[OOC] A World of Progresssive Magic: An Arcane 2100s

[Letter Bee]

A World of Progresssive Magic: An Arcane 2100s

An RP by Letter Bee

I. Intro

In the 2010s, the world seemed as though it was on the brink of disaster. The present crises threatened to bring the national order down, but in the end, the nations pulled themselves back from the precipice of apocalypse, and, in 2022, made an accord in Geneva. Mankind eventually clawed its way back to prosperity and relative peace, but spent the next few decades dealing with its obsessions and its prejudices. Scientists, Visionaries, and Activists, anyone can rule with the power of the pen.

Science, Technology, the infrastructure that created the Global Economy and Computer Technology was preserved, and advanced. The Age of Reason continued on. Humanity finally began to accept each other as family. In the 80 years after the Treaty of Geneva, the nations of Humanity began to cooperate and unite as never before, in order to conquer its own effects on the Earth. But, all wasn't well, for in the quest for peace, the quest to eliminate human trafficking was neglected. New ways were found to enslave humans, either in cyberspace or in the real world.

Then... something changed. In the laboratories of Pittsburgh, something extraordinary happened. A person only known as the Neuromancer accidentally tapped into a source of energy that can transcend the normal laws of the world. The Age of Reason may have survived, but the Age of Mystics was still approaching...but this time, it will be a World of Progressive Magic.

Mods:

Letter Bee

II. Magic

Magic can be learned from a mentor, or be received from a traumatic experience, but what doesn't change is that one can do things that are outside reality's laws with it. Bascially, you just describe what you can do under 'Magical Powers' (see below), and we'll see if it's too overpowered or not. Note, however, as a rule, that Magi from the Empire State University for Magi and Nonmagi use the Codified Magic System (See below).

Also, magic gained from traumatic experience varies in power: weak traumas produce weak powers, while strong traumas produce strong powers. However, PCs, for now, are confined to Magi who learned magic from mentors; this is to prevent characters who are deliberately screwed up in order to gain more power.

III. The Codified Magic System (Optional, Lore Only)

In New York, Magic is divided into several archetypes, or 'Schools': Life (Healing, Buffing, Controlling Plants and Animals), Energy (Control of Heat, Light, Gravity, Magnetism, etc...), Mentalism (Mind Control, Illusions), Timespace (Superspeed, Teleportation, and Scrying), Fate (Increasing or decreasing Luck), Death (Necromancy and Anti-Necromancy*), Otherness (communing with Spirits, Transformation into a Spirit Creature), Matter (conjuring non-organic, non-undead matter, turning solids into liquids) and Law (making Magic permanent; making Magitech, launching bolts of Silver/White light that harm even High-Level Mages).

The Codified Magic System is seen as a good thing because it grants consistency to the different systems of doing magic, as well as makes learning and categorizing it easier. However, you are not obliged to abide by it, unless you come from the ESU or live there.

*This doesn't seem to make sense, except that in AWPM, Death magic encompasses everything to do with death, including making sure that people die naturally instead of being turned into undead.

You can only have Three Schools of Magic as a normal PC; Agency PCs have Four; unless you have 'Bureaucracy' as a weakness like my GMPC.

Sample: Raymond from ESU can change solids into liquids (Matter), teleport, do scrying, and use superspeed (Timespace), and make his items and buffs permanent, and make magitech (Law).

IV. Places of Power

Demesnes: Places that, because they were special before the Awakening Surge, form a reservoir of magic that strengthens one's spells. Desmenes are attuned to one School, for example; (Edit: the still-intact) Statue of Liberty are a Fate Demesne, while the Isle of Corregidor in the Philippines is a Timespace Demesne. Demesnes, to be fully used, need Manses, which are structures that are equivalent to a House, Factory, Power Plant, and Hydroelectric Dam.

Shadowlands: Demesnes made by killing lots of people. Shadowlands cause the dead to rise, creatures to mutate, the air itself to be filled with horror, and its energies can only be used by the most depraved of Magi. Due to the peace, few Demesnes are Shadowlands.

V. The Societies of New York

Empire State University for Magi and Nonmagi: The Neuromancer discovered Magic, and is the most powerful Mage in existence, but he/she didn't develop the present knowledge of the arcane arts. Rather, that task was left for various academics and scientists all over the planet, and foremost among them were the professors of Empire State University, once known mainly for the pursuit of history and literature. It was they who developed the Codified Magic System, offered formal courses to teach magic, and developed sophisticated Magitech, as well as making predictions and commentaries about the effects of Magic on the world. And the best part: the head of ESU isn't even a Mage, but rather a normal human, Arthur Winters.

Arthur was a visionary who saw the possibilities and conflicts of magic early, and dedicated his life to minimizing such conflicts, rallying activists, scientists, and politicians into securing rights for Magi, developing task forces to deter terrorism and crime using magical means, and speaking out against human trafficking. Due to his work, the world began to take on its present, semi-utopian shape.

The Agency: Founded by the United States Government at the discovery of Magic, the Agency is a special organization tasked with stopping Magical crimes and terrorism, sometimes even before they start. With broad powers, both political and magical, and unorthodox methods of action, the operatives of the Agency are frighteningly effective at their job, putting down everything from blood cults to sex slavery rings, and defeating would-be mad scientists and their inventions. While a few criminals do slip past their net from time to time, their efforts have made magic less feared and more loved, which is presicely their goal.

However, the Agency's very effectiveness is its very weakness; by choosing the best of the best, it has left itself with too few operatives, with too much workload. Its enemies grow more numerous by the day, and include more and more magic despite the Agency's efforts...

Arcana Unlimited: Like its namesake in another Canon, Arcana Unlimited wants to take over everyhing. Unlike its namesake in another Canon, Arcana Unlimited doesn't do anything unethical on American soil, but rather does its dirty work in the Developing Countries (the former Third World), which, though more prosperous and more happy than in the previous century, still has laxer laws than the First World, and plenty of corrupt officials who would overlook abuses for money. In places such as Madagascar, the Congo, and India, ArcU buys power over governments, develops new weapons, and does inhumane and illegal biological experiments, all for the purpose of creating an army to dominate the world.

Edit: ArcU's ideology is a mixture of Technocracy and Magocracy, believing that only those who master both Magic and Science have the right to rule the world.

