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Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

@LadyLilith: Yeah, there's room.

@Cmmelody: Former. Roommates optional.

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Kiryu Sento

??? — ??? Plaza

Having not been given any further questions beyond Miku's, Wynn nodded her head in response to Qingque's and Shino's reticence about the situation before responding with one of her own.

"While I understand your hesitance, I can assure you that we've chosen you both for a reason," the woman replied as she briefly gestured toward the pair. "After analyzing a series of projected values and running through multiple simulations, we came to the conclusion that your collaboration would have the highest projected chance of success—especially when we considered the possibility of... Ahem, corrupted variables muddying the waters."

Sento's gaze narrowed at the word "corrupted"—a change that was not lost upon the arbiter as she continued speaking.

"Deviance from expected values from multiple major entities were detected as a recurring symptom in each of your respective worlds, but they do not reflect the underlying cause," she said with a bow. "Thus why your assistance is greatly appreciated in resolving this matter."

Having heard that, the physicist could not help but grimace as the faces of a few of his past adversaries popped into his mind.

"I understand," he said with a nod. "Of course, I'll do my best to help where I can. So, where do we begin?"

"Before we can begin, I must inform you that we must unfortunately start with gathering resources," Wynn said as she raised her hand. Behind her, the same gateway she had reached them through re-opened—wider this time, and with a clear view to a different region of whatever space this was. "Please, follow me. I'll explain as we walk."

As Wynn crossed through the portal, Sento gave the briefest of glances towards the others before following Wynn through the portal. The marvel of science—or, well, he assumed it to be science—that allowed her to create stable transfer between arbitrary distances like this was piquing his curiosity to the extreme, but for the moment the physicist managed to suppress his desire to pry further and instead looked upon the empty city that they were now walking through.

"While this used to be a bustling city, a past incident resulted in it's near-extinction," the white-hair woman said as she continued forward, "leaving it in the state that it is in now. A majority of the remaining energy is being diverted towards stabilization as mentioned prior, which leaves us wanting. As such, my brother and I have made the call to temporarily place deeper investigation on hold until we've determined that we have the leeway to do so."

As she finished, Wynn came to a stop in front of what seemed to be a rather unassuming three-floor building and gestured behind her.

"This is where you all will be staying between missions; please divide yourself among the rooms here as you so choose. I'll give you all time to speak among yourselves as needed, but when you're finished, please let me know. Your first order of business will be to retrieve resources from worlds that have been 'pruned', as a matter of speaking—ones that have encountered such catastrophic dead-ends that they have begun to collapse," she said.

Sento stared at Wynn with a barely-disguised look of incredulity at how blasé she had stated that last sentence before taking a deep breath and shaking his head.

"...I have far more questions to ask you in the future, but I suppose they can wait for now," he said before turning towards the others in the group. "Right, then. I guess that since we're probably going to be living here for the foreseeable future, introductions are probably in order. Kiryu Sento—genius physicist and hero. I'll be in your care, everyone."

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Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Kiryu Sento

??? — ??? Plaza

Despite the brown-haired girl's immediate confusion, none of the names that she rattled off held any meaning to him. The fact that she was referring to a planet in that context was noteworthy unto itself, given how humanity hadn't achieved interstellar travel yet, but that didn't change that his answer remained the same. The other teenager seemed to have reached a similar conclusion to his own, though he had been the first to put the theory into words.

"Honestly, alternate realities seems to be the most likely answer," Sento replied with a brief nod. "The terms 'Penacony' and 'Xianzhou Fleet' are just meaningless names to me, and I assume that'd go for a lot of places you might try to quiz me on. Unless you know what the planet Earth is—the third planet in the Milky Way, if that helps any—then I don't think we're going to get anywhere with this kind of questioning."

With that, the scientist crossed his arms as a pensive expression crossed his face.

"A motive... I'm quite unsure myself. I might have been the first to arrive, but that doesn't mean much when the time between my arrival and yours was only a few seconds," he stated towards the young man beside him. "Putting aside the possibility of magic bringing us all here, I didn't see any technology set up to facilitate a transfer. The plaza was as empty as it was when I arrived, minus all of us."

