[CHAR] The Trees Listen (Fantasy Survival, extremely light tabeltop influence) Still accepting!

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The Bookkeeper

"Alicia"

Appearance: Alicia stands at roughly 5"3 with a petite figure. Her face is soft and somewhat round, with a small nose, large eyes and puffy lips giving her a somewhat doll-like look. She often appears somewhat drowsy or sleepy, with her eyelids resting heavily over her eyes. Her eyes are a soft magenta color and her hair is long and silver. A purplish speckle of skin pock-marks her otherwise fair appearance. These marks appear like freckles across her nose and over her cheeks, as well as on her shoulders, back of her hands and the small of her back. She is rather youthful looking, and is wearing a simple cotton dress of pink, with matching red buckle shoes.

Nicknames: "Ali"

Race: Meta-Human

Gender: Female.

Sexuality: Asexual.

Personality: You can feel free to put little here. I always change the character as I play, so I don't expect a rigid explenation of who they are before we even start.

Background: Someone raised within a temple of prophecy; she's been groomed as a sort of lore-master for an odd order of psychics in a world focused more on technology than mysticism.

Text Color: "That was amazing, if the word amazing meant horrible."

Abilities: Fantastic memory, good storyteller, good with words and enjoys solving riddles. A linguist, she knows a fair amount of languages and can deconstruct new ones better than the average joe. Very bookish skill-set.

Items: A few changes of clothes, a packet of trail-mix. A dead communication device, empty notebooks and some ballpoint pens.

Memento: A rather large tome, with leather straps for it to be worn as a sort of backpack.

Memento Theme: Information.

Class One: Mage

Unique Class: Book Warden: Knowledge is power, and the book warden knows this. They excel at gathering data, and supporting their allies with such information.

Abilities:

• Scan: Gather Intel magically on one enemy. Can tell things like weaknesses or helpful tips. If enemies HP outdoes INT by 2X then scan fails.
• Relay: Share gathered knowledge on enemy with ally. Increase their next ATK made on chosen enemy by INT.
• Psychic Surgery: Use knowledge gained to determine a wounds origin and how to heal it. Repair wound for INT + 1 HP
• Savior of Pages: Manifest magical papers to form shield. Can deflect up to INT dmg from an atk.
• Memento Ability: Echoes of the Past: Record an attack made by enemy, and then use it against them. This intakes the attack, therefore nullifying it. Then makes same attack back on enemy.

---STATS---

HP: 10
STR: 5 (+1)
DEX: 10 (+2)
INT: 10 (+5)
WIS: 7 (+1)
DEF: 5 (+1)
# of Abilities: 4 + Memento.

The Vanguard

Elliot Harring

Appearance: Elliot is a fit though not altogether imposing figure. With decent muscle on his body but a general aura of peace. His shoulders broad, hands large and jaw defined one might think he'd be quite the outgoing type, as some physically apt people tend to be. Instead his soft eyes, nervous thumbing and general sense of fashion detract from this. He is often wearing thick sweaters that cover of up his form and he wears lighter colors out of preference. His skin tone is olive and a thin scar traces beside his right eye. His ears are pieced with simple rings and his eyes are green and round. His hair is kept in a short shag and it stays it's natural deep brown.

Nicknames: Teddy

Race: Human

Gender: Male.

Sexuality: Bi

Personality: Elliot is reserved and somewhat bashful, often picked on despite his natural size. He is kind and sometimes giving to a fault. He disregards taking care of himself at times, in favor of making others happy. He has a sort of complex where he feels guilty staying healthy, and despite his penchant for physical activity he won't do many things that are good for him. He is meek and although he tries to exude positivity outward, he is somewhat paranoid. A worrywart and the total "mom friend" of a group, he will dote on friends and allies.

Background: Elliot grew up with his father over-seas and his mother often busy. He spent most of his time with his grandparents, then only his grandmother when his abuelo passed early on in his life. She raises him to be the soft caring type of person he is, despite him originally being a little bully in early school years. His relationship with his family means a lot to him, and he values his friends dearly as well. Sentiment drives him and always has, he keeps small things like a hoarder if they meant something to him. In general his life was rather peaceful until high-school, where he picked a fight with a classic bully type. From then on he took on the main brunt of the groups unruly antics, and he spent the school years in constant stress.

Text Color: "Just watch my back, if it's in view; you'll be safe."

