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Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#26: Dec 5th 2015 at 1:10:19 AM

Ouch. That's... incredibly sad.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#27: Dec 5th 2015 at 1:18:28 AM

Not even close, the woman he loved became a man after an operation.

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#28: Dec 5th 2015 at 1:32:36 AM

Wow, life's really been hitting him in the dick with the short stick... He looks like he's gonna be a fun character, though, in a really dysfunctional sorta way.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#29: Dec 5th 2015 at 1:40:28 AM

If he's too overpowered, I'll make sure that his medical conditions would hamper some of his abilities so he wouldn't be able to kill immediately.

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
NitrousThunder Yeeeeah! Uh-huh! Wiz Khalifa Knows What It Is! from the Wild Side Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: If the gov't can read my mind, they know I'm thinking of you
Yeeeeah! Uh-huh! Wiz Khalifa Knows What It Is!
#30: Dec 5th 2015 at 3:01:08 AM

Whoa...whoa, that's hella signups. I'll just put my sheet down here.

  • Name: Seth Silverstreet (born Seth Santana)
  • Race: Augmented human
  • Appearance: Seth's look and fashion sense fits squarely with his profession as a street samurai. His hair is jet-black, aside from a streak dyed blond, and goes straight down to his upper back (style reference pic). His eyes are an unusually bright shade of green, but he usually hides them with mirrored aviator sunglasses. His outfits invariably involve a black leather duster, black jeans, and black leather boots and gloves with far more metal straps and studs on them than should actually be necessary. (However, these do have a hidden purpose.) The shirt varies based on the situation, but it's usually also black. If he ever wears something that isn't black, it's a necktie, which usually ends up being a solid, bright color like red or teal.
    • Seth has two tattoos, one on each shoulder. One says "Snowcrashers" in a graffiti-like font, while the other reads "Ashley" in elaborate calligraphy. He also has several scars on his body, which is why he wears the clothing he does. The only one that's visible while he's fully clothed is an X-shaped one over his left eye.
  • Abilities & Skills:
    • Seth's first set of cybernetic implants gave him enhanced reflexes and sight. These let him track multiple moving targets at once, dodge bullets, and see details of objects others can't.
    • Subsequent implants have increased his strength and toughness to the point where he can break concrete walls with his fists and take more damage than the average human. However, his toughness doesn't last forever, and he can be killed by things like point-blank headshots, getting hit by a moving train, etc.
    • Seth is well-trained with the use of both guns and swords. He tends to prefer machine pistols for the former and a katana for the latter, though he can use nearly any gun or sword relatively competently.
    • In hand-to-hand combat, Seth employs a mix of boxing and capoeira, which plays well to what his implants have done for him. Assuming he keeps a cool head in battle, his strategy is usually to dance around his opponent with capoeira and then use either style to exploit his opponents' mistakes and counter them.
    • While he's not a world-class hacker by any means, Seth does know enough about programming to be able to override basic security measures.
  • Inventory:
    • Seth's boots and gloves contain special technology that allow him to use ki-like attacks, either as projectiles or as a means of enhancing attacks. He's only developed two specific techniques with it—namely, the Sonic Boom and Flash Kick—but those have proved all he's needed.
    • Seth carries two semi-automatic pistols and a katana, along with ammunition for the former. All of this is concealed either by or in his jacket.
    • He also carries a smartphone, a wallet, and a picture of his former lover, Ashley.
  • Backstory:
    • 20 years ago, Seth Santana was once on the path to underground music stardom as the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for a Las Vegas post-hardcore band called Snowcrashers. Unfortunately, that name became the most horrifyingly inappropriate name possible for them on their first big tour, as their tour bus slipped on ice and went flying off of an elevated freeway in New Jersey. The accident killed two members of the band, along with Ashley Silverstreet, Seth's girlfriend. Seth, meanwhile, broke all of his limbs and had his eyes destroyed by flying shrapnel.
    • In order to repair the damage, Seth elected to take on then-extreme levels of cybernetic augmentation, including having his eyes replaced. While they saved his ability to lead a relatively normal life, they also caused many of his connections in the music industry to abandon him—they didn't trust that he was human anymore. After the head of his band's record label told him that he wouldn't be allowed back in any act, Seth chewed the man out and may or may not have thrown chairs at his head before he left.
    • What Seth didn't realize was that his label had close ties with the criminal empire of one Joe Karma, a mobster with major ambitions. Soon, Seth started receiving mysterious death threats, and was forced to leave Vegas for Miami.
    • He made his living in Miami as the enigmatic masked DJ millionS, but for years, he was a wreck. He never got into severe substance abuse, but he was paranoid that Karma would come for him, and he couldn't let go of the band and the woman he'd lost.
    • In 2025, the day before his 28th birthday, Seth got tossed through a window for refusing a deal to distribute cocaine at millionS shows. The man who defenestrated him was stupid enough to reveal his real name, which Seth remembered well enough that, upon getting out of the hospital the next day, he went looking the man up and found that police investigations had connected him to none other than Joe Karma—and that Karma had turned Las Vegas into his own personal cyberpunk playground.
    • Seth felt somehow compelled to return to Las Vegas and make things right. He started training to become one of the city's "street samurai"—rebels for hire who fight against systemic corruption and honor the job at all costs. Over the course of years, he started clearing out his bank account, spending it all on new implants and lessons in the skills and gear he'd need in order to join the ranks of the street samurai. But perhaps most importantly for his psychological well-being, he had a streak of his hair dyed to the exact color Ashley's had been. That small gesture to her memory let him finally feel like she wasn't completely gone.
    • And then one day, Seth Santana vanished from Miami. But a certain Seth Silverstreet was now offering his services as a street samurai in Las Vegas, and he quickly proved damn good at it. Sure, he didn't have flashy, obvious tells that he was part-machine, but the way he methodically carried out his jobs and survived everything that came his way definitely did—and as he continued to hone his skills, his reputation only grew.
    • Finally, in early 2035, Seth got a job from Cybernetics Unbound. Based on his unparalleled expertise at jobs involving Strip casinos—he'd rampaged and/or stolen from on half of them by then—they gave him the task of trashing the casino floor of VISSION, the purple-jewel-covered resort and new darling of Karma Enterprises. Three nights later, he remotely set off a fire alarm, which got the patrons to evacuate, disabled all the security cameras, then walked in and let his inner rockstar loose. By the time he was done, every window was shattered, every poker table was overturned, and every digital slot machine was glitching like mad. He'd caused so much property damage that VISSION would be set back for years to come.
    • Now, Seth is on contract with Cybernetics Unbound, and the intel he has says that the Liberty Casino Resort, the most obnoxiously American property in all of Nevada, will be the next big battleground in the war on Karma. The only question is when Seth will be getting himself into trouble over there.
  • Main Theme: "Reverse This Curse" by Escape the Fate
  • Other Songs Associated With Seth:

edited 5th Dec '15 4:33:14 PM by NitrousThunder

Just pretend I wrote something witty here, okay?
Sergey_Smirnov Trans Terminus Homo from Everywhere and Nowhere (With a german accent) Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Trans Terminus Homo
#31: Dec 5th 2015 at 3:47:45 AM

Would the use of a growth serum be feasible? This would cause the cells in the arms to enter a state of rapid mitosis allowing Mireille to grow her limbs quite fast at the disadvantage of costing her enormous amounts of energy.

As for the eventual removal; Several animals (crabs, spiders, etc.) are capable of both purging their own limbs and regenerating them again with relative ease, some even in a matter of minutes. Again this would cost much energy.

As a whole that would give her the ability to fight, but not for long. And after that she would be completly exhausted and would need to gain huge amounts of energy back (by eating, injecting herself with some serum, etc.)

edited 5th Dec '15 3:59:27 AM by Sergey_Smirnov

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
Kkutwar The Prince of Foolish Relevations from A Place Beneath both Good & Evil Since: Feb, 2013 Relationship Status: What is this thing you call love?
The Prince of Foolish Relevations
#32: Dec 5th 2015 at 6:39:51 AM

@Vic: Did you mean gynoid (which officially refers to females) or did you really mean android (which exclusively refers to males)? Also the only Inventory limit is that it makes sense for the character, so as long as you get across why he has all that stuff I won't complain. Finally, there's no real Ability limitations than avoiding godlike might, so you're nowhere near overpowered. Anyways the Factions are all easy to understand, so just pick whichever.

@Thunder: This isn't a separate universe from Nightmare Normalcy, simply an alternative Bad Future. So unless this is the same Seth or a Name's The Same scenario you'll need to do a little editing. Other than that the bio is fine (I would say cocaine was well out to further highlight the man's stupidity). Finally it is Cybernetics Unbound, though the gathering of criminals and a matter of all kinds of illegal activity would be the Vitality Underground. By the way, the CEO of Kaiser-Neo is named Ashley Anderson (an alternative Ashley Edwards), and I'm really just bringing that up randomly.

