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McCoy

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Name: McCoy Holt
Username: Konoha Koi
Nickname: Koi or Coy
Age: 24

Bio: McCoy had a turbulent home life with a father who could loosely be described as jealous, controlling, manipulative, emotionally abusive, and wildly successful in his business. He was never violent with McCoy's mother, but he wasn't afraid to "physically discipline" McCoy until he did what he was told to do, which was a lot in order to mold McCoy into someone who could fill his template of success, if not his shoes.

When McCoy moved out, he did so in a self-destructive blaze of glory where he blew up at his father, threw a punch or two, and had the cops called on him by their neighbors. Nothing came of it legally, but when all was said and done, he was thoroughly estranged from his father and living paycheck to paycheck in a trailer park, the only place he could afford. After his sudden veer off the path his father had set for him, his high school sweetheart, Mona, broke up with him, and so he entered a five year long depressive spiral which didn't exactly help his finances.

Although he tried to meet new people, get back to work chasing the so-called American dream, and look into entering the professional dueling scene, nothing came of it other than a few shallow flings, lost duels, unnecessarily inconvenient job interviews, and exploitative working environments that he couldn't stick with for more than a few months at most. Still, things weren't all bad. When he decided to feed one of the stray cats in the trailer park a half-eaten piece of shrimp from some Chinese takeout, a lifelong bond was forged in that moment. The cat, which he named Jerry, followed him around from then on, and proceeded to hang around his trailer until he was let in.

He eventually got a tolerable job (that definitely has nothing to do with drugs) and felt motivated to work longer hours to take better care of Jerry. He didn't keep Jerry locked up in his trailer, so sometimes Jerry would return with other cats, which he couldn't bring himself to deny. Being the appellative genius that he is, he named the second cat Mary, and the third cat Terry, and the fourth cat Sherry, and the fifth cat Gary, and the sixth cat-

Well, you get the idea. He is currently the proud caretaker if not owner of 26 stray cats. They are weirdly drawn to him, he has come to realize, though that may just be because he spends so much time around other cats.

He became known as the crazy cat guy in his trailer park, though given he actually forces the cats to take a bath every so often, his cat horde is generally well-liked, and an old lady who lives nearby sometimes comes over to pet them or take care of them while he's away.

When Cairo Tech Industries announced Advanced Duels and the Terminus, he decided he'd give it a try. He didn't exactly regard his desire to become a professional duelist as anything more than a pipe dream, but it was emblematic of all the things he wanted that his father didn't want for him, and he genuinely really liked duel monsters. Even if was just for fun, he figured it'd be worth trying out.

Playstyle: "If it works, it ain't stupid."

Duel Partners:

Neo-Spacian Glow Moss

A eerily silent monster with empty, unblinking eye sockets. Rarely does anything of its own accord, and generally seems kind of lonely.

Abilities:

• Signal Check - When attacking or attacked, three glowing orbs emerge from within Glow Moss' body, floating around or beside it. For each attack, one of the orbs lights up at random - Yellow, Blue or Red, before all three return to Glow Moss' body. Glow Moss must use one of the following abilities based on the result:
  
  • Yellow: "Glow Barrier" - extends an arm which rapidly expands to create an opaque barrier between it and its target. The barrier hardens to shockingly tough levels, but the barrier is stationary and will quickly crumble after Glow Moss disconnects from it.
  • Blue: "Spore Spear" - Glow Moss uses its amorphous body to create a thin javelin that it can use to attack at a distance and with greater precision than normal.
  • Red: "Synthesis Mode" - Glow Moss immediately stops and enters a defensive state where it begins to slowly heal itself.

Dark Cat with White Tail

An affectionate but aloof cat that likes to wander about. Intelligent for a cat, but only communicates in meows.

