[OOC] RWBY - Only the "Finest"

[Lugubrious]

I was going to later today, even though I was one of the last ones to post. I'm surprised, given how many characters that we have, that we aren't steaming full speed ahead.

[Write]

My team will be in soon - then we will shower you in splendor and lesser bank notes.

[Forsythe]

My char's cast right there, but no catches to reel in yet XD

[Larfleeze]

I'm surprised, given how many characters that we have, that we aren't steaming full speed ahead.

@Lugubrious

ikr

My team will be in soon - then we will shower you in splendor and lesser bank notes.

@Write

God, that sentence could have went an entirely different direction...

[greywolf375]

I was going to later today, even though I was one of the last ones to post. I'm surprised, given how many characters that we have, that we aren't steaming full speed ahead.

@Lugubrious

I've been busy, gonna try to post later today

[Crimmy]

Got a post in the works.

[Larfleeze]

Im partially afraid that Ive basically caused an influx of posts and no one's gonna know what's goin on.

[Lugubrious]

Im partially afraid that Ive basically caused an influx of posts and no one's gonna know what's goin on.

@Larfleeze

Fear not! Everything will be right as rain.

[Kouki]

Hey guys, just letting you know I am still alive and still active I've just decided to take a more behind the scenes role in the game now; you'll see much more of me when you start facing NPC's and the like.

I hope you're all ready for some intense battle scenarios, I've made a few teams for you all to face in the tourney and they won't be going down easy so look sharp!

[greywolf375]

Hey guys, just letting you know I am still alive and still active I've just decided to take a more behind the scenes role in the game now; you'll see much more of me when you start facing NPC's and the like.

I hope you're all ready for some intense battle scenarios, I've made a few teams for you all to face in the tourney and they won't be going down easy so look sharp!

@Kouki

Excellent! I was hoping for a challenge

[pyroman]

@CrimmyNice post!

[Plank Sinatra]

“Without us, what is Remnant? Vale, Mistral? There’s no life in these places. Who wants to see the sights in Vale? Vacuo? Vacuo should be paved in solar panels to run our theme parks! But where Atlas goes, we bring the future. And Atlas goes where we lead it.”



Name: Brennan Ailill Griese, the Captain of Industry

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 19

Nationality: Atlesian

Team: BANK

Designation: Subject 0081: Highly Ravenous, Do Not Unleash Huntsman

Appearance:



Several inches over the average height and athletically broad, Brennan only tends to look somewhat leaner in comparison to his teammate. In reality, though perhaps not a powerhouse on Kek’s level, it’s clear he doesn’t take many cheat days. Brennan himself is very handsome, with a strong jaw, bright red-gold eyes, and a perpetual hysterical laugh never far from his lips. Ever professional, he tends to wear black pants or jeans with white dress shirt, sleeves rolled up. He will always either wear suspenders or a slim-fitting black vest. His coal-black hair is long, but not unruly – half the time it tends to be pomaded backwards lustrously, and half the time he lets it hang free over his eyes. Surprisingly, he’s not one for much gaudy orientation. The only concession to jewelry he wears is a slender silver chain on his neck, from which hangs two Claddagh rings barely visible through an unbuttoned collar.

History:

Brennan’s father was only one generation removed from their fortune, but it was clear he had forgotten where it came from. Brennan’s grandfather had initially gone into business as a founding partner of the Schnee Dust Company, but foresaw a coming monopoly on the Dust market and the coming problems with the use of Faunus labor. Therefore, he sold every last share at top dollar and came out with enough money to float him through the rest of his life; a series of sensible investments in property and budding tech firms with interests in Aura and Dust only compounded the fortune, until it was clear no Griese would ever have to worry again.

As you can imagine, this had made Brennan’s father complacent, a trait not shared by his rowdy, implacable only son. A talented little scrapper (to his father’s chagrin) from an early age, Brennan seemed to have determined his path even before he quite knew what the Huntsman path was, and went away to Sanctum Academy in Mistral for combat training at the age of 12. When he returned to Atlas after four years, though, he took a couple drop years to begin taking a hands on role in some investments of his own. Finally, at the age of 19, he enrolled in Atlas Academy to seek out a career as a Huntsman and engage himself in higher study.

