[OOC] The Comatose Kingdom

[Optimist]

Closet Nerd said
IOptimist: Just a minor problem with the appearances, it seems like you copypasted those on either side of the CS, Fantasy and Reality generally look different from one another. Plus that means Storm is mentioned on Gail's side. I'm not accepting it yet since it's late and I might not have caught something potentially questionable but it looks good. Plus mentioning that the protagonist has a bisexual aunt, a gay uncle (or father, maybe) and a gay character on the way from Rune, it seems like we're already building a setting here I think. Also Pennsylvania xD

She can still be a member of a British family, if you wish. I could easily change where she grew up, without changing the character in any significant way. I am used to Philadelphia, Kansas City, Orlando and Kansas City, having lived in each of those cities. Would you prefer one of them? If not, I know the feel of London, because I watch way to much British television. I have also been to Colorado, Canada, California and Texas, if that helps, though I never lived in those places. (I assume your British, from your spelling of the word color, but I could be wrong on that.)

I fixed up the appearance, making them quite different. I hope that this helps.

[Toaw]

~Fantasy Side~

Name: Captain Greybeard

Appearance: Captain Greybeard is a fairly old man in what seems to be in his late fifties/early sixties, but even in his old age has a very broad chest, and is extremely fit. He has a full beard, so large that his head is minuscule in comparison, and a classic pure black pirate hat, and an eye patch over his right, and left eye. His mouth contains two rotten front teeth, and three golden ones placed in seeming random locations across his mouth. He wears a large blue overcoat over a dark scarlet red t-shirt, along with a pure white undershirt. He wears navy blue pant legs that are neatly tucked under his boots around his ankles. He stands around 6'3", and weighs around 220 lbs. (I couldn't find a good image for him hope this will do!)

Personality: The Captain is extremely adventurous, and is willing to take on things without looking back. He is often considered a bit rude and a drunk, but he has a soft side to him. He will often tell stories of the deeds he had done, and will push others to follow in his footsteps. He believes that everyone has their own battle to face, and that they should just face it head on.

Physicality
Pros:
-Extremely well built, and strong
-Well balanced when on a ship
-Fairly fast
Cons:
-Not well balanced on land
-Often drunk when not sailing or on a boat
-Not very agile when it comes to dogging things

Bio: Captain Greybeard is the mighty captain of the Ship Victoria, and has sailed on it for as long as he could remember. He has no wife, or children to his name, but loves his boat, and the sea more than life itself. He commands a small crew of twenty five others, who all have their different quirks, and weird personalities often being borderline insane.

Misc: He would give up his life if it meant he could travel the sea on Victoria.

~Real Side~

Name: Joseph Montague

Age: 61 (Deceased)

Appearance: A fairly old man with a broad chest, but due to old age is starting to lose his past build due to old age. He has almost a full set of teeth except for three golden ones placed in similar places as Captain Greybeard, and a pair of glasses for his eyes. His hair is pure white, and he has a fairly small full grown beard. In the pictures he is often seen in, he often wore a button downed stripped shirt, and blue jeans tightly fit around two black pair of boots around the ankles.

Personality: He was a fairly calm, and kind old man to those around him. He would often tell stories of "adventures" he had when he was younger, and in better health. He would always encourage those around him to do the best he could, and fill them with dreams of adventure. He would stick up for those around him, and would defend his family even if it meant dying, but wished for no ill will towards others.

Physicality: When he was alive he wasn't active, and couldn't move much due to suffering through both Post-Traumatic stress disorder, and Lung Cancer.

Bio: When Joseph was eighteen he enlisted into the military, and served in the navy for around twenty years. During that time he had served on many boats, and seen many different places learning their cultures, and stories. He was always looking for new things to learn about, and new stories to tell. When he was home he would always tell his children about the things he had seen, and the people he had met, as he had ventured to many distant lands, and started on many different adventures.

