Rice Porridge

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<sub>... Luck shenanigans inbound?

Also, I don't think you should worry too much about stats. Although saying an increase or decrease of 1 does give a very precise idea of how much it changes, we aren't really rolling dice or anything, so the numbers aren't something you need to worry about too much.</sub>

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Astrophel

There were a few children in the scene outside of the building receiving adventurous hopefuls, most of them either playing or watching the duel. However, in the small line at the door, there was a child, likely in his preteens, standing in wait as well; the odd one out in an already-diverse group.

"Hmm," Astrophel knocked on the wooden exterior of the building. It seemed a bit shoddy, as if the city had just set it up a few days ago. He wouldn't have been surprised if it did, but Astrophel doubted that it was so poorly done for it to break under normal conditions. As he was thinking about this, the ring on his right hand let out a faint, pale purple flame-like glow.

"'Twould it not be wiser to stand over yonder?" A youthful voice--not too unlike his own, despite the archaic speech--entered his ears with a windy tone, as if whispered into his ears. Although that was the natural response from the people he knew, the concern was strangely touching to Astrophel when it came from his demonic friend.

"Thanks for worrying about me Aery, but it's fine," he whispered back. In reality, it would sound like Astrophel was talking to himself, but he didn't particularly care.

"F-fool, thy appetency for this one's companionship is going to thy head. 'Twas but to safeguard our contract, naught else."

"Well, thank you anyways, Aesrfel."

While Aesrfel began to spew out abusive words, Astrophel shifted the bag on his back. He could roughly tell where the contents were when he did this, but he'd mainly just taken them for his parents' ease of mind. Useful, yes, but nothing valuable nor anything he was particularly attached to; he'd often lose its contents in an accident, or have it confiscated upon entering a city.

In fact, the latter had almost happened to him at the gates. Since he was convinced that the guards were trying to extort him, Astrophel called them "the slimiest, most disgusting blackguards he'd ever had the displeasure of meeting" and booked it past them into the city. Used to running from his problems, he used the small alleyways and vertical paths(aka, climbing up walls) to escape. Thinking back, that was probably not the wisest choice he could have taken, but he had managed to get far away and deep into the city, and it wasn't likely that they were stupid enough to report that they were chasing a child who ran after they tried to extort him.

... Probably not anyways.

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IT BEGINS

Three Worlds one Ruler (Angels/Demons/Humans) -- Mature content --FULL

_{Might jump on if my other RP isn't going.}

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<sub>Gods, I know it's helpful to explain, but I have an aversion to regularly-sized text and people have a hard time reading the small text.

I went off on a rant about the varying systems of magic regarding the laws of physics when I wasn't even playing a character that could use it.

like
if that crap were regular sized,
you'd have enough bricks of text to build an apartment complex</sub>

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Astrophel DeVault

Astrophel DeVault

Height: 4'7"

Weight: 85 lb

Age: 12

Race/Species: Human

Appearance:
Astrophel


Aesrfel


Personality:
Astrophel, or Astra, is generally a polite and likable child, but can be surprisingly foul-mouthed due to the language he picked up from his kidnappers. He has uncanny insight when dealing with people, often seeing right through their thoughts and personalities. He has a genuine thirst for knowledge, but can sometimes be overly blunt when asking questions. He maintains a nonchalant attitude, even when insulting others. He has a surprisingly good sense of who he can trust.

Statistics:

-Strength: 2 - Definitely on the weaker side, even as a child.

-Perception: 10

-Endurance: 4

-Charisma: 4

-Intelligence: 6

-Agility: 8 - Often employs the Joestar family's Secret Technique.

-Luck: 1 - The main reason for employing said technique.

Abilities, Talents, Traits, Powers:
Astrophel has abnormal insight, to the point where it's essentially equal to divination. He can almost always tell when something is going to happen around him, and can see through another person's thoughts and personality. He can often draw eerily accurate conclusions about someone based on what he can see, even on details about their pasts. Lies never work on him, though he does play along with some of them.

His uncanny awareness also allows him to avoid attacks before they happen. While this would make him a splendid fighter, Astra is too weak to utilize it normally. Instead, he uses it to run away safely, stalling for an opportune moment to use the environment against his enemies if he cannot simply escape.

Having become friends with a wish demon, Astrophel finds that some of his problems end up getting solved by new misfortunes. Choking on something? Someone trips and gut-punches him, dislodging it. Snatched up by a thug on horseback? They get stopped by highwaymen. A charging animal heading towards him? Meteorite crashes. Things like that. Better detailed in this post.

Item:
Ring of Wishes - Really just used as a mobile home for Aesrfel. While the ring would normally grant wishes by 'borrowing' the person's future luck, it acts oddly in Astra's case; since he's already unlucky, his luck immediately becomes worse to counter-intuitively protect him.

Stick - He's short, man.

History:
Plagued with poor luck, starting with getting kidnapped by the midwife, Astrophel's affluent parents had kept him confined to the estate to reduce the number of occurrences. Shut away from the outside world, Astra spent much of his time reading books, either informational or fictional, like novels. He also talked with the servants, learning how to read their thoughts and personalities. While not necessarily lonely and, given the number of kidnapping incidents, was content with just reading adventure novels instead of living one, he still desired to have someone he could call his friend.

During a meteor shower, Astra wished upon a shooting star... which promptly changed directions and smashed through the window he was watching from. A boy, looking about the same age as Astra, stepped out from the rock.