The Mafia: As the world learned to sort out its problems, the Mafia feared loss and irrelevance, but the coming of Magic, although it did much good, also paved the way for a new golden age for organized crime, allowing them new ways of hiding, coercion, and killing. Now, in New York, the crime families run a secret network of slave rings and torture factories, where people let out their desires on the unwilling for money.

Mystery Faction

Gutierrez Corp: A Philippines-based Shipbuilding company that combines both Magic and Technology just like Arcana Unlimited, and strives for much of the same power, but through ethical (or semi-ethical) channels. What magical experiments they have are conducted with informed consent, their weapons, developed openly and legally (albeit in countries that have laxer laws on weapons development than the US). Their services focus on providing both quality and quantity, providing cheaper alternatives to Arcana Unlimited. Instead of hiring huge armies of mercenaries and war machines all over the world, they focus on maintaining a small security force in the Philippines, backed by the Philippine Armed Forces, which had been much 'modernized' by them.

However, this does not mean that they don't have power projection all across the world. Instead, they employ lone cells of mercenaries and adventurers to accomplish their global goals, attacking the enemy before they can strike at them. Their motto is: 'The Best Defense against conspiracy is not to be hated'.

VI. Rules:

1.) You can play either a Hero, a Neutral, or a Villain once there are two Heroic characters already (see Rule 9). However, I might rescind this rule should the population of heroes dip.

2.) If you're playing a villain, plots that affect an entire major city, or larger, have to be cleared with me and the other mods, first.

3.) This world is much, much better than the present, and I want your backstories to reflect that.

4.) The world may be much better than the present, but we'll be visiting the parts of it that are still crapsack; there will still be plenty of mature stuff best left to PMs and Sync.in/MeetingWords.

5.) No godmoding, and no controlling player actions.

6.) I reserve the right to ban players known for godmoding.

7.) (Revised Rule: This is not Shadowrun; the Grim Darkness of the setting will eventually fade by the end.)

8.) Yes, you can make up your own custom factions.

9.) New Rule: No villains until we get at least two competent heroic PCs. Competence and Heroism are defined by me.

10.) Rules for Conjuration: With Matter, you can conjure up non-living, non-undead stuff, but it's only temporary unless you have Law, even then, you can only conjure as much as your own body weight.

VII. Character Sheet:

Character Sheet
Name:
Age:
Appearence
Personality:
Magical powers/ Physical Abilities
Flaws:
Side: (What faction are you aligned with.)
Bio:

VIIII. Established Characters

Heinz Harper

Ascot Harper - Heinz's Nephew

Silas

Catherine Williams

Omega

Joshua Tamashii, Amelia Averyona, and Jack

Balthazar "Thaz" Carlton

Conor Verade

Eise Varia

Roselatta Aurora Van Isis

Amaya Yashia

Lucus Griffonbane

[Letter Bee]

Character Sheet

Name: Heinz Harper

Age: 45, but looks 25

Appearence:



Personality: Heinz Harper is a man who knows he holds the Fate of the World in his hands, and is proud that he has kept it there without shattering it. He is moderately kind, moderately courageous, and a father to his men; however, as the Head of the Agency, he is not immune to ruthlessness. In fact, he is someone who, if you threaten those he holds dear, would come at you with disproportionate retribution, in order to turn you into an example.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: As the head of the Agency, Heinz Harper has access to all Nine Schools of Magic, but favors Fate most of all, giving him a whole slew of abilities he can use in intelligence gathering, battle, and support. Not merely that, but Heinz is also physically well-trained, able to use a whole variety of guns, knives, and swords in battle.

Flaws: Heinz is prevented from using many of those aforementioned abilities by the fact that he is the head of the Agency, and has to do paperwork and bureaucracy instead of fight. Not merely that, but despite his powerful abilities, Heinz is only one person, and can be swarmed under by sheer numbers and ordnance. And, finally, there's specialized Anti-Mage weaponry, Microwaves and such, that can prevent him from using his abilities.

Side: The Agency.

Bio: Heinz was born 15 years before the Awakening Surge, to a family of ordinary bakers. His life was that of a normal person of average intelligence, a life of playing and studying and making friends. However, all of that would change once the Awakening Surge struck the world, and everything changed forever, including his life. For Heinz was struck by the surge, giving him three types of power.

The first was his ability to alter Fate, which won him several games in a row. The second was his ability to read and manipulate minds, a power that surprised him and made him uncomfortable, but which he managed to hide. The third was the ability to create Spirits, a type of creature that, prior to the Surge, didn't exist, as well as see and enter the Spirit World, which was a blank space in the very beginning.

However, Heinz was unable to keep things secret for more than a few months, because in the frentic days after the Awakening Surge, Governments took action in response to the Coming of Magic, Magic being something that did not exist before, but existed now. And, one day, the government operatives came for Heinz, and took him away from his parents for 'reasearch into the phenomenon'.

If the Government's approach to such things had been the same as it was in the early 21st Century, Heinz would have been treated inhumanely, being subjected to painful and humiliating tests before being tortured (if such tests weren't torture) and locked away forever - or killed. But, thankfully, 70 years of progress had made the CIA more refined in its 'methods' and only the Magi who had done anything wrong were subjected to unethical experiments.

Eventually, Heinz was released back to his parents, to his joy. His life continued as normal, only now he faced the temptation to use his abilties for his own benefit, a temptation that he rejected. Not merely that, but while his life was normal, the world had changed. 70 years of progress had ensured that the first firestorm of prejudice was as short as it was sharp, especially as it was learned that Magic was open to everyone. However, that still left the threat of terrorists and mad scientists, as well as magically empowered criminals. So, when Heinz grew old enough, he joined the Government that had refused to treat him badly despite temptation, and so he became part of the newly founded Agency.

He rose quickly up the ranks, learning new magics, defeating many criminals, and saving many lives as he did so. He also learned the mechanics of bureaucracy and paperwork, which readied him for further promotions. During that time, however, Heinz made enemies not just in the criminal underworld, foriegn countries, and local madmen; he also drew the ire of the more harsh of his peers.

Nevertheless, he eventually became head of the Agency, finding out that this greatly limited his ability to go out to the field, but at the same time increased his ability to save lives, and gave him a gang of people that he saw as his proxy children and siblings. So, Heinz reconciled himself to his new legal bindings, and became good at his job, sending people out on missions with high success rates.

