[OOC] Cursed Critters - Tallshade Tales

[Obscurus]

Great :) I'll remove the "proposal" then.

[Emma]

! So 'Cat' For sure is still free?

[Obscurus]

Well.. Divine is also making a character with a cat. Technically that character isn't accepted yet. But seeing as she'll likely finish this character soon and the character is likely to be accepted, I think it would be corteous that I reserve it for her.

So, sorry for the unclarity. But cat is not free.

If within a few days, Divine has not finished her character yet, I'll open it up again.

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And ofcourse we have many other fantastic creatures to choose from!

[karamonnom]

@Obscurus
Oh sorry to tag you again, but I was wondering how would Rob act around Terry? Like would he try to get her out of her shell? Or just leave her be?

[Smystar99]

Can I reserve the owl? I'm going to make the character later today

[Obscurus]

@Smystar99 Cool, I'll keep it reserved for you for a few days.

@karamonnom Good question, I'm not sure yet. Perhaps he would try from time to time.

@AccursedBiscuit Oh and I forgot to tell you before, but Eddie can use his power without having to touch anything if you want.

[Aewin]

If possible, could I reserve the snake? I'll try and post a CS up soon!

[Kidd]

Yeeess, I was hoping someone would go for a snake at some point lol.

[Aewin]

WIP.

Here's what I have so far, I just need to type up her backstory and appearance. Please tell me if the power needs to be changed ^^

Done, if there's anything that needs to be changed, please let me know. I'll send a PM to everyone to try and get relationships sorted ^^

EDIT: Changed up her powers, I'm off to bed now so any extra changes will have to wait till tomorrow

Cara Osborne

"A man with no motive is a man no one suspects. Always keep your foes confused." - Tyrion Lannister

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Personal Information

Name:

Catherine Amaya Osborne

Nickname:

Cara

Birth Date:

November 7th

Age:

Twenty-two

Gender:

Female

Sexuality:

Heterosexual

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In The Mirror

In Depth Appearance:

Barely reaching 5'1" and weighing only 50kg (110lbs), Cara gives the impression of being cute and harmless. While she likes to be known as cute, harmless is something she's certainly not. The petite girl has an hourglass figure, hips wide but waist slender, usually maintained by her rapid metabolism and strict diet (other than chocolate, Cara can never resist anything chocolatey).

Cara has a dimple on her left cheek, an indication of her smiley nature. She also has a naturally tanned complexion, complementing her brown hair and eyes. Speaking of eyes, Cara has wide doe eyed brown orbs, giving her an innocent look which is framed with thick, dark eyebrows. She also has shoulder-length brown hair, thick and kept straight with overgrown fringes that frame her somewhat chubby cheeks perfectly.

Clothing Style:

Cara loves to dress up, no matter the occasion. She loves to wear various skirts and dresses, as long as it's chic and cute (to match her bubbly-looking appearance). She also likes experimenting with her clothes, so one day she may go for a bold design, or the other she'd wear something simple.

Make-up wise, Cara loves to define her eyes, either with some eyeliner or with dark eyeshadow. Lip colours vary depending on her mood or the situation, usually switching from naturals, pinks and bold reds.

Some examples

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Delving Deeper

Likes:

• Tea
• Terrible romance drama films
• Cycling
• Reading
• Chocolate

Dislikes:

• Doing nothing
• Coffee
• People who call her a control freak
• Anything cold
• Debby-downers

Fears:

• Losing control of her life
• Suffocating
• Letting people too close

Habits:

• Tapping her fingers against surfaces
• Playing with her hair
• Pouting her lips while in thought

Personality:

♦ Kind ♦ Control Freak ♦ Blunt ♦ Stubborn ♦ Manipulative ♦

At first glance, people assume that Cara is docile and harmless, the cutesy one, if you will. However, Cara is anything but docile. She has been known to argue and stand by her points (and values) no matter what, her stubborn streak comparable to that of a boulder. Her stubbornness paired with her controlling personality can make her quite the unpleasant person to hang around with, most of the time. However, Cara refuses to acknowledge herself as a control-freak, that's one thing that would piss her off.

Cara is very confident, in herself and her abilities. She is also always found with a smile (whether its fake or genuine, people usually can't tell). Don't get fooled by her sweet smile, however, as Cara can potentially use her 'sweet, innocent appearance' to dupe people. Cara also likes to consider herself honest, but most of her 'honesty' is just the blunt truth. She never sugar-coats her words (unless she's fooling someone), her words usually unfiltered.