Pleasantly, he found himself on a team with three other members of the Atlesian business elite, and though at first their squabbles over leadership and natural competitive edges had led them to all eschew each other, once the question of leadership was truly decided and began to work as a unit, BANK (as they had been first colloquially, then officially known) became an inseparable juggernaut, often able to discern strategies and fight alongside or independent of each other with mere near-telekinetic glances. At the head of this specialized team is Brennan Griese himself – and though his father insists he’s going through a phase, Brennan finds the thrill of being a Huntsman and the challenge of impossible odds far more satisfying a life than a sterile boardroom, where he had no chance of anything but even greater success.

Not the most heady of futures to a young man such as him.

Personality:

Despite what his teammates like to mutter to themselves, there’s really no one but Brennan who could lead BANK with any efficiency. He balances the three proper attitudes for business on the tip of his finger – cold and pragmatic on the battlefield, when his team is most in need of direction; open-hearted, jovial, and irreverent at a public setting or presentation; and funny, fluent and respectful in a one on one setting. While not an out and out asshole, years of relative dominance amongst his peers and the restlessness of being born into wealth and lacking things to do with it has completely coated Brennan in bulletproof confidence. This sense of self-assurance can often cross the line to out and out conceit.

Even if Brennan isn’t the most talented fighter on the team (an honor that goes to Kek) he’s easily the psychological warrior of BANK. A born performer, hyping up the crowd comes as easily as breath to Brennan – the sheer act of pumping his arms to raise a mob’s volume seems to feed him with a psychotic, insatiable energy. Though he’s cunning enough to guess at many a psychological weakness, public displays of disrespect towards the other three Huntsmen academies are more his speed. Brennan is a madman. He will raise chants amongst students. He will spout disrespectful limericks towards upcoming competitors. He will buy other students dinner and a Scroll because “those on death row have rights in Atlas. We love the damned! We love them so much that we give them last meals and phone calls home.” He is not above buying out a Mistralian merch stand and tying shirts to banners in a sick mockery of a funeral procession.

Despite this, surprisingly, the charismatic, quasi-psychotic Atlesian is not inglorious in victory or defeat. Often he will seek out as many opponents as possible after the post-fight bloodlust has worn off and his throat requires a brief rest and congratulate them on their performance. It would appear that this frenzied, hypercompetitive jock state ebbs away as soon as the bellows in the arena die down, giving way to a civil, if overbearing, young man who fights every duel like it’s the time of his life. In addition, though he will never advertise this fact – going so far as to pin all credit/blame on Noel – he tends towards charity, or taking his excess money and scattering it through the immediate area.

“Tears, laughter, pleasure and pain! I bring the fire, THEN I MAKE IT RAIN!”

Skills:

A skilled orator and hand-to-hand combatant, Brennan is most skilled in a fight when he’s able to manipulate Dust to full effect. Both of his weapons – as well as his fortune – rely upon the propellant, and he’s learned to use them appreciatively. He’s also the leader of BANK for a reason – a smart tactician, gauging his team’s strengths and weaknesses, he can coordinate group attacks with relative ease and very rarely has to deal with someone falling out of formation or losing their head in the fight. Ironically, not even he is exempt from this sense of focus.

Semblance:

Slick as a Whistle: Brennan’s Semblance is friction manipulation. Simply put, he is able to generate, remove, or control friction in order to propel himself forward, stop something in its tracks by sending it slipping and sliding, or maneuver up solid surfaces more fluidly.

Weapon:

Veblen Good: An energy whip of Brennan’s own design, Veblen Good is a potent weapon even without a power source, able to open up stinging cuts on an opponent with ease or ensnare itself around a body part with a flick of Brennan’s wrist. Its real power, though, comes from the holster built into the handle of the whip, complete with small trigger. When loaded with a Dust crystal or cartridge, the trigger can be pressed in, energizing the whip with Dust for several minutes and imbuing it with whatever particular type Brennan loaded it with. In a pinch, in case of a lack of crystals, the whip can also be powered for a limited time with the Trustbusters.

In its coiled form, Veblen Good can still be loaded with a Dust cartridge and powered up. In this state, Brennan can utilize the weapon as an energy targe, also imbued with whatever element the Dust was and combining with his aura to form a large protective shield.

Trustbusters: A pair of Dust-knitted gloves that operate independently of Veblen Good, the Trustbusters would ostensibly not have much power on their own. Thus, Brennan has done some modification, turning what was once a pair of glorified hand protection into augmented weapons all their own. When a Dust crystal or cartridge is crushed inside one of the Trustbusters, the specialized fabrics and the Dust already latent inside will absorb the Dust Brennan wants to utilize. This surcharge allows him to power up something he chooses with Dust, whether it be Veblen Good or something inanimate…or just hit someone with a burning fist.