Two years after he served in the navy, he had finally decided to go into retirement with his wife. Sadly enough one month after their house suffered a severe robbery while he wasn't home at the time. One of the Robbers panicked, and accidentally shot his wife, and then ran away from the scene of the crime. He had found out about the incident two hours latter, through his daughter who was contacted by the police not to soon after the event. He rushed home immediately only to find out that she didn't make it, and he feel into a deep state of depression, as well as suffering through Post-Traumatic disorder.

Joseph did his best not to let those kind of things get to him, and in order to cheer himself up, he filled (Insert Protagonists name here), with dreams of adventure in hopes that one day she would seek them out like he once did. He loved to tell stories of pirates, and traveling to distant lands where few would venture, and even made himself one of the adventures a few times around. He would often describe himself as a fairly large pirate, who once went completely blind and had to wear two eye patches. She would often ask wouldn't that be hard to see, and he would laugh it off telling her that it was all in the nose, and that all he really needed to keep him going was the fresh smell of the Ocean air.

Around the age of sixty Joseph was diagnosed with lung cancer, and became critically ill not to soon after that. Doctors often told him it was impressive how well he was holding out, but he couldn't hold on much longer. A year latter his condition got critical, and his daughter, and granddaughter stood by him the entire time. Before he passed on he whispered to his granddaughter "Never give in to death, and always seek new adventures."

Misc: He is currently deceased, and he is the main protagonist's grandfather, also his daughter is the protagonists mother. (I mainly did this so I wouldn't have to use the main protagonists last name, or choose it for you guys)

[Optimist]

Toaw said

Wow, good character!

[Closet Nerd]

Optimist: Thanks for the update there. No need to change the setting, I'm glad you included one actually. Abigail is accepted! Also I'm not English, I just think colour looks correct phonetically. And it's fancy xD

Toaw: Yeah, it'd be 2014. I don't really see much of a reason to go back or forward since it'd likely be a maximum of a two decade difference. I'm curious about Joseph's age though. If he had a child whilst in the navy I'd assume he had that child in his twenties. I just want to know how old do you think the protagonist was when he died? Another question is are you going to use that narrator thing as a pirate? It'd be cool to have a pirate narrator simply because it's delightfully unfitting. No sarcasm.

I don't see much reason to hold him back though, he's really fleshed out and clearly well thought out so Joseph is accepted! And yes, I must always have an exclamation point when a character is accepted.

[Rune_Alchemist]

Hey hey, almost done with My character. just need to do one more thing....

[Rune_Alchemist]

~Fantasy Side~

Name: Connie Elwyn
Appearance:
Connie is a young girl, around the age of sixteen, maybe just turning seventeen. She's a bit short for her age, something you really shouldn't mention unless you want to get a wrench to the face. She has messy curly red hair, with green eyes and slim build. She wears her work suit most of the time, and rarely ever takes it off. Her goggles are merely use to protect her eyes when she's working, and totally not for poor eyesight. Nope, not at all.

Personality: Connie is the self-proclaimed smartest girl on the planet. While this fact may be disputed, the fact remains, she is smart any way you look at it. She's a quick learner at most tasks, and understands the laws of the world quite easily and picks up on most things quite often. She fancies herself an inventor, and loves tinkering with new things. Most of her inventions tend to go...haywire though, and in some way or another tend to not work. This can leave her a bit depressed at times, and sometimes goes into a creative slump. She does love travelling though, and experiencing new things, and has traveled quite a bit for someone of her age. Despite her somewhat arrogant front, she's friendly and can be a great friend to anyone who needs it. Just don't mention her height and you'll get along fine.

She has a dream of one day making a completely functioning automaton, like the ones in her villages old legends.