Overall, Cara can be nice when she needs to be, but piss her off and she can be a vindictive little bitch.

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History

Background:

Born in the English countryside, in a small town where everyone knew everything, Catherine had a normal childhood. Or, as normal as one could get having seven older siblings. It wasn't like she was neglected or abused in the household, but Catherine knew that she wasn't the most wanted child. Having to compete with seven other children for any attention, Catherine developed into a loud, stubborn child that was hard to reason with unless she was bribed with chocolates.

Catherine was encouraged to pick up many hobbies, including dancing and painting alongside furthering her education. Most of her siblings were average students, Catherine included. However, the girl had found her calling in life: to be a surgeon, where she had the contol and power to save lives. The medicine path motivated the girl throughout her childhood and teenage years, making her a hard-working student and achieving good grades even though she wasn't a genius.

This remained until Cara finished her secondary education, achieving high grades - especially in science and maths. The girl, during her hunt for a university, stumbled on a town named Tallshade hidden within the forest. Liking the prospect of moving away from the stuffy town, Cara applied immediately for a medical course, before packing up and moving out as soon as she hit eighteen.

Cara performed well during the first few years of her medical degree, studying hard and maintaining her work ethic like back at home. Cara met The Mentor during one of her panic-study sessions at the local library. Funnily enough, the girl actually screamed out 'I wish I could get them to listen to me!' before she noticed The Mentor beside her. Offering her powers in exchange doing whatever he wanted, the girl accepted immediately.

That was a year ago, and now, Cara loves her life.

Position in the group:

Cara's desire for control means that she strives to be a leader, even if she's not the best person to lead a team. She likes to consider everybody in the group as friends, or at least some of them, but it doesn't mean that they're exempt to her blunt and bold personality.

Eddie: Sweet guy, but he just needs to stand up for himself. Cara likes Eddie enough to try and tame her bold personality so she doesn't scare him off (even if it's not much difference).

Terry: Cara appreciates her observant nature, but that's the most Cara knows about Terry.

Sloane: Bold and proud, Cara definitely likes Sloane, acting friendly enough to her. If she were attracted to women, she would've liked Sloane.

Robert: TBA

Toby: He's quite the looker, but withdrawn. There could possibly be a chance that Cara's attracted to him, but she likes to think it's just her kind nature acting out again.

Extra:

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Dark powers:

Animal Form:

Mexican Black Snake

Power:

Cara has the ability to make people hear whispers. It's not her speaking, but just simple idle chatter as if someone is right behind them, even if no one is there. Serves as a great distraction tool during exam season, though.

[Divine Darkness]

@Obscurus When our characters change into their animal forms is it magically instantaneous? Does our clothing change with us or do we lose it?

Also, do our dark powers work on each other or just human NPCs?

[Nytem4re]

Tobias Rieper

Tobias Rieper

“Home, sweet home. Something in the night felt like a door had been opened, an echo of the past, an old monster snapping its eyes open in the depths of my brain. Closing your eyes forces you to look at the darkness inside.”

Max Payne

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Personal Information

NAME

Tobias Rieper

NICKNAMES

Toby

BIRTH DATE

October 13th, 1991

AGE

25

GENDER

Male

SEXUALITY

Heterosexual

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In The Mirror

APPEARANCE

Tobias's light blue eyes highlight his strongly german ancestry, if the pale white skin didn’t tip you off already. No makeup, nor any special hairdos, as one would expect from the average male, but has a beard/moustache. Tobias is exactly six feet tall, weighing around 170 pounds, fit as a fiddle, as his previous gang/prison lifestyle hasn’t allowed him to become weak. Tobias generally has a non expressive face, but he generally tries to smile for his own sake.

CLOTHING

Tobias doesn’t really wear anything too flashy in terms of his fashion, preferring to wear a simple jacket, jeans and some nikes. On occasion, he will wear a suit if he feels the situation requires it. And dress shoes too, because only a heathen would wear sneakers with a suit.

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Delving Deeper

♦Thoughtful ♦ Calm ♦ All Talk ♦ Remorseful

PESONALITY

While Tobias used to be aggressive in the past, now he attempts to be calm and less confrontational. While his anger still has a short fuse, Tobias manages to keep it in check, at least for now. Conflict is something he is not afraid of, but will avoid violence at all costs.Tobias would willingly allow another person to beat him, as he feels fighting back would drive him back to his previous life. As such, he tries to talk and bluff his way out of tricky situations. He can be withdrawn at times, as Tobias learned in therapy to mentally remove himself from the picture if his anger is getting out of control.