Relationships:

Albert Morgan: To put it frankly, Brennan and Morgan aren’t friends – but they should be. Both tend to speak fast and take shots at the things around them, and while they often fall into a rapport and coordinate alongside each other well in combat, they don’t hang out on a personal level very often unless someone else is the bridge between them. Despite their aloofness from each other, Brennan enjoys the other heir’s company, and can even be heard to openly laugh at some of Albert’s ideas and jokes. The team leader has decided to try and attempt to forge a real bond with his partner as time goes on.

Noël Du Acier: Perhaps the only member of BANK Brennan can truly said to be close to, Noel is the target of more of his mocking barbs than any other – as well as the target of slightly more extolled pride. Though he is first in the chorus of telling the talkative blacksmith to just shut the hell up, he tends to treat her as something of a precocious younger sister, and knows how to play to her strengths in the field. They will sometimes hang out without the company of anyone else, though usually only for a quick meal. Though he talks a big game about letting her reap her just desserts for running her mouth so often, Noel’s charitable heart is a quiet soft spot for the braggadocio-fueled Atlesian, and slights on her person or (undue) beatings that he thinks she can’t handle will be handled with hot fury.

Kek Tarik: Another team member who, like Morgan, Brennan doesn’t have much of a personal relationship with. Kek, however, has Brennan’s quiet respect if nothing else – as team leader, it’s his job to acknowledge to himself when he’s outmatched, and Kek is pound for pound a better fighter than Brennan himself. As such, he will often just point him in a vague direction and let the big guy go off on his own, only falling in with the rest of the team when it’s time for a complete formation. Outside of the field or classes, Kek will sometimes find himself called on as the deciding vote in an argument with Brennan and Morgan, but otherwise he’s left to his own devices – or to Noel, whom the big guy seems to get on well with.

Trivia:

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Based loosely upon the personality and life of John D. Rockefeller

My Semblance would be telepathy.

[Krayzikk]

Well,it took a lot longer than I intended, but the U for @Crimmy's TSUN has arrived.

Kawaguchi Umeko

“I’m not just for show.”

-Kawaguchi Umeko

Name: 川口 梅子 (Kawaguchi Umeko)

Race: Human

Gender: Female

Age: 18

Nationality: Atlesian Origin, Vacuuan Affiliation

Team: TSUN (Tsunami)

Designation: Huntress

Appearance: Standing slightly taller than average, albeit not by much, Umeko clearly cares about her appearance. Her clothes are, without exception, kept immaculately clean and worn in specific combinations planned out long in advance. She wears them quite well, too; Umeko is unquestionably a striking individual. She's built like a fighter, with a solid stance and toned limbs, but her choice of style usually makes her seem much more lithe than she is. Her brown hair is straight and shoulder length, worn differently depending on what she thinks will look best. Umeko is almost always grinning a wide, amiable grin like she wants the entire world to be her friend and invites them to be so. The deep blue eyes set above that grin are highly expressive, and very much the gateway to whatever Umeko is thinking.

Her clothes tend towards the blue end of the spectrum, but their style is incredibly variable. On a daily basis, when attending classes, she generally wears something close to the traditional Atlesian student uniform, in spite of her actual affiliation. She bends this habit for formal events, during which she does don the official Shade uniform. Casually, on the other hand, her wardrobe is nearly infinite; clothes for every occasion, every type of weather, and every temperature. Light jackets are quite common, as is the occasional sweater. Most casual settings will see her in jeans, but the odd semi-formal will prompt the use of a skirt. Wherever she goes, Umeko wants to be the best dressed in the room.

She does have an outfit that could be considered something of a signature, however. A pair of dark blue jeans paired with classy (but intentionally durable) shoes paired with a deep blue top. Over that she adds a waist-length white jacket, with the emblem of Shade stitched in black over what appear to be devil horns on either shoulder. She's never seen, regardless of her attire, without her headband and rarely without her white messenger bag,

Name

Personality: Umeko is friendly, oblivious, and a little too eager to show off. She thrives on being the center of attention, having the most friends, and standing in the shining spotlight. At least that's the disposition she likes to show to the world. The truth is much, much more layered. The hordes of acquaintances and casual friends are kept at arms length, prevented from seeing past the veneer they're supposed to see. Beneath the mask is a much more contemplative young woman, someone much more sensible than her almost arrogant public persona implies. Umeko realized, quite a long time ago, that her peers (and elders) tended to underestimate her due to her bubbly nature and fashion-oriented interests. So why not use that to her advantage?

