[OOC] Highschool DxD: The Devils' Due [ENDED]

[Shadow Daedalus]

Yeah, I'm not gonna bother with my Pawn. I'll stick with my Knight.

[Rune_Alchemist]

Oho.

Things have gotten a bit interesting, heh.

Hope these guys don't mind a little bondage

[Parallel Hearts]

I began doing a character, but I'd like to ask if her abilities are ok until now, before doing more work on this concept:

Alyss

Height: 156 cm | Weight: 45 kg | Age: 16 years | Gender: Female

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Name: Alyss Kirishima
Race: Half-Human Valkyrie
Chess Piece: Rook

Sacred Gear: Telos Karma; also known as Ultimate Karma, is one rare Longinus class Sacred Gears. It may have the power to kill even the Gods, but it comes at a heavy price for most. The basic abilities of this Sacred Gear are similar to those of Sword Birth and Blade Blacksmith, allowing its bearers to create copies of both Demon Swords and Holy Swords. Different from them, Ultimate Karma can create perfectly functional copies, instead of slightly downgraded ones. It's said, in fact, that all weapons wielded on the Great War, eons ago, are descended from this Sacred Gear.

As a way of keeping the powers of Telos Karma in check, it can only be given to individuals with a strong duality of light and darkness attributes. Usually, it ends up in the hands of twins, each one holding half of the power. Eventually, there has never been a known case of the bearers of this Sacred Gear that didn't end with one of the siblings killing the other in order to access the full powers of Telos Karma. Many wars were fought, families and nations ruined, once greed overcame reason. For this very reason, bearers of Telos Karma are considered cursed from birth and it's not uncommon for them to be heavily shunned by those who know that disaster is coming their way. Both halves of the Sacred Gear manifest as a full set of armor and gauntlets, with different designs for each side.

The abilities of Telos Karma's Balance Breaker are unknown. If anyone ever saw it, they didn't live to tell the tale.

Alyss has a quirk never before seen in any wielders of Telos Karma. She was born with the ability to control both sides of the Sacred Gear. Each of her personalities controls half of it, having no access to the other's side. Curiously, her stoic persona is the bearer of the Demon Swords while her cruel side has the Holy Swords at her disposal. Nobody knows why is that, but once her Valkyrie mother died during birth, her grandmother put the blame on Alyss, going as far as saying that she had killed not only her mother but also her twin sister before the two of them were even born. Her unstable mind was likely a curse and omen of doom. For this reason, Alyss was shunned from Valhalla and forced to live alongside her magically unaware human Family.

Magic: Alyss doesn't have much knowledge of magic yet. She didn't live long enough to master her any special powers especially since she was unaware of her nature as a half-Valkyrie for most of her life. However, her magical attributes have a unique quirk, each of her states of mind has a different set of talents, with very few shared ones. Her stoic side excels at defensive and support magic, while her cruel persona is all about destruction.

Skills: (Learned or practiced abilities. Nothing magical or special.)

Personality: Alyss has a complex personality, especially considering her uniqueness among her former peers. Usually, she's a stoic type, with a certain difficult to relate to. Given the right stimulus, she might open up to others, considering her life experiences this may be hard, though. The most catchy bit about Alyss' is that, sometimes, she seems to flip inside out. When it happens, Alyss will grow colder, uncaring, and pretty much psychopathic.

History: (Include how he/she came upon Delilah. You may leave this blank for now if you want to know more about Delilah. Information about Delilah can be found over at the Characters Tab once it is up.)

Other: If it was unclear until now, Alyss doesn't have a typical multiple personality cases. In fact, she's two different girls sharing the same body. When she eventually master their Sacred Gear's Balance Breaker, she'll gain the ability to coexist, creating a body for each of their halves.

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Telos Karma is a oficial Sacred Gear that never appeared in the series up to this day, so I thought about being creative with it. The idea of the duality of Karma came easily. But I still left room for her to grow, like Issei. In fact, depending on the IC circumstances, she could even begin as still unaware of everything and be converted into a Devil on her first interactions with the group, likely after being saved from death.

I'll say it here already, since this is DXD we are talking about, that Balance Breaker is going to be less about OP power and more about twincest.

If the idea is not good, or too powerful, I can rework her. Just say the word.

[Rune_Alchemist]

is going to be less about OP power and more about twincest.

@Parallel Hearts

did someone say Twincest?

You.

I like you.

