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

[Dead Cruiser]

It's pending. He can exist but for now as an NPC in the background.

@VitaVitaAR

Ehh, I guess it'll do.

[Raijinslayer]

@VitaVitaAR@VitaVitaARGotcha, I'll rework him again, hopefully he'll be better next time

His assassin get-up

My Messed up Mage

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Name: Jayce McCarthy
Age:
25
Gender:
Male
Personality:
Jayce is a very dependent person, very needing of positive reinforcement and love from another to keep his mental health. This makes him extremely easy to take advantage of, as his loyalty is easily bought, and even if the person betrays him, he's likely to go back to them as long as they say they're sorry, regardless of if the mean it or not. When it comes to this person, he'll devote himself entirely to them, both body and soul, doing anything and everything for them, from cold blooded to murder to even self-mutilation, nothing is too extreme for him if it means that the person will stay by his side.

Abilities:
Jace, as a deadly Magus assassin, has an array of deadly abilities. He's skilled in not only mental casting, but in the use of runes as well, having an aresenal of runed weapons at his disposal to cut down his foes with. His main affinity with is Destruction, and this feeds into hismagical trait as well, which makes it so that he's able to create more energy than his body can contain, czusing it to leak out through his skin to eat away at everything he comes into contact with, turning it all back to dust as the raw energy tears matter appart at the molecular level. Not only that, but even Mana can be effect, and more violently too. Any mana-bearing object that comes in contact with is subject to much faster rates of destruction, making his touch dangerous to living beings if he doesn't focus on not harming people, as well also canceling out a decent portion of magical energy from offensive spells directed at him. Subtle spells, due to their nature, are unlikely to affect him unless the user focuses intently on them.

As far as his repetoire of spells, he has runes tattooed on his body, some if which don't manifest on the skin until activated. These runs give him enhanced physical capabilities and durability, but they must be fed mana to produce effects. He also has runes to increase his control over his magical energy, activating one to give it a certain shape or function. His battle armor also possess a few so as to further direct it in battle, as well as a rune circle that give him the ability to teleport 5 meters in aby direction, though it can be highly dangerous when used in succession, such as internal damages and nausea. To prevent this, he must wait about 3 posts before he can use the spell again.

Among his runic spells, which he also has a few combat uses for them, he also knows spoken spells as well, though most of them don't require much chant due to Jayce's hit and run tactics. His main assault spells invoole direct use of destructive magic, though he does have a few from other schools of magic, including a few from each element, a spell that cloaks an area in shadows, and/or mist for a quick sneak attack/get away

Skills:
He's skilled in mental casting, is skilled in the use of most weapon types available, and is very deadly when it comes to hand to hand combat, where he strikes with fast barrages of punishing blows. He's very good at stealth, as any assassin should be, and knows the human body and it's weak points very well. A skilled assassin with plenty of experience to help him hone his art. He's more of a melee combatant than anything else, however, so his marksmanship is average at best with guns and the like, though one should never doubt his skill with throwing weapons. He's also a surprisingly good cook, one of the few non-killing related skills he has.

Equipment:
He carries with him a pair of fingerless gloves that have channeling runes carved into them, allowing him to cause a good amount of damage to anything he touches by channeling destructive energies into them. He also wields two handles that have been enchanted so that he can channel his energy into them to mold them into very deadly blades of rotating energy that could quite possibly cut through anything if given enough time to shear away at it. He also is in possession of a bunch of throwing knives, and a pair of bracelets on his wrist with the rune for retrieve on them. With a minute amount of Mana he can call back all of the knifes to his hands, which have a matching mark on them, making it appear like he has an infinite number of knives.

Blades

Brief Backstory:
Jayce was born a normal, everyday child at first. At least, as normal as the son of the head of powerful magical clan. However, when he reached the age of 5 is when his magical trait developed, . . . causing the death of his mother. A simple hug around her neck turned deadly as his magical energy burst out of him in a pulse, removing her head from her shoulders in a rather gruesome way and eating the child to stand there, looking at his mother's body with nothing but confusion on his face. That confusion turning into despair as he tried to come to grips with what happened, only for his touch to eradicate more of her body.

