Welcome! My name is birdboy and while I am fairly new here, I like to imagine I am a veteran roleplayer. I usually take more of a Gamemaster stance in my roleplays, often stepping away from my own characters to play other NPCs or to be the environment around you so that I may create storylines and arcs within our roleplay. I was hoping to shake the rust off my skills by starting a good, old fashion academy roleplay. They're a dime a dozen, but you never can resist them, can you?


Below is the plot that this roleplay revolves around. It's a lot so there is a shorter version below it.
[hider=the story]In 2077 a UFO crashed into Union city, NY and shrouded the town in a strange, silver mist. The destruction was catastrophic, with measurements predicted the object to be upwards of 600 tons. Seeing the destruction and shockwaves that rumbled the very ground from the impact, the united states declared this a national emergency and poured resources and manpower onto the issue quickly and effectively. the results of hard work were that the damage was minimized and casualties were drastically cut down. The town itself was heavily irradiated and quarantined for scientific study.

Months passed since everyone had been evacuated before the first 'oddities' began to pop up around the world. People who survived or came into contact with the mist would sometimes mutate or gain powers of various proportions and sources. The only variable that was the same was their connection to the Union city mist. The number of people affected this way where far and few between, but super-powered mercenary groups and gangs slowly began to crop up around the world. Soon, powers came to be seen with fear and resentment. Many countries went as far as to ban all known 'oddities' as they were called.

Enter Doctor Franz Muller. A self-made millionaire banking off of his advances in DNA Study and alteration and automated surgery. As if from nowhere, he reveals a large institution with an impressive campus located far up in the Alps. He reveals it by sending personally written letters to 175 different families with one or more 'oddities' living in their home. He offers them to either join his staff if eligible or enroll anyone of 12-19 years of age into what he describes as "A school that will put Socrates to shame".

He calls the school 'Empyreus Academy', and agrees to pay for all expenses that the children may need covered (Plane tickets, eating/drinking, medical needs, etc.). Franz seems to be genuine and true in his desires to just help these children, but his actions seem all too fishy. Is he up to something? Only those select few who join may ever know.[/hider]
[hider=TL;DR]Big UFO crashed into a city and destroyed it. survivors got powers but became societies rejects. Then a rich guy suddenly has a school for some to attend.[/hider]

[b]DA RULES[/b]
1. What I say goes, I am the dude that started this after all.
2. None of the 'metagaming, powerplaying, etc' stuff. Let's have fun
3. [u]make a narrative![/u] I have problems with this a lot. It's fine to have a shorter reply or to not know what to do, but please remember that we are trying to progress and make a story. Be ready to lose sometimes, feel free to have different kinds of relationships: be they romantic, platonic or even as rivals.
4. You can have up to 2 characters, use them wisely
5. Yada yada, you get it. I'm sure you've all seen thousands of these.

[i]Character Template

Name:
Age:
Appearance: (Description or picture)
Motives: (What things does your character want to accomplish/their morals and values_
Personality: (Give me at least a paragraph)
Backstory: (Same here)
Powers/abilities: (try not to make anything too crazy and try to only have 1 or 2.)
Skills: (Not all of them, but maybe something special they can do)[/i]