[OOC] R.W.B.Y. ~ The Colors of Dawn ~

[ReaptheMusic]

yes, it is :3

[ReaptheMusic]

@BCTheEntity Find time to post soon please.

[BCTheEntity]

@ReaptheMusic Post has been made. Sorry about the delay.

[Chickn]

@Rekaigan might want to get your character approved before posting them in the characters tab. Unless you already talked to Reap, then just ignore this post.

[Rekaigan]

@Chickn

Already got it approved, no worries~

[Turboshitter]

Also @Chickn, Bonny meant for Rowan to punch its teeth out once they were already rocketing out of there xD

[Raijinslayer]

@ReaptheMusicHey, This still open to new players?

Character sheet

Name: Onyx Moross

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Species: White Tiger Faunus

APPEARANCE

Height: 6ft

Weight: 175lb

Clothing Style: Onyx tends to dressing in a more formal style than most, believing that one should always look their best. As such, he usually wears a black suit with a light blue tie that matches his eyes, black gloves that usually have dust-woven into them, nice black shoes(which also sport a hidden steel toe, and when he knows that he's going into a fight, he can add reinforced steel plates to the outfit, all of them painted white in color to go with his outfit.

Hair Color: White

Eye Color: Blue

COMBAT

Weapon: Onyx has for his weapons two specially made hand-cannons, made of a very durable metal alloy and carry a heck of a punch, especially when infused with either dust or his Semblance. The two powerful pistols can also change into a pair of hilts for their secondary form: a pair of energy swords fueled by Noir's Semblance. These blades are string and wickedly sharp, and the length is about as long as your average short sword, and can be either one-sided or double-sided depending on what he might need in a situation. The swords can also be infused with dust from the dust bullets, changing it's properties and allowing for a great deal of versatility.

Semblance: Energy Projection and Manipulation: Onyx's semblance allows him to alter his Aura into a form energy that he can use offensively, either by doing things like infusing it into his hands and feet as he fights to increase his attack power or infusing it into his bullets to give them more kick, and defensively , through things like forming a barrier in front of him to defend against attacks.

Dust: As mentioned above, Onyx uses dust in his guns and his swords to increase their versatility on the battlefield, but he also uses it to increase his semblances abilities as well, using whatever dust is infused in his gloves to augment his hand to hand combat skills, either by giving them an explosive impact with some fire dust or messing up an opponent's flow by freezing one of their limbs with some Ice dust.

Skills:

• Skilled Martial Artist
• Makes use of his guns in close range melee combat(similarly to Death the Kid)
• Skilled Swordsman as well
• Has naturally high level of both strength, agility, and Stamina

PERSONALIZED

Personality:

• Confident
• Righteous
• Calm
• Regal
• Stubborn

Skills:
Reading
Tai-chi
Practicing his skills
Hunting

Background: Onyx is, how you might say, the subject of strange circumstances. You see, while he was born a Faunus, his parents were killed early on in the war, leaving him an orphan. The Orphanage where he'd spend the majority of his life also happened to be headed by an old Faunus huntress who was tough as nails, rough as sandpaper, and would chew you up and spit you out for even thinking of giving her any sass. She was also an accomplished martial arts trainer, and was always willing to teach any of the kids who thought they could handle it. Onyx was one of them, eager to learn and please as he threw himself into the task . . . and was immediately tossed around like a hacky sack.

The old huntress didn't play around, offering strict training that pushed the students to their very limits, and then asked them to break those limits until they found new ones. It was an intense, almost soul-crushing experience, and so rough that it caused most of those who tried to give up. All except for one. Even back then, when he couldn't have been much older than 8, Onyx was filled with a stern determination. Whenever he wasn't training with the old woman, he was going to academies, learning to become Hunter do that he could help people all over the world by fighting the Grimm.

Even after he was adopted at the age of 12 by a nice humsn family, he still went to the old Huntress for traoning, wanting to know everything he could from her. Unfortunately, she passed away about 3 years later, her heart no longer able to keep with the stress of life. The loss struck a deep blow, but Onyx worked his way through it, and goes through his life looking for ways to improve the skills he's learned, so that he can be of more help to the people of Remnant, where ever they may be.

Character Theme: My idea for this character is equal parts the awesomeness that are white tigers(seriously, they look majestic and regal as fuck) ands the thoughts of people who're revolutionary leaders and what not. I've no real specific inspiration for this character, just a desire to do a RWBY RP, and an idea that evolved from it.

