JewelSerket

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The historian can be thought of as human wikipedia; their minds were special trained to memorize and retain large swaths of information. As previously mentioned, this information primarily is composed of data related to the 21st century. The memory of a historian is vital to the survival of a team, as they hold the knowledge of future financial history, how events play out historical, and potential host candidates. Most importantly historians can relay complex messages sent from the director to the team. For example, a historian would be able to remember the sports betting results of horse racing, dog racing, boxing, etc, along with knowledge of trends in the stockmarket as. The knowledge of potential host candidates will allow the historian's team to know the arrival of incoming travelers if needed. Lastly, a historian will better assist their team in planning operations with their detailed knowledge of how certain events play out.

As the timeline is altered by the choices of the traveler team, the historian's knowledge will eventually become obsolete, this is where the concept of an update comes into play. Simply, an update is a personal event for the historian where they subjected to a refresh in their historical knowledge for the changes in the timeline. The update isn't particularly something you should worry about until the end of the first mission so it would be better if I were to explain to you in better detail then if you decide to choose the historian.

@Festive

I'm sold! Historian sounds fun! May I play as the historian then? It sounds like an interesting and unique role.

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Ayy, thank you for showing interest! Which one do you think you would prefer to play the most? I can provide any further elaborate on either role if you would like.

@Festive

They both sound promising, but could you elaborate further on the historian? I think it’s the role I’m leaning towards the most.

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I have not seen the show but I would absolutely be down to play either the healer or historian roles.

Avatar: The White Jade Gambit

You've heard of the term "Dancing Flame", haven't you?

_{"Bury me with books. Bury me with song. Don't you dare to bury me in silence."}

_NAME

Zhang Xi

_AGE

22

_BIRTHPLACE

The Fire Islands, specifically Jonduri

_ELEMENT

Fire

_{APPEARANCE DETAILS}

Zhang Xie is a tall, fit woman. She makes a habit of binding her chest, due to the comfort of being used to it from repeated performances of flat-chested characters (usually men). Her hair is long and black, though it has been tied back into a tight, braided bun. The bun is braided with red and golden beads. Her eyes are a brilliant orange, flickering with an almost spiteful excitement for life. Scars litter her body, namely around her back, shoulders, and arms. They range from slashing to burn scars. Zhang Xie keeps herself clean when possible, to an almost obsessive degree. Her clothes are usually adorned with black stripes or checkerboard-like patterns, though she has some nice clothes to fit in with higher-class company. She prefers patterns to plain clothes that she would call 'boring' and 'lacking character'. Zhang Xie's main clothing color matches the red of her kingdom. She wears sharp eyeliner but wears little other makeup unless she is performing. Zhang Xie keeps a cart of various costumes and knickknacks from her life as a performer. That is why she wears an oversized backpack adorned with her artistic novelties.

_PERSONALITY

Zhang Xie is a persistent woman with the desire to succeed above all else, often to the point of self-detriment. Her whole life was spent in the competitive world of performance and it has drastically altered how she views the world. She will do anything if it means that she can put on a successful performance. This has, in the past, caused significant damage to her body due to the level of risk she has taken with her acrobatic feats. Thus the scars that litter her nimble frame. Her hotheaded desire for success has led to numerous stupid decisions, often to the detriment of her more popular brother. Her urge for success affects her combat expertise as well. While she is not the most well-trained warrior, a life of travel meant that Zhang Xie's parents taught her how to stand up against muggers and the like. Zhang Xie is not afraid to fight dirty for the sake of winning. Not to mention how Zhang Xie often acts before she thinks. It has led to a variety of sticky situations, but none quite like how she took the opportunity to run away from her family, take to pirating for a short time, then attempt to find the avatar. These rash decisions make Zhang Xie come off as brash and reckless, which is not entirely inaccurate.

Another effect of Zhang Xie's theatrical youth is how she views her culture. Zhang Xie's entire life has revolved around it and she places a lot of self-worth in the words of the past. She has seen how the Earth Nation has destroyed cultural identity and ended the lives of hundreds of storytellers and it scares her. Because of this, Zhang Xie has a distrust for earthbenders. She wants to end the war, though she is unsure of a way to help, save for attempting to raise morale. That is until she saw the beams of light signifying the avatar's awakening. Zhang Xie is loyal, though it takes a lot to earn that loyalty. Her mother often teased her for caring more about the classics than for the lives of others. Her mother was not entirely wrong.

