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The Three Realms War [A DMC, Bayonetta and Darksiders RP]

Rain...

Rain was annoying. Like tiny motes of defiance that all but begged to be torn asunder and made to suffer, whose existence seemed to be centered around being an inconvenience to whoever happened to walk underneath an open sky. Not only did it soak clothes, but it also made hair mat and sticky. Now those were only minor inconveniences, but even for a being whose age approached the third millennia such things had a habit of getting on one's nerves.

Especially when the wearer of said clothes had gone to great lengths to remain unnoticed when taking them a few days prior.

A young woman walked along the streets of Barlour city, casting the occasional baleful glare at the grey and pouring sky. Her long, fiery hair hanging limp down her back and shoulders, wet and without much of its usual lustre in its soaked state. It stuck to her neck and cheeks, not quite framing—however, still emphasizing—her emerald eyes and full, curved lips. Her clothes fared no better: an already tight, white, long-sleeved shirt clung to her body like a second skin, showing off her already noticeable curvaceous body. Her simple denim jeans and dark blue vest worn over her shirt, shared the same, wet fate as everything else.

Perhaps the only, real, oddity about this woman, were a pair of nigh invisible, vertical slits on the back of her vest and shirt.

She had come to Barlour city in search of employment, but such was a rare thing for her. Be they humans, angels, or even demons—she cared not. A fight was a fight, and she could always get something out of that, be it information, power... or new skills.

Even were her opponent, or employer, one of the supernaturals, she wasn't deterred. For she was one of those supernatural creatures herself.

Her name was Lily

And she was a Demon.

Unlike most Demons Lily did not find herself obligated to join Mundus, or whatever other Demon Prince or Princess thought themselves to be the next conqueror of the human world. It was pitiful, really, how limited their ambitions were. Ruling Earth after a bloody war that would most likely destroy half the planet, if not more? To rule over nothing would be as empty as never ruling at all. There were other, smarter means of gaining dominion of the earthly realm, and not all of them required blood being shed. At least, not by the Demons themselves. As a direct result, she had chosen not to affiliate herself with any of the demonic armies, choosing instead to wander the earth herself, gaining influence and power wherever she could. That search had brought her to Barlour, and now she was here... soaked, perturbed, and desperately looking for something to occupy her interest before she lashed out in nothing but sheer annoyance.

Relief came not long after, in the form of both explosions, shouts and growls. An eager smile spread across her rose coloured lips. Bending down in her knees she called upon her demonic powers, pushing off of the ground as a pair of large, webbed wings sprouted from her back and flapped down hard, propelling her into the air without a care in the world for who saw her. What hunters she had met during the past hundred or so years were a far cry from anything resembling a challenge. With modern weaponry like firearms and the like, Humans had grown lazy and overconfident. Just fill something with lead bullets and it was finished. Gone were the skilled swordsmen or the lightning fast archers. Now all they relied on was brute force in the form of easily predictable guns.

She caught a draft and soared towards the sounds of battle, breathing in a much needed breath of fresher air from up-high. She could see the fighting from far away up in the air, but only one of the contestants was recognizable, in part due to his size, but also the fact that he was quite literally on fire. And he was also an old friend.

A flap of her wings sent her on her way towards the flaming hellhound and whoever was unlucky enough to be his adversary—not that the identity of him or her mattered—intent on, at the very least, watch the fighting as it happened, if not partake in it depending on which way it was going. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

It was a curious sight, she decided, circling far above the battleground like a vulture waiting for already present predators to leave so that she could partake in the carrion feast. Fenn, despite being a hulking behemoth even amongst his own kind, seemed to be having a difficult time. Most of the time, the flaming hairball barrelled over any opposition like a freight train with a broken brake. This time, however, someone seemed to be giving him a difficult time. And a human no less, if the use of fire arms and less than graceful movements were of any indications.

Perhaps, she thought, this place would be a little more interesting than first anticipated.

