[OOC] Aieth - The World Between

[Leotamer]

Anyone with discord can make the channel, though it would be a bit weird if anyone but the GM made it.

[Lyla]

I'll put this on the original post too: Discord Link

[Lyla]

@Camey - Approved fellow android!

[vide]

Hello, this is my CS.

Mika

Mikael Htrx

Mika

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Origin Nation Name: Fynt Archipelago
Nation Description: The archipelago is located on the northern hemisphere where most of their lives are spent in eternal night with only a few months basked in daylight. Not much is known about the archipelago, only that their borders are closed to anyone except the highest ranking leaders of the world nations and families of prestige. There are several groups of islands within the archipelago and each of have their own ruling family, although only a few of them are related by blood. Collectively, they are called Regents; several of whom hold great sway in ruling the nation and are recognized by their prowess and infamy. Few exit the archipelago and only persons of notoriety are permitted to do so. In recent times, an organization named Daemon Congregate is growing in power.
Allegiances: Daemon Congregate, Queen of Hearts Bar

P H Y S I C A L

Age: 23
Race: Htrx (Eetrikh)
Race Description: Htrx - also known as daemons - are beings born out of desires. The only difference with the Htrx and the beings popularly recognized as demons is that the Htrx are created by strong magic and desire, while demons are ancient, evil. The process of their creation is only known to those within the top leadership of the Daemon Congregate and a small number of distinguished Htrx.
Typical Outfit Description: Mikael wears neutral colors and clothes meant for winter. So far, he hasn't been seen without his winter clothes - usually scarves and sweaters.
Eye Color: Ash Brown
Hair Color: Ash Gray

P E R S O N A L I T Y

Summary: Mikael is seen most of the time to be donwtrodden and hopeless. His expressions are mostly blank or sad and only a few times in between does he show something else. It reflects his internal emptiness, him being void of feeling. Most Htrx are extreme in terms of their emotions and Mika is no different. In order to banish this sense of hopelessness, he often seeks high risk situations and has brought himself right by the jaws of death one too many times. Other times, he is sated by those who come to him, wishing to forget, to which he does without hesitation - bringing intense pleasure and elation to him. He is a being of pleasure, a proper example of a Htrx through and through.
Mental Strengths: He's mentally weak but then, it doesn't matter because he has no sense of danger and would brush off anything to happen to him. If he does feel, he is too caught up in the euphoria that he feels that nothing else matters.
Mental Weaknesses: His disregard for anything makes him less aware of things around him. His indifference also causes him to make enemies, putting him in danger wherever he goes. And he's incredibly tactless. Oh, forgetful too.
Loves/Likes: thrills, intense emotions, danger, treasured memories, desire
Hates/Dislikes: idleness, boredom, being restrained, manipulation, hesitance
Fears: being unable to feel again, being alone

Brief Background
I don't remember my childhood. All I remembered was them. They were overjoyed when I woke up and I noticed I was almost an adult then. They showered me with attention, gave me everything I want; I thought they were my parents. But... they made me do something a parent would never let their child do. They made me do it, every single day of my life and I hated it. Yet, I couldn't stop, I didn't want to. All emotions that were fed into me, every single thing I took, every simple thing I made them remember, I took pleasure in them. I wanted more. But then, they crossed a line, farther than the one they crossed when they first made me do it. I snapped.
I took and took and took everything. I got rid of anything I didn't like, didn't take pleasure in. There was more about me, what I was able to do that they weren't. After a year, they turned into nothing, empty like what I soon became. While I took, something was lost inside me and when the Congregate found me, I discovered what it was and I knew then, I made a mistake. The Congregate didn't agree that I made a mistake, instead, they said I did the right thing. My creators did not care for me like theirs did and even when they knew they were fvcked up like me, they said my purpose was vile and my only choice was to end my creators. Leaving them empty was a mercy, the Congregate said. I should've devoured them and left nothing of who they were, everything that they were.
For a while, the Congregate sheltered me. They said the Regents couldn't know I existed. If they did, I'd be in a worse place, they said. So I stayed. But even then, the Congregate noticed missing parts of themselves. Even among our kind, I brought something dangerous and it was something they couldn't endure much longer. My only choice was to leave and I did. Now I'm somewhere new and the memories, the emotions! Exquisite.

