[OOC] GEARs - Anthro sci-fi/mecha RP in a detailed world

[Rhona W]

Cool. I'll proberbly write my character tomorrow. I am working late today.

@Milkman

No problems, I won't be getting us started until next week so you have time.

[Milkman]

@Silverwind Blade
The picture of your character in the characters tab is missing/not working.

WIP Thomas Akelsen

Name: Thomas Akelsen

Callsign/Nickname: Snowflake

Aleksi got the nickname "Snowflake" during his highschool years due to his love for weird, obscure psychedelic music.

Age: 21 years old

Species: Snow Leopard

Appearance:

Bio:
Background: Thomas was born as the only son of Gudmund Akelsen, CEO of the countries largest law firm Akelsen & CO. Comming from a family of lawyers Aleksi's father raised his son with strickt discipline and the message that one day he would take over the famility firm. High grades at school where expected of the young man and Thomas was forced to spend long hours studying in order to earn a spot on the prestigious univeristy of Talloria. Not once the young snow leopard was asked what he wanted. After finishing his first year of law school with excellent grades, Thomas dropped out of university and decided to follow his hearth and signed up with DefCom.

Personality: Thomas is a friendly and highly intelligent young man. For most of his live Thomas was dominated by his father who dicided singlehandedly what the young snow leopard's future would be. However during the fist year of university Thomas decided that it was time to stand up to his father and follow his own path. This has made his relationship with his parents rather complicated. For Thomas it remains a subject he prefers not to talk about.

However there are some traits that the young man got from the strict upbringing. Thomas has a strong drive to succeed in his military carreer and has the discipline to see it through. He wants to show his father that he can succeed on his own. But success is not the same to the snow leopard as blindly following orders. For 18 years he did not speak up his mind but now Thomas is leading a different, new life. A life where he can make his own choices and face the challenges on this new path.

Hobbies and interests: Thomas loves music. He does have a perculiar taste for mostly old, obscure psychedelic rock from many decades ago. Many of his favorite artists and bands ceased to exist prior to his birth. The snow leopard can often been seen walking around with headphones on enjoying the soundscapes of long forgotten times, spacing out in the distance. Sometimes when the occasion is right, Thomas grabs his own accoustic guitar to play and sing a few songs himself.

Another remarkable hobby of the young snow Leopard is his interest in science-fiction. From movies to books, from games to comics. Thomas simply digest the genre on a remarkable pace. Prior to joining DefCom, the young man would search the net for hours looking for long lost gems and new releases. His PADD is filled with more movies, series books and comics Thomas could hope to ever consume now that he's employed with the 4th SOCT.

Service Record: Thomas started basic training at the age of 19. After finishing the 6 months basic training course with good grades, the new recruit was selected to participate in the V-GEAR program. After another 1,5 years of intensive training, many hours of simulation and real-life V-GEAR piloting, the instructors deemed the young man ready for deployment. Thomas got recently assigned to the 4th SOCT "Black Knights" squadron.

V-GEAR assignment: VG-0 model A

V-GEAR Distinguishing features: Thomas wears a pitch black flight helmet. From the left a single beam of white light hits a prisma on top of the helmet. From the prisma, the beam of light is fractured into six colors that end on the other side.

Personal Theme: Pink Floyd - Learning to fly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mKDvp7MavQ

[Slypheed]

The picture of your character in the characters tab is missing/not working.

@Milkman

Oh good, was starting to think I was the only one.

Also, looks like we are gonna have two characters in this RP of the same species. Unless @Silverwind Blade would rather to not have that happen. If so, I can easily change to making a character of a different species.

[Rhona W]

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Also, looks like we are gonna have two characters in this RP of the same species. Unless @Silverwind Blade would rather to not have that happen. If so, I can easily change to making a character of a different species.

@Slypheed

There's more than two white, black, asian, etc people in the real world, and it'd be the same kind of deal with different species on Arvara. I don't see it as a problem.

[Rhona W]

@Silverwind Blade
The picture of your character in the characters tab is missing/not working.

@Milkman

That's weird, because I can see it fine on my laptop o.O

FurAffinity is weird about image links, it might be because of logins, etc.
I've changed the image source to flickr instead. Hopefully that will resolve it. If not, I'll use an alternate picture and change her description a bit.

EDIT:
Also, Thomas looks fine to me, no problems with him so far at all.
I like the Pink Floyd references a lot, I'm a fan of their music

[Milkman]

I love Pink Floyd too :)

[Slypheed]

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There's more than two white, black, asian, etc people in the real world, and it'd be the same kind of deal with different species on Arvara. I don't see it as a problem.

@Silverwind Blade

I've had some GMs in the past that were picky on aspects like that.

[Milkman]

@Silverwind BladeI've finished my character. Let me know if there is anything you want me to change :)

[Rhona W]

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I've had some GMs in the past that were picky on aspects like that.

@Slypheed

You should know me better than that by now, dear :P

@Silverwind BladeI've finished my character. Let me know if there is anything you want me to change :)

@Milkman

He looks fine, feel free to post him into the characters tab, and I'll update the pinned post with his rank and such.

Is the pic on my character sheet working now?

[Milkman]

Yes. The pic works fine for me now :)

I'll post my character tomorrow morning. I am currently on cellphone

[VyperPunk]

Man, sorry I disappeared for a few. Have some major IRL decisions to make and it's really stressful. That being said, I'm still in this. Really sorry for disappearing. I'll work on my bio a bit more :)
Look forward to seeing an IC.

[Rhona W]

Man, sorry I disappeared for a few. Have some major IRL decisions to make and it's really stressful. That being said, I'm still in this. Really sorry for disappearing. I'll work on my bio a bit more :)
Look forward to seeing an IC.

@VyperPunk

Glad you're back, and it's okay; hope you worked out/are working out whatever needs to be done and it all turns out ok.
Your character is looking great already, I don't forsee any problems with him.

With Vyper back with us, and Slypheed as well, that brings the roster up to six, which, deep joy, is the maximum number. The only way we can get more in now is if someone already in wants a co-pilot.
I'll mark the game as closed for applications, and once everyone's characters are up, I'll get the IC started.

[Slypheed]

The only way we can get more in now is if someone already in wants a co-pilot.

@Silverwind Blade

What a coinkydink. My character will be joined by a co-pilot.

[Rhona W]

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What a coinkydink. My character will be joined by a co-pilot.

@Slypheed

That's good, I was hoping we'd have at least one VF-0D in the group to add a bit of variety and flexibility.

One of the things I quite want to emphasise and pick up on as we go is that a lot of our equipment is quite new and just out of testing, so it might not always work, and will end up with modifications in the field - so, we'll all start out with mostly the same gear and equipment, but pick things up and end up with our own more indvidualised modifications as the story goes along, and we change to new situations.

[Milkman]

Cool that we can customise things on the go. Now i only need to start thinking about in what direction ^^

[Slypheed]

If my new computer would stop distracting me with how much better graphics are while playing games I could get cracking on getting my CS done.

[Milkman]

I don't have internet on my pc yet. I still need to pull the cable to the top floor of my house but haven't found the time yet to finish the renovation project XD

[Slypheed]

Well, compared to my old computer, this one is a massive upgrade. So I've been playing lots of games with graphic settings that would've exploded the old one.

[Milkman]

Any idea when we will start the IC?

[Slypheed]

Any idea when we will start the IC?

@Milkman

When ever my dumbass gets my CS done and up. o 3o
Which will hopefully be some time today.