The real Kawaguchi Umeko is highly driven, and paradoxically, infinitely more willing to criticize someone the more she cares about them. Such criticisms, truth be told, are often emphatic, occasionally angry, and very impassioned. But on the other side of the same coin, those she cares about can be subject to displays of loyalty or affection that would seldom be extended to one of her superficial 'friends'. The truest sign of her friendship is being permitted to see underneath the public facade.

Fighting Style: Despite the attitude she projects, Umeko is a devastating all-range fighter. Lacking in raw power, she instead focuses on technique and battlefield control. The White Devil's forms give her both offensive and defensive capabilities at all ranges, and her Semblance gives her the ability to alter her environment a little as needed. Her preference, most of the time, is to act as a mid-to-close range combatant. Her rifle, and its sword form, give her the precision she needs to land dangerously precise strikes while her shield ensures she can take hits just as well as give them. But given the nature of her team, she is not the only (or necessarily the best) suited for this role. When the situation requires she transitions smoothly into acting as mid-to-long range fire support, using her remote shield bits to harass the enemy from any angle, and her rifle to hit where it hurts. Her Semblance is no slouch in this role, either, as it allows her to redirect shrapnel and detritus in creative ways.

Simply put, Umeko will adapt to any scenario one attempts to force her in as best she can. And much of the time, that is quite well. After a bout with her in the arena, few ever quite buy into her seemingly oblivious nature ever again.

Weapons/Equipment: Remnant Expansion (Prototype) #78 Unit 2 Grimm-Use Non-Demanding Armament Machine ver. White Devil: The White Devil started life as a project for the Atlesian military. Atlas has long believed in recruiting their Hunters into service as Atlesian Specialists, but the common Atlesian soldier has never been able to go toe-to-toe with the foes that Hunters handled. They had to rely on strength of numbers, not individual capabilities. The Grimm-Use series was intended to permit the common soldier the adaptability to handle as many foes as a Hunter, if not with quite as much skill. In fact that was the purpose; a set of equipment that could be used for maximum effect, with minimum skill. The project showed promise, but ultimately was a casualty of Atlas’ changing goals. They no longer wanted to increase a soldier’s effectiveness, they wanted to take the soldier off the battlefield entirely.

So Sunrise Industries, the contractor for its development, mothballed the project. The five units that had been produced were put into storage and forgotten. Sunrise Industries itself, unable to keep up with the changing mindset, declared bankruptcy a few short years later and its assets were liquidated. The five prototypes were sent to auction, while the Atlesian military’s active contracts were subsumed by other contractors. And that was when they fell into Umeko’s hands.



The ​White Devil ​consists of two primary parts; a handheld semi­automatic railgun rifle, and a large quadrilateral shield. The railgun operates by using lightning Dust to generate the magnetic field necessary to launch a projectile along two rails at exceptionally high velocities, making the weapon highly destructive to compensate for its low rate of fire. Using a trigger mechanism in the handle the railgun converts to a long, slim sword. This sword uses the same lightning Dust to superheat the blade’s edge, drastically increasing its penetrating power.



The shield, in its base configuration, is just that; a shield. It secures itself parallel Umeko’s forearm, with a handle gripped in her left hand, and can be easily used to defend against attacks. Its secondary uses, on the other hand, are much less obvious. The handle is connected to the rest of the shield by two long cords, and the handle contains a small motor to retract or release those cables with the press of a button. The shield itself splits in half, both halves folding to create a rail-based firing aperture similar to that of her rifle. These halves fire a laser based on technology being developed for a separate Atlesian project. In this form the halves of the shield use Gravity Dust to become weightless. Like the cables that connect them to their handle, the firing mechanisms are controlled by an adjacent button.

Both halves of the White Devil have storage forms for noncombat situations. The rifle folds to stow away inside the shield, which uses the seams for its transformation to become a rigid messenger bag.

The final piece of Umeko’s equipment, developed independently of the rest,is a visor and earpiece that contains the functionality of a Scroll while providing eye protection from both shrapnel and blinding light. Outside of combat the device looks very much like an unusual headband. Upon activation it flips down and the v-shaped antennae deploy above her forehead.

Semblance: Center of Attention: Umeko can control the relative gravitational attractions generated by an object. All objects, however small, exert some degree of gravitational pull on all the other objects around them. Umeko can affect the intensity of these pulls, allowing her to manipulate the gravity generated. Most commonly this is used to cause objects to fall into a stable orbit around her, or another object, mistakenly leading many to believe she controls the orbit of objects. The reality is much more nuanced in its potential applications.

