KaminaShades

Academy 218: Still looking for new people to join - now is the primetime.

Sorry i haven't gotten a post up in a bit, I've been busy with school/ I'll try and get one up tomorrow.

Infamous : A Retelling (Need 3 other people, casual/free)

I as well am interested.

Academy 218: Still looking for new people to join - now is the primetime.

The sea was desolate, and dare he say boring. Of course he dared, he wasn’t afraid to say it; the ocean was boring as hell after a few hours on it. Not only was he going to an entirely new school with no one he knew, he was already late getting there. Of course, maybe not knowing anyone would be a nice change of pace, and he didn’t regret his reasoning for being late. His brother had come back to town to see him off, but had ended up coming in a little late; there was no way Joey was leaving without saying goodbye to Isaac first. They played cards and stuff, like the old days, but that was long gone and now he had to look ahead, quite literally considering they were supposed to be approaching the academy soon. He kept his eyes on the horizon and leaned against the cold steel rail.

His pale blonde hair whipped in the wind, prompting him to finally pull up the hood on his red short-sleeved hoodie. He didn’t regret the short sleeves, even though it was a little chilly, but he liked the feeling of the sea spray hitting his arms. He decided he had had enough of hearing the boats engine though; he took his pair of headphones out from his pocket and after a quick untangling, placed one in each ear before hitting play. A surprisingly fitting song began to pour into his ears at a volume far too loud than was probably considered healthy. He mentally shrugged it off and started tapping the rail to the beat, staring off at the sea still. As the lyrics kicked in he started to quietly sing along to them.

“When you’re on a holiday, you can’t find the words to say…” He started, before yawning and taking to pacing the boat. He was getting restless at this point and was starting to want off the boat. He had an anxious feeling in his gut, normally he would be fine with just standing around all day on this beautiful floating haven, but the way he saw it the sooner he got to the academy the sooner he would get used to it.

He looked down to his attire, nothing deviating from his norm whatsoever, despite the occasion. The same short sleeved red hoodie covering his black X-men t-shirt. His dark blue jeans were baggy and the cuffs flopped over his red converse sneakers.

“Stylish to a fault.” He said to himself as he mimed dusting off his shoulder in a mock suave manner. His feet hit the deck loudly as he continued to pace; this was quite the ride wasn’t it? After what seemed like forever he could make out the rapidly approaching island in the distance.

“Hell yes, I’m in.” He said in his best hacker voice. As they approached the island his foot tapped against the deck and did not cease until the boat finally slowed to a stop and docked. Joey had never been happier to see dry land, he could have kissed it if he wasn’t kind of desperate to see what the academy was all about. He picked up the pace and headed off, but not before turning his head and making a finger pistol at the beach.

“I’ll be back for you later.” He charmed as he made his way to the academy, at last. He made the way to the academy in mostly silence, nothing but the backpack on his back slowing him down on the way there. He was late so he didn’t have much information or anything on the place, or where he was staying and that was what worried him most. The academy itself was awe-inspiring, but not enough so to fight off the anxious feeling that made him head into the school. As he made his way through he found himself lost already, not knowing at all which way he was going. No one ever accused him of having the best sense of direction. Eventually he found his way to some place that appeared to be a rec room or lounge, oddly enough. He hadn’t actually been expecting that, but maybe he could unwind a bit.

“So… who’s next?” He heard from across the room. He turned to face the source and was met with a woman over a foot taller than him… that was interesting. Joey still walked over and looked over the pool table.

“Next for pool? Dude, I’m down.” He had to practically crane his neck as he spoke to see her face. "Just promise not to accidentally step on me from up there."

@Mr Allen J

Academy 218: Still looking for new people to join - now is the primetime.

