WatermelonTango

Legends of Zelda... and Everyone Else

Yup. That will be me! I'll get started on my post right away!



I don't think there's a problem with Sheik being Male. Even if the fact is disputable in canon, the truth is we're trying to change Hyrule around a bit for the better. Sheik can have his own origin if we so please.

Legends of Zelda... and Everyone Else

Is there anyone considering picking up the mantle of Zelda? If no one else is I'd be willing to do it.

Legends of Zelda... and Everyone Else

Mikau sat on a large rock overlooking the seaside coast of hyrule. The young Zora kept his eyes on the moon's reflection as he tinkered with the strings of his fish-bone guitar. The instrument was and has always been perfectly tuned, but his heart was too troubled to even strum a proper note. He couldn't make even the simplest of chords come out of his instrument without it sounding.... wrong.

Mikau was thinking of Princess Ruto again. The young princess had his heart like the net of a fisherman, and she didn't even know it. She didn't know he existed. She was a noblewoman from lake Hylia, and he was but a common sea whelp. It just wasn't fair! In a fit of rage he lifted his guitar over his head and threw it into the water with an unceremonious splash. He stood there, looking at the ripples in the water he had created.

"That wasn't a good idea..." He muttered to himself after a few more moments of staring at the water. He was preparing to dive in after it when a head suddenly poked through the water's surface. It was his good friend Japas, with his eyes concealed by his head fins. He had Mikau's guitar held over his head.

"You dropped this you know." He said with a teasing grin. "Your fins feeling slippery today?"
"Thanks Japs." Mikau said as he strapped his instrument to his back. He really didn't feel like playing at the moment. And it was clear his friend could see it as well.
"Let me guess. The princess?" The grin on Jap's face said the rest.

"You know me too well. It's got me torn up, y'know? Before I seen her at the annual Zora festival the music came easy. I could sing a ballad in a heart beat and become one with my instrument. But my heart is empty, and my heart is my music. My sound is as hollow as the oceanic caverns of my soul."
"Deeeeeep." Japs said with a sympathetic expression. "I'm telling you man, you need to make this happen. I can't stand to see you out here by yourself anymore. March on over to Lake Hylia, swim up to her door step, and make your music the bridge to your soul. The ladies love to walk soul bridges. Woman around here follow you like a school of fish, I've seen it."

"But her dad's the king of all Zoras! Would he allow her to date a common blood? ...Would I want to become a prince? Besides, Lake Hylia is all the way on the opposite side of Hyrule!" Mikau nervously rubbed his hands together.
"You can stay here twiddling your fins and wondering what could have been, or you can go over there and make your dreams a reality! You need to get your music back, man."
"I know you're right. I just like to hear your motivational speeches." Mikau smiled. He really did appreciate his bro's support. "You know what? I'm heading off to Lake Hylia tomorrow morning!"
"Righteous! It's a beautiful thing to see a wandering artist being born. Now get some sleep you lunatic. It's late!" And with that, Japas fall back into the ocean and swam off. Mikau had a nice long look at the water's horizon before diving in the water and swimming back to his den.

Legends of Zelda... and Everyone Else

At first I was thinking that I wouldn't join in but... this looks like it could be fun. Sign me up!

Mikau seems like a fun character to play as. I'm a sucker for Guitarists, what can I say?


I'll try to tinker with his character a bit in order to separate him from his Majora's mask counterpart.

Chronicles: Age of Steel IC

I would have expected a concept such as this to have a lot more traction. It's unfortunate really.

Chronicles: Age of Steel IC

In this RP, are dragons feral creatures or sentient beings? Are they capable of speech? I'm interested in this either way, the feral angle might even be more interesting.

The Mushroom Kingdom Freedom Fighters

Your two characters are pretty awesome! I like how in depth you two are about their abilities in combat, and they are both unique fighters who I would be happy to accept! I guess the only thing I can say is that your characters seem to be a notch above the rest of the characters in term of combat ability. It shouldn't be a problem if you guys make an effort to downplay their abilities just a little bit. The reason being is that my intention is for the characters to start out relatively weak, but as they began to overcome more and more challenges they will get stronger. Maybe the characters will learn brand new techniques not included in the CS at all!