The biggest effect of Zhang Xie's childhood is that she spent it living under the names and shadows of legendary figures. Zhang Xie's entire life has been spent pretending to be the story characters. It has resulted in a desire to be legendary herself. At first, she thought this would be done by becoming famous. Her brother is a decently popular actor and many would say they would remember his name when he died. Zhang Xie was a lot less fortunate, as are most performers. However, Zhang Xie's thinking changed the moment she saw those streaks of light. She now yearns to become part of the legends herself, even if only a small part. Part of that desire comes from a sort of spiteful jealousy to gain status over her brother. Part of it comes from the sort of naivete that one who has never experienced a world outside of her own. Most of it comes from a fear of being forgotten.

Zhang Xie has a level of naivete to her that comes from her sheltered living. She never had a chance to learn how others lived because she never lived in the same place for longer than a few weeks. It's also given her a sense of wanderlust. She craves connection but does not know how to maintain it.

_BIOGRAPHY

Zhang Xie was born on the Fire Islands, specifically within the city of Jonduri. She is the child of the Zhang family, a family of traveling performers. It was no surprise that Zhang Xie was carted away from Jonduri within a few weeks of her birth. She lays no claim to a particular homeland, save for the Fire Nation as a whole. The closest thing she could call home was her family's traveling caravan.

Training began at the age of five. Some call that too early, but the Zhang family insists on teaching from a young age. Their performance, a mixture of opera, folk theatre, and acrobatic delights, involves much physical prowess. Zhang Xie was pushed to learn more. Do better. All the while, she competed with her brother, Zhang Ping, for the spotlight. The two were in a constant battle for their parent's affection. Such affection was only given if the children were improving their skills.

Unfortunately for Zhang Xie, her brother often won the proverbial battles. He was a natural. Zhang Xie's brash decisions and propensity for improvisation earned her much ire from her traveling company. That ire worsened throughout the war. The Zhang family made it their goal to bring up the morale of their people. They focused on performances that would light a fighting spirit within the hearts of the Fire Nation. That meant that the family became much more strict and less tolerant of Zhang Xie's foolish decisions.

A sort of loneliness blossomed in Zhang Xie. She became more competitive to counteract her family taking away her higher-level roles. Every opportunity to move up was taken, even if it meant driving a rift through her already rocky familial relationships. It was difficult for Zhang Xie to make friends, though she often desired them. The Zhang family never stayed in one place long enough to allow for that. A desire for people to care built up inside of her. A desire to be remembered.

Zhang Xie's reckless choices reached a breaking point several months before the avatar awoke. She had been performing a particularly dangerous stunt involving a staged battle with Zhang Ping. Her adrenaline kicked in and she made a poor choice that resulted in both her and Zhang Ping getting hurt. The two got in a fight which ended with Zhang Ping calling her a disgrace to the family and a danger to herself and others. Zhang Xie knew he was right and gave up. She tended to her wounds while her family took care of Zhang Ping.

That same night, Zhang Xie decided to set out on her own. It did not matter to her where she went, as long as it was away. She took a bag and boarded any ship that would take her, which turned out to be a pirate ship. The pirates were taking advantage of the war, charging absurd prices to bring goods from the Fire Nation to the Earth Nation and vice versa. They kept her around for her ability to entertain. It was a decent deal, though she was not a fan of the pirate life. When Zhang Xie saw the lights appear in the sky, she realized there was more she could do with her life. Nothing would make her more legendary than finding the avatar. As luck would have it, the pirates were stopping in a small, Earth Nation fishing village to do their illicit trade. Zhang Xie left the ship, arriving in the town three days after the lights appeared.

