[OOC] Re:Zero - The New Constellation

[addamas]

Yay, so do we have like a discord to make communication more pleasant? :>

[Ithradine]

Would it be alright then to start with two affinities? @Vocab If I can, I'm going to switch to having F in every magic category

[vancexentan]

TFW the physical show off may have the biggest magical start stats. What is Graham a fucking paladin?

[Ithradine]

Even in another world, not everything is equal lol.

[Temporary]

@Ithradine If you want to do that, then I won't stop you; having multiple Affinities is possible, just very rare. That said, at worst he will be unable to use magic, and at best he'll be able to cast a single, incredibly weak spell, and then be completely out of mana for hours if not days. Due to the unique circumstances of the Return By Death group, it is possible to increase letter grading through training, but with such low stats, it'll be difficult to even find someone willing to train him, and in the scenario he does, the training required to improve such a weak Gate will inflict a heavy strain on both his body and soul.

Like I said above, you're free to go with that concept if you please, but there are and will be consequences in the grand scheme of the roleplay, in a similar way to those that can be incurred through starting with incredibly high stats.

[Ithradine]

I'll just keep Ryom as is then. It's going to be hard enough for him already.

[vancexentan]

Well here's to hoping the Detroit Spirit is enough to carry the team in starting combat fights lol.

[TheMushroomLord]

I'll get out my CS properly later today if I can. Just need to rework my ideas a bit first because my original concept is uncannily similar to addamas's.

[KoL]

Well, here we go:

Hider

—Andromeda Hardt—

Age 21 | Gender Female | Height 164cm | Magic Affinity All Four Common Elements | Race Human

Physical Description

Andromeda is a delicate looking young woman. Standing at a rather average height and weight, closer to the lower end of age group. The way she speaks and dresses reflect an upbringing in a upper middle class family with access to pretty much anything other than truly extravagant expenditures.

Personality

Andromeda is calm and soft-spoken most of the time. So much so that it's easy to confuse that with introvertedness, which isn't exact the case. While she's not a party girl, she's perfectly fine with hanging out with others, however, even when she's with her friends and family she speaks little. In fact, she's kinda headstrong, maybe even stubborn, but even when she refuses to do something simply because she doesn't want to, she's unlikely to express herself in an outgoing way. The few things capable of breaking her mold are those she actually likes, like finding an intriguing puzzle to solve, a nice book/game/movie/etc., or music.

Bio

Andromeda is the second child of a well-established family who moved to moved to the US a few years before she was born, thanks to her father's work as an AI researcher. However, for the greater part of Andromeda's youth, she moved around a lot, following her mother's career as a pianist. Not because she disliked her father but rather because she loved the music.

It wasn't until Andromeda was old enough to pursue her own path that she decided to settle down and chose a college, picking Physics as career path mostly because that's a field that combines most of her likes.

Capacity

C

Flow

C

Flux

C

Magic and Abilities

— Return by Death

Character Intentions

Nothing special, really. I want to see where the story will take her. However, if I have to pick something, maybe something to do with magic? Making her a better mage, perhaps or something like this.

Extra

Nothing I can think of.

[addamas]

Nice andromeda has all four elements, shes the avatar xD

[KoL]

She's also, the only adult in the group so far which is kinda funny.

[Not Fungus]

Michael Klein

Michael Klein

Age: 18 | Gender: Male | Height: 5"10 | Magic Affinity: Wind | Race: Human

Physical Description

A young man just entering the cusps of adulthood with the skin of a typical white American. He possesses black hair and gray eyes. His lively face sometimes lets people underestimate his age. Michael typically wears sports jackets, pants, and running shoes for his daily activities of running and weightlifting. His fit body is hidden by the baggy clothes he always puts on. He has a faint scar on his right temple.

Personality

Michael is a naturally optimistic and cheerful person. He's always looking for the positives in life and he dislikes negativity. His sunny disposition can sometimes be a revitalizing medicine for those who are down, or it can be annoying for the who dislike that kind of enthusiasm. No matter the problem, he'll never let anything get him down for long. Michael can be a naive person with where he places his trust, though he's not a complete fool. No matter how evil the person though, he will always look for the good in them. That unrelenting belief is an acknowledged danger, but he doesn't care anyways.

Michael is also what you can call an exercise nut. He loves any activity that gets the body moving, like running, soccer, basketball, etc. If he's feeling really good on a day, he'll try to drag any friends into his activity as well with the excuse that it's good for them. His bold and loud nature matched with his likes can make him an overbearing person to more introverted people.

Bio

Michael had a normal family and lived in a relatively urban area in Florida. His parents were both gentle, kind, and most of all quiet people. Nobody knows where Michael got his boundless energy from. He was certainly a minor headache on his parents with all the things he wanted to do. Luckily, they directed him to sports and other activities that used up all that energy so he wouldn't be an energetic menace at home. From a young age, Michael became the extroverted jock that people know him as. Naturally, he wasn't the gifted type of genius with both good grades and an excellent physique so he was forced to study a lot just so his grades wouldn't fall to the wayside.

It was a normal life with a couple of bumps here and there, but it was a nice one. The moment he turned 18, he got a job and moved out of his parent's house. He kept up the jogging, but had to sacrifice other extracurricular activities to earn some money for his college tuition. He was blessed with wonderful parents that paid for his first semester, but it wouldn't feel right relying on them like that, so he bounced.

