[OOC] Twisted Light - A Dystopic Magical Girl RP

[Letter Bee]

Made a final decision; I'm not going to join the RP.

Sorry for the inconvenience I brought you.

[Stern Algorithm]

I'm already seeing how the lines are going to be drawn in a future civil war (if we ever get that far in this RP):

-On the side of defending the city we have Alexandra, the Nobles supporting her, Kolya and Eponine (if she betrays Maria).

-On the side fighting against the city for various reasons are Chloe, Maria, any Nobles she convinces to join her, Shadow Compact and Eponine (if she stays loyal).

And in the middle there's Violetta, who probably chooses whichever side is most likely to win.

@Ariamis

Interesting, I wrote Eponine to be fairly easy to understand, almost mechanical and robotic even, but her position as Maria's subordinate, her worldview of absolute order, and the fact that she has a sister (who makes for a potential hostage for either side to take advantage of) makes Eponine's allegiance truly difficult to predict.

Won't lie, part of me wants Chloe to stay on the opposite side as Eponine because I think they'd make great rivals for various reasons. But another part of me thinks it'd be awesome if they pushed past their differences to fight for a common cause and became unlikely friends and this super awesome team. The fact that various circumstances exist that might lead to either option in the end is exciting.

More RPs need this kind of tension.

@Krauxis

I know what you mean. They have opposing worldviews, but if they do form a super awesome team, we should call it 'Blunt Force Trauma", since Eponine uses hammers, and Chloe uses gauntlets.

EDIT: I also wanted to add that most of Eponine's forces are from her slums, meaning they are mostly North Africans: Moroccans, Libyans, Egyptians, and especially Algerians. They tend to keep to themselves and have preserved their culture to a certain extent, so many of them are even Muslims. Adrian is an exception, among several others, since Eponine does take ability into account. It's just that her own people are usually the ones most willing to follow her without question and with a fervent zeal even.

[The book of bad juju]

Absolute Terror field. Nice touch.

[TrixyTrix]

The poor fool

Name: Alice Earhart
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Appearance

Civilian

Personality: A girl who is very open-minded and fair. Initially, a girl who was filled with hatred and bend on revenge, she went back to her old self after a fateful encounter. Alice is a kind girl who dislikes pointless violence, brutality and inequality among people which is why she is disgusted with the current situation in Aurora City. Despite supporting peace and co-existence, Alice is no public speaker and is a poor diplomat leading her to resort to actions she justifies as necessary. When passing judgement (aka killing), Alice usually does it swiftly if she believes her target to be too dangerous to be alive any longer. She rarely smiles and always has a cold calm expression on her face when transformed. When in civilian form, she is a little more relaxed and carefree but not much of a difference.
After her heroic breakdown, she becomes a little crazy and tends to laugh when seeing her target in despair/pain. She will also get a thrill in battle when her target tries to run away however she remains her calm self when facing a tough opponent.

Bio: Alice was just a normal girl till her whole family were killed in a battle between Shadow Compact and the magical girls.She was 14 then and it was only a year later that a Kyubey found her and asked whether she wanted to make a wish. Then, Alice was struggling just to survive. She had no home and no family. Magical Girls hunt her down for being normal and the normal people just cared about themselves. Moreover, Shadow Compact members had almost found her a couple of times but she managed to evade them. There was no way she would join them as she did not want to be any part of the conflict. She began to ramble to herself about wanting peace back and the conflict to end.

The Kyubey then told her to wish that. However, Alice was worried about what will occur if she ever made such a wish. She had some knowledge of how the wish works and knowing it had no bounds made her afraid. She also knew of the existence of witches and them being former magical girls which was why she was hesitating for so long to the point the Kyubey left. Alice pondered about it and it was then she met a member of Serenity by sheer coincidence. Their mission of co-existence and equality became her inspiration and she made a wish to the Kyubey, who had returned.
After becoming a magical girl, Alice tried to promote peace discreetly but saw nobody keen on the idea. She tried and tried till she realized diplomacy was not the only way. In every peaceful community, there will always be people having to do dirty work behind the scenes.

Eventually, Alice's idea of a peaceful co-existence is when all the weeds (aka stubborn people) are killed. She tainted the soul gems of magical girls to claim grief seeds and also harshly treated the normal people to get her point across. While others aware of her actions saw it being harsh and sometimes brutal, Alice herself does not see it that way as she believed what she was doing was for the future peace. Due to her actions, she has somewhat of a 'friendly' relationship with the Incubators since she delivered them quite a number of grief seeds.