Your characters are fine, excellent even. I trust you guys to use your good judgement and not to take your characters too strong in the beginning. So in that case, @Xan the G Vergil and @Renose Merli are accepted!

Time for my to transfer my own dang character already.

DJYosh

Name: DJYosh (Did his parents name him that?)

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Race: Yoshi

Personality: Energetic, Loyal, Naive

Techniques: Yoshis are generally very quick and good at jumping long distances, but they are poor at vertical jumping and very much lack in upper body strength. Generally Yoshis fight with a combination of kicks, head butts and tail slams, occasionally throwing in some egg and tongue based techniques for good effect. DJ is a quick runner who can deliver powerful blows if given enough space to move, but he lacks technical skill and can be exceptionally clumsy in tight and confined spaces. If he isn't careful his speed can be his own downfall just as readily as his opponent's.

Brain-Bruiser: DJ has an exceptionally tough skull and a nose capable of absorbing the impact. He can slam his tough noggin down on an enemy with differing levels of impact depending on how fast he is moving. Often he will combine this technique with speed in order to deal great damage, but he has to be very careful with this ability. If DJ misses, his head will have a blind date with solid ground and he will damage himself. Worse yet, he could try this technique on a shelled Koopa or a Beetle and risk knocking himself out completely. This is a high risk high reward technique that can cause some serious damage enemies and DJ alike.

Yolk-Bomb: Another rather straight forward ability. DJ can swallow objects whole in order to create an egg. He then will throw it at you, because getting hit in the face with an egg hurts. This ability can do anywhere from none to medium to high damage, depending on the quality of the item he swallowed in order to create the egg. Swallowing a koopa shell makes the egg more durable, swallowing a fire flower makes it burst into flames, and swallowing a mushroom causes it to restore health instead. This is a very adaptive and unique ability, but it can also be incredibly expensive on resources. Most of the time DJ will just swallow rocks to produce eggs because powerups ain't cheap, yo.

Brief background history: DJ can only be described as a roamer. DJ's egg was discovered buried in the sandy beaches of the mushroom kingdom, and since then he has never seen the lush forests of Yoshi Island nor has he been properly conditioned by other Yoshi. He was adopted by a family of koopas who raised him to be a good kid, but he quickly grew restless of the simple lifestyle they lead and set out on his own. Since then he has done nothing but travel, roaming from village to village looking for his calling. He would never spend more then a week getting to know everyone in each town before setting off again. He's a bright and cheerful spirit but utilimately he feels lost.
DJ's most recent stop is Toad Town. Surprisingly he hasn't brought himself around since he heard of how used to routine the townsfolk are, but with the recent trouble he decided to check it out. There was something about a high activity high trouble situation that makes him determined to help out.

Other: DJYosh's Theme

I will also transfer Charlie's character since he's on a cell phone.

Dusty

Name: Dusty
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Race: Boo
Appearance:

Personality: A shy prankster.
Techniques:

Corporeal/Incorporeal: Can grab things but also able to go through walls, and fly. When corporeal he has a gel like density. The more he is corporeal the harder it is to be incorporeal, again.

Paralitounge: If Dusty licks you, your paralyze for around 30 seconds.
Brief background history: Dusty doesn't remember much of its life before death. It's first memory is of DJyoshi walking around its graveyard. It started to follow DJ, pulling pranks on him and others, untill Dj finally caught him. Dusty was terrified, he didn't know what was going to happen. DJ just laughed, At this point Dusty was a boo with a D on his hat, so Dj desided to name the startled boo Dusty. They have been buddies ever since.

The Mushroom Kingdom Freedom Fighters

Sorry for the inactivity guys. I've been busy lately and have had trouble setting aside time to do this. I will try to keep on top of it.

@Charlie

Dusty is accepted! My only criticism is that in the future, try to add a bit more detail about what your character is capable of doing. Also, how long you can paralyze someone with your lick attack should depend on how brave and how sneaky you were before getting them. As long as we play by those rules, then you're good!

@Kafka Komedy

Harry is accepted! With the looks of things we'll have an entire platoon of undead. But the good kind of undead. The nice and friendly kind who fight evil.

@Assayla

Ember is accepted! Note that 1 up mushrooms will be very, VERY difficult to come across. Or just very expensive.

