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Hagan W. Rosefey

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"I thought I was gone for good..."

[ 21 | 6'7ft | Caucasian | He/Him | 210lb ]

The stranger whose defenses are crumbling.

APPEARANCE

"Take a picture..."

Hagan is a big boy. A very intimidating figure standing at six-seven, and what doesn't help is that he's built pretty well due to exercise and working out. To him, he'd rather experience the high of working out, then stuff his face with sweets. Though he isn't a bodybuilder, he definitely has a definition. He looks like a thug, the kind of person that'd kick your ass at the slightest provocation. And that's definitely true. That's the vibe he wants to give off, the aura of an ass-kicker. The big man. He takes large steps and walks with his hand in his pocket. And when he's not walking, he usually has his arms crossed.

Hagan is from the big cities, and not that too used to small-town life. You can tell by his city slicker accent, and habit of speaking quickly. He has a somewhat deep voice, but nothing overtly intimidating. It's rougher than anything. Hagan is an Irish-man that is part Scottish, and part Russian. He appears more Russian than anything due to taking after his father. It's to the point where his mother has trouble explaining to people that Hagan is her son. He is Caucasian, with his skin being somewhat fair. There are quite a few scars on his body due to all the roughhousing he does. From fighting to childhood injuries, etc. His nose has always been a bit crooked from not healing correctly, either. His knuckles are also quite bruised.

Hagan's style shifts from practical, to sharp. For example, casually he's never seen out of jeans, or boots unless he's working out, or at home. Usually, he'll wear a T-shirt of some kind over top of that. When he wants to make an impression, he'll wear a jacket of some kind, and he always has a jacket for every occasion.

PSYCHOLOGY

"I wish I could have saved her... and saved all the others."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ Hagan wants to try again... he took his apparent death a lot harder than his friend Zoey and he wants closure any kind.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Hagan has a belief that it's every man for himself out here in this world. With all the killing and violence going on, and his father's abandonment, there won't be someone there to hold your hand. Therefore, he believes that you have to cut yourself a piece of the world or fade into obscurity. He believes that personal strength is the greatest strength of them all, and thinks himself as the strongest. Which is why he's so aggressive and willing to defend what is his.

SECRETS ⫻ Hagan's biggest secret is his questioning sexuality. He puts on the facade of being the ultimate lady's man, but when he's feeling a greater attraction towards men. Hagan is extremely defensive over this. He'll get incredibly violent at the mere prospect of his sexuality getting out. Which is what got him sent to Farmer Hill in the first place.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Hagan's sexuality is complicated. He used to think he loved girls, but he doesn't feel that kind of way about them. He's seemingly far more attracted to the male gender but is aggressively in-denial about it. He'll tear someone a new one rather than admit he's a "fag."

FEARS ⫻ Hagan fears being a deadbeat, a failure, a loser in life. He fears having to rely on anyone else and fears the growing though that he could be vulnerable. This fear is becoming closer and closer to becoming a reality after his death. He constantly has visions of his death.

QUIRKS ⫻ No quirks in particular, other than his habit of holding his hand to his face when he's thinking.

FLAWS ⫻ Hagan is haunted by his death. Unlike the others who died and came back and he still has flashes of what happened. He's still in aggressive denial about his sexuality and a very defensive person in general. One thing can set him off.

BACKSTORY

"Why do ya' wanna know? It's all about me fucking up."

Hagan isn't a native of Farmer Hill, his mother on the other hand, was. She was the daughter of Douglas Rosefey, the hard farmer man that'd rather live in the fields than die in the cities. She was the oldest of many children but was also the only one to make the decision to leave Farmer Hill with her sweetheart Albert Earls. They got married and moved to Manchester Connecticut, where they lived a relatively peaceful life. Hagan was the result of that marriage. Life was hard, but they made due the best they could. Eventually, things improved for the family.

Hagan was a relatively troubled kid growing up, and he didn't play well with others. All because of some behavioral problem the Earls couldn't sort out. Because of this isolation in the school, he was singled out, and bullied by the other kids. First, it started with teasing, then it didn't take long for it to become physical because they could get away with it. Albert wasn't having it and thought Hagan the first thing about fighting in order to defend himself. He went back to school and fought back. Making them back off. This is where Hagan learned that you need strength to get ahead in life

Advancing through school from there was easy, he didn't make too many friends, but he eventually learned to let people in. Hagan was living life at his own pace. That changed when the family split up after the revelation that his father was cheating on his mother with another woman and even got her pregnant. This came to Hagan so suddenly, and his father left them without a care in the world. Then it just became Hagan and his mother against the world. Nobody spoke about them falling out, and they had to try extra hard to stay afloat, with their breadwinner gone.

Going into high school, he was desperate to learn independence from his parents, so when it's his time to out on his own, Hagan would be on his toes. Hagan did the best he could to get through classes, but they were not his specialty. Just for the passion of it, Hagan became a football player, and one of the star players. His name became known across the school as the big, hard-hitting, quarterback that got all the girls and kicked ass. However, whenever he got with the girls, it felt hollow. There was something he didn't like.

He had a rather close friend in the football team that he told everything with and explained his lack of attraction to women. That friend explained that he may not even be into women, and Hagan denied that. Hagan and this friend started to hang out a lot more, and get far closer than ever. Hagan felt something between the two, and it didn't take him long to act on that growing affection. In the locker room, the two shared a kiss when they thought they were alone. They were going to go further, but someone came in, and they stopped.

Hagan aggressively denied that ever happened, and kept away from the "friend." Bottling up his feelings, and throwing them away. Rumors came out that Hagan was "a faggot," and he started to get paranoid. Very defensive. But, it came to a head when a fellow teammate approached him and said that he saw the whole scene take place. Threatening to tell everyone if Hagan didn't leave the football team. This made the already testy Hagan fly off into a blind rage and brutally beat the boy half to death, anything to ensure that he'd keep his mouth shut.

Unfortunately, the police didn't share the same sentiments, and Hagan was arrested and spent a few months in juvie.

When he got out, his mother immediately sent him to Farmer Hill, a town he only heard about in off conversation. Because she thought that Hagan needed some time with her father to even him out. And evened out Hagan was. Douglas was the world's biggest hard ass, and he had Hagan working in the fields and farms. He hated it at first but he realized they all saw him as a "faggot" and didn't respect him. So, he begun anew in the schools in Farmer Hill, he graduated high school, and then college came around, and his mother got him into Grand Ridge like she planned on for years.

Hagan, too, was involved in the shit storm at the camp and discovered his abstraction. He followed the group throughout their adventures to John Reid's farmhouse but unfortunately met his end during the first encounter with the Glutton. He was one of the first casualties in fact... he got a second chance after the defeat of the Glutton along with all the other people who were resurrected. However, the child made a misstep; he still has some memories of being tortured by the Glutton.

After the destruction of Farmer Hill, Hagan moved on to Tampa Florida to finish his education in the University of South Florida. That was where he underwent a Semi-Awakening and his barrier was corrupted by the Glutton and the experience there.

SKILLS & TALENTS

"I'm starting to realize a lot of the stuff I obsessed over in the past ain't all that important."

Brawling ⫻ Hagan was, at first, taught by his dad how to fight to defend himself from bullies. Brawling on the streets, and other places, have taught him a lot. How to fight dirty. How to fight without mercy. Hagan is definitely one hell of a brawler and knows how to use that size to his advantage.

Football ⫻ For a majority of his youth, Hagan played football for his local teams. He was one of the star players and would have tried to go onto the NFL if he wasn't sent to Farmer Hill. He still plays, but he just isn't as good as he used to be. Not that he particularly cares about football anyway.

Farmhand ⫻ Hagan was forced to help on his grandfather's farm as punishment, and continues to do so he can have a house to live in so he can go to school. Hagan knows all sorts of information about animals and can handle all equipment.

ABSTRACTION

"Why... why did that fucker give me a walking reminder of that thing?"

