All right, let's get to it. [center][COLOR=SLATEGRAY][B]C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T P R O P O S A L[/B][/COLOR][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/vQOmUnK.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/DxUIER1.png[/img][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/2WcNfQ8.png[/img][h3][sup][sub][color=Orange]Princess Koriand’r[/color]/[color=MediumPurple]Rachel Roth[/color] ♦ [color=Orange]Exiled Princess of Tamaran[/color]/[color=MediumPurple]Ex-Cultist and future Anti-Christ[/color] ♦ Jump City, California, USA ♦ Independent[/sub][/sup][/h3][/CENTER] [COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R C O N C E P T:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/color] [CENTER][sup][color=Orange]"Make the shutting of your face, evildoers! It is time for the physical abusing of the donkey!"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]"No, it's--....it's time to 'kick ass,' not---.....never mind, let's just do the thing...."[/color][/sup][/center] [hider=Like You Came Here for the Plot]Rachel Roth has been surrounded by the occult since the day she was born. Her mother Arella, a second-generation hippie quick to buy into whatever new-wave feel-good movement could hold her attention, was barely eighteen when she was inducted into the Children of Azaroth, a spiritual-science order who claimed to be connected to astral beings on a higher plane of existence. There, she fell in love with a handsome young man by the name of Sebastian Blood, an eccentric multi-millionaire who seduced her and lured Arella into his mansion in the Hollywood hills. While Arella didn’t remember much of that night, she would have nightmares for years about the man she made love to actually being a hulking giant with eyes of fire. Arella’s daughter Rachel was disillusioned with the Children of Azaroth almost immediately, especially while watching her mother’s mental health deteriorate. Despite this, she found herself enamored with occult literature and history, perhaps determined to find the ‘real’ magic that the amateurish cult had so clearly failed to produce. Mature before her age, she developed an ever-present cynicism and biting sarcasm, as well as nearly impenetrable emotional walls to resist the Children’s conditioning. On her sixteenth birthday, Rachel received the greatest surprise of her life-- and nearly her last as well. Her supposed father Sebastian Blood had returned to the compound, showering her with gifts and throwing a magnificent party, before attempting to drug and murder the young girl in a ritualistic sacrifice. Much to the surprise of everyone in the room, a pitch-black shadow erupted from Rachel’s body and hurled the cultists aside like ragdolls. Confused and terrified, yet seeing the opportunity to escape, Rachel fled the cult for good. After hitchhiking north, she found her way to Jump City, where she currently works as an assistant at an old book store, half her meager wages paying for the dingy loft apartment above the shop. Several million light years away, the lush and vibrant world of Tamaran had enjoyed sixteen cycles of prosperity and happiness under the rule of the just and mighty King Myand’r. His twin daughters were beloved by the common people, though the cheerful and bright Koriand’r was favored ever so slightly more than her sister Komand’r. This slight favoritism, barely perceptible to those not paying close attention, would eat at Komand’r all her life, a jealousy that would become a deadly resentment over the years. This was only made worse due to the fact that only one of them could inherit the role of the planet’s protector and champion, the Starfire. This would come to a head when, during a training exercise with the legendary Warlords of Okaara, Komand’r staged an “accident” with the intent of killing Kory, but instead killed her betrothed, the beloved General Phy’zzon. Thinking quickly, Komand’r was able to cover her own crime as a failed assassination attempt by Tamaran’s eternal enemies, the dreaded Citadel. King Myand’r responded to this by declaring open war upon the Citadel, and the years of prosperity and joy gave way to terror and bloodshed. Koriand’r inherited the role of Starfire after their father was slain fighting the Citadel’s shock troopers, and with the help of the Warlords of Okaara, led her people on multiple successful campaigns, much to Komand’r’s disdain. Just as Tamaran was on the cusp of victory, Komand’r stunned her people by betraying them, siding with the Citadel during a key battle for the sake of facing her hated sister in combat. Koriand’r held the upper hand in their battle, but could not bring herself to kill her own sister, a mercy that Komand’r exploited ruthlessly to defeat her. With Tamaran conquered and her sister