Abilities: Really good cook, a huge fan of knitting, has practiced some voice acting (in secret of course). Okay in a fight.

Items: A few changes of clothes, knitting needles, small wood carved duck.

Memento: Grandpa's old rosary.

Memento Theme: Protection.

Class One: Fighter

Unique Class: Shield Weaver

Abilities: Explained above, will try and keep things balanced.

• Body-Check: Dashes shoulder first into the body of an enemy. Deals STR damage, and pushes them DEX feet.
• Enhance Thread: Using magic thread, knit a bonus onto a piece of ally's clothing. Adds 1/2 STR to their DEF until fight ends.
• Memento Ability: Guardian Of Faith: A large spiritual shield encases up to three bodies, protecting them from STR damage within the round/turn this is used.

---STATS---

HP: 20
STR: 10 (+5)
DEX: 5 (+5)
INT: 5
WIS: 5
DEF: 10
# of Abilities: 2 + Memento

[Tojin]

Esther

Esther al-Mubarak

Appearance:

Esther is about 5’ 5” and 120 lbs, making her fairly skinny. This is because she has the metabolism of three teenagers in one. Her hijab is on pretty much 24/7, and Esther often compliments it with numerous t-shirts (including, infamously, this gem) and a pair of jeans.

Nicknames: Est (mostly used by family; Esther doesn't much like nicknames, but tolerates this one.)

Race: Human.

Gender: Female.

Sexuality: Lesbian.

Personality: Esther, at first glance, is impish, sarcastic, lazy, and prone to sudden bouts of shouting. She’s blunt, swears like a sailor, and has no patience whatsoever for idiots. However, underneath her shell of anger and curse words, Esther has a heart of gold; she’s surprisingly compassionate, friendly, and intensely loyal. She honestly enjoys laughing and making others laugh, and as it turns out, sarcasm and good timing make for a great combination in that department. Esther is also very independent, always attempting to do things on her own before asking a friend for help. Although, while Esther is generally a good person, that doesn’t mean she’s unopposed to doing things the... less than legal way. As long as nobody gets seriously hurt, anyway.
Despite outwards appearances, Esther is actually rather introverted, preferring to spend the majority of her time browsing Reddit or making music in her room. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Esther’s identity (as a Muslim, a woman, and a lesbian) is very important to her, and woe betide the person who disparages her for being who she is.

Background: Esther, and her mother, are originally from Iraq, but they emigrated to the U.S. when Esther was 4. Her father was apparently an American soldier, but any more than that her mother won’t say. The two of them ended up living in upstate New York, in a suburb of Buffalo. Growing up with only one parent is difficult enough, but when you’re a fairly poor Muslim family to boot? It gets pretty tough.
Esther started working part-time pretty much as soon as she was able, to supplement her mother’s work as a manager at Walmart. Esther’s first job was mowing lawns for people in an upscale neighborhood a few blocks over, at 12, but once she turned 14 she got a proper job at a McDonald’s. And of course, in addition to money troubles, there was the usual Islamophobia, sexism, and so forth. Also the time Esther got fired for getting caught trying to pickpocket her supervisor (and the few times she wasn’t caught). And the time Esther mugged a businessman. (She didn’t try to injure him with the knife, but it turns out getting nicked slightly is a great motivator.) And… well, there was a lot of petty crime that happened. Her mother was concerned, of course, but decided not to question the sudden influxes of money. They didn’t happen often enough to get Esther suspected of anything much, officially.
In terms of education, Esther’s a pretty bright kid, even skipping 5th grade. Now that she’s in college (on a merit scholarship, mostly), Esther’s mother wants her to become a doctor, or a lawyer, or anything really, as long as it makes a decent amount of money. Esther, however, has other plans: she wants to be a musician. She’s always loved music; she took music theory as an elective every year in high school, she learned how to play the piano, and you’d be hard-pressed to find her without at least one earbud in. Esther’s already making her own music, combining orchestral elements with drum and bass, with a bit of jazz sprinkled on the top. She plans to release her first album on bandcamp, under the name “tokidoki” (sometimes), in the near future.

Text Color: "I... cannot... fucking believe you just did that! Of all the monumentally headassed things you've ever done, this has got to take the fuckin' cake. If we get out of this alive, I am going to steal your teeth, you dumb fuck."