TYPE ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Corrupted-Barrier, Hagan has the ability to spawn a semi-sentient barrier that is a grim reflection of the Glutton.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Hagan's original abstraction manifested in the ability to cast a shield as you could say, around himself, when threatened. However, the barrier's mechanics changed greatly during his Second-Awakening. He can spawn a barrier around himself and other people... however the barrier has a horrific, eldritch appearance. It closely mimics the appearance of the Glutton when he was in its realm: it takes the appearance of a huge, semi-transparent, sun with dozens of thorny tentacles outstretching in all directions. These tentacles are a tangible object and can interact with the outside world with surprising strength - enough to throw somebody or even bend steel. He can choose how much of the barrier he manifests at a time; he can create just the tendrils if he chooses or he can go half. The strength of the barrier depends on how threatened Hagan is currently feeling - if he's not particularly threatened at all then the barrier can be broken with a bat and the tentacles can lightly push somebody. However, if he's feeling threatened (or stressed) barrier's strength multiples to the point where it can tank a barrage of bullets and break concrete like it's nothing. However, the barrier acts on its own accord at times (possibly due to subconscious desires) and can lash out against the stressor much as he does. This can be a good thing and a bad thing. The tentacles of the barrier can also be used to move and grab objects as a sort of pseudo-telekinesis. In time, as Hagan comes to terms with his death he'll learn to control the barrier and its shape.

AURA SENSING ⫻ Hagan's aura sensing allows him to sense the other people who have been killed by the Glutton from around a fifty-five-meter radius. He'll have to focus to turn this ability on, however, and can only presently sense a few people (mainly Zoey Gray).

LIMITS ⫻ Hagan can only create the barrier in a dome that's around fifteen feet in all directions. Beyond that he can't really defend it, however, the tentacles have a twenty-foot range and can possibly pull someone out of the way. Oh yeah, while he can activate the barrier whenever he wants to and somewhat control the tentacles, it has a habit of not doing what he wants it to do. By that, it can attack someone or even the people around him if he's not feeling in a super good mood. The more emotional Hagan is; the less control he has over the barrier. The barrier's strength escalates depending on how threatened or stressed Hagan is. If he's not that threatened then the barrier can be broken by somebody hitting it really hard with a rock. If he's really threatened that's where it's strength shines; it cannot be destroyed by any conventional means and can tank extra-normal attacks. However, after it takes a bit of a beating (About one or two strong hits) it disappears for a few moments and it'll reappear later. It'll require a bit of time inactive to repair the damage... if it's on the verge of being destroyed it'll take about an hour. If the shield says is destroyed then... Hagan goes with it. Hagan can only create one barrier at a time and naturally, his attacks are lessened against other Extra-Normal.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Now to get it out of the way; the barrier is a walking reminder of the Glutton and his death at its hands. A very sore spot for him and just a reminder of it makes him uncomfortable and he definitely doesn't like using his barrier at all. The strange and Extra-Normal have an advantage against him as their attacks do a bit more damage against his barrier. The barrier getting damaged also hurts Hagan in away. If the barrier takes a hit he'll receive a bit of a headache, which will get worse and worse as the barrier gets more and more damaged. If the barrier gets destroyed then Hagan will be knocked out. Also, those little moments it goes down after taking a hit also create a weak point. There's also a chance his forcefield will activate and go wild and cause some serious damage to whoever is around him for random periods of time.

Hagan's original abstraction

TYPE ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Barrier-Projection, Hagan has the ability to project a powerful barrier to protect himself and others.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Hagan's abstraction manifested in the ability to cast a shield as you could say, around himself, when threatened. This barrier is transparent, near-invisible, with a slight white tint to it. Most importantly, it acts as a solid that prevents anything from passing through it and keeps the other side safe. When the barrier is touched, it turns opaque around the point of impact and glows orange. The shape of the barrier depends on the threat presented. If someone is coming at him with a baseball bat, then it'll be relatively flat. If someone comes at him with a flamethrower, the barrier will take a rounder shape. He can create the barriers at will, but he cannot control its shape. The barriers are fairly strong, capable of surviving a barrage of bullets, but will crumble eventually as it begins to weigh down on Hagan.

AURA SENSING ⫻ Hagan's aura sensing ability is connected to his Abstraction. It allows him to sense the auras of people who have attempted to attack him or anyone he cares about (otherwise triggering the shield), for thirty minutes, over a thirty-five-meter radius. As time goes on, the radius will lower until the aura fades from his eyes.

LIMITS ⫻ Hagan can only create barriers in a twenty-foot radius to protect himself, and other people he cares about. Beyond that limited radius, he's useless. The barriers are so durable that most attacks would bounce off it, but it's connected to his mental and physical state. If he's feeling particularly defeated, the barriers will lose quite a bit of their strength and will shred like paper. Passion and courage make the shields their strongest. He can only create one shield at a time, and the shield can persist as long as Hagan wills it.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Hagan's barriers are a bit weaker against extra-normal beings (the Awakened and beyond). The abilities of an Awakened have an easier time breaking down his barriers, and can even pass through them with focus. The shields getting damaged sends a mental backlash to Hagan. It starts as a basic headache, but if the shield gets destroyed, it'll be so bad that he'll be screaming in pain.

OTHER

"Next time, I'm going to try to do better."

Nothing to note, boys.

The Surtr Archives

Odessa K. Maxwell

"I want to be able to forgive myself one day."

Gallery View. _______________________________________________ Odessa Kayla Maxwell She/Her | Chronologically 23 | African-American | 5ft | 112 _______________________________________________ Lost. _______________________________________________ Skills & Talents "It's sad to say, but this is all I know." ___________________________________ [+] Extra-Normal Experience ⫻ This isn't Odessa's first rodeo and this ain't gonna be her last long as she draws breath. She knows almost everything about the Extra-Normal, from the types of beings there are to how they function to a point she can identify it with a mere glance. Botany Knowledge ⫻ Due to Odessa's ability she gathered as much knowledge about plants and other such things as she could. Now she's a near master of the plant world and can pretty much instantly identify a plant. Ballet ⫻ In her past life Odessa was a ballet dancer, which was really impressive since her original body was much larger. It lent well to balance and other skills... that she doesn't quite recall given that her body is much different from her older one.

Appearance ▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔ "This isn't my first body." Odessa Maxwell is the kind of person that doesn't exactly realize how much she sticks out and how memorable she is. The girl usually, as she goes, from place to place, keeps her head down and quietly moves. Sometimes she has flowers in her hands as she walks. In public, she doesn't draw any more attention to herself than necessary, and usually, she slinks from one end of the crowd to the other without a word. If one were to pay attention to how she walks, they'd notice that she walks in a slow and deliberate manner. Either she's careful that she doesn't trip over something, or that she has all the time in the world and there's no urgency to get to her destination. Of course, in terms of appearance, Odessa sticks out like a sore thumb. The first thing that people notice about Odessa is her weird vibe. She has the appearance of a voudou priestess from many decades ago. What primarily tips these people off is the many tattoos on her body. She has various lines across her upper chest and neck, with her right arm covered in tattoos of waves and constellations and her left arm has symbols of beasts on them. There are tattoos on her legs of a mixture of trees, roots, and other plants. These are strange markings that could be her sigil or have some type of meaning that is supernatural related. Her hair is black and tied into thick dreadlocks that hang off the side of her head with some metal braids weaved into it. What's notable about Odessa's ears is the fact that she has her ear lobes stretched with a black ring inside of it. It's to the point where she can fit a huge earring inside of it. Along with the myriad of piercings... her nose is pierced, the middle of her forehead is pierced, and she even has her nipples pierced. This gives people the initial impression that she comes from a completely different culture and makes her stick out in a crowd. Odessa looks like she's from Africa! However, the girl speaks with a completely American accent... except she has an air of confidence around her. Which is almost as noticeable as her air of strangeness. Odessa seemingly always walks and speaks as if she knows more than what the person is talking about. Her voice is soft, and almost friendly - which gives people the impression that she's being condescending. The girl is African American with genes from parts unknown, she'll gladly tell you if you ask. She has very dark skin, afro-textured hair, thick lips, and the African skull shape. In terms of build, well, she's pretty skinny and looks like she stays in shape - not that it's possible for her to gain muscles or body-fat anymore due to her... different biology. She's not super-duper curvy, she definitely fills out her jeans and she has a 32E cup size. In terms of height, however; she is below average at five feet tall exactly. Though she may look human, some people may note that there's something off about her and the way she acts and looks. Though it'd take some real observation over time to notice it or it'd come up in the right moments. For starters, someone will notice that Odessa never breathes, in the cold air not a breath leaves her mouth. Sometimes Oddessa sighs but that is merely a show of emotion and functionally she doesn't need to. One that's a bit more apparent is the fact that her body is cold like a corpse... except she's functioning perfectly fine. When it gets really cold Odessa's body heats up unnaturally like a space heater. Finally, most people won't notice it unless they have some type of super hearing or something, but Odessa has no heartbeat. It's all because Odessa is a plant.