This didn't mean that he was not immune to tragedy, as, sometimes, people would get injured or killed even under his watch, and even with his powers of Fate guarding them. As expected, this saddened the person, but also made him inured to dealing out disproportionate retribution. Nevertheless, it seemed as though the numbers of the threats facing the nation were increasing, and Heinz had to face facts; the Agency, and his', policy of recruiting only the best had not left them with enough numbers to guard against all dangers, even with such things as precognition and fateshifting. Thus, he had to cooperate better with other branches of Intelligence, and humble himself before them. And, surprise, surprise, the number of his enemies decreased.

[Letter Bee]

Character Sheet

Name: Ascot Harper

Age: 13

Appearence:



Personality: Ascot cares for people, to the point where it can get him hurt. He values his friendships, being willing to go to great lengths for even relatively new friends. While he has the fears and insecurities of someone his age, he can overcome them if people are at stake. You do not hurt innocents around Ascot, nor should you threaten to, because Ascot will fight, and he will give his best.

However, he also has a streak of rigtheous indignation, which borders on ruthlessness, when encountering enemies that he deems hard to redeem.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: Outside of battle, Ascot is a good scryer and mind reader, able to scan the present and predict the future. In combat, however, Ascot prefers to use Eskrima in conjunction with Timespace, Energy, Mind, and Law Magic, taking out an enchanted sword from a dimensional pocket, alongside other weapons and objects. Not just that, but he is able to buff others with Superspeed and Bullettime, protection from mental effects, and fire/lightning/ice attacks.

Flaws: Ascot tends to overwork himself, as well as overrely on speed, magic, and his immense knowledge of history, magic, and stories; he is not prepared for an enemy with the same resources as he does. Not merely that, but although a genius, he is very emotional, and can be manipulated through that.

Side: Agency (grants him four Schools of Magic).

Bio: Ascot Harper was born in a small city, Radiant Falls, in New York State. Radiant Falls was a kind town, a kind community, and it was one of the first places to open itself towards Magi, in the brief 'Magic Controversy' that happened after the Awakening Surge. Thus, Ascot spent his early life in a safe place, a privileged place, one that sheltered him as he grew into his gifts, history and stories.

It was just his misfortune that he had to be related to Heinz Harper, the head of the Agency. Normally, Heinz would be offended by nepotism, but, he needed someone smart and someone caring for his newest charge, a child named Amelia who can see Spirits and Ghosts, who was attuned to death. Ascot was 11, then. Heinz offered to take charge of Ascot's education, in exchange for his help with dealing with Amelia, who was a traumatized kid.

Ascot accepted, because even a genius cannot refuse the head of the Agency, and so, began his (not so legal) career at the Agency...

[BioHazard]

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Silas von Wainright

Name: Silas von Wainright
Age: 19

Personality: Silas is one of those persons who prefers to be on his own. He likes thinks that he doesn't fit into any category of people, and thus has his own way of life. He acts very distant towards others, and doesn't trust many people. Sile himself is as trustworthy as he thinks others are though, something he is aware of, but doesn't care about. When finding people that he can call friends he acts very careless and laid back, and always follows his own plan. He also won't easily admit that others are right.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: Silas first was leanred how to make his magic permanent, before he was thought how to use attacking magic. Something advised because the Law magic was very important. Secondly he was taught some Timespace magic with the first one being Flowmotion. The ability allows fluid movement in the open world making it easier for Silas to dodge and move around. He also was taught Superspeed to make his Flowmotion actions to be performed even faster. Lastly was taught how to use Energy magic. Silas managed to learn several types of Energy magic. Heat which allowed him to create fire out of the palms of his hands, a basic power. Acoustics makes Silas able to send shock waves by only clapping in his hands. He can send sonic booms into any direction, and make some kind of shield around him made of sonic waves. Acoustics also have a side-effect to damage the hearing of opponents. He also knows Polarity which makes him able to control the particles in metals to make them heavier or lighter. Alongside that he can move metal with by making a hand command. Another ability is that he can create barriers to protect himself and others.

He doesn't know how to wield any fire weapons or any other weapon aside from his Kalis. The Kalis is something that he only uses in close combat when he has no other choice. He prefers to keep the Kalis intact as it is the only thing left of Raj. He is very good in melee combat with his fists and feet however.

Flaws: Although he is a strong warrior in battle, he is someone who will quickly act on his own. When a plan is made he will either forget it and just do something, or he thinks the plan is stupid and does it on his own way. Because he only knows three Magics which with he can attack, he will often also rely on his melee attacks. The fact that he often does things on his own can bring him into narrow situations in which he has to think up a detailed plan himself, which is hard for him. His plan often only consist out of point A and point B.

Side:
The Mafia (formerly)
Neutral with ties to some friends in the Mafia (currently)

Bio: Silas was born in the family of the Mafia. His father Aldric was your average mafia in the business. Silas never really spend too much time with his father and always was with his mother,Belle, which caused him to become a mama's boy. He was always out with his mother, as, though she loved her husband, didn't want her children to go into the same business as him. Two years later Silas got a little sister who was named Cecilia. Back then Silas and Cecilia were best buds of each other. Aldric spend more time on Cecilia than he did on Silas, as he had given up on his son of becoming his successor one day. This also caused Silas and Cecilia to grow apart.

As time progressed Aldric gained a higher position in the Mafia and was a man of much higher prestige in his branch. But this also made him bitter, Silas was about 14 when this happened. He was manipulating his daughter and treated his son like trash. Belle couldn't take his behavior anymore and wanted him to be like he was when they first met. Aldric had to make the decision between power and love, and eventually chose power as he said: "Love is weakness." Three years later his wife wanted a divorce, but somehow Aldric just couldn't accept that she wanted to leave him. He had her assassinated by someone outside of the Mafia as he didn't want anyone to get suspicious. Silas couldn't accept the death of his mother and hated his father for this, as he knew for 100% that he was the one who had killed his mother.

Silas left the Mafia while Cecilia stayed with their father because she was mentally damaged by him, and pretty much had become his puppet. Silas got a well-paid job in New York, a delivery agency which was allied with the Mafia. Most of the delivery included weapons from the old world and medical goods. Instead of receiving money from his employer, Raj, who he saw as his father figure albeit being only 10 years older than him, he was granted a place to call home, food and special Magic training from him.

