[OOC] [On hold, Will return]

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^{Father... he was a broken, flawed man, but he did everything for us...}

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Urban-Fantasy | Mystery | Horror | Character Driven

OVERVIEW

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Welcome to Recollections: Magnanimous, another RP set in the supernatural horror/urban fantasy universe known as the Recollections universe. Set after Vivid Recollections where the world eating eldritch abomination known as the Glutton was defeated and a new timeline was created free of its influence - with the side effect of magic returning. This creates a wide range of different ramifications as new beings and problems turn the system upside down.

In Magnanimous, it's all about the Vanburen family. An illustrious family that is set in Araminta, Pennslyvania. The Vanburens were lead by their patriarch, James Vanburen, who had a bunch of different children from past relations and adopted orphans and street rats out of the kindness of his heart. He was known as the world's greatest man; he was venerated by many as the kindest, self-sacrificing, generous man in the world. And then he died due to mysterious circumstances on Christmas day. However, a year after his death, a curse activated that would turn his children (by blood or not) into stone if they left Araminta. So now his children have to put aside their differences and solve the curse. However, James was not as great as he seemed to be as his many crimes, sins and past mistakes come back to haunt the family. It's up to them to set things right.

This story will be an urban-fantasy story that will cast a certain light on "magic" while leaving it ambiguous whether or not it's truly magic or not. The storyline will have elements of superpowers, urban fantasy, horror, and more. The primary thematic of this RP will be Idolism or Magnanmity. The Vanburen family idolized James for his kindness, but they'll quickly find out that he wasn't that perfect. Tension will rise as they try to come to terms with the problems he left for the family. The secondary theme will be Secrets as every member of the family has their own secrets they've been hiding from each other - which will also have to be faced. Like Vivid Recollections, it's underlying themes will be Memory, Connections and Emotion.

DISCORD SERVER

RULES

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1. OOC Rules

^{⋗ 1 . 1 |} Remember that everybody is here to have fun above all else. We may throw a few flowery jabs at each other, but remember it's all in good fun. The Golden rule is: don't be a dick.

^{⋗ 1 . 2 |} That said, remember that I have the full right to deny anyone access to the RP, and I am willing to remove anyone from the RP should they get too unruly. I hope it doesn't come to that, but I'm just putting that out there.

^{⋗ 1 . 3 |} I enforce a policy of not informing people of every time they should post (unless their character is in the middle of interactions). If you go inactive without a peep, I'm not going to babysit you. It's a player's responsibility to keep up with the RP.

^{⋗ 1 . 4 |} Please be respectful towards all other players.

^{⋗ 1 . 5 |} Please do not post a "wip" sheet on the OOC. I find it very irritating when someone posts an incomplete character sheet. If you want me to read over what you have so far, just PM it to me. If you need a place to work on it just private message the sheet to yourself (or write it on one of many platforms).

^{⋗ 1 . 6 |} This RP will strictly be "first come, first serve." Meaning I will not reserve any powers/character roles/etc, and they will go to whoever finishes their character sheet first. If there's a conflict over it, I will decide the outcome.

^{⋗ 1 . 7 |} Character applications will go into the OOC (where we can work things out) until they are accepted. In other words, the character tab is for accepted characters only. Also, do not "reserve" a spot in the Character Tab unless you were given permission to by me.

^{⋗ 1 . 8 |} Try to keep the OOC active as possible. Even chit-chatting about random games is perfectly okay.

2. IC Rules

^{⋗ 2 . 1 |} No Powergaming, God-Modding, Metagaming, etc, etc... You know, the "don't"s of Roleplaying. You know the dealio.

^{⋗ 2 . 2 |} Let me say now; the story will be pretty slow-paced at times. I have a job and college, so I won't be able to post constantly. If a slower RP is good for you, then go for it.

^{⋗ 2 . 3 |} All I ask for is one post a week. If it's been a week since your last post, your character will be placed into the inactive section until they are written off (mostly by death). Once a character is inactive, however, they are officially an NPC and can be used freely by the GMs, or the players. Unless you give notice of your absence, then your character is off the table.

^{⋗ 2 . 4 |} I am not a stickler for post length. I'd rather have a meaningful paragraph, over an essay full of filler. But, I request one paragraph.

^{⋗ 2 . 5 |} This RP, at times, will get very dark. I plan for it to be a very mature, and down-to-earth Roleplay. There will be death, drinking, drugs, and tickle fingers.

^{⋗ 2 . 6 |} Character death is a real possibility. By submitting a character, you understand that they have to take responsibility for their actions. They will not be bailed out by me and possibly get injured or die. I won't jeopardize the story for one character. They can also be killed by other characters. I won't go out of my way to kill off any character - that I like - but I may injure them for the sake of the story.

^{⋗ 2 . 7 |} Romance/Sex/Whatever is allowed in the RP. "Fade to black" is so beaten into your heads by now that there's no point in even repeating it. Though given that everyone will be related in one way or another...

^{⋗ 2 . 8 |} To keep things a bit more organized, please say where your post is taking place at the start of your post.

^{⋗ 2 . 9 |} If you're also expecting me to hold your hand every step of the way, then you're going to be disappointed. This is going to be an RP that rewards taking initiative, and starting plotlines of your own. I'll provide a storyline, but I'm not going to be railroading everyone.

3. Character Creation Rules

^{⋗ 3 . 1 |} Every character should be apart of the Vanburen family or related to them in one way or another. I'm mostly looking for the children of James but I'll allow a few adoptees and maybe a few other people that have been roped into the situation. You're all given free rein to decide how they're his children (Past marriage, affair, etc, etc). Personally, I don't care even if they're all orphans he adopted long as a majority of the cast are Vanburens.

^{⋗ 3 . 2 |} I expect some moderate detail when writing your character sheet. Remember, this RP is more grounded in realism, and I want each character to feel like a person. Try to give them a believable past, goals, personality, etc.

^{⋗ 3 . 3 |} If your goal is to basically make the strongest/best character, and try to "win" the roleplay, let me stop you here and say you won't get far. This is a story, not a place for you to wank your OP self-insert. Nothing says "I'm a bad writer" to me than giving your character the strongest abilities (along with an asston of skills). I will not hesitate to ask you to change whatever I dislike about your character sheet.

^{⋗ 3 . 4 |} If your character is a sociopath/psychopath, complete badass, perfect character, edgelord, then they're likely not going to get accepted.

^{⋗ 3 . 5 |} You can create a character of any ethnicity, gender, sexuality, background, etc, within the bounds of realism of course. You can definitely get creative here.

^{⋗ 3 . 6 |} Following abilities are banned: Anything related to "power manipulation" (such as replication, removal, etc - I'll allow power boosting), Immortality, Gravity Manipulation, Magnetism, "instant death" powers, reality-warping, anything with "Omni" attached to it, and complete defense/indestructibility.

^{⋗ 3 . 7 |} I'm not placing a hard character limit, but I'm going to recommend you have no more than three characters. Afterward, you better bring something new to the table.

^{⋗ 3 . 8 |} I suggest writing a description of your character's appearance to get everyone in that writing mood. If you must, you can use a picture. Just no anime. The pictures have to be of real people, or realistic art (but, let's shy away from A/B List Celebrities).

