[OOC] Bleach - Legends

[Archmage MC]

Lol... I just dunno how much of a threat you want me to be as a villain, makes balancing powers very difficult :;(. Or I could be an anti hero and thus have a point to start. lol.

[QT]

This still acceptin?

[Tatsua Aiisen]

QT said
This still acceptin?

It is.

[QT]

I'll have a character up shortly.

[Thread Generator SIN]

Tatsua Aiisen Leader doesn't necessarily mean in charge of all. This of course is subject to the class of which we are referring. In terms of Visored characters, Alexander acts as a beacon to wayward Visored who aren't familiar with their powers. Along with being in a teaching role, as in teaching them to use their powers, he is more a leader then the leader, possessing leadership qualities. Because of that, he does have followers and admires who try to help him in his efforts and/or live by his example. Generally speaking, Visored don't have the same hierarchy that Gōtie 13 since they've been cast out of the society. However teamwork and organization is still a part of their training since they were mostly high ranking soul reapers.

Archmage MC The level of your character is up to you. General speaking, I would avoid what could be considered OP as an overpowered character will likely not be accepted. A moderately to high power character on the other hand is fine. With that in mind, the power level of your character is up to you. Post a sheet and we'll look over it together.

QT We are indeed accepting. I look forward to your character.

[Archmage MC]

Meh, if QT is going to be a good guy I'll prob make a good guy instead. being the only villain would also mean I'd have to have a character who can start fights with everyone, which means they'd be more powerful than everyone to offset the numbers advantage they have and give conflict to the story, and I'm weary that people will be annoyed with that more than anything. :P.

If I do make a good guy, am I restricted to making them human looking or can I get creative?

[Thread Generator SIN]

Archmage MC There are plenty of villain NPC's who will come and go so don't worry about being the only villain. Remember this is a massive world. It would be irresponsible of me to leave you guys alone in it. I'm writing the npc's while I wait for your sheets. So feel free to be as evil as you want if that is indeed what you want

[Archmage MC]

ah no, I was just going to do it because a couple years ago I was in a bleach RP where I was co villaning with another person, and it lasted like 1500 posts. But if you can keep up with being the villains, I'll be a good guy. Assuming I can make someone who isn't human looking :P.

Actually.... how would you like a 'good' hollow character? Starts evil, then changes over time to be a good guy? up to you. I dunno, Bleach RPs give me so much uncertainty, I've had lots of different types of GMs and they all want different things :(.

I dunno, I just wanna interact with everyone a lot. :P.

[QT]

Actually, I take that back, Ima step off. Sorry. Thanks for bein so nice though.

[Thread Generator SIN]

QT That's unfortunate but feel free to return anytime, baby.

Archmage MC It's not about what I want. It's about what you want. Make a character with any alignment you like. I'll let you know if you cross a line.

[Archmage MC]

Ok I'll post two characters then. I can fit them to go anywhere or be mostly any race, just let me know if the abilities are balanced. If you like the abilities I'll write up the history and everything. They fit more in a superheroish setting, but Bleach is just a japanese superhero parody anyway. Also if you want I can play a scaling game with them throught the RP and reduce their abilities if they're too much, and I'm sure they are.

MC

Name - 'MC' the 'Mage'
Appearance - Ball like head, glowing blue skin, no hair, no mouth, no nose, no ears, large green blind eyes, wears a faceguard made out of the rements of his hollow mask that covers where his mouth would be as well as giving him a jacobs ladder crown without the electricity. His body is one long robe with arms, one arm with its sleave torn off that ends in a large crystaline bone hand while the other arm is normal. His feet can't be seen from under his blue robes, but are birdlike in appearance. His hollow hole is on his left theigh, but is covered up by his robe.
Age - Unknown
Gender - N/A/male
Class - Arrancar
Powers - Omni-'magic' MC is versed in a variety of 'spells', giving him the ability to conjure a variety of basic attacks made out of nearly any energy. Of course these don't get more detailed than blasts, beams, or explosions. But that also means he can throw fire, ice, light, shadow, or whatever energy he pleases at your face. Of course this means he can't use Cero, or Bala, as he has refined a 'better' version of them.
Chaos 'Magic' Of note one energy type that is exhausting to use is Chaos. It doesn't do that much damage, but it will always do full damage through any defense and leave a lingering negative effect, which can be anything from setting the target on fire, to turning them to cheese, to making them blink. the only defense from chaos magic is to not be hit by it! (Negative effects are made by the person who gets hit with it. Be creative!)
Illusion Mask MC can conjure masks that allow him or anyone who wears them to take on a human appearance. Of course unless they know how to mask their energy, anyone who can sense energy will know what that person is anyway.
Forceful Teleport MC can teleport himself around the battlefield, going a set distance each time and needing a bit of time before he can teleport again. Teleporting breaks him free of anything that holds him in place, such as an ice pilllar or ropes.
Conjuration MC is able to conjure food, water, and small objects. Used mostly for comedic effect.
Energy Cloak MC is able to mask his energy, making it difficult for anyone who isn't a master at sensing energy to sense him, and even then it would be hard unless your close to him. He can also extend this to others who are very close to him.
Truth Aura While making MC unable to lie and making him blind, this ability also makes it so anyone who he talks to can't lie, though this doesn't stop them from declining the question in general or telling a half truth. This also gives him the ability to see the energy of all things, making illusions and invisibility useless.
Portal MC can conjure portals after a few moments, not only breaching between the human, spirit, and hollow planes, but also connect any two points in one of those planes together. They are temporary and only hollows can pass through them.
And more to come...

