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Recollections: The Fourth Seal [Mystery/Urban-Fantasy/Horror RP]

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Araminta...?

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June surpressed a glare from sprouting on her face when the guy told her to be quiet, and instead a look of concern grew when he told her that the place was dangerous. She glanced at the setting sun that seemed to be moving unnaturally quickly, then looked back at him and nodded at him in a way that seemed to say "No shit." Nothing in particular had happened yet but she already knew the place was bad news. She was growing more and more uneasy by the minute and it was stressing her out beyond belief, but at least she'd finally run into another person, she supposed. He seemed a bit brash, but she still felt a little safer knowing she wasn't alone for the time being.

"Yeah...I saw that light too," she replied when the guy brought it up, "Ok, so it wasn't just me. I thought I was alone here this whole time, but it sounds like something brought us here...wherever here is. Look, I don't know how much you know but-"

It was at that moment that the street lights went out, interrupting her suddenly before just as quickly turning back on. Before June could question it, she heard what sounded like groans in the distance. Turning slowly to face where the noises were coming from, she soon saw the same mobs her new acquaintance had noticed as well, though they looked different to her just as they did to everyone else. However...

"W-What the hell are those things? Why do they look like me!?"

She took a few careful steps back as they approached. To her, she saw long stringy red hair that covered the creature's faces from view. Their arms ended in blunt cult-like hands that dragged across the ground as they shambled around. The scarce clothes they did wear looked tattered and torn, and scarily similar to her own wardrobe. The very sight of them caused her breath to catch in her throat, and she felt wobbly and weak.

This...this was just insane! They needed to get away! Now!

"Shit! Dude, ok, gonna need to know what's worse here!" June exclaimed as she shot him a terrified look, "These things? Or the shit you just ran away from?"

Recollections: The Fourth Seal [Mystery/Urban-Fantasy/Horror RP]

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Araminta...?

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"This...doesn't feel like another dream..."

June found herself standing at a crossroads intersection, near where the library she worked at was located. She had been wandering the empty streets of her town for a little while now, not having met another single soul the entire time. Where ever she was, it certainly looked like Araminta, but it didn't quite feel like Araminta. However, something about it didn't make it feel exactly like a dream either; she'd had weird dreams lately and none of them ever gave off the same vibes this place was currently giving. Something was just...off.

She too had woken up in this anomaly after witnessing the purple light, just like the others, though that was currently unbeknownst to her. Up until now, all she had done was wander, aimlessly at first but then wondered how accurate everything was to the Araminta she remembered, so she decided to check up on places she was familiar with. The library had been one, and now that she was there nothing seemed any more off than anywhere else. But she didn't want to enter the building, not on her own. The idea made her feel uneasy, and now that she was noticing that the sun seemed to be setting much faster than was naturally possible, she really felt like entering the building on her own was a stupid decision. A sense of dread hit her as she turned and began to walk a little more briskly in a different direction. She'd seen a chasm earlier, maybe she should follow along it and see if there was an end point...?

It was then that she finally saw movement, causing her heartbeat to speed up for a moment since she honestly didn't expect anyone else to be around as well. Relief quickly washed over her as she saw a humanoid figure running down the street; some guy, maybe around her own height or a bit taller, and wearing clothes that didn't really seem to fit him well. She had no clue what he could possibly be running from or where he had even come from, but she knew she needed to flag him down and see if he knew anything about what the hell was going on.

"Hey! Hey! Guy, wait a second! Over here!" She called out to him as she waved her arms to try to get his attention.

Recollections: The Fourth Seal [Mystery/Urban-Fantasy/Horror RP]

Oof, plot's moving fast. Sorry I haven't posted yet, I'll try to have it done in a few hours.

Recollections: The Fourth Seal [Mystery/Urban-Fantasy/Horror RP]

**June Decard**

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"Never met someone who scared me more than I scare myself."

[ 26 | 5’7” | French-American | She/Her | 126 ]

[Incomplete]

APPEARANCE

"Girl’s gotta look good, right?"

June's shoulder length auburn-red hair is usually one of the first things to catch people's attention about her, though if one looked closely at her roots they would be able to tell her natural hair color is black. Her dyed hair comes off as particularly striking compared to her pale skin and green eyes. She has a fairly trim build and toned legs due to her daily morning run, though it would be a stretch to call her athletic.

Her clothing style is pretty simple and casual, as she's usually seen sporting a pair of jeans along with a plain blouse, usually a different color per day though notably a creamy white. She'll sometimes wear a jacket as well, though it's pretty interchangeable with a vest. It all really depends on what she's feeling in the moment.