Other:

[ReaptheMusic]

@RaijinslayerLook at your character theme. Now look at everyone else's, now back to yours. Sadly, yours isn't like theirs but it could be with old spice body wash. Please change it. 'Awesomeness' doesn't cover it.

[Raijinslayer]

@ReaptheMusicI understand the difference, but I really don't have any specific inspiration for this character. I just kinda thought him up as sort of anti-thesis to another Rwby character I had. If I really wanted to push this, I guess that the concept of a 'White Knight' character type?

[Chickn]

@Rekaigan Cool beans, man. Just wanted to make sure. :)

@Turboshitter Haha, whoops. Guess I didn't catch that while typing out my response. I can go back and edit it if you want, or we could just blame it on Rowan being kind of aloof.

@Raijinslayer what Reap means is that every character in RWBY is based off of someone. Ruby = little red riding hood, Weiss = snow white, and so on. Look to history, you mention something about a revolutionary leader. You could go for mythology as well. Obviously you don't have to use these, but they are a couple suggestions.

Also, every single person is capable of doing what your character's Semblance does. Just wanted to point that out.

EDIT: Another good one could be Arthurian legend, if you want a literal knight.

[Raijinslayer]

@Chickn@ReaptheMusic How about this guy?

Edit: Decided to go to my old character, as I wasn't getting much inspiration from anything else and because I realized I never really got to do much with this character in the other RP I've had him in.

Character sheet

Name: Silme Fenirus

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Species: Timber Wolf Faunus

APPEARANCE

Height: 5'11

Weight: 170lb

Clothing Style: Silme likes to dress in simple, casual clothes, having no real sense of personal style or fashion. He wears a light grey shirt under a similarly colored jacket(thin dress jacket for warm weather, thick woolen one for cold), loose fitting jeans, and combat boots.

Hair Color: Silver

Eye Color: Gold

COMBAT

Weapon: The Scarlet Ravagers: He uses a pair of Specialized Customizable Clawed Gauntlets that he can alter for various combat and utility functions, as well as changing into either a pair of Customized SMGs, with rapid- and burst-fire modes, for him to dual wield, or into two double-sided short swords. All variations of weapons can be augmented with Dust cartridges for various effects and attacks. As far as appearance, the claws are actually just a blain black in color with silver along the sharp edges, the name being a reference to what they'd look like after a fight and what they do to his opponents.

Semblance: Corrosion, It is a very offensive Sembalance that allows Silme to imbue his attacks with a reddish-silver aura. This Aura is extremely effective at dealing damage, but it's usefulness truly shines when it comes with dealing with heavily armored enemies. With this ability, he can easily weaken most types of armor so and items, making him very effective at damaging and even destroying the weapons of others to lessen their combat efficiency. He can even apply his ability against the defensive aura of others, though it isn't as effective, it still allows him to do more damage than normal and makes him a rather heavy hitter in tournament fights.

Dust: Main use of Dust is through cartridges in his gauntlets

Skills:

• Aggresive, Hard-hitting combat style
• Enhanced senses thanks to Faunus blood, mostly that of smell and hearing.
• Very Instinctive fighter
• Has naturally enhanced levels of strength, agility, and Stamina
• Aura is more focused on increasing his strength and Speed, at the cost of having a weaker aura defense then most other Hunters and Huntresses

PERSONALIZED

Personality:

• Confident
• Aggressive
• Confrontational
• Vulgar(language-wise0
• Stubborn

Skills:
Pick-pocketing
Hunting
Parkour

Background: Silme had a bit of a rough start to his childhood, having been abandoned by his parents at a young age to escape a human raid on their home, which had been secretly helping the Faunus by smuggling them weapons and providing safe haven until somebody ratted the whole operation out. Him and others who were captured where then taken back to human territory where they were basically enslaved, forced to do the work of humans while being treated like dirt. Luckily, this was not to last for long, as the war ended soon after, but it left a mark on Silme's soul, planting in him a seed of mistrust that would flourish as he went through his life.

