Fish of Oblivion

Stand Tall - Pleasant Valley Sunday

Post's up! Life on Mars debuting in the next post, most likely, just didn't want to stuff too much into this one.

Stand Tall - Pleasant Valley Sunday

Between her quietness, the serious look on her face, and the black overcoat and black umbrella shielding her from the cold and rain, the redhead at the edge of the group could easily have passed for a mourner if not for that same motley crew she was standing with.

Florence had stayed quiet for most of the trip over, using her relative lack of familiarity with the others as a means to silently observe. A few words here and there to let them know she wasn't mute or shy and a little more with an uneasy smile when someone spoke to her directly, and few would think twice about her otherwise solemn seriousness.

After all, what they were dealing with more than justified that seriousness. Any Stand User going rogue was cause for concern, let alone one as strong as the lingering stench at the scene of the crime marked it out as.

"Depends. Unless someone has just the right Stand for it, I don't think we're getting into that house in a hurry." Bruno's question to the group definitely warranted her speaking up- she knew for a fact that her own Stand wasn't going to be much help getting them closer to this particular crime scene. The number of police had certainly declined since earlier, but those left weren't going to be any less intent on keeping everything intact and keeping them out.

It wasn't as if her Stand couldn't be helpful in this situation- if she could get up into the air, she could see if a bird's eye view of the scene revealed anything at all useful. Whilst it might leave any Stand-deprived interlopers on the ground wondering when Mary Poppins came to town, it was still worth a consideration with how dark the sky had grown in the last few hours.

"But if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears." Though she'd see what the others came up with before putting her cards on the table. Her Stand had managed to keep a low profile so far, and perhaps there was something that could be done to help without tapping into its abilities right off the bat.

That said, something occurred to her as she watched the other young woman in the group pick up, taste and throw the sand. Despite her ridiculous behaviour, Corey's vulgar observation about the scent of the sand touched on an interesting possibility: "If I had to suggest anything, chances are that scent's leading somewhere other than the house."

Stand Tall - Pleasant Valley Sunday

And after some personality edits, I should be 200% done!

Stand Tall - Pleasant Valley Sunday

Florence and Life on Mars

「STAND USER」

Name: Florence Squire

Age: 18

Appearance:
Florence is a reasonably tall girl at 5'10", with blue eyes and medium-length red hair usually kept in a ponytail; it'd be hard to call her 'slender', but she's fairly lean and keeps herself in fairly athletic shape besides. Her dress code is unisex, though she generally goes for less feminine clothing outside of special occasions; most of the time, she's wearing jeans with a jacket over a short-sleeved t-shirt. When moving around at night or during cold days, she wears a well-worn black overcoat.

Personality Summary:
To external appearances, Florence seems a perfectly ordinary young woman, if a little on the reserved side. Compared to many of the other members of the 'Stand Community', she's something of a bastion of normality; one of the few sane and normal individuals amongst a disconnected gaggle of weirdos, psychopaths and tryhards. Her personality is a mixture of the everyday; cynical yet essentially good-natured, somewhat sardonic and yet welcoming, firm yet friendly.

The truth, however, is that she fits better into the Stand Community than it may seem. Her behaviour, whilst not entirely disingenuous, masks a rather ruthless true nature formed by difficult formative years. She is more than willing to take morally questionable actions and twist the truth for her own benefit, and whilst it remains a stretch to call her malicious, the fact remains that she is far more twisted and cunning than she presents herself most of the time. Much of this facet of her personality is based around a desire to live a quiet, orderly life; whilst she doesn't outright resent the abnormal and unusual, and appreciates the abilities her Stand grants her (whilst maintaining rather affable and offbeat interactions with it), she's largely kept the rest of the Stand Community at arm's length and has made it perfectly clear what she'll do to maintain her existence.

In short; whilst Florence isn't strictly an unpleasant person deep down, her outward persona belies how ruthless she can be, whilst her desire for a quiet life makes her interactions with other Stand Users something of a crapshoot.