[Shadow Daedalus]

@Parallel Hearts This is pretty similar to the idea I was working on before I gave up

Mine was a Half-Reaper Pawn with a Shy/Ruthless Split Personality. Maybe I should finish it off so we can have some double-split shenanigans...

[Parallel Hearts]

@Parallel Hearts This is pretty similar to the idea I was working on before I gave up

Mine was a Half-Reaper Pawn with a Shy/Ruthless Split Personality. Maybe I should finish it off so we can have some double-split shenanigans...

@Shadow Daedalus

Oh, interesting. I didn't even imagine that someone was having a similar idea. I'm pretty much waiting for some words from the GM until I can safely finish my charater, but now that I notice they didn't even reply to the first time I asked if I could join or not, much less give any feedback on what I have done up to now.

I'm wondering if I should have waited a reply to my first question instead of jumping in to do the character?

[Polaris North]

@Parallel Hearts

I'll poke him for you and make sure he at least comments. No worries.

[Parallel Hearts]

@Parallel Hearts

I'll poke him for you and make sure he at least comments. No worries.

@Polaris North

Thanks for the help.

[PaulHaynek]

@Parallel Hearts

I may not respond because I'm too busy but don't worry, I see your posts because I'm always watching.

Always.



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Anyway, I'm still judging your character. Right now, I think your Sacred Gear is OP so... you know.

Secondly, just how psychopathic or uncaring is she when that personality surfaces? The character's personality may not be to Delilah's liking, removing any reason for her to put her in the peerage.

[Parallel Hearts]

@Parallel Hearts

I may not respond because I'm too busy but don't worry, I see your posts because I'm always watching.

Always.



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Anyway, I'm still judging your character. Right now, I think your Sacred Gear is OP so... you know.

Secondly, just how psychopathic or uncaring is she when that personality surfaces? The character's personality may not be to Delilah's liking, removing any reason for her to put her in the peerage.

@PaulHaynek

Well, I can make it function like the other two Sacred Gears in the description. But, before I do that, let me point that, what limits the power is that, she can only use half of them at once. Until she learns her Balance Breaker, which I suppose no one will have from the get go, at least that's not my intention to have it, since it's a character development plot to have she find out why she's like that.

As for her cruel personality. It's nothing drastic, just an ill-humored side of hers. Even though she's going to be a demon, she's not going to be a monster, if that's what you are worrying about. Hmm... think of Saber of Red from Fate/Apocrypha, in terms of personality.

[Lord of Evil]

Dunno if that last post was a too controlling. Will post for Sato tomorrow.

[PaulHaynek]

@Parallel Hearts

I guess I can accept unlimited Holy/Demonic Swords. However, the swords will not be like super, super powerful okay?

As for the personality, I don't know Saber of Red. Why don't you finish up the character with the backstory and the personality so I can judge her properly.

[Parallel Hearts]

@Parallel Hearts

I guess I can accept unlimited Holy/Demonic Swords. However, the swords will not be like super, super powerful okay?

As for the personality, I don't know Saber of Red. Why don't you finish up the character with the backstory and the personality so I can judge her properly.

@PaulHaynek

Right, I'll finish her soon enough. However, I've done some more reading and saw that I don't need really to make that Sacred Gear all new. Creating Holy Swords and Demon Swords at the same time is one of Kiba's abilities, I'm just a bit too rusty on my DXD lore. I didn't even watch Born until now, so I only knew that he had Sword Birth to make Demon Swords, not a second one to create Holy Swords at the same time.

That said, I can say that I'll ditch that Sacred Gear idea and give each of the twins one of Kiba's Gears, this will make her balanced since it's canon power level, right?

I'll see if I can finish it today, or tomorrow.

Thanks again.

[Rune_Alchemist]

Right, right, have a post~

Spider would like to finish this unpleasant business quickly~

[PaulHaynek]

Hey guys, I'm supposed to update today but due to constraints, I must delay it until this Friday.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[PaulHaynek]

I was about half-asleep when I posted the update so I didn't have the energy to post this. But anyway...

Since I found some time, I wrote up an update to make up the delay. However, my schedule is still iffy so for now, we'll update on Saturday and the next one will be on Tuesday.

[Lord of Evil]

@PaulHaynek I put a reply for Kael on my last post. Just in case you miss it.

[PaulHaynek]

Right-o!

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Anyway, sorry guys for the lack of update yesterday. I had to entertain the birthday guests but I will have a post up soon.