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"Life is a wheel... and I just want to make sure it keeps going."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ After her death and return as an Apparition, Odessa's been longing for something to live for. She dedicated her entire life to stopping the Glutton and protecting Farmer Hill... and now neither of which are a thing anymore. Neither is her previous identity, Britney Williams, and what doesn't help is that Odessa doesn't have any skills that aren't related to the Extra-Normal. So, Odessa has been wandering the world, looking for something to live for, going where ever the wind takes her. However, she has been dedicating a lot of time to finding a way to break the curse the Hound placed on her so she can feel again.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Odessa believes that everyone should live for something; anything. That is apart of the glorious cycle the one in the sky designed and it's one that she will do. She herself is looking for something to live for, soon as she finds it. Odessa believes that the world of the Extra-Normal is the gateway to infinite possibilities. She doesn't feel as if anything is inherently good or evil... all because she thinks that life and reality is a beautiful cycle. One that cannot be interrupted, one that has no purpose or destination, and is completely devoid of thought, emotion, compassion - It just moves. She believes that everything has a beginning and an end... even herself. All apart of the fact that she died and came back as an Apparition, she believes that the current life that everyone is living is merely the chains keeping them back from that potential. Once you shed your current life and identity you'll unlock that power, hidden potential, that is inside of you and become immortal. That said, she thinks that being Extra-Normal is her brand of Normal.

SECRETS ⫻ This isn't Odessa's identity or even body. Originally she was known as Britney Williams. Odessa died before and came back as an Apparition that Abscised a person and took their body. This is why Odessa presents herself as an Adjoined, she doesn't know how people will feel about her taking another person's body.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Odessa is bisexual, leaning on females. In Odessa's past life she discovered her sexuality after a chance encounter with a friend. She has dated boys in the past, but she finds herself more attracted to females. Though, that isn't to say that she isn't against dating a boy. She finds open-minded and spiritual people attractive above all else. Odessa is a very physical person who loves feeling other people even in romantic displays of affection and just feeling other people. However, the Hound took her ability to feel so she finds herself feeling frigid... as she wants to find a way to feel again before she tries to pursue some type of relationship.

FEARS ⫻ The existence of the Glutton, the League, and the bigger threats of the universe are what keep Odessa awake at night. They the antithesis of reality and thus her greatest fear. Odessa fears the inevitable truth that she is Britney Williams and goes to any length to deny that she's that person. She also fears her past catching up with her... after all, she has done a lot of terrible things.

REPUTATION ⫻ Odessa is strange... dying and coming back is bound to make someone stranger but Odessa has embraced the world of the supernatural and left her past life behind. This makes her interactions with people difficult. She's seemingly speaking a different language and her motives oftentimes get misinterpreted. Above all else, Odessa is sullen and her past mistakes haunt her, she tries to do the right thing but always ends up failing at it. Naturally, her death also haunts her because as much as she tries to ignore it and act like she's not Britney, it still happened.

FLAWS ⫻ Odessa is strange... dying and coming back is bound to make someone stranger but Odessa has embraced the world of the supernatural and left her past life (and humanity) behind. This makes her interactions with people difficult, as she's seemingly speaking a different language and her motives and what she means oftentimes get completely misinterpreted. Above all else, Odessa is sullen and her past mistakes haunt her, she tries to do the right thing but always ends up failing at it. Odessa feels as if her life no longer has any purpose and that she doesn't know why she's moving forward. All her life she dedicated it to stopping the Glutton, and what does she get in return? A brutal death and is promptly forgotten when the timeline was changed. All that Odessa feels as if she knows is the supernatural, and that will be her entire life moving forward. All this knowledge of the "bigger" picture and universe does not make her happy. In fact it makes her very lonely and depressed, and an outcast among regular humans. Worst of all Odessa can't feel any physical pleasure or sensation so she can't drown herself in alcohol. Naturally, her death also haunts her because as much as she tries to ignore it and act like she's not Britney, it still happened.

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"Britney Williams is dead, I was there when it happened, you know."

Now Odessa's backstory is very long and complicated. Mainly because like the previous parts of the sheet show; she wasn't born Odessa Maxwell. Odessa Maxwell doesn't even exist and her previous life was Britney Williams. So Britney Williams also had a rather rocky start to her life. She was born in Farmer Hill Montanna as apart of the illusive Watcher organization, a subset of the League of Luminescence. Their goal was to keep an eye on the Glutton and keep the existence of magic a secret so nobody prods the Glutton. To this end, the Williams family was supposed to be the front and cover for the Watchers; they were supposed to have a strong influence in Farmer Hill and cover what the Watchers couldn't by throwing money at it. They were a huge part of the politics of the town and had hands in everyone's pockets - for prime blackmail material.

Britney Williams was born as apart of this secret conspiracy and had a close part in it. She was born as the best friend of Amethyst, the next leader of the Watchers and the two were best of friends. At this age she didn't know any conspiracies but when she went to school and interacted with the other kids apart of Farmer Hill she was told not to talk about Amethyst. She was oblivious to it all, and this was the part Britney loved the most. However, her eyes were opened when she was forced to Awaken via the Watcher's using their Lux to manipulate her emotions. The process was... traumatic, however, Britney's memory of it was erased and she was told of her role. Told of the other universes, and their mission to hide the Glutton.

To this end, Britney was used to expanding the Watcher's influence to the youth of Farmer Hill. To make friends and to get information; more importantly to deter anyone from going to the mountain. If anyone knew too much, a Watcher would eliminate them... and this, in time, wreaks havoc on Britney's mental health as she felt like she was complicit in their deaths. Due to William's family's lavish lifestyle trips to Glint and other strange places were covered up by being vacations. However, Britney gained her own agenda as she interacted with the people of Farmer Hill. She formed some legitimate bonds with the denizens and realized quickly realized that she wanted to protect them no matter the cost. While she tried to use more peaceful means they quickly got ruthless because that's what she felt like she had to do.

She used to blackmail, murder, and many other horrible acts (including things that she found to be unforgivable) to protect the town and the people she cared about from the supernatural. Eventually, she made contact with White Arachne and joined the White Spider Society as she realized rebelling against the League was necessary and would have to possibly destroy them. These acts weren't just to the League, however, she had to do stuff she's not proud of to Farmer Hill's residents as well. One thing, in particular, she's not proud of was manipulating her friend Amethyst's fiance into killing one of his leaders and then killing him to cover her own tracks. Amethyst noticed because she began to act a lot more... shifty around Britney.

The main goal that she had was becoming Farmer Hill's "Guardian", which was a sham created by the Watchers. Basically, one Awakened was supposed to have most, if not all of the power in Farmer Hill to keep new Awakened from forming and protecting the town. The current Guardian was John Reid, a man who had to kill almost all of his peers because they Awakened. She formed a bond with the man after being saved by him and tried to become the next Guardian. If she had access to all the abstractions he had... she would be a God. However, there was one thing in his way: Sharon Reid, his daughter. He also groomed her to be the next Guardian but she wasn't mentally all that "there" so Britney was forced to gaslight her in order to make her even more questionable.

While all this went on, Britney was also expected to maintain a healthy social life. Which she did via the usage of phones and her connections... all the friends she made she kept in mind as she did what she did. One of her closest friends was one of the town troublemakers, Claire O'Sullivan, and they were practically inseparable. Though, they both discovered something about themselves skinny dipping one night that got rather heated. Sharing a kiss, the two realized their affections for each other. Britney didn't know how to come to terms with it but kept it a secret. This lead to her relationship with her friend becoming a bit awkward, and eventually, they drifted apart. Britney graduated and attended Grand Ridge Academy to also keep an eye on the people there.

However, things fell apart really quickly. John Reid died and apparently somebody up and woke up the Glutton, she didn't know all of this until the camping trip. Where the Glutton attacked the camping group and forced them all to Awaken. From there, Britney tried to get them to defeat the Glutton, becoming the leader of the "Support Group" throughout their many adventures in Farmer Hill. Eventually, they ended up in John Reid's farmhouse and ran into Sharon Reid who told them to go to Hillview High. That's where they had their first battle against the Glutton and lost many, many, members of their group. Most notably Claire O'Sullivan, which Britney blamed themselves for.