The day that Silas turned 19 he was sent on another job, Raj said there will be a surprise when he would come back. However upon Silas' return, he discovered that Raj was murdered. Silas was shocked and saddened that he lost another family member. He discovered that Raj left him a Kalis, the one that belonged to him. Silas never found out who had killed or why he was killed. The only thing he could suspect is that he once was a strong magic user who had a bounty on his head. But further than that he couldn't come. Silas took over the company and continued his jobs.

Aldric von Wainright

Name: Aldric von Wainright
Age: 45

Personality: Once, long time ago, Aldric was a nice man. He could easily make friends and also was one to fall in love with others. He got two children with his "wife". His life in the Mafia began to slowly make him much less likable. He didn't make friends with anyone anymore because no one could be trusted. When he attained a higher position in the Mafia, a very high position, he became heartless. He never smiled, unless it was about killing or torturing someone. He was cold, even to his children and wife. He is an intelligent man, however won't listen to anyone. He loves only his power, and pretty much hates everything else.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: To everyone in the Mafia and further it is believed that Aldric has no magical powers at all. Aldric is a strong man and is very good in hand-on-hand combat and also knows how to wield his fire arms. He however prefers using a simple revolver or pistol. Just something small he can hold in his hand. He doesn't like the bigger guns and can't handle them very well. Secretly Aldric does possess magic but only one type: Mentalism. This way he also was able to control his daughter, while the public just thinks she is loyal to him. He also knows how to create illusions, but almost never uses it.

Flaws: As mentioned above Aldric is a bit clumsy when it comes to bigger fire arms. So he doesn't really use them. The flaw on the side of his magic is that he rarely uses it. And duo to him rarely using his magic, it has become a bit stiff. His mind control is very good, but most of that is used on his daughter, so he can't use it on anyone else. His illusions are always very great and strong, but there always is that one flaw in the illusion what makes it easy to break. But it is hard to find it.

Side: The Mafia

Bio: Aldric was born in an average family. Aldric hung out with the wrong people according to his parents but he continued to hang with them. During his older years he also met a beautiful girl, her name was Belle, a name fitting her appearance. They quickly fell in love and stayed together. It turned out that Aldric's friends were from the Mafia, and that Aldric was allowed to join them, which he did. During his early years of being in the Mafia he got two children with Belle; Silas and Cecilia. Unfortunately Aldric was very busy with his work which caused Silas to become a mama's boy. Aldric decided to leave him be and decided to concentrate on his relationship with his daughter.

Aldric worked very hard and eventually outranked his friends and became head of his branch in the Mafia. This power had risen to his head and he liked it. It changed his personality completely (as seen above) which worried Belle. She eventually gave Aldric an ultimatum which was power or love. Aldric chose power to which Belle's response was a divorce, which also meant that she would get the children, as they never married. Aldric couldn't accept this and searched for an assassin. He found the Maiden of the Mist, the best assassin that there was. He ordered her to kill his wife without leaving any tracks, that might lead to people thinking it was him. The mission was carried out successfully and Aldric hired Jack, as he later learned, as his personal assassin.

Shortly after Belle's death, Silas left the Mafia. Aldric however had used his magical abilities to control his daughter into staying with him. He made is possible for Cecilia to also learn magic, but she was only able to learn one ability. So he instead put her in sword training and replaced her arm with a robotic arm. It was however not the only part he replaced with robotic parts. Aldric currently is still the head of the New York branch of the Mafia. He is trying to find more about the whereabouts of his son (which also lead to having Jack assassinate his new father figure Raj) and tries to keep an eye on him, as he got some interesting plans with this world for which he needs a strong group of individuals.

Cecilia von Wainright

Name: Cecilia von Wainright
Age: 17

Personality: Cecelia is a really nice and kind girl. She loves mocking people and has fun messing around with them. However after her father began manipulating her her personality changed. She has become an empty dusk to say so, a nobody. She shows no signs of emotions most of the times, and when she does it goes to the extremes. She suddenly can have a big anger outburst, a mental breakdown, spontaneous laugh and so on. The only thing she really has normal emotions for is her brother, but even that her father is trying to corrupt.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: Cecilia is trained with swords to the point where is has become an extension of her arms. Literally. Her father replaced her arm with a robotic one that can transform into a blade. There also have been little rockets implanted into the heels of her feet so she can move faster on the ground and in the air. She has little magical ability. The only magical ability she has is Poison. The poison is flowing through her and she can inflict a poisonous status to her opponent when she hold them for long enough. With enough effort she can also bring this poison to her blade and immediately hurt the opponent with a cut of the blade.

Flaws: Her emotions are the biggest problem for Cecilia. Although she is a skilled fighter, her emotions during the battle often cause trouble. She can't handle her emotions so also can't properly fight. Sometimes the emotions do work in her favor, but most of the time it will not. Because certain parts of her body are robotic material she might malfunction when in contact with a big amount of water (a few drops won't have any effect).

Side: The Mafia (forced)

Bio: Cecilia's youth is exactly like the one of Silas in the beginning. Once her father decided to spend more time with her she and Silas grew apart. She also didn't have much time with her mother anymore, who did always want to spend time with her. Unknowingly she was being controlled by her father, until the point that she couldn't really think for herself anymore. After her mother's death she was devastated and her mind was an open store on a Sunday. Aldric took advantage of that and completely controlled her. While Silas moved away, Cecilia stayed with her father. She was trained in the arts of the sword. However her father only saw her as a puppet who needed to become stronger. So he decided to make a puppet of her.

Her arms and heels were replaced by mechanic parts. Her arm was now an arm that could transform into a blade and her heels were rockets. Cecilia also was to train in magic, but she just couldn't master any magic abilities aside of the Poison ability. This was because deep inside she had a caring nature and actually only was able to learn Life magic. But her father wanted her to learn offensive magic. And the only Energy magic that came close to Life magic was Poison. Currently Cecilia works for her father as one of his soldiers. Begin his most prized one alongside Jack.

