[OOC] Devil's Advocates (Saving the world...by burning it down!)

[The Jest]

Hey sorry. I've just been really busy lately and probably will be for a while. I'm going to have to drop out unfortunately. Good luck and enjoy!

@Force and Fury

No worries, I understand. I wish you well on whatever it is you're busy with.

hm interesting i guess i can take a chance and join in?

Name: Greg Hendrickson
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Appearance:
Desire: The freedom to spread out and evolve to discover more about the world and the universe.
Ability: Technopathy- the ability to control and alter technology. The better the understanding, the deeper and more complicated the control of it.
Weapon: large caliber pistol
Personality: Explorer – Greg has deep hunger to discover, something that has been unleashed now that his mind is free to desire. Before he simply was another content person studying to become some type of researcher. Whatever was the logical choice based on his skills. Now he wants to know and learn it all.
Backstory: What is there to tell about a person without desire. A normal family life mostly living a sufficient and efficient life in this stale society. He was a natural at science and worked his way trough school aiming to become a researcher or engineer depending on where his skills and knowledge flourished the most.

@Silvir

Always happy to have you aboard, Silvir. ^_^

[Ragrar]

Redux

Name: Venus Morgan

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance: The standard lithe, teenage female. Small of stature. Slight of frame. Unnoticeable of bust or hips. Long straight dirty blonde hair. Almond shaped blue-green eyes. Thin lips. Small upturned nose. Barely tanned caucasian skin. Innocent and average. So childlike. Yet since her encounter at the cave, her hair looks like it's growing darker, and her skin paler than before.

Desire: Forbidden knowledge. Her one true lust is to know all that is not meant to be known by her. And moreso what is not meant to be known by anyone. To learn the truth of what has happened before that lead to this existence of bondage and mediocrity; to uncover the secrets of history.

Ability: The desire for truth, secret lore and forbidden knowledge manifests in Venus as the ability to call forth and command undead beings (in order that she might learn the secrets of their lives, and perhaps even their afterlives). She has strong control over these spirits and risen corpses as well as the penchant for communicating with even the least comprehensible of them.

Her Necromancy is at first only the ability to call forth weak wraiths of the more recently deceased. But as her desire grows so shall the strength and wisdom of those undead beings who will harken to her summons and every command.

Weapon: A large, very ornate dagger, with motifs of horned and fanged demon skulls on the handle and a black blade inlaid with sickly green runes whose bite is venomous to the living.

Personality: When she was content, her personality would have been considered boring if a bit chipper. Polite, yet only because she was afraid to be offensive. Now darkened edges of sass and sarcasm have crept in. Now, influenced by desire, she has anger, frustration, and passion.

Backstory: A typical girl child, of typical parents. The world after the world runs smoothly. All is as it should be. And Venus was as she should have been. A girl being educated, and doing her part to prepare for a life in city planning and architecture. Just another brick in the wall. A brick destined to place more bricks in more walls literally and metaphorically -and monotonously!- in the service of a purified orderly existence.

And then, in a life largely without incident, she was shocked to receive poor marks in her masonry and design classes. It seemed that she didn't understand the value of, nor the proper procedure for including homages to angelic powers within the construction of buildings. She couldn't just pick out what looked good to her. She had to make it look good in a holy way. In a proper way.

So she set about studying. But it was all so confusing to her. And so her instructor arranged for her to visit several holy sights on weekends to learn from first hand viewing. Her grades have started to improve. But she is still participating to make sure the she understands fully. It's her ninth such excursion. And little does she realize how loose the wall's hold on this brick is about to become.

[Bishop]

No worries, I understand. I wish you well on whatever it is you're busy with.

Busy with other Rps XD

[The Jest]

Busy with other Rps XD

@Bishop

One of them I hope being that Space Pirate one, it's awaiting Long Jo-I mean-Your Chef. XD

How's this?

Name: Venus Morgan

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance: The standard lithe, teenage female. Small of stature. Slight of frame. Unnoticeable of bust or hips. Long straight dirty blonde hair. Almond shaped blue-green eyes. Thin lips. Small upturned nose. Barely tanned caucasian skin. Innocent and average. So childlike. Yet since her encounter at the cave, her hair looks like it's growing darker, and her skin paler than before.

Desire: Forbidden knowledge. Her one true lust is to know all that is not meant to be known by her. And moreso what is not meant to be known by anyone. To learn the truth of what has happened before that lead to this existence of bondage and mediocrity; to uncover the secrets of history.