^{⋗ 3 . 9 |} When creating a character, try to be diverse. Look at the character sheets and try to fulfill a role that no one has. No one wants a million street fighters, or nice girls. You can be pretty creative within the bounds of the lore.

^{⋗ 3 . 10 |} Please refrain from tacking skills onto characters. Try to make everything feel natural to your character.

^{⋗ 3 . 11 |} On the other hand, I'm going to be allowing more powerful abilities such as time manipulation, immortality, mind control/suggestion, memory manipulation, etc. There are limits in place to keep the playing field even, so keep that in mind.

^{⋗ 3 . 12 |} Powers reflect some aspect of the character, so keep that in mind when creating one. I'm not asking for something super symbolic, but maybe something loosely related to your character.

^{⋗ 3 . 13 |} Also, don't fill out the weaknesses/limits section of the character sheet. I'll fill that out for you!

^{⋗ 3 . 14 |} This is optional, but I can choose a power for your character. It'll be a fun little thing for both of us

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James himself

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| 52 | British | 6'0ft |

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James Vanburen is an older, rugged man with a big heart and a sense of morality like no other. They don't call him magnanimous for anything, after all. He did all he could to improve Araminta by funneling money into the drug problem, adopting orphans and street rats, and help people who were wounded by throwing money at them. He's a man of few words, usually quick to the point but he liked conversation. He was a father to his children, making sure they all grew up well and moral people like him. James, however, had his flaws - he seemingly was obsessed with siring as many children as he could and being quite dismissive of his wives. Still, he did what he thought was right... however, much of his duties were by proxy. He used servants and other such people to raise his children. James was always busy... and mysterious absent for long periods of time. When he got back, nobody knew what he did or why, but few questioned what he did. He was an exceptional alcoholic who always had a glass of whiskey or wine on him at all times.

Died on Christmas day.

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The Vanburen estate is a massive building that's on the outskirts of Araminta. It's a mansion that's in its own little field once you pass the massive gates to keep the commoners out. The first thing you'd see when you approached was the Statue of a kneeling World War II soldier. Which is strange given that the Vanburens seemingly had no relations to WWII, but James had it made. Surrounded by woods, and hidden in the forest: it was the perfect place for the young Vanburens to grow up. It had many pathways and fountains and fields. The estate itself is two stories tall and was stocked with everything the Vanburens needed. Food, water, entertainment, everything they ever could have wanted to keep them happened. Whatever they didn't have James would get. However, what's peculiar is that the estate had many, many, strange artifacts and other items that James stipulated that they explicitly do not touch. Some of these things have strange powers in fact.

The Vanburen Family got its wealth from mysterious means - James said that they inherited the wealth, but from whom? However, they maintain that wealth by owning many businesses in Araminta and beyond and investing. Apart of James kindness is that he saves family businesses by buying them and only stipulates that they give him a cut of their wealth. This is one source of income, but one cannot find out just how James got his money. He just up and appeared one day! Few try and find out how, but only to come up at a dead end... or at the business end of Jame's rifle.

The Family has a wide range of different people apart from them. James seemingly wanted to have a massive amount of children, but it didn't exactly make his wives happy. He had a wide number of failed relationships and other mishaps that ended with him jumping to the next wife or woman to have his kids. There was a strange lack of... passion in the relationships. Like he just wanted children to continue his lifeblood - which shows in how he usually dumps the children on his wives. James gave his children all the love he could and did it with a smile. He encouraged the children to follow all of their dreams while trying to groom his successor to the business. He also had the tendency to adopt a wide range of orphans and street rats... whatever catches his ear it seems. Because of this, Vanburens are a diverse amount of people in terms of gender, sex, and personality.

However, all the Vanburen children have been afflicted with a mysterious curse after his death - it was known as the Curse of the Vanburns and it triggered around one year after his death. Slowly, they realized that, as they left Araminta they were slowly turning to stone (if they were gone from Araminta for more than a week they'd almost be completely stone). When they got back within the bounds of Araminta they reverted back to their human flesh. They're unsure of what would happen if they fully transformed into stone, but they figured that it would be death.

FATHER'S THINGS

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Hider

James, throughout the manor, had a wide variety of different artifacts for some reason that is unknown to the children. He told them never to touch it, but now that he's gone they're reluctant to follow that rule. Some of these artifacts are discovered to have supernatural properties to them that make them crucial to finding the truth about James Vanburen and breaking the curse.

FATHER'S RIFLE Perhaps the strangest of father's collection and his most prized possession it seems. The Lee–Enfield Rifle with a bayonet attached that has obviously seen quite a lot of use if one were to take it apart. Father's Rifle can still fire, but that's not the strange part about it. It seemingly has a supernatural ability; if one were to slash at the air they can make portals to alternate universes, and portals to destinations in their own universe. It seems that only Vanburens can use the rifle to its full effects.

SEALED APPARITION COLLECTION Many of the artifacts and other things within the Vanburen estate have an Apparition sealed inside of it. There are hundreds of different Apparitions that are vying for a master... or a way out.

FATHER'S JOURNAL

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Father's journal, unlike the rest of Father's things, doesn't have any inherent supernatural properties. It's a handwritten brown leather book that's been weathered through the ages, looking like it was written decades ago. Inside of the book contains a treasure trove of information written on the supernatural. Including various supernatural entities that are out there. First and foremost it explains the various types of Extra-Normal beings so that goes without saying.

Extra-Normal Beings - "I thought that magic was the stuff of legends, but now I've seen things most people couldn't believe. Adepts, Awakened, Apparitions, Aberrants..."

The All-Verse "Apart of opening my eyes to the greater universe was learning about the existence of parallel worlds. I could drop a pen and it'd cause a universe where I didn't drop a pen to spawn into existence. These universes are infinite in... potential."

The Hound - "Throughout my travels throughout other universes there's one constant; the Black Hound. Is he an Apparition? Or something else? This thing is the agent of death in its rawest form, acting as the grim reaper that transports the dead to the other side. He's immensely powerful and of all the times I've fought the thing I never even done more than drive it off. I feel like he's toying with me... that he has the power to destroy worlds. However, he seems more concerned with going after those who "cheat death" than anything, but worst-case scenario, never challenge the Hound. There's no way to defeat it."

The Glutton - I've never seen the thing with my own two eyes but I've seen Recollection after Recollection of the slaughter. It takes the appearance of a vast ball of orange light, formed out of sparks and embers. This thing... it almost brought all life to an end but it was sealed in Shimmer and eventually destroyed. Everything that has happened so far was because of it.

Mayor Crest - "Do not trust her."

Babylon - "When I first laid eyes on her, I could tell she was a great evil in the world. I don't use that word lightly... because that's her nature. She's an Apparition that is the physical representation of all sin in her home universe and some dumbass had the great idea to shunt her into another world. All this did was make her think bigger... she has terrorized dozens of worlds in her attempts to become all-powerful and rebuild her empire of sin across all the universes. Fortunately, I managed to trick her into coming into Shimmer where she went dormant... but now that the magic is back she's probably going to want revenge."

