St. Anne Academy of Magic (SUs always open!)

Yeah, what said...

Thank you for your counsel. I'm plenty prepared, and we have enough players. But I like to give people a tiny bit more time to sign up, so I shall create the sign-up in 48 hours. Be there or be square!

I'm gonna hope in late on this bandwagon.

• Name: Cody Antwerp
• Gender: Male
• Age: 13
• Element: Sleep (The symbol looks like a closed eye, with lines coming out of it diagonally)
• Appearance: Cody is going through puberty, and hasn't hit his growth spurt yet, so is still quite short. He has brown hair and blue eyes. His voice cracks a lot, as it's just starting to get deeper.
• History: Cody is from a long line of Sleep Mages, so even before his awakening, he was already well versed in sleep and dreams. Cody was homeschooled by his family, so knows very little about traditional school subjects. He is very well educated in magical studies though, especially into Sleep Magic. Because of his upbringing, Cody is not only interested in the application of magic, but also the study of it.
• Spells:
  • Dreamwalker: When asleep, Cody can enter the dreams of other people near enough to him (about a 20m radius). While in others dreams, Cody can communicate with them, and possibly incept ideas into their minds (obviously, this isn't guaranteed to work). This spell takes a while to perform, as Cody must first fall asleep and enter R.E.M. sleep and start dreaming to enter others dreams.
  • Awareness: Cody is able to maintain a basic awareness of what's going around him while asleep.
  • Nap: While asleep, Codys body quickly rejuvenates. This allows him to heal quickly while asleep, and also means he only needs to sleep for about half as long as other people, as he recovers energy faster while asleep.
• Skills:
  • Fast Reader: Due to his time spent perusing magical tomes, Cody is a quick reader.
  • Agile: Cody is a good runner, and combined with his small size, this means he's quite agile as well.

I'm working out a partially different concept, and in the process I made some playing with pages. So Slime Girl, Monster Progenitor, Our Homunculi Are Different, and Cute Monster Girl have things now.

Oh yeah, can any concept work for this?

I think you mean the RPG and/or discussion pages. This is the sign-up.

edited 10th Aug '15 1:44:42 PM by tricksterson

@Musik Maestro, accepted.

@Kkutwar, indeed. Anything you want.

Thought up a character to be used in a radically different situation, realized it wasn't as different as a magical school, so though 'what the hell?', y'know? Okay, ignore this for a bit, I hit enter before I actually made the application.

edited 10th Aug '15 7:16:40 PM by TruthHurts22

Eh, I haven't done a gifted-like rp in a looong time, here goes.

edited 10th Aug '15 7:00:31 PM by Metanoia

Ehh, I'll post them tomorrow.

@Metanoia, accepted.

• Name: Alissandra Ventin
• Gender: Female
• Age: 14
• Element: Air, Three horizontal lines could be seen on her left arm.
• Appearance: She has short black hair tied in a haphazard bun. Most of the time, she wears a small hat pinning her bun into place. A beige jacket covers the black shirt she has underneath. She sports a short skirt - also beige -, black stockings, and almost knee-high boots for her lower attire. Everywhere she goes, her satchel goes with her, slung across her body.
• History: She's an optimistic girl who has always wanted to see the earth from the highest point there is. One for adventures and the like, she discovered her power on one such trip that almost killed her. Apparently, she is the lost daughter of a lost family of mages.
• Spells:
  • Air Step: She can "solidify" air which she uses to walk in the skies.
  • Air Wall: Using the same concept, she can make air able to stop mass. She cannot move it, making it a requirement for the body to be moving towards the wall to be of some effect. Of note: she can bounce stuff off the air walls.
• Skills:
  • She's quite good with a slingshot
  • She is also has a good hand at throwing and lobbing objects

• Name: Gertrude Schtillros
• Gender: Female
• Age: 10
• Element: Iron, its symbol is a diamond with lines perpendicular to its sides. Behind it is a rose. This is exclusive to the Schtillross family. (Akin to a crosshair)
• Appearance: She's what many people would see as a bratty, spoiled, and egotistical rich kid. Her long blond hair is always braided and then set as a bun on the top of her head. Her favorite dresses are either silver or white and accentuated by frills. Of course, she takes care not to overuse one too much or get any of them dirty. None of her dresses could be considered plain, often showcasing intricate stitches of flowers - particularly roses. Her symbol as a mage could be found at the side of her neck which she never fails to hide using either collars, scarves, furs, and whatnot.
• History: She comes from an old family of mages. Considered a prodigy, she was groomed to be the house heir from her birth. She never considered anyone to be her friend until she came across the suit of armor which she named Arryn. Though she controls it, she believes in her heart that he is with soul and mind. She doesn't actively control it, however; it's more like an unknown subconscious withinwithin her is Arryn suggesting a type of subtle split personalities.
• Spells:
  • She can alter a metal's shape as long as it is in contact with her which she uses to control her steel golem, Arryn.
• Skills: Pfft...

