AwesomeZero5

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Paine had managed to get a lot more rest on the way here, well bits and pieces of it. There was the occasional map and passing out on the ground from pushing himself a little too far than necessary. None the less, by the time he managed to get to the dorm room he wasn’t tired at all. He had a trouble with that in particular, find a good time here or there to sleep properly and in a proper bed no less. It was typically sleep that had come for him rather than the other way around, and not often particularly restful, though that didn’t matter one bit.

He had enough time to decorate his room all the while talking to Raziel with what should be placed where and how. The blankets where changed out for something resembling space blankets from home and there was a various manner of plushies covering the bed, some of which were monstrous characters from cartoons others resembled demons and a couple other things here or there. It was all rather set up a balanced spread with three plushies on one side of the bed and another three on the other side of the bed.

The rest of the night was a matter of babbling and reading various books and the like surrounding magic. The subject of this ongoing debate and mental exercise was the used of moonlight rosewater and its so called ‘transformative’ properties which were mostly acclaimed to be mythical. On the other hand, what would it be interesting to turn into? His mind wandered and skimmed through various magic books throughout the night.

The alarm blared and he would not have noticed if it weren’t for the volume. It was time to do something, and to get going. There was no point hanging around in the room much longer. He threw himself in a shower for a few minutes and gets back out. It was important to get food and get ready for training immediately after, so he’d go down toward to the kitchen debated with a leisurely pace.

“I know that we haven’t eaten yet but come on. It wouldn’t be that much of a pain to simply run down now would it? I doubt it would pass out this time Raziel, you must be kidding. I only nearly passed out last time and that was from trying to run for miles, miles! This simply going downstairs and getting something to eat.”

Paine the scrawny and messy haired kid would wander into the kitchen area wearing butterfly covered pajamas. “Oh, there’s… other people. Hello, what do you say when you first meet people again? I think I’m supposed to say something here outside of hello, but it’s not coming out and… not working for me, please help. How do I do this, um, how are you... persons?”

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Goodbye and best of luck~

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@azoicsiren @Calatrava

how's it going?

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@Hitman

Your welcome. I would kind of find it rude to leave ya hanging if I PM'ed ya about joining and didn't bother to say I changed my mind about it. ^^;;;

I'll look through it once again just to be sure there's nothing that needs a bit more cleaning up, and then I'll post it in characters.

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also hi

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Character Draft = Paine

Name: Jorge Lore (Lor-Ay)

Nicknames/Alias: Paine (What they go by)

Age: 15

Gender: Male

Nationality: American

Hometown: Tombsville, Arizona

Date of Birth: July 1st

Appearance:

Paine’s face is covered all over in long black and messy hair. It sometimes gets in the way of his eyes and face but he never takes the time to clean it at all. The hair is full of all kinds of curl bangs and messes but is never messed with. His eyes underneath are a deep dark brown to the point of nearly appearing black, with various bags layered under his eye. His chin is round and smooth. At center of his head is an ‘evil eye ‘that’s been painted on from an obsessive night of warding aiming to ward off evil from entering his mind, and to cover up a bullet hole in the center of his head.

Paine’s tan frame is slender and short. Given an inhale on any day it could easily make his rips viewable under the skin. His arms are scrawny and so are his legs. None the less he tries to push his body as far as it will allow, and even further. The physique is mostly due to low levels of nourishment and not enough physical training.

When it comes to clothing Paine’s style is often on casual brand unless it serves some kind of defensive purpose. He’s easily caught walking around in heavily padded pajamas with butterflies all over them or the outfit of robes. These robes are a dark green, with a large hood and baggy sleeves. In the center of the robes covering the chest is a brown leather padded spot with a black insignia of an ‘evil eye’ upon it. Underneath that he’ll basically be wearing a pair of shorts and a t-shirt at most. The baggy sleeves are useful for hiding all sorts of small items inside them.

Height: 5’1”

Weight: 95 lbs.

Status: Scion

Weapon of Choice: Paine has yet to undergo any form of formal weapons training. He knows a few hands to hand combat skills borrowed from Aikido and Jiu-jitsu based on locks or toppling an opponent over with their own weight but nothing particular outside that. He focused more on the ability to move his barriers and use them as weapons instead.