in chains, Komand’r declared herself Queen Blackfire, a mockery of the title she had coveted for so long. Koriand’r’s captivity would not last, however, as she soon fought her way free and stole away in a single-use jump pod as Citadel troops bore down on her. Desperate for somewhere safe, the ship’s navicomputer located a primitive backwater planet, whose inhabitants happen to look similar to Tamaranians by an absolutely staggering coincidence, and jumped away. Back on Earth, Rachel Roth was on her way home from a particularly unsuccessful social outing when she found herself followed and cornered by armed thugs working for a shady organization called HIVE. Just as things looked bleak for Rachel, an alien spaceship crashed on their SUV, and a magical space princess emerged to save her. Believing that she was hallucinating the whole thing, Rachel played along and let her new imaginary friend follow her home, convinced she could sleep the whole thing off. However, the next morning revealed Princess Koriand'r to be surprisingly real, and Rachel effectively resigned to the fact that either she or the world had gone insane. Shortly after Kory's arrival on Earth, Rachel began having vivid dreams, visions of her mother, the cultists, and a terrifying entity that called her by name. After one particularly traumatizing episode, Rachel learned the truth of her nature: Sebastian Blood was not her true father, but merely the vessel for the Demon Lord Trigon. Being half-demon and a gateway between the physical and infernal realms, Rachel was doomed to bring about literal Hell on Earth. Meanwhile, Koriand'r began looking for potential allies in the fight against the 'ass-holes' who had attempted to abduct her new friend, as well as to eventually liberate her home planet of Tamaran. However, her misunderstanding of Earth culture led her to believe that the most powerful warrior cast were the 'Dorks,' and that learning the ways of 'Ani-May' would help her gain influence with the local government. To this end, she befriended a fat greasy gamer nerd by the name of Alex Kolinski, and has begun using his LARPing group as a clandestine way to train Rachel in the art of combat without exposing their secrets.[/hider] [INDENT][INDENT][/indent][/indent] [COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R M O T I V A T I O N S & G O A L S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT]I want to play these characters more because I'm deathly afraid Master Bruce will track me down in real life and murder me if I drop them. More to the point, I've loved Raven and Starfire ever since the Titans cartoon, and have wanted DC to do more with them as a duo ever since. The odd-couple dynamic is just too much fun to play around with, with the ability to go from light-hearted raunchy sitcom to deadly serious angsty drama. As I said before, in my opinion they're the ultimate buddy-cop combination, and I want to pick up more or less right where I left off with them in DCUG, with only a couple of minor revisions. .....seriously, though, MB [i]will[/i] kill me if I don't pick them up again. Send help.[/indent][/indent] [COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]C H A R A C T E R N O T E S:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT] [hider=Jump City][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/SZT3xDzm.jpg[/img][/center] A smaller portion of the sprawling megalopolis that stretches from Los Angeles to Star City, Jump City is often overlooked as the most 'normal' city on the West Coast-- a haven for those not sleazy enough for LA, not crazy enough for San Francisco, and not pretentious enough to pack up and move north to Portland. It is somewhat significant as a technological hub, with a 'Little Tokyo' district home to the US branch of several electronics and video game developers, as well as for having a unique neon-decked aesthetic and a booming night life.[/hider] [hider=H.I.V.E.][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/aAaAdCl.png[/img][/center] The Homeland Intervention and Vulnerability Explication Corporation was founded in the early 2000s as a private think-tank for unorthodox solutions to problems of global security. While on paper the company only serves nations that are part of NATO, many trails of funding lead back to the controversial government of Bialya, whose monarch has been accused of multiple human-rights violations. In recent years, HIVE has been accused of several disappearances, particularly of young people with unusual talents or exceptional abilities. These accusations, of course, have been flatly denied.