[GreenGoat]

Working on a cs now

[GreenGoat]

Character Sheet
Name:Catherine Williams
Age: 24
Appearance:

Personality:Cheerful, light hearted, and polite, she is friendly and easygoing, often frequenting a maid cafe after long hours working as one of the attendants at a cosplay bar-cum-karaoke place. Her friends often mention her moods and expression only ranges from happy to ecstatic, and a light smile to a grin. In short, there seems to be nothing that fazes her. She likes cosplaying as well, sometimes dressing up as any favourite character of hers and role playing as that character for a day. She does dislike people who are pushy however, and especially loud people who says hanky instead of handkerchief.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: Energy Magic. All of them.

Flaws:She hasn't honed her body at all, so she isn't especially fast or strong like those who trained their body to the limit. Her repertoire of magic consists of only one school, namely Energy.

Side: Neutral. It doesn't matter as long as she had something to gain.

Bio: She was raised from an orphanage, before being adopted by a bumbling old lady. Catherine has this lingering suspicion the old woman, Reana Williams, was just adopting her for conveniences sake however, regardless of how many times the old woman denied it. Nevertheless the old woman provided for her, and she was grateful for that. Being taught Magic was a bonus, even if all she was taught was of the Energy school.

By the time she hit school, she was already hitting on creative uses of her skills, such as discreetly lowering the gravity during her physical exam, diffracting light to become invisible while sneaking out of school, and making someone's drinks cold. Which fond of practical pranks, she never went further than slight annoyance and surprises, though her friend was royally pissed when her long awaited Luwak coffee went tepid in just a few seconds. She had never went further even if she felt she could do more, because she respected the rules of the school.

Then comes graduation. She was approached by a man wearing the most stereotypical gangsterish outfit ever, complete with fedora and Italian accent. It was so ludicrous, people actually thought he was cosplaying. But he made an offer she could not refuse. A line of work where she would not need to limit her own magic, where she could expand as much as she was able. All she needed to do was take the contracts and decide how to fulfill it her own way, no need for the coverup as long as she was discreet about it. He gave her directions to a cosplay bar, and told her to apply for work there and tell them the Jack sent her.

With that Catherine started working in the cafe, feeling rather guilty about it all. Just as she thought it was all just a gimmick a request came in, in the form of a pink scented letter stuffed into her uniform the next morning of her shift. A few of the other maids and cosplayers there gave her meaningful looks and sly grins as she passed them, feeling as if she was in a dream. How many were there? Who were this people? Ultimately, as she stood over the bloody corpse of the person whose name, picture and location was inside the letter, she decided none of that was important.

It pays, and it allowed her to use her magic however she wished.

[Letter Bee]

GreenGoat said
Snip.

Approved.

[Lucek]

Character Sheet
Name: Omega (Formerly Lucius Dreigiau)
Age: mid 20’s (appearance)
Appearence

Masked

Handler

Personality:

Antisocial and cold. Would be the best way to describe his personality. Because of his past he stopped trusting people. Omega will only deal with a person if he really has to, otherwise he will keep to himself. Prefers to be left alone as that is how he spent most of his life. Almost never takes of his robes and mask.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities:

Omega’s magic would normally classified as: Death, Otherness and Law. He also has a knack for blades, hand to hand combat and stealth. His repertoire also includes working with and repairing a variety of machines.

Familiars

Until recently he had only general shadowfiend familiars. Now aside he has two additional more complex ones. The Fox - Kaena, and cat - Sanuta. Both of them have been with him in spirit form but now they gained bodies. They can use magic themselves but aside from materialization of their own bodies and other small magics, they need a separate supply of mana for bigger spells.

by Troll Girl

Flaws:

His main flaw is that he doesn’t trust people, making him highly incapable of working with a group. When forced to work with others, Omega will enforce his own principles to get the job done. Calculating yet impulsive at the same time, makes him make decisions that might harm people around him, but also himself.

Side: (What faction are you aligned with.) Neutral. (for hire)

Bio:

Lucius grew up in a small house on the outskirts of town, already then was he considered a loner, preferring to keep to himself. Making him the outed and strange kid in the neighborhood. His parents were nice but poor people. Debts kept piling up and as one might imagine, collectors came to harvest their money in whatever way they imagined.

The child, at ten years old, got sold on the black market, his parents killed and ‘recycled’. This however didn’t matter to the boy, he was drugged in a way he couldn’t form coherent thoughts. The person who bought him was a mage. However she didn’t do it from the goodness of her heart. She sensed the child might be moldable, after modifications of course, into someone who would take after her. He’d become an assassin – a lead weaver – just as she was.

Mindwiping his memories and removing anything that could allow him to trace his origin was a start. He got a new name, Omega, which would be a curse and a blessing. The lessons that followed were harsh, brutal and hardly leaving the boy any time to even think.

First was the basic body training, how to hide, hand to hand combat, blade combat, knowledge of machinery. Anything that can be used by a modern day assassin. Next were magic lessons, it wasn’t classified, but it could be compared to shamanism, learning how to converse with spirits, kill people , sustain ones own abilities and magic effects. Stealth magic was also thought, but as it was detectable, magi-tech and non-magical machinery creation was also employed. Not to mention poison and anything else that could be used to kill another person.

Omega learned, as he knew no other way of life, his guardian and mentor the only person who he ever talked with, even then it was rarely. They more often ‘talked’ through their bodies, mannerisms and expressions than with words. The boy more often talked with the spirits and ‘shadows’ around him, through magic, because of this.

After five years of such training he was fiercely loyal to his mentor, not the order that she belonged to, but her alone. He was allowed to undertake missions, which he completed without much trouble. Some were harder some easier, but each time he got one, a person wound up dead the next day. This continued for years and would even today if not for the incident…

His mentor was betrayed during a mission, not by their order but by the employer she worked for at the time. Long story short she was mortally wounded, but managed to kill her opponents. This was the beginning of the end of a chapter in Omega’s life. The organization got raided, no one knew how, maybe there were traitors, or somehow they were infiltrated. That information is lost to this day. Every last person was killed then. Well everyone aside from Omega, who was on a mission at the time.

He didn’t know what to do, no way to communicate with anyone that, like he, might have survived. His mentor dead with no way to ever finding out why or who did this. All data wiped, machines destroyed, things burned down. Nothing was left.

That day Omega remembered something his master told him, if she were ever to die, he should do one thing, go to the coordinates she made him memorize and follow the instructions. What he found, were two things: his mentors robe and mask, however it was tailored to fit any body type, infused with her essence, as well as a set of instructions to hind one person, he’d help as it was her brother, an information broker and work contact. The note had one sentence handwritten in her blood, a custom she explained had to do with some of the things she believed in.