Abilities:

• Unlucky Whirlwind - When revealing itself, (when coming out of hiding) Dark Cat causes misfortune to two enemies and one ally. This tends to manifest as mild inconveniences, but Dark Cat can direct this misfortune as a sudden gust of strong wind that sweeps its targets off the ground and reverts them to card form. If the targets cannot revert to card form, they are instead simply pushed back forcefully.

Support Cards:
Spells:

Attribute Bomb

Advanced Duel effect: When this card is activated, an attribute (other than divine) is chosen at random. When an attack is initiated involving the equipped monster and a monster of that attribute, throw a bomb at the opponent that deals 1000 damage. Afterwards, a new attribute is chosen at random. If no bomb is thrown, the chosen attribute changes randomly after a certain period of time.

Original effect

Cat Meeting

Advanced Duel effect: When this card is activated while you control a face-up "Neko" or "Cat" monster, and randomly after activation: Special Summon (a) level 3 or lower "Neko" or "Cat" monster(s), biased towards wild monsters in the surrounding area, based on the strength and popularity of the face-up "Neko" or "Cat" monster you control. Monsters special summoned this way are not considered to be under your (or anyone's) control. They are somewhat friendly by default and may (or may not) cooperate with you.

Original effect

Traps:

Black Cat-astrophe

Advanced Duel effect: If you control a "Cat" or "Neko" monster, or 2 face-down (hidden) monsters: All enemy attacking monsters become temporarily paralyzed and cannot attack. You can banish this card from your GY, then target 2 face-up monsters on the field, including at least 1 "Cat", "Neko", or "Prediction Princess" monster; They are pulled into shadow and will remain hidden within until they leave or the shadow is attacked.

Original effect

Lumenize

Advanced Duel effect: When an opponent's monster initiates an attack: Target the attacking monster; repel the attack with a wave of light, and 1 face-up LIGHT monster you control gains ATK equal to that target's ATK for a short time.

Miscellaneous: McCoy's 26 cats are named, in alphabetical order, Aery, Barry, Canary, Cherry, Dairy, Fairy, Flarey, Gary, Harry, Jerry, Kerry, Lary, Library, Mary, Neri, Peri, Query, Rarey, Scary, Seri, Sherry, Terry, Veri, Wary, Yareyare (mispronounced intentionally), and Zeri.

[The Irish Tree]

Solve for X

Appearance

A rather unremarkable woman, save for her bangs being customized in game with neon green and pink dye that she only applied due to looking too much like a non-player character. She stands at 5'3" and carries a ZeXal style duel disk on her right arm.

Name: Mina Fortuna

Username: Minimax

Age: 26

Bio: For some people, their life path is pretty obvious to anyone watching them as a child. Hidden talents were something everyone had, even if they were discovered way, way later on in life…but when a grade schooler starts doing math problems for fun, you might have just raised a super nerd. Such was the case for a young Mina, whose modest upbringing and interests resulted in a life without much friction, but not much excitement either. Even when her parents were working abroad, she trusted in the constancy and predictability of numbers to be a constant force in her life, breezing through school and making money on the side being a tutor for grade schoolers.

It was through her tutoring job that she was introduced to Duel Monsters, learning the game to help a struggling tutee by using the game’s terminology to break things down, one step at a time. It turned out that something beside math interested her, with the countless cards in the game offering endless layers of strategy that kept her interested well into her college years.

It was around the week of her receiving her Master’s Degree in Mathematics from Domino Technical University that Terminus was announced by Cairo Tech, the slightly burnt out graduate figuring that she could use a break before going back for more at DTU.

Playstyle: “It isn’t luck if I’m weighing the odds ahead of time.” - Focuses heavily on luck based effects, with her Duel partner able to change the outcomes of otherwise risk-based cards.

Duel Partners:

Cuben

LIGHT // THUNDER

****

600 ATK // 1900 DEF
Advanced Duel Abilities:

Probability Array: Once per turn when a dice-roll based effect would resolve, you can choose to re-roll the die before the result is finalized. You may choose either result as the final outcome.

