique power.