“I am the first Omega, now you are the second. I started walking this road once in solitude, but I was joined by you, as you will one day find one who will share our fate. More than just by blood, we have been and will be as one. May the shadows protect you my child. Omega… Child of the dragon.

[Letter Bee]

As I said, @Lucek, Approved.

Now, all we need is a good Agency character, so that I can finally allow outright villains.

[Joshua Tamashii]

These are WIP, due to my limited amount of time to work on them. Be patient.

Joshua Tamashii

Character Sheet
Name: Joshua Tamashii
Age: 21
Appearance:


Personality: Joshua is a calm and collected individual who can be very short tempered and reckless at times. Though he generally focuses on the task at hand and is all business, he will makes jokes and try to lighten the mood when things can bad or look like they're about to be. Though he is generally a lone and reluctant to work with others, he does care for those he works with and looks out for their well being.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: Joshua completely and utterly incapable of magic. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't use magic. Despite this though, he more then makes up for it with his physical abilities. He is a skilled marksman and a master at close-range combat, being a master of multiple weapons and street fighting. Joshua is also incredibly faster, even without the aid of magic.

Flaws: Due to his interactions with a certain girl protected by the Agency, Joshua refrains from killing as much as possible. He will refuse to kill someone unless pushed to extremes and left with no other option, though he feels incredible guilt afterwards. Joshua also can't control his anger when children are involved in something and his inability to kill goes out the window once a child gets hurt or involved in a dangerous situation.

Side: Neutral (Gun for hire, refuses to work with Mafia, no matter the price)

Bio: Joshua was born and raised in a family of mercenaries. From the moment he could walk and make a first he was trained to fight and kill. While his family generally disproved of magic, they also acknowledged the uses it could have in their line of work. While most of his family was able to learn magic fairly quickly, Joshua struggled to learn even the most basic abilities of any school of magic. While this disappointed his family and frustrated the young boy, he kept at his physical training and was soon able to hold his own against even his father, who was the head of the family at the time.

Joshua took his first job at 13, which involved protecting several people of importance alongside his twin siblings, Toshiro and Sakura Tamashii. It was during this mission that Joshua committed his first homicide, killing a man who had threatened their charges. Though this event would normally be traumatizing to someone so young, Joshua had been trained to see such things as nothing more then a part of the job. As such, he was unable to gain magic through this method.

When Joshua was 19, he and his entire family were hired by the agency to take down a Mafia prostitution ring that had girls that were too young to be involved in such activities and to rescue any that showed powerful magical powers. Though the family knew it was unlikely they would all come out alive and as such gave each other their good-byes to each other, as was their tradition for such missions, and set out the get the job done. The Mafia naturally put up a fight to protect one of their most profitable businesses and as a result, most of the Tamashii family was killed. Near the end of the mission, Joshua, Toshiro, and Sakura were the only ones left arrive and were trying the get the only child that was still alive after the mafia realized they were losing and started killing off the girls. While the four of them got out alive, the mafia had sent one of their most elite assassins to finish them off. Toshiro and Sakura sent Joshua and the child on ahead while they held the assassin off.

Joshua managed to get the girl to the Agency and reported in. The Agency sent out several teams to clean up the mess and find any possible survivors. When they reported back, Joshua learned that Toshiro and Sakura had been killed by the assassin sent after them but that the killer had escaped. Angered beyond belief, Joshua was about to go on a suicide mission to take down the mafia, when the child he had rescued spoke. She was able to see the spirits of his family and deliver their last message to him: to not let his emotions get the best of him and to live and keep their legacy going.

After taking some time to cool down, Joshua decided to fulfill the last wishes of his family and has since then been a gun for hire, though his grudge against the mafia stops him from working for that and eagerly take any job that could hurt them.

Amelia Averyonna

Character Sheet
Name: Amelia Alison Averyonna
Age: 11
Appearance:


Personality: Amelia is a very quiet and reserved girl, rarely speaking to anyone she doesn't know well and trust. When she does speak, it is often in a very low tone, making her hard to hear.

One of Amelia's more positive characteristics is her utter reverence for life. Having almost died many times herself and being able to see the dead and how they sometimes suffer, Amelia hates hearing about others taking lives and is against the very notion, to the point that she refuses to eat anything that involved the death of something living (in other word, she refuses to eat meat and fish).

Amelia tries her best to distance herself from her past as much as possible. When it does come up, she usually closes up and hides from it as best she can or, if it keeps dogging her, she breaks down and loses her usual composure due to memories she tries to suppress coming to the surface and literally flashing before her eyes. During such time's she's extremely difficult to calm down, with only the people she trust most having any chance at doing so.

Due to spend most of her time with him over the past two years, Amelia has developed a small crush on her handler, Ascot Harper, but is hesitant to explore these emotions due to her past and her inability to identify what the emotion she is feeling truly is.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: Amelia gained her magical powers through trauma and her closeness to death. Due to the sheer amount of magical power she has gained from the trauma she has experienced, the Agency is forced to use various seals on her to keep her powers in check, though even then they can't hold all her powers back.

Amelia's magics are Death and Otherness. Her Otherness powers grant her the ability to see the spirits that roam around unseen by most people, as well as talk and physically interact with them. This is her most used magic and makes her one of the Agency's best information gatherers, as most people are unnerved by spirits and rarely learn the Otherness school of magic.

Amelia's abilities with the school of Death or her most fearsome, but rarely used. When they are used, she has been shown to be capable of raising a literal army of the undead and releasing waves of necrotic energy that could kill everyone within a very wide radius. Most of the seals the Agency has placed on her are to restrain these powers to the safety of both Amelia and the general public, though said seals are sometimes broken and need to quickly be out back in place.

Flaws: Amelia is a pacifist, as she detest violence and utterly refuses to fight, even if she could be killed. While she knows a few moves to defend herself, she lacks the physical strength and endurance needed to fight. As such, she relies on Ascot and their allies to protect her if she ever gets into a dangerous situation.

Another reason Amelia refuses to fight is because of a mysterious heart condition she has. Possibly as a result of magical torture, Amelia can't exert herself too much for fear of causing her heart to work harder then normal, which results in her coughing up blood. It is also suspected the seals on her and the magical power they hold back factor into the severity of this condition and make it worse.

