Shin Ghost Note

Recollections: Under The Sycamore Tree Part. 1

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Miranda, Jacqueline, & Emily G. Reed

Interactions: Luca (@FernStone), Lila (@NoriWasHere) and kind of Stormy (@Blizz)

Cracker Island. The Halloween Festival.

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Naturally, these Sluts come out of the woodwork to gang up on her.

First, Luca blocks her kick towards Lila, and then a bottle of red wine spills all over her. She loudly shrieked out of anger as she just knew one of those sluts were behind it. However, Luca's threat was promptly ignored, and she hopped to her feet - however, she felt Jacqueline and Miranda pulling at her as she (attempted to) lung towards Lila anyway! She was pulled back as she felt the fucking red wine seep into her stupid little onesie that she didn't want to wear anyway. She bared her teeth as she looked down and felt it press against her skin. It felt all weird and gross. She shook her head as Stormy walked up, and then she shook her head and pointed at Lila and said,

"This crazy bitch hit me!" Emily started before looking up at Lila's feathered arm and then pointed at her nose. "What is wrong with her!? Here, of all places, she chooses to put her dirty hands on me?" Emily placed a hand on her chest.

Before she crossed her arms and looked at Luca, she said, "And what happened Luca? I had your back when you were in 8th Street! Did you fucking forget what Britney did to you? Did to us?"

Tears started running down Emily's face as she started pounding a fist in her alternate hand.

"She violated both of us! Then the rest of the Sycamore sluts let her walk scot-free to shake her ass down a runway while people like you, Vashti, Carol, and I have to live with the consequences of it!"

More tears ran down her face as she finally put the finishing blow on her rant.

"You should have my back here! Why are you acting like we aren't in this together?!"

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only the strange survive

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James.Vanburen

62 | Jammison Johnathon Vanburen | He/Him "The world is full of wonderful, fleeting, precious things."

Description: Mr. Magnanimous himself. An oddity in the city of St. Portwell, as few know where he came from or why he's here. However, he just showed up in the city one day with bags of money, established a family business, bought a mansion, etc. He became a famous and popular face in the city of St. Portwell as he would do everything in his power to help the impoverished and desperate of the city - declaring himself Magnanimous. However, he is far more famous for his acts to... build his family. There are dozens of different children that all have roots to him, and many of them despise him for excessively spreading his seed throughout St. Portwell and beyond. However, James holds a secret... back in his prime years, he was an adventurer who traveled throughout the All-Verse. Gathering many different artifacts while defeating many multiversal threats, he was most famous for defeating Sunshine Jones and her Inner Circle. He ultimately oversaw her fate being thrown into the Pit. However, James quickly retired afterward to Shimmer and built up the family and legacy that he could only dream of. The artifacts and treasure he collected were placed in his mansion - with the more dangerous artifacts hidden away in those walls. James was happy... however, before the Stygian Snake began its rampage, coincidentally, he was tragically murdered, and control of his empire was handed to his son, Ezra Vanburen. He had something to do with Raven Jones. Abstraction: Agent - James Collection. James primarily used various artifacts with different magical properties as an adventurer. He put most of his collection in his mansion, but he kept a variety of powerful artifacts that would help him in a pinch. Below are his artifacts. James' Rifle: James is a famous and favorite artifact in his arsenal, one that he has been using since he was a young man. A Lee-Enfield rifle that, once the trigger was pulled, would not shoot a bullet but a marble-sized blast of magic that'd send anything he hit to another dimension. The marble will penetrate any defenses, magical or otherwise, and has a bottomless clip. Shield of Exusia: A deployable barrier inside of a gauntlet which James can control the size. He can deploy it to be tiny or large enough to cover him. The shield is nearly impenetrable. The Tyrant Destroyer IV: A famous weapon that was a part of the series of seven different magical weapons (two gauntlets, a spear, a shield, etc.). The Tyrant Destroyer is a magical sword that James can summon at will, and the blade can sense the "corruption" in a person. It'll generate a searing flame if it collides with tyrants and other monsters. This flame will attempt to consume them and bypass any defenses (fire resistance being the most notable). While pure of heart or otherwise righteous will not be affected by the flames, the blade can still slash them. Buttonless Sack: It appears as a simple burlap sack, but it's an infinite storage in which all James has to do is reach inside and pull out what he desires. It's what he uses to store his artifacts. The Key to Worlds: How James went from one dimension to another, a magical glowing white key that all he had to do was stick in the air, and it would create a "door" to a different world. Upon removing the key, the door disappears and can be used infinite times.

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@Punished GN What are the Van Burens doing in St. Portwell?