The Three Realms War [A DMC, Bayonetta and Darksiders RP]

Lily, the Enigma

This represents only the general appearance. Horns, eye, and hair colour may not apply

Theme Song: Fleeing Kuro

Name: Lily
Gender: Female
Age: Two millennia at least. Exact age unknown.
Race: Demon (Exact species - Unknown)

Appearance:
Lily’s appearance varies wildly depending on her mood, and although she has a preferred appearance she can look in just about any way she likes. Usually, however, she will appear as a normal human woman, with long, lush red hair and emerald green eyes. Her features are delicate, belying her demonic origin with an appearance of an attractive young lady, with an oval face and full lips, and a sharp chin and high cheekbones. She’s rather tall compared to most human women, standing at 180cm in height, with a slender build yet decently voluminous where it counts.

She is most often dressed in a fairly simple fashion, wearing the clothes of humans; jeans, shirts, the occasional dress if she fancies it.

Two defining features of hers are; a tendency to keep her fingernails long, and often filed to a slight point, as if to remind herself—and others—that she’s not just a simple human bumbling about amidst beings whose power she doesn’t comprehend, as well as a scar running vertically across her right eyes, though the eye itself is still intact.

One thing that Lily is never found without, is an old medallion from a time Lily only hints at. A metallic disc the size of a large coin, covered with intricate patterns, decorated with a spherical piece of obsidian inlaid in the middle. A small section of the sphere is cut out, replaced by a piece of a ruby gem and another piece of oval obsidian in that ruby, giving it the illusion of an eye with a black sclera, slitted eyes, red iris.

Faction: Unaffiliated

Personality:
Lily is, not only among Angels, but Demons as well, an enigma. No one, neither the highest or the lowest demons or angels, know quite what to make of her. Her demeanor, the way she acts, are atypical for a demon of her caliber.

Unlike most, she is not outwardly cruel or belittling, but rather strange amicable and relaxed. To some demons, this is a travesty, and something that should not be. The number of times demons have sought to “correct” her ways is uncountable. Said track record is littered with blood and broken corpses. For while Lily acts surprisingly like a human, she is by no means one. She still harbors the brutal and relentless qualities of most other demons, enabling her to take lives without remorse.

A deeper look into her personality would reveal someone who cares little for good or evil, regardless of whether it’s the greater good or a greater evil. To describe her, the term “Amoral” comes to mind, in that she cares little for anything but herself and her own goals, as such she has also forsaken the war between heaven and hell, choosing instead to live her life in whatever way she pleases.

But to say that forsaking the war means that she’s a pacifist is as wrong as saying she’s like any other demons. Centuries spent fighting has instilled her with a sense of joy whenever she’s in the throes of battle. She truly does enjoy shedding blood and might, on occasion, lend herself out as a demonic equivalent of a mercenary.

And finally, perhaps the oddest thing about her, is her strange interest in humans. Most consider them inconsequential, but she has found them to be quite the intriguing creatures. So limited, yet so full of potential. They bumble about their lives with no clue as to what’s going to happen the next day, and yet they spend so much time trying to change the future for fear of what’s going to happen. And the fact that they are as capable of evil as Demons such as herself, and as capable of good as the pompous angels, is something that she finds herself both surprised and intrigued by.

What few Demons know of Lily as more than just an oddity and enigma, theorize that her interest in humans once had her fall in love with one, and learn compassion, and is perhaps the source of her even stranger powers.

Biography:
Lily doesn’t speak much of her life, and she prefers it that way. To her, it both is, and is not, a game, when it comes to people knowing very little about her. How much can she withhold? How much can they figure out?
The finer details of her life are unknown, but what is known to those who have been around her for a while is that she was born well over two millennia ago, almost three. She was born to a minor group of Demons, ones primarily unaffiliated with the going-ons of the bigger Demons such as Mundus or Sheba. While they weren’t exactly the strongest of demons, they did consider themselves to be more intelligent. More manipulative. They had seen that there were ways to rule over the humans that did not involve a violent take-over. The humans were fickle, ignorant, and oh-so-gullible. Go to the surface, find an isolated settlement, and introduce oneself as a God. Ignorant as these short lived humans were, they would believe it although sometimes a show of force was necessary.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of such Demons existed all over the world. Some more successful than others. Lily was one such Demon. She had journeyed to Earth a few centuries before the initial invasion and subsequent war began. She lived amongst the humans of a settlement on a group of islands northwest of the mainland that is now called Europe, up until the time of the war when she was forced to move; either that or get caught in the crossfire.