Ability: Necromancy, at first only the ability to call forth weak wraiths of the more recently deceased. But as her desire grows...

Weapon: A large, very ornate dagger, with motifs of horned and fanged demon skulls on the handle and a black blade inlaid with sickly green runes whose bite is venomous to the living.

Personality: When she was content, her personality would have been considered boring if a bit chipper. Polite, yet only because she was afraid to be offensive. Now darkened edges of sass and sarcasm have crept in. Now, influenced by desire, she has anger, frustration, and passion.

Backstory: A typical girl child, of typical parents. The world after the world runs smoothly. All is as it should be. And Venus was as she should have been. A girl being educated, and doing her part to prepare for a life in city planning and architecture. Just another brick in the wall.

And then, in a life largely without incident, she was shocked to receive poor marks in her classes. It seemed that she didn't understand the value of, nor the proper procedure for including homages to angelic powers within the construction of buildings. She couldn't just pick out what looked good to her. She had to make it look good in a holy way.

So she set about studying. But it was all so confusing to her. And so her instructor arranged for her to visit sever holy sights on weekends to learn from first hand viewing. Her grades began to improve. But then, on the ninth such weekend excursion, she wandered off from the grounds in order to see the architecture from a distance. In doing so she discovered that there was something in the area that made her feel... well, she couldn't really understand it... but it seemed to draw her closer.

It eventually drew her into a cave where she saw visions of naked, horned, batwinged gods and goddesses old nature, magic, sex, death, and darkness. The we're like the angels if the angels could be monsters. And they seemed to call to her for help. They told her that she had been deceived. She saw visions of their altars and rituals. And she felt overwhelmed with wonderful, terrible feelings.

The girl who left that cave was no brick in anyone's wall, but a sledgehammer aimed at the foundations of paradise.

@Ragrar

Gonna need to discuss this with my fellow members of this triumvirate, but personally? I like it. ^^

[Ragrar]

Gonna need to discuss this with my fellow members of this triumvirate, but personally? I like it. ^^

@The Jest

Glad you like it. I'm pretty proud of her as a character. I don't want her to be op or anything. So no problem if there need to be restrictions. But I am really super fond of over the top style. And I tried to take some inspiration from what has already been said about this universe here.

[Windstormugly]

@John Humphreys is your character joining us soon :) ?

@Ragrar the char looks interesting to have with us ^^ for a collective starting-point however, the end of her backstory needs to be somewhat different. Everyone will "awaken" in the cave by the mummified corpse.
Regarding her powers as such, necromancy is broad, but it seems you are going to focus on the "raiser of dead"-theme?

Everyone also needs to remember that your weapons are something you will find/acquire later on.

Seems we'll soon get this off the ground, can't wait :D

[The Jest]

@Ragrar Other than what @Windstormugly has said, the three of us approve and accept you. ^_^

[Bishop]

Wait, so we can have powers although we are simple students just awoken from the Infinite Tsukuyomi brainwashing?

[The Jest]

Wait, so we can have powers although we are simple students just awoken from the Infinite Tsukuyomi brainwashing?

@Bishop

Excellent Question:

Imagine the essence of desire, of free will and want, not as a concept but as a thing, a type of energy signature or radiation that is part of the chemical make up of the soul. The same goes for its equal and opposite, Purity, the energy of the angels. Whenever one of the energies spike, it goes beyond the ethereal and materializes into the physical as power of some kind. Desire in particular shaping the power to fit the desires they have. Whereas Purity enhances a person based on their resolve to live by your standard virtues and what have you.

"But wait, The Purity energy completely enveloped all of the soul of everyone, didn't it? Wouldn't that count as some large spike of energy and give everyone angelic power?"

Not necessarily...

To begin with, that desire energy was considered a taint, a stain of corruption within the mortal soul. The soul was never designed with desire in mind, it simply "infected" everything formed from Purity like a plague. The brainwashing in question is a result of desire as an energy being completely erased by the purity, which fills in the proverbial empty space it leaves behind. essentially akin to returning the soul to "factory settings" one could say. A surge is the result of that energy being so potent that it breaks out of the soul and becomes actual energy, whereas the Angels simply filled in an empty space of the soul, keeping the energy contained within. There's a reason for this, but I'd rather not discuss it here, for the sake of Spoilers.

