Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues - Signup Thread

Is this still a thing can I still join?

It’s definitely still a thing, and signups ain’t closed yet

—> * ‘’‘ Name’’’

do you like your name? ” I mean, I wanted something better like, Valerie or Jennifer and.... oh wait those are girl names aren’t they? Meh I also thought what it would be like being a girl, not that I’m gay or anything.”

AGE: 15

what do you want to be when you grow up? A friggin astronaut, chicks dig astronauts.

APPEARANCE:

Is 175cm and kinda looks like Bryan De Chart. He has blackish brown hair and brown eyes. Is fairly athletic. When he wears his vigilante costume, he looks like the mix of little red riding hood and Netflix’s Daredevil.( though it doesn’t have the horns nor it’s very though, he is a teen so he doesn’t know how to make those stuff). He wears a red hood and a red scarf which makes it look like a short cape. The rest he wears black clothes.

PERSONALITY:

Is sarcastic and loves playing around. Sometimes an annoying jerkass but he is a real nice and chill dude. But he is only funny because he is trying to hide and forget his dark pasts or his current life. He would be a great guy to hangout with, especially when there is a party. He is Entomophobic (insectophobic), and hates the deep sea. He likes watching people play war games and also like watching people fight via MMA.

It’s Saturday night and your parents are out of town. What do you do?

Oh baby, I party hard.... no not really I only have 4 very close friends, so I’ll just chill do a sleepover, well I have two popular friends so I might end up partying anyway.

BACKSTORY: He has two brothers, Andrew is the middle one. He had a somewhat nice childhood, well from his birth to 6 years old his relationships with his family were quite decent. But after his dad got involved with the mafia everything went chaos. His parents started fighting more and his relationship with his two brothers got even more complicated. He was always interested about different countries and cultures and would want to travel the world, some part of him also thinks he wants to travel is because he wants to get away with all of the shit that is happening to him. He has 4 very close friends. Alex, a very tall and attractive guy, he comes from a rich family and is very popular. John, a half Japanese half American, also a very attractive guy, his dad is a struggling actor and John is Andrew’s advice man. R’dion, a very smart Ukrainian who started learning how to hack into things when he was 7. Although R’dion is 15, he is like a wise man and every time Andrew hangs out with him, he learns something philosophical and wise, Kalani, Andrew’s first best friend, without Kalani, Andrew wouldn’t have been the funny guy everyone thought he was.

what do your parents do for a living? Do you live with both of them?

I don’t want to talk about this. But yes I do live with them. Next question.

POWERS:

He has Resurrective Immortality. Every time he dies he comes back to life uninjured, he has acne? Shoots himself in the head, gone. Have cancer? Hangs himself, job done. If he dies in an extreme way like from a nuke or gets ripped apart, he turns into ashes and sands then materializes (naked ofcourse). When he dies, it usually takes him 5 to 30 minutes to come back.

He also has enhanced strength and endurance, though a bullet would still penetrate his skin, and he can’t lift up an elephant.

WHAT KIND OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO? [[red: uhmmmm.... vaporwave, alternative indie rock, classical music, dubstep, chillstep, anything I find dope. If I find all star dope then I like that.

Alright tell me where I screwed up. (Can I swear?)

edited 22nd Jun '18 7:32:57 PM by OzymandiasTheGreat

@Atlas Stratus: Accepted!

@Enirboreh: Eric? Who's Eric? Accepted.

@Ozymandias: well, first, you've got a bunch of formatting problems with your post, I suggest you see the other posts and read up on text formatting. Second, I'm not sure if you're going for a more informal way of writing out your sheet, but at points it got really confusing (I couldn't tell what information you were trying to tell me, and the occasional grammatical errors didn't really help).

Third, I'd rather you didn't make up several NP Cs to be your character's supporting cast (we do allow you to have additional characters like parents, siblings, but friends are where we draw the line), and I just feel like your backstory has too much happening to this one Rhode Island kid whilst at the same time it tells me too little about who he actually is (like how the second half of the backstory is all about his friends).

And finally, whilst I am in some level okay with your power, it seems like you're not giving it and your character the 'heft' and 'weight' of such an ability. I mean, for you to go from a normal kid to 'what, I have acne... let me shoot myself in the head'? That's a really big leap. Plus, whilst we do have characters with quasi-immortality, they're all NP Cs, which means it's not a problem for them to hang around without doing much. So I'd suggest you either think of a new power or try to connect your power more with a simplified backstory.

