Deconstruction, you say~? Ooh... This sounds pretty interesting, but before I plunge into writing up the idea I have, I have to ask you something: Say the character didn't have a messaging system or phone, and didn't have access to one either. How would they get the message? Or would they not get the message at all?
Okay, here it is.
- Name: Nicolas Powell
- Age: 15
- Starting City: San Francisco
- Appearance: Nicolas is Caucasian, 5'6" and lanky, handsome, with black hair and brown eyes.
- Personality: In the outside, he is a person who is friendly and is naturally popular. He is the sort of person that hangs out with other popular guys in and out of schools, with him being in the center. He has good grades (mostly As but a handful of Bs) and he participate in a sport. He isn't The Libby, but he has some tendencies like teasing people and being a little obsessed with being perfect. In the inside, he's thoughtful and slightly bookish, but a little troubled. His family has a history of being slightly off, and the stress of keeping up his facade is getting into him. He also feels like he isn't doing enough in life, and he is just there, serving as the person a lot of his classmates want to be. So if you give him more power than he could handle, he might go a little overboard...Oh, don't call him Nick. It's Nicolas.
- Family: His father is the owner of a science research center, and is of the lower-upper class. Nicolas' mother is a designing freelancer, with OCD. He has an younger brother named Zachary (13) which is a little shy, but his older brother, Jason (19) has borderline personality disorder, being a little too attention-grabbing at his college.
- Bio: Besides what is stated above, not much. He is an avid tennis player and an inner literature geek who is aiming to impress his father in the near future. He just started going out with a girl named Teresa, who is more empathic than him. Besides having honors, nothing much is happening in his life when the Phantasms arrive.
- Character Alignment: True Neutral
- Phantasm: Josephial (Male)
- Appearance: A black, scaly, dragon-like creature the size of a large dog. He has a long snout with a red marker, long T-rex like arms, and small dinosaur legs. He has a slender tail and wings. His human form consists of a scrawny, 4'11'' fifteen-year old with golden brown hair, michevous expresson, and with very large, black pupils that look like orbs.
- Personality: Josephial (don't call him Joseph) is a cunning Phantasm, pocessing a sharp tongue that is capable with making snarks, teases, and dark jokes. He is a little playful. However, he can relate to people's emotion, listening to their troubles.
- Powers:He's a telepath, being able to anticipate attacks in combat and sense peoples intentions and current thoughts. He can also communicate with Nicolas secretly. He can breathe water as a Breath Weapon, which is strong enough to repell a person fifteen feet and break a few bones. His combat abilities are of a trained fighting dog, military class.
He can also change from his beast form into his human form. However, he has no combat ability in this form, but he is faster.
edited 10th Apr '11 6:43:19 PM by chihuahua0
Welp, here goes. Um... If there's anything wrong with it, let me know. I always have this feeling that I'm screwing up horribly and completely missing the point when it comes to these things, ahah~ >.>
- Name: Alex (the only name she ever gives. If it matters, her full first name is "Alexandra".)
- Age: 15
- Starting City: San Francisco
- Appearance: Alex is around 5'7" tall and has short, black hair and green eyes. She is almost always wearing a grubby brown trenchcoat over a plain black shirt and trousers (mostly because this is pretty much the only outfit she has). Her clothes are baggy so what little curves she has are hidden, and her general body frame is slightly muscular, so she's always initially mistaken for a handsome young man rather than a girl (which is pretty much what she's aiming for).
- Personality: Stoic, rarely shows any real emotion at all. Always speaks in a low pitched, calm, quiet tone, which can come off as unnerving to people not used to her. Her experiences have led her to gain a somewhat nihilistic worldview.
- Family: When asked about her family, Alex will try as much as possible to change the subject. Her real parents died when she was ten, and her foster parents... Were not the nicest of people. Her only currently living family member is her aunt Sadie Vasory, a high school teacher who tries to act like the most upstanding member of society she can in order to mask her true self.