The moment your characters touched the corpse, the energy of desire came flooding into their soul in such a quality and quantity, that it generates a soul surge.

TL;DR: Overabundance of literal will power result in it pouring out of the soul, and into the physical world, becoming actual power for the characters in question to use.

[Ragrar]

@Ragrar the char looks interesting to have with us ^^ for a collective starting-point however, the end of her backstory needs to be somewhat different. Everyone will "awaken" in the cave by the mummified corpse.
Regarding her powers as such, necromancy is broad, but it seems you are going to focus on the "raiser of dead"-theme?

Everyone also needs to remember that your weapons are something you will find/acquire later on.

Seems we'll soon get this off the ground, can't wait :D

@Windstormugly

@Ragrar Other than what @Windstormugly has said, the three of us approve and accept you. ^_^

@The Jest

Awesome. I will edit my cs probably tomorrow.

And yes I was thinking of summoning of the undead type of necromancy. I was hoping for more stuff like the ability to see the last thing a corpse saw or stuff that relates to her desire for knowledge in a necromantic kind of way. But that's not super important to me. The idea is that it's her desire manifesting in that she can summon and command the undead as a means to interrogate them about their lives and thus learn the secrets of the past.

[A Blue Chord]

This cool?

Name: Apollo Hadrian
Gender: Male/Nonbinary
Age: 17
Appearance: (I'm still looking for a good image. I might end up drawing it myself. Anyways…) Narrow face, long dark hair, amber colored eyes, rather scrawny frame, pouty lips (but that's not too noticeable since he's always scowling), long fingers, tan-ish complexion. (I'll attach an image file later)
Desire: True freedom. Apollo doesn't care about much, but one of the few things that he cares most about the ability to decide things for himself and to live his own life. He wants to live without anyone else influencing who he is.
Personality: Literally gives absolutely no f***s whatsoever. One of his prime motivators to do anything at all is the chance that he'll have fun. This makes him a bit of a jerk, considering that his apathy extends to how he treats other people. He still doesn't care about much at all, but now that he has desire, he's a bit more touchy than before and does not react well to being told what to do, even if he knows that he is being irrational.
Ability: Speed. At first, that just meant being able to move really quickly. However, he will soon learn that if he can get fast enough, the possibilities of what his power can bring him are………interesting
Weapon: A nondescript steel knife.
Backstory: He was always a sort of a loner, mostly because of his abrasive personality. But one day, while randomly wandering the streets of his city, he heard some rumors about a group of rebels against everything that society stood for. Needless to say, he was intrigued, and over time, that intrigue spun out of control and morphed into an obsession. His eagerness to find out what was going on led him to start "looking for trouble." (I'll be explaining more of his backstory as I go along. I want some of the missing information to affect the way his character develops)

[Ragrar]

@Windstormugly @The Jest

Edited.

[The Jest]

This cool?

Name: Apollo Hadrian
Gender: Male/Nonbinary
Age: 17
Appearance: (I'm still looking for a good image. I might end up drawing it myself. Anyways…) Narrow face, long dark hair, amber colored eyes, rather scrawny frame, pouty lips (but that's not too noticeable since he's always scowling), long fingers, tan-ish complexion. (I'll attach an image file later)
Desire: True freedom. Apollo doesn't care about much, but one of the few things that he cares most about the ability to decide things for himself and to live his own life. He wants to live without anyone else influencing who he is.
Personality: Literally gives absolutely no f***s whatsoever. One of his prime motivators to do anything at all is the chance that he'll have fun. This makes him a bit of a jerk, considering that his apathy extends to how he treats other people. He still doesn't care about much at all, but now that he has desire, he's a bit more touchy than before and does not react well to being told what to do, even if he knows that he is being irrational.
Ability: Speed. At first, that just meant being able to move really quickly. However, he will soon learn that if he can get fast enough, the possibilities of what his power can bring him are………interesting
Weapon: A nondescript steel knife.
Backstory: He was always a sort of a loner, mostly because of his abrasive personality. But one day, while randomly wandering the streets of his city, he heard some rumors about a group of rebels against everything that society stood for. Needless to say, he was intrigued, and over time, that intrigue spun out of control and morphed into an obsession. His eagerness to find out what was going on led him to start "looking for trouble." (I'll be explaining more of his backstory as I go along. I want some of the missing information to affect the way his character develops)

@A Blue Chord

In terms of power and what have you, that's fine...But in terms of personality and backstory...

