[OOC] Guards and Gifts (Gifted Teen Roleplay) [1 AVAILABLE SPOT]

[ScarlettWaters16]

“Anomalous. Old Definition: irregular, deviating from the norm or from what people expect. New Definition: a person with special abilities; someone further along in the evolutionary chain.

“We, the members of the Council, have created a safe zone, a.k.a. Markson, surrounded by two layers of walls to protect us from this dangerous new species. Any Anomalous inside the city will be expelled to the Outlands to live away from us, the Normals. Considering that these Anomalous are a danger to the population and an overuse of space and room, we have created Guards, who go out into the Outlands and demolish the Anomalous population. They need to be eradicated to where the Anomalous gene completely disappears.

“Guards are highly trained individuals, youngest being at the age of seventeen, that are sent out into the Outlands to hunt down any Anomalous and eradicate them. The Guards are trained in schooling, being the top choices, each picked individually by Council Officers. It will not matter where these children come from.

“Each of these children will be chosen every year, no more, no less in one year and it does not matter of their age. There will be one student chosen from each level of class, of which there are four. They must be top marked in Physical Education, Anomalous History, Normal History, and Weaponry. The students with the highest marks from each of the five separate Grids in Markson: four from Slight, the west most Grid, four from Principle, the east Grid, four from Till, the southern Grid, four from Luminosity, the northern grid, and finally four from right here in Focal, the center Grid. They will all be sent to the Guard Training Center in Focal and they will train for exactly one year and a day. They will train in Weaponry, Defense, Hand-to-Hand Combat, and Anomalous recognition.

“These students should be considered privileged and, even if they come from the lowest of lowly places, they are to be accepted.”
-Preamble of the Declaration of Every Final Entitlement Now Shown Everywhere, or the D.E.F.E.N.S.E.

This is a gifted teen RP. You will be playing as a Recruit, a young teenager between the ages of 15 and 19, going to the Guard Training facility for the first time. Slowly, over time, a secret gift will develop, making you realize that you are one of the enemies. You are an Anomalous. You must work to conceal your gift or be shot on the spot by your friends and your leaders. This is also a competition RP. Recruits go through classes and they gain points in each class that go toward their overall score. The Recruits with the highest score at the end of the training will be able to choose what position they want to go into for being a full time Guard. But let's just focus on being Recruits right now shall we?

Rules

• No Mary Sues or Toms or Joes. This is in the future. Give me some creative names
• Respect me and I'll respect you. Period.
• No God Modding or OP characters
• Because your powers will be developing, put a line through them in the character sheet. This also lets me know you read the rules.
• There will only be four characters from each of the five Grids. As soon as a Grid is full, it will be taken off the board.
• You can make your own weapons, but I have the final say on whether it is appropriate or not.
• You need to have good grammar and spelling. Capitals at the beginning of each sentence, period at the end. Come on, we all went to first grade.
• Post CS's in the OOC for me to approve and then move it to the Character Section once I have approved it
• Have fun with it!

Character Sheet!

Appearance: (Real Pictures)

Name:

Gender:

Age:

Grid:

Secret Gift:

Weapon of Choice:

Gear:

Bio: (Short Paragraph)

Habits (Optional):

Theme Song (Optional):

Other:

Characters from Each Grid
_{Available Spots in Parentheses}

Focal(1):
Paige Michaelson ~ @tabbycat
Nyaleena Vega ~ @Imaginary
Chess Full ~ @kagethekiller
Luminosity(0):
Citrine Parsons ~ @ScarlettWaters16
Colt Winger ~ @ScarlettWaters16
Dyana Dolaso ~ @AgentFallenSoul
Sarah Morningstar ~ @MatParker1711
Till(1):
Seril Flint ~ @kagethekiller
Logan Steele ~ @Avanhelsing
Mason Foster ~ @SheriffLlama
Principle(1):
Estella Zaneux ~ @karamonnom
Lilith Archer ~ @CallaLily
Zeph Nolluxian ~ @Satsuki
Slight(0):
Alda Bayne ~ @CLIW
Lincoln Fristen ~ @_Middle_
Tarvas Meldon ~ @ArenaSnow
Derric Adams ~ @Puffhead

Info About...

Focal

The center Grid. Mostly consists of Council Members families and upper class people. This is also where the Guard Training Facility is located. It is in the center of the five grids, so a chopper must be taken from the Guard Facility to the Outlands in order for Guards to go on their Tours. Most Guards from here end up becoming head officers at the training facility. Most people from here are confident, cocky, and not very friendly.