History - A strange arrancar, not much is known about MC in his hollow days, and after transforming, MC forgets them himself, and sometimes even forgets he is an arrancar! This unstable mental state has carried over to his day to day actions as well, causing him to view everything as a game and amking him unable to view the world seriously, yet understand whats going on inside it. He is concerned over his own belief on what balance is, which at times can conflict or agree with what those in the soul society believe as well. He finds the devouring of pluses pointless, as they offer almost nothing for the effort needed to acquire them, which makes him an oddity. MC doesn't really consider anyone his enemy unless they have personally wronged him somehow, and will offer opponents the chance to sit down for tea before he fights them for the most part.

He keeps another arrancar who names herself Light, as company, as she compliments his ranged abilities with her melee ones, and the two share the same beliefs for the most part.

Details - Is very frail, is very slow, can't fight in physical combat.
Staring Location - Hueco Mundo
Evolution -

light

Name - Light
Appearance - Humanoid shape, pure white skin, large ball like head, large black and orange eyes, no nose, large fin-like ears, short blue hair, very thin neck, broad chest with proportionate medium breasts, thin musclar arms ending in large feather/clawlike fingers with forearms to match. A blue tanktop, a dress attached to her body with the front open while the back goes down to her ankles, the front having a triangle tabard goign down to he rkneecaps. The dress is blue with white fringes, while the inside is pure black. her legs are musclar, ending at points where her feet would be. The remnants of her mask form a neck brace, giving her neck a bigger appearance than normal, while her hollow hole is under her tanktop in the middle of her chest.
Age - Unknown.
Gender - Female
Class - Arrancar
Powers -
Extreme Regeneration Light can regrow any part of her body, even missing organs or a missing head. This makes her exceptionally hard to kill as she can regenerate from just a finger. This type of regeneration is slow though, and 'fatal' wounds can put her out of the fight for a time. It also makes her immune to disease, poisons, chemicals, asphyxiation, and the like. Brain or Heart trauma are still very serious however.
Extreme Strength Light is incredibly strong, more so than the average super strength hollow.
Spellbreaker Light's attacks are incredibly effective against barriers.
Kinetic Combat Light gains speed as she fights, this speed is lowered if she has to regenerate or if she is held in one place for a few seconds. this speed works for both her movement speed and the rate at which she fights.
Fusion Punch An incredibly powerful slow punch who's power is based on Light's current speed level. hit or miss, Light's speed goes down to base levels. but if it does hit and she was going very fast.... well... Good luck.
Air jump Light can jump off air as if it were ground in both the living and spirit worlds.

History - Light is an arrancar who is unable to fire a cero and can barley manage to open portals to the living world/soul society as well as being unable to sonido and have a very poor herro, but makes up for it with strength that can scare even the toughest hollows and the ability to gain speed as she fights as well as a regenerative ability that most other hollows or arrancars envy. Due to this near immortality, Light doesn't grasp the severity of situations at times, but can appriciate it when things get really grim. She prefers to find entertainment to keep herself preoccupied, fighting or playing board games, its all the same to her.

She journies with another Arrancar calling himself a 'mage'. While frail, this companion allows her to walk around wherever she pleases and compliments her melee fighting style, giving her cover while she approaches a target and taking hits for him when necessary.

Details - Light is incapable of using a Cero or other ranged attacks and while she has amazing regenerative abilities, she isn't very good at taking hits and has very bad herro. Starting out shes slow, but she can build up to incredible speeds if left alone.
Staring Location - Hueco Mundo
Evolution -

[Art of Fun]

Archmage MC said Bleach is just a japanese superhero parody

You can literally apply this logic to any published battle shounen. If your intent is to make a villain for a Bleach RP, then make a Bleach villain and not a supervillain from one of the Big Two.

Some things really have to be pointed out.