The Fragile Goddess - "An Apparition that deemed itself a God, it's from one of the many alternate worlds out there where Apparitions have taken the appearance of Gods. This Apparition was the weakest one, hence her name, being the offspring of several larger, more powerful beings. Her intentions are benevolent, but her actions make her a threat. Nonetheless, she's an ally and I've sealed her in the statue outside the mansion for when the time comes."

Shade - "Honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen, honor the fallen..."

The Swarm - "This one is probably the most powerful apparition I've seen; it's a mass of several hundred different insect Apparitions that act as a unison. The Swarm has several dozen different abilities that make it near unbeatable in combat - however, I found a way to seal it. By taking it apart piece by piece and sealing each Apparition in a different object I've rendered it inert. However, if it comes back together... I'm not sure if I'll be able to stop it again."

Thornton Walters - "Stop him at all costs."

The League - "In my opinion... they're the most dangerous threat to the multiverse. The League of Luminscience is a collection of magical families that rule over their home dimension, Glint. Fortunately, their bureaucracy stops them from being a real problem but that can change in an instant. Many people carry their blood, and thus their abilities."

The Rage of Dying Animals - "He used to be benevolent. He used to be good. Keep him sealed if you know what's good for you, he's his greatest ally. Also powerful. That's important too."

Lihua Zhao - "Someone that got roped into all of this... she was a beautiful moral.. albeit vain and prideful woman. Her abstraction was crucial... She settled down in Shimmer and had some kids, I'm glad. But, I heard someone killed her, I hope it wasn't him."

Mary Roberts - "An old friend of mine from my childhood... she unfortunately died but she returned as an Apparition. She was one of Thornton's allies, but she turned against him and joined me. Mary's a very difficult one to work with, but she's a very cunning woman don't underestimate her."

The Bull - "The counterpart to the Hound... where the Hound represents death the Red Bull represents rage and vengeance. I've seen it's rage first hand... it cannot be contained. Nor stopped. That thing... burned it all, drowned my home in rage and blood."

Farmer Hill - "Its the only place that has magic. I've vowed never to go here and neither should you. That's irrelevant now that Farmer Hill isn't much of anything."

My rifle - "Take care of it. You'll need it." -

The Oasis - "The most beautiful place I've seen... you must stop him from getting here."

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"The world of the Extra-Normal is like falling down a hole. The kind of hole you can't get out of. At least not easily."

There out there exists a force, a force like no other. One that allows a person to go further beyond the limits of what is considered natural and become something more... or less, depending on how you look at it. The simplest word for it all is Magic, and it's the gateway to infinite possibilities. Magic was always a secret in the old timeline, but in the new timeline, magic has existed for hundreds of years. The collective term for it all is Extra-Normal, and there are many different types of Extra-Normal beings. Each of them gets their abilities depending on mere circumstance. Some get their abilities from a moment of powerful emotions, others inherit it, some are phantasms of the deceased or spawned from belief and emotion, and others are the result of a chance encounter with those phantasms.

Each of them has innate abilities that each of them have across the board. To begin many magical abilities are completely invisible to those who aren't Extra-Normal (Known as Blind). Only the Extra-Normal can perceive them but there are certain abilities that can be seen by all. The Extra-Normal can read the auras of things that they have a connection through walls and over distances, have a barrier around them known as an Emotional Field which protects them from each other's abilities, and can experience a Recollection, a vision of the past that is somewhat related to them.

However, these are merely sub-abilities, and every Extra-Normal being has an ability that is unique to them known as an Abstraction. Abstractions are the collective term used for a magical ability of any time and it's determined by the type of being. However, Abstractions are vast, strange, and no two abstractions are ever the same.

Extra Normal Beings

AWAKENED

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The Awakened are the most common and versatile type of Extra-Normal beings. They open their minds to the greater universe via a moment of powerful emotion, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a negative emotion. The abstraction they gain reflects them in some way or another (Such a person who desires control would get a telekinetic power or an angry person would gain pyromancery) and they have a brand on them known as a Sigil on them that denotes their ability. Sigils are invisible to the Blind and the Awakened have their own set of abilities. The Awakened are capable of transferring their abstractions amongst other Awakened (or to Blind that they have a particular connection to), either wholly or bits and pieces. An Awakened can have several abstractions but they can only use one at a time... unless they're in a Collective-Awakening. Which many people Awaken at the same time and they each get a piece of everyone's ability in the Collective along with a mechanic in which their abstractions interact. A member of the Collective can use every ability at the same time. Finally, there's the Subsequent-Awakening, in which, after great change, an Awakened can manifest a brand new ability to reflect them. It's possible for a Subsequent-Awakening to be a Collective.

GM Notes

The bread and butter of the setting and probably the most common and simplistic of the types. All I ask for is that the abstraction reflects some part of their character, I'm pretty loose about that. Just don't be lame and say something like "Likes running so has super speed". I'm thinking stuff like somebody gets the ability to launch people because they were attacked, someone with kindness gets healing, etc. The Collective-Awakening can also be interesting.

ADEPTS

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Adepts are individuals from a different universe known as Glint, a universe owned by a collective known as the League of Luminescence. Ages ago the world of Glint was nearly wiped clean by the universe eating abomination Glutton and after it's defeat the magical families that once were in the shadows took over. Establishing the League of Luminscience, but most of the people in this universe are one of the exiles or runaways that were cast away and carried their genes. The Adepts are more in line with traditional wizards and mages, and they use an object known as a Channeler to cast their spells. A channeler is an object in which the Adept has an emotional connection to and it's possible to use an object that they don't have a connection to but the casting is far weaker. Each Adept is connected to a different light known as Lux which unlocks different magical abilities, the more kinds of Lux an Adept is attached to, the less powerful they are overall. Each light of Lux corresponds with a particular emotion and when the Blind carrying Adept genes experiences that emotion they undergo a Kindling Event. A Kindling-Event is when the Blind receives a vision of their ancestors who tells them about their heritage, or alternatively a vision of the future of them using their spells. In any case an Adept has a collection of Spells they must learn and practice before they are able to utilize them - Adepts find it easier to learn spells that correspond with their personality. Older Adepts are among the most powerful.

Types of Lux

Red (Rage/Hatred): Elemental Lux, the most common type of Lux. Examples: Fire, ice, electricity, earth, plant manipulation, and similar abilities.

Green (Happiness): Biological Lux, the second most common type of Lux. Examples: Healing, shape-shifting, wing generation, etc,

Yellow (Fear/Caution): Stealth and shielding Lux. Examples: Invisibility, barrier generation/forcefields, dumbing sound down, etc.

Pink (Love): Mind Lux, and the fourth most common type of Lux. Examples: Emotion manipulation, mind control, telepathy, illusion creation, etc.

Gold (Pride): Summoning Lux, the third rarest type of Lux - allows an Adept to create or summon a minion. Examples include: Creating minions of choice, summoning a defeated monster, etc

Purple (Anticipation): Movement Lux, the third most common type of Lux. Examples include: Teleportation, Portal Creation (a common abstraction in the League), telekinesis, etc

Cyan (Nostalgia): Sight Lux. Examples include: Observing locations remotely, seeing into the past/future, enhanced vision, etc.

