Dannyrulx

Thousands Of Feet March To The Beat: A French Foreign Legion RP

The man sat sipping his coffee, the smell of cigarettes and drinks drifting out of the cafe next to him. A paperboy was standing on the street opposite, unusually late, and the man saw why; he was overloaded with different papers. The man watched as the boy set up, before shouting out the words that would be echoed out throughout the entire city: "ALGERIE REVOLTS! LOCAL SOLDIERS KILLED! FOREIGN LEGION REQUESTING NEW MEN!" The man stood up and walked over to the young boy, who eagerly looked up at him "3 Francs for the paper sir!" The man nodded, reaching in his pocket for the coins and handing them to the boy, before going back to his coffee. The boy continued to shout out the headline, and the man toned him out as he devoured the news.

French Algeria had revolted and formed it's own militia, with a mock-goverment opposing the French rule put in place. All local Frenchmen had been exiled or executed, and the french foreign legion was to be sent over in overwhelming number in order to crush this resistance. He looked around and finished his coffee, tossing the handful of Francs that would cover the cost, before getting up and walking. If he wanted to get French Citizenship, now would be the time he supposed.

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So, hello and welcome to TOFMT(T)B, a French Foreign-Legion RP where the characters take control of th beggars, murderers, theives and occasional actual good people that make up the most disposable branch of the Empire's forces. Note that this is a slightly AU RP, insofar as the incident that sparks the RP didn't actually happen at the time I'm describing, but most of it will be historically accurate.

No knowledge about the legion is required, apart from perhaps knowing what it is and why someone would join it.

Kosei Academy

Garin von Sturm

Hast du eine Zigarette?...I need vun right now...

Name:
Garin von Sturm
Age:
15
Gender:
Male
Height:
182cm
Weight:
75kg
Nationality
German

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Personality:
Despite his seemingly harder outer shell, he is actually quite the laid back individual, that is, unless you get to know him in which case he is quite the handful, laughing and carrying on. Sometimes needing to be told "shutup" just so some sanity is kept. His father taught him how to be a gentleman and it is shown in his actions and simple gestures. Actions speak louder than words in his morals and values and will treat those accordingly.

Now, if and when he overloads himself with energy and hurts himself, his mind seems to rewrite itself for a short period of time and he can take on just about any personality or persona and when it wears off, have no recollection of what had happened except for whatever blowback follows. He has master the art of apologizing because of this.

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Background:
Garin was born in Germany, in a small town a few hours outside of Munich but a town that was anti-quirk. It wasn't as overt as it was decades ago. But since the incident that happened five years prior to things settling between the supers and humans, tension remained and those with powers were still treated differently. His parents knew and understood this as they themselves were supers with the father having made a name for himself. They had lived through those troubling times but overcame them and made a name for themselves elsewhere.

Growing up he was fed a silver spoon on golden plates thanks to his father's company, Sturm Ind. A company who makes material for the German military and has branched out to other random oddities like clothing, electronics and car parts. He really never felt like himself around the company his family kept close, their attitudes to posh for his tastes. He wasn't shy when it came to schooling and studying though, priding himself on his great grades and his seemingly prodigal skills with classical instruments but never the one to gloat. Instead, he would help others, showing them little tricks of the trade he learned through private tutors and world class musicians.

One day in his teen years, he was brought to his house with a police escort after school. Concerned about his health, they went about the normal parenting bit, asking how he was, was he hurt and other basic questions. Before he could answer, the police spoke up, claiming that he had put 3 kids in the hospital with one in critical condition and possible nerve damage. The police had described the incident as a dome of electricity exploding from the boy as if he was an eel.

His now concerned parents looked at him with different eyes, fearing not just for the safety of others but for his own. They set out looking for schools that would take him and happened to find one after a week or so. Kosei Academy, an academy that seemed to take in people with his abilities. So as soon as they could, they packed his stuff, gave him a ticket and sent him off to the academy, leaving him no time to understand what truly was happening but instead left him with a cold shoulder directed to his parents with the assumption that they were like the rest of the town, shunning those who were different, those who had superpowers. He did not understand that he was going because his parents wanted him to learn to control them and succeed as they had did.