After the encounter, the sheer horror of the Glutton knocked them into a coma in which Britney and the others were saved by a "Higher-power". That higher power was known as the Child who sent them far into the future to save them... and when they woke up they found out that Farmer Hill was a lot different than before. The Glutton's corrupted roamed the streets and Apparitions went on a rampage as whoever came was also put under the same effect as the Corrupted. Britney was forced to come clean and told the group everything and eventually gave up the leadership position to a friend. From there she accompanied the group on their many, many, adventures through the destroyed Farmer Hill as hope burnt out more and more.

During the final battle, Britney ended up killing her former friend Amethyst and pushed into the mountain. Despite everything Britney did, she met her end in the mountain. She didn't see it all to the end, nor was she even aware of how she got killed. However, she got a second chance... her guilt and other emotions made her return as an Apparition. She retained all of her memories but came back when all was said and done and the Glutton was defeated. She ultimately decided to move on and not reunite with her friends; becoming a roaming Apparition.

An Apparition without purpose and she realized that Britney Williams is simply dead: she decided to start anew. Taking a new name, The Nurturing Will, she traveled to Glint and found a town in the middle of Africa that suffered from starvation death and decay. Deciding this was her purpose, the Nurturing Will decided to become the protector of the town and provided them with a limitless supply of food and water. She affixed herself to an elderly woman named Adaeze Okafor and she finally found what she was looking for. However, the League of Luminscience caught wind of it somehow and burned the village to the ground.

The Nurturing Will attempted to save the village but the Knights were too strong to push back. At some point The Nurturing Will abscised Adaeze... she said that the elderly woman gave her body up. Eventually, the slaughter attracted the Hound, and, out of desperation, the Nurturing Will made a pact with him to save the village. The Hound took her ability to feel anything other than pain but the Knights were repelled and the village was saved... however, the Nurturing Will, left to start anew. However, the Nurturing Will's current body was injured in the attack and she died out... and she discovered that she could create a new body for herself after she died.

Eventually, the Nurturing Will became Odessa Kayla Maxwell and wandered the earth, longing for a way to feel again. Thus, Odessa wandered through the world of Glint for a period of time as a flower saleswoman... until she took some time to rest and ended up there. The Othergrounds... which was an unfortunately uncomfortable experience because she ran into not just one, but four people from her past as Britney Williams. Primarily Penny Lawson... whom she showed a particularly strange relationship with. They got close after the death of Caelea Biard, at the hands of an Apparition that Odessa blamed herself for.

The two set off away from the group to go after the Apparition and out of sheer guilt at her past actions, Odessa confessed that she was Britney Williams and that she had abscised somebody. Penny seemed to be relatively okay with the fact that Odessa stole someone else's body... but eventually, they defeated the Apparition and came face to face with the creator of the Othergrounds, Rosalyn Black. She revealed that she was from the future where the world was destroyed... and it had something to do with a man named Luther Saul. Odessa wasn't entirely convinced by all of this, but Penny was. However, the issue was that Rosalyn was hesitant to let any of them leave... and Odessa decided to be the one that stays with her in order to let everyone else go.

The whole thing was about Penny... even if the world ends, Odessa was confident Penny and the others would be able to stop it. And Odessa was functionally immortal, so she had all the time in the world to spend it with Rosalyn. Odessa definitely used that time well, as she learned from the girl and together they made the Othergrounds a true paradise...

... However, the only problem was that Penny slipped Rosalyn a Jimmy Buffett CD and Odessa's been forced to listen to it nonstop ever since.

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"I shed my humanity."

TYPE ⫻ Aberration (Abscised)

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Botanical-Body, Oddessa's body is comprised of plant matter she can manipulate almost limitlessly and gives her a few other abilities.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Putting it short and simple, Odessa is one big plant in the accurate shape of a human. While she may look and feel human, what's going on under the skin is much, much, different. Now, while most may think plants are simple, they are extremely complex and capable of many, many, different things. Her entire body is composed of plant matter, which can take different properties of plants at will. In place of blood, she has various plant liquids (Water, Green Chlorophyll, Etc) constantly being transported and she doesn't have a circulatory system like humans do. Odessa has a vascular system that is similar to the blood vessels in animals, rather than having the heart to move her fluids about other forces that are utilized (Root pressure, etc). Therefore she has no heartbeats because she has no functioning heart and no lungs because she doesn't breathe the normal way. Odessa "breathes" through her skin, and she can create oxygen in the process. It's simple, she breathes by 'inhaling' carbon dioxide and 'exhaling' oxygen, creating a constant amount of oxygen for everyone to use! Odessa can also produce heat in response to the cold through thermogenesis, basically, certain plants have the ability to produce heat in response to the cold. If it's around negative five degrees then her body will naturally go to sixty degrees. Of course, she has the ability to produce even more heat or heat whenever she pleases but this will drain her energy. Any other questions you have will be answered with this.

Through this ability, Odessa can grow pretty much every single kind of plant on her that she pleases and shape her body any way she desires. For example, she can turn her skin into wood to give her resistance to damage, make her skin grow leaves of Foxglove plants to poison foes, or she can also grow any fruit or vegetable just by willing it. She can shape herself almost limitlessly and do stuff like create blades, hammers, vines to stretch her hands - long as she has the plant matter. Odessa doesn't need to eat or sleep, all she needs to do is stay in the sunlight and consume water, then she gets sustenance via Photosynthesis. She can also absorb other plants into herself to steal their nutrients and she can also consume food like a carnivorous plant. Odessa has a healing factor, two forms of healing actually. The first form is basically that she can force her body to rapidly grow new plant matter to replace/correct damaged materials and she can regenerate most wounds in a few moments. Usually, it's automatic and body-wide, but she can selectively regenerate any part of her body. The second form is that she draws in external plant matter to fill the wound. Odessa's unique biology also grants her a few other resistances. Odessa can handle getting poisoned; some plants deal with infection/poison by simply killing off the infected tissue and expelling it before it spreads. She'll lose a bit of matter, but Odessa can quickly regenerate the lost tissue. Because of this, she can be very hard to kill under the right circumstances.

Oddessa's final ability is Self-Resurrection (or more accurately, Regeneration). If Odessa is killed after her body is sufficiently damaged then she'll break down to a single glowing seed containing her soul. If this seed comes in contact with soil it'll bury itself into the ground. Eventually, a massive plant cocoon will come out of the ground and grow a new body for Oddessa. The more time she's in the cocoon, the more she'll age but however, she can come out whenever she feels she's ready. She needs a few days to get back to where she currently is. Of course, if she isn't by dirt then she'll be trapped in seed form for all eternity. If anyone comes in contact with or close proximity to the seed she can telepathically communicate with them. And if someone else consumes the seed, as in swallows it whole, she can take over their body and abscise them.

AURA SENSING ⫻ Due to Odessa's deepseated connection to the supernatural, it was only natural that she gained a sensing ability related to them. However, this isn't traditional aura sensing but it is instead a tingle in her skull. One that allows her to sense Extra-Normal beings when they are nearby. Normally it's about a range of six meters, but with focus, she can extend it to fifty-one meters, and with a bit more she can pinpoint their location.

