[OOC] Kingdom Hearts: The Keyblade War.

[Apollosarcher]

"Seven guardians of light? Well, for Keyblade wielders, there's me and Riku and Sora. And my three missing friends, that's six. Then the seventh would be... That means... The thirteen seekers of darkness..." -King Mickey.



The greatest war to ever occur, thousands of Keyblade wielders sought the X-blade yet when the battle for it was finished, twenty shards were scatter across the worlds. Seven of light, thirteen of dark. Yet even after that battle those that survived the struggle between light and darkness destroyed many worlds in their conflict, others brought to the edge, some left beyond salvation, some locked off trying to hide from the death and destruction.

Yet now is the time of heroes, of warriors, of those that will end this war. This is the time of not of light or darkness but a time of twilight. Because only at twilight is all the world still and peace reigns however fragile that maybe.

Heartless run rampant, no leaders organize them but warriors of darkness control them. You have felt something growing in a distant world. Word has spread among both sides of gathering of key blade wielders who wish only to resolve the war and see it ended. Shall you answer the call? Seek out those who open the true Kingdom hearts and use it's power to restore peace. Your journey will take to forgotten world oblivious to the fact it stands just before darkness. Our story finds us all in Twilight town, a bastion of peace and stillness.

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Character Sheet

Name:
Age: (minimum of 16)
Species: (Can be one you invented or preexisting one. Must be able to hold a keyblade.)
Appearance: (Anime picture or paragraph description.)
Keyblade: (Your keyblades appearance.)
Keyblade powers: (Abilities you keyblade grants you, what gift does your keyblade carry? It was forged from your heart after all.)
Heart type: (See below.)
Spells: (What spells you would normally keep on hand. Three spells at most.)
Bio:
Theme: (Optional, but what's a good kingdom hearts character without a song to back them?)

When making a character the thing I want everyone to know is that heart type dictates what your characters built like. Below is the heart types and what each goes to, this is done as to help us understand what each person focus on what they like.

Heart types

Heart of the Wise: Those born with the heart of wisdom are blessed with an abundance magical power and ability to learn quicker than others. Those with a heart of wisdom are generally intelligent.

Heart of the Champion: Those born with this heart have incredible strength and are blessed in combat ability, able to strike harder and often more acrobatic. Those with a heart of Champion are generally brave.

Heart of the Guardian: Those born with a heart of this type can last longer and take more hits, the serve as guardians to defend others. Those with a heart of protection are generally loyal.

Heart of the Valorous: Those with this heart carry two keyblades, making them experts in fighting other keyblade wielders and heartless. However, because of these twin blades they lack defensive ability and cannot move as quickly. Their is no shared trait however, each of these wielders carries heart of another in their own heart.

Custom World Sheet

Name:
Description of the world:
Where you fit into the world:
Recent history:

[Galgarion]

Name: Alex
Age: 23
Species: Human
Appearance:

Appearance

Keyblade:

Keyblade

Keyblade powers: Greatly increased speed and jump height, minor attack increase. I am the first one into the fight, insuring my friends don't get hurt.
Heart type: Heart of the Champion
Spells: Lightning
Bio: Have a few ideas, will work on it a little before posting IC
Theme: Angel With a Shotgun - Nightcore

[Double]

Name: Cyrus Grimm

Age: 27

Species: Human

Appearance:

Appearance

Keyblades:

Reaper's Touch

Trusted Heart

Keyblade Powers:

Reaper's Touch

A its name suggests, this Keyblade can (on very rare occasions) cast the infamous Doom spell upon a target it strikes. It offers no enhancements to strength, but along with physical damage it can also "damage" a target's magical energy (MP) and siphon a portion of it back to the wielder.

Trusted Heart

Its slim blade allows for quicker, more precise strikes that can even pierce the enemy's guard. In exchange for this, the slimmer blade is poorer at parrying and deflecting than most others.

Heart type: Valorous

Spells: Haste, Protect, Reflect

Bio: The Keyblade War is often spoken of as a great calamity, but that alone is an inadequate portrayal of just how horrible it was. Cyrus Grimm is one of a few who can truly testify to the horrors of the Keyblade War. Originally born in Radiant Garden, Cyrus first summoned a Keyblade at the tender age of 14. A young boy becoming a Wielder of the Keyblade may seem innocent enough at first glance, but then one realizes that it happened during the height of what would become known as the most calamitous war in history. Only then is the reality of Cyrus's life truly understood.