Orange (Courage): Infusion Lux, the ability to infuse objects temporarily or permanently with Extra-Normal properties. Orange Lux synergizes well with every other type of Lux. Examples: Creating a magic sword, making an object levitate, etc, etc.

Blue (Sadness): Curse-Lux, the rarest form of Lux. The ability to cast curses, but needs a stipulation to be broken - synergizes often with Black and Gold Lux. Examples: Cursing someone to turn into a monster, creating a deadly illness, cursing someone to be haunted by the dead, etc

Lavender (Hope): Purification and Strengthening Lux. Examples: Boosting other Extra-Normal beings power, removal of curses, removing diseases, etc

Black (Apathy): Necromancery Lux, the ability to manipulate the dead. Examples: Creating zombie minions, manipulating apparitions and spirits, etc

GM Notes

Adepts are probably my second favorite out of the types so I'm biased. They're probably the most complex given how Lux n' shit works. I should note that newer adepts (aka what should be most of the cast) should only have access to three or five spells at a time - and I demand a list of spells they can cast in their abstraction section. Keep in mind the more types of Lux they have access to, the overall weaker their abilities should be. Also please run any new spells by me first.

APPARITIONS

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Ghosts, Phantasms, Demons, whatever you call them, they are strange beings. Apparitions are likely the vaguest and esoteric of all the Extra-Normal beings but are among the most impactful. They are in line with ghosts as they are not comprised of flesh and blood, but instead, magic. They are beings that were created a particularly powerful emotion or belief or they're the phantasm of a deceased with strong emotion in them. The Awakened are more likely to become Apparitions just from their nature. They are powered by the same emotions/belief that created them and can grow exponentially powerful depending on how great it is. However, on the flip side they can fade from existence if it fades. This is why some Apparitions are ancient in age. Apparitions can have any type of abstraction reflecting their belief or the person they once were when they passed - but their abstractions can shift in time. If an Apparition is destroyed they'll merely regenerate in time, which is why a technique known as Sealing is used to disable them. Apparitions are invisible to the Blind unless they choose to be visible.

How to seal Apparitions

It's simple to seal an Apparition. First one needs an object to seal them inside of, something small preferably so it can be easily hidden. Then an Extra-Normal being has to draw sigils, or any symbol that they truly believe will seal the Apparition into the object. Then they must battle the Apparition, damage it enough, and get it to the sigils. Then they can activate the seal and trap the Apparition inside the object. Larger apparitions require bigger sigils to be drawn or for them to be far weaker, but all an Apparition has to do is be in the area to be sealed.

GM Notes

Apparitions are going to be heavily restricted for a number of reasons, you can only make an Apparition if you get permission for me. Apparitions apart of an Aberration are fully allowed.

ABERRATION

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Aberrations are what are considered to be "outside the lines". Aberrations are people who have had contact with the Extra-Normal and gained either a blessing or a curse from their abilities. Almost all Abberattions are created from Blind interacting with Apparitions in one way or another but there are cases of Aberrations being created from other Extra-Normals. Unlike the other types of Extra-Normals; Animals and humans alike can become Aberrations due to their strange nature. Aberrations are considered to be extra-normal beings, so they can use all of the baseline abilities, but only the Blind can become an Aberration. Due to the odd nature of the Aberrations, they are separated into five subclasses:

Affixed: Are those who have an Apparition attached to their soul and utilize their abilities. Either the Apparition uses their own abstraction or the Affixed is allowed to use it - or both.

Afflicted: A person who gained an abstraction through being cursed by an Apparition.

Agent: A person who has contact with an Apparition that has been sealed inside an object and can use their abstraction by proxy.

Adjoined: A person who has been fused with an Apparition on a physical or mental level. Is either capable of shifting into the Apparition's form, mentally combined and can use their abstraction, or is permanently fused.

Abscised: An Abscised is an Apparition that has taken over somebody's body and can use their abstraction through them.

Anomaly: Sometimes there are aberrations among aberrations. Anomalies are Aberrations that are rare, given that they don't fit in the many categories above, or they're a mixture of different aberration types.

GM Notes

My favorite type of Extra-Normal beings. They'll require a bit of thought as you'll have to come up with how they'll become an Aberrant (mainly running into an Apparition). But with Aberrants you aren't limited by belief or personality or whatever and can come up with anything.

OTHER BEINGS

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The Blind: The term used for people who do not have an Extra-Normal ability of any type. After coming in contact with the Extra-Normal enough a Blind can become One-Eye-Open and perceive the Extra-Normal.

Traveler/Counterpart: A person from one of the many strange universes out there. In proximity to their counterpart they'll gain a mental link that'll allow them to share thoughts/memories and possibly see each other's auras.

The Hound: The embodiment of black death that leads souls to the other side. An absolutely ancient and powerful being that is beyond even the other types of Extra-Normal. Strange and mysterious, but takes the shape of a black wolf. If a person doesn't die when they're supposed to, he'll know and hunt them down to the end of the earth. The only other time you'll see him is if you seek him out and he deems you worthy of his time. He acts in mysterious ways; he will sometimes cut deals with people for his help or a bit of his power... but he always has a price. The Hound is universally feared across the multiverse.

GM Notes

You can be a Blind or have One-Eye-Open along with being a Traveler (If you're making a traveler run the universe they're from by me first; certain things are out the question). Just know that your character won't have an Emotional-Field and will be susceptible to the wide range of powers!

And no, you can't play the Hound.

The Tragedy of Farmer Hill

Farmer Hill, Montana.

A place few people have heard of, being a small town in the middle of nowhere. However, it couldn't have been more important. Eons ago, all the magic in the universe was used to seal a powerful God-like being known as the Glutton. This thing was an incomprehensible ball of orange light that tortured countless universes and then devoured them and has feasted to the point where it was near invincible. Its rampage was brought to an end in the universe of Glint where combined forces brought the thing down and sealed it in a mountain in a different universe. That different universe is the world where the story takes place, and that mountain was Mount Ever Reaching in Farmer Hill.

It was where the Glutton lied dormant for ages upon ages - the League of Luminscience manipulated Farmer Hill to keep the citizens away from the mountain and the existence of magic a secret. However, it all changed when the seals that kept the Glutton dormant were broken by somebody's foolishness and it was allowed to feast off of what sustained it: emotions. The Glutton's first action was attacking a campsite full of people by corrupting one powerful minion and inadvertently Awakened the people that would defeat it. It tormented this group as they tried to find a way to defeat it; ultimately knocking them into a coma for a few months.

In this few months, the Glutton turned Farmer Hill upside-down - mind-controlling countless people and turning the town into a chaotic warzone. Anyone who entered Farmer Hill was enthralled as well and in this chaos; the Glutton slaughtered any Awakened or Extra-Normal beings that it could with impunity and tortured them endlessly in its domain. However, the Awakened that was put into a coma, well, awakened from it and rebelled against it. Ultimately, they engaged in one final battle against the Glutton in the mountain, and, out of desperation to escape, the Glutton broke the seals that were binding it. However, by doing this the Glutton injured itself to the point where it was eliminated and the multiverse was free from it.

However, these events were reversed as a new timeline was born from the "death" of the Glutton. A new timeline where Farmer Hill was destroyed in a catastrophic earthquake and the Awakened that the Glutton killed were resurrected. However, with the death of the Glutton, the magic was returned.