LIMITS ⫻ Of course Oddessa's abilities are weaker against other Extra-Normal beings. Her strikes don't hit as hard and she has a hard time growing plant life on them. She also can't affect plants outside of herself beyond, say, absorbing the plant matter into herself. Now the big limit is that Odessa's ability is energy-related; using her plant abilities burn energy that she needs to function. Now, she can regain energy by absorbing sunlight but the more she uses her abstraction the less energy she'll have and if she goes too hard her body will begin to weaken. As in she'll get sluggish and she'll be cut off from her abstraction as she needs what energy she can to function. Odessa will need to sunbathe for about a day to get back from this point and long as she's constantly in contact with the sun she'll be fine. However, it is possible for her to burn more energy than she's getting and shut off her abstraction. If by chance she's cut off from sunlight for awhile and her reserves hit zero then she'll be dormant until she hits sunlight. Odessa also needs a constant supply of water to keep functioning as well - she may be able to go without food but she needs water every now and then as well. If she goes without water for too long she'll dry up and wither away and die. Also to grow a new body she'll need a constant supply of water and sunlight as well. Odessa's self-manipulation is limited by how much plant mass she has access to, and while she can cause herself to quickly grow plant mass she'll run out of energy. Any part of her body that is cut off will wither away and die and she'll have to grow new matter to replace it. In addition, Oddessa's strength is also dependant on touching the ground/earth. If she says, three or four stories up, then she won't be able to access any of her abilities other than her regeneration. The closer to the ground she is, the more powerful she'll be.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ The biggest, personal, weakness for Oddessa is that, after her deal with the Hound, she can't feel. She can feel emotions and basic sensations like pain, but she cannot feel pleasure, hunger, thirst, smell, the warmth of another person... just pain. She is desperate to feel something. Now, when Oddessa is in her base form is a lot more fragile than average. While she can heal and turn into wood, she can still be taken out relatively easily by certain attacks. Even if she can turn into the wood; it can shatter and break under stress - it's not anywhere near the strength and durability of stone or metal. Speaking of which, turning into wood also slows her down greatly. A strike to her head or chest area is as fatal as anyone else. Also, as a plant; she's effected by pretty much anything plants are poison, fire, extreme colds, etc, etc. Fire and extreme heats, in particular, are dangerous for her because they'll dry out her body and force her to drink more water. If she's already dehydrated then she'll be more likely to catch fire. Extreme colds can also be a pain by freezing the water in her body and slowing her down to the point where she's forced to go into a hibernating state and possibly kill her. There is only so much that heating her body up can do. Destroying the seed will kill Oddessa's body and force the Apparition out - however, you can effectively kill her by not ever letting it touch the soil. Also if she's killed by fire or heat then she won't be able to grow a new body at all because her seed will wither away.

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"I'm going to start living for me."

The Surtr Archives

Zoey C. Gray

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"Moving on's real hard when you're moving on from something real good."

[ 19 | 6ft | Caucasian | She/Her | 133lb ]

The Stranger who knows nothing burns like the cold.

APPEARANCE

"I think I'm sexy.."

Zoey perfectly fits the "punk girl" mold; she dyed her hair, has plenty of tattoos, and just has that attitude that just reeks rebellion. Older folks are quick to judge a book by the cover and immediately classify her as a problem-child just off her looks alone while younger people are more receptive to her. Zoey carries herself with an air of confidence, but rather than just being a screaming wreck as people assume her, she is fairly chill and laid back. Taking slow and steady steps with her hands in her pocket, a cigarette hanging from her lips, and generally relaxed demeanor.

Though she's also a little rough, that might just be because she's a bit of a tomboy. Zoey had a sister that she wanted to desperately distance herself from, in terms of looks and demeanor. She smokes, she’s loud, and she drinks, and she tends to attract attention with her tomboyish streak. Her voice is a little rough from cigarette smoking, and she has a few scars and old wounds from previous injuries. Now, onto her appearance, Zoey is pretty pronounced due to a mixture of her hair, and her height. Her hair is a dark black color, but a few strands are a dyed cyan color which heavily sticks out against the natural color of her hairline. It's near-back length, and flowing in its appearance, and with the cyan strands, it looks pretty punk rock. Zoey’s hair in a straight texture that is kept clean - but is a bit damaged from all the hair-dye and a few mess-ups. The other thing that makes Zoey stand-out is her height, people like to call her a Goddamn Amazon because she’s six feet tall exactly.

She’s bony as hell, being skinny and without any sizable amount of body fat or muscle - She has like a thin layer of muscle if you squint, but there isn’t much there. A lot of her exercise comes from hauling ass from people she pissed off, otherwise, she spends plenty of time lounging around but she certainly does have a little sex appeal. Her bust is 38E, which is pretty big, and her hips are slightly prominent, but she doesn't pack a lot in the ass area, though. Her body is a rough-square build rather than the famed hour-glass build but in all honesty, you can honestly say that her body is more-boyish other than her breasts. In terms of ethnicity Zoey is white... she used to think that she was Irish but ancestry dot com told her that she was a mess of different countries but at least kinda Scottish. She found out that she was five-percent African actually.

On the back of her left hand she has a strange tattoo of a snowflake.

PSYCHOLOGY

"Sorry love, but I think it's best you keep your distance - for us both."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ Zoey's main goal was to escape her home town. Now that there's not much of anything to escape from anymore, Zoey is roaming the states looking for purpose. Any kind of purpose. The band that she roams with, Queen Beach, is kinda like a family to her but it's not what she wants.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Zoey believes in freedom and exploring life and yourself above all else. It might be something an idealist spouts, but it's something that helps her get up in the morning. She believes that everyone should be a free-spirit.

SECRETS ⫻ Zoey keeps her death and other stuff involving the Glutton on the low, low, for personal reasons. Other than that she doesn't really keep secrets or anything because she sees herself as an open book. Nothing to hide.

SEXUALITY ⫻ Bisexual, but lately, she feels a frigidity inside of herself; as the girl she loved is dead. She doesn't know if she'll ever feel the same way for anyone else and is thus keeping that side of her repressed.

FEARS ⫻ After everything that she's been through; Zoey fears quite a lot. After dying and coming back to life, she has nightmares about her death to the point of PTSD. She fears death again, and she also fears getting attached to people only for them to die. This is why she's much colder and she fears that the fire that was inside of her is dead for good. Zoey goes to many heights to rekindle that fire but she fears that she's cold for good.

QUIRKS ⫻ Many. People who interact with Zoey immediately find out that she is pretty talkative. She tends to drag out her statements by adding plenty of words. She has a habit of rambling. Along with the fact that she's oddly energetic and spastic.

FLAWS ⫻ Zoey's biggest flaw is currently the fact that she's emotionally distant and suffers from many many problems from the fact that her lover is dead and that she died before. She doesn't like getting close to people, because she fears to lose them again. Most importantly, somebody can excite her to a violent rage if they bring up Claire.

BACKSTORY

"You know, I used to say "I hate my current situation, I want things to change" but now? Now...? I want things back to the way they were. At least I had Claire then."

Zoey Gray, a native of Farmer Hill, was the eldest sister of two siblings, and the daughter of two illustrious scientists that had to drive like an hour to get to work. Because of that, payday was great, and the two girls could live in comfort though, Zoey grew up inadequate to her younger sister, Sabrina Gray. A girl that was a piano prodigy... being able to play the piano young as three years old like an expert. She only got better with age as she destroyed talent shows, and eventually became a local sensation in Farmer Hill. While Zoey was largely ignored while Sabrina shined. Thus, Zoey tried her best to find validation where ever she could find it. This inadequacy drove Zoey to try playing instruments (didn't work) until she kept looking for something that she was talented at.

Puberty hit Zoey hard, and she grew enormous in height, and she went to her school's basketball team... she was the worst on the team at the start, and through years of training she only ended up being okay. This wasn't good enough, but Zoey found what she was looking for; validation. She met a girl in school, her name was Claire O'Sullivan, and the two became the best of all friends. Doing everything together... even after Zoey had noticed a change in Claire, a darkness that was deep inside the girl, Zoey still stuck with her. She helped her where ever she could - even adopting a similar punk persona after her. Even though the years, Zoey felt something growing inside of her, affection for Claire. An affection that she was slowly realizing wasn't being returned.

This put Zoey back in a place similar to before she even met Claire, as she fell into an inadequacy induced despair. She tried to do anything to feel something... She was raised chasing dreams and had a love of different brands of music. Zoey played around with instruments, but they weren't her thing (they hurt the shit out of her fingers). But, she was drawn to electronic music... and eventually, she figured out how to make music using electronic and it became her obsession her grades plummeted as she aspired to become a techno artist. She dropped a few hot LPs on Soundcloud, but barely gathered an online audience. However, she finds her true audience by performing at parties which escalated her popularity in Farmer Hill.

While playing DJ, she connected with Claire again... and eventually, Claire revealed to Zoey that she was suffering abuse at the hands of her parents. This didn't change one thing about what Zoey felt about her and felt their connection getting even stronger because she was willing to reveal this about herself. To her, and only her. Zoey felt like they were trapped in this godforsaken town, and had to leave, no matter the cost.

But, Zoey's parents wanted her to get an education in a profiting field... but, made the mistake of giving her enough autonomy to choose her classes with them being none the wiser. She went towards a career in music and has been enjoying her classes ever since... Then Zoey went through hell at the camp. She lived through Scott Reese's rampage at Claire's side, but ultimately she succumbed to the eldritch horror placing her into a coma. She was blissfully unaware of what happened while she was under, but while she was asleep she dreamed of an ideal world. That ideal world of hers was broken when she was woken up and when she woke up; she found out that her crush, Claire, was killed by the thing that put her in a coma - along with her other best friend Dexter. The Glutton they called it.