He was almost immediately drawn into the conflict. Various players in the war would always be on the lookout for fresh Keyblade Wielders they could manipulate for their own agenda, which was always to obtain the forbidden X-blade. Cyrus was no exception, and soon found himself with only one terrible choice: fight... or die. The choice was obvious, and Cyrus became one of many child soldiers participating in the conflict. Among other young Wielders, there was another who also hailed from Radiant Garden, a boy named Ren. Fighting under the same faction, Cyrus and Ren became fast friends.

But war has an unfortunate tendency to destroy families and friendships. While Ren increasingly detested the violence and soon just wanted to make it end, Cyrus began to see it as a necessary evil. By then the two had been fighting in the war for a few years, and Cyrus was definitely being changed by the experience. Where before he fought simply for his own survival, some time after his first official kill, he began to fight with increasing callous toward his enemies. Such was his coldness that others in the conflict began to call him by a different name, one reflective of the scythe-like nature of his Keyblade: The Grimm Reaper.

Cyrus, like Ren, wanted to put an end to the chaos. But that was where similarities between the two became skewed. Ren wanted to end the war through peace, but Cyrus believed that only the X-blade had the power to end the suffering. As such, the two drifted apart and a battle between the two became an inevitability. Fight they did, their battle even becoming a famous affair after the fact, and the battle ended with Cyrus killing the man he once called his best friend. Cyrus, though hardened by the war, was not so cruel as to not show respect to his former friend as he held the dying Ren in his arms. As it turned out, Cyrus's victory was due to Ren's unwillingness to fight, him even actively pulling his punches and essentially allowing his friend to kill him if that meant an ending to the war.

In his last moments, Ren said these dying words to his former friend, "Even as my enemy, there is none with whom I would more gladly entrust my heart. Take it, my blade, and use them to finally put an end to this bloody conflict." Thus Cyrus, after killing Ren, took upon him his friend's heart and, with it, inherited Ren's Keyblade, which he henceforth named Trusted Heart. Throughout the war, Cyrus had become well-known for wearing a dark cloak, especially after he became known as the Grimm Reaper, but he discarded that name and that persona after Ren's death. Instead he began to wear the attire of his fallen friend, a set of red armor along with a long, crimson scarf.

In honor of his fallen friend, Cyrus took it upon himself to carry on Ren's goal of ending the war and restoring peace. This goal has brought him to Twilight Town, a world that thus far managed to remain completely untouched by the violence of the Keyblade War.

Theme: Simon Blackquill ~ Distorted Swordsmanship

[knighthawk]

Name:
John Hood
Age:
26
Species:
Fox
Appearance:

Keyblade:
Fox's Cunning

Keyblade powers:
Short range comparable to rumbling rose, any damage he takes he gains that much in mana.
Heart type:
Wisdom (when wisdom form activates, the keyblade he is using doubles and flips over to join base-to-base into a keyblade-bow as he fires off energy arrows capable of pinning opponents in place.)
Spells:
Cure, Aero, Thunder
Bio:
Life had certainly gotten interesting. With an out-law for an in-law, Robin Hood was made the new sheriff of Nottingham. This left the wolf of the old sheriff as the outlaw now as he and his vultures had to survive on raids. Even with the time in the dungeon turned on him, it did not teach him humility, it only reinforced the darkness in his heart until he became something else entirely and broke free, taking the wall to the dungeon with him.

While out collecting the still needed, but far more lenient, taxes. Robin hood was attacked by a massive feral wolf as big as eight elephant-folk standing two abreast and four belly to back. Little John lost his life trying to keep robin safe on the way back but the prince of thieves lost his left arm, he could never draw a bow again.

Now it came to John Hood, son of Robin and named after his best friend, to save the people from this beast. He stalked into the forest where he found the strangest woodsman's ax just sitting in the stump of a tree trunk. As he drew the weapon, he was attacked by the black wolf into what became a magnificent battle where John took every chance to outwit the brute force of his feral foe until it released a hellish howl that threw him not just through the woods, but through a gate into another world.
Theme:

WORLD
Name: Nottingham
Description of the world: Medieval Anthromorphic animals. Forests, Roads, Village, Castle
Where you fit into the world: Son of Robin Hood and Maid Marion, child of a Disney princess.
Recent history:
King Richard sits upon the throne with his niece by his side. Robin is the new sheriff of Nottingham and has only one arm. The ex-sheriff broke out of prison with his vulture minions. The woods have grown dark and twisted in the last year.