- Bio: Alex was once a normal, carefree little girl, born into a loving family who cared deeply for her. Unfortunately, this wasn't meant to last. Soon after her tenth birthday, her parents died in a car accident, and she was put into the care of her only living relatives, her estranged aunt Sadie and her husband Joe. What followed was four years of horrific abuse towards the young girl, who the couple hated having thrust upon them, and who Sadie especially hated because Alex reminded her of her sister, who she'd always been viciously jealous of. Alex somehow put up with it all until one night when she fourteen, when Joe returned home heavily drunk and "in the mood", to find Alex the only one home. The struggle that followed ended with Alex, terrified and desperately, stabbing Joe with a kitchen knife, killing him. Horrified at the fact that she'd killed someone, Alex ran. And she kept running, even after the press claimed that she'd been abducted by whoever had slain her uncle. She knew that if she was ever found, she'd just end up back with Sadie, which was something she didn't want to happen ever again. In an effort to make her more difficult to find, and to make sure the kind of thing that led to her having to run never happened to her again, she cut off all ties to her femininity, and took to disguising herself as a boy. And so she's been living on the streets as a boy ever since, having to learn to fight to survive very quickly, every day being a life or death struggle until one day, she woke up with a strange girl beside her holding an odd letter...
- Character Alignment: True Neutral, with a very slight leaning towards Neutral Good.
- Phantasm: Sizzler
- Appearance: Sizzler looks almost like a regular girl of around roughly three and a half feet tall with a sky blue bobcut. Her eyes are concealed by a dark green visor, and she appears to be wearing black headphones, and a white leotard. Her limbs are covered in big, clunky steampunk-ish armour.
- Personality: In almost direct contrast to Alex, Sizzler is very much the Genki Girl, wearing her heart on her sleeve and being very passionate about everything she does. Her current ultimate goal is to somehow, someway, put a smile on Alex's face, no matter what she has to do to achieve it.
- Powers: Sizzler is immensely strong and durable, capable of crushing cars with her bare hands and taking gunshots as if they were nothing. Her visor can fire out a moderately powerful Eye Beam (with about the same punch and range as a shotgun), and her fists can fire off by themselves and administer a Rocket Punch. Her arsenal is topped off with the ability to combine her arms to form the "Teleforce Macroscopic Charged Particle Beam Projector", or for short, the Teleforce Buster, a very large and incredibly powerful cannon that can fire a beam of immense destructive power, it's only drawback being that it has to charge up for at least a minute before it can fire (to a maximum of five minutes charge; one minutes charge is powerful enough to level a building, whilst a full five minutes charge can wipe out an entire city block). In addition to her incredible firepower, Sizzler is moderately intelligent and fully capable of speaking and understanding English. However, despite her collosal strength, Sizzler is... Not exactly the fastest Phantasm out there.
edited 10th Apr '11 4:13:11 PM by Moerin
- Name: Kazuki Enkokuji
- Age: 16
- Starting City: Tokyo
- Appearance: A rather muscular and wiry young man, has some good looks, his hair is platinum blond, near white, and he has blue eyes. He usually wears a simple button up white short sleeved shirt, black pants, and boots. He has a single scar at the middle of his back from an incident involving a bike crash. He usually wears a pair of gloves on his hands. He has a nice little tan to him.
- Personality: Hot-Blooded and a Jerkass, he is known for getting rather excited about things. He is a very known pervert, and despite not acting all that smart in class, he is actually quite smart, though he thinks that, to be liked, you have to act dumb. Kazuki has a lot of Big Brother Instinct in him toward his younger brother Takeo, and will protect his little brother even if it costs him something he holds dear. Kazuki is also the type to have a Major Injury Underreaction, as exemplified when someone he was fighting to protect his brother stabbed him in the back. He just punched out the guy who knifed him and later went to the doctor to get the wound patched up. Kazuki is the type who is fiercely independent, he dislikes sharing his burdens with anyone else, and is considered an "At Risk Teenager" because of his violent tendencies. He just thinks of his brother as someone who needs to be protected, and is blind to his little brother's own issues.
- Family: The brothers are living with their mother and father, and one layabout uncle who refuses to get a job. This uncle is someone who Kazuki hates quite a lot. Mainly because the guy tried to kill Takeo for touching his booze. This family is bigger and more screwed up than you think.