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Araminta, Pennslyvania is a small city set in Williams county, it's in the northern-centermost part of the state. It's merely a stone's throw away from New York state. In the 1700s a man named Richard Williams discovered the land that would be called Araminta. He mapped it out, brought his people there, and eventually named it Araminta after his beloved daughter. It functioned as a military base during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary war - afterward the base was defunct and is now a tourist attraction. The city's main claim to fame is its railroad system, Araminta's railroad system is the nexus of various railroads in Pennsylvania that connect it to other cities. However, many of them have been retired, and you can barely walk a few blocks without stepping over some railroads. The city has a large train yard that is the hideout for various dredges and degenerates.

Araminta is a suburban city first and foremost - the most urban part of the city is its downtown area. That isn't to say that there aren't businesses every stone's throw away for everyone to get their decorations. The city is full of very nice houses that people flock to if they want to escape the droning city life, whether they are retired or not. Araminta is known for its very nice houses, but the whole city isn't kittens and sunshine. Like the rest of Pennsylvania, Araminta has a heavy drug problem. They flock to the more decrepit areas of Araminta, but those houses may look nice but the people inside of them are not perfect. A large portion of Araminta's city limits is woodlands and inside of those woods are the more remote houses and areas. The train tracks in the woods are known for being the hangouts for drug addicts and other misfits of Araminta. However, the woods contain many secrets.

Araminta isn't an extremely urban city. As stated before it's primarily suburban houses and woodlands, but it's right next to the Williams River. A massive river that was also named after the founder of the city that breaks off from the Schuylkill and Delaware River. As far as demographics go, Caucasians are the primary sight in Araminta with Asians and African-Americans being the second most common sight. Hispanics, Middle-Easterners, and Pacific Islanders are a very rare sight in Araminta.

Despite the drug problem crime is relatively low. Most arrests are for petty crimes and being caught with drugs and murders were few and in between. However, lately, the town has been changing.

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The OOC is up

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@The Ghost Note Most of the changes are in Psychology & I added a lil bit to her abstraction on how much control she has over the shadow atm

Tuyen Thị Đoàn

(Đoàn Thị Tuyen)

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"Just smile! You don’t know when things will get worse."

[ 19 | 5’2” | South Korean & Vietnamese | She/Her | 118 lb ]

[Uncertainty]

APPEARANCE

"Maybe I’m kinda pretty… Maybe."

Tuyen is a bit on the shorter side, but not that small in the grand scheme of things. Her mother was smaller. She has a bit of a stocky build – a little bit wider than most her height, though she’s lost some weight from events that happened not too long ago. She is fairly flat, and her body has more subtle curves that are only noticeable in certain clothes and can be easily covered by slightly baggier clothing. Tuyen is actually quite pretty if she would have more confidence in herself, and has started to recognise that a bit. She has begun wearing a little bit of makeup to enhance this even if she still doesn’t entirely believe it.

Tuyen’s hair is a dark brown-black, more brown in warmer lights. She’s let it grow out now so that it falls to about midway down her back. She will often tie or braid it back so it stays out of the way, but will also leave it loose if she isn’t doing anything important since it’s generally fairly straight and unmessy. It frames a round face with a relatively soft nose and undefined lips. Her eyes are a very dark brown and fairly large, adding to her rather cute but also often nervous appearance. Her skin is a medium golden-brown, inherited from her Vietnamese father – as many of her features are. She has very little of her mother in her aside from her hair.

Tuyen doesn’t have a particular style of clothing anymore, per say, beyond nice clothes that she feels suits her. While she still likes to wear skirts with plain tops, she has much more variety and is often found in more practical clothing or dresses when she’s feeling especially nice. She tends to prefer shades of purple, blue and pink but she isn’t very fussy when it comes to colours.

Tuyen has two sigils. One is located on her chest right above her right breast. It's a featureless silhouette-like figure of herself that's all black, but it's in a poised stance with a hand in the air, ready to stab. Instead of the knife being in the sigil's hand, it's in the silhouette's chest. The second is a black and white lotus flower on her wrist.

PSYCHOLOGY

"Right back to being just as happy as I was before. And by that, I mean hiding all my insecurities and pretending to be okay."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ If Tuyen is honest, she’s unsure what her goal is anymore. She still wants to become a published author somewhere down the line but that seems even harder to achieve now. So her current goal, really, is to rediscover herself. Work on her self confidence

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Tuyen believes in helping others - especially with all the supernatural shit that she’s been through. She strongly believes that she, as someone who’s got experience in it, has to be there to try and help with other problems that might come up - helping beat the next bad guy that appears. She still believes in putting on a brave face and smile, even if it’s just an illusion - because you shouldn’t worry other people over personal matters. She believes that being positive around others is important and will almost always put others feelings, and happiness, above her own in an attempt to not bring them down.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Gay, something she accepts but isn’t open about.

FEARS ⫻ Never truly being able to be herself or discovering what she wants to do in life, forever being aimless. This comes hand in hand with her continued fear of failure - no longer that she’ll constantly be compared to her cousin, but that she’ll never get anywhere in life. She also fears all the supernatural that may now be out there - and what will happen when more and more people begin to awaken.

REPUTATION ⫻ None, Tuyen’s a newcomer to Araminta.

FLAWS ⫻ As much as she’s improved a bit, Tuyen’s lack of self confidence is still one of her biggest flaws. She’s no longer the girl to take all criticism without questioning it and she doesn’t hate herself as much as she did before. However she is still plagued with self doubts and her insecurities. She may have come to accept some things she previously couldn’t, such as her sexuality, there are still many things about herself she dislikes. This is not helped by the presence of her Shadow - which may not torment her in such a dramatic fashion anymore, but is still always bringing up deep feelings of dread in an effort to stop her from ever truly accepting herself. Still, she’s taking steps forward in accepting herself even with the massive setback that it is. Along with this she is very private about her problems, unlikely to tell anyone when she has a hard time. She likes to put on a brave face until she can’t anymore. She also has some form of trust issues after everything that happened - very few people she’d trust (most fellow survivors of the glutton group), and even fewer that she’d talk to about her problems. This is added to by her not always trusting that something is real, having gotten too used to seeing shadow created illusions in her everyday life.

BACKSTORY

"I won’t let my family control me anymore."

Tuyen was a bit of an accident. Her mother was a farmer hill native, with parents who moved over from South Korea to set up business. Her father, on the other hand, was a postgraduate student who had moved over from Vietnam to study. The two hit it off and hooked up after a little too much to drink, resulting in Tuyen. It was safe to say her mother’s parents weren’t too happy about the child out of wedlock.

Things didn’t get much better after her birth – her mother had always been poorly and the pregnancy took its toll on her, meaning she passed away when Tuyen was only a few months old. Her father did everything to try and raise her himself – including submitting to the whims of her mother’s family. Tuyen doesn’t have many memories of this time, but what she has are happy ones.

Tuyen was only four when her father disappeared without a trace. His name was added to the list of people in Farmer Hill who had just gone missing and everyone went on without saying anything. Tuyen was taken in by her mother’s brother and his wife, since they had a son just a bit older than her.