Luminosity

The northernmost grid. It is the closest to the Outlands on the seaward side. This is the poorest of the Grids, but there are still a few wealthy people living here. People from here tend to be more humble and, since they don't have the distraction of money, they tend to make better Guards. Most homeless people or people who cannot be supported by family members anymore live here. The breeding ground for most Anomalous appearances.

Till

Southernmost Grid. Mostly consists of farmers and agricultural people. The main source of the safe zone's food, water, and medicine. Everything is grown here and most hunting is done down here. The largest of all five zones, some Anomalous sneak under the wall to get into this Grid just to get at the food. More Guards are posted on the inside portion of the wall at this Grid than any other.

Slight

Western Grid. Slight is isolated more from the rest of the Grids because of the river that flows on its border. People from here are not as open as you might like. This Grid mostly consists of dense forests, which is where most of the lumber comes from. One of the more mysterious Grids.

Principle

The Easternmost Grid. This is a rich persons paradise. Near a lavish small lake that borders them and the people from Luminosity, the people from Principle are considered snooty, haughty, and downright spiteful. They tend to not be the nicest people in the world. This is where most actresses or actors are born, along with singers and other famous people. They don't make the greatest Guards, though the entrance to the Outlands is on their portion of the wall.

The Outlands

The Outlands are any territory surrounding the outside of the wall. Any banished Anomalous from the inside of the wall go out here and begin creating colonies. They feed themselves out here. To the east, it consists mostly of forests. To the north, there is a sea and to the south there is a desert. To the west there is nothing but mountains for miles. Most of the Anomalous tend to stay in the forest area. There are weak spots in the Wall that surrounds the city, so it is easy to get in from the Outlands... and out.

Guard Facility a.k.a.

The Guard Facility, or the Castle as you will most likely be referring to it, is an over fifty story high facility. The veteran Guards stay on the first couple ground floors while the Recruits train and live on the upper floors. The cafeteria for Recruits are between where the Recruits begin and the Guards' floors end. For this RP, we will mostly be staying in the upper floors unless it is necessary to go through those other floors to get to the Outlands. Each time a veteran Guard leaves, the leaders of the Guards choose a younger Guard to take his room on the lower floor. It is good if you get a room on the lower floor.

The Council

The Council is the main government of the city. You do what the Council says and you live. Period.

Teachers for Recruits

_{Remember, none of the teachers are Anomalous. Also, they are NPCs to be controlled by ME only}

Sky Carlson

Originally from: Focal

Teaches: Weaponry and Defense

Other Jobs: One of the Leading Guards

Nau Trent

Originally From: Till

Teaches: Council History

Other Jobs: Head Teacher, Leader of the Facility, A Council Member

Tri Crater

Originally From: Principle

Teaches: Anomalous Classification and Identification

Other Jobs: Score Keeper, Nau's Co-Leader

Kym Carspring

Originally From: Slight

Teachers: Anomalous History

Other Jobs: None

Guard/Recruit Outfits

Shorts

Shirt

Hood and Mask

Hood is navy blue as well though.

Final Roommate List

_{As created by @kagethekiller}
TBR & Logan
Seril & Nya
Linc & Paige
Dyana & Colt
Alda & Estella
Citrine & Sarah
Derric & Tarvas
Mason & Chess
Zeph & Lilith (by default)

Scores Listing

Dyana- 20
Colt- 15
Mason-14
Citrine- 13
[Paige- 12
Nya-11
Chess-10
Derric-9
Estella-8
Linc-6
Tarvas-5
Seril-4
Lilith-3
Alda-2
Sarah-1
Zeph-0
Logan-0

Head up to the chat bar and join us in the chat! Just type /join #GaG to get in!

[_Middle_]

Hey! I am very interested in this, and would like to start creating a CS, but I have a couple of questions first.

When you say "Real Pictures", are you asking for actual people, and not anime or the like?

And would Lincoln be an acceptable name?

[ScarlettWaters16]

@_Middle_ Lincoln is fine and yes, no anime or drawings. Real people.

[_Middle_]

@ScarlettWaters16

Okay, thanks! I will start working on the CS.

[CLIW]

May I ask if a photorealistic digital painting is alright? I have a hard time finding good photographs (I'm not a very good searcher..)

[ScarlettWaters16]

@CLIW I saw the picture and it's fine.