Before that, she and the group of demons humans might have called her “Family”, attempted as best they could to scramble to a position of power, beating those weaker than them and being shamefully defeated by those stronger. As they were unaffiliated with any of the larger factions, it was difficult to do much of anything on their own. What territory and power they could get their hands on, they did, but it was often taken away from them just as soon as they had grasped it. Centuries passed, and Lily grew frustrated, clawing her way to the surface as opposed to remaining in the constant cycle of winning and losing power and territory down in the Pit.

Come the time of the invasion a few centuries later, Lily did what she could to avoid the fighting. But war isn’t a thing one so easily avoids. It caught up to her, and she regretfully joined in, only to realise the opportunity that it was to her. Were she to just fight whoever and whatever, she could make her way. Allegiance mattered not, but the power—the favours, the renown, the experience—she could get out of it was its own reward. Were she hired by Demons she would fight the humans and angels. Were she hired by humans she would fight demons and angels. And, if she were to be hired by angels—unlikely as it was—she would gladly fight the demons and the humans. To her, it didn’t matter. Only what she could get out of it mattered.

Power and prestige from fighting were all the rewards and payment she demanded. Let her fight, let her grow in power, and she would willingly stand by the side of whoever sought after her.

[Combat]

Powers and Abilities:

• Enhanced physical strength - Like any Demon, Lily possesses physical strength and durability superior to any human.
• Enhanced speed and agility - Quick and agile, as much a result of her demonic origin as her own training.
• Shapeshifting - A unique power not to be confused with Devil Trigger. It allows her to transform it varying chimera-like creatures, mostly half human and half beast, granting her different abilities and specializations whenever she does so, and also allows for a greater variety of humanoid appearances.
  
  • Power Form (Draconic Might) - Large increase to raw physical power and endurance.
  • Speed Form (Grace of Bastet) - Large increase to speed and agility.
  • Fire Form (Elemental/Sol) - Enables powerful manipulation and creation of fire, along with a few other abilities, as well as flight/hover.
• Devil Trigger - Lily grows in size to easily measure three metres, massive, leathery wings sprout from her back accompanied by cloven hooves and furred, digitigrade legs. From her elbows and down her arms and hands are covered in black scales, ending in claw-tipped fingers. A pair of ram's horns grows from her temples as the sclera in her eyes turn black, broken only by her red irises. Her four canines elongate, becoming more akin to fangs, as the rest of her teeth sharpen as well. Sleek and Powerful muscles ripple underneath her skin, only adding to her imposing appearance. From behind her sprouts a sandy-brown tail, scaled, half as thick at its base as she is around her waist, fully prehensile as a fifth limp, and a full metre longer than she is tall as well as covered in numerous, small protrusions akin to spikes. Finally, her hair becomes a fiery orange with an almost translucent quality to it; seeming both fire and hair at the same time.
  
  • Allows for greater speed, strength, endurance, and even magic than any of her other forms, as well as the ability to use all the various techniques from her other Forms.

Style:

• Draconic Might [Lvl-3] - Though the same size and musculature as her second level of Draconic form, at three metres in height, and still with a thick, powerful tail a third longer than her height, there are still a few significant differences. Her scales have thickened and gotten sturdier, increasing her defensive capabilities, and a thin layer of scales has covered her wings, making even them more durable. Scales have begun creeping onto her face - previously only skin - covering her cheek bones and jaw. Additionally, small rows of bony spikes has started running down the centre of her tail, as well as up her spine.
  Since Lvl 2, she has been able to breathe fire in a cone in front of her. With Rank 3, she is capable of focusing it into more concentrated blasts, creating either a narrower cone for higher intensity, or shorter blasts for single projectiles.
• Grace of Bastet [Lvl-1] - Employed only when in her Feline form. This combat style relies on dizzying speed and agility, relentlessly attacking again and again leaving little chance to retaliate or even defend against her relentless onslaught. At higher levels her speed and strength will increase.
• Sol [Lvl-1] - Employed only when in her Elemental Form. This combat style relies on mid-to-long range combat, preferring to release torrents or balls of flame at her opponent, seeking to roast them alive before they get close. Using this style she prefers to keep out of melee range, pelting her opponents with as much fire as she can muster. At higher levels this ability will allow for more powerful manipulation of fire, as well as more ways of using them, as well as the use of magma as opposed to solely fire.