After this her life wasn’t anything spectacular. She got on very well with her cousin, Min-Jun, even as they became very different as the years proceeded. She was always in his shadow – she couldn’t live up to her aunt and uncle’s expectations. She couldn’t be as smart as Min or as perfect as Min. She pretended she didn’t care, especially to him, but deep down it slowly chipped away at her self confidence. It didn’t help that they disapproved of what she was good at.

Still, Tuyen pursued her dreams and managed to get a place to study English Literature and Creative Writing at the college. Here she’s managed to get out of her cousin’s shadow just a little bit, easily making friends in different circles from him.

After murders that happened during a camping trip Tuyen was haunted by her shadow and constant hallucinations. Still, she joined a group of fellow students in investigating – discovering that this was some kind abstraction she had. During the fight with Scott her shadow manifested physically – allowing her to help finish him for good. But like all the others she wasn’t prepared for what was to follow and barely made it out alive.

Things continued to go more and more downhill as they tried their best to defeat the Glutton. Eventually through working together, though not without losses, they managed to defeat it. Through ascending Tuyen got to speak with her father again and gained some semblance of confidence in herself, accepting parts of who she was. After it was defeated Tuyen made the decision to strike off on her own, refusing to move with her Aunt and Uncle. She ended up offering to help Justin with his next “adventure”, and surprisingly he accepted, so she set off with him to Araminta.

SKILLS & TALENTS

"Anyone looking for a Korean translator?"

Writing ⫻ Tuyen is good at writing, both fictional and non-fictional (like essays). Her main strength does come in fictional writing and novels.

Imagination ⫻ Tuyen’s imagination is quite something – you could say it was overactive. She gets ideas pretty easily, especially for stories. If it’s for something non-fictional, however, don’t expect something sensible. This is a double edged sword due to her abstraction’s tendency to show her things that don’t exist.

Supernatural Experience ⫻ While she’s definitely no expert, Tuyen was among the group that helped beat the Glutton - and through it she gained a good amount of experience about the supernatural. Certainly puts her above most normal people.

Languages ⫻ Due to her parents, Tuyen is fluent in Korean and Vietnamese. She speaks Korean better than Vietnamese but makes sure to keep them both up, though they’re secondary to English.

ABSTRACTION

"Your shadow doesn’t have its own free will? Well, that must be nice...."

The Shadow - Tuyen’s Abstraction

TYPE ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION ⫻ The Shadow, the ability to create a shadow-like entity spawned from negative thoughts and emotions that otherwise tortures her.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Linked directly to her negativity, and other such dark thoughts, Tuyen has her own doppelganger that takes the shape of a shadow. This Shadow is a sentient being that near constantly taunts her, and tortures her with the deep down feelings of dread and insecurity that she has inside of herself. It has two states; inactive and active. In its inactive state, nobody but Tuyen is able to see it (Not even the Awakened can see it without certain abilities), and it actively protects her from psychic intrusion by filling the intruder's mind with screams. It can cloud Tuyen's vision by creating illusions, and fooling her into believing things that are not there, or hiding things. With enough focus, Tuyen is able to ward off the Shadow for a period of time, and get some peace - but it'll always return.

While active on the other hand... it manifests in the physical world. It's default appearance is of a black, inky, version of herself, but one of the basest abilities of the shadow is the ability to manipulate its own shape with the only limit being that it cannot get larger than twelve feet. It can either keep its form as a shadow of Tuyen, or it can become some horrific monster, whatever is spawned from her imagination. The Shadow is capable of interacting with reality, from reaching over and grabbing objects, to attacking. It's fairly strong, too - it's strong enough to throw a fully grown man around like it's nothing, and flip over a car with sheer brute strength. The Shadow will either manifest on it's own, or if Tuyen is able to plead with it. Normally, the being is only interested with tormenting Tuyen, and will do as it pleases, but if she is able to convince it, maybe it'll assist her. It has some semblance of self preservation and will protect her if necessary.

LIMITS ⫻ Tuyen's shadow, first and foremost, cannot move away from her. It's effectively clung to her body, and is as mobile as she is. This also means that she's effectively it's weak spot. Again, as stated in the description it can get up to ten feet tall, strong enough to pose a threat, and is able to near-limitlessly change its shape. Tuyen cannot control the Shadow - unless she learns to get over her insecurities, and her fear of failure. Otherwise, it'll do as it pleases.

At the moment, Tuyen’s control over the Shadow wildly varies due to steps taken to accept herself. On good days where she feels confident about herself she can dispel and ignore its tormenting, allowing her to control it mostly. On average days she can sometimes control it or convince it to help and on the bad days, well, it won’t listen at all - and instead the tormenting is worse. It is more focused on its tormenting now due to Tuyen’s work to get over her insecurities. Along with this it now will often allow Tuyen to think that she can control it due to her self improvements… only to take the control away.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ As stated before, the shadow is her own worst enemy, and only wishes to torture Tuyen. It's as much of a detriment (possibly even more) as a strength, and will do anything in its power to keep her from knowing her worth. Tuyen will have to conquer her inner-doubts in order to defeat it, and control it. The two of them are linked together, and both receive the same damage. If the Shadow gets injured, the same wound will appear on Tuyen (Wherever the location of it's anatomical equivalent is). It's possible for the Shadow to receive damage that'll kill Tuyen, or be disabled. Also, the Shadow merely manifesting is a drain on Tuyen, and will cause her to feel more and more exhausted the longer it's out. Until she can't take it anymore, and the Shadow will go inactive.

Self-Healing - Madeleine’s Abstraction

TYPE ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Self-Healing, an abstraction that Tuyen got from Madeleine (born from her thoughts of coming back to life) - this repairs all her wounds and “resets” her to a certain point.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ An abstraction that reflected Madeline’s thoughts that she came back to life, which Tuyen has learned to use through her own thoughts that she escaped what she assumed was an inevitable death at the hands of the Glutton. It gives her the ability to heal at an accelerated rate and heals any injuries she gets, even as small as a paper cut, by engulfing them in a blue light until it is healed. The amount of time taken depends on how severe the wound is. Since it is not Tuyen’s abstraction, and she still doesn’t entirely understand it (refusing to look at the girl’s memories where possible), this subconscious healing takes longer than it did for Madeleine. A stab wound would take around twenty minutes to heal, while a broken bone would take hours and larger a day or more. Very small wounds don’t take long to regenerate, up to at most a few minutes. Unless a wound will kill Tuyen she'll be able to heal from it. The abstraction also heals attacks to the mind or emotions, but this is rarely a problem due to Tuyen’s own abstraction protecting her from mental attacks.

LIMITS ⫻ Obstruction is the biggest limit to her self-healing. If there was an object in the way, then Tuyen can’t heal it until the object is removed. Speed is also the other limit; there wasn’t a limit to how much Madeline could heal at a time, but only how quickly she could do it. This is extra limiting for Tuyen, since she heals at a slower rate. In addition, Tuyen can still be knocked out, suffocated, etc.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Fire is a big weakness, as it also disrupted her healing ability. When in the presence of fire, her healing slows down - and if it's an injury caused by fire, she actively can’t heal it any faster than any other wound. The process of healing is also a painful one, that makes her feel twice the amount of pain as she heals.