By the time others came to investigate his cries, all that was left of the body was a bloody pile on the floor. His father was greatly dismayed by the event, driven to insanity and had to be restrained several times to keep him from killing his own child several times in his drunken rages, calling the child the spawn of Satan himself. After a time, in which case it was clear that his father's actions and people's fear of him was having a negative affect on his psyche, that he had to be taken away from the household. However, before a suitable guardian was to be chosen, he vanished in the middle of the night, never to be seen again.

Years later, information soon came to light of an assassin of great renown and prowess that has been sent after several Magus leaders in Japan with abilities that can bring death and devastation with out a touch of his hand. >/list>

[Letter Bee]

@Raijinslayer, awesome profile!

[Raijinslayer]

@Letter BeeThanks, but I'm waiting on Vita's verdict before I celebrate.

[Letter Bee]

@Letter BeeThanks, but I'm waiting on Vita's verdict before I celebrate.

@Raijinslayer

Osamu is probably one of the few PCs who can give Jayce positive reinforcement and actually mean it.

[Letter Bee]

@Raijinslayer, so, wanna talk you-know-where again?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Raijinslayer: Okay...

So first off that magic trait doesn't really work out for a few reasons. ^^; Firstly, they run in a family as well. Of course, they don't appear every generation like affinities, but the family would know about it, and would know it's there from birth. In addition, having so much mana it pours out of you is, well... first off the levels you'd need to have that happen would have to exceed basically having infinite access to mana. You'd have to go beyond instant replenishing and enter a point where you are getting so much mana that your body can no longer contain it and it begins pouring out of your body. This is extremely relevant to an established character in the setting and is not a thing just anyone can do. ^^; In order to even reach that you'd have to enter some pretty weird criteria.

Then, um, I'm not to sure about having someone who can destroy magic items and basically no-sell any magic without having to cast a spell or anything at all honestly. ^^;

... Also this is a bit more nitpicky but for an urban fantasy setting that armor is extremely noticeable. ^^;

[Raijinslayer]

@VitaVitaARGotcha, will fix it when I get the chance. Can you give me away to make the ability more acceptable, so as to make editing easier. Also, the affinity was only part of the problem, it the strength of it that was the main issue. The enhanced affinity was his magical trait.

[VitaVitaAR]

Also writing a thing since I use this setting in multiple RPs. Ideally it'll go through every aspect of the setting I have worked out.

[VitaVitaAR]

So, um, firstly... planning on starting this in the next few days ideally!

Secondly, another update to the universe bible.

[Savo]

Can't wait for hilarity to ensue...

And by that, I mean everything breaking and going to hell

Also, @VitaVitaAR, I think you need to update the character list of what is a available and what isn't, along with correcting the two unaware remaining stuff when one of them should be two aware I think?

Just felt like pointing that out to assist a bit, been nagging at me for quite some time.

[VitaVitaAR]

At last count, two people claimed unaware spots, and there were two open still.

[Savo]

At last count, two people claimed unaware spots, and there were two open still.

@VitaVitaAR

Huh, guess I was a bit confused by the wording a bit. Sorry for calling you over here.

[VitaVitaAR]

It's fine, I'm here anyway, it's my RP. ^^;

[Raijinslayer]

@VitaVitaAR"Did somebody ring for a villainous villain? No? Well, I'm not hanging on to this psycho any longer than I have to, so here. He's your problem now." *Drops off the CS and runs like hell*

Demon Armor

Fang of Cerbus

Name:
Drasinian, but also likes to go by what the people of London called him in 1888 . . . Jack the Ripper
Age:
Looks to be 25, is actually closer to 403
Gender:
Male
Personality:
Drasinian is a cruel, calculating psychopath with a mile wide sadistic streak and centuries of experience in the art of the kill. Born to be the perfect warrior, he's got guts and bravery by the gallons, willing and able to take on any foe, but is smart enough to know when it's time to retreat so he live to fight another day. He also has a very hunter like mentality, tending to pick his targets out weeks, sometimes even months in advance before making the strike, familiarizing himself with the way they move, their routine, everything about them. When he does move in for the kill, don't bother asking for mercy, for he has none to give. If anything, you should beg for a quick death, as he has a habit of taking his time cutting his victims apart, piece by piece, enjoying every second of their misery like it's the finest of wines.

