Living Reflection: A Psychological Alter Egos RP, interest check and signups

[VitaVitaAR]

Okay, so, um, the RP will be for sure starting in the next few days, everyone is here, right?

[Makatsume Haru]

Yep still here! :D

[Mizos]

Here and all that.

[Menick]

It's not too late to join, right?

[VitaVitaAR]

It's not, there's still room.

[Mizos]

Vita I have a question, figured I go ahead and ask before the roleplay starts. In a situation where they completely fuse is the Altar ego's personality dominant. I read over it and in the temporary one it seems like the Ego is dominant in a way. Not sure if I missed something or I'm over thinking it but I figured I'd ask.

[VitaVitaAR]

They don't fuse usually, they're just experiencing what their Alter Ego is. When they fuse(which is temporary), they are aware of one another and can internally interact.

[Mizos]

Okay so they experience it and the real person is like an extra voice in their head in the temporary situation. Alright I got it thanks for answering.

[nuttyjigs]

Yup, I'm here.

[VitaVitaAR]

And here's the IC

[Dblade26]

Name: Tachibana Hanataro

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Appearance: the babyface president of the gardening club

Personality: Despite his harmless and cheerful appearance Hanataro will go to any lengths to protect the gardening club and its' gardens, a territory over which he demands supreme authority. He's loud, brash and a master of violent intimidation even when interacting with the Student Council, with little actual use for school except as a place to run his gardens. This is all because he's only really able to feel at peace around flowers and plants and considers most people 'bothersome'. When tending to his gardens he acts just as cheery and lighthearted as his appearance would lead one to suspect. The main exceptions to his dislike of people are the members of the Gardening Club, as Hanataro generally treats them like close family and protects and cares for them with utmost devotion as they're helping him realize his dream of making the school 'A Beaut'ful, relaxin' place where flowers bloom everywhere.' He also has a soft spot for those who are needlessly bullied by people, and considers bullies 'weeds' that need to be plucked. All in all though, despite his official title being 'President of the Gardening Club' he runs things more like the boss of a bunch of high school delinquents, albeit delinquents with the goal of planting beautiful flowers for people to enjoy and keeping the school free of bullies by being bigger bullies themselves.

Backstory: Hanataro always used to feel too shy to interact with people as a child, preferring the solitude, freedom and beauty he found among flowers and plants. When he found that this often lead to bullying, Hanataro decided on an unusual response. Namely he decided that if people were going to bully him, he would just become even stronger than them. Thus he trained every day to become as scarily strong as he possibly could and transformed his quiet and shy nature into an outward mask of a broodingly angry thug. He found that he liked fighting almost as much as he liked gardening and took to it with relish whenever he saw someone being bullied. That didn't change his overall desire to have a place where he felt at peace though, so once he reached Highschool he decided that he would make the gardening club the most powerful organization around, in order to make everything a relaxing place filled with flowers where gentle people like he used to be could relax without fear.

Skills: In addition to being an excellent gardener Hanataro is extremely good at fighting, with surprising strength for a Highschooler and an almost superhuman ability to take a beating. Other than that he has few skills, although he enjoys cooking immensely.

Alter Ego:

Name: Steel Petal Inferno

Gender: Male

Appearance: Just another day in the life of Steel Petal Inferno

Personality: Steel Petal Inferno mostly just wants to be free, relax and wander around enjoying life. The only thing he enjoys other than his relaxing lifestyle is a good fight. This extends not just to good fights for himself, but also for everyone else, and he'll willingly jump in to assist if he thinks a fight isn't fair, but could just as easily fight someone just for the heck of it if he thinks they are interesting or strong enough. He also refuses to fight anyone too weak as it would be neither interesting nor fair, unless of course they're trying to restrain his freedom.

