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March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

--It's Just a Burning Memory--

The cloudy sky finally revealed its intention as droplets of water began falling down, leaving their aerial nest to be embraced by mother earth's gravitational embrace. At first, only a few brave souls took the leap, but others soon followed and what was a mere drizzle turned into a full-fledged rain. Some made landfall onto the ground, some onto leaves, some onto roofs, and then some... "...?" ...onto the pale eyelids of a young girl with bright blonde long locks, although it was difficult to tell considering her hair - and most of her body - was caked in wet mud from head to toe.

Although her corpse-like complexion might imply otherwise, she was definitely alive as the rain stirred her awake, opening those lids to reveal a pair of blank red eyes, their round pupils emptily gazing at the gloomy sky. Her mind was a proverbial void, empty and formless, even as her body moved on autopilot to stand up, she thought of nothing, the pathetic state of her sickly thin body didn't bother her, hell, she didn't seem to care that she had not a single thread on her. She didn't move, content to just let the rain pour on her, poorly washing off the mud that stubbornly clung on her wiry frame.

That was when she heard a gentle voice in her head, the soft, warm voice of an older woman, one that would make you think of hearty homemade food served in front of a crackling fireplace. "Are you awake, my child?" It was so soothing, so tender, she felt like she could listen to her forever. Yes, she knew this person, her savior, her... "Mother..." The girl whispered, then ever so steadily cracked a smile, "Yes, I'm awake."

"Good girl, now, Mother needs your help with a little something..."

---

"Read 'em and weep, boys, full house!" Tommy placed down his cards onto the coffee table, revealing his hand and announcing his undeniable victory simultaneously. By the rules of the game, he was now sixty bucks richer.

"Aaah, fuck you, Tommy." Sam slouched, pressing his back against the dining chair he's occupying, frustrated, he was now twenty bucks poorer along with the other mobsters, except for this Sicilian schmuck, Tommy.

"Yea! Wiseguy's must be cheatin'!" Paulie snarked, making his contempt clear for Tommy's - rather suspicious - winning streak, he glared at the grinning prick then turned his gaze at the last of the mob quartet, "You with me right, Giuseppe?!"

Giuseppe "the Silent" stayed true to his moniker once more as he simply shrugged, but that one shrug spoke a thousand words, particularly that Sam and Paulie were nothing more than sore losers.

"Ha! Giuseppe here knows what's up, I’m just that good," Still high on his victory, the Italian-American man gathered the cards and started shuffling them, "Another round?"

"Eh, fuck it, sur- eh...?" Sam was about to agree, but then he heard creaking noises from where the back door was, "Oh, guys, I think Vito's back."

"Fuck, about time, eh? I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." Tommy stopped shuffling the cards as he was sure that the crew wanted to enjoy those mouth-watering Papa Ron's pizzas more than playing poker right now.

"The... fuck?"

...only for the person who showed up wasn't carrying pizza boxes, nor was she Vito. It was a naked little girl who looked like she'd weigh lighter than a feather, face covered in damp blonde locks that clung to her skin, dirty feet trailing mud prints all over the floor.

All four made-men were dumbfounded, including Giuseppe, they could only watch as the tiny 'zombie' trailed over to the suitcase, the suitcase that held the documents they were supposed to exchange with a representative of their blackmail victim for some fat G's . That snapped the men out of their trance.

"Oi oi oi, lil' shit, the fuck you think you doin'?!" Tommy - being the 'one in charge' of the group - was the first who took initiative as he swaggered over to the lost hobo brat and grabbed her shoulder, at that moment, he felt chills freezing his spine as the girl suddenly snapped her gaze at him like a possessed child straight out of the Exorcist. Her wide-opened eyes were blood-red with the narrow pupils of a reptile, glinting sharp fangs peeking from between her lips, pointed ears, and most bizarrely, a pair of fuckin' branches grew out of her back. What happened next was a blur as Tommy found himself thrown through the air, unceremoniously crashing onto a wall.

"...?! BITCH!!" Sam roared as he, Paulie, and Giuseppe all pulled out their glocks and unloaded everything onto the anorexic monster. Even though she's a small target, at this distance, most of the bullets found home into the girl's flesh... only to be literally pushed out of the wounds, clattering uselessly onto the floor while the holes closed up much faster than what should've been possible.

"Mother...?"

"Punish them, Caroline dear~"

As the trembling mafioso frantically tried to reload, it was already too late for them...

..........
.....
...