Her sigil tattoo is on her upper-middle back, a simple-looking interconnection of three swirls. She actually didn't know she had it for awhile until a guy she once hooked up with pointed it out. She has no idea how or when it showed up.

PSYCHOLOGY

"That dream seriously fucked me up."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ She wants to find the piece of herself that she believes is missing; she'd give anything to feel whole.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Life's short, so indulge in what makes you feel happy and fulfilled. She's also determined to a fault, she doesn't really know how to stay down and despises the very concept of giving up.

SECRETS ⫻ Nobody except her immediate family and her therapist know about the dream she had that felt like it went on for several years, and isn't quick to divulge that information to anyone. Additionally, her generally pleasant demeanor is a facade for a much colder, crass, angry, and frustrated persona, and she has no problem using people or dropping them from her life.

SEXUALITY ⫻ She doesn't even know anymore. Generally, she feels that she's straight, but she's felt attraction to women at times ever since that fateful dream. Yet she doesn't know if it's truly her own feelings or remnants from a false life.

FEARS ⫻ Dreaming. It's never happened again, but she's terrified of going through a years-long dream again and waking up to an entirely different life.

REPUTATION ⫻ A bit of a girl-next-door. She's nice enough, though she's gotten around enough for people to gossip about it, though those claims are far more exaggerated than what's actually happened. She goes to church at least, so most who disapprove of her sexual history for whatever reason are at least cordial with her to her face. Some who know her family personally or through work have questioned why she returned home from college early, only to take on a job at the library of all places. Those few may have a sense that something happened to her, though they have no idea what.

QUIRKS ⫻ She's always checking the time, as if she's got some place to be; it just helps her feel more grounded. She's also always doing something with her hands, feeling compelled to fidget or at least hold something, or else she begins to feel awkward and vulnerable. Often, she'll find herself gravitating towards people who she can tell are missing something as well.

FLAWS ⫻ She's generally detached from other people, both socially and emotionally. She can fake normalcy decently well, but a people person would be able to see through her. She's definitely got an anger streak as well, which can feel like it comes out of nowhere if one hasn't seen it happen before. Ultimately, her biggest flaw is her need to find (recreate?) what once made her feel whole, which has led to some questionable and impulsive decisions.

BACKSTORY

"Sometimes, I wonder...that 'other me'...does she know about me too?"

Born in Araminta, June had considered herself to be normal for the longest time, if not particularly unremarkable. She never thought low of herself by any means, but she really was just another person in a sea of people. Both her parents stuck around to be there for her despite divorcing when she was 15, which she saw coming due to the constant arguments they had but still felt her heart break when it happened. She also had an older brother, who often had her back just as much as she had his. She did well in high school, nothing amazing but it was more than enough to get into a college out of town. She studied world history as it interested her but she wasn't sure if it was something she would major in. She also had a boyfriend, but it didn't feel serious. She supposed she could say she was unsure of herself and what she was going to do with her life. Possibly even defined by her relationships to others.

But then one night she dreamed something unimaginable. She woke up the next day normally, but she believed she'd been asleep for several years. She lived a life entirely unfamiliar to her, yet it felt natural enough to be real. She had gone to school to be a nurse, and even graduated and found work at a hospital. Her romantic life was full of waves, yet constantly stimulated as she hooked up and broke up with boyfriends...and girlfriends too. She remembered the one person she fell for the most was a woman named Sheryl, and they'd eventually gotten back together in a serious relationship. She also remembered that she was not the same person she thought she always was. Her "dream" self had been...vicious, to put it lightly. She did whatever she wanted, within reason, and had what could only be described as a powerful aura.

When she finally woke up, nothing felt real. She couldn't tell if she was actually still dreaming, or if the dream she'd had was actually the "real" world all along. She had a mental breakdown, and ended up having to see a therapist for over a year to work through the trauma of what had happened to her. She ended up moving back to Araminta to be close to family as she coped, and took up a job at the library to help make ends meet. But as weeks and months went by, an uncomfortable truth began to make itself clear: she wasn't the same person from before. Whoever she'd been in that dream wouldn't completely disappear from her psyche, and parts of her old self felt lost. She felt mixed, yet unwhole. It didn't feel right.