Weapon(s): Legion Planter, a watering can. It is extremely durable even for an Alter Ego's weapon and to that end Steel Petal Inferno normally uses it solely as a bludgeoning weapon combined with his massive strength. It actually has a special ability, in that whenever he wills it Steel Petal Inferno can pour gang members out of its' spout that he can control. The gang members each have a leaf sticking out of their heads like a plant sprout and can just be re-created if destroyed with no ill effects, but Steel Petal Inferno dislikes using his weapon's power because 'A real man fights his battles alone'. When he does use it, he tends to use the gang-sprouts as props and improvised weapons during fights rather than having them fight for him as doing otherwise would be 'cowardly'.

Abilities: Steel Phoenix Inferno's most notable ability is his ridiculous strength, far above even a typical Alter Ego's. Also while his regenerative abilities are actually much worse than average, he's capable of taking a lot of punishment without stopping, mostly due to sheer will.

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted.

[musicway]

I’ve looked over the characters a few times and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a few worries towards my character. Her metal manipulation can be changed a little if need be, but I’ll just point out first up that I wasn’t planning on using it to outright cripple, say, Ironclad’s armour, or anyone else’s weapons. I was only going to have it centre around White and her environment in particular.
If anything does need to be changed or if something doesn’t fit though let me know.

Human Bio
Name: Sato Yoshi
Age: 17
Gender: Female

Appearance

Personality: Soft-spoken and kind, Yoshi Sato is a quiet, empathetic observer. A well rounded student, Yoshi prefers to work alone, rarely contributing to class discussion or debate. She has many friends despite this, though she is not particularly close to any one person, and prefers to spend her time either reading or playing games when not at school. At school she will socialise if engaged, though her thoughts wander easily and she will often become distracted, often losing her train of thought. Because of her isolation she often becomes lonely, unable to assimilate or begin conversation with any one person or group. This can also cause her to become jealous of others and their relationships, especially if the relationship infringes on any of hers. She enjoys the company of some students more than others, and will open up more when comfortable, or if bribed with food.
Backstory: Yoshi lives with her aunty and younger brother across town, often taking a bus or a lift from her aunt in order to get to school. Recently, the three of them took a holiday to Europe, and arrived back, it seems, just before Kazuko’s incident.
Alter Ego: White Gold Lance

Alter Ego Bio
Name: White Gold Lance
Gender: Female

Appearance

Personality: White Gold Lance keeps any enjoyment to herself, very rarely showing outward compassion or reverence with words. Instead, she chooses to speak through her actions, from taking the time to smell the roses to diving mindlessly into the fray to aid another. She does, however, have a temper, which can show through when she fights, or when another Alter Ego manages to chip past her calm exterior. She manages to keep her thoughts and feelings well guised, though at times such as these her more sadistic and narcissistic side will also emerge. In general, White is something of a myth, preferring safety in solitude over safety in numbers. Despite the occasional, violent clash, she hasn't been seen in many months.
Weapons: A range of weapons made of spring steel. The metal is often shaped into a lance and shield, but they can be just as easily pulled apart and reassembled into something else. White focuses solely on handheld blades and shields, however, preferring up close contact as opposed to ranged – though she will sometimes opt for throwing knives as well.
Abilities:
• Metal Manipulation. With this ability White can control and manipulate a range of metal substances, though this centres mostly around the spring steel load that she carries on her person.
• A literal aura surrounds her person, or more specifically, a dome of circulating air and moisture that causes any metal in White’s near vicinity to rust. For whatever reason these currents are significantly unnoticeable, though they are present at all times, and cannot be manipulated by anyone other than White herself. Although larger metallic items degrade at a significantly slower rate, small items can be rusted through with relative ease, such as door hinges, keys, jewellery pieces, and so on. The aura affects almost every metallic surface around her, save for the few surfaces and weapons that are protected by magic or otherwise unable to corrode in such a fashion. The ability cannot be stopped or interrupted unless she is killed, and this ability will simply ‘reset’ once she is reborn. As one can expect, White herself, as well as her own equipment, are impervious to the aura and its effects.
• White gathers any rust she has created and ‘purifies’ it, taking the corroded compound and reverting it back to the state it was in beforehand. She will then use this to add to her Load, usually by replacing the damaged parts of her inventory.
• Increased strength and endurance.

