[OOC] From Excile

[Rosalind]

This role play is for mature writers and characters only. Swearing, racism, sexism, violence, prejudice etc. it is all accepted. The theme is dark and dangerous, and I want the characters to be able to fit into the scenario. I’ve got the idea for this from watching some films, and reading books and an advert for a TV show. So yeah, hopefully I can get some interest in this.

War, it happened. The world has been ravaged by technology, science and Mans greed. Mass consumerism, religious extremists, terrorists and human’s destruction of the world lead to nuclear war, and the technology that men relied on so much turned on them, and failed, destroying itself leaving men in an almost medieval state of existence. Unable to adapt and cope, within one hundred years, earth was clear of almost all human life force. Here and there a few groups of people learned to survive, but for the most part, life is dead. And in 2245, the world is now a deadly jungle terrain.

In the year 2090, a man by the name of Herrity Apox created a space centre that was to be used for the soul purpose of housing criminals. A controversial matter, it was only used for 10 years, before criminals were dealt with back on Earth. But in those ten years, over one hundred hardened criminals were locked in the Centre, locked in a state of frozen time and in complete isolation, awaiting their trials back on earth. They have no idea of the year, of what has happened. They have been locked in a sleep for over one hundred years, forgotten about. But their power fails, and the Apox centre is sent crashing to earth. Some criminals perish in the crash, but some survive. And this is where our story begins.

More info
So basically, our characters will be hardened criminals that survive the crash of the prison. The plan is for them to come across a crumbling military base and find out all about what has happened. So it is a quest for survival on a planet with feral wild life, hostile environments and survivors who take down any one they do not know. It’s a dystopian world, and our criminals have to find a way to survive.

Ideas
Your crime has to have been very severe to be sent to the Apox, so no petty criminals please. My female is going to be a murderer, but for her it was revenge killing. So you can have a reason behind your characters crime, have them unfairly tried etc. Perhaps they were unaware people were inside when they set of a bomb? Maybe a political activist who was tried as a terrorist? A leader of a notorious gang? Ring leader of an international weapons smuggling group? But yes, has to be something severe. Also, we need badass characters in this; they need to be able to survive. Minimum age is 18, but again I would like to keep them varied.

Rules
#1 Nothing anime, emo, scene, cartoon or outrageous. As a visual of your character, only life photography is accepted. If you do not use a picture than a full description will be needed.
#2 Make your characters and their crimes realistic please.
#3 Advanced. This is an advanced role so please keep in mind the advanced requirements. Detailed posts with plenty of content, how does your character feel at that moment? How do they react to a certain situation? Why do they feel that way?
#4 Third person narratives only, I know this may seem like an odd rule but some people feel the need to post in first person and it irks me.
#5 I do not expect anyone to post everyday so don’t worry. I have a young son and so there are times I won’t be able to get on here. I think so long as we all post around twice a week though it will keep things moving nicely, and we all keep in communication through the OOC.
#6 No immature writers or characters please! Immaturity gets my back up and make for a very dislikeable character. By all means make your character naïve, but I do not want to read the words “Stubborn but sweet but feisty” in one personality description.
#7 Violence is going to happen. Swearing is going to happen. Sexism is going to happen. Fighting is going to happen. This isn't going to be a pleasant happy-happy story.
#8 Every character is beatable, so prepare to lose in a fight or whatever.

Character sheet
Appearance Picture here
Name
Age
Nationality

Added appearance
Height
Weight
Blemishes Scars, tattoo's, birthmarks etc.

Year locked up 2090 - 3000
Sentence given How long where they to spend in Apox
Crime committed

Personality To include the good and the bad please!
Biography

Other

[Luminous Beings]

Name

His birth name is Drago Arsov. His new name is Ezekiel Light.

Age

33

Nationality

Russian-American.

