[OOC] Dehumanized

[Penguin]

My characters


Name: Adelaide Beaumont

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Nomadic or sedentary: She tends to makes temporary settlements, leaving when considered unsafe to inhabit.

Weapons: A hunting rifle, a wooden bow and quiver of arrows, and a dagger.

Skills: Adelaide has very good aim when it comes to a gun or bow but can resort to hand-to-hand combat if needed so. She is good at climbing trees and can often find ways to climb buildings. Her stamina is very good and she can run for long periods of time at a higher than average speed but her speed isn't her best attribute. She is able to swim as well but she's not amazing. She can read and write decently. Other than that, she has basic knowledge with medicine but usually ends up using first aid kits.

Any unusual traits? Does it show physically?: She has quite an unusual amount of strength for a woman, maybe a tad more than the average man. However, it does not seem to show physically.

Appearance: Adelaide is a tall girl at around 5'7", with long, wavy dark-brown hair that she usually pulls back into a messy ponytail. She has a fit body that's getting to be a little too thin with olive-colored skin. Her eyes are hazel with long lashes. She tends to wear a black leather jacket that she's fond of.

Brief Personality: Adelaide's got a quick tongue with a sarcastic reply to everything. Although a kind and warm-hearted girl, she's very hot-tempered and also very stubborn. It's hard to change her mind once she's set on something. Her mind works quickly and she's not someone to plan out things. Adelaide prefers to make up things as she goes and makes rash decisions. Nonetheless she is intelligent even though her impulsive reaction doesn't always serve her well. She is very brave and will do just about anything if someone she cares about is in danger.

Background: When Adelaide's mother was pregnant with her, she and her husband knew they'd never get to give her the life they had wanted for her. However, the most they could do was give her a chance. They went to risky measures to get her into a secret safe zone down South. Very few people were admitted into that zone and both parents were refused. She was taken in by an older couple who raised her in a gated community until one day they publicly questioned the morals of the way things were handled inside the community and were killed for doing so. Adelaide objected so to say and instead of killing her they shunned her out on her own at ten years old and she's been handling herself ever since. She came across a young boy a couple years later and he ended up tagging along with her. (I'm purposely a bit vague. I like to reveal IC). She currently is moving through Tennessee in hopes of finding somewhere to pick up some supplies.

Alone or with someone?: With someone

Other: Often carries music CDs and a small, old CD player

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Name: Elijah

Age: 12

Gender: Male

Nomadic or sedentary: Same as Adelaide

Weapons: A couple of grenades, 9mm pistol, two daggers

Skills: Elijah is an amazing swimmer. He can swim up to speeds men have not seen before and for long
periods of time. He's also handy when it comes to lock-picking and decoding things. Also, he's a bit of a chemist when it comes to creating explosions and things of that sort. Elijah isn't a bad climber either and he's decent when it comes to aiming but he's better at using a knife. He is pretty knowledgeable about plants and animals as well. Surprisingly, he can only read a little but he has trouble sounding out still and does not know how to write.

Any unusual traits? Does it show physically?: He has webbed hands and feet that allow him to easily maneuver through water. Elijah has gills on the sides of his neck that can allow him to go underwater for a longer period of time than most people but they are not big enough to give him enough air for an outrageous amount of time. They open up only underwater and on the surface they close in response to the air.

Appearance: He's a freckle-faced, blue-eyed kid who always seems to have a smile on his face. His hair is brown and his skin is quite fair. For a boy, he is rather in shape. He's often seen wearing hoodies.

Brief Personality: Elijah is a very clever kid who enjoys all things humorous. He takes amusement very easily. He can be on the quiet side at times but he's usually in a good mood and has a positive outlook on most circumstances. He's very knowledgeable about science and street smarts. Elijah's that type of kid that likes to know all the tips and tricks to things. Despite being a young kid, he possibly understands how to survive on his own better than some adults. However his patience and maturity are not quite up to par with an adult.

Background: Adelaide found Elijah when he was around ten years old. He was found sitting on a broken street curb with absolutely no idea how he got there and with large gaps in his memory. He's been traveling with Adelaide ever since and still he's had trouble remembering where he came from.
Alone or with someone?: Adelaide

Other: He really likes dogs.

[Marx]

Ulysses Voigt

Name:
Ulysses Voigt

Age:
24

Gender:
Male

Nomadic or sedentary:
Nomadic

Weapons:
A hatchet, a bow with a quiver holding twelve arrows. The hatchet is old, but very well maintained, no visible signs of rust, the steel head attached to an oak handle. The bow itself is made from oak with a string made of deer sinew. He has three remaining strings. The arrows are also made of oak with obsidian and stone arrowheads. He keeps on him a jar of snake venom that he will dip his arrows in, should he feel the need to add a bit more of a punch to his arrows. In addition, he has a hook and rope, as well as rags and a jar of lamp oil should he need to scale anything or start a fire from a distance.

Skills:
Ulysses has been hunting since he was a small boy. He's practically grown up in the wilderness surrounded by the ever evolving creatures. He knows the wilderness like the back of his hand and knows the animals just as well. He's a skilled tracker and navigator, capable of watching for the small details while keeping his sense of space. He's physically fit and a skilled marksman after his years of practice. Ulysses also has years of practice working leather, tanning hides, sewing fabric, preparing food, and has a solid understanding of basic medical needs.

Any unusual traits?
Ulysses has two sets of eyelids, the second set being clear and close to his eyes like that of an alligator, giving him the ability to see more clearly underwater, while protecting is eyes. His body can also become airtight, a palatal valve in the back of his throat enabling him to hold his breath for anywhere from ten to twenty minutes (in cold conditions or if at rest, he can stay up to eight hours completely still, staying in an almost comatose state to conserve energy).

Appearance:


Brief Personality:
Ulysses is, to put it delicately, uncultured. In his entire life, he's encountered no more than two dozen people, four of which have tried to kill him. Trust does not come easy with him, though the loneliness that has been growing on him over the past few years have begun to lower his standards drastically. He has a bad habit of acting on impulse, having become a creature of instinct over his lifetime. He's unsure of the future and rarely thinks of it, being very interested in the now, rather than the past or future.

Background:
Ulysses was the youngest of his family, being born three years after his sister Jessabelle, and six years after his brother Cassius. As the youngest, he was given the most freedoms by his parents, with them having already had to raise two others before him, but was also given the most knowledge by his brother and sister. They were a small family that lived in a shack ten minutes from one of the many bayous Louisiana has to offer. His pop and brother hunted gators, his ma and sis fashioned clothing and whatever would come to mind out of gator hide and would cook the meat. They were a small, hick family in the middle of bumfuck, LA. Ulysses learned how to sew, cook, and take care of hides from his sister and mother while he was young, and learned how to hunt from his father and brother when he was considered a man by his old man at the ripe age of eight. The bombs dropped when Ulysses was four, but it had little effect on his family for quite some time. They had no neighbors and lived far from any populated area. Life was mostly the same, the only difference was the rare scavenger looking for goods. Pop was the kinda man to shoot on sight and while that kind of mentality scared the everloving hell outta Ulysses, he knew well enough not to complain about it.

As the years droned on, so did his family. It wasn't until the gators were beginning to evolve that his family first really experienced what the new world had to offer. Turns out the bayou had become a tad irradiated, as had the gators, as had their main source of food. His father died to a mutated gator twice the size of their boat, when it leaped up, bit down, and dropped back into the water with his dad deep in it's gullet. His mother didn't take too well to the irradiated food and keeled over two years after her husband, around Ulysses's twelfth year of life. Cassius shared a similar fate with his father and one day after a long hunting trip, Ulysses returned to find his burnt to the ground with no sine of Jessabelle. All Ulysses had to his name at that point was what he brought with him and his father's tool box, that hadn't moved from the yard since the day he died. Ulysses knew it was time to start heading elsewhere, since nothing much was left here. He hacked away at the rusted shut toolbox with his hatchet, breaking off the lock and fished around, looking for anything useful. In a ziploc bag at the bottom was a book, a tad aged but in decent enough condition. The title, when he clumsily read it aloud sounded similar enough to his name and on a whim decided it was probably meant for him.

Now Ulysses travels north, hunting game and searching for anyone living, ideally the type of person not inclined to kill him that is.

Alone or with someone?:
Alone.

Other:
Ulysses can't read and is easily embarrassed by that.

[Penguin]

Accepted. I'm going to stop accepting CS's aside from those who gave interest prior.

[Rookery]

Marx said

Good CS :D but please divide the background into paragraphs, I was getting double vision while reading :P

[Marx]

Hopefully it looks a tad bit better. On mobile right now, so it's a little hard to judge spacing.

[Rookery]

Marx said
Hopefully it looks a tad bit better. On mobile right now, so it's a little hard to judge spacing.

Yup, looks better now :)

[Rookery]

Guys, please abuse the fact that I'm into editing things. Once the IC is up I can do things such maps and etc... below is an example.

Map for Dehumanized

[Rookery]

- double posts -

[Metronome]

looks cool. Isam's territory will be the majority of harrison bay state park, if you wanna put that on there.

[Rookery]

Metronome said
looks cool. Isam's territory will be the majority of harrison bay state park, if you wanna put that on there.

Make a print screen of google maps, so I would know how large it is, if you got the time, use paint to draw rough boundaries :)

[Metronome]

its around this general area

[Rookery]

Metronome said
its around this general area

I edited it so, highlighting ares Isam would probably mostly visit assuming he normally docks at Harrison Bay (the small island).

Keep in mind this is not the finish product, just testing out new brushes and all.

[Metronome]

looks good to me :3

[Penguin]

Whoa nice map editing skills.

[nanodragon626]

woah that is amazing

[Rookery]

Penguin said
Whoa nice map editing skills.

nanodragon626 said
woah that is amazing

Thank you, thank you :) As I said, abuse the fact! *laughs*

[nanodragon626]

Well I'm going to take you up on that offer

[Wormgod]

Woooaah, we got map editing and everything! Well....*sweatdrops* I'm not good with that stuff. Perhaps someone can help mark out a general area for my girl? She's used to living in the wilderness, so I'll stick her in Chester Frost Park, on the shore, not the island chain that sticks out in the bay.

[Rookery]

Okay, I keep note but I'm planning to upload them once the RP really really start, the previous ones are just preview :P

EDIT: Nomads and Solitary Sedentary Individuals only have a "range of influence" i.e. locations they visit often for supplies and such stuff.

[StephenRouse]

Quick map of my settlement's claims, just south of Hixson. Red marks the actual settlement, and yellow the various fields.Their 'territory' can be any size, as long as it encompasses these areas.