Unbothered by the mutilated and singed corpses of four dead men behind her, Caroline smashed open the suitcase’s locks, revealing its content to be a file of some documents and pictures. They appeared to be evidences against a certain politician involved in human trafficking or something like that, the blonde didn't personally care. She simply held out one hand over the items as deep blue light enveloped them. When she pulled her arm back, the documents became nothing more than pieces of blank paper and the photographs showed nothing but a flat black surface, The Mother had claimed them.

"You're such a sweetie, honey~"

"Ehehe~" The girl giggled mirthfully, hearing the praise was really nice and combined with the pleasure she had from siphoning the information, she was one happy little girl.

"Breaking News. This just in, groups of masked criminals are attacking Central Penrose as we speak. All citizens, please stay indoors until authorities have dealt with the threat." The newscaster reported, his voice relayed through the television's speakers.

"Hear that, child? Be a sweetie and investigate that for me, would you? It's not too far away from where you are."

"Yes, Mom~" The petite blonde nodded gingerly once as flames enveloped her body, purging all the filth off her thin frame, then they coalesced into the shape of an outfit, forming a scarlet ragged dress with a peculiar hem as it constantly ebbed and flaked off pieces of itself much like sparks from a burning campfire. Her back-length locks styled itself into a ponytail at her left temple before a red ribbon kept them in place, formed in the same manner as her dress.

Then, she held out her left hand as tongues of flames slithered outward to merge together, forming a peculiar sword-like magic staff that was taller than its wielder. That done, Caroline flapped her crystalline branch-wings and flew out of the mobster's hideout by crashing through a window before taking to the skies, soaring toward downtown Penrose.

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March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

Note: Player resigned. Hereby expressing consent to hand over this character to the GM.

Caroline von Visceral

CAROLINE von VISCERAL

Theme

AGE:

1 (Rebirth), 12 (Physical), ??? (Before Magical Girl)

GENDER:

Female, Female (Before Magical Girl)

BODY: Underdeveloped

As far as human standards go, Caroline is positively skinny for her apparent age, tethering on being unhealthily underweight. The contours of her ribs are visible if she puffs out her chest and combined with her morbidly pale complexion and wiry limbs, the monster girl almost looks like an emaciated corpse.

APPEARANCE:

Visual References

Concept Art


With Justine

However Caroline looked before her banishment into the magical rift after her defeat against Mariette was irrelevant. She has been reshaped by the eldritch entity only known as The Mother, whether intentional or through some manifestation of her twisted bond with Justine, Caroline becomes a perverse reflection of her older sister.

Possessing the same sanguine slitted eyes and vampiric fangs, her facial structure and overall body shape are eerily identical to Justine, except Caroline is even paler and skinnier. Unlike Justine's chiropteran leather wings, Caroline possesses a pair of branch-like appendages lined with gleaming prisms that shift through various spectrums of visible light. However, when donning her human disguise, her complexion shifts into a healthy cream hue, slitted pupils become rounded, fangs retract, and crystalline wings disappear.

She stands at a tiny 130cm (4'3")

SPECIALIZATION: Logos (Oddball) & Fire

❖ Logos (Oddball): A curious form of magic exclusive to The Mother. Logos doesn't provide direct offensive, nor defensive spells. Its repertoire consists of pure utility as its primary use is to feed the Horror patron's unending desire for knowledge.

Using Logos, The Mother's Scion - Caroline - can siphon knowledge from various manner of information storage; books, hieroglyphic carvings, tapes, flash drives, SSDs are all fair game as long as the object is designed to store information. She can even siphon off a living person's brain, but the subject must be completely incapacitated first as it's a delicate process, even the slightest bit of mental resistance will disrupt it.

It's important to note that everything Caroline siphons goes directly to The Mother. Sometimes, the entity may or may not deign herself to share some of this information, most often if it means her scion can pursue her tasks better.

Therefore, the specialization's greatest benefit (or curse depending on one's perspective) to Caroline personally is that instead of providing an out-of-costume benefit, Caroline is permanently transformed in her magical girl state. Nothing short of true extermination will end it.

❖ Fire: Caroline's personal specialization that manifests after she's reborn as The Mother's Scion. The exact reasons are unknown; perhaps she always has an affinity to flame and heat, maybe it's a result of her burning obsession with Justine, or somewhere in between.

As Logos is unhelpful when it comes to direct physical confrontation, Caroline exclusively relies on this when push comes to shove. The blonde wields the flames expertly in both melee and ranged combat, swinging around her uniquely-shaped sword-staff to ignite, slice, vaporize, and burn those foolish enough to stand in her way.

WEAPON: Laevateinn - Scarlet Slaughterer

The vaguely sword-shaped object that Caroline wields, Laevateinn is named after the signature weapon of the Norse god of mischief, Loki. Just like the enigmatic deity, it's neither sword, nor staff, but instead a curious blend of both. The scarlet weapon can be used for both melee and ranged combat with equal effectiveness, whether Caroline projects a jet of plasma coating the edges to slice and dice or launches beams of searing heat, the arcane arsenal serves her well.