Magic:

Barrier magic is rather a simple one, that creates sheets of energy to form barriers that can be moved or manipulated. In this case the barriers are transparent and hardly noticeable until touched or interacted with. The barriers can be sensed by the creator and manipulated like any other. These barriers cover both the material and metaphysical as the creator had found out by entrapping their mind inside their own head. At the most without preparation the creator can form a cube using barriers 3 feet in diameter at this time. The properties of these barriers, as in where they are, along with how thick they are van be adjusted by the creator. The edges of these barriers can be incredibly sharp, due to adjusting their properties. His current record is 20 feet in diameter away from him and he can typically create up 6 barriers excluding the ones surrounding his mind. Any strain beyond that causes headaches and even migraines causing other barriers to weaken and shatter.

The barriers each require level of low concentration that increases to create accordingly to their strength. If the barrier is placed or attempted to be placed through something, the concentration has to be strong enough to separate the matter.
There is a strong mental barrier in the creator’s mind that keeps their mind from being read or interfered with.

Strengths:

• Fast reaction time
• Strong Concentration
• Fast Learner

Weaknesses:

• Fragile body and easy to over exert
• Constant babbler and talking to self
• Masochistic

Fears:

• Something messing with their mind
• Fear of guns

Personality:

Paine has a hero complex in the sense that if there is ever a single person in trouble, he will quite eagerly rush into to help them. He desires to quickly help and defend others to the best of his own abilities and push beyond that. On the other hand, he feels the need to save absolutely everybody possible and will quickly deteriorate or drive himself beyond his limits to do so or feel an immense regret in leaving anyone behind. He has less empathy for the aggressors or attackers despite his desire to act heroically he may very well inflict an unnecessary amount of harm to a target if they come his way. He often has a hard time distinguishing the inflicted damage or payback as going overboard.

He even has a hard time to figure out when he himself is pushing himself overboard both physically and mentally. He pushes to the upper bounds of his limits and beyond if at all necessary or even possible. The very feeling of being tired and even being in pain to a certain degree bring about a twisted delight and joy in him. The pain and soreness of either his mind or body makes him feel truly alive and as if he’s truly achieving something. Which is why he also hates when his body entirely fails on him, when it can no longer give and when everything turns numb instead.

His mind has well adopted to look at everything, especially his own favored studies with a wide curiosity and inspection. He often wants to know why something is a certain way, the methods of how it works and how it can be employed and beyond. He often can’t stop himself when he discovers a new possibility to be pursue. In truth he’s somewhat curious as to how to obtain more power or even a diverse set of magic.

One of his favorite subjects to study or look at is creatures of the dark, particularly demons and devils. He delves into history books, recorded reports, mythologies and more to study them, to understand them, to investigate their weakness and their desires. He has a bit of unhealthy obsession when it comes to the like, and has no particular fear of them but a twisted interest and desire to know as much about them as possible. He maintains the common sense to keep himself alive, but is easily tempted to investigate or view more, and even capture some.

It does not help for Paine’s outlook socially along with his desires for knowledge on darker subjects he has trouble talking. In particular, he has trouble to stop talking at all. It may give an outlook of a mad person but it is often that it seems he can’t help but continuously talk to himself and to an imaginary friend that he knows is fake but constantly refers to as ‘Raziel’. It helps him think, he claims.

Likes:

• Studying
• Acrobatics
• Larping

Dislikes:

• Most vegetables (except for broccoli)
• Chess
• Opera
• His body giving up on him

Backstory:
Paine or as his new name is Jorge. He did not always bear this name and used to go by Ellie in his young years. When he was rather too young to remember his parents used to be a pair of demon researchers who would conduct all manner of ungodly experimentation, almost all of which went wrong to their dismay. The experiments went on and became increasingly wicked. Paine’s older sister apparently had left the household after completing her own training and took him with.

He mostly knew about life with his older sister which was nice when things were quiet in the area. They lived in a nice little apartment and managed to get by with nothing particularly fancy. She specialized in telekinesis and would often train and aim to influence his skill in defense tactics in case something every went awry. She also made sure to train him more or less to be able to run away from dangers or even harm them to a degree using his abilities. The dangers particular demons and devils were used to try and scare him a little, even used as bed time stories on occasion but it simply increased his interest. He was supposed to officially start weapons training when he was 11 since his sister was reluctant to teach him and get him further involved in dangerous affairs. She mostly wanted to keep him at home, and safe, but he had other ideas.