Can a monster manifest a mage symbol?

Edit: ill probably be putting more detail into the history. Those are just outlines.

edited 24th Aug '15 6:21:14 AM by DemKimochis

Looks interesting. Will post my character sheet tonight

edited 11th Aug '15 5:10:23 PM by svenorzokarkoff

Very, very in progress. Will finish later when I don't have quite so much homework.

Name: Magdalena Wegrzyn.

Gender: Female.

Age: 16.

Element: Bird. Looks like a teal-silver circle with a stylized falcon in the center.

Appearance: This (as far as face and upper body go), sans hat and wearing jeans and this t-shirt (assuming, of course, Netflix exists here).

History:

Spells:

• Flock: Summons a swarm of birds (various species) to her side to do her bidding. They can fight for her, carry some of her things (provided they don't weigh too much), and more.
• Birdform: Changes Magdalena into a bird of prey (a red-tailed hawk, specifically) for about 5 minutes.

Skills: Is a semi-decent flier, but has yet to get the hang of the more complicated parts. Namely, stopping in midair and landing.

edited 12th Aug '15 9:56:00 PM by Tojin

If you're still accepting, SO MUCH INTEREST

Done!

Sheet:

• Name: Dian Xiang
• Gender: Male
• Age: 15
• Species: Raiju
• Appearance: Picture! Some sidenotes: He's about 5'5" in height, and tends to wear multiple layers of clothing to hide how slender he is. Several people have mistaken him for a girl by now, so any assumptions about his gender are met with derision, snark, trolling, or some mixture of the three at this point.
• History: Comes from a surprisingly straight laced family of Raiju. His father was a little.. traditional. Y'know, all the 'men should be powerful blah blah blah' bullcrap. When his firstborn son came out with seemingly none of the traditional Raiju powers save for appearance, he was disappointed. What made matters worse is when his younger brother had all said powers, and was consistently given preferential treatment by their dad. Dian really resented all that, and accidentally came to resent his brother too. The human children made fun of him for being a monster, and there weren't any other monster children in the area for him to vent to.
  • Then one day, he manifested powers. Maybe his dad pissed him off a bit too much, maybe he was just gassy or something, but he was sitting alone one afternoon and accidentally zapped a tree in the forest. He ended up hiding them out of spite, knowing his dad's opinion would immediately change if they were revealed and that it would be laughable when it did. One day, when the comedic/up yours potential is highest, Dian probably will. He ended up getting shipped off to St. Anne's by his dad, hoping that he would toughen up or somesuch nonsense, but in reality it enabled Dian to hide his powers, stay away from his dad, and prevent his father from finding out he likes boys. Oh, yeah. He's gay. Dian finds his own life story laughably cliché.
• Abilities: What powers does your character have that stem from their species?
  • Control of electricity.
  • Minor weather related abilities. (i.e. if he tries hard enough he can make it rain. No, not like that.)
  • Flight.
  • Ability to turn into a behorned wolflike creature with your standard enhanced wolf senses. Or, more accurately, he has the ability to become human-ish and the wolflike form is his original. He carries the enhanced senses back into his human ish form, but they're slightly diminished.
• Skills: List any mundane skills your character has.
  • Bilingual. He can speak fluent Chinese and English.
  • Being a smartass during movies, conversations, anywhere....
  • Social Media Expert Dian has a Tumblr. (Assuming it exists in this world.) If any of you want your characters to be Tumblr buddies with him, just ask. He probably shitposts, like, all the time though.
  • He does best in ELA, though that's mostly because he cares very little for the other subjects.
• Other: He has an older sister. His mother is actually human- Raiju have an interesting quirk where the child of one and a human will always be human or another Raiju. No inbetweens. Being fluent in Chinese is from his Dad, who was originally from there and taught him when he was young. It's also occasionally spoken at home. They currently live in the northeast US, but Dian would never reveal where exactly for fear of someone tracking his house down and stalking him.

edited 12th Aug '15 9:41:42 PM by Daydre

Right, here we go.