With his explanation finished, Sento vaguely waved his hand towards the fountain nearby.

"At this point, it might be best if we consider fanning out and looking into... Eh?"

A strange noise coming from his flank—the same general area where he had gestured mere moments before—caused the scientist to turn his head out of curiosity. There, in front of the fountain where there had been nothing moments prior, Sento saw space itself seem to twist and warp, folding into and out of itself before a perfectly rectangular gateway stabilized. There was a brief pause as tension seemed to hang in the air, and a few seconds passed before a white-haired woman wearing a black clean-cut blouse and dress with a coat draped over her shoulders crossed through and closed the gateway behind her.

"My apologies for the delay in greeting you," she said, bringing one hand to her chest as she gave a slight bow. "I had to finish some measures to stabilize your worlds."

"Stabilize our... Sorry, could you please elaborate a bit more on that?" the physicist asked, to which the white-haired woman nodded in response.

"Of course, Mr. Kiryu; I'll start with a brief introduction. You may call me Wynn. I am the arbiter of this space, while my brother acts as the administrator; together, we oversee a multitude of branching timelines across different planes of existence. I believe that you may consider this to be something akin to multiverse theory, if that helps your understanding any," the woman spoke in kind. "We noticed a multitude of anomalies originating from a few worlds that began to cascade out of control. As we cannot directly intervene, my brother and I made the decision to isolate the worlds from which you came and placed them into stasis so as to prevent their collapse."

"That would certainly be a problem," Sento said as he brought one hand to his chin. "But that doesn't quite explain why we're here."

"While the anomalies in your own home worlds place them at risk, utilizing those who had the highest likelihood of being able to intervene in our stead became a priority. Unfortunately, we could only move so many people at once without over-taxing our ability to maintain stability. It is a rather utilitarian explanation, I admit, but it is as succinct an explanation as I can give at the moment."

With a sigh, Sento crossed his arms and glanced at the others who had been so suddenly displaced before speaking again.

"Are you implying that we wouldn't have been able to resolve the situations on our own?"

"Unfortunately, yes. While I have no doubt as to the power that you and those you all worked alongside in the past, the problems plaguing your worlds are more fundamental in nature than even that," Wynn stated. "Now, before I proceed: are there any other questions you all would like me to address? I will do so to the best of my ability, but I cannot promise answers that will satisfy you."

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Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Kiryu Sento

??? — ??? Plaza

Having since chosen to stay silent and observe the situation, Sento watched as a few figures began to materialize around him. The first was, by his judgement, a conspicuously inconspicuous young man—between his jacket, hood, and shaded glasses, it was difficult to figure out anything meaningful from his appearance alone. The fact that he opened his arrival with an odd hand gesture and a shout only left Sento with more questions than not.

Then came the pair of schoolgirls, who were both clearly in the middle of some more intimate time when they had been spirited away to wherever this was. Some part of the scientist's brain felt some secondhand embarrassment at the scene, and that only got worse when the two realized that they were no longer in what had been, presumably, the comfort of their home. It felt almost instinctual to turn away from them to give them a moment to adjust.

No sooner than after he had turned his head, away, though, did yet another young woman's voice call out towards the now-forming group; it was but a given that he would move to face her. Compared to the other three that had appeared, though, the newcomer had an outfit that was far more ornate than anything else the three of them were wearing. It wouldn't have been all too odd to dismiss her as a cosplayer, but given the context of where they were right now, her words made no sense if she had been one. Things were only further complicated when another young woman—with what Sento considered even more fancy clothing—arrived to press the other woman about where she had been—never mind the complete lack of knowledge about this "Yuque" that the pink-haired girl was speaking about.

"I'll confirm that much, at least. I'm not sure where you'd find the ability to walk through time, so this 'Golden Hour' isn't something I'm all too familiar with. I've never heard of a city with that name, though. This 'Yuque' isn't exactly familiar, either; is that Chinese, by any chance?" Sento asked in response, half-hoping that their answer would shed some more light on the situation. "I live in Tokyo, so I don't exactly speak the language myself..."