Joey Shepherd

Basic Information

Name:

Joey Shepherd

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

N/A

Gender:

Transgender Boy

Age:

17

Height:

5'7"

Weight:

143 lbs

Type:

New Student

Appearance

Hair Color:

Dyed Pale Blond [Originally Black]

Eye Color:

Caribbean Blue

Ethnicity:

Romani

Physical Appearance:

His pale blond shaggy hair is frequently dyed and is cut at around mid-neck level in the back and his bangs reaching an inch below his eyes, often swept to the side or held back in a hair clip. His eyes tend to have bags under them from lack of proper rest; these often cause him to look upset, even though he most often isn’t. His skin is somewhat tan from his ethnicity and luckily remains fairly free of any hugely noticeable blemishes. His facial features are soft and could be considered cute. His nose is round and a little small; his eyes are round, but hardly fully open, most often half-lidded and tired. His eyebrows are thick and remain the same natural dark black his hair used to be before he began dying it. He tends to do exercise and such in attempts to get rid of excess fat, but despite his attempts his somewhat curvaceous figure remains. Because of this, Joey tends to wear baggy clothing in attempts to hide it. He does wear a binder which makes him feel more comfortable about the whole situation. He has faint white scars running along parts of his shoulders and upper back.

Attire:

He most often wears baggy clothing, especially his bright red hoodie with short sleeves. He enjoys wearing jeans and sweatpants along with a pair of canvas sneakers. He always has a large water bottle or two on him.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

Joey tends to be sarcastic and joking. He tends to be happiest when jokes are going around, especially his own. If he has a criticism, you will hear it with his sarcastic touch and a soft chuckle or slight smile. He prides himself on having a good sense of humour, but sometimes he doesn’t know when to stop. He tends to work best with deadpan humour but isn't afraid to extend from those limits and branch out. He is the kind of guy to say “YOLO” and “swag” ironically in a mocking sense and basically goof around and make fun of things.

He tends to remain fairly calm, ranging from about mildly annoyed as his lowest most of the time. He can take a certain amount of things on for a while, from physical fights to taunting, but everyone has a breaking point. Joey has specific triggers and limits, that when broken sets him completely off. Once he is set off it takes a while to calm down the volatility that ensues. He becomes highly aggressive and will do irrational things and often times simply run away from his issues for a while, quite literally running.

If no one is around, Joey often takes to talking to himself. Sometimes he doesn’t, others he simply mutters basic things to himself, almost notifying himself of things he has thought of. Other times though he may break into a fully fledged one sided conversation with himself. There is no real psychological reasoning behind this, one might say loneliness but he has been doing it since he was little. He tries not to do it when he’s around others but sometimes he will go on little rants about things, almost to himself; he will stop if he catches himself in the midst of this though.

He tends to refrain from getting overly personal, seeming distant in that sense. He keeps to himself mostly on personal matters, but somewhat hypocritically he tends to ask about others to see if they are okay. He hates to see others suffer, especially if it is possible for him to help them out. He remains distant because he has some trust issues. It makes it hard for him to get close to people or trust them at all with personal information about himself because he doesn't know what any of them may do with it. If someone were to get close to him though, they would see him open up in a surprising manner.

While Joey loves messing with people and joking around, he does need alone time, as after awhile people become kind of draining on him. Even just some quiet time for a while is great and recharges him. If he doesn’t get this he starts to become uncharacteristically upset and impatient with others. He is rather skittish when it comes to physical touch, especially with people he doesn’t know very well. He has troubles sleeping, only ever getting a few hours of sleep a night at best.

Hobbies/Interests:

He enjoys art greatly, but mostly drawing, painting and music. He appreciates them and what they do. He also enjoys mindless entertainment and video games when he can afford the time. He also enjoys cartoons a lot and watches them when he can. He has a love for childish card games like Yu-Gi-Oh! And Pokémon and is always ready for a duel, whether you know it or not.

Skills/Talents:

He draws often and is rather good at it, with diversity in styles and able to change things up. He also enjoys writing quite a bit and often doodles little scenes from his writing. He plays the piano when he is able to as well. He takes interest in baking as well, but not regular cooking. He is pretty good at his card games, his brother having taught him everything he knew.

Prized Possession:

A black and red patterned bandanna he got from his brother. He keeps it tied to his pants or around his wrist at all times.

Quote(s):

"That joke was actually terrible... I think I need to re-evaluate my life now."

