[OOC] Academy 218: Still looking for new people to join - now is the primetime.

[Apokalipse]

Oh fun fact about Lupe I believe. Her middle name is my first name except I spell mine Elli. C:

[SepticGentleman]

He will be here tomorrow.

[Shard]

God, this place got wild while I slept...living in Scandinavia makes you miss all the fun... :(

Anyways, I am happy to see that this is moving along! Looking forward to when it starts!

[Tyler]

I'm really excited for this to begin. As Apokalipse already said, super schools on this forum tend to suffer; not only do they attract amateur roleplayers but they are also a magnet for amateur GMs.

Fortunately this band of characters looks rather solid and the GM is very thorough and professional. It makes me really eager to get involved.

Is there any chance we can post abridged versions of our characters here? I've read through the accepted characters, but it's a lot of information to process at once. It might be better if we all shared what we consider to be essential information in a more digestible format. I'll start:

Mason Crawford

Name:

Mason Crawford

Age:

19

Appearance:

tall, slim, dark brown hair

Personality:

confident, to the point, hates being vulnerable

Powers:

Speculomancy - powers relating to mirrors.

Other key info:

British, gay

I hope this doesn't seem like a dumb idea...

[Shard]

I like that idea!

Casper

Name:
Casper Hayat

Gender:
Male

Age:
16

Appearance:
Short, scrawny, black/pink hair.

Personality:
Shy, quiet, reserved

Powers:
Replication - Creation of replicas, objects.

Other key info:
Egyptian, gay, "emo"

[SepticGentleman]

Alright.

Ruben

Name:
Ruben Tarblatt

Age:
45

Gender:
Androgynous

Appearance:
Imagine the Thing with an Enclave Eyebot for a head.

Personality:
Polite. Curious. Analytical.

Powers:
Body Horror and mindfucking.

Other key info:
He's got a teenage version of the Slender Man working as his assistant.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I'm really excited for this to begin. As Apokalipse already said, super schools on this forum tend to suffer; not only do they attract amateur roleplayers but they are also a magnet for amateur GMs.

Fortunately this band of characters looks rather solid and the GM is very thorough and professional. It makes me really eager to get involved.

@Tyler

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I wanted this RP to be one of the best.I'm upholding the highest standards for the RP, and everyone involved. I also have to thank everyone else for making such good characters. A little tweaking was required here and there, but there isn't one character I don't like.

Except for Urban's. They all suck. Let's all all agree to ignore his characters until he goes away.

Is there any chance we can post abridged versions of our characters here? I've read through the accepted characters, but it's a lot of information to process at once. It might be better if we all shared what we consider to be essential information in a more digestible format. I'll start:

I hope this doesn't seem like a dumb idea...

@Tyler

I was actually thinking of that. I think I may have mentioned it before, but I'm going to add them all to the third post. Everyone is required to post them. Here's a pre version of the format Tyler provided.

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[b]Other key info[/b]:
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[Shiinen]

KILL MEEEEEE

I HAVE TO REMAKE EVERYTHING.

Ah well. Shouldn't take too long. Round two. Here we go!

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Did mine. It was pretty hard choosing what to put in them since there's a lot to know about my characters.

Diego Bellaquez

Name:

Diego Julius Bellasquez

Age:

17

Appearance:

Lean, Athletic, Hispanic, hair is black. He has a very large and sharp nose. Diego's body is covered in a network of tattoo-like symbols of fire. He usually wears black clothes.

Personality:

Reclusive, Grief-stricken, moral, paranoid, doesn't play well with men, Empathetic, wants redemption. Inside his head lies a cruel and violent Entity that constantly opposes Diego's ideals named Agni. They talk a lot.

Powers:

A flaming Entity imbues him with Fire-Bending, among other abilities.

Other key info:

Christian, Ex-Convict, Good at the Guitar and Basketball, has a twin brother that was killed in a gangfight, and his father was put in a coma from said gangfight. His sister is Lupe.