Support Cards:
Spells:

Graceful Dice

Graceful Dice: [QUICKPLAY SPELL]
Upon activation, Roll a Six-Sided Die. Target monster gains ATK/DEF equal to the result x 500 until the end of the turn.

Dangerous Machine Type Six

Dangerous Machine Type Six: [CONTINOUS SPELL]

During the start of your turn: Roll a six-sided die and apply the result:

1: Choose a monster on your side of the field; Their ATK and DEF become 0 until the end of your opponent’s next turn.

2: Target opponent’s monster loses ATK equal to its DEF until the end of your opponent’s next turn.

3: Choose a monster on your side of the field; That monster’s ATK and DEF increase by 1000 until the end of your opponent’s next turn.

4: Choose a monster on your opponent’s side of the field; That monster’s ATK and DEF increase by 1000 until the end of your opponent’s next turn.

5: Choose a spell card that your opponent has played this game; You may immediately activate it as if you were its owner.

6:Destroy this card.

Traps:

Skull Dice

Skull Dice: [NORMAL TRAP]
Upon activation, Roll a Six-Sided Die. Target opponent’s monster loses ATK/DEF equal to the result x 500 until the end of the turn.

Dice Roll Battle

Dice Roll Battle: [COUNTER TRAP]

When an opponent declares an attack on your monster or activates an effect during their turn, both you and your opponent roll a six-sided die. If your opponent’s die roll is higher than your’s negate this card.

If your die roll is higher than your opponent’s, you may choose a new target for the attack / effect, or negate it.

If both players roll the same result, repeat until one player rolls a greater number.

Miscellaneous: Currently working to get her PHD in mathematics.

May or may not literally be looking for Number monsters.

Color code: 8dc73f.

[Olive Fontaine]

Eternia

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Real Name: Shai Gillespie
Age: 18

Bio: Shai was born to a wealthy family, and she had a fairly happy childhood. Always pampered by her parents, she was usually able to get anything she wanted. The family manor really felt like a castle - she had all the space she wanted to play and imagine, although her friends were seldom allowed to visit there. Tragically, her mother passed from a terminal illness when she was at the formative age of thirteen. That shattered her emotionally, and although she eventually recovered, she was never again the bright and happy child she once had been.

She had never been particularly social, thanks to her family's protectiveness. But after the death of her mother she became a true shut-in, isolating herself practically all the time. Her father is still alive, but he's often absent due to mounting responsibilities at work. He is unable to put any pressure on his daughter to change, especially now that her personality has grown somewhat more pointed.

The young woman has spent years engaging with escapist fantasies and games. She has good looks by nature, but doesn't take proper care of herself most of the time. She's a bit out of shape and has alarming dark circles under her eyes from one too many all-nighters. She is often moody, and has developed a certain fixation on the occult. She has nice clothes, generally all black with silver jewelry - striking a definite goth aesthetic.

Duel Monsters was just one of the games she played, but she was drawn to the demons and dark forces depicted within, feeling a certain kinship with them. Defeating her opponents and outplaying their strategies made her feel a certain eager giddiness that was better than her usual emptiness. When the advanced duel system was announced, she made some calls, and was one of the first customers on their list. Now nearly everything is set up, and she's given strict instructions to the house staff that she not be disturbed while she is playing.

Playstyle: Eternia employs more of a "control" playstyle. Rather than overpowering her opponents with raw strength, she uses the powers of darkness to mitigate threats and turn her opponent's own effects against them.

Duel Partner(s):

Shadow Tamer

EARTH Monster, Level 3, Warrior. 800 ATK / 700 DEF
A stern woman with a dangerous whip and a leather get-up.

Advanced Duel Effect: Shadow Tamer may take control of 1 enemy fiend-type monster. While controlling a monster, she cannot declare attacks. If the fiend was not a player's duel partner, control can be maintained even outside of battle, until that monster is destroyed.
(Shadow Tamer is always treated as an "Archfiend".)