OUTFIT: Elaborate

Caroline's outfit is magically shaped via her mana and usually takes the form of an ever-shifting piece of ragged scarlet dress. Her back-length light blonde hair is most often styled into a sidetail with ribbons composed in the same manner as her dress. Even though her transformed state is permanent, she can dispel these magical clothes at will to wear mundane garments should she choose.

POWER: Regeneration

One of the hallmarks of her vampiric transformation by The Father, her new patron decided to keep this aspect of her power. Just like Justine, Caroline is a tough motherfucker despite her anorexic appearance. Superficial wounds are healed nigh-instantly, deep lacerations took mere seconds to close, and even severed limbs will wholly grow back within minutes. Combined with her perk of Immortality, this aspect is taken to another level as even severing her head isn't enough as she can command her body to pick it up and attach it back to her neck, although vaporizing said head will kill her.

PERKS:

❖ Dual Weapon: Laevateinn the Scarlet Slaughterer, a blend of a sword and a magic staff.
❖ Immortality: Extremely difficult to incapacitate for long through direct violent means.
❖ Blood Magic: If you're both immortal and possess a rapid healing factor, why not make the best of them and burn your life force into mana too?
❖ Coercion: However, sometimes, violence isn't the best option or simply unfeasible, then having a vampiric hypnotic gaze makes up for her lack of mundane charisma.
❖ Babel Tongue: The Mother is a keeper of cosmic knowledge, thus it's only prudent that her scion knows every language spoken by these Earthlings, including particularly intelligent animals even.

MUTATIONS:

❖ Wings: Caroline's prismatic wings aren't just for show, she can actually fly and float with them, giving a figurative middle finger to mundane laws of physics.
❖ Second Specialization: Fire, both nurturer and destroyer. It's deliciously ironic that Caroline wields the element that vampires usually fear.
❖ Broken Reincarnation: For all of her boons, The Mother isn't very adept and/or willing to part with her essence. Therefore, should Caroline find herself truly overwhelmed and killed, her rebirth into existence is a slow, arduous process, including bouts of amnesiac confusion while her memories slowly return to her.
❖ Hoarder: Like Patron, like Scion, Caroline is imbued with a primal thirst for knowledge. She has a constant urge to siphon more information using Logos and doing so brings her pleasure, a vampire that craves for knowledge instead of blood.

PATRON: Mother, Keeper of Knowledge

PATRON BENEFITS:

❖ Creeping Doom: The Mother detests revealing her hands, she prefers to pull the strings of fate from behind the curtains, manipulating both willing and unwilling actors in her endless pursuit of more knowledge.
❖ Reasonable: Unlike the emotional wreck that is The Father, Mother exemplifies pragmatic logic over irrational outbursts. Even when she sends her scion on a seemingly senseless rampage, rest assured, everything is all according to her machinations.
❖ Takes One to Know One: As the Keeper of Knowledge of the Horror entities, she instinctively knows who her kin are and she imparts this knowledge to her Scion. When Caroline encounters another servant of Horror or a monster girl, she'll recognize them as such even through disguises and be given knowledge of their bane (if any).
❖ Magical Overload: When Caroline was banished into the timeless rift, she was already a monster, a vampire, courtesy of The Father. Her new patron didn't change this when she adopted the lost girl.
❖ Retrieval: As befitting of her moniker, Mother cares for her children and she'll make sure that she'll be there to return them to her embrace if they're in mortal peril. In truth, this is simply because the entity believes it's unwise to just squander her investments, exceptional pawns such as Caroline are difficult to come by.

PATRON DRAWBACKS:

❖ Monstrous Form: Warped into a vampire along with Justine by Father, Caroline was no longer human by the time Mother found her.
❖ Mind Bent: Ever since that traumatic incident, Caroline hasn't been exactly sane. Her vampiric transformation followed by Justine's 'harsh love' certainly didn't help matters. Ironically, Mother is capable of reining her more destructive tendencies better than Justine ever could. Now, she's still rather psychotic, but one whose leash is held firm by her patron.
❖ Bane: Emphatic: If there's one thing Mother hates the most is to be exposed, for her motivations to be revealed to others, so this hatred manifests in the entity's bane against those who wields the power of empathy, said bane extends to her Scion. Spells cast from the Empathic specialization are extraordinarily effective against Caroline.
❖ Big Sister: Mother has a primal desire to know everything, see everything, hear everything, and as her Scion, there's no reason that Mother should keep her attention away from Caroline.

