Kingdom Hearts: Fractured (Interest check)

[Noel]

A Roleplay by GMs Noel and Imperfectionist

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TL;DR

-----This is a Kingdom Hearts RP but one which will operate a little differently than most. Rather than having multiple worlds which the players will travel between, this RP well take place on a single world in effort to keep players from getting so spread out. However the world with its broken nature will still be able to have variety in areas. Should be fairly obvious but because of this there wont be any final fantasy or disney characters running around.

-----Looking for at least 2-3 good paragraphs per post with everyone preferably having a post or two a week at least. This is something she'll bring up if its not met as she does want to see players helping to move scenes along.

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IC Introduction

-----A world, once vibrant and prosperous as it basked in the warmth of the light. For as long as it could be remembered the light would be a constant ally. A force to protect from those who would harm. An ever present force to be refined into energy to light the streets and keep the darkness at bay, to bring comfort to the homes of its people. Light, believed to be the essence of all hearts, a strong abundant force which would never falter.

The people, prosperous yet all too short sighted, too single minded. Enthralled by what could be created, too ambitious to see what could go awry. True, it was known that every light would cast a shadow; in response some sought to abolish the darkness by flooding the world with greater light. In the end, such an effort would prove utterly futile. The greater a light shines the larger its shadow becomes after all. So others would simply choose not to see the shadow that each light would cast. And some would face down the shadow, either by choice or by necessity, to walk within it even if it threatened to consume them. Never for a second did the people see what danger their single mindedness would invite. Never would they think everything they knew could be shattered in an instant.

It would come to be known as The Fracturing. The event which would bring about the fall of the world and its people. An event not ushered in by the shadow of darkness the world feared, but by the blanket of light it took comfort in. The ground trembles, the wind howls, the world itself straining until finally, a break. Great faults opening with a deafening screech and blinding pillars of light. The world around flaking away like dust to be drawn into the light. Though the initial havoc would fade the world would be far from safe. Buildings, streets, power plants, even the people themselves all indiscriminately broken into pieces by the overwhelming light, twisted and redeposited all about the world. The population decimated, cities and towns reduced to husks to be beset from all sides. The darkness, the great shadow of the light bathed world seeping out to claim hearts. The light overwhelming those who once basked in its protection. This world, whose name has been ripped from memory. Though it remains unknown to those left standing, countless hearts had been fractured by the overwhelming light of the world. The very heart of the world the first to fall prey. This world has been twisted, broken, and now only time will tell of its fate...

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OOC Introduction

-----Alrighty so interest check time! You know the drill. So having recently played DDD and finally got completely up to date with the series was feeling like trying another Kingdom Hearts RP. Tried something with the same basic idea of this which didn't quite pan out so wanted to try it again in a different sort of setting while also incorporating another idea. So the basic idea just came from wanting to use the broken heart idea again but also wanting to do something where light can be just as dangerous as the dark. But its not just her ideas, had plenty of help with ideas and hammering things out from our friendly Co-GM Imperfectionist.

So anywho, would like this RP to be rather character driven with players actions moving things while the GMs intertwine things for the overarching plot. So, characters goals will pretty much be entirely their own, you dont have to want to save the world. Maybe you want to side with the antagonist, maybe you're a nobody just aiming to be whole again. She'll also always be open to plays pitching ideas for areas or enemies so if you have one you might want to use feel free to toss her a PM or somthing.

Sooo yeah, feel free to post any interests or questions! CS template and her character for an example down below, and more information over at the OOC

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CS Stuff

CS Template

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Name:(Only first, Kingdom Hearts has a thing against last names after all. Nobodies will keep their original name or assume an alias if you want but will have no X in their name, X anagrams are organization 13's thing)

Alias/Title:(Any title, alias or nickname)

Race:(Human, Nobody, Fractured)

Age:(Age or appearance age for non-human characters.)

Appearance:(Drawn image preferred)

Weapon Appearance:(The appearance of your characters weapon if applicable. Image or description. There will be no dual wielding of keyblades unless it is discussed and a good reason is given. Its not something that can be done just like picking up two swords.)