Archfiend Mirror

DARK Monster, Level 2, Fiend. 700 ATK / 600 DEF
A small, dragon-like demon that possesses a mirror with mystical powers.

Advanced Duel Effect: The mirror can divert an enemy monster's attack to any new target, including the original attacker. Afterwards, the mirror becomes inert for two turns. However, the demon can still make its own attacks in this time.

Support Cards:

Axe of Despair

Equip Spell

Advanced Duel Effect: The equipped monster gains 1000 ATK. If this card is in the graveyard: You can Tribute 1 monster; return this card to your hand/library. (Axe of Despair is always treated as an "Archfiend" spell.)

Note: 1000 attack was a ton when this card came out - it's still somewhat significant today. I chose it because it was on theme and for the tribute effect. We can lower the attack bonus to 800 or so if you think that's more fair

Night Beam

Normal Spell

Advanced Duel Effect: Target 1 Spell/Trap; destroy that target. Your opponent cannot activate the targeted card in response to this card's activation.

The Golden Apples

Normal Trap

Advanced Duel Effect: When you take damage: Gain LP equal to the damage you took, and if you do, Special Summon 1 "Malus Token" (Fiend/DARK/Level 1/ATK ?/DEF ?). Its ATK/DEF are each equal to the amount of LP you gained by this effect.

Fiendish Chain

Continuous Trap

Advanced Duel Effect: Target 1 Effect Monster on the field; negate the effects of that face-up monster while it is on the field, also that face-up monster cannot attack. When it is destroyed, destroy this card. Out of combat, the chains may be used to cross chasms, scale cliffs, and to otherwise navigate the environment.

Misc:

[Azure Bubbles]

Blake

Character Sheet

Name: Blake Hart

Username: HaloHart

Age: 21



Appearance: Blake is good-looking in a very put-together way. He has blond hair, fair skin, and a soft kind of prettiness that makes people underestimate him. He dresses well, likes pink, and clearly puts effort into how he presents himself. Even in a game built around monsters and combat, he somehow still looks polished.

Bio: Blake got into dueling just like every other kid. It was trendy. Blake gravitated towards the cute and pretty monsters than the usual dragons and giant beaters everyone else thought were cool. He just liked that kind of card more, and he never really saw a reason to pretend otherwise.

He comes from a wealthy family, so he grew up with a lot of nice things and a lot of expectations. Blake was raised to be polished, presentable, and hard to embarrass. His parents weren’t cruel or anything, but they definitely cared more about appearances than feelings, and dueling was never something they took all that seriously. At best, it was a hobby. At worst, it was one more thing Blake was expected to grow out of.

He didn’t.

A lot of people underestimated him early on, both because of the way he looked and because of the kind of deck he ran. Blake learned pretty quickly that a deck full of cute Fairy monsters made people assume he’d be easy to crush. So he got good. He built his whole style around surviving pressure, controlling the pace of a duel, and letting other people make idiots of themselves.

When Cairos Tech announced Advanced Duels, Blake was interested immediately. The idea of entering a virtual world and actually traveling with Duel Monsters sounded way more exciting than normal dueling ever did. More than that, it felt like the perfect chance to take the kind of monsters people always brushed off and prove they could go just as far as anything bigger or uglier.

Playstyle: Blake plays defensively and counts on people underestimating him. He’s patient, hard to rush, and really good at dragging opponents into longer duels where they start making mistakes. His deck isn’t built to overpower people right away. It’s built to survive, annoy, and punish.

Duel Partner(s):



Dunames Dark Witch

Strong against LIGHT and DARK monsters, gaining a small stat boost when facing them.



Petit Angel

Able to dodge one attack once every 3 turns.

Support Cards:



Cestus of Dagla



Sanctuary in the Sky



Solemn Judgement



Divine Punishment

Misc: He’s gay!