Abilities: Fairly accomplished piano player. Fluent in Arabic. Black belt in Tae Kwon Do (tends to default to instinctual flailing in fights though). Good at coming up with creative threats and insults. Decent thief. Not an awful cook.

Items: An olive green hijab (her favorite), her phone (at 84% battery, no reception), a pink Nintendo DS Lite (dead, with no games), and her Memento.

Memento: A single white wooden piano key, made into a necklace by way of boring a hole through one end and looping a chain through it. It's from Esther's first piano, which was so old that it eventually just fell apart.

Memento Theme: Music/Emotion (the two are inextricably related for Esther; she can't have one without the other).

Class One: Mage.

Unique Class: Bard of the Heart. Music and sound-based spells, leaning towards emotion-affecting and offensive abilities.

Abilities:

• Parodia Sonatina: Esther creates an extremely loud burst of sound, inflicting INT+1 damage to everything in its (small-ish) radius.
• Voxez: Causes nearby enemies to hear a chorus of whispering voices, instilling bone-chilling fear in them for, at minimum, 30 seconds. Esther can make it last longer, but she must concentrate on the spell if she does, and cannot cast another spell during that time.
• Floor of Lava: Esther designates an area to become extremely hot, marked by the ground beginning to glow a cherry red. Anyone who remains there takes INT/2 damage every few seconds. The spell fades after a minute or so.
• Memento Ability: Soul Blast. When Esther feels a particularly strong emotion, her Memento will activate an appropriate effect, according to the emotion. The effects are random each time, but tend to stay "in-theme", so to speak; things like anger and fear generally provide offensive effects, while happiness and determination provide buffs. They are also accompanied by a burst of music, always a song that Esther associates with said emotion, emanating from the Memento. While Esther can't control what effect is used, she can, with concentration, cause Soul Blast to trigger when she chooses.

---STATS---

HP: 11
STR: 8
DEX: 10
INT: 13
WIS: 9
DEF: 6
# of Abilities: 4 (counting Soul Blast).

[Pyromaniacwolf]

Wilhelm Vryeson

Wilhelm Vryeson

Appearance:

Outfit

While Wilhelm is usually covered head to toe in his garments, partially out of fear of infection and partially out of habit, underneath he is as pale as one would expect from a man who spends all his time completely hidden from the sun's rays, he is skinny an stands at about 6'1 and seems to have some scarring on his face from boils.

Nicknames: Wil, Doctor, Dr.Vryeson (Wilhelm's personal favorite)

Race: Caucassian Human

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Heterosexual debatably asexual

Personality: Wilhelm is a curious individual with a great passion for his interests, which happen to include disease,death and animals. While the work such interests would entail would cause many others to retch, Wilhelm couldn't think of a better way to spend his day than with his arms fiddling around in a horse carcass or examining the corpse of a plague victim and observing how the plague affects the remains. While he is neither ethical or moral he still considers himself a god-fearing man and believes his god-given purpose in life is to find a cure for the Black Death regardless of the costs. This can lead him to be fanatical at times but may still occasionally show his faith if it does not interfere with his work, although he would never admit it his fascination with the natural world both living and dead trumps his faith in God.

Background: Born in 1327 to a small city family, Wilhelm had a rather typical childhood of praying,working at an early age and scrounging up animal corpses to mess with until his parents removed the corpses in disgust. When the Black Death gripped London in 1347 he eagerly took on the role of doctor and began examining the plague and attempting to cure it. Naturally he had trouble and spent many frustrating years watching his patients, he began turning to more drastic measures, cutting into living patients and observing the plague's effect on their still living bodies. Until they died several moments later of course due to the often clumsy incisions, he improved over the years. Eventually his frustration got the better of him and during a particularly brutal...check-up, he found himself infected with the plague himself before fading into a deep sleep. Then he awoke.

Text Color: "A monster? Bah, I am merely doing the Lord's work! Now good sir if you would kindly hold still while I try to drain the foul humors from your body,in theory my concoction should tease out the pestilence due to my own corruption taking...Sir? Sir?...Well there's always the next patient."

Abilities: Skilled surgeon, very strong stomach , accomplished fibber.

Items: Plague Doctor robes and mask,a scalpel,a syringe and several empty vials along with his memento

Memento: A censer full to the brim with sweet smelling herbs

Memento Theme: Death and Life/ the circle of life (think healing and rot in the sense the abilities will really manifest)

Class One: Mage

Unique Class: Plague Doctor- Plague based spells and abilities that wilt enemies away with some minor abilities to increase resistance or heal.