OTHER

"I sure hope whatever we find isn’t as bad as the Glutton..."

Hopefully will get that Vanburen character done by tomorrow after rp posts

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@The Ghost Note And number 2. I'll add a theme song to him later

Oscar Price Vanburen

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"I wouldn't call it an obsession, just a really strong interest."

[ 24 | 6’1” | British & African-American | He/Him | 189lbs ]

[Capricious]

APPEARANCE

"What can I say, I got pretty good genetics."

Just a bit taller than average, Oscar stands with confidence. He has a laid back and friendly air to him which is often punctuated by a smile that makes him seem welcoming. Even when he isn’t smiling it is clear by his generally relaxed posture that he’s fairly approachable. He’s a handsome man with wide shoulders and a somewhat muscular build. He isn’t a fitness nut but he does enough exercise to keep himself in good shape and have some nice muscle definition.

Overall Oscar would say he takes more after his mother than he does his father, he certainly claims his good looks came from her. His medium brown skin comes from a mix of both. He has a sharp, well defined jawline and cheekbones along with a fairly wide nose and thick lips. His eyes are a dark, almost black brown that often makes him look more intense than he is - but just as often sparkle with a cheerful light. He has dark, afro textured hair that he keeps short at the sides and slightly longer at the top. He takes good care of himself and his appearance because while he’s not vain he thinks it's important to look good.

In general, Oscar is found in a style that would best be described as smart casual. He tends to favour simple button up shirts or sweatshirts along with dark, often ripped jeans and long jackets. He tends to dress in blues, browns, blacks and shades of grey. However this does vary a lot as he owns a wide variety of clothing and will occasionally wear something bright and colourful, if he’s feeling it.

PSYCHOLOGY

"Y’know, I’m not really feeling up to that right now."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ Oscar’s main goal at the moment is to become good enough to take over his mother’s pharmaceutical business, and continue its success. Below that he wants to further pursue his own interests, particularly in science outside of Pharmacology. Since he discovered the Extra-Normal he has wanted to learn more about it and get as much knowledge as he can.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Oscar believes in the importance of relationships and connections, and what makes a person is who he is close to and who he knows. In general he thinks you should treat others as you wish to be treated and not expect to get something from someone unless you give them something in return. To him, family is very important as in his opinion it is one of the strongest relationships that can be formed. As a result in his mind, family is a priority - especially those family members who give you the most. In regards to individuals he is strongly for pursuing what you are interested in and not giving time to mind numbing tasks you don’t care about. He also wants to one day have his own family.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Oscar is bisexual, with a preference for men, but it’s not something he’s told his family.

FEARS ⫻ One of Oscar’s greatest fears is boredom, to end up stuck in a life of drudgery forced to perform tasks he couldn’t care less about. He fears that he will never find the one thing he wants to do in life and will always be jumping between different interests. He is also scared of snakes.

REPUTATION ⫻ Oscar has an overall positive reputation in Araminta, though it is directly tied to his parents. He’s one of the many Vanburen children, and the heir to his mother’s long standing business. He’s well received due to his intelligence and friendliness. Within the Vanburen family he has a decent reputation, as he gets along well with most of his siblings, but he’s also known for getting weirdly passionate about specific things along with easily brushing off conversation with others if it doesn’t interest him.

THOUGHTS ABOUT FATHER ⫻ Oscar respected his father, and he got on with him even when they didn’t always see eye to eye. The main contention in their relationship was that James didn’t agree with Oscar’s plans for the future - not because he disapproved of Oscar’s plans, because he thought Oscar was submitting to his mother’s wishes rather than doing what he wanted to himself. On the other side, Oscar was close to his mother and disliked how easily James dismissed the women he had been with. He spent much more time with her and this caused something of a distance with James. However they still had a good relationship… he just regrets how he left it before James died.

FLAWS ⫻ With Oscar’s intense, borderline obsessive, passion for his most recent interest comes a lot of self destruction. He will pour everything of himself into this at the expense of all other aspects of his life, including even eating. It will often be all he can think about and, much to the chagrin of others, the one thing he wants to talk about. Even when he isn’t intensively into something there is almost always something he is interested in more than other things. On the other hand, Oscar is too relaxed in many ways. He doesn’t really care if someone wants to talk shit about him, everyone’s welcome to their own opinions. His laidback attitude contrasts with his intense interests and he can be quite lazy, not willing to put the work into anything he isn’t passionate about. If it’s not something he’s interested in he won’t bother. This includes relationships - he is incredibly friendly in person but won’t make the effort to actually meet with people, or keep in contact when he’s not physically with someone. While he puts a lot of importance on his relationships he can be fairly insensitive in times, struggling to understand difficulties that others have gone through and not putting in the effort to understand someone else. He is a man of extremes: obsessive when it comes to things he’s interested in but incredibly lazy with things he’s not. Often he will switch between the two in the blink of an eye, making him a rather unpredictable person to be around - one who is easily bored and switched off from a conversation.

BACKSTORY

"I’m following a path set out by my family, but I’m unsure if I want to keep going."

Oscar was the result of a short lived relationship between James Vanburen and Eloise Price, owner of a small, family run pharmaceutical business that was saved by James. They got together in between his marriages (probably) and didn’t even last the full length of Eloise’s pregnancy. Things ended between them amicably but with one main contention - where Oscar would live and grow up (as his mother refused to consider moving to the Vanburen Estate) along with whose name he would take. Eventually they had to compromise and as a result Oscar was mostly raised in his mother’s home (by her and his aunt), but spent just under half his time in the Vanburen Estate and took the Vanburen name.

Of course, this wasn’t much of an issue for the young boy since he could easily travel between both in Araminta. In many ways it worked out well due to his mother working full time - he could spend time with his siblings when he wasn’t at school but his mother and aunt were at work. This meant that he was never lacking company as a child, growing up to be an incredibly sociable boy.

As expected of a Vanburen, and with a mother who was setting him up to take over her business, Oscar was sent to some of the best schools in Araminta. Here he flourished, both academically and socially. He was intelligent with particular strengths in the sciences. Along with this he made a good group of friends - you couldn’t call him popular, as he was a bit nerdy and got along best with people with as much passion for science as he had. However his natural friendliness meant that there were very few people that disliked him.

He flew through school without any troubles, until he reached the point that he had to decide what to do when he finished. He realised he didn’t know because there was a lot he was passionate about but he also wanted a degree so he could help his mother when he was finished. While he considered a lot of physics based degrees along the lines of his interests, but in the end he decided on getting a degree in Biochemistry (which his mother encouraged). This was the first time he properly left Araminta, moving to College in a completely different location. It was strange for him but enjoyable to be outside the influence of his family (as much as he enjoyed time with them). He spent the four years making more friends and working hard (maybe less than he should have), and managed to graduate with a good degree. Once again he was left uncertain of what to do: his mother was pushing him to do a Pharmacology PHD while he wasn’t certain if he could dedicate around six more years to school when there were other things he had much more interest in. After some uncertainty he went for it: since he got paid for tutoring and he did still find it interesting. It was that, or doing a different postgraduate degree anyway.