FIGHTING STYLE: Relentless Berserker

Attack, attack, and attack; this is what Caroline's foes should expect to face when confronting her. Due to a combination of her psychotic mind, immortality, and rapid healing factor, Caroline gives no regard to her own safety in her pursuit to destroy her enemies. Should she run out of mana, the blonde simply uses her own life force to fuel her relentless assault. However, due to The Mother's tight grip over her mind, body, and soul, she's capable of exercising restraint, going as far as being able to avoid friendly fire and work together in a team; like a mad dog under the command of an unseen beastmaster.

STATS:

❖ STR: 10 (4 (Base) +1 (Specialization) +1 (Weapon) +4 (2x Silver))
❖ AGI: 5 (4 (Base) +1 (Wings))
❖ VIT: 7 (4 (Base) +1 (Weapon) +1 (Immortality) +1 (Blood Magic))
❖ MAG: 17 (4 (Base) +1 (Body) +2 (Specialization) +3 (2nd Specialization) +1 (Weapon) +1 (Outfit) +1 (Coercion) +1 (Babel Tongue) +3 (3x Bronze))
❖ LCK: 4 (4 (Base))

STATS (Disguised):

❖ STR: 3 (3 (Base))
❖ AGI: 3 (3 (Base))
❖ VIT: 3 (3 (Base))
❖ MAG: 4 (3 (Base +1 (Body))
❖ LCK: 3 (3 (Base))

BIOGRAPHY:

Personality

A veritable loose cannon, Caroline is the tragic result of an innocent young girl stricken by trauma, unwillingly transformed into a vampire, and then physically and emotionally abused by her older sister. Justine might've only the best of intentions to cure her little sister, but her means of doing so certainly left a lot to be desired as instead of shaping Caroline to be better, it made her worse instead, much worse. Perhaps things would've gone better had Justine had more wisdom and life experience, but it could also be argued that they passed the point of no return when the Sinner of Lust accepted the pact with Father and what happened afterwards was merely a foregone conclusion.

Some may say that it's Mother's fault that she turns out like this, but they can't be further from the truth. The Mother did nothing to change Caroline's mind, she just found a broken, shattered shell of a young girl floating in the void and rescued her, piecing her back together so she may serve her purpose. How Caroline is now is all on Justine and Father's hands, but it's not like she can remember them anyway... right?

Now having lost most of her memories and under the strict watch of her new patron, new paths open for the younger von Visceral, whether they'll lead to her salvation or oblivion remain to be seen...

History

Everything that had transpired before her defeat at Mariette’s hands and subsequent banishment had been lost to the void. Stuck in a rift, a realm between realms where the established rules of time and space ceased to have meaning. At first, she tried to escape, but that proved to be an exercise in futility. Then, she wished for oblivion, but couldn't terminate herself. Realizing that she's stuck in a fate worse than death, the vampire's mind cracked further and further, whatever remained of the once-human girl was gone, replaced by pure hatred, particularly for Justine, her own older sister whom she once loved with all her heart. It's her fault, all this time, she had been nothing more than the girl's plaything for her demented sense of affection! Once she gets out of here... she would kill her, slowly, make her feel all the pain and suffering she had to endure.

...but after an eternity of imprisonment, that hatred too, gradually faded into nothing. Nothing mattered anymore as eventually, Caroline stopped thinking.

That was when her presence took the attention of a cosmic entity, few - if any - knew her true name, but she identifies herself as "Mother" in mortal speech. The Keeper of Knowledge embraced this shattered shell of a monster girl, then in all of its eldritch wisdom, decided to piece back whatever remained together while filling in what had been forever lost. The result was Caroline von Visceral, Scion of the Knowledge Keeper.

Now effectively a new individual altogether, the Keeper unleashed her Scion back into the third planet of the Sol star system, into the city of Penrose.

ADDITIONAL INFO:

❖ Color Code: dc4a49

MAGICAL COINS:

❖ 2 Silver, 3 Bronze

Mother, Keeper of Knowledge

MOTHER

Theme

TYPE: Horror

One of the innumerable eldritch entities that lies beyond the human concept of space and time. Horrors are simply a catch-all term for those beings who won't fit into any other categories. They are the eldritch abominations even to fantastical beings such as Puchuu, Lesser Forces, Deities, and Beacons. The term "there's always a bigger fish" adequately applies to these beings where even gazing at their form can drive most individuals mad. Their existence is so fundamentally different from humanity that most of them don't even bother or realize that humans exist, but not all of them, some are more curious than others, one such Horror being The Mother.