Abilities:

• Plague bolt- a bolt of pestilence infused magic that does 3+INT damage and a chance to infect the target with the pestilence, dealing damage every turn until they resist it (willing to discuss how this works with GM although I imagine it will be a pretty over-arching theme)
• Vermin swarm-summons forth a swarm of plague infected rats to swarm the target,dealing 4+INT damage to the target, the rats will remain and harass the target until they are dispersed either by killing them or scaring them off with a bright light or a loud noise dealing 1 damage if the target fails to avoid them (again willing to discuss the DOT mechanics if they're a problem how I've implemented them)
• Imbalanced humors- sends forth a puff of miasma, potentially causing the target to pause while they throw up at the disgusting smell and the plague attempting to enter their body, chance the target is afflicted with the pestilence and takes damage until they resist it.
• Vaccination- Injects the target (or himself) with a weak dose of magical pestilence, causing a short period of illness before becoming more resistant to disease damage and having a slight increase to health for a few hours.
• Memento Ability-Balance the humors- A sweet smelling scent radiates from the censer, numbing the pain of those who can smell it and making them slightly giddy, it also temporarily slows the effects of any diseases those affected may be suffering from.

---STATS---

HP: 13
STR: 7
DEX: 10
INT: 13
WIS: 7
DEF: 7

[Tenma Tendo]

Eun-Ha Park; The Shy Assassin

Eunha Park

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Appearance: Eunha is a fairly short teenager standing around 5' 1" with short brown roots and dyed bright blonde, caramel eyes, and fair skin. Normally dressed in light colored hoodies and baggy clothing in general, Eunha always has on round glasses that he can't see properly without.

Nicknames: He answers to anything, but his friends usually call him Eun or Four Eyes.

Race: 100% Human last time he checked.

Gender: Cismale

Sexuality: Bisexual, although he does lean more towards males.

Personality: While Eunha gives off the appearance of been very composed, smart, and calm in any situation, that isn't quite the case. Eun is extremely smart and careful when it comes to learning information, but he can be extremely clumsy, shy, and easily frightened by the smallest of things. He's normally quiet and often overlooked unless he verbally states his presence. He's normally good with people, but is very reserved upon first meeting. He dislikes unnecessary bright lights and fighting, getting very emotional and a little loud/vulgar if he has to put up with it. Eun isn't really confident in himself when it comes to helping other people, but he'll never let you down when it comes to information and academics.

Background: Eunha was brought into the world by his Korean mother and American father and was a beautiful and healthy baby with the most striking caramel eyes. All had been relatively good for the boy as he grew up, never asking for too much and being rather obedient to those older and younger than him. It was when he turned seven, that Eun began to notice his parents acting coldly to each other. What originally started as the two given each other the cold shoulder when they thought Eun wasn't around, turning to physical and verbal arguments that never ended well. It got so bad that one of them ended with a glass bottle being slammed down on his head in attempts to shield his mother. His eyesight and sensitivity to light have been bad ever since, resulting in him getting glasses. Taking leave from school to recover, when he returned, he noticed that with his new glasses he was able to focus better in classes, resulting in him excelling in academics.
Unfortunately as his grades went up, his ability to function with such a violent and broken family was reaching it's breaking point. He wanted them to stop, divorce, do anything else but fight, but his words would never get to them. He tried to do things that he thought would get him in trouble, like dying his hair, but that only seemed to fuel their arguing even more. Eunha eventually went down the path of self harm, doing anything to relieve the pain that was etched into his every day life. It calmed him down, helped him relax...made made feel like how he was years ago before the arguing was even a thing. Growing addicted to the feeling and during the last night he could remember being at home in his room, Eun brought the razor down to his skin before eventually losing consciousness minutes afterwards...

Text Color: "G-Guys...guys...GUYS! ...C-Can we stop arguing for one second and just...*sniffle*...j-just...G-God I can't even talk p-properly. If you guys want to keep f-fighting over stupid shit then whatever. I-I don't care anymore..."

Abilities: Eun excels when it comes to academics, gymnastics, and hiding away when he wants to. He is also very hyper-competent memory wise, so if you told or showed him how to do something, he would probably be able to do it after a hour or so of practice. Eun also has a knack for negotiating with other people, but that's only when he isn't in distress or overly upset. He's also bilingual in Korean and English.