_TRIVIA

• Zhang Xie's performance style is heavily based on two main things: Chinese Folk Opera (Nanxi) and Japanese Kabuki Theatre.
• Zhang Xie's outfit is inspired by the gaudy costumes of Kabuki theatre and her hair is inspired by the ornate headdresses of Nanxi.
• Zhang Xie is a sucker for seafood. She loves octopus balls the most. In a way, seafood connects her to the many port cities her family traveled to for performance.
• Zhang Xie is fascinated with centipedes, spiders, and anything with an abnormal amount of legs.

@Achronum, I adjusted her sheet a bit to give a more reasonable time frame for her arrival in the Earth Nation! The big change is at the end of her biography, though her description has slightly changed as well to reflect the changes.

Avatar: The White Jade Gambit

You've heard of the term "Dancing Flame", haven't you?

_{"Bury me with books. Bury me with song. Don't you dare to bury me in silence."}

_NAME

Zhang Xi

_AGE

22

_BIRTHPLACE

The Fire Islands, specifically Jonduri

_ELEMENT

Fire

_{APPEARANCE DETAILS}

Zhang Xie is a tall, fit woman. She makes a habit of binding her chest, due to the comfort of being used to it from repeated performances of flat-chested characters (usually men). Her hair is long and black, though it has been tied back into a tight, braided bun. The bun is braided with red and golden beads. Her eyes are a brilliant orange, flickering with an almost spiteful excitement for life. Scars litter her body, namely around her back, shoulders, and arms. They rang from slashing to burn scars. Zhang Xie keeps herself clean when possible, to an almost obsessive degree. Her clothes are usually adorned with black stripes or checkerboard-like patterns, though she has some nice clothes to fit in with higher-class company. She prefers patterns to plain clothes that she would call 'boring' and 'lacking character'. Zhang Xie's main clothing color matches the red of her kingdom. She wears sharp eyeliner but wears little other makeup unless she is performing. Zhang Xie keeps a cart of various costumes and knickknacks from her life as a performer. That is why she can afford a small, leather bag she wears over her shoulder.

_PERSONALITY

Zhang Xie is a persistent woman with the desire to succeed above all else, often to the point of self-detriment. Her whole life was spent in the competitive world of performance and it has drastically altered how she views the world. She will do anything if it means that she can put on a successful performance. This has, in the past, caused significant damage to her body due to the level of risk she has taken with her acrobatic feats. Thus the scars that litter her nimble frame. Her hotheaded desire for success has led to numerous stupid decisions, often to the detriment of her more popular brother. Her urge for success affects her combat expertise as well. While she is not the most well-trained warrior, a life of travel meant that Zhang Xie's parents taught her how to stand up against muggers and the like. Zhang Xie is not afraid to fight dirty for the sake of winning. Not to mention how Zhang Xie often acts before she thinks. It has led to a variety of sticky situations, but none quite like how she took the opportunity to steal a cart from home, run away, then attempt to find the avatar.. These rash decisions make Zhang Xie come off as brash and reckless, which is not entirely inaccurate.

Another effect of Zhang Xie's theatrical youth is how she views her culture. Zhang Xie's entire life has revolved around it and she places a lot of self-worth in the words of the past. She has seen how the Earth Nation has destroyed cultural identity and ended the lives of hundreds of storytellers and it scares her. Because of this, Zhang Xie has a distrust for earthbenders. She wants to end the war, though she is unsure of a way to help, save for attempting to raise morale. That is until she saw the beams of light signifying the avatar's awakening. Zhang Xie is loyal, though it takes a lot to earn that loyalty. Her mother often teased her for caring more about the classics than for the lives of others. Her mother was not entirely wrong.

The biggest effect of Zhang Xie's childhood is that she spent it living under the names and shadows of legendary figures. Zhang Xie's entire life has been spent pretending to be the story characters. It has resulted in a desire to be legendary herself. At first, she thought this would be done by becoming famous. Her brother is a decently popular actor and many would say they would remember his name when he died. Zhang Xie was a lot less fortunate, as are most performers. However, Zhang Xie's thinking changed the moment she saw those streaks of light. She now yearns to become part of the legends herself, even if only a small part. Part of that desire comes from a sort of spiteful jealousy to gain status over her brother. Part of it comes from the sort of naivete that one who has never experienced a world outside of her own. Most of it comes from a fear of being forgotten.