[/hider] [hider=Psimon][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/48o6hKl.jpg[/img][/center] Dr. Simon Jones, alias "Psimon," is a powerful telepath in the employ of H.I.V.E. He has been tasked with finding and 'recruiting' gifted young people for the company to train and weaponize as mercenaries, or as guinea pigs for their sinister experiments. Currently he is active in Jump City, searching for new prey.[/hider] [hider=Jinx][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/1UIYhJEm.jpg[/img][/center] Psimon's prize pupil, Jinx does not remember her real name, where she came from, or what her life was like before H.I.V.E. acquired her and molded her into what she is today. However, that means little to her, as she enjoys the power she wields, a powerful chaos magician with a long mischievous streak. She resents the idea of H.I.V.E. wanting to bring Raven into their fold, and wants to prove she is the superior spellcaster between the two.[/hider] [hider=Mammoth][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/mouqM5Km.jpg[/img][/center] Like Jinx, Mammoth's past is a blank slate thanks to H.I.V.E.'s reprogramming. While this bothers him, he believes his monstrous nature means he can never go back to whoever he once was, and has chosen to lean into being the beast his masters want him to be. Mammoth is very much the stereotypical 'big strong stupid guy,' a bull-headed bully who rushes to brute force without thinking things through. If he has one soft spot, it is his fondness for Jinx.[/hider] [hider=The Citadel][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/BOhQZAqm.jpg[/img][/center] A conglomeration of smaller interstellar empires, the Citadel is an expansive military power which sustains itself by constant conquest. Boasting advanced technologies from dozens of worlds and hordes of soldiers from innumerable species, the ruling AI known roughly as 'Complex Complex' and its cadre of generals coordinate an everlasting war against any habitable world they find. While the bulk of the Citadel's forces is too far from Earth to launch an open invasion, it is not unlikely that agents will be sent on their behalf to recover Princess Koriand'r.[/hider] [hider=Queen Blackfire][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/31LmjAVm.jpg[/img][/center] Koriandr's treacherous sister, Queen Komand'r is now the ruling despot of Tamaran, a role she barely has any interest in playing. While her people starve and suffer under the lash of the Citadel, Queen Blackfire sends countless deep-space probes into the stars, obsessed with finding her escaped sister, partly because her personal vendetta against Koriand'r remains unfulfilled, and partly because the knowledge that the Starfire of Tamaran is still out there inspires the people of her world to rebel against her rule. Until Kory is found and destroyed, Blackfire is Queen in name only, and her rule is as insecure as her ego.[/hider] [hider=The Brotherhood of Blood][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/K8S4mkZ.jpg[/img][/center] A radical cult whose members include high-profile people in the private and government sectors, the Brotherhood of Blood revels in unrestrained power, free from the constraints of 'common' morality. Their meetings are often little more than excuses to indulge in excessive bacchanalia, akin to the old 'Hellfire Clubs' of old England. However, beyond this veil of high-society degeneracy lies a secretive inner circle, led by the multi-millionaire Sebastian Blood, one which is very serious in the worship of a hostile deity known as Trigon, believing that bringing about Trigon's arrival on Earth will grant them everlasting power in his infernal regime.[/hider] [hider=Trigon the Destroyer][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/n7yOdo5.jpg[/img][/center] A living embodiment of all sin, Trigon has battled with other demon lords for supremacy over the realm of Hell, and has currently usurped the throne of the infernal realm. Commanding a seemingly infinite army of demons and gorging on the eternal agony of the damned, the Destroyer has his sights set on the mortal realm, and plans to use his half-human daughter to lay waste to all of Reality itself.[/hider] [hider="Friend Alex"][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/yywGawTm.png[/img][/center] Alex Kolinski is a fat ugly dork with bad skin, worse hair, and abysmal social skills. He has met and befriended the gorgeous but naive 'Kory Anders' by pure luck (or so he believes), and now Rachel can't seem to get rid of him.[/hider][/indent][/indent] [COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]S A M P L E P O S T:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR] [indent][indent][color=Orange]"Friend Rachel, come quick!"[/color] Kory calls out as I close up shop for the evening. [color=Orange]"I have found something wonderful, and you must enjoy it with me!"