Emeth

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

I'm not the most active in group RPs but I've only ever seen one member of one Discord server from this site stir up trouble. They wrote some stuff that broke forum rules and kinda ignored the main plot in general, so I consider them a pretty special case. I've never used Discord for anything else except keeping in touch with a few RL friends, but I could imagine random servers for subreddits getting pretty toxic. It's not an issue I've run into with RPGuild though, but alas, I do a lot of lurking in the 1x1 section mostly, so my opinion might not be the most representative.

I'm working on my character now, actually. Her ability that falls in the telepath/empath category is something I've wanted to play for a long time but never found the right RP for it. Basically, she can see the connections between people, visually represented as threads of various colors, texture and thickness. By touching them, she can directly feel how others feel about each other, and by plucking them like a stringed instrument, she might hear a stray thought or two. By implication, she should be able to manipulate those threads somehow, like strengthening/weakening or outright creating/breaking them, but because of some childhood trauma, she has an extreme aversion to messing with them too much.

She has another ability which works kind of like a heavily nerfed version of Koishi's ability from the Touhou series. She can slip away from the collective consciousness of everyone around her and become imperceptible, but there's tons of limitations on it due to her inexperience. It's probably more comparable to being Anonymous/Blended in Assassin's Creed if you've ever played or watched one of those. Basically, if she does anything that's too high-profile (like tripping over her own two feet), her cloak fails and she becomes perceptible again. I have a cute idea that she could be using this ability to attend more than six classes on the sly, but let me know if that's chronologically impossible.

I currently have a half-baked idea that she has "The Kiss" but one of her aeonhearts is kinda funky, so she intermittently loses access to one of her abilities and a good chunk of her vitesse. She spends an unusual amount of time in the infirmary as a result, which could lead to some inconvenient questions being asked. I'm thinking she hasn't been found out yet since one of her abilities is an easily kept secret and the other helps her escape unwanted attention. I think making her a first year would be fun too so there's that in the cards.

So, a mixed bag of pretty powerful abilities with pretty powerful weaknesses, and unlikely to see combat (of her own volition).

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

The moment I read that part about Psychiccers being mistrusted I knew I had to have my character being either a telepath or an empath, and have them be a friendless girl with a privacy-invasive power, who tries to overcompensate by being bubbly and agreeable.

@Silver Carrot

I'll be crossing my fingers that my idea isn't too similar to yours!

I'm probably doing a character who's not very useful in combat. Hopefully that's okay.

Character Interview Questions

What items do you usually carry around with you?

@LuckyBlackCat

Rebecca Park, FBI

Ooh, lots of stuff. A concealed handgun with a suppressor, obviously. I got about three razor blades hidden inside my clothes, plus the one on my earring. Yep, it's real. Also, just as many handcuff keys. Redundancy is important. A bobby pin is pretty helpful to have, so I wear one of those too. I got a couple of those fully-metal Zebra pens that make for decent improv weapons in my suit pocket too, if I have to go somewhere without my gun. My glasses have a hidden camera built into the frame, so smile! These sunglasses are a bit special, too. The filter lets me see what's on my cell phone screen, while it just looks pure white to everyone else. My clipboard is also made of Kevlar, did you know we make those? Gosh, I could just go on and on. I haven't even talked about my suitcase yet! Anyway, that's more than enough from me!

What would you do if your devilishly handsome coworker turned out to be a werewolf? I'm uh, asking for a friend.

Ban the User Above You

Banned for banning the new guy, that's just rude

Ban the User Above You

Banned for having an opposite (yet nice-looking) profile photo.

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

I can begin working on a character as soon as you have a sheet. Gonna have some fun with this one for sure.

Are you Discordly inclined, by the way?

Emeth is in Too Many RPs (Indefinitely Closed)

Thanks to everyone who's responded to this so far. Several stories are, at least temporarily, being closed.

I've also added a new open-format story prompt: Maid to Order. It's exactly what you think it is.

I am hopeful that you shall find it most agreeable to your tastes.

Harold's Academy for the Magically Inclined

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Ban the User Above You

Banned because sand bird PTSD

Beyond Nirvana - The God Eater Calamity

Cynthia Schovajsa

Cynthia, in fact, did not know why they were here, she realized, listening to Amaterasu speak. Dominus bade her come, and thus she did. He demanded their entrance be grand, and so she had enlisted the assistance of the orc king to make it so. She never did well with royal pomp, herself. What she did know was that Nirvana was the plane of existence upon which the gods had their dwelling, unbound by time and death—and allegedly, worldly desires—though she had her doubts about the latter claim.

She listened in wonder as Mitsuko spoke. An island nation with a population of 20 million? Had she heard that quite right? It was doubtful the humans numbered that many in total in her own world. It seemed as though this girl led an eventful life, with many twists and turns. Wait, did she just say that she dueled a deity and won? Cynthia glanced at Amaterasu for some kind of sign that she'd exaggerated somehow, and finding none, was even further amazed. She barely even heard the comment about the rollercoaster, with her mind spinning as to just how strong she must be. Did she dare ask the young lady for a spar, later? ...No. She'd rather chew gravel than suffer defeat by the hands of one Dominus had deemed "a child."

Then, the alien spoke. The manner of its speech put Cynthia off somehow, despite being perfectly fluent. She couldn't quite put her finger on why, until she glanced over at Dominus, pinching his nose in frustration and impatience, and realized that she was barely paying attention to what was being said herself. Ah, that was it. Zero's manner of speech reminded Cynthia of a politician. It was a bit too refined, and the vague and repeated use of the word 'love' didn't actually tell her much about Genesis as much as what was not being said. Immediately, Genesis struck her as a being with secrets, and its being absent from this meeting only solidified that in her mind. As for Zero, she wasn't sure if she could hold that against him. He was a bit of a mystery, and she couldn't be sure yet if he had free will.

Finally, there was the elf. Elves were isolationists on Cynthia's home planet, making war against those who encroached on their own territory with no respect of race or creed. She supposed they could be considered neutral—apathetic towards the war, even. Cynthia found her remark about her life as a queen not being noteworthy or eventful unconvincing, however. Certainly, it was her personal belief that long life was the enemy of a life well-lived. Her own siblings' lack of noteworthy accomplishments when compared to her own was the proof. Why do anything today when you have nigh-unlimited tomorrows, after all? This, however, was not from lack of opportunity, but lack of effort. The elf that stood before her now was either lying to keep her secrets, or lazy just like them, she concluded. The grizzled War Queen could not conceive of a world in which war was a seemingly bygone concept.

Dominus glanced at Cynthia, and made a motion with his head that usually meant something along the lines of 'put a stop to this nonsense, will you?' He couldn't mean for her to give a speech, could he..? Cynthia remained frigid for a moment before choosing to speak. "My people have hardly known aught but war from our birth. You may rely on me," she said simply. Dominus scoffed. "What this ice queen is trying to say is, try not to slow her down," he offered with a haughty smirk. "That..." Cynthia paused. "The word of my god... may contradict mine own opinion from time to time," she managed, returning his smirk with one of her own. The two seemed to be playing a game of wits of some kind, with rules only they knew at the moment.