Xandrya

Teen Titans: New Beginnings

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Recruit Training Command - Great Lakes, IL

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Nana, I miss you.

Tears welled up in her eyes as Jennifer stared down at the ring sitting beautifully on her middle finger. It’d been a gift from her grandmother, Diana. Sometimes she would absent-mindedly play with the ring, spinning it in place with her thumb. Today hit a tad harder once she caught herself in her habit because it would have been Nana’s 88th birthday. Her first heavenly birthday now...if there was a heaven.

“GIU23, show my arrival on scene.”

The dispatcher acknowledged her transmission, and her status changed in her mounted laptop, beeping once accordingly before it was closed shut. Jennifer didn’t want to leave the warmth her vehicle was providing, but her couple of minutes were up. Pocketing her phone, she exited her undercover unit and walked into the security building.

“Detective?”

Some balding and slightly overweight serviceman greeted her almost immediately, extending his hand as he approached her. Jennifer glanced at the anchor on either collar of his uniform. “Chief, I’m Detective Jenkings with the General Investigations Unit,” she introduced herself, shaking his hand. “I’m here to take your statement.”

“Of course, right this way.”

She followed him into an office on the far end of the hall, not bothering to remove her coat. The case was quite simple and so she wouldn’t be there long. Some recruit possibly not adjusting to all of three weeks in boot camp felt the need to off himself in front of the others all while making a statement about life at home in the city. In Chicago, that is. He wasn’t far; he was a quick drive away. But it was done, and now she needed to follow up and type up some reports to have them turned in by the end of the week.

Home

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The advertised product looked promising, in a science fiction maybe. Even Sienna saw right through it. She shook her head, rolling towards the edge of the bed to plant her feet on the ground. She left her phone on the bed and lazily walked towards the ensuite bathroom, dragging her slippers across the hardwood. Reaching the doorway, her hand stilled on the light switch when she picked up on some ruffling from behind the curtains.

Sienna listened for what seemed like an eternity before finally taking a silent step forward. She readied a flame from her palm and as she was ready to pull the curtain aside, her mother called out to her.

“Sienna, honey, come out here please.”

With a gasp, the girl quickly pulled on the curtain and looked in the bathtub to see none other than her yorkie messing with one of his toys. “Milo, really?” she exhaled, closing her hand and dropping it by her side. Sienna left him there, even as her dog barked in protest to such an abrupt invasion of privacy.

“We need to give him his own room, seriously.” There was no context needed; her mom was well aware of what Sienna meant.

Laughing it off, Elizabeth walked an envelope over to her daughter’s dresser. “This arrived for you, looks important. Also, we have dinner with the Dunns tonight.”

“Mom—”

“Your father isn’t taking no, why are you surprised? Go on, wash off the sleep from your face. Don’t take too long, you have an hour.”

She watched as her mother left her alone in her room. Tonight would be torture, and that was no secret to anyone in the Callahan-Henley household.

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@Renny
Love it, move it over one tab. And thanks for pointing out the typo! I'll fix it soon.

@Vlad Tepes
Appreciate the commitment!

Let's get this show on the road. Feel free to post at your leisure, I'll go ahead and make my intro post after I get some work done today.

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Update!

@Sanity43217 @sail3695 and last but not least, @Vlad Tepes,

I'm waiting on potential interested RPers to submit a CS. Early on this week coming up, I will make an initial post and whoever has an accepted character can also post, so be on the lookout for that!

If the interest is not there anymore, not a problem! Just let me know. If the RP doesn't pan out, I may scale it down to a 1x1 or I may move the storyline to the appropriate forum (Off Topic I believe) and write it out solo. I'm just really interested in the premise... 😅

But we'll see where we end up. Happy weekend!

Firefly - Second 'Verse

No Flyin’ Solo

JP/Collab between @wanderingwolf and @Xandrya. Scene set sometime prior to the galley meeting.

It’d been a spell since that fateful night on Pelorum–he’d put it completely out of his mind. In fact, he hadn’t touched mango wine at all for fear of the specters it might conjure. No, instead, the Captain had decided nothing but whiskey, scotch, and bourbon would do–and it would do just nicely to drift off into oblivion when his head and his heart were at odds. There was only one person there who stood as witness, one shoulder who had stood resolute and made calls he was in no fit state to make.