Weapon Name:(The name of your weapon if it has one)

Combat Abilities:(Any battle skills the character has, be it magic, technology or weapon proficiency. Basic spells in Kingdom Hearts are Fire, Ice, Thunder, Wind, Earth, Gravity, Magnet and Reflect. Light and Darkness are treated as more of a natural force rather than a spell. Omitting stop and cure unless a good case for them is presented since they could probably be abused. Also, these can naturally be more flexible then seen in the game mechanics since its an RP after all(for example, aero doesn’t just have to be a wind shield, you could use it to fire gusts of wind).

Nobodies often have power over a single element which they can use in conjunction with their weapons.

A human's magic is less powerful than a nobodies but more flexible allowing them to have more than one element. She will allow two elements to a character with physical combat ability and up to four for a dedicated mage type character unless otherwise discussed. Light and Darkness however will take two 'slots' due to being more powerful than the rest in Kingdom Hearts.

A Fractured's abilities are mostly based around light and characterized by being chaotic or unpredictable even to the user. Because of a Fractured's light abilities being inherently somewhat unstable one element will be allowed to them. )

Non-Combat Abilities:(Any skills you want to list that may not necessarily relate to combat. Things like cooking, being good with technology, being a sculptor. This section is optional)

Personality:(A brief description of the characters personality traits)

History: (The characters backstory leading up to the start of the RP. This section can be PM'd if you want it to be revealed during the story itself )

Reputation: (Your characters reputation around the world since the fracturing. Are they a known shop keeper? An irritating trouble maker? Just a relatively unknown drifter?)

Song:(A song for your character, because why not? Optional.)

Elle

Name: Elle

Alias/Title:n/a

Race:Human

Age:19

Appearance:


Since being blinded Elle's eyes have become a milky white, though this is not often seen as she mostly leaves them closed. Her outfit consists of her scarf, a coat which ends just below her waist and plain black pants which she often keeps tucked into brown boots. Beneath her coat she wears a plain gray long sleeve shirt.

Weapon Appearance:

Weapon Name:Ebb and Flow

Combat Abilities: Elle is decently skilled in close combat with a very good reaction time at mid to close range to back it up. She is a quick and maneuverable fighter who makes effective use of evasion to keep herself in the fight. Her weaknesses however rest in her long range combat ability and her endurance. As she can not see Elle has developed a sort of sensory network with her darkness which lets her feel out an area around her. While this gives her excellent perception of things on all sides of her it does not extend far enough for long range attacks to be detected. She would only notice the attack after it enters mid range which may only allow for a very narrow window to block or dodge. This issue also extends to her ability to counterattack at a long range as she could neither 'see' an opponent which is too for away nor could she properly aim an attack.

Non-Combat Abilities:Elle passively has a sensory network formed by darkness around her which gives her a 360 degree awareness of an area around her. Furthermore she has a resistance to darkness and is able to open and cross through corridors of darkness, though currently not without some degree of exhaustion.

Elle is also adept at navigating The Blind and is a fairly decent cook...if she can be trusted to get good ingredients.

Personality:Elle is easily someone who could always be described as tomboyish, with a very casual and laid back demeanor most of the time. While this can keep her level headed most of the time it also tends to make her rather flippant or dismissive to people or problems at hand which can at times make her both frustrating to deal with and end herself in unsafe situations.

History: My names Elle, I never knew my parents, grew up in an upper-city boarding with other kids who lost their parents or just got dumped there one day. Could never say what, I never really gave my situation much thought. Brightwood wasn’t a bad place to live, we all had a room of our own room and three meals a day. The place got donations from the city and the owners watched over an entrance to The Blind we had way out back so it pulled in plenty of money. It seemed to be a legitimate institution, for a long time it probably was, but that place had some of secrets of its own.

The Brightwood boarding house was more than a simple home for lost children. On the outside it looked like it but with that entrance to The Blind set practically in the back yard it was a perfect mid point for smugglers and black market traders lookin' to make some deals with the rich folks in the upper-city. It might seem strange having backroom deals going on in an orphanage but the traders weren't a violent sort. It was the clever, cunning and sly ones that needed to run those deals after all.