@Sergey: I think the arm trick should be treated as an emergency technique anyways, so she isn't likely to spam it. Though while I'm not a biology major, I would say there's not many growth serums tied to specific limbs. So avoid spamming growth serums so you don't end up as The Living Tumor!

"The Omniverse is the collection of all possibilities, and all possibilities must eventually come to pass."
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#33: Dec 5th 2015 at 7:37:48 AM

Hmm, later I'll edit that something about carrying up to a limited amount of traps at a time and where they'll be placed. I'll think of the backstory later too.

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
Sergey_Smirnov Trans Terminus Homo from Everywhere and Nowhere (With a german accent) Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Trans Terminus Homo
#34: Dec 5th 2015 at 8:26:10 AM

Yeah, emergency seems fine, since she will be pretty exhausted anyways spamming this is a sure path to demise.

And while today there aren't any there are at least some medicines that target specific body regions, and since a progress in technology will most surely also cause a progress in pharmacy a growth serum for body parts should be feasible. Though for normal fights you can always rely on dem gunz.

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#35: Dec 5th 2015 at 1:16:26 PM

Alright, nearly finished my sheet - just have to write out the full backstory. Feel free to ask questions, give feedback and whatever.

Ok, since I am a biochemist I might as well chime in as far as those Mantis arms go... I would suggest, if you want the arms to appear at a rate faster than a few days (hormonal triggers, like growth hormones and such, are slow opposed to neurological control) that much of the Mantis-like structures already exist within the arms. At least the basic skeletal structure and perhaps the serrated 'blades', these possibly being retracted into the arms. A carapace of chitin could be grown by the cells at an accelerated rate with less trouble and better practicality than new cell growth.

Being a living tumour wouldn't be that bad if you had some control.. Those cells are effectively immortal, just grow too much and lose their functions, in a lot of cases. Ahem, medicines can target specific organs with some, still under development methods by specific limbs would be more difficult. Hence when I suggest her skin is targeted to produce chitin - Easier than a limb and very protective.

edited 5th Dec '15 2:11:25 PM by Lt.BGob

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
ThisGuy481 Since: Jul, 2015
#36: Dec 5th 2015 at 2:18:32 PM

Name: Photoumbra Virus Xal'Gorak

Race: Virus Eldritch Abomination

Appearance: A blacklight hologram, with slicked-back hair and a nice, dark suit. His eyes are plain, empty white in contrast to the rest of the dark violet body. No other details can be made out.

Abilities & Skills:

Telepathy: He can telepathically speak to sentient computers and cybernetically-enhanced people

Computer-Jumping: He has access to every computer with an internet connection

Hacking: He can almost instantly breach a computer he is latched to

Expansive Intellect: At least beyond most humans

Inventory: Nothing

Backstory: The virus came out of nowhere. It did not originate from any site, or from e-mail. It just appeared one day. Between the omniverse, there are things much worse than we can imagine. Beings of pure data, they are the cause of many great things in this world, up to and including the internet. These ancient, innumerable beings are far more intelligent and powerful than humanity, and they consider us little more than playthings, though one has a strange interest in them - Xal'Gorak, aspect of knowledge and ingenuity, took interest in mankind upon watching their technological advancement. They invented and created faster than most species they found in the infinite void of the omniverse. Xal created a virus, which would spread through computers and cybernetically enhanced people - this virus was his host in this world. It was weak, but it could work

edited 5th Dec '15 2:25:13 PM by ThisGuy481

Sergey_Smirnov Trans Terminus Homo from Everywhere and Nowhere (With a german accent) Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Trans Terminus Homo
#37: Dec 5th 2015 at 2:42:47 PM

[up][up]Wait, basic skeletal structure? I thought Mantises (is... is that the correct plural?) had only an exoskeleton like other insects.

Also I just read through TerraforMARS again, and it seems I (sadly) wasn't the first one to get the idea that Mantis-arms are deadly as sh*t, BUT on the other hand I now have a good picture how it could look: Like this

edited 5th Dec '15 2:44:02 PM by Sergey_Smirnov

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#38: Dec 5th 2015 at 2:44:47 PM

They do, but if your character wants to look human and not collapse under her own weight she's need an endoskeleton. Exoskeletons mostly only work on the small scale, where they don't have to hold together much weight.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Sergey_Smirnov Trans Terminus Homo from Everywhere and Nowhere (With a german accent) Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Trans Terminus Homo
#39: Dec 5th 2015 at 2:53:36 PM

[up]Phew than it was just a misunderstanding, because you said that the Mantis-like structures had to be existent or at least the endoskeleton, I thought you meant that the endoskeleton was one of the Mantis-like structures

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
NitrousThunder Yeeeeah! Uh-huh! Wiz Khalifa Knows What It Is! from the Wild Side Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: If the gov't can read my mind, they know I'm thinking of you
Yeeeeah! Uh-huh! Wiz Khalifa Knows What It Is!
#40: Dec 5th 2015 at 4:45:50 PM

@kkutwar: I've changed my character's original last name to better distinguish him from Seth Stiles and corrected all the references to "Cybernetics Underground." Blame that one on my being up way too late.

Just pretend I wrote something witty here, okay?
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#41: Dec 5th 2015 at 6:06:15 PM

[up] Nah, the exoskeleton wouldn't have to be pre-existing. Honestly a chitin exoskeleton would be more useful than mantis arms, in my opinion.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#42: Dec 6th 2015 at 12:08:20 AM

My masterpiece is nearing completion...

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#43: Dec 6th 2015 at 12:11:17 AM

Do his condoms explode too? tongue

EDIT: Just going to point out that sociopaths rarely if ever experience depression, anxiety or related issues like PTSD due to their lack of empathy and tendancy to focus on positives whilst ignoring negative experiences. It also occurs very early in life, not later. However, PTSD and depression as well as substance abuse can cause reduced empathy and erratic behavior, however.

My dad is a borderline sociopath/psychopath and I know a lot of people with mental illnesses (including PTSD and depression). I like mental illness to be portrayed accurately. tongue

edited 6th Dec '15 12:19:44 AM by Lt.BGob

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#44: Dec 6th 2015 at 12:22:04 AM

Huh, I didn't know that.

Anyways, I thought about making the condoms explode, but that's not the purpose of a condom.

Occasionally a random thug with a knife tells Vincent to give his money, so he throws it down for the thug to open and it will explode in his face. Vincent will then loot the Thug's corpse...

edited 6th Dec '15 12:30:33 AM by Victor_Skye

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#45: Dec 6th 2015 at 12:39:29 AM

FUCK YEAH, I'M DONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! AT LAST!

What do you guys think?

Oh fuck, it's... 7 pages long.

edited 6th Dec '15 12:49:09 AM by Victor_Skye

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#46: Dec 6th 2015 at 1:59:59 AM

He's so melancholic and Woobie-ish that he's fantastic! You wrote an enjoyable, though sad, backstory. Bravo!

I just found the idea of him accidentally grabbing the wrong condom and having it explode in his face/schlong hilarious... I have issues.

I'll get my backstory written up properly by tomorrow, with a bit of luck. I really look forward to this rp - all the characters so far look really interesting and fun.

Out of curiosity, how's my character looking so far, guys? Interesting? Stupid?

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#47: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:05:43 AM

I feel that your character is going to be interesting. Why? Because she's a gynoid that thinks she's a normal human being. I can just picture her getting the shock of her life once she knows what she really is. She'll begin to question things and freak out as a result. This will put her in a situation where she might know what to do anymore...

Imagine you, being a human being all this time only to find out YOU'RE NOT HUMAN? WON'T YOU FREAK OUT?!

Yes, she's definitely interesting. She calls the very definition of humanity into question. If robots like her can be so close to us then what the hell are we humans?

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."
Lt.BGob The Fantabulous from The Merry Ol' Land of Oz Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Fantabulous
#48: Dec 6th 2015 at 2:15:01 AM

Haha, that's exactly what I was going for! grin I was inspired by recently watching Ex Machina (really awesome film, must watch if you haven't) and playing SOMA (again, must play for yourself) apart from my general obsession with artificial life. I'm glad she sounds interesting - once I get time to fully write out her backstory I hope it'll make her reasons for pretending to be human clearer and give her a bit more life. I have the outline, I just need to pull my digit out. tongue

Glad you like her.

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Sergey_Smirnov Trans Terminus Homo from Everywhere and Nowhere (With a german accent) Since: Aug, 2015 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
Trans Terminus Homo
#49: Dec 6th 2015 at 4:15:43 AM

You guys know how to properly demotivate me T^T after reading through your applications I'm pretty sure mine won't be nearly as good.

"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"
Victor_Skye Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi from The Imperium of Man, the million worlds. Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Hot-blooded Catholic Space Nazi
#50: Dec 6th 2015 at 4:25:29 AM

I spent the better part of the day making it Sergey and I wanted to make something truly original. I wanted to create something human.

"In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war."

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