[OOC] S.Y.C.E.P.: The Adversary {Members Wanted!}

[Benzaiten]

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Children are the future of our world. We teach them to be what we imagine would be good for them and our world. We do our best as parents and hope it's gonna be enough. Being a parent has never been easy. And it certainly isn't getting easier with time.

But when your child is capable of a supernatural power - what does that mean for you?

SYCEP is here to help you. The Institute with the Special Youth and Child Education Program will allow your child to grow up in a safe environment with other children that hold similar abilities like them.

SYCEP - a safe future for your special gifted child!

The program offers

~ education ~
~ a comfortable home ~
~ full and free health care ~
~ parenting exchange and support groups ~
~ diversified free time activities ~
(playground, swimming, different sports, exciting trips, different games, and more)
~ personalized training for your child's ability ~
~ and much more ~

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A letter in your hand - your child on your mind - are you confused? Scared? Curious? If you knew it before or not - now you do. Your child is gifted with a special ability. Has it shown yet? Has it scared you yet?

SYCEP doesn't give you the chance to decide yourself. The letter, signed by the president personally!, insists you go to an 'informational meeting' to listen to all the things SYCEP has to say. You didn't know what SYCEP was before that letter and maybe you don't know it reading the letter either. It's all very confusing.

However, welcome. This is the story of a group of completely normal parents in a fight against something they wouldn't ever had thought of.

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The world and my plans

The world is our very own 2017 world as we know and love (or hate?) it. At least on the outside it is. SYCEP may or may not has some technical abilities that the outside doesn't know of - government and all, they always hide stuff, right?

SYCEP is an institute that isn't known by anyone not involved with it. You won't find commercials on the TV or on bus stops. You won't have heard of it by a distant family member. If you try to search for it online, you will be disappointed. It doesn't exist in the world wide web. You won't have a clue what SYCEP even means. Until you meet it.

In this world, five years ago all of a sudden, seemingly without a reason, a couple children born each year will contain an ability within them that isn't considered 'normal'. Maybe they can fly? Maybe they can cause fires? Or their scream makes windows burst? These children are all being detected now and recruited to SYCEP. Where they are supposed to learn and grow up, live with their parents and safe the world one day. Though the last part is definitely not mentioned by anyone of the SYCEP or the government. But the government sure shows interest in children with superpowers - how could they not? Where that leads... we will see.

My plans for this roleplay aren't all too fleshed out, because I wanna adapt to what all of us write up and come up with. But I have a couple of scenarios that will take place if I see fit. I will be leading the story a little bit, if it won't lead itself (and I don't expect it to honestly, but it'd be great if it did!).

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Character Sheet

_{(The CS template might change a bit still, forgive me if it does)}

Note: You don't have to create a child if you plan on:
1) creating it together with the other parent (once you find one)
2) you plan on finding a partner who will create the child (
In those cases just leave it blank until you have decided on a partner and your shared child
3) you are allowed to PARTLY fill out the CHILD CS if you want to discuss some things with the other parent first

Please note that you can only have one child with special abilities if it isn't twins or triplets. So if you have created a child and someone else, who you want to partner up with, as well, you two need to work out how you can make one child that suits the both of you.

Siblings are allowed - no older than 12 though.

All kinds of relationship that you can think of are allowed. (Three people married, open relationship, divorced, engaged, widowed, single, exes sharing a child but you have a new relationship already, ect.)

CS template

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[center]
[h3]NAME IN CAPS[/h3]

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[room for image, if you like]

[b]Name:[/b]
please full name

[b]Nicknames:[/b]
what are they called other than their first name

[b]Age:[/b]
in years

[b]Gender:[/b]
Female/Male

[b]Sexuality:[/b]
;)

[b]Occupation:[/b]
What brought in the money before they got taken to SYCEP?
(maternity leave is a thing - add occupation nevertheless)
(stay-at-home parent is a thing - in that case tell us your occupation before staying at home with the kid)

[add image, must]

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Description please

[b]Personality:[/b]
Full sentences please

[b]Other Parent:[/b]
Name (write '[b]OPEN[/b] - preferred gender' if you need someone to play your partner)
Relation (married, divorced, in a relationship, ect)

[b]Significant Other:[/b]
If none, write [i]None[/i].

