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Ji-Ho Kwan

Demon Lighter


Like Jackie, Ji-Ho was a new arrival in Death City; newly arrived and newly enrolled in the Demon-Weapon Meister Academy as a student. His acceptance came as a surprise to his parents, but not to himself; he always knew he would make it in, it was only a question of when and the answer to that question was now. All that was left was to find a partner or, more likely, convince everyone that he didn’t need a partner and then he would be on his way to becoming a Death Scythe.

He had gotten up bright and early that morning, eager and excited to start his first day on a high note, only to run into the same obstacle that every new student had to surmount before they could enter the school proper; stairs. The school towered over the rest of the city, perched atop a set of stairs that put some mountains to shame in that could only have been put there to be a test of their student’s determination and perseverance. Ji-Ho was trudging up those stairs now, sweating in the early morning Nevada sun as he pushed himself to make it to the top.

That he was having difficulty with the climb at all was something of an annoyance, especially when he could see several other students ahead of him making the same climb with no apparently difficulty at all. There was, however, at least one person struggling even more than he was.

There was a girl crawling up the steps of the school.

Ji-Ho stopped when he reached the girl, definitely not taking any opportunity for a quick rest as he watching the girl clawing at the next step up in an attempt at progress. “Hey, need a hand?”

@sassy1085

My character sheet is now finished.
Tobias White


The commotion on the far side of the lobby was enough to catch Tobias’ attention, especially when someone called out asking about a Magnemite. With a sigh the trainer turned his head to see where his own Pokémon was, even though he already knew that he wouldn’t find it anywhere nearby; of course his inquisitive Pokémon would wander off and cause a scene, agitating another trainer and getting him into trouble. It was the kind of behaviour he had come to expect from the Electric-type.

Standing from his seat Tobias began to move towards the source of the voice, already preparing an apology for whoever it was. There was no point trying to deny it, it was his own fault for letting the Magnemite out in a crowded room and the not keeping an eye on it; he knew what kind of incidents it could cause but he had foolishly thought that it wouldn’t be able to cause too much trouble without him noticing. Clearly he still had a lot of improvements to make as a trainer of he couldn’t even keep a handle on the one Pokémon he had. Battles at least were something he could figure out, but it would seem that he had underestimated the difficulty of everything that lay in between; raising Pokémon, managing troublesome behaviours and balancing interpersonal relationships once he started to build a full team would all prove challenging. He was beginning to truly respect those trainers who did this for a living.

He found his Magnemite at the centre of a growing crowd of people with a bat-like Pokémon perched on its head; beside the strange sight was an irritated looking young man around the same age as himself. Tobias stopped in front of the other trainer, looking down at the shorter teen due to the significant height difference between the two, and spent a second or two taking in his features and his expression before speaking. “Sorry, it’s mine. It has a habit of wandering off.” He turned to regard his Pokémon and its new friend, the Electric-type seemingly unconcerned with the Noibat perched on its head and instead trying to orient itself so that it could look straight up without dislodging his passenger. “I’ll return it to its Pokeball as soon your Pokémon moves.”

@Ambra@KiwiHalcyon@Psyker Landshark
@Habibi359 said he was going to wait for me and Th3King0fChaos to post before going again, but I think it's only Marcus and Joseph in the clinic scene; there aren't any other false Palebloods in the character list.

It should be Marcus's turn next.
I'll post a character this weekend, if the OOC isn't already up by then. I'm thinking of taking the <Type> Trainer bonus and making a Ghost-type specialist.
Joseph walked down dark, deserted streets. The only illumination came from above, where a full moon almost too large to be natural hung in the sky, and occasionally from below, where small and fitful lanterns stood outside the doors or below the windows of houses. The only sounds were that of his own breathing and footsteps, both too loud for his liking, and the infrequent howling of beasts in the distance.

He had ignored his brother’s advice, throwing open the door to their home and following him into the night instead of barricading it and lighting their meagre supply of incense; it was foolish, he knew it was, but then so was his brother leaving in the first place and at least if they were together they could protect each other. Except it had taken him too long to come to that decision. It had been maybe only a minute or more before Joseph had decided to follow but that was long enough for his brother to disappear into the maze of Yharnam’s streets and now they were both lost, stuck outside on the night of the hunt with no one to protect them. In his hand he held a knife, something grabbed from the kitchen just before he left, but against the terrors that were out in force tonight it would be less than worthless; rather than try to fight it would be better to slit his own throat before the beasts reached him.

