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So, as established before, this RP will be an RP focusing on a newly established supe rhero group (think Justice League or Avengers). Each of our characters will be heroes that are well known within their city. The city, Melessa for now (most likely NYC or some large fictional super city) has an abnormally high crime rate, including super villains, and very few super heroes, so our heroes decided to team up to stop the crime in a more efficient fashion.
Basically, this is a character driven RP. While there will be action that our heroes will participate in, there will be at least one arc per character, dedicated to the specific character. Used to help establish the character, their background, possible arch nemesis, and other things, it will help develop and layer the character so that they aren't just cardboard cut outs that we happen to be typing lines for.
So, with that established, I'm just gonna copy and paste the rules from the Int Check here.
1. This isn't first come first serve. This is advanced, this means, in my opinion, that the roster of characters should be determined based on the quality of the characters submitted. So, once enough interest is sparked, I'll make an OOC where you guys can submit characters based on the CS format I provide.
2. Posting. For posting, we'll be going in "rounds." The way this works is whoever is controlling the arc (for personal arcs, the RP'er of the character who's having the personal arc will control the story) will make a post. Everyone else will then post a response to said post. Unless someone is delayed and can't post, or their response is not needed (say your character is unconscious or unavailable) then the round is concluded. The controller will post creating the next round, rinse and repeat.
3. Amounts of post. I would prefer people to be posting at least once everyday, but I know that isn't realistically possible so once every 2-3 days is what I'm asking. 4 days max.
4. Don't say you're interested and then after a few OOC posts never show up again. Think about this for a little. If you're really interested, then post here. If you are only slightly interested and then decide you aren't easily, or you aren't able to meet the requirements I've set, don't bother posting that you're interested here.
5. Don't be an ass. If you have problems with someone, either handle it through me or directly with one another, but don't bring your bullshit into the RP, unless your characters actually butt heads and you're just properly RP'ing the scenario out. AKA, don't bring personal drama into OOC realm.
6. Originality. I know that most super powers have been done, so I don't mind if we get characters similar to super heroes, but please don't just be like "This is ratman. He's a super detective that dresses up like a rat. His parents were killed and he swo-" "Isn't that just batman, I mean it's literally a rodent based detective that just doesn't have wings." "SHUT UP HE'S ORIGINAL, JUST LIKE MY ORIGINAL SONIC CHARACTER, BLONIC". If you do something like, just assumed you're not accepted lol.
So, now that we've established the rules, lets get to the meat of this character driven story, the characters. As I want to have a lot of development of the characters happening within the RP, this CS's might seem a little bare-bones, but just stay with me here.
Name: (Your characters real name.)
Alias: (Super hero name)
Age: (18+, although I'd prefer closer to mid twenties at the least, I will accept late teens seeing as they're technically adults)
Gender:
Personality: (What is your character like as a regular person?)
Persona: (The personality your character uses when they're doing super hero stuff. If it's the same as they're everyday personality, just leave this blank or remove it from the sheet all together)
Appearance: (Every day appearance, pics of any kind or descriptions are acceptable here)
Costume: (Same deal as appearance, just in super hero mode)
Powers/Skills and how they came about: (Just describe to us what your character can do, and how they came into their powers. Like if you use gadgets, how did you become so handy with them and how did you get the material/money to build them, etc.)
Rise to Fame: (Every super hero has a moment that basically reveals them to their city. How did your character go from being a weird person in a costume to being a respected and loved hero?)
Arch Nemesis: (explained below, but short explanation, if you want to have an arch baddie before the RP starts, list here. Short explanation of their abilities, anme, and maybe a short backstory)
Personal Arc: (Short synopsis of what you'd like your first personal story arc focus around)
So, that's the CS, and I'm also gonna be putting up my own character right now.
Name: Mia Knight
Alias: Knightmare
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Personality: Mia is definitely not someone you'd think of as dark or sinister. She is a very kind hearted and open person. She is not overly kind though, being able to be stern and strict when she has too as well. She's probably one of the best type of friend you can have, being that she will be there when you need help, and she can deliver any type of help you need, either when you need someone to comfort you, or someone to give you a slap to make you come back to your senses. She can be a little hard to approach for those that don't know her, but for those that do, they know she's a true friend.
Persona: As Nox, Mia does a complete 180. Other than to her teammates, she voices nothing. She wears no emotion, her dark shroud hiding her face. She only has one setting, and that's sinister. Even though she doesn't express emotions through her face or voice, she expresses terror very well. She uses this terror and fear inducing style to belittle and intimidate her opponents, leaving them full of openings, and then exploiting those openings to subdue them. If it weren't for the fact that she only stops evil-doers, she would probably be considered a super villain rather than a hero based on her style.