[CLIW]

Appearance:

Name: Alda Bayne

Gender: Female

Age: 17

Grid: Slight

Secret Gift: Astral projection; can induce a trance in her physical body and create a "ghost" of herself that can pass through physical objects but also effect the physical world in limited ways, which include small flashes of light, knocking over or moving small/light objects, and creating small clouds of thin mist. She can do this at will, but because her control of this is limited, a big enough fright will cause her to enter a projection, which would appear in real life as fainting. Projecting leaves her 'real' body extremely vulnerable.

Weapon of Choice: An axe!

Gear: Medical gear, a bag of trail mix and a strong magnifying glass.

Bio: She discovered her power about a year ago during a powerful windstorm while she was taking a stroll through the forests of Slight. She was near the edge of the woods, where the wind picked up so much strength that it felled a tree, which narrowly pinned Alda by her lower leg when it fell (and broke the leg). The horror of the situation forced her into a projection; she thought she was dead because she could see her own body laying still on the ground but eventually managed to will herself back into her physical body.
The discovery caused her to grow apart from her family, and she became somewhat reclusive while she was recovering from the accident.

Habits: Walks with a limp. When she is stressed, she closes her eyes and becomes unresponsive.

Theme Song (Optional):

Other:

[ScarlettWaters16]

@CLIW Accepted! Move to the character tab.

[AgentFallenSoul]

Appearance:

Name:
Dyana Dolaso
Gender:
Female
Age:
17
Grid:
Luminosity
Secret Gift:
Dyana is highly skilled with all types of guns allowing her to perform great feats and benefit in a far ranged combat. Dyana is an excellent bull-eyes aim on her target via bullets. Dyana are also able to operate all variations of guns. She can create guns as well as repair them. Also to have an expert knowledge of guns and handling them. Dyana have excellent intuition on trigger-initiated, hand-held, and hand-directed implements, especially with an extending bore, which thereby resemble the class of weapon in either form or concept.

Dyana can achieve complete and utter accuracy on distant targets, with the activity in her brain center for aim, accuracy and precision is drastically improved. She needs only to aim for an instant before they can precisely hit a target with a projectile. Dyana can judge extremely long distances amazingly accurately, gauging the strength needed to launch a projectile, in order to hit a target accurately. If a target is moving Dyana can calculate the best method to hit the target. Visual obstructions like smoke and vegetation do not hinder Dyana ability to get an accurate bead on Dyana's target, and Dyana's intense focus on whatever she's shooting at allows her to shut out outside distractions. She can compensate for environmental factors that would normally throw off her aim like wind, air resistance, gravity, and radiant heat (which distorts the image of the target).
Weapon of Choice:

A variton of marksmen rifles, the ESG45 is a semi-automatic rifles that shoots both standard military armor piercing rounds as well as another setting for anti-material rail gun capabilities. It also has a removea lead scope for close combat and runs on 15 bullets, it's rail gun can fire 4 shots before having to recharge which is the average speed of changing a clip.

574SIDE-M/233 is a standard grade pistol that uses a clip of 12 standard bullets. Semi-Automatic.
Gear:
Beyond the standard gear, she has a camoflauged cloak she uses when on hunting missions or she's posted up somewhere waiting for her target, she has a holster for her gun and carries armor piercing rounds in her small pack, with standard medical supplies as well as a removable red dot sight to switch out with her marksmen scope on her ESG45.
Bio:
Dyana is kind of a mystery to the guards, she was found in luminosity and many knew her as a very brutal person, stuck on protecting her family, her mother was a cripple and her father a drunk, her little brother often tried to keep the house held together. Butbetween being poor and her father spending his wages on alchohal, Dyana took it upon herself to provide for the family of four. When she wasn't at home, she was out fighting for food, but she came across something that changed the playing field. One day she was digging in the trash, when she came across an old rustic looking metal object. What she found out later to be a gun, slowly began to change her. She was more quiet, she listened to sounds she never realized she had heard before, she noticed things that normally she wouldn't. Then when her mother died to an anomalies, she took it upon herself to become a guard. That is when she truly realized just how what her power was, it went beyond being a good marksmen, she could fire with ease almost, like she had been firing guns for decades. To others it just seemed to be a normal gift, but to Dyana she knows what it truly is, a power best kept hidden.
Habits (Optional):
She chews gum a lot to get past her jitters, she also bites on a titanium bullet when posted up or getting ready to go into a battlefield.
Theme Song (Optional):
N/A at the moment
Other:
N/A

[Pie Flavor]

Character Sheet(WIP)---(Can you check my power?)

