[OOC] Palladium Academy (Another Superpowered Highschool)

[checkeredsoul]

@Rune_Alchemist completely understandable I can see the flaws now that you told me I'll work on it again asap. Thanks

[Geyter]

New applicants still welcomed?

[Rune_Alchemist]

New applicants still welcomed?

@Geyter

Unfortunately, the RP is closed at this time, but we can add you to a (very) short list should we need a few others.

[Geyter]

@Rune_Alchemist I would definitely appreciate that. Thank you. I'll start coming up with a character as soon as I can.

[Tominas]

@Rune_Alchemist
Additionally, do we know when exactly we're going to kick off the IC? I'm working on a CS right now, just wanted to know what that situation was.

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Rune_Alchemist
Additionally, do we know when exactly we're going to kick off the IC? I'm working on a CS right now, just wanted to know what that situation was.

@Tominas

Unfortunately, Savo has yet to give me an estimated time that he'll get the IC up. I would say either Tuesday or Wednesday, knowing @Savo and how slow busy he can sometimes be, but don't hold me or anyone else to that.

Scratch that

Just said he'd get it up sometime next week. Probably Saturday.

[Rice Porridge]

Character Sheet

Profile : Student

Name:

Sigurd Lukotta

Age:

14

Gender:

Male

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Basic Information

Appearance:

Despite his lax mannerisms and short, boyish stature of 4'10" and 78 lbs, Sigurd has a disproportionately intimidating presence due to his intense, unblinking gaze. He prefers to wear a grey hoodie with black sweats and plain sneakers, but puts on a dressy set of clothes--a white dress shirt, black vest, black pants, and polished dress shoes--whenever he goes out in public.

Personality:

- Silent
- Usually expressionless
- Self-confident
- Falls in love easily
- Stalker tendencies
- Honest
- Completely shameless

Backstory:

With his parents often coming home late due to work, Sigurd made up for his loneliness by making as many friends as possible in school. He lived a fairly normal life up until his powers began manifesting at about 8 years old. Having a high fever and nausea because of the sudden sharpness of his senses, he was left bedridden for a day. However, with his perception accelerated to a monstrous degree, it was stretched out for what felt like well over 2 months.

Even after Sigurd got used to his powers, the utter loneliness he experienced had a lasting effect on him, causing him to have panic attacks whenever he was alone and developing his stalker tendencies. Technology, something he had very little interest in before, was now a treasure trove of things to do and learn, and allowed him to constantly watch and listen to all of his friends--he didn't feel lonely anymore.

Seeing their son have panic attacks from being alone, Sigurd’s parents had hesitated to call ATLAS. But, now, having shut himself inside his room, they hoped to bring him back out into the world. Sigurd only complied because they had told him that it was for his own good; he was happy to feel loved, and wanted to make up for worrying them.

Other Skills:

Photographic memory
Household chores(cooking, cleaning, etc.)
Can read books in under an hour
Good with numbers and technology

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Power Set

Name:

Monstrous Perception

Abilities:

Sigurd perceives everything in slow motion; he moves with an incredible degree of precision and has much more time to notice things.

His senses, while not superior to those of a normal person’s, have become fine-tuned to pick up on the smallest details. This has allowed him to optimize his breathing and movements, eliminating as much wasted energy as possible.

He can learn, if not improve upon almost anything as long as he understands the principles behind it.

Weaknesses:

Because of his constant awareness, Sigurd gets nauseous if there's too much going on at the same time. Although he can pay attention to much more than a normal person, trying to track every sound and conversation in a room would make him sick in less than a minute.

He also gets mentally exhausted extremely quickly, often having to switch to a half-asleep “power saving” mode or “recharge”(see: is a stalker) in order to make it through the day.

Physically, Sigurd is the same as any normal person. He cannot copy anything that a normal human could not do, such as feats of super strength or the supernatural. He also may not be able to react to something if it's too fast, even if he can notice it.

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Other:

[Atroposer]

Marabel Johnson

Profile : Student

Name: Marabel 'Marble' Bébé Johnson

Age: 14

Gender: Female

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Basic Information

Appearance:
She looks a bit younger than 14, but she's hoping that soon she'll grow out of her scrawny limbs and round cheeks. She also a bit shorter than she'd like, standing at 5'1". Marabel has a very thin look to her, much like her mother did. Despite that, she's soon to hit a growth spurt. She has dreadlocks that are lightened at the end, and often pulled into low buns by scrunchies. She likes to pull a couple across her forehead because she believes her forehead is too large.