- Bio: Kazuki was born to two loving parents who showered him with love, well, until the mid life crisis hit his father, and his once loving father became terribly abusive, mostly due to a mistress of his dying. Kazuki became a shield for his little brother and swore that nobody would ever hurt Takeo. This stemmed from both of them being beaten by their father, and being forced to look at each other as it went on. This was about when the uncle entered the picture and Kazuki's father is now mostly gone on business trips out to the United States. And one morning, after defending Takeo from a large group who was convinced Takeo was hitting on their leader's girlfriend, both brothers awoke to some rather unusual company...
- Character Alignment: Chaotic Neutral -> Chaotic Good (later)
o Phantasm: Sigfried
- Appearance: Two, in fact, due to its powers. One appearance is a strange little black dragon (about 2 feet tall) which has small blue tinged wings with a small horn at the wing tips, a tail with a little maul at the end, and an overall aesthetic appearance to him. His secondary appearance is a thirteen-ish year old human boy with black hair and blue eyes, very fragile looks, and a dragon tattoo on his left shoulder.
- Personality: Sig is the Nice Guy when in a human appearance, insanely nice in fact, and always referring to everyone respectfully. He will, though, definitely protect everyone who is held dear by his master Kazuki. He is easily excitable and a Keet. Sigfried is more of a Chivalrous Pervert, he is the type who will vigorously defend the "innocence of the girls!" All while designing some dirty swim suits, and having unfathomably filthy fantasies.
- Powers: In his dragon form, he moves very quickly, and is very strong. He does have a Breath Weapon, a blue beam which can rip through most enemy defenses. In human form, which he can use to blend in more efficiently, he is still very strong and fast, just not as much. He also gains some small Master of Illusion powers.
- Name: Jerret Donavan
- Age: 29
- Starting City: San Francisco
- Appearance: Heavyset and slightly bumbling, with neatly-cut brown hair and sideburns, usually seen wearing either his police uniform (hat, shirt, sunglasses, the whole shabang) or polos and jeans. He often keeps his sunglasses off, revealing brown eyes
- Personality: His goal in life is to help people, and he was always taught the best way to do that was to obey and protect the law. Perhaps it makes him an idealist, but don't mistake him for stupid- He's the Good Cop, but the Good Cop isn't always a bad cop. However, he's not the kind of officer who goes after jaywalkers, and is instead pretty relaxed.
- Family: No wife or kids, to his disappointment but not exactly to his surprise, though his parents are still alive and leaving up in Washington state.
- Bio: Born up north in Washington, he moved south to San Francisco after getting out of college, majoring in Criminology and Law Enforcement. He's usually worked outside of the city, moving around as he tried to find a place he liked, and has pretty much constantly been pretty low on the totem pole in the police.
- Character Alignment: * Lawful Good in his eyes, but since this RP has the police as the enemy he apparently has to be Lawful Evil.
So why are the Police the enemy?
Because a borderline Complete Monster is in charge of them, currently. The guy would look like the Big Bad...
And you are accepted!
edited 10th Apr '11 7:20:39 PM by NickTheSwing
He dances the line between Complete Monster and Magnificent Bastard. He has played his cards very wisely, covering his tracks.
Chief Damon Kestler is a damn scary fellow.
His daughter is his latest weapon. His daughter has recently gained a Mon named Yami. Yami starts as a cute little imp. This does not last.
As his daughter gets more and more tormented by daddy, Yami becomes something you will watch the darkness for.
edited 10th Apr '11 7:44:55 PM by NickTheSwing
Also, what season does the RP start in? Does the Mons have any needs, like food? The latter could be used as a great element for deconstructing the Mons genre.
- Name: Yuri Kestler
- Age: 15
- Starting City: San Francisco
- Appearance: A very thin looking young girl who wears big glasses and is very, well, flat. She usually wears a black shirt, jeans, and high heeled shoes. Very tomboyish looking, in order to facilitate her wish to not be such a rich girl. Her father, though, makes sure she only wears top end clothes. She looks very cute, innocent and Moe. However, there are a lot of scars on her back from her father's abuse. Her hair is cut neatly and extends down her neck. Her eyes are brown, and her hair is platinum blond.
