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Red Riding Hood

Mood - Concerned
Status - Healthy
Interactions/Mentions - @teapartybs, @thatguyinastore

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"Hey, Red!" The former-but-could-be-again Player greeted, waving. According to most, Fret was really approachable - and he may as well be just that right now! "I know you don't know what's going on, right? But, uh... did you get a fancy red and black pin? Just wondering!"

@teapartybs

"Red and black pin? Unless it's a hairpin, I haven't seen any of 'em - never mind get 'em. This one's staying with me." Red responded as she motioned to the hairpin right where it belongs - though she found this question somewhat confusing. "If it doesn't look like this one, then you're fresh out of luck for a good while, I think.. Sorry 'bout that." Sighing as her tone returned to a lower volume, she returned her attention to what she was formerly doing, and... Well, she was right - he 'was' in fact alive! With his hand slapping away her own and him letting out a laugh, Red couldn't help but smile widely... before he opened his mouth to speak.

In reality though, the bearded man was actually far from unconscious. He'd taken one HELL of a hit, to be sure, but that didn't mean he was out for the count just yet. Which was made obvious as she rested her hand on his chest cavity. That intrusive hand was promptly slapped away by the man, and what followed was a dry chuckle.

"Ooooohhhh.... MY!" he shouted through the laughter, slowly climbing up to his feet. His bat's business end poked against Red's, nudging her away from him. He turned to her soon after, "Little girl, I do appreciate the concern..." he paused as his bat was given a good twirl and promptly slung over his shoulder. He nodded down at her, smiling smugly all the while, "But I do believe that I can handle myself!" Still, though, that goat... thing had eased his pain a bit. BUT, Negan wasn't in the business of even acknowledging that thing's presence - other than staring at it for a long moment, before ultimately shaking his head and walking away.

@Thatguyinastore

Wincing a little when his weapon poked against her and pushed her further away, she just shook herself a little - gripping onto her own weapon - which you may have been able to see was a GIANT pair of scissors - and listening to what he said. It's true, he did seem to appreciate it, but... well, he could be a little nicer about it, right? Red sighs as he walks off and just returns to minding her own business. "Well, at least he's alright. That's one burden off my back!" She thought to herself aloud, wandering to an edge of the glass cage - one of its walls - and proceeded to look towards everybody else, looking for trouble that would suddenly pop up. Injuries, just arguments outright (though perfectly valid) - etc. Red just stood there with her weapon to her side and its blades gently poking the ground below her (probably cutting through it in the process, by accient) - and watched without another word.

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Hameln

Location - Metropolis Park
Mood - Conflicted
Status - Healthy
Interactions/Mentions - @thatguyinastore, @TheElenaFisher

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As she took a little look and explore around the park, it seemed there were others in a similar situation - not knowing where they were or what planet they were on. Though, the first one she could properly see was... a boy in red, lowering himself to the ground, and proceeding to collapse into sorrow - tears - for a reason she does not know nor understand. Though, it seemed another approached him - whereas Hameln did not, opting to observe and remain aware of their existence. Though she could at least understand what stranger number two was attempting - she was trying to console the crying child, which is... fair enough. Hameln however, shrugged to herself and simply remained watching. Though concerned, she didn't wish to act upon it - having no idea what to even do in the first place. So she just kind of stood there, awkwardly, thinking to herself.

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Red Riding Hood

Mood - Positive
Status - Healthy
Interactions - None (open)

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It had happened quicker than she thought. While ascending to the surface alongside her family of choice - her friends - something strange happened. Weakness. A sharp pain that spread throughout her entire body, and before she could even react to it, she was collapsed on the constantly rising floor. The chill of the air and atmosphere settled around her as ringing was occupying her ears. The place she used to be, her home world, was no longer important - for now. A trip that was all too familiar - and when she next awoke, she groaned as she bore witness to an almost featureless and apart from a bunch of people in it, was empty to go with the aforementioned quality. Oh, and a glass cage. Being stared down at by someone who says a 'Mister Luthor' will be with everyone here soon. Yeah, sure, whatever.