@silvermist1116

Vanburens*

In this setting they're from St. Portwell, and they're mostly just chilling y'know.

Not being apart of the Elite.

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@Punished GN Y'all really gonna make me pull Georgie out of retirement.

@silvermist1116

Do it

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Another Van Buren? Sweet Jesus.

@silvermist1116

The best Vanburen.

Strap in bc I have two more to debut.

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@Blizz

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An NPC that will appear in the upcoming Britney x Layla post.

Sabrina.Vanburen

31 | Sabrina Lydia Vanburen | She/Her "Everyone loses themselves once or twice."

Description: Affectionately called "Bean" by Britney Williams, Sabrina is the enigmatic and magnanimous child of James Vanburen, one of his many. The primary distinction between Sabrina and the rest is that she is openly transgender, and the secondary one is that she reveres her father. Unlike the other siblings, who harbor grudges against him, Sabrina holds her father in the highest regard and lives with him as an example. Like the rest of the Vanburens, Sabrina was born and raised in St. Portwell but primarily found herself in the higher-end schools or on exquisite vacations on her father's dime. It was where she found herself and where she claimed that the "caterpillar became the butterfly." She abandoned her previous identity later in life, and after much expensive surgery (or as she claims), she became the person she is now. Sabrina graduated with a master's in Fashion Design and a Bachelor's in Costuming. She is very well known in the High-fashion and modeling fields, which is how she met her friend Britney Williams. Sabrina is an open social activist, donating much of the funds she earns with her career to different charities and helping those in need - much like her father would have. Sabrina would fight tooth and nail to help the city in any way she could, not just because she loved the place she grew up but because it was the magnanimous thing to do. While she's not the biggest social media superstar, she is well-known in different parts of the city. Sabrina is a fairly tall woman, six feet even, but she's somewhat skinny (Somewhat in the way that she has a bit of chub) and not very curvy. She is mixed, half-black, and half-white. Sabrina rarely speaks, and when she does, she speaks with a gentle softness that only the most nurturing and compassionate could have. Abstraction: Adjoined - The Silkworm. An Abstraction that Sabrina has had since she was a teenager... the Silkworm is an Apparition that was a part of her father's collection that she discovered after being nosy and going through his things. It took the shape of a very old sweater... and latched onto her. After freaking out, her father taught her the ropes of the Silkworm and that it was her friend. The Silkworm has several different abilities, but at its basest is that she can telekinetically manipulate all fibers/fabrics (wool, silk, cotton, etc), denim, nylons, polyester, rayon, flannel, leather, feather down, linen, and spandex. One aspect of Silkworm's abstraction is the ability to create fabric from her body and several meters of cloth near-instantly from her body. The most powerful aspect of Silkworm is the ability to manipulate the tensile strength of clothes. Tensile strength is how much stress a single thread can withstand before it snaps; Silkworm can adjust how much it takes before it snaps. She can, at most, give a single thread the tensile strength of diamonds, or she can make it shred like wet tissue paper. This abstraction comes with a subtle (and useless) extrasensory ability as it gives Sabrina the exact measurements of the people around her, and she can make outfits for them. Her clothes? Well, that's the Silkworm's "body," and it can instantly change her outfit.

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Why is everyone fucking called Malik this is the third

@FernStone

The best Malik is Shayton

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@Punished GN I know that. Given the notches in his bed post, am I crazy to assume Raven could be his child?

@silvermist1116

James went back in time and banged Eve before Adam could.

We're all his children.

^{For once, Raven is not James kid.}

Speaking of Raven....