PERSONALITY:

Befitting an eldritch Horror, The Mother is beyond the mortal concept of a "personality" as she/it's not even a person, as in sapient in the way that humans can comprehend. However, for the sake of the reader's sanity, what can be glimpsed from this entity's 'personality' is her insatiable thirst to gather each and every knowledge in the multiverses, she desires to know everything. She may not be omniscient yet, but she'll never stop trying to achieve it. In pursuit of this, The Mother prefers to extend her influence in subtler ways especially as she finds lesser beings need time and effort to imprint their knowledge.

HISTORY:

Beyond the concept of chronological timeline, The Mother has and will always exist. Perhaps it's an eldritch manifestation of the concept of curiosity of the multiverse, perhaps it was birthed from another - even more ancient - Horror, or perhaps something else. No one knows for certain, perhaps except The Mother herself.

RESOURCES:

As the Keeper of Knowledge, The Mother possesses practically endless information her Scions had gathered from all over the multiverses and timelines. She's able to impart this information into her agents as she sees fit. However, she's very obsessive of her collection and does not give them away easily even to her own scions, let alone strangers, but perhaps it's for their own good as the mortal mind is so feeble compared to her infinite intellect that they'll go insane if she infuses more than a tiny drop of knowledge.

GOALS:

❖ Gather common knowledge: Low
❖ Gather secret knowledge: Medium
❖ Gather top-secret knowledge: High
❖ Bring others into the fold so they too may gather knowledge for The Mother: High

ADDITIONAL INFO:

❖ Color Code: 2c85ff

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

@Ariamis My PC and Patron are up for review!

Fingers crossed that I didn't screw up too much.

Caroline von Visceral

CAROLINE von VISCERAL

Theme

AGE:

1 (Rebirth), 12 (Physical), ??? (Before Magical Girl)

GENDER:

Female, Female (Before Magical Girl)

BODY: Underdeveloped

As far as human standards go, Caroline is positively skinny for her apparent age, tethering on being unhealthily underweight. The contours of her ribs are visible if she puffs out her chest and combined with her morbidly pale complexion and wiry limbs, the monster girl almost looks like an emaciated corpse.

APPEARANCE:

Visual References

Concept Art

However Caroline looked before her banishment into the magical rift by the Power of Love was irrelevant. She has been reshaped by the eldritch entity only known as The Mother, whether intentional or through some manifestation of her twisted bond with Justine, Caroline becomes a perverse reflection of her older sister.

Possessing the same sanguine slitted eyes and vampiric fangs, her facial structure and overall body shape are eerily identical to Justine, except Caroline is even paler and skinnier. Unlike Justine's chiropteran leather wings, Caroline possesses a pair of branch-like appendages lined with gleaming prisms that shift through various spectrums of visible light. However, when donning her human disguise, her complexion shifts into a healthy cream hue, slitted pupils become rounded, fangs retract, and crystalline wings disappear.

She stands at a tiny 130cm (4'3")

SPECIALIZATION: Logos (Oddball) & Fire

❖ Logos (Oddball): A curious form of magic exclusive to The Mother. Logos doesn't provide direct offensive, nor defensive spells. Its repertoire consists of pure utility as its primary use is to feed the Horror patron's unending desire for knowledge.

Using Logos, The Mother's Scion - Caroline - can siphon knowledge from various manner of information storage; books, hieroglyphic carvings, tapes, flash drives, SSDs are all fair game as long as the object is designed to store information. She can even siphon off a living person's brain, but the subject must be completely incapacitated first as it's a delicate process, even the slightest bit of mental resistance will disrupt it.

It's important to note that everything Caroline siphons goes directly to The Mother. Sometimes, the entity may or may not deign herself to share some of this information, most often if it means her scion can pursue her tasks better.

Therefore, the specialization's greatest benefit (or curse depending on one's perspective) to Caroline personally is that instead of providing an out-of-costume benefit, Caroline is permanently transformed in her magical girl state. Nothing short of true extermination will end it.

❖ Fire: Caroline's personal specialization that manifests after she's reborn as The Mother's Scion. The exact reasons are unknown; perhaps she always has an affinity to flame and heat, maybe it's a result of her burning obsession with Justine, or somewhere in between.

As Logos is unhelpful when it comes to direct physical confrontation, Caroline exclusively relies on this when push comes to shove. The blonde wields the flames expertly in both melee and ranged combat, swinging around her uniquely-shaped sword-staff to ignite, slice, vaporize, and burn those foolish enough to stand in her way.