Zhang Xie has a level of naivete to her that comes from her sheltered living. She never had a chance to learn how others lived because she never lived in the same place for longer than a few weeks. It's also given her a sense of wanderlust. She craves connection but does not know how to maintain it.

_BIOGRAPHY

Zhang Xie was born on the Fire Islands, specifically within the city of Jonduri. She is the child of the Zhang family, a family of traveling performers. It was no surprise that Zhang Xie was carted away from Jonduri within a few weeks of her birth. She lays no claim to a particular homeland, save for the Fire Nation as a whole. The closest thing she could call home was her family's traveling caravan.

Training began at the age of five. Some call that too early, but the Zhang family insists on teaching from a young age. Their performance, a mixture of opera, folk theatre, and acrobatic delights, involves much physical prowess. Zhang Xie was pushed to learn more. Do better. All the while, she competed with her brother, Zhang Ping, for the spotlight. The two were in a constant battle for their parent's affection. Such affection was only given if the children were improving their skills.

Unfortunately for Zhang Xie, her brother often won the proverbial battles. He was a natural. Zhang Xie's brash decisions and propensity for improvisation earned her much ire from her traveling company. That ire worsened throughout the war. The Zhang family made it their goal to bring up the morale of their people. They focused on performances that would light a fighting spirit within the hearts of the Fire Nation. That meant that the family became much more strict and less tolerant of Zhang Xie's foolish decisions.

A sort of loneliness blossomed in Zhang Xie. She became more competitive to counteract her family taking away her higher-level roles. Every opportunity to move up was taken, even if it meant driving a rift through her already rocky familial relationships. It was difficult for Zhang Xie to make friends, though she often desired them. The Zhang family never stayed in one place long enough to allow for that. A desire for people to care built up inside of her. A desire to be remembered.

Zhang Xie's reckless choices reached a breaking point several days before the avatar awoke. She had been performing a particularly dangerous stunt involving a staged battle with Zhang Ping. Her adrenaline kicked in and she made a poor choice that resulted in both her and Zhang Ping getting hurt. The two got in a fight which ended with Zhang Ping calling her a disgrace to the family and a danger to herself and others. Zhang Xie knew he was right and gave up. She tended to her wounds while her family took care of Zhang Ping.

That same night, Zhang Xie decided to set out on her own. Where she would go, she did not know. She took a small cart and ox, then paid to get on a boat and go wherever it would take her. Several days after that, the lights appeared in the sky. In need of a new purpose in life and realizing that finding the avatar would put her in the history books, Zhang Xie set sail for the Earth Nation, landing in a small fishing village in the south.

_TRIVIA

• Zhang Xie's performance style is heavily based on two main things: Chinese Folk Opera (Nanxi) and Japanese Kabuki Theatre.
• Zhang Xie's outfit is inspired by the gaudy costumes of Kabuki theatre and her hair is inspired by the ornate headdresses of Nanxi.
• Zhang Xie is a sucker for seafood. She loves octopus balls the most. In a way, seafood connects her to the many port cities her family traveled to for performance.
• Zhang Xie has a fascination with centipedes, spiders, and anything with an abnormal amount of legs.

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Is this scenario with your character in their homeland of the Fire Nation? 'Cause you'd have to consider how they got from the Fire Nation to the Earth Kingdom, unless maybe she already lived in a Fire Nation settlement in the Earth Kingdom. And if she was already there, the Fire Nation was attacked a year ago and every non-Earthbender has essentially gone into hiding since as any non-Earthbenders have gotten arrested and shipped away. I also seemed to have missed your character's thoughts on the war affecting her homeland.

@Hero

She would have definitely been born in the Fire Nation, though I could see her having toured with her family out of the nation. May I ask generally where I should expect her to be from the start of the rp? That way I could work from there as to how she got there.

As for her thoughts on the war effecting her homeland, she fears the loss of her culture. She believes that the Earth Nation's takeover is going to wipe out the culture of her people.

Rain World: Dying God, Four Drops of Poison (Looking for players)

@Dragonfly 9 You're alright! Life gets busy sometimes. Let me know if you need any help with the CS!

