[OOC] Black Moon, White Night: A Visual Novel-inspired Urban Fantasy RP

[VitaVitaAR]

Looking forward to it, then.

[Raijinslayer]

@VitaVitaARFor when you wake up

Jake Morrigan

• Name: Jake Morrigan
• Age: 21
• Gender:Male
• Appearance:Around 6 ft with a muscular upper body, a few scars here and there from an accident or two, and generally dresses in casual clothes of a lift coloration. J has spiky blonde hair, though he's died the tips red and black for effect, as well as a pair of emerald green eyes. These turn gold when he's channeling.
• Personality: Jake is the do-gooder, white knight type of guy, always ready and willing to lend a helping hand to anyone who may need it. This has led to him getting taken advantage of from time to time, as he can be a bit gullible, but his hearts in the iChat place and that's all that matters, right?
• Abilities:
  Jake has the magical ability to channel the skills of warrior spirits into himself, as well as reinforcing his body to give him heightened physical capabilities as well. He does not no that it's magic or that he's channeling the spirits, he just thinks he has a special gift.
  
  Anyway, his channeling ability is versatile as he can choose between a number of spirits to take the aspect of, going from the knight, the ranger, the rogue, the beast, and the Black Knight. The knight is his first spirit and the one he's most familiar with. It gives him an all around buff to his abilities and if he focuses really hard, he can project a sheiks in front of him, though it's not the strongest. As the ranger, his second spirit, he gains am increase to agility, spatial awareness, and tracking skills, as well as being able to better empathize with animals. Rogue gives him a little less agility than ranger, with an added increase in speed and making his presence hard to detect and filling his head with knowledge in how to do things like pickpocket and pick licks, among other things. Beast increases strength, durability, stamina, and endurance, as well as being able to channel mana into his hands to form powerful claws. Finally, Blsck Knight is similar to the knight spirit, except it's much more offensive, and it's focus ability brings up a blade made out of shadow, which would be Jake's affinity, had he been raised to cultivate his magical talents.
• Skills:Each time he channels a spirit, some of it's knowledge is passed on to him, as if through osmosis, giving him a wide variety of skills, from Swordfightinh(which he's fairly proficient in) to Lock picking( which he's less good at, but can still manage in some cases). It depends on how familiar he is with it. As for his own skills, he's good with his hands, focusing in mostly metal working and wood shop. He's also quite the artist, often making designs of projects that he later planned yo convert to metal at a later date.
• Equipment: His phone, Laptop, a suit for when he goes out to do vigilante stuff.
• Brief Backstory: Jake has grown with a special secret all his life. He has a super power. Silly as this sounds, this is his mentality regarding his magical trait since he first discovered gem at the age of 12. He never you'd anyone, as he'd read enough comics to know that it was a bad idea to mix up your family and frowns a in hero business.
  
  At first it was more in line with playing pretend, as he gut older, the desire to help others with its gift also grew. He now calls him self the Knight and goes around in a black outfit he made and modified himself to take down any and all evil doers that he feels he can subdue.Currently in Jspan as a part if an exchange program for a university, which is why his Japanese can use a little work at times

[VitaVitaAR]

@The Omnipotent Sphere: Okay, there's a couple things I forgot to mention before.

The only actually magical(as in, their existence is actually magical rather then supernatural or divine or something) is familiars, who are made from magic by magi. I suppose you could technically count shikigami as well, since they have bodies constructed in a similar manner but are actually summoned spirits.

Then, you don't mention what she can use her phone for.

@Raijinslayer: I'm sorry, this wasn't what I meant when I mentioned summoning spirits. For one thing, there's no real way to summon them without knowing it's magic, you have to use a spell in order to do so and depending on the spirit it can be more or less involved. There IS stuff for reinforcing your body or objects magic wise though(Asami has some spells for that, in fact).

[KoL]

@VitaVitaAR: Ok, so I finally could dig up an idea but before I get to write a CS,I have something to ask.

The story won't be a problem to you,I guess, since she'll only be a pervy girl with a crossgender name because her father thought that her umbilical cord was actually a... you know what when she was born and named her before someone could correct that mistake.

Her powers are the important part, however, since I want her to use word magic as in being able to wield the power of the One Language that existed before the Tower of Babel fell, but it want to know what I can do with this kind of thing?

[VitaVitaAR]

To be honest, the Tower of Babel was something I hadn't ever figured out for this setting. ^^; Thinking one what I do have worked out in terms of history in this setting it's probably much stranger then the Biblical version. Maybe some kind of tower construct that recorded languages and produced a language that all people could speak or... something before it was destroyed.