He has no care for others, nor any need or want to interact with people, though he does so as part of his act to keep people from suspecting his true nature. He has little interest in understanding why people have a strange array of emotions, but he does like to pretend he has such things, and has grown quite good in his acting over the years, so as to amuse himself by toying with his prey. One of his favored methods of killing prey is to feign falling in love with them, and waiting until they're at their most vulnerable before ending them in the most painful and sickening of ways.

Abilities:
Jack's physical capabilities are much superior to that of any human, with his most enhanced characteristics being speed, reaction time, reflexes, and spatial awareness, making it hard to get the drop on him in most cases and hard to hit in others. Along with this is a capacity to use magic, though it's limited as a trade off for his other abilities, with his natural affinity being with Creation magic. To supplement this, he's skilled in the use of alchemy, using the materials of one thing and transmuting them to create another. He mostly uses this to create weapons on the fly and for tripping up his enemies by changing the terrain around him to foil their maneuverability and keep them on their toes.

Another thing that makes him very dangerous, however, is that Jack has something to better separate him from most Homnuculi. He's in possession of a magical trait, said to be similar to that of the person whose soul was used to create him. This was possible due to a mistake in the ritual that caused the energy from the soul to react bizarrely with the body it was being placed in. Whether this same defect also caused his unusual behavior and psychotic tendencies is a mystery to most. Either way, his magical trait is known to him a Dimension rift, and it allows him to create pocket dimension anywhere that follow him around at all times in a space just beyond our dimension. This allows him to store and call upon a number of items at will, as the size of the pockets is near endless, and his ability to summon from objects from them is near infinite as well.

While Jack can also enter these dimensions, it takes both time and more energy to allow a living being with a consciousness into the pocket dimensions, meaning that it something for when he wants to hide from others for a while or when he has no place to stay. While inside of a pocket dimension, he can move around the world inside of it and is able to view our current dimension, but it cost a decent amount of energy to do so, making it so that he generally stays in the same spot, If someone uses tracking magic on him while he's inside the other dimension, it will fail, but if they stick one on him before, they'll be able to find his current location easily enough, but will be unable to do anything about it unless he exits the pocket dimension.

Skills:
He was born with a knowledge of all the weapons around during his time, and is able how to use new ones with remarkable ease, no matter how complex it might be. His hand to hand is very strong, made even more so by his centuries of experience. He's an excellent tracker and hunter, gaining great patience and skill as he hunted one of the most difficult forms of prey: humans.
Equipment:
Along with a literal armory of weapons from his time on earth, kept in perfect condition by the environment of his pock dimensions, he also carries two special items on him for when it time to fight. One is a suit of armor that he has in a dimension around his person, enabling him to essential phase the suit onto him in an instant. This armor is infused with the soul of a strong demon and grants it's user increased durability and strength, though not by that much. It's most useful ability, however, is allowing him to analyze a mage and find out their affinity, known types of magic, and any possible magical trait they may have. This works very well with his secondary weapon, the Fang of Cerburus.

Whether or not it is actually made from the fang of the mythical hound doesn't matter, for it's ability is very powerful. The Fang can take on the affinity of another magus, albeit weakened and only if it could due applicable to a sword in the first place, upon drawing their blood. However, it doesn't just end there. If the Fang manages to kill a magus, the user can decide to absorb their soul into the blade, giving them the ability to not only take their affinity permanently, but allow him to cast spells of that affinity as if they were his own as long as he is holding the blade. There is a limit to how many souls the blade can hold, with the maximum being that of 3, and currently he has two. One being Lightening and the other, Life, which allows him to breathe life into objects, the amount of mana put in deciding the power and size of the construct created.
Brief Backstory;
Drasinian was created to be the perfect warrior, not to defend anything or make war, but just because the Magus who created him wanted to be credit with making a living weapon of unparalleled might, mightier than any thing alive. Drasinian started life like most homunculus, knowing their purpose in life and ready to serve it out. He did battle with many foes, beating them all with a mixture of skill and ferocity that few could match and none had beaten, But in these battles, he couldn't help but feel something was . . . missing. No matter how much he fought, no matter who he fought, he couldn't gain any joy from the reason of his existence. It was only when he first killed, the victim being a man who had decided to attack his master, that he felt something zip through him.