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@JewelSerket okie dokie, your turn!

1 - This is sadly unplayable unless you could justify this character going with the team right out the bat. We aren't planning on running opposing player factions in this so you won't have the opportunity to develop that realization IC.

2 - This is more possible but unfortunately, the players need to join The Rebellion - a group dedicated to bringing down King Wei and putting the Earth Kongdom back in their place. This is very at odds with the character's motivations.

3 - This is the most realistic idea but the Rebellion is small right now. War, fighting, and other aspects of this conflict are this character's primary source of income and joining the Rebellion would be a full time job, taking away their time and freedom to do so in favor of hunting the Avatar. Why would mercenaries, Bounty Hunters, and other for hire warriors are thriving in this, why give that up? Why is the pointless loss of life so important to a character who gets paid to hunt people and sometimes kill them?

@Achronum

Alright! Let me rework my thoughts a bit.

The new idea is a sort of mash up of 2 and 3. That’s mostly because I started to like the idea of a traveling performer the more I thought about it last night.

She was a fire bending traveling player (theatrical performer), trained from her youth in storytelling and acrobatic performance. However, she spent her life in the shadow of her brother, who became quite famous. It caused her to build up a resentment towards her family. When she saw the beams of light, she saw her chance to leave the nest and create a legend that would make her as famous as her brother.

Her goal would be to find the avatar, though there are several reasons for that. Firstly, finding the avatar means a sort of underdog story where the Fire and Water nations win the war. This alone would be a great legend to tell, but being one of the people who found the avatar would put her in a unique position. Not only would she be one of the people in that legend, but she’d have the unique role of having taken part in it.

Secondly, I might still grapple with that loath for a waste of life. I’m not quite sure how yet, but I think it’d be interesting for her to tackle that in conjunction with her need for an interesting story (especially since those often involve death). Though I’m not entirely sold on the idea yet.

Thirdly, she fears the Earth Nation’s takeover. She knows that it would result in her arrest. Even if it didn’t, there would be no way she’d be allowed to perform, especially with her fire bending. That would take away her life’s purpose.

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Cool! I will honestly appreciate the coaching! The OOC gave a lot of information, which was why I was fairly comfortable asking to join. I'm going to drop some character concepts I was thinking of for review.

1: Earthbending soldier, warrior, or something of the like. A man who genuinely believes in the earth bender's cause because he doesn't realize just how terrible it is. He, of course, wants to bring the avatar in under the idea that he's protecting them. And by protecting the avatar, he is protecting his people. Issues I could see with this: Mostly just interacting with other player characters. Additionally, my friend informed me that "this is just Zuko", so that may also be problematic? Its a shame because he is my favorite of the concepts, but it may be the least playable. I'm a HUGE sucker for a character realizing that what they've done is wrong, despite believing originally that it was helping.

2: A similar concept to what is above, but a little bit more playable. An earthbending, traveling performer with the intention of finding the avatar. He traveled the land of the Earth Kingdom with a company of players (theatrical performers), performing acrobatic tricks and telling tales praising the power of the Earth Kingdom. He believes that the Earth Kingdom is genuinely the best people to rule and wants to find the Avatar in order to bring them home to safety. Benefits: He's more flexible than 1 and is not actively aggressive towards other bender types. In fact, he would not mind working with them if it means finding the avatar faster. After all, he would NEVER get attached to non-earth benders (/s). Issues: I would have to research traveling performers from cultures similar to the Earth Kingdom. That isn't a big deal because I am already studied in a lot of theatrical culture. But I would want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.

3: A fire bender bounty hunter. She intends to find the avatar with the intent to use him as a weapon to win the war. At least, that's what she says on the surface. She's helped fight in the war so far, but she just wants it to be over. She sees the whole thing as an utter waste of life on both sides of the war. Benefits: Not an earth bender, so easier to interact with other characters. Also has a specific reason why she would help bring the Avatar to a place that isn't the Earth Kingdom.

Are any of these concepts acceptable?

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Howdy! I'm interested, but I know very little about avatar. I understand the basic concepts of bending but have yet to fully see the show. Would it be alright if I joined in? If so, I have three character concepts in mind.