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Everyone hides behind a mask; around their family, around friends, strangers, lovers. No one is ever truly themselves around others… ignoring a specific few. Those known as “Awakened” are people who’ve freed themselves from social camouflage, embracing their true selves no matter the crowd. These Awakened transform into avatars—a manifestation of their true self—and it is up to them to figure out how to use their powers.

Your characters will guided and mentored into this new world of superpowers and peril by the Lightwatchers, the self-proclaimed good faction protecting the city from the Darkwalkers. But there's always a chance to be swayed to the dark side, should they get their hands on you first (or perhaps you have change of heart).

The RP will begin by playing out each characters awakening.


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A character-focused RP with transformation powers thrown into the mix! Setting is modern day, vaguely NYC, and your characters can be and become just about anyone. Every character can transform into what's called an "Avatar"; this transformed state is based off their hidden/true selves and allow them use their powers. The entire RP is based off the psychology term Masking, so try and lean into that if you can! Be as weirddd as you like...


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blehhh had to edit a 0th post, sorry if this is a double ping

If anyone has any questions or needs help, lmk!
For powers, I'd also like it if there was no time-stopping/time manipulation/mind control, or any other powers that could potentially prevent other people from playing
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Hey Auragreedia, just wondering what the next step in getting this going is? Are you waiting for a response from us interested players?
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Hey Auragreedia, just wondering what the next step in getting this going is? Are you waiting for a response from us interested players?

Yeah, just waiting for some messages from interested players! Mainly just waiting for character sheets to come in (see the character tab for it, I’ll edit it into the OOC proper when I get the chance) so I get to planning

If the others don’t check back in, I’ll just open this up for people to apply
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Yeah, just waiting for some messages from interested players! Mainly just waiting for character sheets to come in (see the character tab for it, I’ll edit it into the OOC proper when I get the chance) so I get to planning

If the others don’t check back in, I’ll just open this up for people to apply


So sorry! Didn't realise, glad I sent the message haha. Thank you for responding. I should have my CS in within 24hrs.
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@Auragreedia How is this? i know it needs some work but wanted to get rought idea and such down

Name: Ollie Peirce
Age: 19
Appearance: A 5ft 7in tall man with black hair and blue eyes, a well formed physique, and very talkitive and confident
Backstory: (TW Child abuse and seme graphic depictions of Murdr)
Ollie Peirce was a kid that grew up in an orphanage, constantly bullied, and abused by the owners of the orphanage, think the lady from Annie but 200X worse, they almost never fed the kids, so they had to resort to either theft, or eating the scraps that fell off of the table when the owners ate. Ollie, just took it, as he was one of the older kids, he got abused alot and he also slept on the floor, he left the bed and the make-shift hammoks to the younger kids, and if he slept infront of the door then they would kick him, and take their anger out on him not the other kids, but one day he had enough

after this Ollie ran, ran , ran, far far away from the place he once knew, to a place where he might be safe. However his body and mind, still bear the scars

Secret/True Self: What exactly is your character hiding from the others? What’s their “mask”?
They are hiding how on the inside they dont like crowds, are constantly sad, and they just prefer to be left alone
AVATAR
Appearance: Shy 5ft tall cat boy with black ears and tail, his eyes change shape depending on his state of mind, if he feels scared or cornered they will be slits like a cats, but almost any other mood is normal human eyes, his eyes are a deep red, almost like a crimson, he looks downward habitually, and almost never meets anyones eyes unless they make him. he has some scars, on his neck, hand and a few other places.

Trigger: What’s the trigger for your character to transform? Is it a physical action like snapping their fingers, or is some kind of emotion?
Power: Shadow Manipulation, solidification and integration (Merge into and move in shadows for the integration)
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@TruckKun Hey sorry, this is a closed rp, but thank you for the app anyhow
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@MidnightNoir@iibread@Azure Bubbles Mentioning you all again just in case it missed you
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oh, thanks! I didn't see this the first time
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@Auragreedia WAIT I just realized you're seiun sky LOL this whole time I was looking at your profile picture like "wow she looks familiar"
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@iibread All good, don't worry about it! AND YESS, I LOVE SEIUN SKY SO MUCH!! The horse-fish-cat girl ever Love your Taiki Shuttle pfp too! Really wish I had her cause she seems like such a fun character

@Jamz For Kat, I was just wondering if her powers/avatar state rely on her singing the whole way through or is like a "she sings a heavy verse, then she's transformed indefinitely" kinda deal? I like the character, just a bit confused on how the avatar trigger works exactly in tandem with her music

Also love what you did with her powers, I was reading through it earlier and I was like "ohhh, I see what you're doing here!" It might just be my interpretation, but I figured that her shapeshifter/illusion powers played into her double life as a rapper and her normal family life and thought it was pretty cool