Appearance: (Real Pictures)

Name:
David Arizaga

Gender:
Male

Age:
18

Grid:
Slight

Secret Gift:
Battle Momentum - Though he can't see the future, technically, David simply expects what is going to happen. Knowledge of Sword-Fighting along with how his opponent is moving, combined with a very limited from of precognition there becomes specialized way of predicting the opponent's moves. This usually happens during battle that he is either taking place, or watching as there is no good explanation for the ability is that David just expects whats coming from experience and a little assistance. After unconsciously using his powers, David finally realized that what he sees from his predictions comes from what can happen, not what will happen, and soon began to try and figure out the consequences of certain actions before performing them. The earliest that he has predicted a move was right before a battle begins, with the starting move of the opponent whether they begin or follow up. This saved David many times from fights, as he dodged the opponent's beginning attack that would of seriously caught him off guard. With this ability allowing him to predict the opponent and what they are doing before reacting as long as it is within his reasonable limits. This ability since combined with experience and facts can only predict what it knows from a situation, meaning that it can't predict the usage of other secret powers unless they are used first by the opponent and seen by David.

Weapon of Choice:
Saber / Rapier

Gear:
Dueling is something that David particularly likes so he carries around some steel gauntlets around him all the time to protect his hands with the constant amount of time he spends practicing sword fighting. Besides that he carries around his two melee weapons, his saber and rapier, with him all the time besides the regular guard gear the he carries along.

Bio:
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Habits:
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Theme Song (Optional):
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Other:
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[ScarlettWaters16]

@Pie Flavor That's a little much, Pie... I like the idea of it, but you need to tone it back a bit.

[_Middle_]

Appearance:

Name: Lincoln (goes by Linc by friends) Fristen

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Grid: Slight

Secret Gift: Lincoln has the ability to control air. He can create strong winds, or send a concentration of air at someone, blowing them back. Lincoln can also use then to send a concentration of air towards the ground, blowing himself the opposite direction. This allows Lincoln to be able to fly for short periods of time too, but leaves his arms useless since they are having to be pointed towards the ground.

Weapon of Choice: Dual Laser Handguns

Gear: Wears the regular Guard clothing. Has a handgun holster on each side of his hip. He keeps a pretty long knife strapped to the side of his right calf in case anything goes wrong.

Bio: Lincoln grew up in a family that wasn't completely for the Guards. Lincoln's father's brother died when he was out fighting the Anomalies. Lincoln's sister was also killed by an Anomalous, which he was very close with. The family never wanted any of their family fighting for the cause, afraid that someone would die again. Also, they didn't completely agree with everything the Guards did, they did some pretty controversial things in the past. The family believed that maybe there could be either a cure for the Anomalies, or that they could come to an agreement, where the Anomalies could be used in the military. But at the end of the day, they believed that the Anomalies could be a threat, and is better that they just get rid of the variables all together. Better safe than sorry.

Habits: None

Theme Song: None

Other: N/A

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Sorry for taking so long.

[Aldridge]

Is this still accepting? I would like to join, seems really interesting!

[Satsuki]

Is acceptance still possible, or have I spent to long on campus? If so I can have one up sometime in the afternoon.

[Sincerely]

I'll move my CS over by the end of the day.

[MatParker1711]

Appearance:

Name: Sarah Morningstar

Gender: Female

Age: 16

Grid: Luminosity

Secret Gift: Telekinesis. Sarah has the ability to move people and objects with her mind, although moving large objects causes her great pain and can lead to her passing out

Weapon of Choice: Two machine pistols

Gear: Standard guard gear with pistol holsters strapped to each hip. In addition

Bio: Sarah discovered her ability at a young age and fearful of being cast out she kept it a closely guarded secret. Practicing her ability in secret she has become relatively skilled at moving things with her mind. Recently however she has been yearning to do more than discreet parlour tricks with her powers and believes that those like her should try to help those without these abilities. When she received the call to join the cards she accepted immediately believing it to be her opportunity to do some good.

[ScarlettWaters16]

@Aldridge@Satsuki We're still accepting!! We could use some male characters if possible though...

[ScarlettWaters16]

@_Middle_ Looks great! He's accepted. Move him to the character section

[MatParker1711]

@Aldridge@Satsuki We're still accepting!! We could use some male characters if possible though...

@ScarlettWaters16

I have a possible story explanation if it helps.

[Aldridge]

@ScarlettWaters16 Awesome! I'll send in a CS in a few hours.