[b]Other:[/b]
Anything you wanna mention?

[h3] NAME OF CHILD IN CAPS [/h3]
[add image here, must]

[b]Name[/b]
Full name

[b]Date of Birth[/b]
write date of birth here (add their current age here)
[Note: no older than five!]

[b]Special Ability[/b]:
Name it here

[b]First shown:[/b]
When and how did their ability first show?
(You are allowed to say that it didn't show yet)

[room for an image, if you like]

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If you want your character to have a wife/husband, divorced ex, significant other, whatever please write it in fat words above the hider of your CS.

There will be no ghosting of significant others, the other parent or both (cause they can be different persons obviously). So it is highly encouraged and very much so wanted that you guys get together as a couple or exes to battle this fight. The only acceptable excuses for one of the two parents not being in the facility are: they're dead (tell us why), they've lost the custody (in that case the SYCEP wouldn't have contacted them for this matter; tell us why they lost custody). I encourage you to please get together and create creative, maybe unusual, but realistic families!

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Ask anything if you have questions

Discord Link:
discord.gg/XTH3Zvs

[BurningCold]

I'll try to rig up a sheet. I like this unique spin on the overdone genre of superkids+facility.

[EchoicChamber]

Could I join with an ex-military or merc woman and her daughter, by any chance? c:

[Benzaiten]

@EchoicChamber I would say yes. Be creative as you like, but stay realistic :)

[SaikaAnge]

I'll start working on a CS :)

[GirlOnMarz]

withdrawn

[EchoicChamber]

Harley/Minnie Enright

HARLYN ENRIGHT

Name:
Harlyn Itzel Enright

Nicknames:
Harley, Epsilon, Skunk, Bitch

Age:
28

Gender:
Female

Sexuality:
Pansexual

Occupation:
Tea Shop Owner, Ex-Mercenary



Appearance:
Standing at roughly 6’0”, Harley’s form is one built up of hard living, exercise, and conflict. She’s lean and muscular, with scarred tan skin and a face that, while worn and rough, still manages to hold a near-constant mirth. She has salt-and-pepper hair that reaches the center of her back, which she often keeps tied in a lazy braid. Her eyes are a warm shade of hazel, and on her collarbone is a tattoo of the greek epsilon symbol.
Tends to dress in worn leather jeans, short sleeved shirts, and hiking boots.

Personality:
Harley is a friendly (if not rugged and somewhat eccentric) woman by nature. Calm and lackadaisical, it’s notably difficult to ruffle her feathers, or get another response to any real prodding than a good-natured chuckle and a dry quip. She can be remarkably amiable towards friends and enemies alike, and is fiercely loyal to the former, but there is a somewhat darker aspect of her personality in turn. Harley is violent and somewhat hedonistic, relishing in fist-fights and baser pleasures. However, since the birth of Minerva, she has made an effort to temper this side of herself down.
While Harley lacks some of the maternal instincts that come naturally to others, she’s fiercely protective of her child, and harming Minnie is the only real sure-fire way to bring her to anger.

Other Parent:
Winston something. At least, Harley thinks his name was Winston. It’s been two years since she’s last seen the guy.
(Ex-Lovers)

Significant Other:
None

Brief History:
Harlyn grew up in the southside of Chicago, in a household of two parents and four other children. It wasn’t the best lifestyle, gently put, and it didn’t take long for Harley to start craving an out as she grew older. Upon graduating high school at the age of eighteen, she initially intended to join the military, but took up mercenary work instead after a recommendation from an old friend of hers.

It was a good gig. A bit of a messy one, at times, but Harley relished in it. The pay was nice, it let her see new places, and, if she were to be honest, she enjoyed the violence it brought her way. Harley threw herself into her job, and, when the work was done, indulged herself with companionship and smokes and warm bodies in her bed. This last, however, wound up backfiring on her in a rather spectacular person.

Namely, by getting her knocked up.

Considering that she couldn’t very well punch people in the throat with a bun in the oven, Harlyn took a leave from her work, then went searching for the man she slept with to let him know the news. Unfortunately, by the time she returned to the city she had met him in, he was gone. Seeing little else to do, Harley decided to have the baby, and give it up for adoption once it was born. She had the child in the privacy of her own home (it was cheaper), then went to deliver it to its new family.