He’d been meaning to express his thanks, served cold as they were these many ticks later, to the woman herself, and that’s the very reason which drew the Captain to the infirmary. His knuckles rapped on the door frame, their custom and his motorized memory. Cal strode into the infirmary to find Imani there, busy with something or other, and that suited him just fine. When he’d hired her on, he had in mind the particular feats of strength she’d shown full-boar in that bar-brawl-turned-tussle that she could handle herself, replete with a knife to boot. He cocked his head to the side just to take in a general assessment of how many sharp objects might be within reach of the abundantly capable woman. Pure curiosity. Nothin’ he was going to say ought cause ire, but he’d never really drawn a bead on what put a woman in a state.

Cal cleared his throat, “Imani, might I have a word?” he asked, sidling opposite her, the treatment bed between them.

"Uh oh," she smiled, not diverting her gaze away from her still arm laid out in front of her and now pointing towards the captain. Imani was currently applying disinfectant foam to a cut that'd occurred maybe 20 minutes prior. Some scrap of metal she wasn't paying much mind to slashed her as she went on by. Given the stitching was expertly done already, she now was focusing on the final touches. "If it's bad news just give it to me straight, don't beat 'round the bush." His tone of voice was neutral; no use reading into it. "If it's 'bout me dirtying up yer boat with a drop or two of blood, well she started it,"

Imani placed the bottle aside and looked up at Cal. "How may I be of assistance?"

“No bad news, least not today. Now, wouldja look at that! Looks like a mean cut. You say the Doll gave you that? Oughtta get Elias to smooth out what caught-ya.” He clicked his tongue as he leaned in a mite to take a look. Cal’s brow raised when, to his surprise, the lack of medic aboard hadn’t resulted in a Frankenstein-esque array of stitches, but a neat row of tightly-tucked laces on Imani’s forearm. He whistled, “Where’d you learn to stitch yourself up like that?” Cal asked, lips pursed.

“Hold on, before you answer that, I actually came down here because it’s been a tick since Pelorum, but I haven’t forgotten.” He stood up straighter now, to look Imani in the eyes. “What you did for me back there is somethin’ I’m not likely to forget. Thank you. Made a call when I couldn’t, and your gut steered you right. Even got me to the China Doll in one piece.” He leaned over her arm again, “Now as to why she’d want to go and do a thing like this, I’m vexed.” Idly, his hand reached for the bottle Imani had set aside to read the label. Disinfectant, he mused, she knows her way around both sides of a knife, I wager.

“Losing a partner’s only accompanied by a great deal of pain, especially when it’s sudden, no warning…no nothing. Just figured ya needed the support during such unfortunate circumstances.” Imani, then satisfied with the work on herself, pulled the bandaged arm closer to the rest of her. “And just so you know,” she added, shifting the conversation. “since you’re ‘er captain, I’ll hold ya to this not happening again.”

That got a chuckle from Cal as she eyed him. He raised his hands in surrender, “Ship’s alive, in more ways than one. You got to square with her yourself.”

Imani got on her feet to clean up after herself. "Very keen eyes you got there too." Imani had her back to him putting away some items she'd used. Somehow, she was feeling reluctant to let him know another one of her skills. She felt it to be a touchy subject given the doctor's recent passing. "I apply no drunk stitches ‘cause I've been trained not to. I'm no means a doctor, but I can do more than slap a bandage on your pi gu. Cal, if you’ll allow it, I can fill in here until you find yourself another doctor…whatcha say?” Imani turned to face him.

That request caught him out, eyes frozen where he was looking, mouth agape–but only for a moment. Recovering, the Captain circled the infirmary, checking the state of things. The space was clean and orderly, tools and tinctures were in their places; Imani had kept things clean since… since their last medic. That’s what she was becoming now, Alana, the ship’s last medic. It was less complicated that way. Cal turned toward Imani.

“The place looks good,” he paused. “Said you’ve been trained, whereabouts?” He leveled his eyes with hers.