@Riurik

Being cool for the sake of being cool is the best kind of cool. You're accepted, bro.

I have finally created the OOC, and you guys can either transfer your Character Sheet there or I can do it for you if it's too much of a hassle. Check it out.
OOC

The Mushroom Kingdom Freedom Fighters

The mushroom kingdom was a place of routine. Bowser appeared for one of his weekly attempts at kidnapping the princess. Mario and Luigi, after some trouble, would have her saved a day later and then the kingdom would spend the rest of the week relaxing. At first the populace panicked. The first time Peach was ever kidnapped the town was in an uproar. However, as time went on people began getting less and less concerned. Mario would always jump in to save the day; the citizens of the mushroom kingdom grew accustomed and their lord and sovereign being kidnapped by an invading country became less and less of a serious matter to the citizens until eventually it was as casual an event as the morning newspaper.

But you know what happens when a people grows complacent and soft? When they get all too comfortable with their situation and feel no reason to change? When things go wrong, the general populace will be powerless to stand up to threats on their own. What happens when you build a world on the fantasy of heroes, but then you suddenly take their defenders and idols away? Either the inhabitants of the mushroom kingdom will need to learn to take care of themselves, or be captured in the Koopa Clan's iron grip.

So what am I actually talking about? Essentially the plot is that Bowser kidnapped Peach... and neither Mario or Luigi are around to save them. The citizens of toad town sent several search parties in a desperate attempt to find the two of them, but it has been a month since Peach was abducted and they have yielded no success. Essentially we, the common people, are creating a movement to resist Bowser with some twists and turns along the way. I'll try to throw as many curveballs as I can in order to keep this seemingly simple and bare bones concept as interesting as possible. This is my first Role play I've ever lead myself, so let's make this a learning experience as well as a good time.

I'll lay down some information on you. This is strongly based on the mushroom kingdom based on the Paper Mario and Mario RPG series. The locations and characters from these games exist in the world, though vast majority of Canon NPCs we meet in this series will be villains. Toadsworth is working as acting ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom with Peach missing, Daisy's kingdom of Sarasaland is facing their own troubles and can't send much support, and Bowser's territory is steadily increasing as his army marches on to take out the Mushroom kingdom in their weakened state.

It's our job to fix this mess. Are you with me?

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Character Sheet

Name: (What's your name, dummy?)
Gender:
Age:
Race: (I'll let just about any species known to the Mario Canon. From Goomba Koopas and Toads to Penguins to if you're really feeling it.)
Personality: (I understand that a personality is often formed and cemented over RPing, but give me a couple of describing words.)
Techniques: (Try to describe them well, give me an exact picture of what your character is capable of. Some species have special abilities, but try not to go over board and give your character ridiculous mind powers or something. These are mainly meant to be techniques rather then super powers.)
Brief background history: (You don't need to give me anything too in depth. What did your character do before the events of the roleplay? Where are they from, and why did they move to Toad Town?)
Other: (Whatever you want to put goes here. If you feel like putting a character theme or something put it here, just make sure that you put a video in a hider please. It makes things look more tidey.)

Rules

1. It's Mario. Keep it PG, guys. Most of us our old enough to handle this stuff, but the Mario kingdom isn't meant to be a place of sex and gore. This isn't the place for it.
2. Similar rules about Romance. Romance is acceptable, but I'll trust that you can use your own discretion and that I don't have to hand hold you through your romance subplot. This is Mario, remember that.
3. If any disagreements come up consult me about it. I'll try my best to solve any disagreements and be the best mediater I can.
4. Try to avoid power gaming if possible. The truth is, while our characters can be smart, quick, clever and strong, our enemies are powerful and most mushroom kingdom denizens are not combat trained. Create a character with room for growth.
5. If you have questions let me know. There are some aspects of this RP I may have not quite pieced together yet and appreciate people pushing me in the right direction.

Accepted Characters;
@Raddum Bolita Fava
@Reem Rose
@Charlie Dusty
@Kafka Komedy Harry
@Assayla Ember
@Riurk Kyle "Danger" Koopa
@Xan the G Vergil
@Renose Merli

Ravnica, The City of Guilds.

Hi ho, captain!