[OOC] Equivalent exchange

[agentmanatee]

I suppose... though you'd have to find a way to convince the other alchemists to take prisoners for sacrifice

[Blackbeard]

Can I throw something by you? Trying to think of a power for my alchemist and I've thought of a few things but I want it to be scientifically plausible obviously. I have an idea but I'm not sure if it's just going too far and I should just make something more simple, I might have overthought it.

Power - In Lehmans terms I can rip electrons from one atom and bond them to another, these new electrons will be quite far from the atom nucleus and therefore be quite unstable. Quite quickly the electron will become too unstable and drop closer towards the nucleus, when this happens energy is released in the form of photons, if my guy had a way to focus those photons I can essentially shoot laser beams.

Too complicated or would that be alright with everyone? I'm happy to come up with something simpler.

[agentmanatee]

Uhhhh, alchemy is more about larger stuff, reshaping atoms at a molecular level is a bit much

[Blackbeard]

Yeah I thought it might be a bit much, I'll think of something else.

[agentmanatee]

Plus not sure how equivalent exchange would come into that

[Blackbeard]

In theory it would be the atoms left without electrons. Either way I'm off the idea :)

[Musoka]

Oh god I am so up for this. making a cs now.

[Arista]

@agentmanatee I can change it hm...just not sure what, any ideas? She could control fire like Mustang did but I want it to be original hm...help?

[The Narrator]

@AristaI have an Idea. She could liquefy the nitrogen in the air, thus creating liquid nitrogen which has the property to create freeze things and create strong frost burns as well as fog.
However we already have a frost-themed alchemist :/

[KoL]

I suppose... though you'd have to find a way to convince the other alchemists to take prisoners for sacrifice

@agentmanatee

That shouldn't be that much of a problem. Eventually, we will have to perform interrogations, this capturing prisoners is a must. And since my character was the head of a concentration camp this job would fall on her hands.

BTW, in case anyone might be wondering, Elizabeth is a sociopath just like Kumbley and she's in fact inspired in Hannibal Lecter of no one noticed until now. Also, if you don't mind I'll rise her rank a bit when I move her since medics thread to be over ranked more readily when compared with normal soldiers.

I see that the other characters are mostly moral people, so I'm itching to see what they will do when one of the most infamous soldiers of the war, only below Kimbley's infamy, is tasked with their squad.

[Arista]

@The Narrator Yeah hm...which is why I wanted flame in case shadow wasn't good damn... :/

[GummyCat]

Before i start shuffling work into my character, i wanted to see if his alchemy abilities were fine. Basically his abilities all stems from his family's research into trying to put different kinds of plants into their member's body and letting it grow as a new branch of bio-alchemy. Using Alchemy they basically use their body as a medium to preform 'blank' type alchemy depending on what kind of plant they had infused.

After many attempts of mixing Human DNA and enough times of using Tree DNA, their genetic makeup has actually changed to the point of them having tree-like qualities and can preform tasks such as photosynthesis via skin to a certain degree. With a part of them being basically tree, they can use an transmutation array to basically channel the energy to via accelerate growth through either directly by their bodies or using a seed.

(This is gonna be tricky but I'll like to see what I can do with this kind of thing)

[agentmanatee]

@GummyCathmmmm... I don't personally have a problem with it, it's a bit more on the weird side but I suppose it's fine

[GummyCat]

@agentmanatee Well it is FMA... so anything goes right :DDDD #ForScience!
Alright thanks, I'll get started on my character sheet

[The Narrator]

I think it is pretty weird :/
So the character is some kind of tree chimaera? Wouldn't that be human transmutation?

[GummyCat]

@The Narrator
Hmm... Let me check the wiki and hopefully I wont be ninja'd

[edit- I don't think it would be considered as Human Transmutation in the darker sense, if anything its has a unique interpretation of using Alkahestry principles and using it in a Amestrian way. At observing it, you can also considered it to be a form of medical transmutation as well]

[The Narrator]

@GummyCatYou wrote their genetic makeup was changed, that would be human transmutation I think:

[dndragons]

Name:
Valorie Falkner

Age:
24

Rank:
Major

State title:
Quick Silver Alchemist

Appearance:

Image

Backstory:
Valorie’s life was involved with the military from the moment she was born. Her father was a state alchemist himself, which led to many days where he wasn’t home due to work. However, when he was home he made the best of it. Valorie’s idol was her dad, and she didn’t want to be anything but like him for a long time. As a child this led her to be a bit of a tomboy when she was about seven. Knowledge and adventure were her favorite pastimes, especially when it came to books. From alchemy to fantasy tales she didn’t want to put them down as they either brought her closer to her father in teaching her about what he does as an alchemist, or took her to a far off land within the stories. She wasn’t popular as a child from it though as her attitude had gotten her into several fights, though she befriended a social reject like herself. Her friend though passed when she was eleven due to complications with an illness leaving her alone. Without a fellow adventurer or someone to share what she has read from stories she started to only read about science and alchemy. If she didn’t have a friend anymore, perhaps she could be looked up to like her father was as a state alchemist.