Short Biography:
Florence's life before she came to Pleasant Valley was a fairly difficult one; her parents divorced at an early age, her mother gaining custody of her and not having a whole lot to do with her ex-husband outside of the occasional visit and child support. It wasn't a life filled with tragedy, but it was far from a fully functional one; besides the shaky financial situation they were in, her mother was estranged from her family and often acted strangely, seemingly talking to herself. Because of this, Florence became relatively self-sufficient at an early age.

However, around the beginning of her last year in elementary school, her mother contracted pneumonia, later dying due to complications after she wasn't able to obtain medical attention quickly enough. As of this, she went to live with her father, who had fallen on difficult times and taken up alcohol, in another city; and it was around this time that the stress and grief of her situation caused mysterious phenomena to manifest around her. Eventually, her father decided it would be best to move out of the city; besides his own problems, it was clear that Florence wasn't happy there, and Florence almost being injured or worse in a major accident at the time helped to twist his arm in the matter, convincing him to head for a safer environment. Unbeknownst to him, Florence hadn't been in any real physical danger; whilst he'd have no way of knowing, by this point she had a strange being guarding her, a strange being in a spacesuit that only she could see.

So they ended up moving to Pleasant Valley; her mother's family had come from Pleasant Valley originally, and whilst she'd been estranged from her parents, her younger brother, similarly distanced from them, reached out to Florence and her father after his parents passed on, contacting them shortly after the accident and offering to temporarily support the two financially if they moved to Pleasant Valley. So shortly before she began her first year of middle school, they packed their bags and left for the coastal town. Things changed much for the better; her father was finally able to get his life together in their new home, and the town was a far less intense environment than what she'd been subjected to before. On top of that, she was better able to understand the situation she was in with her strange astronaut friend; she saw similar beings around the city, and it wasn't long until it emerged that they had a name- Stands.

She's changed a fair bit between then and now; whilst there were bumps along the way and she's still somewhat reserved, she's definitely come out of her emotional shell, and now that she's started her final year in High School, she seems to be working hard for the future. Whilst awareness of the dangerous nature of Stands has lead her to keep a small distance between herself and the rest of the Stand Community over the years, practicing privately and doing her best to keep her Stand on a tight leash, the recent incidents and the threat they represent have convinced her to at least seek out the Boomtown Rats.

Namesakes: Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence and the Machine, and Chris Squire, bassist and founding member of Yes.

「STAND」

Name: Life on Mars

Description of Appearance:
Life on Mars is a humanoid stand, standing at roughly 6'7" and chiefly resembling an astronaut in a spacesuit with a dark red body. The secondary colour of the Stand is blue, comprising the specific structures and details appropriate of a spacesuit, as well as the sun visor and a series of pipe-like structures emerging from its back. The sun visor itself has a pair of burning red eyes visible from behind the blue, as well as a red Mars Symbol carved in-between them. The final detail is a blue cap on top of it's red helmet, resembling one that a ship's captain would wear.

Stand Ability:
Life on Mars has the ability to control gravity within a ten-meter radius of itself. Rather than a passive ability, it is activated and de-activated at will; the default setting for the gravity within that radius upon initial activation is just over a third of Earth's regular gravity, roughly equal to the gravity on Mars. The specific range of the ability allows it to adjust gravity to anywhere between Earth's value and a value of zero; with enemies and their Stands becoming subject to Earth's gravity again the moment they leave the area of effect. A secondary ability of Life on Mars is to automatically adapt to the gravitational changes; whilst enemies and their Stands may become disorientated or have their functions interrupted, Life on Mars will automatically adapt to the changed gravity. To be able to move unhindered in lower gravity settings, however, it must use the pipe-like structures integrated into its body to navigate; using them to direct and discharge air that Life on Mars has sucked into its body and compressed in order to move about. This compressed air can also be released as an offensive or defensive measure to repulse or stun enemies, though this can backfire and send Life on Mars flying away if used at a low enough gravity setting.