- Personality: She is a Broken Bird on the inside, having Damon Kestler for a father will do that to you. However, she just acts like a cutesy, innocent girl, and tries to invoke the Moe effect on herself to avoid being hurt by the Libbies at her school, who hate her for both being richer than them and for being smart. And because she exists, apparently. Yuri is very shy, and only opens up around her would be boyfriend, popular guy and big guy on campus Brady Danson. She currently has a lot of pressure on her to get all A+ grades, and has some odd and terrifying arrangements in place to facilitate this. Despite being not at all mean, she nurses her hatred for the Libbies and yet, she cannot at the present bring herself to hurt them in any way because she is simply too nice. Beware the Nice Ones.
- Family: Her father, Damon Kestler, her mother-in-law Olga Kestler, and her younger brother Kincaid Kestler
- Bio: Yuri was born to a different mother, who died when she was born, and her father very quickly began abusing her and, when she turned 3, her younger brother was born, and her father began favoring Kincaid and grooming him to become his lieutenant. Damon was pleasantly surprised when Yuri got Yami, and has been pressuring her to force Yami to fight or somehow become strong enough to claim more power for himself. Yuri has trouble at school, having a lot of stress on her to get only 100% grades, her father saying he will be proud of her again if she gets all 100%'s, but this is a lie. Yuri has been trying to romance Brady, but Tanya and her girl posse are sadistically interested in just making sure Yuri never gets what she wants.
- Character Alignment: True Neutral
o Phantasm: Yami
- Appearance: A small, black imp with little red eyes constantly darting around, oddly cute, tiny little arms and legs, a tail, and wings.
- Personality: Yami is very protective of Yuri, and when a Libby approaches, Yami tries to attack to protect its master, but is always swept aside easily. Yami is just as angry under the surface as its master.
- Powers: Yami can merge into Yuri's shadow. Its powers will expand with time, and the more Yuri is broken.
- Name: Brady Danson
- Age: 17
- Starting City: San Francisco
- Appearance: A tall, very muscular young man with styled back black hair and dark blue eyes, he definitely has the look of a quarterback in the high school football team, which he is. He has a chain of arrows tattoo on his upper arm. He wears a letter jacket, a sleeveless black shirt, black jeans, and boots. Many girls and some boys in the school are attracted to him because of his looks. He has a locket around his neck, which has a picture of his mother in it, so he can always remember her.
- Personality: Brady is Hot-Blooded, young, restless, and yet, he is afraid to diverge from his social area, and associate openly with poor Yuri, mainly because he does not want to be ostracized from his school's "cool crowd". Brady does have a bit of a problem keeping it in his pants, and also seems to be a little insensitive, and has a problem telling when people honestly have attraction toward him. He does not seem very socially aware of any bad moves he makes.
- Family: Only his old grandmother, who adopted him. She is actually a Mafia Queen who retired, went The Atoner, and decided to help her family's old friends when Brady's parents died. He wound up with her, who he thought was his grandmother. She is AWESOME!
- Bio: His parents died when he was very young, and he has since grown up thinking they were saints, when that could not be further from the truth. His bio will be revealed more as the rp progresses.
- Character Alignment: Neutral Good at best, Neutral Evil at worst.
o Phantasm: Shiyuki
- Appearance: A pink haired young man with a very effeminate, youthful look to him. He usually wears silver armor and looks somewhat like a shinobi.
- Personality: he has problems with his masculinity, and tries to act as Macho as his master in order to make up for his hair. He is trying to build up self confidence. He is Hot-Blooded too...
- Powers: He has two swords which have different properties, one can reflect attacks, while the other can cut through most things. He can also move very fast.
edited 11th Apr '11 6:35:03 PM by NickTheSwing
*raises hand*
I'll be posting the Mon first, because I am still having second thoughts about the character.
- Phantasm name: Brytenwalda Oswald Aethelfrithing
- Bio:
In his time, King Oswald of Northumbria was the most powerful overlord among all the kingdomlets of Dark Age Britain, ruling over much of the land north of River Swele and south of the Scottish lowland. From his seat of power in Bebbanburg, he exercised hegemony over most of the lesser kingdoms in the British Isles at the time, hence his title - "Brytenwalda", "King of the British".
