[OOC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[Guess Who]

Press F to pay respects. Soar knows their memes

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

Ohhh. I've only heard of it as Press X to pay respects with the Xbox version so that's why it went over my head.

[Asuras]

Aaaand there he is.

[HereComesTheSnow]

r e g e n b o y s

[Lady Seraphina]

Culann Malachite

Name: Culann Malachite
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Personality: Through and through, Culann is a jovial fellow, hard-pressed to be put into an upset mood. He is not one to let words get to him, taking even insults in stride. After all, an asshole can still be a friend, right? Despite his friendly demeanor, the young man is highly attuned to violence; be it a friendly tussle or a no-holds-barred barfight, he never backs down from a fight directed at him or, for that matter, a fight he could be involved in. In the end, however, he never sees such things as any more than friendly tussles. A grand life of excitement and happiness lies before him, and Culann runs after it without tire. Friends to be made, experiences to be had, emotions to be felt... He seeks them all equally with a boundless optimism. Never before has he been swayed to see the world in a poorer light, though Culann is not ignorant that such views exist, nor that the world is without fault. Instead, he merely chooses to avoid the bad and celebrate the good.

On the negative side of his soul, however, lies a vengeful heart. Culann finds it very difficult to turn the other cheek when it comes to slights against those he cares for. Culann does not forget, nor does he forgive. A truly-made enemy of Culann, one who could not be befriended by the man, are doomed to an eternal poor reputation at best, and a tireless manhunt at worst.
Color: Neon Green

Weapon: Tooth and Nail - A suit of armor that acts as Culann's regenerating "shield". through his semblance, Culann enjoys an armored suit that can repair itself even during the heat of battle. With claws and talons at his hands and feet, the suit serves as his fist-fighting weapon to rip and tear into opponents.
Specialty: Up close, non-stop havoc. Culann is a "berserker" fighter, preferring to maintain consistent offensive output at the behest of defense. Thanks to his Semblance, he is afforded a significant buffer to help him in this fighting style, slowing the rate at which he can be incapacitated.
Semblance: Preservation - Culann's Semblance is essentially a regenerative skill, though can only be applied to things other than himself, though it need not necessarily be living. So long as Culann can maintain physical contact with the object, he can maintain the object's form and appearance, such as reverting a crack in a teacup that formed only after he began holding it. He cannot apply this ability to things affected prior to his physical contact.
Emblem: Working on it!

@Asuras

Not that it's super important but it's generally considered polite to put the CS in the character tab after it's been accepted. Not really a big thing though.

As far as the CS goes, interesting character but I think it could benefit from some more details in the Weapon, Specialty and Semblance sections. They're good ideas but some of them are a little vague. Specifically the semblance how does that differ from general natural aura? Also what are the limits to it as there is nothing to suggest that he couldn't maintain something indefinitely.

Also I should mention something. The section History is not included in the CS template. The idea was that histories would be kept confidential so that they could naturally come out in the IC rather than giving everyone all the relevant information. It got a bit out of hand when people started putting crazy things in their histories that they didn't have to run by anyone cause it was all kept to themselves until it splashed into the IC where it was too late. We had one character that was cannibalistic at one point which had to be retconned away. Because of that while the History Section isn't included in the CS one has to be made up and PMed to the GM and if you want more than one view on it, the CoGMs as well (though sending it to me and Hari in addition is optional).

[Asuras]

It had already been OK'd to be placed in the tab by Lugubrious over PM so...

But either way I'll add a History.

[harinezumikouken]

@Prince of Seraphs Oi, no post on Sundays or...

[Lady Seraphina]

@Prince of Seraphs Oi, no post on Sundays or...

@harinezumikouken

None shall not post on the lord's holy day you heretic.

[Lady Seraphina]

"My dad. He used to be a captain back during the war, and the doc was in the peace corps. After a few of my dad's friends got their limbs blown off, she helped them... Well not get back to the fighting, but not die. They kept in touch since then. After the war she continued to study and went from army surgeon to an orthotist. Admittedly, she did leave the peace corps after hearing that many of the old vets from the war were wasting away in civilian life, mostly due to their mutilations severely limiting their career options. Not everyone can afford proper replacement limbs after all, but she tried anyways. So yeah, she's a professional. An affordable, low budget professional who typically caters to veterans and victims of war."

Of course this was also leaving out the fact she left the peace corps because she went to join the White Fang.

@Lucius Cypher

Some of this stuff sort of bothers me. I was wondering if you could clarify. It sort of impacts how Sapphire'll take this information.