Sighing heavily and shaking her head when she then heard the voice of another person within this captive space - a man with a bat hanging over his shoulder, one end in his hand, and the next thing she knew was, before she or anyone could even respond, he shook violently and every single ounce of his weight crashed to the ground, lifeless. Unconscious. Though she wore a disgusted and somewhat offended expression in regards to what he said, she didn't quite think he deserved that, whoever he was - even if he was immediately... vile? Disgusting? Shaking her head with some ounce of fear from the shock therapy to shut this man up and leave him on the ground, she was... not sure what to even do. After a bit of quiet contemplation to herself, she nodded and ran over to where he had fallen. Sure he was a stranger, but the better part of herself was telling her - how bad is the damage he just took?

As she loomed wordlessly over this lifeless but still breathing body, she first looked for any injuries - though she doubted to find any at all - and tried to verify if his heart was indeed still beating, just resting her hand right against where his heart should be within his body. After doing this for only a few seconds and with his living heartbeat verified, she would back away after retracting her hand, sighing and turning around to everyone else.

"...He'll be fine. The first impression was poorly chosen, but he'll make it out alive." She called over her shoulder and her hood, having taken no real time to analyse the group and everyone who was here just yet. Her more protective instincts are on the move right now, and right now, resisting them would make her feel even worse if something actually happened. "...Right then! So, forget about him for a while - lovely situation we're in, strangers!" Suddenly raising her voice with newfound energy as opposed to her former tone - which was notably more serious and quiet, she bore a wide smile on her face as she tried to incite conversation among this expansive group.

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Hameln

Location - Metropolis Park
Mood - Confused
Status - Healthy
Interactions - None (open)

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One second, she was laying herself to sleep in the depth of the underground she called home, giving herself a night's rest. The next second she had fallen asleep, and several hours later she had awoken into a land she didn't even know existed. Is this what the world above was truly like? So bright, so expansive - and honestly quite daunting? Hameln's jaw practically dropped at the sight of these enormous buildings and the bright lights coming from all around her - though she seemed to be in some kind of central for wherever here was.

"Where in the world is this?!" She blurted aloud to herself with audible stress and confusion. The world she knew was nothing like this, as far as she was aware - so to say this wasn't overwhelming is a complete and utter lie! Though it seemed she had been sleeping on the cold ground for a short period of time, Hameln now rose to her feet - still with her sword and shield in her hands and her instrument held comfortably near her side, in a suspended brown bag - practically locked to her clothes.

"At least I didn't lose anything of mine... that's good..." With a sigh after gathering her belongings, Hameln looked around her - for anything of interest at all, and whether or not she found anything at all was up to sheer luck. "Is this one of those alternate realities or worlds I read about? There's no way, it's literally in the pages - they can't be real! Surely!" Though Hameln mused to herself about her situation, she would not realise the 'pages' she were referencing were not with her. She had no grounds to back her up - and though she read about what she claimed to from within them, this is far from what she was expecting. Reading them was one thing, but experiencing them? Not only did she doubt it, she thought it was impossible. With her mind working to solve her questions and doubts, Hameln now attempted to explore her nearby area.

*insert funny title here*

If I need help, absolutely! Thank you, have a nice day!

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Why you gotta call me out like that?

Well, funny you point that out of all things! The answer is yes and no - while I have looked into some anime and watched a small amount of it myself, I'm more drawn to the art style instead of the actual media it belongs to. I cannot stress that enough.

But yeah, I guess you can count that. Then I'm just kinda. Basic, I guess. Surfing the net, video games - the usual!

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Submission A

Sisterly Red Wolf

Appearance

Name:
Red Riding Hood

Age:
Estimated to be 20 canonically (with help from other in-universe sources)

Gender:
Female

Canon:


Main Thread or Sandbox:
Main Thread

Personality:
Red Riding Hood is supportive, outgoing and confident - all in one bundle. She approaches everything she can with a modest bulk of energy to her name, and keeps trying to bring out the best in everyone at the cost of leaving her own feelings out of the way. Red Riding Hood is also noted to be (figuratively) attached to her hood and has a lot of trust issues. Red Riding Hood is the former leader of the Blood Team, and with that responsibility as well as upholding herself as the elder sibling to all other fellow members of the Blood Team, Red Riding Hood puts her 'siblings' before herself when needed, though there come several instances where she needs to put her foot down and be openly serious and admit that she herself needs help at her most vulnerable of times, yet she is scared to make others feel like she is not well.