From reading the abilities alone, MC does not particularly seem appropriate simply because of how much he can do as a Hollow, even if he is a higher levelled one. The formula followed, which can be gartered from observation alone, goes innate abilities (cero etcetera which would allow us to identify the character/creature as a hollow) and then something additional to grant them their own distinct flavour. If we take MC's abilities don't really have a flavour and more of an overload of spices. With one, two, maybe even three of the eleven very conceptually separate abilities he has he could be more distinct as a character rather than falling into the trap of 'more powers=bigger bad'. As he is now he's an odd amalgamation of Aizen, Starrk, Kido Corps and I'd even dare say a bit of Gremmy with what he has. I can't pick up what he -does- as a character, it's just stuff.

Sticking 'mage' in front of someone and then saying he can do all this stuff when a wealth of abilities and sources are present in the setting to be developed and worked on a decent powerset does not make.

Also, as a note, Truth Aura strikes me as rather contrived. It limits agency of a character in rather frustrating way with weak 'pullbacks' for what it grants. Chaos Magic does not really contribute much of anything.

2 cents added

[Thread Generator SIN]

Art of Fun Accepted.

Archmage MC
Firstly, these both appear to be Arrancar class characters, not hollows. Hollow's are more common and have finite number of abilities. I would look over the description provided in the topic post.

For your character, MC; I'm fine with the majority of his abilities with the acception of Silence, Summoning, and Reform. Silence, regardless of how infrequently it is used, is a form of controlling another character which is a roleplay taboo. For Summoning, though you can open a portal to hueco mundo and attract hollows with spiritual pressure, simply materializing a hollow goes against the natural order. It wont hurt to go hunting. As for reform, vital organs aren't able to be regenerated as they provide the basic needs to generate spiritual powers. Rapid regeneration for all other parts of the body however is fine. Beyond this, MC looks ready to be accepted.

For Light; Extreme Regeneration is a no no for the same reasons being my explanation from Reform. Even the most powerful forms of regenerations have a limit. Also it takes away from your other abilities. Extreme Strength or Kinetic Combat. I would pick just one. Personally I like you Kinetic Combat ability better then just sheer strength. Maybe instead of flat out power, Light's power could scale with her kinetic speed. So in the beginning of a combat situation, she would be relatively slow and weak, but can rise to dangerous levels as the battle continues.

I still want to have balance among characters within the story. As I said before, traits that are considered OP should be avoided or at least be countered by an equal weakness.

[Thread Generator SIN]

As a side note to all, remember that not everyone participating is as versed on the bleach universe nor the roleplay universe as everyone else. We have to give a bit of slack to keep from intimidating those that could otherwise grow to become great writers. A bit of light constructive criticism is encouraged, but for the most part should be kept to messages. I know from experience it can come off as an attack when done publicly which can lead to confusion

On a further side note, I'll be ready to post the IC tomorrow evening so get your characters in asap. I would hate to see anyone miss out on anything. That said this thread is always accepting. I'm positive people are going to ask anyway so feel free to let them know it's alright to submit a character sheet.

Time for me to go into sleep mode for a few hours. I look forward to beginning the adventure with you all tomorrow.

[Rin]

Tatsua Aiisen said
Oh, and by the way, not every Lieutenant needs a bankai~!

I actually couldn't remember if that was the case or not. ^^; Been a while since I've read Bleach, after all. But if Keiko does have a Bankai it's probably newly manifested and she doesn't use it much... Partially because I can't figure out what to make her Bankai actually do. Hmmm.

Also... SIN, out of curiosity, how many characters are we allowed? Since I'm considering making a second one either to fill out the ranks of one of the factions that doesn't have many (or indeed, any) characters, or a rookie Reaper, although I don't really have any concrete plans right now so it's fine if we're only allowed one right now.

[Die Kill Die]

Rin said
I actually couldn't remember if that was the case or not. ^^; Been a while since I've read Bleach, after all. But if Keiko does have a Bankai it's probably newly manifested and she doesn't use it much... Partially because I can't figure out what to make her Bankai actually do. Hmmm.Also... SIN, out of curiosity, how many characters are we allowed? Since I'm considering making a second one either to fill out the ranks of one of the factions that doesn't have many (or indeed, any) characters, or a rookie Reaper, although I don't really have any concrete plans right now so it's fine if we're only allowed one right now.

I think he(I assume) said multiple characters were allowed like 3 or 4 times. Btw I'm still looking for someone to "collaborate" with on my zanpakuto spirit character. That is, if your interested.

[Rin]

I must have missed that. ^^; Was too busy working on Keiko, and kind of posted that after I'd just gotten up. Whoops. Anyways, um, we'll see how things turn out I guess. Need to get a more solid idea first after all. Hmmm.