She became far more shy and closed herself off until she was sixteen because of this despite her mother and father trying to help otherwise. Her mother often joked about how she wished her daughter wasn’t a tomboy, but she missed it quickly after it was gone. Eventually her mother to fell ill, and even if it didn’t take her life it left her frail. Seeing his wife in this state, Valorie’s father enclosed himself into being a workaholic. Even at home he would shut himself in his office leaving Valorie to care for her mother. For a year she stopped doing alchemy all together after she had begun to do it from what she read at the age of thirteen. Valorie got a letter from the military on her seventeenth birthday which stated they heard about her skill that she had developed and how she had helped around town before, sometimes with repairs and a few times she even stopped a criminal or two who didn’t think a girl would see them and trap them with chains. Before she tore up the letter, her mother found it and gave her a long lecture. Despite her objections, Valorie’s mothers insisted that she would be fine and that she didn’t want Valorie to waste her life away. Even if it was with the military, her mother told Valorie that her father wasn’t made the way he is by the work he did, but by how he handled the situations.

Heading off, Valorie easily got past her state alchemist exam. It was all well and good before the Ishvalen conflict. When she joined the military, it had been going on already. However, she was a state alchemist. It wasn’t until Order 3066 that she saw the front lines. She was 21 at the time when she had to draw the blood of the Ishvalens. Her first days were the worst, but then her father died in the conflict. She didn’t see it happen, but the death list revealed his fate as well as a surperior seeking her out. He was killed by an Ishvalen who had taken an Amestrian sniper rifle a month earlier. Valorie found herself surprisingly calm upon his death. For the last year he had basically ran from her ailing mother she had gotten to the point of cursing him, now he was simply gone. The day after she killed without the same hesitation as the other days or overwhelming pain, same with the next. It continued until the end of the war, on the day they claimed victory that she knelt over and threw up what she had been holding in to make it through the conflict.

Hiding that weakness from her peers as well as superiors, she continued as a State Alchemist, but the thought remains on her mind about the atrocities committed. They had to kill everyone they saw without holding back, and her alchemy had been practically made for the killing. It wasn’t to help people, rather she could repair broken guns. Shift iron into spikes or slice a man in half with a long mercury whip. She couldn’t face her mother afterwards preferring to only write letters. Working on missions for the military as she quickly gained respect with her proficiency in alchemy. A young star on the rise, but for now still a major.

Specialty:
Metal Alchemy:
Valorie's specialty lies in the transition metals of the periodic table. Mercury, Iron, Silver, Gold and more and their structures is the understanding she comes in with.

Common abilities for her to use:
Weapon Formation: The earth's crust is largly made of iron and this is taking the iron from the ground to make blades and other items. Also can make metal bolts, screws, and such if needed.
Metal Spikes: Making a line or grouping of metal spikes to come from the ground
Entrapment: The creation of metal chains to launch and bind an opponent
Steel Needles: A preference of hers for a less bloody way and quiet way to incapacitate by making steel needles as throwing weapons.
Quick Silver Whip: Her trademark technique in which she carries a vial of mercury with her to transmute into either a long spike or razor whip to kill her opponent with a flexible metal she can shape more at will than most. However, she doesn't use it often as it is mercury. Luckily alchemy allows her to control the mercury to a point to prevent it from poisoning those around, and herself, as her attacks end with her putting it back in it's container.

[dndragons]

Getting started on a character, don't have to much time to work until later though. :3. Deciding upon an alchemy idea to work with.

[GummyCat]

@The Narrator
I wrote that in because with refined technique it wouldn't be long before they perfected combining Flesh and Plant together with little problems. With such techniques, it wouldn't be implausible that the two lifeforms' DNA would mix or overlap each other causing some problems at first. After many generations, basically their body has grown a resistance to it by simply becoming it. Passing on the ability to grow plants in their bodies as a genetic trait to 1-2 children in every generation, becoming an Alchemist or Researcher for the family.

Hopefully that explains it, if not then maybe its something specific we're both not understanding and I'll try to clarify it some more