WEAPON: Laevateinn - Scarlet Slaughterer

The vaguely sword-shaped object that Caroline wields, Laevateinn is named after the signature weapon of the Norse god of mischief, Loki. Just like the enigmatic deity, it's neither sword, nor staff, but instead a curious blend of both. The scarlet weapon can be used for both melee and ranged combat with equal effectiveness, whether Caroline projects a jet of plasma coating the edges to slice and dice or launches beams of searing heat, the arcane arsenal serves her well.

OUTFIT: Elaborate

Caroline's outfit is magically shaped via her mana and usually takes the form of an ever-shifting piece of ragged scarlet dress. Her back-length light blonde hair is most often styled into a sidetail with ribbons composed in the same manner as her dress. Even though her transformed state is permanent, she can dispel these magical clothes at will to wear mundane garments should she choose.

POWER: Regeneration

One of the hallmarks of her vampiric transformation by The Father, her new patron decided to keep this aspect of her power. Just like Justine, Caroline is a tough motherfucker despite her anorexic appearance. Superficial wounds are healed nigh-instantly, deep lacerations took mere minutes to close, and even severed limbs will wholly grow back given enough time. Combined with her perk of Immortality, this aspect is taken to another level as even severing her head isn't enough as she can command her body to pick it up and attach it back to her neck, although vaporizing said head will kill her.

PERKS:

❖ Dual Weapon: Laevateinn the Scarlet Slaughterer, a blend of a sword and a magic staff.
❖ Immortality: Extremely difficult to incapacitate for long through direct violent means.
❖ Blood Magic: If you're both immortal and possess a rapid healing factor, why not make the best of them and burn your life force into mana too?
❖ Coercion: However, sometimes, violence isn't the best option or simply unfeasible, then having a vampiric hypnotic gaze makes up for her lack of mundane charisma.
❖ Babel Tongue: The Mother is a keeper of cosmic knowledge, thus it's only prudent that her scion knows every language spoken by these Earthlings, including particularly intelligent animals even.

MUTATIONS:

❖ Wings: Caroline's prismatic wings aren't just for show, she can actually fly and float with them, giving a figurative middle finger to mundane laws of physics.
❖ Second Specialization: Fire, both nurturer and destroyer. It's deliciously ironic that Caroline wields the element that vampires usually fear.
❖ Broken Reincarnation: For all of her boons, The Mother isn't very adept and/or willing to part with her essence. Therefore, should Caroline find herself truly overwhelmed and killed, her rebirth into existence is a slow, arduous process, including bouts of amnesiac confusion while her memories slowly return to her.
❖ Hoarder: Like Patron, like Scion, Caroline is imbued with a primal thirst for knowledge. She has a constant urge to siphon more information using Logos and doing so brings her pleasure, a vampire that craves for knowledge instead of blood.

PATRON: Mother, Keeper of Knowledge

PATRON BENEFITS:

❖ Creeping Doom: The Mother detests revealing her hands, she prefers to pull the strings of fate from behind the curtains, manipulating both willing and unwilling actors in her endless pursuit of more knowledge.
❖ Reasonable: Unlike the emotional wreck that is The Father, Mother exemplifies pragmatic logic over irrational outbursts. Even when she sends her scion on a seemingly senseless rampage, rest assured, everything is all according to her machinations.
❖ Takes One to Know One: As the Keeper of Knowledge of the Horror entities, she instinctively knows who her kin are and she imparts this knowledge to her Scion. When Caroline encounters another servant of Horror or a monster girl, she'll recognize them as such even through disguises and be given knowledge of their bane (if any).
❖ Magical Overload: When Caroline was banished into the timeless rift, she was already a monster, a vampire, courtesy of The Father. Her new patron didn't change this when she adopted the lost girl.
❖ Retrieval: As befitting of her moniker, Mother cares for her children and she'll make sure that she'll be there to return them to her embrace if they're in mortal peril. In truth, this is simply because the entity believes it's unwise to just squander her investments, exceptional pawns such as Caroline are difficult to come by.

PATRON DRAWBACKS:

❖ Monstrous Form: Warped into a vampire along with Justine by Father, Caroline was no longer human by the time Mother found her.
❖ Mind Bent: Ever since that traumatic incident, Caroline hasn't been exactly sane. Her vampiric transformation followed by Justine's 'harsh love' certainly didn't help matters. Ironically, Mother is capable of reining her more destructive tendencies better than Justine ever could. Now, she's still rather psychotic, but one whose leash is held firm by her patron.
❖ Bane: Emphatic: If there's one thing Mother hates the most is to be exposed, for her motivations to be revealed to others, so this hatred manifests in the entity's bane against those who wields the power of empathy, said bane extends to her Scion. Spells cast from the Empathic specialization are extraordinarily effective against Caroline.
❖ Big Sister: Mother has a primal desire to know everything, see everything, hear everything, and as her Scion, there's no reason that Mother should keep her attention away from Caroline.