Appearance

Were Ezekiel in a movie, he would be cast as the scary, buff henchman that follows the evil mastermind around. Ezekiel stands at 6'3 and has the brawn of someone who's done very hard time. His hair is kept cut extremely short, although Zeke is thinking of growing it out. He has weary dark brown eyes and dirty blonde hair. He moves slowly, as if he's in no particular hurry to get wherever it is he's headed, and has developed a rather unnerving practice of smiling at everyone he sees. His skin is tanned-not too deeply, but he's no stranger to working outdoors, and it shows both in his build and his pigmentation. Zeke's hands are callused and scarred from said work, and the insides of his arms are littered with faded scars. These are difficult to see, given the multitude of tattooes that cover his body. These range from completely macabre to mind-numbingly cryptic to remorseful. On the back of his hands are tattooed a long list of names; his arms are completely engulfed in sleeves of gang marks, tally marks, skulls, and similar imagery. His back has the most elaborate set of tattooes, with two phoenixes circling around the edges of his back and a great many Bible verses transcribed in the space between. His face has only one tattoo-three tear drops running down from each eye. The edges of his lips are marred by a Glasgow smile, reaching halfway up his cheek. The front of Zeke's chest is rendered to appear as if his chest is being ripped open by a skeleton, with blood running out from the wound. Zeke does not care for the markings of violence, sin, and the Devil's work any longer, and prefers to wear long sleeves if at all possible. He does, however, always leave his hands uncovered. Zeke normally wears a small rosary beneath his shirt, where it brushes against his skin, and has two semi-faded piercing marks in his lower ear lobes from where he once had piercings. On his right bicep, there is a mark from where he was branded, but it has been a great many years and the mark has begun to fade. He wears a wedding ring on his right hand and a pink, plastic ring with a Barbie design on it on a string around his neck.

Added appearance
Height
6'3
Weight
240
Blemishes Scars, tattoo's, birthmarks etc.
Listed most of them, I think.

Year locked up 2090 - 3000
2097 onwards.

Sentence given
Life

Crime committed
Apox was his second sentencing. He has been in and out of prison before for drug possession, murder, and rape. He was sentenced to Apox for a triple homicide and arson.

Personality
Zeke is a man simultaneously capable of great compassion and great cruelty. In his younger days, he was known for his ferocity and brutality, displaying equal amounts of physical strength and emotional numbness. After he discovered religion, he became a changed man, one who strove to work towards a peaceful and righteous life. Following the death of his family, he seems to have found a middle ground: he no longer enacts vengeance as callously and totally as he did when he was with his gang, and yet he can no longer bring himself to love as openly and freely as he once did, either. His scar-struck smile hides a great deal of guilt, remorse, and genuine desire to change himself. Zeke was once an addict, but has since put drugs, alcohol, etc behind him, yet finds his penchant for violence harder to cast away. He has attempted to live as a pacifist but has seemingly been unable to. Zeke, now striving very desperately to be a moral man, finds himself tormented by what he's done, and the guilt has made moving forward difficult. He's become something of a quiet man, preferring to be by himself and contemplate issues on his own. He prefers to avoid personal attachments, having learned the very hard way how those can end up, and generally prefers to be independent. He feels isolating himself from others is perhaps the best course of action-in this way, he cannot bring harm to anyone. Since his wife and daughter were taken from him, and since he has returned to earth from prison, he no longer has anyone left. His quest to be
alone may well be realized. Zeke does, however, have a very fierce temper, one which he works on controlling. If enraged, he generally loses all self-control and goes ballistic: old habits die hard. A habit that carried over from his teenage years and years of marriage is his loyalty-Zeke is extremely loyal, as well as true to his word. He attempts to live honorably, and would rather suffer than compromise his morals-albeit, at times, he was tempted, and returned to illicit activities to ensure the welfare of his family. He now seeks atonement and simply to understand himself, and perhaps put his demons to rest. The empty world he has awoken to seems to be the perfect place for this.

Biography
Zeke's life is one that's been dotted with tragedy, a great deal of which came from his own hand. Born to an impoverished family, Zeke quickly found psychological and financial solace in the gangs that prowled the streets. There was a sense of family which was absent in his own home-both parents were working constantly, and his brothers and sisters were in and out. He now realizes that foster care was the reason for this, but Zeke as a small child did not know this: he merely knew that the people he loved very dearly kept vanishing on him, but his new big brothers never did. Zeke, as so many have, fell down a rather dark path. Within a few years he'd become a prominent member of the gang, feeding off the admiration and praise his new brothers gave him. He dropped out of school, continued to help support his family financially, but this became increasingly difficult as he began spending more time in juvy than out. Slowly, he grew distant from the members of his old life-at least until a rival gang decided to send "Ivan" (as his politically correct brothers had taken to calling him) a message. His little brothers got roughed up, his older sisters...roughed up a little worse. Zeke was absolute furious, and went to exact vengeance. It was cold. What had been done to his family, he did to his attacker's: ten-fold. The police couldn't turn a blind eye, and he found himself in federal prison. Cut off from both his true family and his surrogate, criminal brothers, Zeke's life was empty. He found solace in religion, taking comfort in the idea that a killer and rapist and pusher could still find peace. The more he studied and learned (and trained-there was a great deal of free time for Zeke in prison, and he spent a good deal of it lifting weights), the more remorse he began to feel for his actions. The people he'd killed, the families he'd broken up. The women he had assaulted, to avenge his family. It haunted him, and when Zeke walked out of prison some years later (let off on probation for the genuine change of heart he'd displayed, the information he'd given on his rival gangs, and the fact he was so young when he'd come in), he was a changed man. Still troubled, but no longer drawn to a life of violence.