Also, it's been less than a day since the empowering event. Just thought I should tell all of you.

edited 22nd Jun '18 1:11:47 PM by Stratofarius

Sorry for the mistakes and the grammatical error, I’m not American. I will try my best to do something about it.

Sorry do I need a computer for the format? Because it isn’t working on iPad.

You can open the text formatting rules page in a separate page and go from there

The text formatting is done in-post.

Might as well give this another shot, eh?

• Name: Margaret Liams
  • Do you like your name?: "Nope. Nadda. Fucking zilch. Call me Mags, or Maggie or Magpie or whatever else, just not Margaret."
• Age: 17 (in her Junior year for the second time, for the record)
  • What do you wanna be when you grow up?: "I was thinking I'd be like, a mortician, or like one of those guys that sit in on trials and type down everything that happens? Something where I can watch all sorts of crazy shit go down without being responsible for it."
• Appearance: This works I guess.◊ Brown eyes, dark hair, typically wears baggy, black, and/or artfully damaged clothing. Sometimes wears makeup whenever she feels like being goth-y, but not often.
  • Do you have a crush or are you not even thinking about these things yet?: "Not really. There's been a couple of hotties I was interested in, but it never went past the ogling phase."
• Personality: With a slightly misanthropic view of the world and a severe anti-authoritarian streak, Maggie can be a tough person to be around. She's cynical and realistic, self-assured to a fault, and doesn't hold anything back when it comes to other people. Why would she lie about herself or something else just to make a friend? Most of her attitude comes down to a desire to be free, to make her own choices and live life how she wants to, along with the anger when reality ends up pulling the rug out from under her. She's not a bad person, exactly; just one who doesn't feel like trying to be good or nice.
  • It's Saturday night and your parents are out of town. What do you do?: "Go out with my friends, have sugar after dark, put my feet on the table, blast music or whatever show I'm watching until my ears hurt. You know, whatever they won't let me do."
• Backstory: Margaret Liams was mistake. Not that her conception was an accident - her parents very much wanted to have her - but rather that she should not have been born. Her mother was eight months through the pregnancy when her doctors told her that her unborn baby was killing her. Pressured by multiple people and her own parents, Margaret's mother was essentially forced to go through with it. The day Margaret Liams was born was the day her mother died. Stricken with grief, Margaret's father fell into heavy depression. Her grandparents - Teddy and Gwen Celder, on her mother's side - found the mess of a father unfit to raise baby Margaret, and took it to court. They managed to gain custody of Margaret, much to her already miserable father's despair. Named after her late mother by her grandparents, Margaret grew up into a life that she never felt was her own. She learned at an early age of what happened with her dead mom and missing father, and how her grandparents made "the right choices" and how her life was a gift to everyone, and soon figured out what a load of shit that all was. Unable to speak out against her grandparents due to being the only family she even had, Margaret was forced to live by their strict and hyper-conservative standards. When she reached 16, she stopped caring. She found every excuse to sleep over someone else's place, to avoid her grandparents, to not listen to anyone telling her to do things. She did the bare minimum of work at school needed to move on with her life and kept her personal life close to her chest. Things changed in Junior year; Margaret had a freakout with the school's guidance counselor, broke the window of his office, and tore the bookcase to the floor. Needless to say she was back as a Junior, another year added to her school career and an extra dose of disappointment from her guardians.
  • What do your parents do for a living? Do you live with both of them?: "If you mean my grandparents, they're retired. Mom has a full time gig as a corpse and I'll be lucky if dad's still alive too. Is that what you wanted to fucking know?"
• Powers: Maggie has the power of Magnetic Field Manipulation, which is a fancy little term I picked at random because it sounds cool. Essentially, Maggie can magnetically charge any object she can see, either positively or negatively, as well as manipulate their strength. It works like magnets normally do: if two objects are similarly charged, they'll repel each other, while if they're differently charged they'll attract. She can place these fields on anything, metallic or otherwise. Physics still tend to work, however - if one charged object is larger than the other, it will naturally remain in place while the smaller is attracted/repelled. She also has the ability to straight-up push things away from herself, either with a concentrated blast or as an AOE sort of effect around her. The charge she can put on objects will stay until either a) Maggie purposefully releases that object's charge or b) she does her big Push Back thing, which will discharge any, er, charge she has since placed.
  • What kind of music do you listen to?: Loud stuff. Anything that's trendy or popular. I like rock a lot."

edited 24th Jun '18 9:43:14 PM by TruthHurts22

@Truth Hurts: alright, so the sign up itself is okay, I just feel a little bit iffy in accepting you considering you dropped out pretty quick last time. Can I get your word that this won't happen again?