T A L E N T S

Magic

• Extraction: Let's Mika extract memories from a person after sifting through the huge amount of memories they hold, both conscious and unconscious. Once he removes them from the person, they can not be returned. If Mika tries, the person will treat it as something foreign, damaging the mind.
• Mists of Memories: Mika breathes out cold air from himself and covers the area around him with fog. The fog holds echoes of the memories he extracted from people and entering it feels more like having a psychotic break, losing grip with reality and bombarded with alien memories. The least one could experience is hear whispers and the worst is complete mental breakdown.

Technology

• Communicator: One of the two pieces of technology Mika has. It lets him contact teh Daemon Congregate any time he wishes so. It only responds to his voice and unique magical signature.
• Credit Cuffs: Holds his money in digital currency. It is stored within both his cuffs on each hand. They look more like thin and sleek bracers with small, rectangular displays.

Skills

• Brawler: Mika fights with everything he got and he does not limit himself with what's considered chivalrous or dirty fighting.

Powers

• Throes of Desire: Direct physical contact with Mika coaxes one's desire to rear its head outward. Prolonged exposures makes a person become fixated with their desires, current or momentary. Mika uses this in place of his magic as he discovered that having people fixate and act on their desires leads to some interesting and exhilarating situations. He's noticed that certain people shrug off his touch and look at him in contempt; surprisingly, they feel like Htrx, only, not as heavy of a presence but with the lingering magic within them. He hates when this happens and nothing interesting under his influence happens.
• Hedon: Emotions and memories makes Mika experience immense pleasure, he feeds on them (other than physical sustenance). Not feeding or experiencing emotions and strong memeories makes him lust for more and in the worst case, steal from someone else without their consent and even devour all, leaving them empty shells. The also means that these memories and feelings can be used for magic, but shortening the sense of euphoria Mika adores.
• Inhuman Condition: The Htrx are fundamentally stronger than most humanoids and are multiple times stronger than what their physique presents. Mika can easily lift objects ten times his own weight and last for long periods of time when in a battle. Most mistake his as weak, with his lanky body and overall frailness.

O T H E R

Mika can surivive living linke a normal humanoid but without the proper amount of emotions being experienced, the more his actions are going to be erratic and uncaring of consequences. Because of this, he needs a steady supply of thrills and/or memories to sustain him.
He offers his services to let others 'forget'. Most mistake it for illicit and intimate services but he usually persuades them to leave a memory or two. Everyone has something they want to forget, after all. Or so he claims.
^{More to come}

Player Input:
Why do you want to join this role-play?

Because of its setting and the idea of discover- building really - an entire world as the we go on.

What makes you think yourself to be dedicated enough to be accepted?

Creating and discovering are the two things I adore personally and this role-play offers a great many opportunities for it. Plus, it's great experience to create and discover worlds with fellow role-players.

If you needed a break because of real life, would you inform anyone on this RP?

Yes, I will. I have made those mistakes in the past, frequently. But now I will not, and must not flake out without informing others. No matter how I may feel, I'll drop by and say what keeps me from being active and when I can say I'll be back and playing.

[Lyla]

@vide - I'm only concerned about the nature of his powers creating a non-consent situations among players. Such as, "Strong willpower lessens the effect, but in time, it surrenders to its influence." So basically even within time, the player will have to react without consent of the situation. Since I want this to be a fun environment and not one filled with hostility (OOC anyways), I'm sort of worried about that in particular.

[Leotamer]

And you said that your character was going to be similiar to Alexander, though it seems as though you have gone through some revisions, though keep the whole lost archipelago but at the very least changed the name and dropped the life conduit ability.

I thought Kaite and Alex were good foils, and that is still true, but Mikeal is the antithesis of Alex. And unless you want to tell me otherwise, I am going to presume that deamons and their magics are similiar enough to demons that Alex's magic would burn him and weaken his magic and abilities, though it wouldn't react as strongly as if were demonic magic.