In that moment, something was set in motion that not even fate could stop.

In that moment, a monster had been born. Slowly at first, but with increasing frequency, he began to kill many people under the cover of night, able tog et away with it with ease as he and his monster were constantly on the move, the man being held by an intense feeling of wanderlust. However, the man was not dumb, and soon realized where the trail of spilled blood led. He confronted his creation, clad in his special armor with the blade that had been passed down through his family for generations. But alas, he fell in battle, no match for Drasinian even with the advantage of the armor and blade. And his death was not slow, the homunculus made sure of that. When his body was found some days later, it was hardly recognizable as human, so savagely had it been torn to shreds. Drasinain, sense then, has made his way across the world, killing many, many, many people, but never in a way that would draw undue suspicion. With his age came wisdom, and he became better and better at hiding his presence from the world.

The most public his killings ever got, however, is during his time in WhiteChapel where h employed with the action of sex for a short time, trying to see if it was for them and shelling out the coin for prostates so that he could try it easy enough with out unneed complications. It bored him rather quickly, so he began to take his boredom out on the local population of whores. Before he knew it, however, he was famous, as he'd gotten sloppy with his killings. And yet, he found himself greatly entertained by the events and the name that he was given by the populace as he continued his spree. He quit after at time, not wanting to get caught for such a blunder, but his five minutes of fame, and life long infamy made it so that it was his favorite string of murders ever and he still tends to go by ack more often than the name he was given at creation. It fits him better anyway, as far as he's concerned.

[VitaVitaAR]

@Raijinslayer: Okay, um... I know I keep rejecting your characters but they're... not really fitting very well.

To begin with, that's not how alchemy works. As explained in the OP, alchemy is a process used by bloodlines with low magical potential that involves the manual transmutation of matter using basic spellcraft as well as the usage of mana to create high-powered alchemical devices. It's basically just a more acceptable way to compensate for being a "deficient" mage then relying entirely on theurgy(normally used in rituals). It's not Full Metal Alchemist style, you can't alter the terrain and create weapons on the fly with it.

Magic traits can be placed in homunculi, it's just more difficult, so it wouldn't really make him unique among them. ^^;

Aside from the armor once again really not fitting urban fantasy very well(Though I mean, I guess if you were going for something Fate/ style but that doesn't really fit for someone meant to be Jack the Ripper. Fate/ Jack the Ripper's outfit makes more sense even if it's weird and wouldn't fit here), being "infused with the soul of a demon" does all of nothing really. Souls are generic life energy, only unique in conjunction with the consciousness. Putting a soul into armor would really not do anything and there'd be nothing to keep it there. The same goes for the knives, magi souls are only unique in conjunction with everything else.

Now for backstory... proving you can is not a good reason to try and make a homunculus since it's resource intensive. Usually very worth it, but they're made for a reason. Improperly placing the soul into a homunculus would not result in insanity, it would result in a flawed homunculus with a very short lifespan or... nothing happening at all. And I'll be honest, I'd really rather not people take historical figures for this RP? They're not very relevant for one thing, and also since it's an original setting I might want to do something with them. Especially since that part seems kind of tacked on at the end. ^^;

[Letter Bee]

@Raijinslayer,@VitaVitaAR, can we talk in the New Link I gave ya?

[Raineh Daze]

@Raijinslayer,@VitaVitaAR, can we talk in the New Link I gave ya?

@Letter Bee

Can you please stop saying things like this? It's unsettling.

[Letter Bee]

<Snipped quote by Letter Bee>

Can you please stop saying things like this? It's unsettling.

@Raineh Daze

Sorry; genuine cluelessness, not malice.

[Rin]

Oh right, should mention here that I'm taking one of the unaware spaces. :D