Vale by Sundown: A Gangs of RWBY RP

Aight let's do this one.

• Name: Boden Schwarz

• Gender: Male

• Age: 18

• Birthday: Ventus 6

• Race: Human

• Appearance: Surprised this uniform is still in one piece.◊ Clean shaven though.

• Weapons And Equipment: He's too proud to use a weapon. They're for the weak anyway.

• Semblance: Seismic Shift

The ground beneath Boden is his weapon as much as his body is. He moves the earth as if it were his body and vice versa. Any soil, rock or stone on the ground in a five foot radius can be moved by him mixing his aura with the ground.

• Personality:

Violent, aggressive, and bullheaded. Traits you don't want in a semi-trained martial artist. Boden is short tempered and crude, and everything about him tells those nearby about it. He cares little for public opinion, Boden seeks to fight, eat, and then fight some more.

• Bio:

Boden is Violent. And many had a problem with this. His parents thought that enrolling him in Martial Arts schools would help him learn to control his temper, in their misguided hope they gave him more ways to fight and cause pain. The realization that he was reveling in the new methods of causing harm caused numerous schools to reject him outright, not wanting him to harm the other students.

This didn't bother Boden, what did was the horror on the face of his mother when he nearly beat a punk to death. Boden realized he could not stay, and so he fled. He fled the East Districts and made his way to the West District, seeking out the "Barbarians" and the "Beasts" of this district.

• Gang Affiliation: While he doesn't have a Gang to call his own, Boden has met and been humbled by the Tiger. He holds a strange loyalty to her, even though he does not belong to one of her sects.

Approved!

Welp, here I go. >.<

• Name: 雨夜 (Amaya)
• Gender: Female
• Age: 17
• Birthday: Tempestas 18th
• Race: Fox Faunus
• Appearance: A floof that isn't pure white for once◊
• Weapons and Equipment:
  • Ryuho: An experimental cybernetics she is kited out with, none of which really improve her performance in any way rather they function as a kind of man machine interface over radio-waves, that allow her to control electronics she has properly configured with her mind.... Mostly this is used to operate remote-control cars and help hack electronics with the use of GSCD^note USB analogue jack. On its own, this setup has a range of about 10 meters.
  • Tsuki no hana: her other main piece of equipment is a large folding antenna she carries around in her upper holster, when deployed it assumes a parasol shape and allows the control of her stuff at a much longer distance.
  • A variety of RC Cars: Not really much to say about these guys, just a two stroke dust engine, circutboard, drive-train, and a camera... the biggest thing they have going for them is sheer utility, they can do recon, function as a curiour, or even carry out kamikaze attacks, it just depends on how much ductape you have and what you ductape to them.
  • A sword: Carried in her lower holster is a sword for whenever that might be useful, though its literally just that, nothing special about it, and her fighting skills.... are.... sub-par.
  • Yukaze: Amaya's pride and joy Yukaze is a heavily modified motorcycle, something along the lines of this◊ only black and blue instead of white and red respectively, while a rather unusual choice of vehicle for some one associated with The Dragon of Vale the motorcycles light weight allows it incredible speed compared to cars.
• Semblance: Awakened yes, the tech in her has kinda fucked up semblance usage though.
• Personality: Amaya has an absolute adoration of any and all machines, especially ones that go fast, and ones that have high performance, as such she can normally be found where they gather, she her self is fairly lively, but is just as quick to back out if she does not have the upper-hand or things are unfavorable.
• Bio: Amaya was kidnaped from her family at a young age, unpersoned and used as an experiment suite for scientists that could not be bothered with red tape, or the ethics of human testing... an exitance she was one day saved from in a raid by Georgia Drake, for whom on her part thought she was getting some kind of E-War suite. Now free Amaya is incredibly loyal to the people that saved her and quite eager to make up for lost time.
• Gang Affiliations: The Dragon of Vale

I'd give it a yes. Someone working directly for a Beast has potential for stories and how Taco will handle having someone very loyal to his character. Thought final decision rests with Beri.

Question: Is an independent hitman type character viable here?

edited 6th Nov '16 8:36:23 AM by Blackie

I'm going to have to say no more independents, if only because I'm tearing my hair out over how many of y'all wanna do it.

The point of this game is to be part of a family, a people, a tribe.

So please pick one, guys.

As for Amaya, approved.

By the by... how'll we play... from what I see very few are in the same gang.

Rerolling because Elaine is: 1. Too Old, and 2. Too connected to the Big Lady.

And I wanted to play someone way less fighty.

• Name: "The Moonlight Nurse", Artemis Cerulean Real Name, Diana Charlotte Violet
• Gender: Female
• Age: 17
• Birthday: Crystallum 30
• Race: Cat Faunus
• Appearance: Artemis Cerulean is a rather unimpressive looking young lady, a petite cat faunus in frumpy clothes and wears glasses. She has soft features, hair that matches her name, and deep violet eyes. She wears her hair in a bob held back by a cute pink headband. Oh yeah, pink. All of her stuff is PINK. Who cares if it clashes?
• Weapons and Equipment: The Moonlight Nurse has Huntress-level equipment. None of which are weapons, mind. Go figure.
  • Angelus: Taking the form of a suitcase most of the time, it unfolds to a metallic suit, complete with a small device on her left arm, that expands to a dust coated shield, and her wings of course.
  • The Nurse has acquired through some sort of deal with the turtle a small building in his territory, a kind-of pathetic single storey space that Artemis has refashioned as the "Lunar Clinic", a self-proclaimed neutral zone where anyone from any gang who got roughed up can claim sanctuary and healing.
• Semblance: Healing Light: Does what you think it would do. Greatly hastens the targets natural healing, fixing injuries that would take days to heal mere minutes. The healing drains the Nurse's Aura, and the worse the injury, the more Aura is drained. It also can't regrow severed limbs, nor does it work on non-physical ailments. The Nurse needs eye contact to use the Semblance and can only heal one person at a time.
• Personality: The Nurse's first impression is someone who really has no business being near these gang people. Shy, soft-spoken and stuttery. Awkward and unsure. Still, she's unfailingly kind, completely judgement-free, and surprisingly stubborn. The Nurse is easily annoyed though and will show off a surprisingly venomous sense of snark (especially towards difficult patients). A total idealist, a complete romantic....and a raging ball of jealousy and possessiveness towards whoever catches her affections. Be very afraid.
• Bio: There are a lot of rumors about the Nurse. It can be a bit hard to sort fact from fiction, but here are the stories that have been confirmed 100% true. The Nurse came from a rich family. The Nurse has a twin sister studying at Beacon. The Nurse was the intern at the Beacon Hospital Wing. The Nurse is a med student. The Nurse got herself caught up in these gang wars when she met the Turtle a few months back. The Nurse was completely appalled and concerned at what she had gathered from that meeting. Against the wishes of her overprotective Father, The Nurse resigned from her position at Beacon, went to the Turtle and made a deal. (It involved lots of money). Now the Nurse acts as a self-proclaimed one woman neutral party for everyone who gets hurt, and the clinic acts as a meeting place for people of different gangs who have friends and family on other sides.
• Gang Affiliations: Technically she's under the Turtle, as it was with him she made the deal with, but strives to be as Neutral as possible.

@Sergey Guess it depends on the relationship between the beasts that the gangs are under: either a fight for territory or simple/tense conversation between gang members. That could change if character history factors in though.

Kay, thanks for the clarification, hehe, this'll be funny

The nurse is v good, switch approved.

As for how this plays out, it's gonna be interesting - rest assured we have ideas.

Nautical themed eh? Oh this will be fun... are there ghost ships other than maybe The Tavern Wench? As in Ships that are abandoned by their crew, not actually haunted by ghosts.

Also aged Eleonora up, mostly because drinks and stuff... its just easier to party correctly at 18 XD

Also... thinking how fun loving she is... I think she'll get along quite well with the Oni's... I'm thinking of at least one instance were she leaves the ship in the dark of the night and against the will of her boss to party

edited 6th Nov '16 10:46:45 AM by Sergey_Smirnov

Thinking about Adrian's relations with the other gangs and characters. Apart from the Oni, he would probably have a couple of connections with the Black Hand (how else would he be able to get the all the Booze Kin ordered for her latest Party on such short notice?), and a professional relationship with the North: He helps the Northern Beast transport funds and equipment to some of his gangs (and the Nurse) if asked, in exchange for a discount on car parts. As for the other Beasts, the unspoken agreement is simply "Let me do my job here, and I'll leave afterwards without a fuss."

I should probably write up some rules for Adrian's services sometime, like "No parcel bombs."and "Askin' for personal information of mah past clients is forbidden!"

edited 6th Nov '16 11:10:06 AM by svenorzokarkoff

The Nurse: I am not going to provide hangover pills.

Eleonora: "Bwahaha! Hangover whassat? Iz no alohol in there."

Adrian: "Ah'm both curious an' worried 'bout how you'd fare if ya actually had alcohol in yer system now..."

Alright enough RP in the sign ups. I'm very happy y'all excited but this is likely to spiral outta control.

XD, sorry, when can we expect the actual RP to go up?

Soon - we're not yet at 15 people.

Heh, but soon... if you include GM's at least :P

Edit: Also... can we expect

to play in The Tavern Wench... please tell me that is canon

edited 6th Nov '16 12:44:04 PM by Sergey_Smirnov

Okay, everything on my sheet except for appearance is done and I'm adding the picture later.

• Name: Vanessa Persian.
• Gender: Female
• Age: 18
• Birthday: Umbra 13
• Race: Human.
• Appearance: Like so.◊ Unlike Seras she does actually have an arm and wears shorts. She eschews the traditional outfit of her gang nowadays for her, as she feels, more practical outfit.
• Weapons and Equipment:
  • Mercy and Forgiveness: Two longswords with daggers on the bottom. She uses these in a low, ferocious stance with vicious lunges and swipes, and uses the daggers as breaks to make vicious sweeps and to slow herself down.
• Semblance: None as of yet.
• Personality: Solid, straight forward, highly loyal and confident. Yet still rather resentful that she's still here as a member of the kids league as she sees it. Usually sticks to the rules but willing to go outside them if she feels the situation demands it.
• Bio: Vanessa was all but raised in the Razorgrrls, starting as a hanger-on before graduating to full membership. Her parents weren't around too much and they lived in one of the rougher areas of the South so it only figured that she'd be drawn to one of the more famous gangs in the area. She happily served in the gang for many years but as her publicly-mandated education drew to a close she couldn't help but wonder what she was doing still being in the same gang she had always been in. So she developed a new fighting style and set out on her own, ready to make it big in the Underworld. Her first attempt went terribly wrong and the Phoenix saved her life in an incident she's still not willing to talk about. So here she is, back with her old gang working on paying off a debt she never wanted and looking for ways to get back into the Underworld once she's paid her dues.
• Gang Affiliations: Razorgrrls

edited 6th Nov '16 8:31:18 PM by guyshane

• Name: Malia Forest

• Gender: Female

• Age: 18

• Birthday: Finem 17th

• Race: Human

• Appearance: About 5.6, Malia tends to wear black and silver. She has fairly large almond-shaped purple eyes, and purple hair to match. She wears thigh-high silver boots under a fairly short black dress,◊ and a silver coat◊ that she buttons at the waist. There are notches in the side of her boots which hold her weapons. When the weapons are in the notches, they appear as just highlights on the boots until you look closer.

• Weapons and Equipment:
  • Tonfa: Two tonfa with no fancy name that latch into her boots. They are gun-metal grey, and she knows how to use them.
  • Kira: Her precious, precious motorbike. Fairly normal, she cares for it deeply. It is black with purple and silver highlights.

• Semblance: Aura-awakened, Malia's semblance is extreme spatial awareness. She can bounce a ball off five different walls and get it to hit you in the head. However, she is not actually aware that this is her semblance, and not just a natural ability. It's helpful in fights, and if she wants to show off.

• Personality: Malia is a consumate professional, quiet and contained until she needs to be loud. She'll happily hurt someone if she thinks it needs to be done though. Nevertheless, if you stay on her good side, she'll stay on yours. If you get on her bad side, she will do everything she can to make your life a living hell, while remaining professional.

• Bio: Born to a drunkard, Malia learnt very quickly, don't speak until spoken to, etc. Until she got sick of it, and ran away. Desperate to find her place, she was taken in by an older member of the Cubs, and remained with them for six years. Under her mentor's tutelage, she learnt everything a young lady should learn (lock-picking, fighting, spiking drinks, making drinks, cat-burglary) and even fell in love with another member. She remains with them.

• Gang Affiliations: Malia is a member of the Cubs, and is dating another. She is the Tiger's favourite bartender, and so wears a different style of clothing as a sign of status. She will function as a bodyguard/bouncer/gopher if needed. Nevertheless, she is a very good bartender, and her semblance allows her to put on a show.

edited 6th Nov '16 7:00:51 PM by secretlyasuperhero

• Name: Obadiah "Obi" Sidian
• Gender: Male
• Age: 19
• Birthday: Finem 4
• Race: Human
• Appearance: The wildrider at his best.◊
• Weapons and Equipment:
  • Pepper Steak Pitcher: A jerry-built sub-machine gun that does as one can be expected to, pouring out a lot of bullets to pepper the enemy with, however it lacks any real power or accuracy. It has been modified to include a 'pitcher' mode, which allows the user to throw out an entire clip's worth of ammo as a compacted explosive cluster, making up for the lack of damage the SMG has on it's own. It is more than likely to explode in Obi's face at some point.
  • "Casey": A junker of a pick-up truck, this is Obi's first car that he received. Painted a deep black to try and cover the rusting metals and plating, it can't go too fast, but it can sure take more than a few crashes to it's chassis.
  • Tire-Iron: It's a tire iron, Obi might hit you with it if you're too close to his truck.
• Semblance: N/A
• Personality: Obadiah is a bit of a pessimist, he sees shadows lurking in every corner where there are none and gunshots that stray a little too close for comfort. Everything is going to lead to his death, according to him, from picking up groceries to riding with his fellow Wheel Wolves. It's hard to get him to relax, and ironically, it's usually when in combat or racing against other gangs where he feels most as ease. Hey, at least now with a weapon in-hand and a car thrumming beneath him he has a fighting chance against the oncoming doom, right? He's loyal to the bone to the Wolves, even if he has some colorful words to describe most of his contemporaries.
• Bio: There's nothing much to touch on with Obi's past, he was no student of Beacon or prodigy of any kind. He came from a broken home that couldn't keep him off the streets, and while there were many bad places and people for an impressionable kid to hang around, one would think a mechanic's garage would be a safer alternative. Unfortunately, this turned out to be more along the lines of a chop shop ran by the Wheel Wolves, and when they needed an extra pair of small hands, Obadiah was the kid for the job. It was only natural for him to gravitate towards the group for companionship and work, eschewing any sort of lousy life his own family could give him, and joining the gang officially.
• Gang Affiliations: Wheel Wolves

All three look good to me. Of course, we need Beri's approval, but I think no problems should be there.