Raven Jones' Journey

Raven.Jones
15 | Raven Chandra Jones | She/Her "I have to save her; I have to save Sunshine."	Description: The strange girl that the Sycamore Tree Coven has been receiving Recollections about following her journies in the Pit and beyond for odd reasons. Raven Jones was born in the Pit when her mother, the so-called "Mother Blood," was, for her heinous crimes, banished to the Pit. She is being raised by her mother to survive in the Pit and getting trained in the infamous "Blood Art Technique." However, she finds the Blood Art Technique inefficient and has modified it to create her Spells brand. She's a terrified and easily startled young girl, but she's trying her best... despite her timid demeanor, she shows signs of having her mother's brutality and has a strange fascination with blood. Raven is interested in the "source" of magic that her mother speaks of. Unlike her mother, she is not albino but she is African-American with dark skin and black hair; unfortunately, she isn't that tall at five-two due to lack of nutrition. Abstraction: Adept - Green Lux. Channeler: Her Mother's Jewel Amulet Wound Transferral: A trademark Spell from her mother, and acts as a form of Regeneration. With this Spell, Raven can transfer one of her wounds to the last people she has touched in the last few days. She can only do this once; then, she must touch that person again to transfer it. Bone-Blades: Raven can create blades out of her bones and have them violently burst from her body - which is as painful as it sounds. Raven has optimized this Spell by creating bone blades and breaking them off to create makeshift knives. Pain-Suppressant: Raven can temporarily negate her pain... the only issue is that once the Spell wears off, she'll be feeling all of it at once. Blood-Lust: A passive Spell that will activate while Raven is fighting; the more she fights, she will gain the ability to "ignore" her injuries. Her intestines can be hanging out, she could have lost most of the blood in her body and missing two limbs, and she can keep fighting until she dies, or the opponent dies. Body-Puppetry: Raven can tap into someone's nervous system and control their body with her mind alone... this Spell has a concise range and only works on those without an Emotional-Field. Meat-Wall: Raven can generate a mass of rock-hard flesh and detach it from herself to act as a shield or blockade. Eye-Burst: A favored Spell by Sunshine when going against the Blind. As the name implies, Raven can cause someone's eyeballs to pop and render them blind if they do not have an Emotional-Field. Shapeshifting: Raven can temporarily transform her body into anything within the bounds of a human, even if it defies the laws of mass conservation. Hematophagia: Another of Sunshine's favored spells, Raven can regenerate wounds by drinking blood - usually utilized as a scare tactic and an alternate form of healing when she cannot transfer wounds. Limb-Generation: Raven casts this spell and uses it to create extra limbs or replace lost ones. She can destroy these limbs and generate them on whoever doesn’t have an Emotional-Field. Nervous-System Illusions: Raven can tap into a body's nervous system and create different illusions... this Spell works best on the Blind/One-Eye-Open but requires extra time and effort to penetrate an Emotional-Field. Blood Spray: Raven sprays boiling blood out of her pores; this blood is hot enough to cause second-degree burns. Gore Bomb: Raven reaches into herself and pulls out a mass of flesh and nail-like bones that’ll explode on contact—launching the bones in all directions. Body-Enhancement: Sunshine's favorite Spell... for a short period, she can raise all of her attributes (Her strength, stamina, speed, durability, senses, etc) to superhuman levels.
Sunshine.Jones
41 | Sunshine Bella Jones | She/Her "I will drink the blood of magic straight from the source."	Description: Known as Echidna, The Killer with a Thousand Faces, and Mother Blood leader of the multiversal cult known as The Inner Circle and known for crafting the now forbidden method of casting known as the Blood Art Technique. She and her society aimed to find the source of magic (the "blood" of it, they called it), and to this end, they gradually fell off the deep end. Sunshine Jones was known across the All-Verse for her savagery and brutal experiments... until she was finally stopped one day and imprisoned. It was determined that she should receive the highest punishment known to man, a fate worse than death; she was shunted into The Pit. However, she was eight months pregnant then, and she gave birth to her daughter, Raven, in the Pit. Despite being in a literal hell, Sunshine loves her daughter more than anything in the world and would do anything so the horrors of the pit don't so much as touch her. Sunshine's goal is to escape the Pit, or at least get Raven out of there, and continue her plans to find the "source" of magic. Thus, Sunshine trained her daughter in the forbidden art of the Blood Art Technique and taught her everything she knew. However, the Pit likes her... it does not want to let her go. Sunshine is tall at five-nine but skinny; living off scraps in the Pit does that to you. She is notable because she is ethnically African-American but is albino, so her skin and hair are white. Abstraction: Adept - Green Lux. Channeler: Jewel Amulet. Sunshine was considered to be one of the few Adept masters as she trained since she was nine years old. She has a variety of spells that she developed and learned from other Adepts. Her method of casting spells was the Blood Art Technique, which drew symbols with human blood, and the magic would come out. She likened magic to a form of science, and her affinity was towards the human body, being a former biologist. Sunshine's proficiency with this method was so high that she remembered every spell or symbol off the back of her hand.
The.Mother.Will
??? | ??? | She/Her "The Pit likes you; it doesn't want to let you go."	Description: A mysterious... being, that inhabits the Pit. Mother Will claims to be the mouthpiece for the Pit and has a direct connection with it. She speaks as if The Pit is a living, breathing place... and given how corrupted the Pit is, Mother Will may be correct. She appears before people she finds exciting and "judges" them, telling them how much the Pit favors them. If the Pit "likes" them, then it's unlikely any harm will come to them (but it also means the Pit won't let them leave). If the Pit "hates" them, their days are likely numbered (but they may be allowed to escape the Pit). She seems to be omnipresent and appears in several different places at once. Abstraction: It's unknown if the Mother Will is even anything within the bounds of Paranormal.