[OOC] Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

[tipssyCalibrator]

I guess they could be just about to start it when she suddenly comes up and is all like "Excuse me, WTF r u doin?"

[Hammerman]

@CondorTalon@VitaVitaAR
I imagine Freyja will be interested in seeing Ryousei and Clarabelle's abilities, since they're going to her class after all.

She gotta learn about weaponsmithing and dollmaking first though

@tipssyCalibrator
It's alright. Just have her stop their fight before they kill each other.

[CondorTalon]

Hmm... how would Akiko react if Ryousei pulled out an actual sword...

[tipssyCalibrator]

She'd be surprised, but she'd probably be like "Bring it on" and wouldn't be too scared. She's very hot blooded that way

[Zero Hex]

Right, did a thing. Also @VitaVitaAR I might just be missing it but I don't think anyone's ever mentioned something about a capture the flag game IC.

[tipssyCalibrator]

...Well shit. This is why I wish this forum had an alert that tells you if more posts have been made since you started posting like the other forums I go to >_>

[CondorTalon]

She's just a free spirit, man...

Come on, take my hand.

Name: Rumi Kataoka

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Personality: Rumi is incredibly laid back; it is incredibly hard to get her worked up. She takes life at her own page, not really caring about what other people think of her and not worrying about anything, big or small. Rumi is also absent-minded, often lost in her own thoughts and frequently actually getting lost. Sometimes, Rumi can get so lost in her own thoughts that getting her attention would take about as much effort as waking a heavy sleeper. Her absent-minded, laid back nature makes her hard to hate. Rumi is also creative, and usually spends her free time sketching. Good luck getting her attention if she's focussed on her work.

Backstory: Rumi's life was incredibly average, and nothing really to write about. She was born to average parents, grew up in an average household with average siblings. She went to an average school and had average friends. She's had one average boyfriend and they broke up after an average amount of time. So, yeah, her life was a riot.

Rumi's power didn't manifest until she was 17, and it took a while for anyone to realize what her power did. As soon as someone figured out the nature of her power, her family was pestered endlessly about having her enrolled in the Institute. Her power was, after all, useless without other people with powers. Her parents deferred the decision to her. She accepted, because hey, what's the worst that could happen?

Appearance: "...Huh? Sorry, didja say somethin'?"

Equipment: Her sketchbook.

Abilities: Rumi is quite skilled at drawing, stemming from her lifetime of sketching.

Channeller category: Alternative

Description of power: By maintaining physical contact with another person with a power, she can store that person's energy and amplify it. As long as she and her target remain contacted, the target's energy output becomes more than its normal level. This generally manifested as an increase in an ability's raw power, and does not affect the target's competence in manipulating their energy. For example, she can make a firecaster's flames hotter and brighter, but she cannot make that firecaster control said fire better.

Names/descriptions of moves: Amplification: Amplifies the energy output to a target. Currently running at 120%.

Feedback: By breaking the contact prematurely, before the target stops channeling energy to her, Rumi can output the surplus energy inside her, allowing her to use that target's powers until they are depleted. Currently running at 20%. This process can be extremely painful for Rumi, depending on the type of energy inside her.

[Yuuta]

@CondorTalon That is some incredibly powerful reality warping right there...

[tipssyCalibrator]

@CondorTalon That is some incredibly powerful reality warping right there...

@Yuuta

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Normally I would try to suggest an alteration, but I'm not sure there's much I can really suggest. I really don't know about this one. I do really like the character herself, but I think you might have to just try and think of a different power for her. Sorry :/

[CondorTalon]

To be fair, I drafted that power with the knowledge that it was a risky thing to try and make work. I'll get it up with a different power.

[DarkwolfX37]

To be fair, I drafted that power with the knowledge that it was a risky thing to try and make work. I'll get it up with a different power.

@CondorTalon

If it means anything, I really liked it. At least you didn't go full Bleach and make it so that they take on the traits of each other in reality. The way I read it, all the power was is just a mass illusion, right?