LIKES

• Peace and quiet
• Snow
• Structure
• Cats/Dogs

DISLIKES

• Tattoos
• Drugs
• Smug People
• Physical Fighting

FEARS

• loss of self control
• Reversion to his precious lifestyle
• Addiction

HABITS

• Plays with his rosary a bit when in deep thought.
• As stated before, has a habit of being withdrawn at random times.

BACKGROUND

Tobias was supposed to be the perfect model for the american dream. Four years of college, internship at a major accounting firm, steady and safe job. There was really nothing Tobias should have been complaining about, as he was practically set for life.

But privately, he hated the life. Tobias felt little purpose in his studies, and later, his internship. While his family had paid for his college, and their connections earned him the internship, Tobias felt empty. His dissatisfaction led to his membership in a gang. The drugs helped, and beating up some poor sucker on the wrong side of town gave him a different high. Tobias was hooked. The drugs made him feel immortal, beating up other people gave him purpose and thrills. The gang made use of him as an enforcer, to collect debts, participate in gang fights, you name it.

Ironically, Tobias was arrested for drug use/possession rather than being caught for beating people to near death. He was given three years in jail, losing his job, house, and his car. At first, Tobias blamed everything but himself for this sentence. The system, society, his circumstances. He constantly picked fights with other inmates to get a “high” again. After a year in prison, he “sobered” up and came to a different conclusion.

His downfall was his own fault. There was nothing else to blame. There was something twisted, dark in his head if he had to do drugs or fight to feel satisfied. The system worked exactly as it should have, society was right this time, and he could offer no realistic excuses to his behavior. Tobias started to turn his life around as best he could in prison. Tobias no longer fought, he spent time in drug therapy sessions, and even became a Catholic, attending mass at the prison ministry.

But as soon as he his sentence ended and he was let out, the empty feeling came back. Tobias tried to ignore the feeling, moving to a small town and acquiring a minimum wage job. He no longer cared much about the faith, ignoring it completely.

But a man approached him, and offered him another purpose in life. Grimbold, he called himself. Supposedly Tobias had a higher calling, and as long as he would be willing to follow. Tobias accepted, but there was something in the back of the head telling him this might not be any different from his previous gang lifestyle..

RELATIONSHIPS

Tobias probably comes off as the skeptic. The thinker of the group. He may take charge if no one else is willing.

Eddie: Weird guy, but nothing to hate him over. Tobias wonders why he’s in such a group however.
Teryn/Terry: Weird girl, but not as weird as Eddie. Not much to say about her as she rarely says much at all.
Sloane: Troublesome. While he may not backtalk to her, there are certainly times Tobias feels he might lose his temper with her and attempt to beat the living shit out of her. For this reason, Tobias acts cold to her in an attempt to get her to ignore him.
Robert: Too naive. Kind of reminds him of when he was younger, except with less angst, so he holds little ill will towards Robert.

EXTRA

None

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Dark Powers

ANIMAL FORM

A simple raccoon.

POWER

Can predict bad events, but has no idea of the severity/context, just that something bad will happen.

Here it is. Tell me if there are problems.

Edit:Am Kidd's mystery friend

[Obscurus]

@Aewin
Hey, I like her. I can see how her personality would compliment those from the rest of the team.
As for the power, even though I like how you mixed it in with the backstory, it might be a bit much.
The powers are supposed to bring a form of bad luck or just a general ominous feeling to people. Perhaps we can have her being able to make people in the vicinity hear voices. Or 'think' that they heard somebody whispering. You know, not the literal telepathical talking, but just that creepy feeling of: 'did I just hear somebody whispering my name?' Could be scary when you're home alone. And it doesn't actually influence people's behavior directly. It would fit with her wish of people having to listen to her. Though other ideas are possible as well.
Let me know what you think.

@Divine Darkness It's a 'natural' transformation that takes 5 to 10 seconds. And I was hoping I could answer the other question with the first post I'm going to make, but since you're asking ;) no, the clothes don't change with you. Which means you are screwed if you want to transform back but you don't have any clothes near you.
And the powers work on each other as well.