History/Bio:

His Story

Joey lived a fairly normal life at first. He was born in Spokane, Washington and grew up for his first few years as Holly Shepherd. He was a cute kid, the envy on the neighbourhood and his parents’ friends. He was really just a cute kid who could play the piano while wearing a cute dress and was the best daughter his parents could have dreamed of, but that wasn’t how he wanted to live. As he got older and started using the computer he started searching things about how he felt. He felt almost trapped, like his body was off in a way. After a lot of Googling he found that what fit best was that he was in fact transgender. He thought about it a lot, trying male pronouns and going through some different names. He found he was far happier as Joey Shepherd than he ever was as Holly Shepherd. While his parents were a little less than ecstatic over this and tried to pass it off as a phase, his brother, Isaac, was more than happy to accept him. Isaac started only referring to him as Joey and using the pronouns he preferred and was always sure to correct people who messed it up when Joey was too nervous too.

It was because of this close bond with his brother that Joey really got out of his shell and started becoming more outgoing. At school he was still going by Holly, but when he told his friends about what he would prefer they started to be warded off by it. Either they didn’t want to deal with it or they didn’t approve of it, but he kept a couple of friends. Isaac told Joey that those friends were clearly assholes and didn’t deserve a friend as cool as Joey. In their absence, Isaac stepped up and would hang out with Joey more. Even though the age gap was only two years it was surprising for his older brother to spend so much time with his younger sibling. They would play card games, watch cartoons together, and play video games when they could.

At school, Joey tended to keep off of people shit lists. Sure he liked to joke around sometimes, but he was still very much in his shell. It was only when he accidentally made an offhand remark about the wrong guy did some attention come his way, some of an unwanted variety. After classes Joey was walking through the hall and was completely blindsided by a total stereotype of a bully. He pinned Joey against a locker and started screaming every insult he could at him, even physically hitting him a few times. That’s when Joey snapped, he threw a fist and landed a hit square in the idiot’s face, but that turned out to be a horrible idea. His fist closed in on Joey’s neck and started squeezing, and in this intense moment is when Joey’s powers finally sprung up. Joey tried to scream but he suddenly felt a large build up of water in his throat and it heated quickly. In a matter of moments a blast of hot steam hit the bully in the face, which caused him to drop Joey in shock. The bully blindly swiped at Joey and almost grabbed his arm, but Joey’s arm then turned to water as if in an instant and switched back. He was able to quickly escape and ran straight the hell home.

Isaac had gone off to university and he hated bugging his parents so Joey kept the incident to himself. He often went to local lakes and rivers to practice his ability and found that he could manipulate water by moving it and even making it change states to ice and steam. It was after this that he began becoming more social to a degree and taking on more of his brother’s personality in his absence. Though he was always careful to make sure he hid this ability, he got a letter inviting him to the Academy to learn how to actually use his powers to his potential.

Family:

Allan Shepherd- Father
Barbara Shepherd- Mother
Isaac Shepherd- Older Brother

Relationships
-
Abilities

Power Class:

Super-System/ Elemental

Power:

Joey can manipulate water via moving it by sheer will of mind and even cause it to rapidly change states. He has the ability to generate water from his body and manipulate it just the same, even able to expel it out of his body powerfully. He has quicker control over water he generates himself but he can still control other sources.
He can also turn the composition of his body into water and back again. He can hold his body in roughly human shape or he can simply let it fall into a simple puddle.

Limits:

The water he generates his directly connected to his body’s water. He also can’t manipulate too much water at once or it starts to overload him and strain his powers, causing him to start ashing. He can’t redirect an entire river all at once, freeze over a lake or evaporate the ocean. He also has an area of effect that he can control things within. He has to know it’s there and it has to be within a 20 foot radius of him (for now). He cannot change the state of himself while he is in water form, so no ice or steam form.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

He needs to be able to resupply himself with that or he will dehydrate. He is also susceptible to changing states under correct circumstances, which would cause his body damages. If things get too hot his water form will start to boil and evaporate, which can cause his body some burns. On the flip side, if things get too cold his form will freeze and cause him to cease movement. This can also cause him issues so it isn’t a perfect ability. Because of the way water has affected him, he is even more conductive to electricity than the average human. If he was to be static shocked it could legitimately hurt him, based on the shock.

He has a great fear of insects, especially flying ones like wasps and bees. He can't stand being around them and can't take it upon himself to kill them most times.