“Ah, well, I did my time as a squad medic for a few years.” She came back around, settling across Cal once more. “A lieutenant of mine gave me plenty of training and I gained some field experience but course, I could never measure up... If needed, I’m able to fix someone up temporarily, though any extensive and long-term care is out of my reach I’m afraid.” Imani let her gaze fall to the deck. “Never brought it up cause there was no need, y’know?”

“We got need now. Squad medic, huh? Was that with the Brown or the Purple?” his eyes were steely.

“I was a browncoat,” Imani responded, feeling almost as if she were in the hot chair. Clearly the captain held strong beliefs, and who could blame him.

Strand nodded, “Either way, folk need to be stitched up, and lookin’ at your work, I reckon you’ve got the chops. If you do this, it’ll be on top of what you got on your plate, you hear? When a body needs fixin’, you’re Jane-on-the-spot, otherwise, it’s business as usual. Shiny? Talk to Yuri and he’ll settle your share, plus extra as you’re needed in here.”

“I’m glad you’re open to this, just figured it wouldn’t hurt to have a temp until we find a proper replacement…and I promise not to overstep. If I may just ask for your complete trust when I make my decisions, I’d be beyond thankful. I’ve gone on with full blown arguments and it nearly cost a life therefore I’d rather not repeat.”

Complete trust–he shook his head. Such a thing Strand reserved only for his own two hands. “This here’s my boat, and on my boat I reserve the right to question, veto, and kibosh anythin’ I cotton to. Since you’re fillin’ in on stitches and scrapes, here, that’s your wheelhouse. When the ante gets upped, and there’re lives on the line, you pull in a body. You don’t fly solo, hear?” Cal’s face had hardened, but now he arched a brow, “That Sister; I reckon she might have some experience. Ask her to help you out.” His brown eyes were still on hers, watching for comprehension.

“I meant-” a sigh of defeat replaced the words that would follow. Imani thought on what he’d said for a moment, knowing his mind was fixed on his decision. She had no blame to place on him, the loss of Alana had hurt him beyond suffering the loss of his love. “Two heads are better than one if she happens to have the right kinda knowledge. I’ll chat her up with the idea, I’m sure we’ll make a mighty fine team here in the med bay.”

Imani couldn’t conjure up what else to say, anything to ease him up. She began to make her way towards the door to go searching for Sister Lyen.

The Captain watched Imani’s back fade from the infirmary. He’d come to say thank you; he’d come to say he’d been a leaf in the stream at that moment, and she was the wind; he’d come to put his hat in his hands. He pursed his lips and tilted his head.

Whether he’d communicated any of that, he wasn’t sure. Imani was bright. No doubt, she’d make a good medic. No doubt, he could trust her. So why did he sour her ask? Because he was the Captain of his own ship. Because, now and probably ever, he could only trust himself. Because it was easy to grandstand, if he was being a mite honest.

And so it was to an empty medbay that Cal straightened his lean, alone with the ghosts, and uttered, “Dismissed.”

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If I may...

My Character

"So, what you got for me?"


"Yeah, yeah. All hail the fuckin' emperor."

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CHICAGO POLICE DEPT. CASE FILE 776230

Name:
Nero Castigionie Jr.

Age:
34

Sex:
Male

Physical Description:
Caucasian of Italian descent. Stands at 6'0'' and weighs around 189 lbs. Athletic build. Arms covered in tattoos of various origins, most of them gang-affiliated. Tattoos on his back and chest as well. Dark brown hair, short and often slicked back. Dark brown eyes. Scars on his upper torso, left shoulder, right cheek, and right forearm.

Element:
Air

Occupation:
Captain of the Castigione Crime Family

Personality:
Brash, vulgar, hot-headed, sarcastic, cynical, self-righteous, absolutely cold towards his enemies, not afraid to get his hands dirty...or bloody, rarely shows his softer side, values honor and loyalty above all

Background:
*TAPE 276-B - CASTIGIONE, NERO*

TRANSCRIPT:

*lights up a cigarette and takes a drag*

"Look, I'm a busy guy, so let's get this over with. I was born here in Chicago, the youngest of three brothers. My oldest brother Antonio is currently serving life in prison for murder and my other brother Francis, God rest his soul, died from drugs in 2011. That just left me. My mom passed away from cancer in 2015, not that I remember much of her because she and Pops split back in '01 when Pops got caught bangin' the maid. Either way, she's dead. What you gonna do, huh?