@Nytem4re Hey there mystery friend! Good to see you weren't intimidated by that CS after all ;)
There are a few problems to overcome before I can accept you character though.
* The max age is 25. so 28 is too old. That might have some influences on his backstory as well.
* The Jaguar is too much. It's not an innocent forest critter that needs to bring bad luck for people to want to avoid crossing paths with it. It's brutal enough by itself. For ideas for another animal to choose, you can take a look at the bottom of the OP.
* The christianity thing is interesting, but I don't know how we can make that work. I mean, these practices are pretty close to heathen witchcraft. And the priest is going to play an antagonist role. So I think the only way this might work is if Tobias is a 'fake' christian. Or falling/fallen from his faith. Or just not a christian at all. Perhaps you have other ideas. Let me know.

[AccursedBiscuit]

I like how with every character posted, Eddie becomes more and more of that "weird guy" lol

[Aewin]

@Aewin
Hey, I like her. I can see how her personality would compliment those from the rest of the team.
As for the power, even though I like how you mixed it in with the backstory, it might be a bit much.
The powers are supposed to bring a form of bad luck or just a general ominous feeling to people. Perhaps we can have her being able to make people in the vicinity hear voices. Or 'think' that they heard somebody whispering. You know, not the literal telepathical talking, but just that creepy feeling of: 'did I just hear somebody whispering my name?' Could be scary when you're home alone. And it doesn't actually influence people's behavior directly. It would fit with her wish of people having to listen to her. Though other ideas are possible as well.
Let me know what you think.

@Obscurus

Ahh okay. I liked what you suggested, about hearing voices, so I'll try and incorporate that to my CS. ^^

[Nytem4re]

@Aewin
Hey, I like her. I can see how her personality would compliment those from the rest of the team.
As for the power, even though I like how you mixed it in with the backstory, it might be a bit much.
The powers are supposed to bring a form of bad luck or just a general ominous feeling to people. Perhaps we can have her being able to make people in the vicinity hear voices. Or 'think' that they heard somebody whispering. You know, not the literal telepathical talking, but just that creepy feeling of: 'did I just hear somebody whispering my name?' Could be scary when you're home alone. And it doesn't actually influence people's behavior directly. It would fit with her wish of people having to listen to her. Though other ideas are possible as well.
Let me know what you think.

@Divine Darkness It's a 'natural' transformation that takes 5 to 10 seconds. And I was hoping I could answer the other question with the first post I'm going to make, but since you're asking ;) no, the clothes don't change with you. Which means you are screwed if you want to transform back but you don't have any clothes near you.

@Nytem4re Hey there mystery friend! Good to see you weren't intimidated by that CS after all ;)
There are a few problems to overcome before I can accept you character though.
* The max age is 25. so 28 is too old. That might have some influences on his backstory as well.
* The Jaguar is too much. It's not an innocent forest critter that needs to bring bad luck for people to want to avoid crossing paths with it. It's brutal enough by itself. For ideas for another animal to choose, you can take a look at the bottom of the OP.
* The christianity thing is interesting, but I don't know how we can make that work. I mean, these practices are pretty close to heathen witchcraft. And the priest is going to play an antagonist role. So I think the only way this might work is if Tobias is a 'fake' christian. Or falling/fallen from his faith. Or just not a christian at all. Perhaps you have other ideas. Let me know.

@Obscurus

Thought I implied his faith is wavering pretty much. I'll change the age/backstory and animal.

[Obscurus]

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Thought I implied his faith is wavering pretty much. I'll change the age/backstory and animal.

@Nytem4re

Yes you did, but Grimbold wouldn't take him in, unless he was absolutely sure about him. If you have idea in mind for his role that you don't want to share with the rest of the group, send me a PM.

[Aewin]

@Obscurus I think I'm done with my CS, I changed up the powers but not so much her backstory, so things are still more-or-less the same minus the whole op power thing lol

I'll try to get relationships pm out tomorrow once I'm done with college ^^

[Obscurus]

@Nytem4re @Aewin
Cara and Toby are both accepted!
Though Cara's relationships part still needs to be filled out.

you can post them in the character section.

[Obscurus]

As I was describing the way the powers should work, I realised that perhaps Robert's power was to direct as well. So I changed it. Now it reads:
For just a second, your thoughts were drifting somewhere else. You weren't paying attention you didn't watch where you were going. And now you walked into that lamppost, or cut yourself with the scissors. You stumbled, you hit your thumb with the hammer. Just your luck.

[Major Ursa]

Can I reserve the ferret spot?