Lupe Bellasquez

Name:

Lupe Ellie Bellasquez

Age:

20

Appearance:

Spanish, very thin, like her brother, she has a very sharp and pronounced nose. She has black hair styled in a fabulous pompadour. Lupe has a knack for style among other things.

Personality:

Vain, Egotistical, large ham. Lupe lives for fun and games, and doesn't let anything get in her way. Therefore, she is extremely hedonistic, unsympathetic, and doesn't have a care in the world.

Powers:

Neon Energy - Basically I can't believe it's not plasma!™

Other key info:

Works part time as a stripper, and a DJ. She has lost her younger brother, and her father is currently in a coma. Like Diego, she knows how to play the Guitar, but she can do it much better.

Luther Wallace

Name:

Luther Billy Wallace

Age:

10

Appearance:

Small, frail, dainty, has a head of blond hair that goes down to his back. He looks very feminine. Luther is Caucasian, with his parents coming from different European countries, and he's part Native-American. His arm is covered in scars from a dog attack. He wears loose, light-colored, clothes. Sometimes crossdresses. Most notably of all, Luther is always seen wearing a massive women's sunhat.

Personality:

Care-free, adventurous, loves nature and exploring, relaxed, somewhat racist, fears dogs, a little lady's man, and has a fascination with female gender.

Powers:

Precipitation Generation and Water Manipulation

Other key info:

Never met his father, and lived in a really rural southern community for most of his life.

Michelle Gallus

Name:

Michelle Brianna Gallus

Age:

18

Appearance:

Massive, stands at nearly seven feet tall, and is African-American, a very dark color. She is somewhat muscular, and has a very scars. Michelle has dark-brown hair styled in a pop.

Personality:

Proud, Confident, Blunt, and to the point.

Powers:

Dinosaur Transformation

Other key info:

Was thrown out by her parents when her powers manifested, leaving her to roam the wild until she was taken in by a Metahuman circus. Michelle knows how to wrestle.

Mika Baozai

Name:

Miká Baozái

Age:

17

Appearance:

Young, Asian, somewhat pudgy. Mika wears glasses and keeps her black hair in a ponytail. Wears clothes that work with her figure, and has a schoolgirl style.

Personality:

Vain, haughty, competitive, slow to trust, polite, secretive, curious and adventure loving, in touch with her sexuality, has a fetish for hands.

Powers:

Cerebral Power Replication - Currently Mika has Telepathy and Telekinesis

Other key info:

Comes from a rich family, she went with them after her mother died of cancer.

[Shard]

We could actually put these in the same post we have our characters on the list as a "Character Summary"

[Mixtape Ghost N]

KILL MEEEEEE

I HAVE TO REMAKE EVERYTHING.

Ah well. Shouldn't take too long. Round two. Here we go!

@Shiinen

Good luck, homie!

[SepticGentleman]

@Mr Allen J Here you go you musical troglodyte.

Harmon Rottlage

Basic Information

Name:

Harmon Rottlage

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

None

Gender:

Male

Age:

19

Height:

5’11" (without accounting for shards)

Weight:

134.7 lbs (without accounting for shards)

Type:

Student, Staff Assistant

Appearance

Hair Color:

N/A (no hair)

Eye Color:

N/A (no eyes)

Ethnicity:

Unidentifiable

Physical Appearance:

As far as meta-humans go in terms of physical appearance, Harmon ended up on the wrong side of the gene pool. He possesses a gaunt, pale frame as a result of many years of malnourishment which he has failed or neglected to remedy. His skin is a sickly gray, covered in splits and cracks from birth defects. He possesses no extraneous facial features such as eyes, ears, or a nose. However, in place of the latter two, he has vacant cavities that function much the same as the appropriate appendages would. His lips are surrounded by cracks that extend as his shards develop, capable of reaching up to the shards themselves. Harmon’s skin changes as well, becoming more translucent and adopting a red pigmentation as he enters later growth stages, though this has rarely occurred in the past.