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Quirk: Blitzkrieg (Lightning War)
Garin has the natural ability to create electrical currents and fields. What aids him in this is due to a couple things. His body's natural electrical current is well above the normal human and this is also possible thanks to the body's ability . He is able to create his own electricity however, this can cause heavy strain on the body as too much will shut him down or send him into a seizure. Sturm can generate large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc-shaped, electricity-producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ. The nervous system does this through a command nucleus that decides when the electric organ will fire. When the command is given, a complex array of nerves makes sure that the thousands of cells activate at once, no matter how far they are from the command nucleus. When activated, it releases around no less then 1 volt per cell equaling to more than one million volts. It is enough to stun an enemy or send them into muscular convulsions. His ability can come in the form of dome-like pulse or electrical tendrils in a similar way to tesla coils without the accuracy. He is in the beginning stages of his quirk and Garin is unsure of the extent he can go. He feels that the Kosei Academy would be able to help him better control his powers and hopefully learn more about them.

Talents:
Garin has been classically trained in the violin, cello and piano but prefers the violin. He does play the guitar as well but mostly as a hobby. He does have a little bit of hacking knowledge. While in japan he has taken up martial arts so he does have some hand to hand experience but just enough to get by.

@cloudystar

@FallenTrinity

It's a small world for face claims; I just used that one in a different RP 🙂.

Anyhow, as to the character, you should be aware that most quirks materialise by the age of 8/9 apart from mutant perks which are obviously from birth. Furthermore, Koshei academy is basically a community colleague; there are much better schools elsewhere, the people who go to Koshei are too poor to pay for other schools, or have had behavioural problems. Lastly, since this is a world-wide thing, every country would have a pedigree of heroes and schools, and I see no reason why Germany would be denied this.

So, that'a the bad things, the good thing is that the perk could work quite well. Sort out the things mentioned above, post it one more time so that I can go over it again and welcome to the RP!

Kosei Academy

@skepic
You make a valid point with the counter-WMD thing. I'm still leery, but you make a good argument.

The smokescreen being turned into a non-white phosphorus blanket smokescreen is much better, perhaps a passive mist that she can ramp up when she wishes would be fine.

Grenade to be removed entirely. I reckon with a bit more finalising on the actual specifics of the main ability, this can work much better. I assume she's an emitter class?

Kosei Academy

Please note that the first and third one would literally be breaking international laws by using them, so there'a that. As a GM however, this is what I see:

She has a way of pretty mutch instantly killing anyone who isn't incredibly powerful or who has water based quirks. That's pretty OP, and it's also incredibly useful in the form of BURNING THROUGH METAL. Seriously, just that alone is powerful, but ok.

Then however, she can hide herself from detection by thermal scanner, AKA literally every common form of detection out there, and the one that the military/law enforcement use the most often too.

Lastly, she can fill up almost any container and use it as a remote detonation explosive device. Which burns insanely hot, and can once again slice through metal. Start to see the issues?

@cloudystar

Kosei Academy

Hooooly good god is that both terrifying and hella OP. Also, white phosphorus is an illegal chemical WMD, so no dude. I did say to PM me first.

@Skepic

Kosei Academy

Yeah, well, you guys are gonna have to see the professor first.

Kosei Academy

@Dannyrulx

Ah School Life

@RumikoOhara

TFW you refer to term in an RP setting and everyone takes it as actual school.

Kosei Academy

I'm just curious about how people will react when they discover that Ami is cold to the touch and I mean Morgue slab cold

@RumikoOhara

Well, I don't think the professor will see much wrong with that...

Kosei Academy

Well gents, I did have a bit of writing ready for term start.
Did being the operative word here. *sighs*

Ok, so, term's gonna start sometime next week.

1930's gang wars

So, here we go. Quick claim.

Claim

So, some info. The blue island is Cavers Island. It's got basically nothing of note, apart from larg amount of warehouses owned by the mob. It's the main place for storing weaponry and other illegal substances.

The red island is Mason island. It's a similarily small island, but this area is packed with houses. Some are mob owned and rented out, many are not. The road running through the two islands is called Harbour road, and it bustles with trucks and cars constantly.

The green island is called San Nicholas, named after the island that most of the original Italian-American migrants came from. It's filled with cafes, restaurants and much more, and Harbour Road runs through the island. It's the home of the main base of the De Luca family, a large mansion on the coast on the south-eastern peak, close to the large Sicilian Plaza.