As luck would have it, the prospective family weren’t able to take in the kid, due to one of the parents having a heart attack and the expenses bleeding them dry. As such, Harley was saddled with the child until she could find a parent. Days of searching turned into weeks, then months. Before she had known it, the child had a name, and Harley had left her apartment in favor of a little two story brick house. She gave up her job as a merc, and decided to convert the front room of her home into a little tea shop. It was a slow and lazy life in comparison to her old one, but Harley was happy with her little Minerva.

Although it quickly became far less slow and lazy when Minnie started showing superpowers. Or when the government came knocking at the door.

Other:
- Was an avid chain-smoker before learning that she would be having a child. While she kept off the habit during her pregnancy, and has been trying to kick the habit a little now that she’s raising a toddler, Harley will still take a drag or two when away from Minnie.

- As Minnie is mute, Harlyn has learned sign language, and has begun to teach her daughter how to sign, as well.

MINERVA ENRIGHT

Name
Minerva Raisel Enright

Date of Birth
January 9th, 2015
Two Years Old

Special Ability:
Botanokinesis

First shown:
It started off simple. Some of the crops Harlyn was growing in the backyard seemed to grow a little faster than usual, or Minerva toddled in, pudgy fingers wrapped tight around wildflowers that Harlyn hadn’t seen growing in the area. Soon enough, seeds began to grow into plump squashes and melons overnight. Plants grew wild and uncontrolled on the property. It all came to a head when Harlyn caught little Minnie squatting beside one of her tea plants (mint, good for the belly), and the plant started growing and waving around like it had a mind of its own.

Other: Wears an old aviator jacket Harley snagged during her mercenary days. It is currently still far too large for her to properly wear, but Minnie seems to like it regardless.

Threw my own parent/child pair into the mix. c:
(Sorry for the use of art instead of physical pictures, by the by- it's just been near impossible for me to find faceclaims otherwise, haha. I'd be more than willing to try and look again if asked, however.)

[BurningCold]

Hey all, taking longer than I'd hoped for on this due to some troubles going on with my prospective partner for this RP. I'm going to wait it out for as long as I can without missing the flight, but if things don't get sorted out before then, I'll have to press on alone.

[McHaggis]

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[Barrett]

Not waiting for too long though.

Patrick Cross

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Name:

Patrick Cross

Nicknames:

Cross, Sheriff

Age:

Forty-nine

Gender:

Male

Sexuality:

Heterosexual

Occupation:

Retired County Sheriff

Appearance:

Stocky, grizzled and weathered, Patrick looks every inch the hardened country cop. He doesn’t have a tan exactly, it’s as his skin looks like old leather that was treated by a particularly unskilled tanner after years of standing in the sun. There are a few scars here and there, mostly faded with age, which only add to his air of weary menace. There are also innumerable frown lines that spread out from his his like an impact crater and twist into their most comfortable shape whenever Patrick feels more annoyed or angry than tired. Which, it must be admitted, is getting more and more rare as he ages.

While he looks sturdy and capable, Patrick doesn’t look like the average fitness enthusiast or gym lover. He’s built like a barrel or a tree rather than a greek statue, with a thick trunk of a chest that’s barely sagged with age and arms that don’t look like much but have a grip like iron bands. His once auburn hair is now a stubborn grey and as he’s never been much one for styling his own appearance, it’s in the same unkempt style as it has been for years. His voice, however, is as deep and carrying as it ever was, simultaneously supportive, reassuring and a little scary whether it’s talking to his colleagues or a collar.

It only softens for his children, the lucky little devils.

Personality:

Since boyhood, Patrick has liked to do things directly, a true straight shooter. If you like someone, tell them, if you don't like someone then make sure you tell them that too. Where other people tried to manoeuvre and position themselves in conversation, he preferred to barge straight on through to whatever it was that he wanted. As he's gotten older and hopefully wiser, Patrick has learned to refine this approach a little. Now he's more conscious of the best way of getting to his objective but less determined to go there via the most direct route. In short, age has taught him nuance.