In any case, I'm honestly not sure what being able to use those words would do. Speech is very important to magic, as even if you can mentalcast you still need to say the spell's name in order to use it at full power.

I'm sorry, it's an area I just haven't put enough thought into yet to say if it would work out well or not. ^^;

[KoL]

@VitaVitaAR
Actually, the Tower of Babel is an allegory I used to explain the magic power. What I had in mind is something like the power of ponder of the antagonists of Kara no Kyoukai has.

It's the power to exert your will over the world by speaking the original language which is magical in and off itself. For example, if my character commanded a traffic light to turn green out would it would with ease. Of she told someone to take their clothes off and dance in the middle of the street she could do it work a more elaborate phrase, but a target with a lot of will power could resist her.

Nevertheless she can't warp reality with her words since it would require reattaining's the knowledge of the Origin of All Magic, so she can't do impossible things like commanding a person to fly or water to catch on fire.

Ultimately, the power of the spell and the difficult to resist it depend on how well she phrases her command and how many words of power she uses on it. Exactly like how your magic system was supposed to work.

What do you think of this?

[VitaVitaAR]

Hmm... I'd... try making it more limited in application but it could work as a distillation of the processes involved in spellcasting. Probably most likely tied to a Magic Trait as well. ^^;

Edit: I'd also suggest making it more "effects" rather then, say, attacks or something, so it doesn't just completely outdo spells.

[KoL]

@VitaVitaAR

That's more or less what I had in mind. It was never meant to be something like an attack. It's really more subtle than that. Of course it can do nasty things to someone, but it's not meant as a killing weapon.

I thought of a trait too, but it's like something to allow her to understand any language (gain not combat related), it's more of a thing for a magi clan that looks to find the Origin by making their magic into the simplest possible form.

[VitaVitaAR]

I'll have to see what you have intended, then. Though simplifying spells doesn't work out so much so the Magic Trait does have to have something to do with it.

[Raineh Daze]

• Name: Sister Lucrezia, High Executor
• Age: 27
• Gender: Female
• Appearance:
• Personality: Easily described as 'lacking a sense of humour', Lucrezia seems to have something of a blind spot where relaxation is concerned. She's utterly concerned with her duties, even to her own detriment, and unwilling to argue matters of morality. On the plus side, she tries to hew to the spirit of things even where the supernatural intrudes.
• Abilities: A magus as well as a member of the church, Lucrezia's affinity is Light. Whilst this provides her with a wide variety of spells to obfuscate, displace, or entirely hide her position whilst in wait for an enemy, it also has offensive potential through the simple expedient of using lasers. Being slower to cast than simply shooting someone, they are rarely her choice of weapon, but with time permitting she does have a magical trump card: six wings of light capable of rapidly bombarding a target. The Latin chant to cast it is far too unwieldy to manage whilst actively fighting, however.
  Her favoured technique, in the end, is one that simply shifts her apparent position a few feet to either side.
• Skills: Lucrezia is both a skilled marksman and more than capable of holding her own in melee. She's also rather good at getting into a good position to hide, even if her general attire hardly favours blending in.
• Equipment: Both Lucrezia's rifle, and the dagger she carries as a backup, are blessed, making them far worse for vampires or the like to be stabbed by. Not one to underestimate her opponents, she's long eschewed using anything less than armour-piercing rounds... overkill for a person, but witches can be hard to bring down.
• Brief Backstory: An orphan raised by the Catholic church, Lucrezia's magical ability was noted at a young age and, with her devotion, she was inevitably brought into the church. In the long term, this lead to her joining the branch of the church dealing with exorcisms... a job at which she excelled, further being promoted. When the White Night ritual came to her attention, Lucrezia immediately moved to get involved: such a power should wholly belong to God, thus either the church should wield it or one of its members should receive and return it.

[VitaVitaAR]

Accepted.

[Letter Bee]

@VitaVitaAR,@Raijinslayer, let's talk you-know-where!

*Eager voice*

[Raijinslayer]

@Letter BeeDon't think I have a link to it.

[Letter Bee]

@Letter BeeDon't think I have a link to it.

@Raijinslayer

PMed ya.

[Letter Bee]

@SilverDawn, can Osamu and Aryu be a romantic couple?

[OwO]

@SilverDawn, can Osamu and Aryu be a romantic couple?

@Letter Bee

Never.

Never.

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[Letter Bee]

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Never.

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@SilverDawn

Why? I'm really curious now.

[OwO]

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Why? I'm really curious now.

@Letter Bee

Aryū ain't the type to get a romantic interest at 14.

She's more the type to punch whoever confesses to her in the face.