Whilst unable to talk like some stands are, Life on Mars does express a reasonable measure of independent thought from Florence; specifically, it conducts itself in an extraordinarly savage manner in battle, but acts a lot like a curious child otherwise, often picking things up and carrying them around with it for no real reason and being somewhat possessive of Florence. It also gets bored easily unless Florence keeps it reigned in, which can lead to trouble.

Stats:
Destructive Power- A
Speed- B
Range- C
Durability- B
Precision- C

Digimon: The Convergence of the Human and Digital Worlds

while I pester Psych and Ob.

@RBYDark

YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO TRAIN ME

Stand Tall - Pleasant Valley Sunday

<Snipped quote by Turboshitter>

Not too strong, of course... no fun if one Rat drastically surpasses the others. That's four Boomtown Rats thus far, then. Just waiting on Oblivion.

@Captain Jenno

I mean, that one thing I PM'd you about was really the only thing I wanted to change about Florence/LoM. If that was all alright, I'll just take another look at the wording and see about sticking them up in the character tab?

Stand Tall - Pleasant Valley Sunday

Welp. Certainly hope you're feeling better now!

But anyway, now that the one significant change has been okay'd, here's my sheet:

Florence and Life on Mars

「STAND USER」

Name: Florence Squire

Age: 18

Appearance:
Florence is a reasonably tall girl at 5'10", with blue eyes and medium-length red hair usually kept in a ponytail; it'd be hard to call her 'slender', but she's fairly lean and keeps herself in fairly athletic shape besides. Her dress code is unisex, though she generally goes for less feminine clothing outside of special occasions; most of the time, she's wearing jeans with a jacket over a short-sleeved t-shirt. When moving around at night or during cold days, she wears a well-worn black overcoat.

Personality Summary:

To external appearances, Florence seems a perfectly ordinary young woman, if a little on the reserved side. Compared to many of the other members of the 'Stand Community', she's something of a bastion of normality; one of the few sane and normal individuals amongst a disconnected gaggle of weirdos, psychopaths and tryhards. Her personality is a mixture of the everyday; cynical yet essentially good-natured, somewhat sardonic and yet welcoming, firm yet friendly.

The truth, however, is that she fits better into the Stand Community than it may seem. Her behaviour, whilst not entirely disingenuous, masks a rather ruthless true nature formed by difficult formative years. She is more than willing to take morally questionable actions and twist the truth for her own benefit, and whilst it remains a stretch to call her malicious the fact remains that she is far more twisted and cunning than she presents herself most of the time. Much of this facet of her personality is based around a desire to live a quiet, orderly life; she doesn't outright resent the abnormal and unusual, and appreciates the abilities her Stand grants her (whilst maintaining rather affable and offbeat interactions with it), she's largely kept the rest of the Stand Community at arm's length and has made it perfectly clear what she'll do to maintain her existence.

In short; whilst Florence isn't strictly an unpleasant person deep down, her outward persona belies how ruthless she can be, whilst her desire for a quiet life makes her interactions with other Stand Users something of a crapshoot.

Short Biography:
Florence's life before she came to Pleasant Valley was a fairly difficult one; her parents divorced at an early age, her mother gaining custody of her and not having a whole lot to do with her ex-husband outside of the occasional visit and child support. It wasn't a life filled with tragedy, but it wasn't entirely the most functional one; besides the shaky financial situation they were in, her mother was estranged from her family and often acted strangely, seemingly talking to herself. Because of this, Florence became relatively self-sufficient at an early age.

However, around the beginning of her last year in elementary school, her mother contracted pneumonia, later dying due to complications after she wasn't able to obtain medical attention quickly enough. As of this, she went to live with her father, who had fallen on difficult times and taken up alcohol, in another city; and it was around this time that the stress and grief of her situation caused mysterious phenomena to manifest around her. Eventually, her father decided it would be best to move out of the city; besides his own problems, it was clear that Florence wasn't happy there, and Florence almost being injured or worse in a major accident at the time helped to twist his arm in the matter, convincing him to head for a safer environment. Unbeknownst to him, Florence hadn't been in any real physical danger; whilst he'd have no way of knowing, by this point she had a strange being guarding her, a strange being in a spacesuit that only she could see.