History: In Atlas, name and standing is everything. The Schnees are but the most well-known example. What matters is what you have, who you know, and how you got there. If you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth you'll spend your entire life kicking and punching to claim one. Everyone knows the names of each industry's titans, but few will remember the small families you meet on the street. In that way, Kawaguchi Umeko is of little note. A deep search of her history will find a modest career in modeling for different magazines, fashion in particular, and her transcripts from Atlas' academy for young hunters and huntresses. A deeper search will find little more about the Kawaguchi family. Simply another foot note in Atlesian history.

Unless one happened to find her birth certificate, and discover that she was born Umeko Huntian, not Kawaguchi. Unlike Kawaguchi, the name 'Huntian' is known to many. The Huntians have been joined at the hip with Atlas' military-industrial complex for generations, supporting, funding, or running dozens of different weapon manufacturers over the years. They made themselves rich off of Atlas' military generations ago, and kept the family interests in good shape through every highpoint and recession since. After all, with the Grimm out there, there'll always be a need for weapons. The Huntians rubbed shoulders with the elite, and were quite content to stay within their echelon. Until, that is, one of the family's minor heirs fell in love with a young worker at the head office.

Robert Huntian's, in his family's eyes, ill-planned love resulted in Umeko's birth. Though he had every intention of sticking with the family he had created, the mastermind of the Huntian empire were less than pleased by the idea. Robert eventually succumbed to the pressures of his more business-minded relations, and returned to the family's good graces. He made sure Umeko and her mother were very well cared for, with as much money as they needed to live comfortably. A share of this money, every month, went into an account in Umeko's name for her to use when she was old enough. Umeko herself grew up attending the kingdom's best academies, with few illusions over the circumstances of her birth. Even fewer about her standing compared to her peers.

Some combination of these truths lead her, at the age of eleven, to discard the Huntian name. From that point on every document was handled using her mother's name, and Umeko Huntian vanished from the paper trails of the Atlesian government. When one of the Huntian empire's investments, Sunrise Industries, went belly-up a year later she found herself drawn towards the liquidation auction and from there to her calling.

While the next generation of Huntians were groomed for business, Umeko entered into Atlas' school for hunters. Her own funds, carefully tucked away until she was old enough, were in good standing when she became a teenager. They were soon supplemented by work done on the side, showcasing fashion and gear in magazines geared towards hunters and huntresses, and invested carefully according to advice and careful consideration. When Kawaguchi Umeko entered Atlas' answer to Signal, no one knew who she was. By the time she left she had made herself known as a highly capable fighter, and a charismatic individual.

It was her success that lead her to leave Atlas. It is no secret, in any of the kingdoms, that the Atlesian specialists were usually recruited from the best of Atlas' training facilities. If she carried on into the next school, she might face the same recruitment efforts. So she packed her bags, gathered what resources were hers, and moved to Vacuo to attend Shade.

Relations with other characters: N/A

Extra: My semblance... Probably something to do with tech, honestly

[HereComesTheSnow]

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Take a look from a gym frequenter's POV.

@Lugubrious

God Bless SIR

[Crimmy]

@Krayzikk

[pyroman]

It's... It's active...!? Well, @Plank Sinatra, your character looks good, @Krayzikk, yours as well, but you both are missing a little somethin' somethin'. Plus, I can't pass you guys on my own, 2/3 vote, so we need to see what the other members of the tribunal say about them.

EDIT: Didn't see the edits to the CS's, you both are pretty much cleared. Just need to hear from Kouki and Raijin.

[Raijinslayer]

@Krayzikk@Plank SinatraThey're both great, so put 'em in the character tab and go post when you can.

[Raijinslayer]

@pyromanForgot to mention you, Burgandy's meal just got interrupted courtesy of Silme's short fuse and lack of self-control.

Edit: Also, apologies for sudden thugs but I was kind unsure how to have Silme interact with anyone since, in his current mood, he isn't feeling too social. So I decided something disruptive, if not realistic, might spice things up before the games a little.

[pyroman]

@Raijinslayernoted, Burgundy's next interruption to her mean certainly won't be as calm as before, especially with her being forced out of her Zone.

[Raijinslayer]

@pyromanSilme's ready for anything she can throw at him _probably.

@Bornlucky Hey man, haven't seen you in the Team PM or in the OOC. You still in this or do you not have the time or something? Kinda need to know so we can better plan things.