Allegiance: She serves no one but is an 'ally' of the Incubators.
Skills: Capable hand-to-hand fighter, able to fully utilize her powers well and expert survival skills.
Weapons: None
Other: Just a reminder, Alice is slightly mentally unstable at times. If conversed properly, she will join Serenity. She may join Aurora Authority or Shadow Compact depending on who talks to her. She will not join Trinity.

Magical Girl Section:

Magical Girl Appearance:

The Reaper

Wish: The power to make co-existence a reality (her wish was granted but she was given power to make it by forceful means)
Weapons: Alice has a size-changing scythe which she can recall to her if its away from her.
Powers: Magical Energy Manipulation
1)Magic Zapz Cage: Alice needs to draw a circle on the ground and lure her target in. She will have to aim her scythe at her target from above and shout "Close!" for the cage to activate and the bigger the cage, the more magic need to maintain. The cage saps away the captive's strength & a magical girl's magic powers. Alice will usually proceed to torture the captive with her scythe.
2)Mind Reading: Alice needs to be focused and standing still in order to use it.
3)Healing Factor
4)Energy Manipulation Magic: Basically Alice can conjure anything within her power out of magic energy to use offensively such as magic energy balls that explode on impact, magic beams, magic spears,etc. She can also energized her scythe with magic energy to be sharper and durable.

[Flamelord]

@TrixyTrix I will admit, on second thought the mind reading makes me a bit nervous, but so long as it isn't horribly abused beyond reason IC, then this character is accepted.

[Absolute Configuration intensifies]

[Ariamis]

Hey, it's another scythe-user! Welcome to the club.

But I gotta say, that's a lot of powerful abilities, I was surprised FL didn't want to nerf her.

EDIT: I just realized that the size of our group has doubled in these past few days, wow.

[Flamelord]

But I gotta say, that's a lot of powerful abilities, I was surprised FL didn't want to nerf her.

@Ariamis

I thought about it, but from what I was told the healing factor is standard MG affair, not Sayaka fast. And it's also my understanding that she can't use them all at the same time, which evens up things more. As long as that's followed, there won't be an issue (Think about how much magic she must burn through using that circle, as well as directly manipulating her own energy for attacks. It seemed like a fair give and take)

Mind reading is the one I'm most uncertain about, to be honest.

[Ariamis]

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I thought about it, but from what I was told the healing factor is standard MG affair, not Sayaka fast. And it's also my understanding that she can't use them all at the same time, which evens up things more. As long as that's followed, there won't be an issue (Think about how much magic she must burn through using that circle, as well as directly manipulating her own energy for attacks. It seemed like a fair give and take)

Mind reading is the one I'm most uncertain about, to be honest.

@Flamelord

That's true. For some reason I thought you had a limit to the number of powers, but looking back at the interest thread you basically had an "everything goes"-policy regarding it.

[Krauxis]

I'm usually a little uncertain about mind-reading, but this particular time I'm playing a character who that wouldn't be all that useful against, so who am I to judge? In practice, no problems here.

[The book of bad juju]

l aways thought that powers were actually limited to one per user, just in such broad strokes that you could apply it in a hundred thousand different ways. That's what i went for, at least.

[Stern Algorithm]

Posted. I'm assuming Chloe won't attack while Eponine's speaking, and that Adrain will follow orders without too much fuss, but if anyone objects, please let me know and I can edit the post accordingly.

[Flamelord]

l aways thought that powers were actually limited to one per user, just in such broad strokes that you could apply it in a hundred thousand different ways. That's what i went for, at least.

@The book of bad juju

Well, that's basically what it is. It's just more explicit about what exactly she can do.

[SevenStormStyle]

Hider

Name: Yume Fubuki
Age: 14
Gender: Female (Can pass for ambiguous when in her normal state)
Appearance:

Hider

Personality: Yume is calm and logical to an extent that may seem cold to others. However, when it is in her ability to be kind and benevolent, she is without hesitation. She is especially caring towards inexperienced magical girls, and wishes no real harm upon anyone. Yume is sorrowful about the eventual fate of magical girls, but has no doubt that it is unavoidable and dismisses any decision made for the sake of passion. She is somewhat a hypocrite, for when someone who she cares for is threatened, she protects them fiercely.
Bio: Yume had an easier life than most magical girls. An only child of two well-off and loving parents, there wasn't much she would sell her soul for. This changed, however, after her mother was discovered to have Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva, a rare genetic disorder that slowly and painfully killed her. The day after her mother's funeral, a then eleven year old Yume was offered a contract in exchange for a single wish. Without hesitation, she accepted a destiny fighting witches in exchange for her mother's life. Had she been older and wiser, she would have realized that bringing her mother back from the dead would not reverse her condition. Yume soon saw the suffering she had inflicted on her mother, who was once again doomed to die in constant agony, and ended her mother's life with the blade of her own axe. She was forced to cut down her own father as well, after he went insane from the grief of losing his wife for a second time. Yume became a full time witch hunter after this, and serves every whim of the incubators. She has accepted the balance of despair and hope as a needed force to maintain the universe, and bases many of her actions on what will support it.
Allegiance: Yume is loyal to the will of the incubators, but will form allegiances with other magical girls when necessary, and occasionally will take on an "apprentice" of sorts.
Skills: Yume is incredibly skilled with her axe as a result of her years of experience. While she is not very physically strong, she is very fast and agile, and is a strategic thinker. When trying to be charming, Yume can be exceedingly persuasive.
Weapons: As a magical girl, Yume rarely uses "normal" weapons, but carries a few switchblades for the sake of caution.
Other: Yume has an intense dislike for men, especially adults. She also considers herself a vigilante, and will slay evil humans as well as witches.

Magical Girl Section:

Magical Girl Appearance:

Hider

Wish: "I wish for my mother to come back to life."
Weapons:

Hider

Yume's main weapon is a large and ornate battle axe, which is chrome in color. Her weapon stems from her idea that destruction is necessary for advance and construction, much in the way that a tree must be chopped down with an axe for a house to be built. She can also summon small throwing axes to use as deadly projectiles.
Powers: Because of the way her wish brought back the dead, Yume uses Life Magic. However, she cannot bring people back to life completely healed. Her abilities allow her to only bring back the recent dead, and they can only reverse the effect of the killing blow, so any long term damage, such as cancer, would be unaffected.

[Flamelord]

@SevenStormStyle Overall not bad. I would bump up the age she became an MG at by just a few years, since I don't think eight year olds can contract. I'd also point out that the power is generally based on the Wish itself and its intent, not the mental state of the person making the wish at the time. Though I understand if you're a bit leery of having resurrection as a power.

[The book of bad juju]

I'm already seeing how the lines are going to be drawn in a future civil war (if we ever get that far in this RP):

-On the side of defending the city we have Alexandra, the Nobles supporting her, Kolya and Eponine (if she betrays Maria).

-On the side fighting against the city for various reasons are Chloe, Maria, any Nobles she convinces to join her, Shadow Compact and Eponine (if she stays loyal).

And in the middle there's Violetta, who probably chooses whichever side is most likely to win.

@Ariamis

Interesting to note we now have a third side on this conflict with the pro-incubator people popping up, who are most likely interested in kickstarting this civil war so as to cause mass amounts of despair and contracts and, thereby, keep the incubators happy.

[Lennon79]

I for one welcome the coming of a three-way clusterfuck civil war, most likely timed with the arrival of a certain UberWitch or the fruition of some unnamed magical girl's magical research.. stuff.
I just hope we have a body count worthy of the Urobutcher's name.

[SevenStormStyle]

I can understand the age thing, I was just going on Nagisa, since she seems pretty young, and some real girls reach the part of their life in which they would become very emotional at a young age. I'll bump it up, though, to make things reasonable. I'll see what I can do about the magic as well.

Edit: Now she's a year older, contracted at eleven, and with more appropriate magic.

[Flamelord]

I for one welcome the coming of a three-way clusterfuck civil war, most likely timed with the arrival of a certain UberWitch or the fruition of some unnamed magical girl's magical research.. stuff.
I just hope we have a body count worthy of the Urobutcher's name.

@Lennon79

I'll go get the bingo card.

Edit: Now she's a year older, contracted at eleven, and with more appropriate magic.

@SevenStormStyle

Looks good. Welcome to the game.

Responses coming soon you guys

[Ariamis]

Yo Flamelord, if you're gonna have Chloe and Eponine travel to the estate the guards will open the gates and salute at the sight of Eponine.

[Flamelord]

Yo Flamelord, if you're gonna have Chloe and Eponine travel to the estate the guards will open the gates and salute at the sight of Eponine.

@Ariamis

I assumed as much, so I was just gonna let the two of them handle the transition.

@TrixyTrix @The book of bad juju, if you two are gonna interact, then you can do that as you wish. If not, then I'll get you both responses.