He was one year into his PHD when he was home for Christmas Eve, spending the night with the Vanburen family (to avoid his mother’s nagging). What was meant to be a normal discussion looking for advice from his father turned into a large argument between the two, and Oscar stormed out of the house in a fit of rage early on in the evening. It was on his walk back to his mother’s that he was hit by a vision in which his maternal grandmother, who he’d never met, appeared. She explained to him that he was an adept just like she was, along with every member of her family. Once the vision was over suddenly his eyes were opened to a world entirely outside of the normal one he was used to. He hurried back to his mother’s and questioned her on it, getting an even more in depth description of the Extra-Normal world along with what it was like to be an adept.

The next morning he woke up regretting what had happened the night before, the harsh words he’d said to his father. But he arrived at the Vanburen Estate to find that the unthinkable had happened: his father was dead. This was a shock to him, like it was to many, and he took days to recover from the grief combined with regret before attending the burial along with the rest of the Vanburens.

After this he went back to College, barely scraping by the rest of his second year. Instead of concentrating on his PHD all he could think about was the Extra-Normal. He threw himself into learning about it and ended up taking a year out (much to his mother’s annoyance), returning to Araminta and moving back in with his mother. To make up for it he’s been spending half his time working for her while the rest he spends learning to use his spells and learning more about the Extra-Normal. While he has mostly been in Araminta, Oscar felt the effects of the curse when he tried to visit a college friend: as he travelled out his hands slowly began to turn to stone. He headed right back to Araminta as this happened and quickly realised he went back to normal when he got there… and that it was happening to his siblings too.

Whatever it was, it was Extra-Normal in nature, which means that Oscar is dead set on figuring out the cause.

SKILLS & TALENTS

"I know about a lot of shit, but I don’t know how much of it is useful."

Sciences ⫻ Oscar is quite academically inclined, and in particular is good at Sciences and Mathematics. He has a degree in Biochemistry and is currently doing a PHD in Pharmacology. He generally has a heavy interest in most fields of science and will look into a lot of it in his free time.

Trivia ⫻ Both from his varying interests and hobbies, and his nerdy years in highschool, Oscar knows all sorts of odd Trivia and facts. Incredibly useful when it comes to winning a family quiz night but not so much in general life.

Extra-Normal Knowledge ⫻ Since discovering he was an Adept, Oscar has become somewhat obsessed with the Extra-Normal. He has learned a decent amount both from talking to his mother, getting family knowledge handed down to him, and his own research. He knows in theory how to seal Apparitions but he lacks completely in any real life experience, having yet to come across many other Extra-Normals.

ABSTRACTION

"I can charge your phone for you, and get you a drink while I’m at it."

TYPE ⫻ Adept

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Red Lux. Channeler: An intricate, metal bookmark that his mother gave him at a young age, that he now always keeps on him rather than using as a bookmark.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Oscar’s spells tend to fall under two categories, those that reflect him when he is at his most passionate, with incredibly high energy and those that reflect him when he is more relaxed. This means the spells he favours varies a lot with his mood.

Water Creation: Oscar can essentially “create” water by pulling it out of something it is contained within. Whether this is a plant, water soaked up in the walls or even moisture in the air. This requires there to be something that contains water in his nearby vicinity.

Water & Liquid Manipulation: After Oscar learned to “create” water, he learned how to manipulate it. He can control pre-existing water to a variety of cool effects. It can be weaponised to cut through things, hit people, absolutely soak people for a prank or to keep the rain off him along with much more. He’s not limited to just water, however, but rather has taught himself to manipulate all sorts of liquids: which is incredibly useful for him when doing chemistry experiments. But he has stronger control over water itself, and can only move other liquids.

Electrification: Oscar essentially “electrifies” his hands, so that electricity is coursing through them. These can be used on a person to cause a severe electric shock, to short circuit electronics or to singe flammable objects. It's quite damaging if weaponised by touching people but he rarely uses it for this purpose (yet).

Electrical Charge: Oscar uses this spell to become some kind of electricity generator, allowing him to charge electrical devices by touching them to act as a conduit to flow energy into them. He can also use the electrical energy to heat things up. He can vary the strength of this especially in regards to heating something up, from the level needed to warm something to burning hot.

Earth Wall: Taught to him by his mother, Oscar can create a protective wall directly in front of him from the ground beneath him (assuming it’s not made of some non-earth/rock material). This comes to a few inches above his height and has a width just larger than he is: essentially covering him from the front. He barely uses this spell since it’s not particularly compatible with his personality, unless absolutely necessary.

LIMITS ⫻ (DO NOT FILL THIS OUT, I WILL PROVIDE IT FOR YOU)

WEAKNESSES ⫻ (DO NOT FILL THIS OUT, I WILL PROVIDE IT FOR YOU)

OTHER

"The more I learn about dad, the more interested I get."

[Punished GN]

LIMITS ⫻

Water Creation: Oscar's water creation ability has a range of five meters and given that there isn't really a whole lot of moisture in most environments (You can get a handful of water out the air).

Water & Liquid Manipulation: The Manipulation ability has a range of twelve meters and is linked to his stamina. Using it tires him out and he can roughly keep it going for about five or ten minutes consistently.

Electrification & Electrical Charge: Oscar can only keep the electrification going for a short amount of time, about a minute, and needs to rest for five before he can do it again.

Earth Wall: Because it's not exactly in tune with his personality it's very difficult to keep going. Oscar will have to dedicate all of his energy, focus, and more, towards keeping it standing. He also can't go any more than three feet away from it.

WEAKNESSES ⫻

Water Creation/Water & Liquid Manipulation: The usage of these two spells drains Oscar of his internal water and leaves him dry, dehydrated, and more. It also renders him weak against electrical attacks... which is why he should never use his electric powers with his water one.

Electrification/Electrical Charge: Using these abilities are bright, loud, and thus make it difficult to see and hear. In addition, he's not immune to electricity and any water touching him will cause him to electrocute himself.

Earth Wall: The wall isn't the most solid thing and while it can take individual blows, it won't be able to stop huge, area of effect attacks. In addition, Oscar basically has to be glued to it in order for it to be effective.

[silvermist1116]

How'd I post in the wrong category. Swear to God I was in OOC.

[Punished GN]

You must be punished for your crimes

[Bartimaeus]

*starts chanting*
Punish, Punish, Punish!

[Punished GN]

Easy there 49 Shades of Gray

[silvermist1116]

Not into whips and chains, but salt in my wounds get me going.

[Punished GN]

Not into whips and chains, but salt in my wounds get me going.

@silvermist1116

that sounds oddly disturbing coming from you

[silvermist1116]

Nah. You just know my tame side.

[silvermist1116]

Did James leave behind an inheritance and split it between the children? If so, is there a difference between what the biological children and the adopted children get? With the biological children is there a difference between legitimate and illegitimate?

[Punished GN]

Did James leave behind an inheritance and split it between the children? If so, is there a difference between what the biological children and the adopted children get? With the biological children is there a difference between legitimate and illegitimate?

@silvermist1116

Shit, that's a good question. Let me think. I'm going to go with the children born from his glorious nut butter get the largest cut (of his money and the business) while his adoptees get less (bc fuck them).