The strange affairs occurring in Araminta weren't doing her mental health any favors either, especially as they became more blatant and outlandish. She didn't know what to make of any of it, as it was freaky as all hell, and considered just leaving town again. But of all things that made her decide to stay, it was running into the masked killer that she'd only heard of through hushed rumors. Though confronted, something snapped in her that activated her fight-or-flight response just in time to avoid getting hacked to pieces. She ran and ran, until eventually she was certain she'd lost the killer. It was something she was sure her old self would never had been able to do; she was certain her old self would had just died.

It was all so strange...but she just about done running by this point. Shit was going down, and she wanted some god damn answers.

SKILLS & TALENTS

" Surprised my dream translated into the real world so well. Kinda makes you think."

[History] ⫻ Though she never got her major, June is fairly knowledgeable about world history.

[Nurse] ⫻ As a part of her attempt to cope, she read up a lot on the courses required to become a nurse. What scares her is she isn't sure if the information she learned is actually new to her or not, as a lot of it somehow felt familiar and easy to pick up, comparable to riding a bike. Regardless of how well she can put the knowledge to practical use, she can at least apply first aid in a pinch.

[Coding] ⫻ She isn't a coder, at all, but she understands a lot of the basics and terms due to her "girlfriend" Sheryl being a coder herself in the dream. She remembers how excited Sheryl could get about it, and a lot of it stuck in her mind.

ABSTRACTION

"There’s something real fucked up going on here."

TYPE ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Dream Vision- The ability to see and manipulate the dreams of others.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ June’s ability to see into the dreams of others isn’t something she’s fully cognizant of, but it appears to be born from her own traumatic dream. By projecting her mind, she can experience a person’s dream as it’s happening and interact with it. This can allow her to communicate with someone without having to have access with baseline Extra-Normal telepathy. However, if she chooses to do so, she can also subtly influence others by imposing her own will and manipulating a person’s dreams, such as appearing to be all-powerful or causing a dream to seem much longer than it actually is. Additionally, she can even change herself through other people’s dreams, such as by gaining information or practicing a skill.

AURA SENSING ⫻ June can sense the auras of people who are asleep within 25 meters, though this aura type is faint. If she has ever visited someone in a dream, however, their aura is much stronger and can be sensed from twice as far.

LIMITS ⫻ June's abstraction has a limit of thirty-five meters and beyond that, she cannot affect anyone's dreams. Her abstraction has a limit of two people at a time, but fortunately, she can bypass the Extra-normal's innate resistance to each other. Once inside of someone's dream, she can only mess with them for a limit of thirty minutes of real-time, and those who are aware of her and have strong wills can force her out much faster.

WEAKNESSES ⫻ Because of the nature of the ability, it doesn't have too many weaknesses. However, June has one fatal weakness is that any damage or injuries she may incur while in a dream will transfer to her real body. Which means she can possibly be killed in a dream.

OTHER

" I just want to feel right..."

Recollections: The Fourth Seal [Mystery/Urban-Fantasy/Horror RP]

Finally finished. She's still mostly the same from last time but I had to edit a couple things and figure out a power that worked and could actually be useful. What I ultimately went with feels a little too obvious, but I couldn't think of much else that wasn't convoluted or messy. Let me know if anything needs to be changed.

**June Decard**

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"Never met someone who scared me more than I scare myself."

[ 26 | 5’7” | French-American | She/Her | 126 ]

[Incomplete]

APPEARANCE

"Girl’s gotta look good, right?"

June's shoulder length auburn-red hair is usually one of the first things to catch people's attention about her, though if one looked closely at her roots they would be able to tell her natural hair color is black. Her dyed hair comes off as particularly striking compared to her pale skin and green eyes. She has a fairly trim build and toned legs due to her daily morning run, though it would be a stretch to call her athletic.

Her clothing style is pretty simple and casual, as she's usually seen sporting a pair of jeans along with a plain blouse, usually a different color per day though notably a creamy white. She'll sometimes wear a jacket as well, though it's pretty interchangeable with a vest. It all really depends on what she's feeling in the moment.

PSYCHOLOGY

"That dream seriously fucked me up."

MAIN GOAL ⫻ She wants to find the piece of herself that she believes is missing; she'd give anything to feel whole.

PHILOSOPHY ⫻ Life's short, so indulge in what makes you feel happy and fulfilled. She's also determined to a fault, she doesn't really know how to stay down and despises the very concept of giving up.

SECRETS ⫻ Nobody except her immediate family and her therapist know about the dream she had that felt like it went on for several years, and isn't quick to divulge that information to anyone. Additionally, her generally pleasant demeanor is a facade for a much colder, crass, angry, and frustrated persona, and she has no problem using people or dropping them from her life.