He had developed a desire to go save people with his abilities and defenses, like his older sister. One day this went particularly awry. He was ten, and foolish. He had saw someone in an alleyway in trouble on the way from school and interfered. The victim did manage to get away, though during the tussle, Paine got shot in the head from a gun misfiring. He had barely enough time to throw up barriers but made a mistake, as the barriers wrapped around his mind instead. The bullet put him down for a while.

Paine had managed to trap himself in his own mind for roughly four long years. He could barely hear the outside world around him on occasion, but was always trapped inside his own head. In order to keep himself from going mad he practiced messing with constructing, barriers inside his own mind in an imaginary void to keep himself busy. He would practice, over and over again, and form all sorts of movement challenges for himself. In the mean time he began talk to ‘Raziel’ a figure that more or less formed in his head one day. He talked to them to keep sane and pretended they were the protector of this place keeping any ‘bad guys’ from getting in. Oddly enough, the feeling that was hardest to replicate in this space, was pain itself.

It wasn’t until four years later that Paine was able to weaken the barriers around his mind to permit himself freedom back into reality. He claims Raziel helped a little too. He awoken in a hospital bed, with robing similar to his sister’s when she went off on duty and with his body weakened and changed. He has yet to see her, but vaguely hears she’s off working some place or other and hopes she’s fine.

Hobbies/Interests:

• Demon Studying
• Magic Studying and Practice
• Acrobatics & Parkour

Other:
Carries a variety of notebooks, flasks, and pencils up his sleeves at all times
Asexual

Character Sheets: Where do you stand?

Guess I prefer a semi-detailed character sheet. Where appearance, personality, skills background and other essential traits are listed off in detail or a paragraph or two (unless it's something like age, name, etc.). Outside of that there is skills or abilities and a few other traits but those are more adjustable from roleplay to roleplay based on the universe's lore or setting. I don't think I'm a big fan of the whole 'likes', 'dislikes', and 'fears' sections most of the time since it seems to be just a thrown bit of information. If a character really likes, dislikes or fears something to a strong extreme of being notable, it can be blended into skills or personality traits as a passing mention.

I think it is rather helpful especially for those who are roleplaying a lot since it can help keep track of different characters as well as their separate histories and personalities. If you end up 4 or 5 roleplays each without a character sheet, I figure it may become difficult over time to remember different specific background details and some of them may blend together. It gives a general guideline and reminder to refer back to for players, as well for the GM.

In the GM's case it could easily help rope in possible plot points that the characters would be interested in or involve the characters' specific background traits. It easily helps to identify which characters are too strong for the roleplay or simply do not fit in. There's also the nature of a person's writing skill and level, if someone is consistently writing one liners for their character descriptions in personality, background, and so on it's an obvious red flag if that's not the intended roleplay format.

Season of the Owl - NIHM inspired survival

So it's redwall after the the human apocalypse?

Fallout ?

I'd be a bit interested. I would need to brush up on my fall out info and all that, but still generally an interesting place to dive into.

Final Fantasy 9 - Reimagined [Private and Full.]

Perrin rolled his eyes somewhat as he stored away his jar back into his backpack. It took a moment or two because he wanted to put it away in the right spot. Seeing as he was warned to prepare for battle, he was confident enough to assume that there would be time believing in the scouting abilities of the members of this ship. He would need to go back to his room in order to properly prepare for battle which he wasn’t particularly worried about.

Perhaps he should have paid a bit more attention to the crash but his center of balance was more than stable enough to barely even notice the movement. He simply believed that the sound was some misfire or mishap in the engineering areas by a clumsy person or maybe just odd sound among engineering. He hadn’t particularly been near it before so the sounds of it were relatively foreign to him.

He had been a bit too excited to rush out and prepare in a brief moment of ill sighted action and little attention. He had dashed along the side of Ritsu and would have quickly dashed in front of him more or less as the attacks started. Perrin had been looking down toward the floor in order to better recall or retrace his steps to his cabin room. The signs were helpful, though oddly retracing steps directly had been a familiar and effective way for him to get around in the past and memorize directions. He didn’t have any particular protection from attack ready or on at the moment.