Equipment:

• Warhammer [Lvl-1] - A giant warhammer as tall as Lily in her human form.
• War axe [Lvl-1] - An axe the same size as the warhammer. The head is wide, the design simple. A large spike juts out from back of the axe’s head.
• Jian sword [Lvl-1] - A straight, double edged sword, seemingly taking directly from the time of the Han Dynasty in China.
• Bladed Tonfa [Lvl-1] - Single edged blade with the handle jutting out from the flat side of the blade, allowing her to wield it so that it goes parallel with her lower arm.
• Guan Dao [Lvl-1] - A pole-arm like weapon with a large, curved blade attached at the end.

Techniques:

• Unpredictable]
  
  • Jack of All Trades [Lvl-1] - There are very few weapons with which Lily is not proficient. Having lived for well over two millennia, and then a couple centuries, she has had time to master the vast majority of weapons in existence. As such, what weapon she brings to bear in a fight is near impossible to determine or predict. She does, however, have favourites, so those are always a good place to start guessing at.
  • Quick witted, quick hands [Lvl-1] - A fast mind and fast body are necessary tools to make Lily’s way of fighting possible. As such, she can rapidly change what weapon she’s using, taking little more than half a second for a shield to become an axe, and a sword to become a hammer.
  • Projection [Lvl-1] - This ability allows Lily to manifest weapons of different kinds from thin air using nothing but solidified magic. These weapons aren’t static, and can change depending on whatever she desires to wield.
• Draconic Might
  
  • Dive Bomb [Lvl-1] - An aerial attack by dropping down on the opponent at high speed.
  • Sacrificial Defense [Lvl-2] - Uses one of her wings to shield herself from an attack, damaging—or losing it entirely—to negate or highly diminish the damage she would’ve otherwise taken.
  • Fire Breath [Lvl-1] - Like the mythical dragons, she breathes fire upon her enemies. The intensity of the flames can vary, as can the method: Be it balls, plumes, or cones of dragonfire.
• Grace of Bastet
  
  • Hail of Blows [Lvl-1] - A preferred attack by Lily when using her Grace of Bastet feline form. She will attempt to land blow after blow after blow, hailing her enemy with attacks to such a degree that retaliation is all but impossible.
  • Choke [Lvl-1] - Depending on what kind of creature she’s fighting, she can use her tail as a rope, wrapping it around her opponent’s neck in an attempt to choke them.
  • Flash Step[Lvl-2] - Utilizing short bursts of supersonic speed, Lily can close distances almost immediately, move around too quickly to see for any normal human. While doing so she attacks with different weapons, from a variety of angles, and from varying distances.
• Sol
  
  • Supernova [Lvl-2] - Lily sends forth a guided projectile of concentrated fire which erupts in a violent explosion either at her command, or once it hits something.
  • Dissipate [Lvl-1] - Allows Lily to dissipate into nothing but a large orb of fire. After a few moments she becomes incorporeal, rendering her immune to attacks for a few seconds before she’s forced to revert to physical form. Only useable in Elemental Form.
  • Barrage [Lvl-2] - Creating several orbs of fire around her, Lily sends forth a barrage of fiery missiles at her target, which explodes upon impact.
  • Combustion [Lvl-2] - A far more violent version of her Shapeshifting, Lily discards her elemental form, resuming another of her Shapes, and in the process lets the flames her body was previously composed of, erupt in a massive shockwave of fire around her. Renders Sol unuseable for the next 24 hours. Now, with a bit more control, she is capable of directing it into a cone; reducing the area of attack and thus increasing the inteisity of it.
• Devil Trigger
  
  • Cataclysm[Level-1] - Combining the finesse of her feline form and the fiery power of her elemental form, Lily is capable of concentrating the entirety of her fiery power in a fist, unleashing it in a titanic blast of hellfire. Has to be in melee due to the instability of the move, risking it backfiring if used from a range. Incurs the same "Cooldown" as Combustion, rendering fire magic all but impossible for 24 hours.