Appearance:
Costume: Her costume varies greatly due to her power. She can manipulate shadows and darkness, so generally she just wraps herself and clothing in darkness, so all that one would see is a pitch black human figure coming at them. The thing that generally remains that same though is that she almost has a knight like aura to her when in costume, with either a cape, shield, sword, or some other "knight" like apparatus to identify her by.
Powers/Skills and how they came about: Mia has the ability to manipulate shadows and darkness. The more darkness and shadows around, the more she can control. She can shape it into tangible objects like weapons or armor, and even sometimes fully functioning bodies to fight for her. Her powers came about as a result of her curiosity in the supernatural. After reading about magic, demons, mythical beasts, and other such things, she set out on finding a way to become a magic user. Long story short, she messed up a ritual from a book that resulted in her learning to control darkness/shadows and destroying the book. It worked for her though, so she decided to use it for something good.
Rise to Fame: Up until this point, Mia had only been shrouding herself and dealing with thugs and other such ordeals. Her fame came in the form of an attack from a villain that actually lived next door to her. It turned out her neighbor was involved in supplying information about important things like government operations and such to enemies of the government. Long story short, police attempted to arrest him and he with his mini-personal army began a fire fight in the building, and Mia decided to help the police. After subduing all the criminals, one of the cops thanked her and commented on her being like a knight with her dark helmet hiding her face, and that's how Knightmare was born.
Arch Nemesis: "Inforcer." After getting beaten by Knightmare, the Inforcer went from being a simple information broker to a monstrous gang leader. Basically, he's an enforcer that also deals with info, and info-enforcer or INFOrcer (terrible puns, all super hero concepts need some). Basically he's just a regular guy with an army and information network available at his whim.
Personal Arc: So, as explained earlier, Knightmare got her powers through a failed ritual that also destroyed the book she learned the ritual from. You think that destroying such an ancient artifact would hold no repercussions. Gonna be a lot of evil forces involved in this arc I can tell you that.
So yeah, I'm not really asking for anything amazing here. I kind of just whipped up the back story and everything up as an after thought to the hero herself lol. I'm mainly just going to be picking characters based on powers/abilities and personalities and such. Don't go to ballistic with everything lol.
So, as established before, this RP will be an RP focusing on a newly established supe rhero group (think Justice League or Avengers). Each of our characters will be heroes that are well known within their city. The city, Melessa for now (most likely NYC or some large fictional super city) has an abnormally high crime rate, including super villains, and very few super heroes, so our heroes decided to team up to stop the crime in a more efficient fashion.
Basically, this is a character driven RP. While there will be action that our heroes will participate in, there will be at least one arc per character, dedicated to the specific character. Used to help establish the character, their background, possible arch nemesis, and other things, it will help develop and layer the character so that they aren't just cardboard cut outs that we happen to be typing lines for.
So, with that established, I'm just gonna copy and paste the rules from the Int Check here.
1. This isn't first come first serve. This is advanced, this means, in my opinion, that the roster of characters should be determined based on the quality of the characters submitted. So, once enough interest is sparked, I'll make an OOC where you guys can submit characters based on the CS format I provide.
2. Posting. For posting, we'll be going in "rounds." The way this works is whoever is controlling the arc (for personal arcs, the RP'er of the character who's having the personal arc will control the story) will make a post. Everyone else will then post a response to said post. Unless someone is delayed and can't post, or their response is not needed (say your character is unconscious or unavailable) then the round is concluded. The controller will post creating the next round, rinse and repeat.
3. Amounts of post. I would prefer people to be posting at least once everyday, but I know that isn't realistically possible so once every 2-3 days is what I'm asking. 4 days max.
4. Don't say you're interested and then after a few OOC posts never show up again. Think about this for a little. If you're really interested, then post here. If you are only slightly interested and then decide you aren't easily, or you aren't able to meet the requirements I've set, don't bother posting that you're interested here.
5. Don't be an ass. If you have problems with someone, either handle it through me or directly with one another, but don't bring your bullshit into the RP, unless your characters actually butt heads and you're just properly RP'ing the scenario out. AKA, don't bring personal drama into OOC realm.
6. Originality. I know that most super powers have been done, so I don't mind if we get characters similar to super heroes, but please don't just be like "This is ratman. He's a super detective that dresses up like a rat. His parents were killed and he swo-" "Isn't that just batman, I mean it's literally a rodent based detective that just doesn't have wings." "SHUT UP HE'S ORIGINAL, JUST LIKE MY ORIGINAL SONIC CHARACTER, BLONIC". If you do something like, just assumed you're not accepted lol.