Physicality: (Pros and Cons regarding physical attributes)
Pros:
Quick learner
Intelligent
resourceful
Cons:
Isn't physically strong
Can't run for long
Is a bit arrogant and prideful.
(Eh, not really physical things, but physical stuff isn't her strong suit xD)

Bio: Connie is an explorer from a far off land, who came to this place to find a new home after a misunderstanding forced her to leave her previous home. She has been travelling for awhile, though only recently set off on her own. She was travelling with a caravan, until she grew bored. So, she set up a shop where she makes and sells specialty items and other inventions. Well, tries too. So far, she has been...less than successful. She tries to create something new, and it usually ends up exploding and any money she gets goes into repairs, damages, and getting more stock for her store. She sells a few things to make a profit, then the process repeats leaving her in quite the predicament, recently.

Misc:

~Real Side~

Name: Ashlyn Lawrence
Age: 16
Appearance: Meh. Couldn't find a picture I liked, so here's my attempt at writing a description.
Ashlyn is a bit short for her age, has pale skin with quite a few freckles and long red hair usually tied back into a ponytail. She has green eyes and wears a pair of glasses due to being somewhat near-sighted, though she hates wearing them. She normally wears a simple T-shirt with some jeans and sneakers. Wears a purple jacket in the winter sometimes. She used to get upset/angry when someone mentioned her height, though now she's more mature about it, at least on the surface.

Personality: Ashlyns' personality mainly stems from the fact she has always been rather frail, physically speaking, and somewhat clumsy ever since she was a child. She was always causing small accidents and always ending up hurting herself from the smallest things. She has grown out of the clumsiness, mostly, as she's grown but she's still lacking in the physical area.

What she lacks in physical strength and appearance, she makes up for it in her personality. Ashlyn tries to keep a serious and professional attitude, She is strong willed, ambitious, and incredibly intelligent especially for someone of her age. She never takes no for an answer, and always goes after what she wants. She is skilled with computers, coding, and aspires to one day be the leader in robotics and computer design. Her dream? Create a suit of some sort that allows weaker people be able to pull off amazing feats of strength and stamina. It may sound like science fiction to most, and she may have played too many video games and watched too many sci-fi movies and shows, but she does not care. She has a long way to go before she's there, but she is unafraid of accomplishing this daunting task. She can be a bit of a know-it all at times, and can be somewhat arrogant without realizing it.

Of course, this confident outgoing personality of hers is really just a front for her insecurities. The main of which, is her sexuality. She has begin to find herself attracted to people of the same sex. Growing up in a house that has openly expressed...dislike, for such people, has made her rather uneasy about this topic. Even more so, is that she has found herself having feelings for the protagonist. This is made even more uncomfortable by the fact they have been friends for awhile now. She also is unsure about her own future, and constantly has to fight with the fact that she believes actually accomplishing her goals are quite slim - a fact she rarely confides in anyone, no one but the protagonist knows about her concerns about her life goals

She does have an almost insatiable love for space and sci-fi things. She has always been fascinated by the stars and the unknown, and would give anything to explore the stars. She only lets the close friends of hers see this side of her though, and doesn't get all nerdy and geeky that often, as it somewhat embarrasses her.

Physicality: Thin, not unhealthily so, but much more so than others usually. She's not unfit or unhealthy, in fact she tries to stay in somewhat good shape. She's not too strong physically speaking, but she makes up for it with her intelligence and resourcefulness.

Bio: Ashlyn, or simply Ash, as her close friends call her, was born on a cold winter morning during December. She was never one of the 'popular kids'. In elementary, she always preferred to read, rather than play or talk with the other children. The shyness stemmed from her fearing of messing up, or just afraid that she wouldn't make a good impression. For the most part, she spent the early part of her childhood alone, either with her books or the occasional outing with her parents.

This changed, a few years later shortly before she met (Insert protagonist name here). She was watching some old sci-fi movies and was fascinated by them. Soon, she became interested in all things scientific, namely computers. She still didn't go out of her way to meet new people, but she wasn't shy anymore. She was just too busy with her own things to have time for other people.