Amelia's final flaw is her inability to control her magical powers, hence the seals mentioned above. Should said seals break she will have no ability to stop her magic from running rampant until she is either knocked out or falls unconscious. This effectively makes her a smoking gun and possibly the most dangerous person in any group she's in, despite her pacifistic nature.

Side: Agency, due to them being the ones taking care of her

Bio: Amelia was born into a poor family, who could barely make enough money to scrape by and support their daughter. This was not helped by their gambling addiction, which lead them to fall behind on taxes and other needed payments. As such they were quick to look for a loan and they were quickly taken in by a loan shark's offer, not even thinking about the terms and it's possible consequences.

Sadly, the lone shark was associated with the Mafia and was quick to bring up their debt to the organization. Her parents scrambled to pay off the debt, namely by more gambling, but only wound up making the situation worse. When the shark and his goons showed up to collect the debt and her parents were unable to pay, he was about to order their death. However, he spotted the then five year old Amelia watching from a nearby doorway and, knowing of an upcoming enterprise of the Mafia's and seeing an opportunity to advance, the man took the young child as payment instead.

Amelia was taken to a place the Mafia referred to as Atlantis. It was a prostitution ring set up by Mafia, though none of the girls that worked there were willing or of legal age. Life in Atlantis was very hard on the young girl's as it was some sort of sick, twisted game for the wish: Two men got two girls, 'played' with them, the decided which one they liked more. The winner lived but was forced to watch the loser die in front of them. Any girls that proved uncooperative where tortured with various magics before being sent back to do their 'jobs'.

The Mafia was not stupid and, after a while, began giving the girls sedatives that also blocked their ability to use the magic they would gain from the trauma they were going through. Amelia, who always 'won' her 'games' was usually given several times the normal dose because it quickly became apparent her powers were far stronger then the others. This left her in a doll-like state, unable to act but aware of what was being done to her and the other girls.

Amelia was stuck in that hellhole for four whole years. During this time the Agency had found out about Atlantis and sent a squad of mercenaries, the Tamashii family, to clear the building out and rescue all the children they could. The Mafia put up a better fight then expected and also began killing off the girls, as they were expendable at that point. Out of the hundreds that were there, only Amelia survived, though through sheer luck, as the executioner was killed just before he could finish her off. The three remain Tamashii carried her out at that point and got her to the Agency after two of the remaining three stayed behind to fend off a Mafia assassin.

Since her rescue Amelia has stayed and lived in the Agency. She was assigned a handler, Ascot Harper, the son of the head of the Agency. Her life has been mostly peaceful since then, with her helping the Agency out on occasion but generally staying in the safety of the facility.

Jack

Character Sheet
Name: Jack aka the Maiden of the Mist
Age: 19
Appearance:


Personality: As an assassin Jack is calm and collected under any kind of pressure and remarkably cunning. She never panics and will take any situation put in front of her with a calm expression while find out the best way out in a matter of seconds.

When sent to kill someone, Jack will find them quickly but take her time eliminating them, displaying a childish yet highly sadistic personality, as she will play 'games' with her target and slowly torture them before finally killing them after their spirit has been broken. After having her fun she reverts back to her usual personality before finding her next target(s) and taking her time eliminating them.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: Jack in your ideal assassin: She's quick, flexible, surprisingly strong dispute what her build might say, and skilled with just about any weapon out there. She's also skilled in stealth and infiltration, being able to break into just about any place she puts her mind to and get out unnoticed. These skills aided her in the ONLY successful infiltration of the Agency, when she was sent there to retrieve some information the organization had on he Mafia that her bosses didn't want the Agency to have.

Jack is also skilled in magic, particularly the Matter, Mentalism, and Fate schools, which she uses to great effect to aid in her job. Her moniker, the Maiden of the Mist, is earned her unparalleled skill in the Matter school and affinity for mist and fog. Jack never carries any weapons on her, as she just fashions them from mist. This means metal detectors have no chance at detecting weapons on her. She uses Mentalism to trick people and hide herself in plain sight and only uses Fate in emergencies.

Flaws: Jack's one and only flaw is her tendency to play with her targets. She will take longer then necessary to kill them, something that can lead to officials finding her before she finishes her target off, though she's usually swift to do so before going on a killing spree on the poor bastards that found her.

Side: Mafia (Secret Assassin for Aldric von Wainright)

Bio: The mafia assassin known as the Maiden of the Mist is a mystery to everyone, even the head of the Agency. No one knows where she comes from, nor do they know who trained her. The only person who has even a few facts about her is her boss: Aldric von Wainright. But even he only knows a few details about her past, an even those might not be true.

What is known to be true are as follows: Jack was raised to be an assassin from birth and her family had a long tradition of being assassins. Once they're training was complete the new assassin would align themselves with some organization or another and provide their skills for that organization until their death or the organization was disbanded.

Jack arrived at the mafia about four years ago and aligned herself with Aldric immediately, seeing a ruthlessness in the man that attracted her. Though not a part of the mafia at the time, her first order from Aldric was to eliminate his wife, a job Jack took with glee. She displayed amazing skill during the job, eliminating Aldric's wife and leaving without leaving any evidence that she had been there. From then on she took jobs from him, eliminating his enemies within and outside the Mafia at his behest and even breaking into the Agency to retrieve information that would earn him a promotion.

One of her jobs included eliminating a close friend of Aldric's renegade son Silas. Jack preformed the job as expected but she made sure to leave Silas only one clue: A strand of her silver hair. Due to there being no record of her birth DNA analysis would be pointless but it could prove to be a valuable clue for Silas' revenge.

[Letter Bee]

@Joshua, Approved.

[Letter Bee]

Sorry to double-post, but if no one else joins The Agency, then I won't be able to allow villains.

[Lucek]

If no one joins in the next while, just say that my char is currently under contract with them. Will be a wild card but at least we could get things started then.

[Letter Bee]

Thanks.

[Apokalipse]

Balthazar “Thaz” Carlton

Name: Balthazar “Thaz” Carlton

Age: 21

Personality:
Thaz is a woman of strong morals and refuses to bend them for anyone. Independent and feministic, she thrives on the ability to care for herself. While most find themselves awkward, Thaz is comfortable in her own skin and knows herself like the back of her hand. Her greatest flaw would be her brutal honesty; she willingly tells the truth even if it risks hurting people’s feelings because she was never able to distinguish the line where honesty becomes cruelty.
Many would describe her as being hot-blooded because of the intense passion for what she believes in and the strength of her rage when angered.