From my limited research (Hari might know more) a Peace Corps seems to be a type of relief unit that works in war torn areas to help the country recover. From what I can tell they wouldn't be active in countries they're homeland was currently at war with (sort of counter productive). Assuming this is the Faunus Civil Rights Wars we're talking about I'm not sure how to reconcile that cause the Faunus were at war with all four kingdoms. If the Doc was a faunus then shouldn't she just have been part of the war effort and (as I'm pretty sure is the case) if she's human then why were resources being wasted to help faunus recover? Even after the war the heads of administration wouldn't have had any particular caring for wounded faunus and during the war it seems to me that letting enemy combatants die would be preferable to using your own utilities to save their lives.

Regarding her involvement in the White Fang, up until five years ago they were a non violent protest group. You've stated she got out before that happened so presumably she worked with them before they radicalized. This would have been a time when everyone was still pretty discriminator so why would a faunus protest group welcome a human doctor. More importantly what exactly would a doctor's purpose in a protest group be?

[harinezumikouken]

@Prince of Seraphs - He ain't my 'Lord'.

No seriously.

Also, I don't know much about Peace Corps.

I just know how to blow shit up, shoot the hell out of shit, and kill shit.

Not exactly 'peaceful' regardless of your perspective.

[Silvan Haven]

@Asuras

I kind of have to wonder where Tooth and Nail is kept when Culann is not in a fight. Does he have a backpack that it unfolds out of or something?

[Lucius Cypher]

<Snipped quote by Lucius Cypher>

Some of this stuff sort of bothers me. I was wondering if you could clarify. It sort of impacts how Sapphire'll take this information.

From my limited research (Hari might know more) a Peace Corps seems to be a type of relief unit that works in war torn areas to help the country recover. From what I can tell they wouldn't be active in countries they're homeland was currently at war with (sort of counter productive). Assuming this is the Faunus Civil Rights Wars we're talking about I'm not sure how to reconcile that cause the Faunus were at war with all four kingdoms. If the Doc was a faunus then shouldn't she just have been part of the war effort and (as I'm pretty sure is the case) if she's human then why were resources being wasted to help faunus recover? Even after the war the heads of administration wouldn't have had any particular caring for wounded faunus and during the war it seems to me that letting enemy combatants die would be preferable to using your own utilities to save their lives.

Regarding her involvement in the White Fang, up until five years ago they were a non violent protest group. You've stated she got out before that happened so presumably she worked with them before they radicalized. This would have been a time when everyone was still pretty discriminator so why would a faunus protest group welcome a human doctor. More importantly what exactly would a doctor's purpose in a protest group be?

@Prince of Seraphs

This doctor is a faunas, and the significance of her being part of a peace corps is that she specifically is not on any specific side of the conflict, and will offer aid to anyone who requires it. Admittedly I may be wrong on many aspect of what a peace corps can or actually does in real life, as I'm basing it off what I was told by some people I've met.

The information I'm using comes from two people I've met, sponsor for my mother and father when they left Laos/Thailand during the Vietnam war, and another who was a doctor during the same Vietnam war. Mainly the doctor. The doctor was stationed in Laos during the Vietnam War and was not there with any military, but was with an organization who from what I remembered, operated much like a Peace Corps in that they go to war torn areas and try to assist everyone they can, be they natives caught in the crossfire, the Vietnamese, or Americans. While they were an American based organization, they were under no obligation to deny treatment for any soldier they came across, communist or otherwise. Granted, the same doctor did tell me that they did prioritize wounded American Soldiers first, then natives who were fleeing or otherwise not part of any military operations, and then communist Vietnamese forces. Additionally, many staff the doctor worked with were also native Vietnamese, or at least Americanized ones. There were a few native Vietnamese as well, but from what I was told they were only there as translators.

I talked to that doctor for my highschool report about the elderly, because he was around 60 or 70 years old and my parents knew him because he goes to a church of another old person who sponsored my parents when they came to America. As you can imagine, when you take people who don't know how to speak English but really want to get away from that whole war nonsense happening back in their country/distressingly nearby, they'll need some help from kindly people. The church had many well educated and rich people (As noted as one of their members was a doctor), they funded missionaries and such to head over to the area for humanitarian aid, and well as bringing back refugees to settle in America. My mother and father technically left before America started sending troops over, but they were allowed an early entry as my Grandfather's brothers and some of their sons were being trained by the Americans to help assist in the effort against the communist Vietnamese, i.e. become guerilla fighters. But that's getting off point.