Equipment:
Blood Weapon (Scissors): As pictured! This giant pair of scissors with impale-a-man sized blades is Red's personal weapon of choice - having had said weapon for years now since they were crafted for her and given to her as a gift for her birthday a few years ago. Forged from Blood Crystals that grow within the walls of the Jail and its various dungeons, these giant scissor blades are able to wound and slay the Marchens all around the Jail and beyond - or in extension, fell the formerly invincible Nightmares - far bigger and more adept Marchens that lurk in specific areas as sentient and horrific hazards for any adventurers who find them. In fact, she's one of the three people involved in the death of the first Nightmare! When it comes to the strength of this weapon of hers, they can cut through wood, steel, human and monster if you just so happen to end up on the wrong end of them.

Attributes:
Natural Magic: Red Riding Hood possesses a form of natural magic that flows right through her veins - and in turn, is natural to her. With this power, Red Riding Hood has a variety of tools at her disposal - making her a mixed bag. Ranging everywhere from healing and support (the latter in various forms) as well as both physical 'and' magical forms of attacking, Red Riding Hood can pretty much do it all. However, in spite of this, where she does have to take a hit is in her strength - at least, the full power of her magic. She may have a lot of options and versatility, but she lacks the power to make them all count and get the most of them, instead making her more powerful options geared to physical instead.

Enhanced Strength: Again, natural to her! More so than an average human, Red Riding Hood and others from her home world have slightly higher strength, speed and endurance per their origins - said origins also where their magic comes from to begin with.

Best In None: To go alongside her versatile magic, Red Riding Hood is adept at a wide assortment of weapons - ranging from swords and hammers to bows and firearms. So, if she gets her hands on a weapon, the odds are that she will be able to use it as if it was her own - even if temporarily - so that even without her weapon, she can fend for herself if she grabs one.

Biography:
Red Riding Hood was originally found as an orphan among the Jail's Station Grounds by a soldier who is now long deceased in their attempt to try and scale the entire Jail Tower, and failed. With nobody else to take her in, Professor Tohjima, a researcher who works at the edges of the Jail itself, took Red Riding Hood in and began to investigate and find out she was a Blood Maiden, and ever since being taken in, Red Riding Hood treated him as her dad (even referring to him as such), though at the age of 10, when a previously alive Blood Maiden in Little Mermaid entered Blood Skelter (a literal blood fuelled rampage that could not be reverted), Red Riding Hood had no choice but to kill the rampaging maiden to prevent further losses and was traumatised as a result, wanting nothing more than someone else to keep by her as a member of her family of choice - an event that still haunts her to this day. As if that wasn't bad enough, it turns out her father figure was the King of the Nightmares, who later outright told her he had no use for her anymore, after everything she did to help him and the others.

Other:
BLOOD GULCH GANG, RISE UP! Before the events of that roleplay, she was taken prior to the events of Finale's prologue - but here, she is taken some time prior to Finale's final boss.

Full skill set (I will be limiting her to 10 skill slots in total) is to be determined!

Submission B

The Isolated "Demon Lord"

Appearance

Name:
Hameln

Age:
Late teens or young adult (unconfirmed and vague in canon)?

Gender:
Female

Canon:


Main Thread or Sandbox:
Sandbox

Starting Location (SANDBOX ONLY):
Metropolis, Metropolis Park (only just arrived and woke up)

Personality:
Hameln is a lot of things - but as someone who calls herself the Demon Lord, her confidence is high and so is the energy she brings. Though she is not terribly knowledgeable due to living underneath the surface and out of the eyes of both man and monster that lived above the place she called her lair, the environment itself taught her an awful lot from the time she stayed down there. Despite her high spirits and the sheer presence of her sheltered ego, Hameln is not very good with communication - stuttering, slurring and practically falling apart when she's called out on it (as she often tries to uphold a proud, hero-like image to protect people). The extent of her communication is single-handedly carried by the time she's spent reading manga that found its way into her 'lair' - her home - and though she's not very good at said communication, she loves her manga very much to the point she one day wishes to write her own.