Items: His Momento, a black and white snapback, a notebook (half filled with journal entries of his lowest moments) and pencil, an over sized pastel pink hoodie, matches, a rusted over razor, shattered glass (it's sprinkled over everything), and a flashlight.

Memento: His first pair of glasses, which he immediately puts on since his current pair mysteriously went missing.

Memento Theme: Imagery/Senses (mostly pertaining to Vision).

Class One: Rouge

Unique Class: Assassin. Stealth and speed several notches above the base class, Assassins focus on dealing critical damage by aiming for vitals or exposing the weaknesses in an enemy. Always goes for the kill. Masters of precise weaponry (daggers, knives, bow and arrows, katanas) and terrain traversal.

Abilities:

• Echo Step: Eunha's footsteps are nonexistent and silent to those who lack INT greater than or equal to his DEX.
• Wall Climb: Eun can climb surfaces up to his DEX x2 in feet.
• Dark Optics: When wearing his Memento, Eun is granted night-vision. This night-vision will eventually evolve into the ability to see through walls, determine specific people while doing so (like seeing heat signatures), view pressure and vital points, and even sharpening his eyesight like binoculars (this tends to give him a headache).

---STATS---

HP: 10 (+1)
STR: 7 (+3)
DEX: 15 (+0)
INT: 5 (+3)
WIS: 7 (+1)
DEF: 5 (+2)
# of Abilities: 3 (including Memento Ability)

[Blue Demon]

Wyonna Deeks

Wyonna Deeks

Appearance: Wyonna is five foot six with bright blue shoulder length hair. Her eyes are an auburn brown and in the right light they sometimes appear red. She has pale skin which is further accented by a geometric tattoo on her left cheek. She is deceptively strong despite the fact she's rather on the slim side.

Nicknames: Why or "Y"

Race: Human

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Asexual

Personality: Wyonna is a happy girl. She always finds something positive to say. SHe's also very curious. She wants to know how things work and why things are. Sometime this can lead to her getting very focused on one thing. Which is good and bad. Most of her friends call it tunnel vision and she often has to be hauled away if now was not the time.

Background: Wyonna grew up middle class on her world. She was an only child and her parents dotted on her. She had the best schooling she could in the outer rim. However her natural curiosity made up for the lack of a formal education. With access to the internet she was able to find out anything she so desired. Most of her natural curiosity was in mechanics and A.I.s. By the time she was fourteen she was offered a scholarship to Earth MIT, the most prestigious university in the solar system.

At first Wyonna largely hesitated because it would mean leaving everything she knew behind. But her friends and family eventually convinced her. She graduated four years later with a master's in bioengineering and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering. She latee returned to the world of her birth when she was nineteen and took up a highly respectable post as chief bioengineer for the upkeep of the planet's terraformed biosphere.

Text Color: "Man, this is going to be awesome!"

Abilities: Mechanics and bioengineering. Wyonna is also a scrappy combatant. She has no formal skills but that doesn't mean she can't hold her own.

Items: A small satchel of common tools. Such as wrenches, screws, nuts and bolts, miniature arc welder, and current meters. Her favorite jacket and sunglasses.

Memento: Jax. Jax is Wyonna's personal A.I. She has a small interface device that hooks on Wyonna's ear. With just this device Jax is severely limited especially without access to her mainframe or the internet.

Memento Theme: Machinery

Class One: Rogue

Unique Class: Mechanic

Abilities:

• Scrapper: Wyonna can scavenge and cobble nearly anything mechanical to make at least a simple device. All it might do it calculate or go BOOM, but at least it does something.
• Scrappy Fighter: She fights fast and hard. She doesn't play by any rules nor does she pull her punches. She makes sure her opponent goes down and stays down.
• Spark of Life: Can add electrical damage to both melee or ranged attacks. Adds damage equal to base INT score. Whole jot in combat can be used to power electrical devices.
• Jax: Jax can give aid through assessment of situations and possible interfacing with mechanical devices.

---STATS---

HP: 10 (+2)
STR: 7 (+2)
DEX: 15 (+0)
INT: 5 (+5)
WIS: 7 (+0)
DEF: 5 (+1)
# of Abilities: 4 (3 + Momento Ability)