Attire:

Harmon is always seen wearing long, white, hooded coat which was left to him by his father back when he lived with the Ivory Deer Community. Besides that, his attire changes from day to day. He’s commonly seen wearing a gray undershirt, beige cargo shorts, and a pair of brown sandals.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

In the past, Harmon was a socially inept wallflower, mostly incapable of coherent speech and horrified at the idea of approaching people, let alone talking to them. Over the recent years, however, he has overcome a lot of his old inhibitions, mostly due to his experience with his two old friends in Black Fall, and partway due to Ruben’s tutelage. Harmon today is still quite socially awkward, but no longer to the point where he will cower in fear from someone harmlessly approaching him. He never initiates a conversation with anyone out of the blue unless he has a reason to, but he won’t shy away from anyone who wants to strike one up with him.

Hobbies/Interests:

Harmon used to obsessively collect batteries, electronics, and other such things. And he still keeps a supply in his room, but he doesn’t go around taking whatever he can find from wherever he can get into. Nowadays, he’s solely interested in keeping his current stock intact and operational, should he ever need a backup for anything. When he’s not doing that, he’s helping Ruben keep his own equipment in working condition.

Skills/Talents:

Harmon is skilled with the construction, repair, and proper maintenance of a large variety of electronic devices. If your phone or your computer are acting weird, he can definitely fix them if you ask him to.

Prized Possession:

Harmon holds his coat in dear regard, seeing as it’s all he has left of his estranged father, even though he has never met the man and has no idea what he’s like.

Quote(s):

“I know what to see… when what you see… isn’t quite… enough…”

History/Bio:

Harmon Rottlage was born in 1995 in the secluded Ivory Deer Community Estate, a place where meta-humans of a less… physically human nature, often congregate and spend most of their days. The Ivory Deer Community has taken in many folks who are seen as walking abominations and freaks of nature, keeping its doors closed to meta-humans who aren’t like them. In the opinion of Wallace Melbrondt, the Ivory Deer himself, those such meta-humans are more deserving of NEST’s own direct attention rather than the seclusion he and his associates offer. Melbrondt kept in contact with NEST only because the law demanded it. Otherwise, he would never bother with them.

Harmon himself was the product of a rather surreal relationship between two very, very strange individuals – a spindly man with a metal skeleton, and a blind, hulking dog-woman. As a result of an act of artificial insemination, Harmon’s conception was one of tragedy. The metal shards in his head tore through his mother’s womb, causing her to bleed to death from the inside. His father was promptly blamed for this outcome and cast out of the Ivory Deer Community, and to this day, his status and whereabouts are unknown. Harmon was taken in by the other residents of the estate, and they raised him to the best of their abilities. Unfortunately, things didn’t turn out very well in the end.

Harmon was a troubled child. Straight from birth, his abilities were evident. Indirectly fiddling with televisions and phones. Teleporting through halls randomly. Melbrondt spent years attempting to help the boy but, in the end, he could do nothing. Only Harmon’s father knew what to do, and he was well and gone by then. Harmon ended up learning through painful experiences and late-night convulsions what he had to do to keep his powers in check. He plucked shard after shard from his head and tossed them away like scrap paper. This went on for over a decade. Once Harmon had gained a somewhat stable hold over his abilities, he was able to live among the residents in relative peace and comfort. His mental state, however, was still something of a problem. When he was fifteen, he left the estate one night in a state of delusion, and he ended up in the city of Black Fall.