To clarify, while I think it is safe to say that life magic innately has a strong negative reaction when interacting with death (necrotic) magic, raw life magic might have some negative effect when it encounters demonic magic, but with his rebuke darkness, it is him specifically channeling the energy and altering it in such a way that it will disrupt demonic energy. And other than the fact that demons bad, there is a reason why he would specifically learn to disrupt demonic influence, and it is as part of his standard training in Rutan magicks, and is as spiritual as it is practical. Though, Alex wouldn't know the reason, other than well, demons bad and I was told to learn this.

[vide]

@vide - I'm only concerned about the nature of his powers creating a non-consent situations among players. Such as, "Strong willpower lessens the effect, but in time, it surrenders to its influence." So basically even within time, the player will have to react without consent of the situation. Since I want this to be a fun environment and not one filled with hostility (OOC anyways), I'm sort of worried about that in particular.

@Lyla

Oops, forgot to put something important, it's passive and it's not really used for anything. Actually, it just makes the person show what they want the most (or at least what they want at the moment) and I though having that will make for some interesting situations. Like if they've been with Mika for days or so, they suddenly blurt out what they think and feel about him (or someone around). Would it be better if I make it so that after their will got overcome, the power will need some time to affect them again? Sorta giving them an immunity for some time?

Basically, it's a truth serum in aura form, really, now that I think about it.
Edit: By making it based on how hungry for emotion/memory, it would lessen the instances of his passive power affecting others. Would that one work? Add that to the temporary immunity I mentioned above too.

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@Leotamer Yeah, I've decided to forego those traits from my character and I was having a hard time simplifying it. And it's fine, I do think the Htrx will be able to be harmed by Alex's magic, they are still demons after all, though lacking the fundamental evil of the ancient demons. If Mika is fine to go, I'm sure we'll learn more about him and his kind and how they're created. I think knowing that will certainly give explanations why they're affected negatively by life magic.

Also, it'll prove interesting if Alex would discover not all demon-like beings are bad and give suffering, sort of in a gray area instead. In any case, I'm just waiting for Mika to be balanced out and have no issues then I'll jump in.

[Lyla]

@vide - Sorry, busy day and this slipped my mind. I'm not sure you can do any level of 'balancing' to justify doing something without a player's consent. I mean, even attacking someone randomly, if you give them a chance to respond to said attack, you aren't taking their freedom away. With that ability, you're forcing them into a corner, so to speak.

[Leotamer]

Though, at least in Rutan dogma, which is where Alex would learned about demons, all demons are dangerous, but not all demons are evil. Just for an explain, a mindless demon that would just want to destroy everything is dangerous, but isn't evil in the same way a hurricane isn't evil.

It also helps that they are nature worshipers, instead of deistic worshipers. They don't have a god or gods that set opposed to demons. And to them, darkness is as natural as it is light, it is just dangerous and they probably have lots of legends about demons doing bad things.

[vide]

Okay, I understand @Lyla. How about making it more like touch telepathy? It won't work unless their in physical, skin to skin (or metal, idk) contact? But then the person will sense it working inside them - depending on how aware they are of themselves, surroundings, and magic itself - and can cut off the process of pulling their desires and fixations by ceasing contact. It give characters time to react, whether to avoid being forced to expose their wants or carelessly fall into giving them away.

Edit: And I'll remove that pesky bit of surrendering through time.

[vide]

@Leotamer That is good then. I'd like to also explore the difference of the Htrx and the ancient demons later on, when some of those demons escape from the archipelago. Of course no one knows they still exist and I don't have an exact lore regarding them yet. Although I think Alex and Mika won't get along well, they won't be enemies but they just won't get along.

[Lyla]

@vide - That is acceptable. The only other concern I have is try to make sure extraction won't be used in a hostile way without a player's consent. Meaning, at least ask if they're okay with such a scene if it goes down that route. Otherwise I'll approve him, just be careful not to cross lines.

[vide]

Oh sure! I'll ask them in the OOC whenever I do it! I hope they agree cuz some situations would be interesting if extractions happens. Oh dear, why did that sound like Mika was a dentist?

May I move Mika now to the Character Tab @Lyla after the edits?

[Lyla]

@vide - Yes you may.