When he was a sheriff, Patrick was the hard man with a heart of gold, the sort that gave you a hard time when you were starting out because he knew damn well you'd be getting a hard time from everyone else in this job and he didn't want you going out there unprepared. Not many came to thank him at the time but almost everyone saw what he did to the next rookie with a new perspective and quietly understood. Patrick didn't mind being a little disliked, he wasn't much one for socialising anyway. A classic workaholic, he was always the first one in and the last one out, pursuing a schedule that would've tired out any three of his subordinates without batting an eyelid, so now that he's retired he's feeling a little... lost.

Because Patrick isn't a sheriff anymore, he isn't really anything. Except a father, of course, a role that he worries he may have neglected for his son, Alex, but one that he's now positioned to fill almost too well for his daughter, Jack. After mentoring dozens of rookies, he feels he knows a thing or two about how to teach but there's no part of him that could bear giving tough love to his own flesh and blood. So instead he's haltingly, unassuredly kind and open to them. When out in public it's even harder to act as a proper parent, as his instincts kick in and the walls of stoic machismo kick in.

Other Parent:

Suzanna Cross, Wife

Other:

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Jack Cross

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Name:

Jaqueline Cross

Date of Birth:

13th of April 2012

Special Ability:

Telepathy

First shown:

Has not shown, other than perhaps being the cause of advanced reading and comprehension for her age in tests.

[Benzaiten]

Hi everyone. Thank you for your interest and dedication so far. My life is a little hectic right now. I am hoping that things slow down a tad bit ao I can really give my attention back to this rp and be the GM you deserve.

I dont think I'll have much time on Sunday (For sure dont have on Saturday) but maybe hopefully next week everything will be calmer so my mind can focus on this again.

I am planning on making a lesbian character and would love to find a wife for her. If anyone wants to consider it.

Allonsy!!

[SaikaAnge]

@KahleenCuthald
I got a little busy too, so I haven't finished up my CS yet, but would be willing to work on a female character that might work for your character's wife. I should be getting free time real soon as well, but let me know if you have any specific interests in a character and I can make one to suit it :)

[HalfOfLancelot]

I'm jumpin' on board, if that's alright!

Wendell Shaw

Name:
Wendell Shaw

Nicknames:
Wendy

Age:
Thirty-two

Gender:
Male

Sexuality:
Homosexual

Occupation:
Ex-Astrophysicist
Professor at local University

Appearance:
Hunched over and frail is the typical physical state Wendell Shaw keeps himself in, though in the recent days his doctor has ordered him to take a few minutes out of the day to exercise. Sedentary lifestyles aren't the healthiest, but if he's skipped a few runs here and there, his doctor doesn't need to know about it. Still, Wendell has bad posture and not a lot of meat on his bones despite his best efforts. Days without sleep and nutrition have taken their toll, coloring him in a grayish pall with heavy bags beneath his eyes.

He keeps up a ruffled, likely slept-in style with messy, curled hair in dark shades of brunette and wrinkled, likely never ironed clothing. Typically, he wears contacts, but on occasion he'll break out a pair of thick-rimmed glasses. All-in-all, Wendell is unimposing, on the short side of 5'4", and looks as if he'll feint any second.

Personality:
Wendell shuts himself down and out. In a world full of mysteries, Wendell prefers to keep anything and everything personal a mystery himself. Professionalism runs through his veins like hot oil, searing through him should he ever take a step out of the realm of civility. It cultivates a neurotic mess of a person who handles social conduct outside of his job with very little tact, much less need or want for it. Work concerns him far more than people do and he'd much prefer it stay that way.

Only in certain instances does his life conduct itself outside of his research, his teaching, or anything therein: when something concerns his daughter and when something concerns his family. Friends are a non-issue, as he doesn't have any nor the will to keep up a working relationship. He finds them difficult and tedious, especially when having to juggle a relationship with family and his daughter, to boot. Society exhausts him, but he'll do what he can for his family, as long as they don't force him out of his own comfort zone.

Anxiety ridden and agoraphobic, Wendell is a complete shut in, as well as a workaholic with no real penchant for telling time. He'll find himself buried in studies and research for more hours than he should, with as little sleep as he can muster. Adding onto a job teaching adjunk at a local University, while adding to the research required of him there, it strains him to be on time, as well as to comfortably talk to his students. But, it pays the bills and the closer he finds himself to another steady job that lacks the horrors of required student-teacher relations the more courage he can muster to go trudge into work.