So...as for my Pops, well you oughta fuckin' know by now who my Pops is, Nero Castigionie Senior, head of the Castigionie Family, or "the Boss" as he likes to be called. He's an arrogant, fat, womanizing piece of shit and he's also the second most powerful man in Chicago next to, I don't know, the fuckin' governor of Illinois. Anywho, with Tony locked up for life and Frankie six feet in the ground, he figured it was up to me to be his successor. At first, it didn't sit right with me. I tried to get out of the life and live normally, but bein' the son of a mob boss, that's pretty tough.

*pauses and takes another drag*

I left Chicago back in 2014 and joined the Army just to get away for a while. You thought life on the streets was tough? Shit! Afghanistan made it look like a walk in the park! I saw some nasty shit over there, but I was used to it, you know. I didn't come home fucked up like the rest of those guys, but I still had dreams about it. Ain't the first time I saw a guy's head get blown off his shoulders or a fuckin' kid with a grenade blow himself up. Blood is blood, if you ask me.

Anyway, I took some shrapnel after our lead humvee blew up during a routine patrol in Kabul, an IED they called it. I lived, but the rest of my guys were dead...there were pieces of them everywhere I looked. They patched me up and sent me home, gave me a Purple Heart. I was discharged and came back to Chicago after serving four years. By that time, our family had beef with the whole goddamn city. The Russians and the Irish were muscling in on our turf. Then you had these other mamalukes, the Valentino Family, tryin' to get in on the action. Pops needed help, so reluctantly, I stepped in. I never cared much for the guy, but he was still my father. You have to respect your family, you know.

*Takes another drag, then crushes his cigarette in the ashtray*

So me and the boys drove out the Valentinos after we whacked their boss and a few of their made guys. Pops was impressed, to say the least, and made me a captain. There I was again, back in the life...for good this time. I can't complain. Bein' made has its perks, but you still gotta watch your back every fuckin' day. If it ain't the Russians or the fuckin' Irish I'm dealin' with, then it's the CCB breathin' down my neck.

Oh yeah, that reminds me. The bendin' thing. I don't know what you call it: a power, a gift? I call it a fuckin' curse. I didn't know I had this ability 'til I was in the sixth grade. There was this big fat kid, Charlie I think his name was. Real fuckin' ugly kid, lotsa freckles on his face, had red hair so you knew he was a piece of shit. Anywho, this kid would always fuck with me every day after school, so's finally I had enough. Now I wasn't big by any means, not like I am now. I was probably around ninety to a hundred pounds back in those days, real string bean. So one day, fatso throws a mean hook and busts my fuckin' head open. He's on top of me punchin' me while his two fuck buddies are behind him eggin' him on. I don't know what happened then, but somehow, I threw this fat fucker all the way across the street and into a fence. His friends took off runnin' and I just sat there blown out of my mind.

Oh the kid, Charlie? Yeah, he lived, but he didn't fuck with me anymore after that. Neither did his two shit-heels.

Anyway, what I do remember is it felt like the wind just picked up all of a sudden, like a huge gust of air just lifted this kid right off me, and it felt like it came from my hand. I was weirded out by it, to be honest. I thought I was some kind of freak. I ran home and told my Pops. At first, he didn't believe me, but when I showed him, he laughed, 'Look at that, fellas! My boy's a fuckin' superhero!'

It was cool, you know, to think of it that way. Well...unfortunately the CCB didn't think so. I remember when those guys came into Chicago, Pops was freakin' out. He told me under no circumstances to use this...power of mine, so I kept it hidden. There were some times I did use it, mainly to fuck some guy up real good or make his buddies shit their pants, but I made sure the boys kept their mouths shut about it, lest they wanna give the old man a heart attack or end up floatin' in trashbags down by the docks.