Maybe trading information would be the best thing they could do for the moment. By their reaction, the two seemed to be acquaintances. That meant absolutely nothing with regards to why they were here now, though. If the pattern was that they were coming in pairs, then maybe Banjou would have also been dragged here; the lack of anyone that seemed to know the other teenager also shot that theory down, though. Maybe there was some other connecting thread between them all that justified their presence here?

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Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

@zygardian: I'd say that Transformers are still a bit too big even with that caveat.

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Kiryu Sento

Tokyo — City Streets

With his hands tucked into his coat pockets and a slightly worn-out expression on his face, one Kiryu Sento was quietly making his way away from the coffee shop that he had so often frequented in the past. The purpose of his visit had been rather serious, all things considered; with the safety of this new world still not promised, his role as Build was far from over. The same went for the three other Kamen Riders who he so often fought side by side with, and that naturally warranted a discussion in it's own right after things had quieted down a bit again.

The results were, as expected, inconclusive; it was rare to have to worry about the presence of threats like those they had recently faced, but given their luck it would only be a matter of time before something new reared it's head to try and take them out. The only conclusion that had been reached, for better or worse, was that they needed to spend more resources on researching Phantom Liquid—and he, for better or worse, was the only one with any expertise in the subject to do so.

"Aah... Well, if it's just research, I suppose it's not a problem," the scientist said to himself, gazing up quietly at the darkening evening sky. "And if Gen-chan is paying out of pocket for me to do that, things should be okay for a while..."

With a quiet breath, Sento closed his eyes and stopped for a moment as he considered, briefly, how to handle that going forward.

"I guess we could start with identifying where pockets of that might be present. It'd be bad if people started messing with that stuff on a whim... Eh?"

When he opened his eyes again, the world around him had drastically changed. Gone were the paved streets of concrete and asphalt, replaced now by a carefully pattered plaza at the end of which stood an elaborate—if non-functional—fountain. Night had been replaced with day, though the light shining above felt somewhat more artificial than that of the sun.

But most concerning of all to Sento was the lack of presence of people around him. It was as if he had been teleported straight into a ghost town without even being given a chance to response.

"This might be a problem..." he muttered to himself as he instinctively reached for the driver tucked away inside of his coat. "...No, I shouldn't jump to conclusions quite yet. There's too much up in the air right now."

As he slowly forced himself to relax and analyze the situation, the faint outlines of other figures began to appear in the plaza around him. Having since chosen to gauge the situation first, Sento quietly watched as people began to appear one by one, giving form to what little had been present when he had first started paying attention.

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Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

The Genius Physicist

• Name: Kiryu Sento
• Gender: Male
• Appearance: "Now, shall we begin the experiment?"
  Sento is a fairly unassuming Japanese man in his mid-twenties, and his usual choice of clothing—a brown coat and ripped jeans—don't do much to set him apart from the crowd. However, after activating his Build Driver, Kiryu turns into Kamen Rider Build. The appearance of his suit changes based on the Fullbottles he uses, but when using the Rabbit and Tank Fullbottles this would be considered the "default".
• Personality: Sento is, at first glance, an egotistical genius whose confidence in his own abilities is nothing if not unshakeable. His manner of speaking can be blunt to a fault at times, which could quite easily be misconstrued as rudeness or callousness. On top of all that, the insatiable curiosity that he holds towards the unknown can easily lead to fixation and a ruthless pursuit of answers, which can itself lead to other problems if left unchecked.
  But beneath that self-assured bravado is the heart of a hero. Though Sento is a scientist, his desire to create a better world in spite of the evils that thrive within it have pushed him further and further beyond his limits. He is a pacifist at heart and would rather defend than attack, but past experiences have led him to shoulder burdens upon himself so that others would not have to. Had he not encountered the reliable allies that pushed forward to fight with and by his side, though, it is likely that such an attitude would have ended with his eventual mental collapse.
  To those that are his allies, though, the mask of egotism softens into something more akin to self-assuredness and reliability like no other. While he does poke fun at those close to him and might not hesitate to mess with them for entertainment when the mood is right, Sento understands the weight of what it means to be a hero and is willing to put himself on the line to see things through to the end.
• Brief History: Kiryu Sento, otherwise known as Kamen Rider Build, uses the power of the Build Driver to fight for the sake of his world. In his timeline, Japan was split into three sections by the Pandora Wall, a byproduct of an incident involving the Pandora Box that turned the nation into three discrete entities, each vying for power in a divided land. Though his time as Build began with him fighting Smash—humans transformed into monsters by means of Nebula Gas—his journey has led him to fight enemy Kamen Riders, aliens, and even his own allies at times. All of this culminated in one final battle against the being that had caused all of this to begin with. Alongside his former enemies-turned-allies and a certain Banjou Ryuga, Sento emerged victorious, but at the cost of shifting into a worldline where the Pandora Wall—and, by extension, Sento himself—never existed, but with everyone he knew in his time now alive but bereft of memories of his original continuity.
  All save the Banjou of his own timeline, whose own unique circumstances caused him to end up in this new timeline as well with his own memories still intact. Though said timeline is far from perfect in it's own right, the two continue to live on, regardless of what difficulties they face in this new world—though now absent the horrors they have lived through. Mostly.
• Universe of Origin: Kamen Rider Build
• Equipment:
  