Other:

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Sample Post:

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His bed was a mess as he sat amongst the many folds of the comforter and shuffled the card deck in his hand. He thought of his brother and how since he had left, things didn’t seem quite the same around any more. Things were more quiet and boring, but maybe Joey being probably the only kid whose big brother was his best friend weighed into that. As the thoughts got more pervasive he pushed them away as best he could and finished shuffling the deck and drew the top five cards.

“I summon my blue eyes up in this bitch.” Joey said to himself as he laid down the monster on the bed and pointed forwards in a mock dramatic move. “I know it’s an illegal move, but I’m the antagonist so suck it.” Yu-gi-oh used to be more fun when he had someone to play it with, at least as fun as a card game made for kids age ten could be; which for Joey, was very. His television sat atop his dresser played an old rerun of Pokémon as he continued a children’s card game by himself.

“Dude, anime on the TV and card games by myself? They weren’t kidding when they said highschool was the best time of your life.” He said to himself sarcastically as he laid another card down against his invisible opponent. “Get wrecked.” He yawned as he drew another card and laid it face down. He turned his head to face the Pikachu that was flashing brightly on the screen as he was sure he pulled off another amazing attack, damn Pokémon got predictable after awhile… but he didn’t stop loving it at all. He tossed his cards aside for the time being and watched the show.

“Pikachu, you yellow beautiful freak of nature; you better win this fight, I got money riding on this.” He leaned against his wall and smiled a bit, maybe life without his brother wouldn’t be too bad after all; that didn’t mean he was leaving his room yet though, the nostalgia washed over him from his childhood and it made him feel almost as peace. This was nice.

Academy 218: Still looking for new people to join - now is the primetime.

Alright, thanks for telling me! I fixed those issues up as of now

Academy 218: Still looking for new people to join - now is the primetime.

All right, this is my character. Please tell me if they are inadequate or if there are any changes I need to make.

Joey Shepherd

Basic Information

Name:

Joey Shepherd

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

N/A

Gender:

Transgender Boy

Age:

17

Height:

5'7"

Weight:

143 lbs

Type:

New Student

Appearance

Hair Color:

Dyed Pale Blond [Originally Black]

Eye Color:

Caribbean Blue

Ethnicity:

Romani

Physical Appearance:

His pale blond shaggy hair is frequently dyed and is cut at around mid-neck level in the back and his bangs reaching an inch below his eyes, often swept to the side or held back in a hair clip. His eyes tend to have bags under them from lack of proper rest; these often cause him to look upset, even though he most often isn’t. His skin is somewhat tan from his ethnicity and luckily remains fairly free of any hugely noticeable blemishes. His facial features are soft and could be considered cute. His nose is round and a little small; his eyes are round, but hardly fully open, most often half-lidded and tired. His eyebrows are thick and remain the same natural dark black his hair used to be before he began dying it. He tends to do exercise and such in attempts to get rid of excess fat, but despite his attempts his somewhat curvaceous figure remains. Because of this, Joey tends to wear baggy clothing in attempts to hide it. He does wear a binder which makes him feel more comfortable about the whole situation. He has faint white scars running along parts of his shoulders and upper back.

Attire:

He most often wears baggy clothing, especially his bright red hoodie with short sleeves. He enjoys wearing jeans and sweatpants along with a pair of canvas sneakers. He always has a large water bottle or two on him.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

Joey tends to be sarcastic and joking. He tends to be happiest when jokes are going around, especially his own. If he has a criticism, you will hear it with his sarcastic touch and a soft chuckle or slight smile. He prides himself on having a good sense of humour, but sometimes he doesn’t know when to stop. He tends to work best with deadpan humour but isn't afraid to extend from those limits and branch out. He is the kind of guy to say “YOLO” and “swag” ironically in a mocking sense and basically goof around and make fun of things.

He tends to remain fairly calm, ranging from about mildly annoyed as his lowest most of the time. He can take a certain amount of things on for a while, from physical fights to taunting, but everyone has a breaking point. Joey has specific triggers and limits, that when broken sets him completely off. Once he is set off it takes a while to calm down the volatility that ensues. He becomes highly aggressive and will do irrational things and often times simply run away from his issues for a while, quite literally running.

