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@ineffable It's okay. Let's see if I can explain it a bit better.

From the first post of the OOC: Spirit awareness allows someone to have a high intuition as to the presence of spirits. Spirit strength allows someone to channel their energy into a force, and it does not matter if someone is physically strong. And spirit adaptation allows someone to morph and use their energy for unique purposes like barriers or physical weapons.

Your character is said to have a weakness in spirituality. By definition of this RP's premise, he can't be weak in all three areas of spirituality. He needs to have proficiency in at least one, if not two areas as explained above (strength, adaptation, intuition).

For example: Your character's physical strength could be used along with spiritual strength. He could use his combat along with spiritual energy to be stronger than most others. If you've seen Naruto it's a little like channeling chakra to one's limb to give an additional boost. But again your character can't go around using normal human combat based strength without applying using spiritual energy too. A normal punch would do nothing to a demon.

Another example: Your character's physical talent could be set aside for another combat skill altogether. Does he have to use his taekwondo? No, it could be just a hobby if say he was more into spiritual intuition or adaptation. Perhaps in a twist, he has no spiritual strength at all, unable to really do anything like he would assume he could normally. Instead he has good adaptation and can be some sort of healer. Or maybe he can create spiderwebs that trap and hinder enemies due to a level of adaption and intuition?

Does that make sense? If you want your guy to be into using his taekwondo, that's fine, just be sure he's got some spiritual strength behind it. Otherwise I do encourage you (and everyone else!) to be creative with applying spirit energy,

@Kassarock Thanks! That helped. :)

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Canon wise, the events of the series as whole have recently concluded. That said, the canon events don't really have an influence on this plot or region of Japan. The only canon roles that may be seen or mentioned for now are Botan, Genkai and Lord Koenma, as there's no current plans to involve anyone else (canon wise). There are plans for an eventual tourmaline of sorts but whether that is something based on canon or not, has yet to be decided.

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For instance with my character: "Era, despite her eye for great landscapes, has a low level of spiritual awareness. Instead, she has good spiritual adaptation and strength which she will use to create long spirit claws from her fists, much like the Marvel character Wolverine." The last line directly explains how she'll be fighting, she'll be using spirit energy to create Wolverine-like solid claws for close combat.

Your character claims to have a weakness in spirituality but in what regard? Awareness? Strength? Adaptation? Is he just going to do Taekwondo with additional spiritual energy? He needs to have some kind of relationship with spirits and the energy, be it strength or something else entirely. I just want you to be clear in your CS instead of leaving the application a bit vague. :)

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@BurningDaisies I hope not! That would be pretty depressing...

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@Natsu Thanks for the edits.

@ineffable Still need to know how he plans to fight demons. Gotta give me more on his spiritual side and how fighting may or may not help him. :)

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Bump.

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Working on a post today, I hope to have it up in a few hours, gotta call the doctor too and get some more answers, I'm getting real fed up with these coughing fits.

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@Themerlinhawk Thanks! I think the worst is just acting this sick and trying to assure people that it's probably not contagious. XD

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A few of you are neglecting telling us what combat skills your character will be bringing to the table. This is very important because we need to know the power/skills of those we accept. Please make sure you be creative but that you don't leave the important details out when it comes to the final two sections of the CS! :)

Now some feedback, however we probably won't pick our two players until Monday evening so feel free to tweak your submissions leading up to that point. If you haven't submitted, you have a few more days left.

@ineffable When you list "martial arts" under hobbies, does that mean he studies in concept or actually practices them? I think there is a difference in say reading books as opposed to physical training. And if he does train, I don't think I could accept "all of them" as being a suitable singular hobby. I would want just one style of martial arts to be focused on since that seems better balanced but also more realistic.

With his personality "cunning" and "sly" are too similar in my mind. Could you change one of those to something else?

For Ambitions, does he wish to stay in town or move on?

And for Uncertainties, are you implying he'd use physical strength along with spiritual? I need to know where his strength lies in terms of his spiritual side and how he might fight demons. So you need to add that information too.

@Emuxe As @SoleAccord pointed out, you need to add some details to Uncertainties. And I would like to be assured that her sort of bratty attitude (at least I think you're going for that) isn't going to make her irredeemable and unable to cope in a group. She isn't a lone wolf but I fear she may be tough to work with and if that's the case it may be tough for her to prove herself a good enough person to warrant a second chance, unless you're hoping to give her some sort of introspective growth during the first two small arcs leading up to the group coming back to life?

@Kassarock Looks good except for his spiritual strength and awareness and how that would be used. How do you see him being in terms of combat or in an investigative situation? What skill will he hone? Maybe something to do with fishing or his rod or what?

@Natsu Sorry I didn't get back to your PM but like the others, I would like you to stick to concise short answers for Personality and Hobbies, mostly it's to see if you can edit yourself but also if you can follow directions. I don't need to know the guy's life story before we even start, that's just doing extra unnecessary work. XD So I highly encourage you to retool your CS in Personality and Hobbies but to also give more info about what you mean when you say he'll augment his spirit energy. Do you mean like floating projectiles? How big can they get? Do they compare to say throwing stars or playing cards or just orbs?

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@Themerlinhawk Thanks. I did not get much sleep last night, it felt like someone took a hot iron to my throat and I'm trying to get a follow-up with my doctor because I'm slowly starting to go insane to be honest. I'm not sure if this is just a horrid bout of asthma or if there's more to it but whenever I exhale or even inhale, my throat gets pretty unhappy and I start hacking up crud. After some reading, it seems a good portion of the US feels this way and I find that pretty hard to fathom. The paranoid part of me thinks I may have some parasite or fungus but you'd thunk the blood tests would have shown that...I will try to get something up though! This is my first item on my ever growing to-do list.

I hope you're doing well, I know it's tough to balance an online life with the offline side of things. :/ I'd say like most things, some days will go better than others but the best thing is to keep trying!