SEXUALITY ⫻ She doesn't even know anymore. Generally, she feels that she's straight, but she's felt attraction to women at times ever since that fateful dream. Yet she doesn't know if it's truly her own feelings or remnants from a false life.

FEARS ⫻ Dreaming. It's never happened again, but she's terrified of going through a years-long dream again and waking up to an entirely different life.

REPUTATION ⫻ A bit of a girl-next-door. She's nice enough, though she's gotten around enough for people to gossip about it, though those claims are far more exaggerated than what's actually happened. She goes to church at least, so most who disapprove of her sexual history for whatever reason are at least cordial with her to her face. Some who know her family personally or through work have questioned why she returned home from college early, only to take on a job at the library of all places. Those few may have a sense that something happened to her, though they have no idea what.

QUIRKS ⫻ She's always checking the time, as if she's got some place to be; it just helps her feel more grounded. She's also always doing something with her hands, feeling compelled to fidget or at least hold something, or else she begins to feel awkward and vulnerable. Often, she'll find herself gravitating towards people who she can tell are missing something as well.

FLAWS ⫻ She's generally detached from other people, both socially and emotionally. She can fake normalcy decently well, but a people person would be able to see through her. She's definitely got an anger streak as well, which can feel like it comes out of nowhere if one hasn't seen it happen before. Ultimately, her biggest flaw is her need to find (recreate?) what once made her feel whole, which has led to some questionable and impulsive decisions.

BACKSTORY

"Sometimes, I wonder...that 'other me'...does she know about me too?"

Born in Araminta, June had considered herself to be normal for the longest time, if not particularly unremarkable. She never thought low of herself by any means, but she really was just another person in a sea of people. Both her parents stuck around to be there for her despite divorcing when she was 15, which she saw coming due to the constant arguments they had but still felt her heart break when it happened. She also had an older brother, who often had her back just as much as she had his. She did well in high school, nothing amazing but it was more than enough to get into a college out of town. She studied world history as it interested her but she wasn't sure if it was something she would major in. She also had a boyfriend, but it didn't feel serious. She supposed she could say she was unsure of herself and what she was going to do with her life. Possibly even defined by her relationships to others.

But then one night she dreamed something unimaginable. She woke up the next day normally, but she believed she'd been asleep for several years. She lived a life entirely unfamiliar to her, yet it felt natural enough to be real. She had gone to school to be a nurse, and even graduated and found work at a hospital. Her romantic life was full of waves, yet constantly stimulated as she hooked up and broke up with boyfriends...and girlfriends too. She remembered the one person she fell for the most was a woman named Sheryl, and they'd eventually gotten back together in a serious relationship. She also remembered that she was not the same person she thought she always was. Her "dream" self had been...vicious, to put it lightly. She did whatever she wanted, within reason, and had what could only be described as a powerful aura.

When she finally woke up, nothing felt real. She couldn't tell if she was actually still dreaming, or if the dream she'd had was actually the "real" world all along. She had a mental breakdown, and ended up having to see a therapist for over a year to work through the trauma of what had happened to her. She ended up moving back to Araminta to be close to family as she coped, and took up a job at the library to help make ends meet. But as weeks and months went by, an uncomfortable truth began to make itself clear: she wasn't the same person from before. Whoever she'd been in that dream wouldn't completely disappear from her psyche, and parts of her old self felt lost. She felt mixed, yet unwhole. It didn't feel right.

The strange affairs occurring in Araminta weren't doing her mental health any favors either, especially as they became more blatant and outlandish. She didn't know what to make of any of it, as it was freaky as all hell, and considered just leaving town again. But of all things that made her decide to stay, it was running into the masked killer that she'd only heard of through hushed rumors. Though confronted, something snapped in her that activated her fight-or-flight response just in time to avoid getting hacked to pieces. She ran and ran, until eventually she was certain she'd lost the killer. It was something she was sure her old self would never had been able to do; she was certain her old self would had just died.

It was all so strange...but she just about done running by this point. Shit was going down, and she wanted some god damn answers.

SKILLS & TALENTS

" Surprised my dream translated into the real world so well. Kinda makes you think."

[History] ⫻ Though she never got her major, June is fairly knowledgeable about world history.

[Nurse] ⫻ As a part of her attempt to cope, she read up a lot on the courses required to become a nurse. What scares her is she isn't sure if the information she learned is actually new to her or not, as a lot of it somehow felt familiar and easy to pick up, comparable to riding a bike. Regardless of how well she can put the knowledge to practical use, she can at least apply first aid in a pinch.