After the war, many humans still felt a rather powerful prejudice against the Faunus, and thus Silme was subjected to insult and discrimination where ever he went. Even the family that adopted him afterwards, as his true parents never came back, barely treated him as a person, mostly using him as a servant to do whatever they said without speaking. It was a horrid experience, and one he soon left. Not long afterwards, he fell into a rather bad crowd of gangs and thugs, and by the time he turned 12, he was picking the pockets of the people of Vale and doing whatever other dirty work the gang asks, because unlike the rest of society, it didn't matter what race you were down in the otherworld, as long as you got things done. Unfortunately(or fortunately, depending on how you look at it) this life of crime would be short lived, as a police officer soon caught and arrested him. However, instead of sending the young kid to the orphanage, he adopted him. The reason: the man was a Faunus, and one who had happened to know Silme's parents and had recognized the boy because of how much he looked like his mother. He didn;t know what happened to Silme's parents and didn't want to believe they'd just abandon their son, so he felt a responsibility to raise him up right in their stead

Taking Silme under his wing, he set to work trying to beat him back in line, with only mild success. His strict attitude only worsened Silme's dislike of authority figures, but he generally began to open up more to the man and other people. Silme's adoptive father, thinking it'd help straighten the boy out, enrolled him in combat school after seeing he had an aptitude in it, sending him to signal where he was clearly seen to be quite the skilled combatant, if a bit lacking in other areas. After his time their, he was quickly accepted into Beacon, with only some slight reservations in regards to his behavioral issues.

Character Theme: This character is based on Fenrir, the wolf-son of Loki in Norse Mythology. This is mainly seen in his attitude than anything else, as Fenrir was a beast that hated to be bound or controlled and was generally depicted as rather aggressive and angry at times. Not only that, but the wolf was essentially betrayed by those who raised him, as the gods feared his power.

Other: He has made a sort of combat helmet in the shape of a Beowulf skull, the eyes of which glow with a crimson glare to add to the sinister feel of the armor piece.

Jaune is the best, but only cause Pyrrha got vaporized.

[Chickn]

@Raijinslayer Much better, I think. A couple of notes: His history doesn't really match our timeline. The war happened 80 years before RWBY. We're at most 60 years before RWBY, so none of our characters would have been alive during the war. Also, if I understand his Semblance correctly, he is capable of destroying (Or disabling, at least) other's weapons, right? I don't think there's a problem with an armor/Aura piercing Semblance, but just outright destroying weapons might be a bit overpowered. Give @Reapthemusic a chance to weigh in on it. It is a definite improvement over your other character, though.

[Raijinslayer]

@ChicknAh, I was thinking it was the Faunus war, mainly because the way it was stated that the effects could still be felt made it sound a lot more recent. Especially with the mention of displaced people and wounded. Those kinds of things tend to get somewaht revolved in 6 decades, I'd think.

[Chickn]

@Raijinslayer

20 years before the events of RWBY

@ReaptheMusic

You know, I just saw this on the first page of the OOC. Scratch my earlier post about the timeline, because now I've gone and confused myself. We'll just wait for Reap to clear this up. She'll sweep in and save the day, no doubt.

In the meantime, though, you could address the Semblance issue. I still think it might be a bit too overpowered Unless you're fighting Rowan. She doesn't have any weapons to disable! Muahahahahaha!

[Raijinslayer]

@ChicknI'm fining with limiting it to only limiting it to only aura/armor if need be.

[Chickn]

@Raijinslayer Hmm, I'm kind of realizing that his Semblance is a little similar to Rowan's. But it's also not, so I suppose it's probably not a huge deal. They serve different purposes, so I think it'll pass. The armor/Aura piercing seems pretty balanced. We'll just wait for Reap on the history side of things, and I think you'll be good.

[Raijinslayer]

@Chickn*Looks at Rowan* yeah, though hers is more 'I'll be taking some of your Aura, thank you' while Silme's is more 'Let's just rip it to shreds, you won't be needing it soon anyways'. Also, strange coincidence that they're both silver-haired and based on Norse mythology.

[Chickn]

@Raijinslayer Yeah, I've always been fascinated by mythology, specifically Norse. Just something about it, the depth that some of their legends go into is insane. Perhaps silver-haired can be the new silver eyes? foreshadowing intensifies

[Raijinslayer]

@Chickn*Imagines Silme with that kind of power* . . . That would end badly for everyone involved as he currently is. School would get wrecked.

[Chickn]

@Raijinslayer Gah, everytime I read that name, I think of Slime. When I first read your CS, I was thinking, "This dude has nothing to do with the color green." Hehe