Upon hearing about Claire's death, Zoey immediately flew into a rage and Awakened. With her newfound ability, she fought the forces of the Glutton and whoever else came their way until the final confrontation with the thing. Unfortunately, Zoey fell victim to the creature and was killed unceremoniously by the abomination. Fortunately, after the Glutton was defeated, a new timeline was created where Zoey and her friends were resurrected... except for Claire who sacrificed her spot so that Zoey could be revived instead. Zoey didn't know how to feel about this.

Returning to Farmer Hill, Zoey found out that, in this new timeline, the town wasn't destroyed by the Glutton but instead by a massive earthquake. The sheer grief of being without Claire and a majority of her friends being dead caused Zoey to undergo a Second-Awakening. With Farmer Hill destroyed; the Gray family moved on but Zoey decided to go her own way. There was a traveling band supposed to play a venue in Farmer Hill from California that got stuck there during the Earthquake known as Queen Beach. Zoey showed her skills and linked up with them and went on her way.

SKILLS & TALENTS

"All I got left now is music and the memory of what I used to have."

Music Making ⫻ Zoey has from a young age, played with programs such as Audacity, and went on various sites to get samples. Thus, putting together some techno songs (along with some rap and rock beats). She wants to get a singer, but... they're not in demand these days.

Basketball ⫻ Zoey played for her high school's basketball team for ages. She isn't the best at it, but she's gotten a pretty impressive speed, aim, and coordination.

Spraypainting ⫻ Zoey has been taught how to tag buildings by a friend of hers, and she fell in love with it. She knows how to work stencils, and she has tagged many, many places (Usually trains, but has tagged the mayor's house one time).

ABSTRACTION

"Ironic, back in the day I'd probably get a fire abstraction. Funny how shit has changed."

TYPE ⫻ Awakened.

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Snowmancery, Zoey can create snow out of the palms of her hand as well as control ice and manipulate the weather to an extent.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ Seemingly linked to how sad Zoey is over the death of Claire and her cold nature, Zoey can create snow out of the palms of her hand. She can create tons of snow in mere seconds, from a snowball to a cascading wave of snow. Also, she can telekinetically move snow and functionally shape it in any way imaginable, provided that she has enough snow. Zoey can tightly pack snow together to create a dense construction that she can stand on, too. Which means naturally she already has a versatile defense, offensive, and mobility. She can create shields of snow, attack people with snowballs, and create hills out of snow. Of course, this isn't the end of Zoey's abstraction, however, as it seems that Zoey's control over snow also extends to ice and the weather. At will, by packing the snow together, Zoey can create ice in any shape she desires - however, her abstraction seemingly only extends to controlling smaller pieces of ice (I.E snow). The larger the construct the less she'll be able to control and manipulate it. The other side of her abstraction is controlling the weather to an extent. She can change the weather to force a snowfall provided that the environment isn't too hot. This snowstorm starts off light but if she keeps it up she can create a blizzard in a few hours.

The Dying Sparks ⫻ Zoey's former abstraction that she has just the loosest connection to that reflected her former wild nature. Back in the day, when Zoey was facing off against the Glutton, she was capable of summoning bolts of lightning from her fingertips and being able to teleport anywhere insight through a bolt of lightning. However, she only has the barest connection to it and she went from summoning bolts of lightning to creating a few sparks for a few seconds and disappearing. She can kinda shock somebody but it'd be like a static shock instead of frying somebody. She could, maybe, give somebody a heart attack but she finds it easier to just use her snow.

AURA SENSING ⫻ Zoey's aura sensing is connected to her abstraction. If she causes a snowstorm and anyone is by themselves; she can seee their auras. This ability has as much range as her snowstorm ability, which is about forty meters.

LIMITS ⫻ Zoey can manipulate all snow within twenty-seven meters of herself, but the further away the snow is the less fine control she has over it. At twenty-seven meters; she might be able to move it but shaping it into anything is completely out of the question. As stated before, Zoey cannot control bigger pieces of ice - anything maybe more than ten pounds of ice is out of the question. While she can freeze her snow into solid ice, she can take it apart and turn it back into the snow... except that'd be more trouble than it'd be honestly worth. Naturally, creating snow is linked to her stamina and she can create as much as her stamina would allow her to. The snowstorm she creates can affect up to forty meters and she cannot create it if the environment is too hot/dry. Zoey also can't affect water directly in any way (meaning she would have to freeze it herself).

WEAKNESSES ⫻ The first glaring weakness is that she's not in any way immune to ice. If she creates ice out of her hands it's going to get cold, and her abstraction naturally cools the environment. If she's not wearing the right-wear it's gonna be cold. She can easily give herself frost-bite and hypothermia (which she has done a few times and it ain't pretty). Her abstraction obscures her vision by its very nature - by creating snow she creates fog and diamond dust. Her weather manipulation also does the same thing and makes it harder for her to see. Zoey's abstraction is also heavily linked to her emotions of sadness and inadequacy and requires her to be... cold emotionally. If she's around somebody she loves and cares about her abstraction will weaken the closer she is to them physically. To the point where, if she's touching them; her abstraction will effectively be nullified. Also "warm" emotions like love, happiness, etc, will also weaken her abstraction long as she's feeling it - which may not be that big of a drawback but can also screw her over.

OTHER

"You know... nevermind."

Zoey has a nasty smoking habit... if she's not smoking a cigarette she's either run out, is in a nonsmoking building, or become a nun.

Recollections: The Othergrounds [Complete]

@silvermist1116 Sorry for going on with the collab without you, really am.

But the Othergrounds is officially completed. You all are free to post the epilogues for your characters at your own leisure.

Recollections: The Othergrounds [Complete]

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"I would hug you, but..."

"But I'm covered in mud?" said Penny, smiling as she saw the others. It wasn't the real reason why. Penny stepped forward and embraced Zoey, squeezing her tight while using Zoey's jacket as a towel for her muddy hands. Penny let go of her friend, her face beaming. "Don't worry. It's mostly dry."

"... Mostly," Zoey flatly repeated.

"Almost entirely," said Penny, her grinning faltering as she noticed the redheaded child.

While those two were having a heartwarming moment, Isla collapsed onto her knees as soon as the group arrived. Teleporting so many people had left her utterly exhausted. She pretty quickly flopped onto her back with little care for her surroundings.

She figured she'd take a short nap as everyone started talking, closing her eyes... and Odessa kicked her gently to wake her up. Her eyes shot open as she shot a half-assed glare at the plant lady, grumbling as she propped herself up on her elbows to listen.

"The world was fine when I checked," said Zoey as the young girl revealed that the world had ended.

"The world was around, anyway," corrected Penny, folding her arms over her chest.

"I think if the world ended we woulda noticed it!" Isla piped up. "I dunno about you guys but I didn't see any big world-ending events before I got pulled here... unless you count, like, all that magic shit that started to happen. But the world seems pretty existant to me. Also, we all survived 2012 so unless you're telling me the Mayan calendar was wrong... Was it the Mayan one? Either way, I didn't-"

Odessa just casually booped Isla on the nose again while Penny watched in horrified interest as the recollection of LA being destroyed played out around them. Isla stopped completely rambling when she did and just started up at her with an open mouth. Then she closed it again. Point taken.

"... Are you sure this world is the one we come from?" Odessa asked.

And Rosalyn nodded her head. "I don't know how... But I do know it has something to do with a man named Luther Saul."

"I'm not exactly convinced, sister," Zoey took a puff of her cigarette as she stared at everything with a flat face. "Either way, sugar, how about you let us out and then we figure out what happened?"

"I..." Rosalyn said as she balled her fists. "... Please, don't go. Don't leave me here. You can have everything you want here. I'll give it to you, I promise."

"... You're starting to scare me, sugar," Zoey flatly said as she resisted her voice cracking.

"Yeah I ain't a fan of staying in this place, I got pretty good shit going on back home," Isla said, even though the last bit was a complete lie because her life sucked. "Where's your gratitude for me getting you outta that void, anyway? Can't just force us to stay here after that."

"I'll get you everything you want, and then some!" Rosalyn tried to plead with them. "Just... listen."

"Let the kid talk," said Penny, taking a step forward as she stared down Rosalyn. She wasn't exactly keen on the idea of staying in Paradise for any longer than she had to, but if what she had shown them was real then it would be insane just to ignore it. Even if only a kernel of it was true, it was still something Penny had to pay attention to. "Go ahead. We're listening."