A nice, small apartment with a cheap rent suited him just fine. Budgeting was always difficult because he wasn't really experienced in this area, but he eventually got the hang of it. On a sunny day, he went on one of his jogs and then the world he always knew shifted into something unrecognizable.

Capacity:

B

Flow:

D

Flux:

D

Magic and Abilities:

Return by Death

Character Intentions

Michael wants to return to his own world, though it's not an extreme priority that he'd forsake his morals for it. If he can return home peacefully, then it'll be fine. If he can't return home without causing problems, then he'll deal with that when he gets there.

Extra:

[Temporary]

@KoL Apologies for the delay, you're good to go. Though expect some trouble down the line, that much raw potential doesn't come without its costs.

@Not Fungus Seems like a nice kid, I'm excited to ruin him. You're good to go too.

@Icy Hot Giving you a boop in case you didn't see that the OOC was live.

[KoL]

@Vocab Thanks. I don't know if you're talking about are talking about the magic affinities or that she's a highly educated person (or maybe both) but I'm interested in seeing where that'll go. In fact, I picked that because I think there are many possibilities for what could happen when someone who's already good at modern science get their hands on magic.

At any rate, it seems like Andromeda is also the only one named after a Celestial object here, huh? Very interesting.

[vancexentan]

@KoLI'm pretty they meant the number of magic affinities.

[TheMushroomLord]

Ada Taliar

Ada Taliar

Age: 17 | Gender: Female | Height: 160 cm | Magic Affinity: Wind | Race: Human

Physical Description:

In regard to her appearance Ada neither got particularly lucky or unlucky in the genetic lottery. Dark hair, dark eyes, average height, not particularly ugly nor attractive. Physically Ada is average in almost every way.

Personality:

Ada is the kind of person who really struggles to deal with others and copes by presenting herself as a weirdo with far more energy than she actually has. When she's not being given the attention she so dreads, or is otherwise around people she knows well enough to be comfortable around Ada's personality becomes far more bearable, becoming calmer and more toned down, outside of such circumstances however she can be pretty hard to deal with. It’s worth noting that while her eccentricities can be tiring for others, it is just as, if not more exhausting for her.

Ada also possesses a great deal of curiosity. She enjoys learning new things and views not knowing things as a failure on her part. Unfortunately, Ada’s curiosity is such that it acts to hinder her learning almost as much as it aids it, with Ada often getting sidetracked to study topics related to her focus or stuck trying to understand concepts well beyond her level.

Finally, Ada is the sort to think things through to a fault, going well past the point of anything remotely helpful and instead crippling herself with indecision and doubt over even simple tasks. Even after getting something done, Ada agonises over how she could have done things differently after even the smallest of mistakes or worse still finds ways to turn her successes into failures within her mind.

Bio:

Ada was a student in her past life, nearing the end of her school years when she died. Her life had been relatively uneventful up until that point. Even with her colourful personality people just learned to filter out her oddities and ignore her, leaving her to a quiet school life with little of interest ever happening. The only real noteworthy aspect of her life was how much she’d struggled with her studies towards the end. She wasn't stupid or anything like that, quite the opposite actually, she was smart and enjoyed learning, but the quirks of her personality made it hard for her to get much done and lead her to dwell on and amplify her failings in her mind, while a lack of any real social bonds had made it difficult for her to vent her dissatisfaction.

Magic and Abilities:

Capacity: D | Flow: C | Flux: E

Return By Death: The chance to fix one's failings through death.

Character Intentions:

In her past life the smallest of failings weighed heavily down upon her. Now that she’s in a different world she can mostly set aside the worries of her old life, however, she will quickly realise the differences between earth and the world of Re:Zero and set her sights on using her knowledge from earth to try and improve her current worlds situation. She will as usual set her goals way too high, however, using first world earth as the standard to strive for despite not really having the skills or know-how to come anywhere close to being able to achieve that. The addition of Return by Death will only further complicate things, as even when the conditions for activation making its use unreasonable, the knowledge that she could retry will only cause her to bloat her self-expectations and failings further out of proportion within her mind. Without intervention, she will undoubtedly reach a breaking point.

The other thing Aya would be interested in is the world’s magic, whether it be in the form of mana, spirits, divine protections, witch authorities or whatever else. She isn’t necessarily interested in practising magic, more so in understanding it. Particularly, Aya would be interested in looking into how magic could be used to imitate or substitute some of the technology present on earth.

Extra:

Sodium Knowledge is the best divine protection.

[KoL]

@KoLI'm pretty they meant the number of magic affinities.

@vancexentan

I wouldn't discount the value of education if I were you. Having high raw potential is nothing if you don't have the tools to make it work. Someone who's naturally good with learning is obviously more capable of developing said potential faster in something that's essentially another academic field than someone with any kind of cognitive impairment.

Even discounting the magic affinities, I still consider Andromeda's education to be her greatest asset. You'd be surprised how much can be done with a solid knowledge of natural sciences and mathematics, plus other assorted things like music, etc.

[addamas]

@KoL carry us andromeda :^)

[Frettzo]

Hello! Old timer here who took a break from the RP scene. I noticed this RP and immediately felt that old spark of inspiration. I actually wanna RP again, if possible in this RP! So, is there are free spot I could snag up or do I have to get into a waiting list? :p

[Temporary]

@TheMushroomLord Clear for take off, send her over.

@Frettzo No waiting list or anything; with the number of people we have accepted versus the number of people who have expressed interest, an additional player is both welcomed and encouraged. Let me know if you have any questions.