So they ended up moving to Pleasant Valley; her mother's family had come from Pleasant Valley originally, and whilst she'd been estranged from her parents, her younger brother, similarly distanced from them, reached out to Florence and her father after his parents passed on, contacting them shortly after the accident and offering to temporarily support the two financially if they moved to Pleasant Valley. So shortly before she began her first year of middle school, they packed their bags and left for the coastal town. Things changed much for the better; her father was finally able to get his life together in their new home, and the town was a far less intense environment than what she'd been subjected to before. On top of that, she was better able to understand the situation she was in with her strange astronaut friend; she saw similar beings around the city, and it wasn't long until it emerged that they had a name- Stands.

She's changed a fair bit between then and now; whilst there were bumps along the way and she's still somewhat reserved, she's definitely come out of her emotional shell, and now that she's started her final year in High School, she seems to be working hard for the future. Whilst awareness of the dangerous nature of Stands has lead her to keep a small distance between herself and the rest of the Stand Community over the years, practicing privately and doing her best to keep her Stand on a tight leash, the recent incidents and the threat they represent have convinced her to at least seek out the Boomtown Rats.

Namesakes: Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence and the Machine, and Chris Squire, bassist and founding member of Yes.

「STAND」

Name: Life on Mars

Description of Appearance:
Life on Mars is a humanoid stand, standing at roughly 6'7" and chiefly resembling an astronaut in a spacesuit with a dark red body. The secondary colour of the Stand is blue, comprising the specific structures and details appropriate of a spacesuit, as well as the sun visor and a series of pipe-like structures emerging from its back. The sun visor itself has a pair of burning red eyes visible from behind the blue, as well as a red Mars Symbol carved in-between them. The final detail is a blue cap on top of it's red helmet, resembling one that a ship's captain would wear.

Stand Ability:
Life on Mars has the ability to control gravity within a ten-meter radius of itself. Rather than a passive ability, it is activated and de-activated at will; the default setting for the gravity within that radius upon initial activation is just over a third of Earth's regular gravity, roughly equal to the gravity on Mars. The specific range of the ability allows it to adjust gravity to anywhere between Earth's value and a value of zero; with enemies and their Stands becoming subject to Earth's gravity again the moment they leave the area of effect. A secondary ability of Life on Mars is to automatically adapt to the gravitational changes; whilst enemies and their Stands may become disorientated or have their functions interrupted, Life on Mars will automatically adapt to the changed gravity. To be able to move unhindered in lower gravity settings, however, it must use the pipe-like structures integrated into its body to navigate; using them to direct and discharge air that Life on Mars has sucked into its body and compressed in order to move about. This compressed air can also be released as an offensive or defensive measure to repulse or stun enemies, though this can backfire and send Life on Mars flying away if used at a low enough gravity setting.

Whilst unable to talk like some stands are, Life on Mars does express a reasonable measure of independent thought from Florence; specifically, it conducts itself in an extraordinarly savage manner in battle, but acts a lot like a curious child otherwise, often picking things up and carrying them around with it for no real reason and being somewhat possessive of Florence. It also gets bored easily unless its user keeps it reigned in, which can lead to trouble.

Stats:
Destructive Power- A
Speed- B
Range- C
Durability- B
Precision- C

Stand Tall - Pleasant Valley Sunday

Well, I'm all in for round two. I'll have my sheet up sometime today or tomorrow, just want a little bit of time to check back over the old one and fine-tune as necessary.

In the meantime, here's a little something special for whoever hasn't seen it.

Digimon: The Convergence of the Human and Digital Worlds

Good job, Drac. Here's hoping tax and the daily grind treats you better than the last few years have?

Also, if literally anyone could post something, that would be nice. I know me and Vo are being slow with the next bit of our collab, but there should really have been one or two posts in the space of time between now and then.

Digimon: The Convergence of the Human and Digital Worlds

Yeah, for the most part we just appreciate the effort to keep us up to date on things. Take your time, man. Good luck.