I understand that it's a bit difficult to comprehend, and that the angels have essentially made your personalities loose for the illusion of free will, but just remember that until the "infection" begins, your freedom to do nothing, your apathy and sloth is merely an illusion as well, one they can take away with just a snap of the fingers.

That being said, when it comes to the backstory, I don't necessarily 'mind' it, but I just wish to confirm something: Do you understand that the backstory you made essentially means you have to wait until at least after they wake up and get started on their terrorism before your own character can step in to join?

[A Blue Chord]

@The Jest

I do understand the waiting to join in. I thought it would be a bit fun to have my character not be one of the "originals" for me to write. It would also give me time to build up a persona for him, only to tear it down later, or even to just use at as a way to explain some of the missing information as it becomes relevant to his development. The part about the apathy makes sense. I am thinking that I will be differentiating between his programmed apathy, and his "IDGAF" attitude to portray the deletion of his old personality.

[The Jest]

Very well...

I'd like for everyone who has made a CS to place it on the CHAR tab if you haven't already. I'll be starting the In-Character soon. It will still take some time though.

[Warborn123]

Sweet I'm gonna join this RP if it's not too late, I'll have my CS up in a minute

[Warborn123]

Name: Vivian Velvet

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Desire: Vivian desires to have revenge against the angels, She wants them all to suffer for what they did to her.

Ability: Her ability comes in the form of music, She is a amazing instrumentalist and can play any instrument with perfection, She can also use the power of music to summon Fireballs, Ice spikes and Electricity, further more she can use the power of music to control people, when she just learns her power she'll be able to do small things like shoot small icicles and convince people to hit themselves in the face, but at her maximum strengh she can easily raze a city or cause a riot.

She is also immune to all magic that relies on sound, as she is deaf.

Weapon: A Steel Violin

Personality: Vivian is very pessimistic and cynical, She tends to be very pragmatic and down to earth. if this hasn't convinced you yet she is a massive debbie downer.
Vivian absolutely hates all angels, due to the fact that they have ruined her life, She is very loose and hates rules of all kinds, believing that rules only exist to oppress mankind from reaching it's true potential, she is very unemphatic and is willing to kill innocents in order to get her revenge.

If this was dnd she'd be Chaotic Neutral.

Backstory: Vivian used to be the exact opposite of what her personality says, she was stupidly optimistic, She was born to a relatively poor family who also shared her optimism.

she absolutely hated music and wanted to be a archaeologist.

life was perfect for her until one day, while her parents were driving her to school, a drunken driver smashed into her car and killed her parents, Vivian got lucky though as the car crash only destroyed her hearing, causing her to be permanently deaf, The drunken driver got away with it but Vivian didn't care at all, she was so stupidly optimistic it barely affected her, this is because of the angels control over her personality, causing her not to grieve at all and simply continue on with life as if it never happened.

Vivian decided all was fine and walked to school instead to go on the field trip, then upon getting her desires back, all the grief from her parents came back and it destroyed her, She quickly found out that she hates archaeology with a passion and loves music, especially the violin, but however because she is deaf she can never hear her own music.

After Vivian found out the angels had indirectly killed her parents and ruined the joy of music, she vowed to kill every last one of them.

EDIT: This is the old CS

[The Jest]

Name: Vivian Velvet

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Desire: Vivian desires to have revenge against the angels, She wants them all to suffer for what they did to her.

Ability: Her ability comes in the form of music, She is a amazing instrumentalist and can play any instrument with perfection, She can also use the power of music to summon Fireballs, Ice spikes and Electricity, further more she can use the power of music to control people, when she just learns her power she'll be able to do small things like shoot small icicles and convince people to hit themselves in the face, but at her maximum strengh she can easily raze a city or cause a riot.

She is also immune to all magic that relies on sound, as she is deaf.

Weapon: A Steel Violin

Personality: Vivian is very pessimistic and cynical, She tends to be very pragmatic and down to earth. if this hasn't convinced you yet she is a massive debbie downer.
Vivian absolutely hates all angels, due to the fact that they have ruined her life, She is very loose and hates rules of all kinds, believing that rules only exist to oppress mankind from reaching it's true potential, she is very unemphatic and is willing to kill innocents in order to get her revenge.

If this was dnd she'd be Chaotic Neutral.