FIGHTING STYLE: Relentless Berserker

Attack, attack, and attack; this is what Caroline's foes should expect to face when confronting her. Due to a combination of her psychotic mind, immortality, and rapid healing factor, Caroline gives no regard to her own safety in her pursuit to destroy her enemies. Should she run out of mana, the blonde simply uses her own life force to fuel her relentless assault. However, due to The Mother's tight grip over her mind, body, and soul, she's capable of exercising restraint, going as far as being able to avoid friendly fire and work together in a team; like a mad dog under the command of an unseen beastmaster.

STATS:

❖ STR: 10 (4 (Base) +1 (Specialization) +1 (Weapon) +4 (2x Silver))
❖ AGI: 5 (4 (Base) +1 (Wings))
❖ VIT: 7 (4 (Base) +1 (Weapon) +1 (Immortality) +1 (Blood Magic))
❖ MAG: 17 (4 (Base) +1 (Body) +2 (Specialization) +3 (2nd Specialization) +1 (Weapon) +1 (Outfit) +1 (Coercion) +1 (Babel Tongue) +3 (3x Bronze))
❖ LCK: 4 (4 (Base))

STATS (Disguised):

❖ STR: 3 (3 (Base))
❖ AGI: 3 (3 (Base))
❖ VIT: 3 (3 (Base))
❖ MAG: 4 (3 (Base +1 (Body))
❖ LCK: 3 (3 (Base))

BIOGRAPHY:

Personality

A veritable loose cannon, Caroline is the tragic result of an innocent young girl stricken by trauma, unwillingly transformed into a vampire, and then physically and emotionally abused by her older sister. Justine might've only the best of intentions to cure her little sister, but her means of doing so certainly left a lot to be desired as instead of shaping Caroline to be better, it made her worse instead, much worse. Perhaps things would've gone better had Justine had more wisdom and life experience, but it could also be argued that they passed the point of no return when the Sinner of Lust accepted the pact with Father and what happened afterwards was merely a foregone conclusion.

Some may say that it's Mother's fault that she turns out like this, but they can't be further from the truth. The Mother did nothing to change Caroline's mind, she just found a broken, shattered shell of a young girl floating in the void and rescued her, piecing her back together so she may serve her purpose. How Caroline is now is all on Justine and Father's hands, but it's not like she can remember them anyway... right?

Now having lost most of her memories and under the strict watch of her new patron, new paths open for the younger von Visceral, whether they'll lead to her salvation or oblivion remain to be seen...

History

Everything that had transpired before her defeat and banishment had been lost to the void. Stuck in a rift, a realm between realms where the established rules of time and space ceased to have meaning. At first, she tried to escape, but that proved to be an exercise in futility. Then, she wished for oblivion, but couldn't terminate herself. Realizing that she's stuck in a fate worse than death, the vampire's mind cracked further and further, whatever remained of the once-human girl was gone, replaced by pure hatred, particularly for Justine, her own older sister whom she once loved with all her heart. It's her fault, all this time, she had been nothing more than the girl's plaything for her demented sense of affection! Once she gets out of here... she would kill her, slowly, make her feel all the pain and suffering she had to endure.

...but after an eternity of imprisonment, that hatred too, gradually faded into nothing. Nothing mattered anymore as eventually, Caroline stopped thinking.

That was when her presence took the attention of a cosmic entity, few - if any - knew her true name, but she identifies herself as "Mother" in mortal speech. The Keeper of Knowledge embraced this shattered shell of a monster girl, then in all of its eldritch wisdom, decided to piece back whatever remained together while filling in what had been forever lost. The result was Caroline von Visceral, Scion of the Knowledge Keeper.

Now effectively a new individual altogether, the Keeper unleashed her Scion back into the third planet of the Sol star system, into the city of Penrose.

ADDITIONAL INFO:

❖ Color Code: dc4a49

MAGICAL COINS:

❖ 2 Silver, 3 Bronze

Mother, Keeper of Knowledge

MOTHER

Theme

TYPE: Horror

One of the innumerable eldritch entities that lies beyond the human concept of space and time. Horrors are simply a catch-all term for those beings who won't fit into any other categories. They are the eldritch abominations even to fantastical beings such as Puchuu, Lesser Forces, Deities, and Beacons. The term "there's always a bigger fish" adequately applies to these beings where even gazing at their form can drive most individuals mad. Their existence is so fundamentally different from humanity that most of them don't even bother or realize that humans exist, but not all of them, some are more curious than others, one such Horror being The Mother.