[VitaVitaAR]

The only problem I have is her aura. Is it okay if that doesn't apply to weapons that are noted as being near-invulnerable and such? Otherwise with your assurances she seems fine.

[musicway]

Sure, I'll change that little bit.

[VitaVitaAR]

Alright, I'll fully approve her tomorrow since I make a point of not trying to do GM stuff too late at night. ^^;

[musicway]

No worries :)

[VitaVitaAR]

And accepted.

[Arty Fox]

Human Bio

Name: Katheryn Tera

Age: 16

Gender: Female

Appearance: ...

Personality: Very level headed. This quiet young lady may come across as either shy or cold but really she just enjoys her own company, especially after a long day at school surrounded by a hundred odd people shouting at each other over her head. Katheryn does like to know things and so can normally be found somewhere in the library tucked away into a nice book, the ones about folk tales are her favourite, or playing that game on Wikipedia the lures people into the strangest places.
While Katheryn does like art she can never quite muster up the courage to show others her own little doodles and scribbles. Which might be for the best as she’s still trying to get a hold of actually talking to people which is very hard and scary.

Backstory: Katheryn’s family moved to Japan when she was very young but the sudden shifts in culture is something that Katheryn was never quite able to overcome, leaving many people to wonder about her weird quirks and mannerisms, even after spending so many years in the country her mother was born in. This became a problem when Katheryn began to attend school as while she was able to quickly pick up the overall language the honorific where something that she could never grasp and often used the wrong ones when talking to someone. This of course lead to some very awkward moments and a little bit of bullying that pushed her into the background noise of the world.

Skills:
Being focussed in even the most demanding of situations, for example if there was a bomb nearby whilst everyone is running around like a headless chicken she’ll be calmly making her way to a safe spot.
She also knows a great many things, because she actually does the extra work in lessons, though some of these things may seem more like trivia rather than actual information.
She’s a very good listener.
Bi-lingual knowing Japanese and English

Alter Ego: Jaded Muse

Alter Ego Bio

Name: Jaded Muse. AKA: Jade

Gender: Female

Appearance: ha! As if you could beat me!

Personality: Loud and bold, there’s nothing this ball of rambunctious ego loves more than to tell jokes, make snappy remarks and (attempt to) make art with as many people around her as possible. While she doesn’t put that much time into thinking things through the few ideas that do pop into her head aren’t half bad.
With little care to actually look around and listen to people Jade does have the unfortunate ability of saying exactly the wrong thing at the wrong time, but she’ll never admit to being in the wrong.

Weapon(s):
That beautiful scarf of hers and the little claws the float at each end, the pair move and whip around under Jades complete control. While they can be moved independently it’s much easier, and more powerful, to for them to move much like and extra set of arms.

Scarf: On its own the scarf can stretch to almost twice its normal size, which is around 2.5 metres. While it cannot be completely torn in half it can be damaged, drastically weakening attacks, though it will repair itself over time.

Claws: These claws are razor sharp and cannot be dulled and are always in two groups of three. These claws are both Jade’s sword and shield which isn’t very good considering they are diamonds meaning that if hit hard enough, like hitting very hard with a hammer, they will break. When broken the shards of a claw will float around where the claw would be and will reform over time, until then the most they will do if badly scratch and enemy. The claws, when acting independently can only move as far away from Jade as far as the scarf can stretch.

Abilities:
Increased speed and reflexes, but a bullet is still a hell of a lot faster. Furthermore Jade is very good at using the shininess of her claws to blind her opponents temporarily before diving in to attack.
As for actually powers Jade can alter how people perceive her making her less noticeable if needed and is especially affective in the dark, but if someone is out to kill her this won’t do a damn thing.

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted.