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@Silvan Haven Sort of the theme I'm going for.
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The first three look like they'd be Supernatural class, although Odin's ravens are probably rather up there. The last guy looks more like a low class Deity.

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Draft of my character...

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  • Name: Abigail Kelly
  • Age: 21
  • Appearance: "I don't put up with idiots." She's quite short for her age.
  • Personality: A proud knight. That is the image Abigail Kelly wishes to project. And indeed, she is proud of her skills, her abilities, and the place she holds in her original Anchor. She is very dedicated to her duty as part of Ireland's Fianna, something she takes with the utmost seriousness. Straightlaced and proud, one could say she is the very image of the public consciousness of a "knight". That is, until you realize just how irritable she can be. Just as she takes her duties as a knight of Ireland's Fianna extremely seriously, she also has no tolerance for anyone acting foolish and is quick to complain. She is at once a noble knight but also a very caustic and aggressive girl. That being said, she is extremely dedicated to the ideals of justice espoused by the Fianna, doing everything she can to protect the innocent and defeat those who would do them harm. While Abigail is quite confident with herself, she becomes remarkably flustered by close proximity with others and general does not know how to handle relationships of any kind particularly well, likely due to spending most of her life training for her duty as a knight. She does not like being called short. At all.
  • History: Abigail was born to the Kelly family, one of the primary members of the modern Fianna in Ireland. Traditionally, members of the Kelly family have contracted various Celtic deities, and a few times previously the family had contracted Nuada himself. This time, Abigail was able to successfully make a contract with the First King of the Tuatha De Dannan, before she even began her training. From a very young age, Abigail's life was spent on her extensive training, focused on forging her into a perfect knight that would be an excellent member of the Fianna. She embraced this as she grew older, but the lack of freedom she experienced nurtured a rather irritable side that only grew worse as she got older. Having a strong belief in Soulflame's purpose, the Fianna agreed to lend them the assistance of one of their knights. That knight is Abigail.
  • Affiliation: The Fianna, "on loan" to Soulflame. The Fianna are an organization that claims to be the continuation of the original Fianna from celtic myth. Declaring themselves to be model knights of justice and contracting with Celtic deities, the Fianna's mission is to champion the cause of protecting the innocent.
  • Level: Medium
  • Primary Contracted Party: Nuada, First King of the Tuatha De Dannan
  • Abilities: The abilities provided by Abigail's contract with Nuada center on two items: The Silver Arm, Airgetlam, and the Brillaint Shining Sword, Claiomh Solais. When Abigail's contract is invoked, any mundane item she is holding in her right hand is immediately transformed into the Claiomh Solais. This function, naturally, only occurs to inanimate objects. The Claiomh Solais is a longsword that shines like the sun itself, the blade glowing brilliantly silver, the metal the weapon is composed of almost seeming to be made of light. It is incredibly sharp, and can release brilliant bolts of energy. When released at its full power, the Claiomh Solais unleashes a great wave of magical energy. Airgetlam takes the form of a silver gauntlet covering Abigail's right arm. It protects Abigail, but is also a potent weapon in and of its own right, its surface burning with magical energies that burn her enemies on contact.
  • Skills: Abigail is trained in swordplay, much of her life having been spent honing her skills. Additionally, she is quite light on her feet and very agile.
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@Dead Cruiser: Yes, assuming Soulflame, and yes for when starting, but only Supernaturals.
Odin's ravens are Supernatural, yangwu is Supernatural, and the last one is... Somewhere between a Deity on the lower end and Outlier (mainly because trickster god associated with a creation myth).

@golani: Well, let's start the analysis.
First, minor nitpick sorta thing: when everyone else is using illustrations (even if they're stylized), using a real person for an appearance feels kind of... Odd. I think I'd prefer just a text description over that plus an actual person's image, if possible.

Next: Once again, even if we've got a scenario where a person was trained extensively starting at a young age, college grad-level tutoring plus talented at CQC and with firearms, PLUS mastering multiple languages, and then way too many thieving skills on top of all of even that. Um.
I don't know, it just sounds a bit too... Absurd to me.

Then, abilities... I feel like strength isn't as necessary if you're focusing more on the 'cat' aspect here, as most people don't think 'strong' when you say 'cat'. Agile, limber, and surviving a lot of things that they usually shouldn't? Yes. But strength? Not... Ordinarily I would think.

@VitaVitaAR: I think my only issue is, as usual, 21 plus medium level Contract. If you could elaborate more on the Fianna, their reasoning behind letting the character 'work' for Soulflame, and a viable reason for why Soulflame would give the go-ahead for this exchange, it would help in me making my final decision here.

Also because this would make, like, three characters "technically" from other Anchors, but given the size of the group of RPers I'll let it slide.
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And here is the third dude from another Anchor.

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@Silvan Haven: Accepted.

Also, I finally decided to post my form in chars, so you and @TheFake can, too.
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@PKMNB0Y: The Fianna claim themselves to be the successors to the original Fianna of Irish mythology. They're modeled on knighthood, resulting in an organization that conducts itself in an honorable fashion and is extremely dedicated to its duties of protecting the people of Ireland(and people in general, it's just being based in Ireland means they're usually handling protecting the Irish).

As for their dealings with Soulflame, due to their justice-based ideals they approve of the organization's bid to keep clashes between Anchors under control and the like, and thus offered their assistance.
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@VitaVitaAR: I feel like in that case, Soulflame might be more willing to accept an agent to work for them but never actually give them any concrete information (because, well, foreign agent and unknown status for the future). If you're fine with them being in a limbo state of 'technically a member', then that should be fine.

I guess further elaboration of why a girl at age 21 can be grabbing a mid-level Contract is the last thing I need here to make the final call.

@RolePlayerRoxas: Looks fine. Accepted.
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@PKMNB0Y: Well, she contracted at a young age when her family has previously had contact with Nuada and spent her entire life training.
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@VitaVitaAR: Well, if you add the stuff I asked for elsewhere plus all this into your form, I can give it the go-ahead. Accepted once that's all added in.
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Pretty clearly waiting on another application for that backstory to make the most sense. xD

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Yeah, I see what you mean. That character was a recycle that I thought I could shoehorn in and I was uncertain about power level.

No problem, I got a better concept that should fit the parameters that are now laid out.
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I'll evaluate moon girl once the other character comes in.

@Tominas: Accepted. Char in the chars tab, please.
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Ok, there you have it. I hope this is at least a good beginning:

• Name: Mao, he'll usually go by John, if he needs an Western name for any reason. None of these two are his real name, reason discussed bellow.
• Age: 25 years (Presumed)
• Personality: To the outside observer, Mao is a typical nice guy, trying to mind his own business. A typical everyday guy with little desire to attract attention to himself, who spends most of his time outside of work at home, very rarely going outside to buy some basic necessities or for other important issues.

The truth, however, is that he is basically indifferent to the worries of others; a man almost completely devoid of human emotions, simply wearing a mask that allows him to course through society in an easier way, especially when he's trying to keep a low profile. The only exception for most of these characteristics is a certain albino girl that Mao helped on a whim a few months ago; an event that changed both of their fates in an irreversible way.
• History: A man with no past, trying to find his way to an uncertain future. That's the best way to define Mao in a single phrase.

The earliest memory that he's capable of recalling with accuracy is of waking up in a hospital in Hong Kong, unable to recall even his own real name, and being greeted by a group of men dressed in business suits of varying colors, as well as shades and other over the top accessories; an appearance that seemed to have been lifted straight out of some old police drama.

He was told that he had a debt with an organization called the Syndicate and that now he would have to pay it by working for them or be disposed of. Needless to say, Mao couldn't remember anything of what the men talked about, nor could he remember anything else, putting him in a position where refusal wasn't really an option.

With no other real option left, Mao accepted the offer and began his career as one of the Syndicate's enforcers, surprising even himself when he found out not only about his martial arts proficiency but also about his abilities as a Contractor. The later was the main reason why the Syndicate claimed that he was indebted to them since it was apparently a contract that was mediated by the Syndicate, not one made solely because of mutual interest between Mao and the deity that he was contracted to.

After years of living as a hollow shell of a man, with no desires or interests of his own, Mao began to notice some changes within himself. Perhaps it was the weight of his guilty finally catching up him, or because his memories were beginning to fight their way back to his mind, causing him to be constantly haunted with visions that he couldn't connect to at all, especially an unknown girl's smiling at him with an unbearably sad look in her eyes.

What happened next was nothing short of fate itself at work, when Mao came across a girl that was marked for death in a hit against a group rival to the Syndicate. For a reason that even he couldn't explain at the time, the otherwise insensitive hitman felt that she didn't need to die on that day. Instead, he helped her escape his colleagues. It didn't take long for the Syndicate to know that Mao had betrayed them, forcing both he and the girl to run away from Hong Kong, feigning their own deaths, and seeking asylum at America.
• Affiliation: Former enforcer of a Hong Kong Anchor known as the Syndicate; currently associated with the Soulflame after some of their members helped him settle on Fairstone.
• Level: Middle
• Primary Contracted Party: YingLong, the Rain Dragon (Deity).
• Abilities: The abilities granted by contract with YingLong are almost universally related to water and weather manipulation. His contractors can produce or halt rain, shape and control nearby sources of water with varying degrees of skill; Mao is specifically capable of creating water decoys and defensive walls of water as long as there's enough liquid water nearby to manipulate. The most interesting ability coming from this contract is the ability to sense nearby sources of water—including other living beings since they are majorly made out of water— which Mao uses as a kind of echolocation ability, which allows him to operate in nearly total blindness without any problems.

Another ability granted to YingLong contractors is basically a deep knowledge of rice agriculture and irrigation techniques, while it doesn't help in combat this is perhaps the biggest boon the Rain dragon could grant to a mortal. At least from its point of view.
• Skills: Mao is well-versed in Chinese Martial Arts, his style is basically a combination of some traits from Bajiquan, Wing Chun and Shequan (Snake Fist) with a heavy emphasis on fast and hard counterattacks, as well as striking pressure points to disable opponents in short range combat. He's also very proficient with knives. Furthermore, while he certainly knows how to, Mao prefers to avoid using guns whenever possible since they were pretty awful tools for his previous line of work and even now he doesn't find much use for them.
• Other: Has a price for his contract, Mao has to eat a large quantity of rice almost every day, pretty much twice as much as most other people would. He can go without doing so for a while, especially if there's no easy source of rice around, but it weakens the powers of his contract and whenever he has the next chance of doing so, he would need to literally gorge himself to compensate for the time he went without fulfilling his obligation.

Mao is pretty good at taking care of house chores, including cleaning, laundry and anything in between. In fact, it's because he's pretty good at the kitchen that he was able to find work at a Chinese restaurant used to taking illegal immigrants as part of their staff.

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I edited the backstory now, hopefully cleaning most of the worst mistakes.

If there's anything else that needs to be done, or that I may have forgotten, please tell me.
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Okay, that's both forms in, so let's check them out.

@Raineh Daze: Accepted.

@KoL: Also accepted.

That was easy.

Anyways, this'll probably start in a few days, but we'll still be accepting here even after that. Feel free to chuck forms in whenever.
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