I've managed to lay low for a while now, just doin' business for the family here and there, but the heat's ampin' up every day. Sooner or later, I know these bastards are gonna get me. When they do, they're gonna have hell to pay, cause I don't go down without a fight.

I sometimes wonder if there are others like me out there that have these bendin' powers, if they're scared the CCB's gonna nab them too.
Maybe we oughta band together and show these assholes who they're fuckin' with, but then again, they probably got some kind of technology shit that can neutralize your powers. Always gotta have kryptonite when Superman comes knockin' at your door, right?

Well anywho, I've said enough. Can I go now, or are you gonna bother me with more questions? Hurry it up, cause I don't like waitin' around. I got places to be and shit to do."

*TAPE END*

Miscellaneous:
Drives a black 1968 Chevy Impala SS around the city and is always carrying his custom-engraved Beretta 92 FS Inox and a switchblade knife. Under the back seat of the Impala is a compartment holding a Benelli M4 Super 90 shotgun, a Sig Sauer MPX, M67 fragmentation grenades, and a military-grade survival machete.

@Vlad Tepes

Love it. Move this sucker right over to the character tab.

Guess I should have subscribed to my own thread from the get-go 🤦‍♀️

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Sienna Callahan-Henley

Name: Sienna Callahan-Henley

Age: 18

Sex: Female

Physical Description: Dark brown eyes and blonde hair with porcelain skin. Sienna is a 5'2 "natural beauty", or so that's what some family friends and members of the family classify her as. Her skin is nearly flawless and she never really cared for tattoos nor piercings, which is simply a preference of hers.

Element: Fire

Occupation: Student

Personality: As shy and timid one can imagine a girl raised by overprotective parents can be. Sienna is a bright girl, but she doesn’t externalize it. She’s often apologetic, even when she has no reason to be, just to avoid an escalation in the situation. She's super friendly and loyal to the core, leading her to at times be somewhat naive.

Background: Born into an extremely wealthy family, Sienna had all the privilege the typical rich kid has. The only child of Marcus and Elizabeth, Sienna was always within sight of a responsible adult, mostly someone paid to look after her. Sienna was born in New York City but the family has moved around quite a bit since, eventually settling in Chicago right after the young girl turned seven.

Growing up, Sienna was signed up for various activities such as ballet and some sports in an attempt to get her to be more active. She eventually settled on tennis after going through a list of prior sports, and she loved it enough to play for years both in and out of school and even winning a few local and state competitions. Currently, Sienna is in her freshman year of school. She decided to stay local (for the first year at least) due to her parents constantly trying to convince her to just attend the University of Chicago. Marcus wants his only daughter close, and Elizabeth, her and Sienna share a secret: they are both firebenders and no one else knows.

Miscellaneous: Theme song pending.

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Jennifer Jenkings

Name: Jennifer Jenkins

Age: 33

Sex: Female

Physical Description: A brunette with blue eyes. She is not too tall, measuring only up to 5’4. Jennifer has a tongue ring she wears whenever she’s off duty. Typical professional attire consists of dress pants, a long sleeve button-up, and depending on the weather, a peacoat, gloves, a scarf, and comfortable boots. Jennifer can otherwise be seen with her hair down in comfortable lounge attire if she's running errands or visiting family or friends. She doesn't have any tattoos and has only a minor scar on her wrist from a previous tussle with a notorious career criminal.

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Element: Water

Occupation: Detective

Personality: Jennifer is at times outgoing and at times a loner, it all depends on her mood. She enjoys telling stories and joking around with her lifelong friends at the bar just as much as she can enjoy a glass of wine in her apartment cuddled up alone watching Netflix. Being she comes from a family filled with law enforcement officers, Jennifer was raised in a structured environment and that led her to develop OCD-like tendencies. Or in other words, she's a neatfreak. Currently single after a bit of a disastrous break up with her ex-fiance, Jennifer is not afraid to be a bit of a flirt whenever she finds herself in the presence of an attractive man.

