Aeolian

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

Just to keep up, there are 8 character sheets that have been submitted so far:

1. Raffaella Struna (Kissed Mystic) - Psychiccer - Ivar
2. Lucius Kree (Kissed Mystic) - Psychiccer/Astra - Seraphine - Illuminaire
3. Anastasia Arslan (Mystic) - Astra - Harold - Illuminaire
4. Kaspaan Mustaven (Mystic) - Elementalist - Ivar
5. Leah Eusebia Clearwater (Mystic) - Psychiccer - Eusebia
6. Lhoren Faith Ashdale (Mystic) - Psychiccer - Ivar
7. Taegan “Tae” Granlock (Mystic) - Elementalist - Harold - Illuminaire
8. Primrose Greenleigh (Kissed Mystic) - Astra/Elementalist - Eusebia

I'm not starting the review process yet, but if I missed any character sheets, please let me know. Thanks!

Cheers!

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

So our shared Mentor would be the one to hand out the detentions? Certainly the one to add them all up lol.

@Deja

Naw. Tessa is a guide, not a rule enforcer. Detentions are handed out by professors and the Illuminaires who take their role too seriously, a la Percy Weasley from Harry Potter lol

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In Dr Stone, a weapon was used to turn all the humans into statues.
What happened like 10,000 years later through the effect of nitric acid, Dr Stone is awakened. He then started his science journey of trying to wake up humanity, reviving them from the statue state.

In context of the RP, it would be the Seraphim being reawakened fully into Ni-Seraphim and kick starting another Liberation War.

@Ti

Nope Nope. You don't have to worry about that. LOL That's not in the plans for this story lol

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If you think about it, driving or piloting is basically just puppeting a vehicle, just with a specific set of controls. Manipulating controls to make a vehicle do a certain action.

I figure puppeting and telekinesis wouldn't feel like too foreign of concepts for Leah.

@vietmyke

Yeah, its like blood bending from Avatar. Where you aren't controlling the thing itself, but your controlling the blood (in this case the Vitesse) that you've poured into it and that's what allows you to puppet it.

And yeah, Leah's telekinesis isn't strong enough right now, but theoretically, if her gift was powerful enough, she could use her telekinetic power to manipulate the Seraphim statue, but this thing is colossal. Look how it completely towers over the Academy. lol so yeah, that's far out of her reach right now most likely. lol Maybe once she gets to Jean Grey levels of control and strength. XD!

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@Aeolian

Still concepting some ideas for my girl, and just out of curiousity was looking at the pets and had a question regarding the Gupoo. Like, your answer won't change whether or not she has one, just some minor details lmao. The main question is just how intelligent they are. Are they just floating puffballs that have some vague sentience, or are they actually capable of nominally higher intelligence? Building off that, considering they seem to be rather affectionate creatures and bond with people easily, are they capable of being taught commands as it were?

@Alfhedil

Aeolian
Honestly, they're not that smart. They're just cute fluff balls really. They're the least intelligent of the pet options. I mean, they can be taught commands, like come and stay. LOL But they have no extremities to be able to do much of anything. They don't even eat or drink like normal animals do cause they have no mouths. It's really just a glorified plush doll tbh. LOL

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Just hope the statues aren't like the anime Dr Stone, or that could turn things bad rather quickly.

@Ti

Aeolian
I don't know what Dr. Stone is. Could elaborate on what those statues were?

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@Emeth@Silver Carrot

Aeolian
I love the creativity, but sadly, your characters' telepathic/psychic powers wouldn't work in this kind of scenario. Seraphim are lifeless husks, stone shells with no sentience for your telepathic powers to latch onto and control. Seraphim statues are controlled purely by raw vitesse "energy", which requires a lot of it and fine-tunted consistent control of how that energy is flowing through the limbs as its being "puppeted". So once you run out of vitesse, you lose control of the shell. It's like any other object in this world fueled by vitesse. its like magical biological fuel I guess lol Also, a Seraphim Pilots can only "puppet" one Seraphim at a time. But yeah, it's not a creature with a mind anymore. It's truly just a stone corpse. I just call it a golem for simplicity, but its really just an animated suit of armor in the shape of a giant angel.

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From my understanding from my first interpretation, it is more like puppeting. They turned into statues and by giving them vitesse, you can animate them. Then I presume you give instructions and directions as they operate like golems under your command.