If no one is around, Joey often takes to talking to himself. Sometimes he doesn’t, others he simply mutters basic things to himself, almost notifying himself of things he has thought of. Other times though he may break into a fully fledged one sided conversation with himself. There is no real psychological reasoning behind this, one might say loneliness but he has been doing it since he was little. He tries not to do it when he’s around others but sometimes he will go on little rants about things, almost to himself; he will stop if he catches himself in the midst of this though.

He tends to refrain from getting overly personal, seeming distant in that sense. He keeps to himself mostly on personal matters, but somewhat hypocritically he tends to ask about others to see if they are okay. He hates to see others suffer, especially if it is possible for him to help them out. He remains distant because he has some trust issues. It makes it hard for him to get close to people or trust them at all with personal information about himself because he doesn't know what any of them may do with it. If someone were to get close to him though, they would see him open up in a surprising manner.

While Joey loves messing with people and joking around, he does need alone time, as after awhile people become kind of draining on him. Even just some quiet time for a while is great and recharges him. If he doesn’t get this he starts to become uncharacteristically upset and impatient with others. He is rather skittish when it comes to physical touch, especially with people he doesn’t know very well. He has troubles sleeping, only ever getting a few hours of sleep a night at best.

Hobbies/Interests:

He enjoys art greatly, but mostly drawing, painting and music. He appreciates them and what they do. He also enjoys mindless entertainment and video games when he can afford the time. He also enjoys cartoons a lot and watches them when he can. He has a love for childish card games like Yu-Gi-Oh! And Pokémon and is always ready for a duel, whether you know it or not.

Skills/Talents:

He draws often and is rather good at it, with diversity in styles and able to change things up. He also enjoys writing quite a bit and often doodles little scenes from his writing. He plays the piano when he is able to as well. He takes interest in baking as well, but not regular cooking. He is pretty good at his card games, his brother having taught him everything he knew.

Prized Possession:

A black and red patterned bandanna he got from his brother. He keeps it tied to his pants or around his wrist at all times.

Quote(s):

"That joke was actually terrible... I think I need to re-evaluate my life now."

History/Bio:

His Story

Joey lived a fairly normal life at first. He was born in Spokane, Washington and grew up for his first few years as Holly Shepherd. He was a cute kid, the envy on the neighbourhood and his parents’ friends. He was really just a cute kid who could play the piano while wearing a cute dress and was the best daughter his parents could have dreamed of, but that wasn’t how he wanted to live. As he got older and started using the computer he started searching things about how he felt. He felt almost trapped, like his body was off in a way. After a lot of Googling he found that what fit best was that he was in fact transgender. He thought about it a lot, trying male pronouns and going through some different names. He found he was far happier as Joey Shepherd than he ever was as Holly Shepherd. While his parents were a little less than ecstatic over this and tried to pass it off as a phase, his brother, Isaac, was more than happy to accept him. Isaac started only referring to him as Joey and using the pronouns he preferred and was always sure to correct people who messed it up when Joey was too nervous too.

It was because of this close bond with his brother that Joey really got out of his shell and started becoming more outgoing. At school he was still going by Holly, but when he told his friends about what he would prefer they started to be warded off by it. Either they didn’t want to deal with it or they didn’t approve of it, but he kept a couple of friends. Isaac told Joey that those friends were clearly assholes and didn’t deserve a friend as cool as Joey. In their absence, Isaac stepped up and would hang out with Joey more. Even though the age gap was only two years it was surprising for his older brother to spend so much time with his younger sibling. They would play card games, watch cartoons together, and play video games when they could.

At school, Joey tended to keep off of people shit lists. Sure he liked to joke around sometimes, but he was still very much in his shell. It was only when he accidentally made an offhand remark about the wrong guy did some attention come his way, some of an unwanted variety. After classes Joey was walking through the hall and was completely blindsided by a total stereotype of a bully. He pinned Joey against a locker and started screaming every insult he could at him, even physically hitting him a few times. That’s when Joey snapped, he threw a fist and landed a hit square in the idiot’s face, but that turned out to be a horrible idea. His fist closed in on Joey’s neck and started squeezing, and in this intense moment is when Joey’s powers finally sprung up. Joey tried to scream but he suddenly felt a large build up of water in his throat and it heated quickly. In a matter of moments a blast of hot steam hit the bully in the face, which caused him to drop Joey in shock. The bully blindly swiped at Joey and almost grabbed his arm, but Joey’s arm then turned to water as if in an instant and switched back. He was able to quickly escape and ran straight the hell home.