[Raineh Daze]

The strange offspring of Yumichika, Kenpachi, and Sui Feng.

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Name: Minamoto Kotohime

Appearance

Please ignore the outfit. They're dressed properly, as it would set a terrible example otherwise.

Age: Unknown

Gender: Female

Class: Shinigami, Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13 and Captain of the 1st Division

Powers

Overwhelming Reiatsu: Rather appropriately for the commander-in-chief of the shinigami, Kotohime's reiatsu is enormous, the pressure more than capable of trivially paralysing the weak, and surprising even the more prepared with the sheer amount--whilst it's possible to expect a lot due to the position, nothing can truly prepare you for the sensation.
If it comes down to a battle of sheer power, Kotohime is has yet to be outgunned--unless her opponent can temporarily increase their strength to surpass hers. Normally, her reiatsu dwarfs anything she comes in contact with, and a few novice captains have been barely able to move under its pressure. Yet, despite the enormous power, she has the utmost control over it, and can entirely hide her presence if needed... which is rather useful most of the time.

Shinigami Arts: As a requirement for setting a good example, Kotohime has made sure that her skills--in all departments--are at the least 'respectable'. However, this does not make her anything remarkable where either wielding a sword or kido are concerned. Shunpo and punching things? Now those are her specialities.
She can do more with speed and her bare fists than most shinigami with fancy shikai abilities.

Shunko: Combining kido with punching: a good pastime for someone whose shikai is about punching, and who prefers to punch than wield a sword. It serves as her main way of dealing damage directly in a fight--whilst her shikai and bankai have an air of inevitability about them, more worthwhile opponents are easier to take down simply by punching them the right way.

Shikai: "Feast Upon the Unworthy: Master of Puppets". Master of Puppets goes from your standard, utterly-unremarkable zanpakutou to a less standard, but still utterly unremarkable set of knuckledusters, though the activation is incredibly obvious due to the upsurge in reiatsu. Their most basic effect is that, with every hit, a spike of Kotohime's reiatsu is left behind, acting as a conduit between the enemy and herself... and constantly draining their power, refreshing the captain-commander.
Corruption: The flow of reiatsu from victim to Kotohime can be reversed--forcefully taking control of the affected body part through overpowering force and, once that is subdued, spreading further. With multiple hits, this still results in a net increase, whilst eventually turning the victim into a puppet, the full set of their abilities available for use as they waste to nothing.
Overload: By taking advantage of her gross amount of reiatsu, Kotohime can do something quite simple to anyone who is both currently affected by the reiatsu spikes and is weak enough in comparison to her current state: she can make them explode. Draining but effective.

Bankai: Creeping Death: Directly weaponising her reiatsu, the released form is naught more than a ring--but any restraint to her reiatsu ends, with Kotohime's full power manifesting as a malefic green cloud steadily spreading as it consumes. It retains all her shikai abilities, but it also acts as a smothering blanket devouring all ephemeral effects, forcing anyone wishing to defeat the captain-commander to do so quickly, and in melee before they become simply a reiatsu battery.
Whilst she can direct it to an extent, this is only to create a safe 'bubble' around a select few, and any else that get caught will be drained, growing the cloud further. Whether it would stop due to its owner exploding from the power, or consume all within Soul Society, is not something she wishes to test.

History: For an unknown period of time, Kotohime has served as the head captain. Far more active than Genryusai ever was, since she happens to not be a wizened old man, and her shikai does not come with an enormous construction bill and a lot of accidentally-vaporised inferiors. Plus, she is far more eager to fight and willing enough to let vacant captain slots be filled by putting up a good challenge in one-on-one combat... in addition to any promotion-by victory scenarios the 11th may have going on.

Staring Location: Seireitei

[Archmage MC]

For those of you having problems with MC's long list of abilities, minus the ones the GM complains about, I could just make him a shimigami very skilled in kido and you wouldn't complain, no matter where he was seated. Blame the bleach creator for that little balance issue. I understand the silence/summoning/reform stuff though.

Light.... How would you make a fist to fist melee fighter? Super strength is usually a necessity for that, unless you want me to give her batman powers, and no one likes fighting batman :P. that idea with kinetic combat sounds pretty nice if she can keep deadpool levels of regeneration, I'd just have to tweak how fast and slowly she gains it. Going with invulnerability or batman for the defensive side of things can get boring quickly.

I dunno if I wanna make them hero or villain, whatever gets me more character interaction. lol. I should also mention that most of the time they're more comedic relief than serious. Could have them be arrancars working with the soul society on some sort of experimental thing, I dunno.

[VitaVitaAR]

So I need to decide on a Bankai and powers and backstory. Hmm.