Now how this all applies to the doc, I took many creative liberties with. For starters, I don't know the exact nature of this Faunas Civil Rights War, so I don't know if it was particularly violent or if any nation in particular was being an aggressor. From what I can tell in RWBY, Faunas are found in all countries, and don't originate in any one in particular. I have suspicions that Vacuo has the most/most immigrated from there and Atlus or an organization based there started the oppression, but I have no proof of that. Anyways, the doctor was a faunas who as I mentioned, offered medical services to whomever, and it just so happens that soldiers working under Gren's father sought her aid. Being a faunas herself, after the war was over she continued to help, albeit narrowed her focus particularly about faunas who were involved in that war. This somewhat mirrors the doctor whom I had interviewed for my highschool report, because even after America had withdrawn soldiers from Vietnam and neighboring areas, he continued offering humanitarian aid to the locals, and when he came back to America helped my family and other refugees. He did not simply return to being a general practitioner to all citizens (Not that he wouldn't if they came to his office), but specifically advertised his service for refugees from the Vietnam War.

Now I should note that for one, I am not Vietnamese. I'm actually Hmong. And there were a lot more than just Hmong people who came to America during the war, and that doctor helped pretty much all and any he could handle as far as I could tell. The reason I'm mentioning that because another part of my report I had written was the misconception that the Vietnam War was "just" between American and the Vietnamese, and that "race" was a lot more than just "Asian".

In the instance of the doc Gren is referring too, not all the patience she treated were just faunas. I imagine, that like any war, it's more complicated then two perfectly identical sides slugging it out. I'm sure there were some faunas who fought against the faunas working for their civil rights, just as many as humans fighting for Faunas rights. The doctor I mentioned was, personally, pro-faunas rights, but she did not let her political beliefs stop her from providing relief to whomever needed it. It was only after the war was over that she started to narrow her interest and eventually became part of the White Fang, who were more focused on the rights of Faunas then simply providing aid to whomever. The doctor joined the White Fang because they were a political group that at the time, saw a lot of faunas who would like or need the benefits of equal service rights would provide. In this hypothetical instance, if the doctor simply returned to being a regular medical practitioner, most of her patients would be humans who have the money or insurances for her services, as oppose to the many faunas that she personally wants to help. So instead of doing that, she joined the White Fang as a way to try and find these faunas and offer her services at a much more affordable price, funded by the White Fang of course, because if she works with them to offer medical aid, then more faunas would join the White Fang to get medical aid, instead of ignoring the White Fang due to apathy or something.

Though as Gren mentioned in the internal monologue, the doctor's interests was entirely humane, and once the White Fang showed hints of becoming a terrorist organization, she left. She wanted to help the faunas recover, not help them start a new war. It's one of the reasons she holds a lot of disgust at Gren since he was one of the people she had helped facilitate into becoming a murderous terrorist, which she feels is a corruption of her ability. She had saved Gren so he wouldn't die, and then he'll go home and try not to get into any more trouble. Instead he used the cybernetics the White Fang had stolen (At the time she did not know they were stolen, though she had her suspicions) that she had given to him so he could live, to become a weapon to kill even more people. It's a classic "My peaceful invention has become a tool for war" type of thing.

TL;DR - She was a doctor in the Faunas War for Civil Rights to help people hurt by war, joined the White Fang for political belief, left because she didn't want to be associated with an violent organization.

[Asuras]

Added some stuff to make his suit more unique, and described his fighting style and semblance in more detail.

@Asuras

I kind of have to wonder where Tooth and Nail is kept when Culann is not in a fight. Does he have a backpack that it unfolds out of or something?

@Silvan Haven

Good question. Given its size, I'd say it can be compacted (what with how crazy unfolding/folding mechanisms can be in RWBY) into a smaller size roughly the size of two helmets, but not much smaller. He could carry it in a backpack (which would take up most of the space) though given any indication of needing to go on a mission, he'd probably just put it on beforehand and wear it throughout.

[Lucius Cypher]

@Asuras

Could make it like the Mark V Iron Man suit, in a fashionable carrying case that you beat bad guys with until it's time to armor up. We've already seen Coco with her hyperspace minigun, no reason it couldn't apply to armor either.

[Asuras]

That's certainly true. I suppose I stayed a bit cautious about just how insane the compacting mechanism could get.

[harinezumikouken]

*Cackles at the reminder that Emerald got visceral attacked*

[Abillioncats]

I post! Man it sure is nice being able to post like almost everyday. Beats waiting for like a month. XD

[Abillioncats]

*Cackles at the reminder that Emerald got visceral attacked*

@harinezumikouken

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[harinezumikouken]

@Abillioncats

[Abillioncats]

Guys halp @harinezumikouken is being mean ;-;

[harinezumikouken]

@Abillioncats