Backstory: Vivian used to be the exact opposite of what her personality says, she was stupidly optimistic, She was born to a relatively poor family who also shared her optimism.

she absolutely hated music and wanted to be a archaeologist.

life was perfect for her until one day, while her parents were driving her to school, a drunken driver smashed into her car and killed her parents, Vivian got lucky though as the car crash only destroyed her hearing, causing her to be permanently deaf, The drunken driver got away with it but Vivian didn't care at all, she was so stupidly optimistic it barely affected her, this is because of the angels control over her personality, causing her not to grieve at all and simply continue on with life as if it never happened.

Vivian decided all was fine and walked to school instead to go on the field trip, then upon getting her desires back, all the grief from her parents came back and it destroyed her, She quickly found out that she hates archaeology with a passion and loves music, especially the violin, but however because she is deaf she can never hear her own music.

After Vivian found out the angels had indirectly killed her parents and ruined the joy of music, she vowed to kill every last one of them.

@Warborn123

Personally, I REALLY like the concept of this character, at least in regards to its musical powers and what have you. (I possess a character who also possesses that same kind of magical violin.)

But @Windstormugly seems to have...problems with the CS as a whole. My other partner @Petulant hasn't commented yet.

The one problem I can personally agree with would be his problem with the Backstory. I mentioned this before, but the Angels are REAL picky assholes when it comes to their control. The free will possessed by mankind in this world is naught but an illusion to hide the control, and anything that would inhibit or disconnect them from that control over humanity, even temporarily, has to be ultimately eliminated, and has been eliminated.

This, unfortunately, includes Alcohol, a substance that was practically designed to inhibit one's sense of judgement and moral control. They'd erase beer and wine and liquor and all other Alcoholic drinks in a heartbeat, because of that. As such, Drunk Drivers do not exist in this world.

Accidents do though, for one reason or another. Even the smallest head turn can cause cataclysm in a vehicle after all.

While I don't mind her power over the elements, (Again, have the same kind of character myself,) I'd recommend the Pied Piper ability be somehow toned down, maybe by narrowing the width of her AoE or limiting the criteria of who she controls with her music.

There was also a problem he had with her Personality and her Desire, her Personality he claims as edgy as hell, and her Desire he claims as, simply put, cliche. Me? I don't really mind that myself.

That said, it does seem me and Windpipe are at odds, so I'll need to talk with Petulant in order for a solid verdict. Until then, I suggest you take what was said to heart. ^_^

[Warborn123]

@The Jest I'll change the CS, but I wish that I could keep the personality and desire the same, I know it's edgy as hell, but I believe I can RP it well.

[Warborn123]

Here is a changed version

Name: Vivian Velvet

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Desire: Vivian desires for the world to be free and that people are allowed to have desires and allowed to do what they want and not just be puppets for the angels.

Ability: Her ability comes in the form of music, She is a amazing instrumentalist and can play any instrument with perfection, She can also use the power of music to summon Fireballs, Ice spikes and Electricity, She can use her power to control a single person, when she just learns her power she'll be able to do small things like shoot small icicles and convince people to hit themselves in the face, but at her maximum strengh she can easily raze a House or drive a single person into insanity.

She is also immune to all magic that relies on sound, as she is deaf.

Weapon: A Steel Violin

Personality: Vivian is very pessimistic and cynical, She tends to be very pragmatic and down to earth. if this hasn't convinced you yet she is a massive debbie downer, though she isn't border-line depressed all the time, sometimes she can be kind and empathetic.
Vivian hates the Angels for the control they have over humanity, She believes that humans aren't happy unless they are truly free.

If this was dnd she'd be Chaotic Good.

Backstory: Vivian used to be the exact opposite of what her personality says, she was stupidly optimistic, She was born to a relatively poor family who also shared her optimism.

she absolutely hated music and wanted to be a archaeologist.

life was perfect for her until one day, while her parents were driving her to school, but her parents crashed into a truck and they both died while Vivian lost her hearing, but however she was optimistic and didn't care at all, this was because of the angel's control over her.

Later on after getting a foster family, she went on a field trip then upon getting her desires back, all the grief from her parents came back and she was rather sad, She quickly found out that she hates archaeology with a passion and loves music, especially the violin, but however because she is deaf she can never hear her own music.

After Vivian found out the angels stolen all of her free-will, she vowed to free every last human being on earth.