"I'm not exactly in the mood to listen to the person that's keeping us hostage, Penny!" Zoey tried to contain her anger but she ended up shouting with each passing word. Penny shot Zoey a silencing glance, although she understood Zoey's anger.

Rosalyn turned around as she pointed into the distance... and the area suddenly transformed into a garden. A beautiful oasis.

"I can do anything here, we can be anything!" Rosalyn tried to plead with them with no avail. "You never have to worry about anything ever again. That's the point of Paradise."

"Okay," said Penny with a huff and a roll of her eyes. So much for the child having some great revelation about the end of the world. Penny turned to Zoey and gave her an apologetic smile.

"... What happened here?" Odessa asked.

"Huh?"

"What happened here? There are graves..." Odessa pressed on. "... How long have you been bringing people here?"

"... I don't know, a long time," Rosalyn started playing with her fingers as she answered unsurely.

"Don't dodge the question," Odessa continued to press. "Apparitions like the ones we encountered don't appear out of thin air."

A new Recollection began... and it was the same street the strangers were teleported to after the cruise ship sank. And it was a similar sight. Children were playing all sorts of toys and it was almost warming. However, Odessa remained straight-faced throughout.

"It... started fine, everyone was happy in Paradise..." Rosalyn said. Before the Recollection changed to a different, far more macabre scene. It was a bunch of children huddled around one child... who was splattered all over the ground as if he fell off a building. It was a truly disgusting sight as the various children were vomiting, crying, and looking on in horror.

However, an orb came out of the deceased child and everyone smiled and laughed and cheered as it took the same shape like the boy who died.

"Then someone died, but it was okay... because they came back," Rosalyn explained, then the Recollection shifted yet again to... the sea of graves. Dirt mounds were covering the beautiful oasis that was Paradise as each mound had a name. And one particular mound had a little girl hunched over crying. She felt a presence over her as she looked up...

... And saw the very Apparition that killed Caelea.

"But more and more people all... started dying, and they all came back as those things. And I thought it was okay but over time they started..."

The Apparition grabbed onto the little girl's head and crushed it before letting her body hit the ground... and another Apparition came out of it as the Apparition took over her body. And then she instantly regenerated as the Apparition felt new.

"Then they started turning into those things... and..."

The Recollection changed again to one of Rosalyn running from an absolute horde of Apparitions that were chasing after her. She ran into a building and closed the door behind her. She took a few steps away and pointed both of her hands at it as it transformed into a vault door... and it didn't matter as the Apparitions pounded their way through the defenses or phased through and chased after her.

"I don't know, I got scared!" Rosalyn said as Rose-in-the-Recollection fell backward into a dark hole that appeared. And Rosalyn screamed as she fell, and fell, and fell into nothingness. Eventually, she stopped falling... and looked around as she a screen. A screen that seemingly showed Paradise in real-time and she walked up to it, hoping for it to be a portal. No... it was merely an illusion as when she touched it, she stopped like she hit a wall. Then Rose started pushing against it and then pounding it... until she started crying, screaming, as she slumped down to her knees.

"I was calling people here, desperately hoping that they could get me out... but most of the people I called died and made more of those things."

The Recollection ended soon after and it went back to the garden. Tears streamed down Rosalyn's face.

"... Paradise is a pocket dimension created by your abstraction," Odessa explained, "You're God here... but people are unable to pass on because it's like a hole. You can fall in but can't ever climb out. And because they can't pass on, they become... Apparitions."

"Which is why you should open the door, sis," Zoey said as she put a hand on her hip. "And let us out... please..."

"Yeah, you can't just keep us here after all that," Isla added.

"You said you'd give us everything we want if we listened," said Penny with a smirk. "Well, we listened. Now the only thing we want is to leave."

"But..." Rosalyn groaned before Odessa took her side and then her hand. The little girl looked up at Odessa as she said.

"... I'll stay right here, with you," Odessa said as she lifted her head and looked at Penny. Penny opened her mouth to speak but held her tongue. "But, you have to let them go... they don't want to be here, but I'll stay."

"You... really will?"

"Yes," Odessa smiled at her. "Long as you want me to."

"I..." Rosalyn couldn't plead for them to stay for much longer as she finally conceded... she raised her hand into the air as she opened a portal right off to the side. It was a white swirling light that leads into the void. "... This should take you back where you came from... wait, something's not right here."

"Huh?" Zoey asked. "You better not be trying any funky shit, sister I swear."

"It's like something's trying to get in."

"... Finally," The group heard a deep, gravelly, voice come from the portal before they saw two orbs of crimson. Lunging through the portal was a strange black wolf-like entity made out of a black smoke. He came to a skidding stop as he stood tall... he presently the size of a school bus. "... I have found the anomaly."

"The Hound," said Penny. She took a few guarded steps towards him, her eyes unable to mask the animalistic fear she felt in the pit of her stomach. The portal was still open. If he was here for them then she could buy the others the time needed to leave. She managed a few more steps until she was within swiping range of his massive claws. She glared into his glowing red eyes and spoke, her voice dripping with disgust. She said,"What the hell do you want now?"

The Hound's next stretched unnaturally until her face was mere inches away from his as he stared her down equally. He softly said,

"Ease yourself, child," The Hound started, "I am not here for you, or your friends."

Isla stared at the Hound with wide-eyed shock, mouth falling open as she interrupted whatever it was about to go on about to say, "Wait wait wait, what the hell is that, and why the fuck do you sound like you know it?" She glanced at Penny and then back at the hound with faux confidence.

"Because I do," said Penny between clenched teeth, not breaking her staredown with the Hound.

"If you ain't here for us, what are you here for?"

"Them.

Out of the woodworks came a horde of different Apparitions... of various colors, shapes, and compositions. Some resembled their more human counterpart, while others... had long lost their humanity. They filled the skies above them as the Hound raised his snout... and every Apparition turned into a glowing orb of their respective colors as they coalesced into a swirling mass and exited through the portal.

"... I've been searching for those lost souls for centuries," The Hound started, "However, that will never happen again..."

"... What about Caelea?" Zoey asked as she tried to take a drag but her hands were shaking so much that she ended up dropping it.

"It was her time to go," The Hound spoke, "If she didn't die here, then she would be my prey. However... due to her contributions to Farmer Hill, she will return as an apparition. I promise you that."

"You can't like-"

"No," The Hound cut her off, "That was a one-time deal due to circumstance, now... leave this place, never to return."

"Yeah, you heard him," Rosalyn choked, "Leave before I change my-"

And Odessa's hand tightly wrapped around hers as a way of telling her to be quiet. And Rosalyn sighed. Odessa raised her head as she said,

"... Go on," Odessa affirmed.

"Well... this was the strangest adventure I've ever had..." Zoey trailed off as she walked on through the portal, she hoped that it was not a trick or a trap or anything. Then there was Odessa... she had to hand it to the spooky bitch, staying here with the brat so they can leave. There was something off about this but Zoey didn't want to pry. If Odessa wanted to spend the rest of her days with a brat then that was on her. Eventually, Zoey disappeared through the portal without a care or worry behind her. Well, Penny can handle herself.

"Hmph, see ya'll around," Hagan said as he stepped through the portal and disappeared. He wondered how much of what the Hound said was correct, but he didn't want to bother the grim reaper here. He was gonna have to take his word for it...

"So it's that easy, huh?" Isla blinked, staring at the portal. She then turned to the people left. "Well, see you guys, can't say I wanna repeat this experience." Then to Odessa. "Stay safe, don't boop the wee girl's nose too much." She grinned and gave a half salute to them all, before stepping through the portal.

Penny waited as the others went through the portal one by one. She didn't want to hesitate too long, but she wanted to make sure that everyone else made it out first. After the last one filed through, Penny walked over to Odessa and Rosalyn. She dropped to a knee in front of the girl and reached into her bag. Slowly, Penny pulled out the yellow CD case for Jimmy Buffett's Greatest Hits and slyly handed it to the little girl, using her own body to block Odessa's view.

"Play this for her whenever she starts to act gloomy, okay?" said Penny quietly. She winked as she stood up and turned to Odessa. She gave her a tight hug. "Thank you, Odessa. If you ever need anything, well, you're with someone who can seemingly teleport me from across time. Just give me a heads up first."