  • Build Driver: A device that mounts to Sento's waist that, when loaded with two Fullbottles (or one of the few dual-slot Fullbottles), allows him to transform into Kamen Rider Build. The Fullbottles are modular and can be swapped at will to allow him to access a multitude of sub-forms if necessary. If two bottles are a "Best Match", using them at the same time increases their effectiveness and abilities accordingly.
    While his suit is active, Sento gains increased strength, speed, and durability regardless of which Fullbottles he uses.
  • Fullbottles: Containers that hold within them the distillation of "elements" of items that exist on Earth. They can, as a whole, be discretely separated into two categories: "Biotic" and "Abiotic", and the Build Driver can only slot one of each at a time (ignoring specialized alternative Fullbottles). Sento can also 'activate' and use the bottles without the Build Driver to augment his own abilities, if temporarily. At this point in time, Sento only has the Rabbit and Tank Fullbottles on hand; the rest were left behind when he was dragged out of his original (new) world.
  • Drill Crusher: A combination drill/sword/gun that Sento can access more or less at will from the Build Driver. He can also use it while untransformed and, while somewhat unwieldy, can use the contents of a Fullbottle to affect it's capabilities.
• Abilities: The largest factor to Sento's success as Build (and otherwise) is his intellect and talent across multiple scientific disciplines. Utilizing that has allowed him to design and create various inventions, including the upgrades that he and his companions use as they unravel the mysteries that once plagued his world. On top of that, he has shown the ability to quickly and efficiently wrap his head around things that break those laws and repurpose those as he deems necessary.
  Furthermore, his role as Kamen Rider Build has also honed him as a fighter, both in hand-to-hand combat and with various pieces of weaponry that he utilizes in combat. Though never formally trained (in the traditional sense), the innumerable life-or-death situations he has gone through have pushed his capabilities well beyond those of an everyday human.
• Other: Taken post-series and all associated pieces of media.

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

@VitaVitaAR: Fu Xuan ok.

Well, guess this is probably the point where I put my choice down.