Until she met the Protagonist at the age of 13. They were assigned to work on a school science project together. Ashlyn did most of the work, though, simply because she refused to let the Protagonist even touch the thing. Not because she thought the protagonist was stupid, or lacked the required skills, it was simply because she thought she could do a better job by herself. If it wasn't for the protagonist though, she would never have finished the project. After this, the two became best friends. Since then, the two have remained close.

Despite being more or less, best friends, Ashlyn started to develop feelings for the Protagonist shortly before the cancer appeared. This, was a shock to her, as much as it would be to anyone else once she realized it. She had never been that interested in romantic relations at all. If anything, she was scared. Her parents had openly expressed their dislike for such people, and while she never had seen a problem with them, she never imagined she could possibly like people of the same sex. Unfortunately, a month or so before the Cancer was announced and she fell into a Coma, Ashlyn began to avoid the protagonist, and make excuses to not see her. This, obviously, hurt their relationship quite a bit.

After the cancer was announced, she was devastated. Now, she wishes she would have said something before about her feelings. She may never get to now.

Misc:

Done and Done.
I was going for a more...eh, steampunk feel for her fantasy side. Is that alright?

I can finally get to work on that little project of mine now that I'm done with everything else :D

[Zordon]

I'd like to join, if there is still room.

:)

[Toaw]

Closet Nerd said
Optimist: Thanks for the update there. No need to change the setting, I'm glad you included one actually. Abigail is accepted! Also I'm not English, I just think colour looks correct phonetically. And it's fancy xDToaw: Yeah, it'd be 2014. I don't really see much of a reason to go back or forward since it'd likely be a maximum of a two decade difference. I'm curious about Joseph's age though. If he had a child whilst in the navy I'd assume he had that child in his twenties. I just want to know how old do you think the protagonist was when he died? Another question is are you going to use that narrator thing as a pirate? It'd be cool to have a pirate narrator simply because it's delightfully unfitting. No sarcasm. I don't see much reason to hold him back though, he's really fleshed out and clearly well thought out so Joseph is accepted! And yes, I must always have an exclamation point when a character is accepted.

I would say that he has been dead for a few years, and you are correct that he had a child in his twenties, or even early thirties I just didn't want to stump anyone who would want to play the mother, and to limit them that much. I'm a very conservative person when it comes to these things, but I should probably go back and mention that he has been deceased for the past few years in my CS? No? Either way thank you, I wasn't entirely sure about him towards the end, at least during the Bio. As for the narrator part I don't know, I was more or less thinking about abandoning the idea, and playing as someone who she meets a long the way, in some random or crazy encounter. Maybe I'm the first person she meets, and I whisk her away on the start of her new adventure? Either way I've typed a lot, and I don't like typing a lot when I'm not writing an awesome story, and RP stuff so I think I'm going to stop now XD. Also one last thing, are we going to be able to have our own little world of sort that she stumbles onto. Considering that the characters are so different I think it would fit the story. Maybe as she travels through these worlds she brings these characters along as the big bad destroys their worlds slowly one by one. (I know it is a bit cliche, but hey why not). Ok so I'm really done now I promise. Unless I think of something...nope ok you're good.

Edit: I'm pretty sure there is plenty of room :D

[Rune_Alchemist]

And the pirate ship of your character is like some multi-dimensional transporter thing!
that, or Connie could build you one and attach it to the ship :D
if it doesn't blow up

Honestly though, I was a bit hesitant about giving Connie a whole 'steampunk' feel. I'm honestly not too familiar with wonderland type things xD

[Xaltwind]

Since supposedly the story borrows influences from multiple fantasy-settings, not just Alice in Wonderland and Tolkien's works, I think having some crazy, steampunk-thingymadoodads is just fine. ^^

[Toaw]

Rune_Alchemist said
And the pirate ship of your character is like some multi-dimensional transporter thing!that, or Connie could build you one and attach it to the ship :DHonestly though, I was a bit hesitant about giving Connie a whole 'steampunk' feel. I'm honestly not too familiar with wonderland type things xD