[DarkwolfX37]

New set of powers to run through the wringer. Fresh from the presses, only one recycle from an old character draft. Lemme know if any work and/or any changes to make. I also redid one from the last set since I grew a bit of confidence from Condor's latest suggestion.

My Hider

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Channeller category: Architect

Description of power:
Creates variations of "brass knuckles" that range in complexity and function. She can only change the material and size of standard knuckles and standard bladed knuckles to begin with. Eventually can expand this to create devices that are more complex than brass knuckles, and even full gloves or gauntlets.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Kitty Cat - Creates a set of knuckles that have four blades similar to claws that extend outward as well as backwards over the back of her hands.

Nega-Pose - Creates a set of knuckles with each hand made of a magnetized material, with each hand having the opposite polarity of the other.

Extinction Event - Creates a set of knuckles that are incredibly lightweight for her but are immensely dense.

Finger Blasters - Creates a set of knuckles with a firing mechanism and ammunition.

Spring Trap - Creates a set of knuckles that are spring loaded with an intense level of compression, allowing for a large boost of force upon contact.

Tank Piercer - Spring Trap but with a controlled explosion rather than spring loaded and with the point of contact made into a shaped explosive.

Finite - A set of gloves that are paper-thin and augment her precision and muscular control to a level that would allow her to work on a microscopic level with her hands.

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Channeller category: Alternative

Description of power:
Teleportation and the ability to teleport anything she makes contact with. At first she can only teleport herself and inanimate objects, and her range is only 15 meters in diameter with her at the center. She will eventually be able to teleport other living things and her range will increase. Eventually won't need contact with what she is teleporting.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Blink - Teleports an object she is in contact with.

Flutter - Teleports herself.

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Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power:
Her ability is to enhance her eyes to see things normally impossible, as well as see through illusions and subterfuge. Weak points are laid bare to her, as are strengths for both people and things.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Scour - Enhances her eyes to give her the ability to "read" people. This makes it so she can now tell what is or isn't the truth. Rather, what the person she's looking at believes to be the truth or not. (This does NOT mean she knows what the truth is or what the speaker thinks the truth is when lied to, only that they are lying.)

Check Mate - Sees a person's "heart," showing her what they are feeling emotionally.

Compute - Makes it so that she can see numerical representations of scalars and vectors in the world around her. This happens in real-time, so if something is too fast for her to visually follow, she won't be able to see its numbers.

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Channeller category: Alternative

Description of power:
Controls magnetism.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Crash Course - Magnetizes a target with one polarity and another target with the opposite, causing them to be attracted to each other.

Scrubbing - Depolarizes a target completely for as long as she gives her full focus to it.

EMPathize - Senses the polarities and levels of magnetism of everything within a certain area. She can use this to map an area or navigate without sight.

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Channeller category: Augmenter

Description of power:
Can control vibration of her own body. (Get your mind out of the gutter.) The frequency and magnitude she can reach will increase as she grows.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Hummingbird - Vibrates a part of herself so quickly that it becomes invisible to the naked eye. Eventually will be able to do this to her entire body.

Static - Vibrates a small part of her in order to create sound waves.

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Channeller category: Alternative

Description of power:
Alters an organism's perception of relative location.

Names/descriptions of moves:
In Stereo - Makes a target see something in a different location in each eye, making it appear like there are two of it.

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Channeller category: Alternative

Description of power:
Meets a phenomenon with an exact counteraction, without originating an action from herself. At first is only able to use Double Down.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Ante Up - Meets an action with an equal and opposite reaction, cancelling the action.

Double Down - Creates an equal and opposite reaction to an action, doubling both the action and counteraction of the original action's impact on both the original actor and herself.

MAD - Delays the counteraction in order to use it without it being cancelled at the cost of not cancelling the original action.