Yes. I'll try to stick with it for longer this time. I feel that since Maggie has a) a better power and b) actual personality and conflict, I should be able to play her more :P

Alright! Welcome back. Here's a link to the Discord.

Ich habe zwei Fragen:

• You still taking signups?
• Does the character have to be a normal teenager or can he be very weird and have a lot of... issues?

What do you mean by having a lot of issues?

His life has been rather sucky, so he's kinda... off (antisocial, obsessive, really weird). Not anything major, nor any full-blown mental illnesses, just... issues.

I mean, as long as you're not trying to make something edgy for edgy sake, or trying to create a black hole of sadness that will change the RP's tone, I'm okay with you making a sheet.

• Name: Owen Grey
  • Do you like your name?: "Umm... It's my name. I'm not really sure if those are the sorts of things you like or dislike, y'know?"
• Age: 17
  • What do you want to be when you grow up? "I want to be that weird guy in pretty much everyone's neighborhood that seems to be financially stable but doesn't seem to have a job and who everyone seems creeped or weirded out by despite the fact that they don't seem to be doing anything wrong. Oh, wait, I already am."
• Appearance: A bit like this, only minus the awesome goggles, though he would like it if he had a pair.◊ He's about 5'11 and has green-grey eyes.
  • Do you have a crush or are you not even thinking about these things yet? "Umm... yeah. I've never met her, but Nastya Zhidkova◊ is really beautiful."
• Personality: On the sliding scale of antisocial-ness, Owen is somewhere between "rather" and "very", but when he does talk, he has a tendency to ramble. He isn't easily scared or angered, but he is easily exited. Little acts of kindness provoke disproportionately positive reactions. However, most of the time he just sits there, doing his thing or staring out into space. He also has a lot of hobbies, some rather normal but others kinda weird, that he does almost obsessively and with a passion, and does not like people watching him do, although it doesn't seem to be for a particular reason, but just because they're private, dammit! He's mostly harmless, but has a strange affinity for bladed weapons he can neither explain nor justify. He also often makes gestures to emphasize his point while he talks.
  • It's Saturday night and your parents are out of town. What do you do? "Quite honestly, they're almost always out of town, and when they aren't, they rarely bother me. Don't call child services. I don't mind. Anyways, I'd probably do what I usually do when I don't have school: go down to the junkyard and steal some scrap metal, then make some cool stuff out of it. I'm currently working on a claymore."
• Backstory: Owen's life actually hasn't been very interesting. He's lived all of his life in Oldport, in an old, creaky, poorly-maintained two-story house. His parents mostly left him alone, though they paid more attention to him when he was younger. It didn't help that they were and still are typically gone every day except for monday-wednesday (and not "returns at night" gone, "out of town" gone) and stopped hiring a babysitter when he turned eleven. He had to find his own entertainment, and developed several very weird hobbies. He also had trouble with people, and became increasingly a social outcast at school. He claims that it doesn't bother him, but he's lying to himself as well as everyone else. Pretty much the only people he's comfortable around (and that he could be said to be friends with) are his Uncle Todd (his mother's brother), his Aunt Valentine, and their adoptive daughter Lily, who he thinks of a bit like a sister. He stays over at their place once every two weeks, but has to make a great effort to conceal exactly how neglectful his parents are of him, because his aunt and uncle really care about him and would call child services immediately. His life so far has been strange, but uneventful. Well, until he got powers...
  • What do your parents do for a living? Do you live with both of them? "Hell if I know. I never bothered to ask them."
  • What kind of music do you listen to? (put this before the powers thing for my own reasons) "I like Grunge, Post-Grunge, and Alternative Metal, mostly. Some of the less-shitty Nu Metal, too, and some other stuff. I really like Rob Zombie, Chevelle, and Alice in Chains. I also sometimes listen to Pink Floyd."
• Powers: Owen's powers are probably as strange as he is, which is unsurprising.
  • Mist Generation & Manipulation: Owen can generate a very cold, dense, and moist fog that is extremely hard to see through, although he can thicken and thin it at will. Although he hasn't tested his limits, he can generate enough to engulf a whole town, but this would probably be a bad idea, since his powers rely on caloric energy to power them and he'd probably die of malnutrition if he engulfed a town. Of course, when generating huge amounts of fog, he sacrifices the fine control he has over smaller amounts for the sheer amount of fog he can generate. In addition, he can "feel" through his fog, although the impressions even from small amounts are typically vague and mildly confusing, and much like fine control, his ability to feel with the fog gets worse with larger amounts. Also, the fog isn't corporeal, so it's mostly harmless except when used with his third power.
  • Hallucination Inducement: Owen can induce hallucinations in anyone he touches. These hallucinations are typically extremely vivid, last as long as he wants them to (typically anywhere between a few minutes and a few hours), are always extremely surreal, and are typically violent and/or apocalyptic in nature. In addition, he can induce hallucinations by touching people with his mist as well has his skin, and they are just as potent when delivered in mist form. The hallucinations are also fueled by his caloric energy (and a lot of it, too), and he has no control over what his target sees.
• Hobbies: Owen has many hobbies that range from actually rather normal to kind of creepy. He likes stealing scrap metal from the local junkyard and making cool stuff with it (which he's surprisingly good at). He doesn't know what it is about making things, but it's rather soothing (and also fun), and stealing from the junkyard is only rational, since he can get it for free and nobody wants it anyways (although he enjoys sneaking in and making off with stuff a bit too much). He also likes urban exploration, because creepy abandoned buildings are cool. Another hobby of his is climbing things (usually things he's not supposed to) simply because he finds the feeling of precariously clambering up a fence, tree, or old/not-so-old house enjoyable, and there's usually one hell of a view. He also likes scavenging simply because one man's trash is another man's treasure, and there is a lot of trash, if you know where to look for it. Other hobbies include feeding the rats that live in the basement (which he appropriated as his workshop, since his mom and dad never use it or even go down there) because his parents wouldn't get him a puppy, taking pictures of random people (it's a sort of game to him, and only he seems to have even a vague idea of the rules), and listening to music and narrations of creepypastas on his phone (the music because he loves music, and the creepypastas because he really enjoys the twist endings and also because they help fuel his admittedly slightly morbid imagination).