Being cast out from his kingdom as a child after the death of his father Aethelfrith of Northumbria, he returned as a matured man, having embraced Christianity and the True God, defeating his old enemies, reuniting the Kingdom of Northumbria, and gained overlordship over the whole of Britain. With his flair for leadership and his devotion to the faith, during his reign much of the Northumbrian Anglo population had been converted to Christianity. He was widely regarded by many as God's gift to his people as both a saintly and pious ruler, not just for his devotion to the faith but also his generosity and chivalry towards his subjects, a rarity in those days.
His reign came to an end in AD 642, when he was killed in the battle of Maserfield against the pagan king Penda of Mercia, thus ending an age of Anglo-Saxon supremacy. His legacy lives on, and today he's regarded widely as a Christian saint in all but name.
- Appearance: Factoring out his ethereal look, he was a tall and somewhat imposing middle-aged man with trimmed mustache, a short haircut, sharp eyes, high noses, broad temples and high cheekbones. He is dressed in a mail hauberk, Saxon helmet with noseguard, a blue cloak, cape and leather boots, while brandishing shield, sword and javelins with equal skill and flair.
- Abilities: A ghost, Oswald Aethelfrithing fights not by himself participating into battle, but by summoning the spirit of his fallen soldiers into battle, from the lowly Gebur and Kotsela (peasants) to the soldierly Gugurthas and Dugurthas (Young/Old warriors) right up to the mighty Hearthweruas (Hearth guards). The number and quality of these men varies depending on how successful he and his "master" has been thus far. At the beginning, he can only summon no more than five soldiers of no better quality than Gurguthas. As he wins more battle, he and his master can have mighty hosts of Hearthweruas forming an unbreakable, advancing shield wall of doom towards their foes.
- Personality: Generous, kind and noble, the only person in Dark Age Britain that could outmatch him in nobility and chivalry would most probably be Queen KingArthur himself. It was once said that he would willingly break apart a rare silver dish to distribute to alm-seeking poor people. In battle he was brave - like most kings of his time - and fair - unlike other kings of his time.
Do tell me if I've run afoul of Fate Stay Night too much. Doubly so now that you've mentioned the food requirement.
edited 11th Apr '11 6:48:48 PM by ArgeusthePaladin
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Okay, the previous day, everything was nice, calm and peaceful. Well, maybe some people had some issues that they were keeping under the wraps. The setting is Tokyo, Japan, and as everyone goes to bed, they have no idea what they are about to undergo the next day.
Every single teenager in the world wakes up the next day with an odd partner, a Mon, by their side and ready to do anything for them. ANYTHING. Remember that. That, and on whatever messaging system or cell phone they have, there is a message from the mysterious figure known as Dynames.
The message is thus:
"Welcome, teenagers of the world, to the future! A new day is dawning for the world. I am Dynames, a person you could call a Magus. For the sake of an experiment, I have given each of you a loyal and strong friend. How you use this friend is up to you, but know that at the end of these chosen events, there is a clear reward for ye who evolve your partner to the highest level! In order to do so, you must utterly defeat enemies who fight you. Advance, oh brave young people!"
Bear in mind that, when you join this RP, I have decided upon a Darker and Edgier tone compared to other Mon shows. This RP is a Deconstruction, so please keep this in mind.
The Mons can be ridiculously human, or beasts. The defining feature of the Human looking Mons is that they have Uncanny Valley looking, never changing doll-like eyes.
Enemies are defined as anything that could be construed as a foe, including the police, other young people or their Mons. The theme for this is repression and the phenomena of the Stepford Smiler, in relation to the social life of the young people.
I will, like Daltar's Madoka Magica RP, separate this into two cities, one in the West Coast of the United States, San Francisco, and one in Tokyo. Yes, you can shift between them if you take a plane or have a Mon with flying capabilities. But a Mon with flying abilities will not get there very fast.
Here is the character sheet: please sign up and enjoy...