Other Parent:
N/A [Deceased]

Significant Other:
N/A

Other:
N/A

Helena Shaw

Name
Helena Shaw

Date of Birth
1st of December, 2012

Special Ability:
Gravitational Manipulation

First Shown:
Hasn't shown yet, or rather it hasn't shown in great enough amounts to be alarming. Instead, there have been moments since her birth where he's felt an unease when observing her.

@KahleenCuthald Just wondering if it's okay for potential sibling relationships between parents. Wendy's supposed to be Suzanna's brother, but I understand if that's not a-okay!

[Benzaiten]

@mskennedy615 Love it. Accepted :)

@EchoicChamber I am okay with the drawing of the mother but the child looks too 'unreal' for me. I am honestly not very fond of anime. A child with two doesn't usually have hair that full or long hair and definitely not red-ish eyes. I would like a picture where I can imagine that a real life person would actually look like that. So if you can find a drawing or whatever that looks like it could be from real life, I'm all down. Apart from that, it sounds good. Make sure that the child doesn't have full control of her powers though or can just burst a tree out of her pocket at any time. Sure it takes energy and training and we wanna portrait that too. :)

@McHaggis Accepted! Now that was a nice read.

@Roosan As well accepted. He seems super interesting.

@SaikaAnge Heyoooo! I have heard you and I have smiled! Let's talk this out in PM and see if we have similar ideas of our characters and their marriage?

@HalfOfLancelot Accepted and of course siblings are okay as well! Relations of any sort are welcome, if realistic and this sounds realistic to me. Does it to you?

How fun would if be if some ex-lovers ran into each other and their new families and had to get along now and live under one roof? I am up for most kind of relations, if anyone feels extra creative, as long as it's realistic and not the whole family (aunts, cousins, grandparents, ect) in the SYCEP suddenly.

Man, everyone is slaying their CS and I am sitting here and barely know what to do with myself. Busy days (or weeks?) always kind of put a real dull on my creativity for my own characters. So hopefully I can whip up something myself soon (oh please let it be soon) that will get even remotely close to what these amazing writers have done already. I feel like I am so out of everyone's league and should stick to storytelling and not write in here myself. Oh boy. I think here I should add that my writing might be a little less good because most of my English is self-taught and I am not able to whip up words and sentences and phrases the way I could if I learnt some more English...

I fucking hope I didn't forget anyone who had questions or submitted a CS. If I forgot you, I am sorry, please slap me across the face and tell me to get my shit together ;)

Love that people actually seemed interested in this idea... WOW!

[EchoicChamber]

@KahleenCuthald Aight, that sounds fair enough. c: I'll try to find a better picture for the child, cause I don't want to break the style of the roleplay badly or anything. As for her powers, I was thinking that it was more or less kind of random as to how much control she has over it. So she might accidentally grow a bunch of random plants at a really inconvenient time, or she might try to make something grow during training and only make a leaf twitch or something. Does that sound alright? If not, I have no problem whatsoever in editing it if you'd like.

EDIT: Would this picture be alright to use for the child?

Child Pic

[Benzaiten]

@EchoicChamber That sounds good! And the picture is totally fine with me. Thank you for considering to edit things for this RP and to my liking. I always feel so bad when I say no to anything on here cause I don't wanna stop creativity and dull someone's excitement or anything.

[EchoicChamber]

@KahleenCuthald Don't worry about it! It's your brainchild, and I would hate to do anything that would put a damper on this experience for anyone. :) I'll go ahead and resize the pic real quick, and then swap the old one out ASAP.

EDIT: Image fixed!

[BurningCold]

@KahleenCuthald Checking in again. My partner should be getting things sorted out the 1st, so then I can plow into this intriguing RP with earnest. Hopefully I'll make it in time?

[Benzaiten]

@BurningCold I am sure you'll be fine. I'll let you know when you should panic ;) but for now it's all chill

[Benzaiten]

@SaikaAnge I'm kind of waiting on you... I PMed you a while ago.