That would be something wouldn't it? Well if Closet Nerds plans don't get totally ruined from the idea, or likes the concept to much to ignore than I think my ship basically being that transporter I guess wouldn't be that bad of an idea. I was more or less thinking of tears in 'space in time' kind of thing, but your idea works too. As for the steam punk I like the idea (even though my opinion means nothing T_T)

[Rune_Alchemist]

Xaltwind said
Since supposedly the story borrows influences from multiple fantasy-settings, not just Alice in Wonderland and Tolkien's works, I think having some crazy, steampunk-thingymadoodads is just fine. ^^

Thingymabobs and thingymadoodads are my favorite things! :D

Toaw said
That would be something wouldn't it? Well if Closet Nerds plans don't get totally ruined from the idea, or likes the concept to much to ignore than I think my ship basically being that transporter I guess wouldn't be that bad of an idea. I was more or less thinking of tears in 'space in time' kind of thing, but your idea works too. As for the steam punk I like the idea (even though my opinion means nothing T_T)

Well, maybe my thingymadoodad could make a tear in space possible, but due to whatever circumstances, we need a giant ship to pass through it, because reasons.

[Amrita]

Is this still accepting?

[Toaw]

Amrita said
Is this still accepting?

It should be unless closet nerds plans on me being the only one in the role play, which I would be flattered, but it is unlikely :P

[Zordon]

Working on CS now that I actually act my computer instead of my mobile device.

[Zordon]

Sorry! Real life horribly distracted me. I'll try again in the morning!

D;

Edit: Done and posting in new post!

[Closet Nerd]

Well I fell behind just a bit didn't I?

Rune: Ashlyn is a good character so she's accepted. I'm going to have to have MC realize she has a crush on her subconsciously if we're going to explore that in the RP, which I fully intend to even if you don't want to. But because of that it might be a bit subtle at first during the RP, you think you can pull that off?

Toaw: I was thinking that Joseph would be the first one to instill the love of fantasy in MC's childhood so thematically that would work for Greybeard to be the first one met. Though I think I'm going to have the badness sicked on her from the start, sudden and without warning much like the cancer itself. Greybeard can possibly save her from it and whisk her off to fantasy land.

About the multi-world thing, it seems like it would complicate things too much in an RP that is already quite complicated because I'm basically making you all make two characters and maintain a sense of symbolism while I have to piece it all together. It's a nice idea and I might use it for my next RP but for this I'm not sure if it's the right fit. However, I really like that you're thinking of some big, plot-changing things right now, what else you got?

Amrita & Zordon: Yes, you can join. But as a warning because I need to put this in the opening post, the fantasy aspect is going to be inspired by things like the Alice in Wonderland, thus colourful and possibly a bit childish. Wherever the badness happens though, there would be a sweeping change in setting to resemble descriptions of any creepy place in Lord of the Rings. But welcome to both of you! I hope you get some inspiration from this RP and help us to write some awesome stuff here.

[Rune_Alchemist]

Closet Nerd said
Well I fell behind just a bit didn't I? Rune: Ashlyn is a good character so she's accepted. I'm going to have to have MC realize she has a crush on her subconsciously if we're going to explore that in the RP, which I fully intend to even if you don't want to. But because of that it might be a bit subtle at first during the RP, you think you can pull that off?

Fine with me~
I'm certain I can do that~

[Closet Nerd]

So, guys I've been mulling around the idea of the main character a little bit and I wanted to know if you want her to be herself in the dream thus being lucid, being a character in her own dream thus being not lucid or start out as herself and get more and more fantasy throughout the story?

[Xaltwind]

Rune_Alchemist said
Thingymabobs and thingymadoodads are my favorite things! :D

Really now? I myself am partial to thingymajigs, but I tip my hat to you! ... If I had one...

CS should be coming soon, still deciding on appearance and schtuff... You know, cuz I' finicky and picky about what my guize look like... :<