[Coding] ⫻ She isn't a coder, at all, but she understands a lot of the basics and terms due to her "girlfriend" Sheryl being a coder herself in the dream. She remembers how excited Sheryl could get about it, and a lot of it stuck in her mind.

ABSTRACTION

"There’s something real fucked up going on here."

TYPE ⫻ Awakened

ABSTRACTION ⫻ Dream Vision- The ability to see and manipulate the dreams of others.

ABSTRACTION DESCRIPTION ⫻ June’s ability to see into the dreams of others isn’t something she’s fully cognizant of, but it appears to be born from her own traumatic dream. By projecting her mind, she can experience a person’s dream as it’s happening and interact with it. This can allow her to communicate with someone without having to have access with baseline Extra-Normal telepathy. However, if she chooses to do so, she can also subtly influence others by imposing her own will and manipulating a person’s dreams, such as appearing to be all-powerful or causing a dream to seem much longer than it actually is. Additionally, she can even change herself through other people’s dreams, such as by gaining information or practicing a skill.

AURA SENSING ⫻ June can sense the auras of people who are asleep within 25 meters, though this aura type is faint. If she has ever visited someone in a dream, however, their aura is much stronger and can be sensed from twice as far.

LIMITS ⫻ (DO NOT FILL THIS OUT, I WILL PROVIDE IT FOR YOU)

WEAKNESSES ⫻ (DO NOT FILL THIS OUT, I WILL PROVIDE IT FOR YOU)

OTHER

" I just want to feel right..."

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So I had a question: What age group did you all want the characters? Young, older, or any?

Either way the story still works.

@Ghost Note

I'm fine with either, but might make a character for both age ranges if that's the route we go. I did like the character diversity from last time though.

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I'm down to try again.

Persona: The darkest light

Sorry I haven't said much of anything, I'm still interested but I've been dealing with some irl stuff. I'm gonna try to have my character posted within the next day or so.

The Curse of Sonina

ADRIK KAMENEV

_{Location: Outside the Break Room
Time: Morning
Mentions: @Liv
Interactions:Elena Kozlov; Open}

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Adrik nodded when Elena told him that referring to her by her first name was fine, and chuckled lightly when she joked about their workloads. Right, that was one thing that he was still getting used to. Not to say he hadn't had long nights before with other jobs, but teaching was turning out to be a whole other monster entirely. But it did keep him busy, and the more preoccupied he was with work, the less time his mind had to wander and focus on other things. Things he just didn't want to think about anymore.

"Hm?" Adrik hummed when Elena, surprisingly enough, asked for his opinion on a book. All things considered, they didn't really know each other too well beyond being fellow teachers at the university, and he didn't socialize all that much to begin with. But he also had no problem giving a recommendation if someone wanted one, so he nodded once more at her. Though it seemed she had trouble remembering the full title.

"No worries, it's understandable considering our workloads," he assured her, raising his coffee mug in solidarity before taking a sip. He once again grimaced, he had no idea why he kept trying to drink something he clearly wasn't enjoying.

"It's gone cold," he explained as he shook his head, in case she thought he'd made the face at her. But it didn't seem like she'd noticed anyway, as she was staring intently at her phone. He knew she'd taken it out look up the book, but something seemed...wrong. He only barely caught the startled expression on her face before she suddenly turned around to look behind her.

"Huh? Is something wrong?" Adrik asked curiously, looking past her but seeing nothing out of the ordinary. He looked back at her, but she seemed thoroughly off-put by something, and in a whisper he could barely make out it seemed she'd decided against looking up the book at all now and looked ready to leave. For a moment or so, he wondered if maybe he'd said or come across a certain way that pushed her away, and was prepared to apologize.

"I'm sorry if I- Elena?" He cut himself off partway through when she suddenly leaned against a nearby wall for support. He approached her quickly, unsure if he should take the initiative to help support her, but figured as long as he was close enough she could lean on him or hold onto his shoulder if she decided to. "You really are exhausted...do you need help? I can get you some water, the break room's right here. Come on, you should sit for a moment, catch your breath."

As he offered her a hand, he caught her expression again, and something about what she'd said clicked.

"I'm sorry, I--I don't know what happened just now."

She wasn't just confused, it was bewilderment towards something that was unnerving her. Something he knew all too well, as of recently.

"...You saw something."

It wasn't a question. It was a statement without a hint of doubt in it.

Persona: The darkest light

I've got an idea for a character representing the Hanged Man arcana.