Hero
* Name: Damon Wiles

• Gender: Male
• Age: 16
• Type: Incidental Hero
• Talent: Pain Nullification
• Appearance: Damon is a pretty typical-looking teen. Around six feet in height, a lean build that comes with being an athlete, not-quite-tanned skin. Dark blonde hair that he likes short and spiked towards the front and murky blue eyes. He isn't too worried about being at the height of fashion, so he tends to wear normal tees, pants, and shorts, though he does have a fondness for button-up shirts like this◊ (usually kept loose and unbuttoned, though).
• History: Damon lived a fairly normal life up until he became a part of the magic community; Loving mom and dad, an okay school that he did well in, and the star of his inline-hockey team. Hardly got into trouble, always optimistic (to a fault), tried to be friends with everyone he met. So you might be thinking; 'hey, this guy is nearly perfect! Did he crop up out of a pre-teen chick flick or something?' Well, no, but he isn't all that great. He's lived a fairly sheltered life leading up to now and is pretty naive about a lot of the outside world. Then there's the fact that his mom died in a car accident around when he was 9, and he's never fully come to accept it. He outright avoids talking about his mom for the purpose of not remembering she's dead. Whether it's conscious or not is still up for debate.
  Towards the end of his Sophmore year in his old highschool, Damon "Demon on Wheels" Wiles and his hockey team went up against their long-fought rivals, the Terkville Turkeys, for the championship. Needless to say, Damon's team won by a hair, and him and his friends all decided to take a celebratory drive for dinner. The Turkeys weren't too happy for having their victory yanked from under them, so they did the only thing emotionally confused and pissed off teenagers do. They ran Damon's friend's car off the road. Said car totaled, and everyone in it were hurt too bad to move. Yet somehow, Damon managed to not only free himself and his friends, but also get an ambulance before anyone could go into shock. While this normally wouldn't have been that big of a deal, Damon happened to do it all with a broken wrist and a concussion, and without once feeling the pain of either until all was said and done. Such a thing isn't particularly normal, and soon enough he was offered the scholarship to St. Anne's.
• Abilities: Whenever Damon is in a serious state of panic, he can subconsciously ignore nearly all forms of pain (though things that can kill him will still kill him, he just doesn't know that), and any crippling injuries are ignored. Think of adrenaline while in the heat of battle, but amplified.
• Skills: Great at skating and very flexible.

Mage
* Name: Allison Nauder

• Gender: Female
• Age: 18
• Element: Mind. The sign is two circles, one inside the other and with an x inside of itself, on the nape.
• Appearance: She is six and a half feet tall, curvy enough to be attractive but not so much as to seem fake. Brunette hair she keeps tied in either a high ponytail or pigtails, with a collection of highlighted streaks of different colors halfway between the center of her hair and her right ear. Looks to be of Latino descent, with naturally darkened skin. She has a cute button nose and cute freckle on her cheeks, just below pleasantly brown eyes. Enjoys wearing bright/neon colored clothes.
• History: Allison had two mages as parents, both of which were also under the Mind element. She learned very early on about magic and what she could possibly do, and fell in love with it. Even though it wasn't her parents' intention, she got it in her head that mortals were inferior to the magical folk. For a mage of the Mind, she had a very hard time changing her own. So for a while they kept her in mortal schools, wanting her to see how not-bad they actually were, and only cementing her disgust further. Despite from practice with her powers on 'feeble intelligence', she was also quite nasty to her peers and teachers, and even used her powers to bring a bit of harm to their daily lives. Eventually the problem could not be ignored longer and during her freshman year, they moved her from mortal school to St. Anne's. And she loved it there! So many others just like her, maybe not as powerful, but definitely better than 'Mortals' and those 'Hero' freaks she heard about. Not only did she take an instant liking to the facility, but a lot of people took a liking to her as well! Being able to manipulate thoughts certainly would've helped...
• Spells:
  • Emotion Transference: If focusing on a person, she can not only sense how they're feeling at the time, but can shift that frame of mind to another person, either herself or someone else. Such as, if she were feeling angry at someone/something, she could force someone else to feel the same way, and vice versa.
  • Amateur Mind Reading: While focusing like the above, Allison can sense the general thoughts of a person. Not so much as an in-depth looking into their mind, but small snippets. Say that someone was wanting to eat. If she read their mind, she would be able to tell that they were hungry, but not what they were hungry for, or if they were going to eat sooner or later. It's a double-edged sword.
  • Short-Term Memory Erasure: As the name implies, Allison can remove an individual's recent memory. This one is the more finicky of the three; she can only do so when close to the person in question, and only when making eye-contact. When they do, the pair stand there, staring at each other, making it fairly obvious if anyone else is watching. Five, short seconds of eye-contact would allow her to completely wipe the last ten minutes from the victim's mind. 30 seconds would allow her to extract only memories involving a specific subject (person, place, thing, etc). It's very risky, though, and she doesn't do it if she can avoid it.
• Skills: A silver tongue, excellent with both make-up and fashion.