Magical powers/ Physical Abilities:
Thaz has the ability to control molecules in anything. This means she can blow things up by speeding up the molecules, slow things down, and melt things. However, it takes her a lot of energy to control more than a couple of molecules and for her to blow things up, slow things down, or melt things she needs more than a couple of molecules in her control. She possesses Energy, Matter, Mentalism, and Timespace.
She also has a simple know-how in weapons and martial arts, specifically boxing.

Flaws: Thaz is generally unlikeable and overwhelming which leads to many enemies. Her hot-headed nature also leads to loss of control in her abilities at moments.

Side: The Agency

Bio:
Thaz grew up on a small farm with her parents and two brothers in the South. She was the youngest of her siblings and was often on the receiving end of some anger-inducing pranks. Most days she spent her time wrestling, fishing, and chasing the family’s chickens which were notorious for getting out – the family had been calling their six chickens “Houdini chickens” since Thaz was at least six. The eldest son of the Carlton family was interested in medicine and had moved to New York for med school whilst the middle child wanted to take over the family farm. Thaz was twelve when her brother moved out and had visited him many times since then.
The first time she visited him, though, she had passed by the Empire State University for Magi and Nonmagi and immediately fell in love with the school. The Carlton daughter became obsessed with the arcane arts and began studying to get into the New York school. Books were bought and piled, reread and then sold, until she learned all she could learn from books. All that was left was actual school.

Thaz almost flunked out of the Empire State University for Magi and Nonmagi her first year; university was so different from high school and she was quickly overcome with stress. However, when visiting her brother at the hospital where he worked, she was imbedded with new determination and began working harder than ever. She graduated as one of the top ten in her class and was accepted in the Agency.

[BioHazard]

Joshua Tamashii said
These are WIP, due to my limited amount of time to work on them.

I think that the relationship between Silas and Joshua will be very interesting to say the least.

[Krodin329]

Character Sheet
Name: Conor Veradé
Age: 19
Appearance:
Personality: Conor loves nothing more than a good brawl, and that's what he's known for. He's surprisingly intelligent and level headed, however, the thought of testing his limits excites him. This causes him to seek the thrill of battle in an organized manner, systematically searching for foes via an underground street fighting group. He's very friendly and is incredibly loyal to the few close friends he has.
Magical powers/ Physical Abilities: Conor has trained in a variety of martial arts, his favorite being a combination of Eskrima and Tae kwon do, however, he's known to be a master of a few others as well. He uses these martial arts in addition to two Moro Binukuko as well as his Law, Energy, and Matter magic to use his magic as a bender would from "Avatar: The last Airbender" However, he does not merely control four elements, but any he can think of, provided he has the magical prowess to create it. His magic is only slightly above average in terms of power, this causes him to rely on his incredible martial arts prowess and sword skill to achieve victory in his fights. In other words his magic assists him, rather than him relying on it. When going up against opponents with timespace, however, he uses law to create a hormone that increases his reaction time exponentially to the fifth or sixth power. (He can dodge a speeding bullet)
Flaws: He can't stand doing nothing, he always must be on his feet. Whether it's fighting, training, or doing his daily activities, he never simply takes time to relax. This can get him into a bit of trouble.
Side: (What faction are you aligned with.): Lawful Neutral:If it brings a good fight, he'll do it.
Bio: Conor was raised by a Filipino mother, and an American father in upstate New york. They where non magical, but still believed that Conor should practice some form of discipline. When he turned five, he began training in Eskrima and Tae Kwon do. It was obvious the boy possessed natural talent for martial arts, so he pursued it. His training molded him into a disciplined, and perfectly fit young boy by the age of thirteen. However, his parents where murdered while on a trip to inner New York in order to help with relief work in the poorer inner city. He survived the assault by killing the magician who attacked his family with the powers gained by what his mind comprehended as only a "mid level trauma".

For the next six years of his life he took to the streets, using his natural martial arts and stealthy abilities to steal views of lectures in magical schools. However, the only way he could hone his abilities at first was to get in fights with other magicians. Surprisingly, these went well, as his opponents were not particularly on the side of fitness, but on the side of magical ability. He learned to incorporate his martial arts techniques with his magic, leading to close the gap between brawlers and deal damage with his fists and feet.

At the age of 17, he had created quite a name for himself, known as, "The bender", for being able to control elements at his will by using martial arts. He was then introduced to the Underground Magical Brawlers Guild to fight by a training partner. Dozens of the best magical brawlers in the city all were members, he couldn't refuse. He soon was able to prove himself near the best of the best, often leading his guild in tournaments against other guilds. The groups fame rose, quickly. Unfortunately, fame attracted the Agency.

On Conor's Eighteenth birthday, he underwent a particularly brutal Brawl with his best friend, Syrus. Unfortunately, this battle became out of hand, causing a large explosion in the central under ground plans of New York, miraculously, no one was hurt. However, agents of the Agency moved in to subdue the two combatants, and where successful after about a half a dozen showed up. Syrus and Conor had been unwilling to back down, knowing full well they could lose even in a one on one.

For about a week, Conor ended up haggling with the agency, desperately attempting to keep his guild alive. Finally, a compromise was reached. In return for Conor's service with the agency when he was called, the group was given it's freedom, and a safe ring to fight in. Since then, Conor has worked with the agency nine times in Spec. Ops. missions. After the first time he realized he enjoyed the work, getting to fight, while actually exploring the talent of the villainous scum that still inhabited the world.

He also is beginning to understand that through law and order, he is beginning to achieve absolute freedom to fight, while making the world a better place.

[Letter Bee]

Apokalipse said
Note: I didn't know what her magic specialty would be listed under (matter, energy, etc.). But this is the general ability that I wanted her to use; let me know if you want me to change it ^_^

It's both Energy and Matter; as a member of the Agency, you can have two more Schools.

[Letter Bee]

Krodin329 said
Snip.

Accepted, you and Balthazar are now the Agency's prime team; Balthazar's the leader, though.

[Letter Bee]

@Joshua, Ascot's the Nephew of the Agency head, not the son.