Background: Born and raised in Chicago as many previous generations within her lineage, Jennifer has never known life elsewhere save for the days or weeklong vacations she's taken in the past. She grew up alongside her older brother who is two years her senior, and that automatically led him to play her protector. Not that she needed it given she was one tough cookie as a child, or at least she put up such front.

Schooling was never an issue for Jennifer. She had mostly As and Bs and every now and then, the occasional C. Whenever that would happen, her parents would punish her accordingly, whether that be doing extra chores around the house or prohibiting her from going out with friends. Not to say that she was sheltered; but the discipline instilled in her served her well in college and later on when she went on to pursue her career.

Jennifer got the chance to transfer to the role of detective a few years ago. She's kept her waterbending a secret from every soul on the face of the Earth except for her maternal grandmother who recently passed away. That means that if anyone in the police department were to find out about her bending, including her father who's currently a deputy chief—or her brother who's a lieutenant, getting kicked out of the department would be the least of her worries.

Miscellaneous: N/A.

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@Sanity43217 @sail3695

We’re live if the interest is there!

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The year is 2024 in one of the millions of parallel Earths. Roughly a century and a half prior, the last Avatar was tragically killed. Some say he suffered such a torturous death that the Avatar link was forever severed. Or at least, that’s what people presume must have happened. Generation after generation, no other Avatar has made an appearance since that fateful evening. Some took the news quite well, some didn’t care, and some simply could not accept the fact.

It didn’t take long for the world to go into a state of total disarray. Crime and violence skyrocketed as benders and non-benders clashed, causing the loss of millions of lives. Without any one random government being able to properly practice their authority over the unjustified murder of innocents, something had to be done, and someone had to act fast. They studied some statistics and noted one interesting fact: the number of benders being born everyday was significantly dropping as time went on. A secretive meeting initiated by the United States government and calling on any and all world leaders and their representatives to attend took place in an unknown location in an unknown date and time. It was in that meeting that the Coalition for the Cessation of Bending was created. This multinational effort would be headquartered in London, with offices branching out worldwide. The logistics side of it would require a number of law enforcement agencies to provide support as needed. For example, if an agent of the CCB wasn’t readily available and a bender was identified, a representative of the police department with arresting powers would take the bender into custody and call on for an agent. The bender would then be placed in a special holding unit to await pickup and transport. What happens once a CCB agent has custody of a bender, no one knows...

Currently in this post Avatar era in Chicago, IL, you are going about your business. You may be a bender keeping a low profile, a non-bender, or an agent of the CCB. Every agent and officer on the field tasked with detaining a bender has a device at their disposal which temporarily blocks an individual’s capability to practice their bending. This will in turn give the agent or officer all the power and control of the situation.

Storywise, there will be some events in which we can all simultaneously participate in. For these events, I will send out brief surveys so every RPer has a chance to pick certain outcomes.

The rules to this game are simple:

1. Follow Guild rules
2. Respect myself and one another. Do not argue. Any disagreements can be handled respectfully and in private.
3. Your character is not an overlord; do not abuse their abilities. Interfering with someone else’s character (or an NPC) even if it doesn’t lead to their death WILL get you kicked out of the game if there weren’t any prior agreements.
4. Inactivity is a pet peeve of mine. Just go ahead and let me know in advance whether you plan to be out for a while. That’s fine, you can pick up your character at a later time and adjust accordingly. However, if you simply ghost the RP without a heads up, your character may be used however I deem fit or possibly killed off.
5. You must be 18 yoa or older to join. This game will have adult themes (violence, drugs, etc.). Fade to black will apply accordingly if the scene reaches that point.
6. Use real people for face claims, not anime.

And last but not least, please practice common sense and have fun! If you have any issues, just bring it up to me. This is maybe my second time attempting to be a GM in the many years I’ve been on this site. Also, as a side note, I have a toddler who keeps me on my toes so if I made any mistake (which will more than likely happen quite a bit), just point it out to me.

Sample CS

Name:

Age:

Sex:

Physical Description: (Feel free to use a photo or provide a thorough enough description to get a mental image of what they look like.)

Element: (Only applies to benders.)

Occupation:

Personality:

Background:

Miscellaneous: (You may select a theme song or add any additional info here.)