"I sense that thou hath a cursed existence," he spoke. "In turn for thy soul, I shalt grant thee any fortune thou desire."
"Anything?" Astra asked, to which the boy nodded.
"In that case... please be my friend!"

The boy, whom Astra found out was actually a wish demon named Aesrfel and promptly nicknamed 'Aery', was taken aback by this and initially refused, but gave in after seeing Astra become somewhat depressed.

With his luck no longer killing him at every opportunity, Astro left home with Aery to explore the world.

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@Diexsmiling
<sub>the numbers i got were calculated
but man
am i bad at math

Anyways, luck ‘n’ stuff.
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Let’s assume that a person’s luck can be represented by a line on a wave graph; above the center is good luck, below is bad luck. Whenever someone’s luck increases above the norm, there will be a “rebound” that pulls their luck down by an equal amount before returning to normal, and vice-versa.

The way a wish works is by forcibly pushing up a person’s present fortune enough to grant the wish(asking for material wealth or something that doesn’t exist is much more costly; the material would have to come from somewhere, and EXTREMELY specific conditions would have to occur for something new to be created). Thus, at some point in the future, their luck will decrease equal to the amount of fortune they used up.

Because of Astrophel’s (un)natural tendency towards misfortune, he is unable to increase his luck unless he decreases it first. Therefore, if he makes a wish to stay safe during a dangerous situation, the events follow this order:

His luck decreases to even lower than before, practically guaranteeing that another unfortunate event is going to affect him => his luck increases, causing the second event to turn in his favor(albeit still possibly dangerous for him) => the two events cancel each other out, returning his luck to normal.
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While wish demons do have the ability to both increase and decrease luck, there are two reasons that they generally only increase it:

Firstly, decreasing a person’s luck requires more energy, which they get from feeding on misfortune, than increasing it. Unless the wish demon is altruistic(not a trait that demons normally have), they have no reason to do so.

Secondly, they are only able to manipulate the luck of a willing being; the only people that enter a contracts with wish demons are either greedy or foolish, generally both. Since those people are looking for quick gains, the demons are really only ever given the opportunity to increase luck.

Partially because Astrophel’s perpetually bad luck cancels out those two reasons(unlimited misfortune, making him unlucky actually protects him A.K.A. the unlimited buffet) and partially because he’s actually happy about being his friend(despite what he says), Aery stays with Astra.
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... I should really stop going so deep with these concept-type things</sub>

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Hider

Astrophel DeVault

Height: 4'7"

Weight: 85 lb

Age: 12

Race/Species: Human

Appearance:
Astrophel

Aesrfel


Personality:
Astrophel, or Astra, is generally a polite and likable child, but can be surprisingly foul-mouthed due to the language he picked up from his kidnappers. He has uncanny insight when dealing with people, often seeing right through their thoughts and personalities. He has a genuine thirst for knowledge, but can sometimes be overly blunt when asking questions. He maintains a nonchalant attitude, even when insulting others. He has a surprisingly good sense of who he can trust.

Statistics:

-Strength: 2 - Definitely on the weaker side, even as a child.

-Perception: 10

-Endurance: 4

-Charisma: 4

-Intelligence: 6

-Agility: 8 - Often employs the Joestar family's Secret Technique.

-Luck: 1 - The main reason for employing said technique.

Abilities, Talents, Traits, Powers:
Astrophel has abnormal insight, to the point where it's essentially equal to divination. He can almost always tell when something is going to happen around him, and can see through another person's thoughts and personality. He can often draw eerily accurate conclusions about someone based on what he can see, even on details about their pasts. Lies never work on him, though he does play along with some of them.

His uncanny awareness also allows him to avoid attacks before they happen. While this would make him a splendid fighter, Astra is too weak to utilize it normally. Instead, he uses it to run away safely, stalling for an opportune moment to use the environment against his enemies if he cannot simply escape.

Having become friends with a wish demon, Astrophel finds that some of his problems end up getting solved by new misfortunes. Choking on something? Someone trips and gut-punches him, dislodging it. Snatched up by a thug on horseback? They get stopped by highwaymen. A charging animal heading towards him? Meteorite crashes. Things like that.

Item:
Ring of Wishes - Really just used as a mobile home for Aesrfel. While the ring would normally grant wishes by 'borrowing' the person's future luck, it acts oddly in Astra's case; since he's already unlucky, his luck immediately becomes worse to counter-intuitively protect him.

Stick - He's short, man.

History:
Plagued with poor luck, starting with getting kidnapped by the midwife, Astrophel's affluent parents had kept him confined to the estate to reduce the number of occurrences. Shut away from the outside world, Astra spent much of his time reading books, either informational or fictional, like novels. He also talked with the servants, learning how to read their thoughts and personalities. While not necessarily lonely and, given the number of kidnapping incidents, was content with just reading adventure novels instead of living one, he still desired to have someone he could call his friend.

During a meteor shower, Astra wished upon a shooting star... which promptly changed directions and smashed through the window he was watching from. A boy, looking about the same age as Astra, stepped out from the rock.

"I sense that thou hath a cursed existence," he spoke. "In turn for thy soul, I shalt grant thee any fortune thou desire."
"Anything?" Astra asked, to which the boy nodded.
"In that case... please be my friend!"

The boy, whom Astra found out was actually a wish demon named Aesrfel and promptly nicknamed 'Aery', was taken aback by this and initially refused, but gave in after seeing Astra become somewhat depressed.

With his luck no longer killing him at every opportunity, Astro left home with Aery to explore the world.

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_{might join.}

RWBY: Flashing Fangs

_{Aw'ight, might jump in on this.}