Isaac had gone off to university and he hated bugging his parents so Joey kept the incident to himself. He often went to local lakes and rivers to practice his ability and found that he could manipulate water by moving it and even making it change states to ice and steam. It was after this that he began becoming more social to a degree and taking on more of his brother’s personality in his absence. Though he was always careful to make sure he hid this ability, he got a letter inviting him to the Academy to learn how to actually use his powers to his potential.

Family:

Allan Shepherd- Father
Barbara Shepherd- Mother
Isaac Shepherd- Older Brother

Relationships
-
Abilities

Power Class:

Super-System/ Elemental

Power:

Joey can manipulate water via moving it by sheer will of mind and even cause it to rapidly change states. He has the ability to generate water from his body and manipulate it just the same, even able to expel it out of his body powerfully. He has quicker control over water he generates himself but he can still control other sources.
He can also turn the composition of his body into water and back again. He can hold his body in roughly human shape or he can simply let it fall into a simple puddle.

Limits:

The water he generates his directly connected to his body’s water. He also can’t manipulate too much water at once or it starts to overload him and strain his powers, causing him to start ashing. He can’t redirect an entire river all at once, freeze over a lake or evaporate the ocean. He also has an area of effect that he can control things within. He has to know it’s there and it has to be within a 20 foot radius of him (for now). He cannot change the state of himself while he is in water form, so no ice or steam form.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

He needs to be able to resupply himself with that or he will dehydrate. He is also susceptible to changing states under correct circumstances, which would cause his body damages. If things get too hot his water form will start to boil and evaporate, which can cause his body some burns. On the flip side, if things get too cold his form will freeze and cause him to cease movement. This can also cause him issues so it isn’t a perfect ability. Because of the way water has affected him, he is even more conductive to electricity than the average human. If he was to be static shocked it could legitimately hurt him, based on the shock.

He has a great fear of insects, especially flying ones like wasps and bees. He can't stand being around them and can't take it upon himself to kill them most times.

Other:

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Sample Post:

[+]

His bed was a mess as he sat amongst the many folds of the comforter and shuffled the card deck in his hand. He thought of his brother and how since he had left, things didn’t seem quite the same around any more. Things were more quiet and boring, but maybe Joey being probably the only kid whose big brother was his best friend weighed into that. As the thoughts got more pervasive he pushed them away as best he could and finished shuffling the deck and drew the top five cards.

“I summon my blue eyes up in this bitch.” Joey said to himself as he laid down the monster on the bed and pointed forwards in a mock dramatic move. “I know it’s an illegal move, but I’m the antagonist so suck it.” Yu-gi-oh used to be more fun when he had someone to play it with, at least as fun as a card game made for kids age ten could be; which for Joey, was very. His television sat atop his dresser played an old rerun of Pokémon as he continued a children’s card game by himself.

“Dude, anime on the TV and card games by myself? They weren’t kidding when they said highschool was the best time of your life.” He said to himself sarcastically as he laid another card down against his invisible opponent. “Get wrecked.” He yawned as he drew another card and laid it face down. He turned his head to face the Pikachu that was flashing brightly on the screen as he was sure he pulled off another amazing attack, damn Pokémon got predictable after awhile… but he didn’t stop loving it at all. He tossed his cards aside for the time being and watched the show.

“Pikachu, you yellow beautiful freak of nature; you better win this fight, I got money riding on this.” He leaned against his wall and smiled a bit, maybe life without his brother wouldn’t be too bad after all; that didn’t mean he was leaving his room yet though, the nostalgia washed over him from his childhood and it made him feel almost as peace. This was nice.

Academy 218: Still looking for new people to join - now is the primetime.

I'll have a character sheet up by tomorrow, I just have to write up the sample post on it.