[VitaVitaAR]

Okay, so I'm thinking of starting this relatively soon, in the next week if all goes well.

[Savo]

I may be late, but I would ship Osamu and Aryu... totally xP

This can't be a VN without some sort of ship transpiring >;P

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Aaaaaaanyways, I feel I may need to rework my app a bit because improvement... ah, well, here is Daichi Arata at your service for now.

Bio - Daichi Arata - Homunculi

Name: Daichi Arata

Age: "20" (157)

Gender: Male

Appearance: This dull looking homu-, er human stands at a height of 5'11". Arata has a slightly darker complexion than others, but remains adequately fair skinned. His hair is a unkempt mess at times with black spikes spring in different directions. On rare occasions, he will try to slick his hair down to give it a "clean" and "smooth" appearance, though there will always be something sticking out. His mouth is always fixated in a frown, as if suspicious of those in the general vicinity. Another feature are the red eyes which seem rather lax to the point of inattentiveness. This gives him the appearance of a bored, unamused adult who can't stand to deal with bizarre anomalies.

His build appears rather frail at times, and he looks almost sluggish due to his looks. He is often seen in a usual black and white getup which sometimes looks stylish depending on the occasion. A white jacket with a few dirty spots near the bottom edges of it which are turning it into a gray shade. He also wears a midnight black button up. Finally, his pants and shoes mimic that same familiar shade of black which asphyxiates any bright colors.

Personality: Distant is one way to talk about Arata. This aloof young man seems relatively off in his own world as he is seen as peculiar in a scary sense. It's like he has no soul and acts rather cold when someone wants to speak with him, harshly telling them to make it quick or he has no time for nonsense. Why he acts annoyed 24/7 isn't exactly clear to college students around the vicinity, but he is shown to be a fan of the occult and the "metaphysical" world people sometimes talk about. Strangely enough, he may be muttering things to himself if supposedly alone. If found, he will eye the on-goer with suspicion and walk away.

However, hiding under that annoyed side is one of fearless, unwavering determination. When he puts his mind to something, Arata will work vehemently to complete the task. He also shows some superiority over those who were previously unaware of the supernatural world to go home and forget this all happened. Arata considers them civilians that do not have to get involved in precarious situations that will endanger them. He also smiles from time to time, but only if he has a pack of gum with him and it's in his mouth; it just makes him feel at peace for some reason.

Abilities: With his rebirth, Arata ended up trading his magic for some other... interesting properties. His "Master" made sure to give him what he needed for being a lightning bruiser - speed, strength, superior vision, the works. This was to ensure that the magi would not fail in the ritual, however he never accounted for the intelligence of the Homunculi coming out. Acrobatics is a thing too since he can't just dart around field full speed expecting to avoid all hits staying on the ground.

Along with that, he plays an unsuspecting human quite well while being wary of people he encounters. On top of that, illusions can't really fool him completely as eventually he will notice something is amiss, however stronger illusions might be able to get past the radar. Also, he does well against physical hits, but when dealing with magical hits, he takes them as well as any other human would when getting blasted by a fire ball or shocked by electricity... which is going to make his job difficult among myriads of magi.

Skills: During his years of extensively brutal training, Arata has garnered a variety of skills in the process. Rigid training cycles required him to be flexible in the events and forced him into positions where he had to use acrobatics to fight or flee. Another is fighting in which he was forced to battle against earthen elementals using grappling techniques to take them down... and on the occasion, use pure strength and no skill to take it down. Social skills could use some work though as that is one of the few things he is just mediocre on... that, and never let him drive a car.

Equipment: None of his equipment can really be identified as "supernatural." He has acquired a few items over his life through legal or illegal ways. His main ranged ways of attacking comes from his only gun - Heckler & Koch Mark 23. Although he isn't an expert in marksmanship, he will favor this is a target is too dangerous to approach or if the victim is unaware. He also needs to make sure that each shot counts due to his finite ammunition. Next is a couple of stolen, but limited amounts of grenades. Only types that he has are flashbangs, sting grenades, and smoke grenades. While these won't kill a person, they can be used for utility when against a magi. You can't hit what you can't see. Other than that, he does actually have a few legal items like pepper spray, and a taser. They may have magic, but technology always helps when at a disadvantage.

Brief Backstory:

"A chance to cheat death? Sounds like an interesting prospect, tell me more."