On the re-read, I see where you are coming from. The language is ambiguous!

@Ti

This is correct. :) They're like golems that are animated and controlled with vitesse by a "Seraphim Pilot". Most pilots do sit within the "cockpit" of the statue cause they need to see where its going as they control and command it, especially over long distances. But if you can see the Seraphim and don't plan on needing it to go far away, a Seraphim Pilot can control it remotely without being inside it, like you said, giving it instructions and directions on what to do. The Seraphim at the school is mostly used as an extreme defense mechanism of the academy grounds. It's basically like the golems from an anime called RahXephon. But it takes a lot of skill to "pilot" these golems and requires a lot of vitesse too. It's like comparing a phone charger to an electric car charger. The latter requires FAR more juice to operate.

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I honestly assumed it was going to be rarer than not, though as it tends to go it seems more than a few like the idea of it for their characters. Which is entirely fair you know, just hoping we all get to play the characters we want lol. On that note I was going to have Corrine have it, though her secondary ability only manifested once and she hasn't been able to use it since. So really, unless someone gets the old man to talk or she actually manages to manifest that ability again, she's playing the best game of hide the gift possible on accident lmao.

@Alfhedil

Narratively, it would be much rarer, right? lol but like I said, I do want to be fair so at least a relative number of players get to have the kiss. So 25% felt like a good compromise in this case. But yeah, most players can't have it, otherwise, it wouldn't be the narrative and thematic anomaly that its supposed to be. It's supposed to be this abnormality that the Mystic community heavily looks down on. It's a metaphor about discrimination for being different, which is also the entire point of the X-men. It's a cultural and safety hazard issue for them. So the rarity of it builds up the angst and secrecy that these individuals have to go through to keep the fact that they have "the kiss" hidden from most others. I mean, the Mystics are REALLY prejudice against other Mystics with the Seraph's Kiss due to the legacy of their world, notably during The Time of Tears.

I do think there's enough material where everyone can still play the character they want, they just might not be as "gifted" as they originally planned out. Similar to how not everyone can be an Illuminaire. We have to adapt tactfully and still be open-minded enough to make changes and have fun. ^_~ <3

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So many telepaths! Who knew telepathy was such a popular power!

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@Crimson Flame

Aeolian

This is cute, but it doesn't fit the aesthetic of the RP, unfortunately. It's that chatroom avatar style I mentioned in the character sheet that is ill-fitting here. However, I've created some AI art you can look through to see if any of these you like for your character.

Art Concepts

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Concept 2


Concept 3


Concept 4



Concept 5


Other Concepts

Edit: Just saw Crimson's character sheet. LOL Oh well! Nice new picture btw

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@CaliforniaState

There's no specific number. It will depend on how many character submissions we get and how many players out of that number want to have the Seraph's Kiss. Statistically and narratively, far more students won't have it than will, and as we can see, many players want the Seraph's Kiss. Ideally, it should be 25% of characters will have "the kiss" and the other 75% will not. It's not a first come, first serve thing for me. It's about quality, thematic cohesion, magical balance, creativity, narrative integration, etc. Create your character as you want; don't let current submissions sway your creativity. But if too many players want "the kiss", I'll have to make some tough choices once I'm able to thoroughly review all the character sheets. I want to be fair, but narratively, it's just something only a few players can have, unfortunately. :)

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I'd also like to know because this is currently the best pic I have

here

@Silver Carrot

Aeolian

She's so cute. This art works just fine :)

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Ok sooo does anyone know where I can find high quality anime art of my character.

I already have the image in my head, and I don’t trust Google or Pintrest to have what I’m looking for.

@Crimson Flame

Aeolian

Everyone has provided some great resources you can look into. But also, if you want me to use AI to generate some art that may fit your character, just let me know in DM and I can help you with that. :)

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I was most likely going to commission the friend I usually go with, since I'm not really too big on going with AI character art and it can sometimes be a bit of a pain to find a reference that is just right lol. Either way, I'm pretty slow with character sheets so it might be a bit before I even get a WiP up just as an FYI.

@Alfhedil

Aeolian

As discussed in DMs, you're fine and your commissioned art style is fine too. You don't need to worry about posting a WIP. Just complete your character sheet when you can and post it here once it's filled out! No rush. :)