Trivia:

• Her right eye, and its scar, glows whenever she’s about to shift into one form or another. She almost always keeps it visible for reasons unknown.
• In accordance with her shapeshifter abilities, she can change her general appearance (hair colour & length, eye colour, height, build, and so on).
• The weapons under her “Equipment” list are only her preferred weapons. If she so desired, she could create any weapon in existence, or any object with “Projection”
• Lily's voice is very reminiscent of Sarah Kerrigan, although she can change her vocal cords to give her any voice she so desires.

The Three Realms War [A DMC, Bayonetta and Darksiders RP]

@Lmpkio
Sure xP I'll send you my contact info.

The Three Realms War [A DMC, Bayonetta and Darksiders RP]

@Lmpkio
I only just joined. I couldn't know T_T

The Three Realms War [A DMC, Bayonetta and Darksiders RP]

@Lmpkio
You have a chat already? o_o

The Three Realms War [A DMC, Bayonetta and Darksiders RP]

Hello everybody!

Found this a bit by accident and it sounded kinda interesting. I'm in the middle of coming up with a character, so I hope there's still space left ^^ I hope the lovely GM's don't mind a bit of a unique character, as I have a tendency to make, well, unique stuff, I like to think.

For now, I'll go collapse on my bed because it's 6 in the morning and I need my beauty sleep. (...I need it. trust me. I would lose a troll beauty pageant)

Ianus Congreatio: Secret societies, horror, and mystery in the shadows of Prague.

Itty bitty post. Kinda.

Mono can do with Aleksandra as she wants to now. Chase after the guy or whatever. It's up to her.

Ianus Congreatio: Secret societies, horror, and mystery in the shadows of Prague.

Lucie stood up, brushing off her knees as she did. There was still an inkling of annoyance marring her features, but it was little compared to the determination that was starting to set in. If someone had managed to get those three guys from under the underworld's king's noses, then it was someone good. She hadn't known the three men who had been kidnapped, but she knew that no one ever got to work under Philip without being skilled in one thing or another.

She turned around to face Aleksandra, and was about to speak when she saw something at the sewer entrance behind Aleksandra. The shadows weren't right. There was something blocking the light more than if there was nothing, making them darker than they should be. Her eyes narrowed, and a very faint outline of a person became visible to her. She flicked her eyes back to Aleksandra, having not moved her head to see for fear of letting whoever was there know she'd seen them. "Someone's watching us," she said quietly, speaking loud enough that her voice could be heard near the sewer entrance, but not have the individual words—or even the language—be decipherable. "Don't turn around. You saw the sewer entrance we passed a little ways back on the street? Someone's hiding in the shadows there, and whoever it is they're good so we can assume it's not just a random kid, but someone with experience." She pursed her lips and scratched her chin, keeping one eye on whoever it was that was watching them. She didn't care look directly at him, to do so would be to alert him that she knew he was there.

"I want to know who it is," she continued after a short while. "It might very well be the one who's been kidnapping men. If you run after him, I'll circle around, take another sewer entrance, and cut him off. Okay?"

There wasn't time for a response, as a loud scream sounded, echoing of the buildings. It sounded like it was both human and inhuman at the same time, but even if Lucie had wanted to analyze it there wasn't time. Her head snapped towards the sewer as whoever it was had started to move, splashing through the sewer without a care.

"Go!" She told Aleksandra, turning herself to run down the adjacent alley. If she remembered the lay-out of this area correctly, there would be another sewer entrance that would let her cut in front of their would-be spy. If Aleksandra was quick enough—and she fully expected her to be—she'd be able to catch up to him quick enough that he, or whoever it was, would not be able to get away. Even as she ran, she scrunched up her nose. Going down into the sewers was never a pleasant experience, but sometimes it had to be done. She cast her mind towards the sewer system as a whole beneath them, 'asking' for any and all presences. It was vague, given the immense size of the area she covered, but she got an approximate position of their spy. He would be caught soon enough.

Ianus Congreatio: Secret societies, horror, and mystery in the shadows of Prague.

I'll try to have a post up tomorrow or something. My plan is that Lucie'll run ahead of Aleksandra, so there's no need for a double post immediately.

Ianus Congreatio: Secret societies, horror, and mystery in the shadows of Prague.

@Astarael42
"And they wandered past the creeky shack, gazing up at the tree tops as gazellas bounced parts, lions hot on their tails. The wide expanses opened before them, sun high on the sky and nearing its zenith."

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