Equipment:
Blood Weapon (Sword and Shield): As pictured! Hameln is able to wield these as you would expect - one in each hand (sword in right, shield in left) or even if she wants to, can just use her powers to levitate them instead for a hands-free combat experience. Though it is unclear how she got her hands on these weapons, they are forged from Blood Crystals that grow within the walls of the Jail and its various dungeons - including underground where she lived in. Thanks to this, both of her weapons are able to wound and slay the very Marchens she lives with (if she so pleased) - or in extension, fell the formerly invincible Nightmares - far bigger and more adept Marchens that lurk in specific areas as sentient and horrific hazards for any adventurers who find them.

Iron Piccolo: You may laugh at this musical instrument all you want, but I don't know if you'll be laughing too much when Hameln plays a little tune into it to draw a nearby item right into her hand, using the instrument's tune as a lure to magnet pull her target. She aims it towards the item she wants so long as she's close enough (about 7 feet distance away from her current position) - but in order to fully lure what she wants to her, the tune must be maintained. However, it 'only' works on items - and this means she cannot use this instrument to drag in anyone or anything else outside of that category.

Attributes:
Natural Magic: Though the exact power she has is unknown to her at this point in time, Hameln has natural magical power flowing through her veins. Though the magic she wields is not magic-based and instead utilises her sheer strength, Hameln is able to unleash her magical might to hit multiple targets at once, harness the power of a certain element, or just hit really hard - with or without strengthening herself beforehand. If offense is not needed however, she does also have defensive options to sustain herself and any allies, while still functioning as an offensive threat if she would so please (which, from an in-character point of view, is something she will likely do - to protect others). However, she can only use so much magic. Some spells are more energy hungry than the others, often based on their strength and their effects - which is something that Hameln is 'not' in a large supply of, so her magical usage is limited.

Enhanced Strength: Again, natural to her! More so than an average human, Hameln and others from her home world have slightly higher strength, speed and endurance per their origins - said origins also where their magic comes from to begin with.

Biography:
Not much is known about Hameln's background. When the Jail Tower first appeared in the wake of the apocalypse that wrought the now 'below the surface' Japan (or at least what's left of it), Hameln found herself below even that tower and the area around it, several feet below the ground and the 666 feet tall tower that looms over everything around it. As she lurked in the place known as the Underground Labyrinth, she learned to live off the land and eventually ended up accepting it as home - better yet, the local Marchens (dungeon monsters) eventually acknowledged her enough to consider Hameln their master. For better or worse, Hameln was - to put it simply - a bit too eager with them. Though her treatment of these monsters often varied from good to bad or even worse, she practically owned the entire labyrinth between herself and her now-slave monsters. The only samples of the outside world she got was through manga that she sometimes found lying around - and reading into these stories is where her 'Demon Lord' era began. She took what she could learn and copy from the manga, for better or worse, and her imagination ran wild as she loses herself in every single page and book - unaware of the events happening on the surface. The rest of her story is largely unknown and/or up to interpretation - but somewhere down the line, Hameln discovered her powers after enough time around and with her minions - and naturally, she began to take them for granted too despite not knowing the full extent of them and what she was capable of.

Other:
Chose game 2 over game 1 for her character portrayal and not her strength.

Will 100% be referencing manga from time to time, and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Full skill set (I will be limiting her to 10 skill slots in total) is to be determined!

Yes I know both of them are from the same series, but I picked them out from different games (and timelines) for the fun dynamic of it.

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Hello, people of the internet (or if you prefer - strangers)!

My name is Bolt, and I've been in my own corners of the internet since at least 2014 and I've not really stopped since.

I'm honestly not sure what else to type here, apart from - yes! Hello, greetings, salutations! I may or may not see anyone around, who knows?