Penny released Odessa and then turned to step through the portal, stopping right in front of it. She turned back and looked at Odessa, "You're right, by the way. You're not Britney, but you do happen to have some of her better qualities nevertheless. It was good to see—" Penny huffed, shook her head, and gave Odessa a sheepish smile. "I mean, it was nice meeting you."

Then Penny stepped through the portal.

Odessa sighed.

"... We'll meet again, Lawson. I know it."

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"... Zoey,"

She heard the voice that sounded familiar but strange. The voice of someone feminine... and when Zoey opened her eyes she felt the light rays hitting her face. She closed her eyes yet again as she felt weird. Tired. And not in the right place she should be. The first thing that Zoey saw was a skinny, green-haired nerdy looking girl looking right down on her.

"Zoey, are you okay?" She asked again.

However, Zoey was looking at her hand as she was perplexed. Was this real? Or fake? She looked around and realized that she was not in some ratty club in LA. She was in a motel room, there was another queen mattress right across from the one she realized she was on. Then there was the window. The motel had tan wallpaper and she could see the overpass.

"... Where am I? What year is it?"

The girl tilted her head.

"Zoey, I know you had a lot to drink."

"No seriously, I..." Zoey looked around as she couldn't believe she was back. "I don't know, Quinn."

"It's June twenty-second," The girl, Quinn, replied. "And you're in the cheapest motel we could find."

"Nice," Zoey said, "Mind explainin' why?"

"Because you didn't seem to be doing too good," Quinn answered. "But are you back from Jupiter? Our check out time was five minutes ago."

"... Something like that," Zoey replied.

Never Ending Days

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Recollections: The Coven [COMPLETED]

@Utrax Accepted.

LIMITS ⫻ The Hater-Blocker is effective against projectile abstractions and projectile attacks, except it has a harder time working against physical extra-normal attacks. Mainly because emotional-fields clashing weakens it's effectiveness. Its effectiveness on a single object degrades as it's used and Mariah will have to reapply it after a while. She can only apply the effect to five objects at a time but applying it drains her of stamina. Of course the effect only works for one direction and the area of effect attacks still are dangerous for Mariah. Whenever Mariah reflects or deflects an attack, it's effectiveness is halved.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Due to the low-yield nature of the abstraction it doesn't have any weaknesses or drawbacks in particular.

You should jump into the Discord because a lot of discussion about the RP goes on in there. Plus we can easily discuss how Mariah will enter the rp.

Nomadic Odyssey: Fallen Virtue [Cancelled]

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Justin grabbed onto his Sound-Scythe with both hands and swung it at Oh-One's head and in which the mechanical monster flew backward. Oh-One pointed both hands at Justin and fired two beams that melted the snow and Justin dashed in between the blasts as he threw the Scythe at Oh-One... only for the machine to catch it midair. There was a brief pause before he crushed the Scythe.

"... Crap," Justin said to himself as Oh-One pointed his hands and fired another beam of red hot energy that Justin dashed away from.

"You cannot win, Justin Haggar," Oh-One droned on. "Why fight?"

"Yeah I know I can't," Justin said as he took cover behind a rock as Oh-One kept blasting away, "I'm just stalling you."

"You will-" Oh-One attempted to speak before he detected the roar of a motorcycle and the looming shadow of one coming down on top of him. He turned around but Jill's bike crashed down on Oh-One and brought him directly into the snow with a massive crash. However, Oh-One activated his moonlight directly into the bottom of Jill's motorcycle.

For once, Justin was happy to see Jill. He was about to joke about her being another thing for Oh-One to shoot at that wasn't him, though he would prefer to handle Oh-One alone. "Ain't you a sight for sore eyes, Jill!" Justin said as he came from behind the rock.

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The tower was getting closer and closer and Oh-Seven could detect Seshat nearby. She hoped that she didn't get in the way as Oh-Seven finally approached the tower. However, she knew it was too easy. She had scan-mode activated as she knew exactly where the Power-Stone was in Oh-One's monstrous tower. She sped up a little bit before...

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

And Oh-Seven saw the looming shadow of a massive machine coming down like a meteorite. It was colossal... and red hot due to the flames. Oh-Seven came to a stop as she looked up - before she jetted off in the opposite direction when her scanners detected it was coming down on her. She activated her Over-boost as her lower body transformed into a jet and she flew off as fast as she could before the machine hit like a comet. And when it did it sent shockwaves through the earth as the ground split open and cracked.

Oh-Seven got away and as her lower body transformed back to normal she scanned the several story tall machines and got a good look at its composition. It was enormous, wielding two oversized weapons, one chaingun and a railgun. Its eye began to glow a bright red color as Oh-Seven knew it was one of his machines.

The chaingun began spinning fast as it unleashed a barrage of bullets at Oh-Seven and she dashed with the bullets trailing behind her. And with the other weapon, it charged up a powerful glowing blast from the raygun directly at Seshat.

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It was just a regular day in the life of a Nomad.

Going to fight a murderous killing machine that's bent on destroying the world!

Just Tuesday to Jaden. He managed to hitch a ride with the famous Margot Renard Bleu and... her girlfriend Brooklyn Vanburen. Or they acted like it. Jaden didn't fuckin' know or care, he was just leaning up against the door wearing a black winter parka with pants, and had on fluffy ear muffs. His words were right on his back and side waiting for action! His arms were crossed and his eyes were closed... Jaden heard the words MAVERICK and his eyes shot wide open as he looked off towards the front. Now, this just got a bit more fun. Part of Jaden wanted to teleport onto their planes and cut their turbines in half just to fuck wit' 'im.

"Yes, we can handle ourselves,"

Margot

"... How do you think we got this far?" Brooklyn compounded Margot's point as she slapped a hand down on her shoulder. She was also wearing a green parka with heavy-duty snow boots. She sure as hell wasn't equipped for all this snow, but she had to get that power stone! At least before someone like MIRAGE gets it.

"Well, I don't know," Jaden added. "Dumb luck."

And laughed as Brooklyn rolled her eyes at him. The plane slowly descended as they made their landing and Jaden stepped off. He sensed a group in the distance... and he had a feeling he knew exactly who it was. He grinned... and that grin was knocked off his face as MAVERICK's fleet got wiped out. Brooklyn stared at it all wide-eyed as every plan was destroyed except for one.

"Oh my God..."

"Wow, look what good the all-powerful MAVERICK is," Jaden said with a laugh before he looked at the pilot. "You better get outta here before Oh-One does that to your plan, bro." He chuckled again.

"Well, no time like the present. Allons y."

Margot

"Sorry sista," Jaden said as he put two fingers up to his nose. "I fly solo. See ya later."

And then Jaden disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

"Damn it, Jaden," Brooklyn said before she faced Margot. "Let's get to the tower."

In the distance, they could see several flashes of red and blue, and a robot falling from the sky.

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Sonic Adventure 2 - Knuckles Theme Instrumental

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As Jonas waved his hands like a scrub lord; a barrage of five CDs came out of nowhere flying at high speeds and landed right in between his legs.

In a cloud of smoke, Jaden appeared in front of him, posing as he knelt on one knee with his katanas outstretched behind him. He said, "Ninja!"

Then he teleported again outside the group and he had thrown a roundhouse kick into the air and he repeated, "Ninja!"

When Jaden reappeared, it was an explosion of smoke at the base of a massive rock. And Jaden came running out up the rock as once he reached the top he valiantly leaped high up into the air. And when his foot collided with the ground, he whipped around and shouted, "NINJA!"

Jaden grinned as he looked down on Jonas. He crossed his arms as he said,

"Well look who it is: Jonas and the Cult of Langer..." He started chuckling, "More like Lagner. Geddit? Because ya'll laggin' behind!"

He knew he wasn't endearing himself to the group and didn't care.

"I wasn't even gonna show up since I expected you to been have the Power Stone by now-" So I can jack it from you. "-but it seems getting a magic pebble from a tin can is too much work for the great and powerful Jonas Langer so I came here to save you from embarrassing' yourself even further."

He laughed some more.

"I know, somehow that's possible."

Recollections: The Coven (Off-Urban-Fantasy/Wannabe-Witches) [RECRUITMENT DRIVE]

Brain smoother than cueball, me, is interested.
Gonna do so much reading.

@Utrax

I'm available if you need anything.

[On hold, Will return]

I like how this was the solution instead of something silly like saying, "Hey y'all, sometimes unrelated people can have the same last name."

@Atrophy

I'm too exploding galaxy brained for that