[Apollosarcher]

All of these are looking pretty good, for those not in worlds we already know please be sure to include a custom world sheet.

[Double]

How long has the war been going on?

[Apollosarcher]

@Double About a century.

[Double]

CS is done.

[Apollosarcher]

@Double Your good put it up the Character tab.

[Galgarion]

Is there anything you think I need to work on for my character? I was going to have him be from Twilight Town, if that's ok

[Apollosarcher]

@Galgarion It's fine so long as the backstory explains him pretty well.

[Rex]

Name: Seth Rush
Age: 23
Species: Human

Appearance:

Keyblade:

Rip Jaw

Keyblade powers: When the Power of Rip Jaw is invoked, the user is given the ability to lose all sense of pain and given a slight power increase. However, the down fall of this power is: should the user continue the battle for a long period of time. His sanity slowly diminishes until he can no longer tell friend for foe becoming a sort of wild animal that’s lost all sanity. The power of the Keyblade can only be invoked by calling out its name and saying, “Give me the strength to protect those around me.”
Heart type: Heart of the Guardian
Spells: Cure, Fire, and Thunder
Bio:
From the very beginning Seth was a fighter. He would protect those who couldn’t protect themselves and living in an orphanage in Radiant Garden, Seth found himself as the other kid’s protectors. When the heartless attacked he stood between them and the children of the orphanage. All he had was a wooden sword and his fists as weapons, but he soon found out those wouldn’t destroy the heartless. He wished for a power to protect everyone, to keep everyone safe. That’s when the Keyblade appeared in his hand. He could hear a voice in his head telling him its name. Rip Jaw, a fearsome looking weapon. However, it was the perfect weapon to protect the children in the orphanage.

He was only 14 when he fought off the heartless and protected the orphanage and everyone in it. However, he knew the heartless would be back and he needed to stop them before they could return. That’s when he found out about the Keyblade War. He has trained for nine years with the various warriors in Radiant Garden to hone his skills and unlock the capabilities of his Keyblade and his own power. When he returned for training one day he stopped dead in his tracks. His home, his friends, and family. All were screaming in pain as the orphanage burned to the ground. Standing in front of the burning building was a man. A Keyblade in his right hand and flames in his left, but what Seth saw on the man’s face was the most disturbing. He turned to Seth and his sadistic crooked smile only grew. The man talked about how he had tracked down a Keyblade warrior to this very orphanage and instead of just finding them, he simply would destroy everyone to make sure the warrior of light wouldn’t survive.

Seth’s Keyblade instantly appeared in his right hand. The anger inside of him continued to rise as he continued to listen to his family and friends suffer in the flames. He didn’t know why this man wanted to kill innocent people. However, he would never forgive him for what he had done. In the years of training he had discovered what his Keyblades power was. One of his mentors told him he shouldn’t use the power with heighten emotions because his sanity might slip faster, but at that very moment he didn’t care. He invoked his Keyblade power and in the end: he destroyed the man who made his family and friends suffer. In the man’s last breath, he told Seth about the Keyblade war and the two factions. Seth decided the heartless would need to wait. Those who fought for the darkness had to be stopped, had to be destroyed before anything like this could happen again.

Seth now finds himself in Twilight Town. The train from Radiant Garden took him to this place for some reason. Whatever the reason, Seth knew he needed to end the war. For his family and friends, for those who had been hurt by the chaos of the war, and for the sake of all worlds corrupted by the battle between light and darkness.
Theme:

[Apollosarcher]

@Rex and @knighthawk are approved. Sorry for my absence I've been sick.

[Akayaofthemoon]

Profile is up in Character Tab as you asked Apollo ^_^ can't wait to see this one get started and thank you so much for the invite!

[Apollosarcher]

@Akayaofthemoon Alright, I put mine up to.

[Apollosarcher]

Alright I'll be putting the first post up in two days time.

[Akayaofthemoon]

I'm looking forward to it ^_^

[Apollosarcher]

First post is up!

[Akayaofthemoon]

Woo! ^_^ off to read the IC

[Akayaofthemoon]

@Rex

I finally have my laptop back and don't have to do everything on my phone and I just have to say your icon is awesome. I couldn't see the words before in detail but now that I can, it gave me a good laugh. Love that show. Just needed to say something ^-^