Marabel always has a far-off look in her eyes, unfocussed and shifty. She was born with withdraws from her mother's heroin addiction, then a lifetime of physical pain altered her neutral expression to look slightly haunted. She's missing a canine tooth, knocked out in the recent years.

Despite her super power, she has no scars on her body, as her wounds tend to heal rather seamlessly, even if it takes a while.

Marabel prefers to dress in warm colors, in mismatched and clashing colors, and baggy jackets.
Personality:

-Quiet
-Curious
-Honest
-Untactful
-Indelicate
-Highly Emotional
-Confrontational
-Melancholy
-Sadistic
-Self Abusive
-Short sighted

Marabel can be very standoffish. She is not the kindest of people, and tends to be very blunt and sometimes confrontational. She's absolutely and utterly scared of authority, and anyone she can't consider a peer. Marabel is insecure and highly self-critical, even if she doesn't show too many signs of it. Anytime something goes wrong, she will often silently blame herself for any wrongdoings, be it her own or that of other people. She can be violent when provoked, without knowing much how to talk it out.

Backstory: In zone 6 of Atlanta, GA, more specifically, Bouldercrest RD, a baby is born, screaming and crying and shaking with an addiction passed to her without her permission, and Lyme Disease threatening her newborn life. Child of two non-superpowered parents, who happened to be junkies, Marabel 'Marble' Johnson was often unsupervised, and left to fend to herself. She even took to taking care of her parents, more specifically, her mother who she cared for more than her father.

She first discovered she had superpowers in preschool. The teacher had made a comment about her 'ratty' hair, so in response, Marabel simply glared at her and clenched her fist so tightly that she drew blood. Surprised by the teacher's sharp cry of pain, Marabel looked to her own hands to find her palms free of wound, despite a terrible pain there from where her nails had bit into her skin. Her teacher however, was bleeding deeply where tiny child's nails.

Since that point on, she used her powers for less than good reasons until she got arrested by a task force meant to contain super-powered individuals. She was 8 when she was arrested. She managed to get a rather short sentence of 2 years, despite maliciously wounding a reported 39 people. She has not changed much, but she tends not to use her powers as flamboyantly as she did before.

A few short months after that, her parents died of mysterious wounds. Though there is no evidence of Marabel having caused their deaths, those who knew she was a super blamed her and even broke into her house with intent to harm her. Luckily, she hadn't been home at the time, she had been in the custody of a social worker. After that incident, it was decided by Marabel's case worker that she would need to attend a school that could teach her how to not only handle her powers, but could hopefully improve her attitude and violent tendencies.

Though it is something of speculation, Marabel believes her parents died never knowing of her super powers, though she does not believe they would have acted on the knowledge, nor spend time, money, or effort to get her a proper education on her own super powers.

Other Skills:
- Lockpicking (she often doesn't, but she would occasionally come home to a locked door, since her parents would get high and forget to keep it unlocked for her, so she picked up this skill rather quickly after the first few times of sleeping outside of the door)
- Drawing (she isn't incredibly good, but she loves to draw, and improves often)
- Whistling (she's very good at whistling tunes, and takes great pride in it)

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Power Set

Name: Human Voodoo Doll

Abilities: Marabel has the ability to inflict both pain and wounds onto other people by inflicting damage to her body. When harming others, her own wounds will heal rather quickly, but that only happens if she pushes the wound onto someone else. She discovered this at a young age, and used it often and rapidly, sometimes just for fun, so she has an incredibly high pain tolerance. Anything short of 3rd degree burns can make her flinch, but wouldn't subdue her.

Weaknesses: If she cannot see her victim, she cannot hurt them. Her power relies heavily on her ability to see her victim in pain, and she is not very skilled at using her mind to visualize people. Her power also causes her whatever pain she inflicts to another, and randomly, this pain can double for herself (she has no way of knowing when this will happen, and does not know why it happens). Not to mention, should she harm herself without intent to transfer or become wounded by another, the wound will not heal until pushed off onto another person. On top of that, she's very emotional and not educated on how to handle it.