Well, that's not totally true. It was still there-talent begs to be used, and a man as heavily tattooed as Zeke, with such a violent criminal record, found difficulty getting employed anywhere. As much as he despised it, Zeke was forced several times to turn to criminal activities to simply stay alive, but he was truly trying to get on the right path. He eventually succeeded, earning a custodial position at a company. He found janitorial work very soothing: there was no danger, no stress, no responsibility. He could clean things up all day and talk to people and there wasn't any killing or need to be harsh. Eventually, Zeke would find love-he'd find it and take it to the altar, and then hold its hand while it gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Zeke's life finally seemed to be coming together, and he'd even re-established contact with his family (who had mostly disowned him following his rather abhorrent response to what happened). Unfortunately, Zeke found that children are expensive-and for a janitor and an entry-level clerk, expensive was sometimes not an option. Zeke quietly began to hit up his old contacts, doing the occasional job when he couldn't get work as a bouncer or something similar. Unfortunately, it was one of these jobs that would lead to his tenure in Apox: he inadvertently drew the enmity of an up-and-coming gang, who targeted Zeke's family.

He lost it. Zeke found out very quickly where the gang's leader lived and proceeded to drive to said leader's house, soak the bushes in gasoline, and burn the motherf*cker to the ground. Zeke stood in the road, blood boiling, ready to quite literally tear someone to shreds, should they run out the front door, and relished the screams from inside. For a moment-he quickly realized he was not hearing the screams of the man who killed his family. He was at the wrong house. Zeke tried futilely to get in and drag people out, but he'd done his job too well: there wasn't much he could do. Zeke turned himself in in a matter of hours and was spared the death sentence because of it, instead sent to Apox. He's spent the time then struggling with his faith, writing countless letters of apology, and questioning his life in general. He seeks redemption but isn't quite sure if he's worthy.

Other
Has a soft spot for children, women, and animals. Loses all sense of morality when his loved ones are threatened.

[Rosalind]

Good profile. Welcome aboard.

[Luminous Beings]

Yay. This should be fun.

How far ahead is the technology?

[ramblingbard]

I'm working on my profile right now, but I'm also a bit behind on my active RPs because of a weekend away/some sun poisoning from it. I might not get the profile posted until tomorrow, maybe Wednesday at the latest. (Depending on when I go pass out again.)

[Beebee2121]

Hey, I'm kind of swamped right now. I'd still like to join, but not while everything is so hectic. So, I'm probably gonna opt out unless there's an option to come back later.

[Rosalind]

If you can come up with a good idea

[ramblingbard]

I'm almost done doing up my character sheet, but I have some questions: In the info text, it says Apox was only used for ten years - which means 2090-2100 - yet on the sheet it asks for year locked up which is given the time frame of 2090-3000. Was there a typo somewhere? Particularly since, it reads to me, that the RP will be taking place sometime around 2245.
Is there something I'm misunderstanding

Edit 4 hours later: Also, to make sure I understand this, it is both a holding facility until the criminal has been tried, and a housing facility for certain criminals after sentencing, yes?

[Rosalind]

Yes it is a typo, thanks for pointing it out I'll go sort it out.

Basically, the Apox centre was used to house the hardened criminals and those considered "highly dangerous". Out of sight, out of mind so to say. So yes, for some they were there awaiting trial. However, unbeknownst to the criminal, once you're in Apox you're not coming out. So some where in there having not faced trial. If that makes sense?

[ramblingbard]

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks. I'll post up my sheet momentarily - because that was what I was hoping to do for him, have him send there to 'be held for trial'.

[ramblingbard]

Hey, so since this is clearly forgotten, I'm just withdrawing.