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]"This better not be another home-shopping thing,"[/color] I warn her as I head up the stairs to the small loft we've been renting, [color=MediumPurple]"I told you those things were a scam."[/color] [color=Orange]"Even better!"[/color] she exclaims, proudly holding out my laptop. [color=Orange]"I have discovered that we are the most popular new subject among your people's scribes of adulation!"[/color] I look at the website, confused. [color=MediumPurple]"Scribes of.....wait,"[/color] I stop myself as I start to realize what she means. [color=MediumPurple]"You mean [i]fan-fiction?[/i] People are writing fan-fics of us???"[/color] Kory nods her head, beaming with excitement. [color=Orange]"This is glorious news!"[/color] she says, floating in the air and doing a celebratory loop-de-loop. [color=Orange]"Our debut as a duo of 'super-heroes' has captured the imagination of millions on this world, which is sure to bring us new allies in the fight against the ass-holes!"[/color] I, however, am somewhat less than excited. [color=MediumPurple]"Uhhh, Kory, you do realize what about 90% of those fan-fics probably have us doing, right?"[/color] [color=Orange]"Of course!"[/color] she says, her smile somehow even brighter. [color=Orange]"Expressions of erotic admiration are commonplace on Tamaran, and it is expected for heroes of great renown to be praised for their status as lovers as well as warriors! In fact, the yearly contest between the Scribes of Adulation is one of the most revered competitions in our culture!"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]".....I refuse to be surprised by the fact that your homeworld has planet-wide porn contests,"[/color] I say, shaking my head. [color=MediumPurple]"And it might be all well and good for [i]you[/i] to have every pervert in the Western Hemisphere drooling over you, but I really don't want to--"[/color] [hr] [color=MediumPurple]"....huh. That was weird."[/color] [color=Orange]"What was having the weirdness?"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]"I don't know, it just kinda felt like.....like the world was somehow.....different?"[/color] [color=Orange]"In what way?"[/color] she asks. [color=Orange]"Perhaps this is some trick of Shi'ar Empire technology? Or an after-effect of your visit to the Xavier School?"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]"Maybe,"[/color] I shrug. [color=MediumPurple]"I'll ask Doctor Strange about it the next time I see him. Anyway, have you really just been reading trashy erotic fan-fiction of us all day?"[/color] [color=Orange]"Oh, no! I have not just been doing the reading,"[/color] she shakes her head, now bursting with excitement. [color=Orange]"I have been writing my own!"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]"Of course you have,"[/color] I sigh. [color=Orange]"I first sent a draft to Friend Alex for the reviewing before I posted it,"[/color] she beams. [color=Orange]"It must have caused some thermal malfunction in his computer, however, as he claims it was 'the hottest thing he has ever seen.'"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]"Oh God."[/color] [color=Orange]"It would be an honor if you would read it!"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]"Kory, I'm really not--"[/color] [color=Orange]"[i]Pleeeeeeaaaase[/i]?"[/color] she asks, with big puppy-dog eyes. [color=MediumPurple]"......fine,"[/color] I finally say. [color=MediumPurple]"I might as well see what you've written yourself doing before you throw it out there for the internet to see. Given what passes for you being modest, I can't imagine what you 'cutting loose' is going to be like....."[/color] I sit down with the laptop, trying to ignore Kory floating around behind me trying to read over my shoulder, and get through the first few paragraphs before I raise an eyebrow. [color=MediumPurple]"......ummmm, Kory?"[/color] [color=Orange]"Hmm?"[/color] [color=MediumPurple]"Why am [i]I[/i] the main character in this?"[/color][/indent][/indent] [COLOR=1E90FF][INDENT][B][SUP][SUB][H3]P O S T C A T A L O G:[/H3][/SUB][/SUP][/B][/INDENT][hr][/COLOR][INDENT][INDENT] [b]Previous Continuity:[/b] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5153643]Post 1[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5154307]Post 2[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5155111]Post 3[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5156780]Post 4[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5158551]Post 5[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5160778]Post 6[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5163305]Post 7[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5164046]Post 8[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5166922]Post 9[/url] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5169928]Post 10[/url] [/indent][/indent]