Arata, as he calls himself now, was a young human alchemist aspiring for eminence, disillusioned by grandeur schemes. Even more so, he was drawn to the beauty of what was known as the White Night of Klarsberg by his family. The family of magi were practitioners of frost, and like it had a cold, structured command. They were slightly lenient towards their firstborn, Arata, who favored alchemy over magic. Eventually after bearing two more children in harmony with the frost, their strictness tightened to the point of suffocating Arata. Even with their deliberate punishments and order, they always spoke of the Origin. This start drew the boy closer to this idea of being the one to procure such a mystical thing, and eventually concluded about going at it himself.

Wishing to find it for himself, Arata continued honing his abilities to prepare himself for what would come in the future. Eventually, he came to participate with his family in the battle royale leading up into the ritual. However, his family always came up short and were never the ones to monopolize the battle in their favor. Each year he participated in it, eventually with his own family he formed. In the end, he never grew close to it and became plagued by the desire. Their strength would allow them the position to obtain the Origin of All Magic. Fearing his agitated thirst, he was left by his family, mother stealing away all of the children they had bore.

Now he was all alone... completely consumed by his desire.

It encompassed the rest of his life as he searched for a way. At the last ritual, another took advantage of his crazed state as he continued to grow older and failed in being the one to take up the spot. The magi explained to him that he could help him get the spot, but only if he trusted them. Suspicious of the deal, Arata inquired details about what was to come from him and how it benefited the magi. The magi explained to him about Homunculis and the ability to last boundlessly in this realm without traversing to the other side. They also replied with the request to help them become one also since their life would not last too much longer. Explaining even more information afterwords, Arata became ensnared by their lies and underwent the ritual. Eventually, after collecting all the material Arata finished his own life, sealing his fate.

The magi attempted to make sure that the soul of the owner of the new body would not recall any of their previous memories and took many precautions such as notching the spell to ensure his rival could not know magic, along with having no memories. Purposely messing up the soul transfer, the Magi ensured that Arata would be like a piece of clay to sculpt for his own devious desires. Programming the new Homunculi afterwords was an arduous task, and the Magi made a few errors that he painstakingly corrected. Eventually, the process of programming was completed and the Homunculi awoke from it's long slumber.

The Magis plans failed to a degree as the only things the Homunculi couldn't recall was his name, most of his memories from his childhood, along with a few blanks, and importantly - most names became lost to him. The Magis errors in how he purposely performed the process caused the previous consciousness of Arata to nest itself in the body and would eventually lead to their downfall. Raising the newborn "human" discretely, the Homunculi "learned" more about the world around him. The magi who he was raised by was insisted to be called master controlled Aratas life. Eventually, the former alchemist grew sick of the stalling, along with reasons why he could not use his alchemy and quizzed his master on if he could use magic. The magi chuckled to himself and responded that there was not a drop of magic in him, however he was enhanced to perform tasks for him which he had been training him for when the next White Night transpired.

Betrayed, the Homunculi sought vengeance for what was bestowed onto him... but bode his time as he wished to procure more knowledge of what he was now capable of. This reached into when his body stopped aging at the age of "20" (92). The old magi eventually fell into the same trap Arata originally became caught in. Seeing this as a chance to take ironic revenge on his former ally, the Homunculi gathered the same materials before burning them all right in front of the old magi. This elicited a spew of unpleasant curses from the magi due to the surprise before those cacophonous shouts were replaced with silence.

With what remained of his humanity, Arata found peace with himself before promptly coming to the realization of what antics he performed. He felt... used to seeing blood and almost unaffected by the body at all. This made him fearful of himself as he began to question his own sanity and if it was even worth attempting to procure the Origin.

"... my magic is gone, my wife and children departed from me because of my volatile state,and I renounced my humanity to become a slave..."

"... this isn't what I asked for..."

Forsaking so many things, Arata bawled out in pain of what he did. His illusions were completely shattered...

Arata eventually decided to start anew on his road to redemption, seeing it as a way to cope with the pyrrhic victory he claimed. He took up the name Daichi Arata and traversed around performing many odd-jobs, refining his new talents...

Sixty-four years later, Arata found himself standing among the same city that the ritual always transpired in. He knew the greed of the magi and how so many sought the Origin. Using the money he saved up, Arata began attending school in the city as a cover just in case anyone became leery of a random hermit who shows up out of oblivion.

"... it should be happening some time this year, I'm sure of it... The ritual should be transpiring soon enough, I just need to bide my time..."

The Matsuokas... always dominating the rituals, making it seem inevitable and pointless for others to participate. They gave false hope to those wishing to procure the Origin. Arata felt they knew what they were doing and believed their greed gleamed brighter than any others...

"... I can't let them have the Origin... I wanted to avoid more bloodshed, but I guess I cannot avert the inevitable... pity what I'm going to have to perform."

tfw you have a huge ass picture for the face of your character.