Edited by SomethingRandom113 on Jul 9th 2018 at 7:47:39 AM

Okay, so this is gonna be a big response.

• First of all, no on the kissing cousins thing. I don't really care if they're adopted. I won't allow that kind of stuff in my RP.
• It seems to me like instead of asking if characters could be weird with lots of issues, you should just have asked if they could be antisocial. And I've got no problem with that. My problem starts when that's all they are. You told me has weird hobbies... and what are they? Why does he have them? He's harmless but he likes bladed weapons. Why? How is that a personality? That's a fun fact, if anything.
• Stealing scrap metal and exploring abandoned buildings are not weird hobbies. The former is called recycling and the latter is called urban exploration. Nobody looks at you weird for any of them.
• You mention creepypastas twice. Again, this illustrates a big problem with your sheet: you just mention things as if those things themselves are enough. But they're not. You need to take those things and explain me why they matter. Lists are not character sheets.
• In regards to all your powers, you can't go 'yeah this power can have effect over a whole city'. Nobody in the RP has that yet and probably won't have for a very long time. That's just not a thing you can do. This gets particularly troublesome when you connect the dots and realize you basically gave your character the power to make everyone in an entire city trip balls.
• Speaking of the hallucination power, again, you can't just throw something at me with no limits. Specially because considering all of the things you mentioned about these hallucinations, it seems like you're trying to make your character an one-way instantaneous ticket to edgetown. And that's not gonna happen.
• Cut one of those powers out. Three is too much. And make sure to nerf them.

• It was to ensure that nobody ever ships him with anyone. The "adoptive" part was to make sure that the shippers had a tiny amount of hope because I usually hate people who try to ship my characters without my permission and want them to feel bad (though not truly suffer). Edited it, anyways. Now he just has a Celebrity Crush that he's never met (also included a picture link so you don't have to google her, although I do recommend doing so since she is really pretty). Still weird, but not taboo weird.
• Edited that part. Still no reason for his love of bladed weapons, but it now gives insight into his psyche and somesuch. Also, more actual personality.
• Yeah they do. Anyways, you're probably right-ish. So, not all of his hobbies are weird, it's just why he does them (sometimes) and how obsessively he does them that's weird.
• Did as you asked. Also put them on their own separate thing, since it seems like they wouldn't really fit under personality or backstory.
• Depowered it a bit. Also made it tied to his caloric energy. No making everyone in the city trip balls unless he wants to starve to death in the meantime.
• Tied hallucinations to caloric energy as well. No making more than a few people in the town trip balls at a time (and not for more than 2-4 hours if he only does one guy) unless he's had a big meal recently.
• Cut the increased agility. Didn't fit with the other two. Also, done and done.