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Other:

Marabel got her nickname 'Marble' from her vast collection of marbles. She likes to look at the world through them, especially the glittery or lightly tinted marbles. She imagines tiny worlds inside of them, tiny worlds that she can live in without the struggles of her own life, or her own faults.

As Savo has pointed out, there were a few points in her backstory that required further explanation so I have expanded upon and her backstory a bit more. Here it is. The only changes were correcting a few (embarrassing) grammatical fallacies, and adding another paragraph explaining the dynamic of her non-super powered parents and herself to the tail end of her backstory.

[Punished GN]

@Rice Porridge A few things I have to note. For starters, I'm going have to ask that you carefully write his power... because I've seen super reflexes (which is what it essentially is) used to essentially make a character dodge anything (and other stupidity). I trust you, but I'm gonna be careful when it comes to this character.

Also

and can react virtually instantly

He may also not be able to react to something if it's too fast, even if he can notice it.

lol

Physically, Sigurd is the same as any normal person. He cannot copy anything that a normal human could not do, such as feats of super strength or the supernatural.

Also, I've always been against puttings thing like this in your weakness section... since you're basically saying being human is a weakness.

[Rice Porridge]

and can react virtually instantly

He may also not be able to react to something if it's too fast, even if he can notice it.

fml

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anyways, warning noted

[Savo]

I'll get to reviewing tomorrow, but right now I need to answer a question I forgot about.

@Duoya

You asked about clubs, right? Even a disciplinary committee I believe. Fencing, Drama, Gardening, Occult, Anime, Photography, Cooking, Art, Archery, Film, Reading, Writing, some sports groups and a couple of more groups I've forgotten. So yeah. Sorry for taking so long to answer on this.

[Pirouette]

@Savo

Oooh do Staff oversee clubs? I'm sure Margaret will love to be involved.

[Savo]

@Atroposer

Well, she's still ok in my book and as I said, I think you just need Surtr's approval.

@Rice Porridge

I'm sort of on the same boat as Surtr on these powers.

Sigurd perceives everything in slow motion; he moves with an incredible degree of precision and can react virtually instantly.

Physically, Sigurd is the same as any normal person. He cannot copy anything that a normal human could not do, such as feats of super strength or the supernatural. He may also not be able to react to something if it's too fast, even if he can notice it.

While I know this begs to warrant some annoyance to Surtr on the "saying you're a human is a weakness" deal, it does bring up some interesting questions on my hand due to the fact that I feel these two statements largely contradict each other.

Sigurd can react instantly, yet he's physically the same as a normal human, which means he should perceive himself in slow motion. Unless I'm missing the obvious, what I'm getting at is that his power is being able to perceive things as if he was in bullet time.

Could I please get an explanation on this all and some clarity on this subject? Once I get a better idea, you're accepted.

@Pirouette

Yeah, staff probably do oversee some of the clubs. What type of club would Margie oversee exactly?

[Pirouette]

@Savo

Hmm.. Tough question. A lot of those groups would be hilariously fun for Margie to be a part of. Drama, photography, cooking, or maybe coach of a sports club would all be fun so whichever!

[Punished GN]

@Atroposer Sorry for the delay, I'm dealing with stuff irl and I'm dealing with more writers block. But, he's accepted.

[Rice Porridge]

@Savo
<sub>Sigurd perceives everything, including himself, in slow-motion.

To better describe what I mean by 'fast-reaction, normal body', let's say there's a button. The objective is to press it as soon as it lights up. Sigurd will react immediately, before any normal human, but the time from when they start moving to when they hit the button will be the about the same.

I guess that rather than saying "he reacts instantly", it'd be clearer to say that "he has much more time to notice something". If something came at him from outside of his vision, he'd first have to recognize, "that's a bad, time to get the heck outta here" before he can move.

The time he has to notice it is extraordinary long, allowing him to start moving(react) "virtually instantly". In the case of the bullet, he won't be able to hear it coming since it's traveling faster than the speed of sound.

I hope this cleared things up</sub>

[Savo]

@Rice Porridge

Alright then, I'm ok with him. Just get your approval from @Rune_Alchemist and you should be good to go.

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Rice Porridge

Good to go from me, friend.

[Rice Porridge]

_{Should I clarify it in the actual CS before I post it?}

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Rice Porridge

Probably wouldn't hurt, just so no one has a similar question down the line.