PERSONALITY:

Befitting an eldritch Horror, The Mother is beyond the mortal concept of a "personality" as she/it's not even a person, as in sapient in the way that humans can comprehend. However, for the sake of the reader's sanity, what can be glimpsed from this entity's 'personality' is her insatiable thirst to gather each and every knowledge in the multiverses, she desires to know everything. She may not be omniscient yet, but she'll never stop trying to achieve it. In pursuit of this, The Mother prefers to extend her influence in subtler ways especially as she finds lesser beings need time and effort to imprint their knowledge.

HISTORY:

Beyond the concept of chronological timeline, The Mother has and will always exist. Perhaps it's an eldritch manifestation of the concept of curiosity of the multiverse, perhaps it was birthed from another - even more ancient - Horror, or perhaps something else. No one knows for certain, perhaps except The Mother herself.

RESOURCES:

As the Keeper of Knowledge, The Mother possesses practically endless information her Scions had gathered from all over the multiverses and timelines. She's able to impart this information into her agents as she sees fit. However, she's very obsessive of her collection and does not give them away easily even to her own scions, let alone strangers, but perhaps it's for their own good as the mortal mind is so feeble compared to her infinite intellect that they'll go insane if she infuses more than a tiny drop of knowledge.

GOALS:

❖ Gather common knowledge: Low
❖ Gather secret knowledge: Medium
❖ Gather top-secret knowledge: High
❖ Bring others into the fold so they too may gather knowledge for The Mother: High

ADDITIONAL INFO:

❖ Color Code: 2c85ff

Grimoiric Heart

Journey to the West may have been a rough choice. It's hard to sound enlightened when you yourself... aren't :P

@McFazzer

Time to change into a new PC, maybe? :O

March of the White Rabbit: A Roll-Your-Own Magical Girl Roleplay

@Ariamis Oh damn, I distinctly remembered participating in something like this 4 years ago, but under a different title, it was “Darkest Before Dawn” I believe.

I didn’t last long due to life circumstances getting in the way of muse, but now I’m back and stumbled upon this, got deja vu, and interest piqued. Are you still taking in players?

Grimoiric Heart

I might just be spit-balling here, but what if... the reason her powers aren't quite as hilariously impressive as one might initially expect from a Mythic Grimoire is because said semi-sentient Grimoire isn't very happy about said budding god complex...? Hmmm.....

Questions for later.

@Lewascan2

OOC Reason (and one that's most important on a meta level):
-Because playing a Saitama/Ainz/Superman in play-by-post roleplay isn't fun for anyone, including myself.

IC Reason(s):
-We have established that Mythic grimoires aren't hilariously overpowered compared to the lower tiers. A single mythic can be overwhelmed by, let's say, 3 Legends (or 6 Fables) if the group knows what they're doing. Wendil can CMIIW me on this though.

-In Lumi's CS, it's hinted that Sefirot is pretty much the one inducing the god complex as it embodies the concept of angels as a whole, not just the nice, polite messenger-types, but the good yet harsh warrior types too. Being selfless beings devoted to a singular purpose (protecting humanity from the Pageless), Sefirot accepts that some sacrifices to preserve the greater whole is inevitable and that sometimes violence is the best course of action.

-Related to the previous point of angels being selfless, on the flipside, there's also Lucifer/Satan and his loyalists, which some people forget they're angels too and the Grimoire embodies all angels. How this fact relates to Lumiere remains to be seen...

Grimoiric Heart

<Snipped quote by Izurich>

Ah yes, but by what metric do we judge those worth saving? Lumi is content to use her powers only against the pageless while Camelot broadens her horizons. If she flies over two muggings that end in fatal injuries just to save one person from a pageless, then her standards of justice contribute a greater evil born from inaction :3

@Lonewolf685

Yep, that’s how her god complex slowly but gradually develops over the decades. >:3

Grimoiric Heart

Honestly, this is probably Camelot's most fatal flaw. She attempts to take on far too many responsibilities at once and ends up stretching herself too thin whenever a new unexpected one pops up (as demonstrated in her first IC fight). This is the double-edged sword to her desire to help as many people as possible. She's going to have to get used to truly relying on the strength of other people for a change.
As far as Lumiere... paranoia towards one of the Grand Ministry's most prolific agents is such a wonderful thing.

@Lewascan2

“Sometimes, you can’t save everyone, so in those circumstances, save who matters the most.” I think is a lesson that Lumiere has embraced, but Camelot balks at. Which does make sense since it’s a pragmatic way of handling the topic of saviors. Lumi used to be like Cammie too, long ago, until she learned that sometimes, trying to save two people instead of one results in both of them dying.

Camelot has that Emiya Shirou syndrome.