So, how do spells work? Is it like something they need to say, like a word, or more like flexing a muscle? Also: How come the opening post talks about this 'Nocturne Academy' and not St. Anne's? Typo?

Name: Victor Datra

Gender: Male

Age: 15

Species: Nature Spirit (Affinity to Poisons)

Appearance: Victor has a fairly human appearance, with short messy black hair that never fully stays down, olive brown skin, dark green eyes, and slightly pointed ears. Victor normally wears a brown jacket over a dark green shirt, dark jeans and hiking boots. If needed, he carries a backpack containing miscellaneous necessities for the day, as well as a first-aid kit.

History:

Victor is the child of two healers: a swamp spirit and a forest elf. When he was 4, Victor discovered that his ability to create poisons when he was accidentally nicked a young dryad with his claws, injecting a small dose of venom and severely weakening her. Not understanding what he had done, Victor panicked when he saw the girl collapse, unresponsive, and ran to his mother for help.

Although the tree spirit recovered soon after, Victor was quite shaken when he was told why she collapsed, stunned that he almost killed the dryad without realizing it. From then on Victor was determined to use his ability with poisons in order to help people. When he was 7 he began his apprenticeship under his parents, learning that medicine and poison were two sides of the same coin, with the only difference being that medicine poisons the illness within the body. In time, Victor discovered that he was able to create some of the chemicals found in herbal plants, and with practice, could produce common poisons and chemicals in his body.

When Victor was 13, his parents enrolled him in St. Anne's Academy, under a partial scholarship for medical degree. Although he was uncomfortable with the idea at first, Victor grew used to attending class at St. Anne, admitting that he was learning many things that he wouldn't have known staying back at home, and that being able to socialize with other monsters and humans his age was refreshing.

Abilities:

• Apart from above-average endurance and agility, Victor is immune to poisons, venom and toxins. His blood is toxic to both humans and most monsters. He also possesses a set retractable claws that he can use to deliver poisons by jabbing them into the target like a syringe.

• Synthesis: Victor's body is a walking chemical factory. As long as he has good understanding of its composition and effects, he can produce anything from tear gas to morphine to aconite, He can these compounds as a liquid which he injects with his claws, or as a gas that he breathes out.

Due to the nature of his species, Victor normally limits himself to using milder compounds such as tear gas, tranquilizers and weak poisons which are simple to cure. Although he naturally knows how to produce a few stronger poisons like methanol, arsenic and ricin, Victor cannot do so without permission from teaching staff.

Skills:

• Victor has studied herbology (plant medicine) under the guidance of his parents, and is an apprentice healer, with 8 years experience. He is also able to give first aid if needed.

• Does very well in science, particularly chemistry and biology. He also enjoys history, but is fairly mediocre in other core subjects

• Victor is a skilled archer, having been taught by his father to hunt using a bow. He owns a collapsible recurve bow.

edited 15th Aug '15 12:28:49 AM by svenorzokarkoff

Is it cool if I make an Incidental Hero? A guy who was in the right place at the wrong time who happens to have been bestowed with the blessing of the Monkey King?

edited 12th Aug '15 5:12:16 AM by KR_Vandal

• Name: Kurt Jones
• Gender: Male
• Age: Eighteen
• Species: Half-Human Slime
• Appearance: Outwardly Kurt looks like a normal blue eyed black haired young man, except for the curious lack of any stumble. In actually his skin is actually just pale goo, devoid of any blemishes. Nonetheless he's human enough he needs to wear clothing, which is primarily black with white and blue accents. In fact almost his entire body is clothed, complete with gloves and a scarf. He even has a devil horned fox mask, though most of the time he just wears it on the left side of his head.
• History: Born to a psisonic Heroine and a Slime person, the two only became intimate after fighting together closely to stop a mad mage from further crazed experiments. His "father" taking on a male form to appease his mother's heterosexuality, Kurt came into the world after only six months. Growing up under heroes, Kurt himself found himself developing a heroic adventurous personality. Thus in the process he began experimenting with his hybrid nature, which eventually became too dangerous for him to be left unsupervised. With that, the young would-be hero found himself at St. Anne's Academy of Magic.
• Abilities: Slime Body (Though only half slime, his body is harder to actually damage and much more flexible, though high much pressure water will practically reduce him to a deceased puddle), Shapeshifting (Kurt is able to mold his gooey body, from such tricks as becoming like a woman to stretching out his limbs. However, as he's more fleshy goo than a biological mechanism, he isn't able to actually take on a thing's genetic presence and always reads as a human male), Self-Focused Manipulation (As a slime, Kurt is able to manipulate how tough his body actually is, thus his durability and strength are directly decided by his will. However this also means breaking his spirits will make him lose his structure)
• Skills: Creative Application (Kurt is good at finding uses for things, which is the main reason he has survived the fights he's been in), Lockpicking (Of the non magical low tech variety), Deducing (By closely reviewing an object in his possession he's able to put it to use rather quickly)