That was the place I grew up. Lower-city smugglers and traders showin' up in the dead of night to stash their goods, upper-city businessmen and researchers stopping in the early morning to make their deals. Over the years certain traders became regulars who would stay in the house for several days before returning. As a child I couldn’t help but be curious, they had all sorts of stories about monsters within the blinds or fantastic trinkets and oddities from who knows where. Each night I found myself out on the balcony watching the stars, wondering if those traders would come slipping out of The Blind with their next batch of trade goods. And I only got more and more curious with each visit over the years. By the time I was 11 I grew a rapport with one trader in particular called Lowell who always seemed glad to regale us kids with all sorts of stories.

Was around this time I was getting tired of sitting around my room all the time. I got even more curious so me and some of the more adventurous kids started sneaking off to snoop around The Blind's entrance. We got plenty of scoldings by the staff but that never stopped us for long. Still it wasn’t like a bunch of kids had any chance of getting in there, that door was always sealed tight so I was always stuck back on that balcony waiting and stargazing. But... one night something happened. The smugglers got spotted by upper-city law and it quickly escalated into a full blown battle. I was just a dumb kid so of course I didn't think to get inside and that would come back to bite me in the ass, and quick. It happened too quick for me to tell what happened but I got hit square in the face with a stray spell. In an instant my whole world went black. I can barely remember that night, I can only guess I must have passed out soon after.

The next month... it was one I wish I didn't remember. Fear, depression, anger, frustration. It felt like those were the only things I felt. Suddenly I could barely even make my way around my room let along do anything else. The other kids started avoiding me after the first week, looking back on it I cant really blame them. I wouldn’t have been a blast to hang around. While I was wrapped up with all of this Brightwood was being investigated under suspicion of being involved with the smuggling ring, and there was plenty to link the place to it. Tension was high all around and those days passed with an agonizing crawl until the decision was finally made. Brightwood boarding house was to be shut down and we were all to be shuffled off to wherever they could find a place for us.

It was shortly before the home was set to be cleared out that Lowell and the traders paid one last business to finish up the trade contract that got interrupted. Lowell stopped by my room before they left, I didn't realize it at the time but it must have been obvious how poor shape I was in. I coulden't see a thing and darkness was fixing to wring my heart for all it was worth. If it wasn’t for Lowell's offer I probably would have ended up one of the monsters in The Blind I was always enthralled by. Heartless. But Lowell offered me a place in the smuggling ring, on one condition. If I was gonna travel through The Blind I couldn’t fear the darkness. Didn't know if I could make it back then but I accepted anyway. At least it gave me somthin' to try.

I left Brightwood with the traders and made my first trip through The Blind that night. Felt like I'd be suffocated more than once but they told me something. Remember the stars, tiny points of light against the vast blanket of darkness. If they can shine within it then so can you. Seems so stupid and sappy now but it helped me through that trip. Made me realize that its not really the dark you should be afraid of. When we finally made it to their building in the lower-city I was just stuck with odd jobs for a while, I still couldn’t do much back then. But I kept makin' trips to The Blind, I stopped being afraid of the darkness. It even became calming. And as I got more used to it I started feeling somthin' like a second sense for the world around me coming up.

Things were going well for a while. My senses were getting better and better with each trip to The Blind, soon I didn't even need to see and I could navigate those dark tunnels just as well as any of those vets. They taught me how to fight and take care of myself, started feelin' like I was invincible. So of course before long something would happen to knock that right out. Was around a year ago, we were doing a job bringing some cheap mythil, cheaper then you could ever get in the city to some sculptor in the upper-city. Easy job but we slipped up and got spotted by the law. Tried to run straight back to The Blind but only some of us made it. My luck that I was one they caught. Locked up and questioned damn near that entire year. Turned 19 in there and started to feel like I'd never get out. Then that happened.