Harmon’s life for the next few years was an arduous trod through a day-to-day routine involving scrounging for food and supplies to stay alive, finding a place to lie down every night, the works. His mental condition and physical deformities brought upon him many hardships. A certain NEST agent operating in the city was especially hard on him, often beating the poor boy into submission whenever he brought him in for his annual power checkup. There were points in this time when he thought about allowing the shards in his head to grow unhindered, rendering him immobile and sending him further down the path of madness. That time, however, never came. Harmon was saved by two people; another NEST agent, and a young man living in the slums just like him. Both are now old and dear friends of his. With their help, he managed to improve both his mental health and his level of control over his abilities. After a while, he decided that he had been gone from the Ivory Deer Community for too long, and returned to them one afternoon in the month of May, 2014. They welcomed him with open arms.

Harmon did not stay for long, however. During his time in Black Fall, he had heard a great many things about Academy 218, and in an attempt to further overcome his inhibitions, and possibly make something out of his life, he asked for Melbrondt’s assistance in applying. The Ivory Deer accepted and had a letter sent to the staff working there, with an overview of Harmon’s abilities included. His profile caught the attention of one of the professors there, and he was invited to attend the Academy’s classes. The next day, Harmon bid the residents of the estate farewell, and he was off.

Since then, Harmon has remained a student at the Academy for over a year, and what’s more, an assistant to Professor Tarblatt. His experience with technology and interactions with a variety of meta-humans have made him a both a respected peer and good friend to Ruben. To this day, he grows more and more confident in himself, and it shows in both his work, and his speech. Most other students have avoided him due to his appearance, but there are exceptions. All in all, Harmon is happy. And that’s al that need be, isn’t it?

Family:

Marnine Rottlage – Mother (deceased)
Harris Rottlage – Father (missing)

Relationships

Ruben Geraltes Tarblatt | Good | Mentor | “Good man… good man… love, love to work with him… helps me… helps me make myself… better…”

Abilities

Power Class:

Cerebral, Power

Power:

Harmon possesses two distinct powers, both playing into his biological makeup – specifically, the metal shards in his head. He can interact with any electronically powered devices by melding his consciousness with the electric current inside, and he can teleport varying distances through sheer perception and will.

Harmon’s first ability, in further detail, varies in strength and capability depending on the collective stage of growth the shards are in. He can sense the electric current in any appropriate device – cameras, phones, televisions, speakers, and many more – and manipulate the current to alter the mechanisms inside, allowing him to interact with the device in a variety of ways depending on its base functions. Anything with a monitor can act as a point of visual perspective for him, his most common usage of this power. He can also will any degree of imagery on a monitor system for others to see, though this also comes as an unwarranted occurrence sometimes, giving away his presence within the device if he is trying to remain covert. With enough concentration, he can cause certain devices to malfunction or break down permanently. In the later stages of his growth cycle, he can even cause them to explode, or manipulate them to operate beyond their intended functions – monitors emitting blinding flashes of light, speakers blasting out static at over a hundred decibels, and other such potentially harmful happenings.

Harmon’s secondary ability is being able to teleport himself, and anything or anyone he is in physical contact with at the time, across varying distances. This level of teleportation in particular does not involve travel through a separate dimension – meaning it’s instantaneous. Any direction Harmon can visually perceive, he can teleport to. The visual indicator of the act of teleporting is heralded by an array of static ripples and distortions across his body, and others’ as well if he’s bringing them with him.

Limits:

As stated before, both of these abilities vary in effectiveness depending on the growth stage of the metal shards embedded in Harmon’s scalp. A fresh grooming means he is essentially powerless, incapable of doing more than seeing through a camera in his hands. The shards also carry with them a severe level of influence over Harmon’s mental stability and level of cognitive recollection. During the shards’ early stages, Harmon’s thought processes are disjointed and his memories are all blurred and unrecognizable. As the stages advance, Harmon passes through a period of relative stability and awareness, and then gradually shifts into a psychological down-state, becoming unresponsive to social stimuli and wandering aimlessly, losing control of his abilities. If this continues for much longer, he enters a comatose state, and the sheer force of the shards’ channeling causes his memories and psyche to further deteriorate permanently.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Harmon holds a deep fear of lightning and magnetism, both being very, very capable of killing him on the spot. Being that he has metal shards in his head, any electrical current that comes into contact with them will go straight to his brain, resulting in instant death. Heavy levels of magnetism will also cause a very painful tugging sensation in Harmon’s head, easily incapacitating (if not killing) him.