Hey, can I also give him a fairy friend? I've been really wanting to write a heroic adventurer having a fairy friend he closely protects.

• Name: Calvin Guan
• Gender: M
• Age: 17
• Type: Incidental
• Talent: Mechanical Control
• Appearance: 5'9" Chinese guy. Black hair, brown eyes, decently-built. Some claw scars around the corner of his right eye, some burns around his neck and right shoulder.
• History:

• Abilities: If it has wheels, Calvin can drive it, whether it's a skateboard, your sister's pink tricycle, a wheel-chair, or a suped up NASCAR vehicle. He can pop wheelies, turn on a dime, attain unheard of speeds, and perform death-defying stunts that would put Evel Knievel to shame. Put him on one of those old-people strollers and he'll still zoom down the street.
• Skills: Lockpicking, brawling and knife fighting.

edited 12th Aug '15 4:39:51 PM by HazzyHaz

Oh boy. Our characters' interaction ought to be interesting.

Also, picture is up.

Considering Matthew's behaviour, I imagine he and Dian would have interesting interactions.

I'm sure that Isra and, to a slightly lesser extent, Adrienne, will take a very dim (pun intended) view of anti-monster sentiments.

edited 12th Aug '15 8:47:43 PM by KarrinBlue

• Name: Hela Varaide
• Gender: F
• Age: 16
• Species: Gnoll, a race supposedly descended from mutated hyenas that ate the kills of the Demon Prince Yeenoghu before he was imprisoned.
• Appearance: Old-timey scale armor supplemented with kevlar. Maybe it's also a metaphor or something. She stands with a hunch at 7 feet tall.
• History: Hela's family is one of many groups of modern Gnolls suffering from an identity crisis. Their cultural memory is highly aware of the old times of roving bands of Gnolls, warriors so fierce, cruel, and nightmarish that not even other "monster races" would work with them. With industrialization came a gradual shift into cities, a shift her ancestors followed. Hela's dad is a foreman in a factory, mom helps manage it. Honest work, but rough and tough. Hela, for her count, seemed good for that rough and tough lifestyle. She fell into hard delinquency, creating gangs as quickly as she destroyed them and others. One street fight too many got the attention of the authorities, but also the St. Anne administration. It was proposed that the Academy might be a better fit for Hela—a place where her identity as a monster would be better-received, as part of the norm. She assented, and got herself shipped off to the Academy.
• Abilities:
  • Her senses are significantly sharper than a human's, but these senses are always that sensitive; intensely loud noise or bright lights can stun her easily.
  • Gnolls' demonic strength and Hela's own love of fitness means that her top lifting weight clocks in around 300 pounds.
  • The durability of a demon and a hyena's constitution means that Hela's body just doesn't burn, her body can't be poisoned or diseased, and she can digest practically anything.
  • The most supernatural ability a Gnoll has is their unique vocal chords, known within Gnoll culture as The Butcher's Lure. The Lure enables them to create nearly any noise from their throat. Their signature piercing laughter is only one of many possible sounds they can create.
• Skills:
  • Fitness: Hela's beefy, even for a Gnoll. She stayed in shape at a boxing gym, so she can also hold her own in a bare-knuckle fight.
  • Acting: Hela gets most of her aggression out nowadays by acting in school plays, capitalizing on The Butcher's Lure for a more creative outlet.
  • Work: Hela's worked a ton of blue-collar jobs over the years. Chances are that if it pays minimum wage, she probably knows how to do it. Some repair work, some food/service industry stuff, and a lot of warehouse and construction work.

edited 19th Aug '15 6:37:33 PM by Taco

Considering Victor's abilities, I think Matthew's interactions with him are going to be...interesting.

On the other hand, I think Victor would get along quite well with Hela. Especially since he won't have to worry about his poisons affecting her.

Given Henderson's repressed nature and For Science! inclinations, I wonder how he'll do...