Thank you for having the patience to go into detail over your critique of my character instead of outright rejecting him.

Edited by SomethingRandom113 on Jul 9th 2018 at 8:08:00 AM

• Uhm, let me get this straight. Instead of just asking people not to ship your character- something which some of my players have done and which all players respect- you decide that the only solution would be to give him an incestuous crush? All so you could make an imaginary 'shipper' person- who let me remind you, in this situation, if there were any at all, they'd be your fellow players- feel terrible? What the fuck?
• Let me put this gently: you didn't explain anything. You just added more stuff to his list of traits. The biggest example is the sentence little acts of kindness provoke disproportionately positive reactions. I can't find the basis for such a reaction in his backstory, and also you make no attempts at actually explaining why little acts of kindness do that to him. You just made a bigger list. Also, taking pictures of random people is a crime, not a hobby.
  • Let me add something... your explanations for his hobbies are: it's fun, it's cool, the view is cool, he has pet rats, and he likes music. That's not an exploration into your character's psyche, that just sounds like you, the player, trying to tell me why something's cool and hoping that's enough justification for your character to like them.
• No, they don't. You can't look at me in the eye and tell me people look at you weird because you make stuff out of discarded objects when it is literally an internationally recognized form of art. You can't tell me people look at you weird because you explore abandoned buildings when people get half a million subscribers from it. Please stop trying.
• You didn't change anything because he can still generate enough to engulf a whole town. Going 'oh this is a bad idea' doesn't change the fact you didn't remove the one thing I told you to remove.

Edited by Stratofarius on Jul 10th 2018 at 7:41:57 AM

Okay. I guess I'm the weird one and he's just a bad character concept. I guess I'll scrap him and start over.

• Name: Marvin Anderson
  • Do you like your name? "My first name is cool. I don't have a last name, despite what all those other idiots say!"
• Age: 15 (and a half!)
  • What do you wanna be when you grow up? "The next Napoléon Bonaparte."
• Appearance: Marvin has black hair, blue eyes, pale skin, and a shabby WW1-era military uniform he wears all the time. God knows where he got it or how he keeps it clean. He stands about 5'9'' and is as skinny as a bean pole.
  • Do you have a crush or are you not even thinking about these things yet? "Nobody is good enough for me! It doesn't help that I'm Asexual."
• Personality: Marvin takes great glee in acting like a megalomaniac, although, despite how he acts, he is surprisingly self-aware. He loves chaos, and can maniacally grin his way through practically anything. Ridiculously overblown Large Ham interspersed with deadpan Cold Ham moments are pretty much what he lives for. He also loves subtle jokes, but his sense of humor can be... unconventional.
  • It's Saturday night and your parents are out of town. What do you do? "The same thing I do every night, try to Take Over the World!"
• Backstory: Marvin was the middle child of a family of seven (one adult, five children), and tended to get the middle child blues, so he developed increasingly bizarre and over-the-top attention-getting attempts, culminating in his acquisition of a shabby WW1-era British Military Uniform (god knows where he got it), helmet and all, which he's worn almost perpetually ever since, and his obfuscation of megalomania. It worked, and he started getting all of the attention due to his weird attire and insane antics, but soon, nobody took him seriously. Ever. Even when he was being serious. He decided he might've gone too far, but there was no turning back now, so he put on his mask of megalomania even more of the time, played it for all it was worth, and only took it off when he was alone. Quite honestly, he wasn't really that sad. Being the middle child, he was used to feeling lonely, and at least he was the center of attention now and making people laugh.
  • What do your parents do for a living? Do you live with both of them? "Dad used to be in the military. Now he's a construction worker. Mom's a doctor. Not a nurse, a doctor! Why am I always surrounded by fools?"
• Powers: Marvin can make dim orbs of light appear. They don't do anything except glow. Dimly. They come in different colors and sizes. The largest he can make is about the size of a beach ball. He prefers not to use his powers, instead simply claiming to have "magical superpowers", because it makes him look more ridiculous, and thus is funnier.
  • What kind of music do you listen to? "Classic Rock is the master music! Anyone who says otherwise will pay when I'm in charge!"

Better? Probably not, but I tried.