The Genius Physicist

• Name: Kiryu Sento
• Gender: Male
• Appearance: "Now, shall we begin the experiment?"
  Sento is a fairly unassuming Japanese man in his mid-twenties, and his usual choice of clothing—a brown coat and ripped jeans—don't do much to set him apart from the crowd. However, after activating his Build Driver, Kiryu turns into Kamen Rider Build. The appearance of his suit changes based on the Fullbottles he uses, but when using the Rabbit and Tank Fullbottles this would be considered the "default".
• Personality: Sento is, at first glance, an egotistical genius whose confidence in his own abilities is nothing if not unshakeable. His manner of speaking can be blunt to a fault at times, which could quite easily be misconstrued as rudeness or callousness. On top of all that, the insatiable curiosity that he holds towards the unknown can easily lead to fixation and a ruthless pursuit of answers, which can itself lead to other problems if left unchecked.
  But beneath that self-assured bravado is the heart of a hero. Though Sento is a scientist, his desire to create a better world in spite of the evils that thrive within it have pushed him further and further beyond his limits. He is a pacifist at heart and would rather defend than attack, but past experiences have led him to shoulder burdens upon himself so that others would not have to. Had he not encountered the reliable allies that pushed forward to fight with and by his side, though, it is likely that such an attitude would have ended with his eventual mental collapse.
  To those that are his allies, though, the mask of egotism softens into something more akin to self-assuredness and reliability like no other. While he does poke fun at those close to him and might not hesitate to mess with them for entertainment when the mood is right, Sento understands the weight of what it means to be a hero and is willing to put himself on the line to see things through to the end.
• Brief History: Kiryu Sento, otherwise known as Kamen Rider Build, uses the power of the Build Driver to fight for the sake of his world. In his timeline, Japan was split into three sections by the Pandora Wall, a byproduct of an incident involving the Pandora Box that turned the nation into three discrete entities, each vying for power in a divided land. Though his time as Build began with him fighting Smash—humans transformed into monsters by means of Nebula Gas—his journey has led him to fight enemy Kamen Riders, aliens, and even his own allies at times. All of this culminated in one final battle against the being that had caused all of this to begin with. Alongside his former enemies-turned-allies and a certain Banjou Ryuga, Sento emerged victorious, but at the cost of shifting into a worldline where the Pandora Wall—and, by extension, Sento himself—never existed, but with everyone he knew in his time now alive but bereft of memories of his original continuity.
  All save the Banjou of his own timeline, whose own unique circumstances caused him to end up in this new timeline as well with his own memories still intact. Though said timeline is far from perfect in it's own right, the two continue to live on, regardless of what difficulties they face in this new world—though now absent the horrors they have lived through. Mostly.
• Universe of Origin: Kamen Rider Build
• Equipment:
  
  • Build Driver: A device that mounts to Sento's waist that, when loaded with two Fullbottles (or one of the few dual-slot Fullbottles), allows him to transform into Kamen Rider Build. The Fullbottles are modular and can be swapped at will to allow him to access a multitude of sub-forms if necessary. If two bottles are a "Best Match", using them at the same time increases their effectiveness and abilities accordingly.
    While his suit is active, Sento gains increased strength, speed, and durability regardless of which Fullbottles he uses.
  • Fullbottles: Containers that hold within them the distillation of "elements" of items that exist on Earth. They can, as a whole, be discretely separated into two categories: "Biotic" and "Abiotic", and the Build Driver can only slot one of each at a time (ignoring specialized alternative Fullbottles). Sento can also 'activate' and use the bottles without the Build Driver to augment his own abilities, if temporarily. At this point in time, Sento only has the Rabbit and Tank Fullbottles on hand; the rest were left behind when he was dragged out of his original (new) world.
  • Drill Crusher: A combination drill/sword/gun that Sento can access more or less at will from the Build Driver. He can also use it while untransformed and, while somewhat unwieldy, can use the contents of a Fullbottle to affect it's capabilities.
• Abilities: The largest factor to Sento's success as Build (and otherwise) is his intellect and talent across multiple scientific disciplines. Utilizing that has allowed him to design and create various inventions, including the upgrades that he and his companions use as they unravel the mysteries that once plagued his world. On top of that, he has shown the ability to quickly and efficiently wrap his head around things that break those laws and repurpose those as he deems necessary.
  Furthermore, his role as Kamen Rider Build has also honed him as a fighter, both in hand-to-hand combat and with various pieces of weaponry that he utilizes in combat. Though never formally trained (in the traditional sense), the innumerable life-or-death situations he has gone through have pushed his capabilities well beyond those of an everyday human.
• Other: Taken post-series and all associated pieces of media.

I'm aiming to start the RP some time later today once I've finalized some starting plans (and barring any interference).

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

Understood. I think I'm just waiting on you and @TruthHurts to get stuff in order before I kick things off, at the very minimum.

Paths Unwound — A Crossover RP (Now Accepting)

@Cmmelody: Shino OK now. Accepted.