The Fracturing. Seemed to come without warning, the wind howling and the ground shaking. Before I even knew it everything was chaos. I'm still not sure what really happened but this place sure hasn’t been the same since. People were vanishing left and right, like bugs snuffed out in a lantern. I almost bit it too, but I managed to pull off an escape. If you can call it that. Trying to shove the door open I fell backwards but I never hit the ground. All I could feel was darkness, thicker than anything I'd felt before. I blanked out a little and when I came too I was in The Blind. Must have been a full day before I found my way out, tunnels didn’t seem like they were before. The Heartless sure got more aggressive. If it wasn’t for this... weird key showing up I might've even been done for then too. Almost felt like someone was lookin' out for me back then. When I finally fought my way out it must have been a full day and the world already went plenty south. Didn't seem content to stop there either.

Its been six months since then. I've been tryin' to find Lowell or any of those guys since it happened but I haven't seen hide nor hair from any of 'em. Seems like the whole cities become a ghost town, I've barely seen anyone around. Most people seem to have banded up together, guess I'm the crazy one wanderin' all around this place. Plenty of monsters to keep me on my toes though, if thats anything to be thankful for. Don't know why I'm wasting my time recording this anyway. Guess it could be target practice if nothin' else...

Reputation: Before the fracturing Elle was a member of a large smuggling and black market ring who would likely be somewhat known by those who had ties to underground circuits before the fracturing, though how much depend on how involved they would have been. Since the event she has been wandering about, occasionally trading goods when she would encounter someone.

Song:(A song for your character, because why not? Optional.)

[Sunshine]

I'd like to submit a character! However, I've a few questions to ask first.

Would you be able to tell me more about the world? Elle's city seems to me a very sordid, grimy city. What are other places like?

Pre-"The event" the population had knowledge of Light and Darkness beyond their dictionary definitions. Did they know about the Keyblade too? Magic?

What is The Blind?

Do you mind if I create a Keyblade wielder? I wouldn't mind you would prefer to limit Keyblades.

Hehehe, sorry for the Q Attack.

[Imperfectionist]

:) I would recommend heading over to the OOC. Most of your questions are answered there. (And, just so people know, this really is Noel's RP. I merely provided some minor feedback.)

[Sunshine]

Hm?

[Imperfectionist]

The Out of Character thread for the RP. Basically all of your questions (more info on the city, what the people knew about, what The Blind is) are answered there.

:) And yes, you can make a Keyblade wielder. It's no problem.

[Noel]

Most of those answers should be in the OOC thread under the information section~

To give some quick answers though, Luce is a huge vertically orientated city with the lower reaches being the sort of seedy area where criminals usually hang out, the upper city being a rich and lavish area.

The people know about magic but keyblades are quite unknown. There probably have been keyblade wielders in the past but due to the relative safety of the world before the fracturing keyblades are virtually unknown.

The Blind is sort of a mass tunnel system sort of like a sewer which contains darkness that gets let off by the light they use as an energy source.

You can make a keyblade wielder yes. Don't have any specific limit on them, just dont want EVERYONE to be one.

And again like Impy said there, the OOC has a lot more info about teh world and such

[Sunshine]

Imperfectionist said
The thread for the RP. Basically all of your questions (more info on the city, what the people knew about, what The Blind is) are answered there.:) And yes, you can make a Keyblade wielder. It's no problem.

The "Hm?" was in reply to your post that said, "Ignore for now."

Thanks guys!

[Imperfectionist]

Sunshine said
The "Hm?" was in reply to your post that said, "Ignore for now." Thanks guys!

Yeah, I accidentally pasted some stuff in the text box that shouldn't have been there, and had to quickly edit it to something more innocuous...

^-^ And you're welcome, of course. Yay for our first interest.

[Dark Revenger Knight]

This looks promising, I'm game!

[Noel]

Excellent~ She'll be checking in all day so feel free to ask if you've got any questions at all.

[KiltmanBagz]

AH, I remember this game. I absolutely loved the concept, if first so perfectly in the universe. Last time I tried to join it I had to drop out at the beginning due to some life stuffs. I will either end up dusting off my nobody or see if I can rig up a new character.

[Noel]

Would be glad to have you again. Just be sure to take a glance over the info since shes reworked the idea a lot in some places.