Other:

Harmon’s NEST identification number is #74312885.

White noise has a calming effect on Harmon when he is in his late stages of shard growth. Such is useful for keeping him under control so that the shards can be properly removed.

Sample Post:

Harmon watched the screen flicker, alternating between static and brief images of anatomical scans of his own cranium.

“Are you. Seeing it. Clearly.” Ruben said to him.

“Not quite…” Harmon responded. He was seated on a stool before a computer monitor, attempting to produce an accurate visual depiction of his own brain based on some scans that Ruben had taken just prior. Thinking up random, disturbing images was easy. Constructing something from monochromatic images into a full, three-dimensional display? Not quite. He cradled his head as the static on the screen began to recede back into an image, and slowly but surely, his brain etched itself across the screen.

Swollen. Sickly yellow. Infused with strands of metal, rising like roots up to the shards in his head.

“Is it. Accurate.” Ruben said.

A few more faint flashes of static, and the screen was finally stable. Harmon raised his hand, holding a camera towards the monitor. He observed the image intently, analyzing it. He slowly nodded his head and replied, “Yes… yes, it’s, it’s accurate…”

“Good.” Ruben replied, “I will study. The feed. And prepare. An operation. Later.” He raised one of his tendrils and placed it upon Harmon’s shoulder. “Everything. Will be fine. Harmon.” He said to him.

Harmon nodded in agreement, and the monitor switched to black.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@SepticGentleman I don't really think Harmon is a power type. Cerebral is correct, but I feel as if he's a Super-System type. That said, Harmon is accepted.

[SepticGentleman]

@SepticGentleman I don't really think Harmon is a power type. Cerebral is correct, but I feel as if he's a Super-System type. That said, Harmon is accepted.

@Mr Allen J

I'll change that then.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

I'll be gathering everyone for the Skype chat very soon*. Remember, add Mr AllenJ on Skype.

* By very soon I mean completely randomly! I will catch everyone off guard!

[Apokalipse]

Piper Babinski

Name:

Piper Babinski

Age:

16

Gender:

Female

Appearance:

Bleach blonde hair, green eyes, pale skin, Polish nose, full lips, blunt bangs,

Personality:

Nice and sweet, manipulative, doesn’t believe she is doing harm, is bored easily, feminist

Powers:

Pain Manipulation: Piper can induce or suppress pain through the use of a noise in the nerve system.

Other key info:

Sleeps around a lot, mom is a hooker

Sawyer Babinski

Name:

Sawyer Babinski

Age:

16

Gender:

Female

Appearance:

Wavy red hair, pale skin, Polish nose, full lips, light green eyes,

Personality:

Dependable, sarcastic, thirsts for adventure, loves puns, feminist,

Powers:

Animal Attributes: Sawyer can mimic certain abilities of animals and can mimic the sounds an animal makes, effectively communicating with animals. However, she can only do this for animals she has touched.

Other key info:

mom is a hooker, has only touched a dog, a cat, and a gorilla before

[Mixtape Ghost N]

@Apokalipse I just thought of something, what if Sawyer touched Michelle in Dino form?

[Apokalipse]

@Apokalipse I just thought of something, what if Sawyer touched Michelle in Dino form?

@Mr Allen J

Mindfucked. o_o Uh, I don't know.

[Mixtape Ghost N]

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Mindfucked. o_o Uh, I don't know.

@Apokalipse

What if she gets the traits of the Dino Michelle is currently using? I don't really mind.

[Apokalipse]

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What if she gets the traits of the Dino Michelle is currently using? I don't really mind.

@Mr Allen J

Okay ^_^ Thanks, dude. Sawyer is gonna be badass :D