A thick fog had descended around Joseph at some point and he found his vision limited to only a few feet in any direction, the mist deep enough that he could barely see the buildings on either side of him. With the fog came a damp cold that seeped through his clothing and into his skin and chilled him to the bone, making him want to shiver and chatter his teeth. He pushed forward, moving more quickly now with a renewed sense of urgency, and the sound of his footfalls seemed muted and further away somehow; a small part of his brain made him aware of the fact that he hadn’t heard a howl in a while and rather than finding that reassuring he felt afraid, like the beasts had gone quiet because they had found new prey and were on the hunt.

Another sound reached him and Joseph froze in place, not daring to move a muscle and even holding his breath as he listened carefully to the noise. It was rhythmic; a single sound repeating at regular intervals, like something was being struck repeatedly in a slow pattern. It was violent and visceral; whatever it was that was being struck was being struck forcefully and with destructive intent. It brought to mind images of someone being beaten as it had the same dull note to it like whatever was being hit was soft and absorbed the impact.

Joseph took a single step towards the sound and the fog parted before him, as if in response to his movement, forming a clear tunnel between him and the source of the noise. It was a person, kneeling down and hunched over something on the ground; in their hand they held something, a club or a length of wood, and as Joseph watched the figure raised the object above their head slowly before bringing it down with force, producing the dull thudding noise that he had been hearing. They repeated this action repetitively, ceaselessly, as Joseph stood and watched.

Another step brought him closer, followed by another, until he was close enough to see what was on the ground. What he had first thought was a sack of some kind revealed itself to be a person, a body, a corpse, beaten bloody and then beaten some more until it hardly resembled a person at all. And yet Joseph had no difficulty recognising who it was; the clothing was familiar and the face, what was left of, even more so. His father’s lifeless eyes stared back at him, jostling every time the body was struck but always stopping to meet his again, as it pleading for help. While the person beating him…

“Jonathan?”

Joseph’s brother stopped, halting mid swing, before slowly standing and turning to face him. Upon seeing his face Joseph wanted to turn and run but found himself unable to, fear rooting him to the spot as his legs locked and his knees began to shake. The thing that looked like his brother stared at him with eyes like a wild animal, heavy breaths fogging in the cold night air as his hand squeezed the bloody length of wood tightly.

As the thing suddenly charged him Joseph was only able to let out a single strangled scream before it was on him.

****

Joseph awoke with a cry, shooting upright in his cot as his heart beat rapidly and he fought to control his breathing. The nightmare lingered in his mid, still able to picture the dark, foggy streets and the beast wearing his brother’s skin charging towards him. It took him a moment to realise where he was, or rather where he wasn’t. Rather than his own bed he was sat on a cot of some kind and rather than awaking in his own room he had awoken in some kind of clinic, surrounded by dozens of other cots and the sounds of anguish, misery and death.

And Messengers; a few of the little creatures hung off of the edge of Joseph’s bed, their deformed faces staring at him as they reached out to him with thin fingers. Joseph pulled back from them, shying away from their touch, but couldn’t muster the energy to be truly scared of the strange beings. They weren’t as scary as what he had just awoken from after all. “What… what’s going on?”
Tobi Magnemite


As Tobias turned his attention back to the television the Magnemite took the opportunity to look around the lobby unhindered, drifting further and further away from its trainer as it let its curiosity carry it around the room. Its singular, cycloptic eye swivelled endlessly from one intriguing sight to the next, occasionally focusing in on something particularly interesting, before moving on; a bored looking trainer accompanied by a sword-like Pokémon it had never seen before, another trainer watching the television with a small blue canine next to her, a colourful girl with red hair and yellow eyes…

The Electric-type continued on in this way, hovering above the heads of trainers and Pokémon alike, until it reached a young man with a small Pokémon held in his lap; the scene caught the magnet Pokémon’s attention and it began to drift in that direction for a closer look. The man was wearing a yellow jacket and had sandy blonde hair while the Pokémon resting on his legs was shades of purple and black and had large ears; like the sword-Pokémon from before, it too was something Magnemite has never seen before.

The bat-like creature was eating something, a berry by the looks of it, and Magnemite flew even closer to get a better look and see what kind of berry it was. By now it was hovering direct behind the pair, staring over Arthur’s shoulder unblinkingly and its body close enough that the trainer might be able to feel the presence behind him. Even if he didn’t, he certain could feel it when the hard metal body bumped into the back of his head.

@Ambra
I'm interested in joining.
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