If you can, send in a post or PM if you have an idea in mind for your avatar awakening, otherwise I'll make something up for you to play out
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Oh and I forgot to mention this, but I'm expecting an IC reply like maybe once every two weeks! I'll go add that to the OOC
sorry if I tack on like extra info and stuff as I go, I'm new to GMing PbPs;;
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Also love what you did with her powers, I was reading through it earlier and I was like "ohhh, I see what you're doing here!" It might just be my interpretation, but I figured that her shapeshifter/illusion powers played into her double life as a rapper and her normal family life and thought it was pretty cool

If you can, send in a post or PM if you have an idea in mind for your avatar awakening, otherwise I'll make something up for you to play out


Thanks Auragreedia! With the singing-powers correlation, it's kinda like the shapeshifting changes last quite a while after singing, but Kit would eventually shift back. Whether that's the avatar (cat) form, or normal (human) form, would depend on the lore of how you'd want the unmasking to work. I originally planned for the base to be cat form when creating the character but then realised that you may have had something else in mind with the lore of the world.

For the other two parts of Kit's powers, it would last as long as the song would. Singing pauses can exist, but if Kit can't keep going then neither can the powers (minus shapeshifting ofc).

Long story short for the awakening, Kit's viewers convince Kit to remove the mask, so they did. The very next moment Kit sung on that stream the house power blew out and Kit found themself in a different body. A cat humanoid one.

Lemme know if there's anything else you'd like to know :D
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@iibread All good, don't worry about it! AND YESS, I LOVE SEIUN SKY SO MUCH!! The horse-fish-cat girl ever Love your Taiki Shuttle pfp too! Really wish I had her cause she seems like such a fun character

she is pretty fun and she was like my favorite 'till I got TM Opera O and Hishi Akebono lol
but I still like her, she's like my third favorite Uma 😂
i'll try to get my CS posted soon
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Thanks Auragreedia! With the singing-powers correlation, it's kinda like the shapeshifting changes last quite a while after singing, but Kit would eventually shift back. Whether that's the avatar (cat) form, or normal (human) form, would depend on the lore of how you'd want the unmasking to work. I originally planned for the base to be cat form when creating the character but then realised that you may have had something else in mind with the lore of the world.

For the other two parts of Kit's powers, it would last as long as the song would. Singing pauses can exist, but if Kit can't keep going then neither can the powers (minus shapeshifting ofc).

Long story short for the awakening, Kit's viewers convince Kit to remove the mask, so they did. The very next moment Kit sung on that stream the house power blew out and Kit found themself in a different body. A cat humanoid one.

Lemme know if there's anything else you'd like to know :D

I think for the shapeshifting effects, Kit would probably just morph back into their human state! The cat form can just be their default shapeshift form, if that makes any sense. Maybe for shorter transformation durations, they shift back into cat form? I'll leave it up to you

And thank you, that clears it up a bit! I'm assuming they'll have to sing (mostly) to maintain her avatar state instead of one verse and done kinda thing?
Also sorry if I got your character's name (and gender, I keep defaulting to fem pronouns on accident, also my bad) wrong, my brain somehow misread their name;; my bad

I'll see what I can do for their awakening scene! I'm thinking of starting off everyone mostly separate until a merge point, but if that sounds like a bad idea or if you'd like something different, let me know
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I think for the shapeshifting effects, Kit would probably just morph back into their human state! The cat form can just be their default shapeshift form, if that makes any sense. Maybe for shorter transformation durations, they shift back into cat form? I'll leave it up to you

And thank you, that clears it up a bit! I'm assuming she'll have to sing (mostly) to maintain her avatar state instead of one verse and done kinda thing?
Also sorry if I got your character's name wrong, my brain somehow misread their name;; my bad

I'll see what I can do for her awakening scene! I'm thinking of starting off everyone mostly separate until a merge point, but if that sounds like a bad idea or if you'd like something different, let me know


Sounds good! I think human form with mundane, cat form when singing at all, other powers/other shapeshifting only when sung deliberately to activate (like singing about being a bodybuilder then becoming one etc). I think that should work.

So being avatar doesn't now allow pets to be used, but need to be avatar and singing still.

And also don't believe that to be a bad idea, sounds good :)
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Sounds good! I think human form with mundane, cat form when singing at all, other powers/other shapeshifting only when sung deliberately to activate (like singing about being a bodybuilder then becoming one etc). I think that should work.

So being avatar doesn't now allow pets to be used, but need to be avatar and singing still.

And also don't believe that to be a bad idea, sounds good :)

Alright, sounds interesting! Thank you for the clarification

I'll start you off on your awakening scene next week or so, since I'm mostly busy this weekend
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No worries ^_^
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@Auragreedia Sorry, i didnt realize, my bad
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Okay, life is kinda beating my ass right now, so the IC is gonna be on hold for a bit. I’ll try to get out next week maybe? Bare minimum, I get something finished by the start of next month
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Oh!! It has begun! Let's goooo!!
How would you like me to respond here? Has the awakening happened by this stage?
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