So, now that we've established the rules, lets get to the meat of this character driven story, the characters. As I want to have a lot of development of the characters happening within the RP, this CS's might seem a little bare-bones, but just stay with me here.
Name: (Your characters real name.)
Alias: (Super hero name)
Age: (18+, although I'd prefer closer to mid twenties at the least, I will accept late teens seeing as they're technically adults)
Gender:
Personality: (What is your character like as a regular person?)
Persona: (The personality your character uses when they're doing super hero stuff. If it's the same as they're everyday personality, just leave this blank or remove it from the sheet all together)
Appearance: (Every day appearance, pics of any kind or descriptions are acceptable here)
Costume: (Same deal as appearance, just in super hero mode)
Powers/Skills and how they came about: (Just describe to us what your character can do, and how they came into their powers. Like if you use gadgets, how did you become so handy with them and how did you get the material/money to build them, etc.)
Rise to Fame: (Every super hero has a moment that basically reveals them to their city. How did your character go from being a weird person in a costume to being a respected and loved hero?)
Arch Nemesis: (explained below, but short explanation, if you want to have an arch baddie before the RP starts, list here. Short explanation of their abilities, anme, and maybe a short backstory)
Personal Arc: (Short synopsis of what you'd like your first personal story arc focus around)
So, that's the CS, and I'm also gonna be putting up my own character right now.
Name: Mia Knight
Alias: Knightmare
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Personality: Mia is definitely not someone you'd think of as dark or sinister. She is a very kind hearted and open person. She is not overly kind though, being able to be stern and strict when she has too as well. She's probably one of the best type of friend you can have, being that she will be there when you need help, and she can deliver any type of help you need, either when you need someone to comfort you, or someone to give you a slap to make you come back to your senses. She can be a little hard to approach for those that don't know her, but for those that do, they know she's a true friend.
Persona: As Nox, Mia does a complete 180. Other than to her teammates, she voices nothing. She wears no emotion, her dark shroud hiding her face. She only has one setting, and that's sinister. Even though she doesn't express emotions through her face or voice, she expresses terror very well. She uses this terror and fear inducing style to belittle and intimidate her opponents, leaving them full of openings, and then exploiting those openings to subdue them. If it weren't for the fact that she only stops evil-doers, she would probably be considered a super villain rather than a hero based on her style.
Appearance:
Costume: Her costume varies greatly due to her power. She can manipulate shadows and darkness, so generally she just wraps herself and clothing in darkness, so all that one would see is a pitch black human figure coming at them. The thing that generally remains that same though is that she almost has a knight like aura to her when in costume, with either a cape, shield, sword, or some other "knight" like apparatus to identify her by.
Powers/Skills and how they came about: Mia has the ability to manipulate shadows and darkness. The more darkness and shadows around, the more she can control. She can shape it into tangible objects like weapons or armor, and even sometimes fully functioning bodies to fight for her. Her powers came about as a result of her curiosity in the supernatural. After reading about magic, demons, mythical beasts, and other such things, she set out on finding a way to become a magic user. Long story short, she messed up a ritual from a book that resulted in her learning to control darkness/shadows and destroying the book. It worked for her though, so she decided to use it for something good.
Rise to Fame: Up until this point, Mia had only been shrouding herself and dealing with thugs and other such ordeals. Her fame came in the form of an attack from a villain that actually lived next door to her. It turned out her neighbor was involved in supplying information about important things like government operations and such to enemies of the government. Long story short, police attempted to arrest him and he with his mini-personal army began a fire fight in the building, and Mia decided to help the police. After subduing all the criminals, one of the cops thanked her and commented on her being like a knight with her dark helmet hiding her face, and that's how Knightmare was born.
Arch Nemesis: "Inforcer." After getting beaten by Knightmare, the Inforcer went from being a simple information broker to a monstrous gang leader. Basically, he's an enforcer that also deals with info, and info-enforcer or INFOrcer (terrible puns, all super hero concepts need some). Basically he's just a regular guy with an army and information network available at his whim.
Personal Arc: So, as explained earlier, Knightmare got her powers through a failed ritual that also destroyed the book she learned the ritual from. You think that destroying such an ancient artifact would hold no repercussions. Gonna be a lot of evil forces involved in this arc I can tell you that.
So yeah, I'm not really asking for anything amazing here. I kind of just whipped up the back story and everything up as an after thought to the hero herself lol. I'm mainly just going to be picking characters based on powers/abilities and personalities and such. Don't go to ballistic with everything lol.