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Channeller category: Alternative

Description of power:
Can influence whether or not someone agrees or disagrees with/likes or dislikes/accepts or rejects new ideas from outside sources, such as other people. She cannot influence ideas someone has already been exposed to unless they are exposed to the idea again. She cannot influence ideas that someone receives that originates from her in any way unless it has been removed by going through at least 1000 passes between sources. Her influence only lasts while she is within half a kilometer of the person she is influencing. If she leaves this range or decides she wants to revert the influence, the target will forget everything related to that idea since they received it and false memories as needed that are related to the idea will take their place. They will also suddenly happen upon the idea as if they had an errant thought that spawned it.

Names/descriptions of moves:
Meme It! - Activates her power upon a target.

[Yuuta]

<Snipped quote by CondorTalon>

If it means anything, I really liked it. At least you didn't go full Bleach and make it so that they take on the traits of each other in reality. The way I read it, all the power was is just a mass illusion, right?

@DarkwolfX37

Well, it's a bit more than an illusion. With an illusion, a smart character can go, "Wait, this doesn't make sense. It can't be real." They can then try to figure out a way to see through it. However, by altering the semantic identity of an object, you are forcing every character to think X = Y. They will think and act as though the illusion is real regardless of how little it makes sense.

For example, she could switch the semantic identity of her team's flag and a leaf. Now, the entire team will be trying to capture the leaf and ignore the flag.

[DarkwolfX37]

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Well, it's a bit more than an illusion. With an illusion, a smart character can go, "Wait, this doesn't make sense. It can't be real." They can then try to figure out a way to see through it. However, by altering the semantic identity of an object, you are forcing every character to think X = Y. They will think and act as though the illusion is real regardless of how little it makes sense.

For example, she could switch the semantic identity of her team's flag and a leaf. Now, the entire team will be trying to capture the leaf and ignore the flag.

@Yuuta

Do I have permission to get philosophical in defense of the accused, your Honor?

[tipssyCalibrator]

That's probably all I can do tonight, I'm really tired

@DarkwolfX37
Most of the powers themselves sound fine for the most part, but there are a couple specific powers in each of them that are pretty OP. I'd go over all of them but I really need to sleep right now

[Yuuta]

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Do I have permission to get philosophical in defense of the accused, your Honor?

@DarkwolfX37

Haha. Go ahead. But, bear in mind, I think it's a really cool power too. It's just really freakin' powerful.

[DarkwolfX37]

That's probably all I can do tonight, I'm really tired

@DarkwolfX37
Most of the powers themselves sound fine for the most part, but there are a couple specific powers in each of them that are pretty OP. I'd go over all of them but I really need to sleep right now

@tipssyCalibrator

Okie doki. Though if it sounds OP, it's probably not going to be unlocked until way later in their development. I didn't really specify much since this is a rough draft just to see what's worth refining for a character.
I'll be patiently waiting until you get a chance to look them over in more detail. :3

[CondorTalon]

Gave Rumi a new power.

I want to hold her hand.

[DarkwolfX37]

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Haha. Go ahead. But, bear in mind, I think it's a really cool power too. It's just really freakin' powerful.

@Yuuta

Semantics are a purely conceptual thing. There is no actualized version of semantics. It's only a human construct used to understand actualized things, just like math. So it would only be an illusion that affects humans who use it. Other species wouldn't be affected, so a truly smart/creative character could observe how animals respond to something that's acting oddly. Or, perhaps, turn into one such other species to alter their thought process in such a way that semantics no longer factor in. Much like how other species don't use numbers, they also don't assign labels to things, so they'd be immune.
One could also argue, due to the lack of specifics in how it works on the mental level, that anyone who is multilingual would have a decent chance to recognize the distinction between an affected object and another object of the same name. A sort of "a rose by any other name is a rosa" thing. Or anyone who is able to suspend object-oriented thinking processes would also be able to notice that, at the very least, something is wrong beyond what a normal person would.

[DarkwolfX37]

Gave Rumi a new power.

I want to hold her hand.

@CondorTalon

You degenerate pervert. :P