Edited by SomethingRandom113 on Jul 10th 2018 at 10:30:27 AM

Yeah, no, I'm not wasting my time with you if that's how you're going to act.

We've had a drop out and as such have an open spot.

Name

Jemimah Chen

Do you like your name?

"My name? Well, the old man just dug it out of the dictionary, and I guess it stuck! Love it. Ten out of ten, wouldn't trade it for the world!"

Age

Eighteen.

What do you wanna be when you grow up?

"Hmm, let's see... World Judo Women's Champion... oh, and gold at Tokyo would be nice in three years. Don't tell Pa, but I also want a dojo."

Appearance

A tall girl of Sino-Japanese extraction, with bright brown eyes, a square, good-natured face, and a broad frame. Her hands and feet are ridged with calluses, and her hair is usually tied back into a rough ponytail. Her cheeks are almost always ruddy, whether from her morning workouts, her afternoon workouts, her evening workouts, or just general goodwill. One of her top incisors is missing.

Do you have a crush or are you not even thinking about these things yet?

"I think about Kimura Masahiro every single day. I mean, man, the guy could kill you with a throw. Stand, bow, osotogari, bam, you're out into next week! What's not to love? It's too bad he's dead, don't you think?"

Personality

Jemimah Chen is extremely aware of the strange nature of her name. As a matter of fact, she tends to be the first to laugh at it. Boisterous, almost terrifyingly hospitable, and extremely loud, Jemimah seems to fill every room she's in with the sheer power of her unadulterated exuberance. She is unashamedly physical, smacking acquaintances on the back with aplomb, and possesses absolutely no sense of personal space. She is an extrovert in the purest sense of the word.

It's Saturday night and your parents are out of town. What do you do?

"I grab a Hot Pocket and my thermos, go into the backyard and practice my inner leg reaps on Uke the Tree. See? That one, right there. That's Uke."

Backstory

Born to a Japanese mother and a Chinese father, Jemimah moved from Nagano to Oldport when she was ten and immediately dominated the local judo club, displaying talent (and stature) far beyond her years. Her training actually began at the age of four - her mother, a skilled amateur judoka herself, was pleased at her daughter's immediate fascination with the sport, and played a major role in developing the young Jemimah's skills. Outgoing and impossibly resilient, Jemimah bumbled her way through school mostly by hitting the books until they gave up, and now, in her final year, boasts a substantial stable of friends. Not admirers, because no-one is quite sure if admiring Jem is a very healthy thing, but definitely friends. Her training consists of surprisingly old-school and worryingly hardcore routines, such as doing push-ups on gravel and practicing inner leg sweeps against a certain unfortunate tree.

What do your parents do for a living? Do you live with both of them?

"Mom's a housewife and Dad's an accountant, and of course I live with both of them! I mean, I wouldn't be able to support me."

Powers

Avoid and Elide

Jemimah's powers are twofold. Avoid allows her to create a personal repulsive field on anything that she touches with her hands. This sends Jemimah flying away from the Avoided object at speed, similar to the unlike poles of two supermagnets. Avoid persists for about fifteen minutes once tagged, and Jemimah can deactivate and reactivate the effect at will during those fifteen minutes. If the object has less mass or is less rooted than Jemimah, Avoid will have the opposite effect, and will instead push the tagged object away. It is worth noting that floors and walls do not have much of any effect on Avoid's power. At the moment, she can only apply Avoid to a maximum of two objects at a time. By focusing her will, Jemimah can expand and shrink the circumference of Avoid, from centimeters up to a current limit of about fifty meters.

Elide, Avoid's sister-power, allows Jemimah to remove friction from anything she touches with the soles of her feet. This allows her to skate at great speeds by stealing friction from her shoes, and when used in conjunction with Avoid, can help her perform incredible gravity-defying manuveurs. Elide is also surprisingly sensitive; it subtly modulates to help Jemimah maintain her own balance when in use, shifting and deactivating in places. When active, Elide also protects Jemimah from the disastrous secondary effects of moving at such speeds, though it does not steal friction from things the rest of her body touches. Unlike Avoid, Elide does not persist when not actively in use, and requires constant mindfulness on Jemimah's part to maintain. This means that at the moment, Jemimah can only Elide objects that are in contact with her bare soles.

What kind of music do you listen to?

"Music? You mean, like, pop and stuff? I mean, I guess I like Britney... what, why are you looking at me like that for? Is it my hair again?"

Accepted.