Letter Bee

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Yes, I'm being an emo git. Sorry about that, and sorry for giving Lucas such a disappointing debut.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

((Collab Post between ajm8888 and Letter Bee.))

Lucas Abd-al-Yasu walked towards Aiko's room; he wasn't the instructor, but he had some questions to ask her, questions about the past and future. For, you see, Lucas, normally an idealistic soul, had broken down, and the reason for said breakdown was that things did not go his way. Why had things not gone his way? Well, basically, he got passed up for promotion to an adminsitrative position, even though he was so much better, or at least, his vision for what the world should be was.

Don't be like that, he chastised himself. That way lies hubris.

It's my emotional comfort in an uncomfortable world, his own insecurities replied, without my ideals, I am nothing.

Those were his thoughts as he knocked on Aiko's door.

"Yes?" asked the accented English of Aiko from behind the door.

"It's not your instructor, but I did come here to ask you something," Lucas then remembered to introduce himself. "My name is Lucas Abd-al-Yasu, and I need someone with your powers."

"What is it?" asked Aiko cautiously.

"Because I doubt my head's policies, and I need the help of someone who can see possible futures to see if those doubts have any meat to them," Lucas was now opening himself up. "Because I have this flaw, that I'm rigid and inflexible, while I think Auntie Sable's policies are just too...cynical and..." he looked around him, "weak. Basically, what I'm saying is: I want to know, am I being a baby, or should I oppose my head's polciies?"

"Doing that is difficult it requires energy and a lot of effort. Also I cannot control where it goes. It could be a possiblity and not the real future. So you could be preparing for something that never comes." Aiko replied through the door.

"Then show me a future where I lose," said Lucas. "Show me a future where I lose, so that I never have the pride to air such views again."

Aiko came out of her room. "Alright I will look but don't do nothing ...creepy." Aiko told Lucas.

"I won't," Lucas promised, "sorry if I gave that impression."

"You want to know the future, the bad future, so yes I think you are creepy. I mean are you really that desperate to humble yourself? Just use your own imagination." Aiko told Lucas.

"Well, this is fruitless," said Lucas.

"Yes it is because I already saw a bad future. A future where the reformists loose and the government rounds up the metas. They have killed all of them. You were shot in the bathroom at an Applebees while hiding. So it is a version of Days of Futures Past."

"I don't believe that," said Lucas, "I believe, for some reasom, that the Underground Movement will win. Sorry to be my own variety of Debbie Downer, but in my travels around the world, putting our brushfires, I've long since given up hope that my ideals, of Meta and Human coexistence, can ever be put in place. Humans and Metas have so much to gain by cooperating, but the desire to control is Sapient Nature, and I myself have it. Should I join the battle brewing at the Human Centre, I'll lose, and there will be nothing." A flash of anger appeared in Lucas' eyes, and he spoke:

"Why am I so inadequate? Why am I such a loser? I killed the 'Caliph' of IS, but when I think of fighting that 'Edge' guy, a chilling certainty tells me that (Edit: he's too strong for me.)"

"But, at the same time, I cannot kill myself, I cannot die, I want to continue on, I want to win. It's just that, I can't win, the future is already set; Edge will win, and we are all doomed."

"You think the outcome of a winning over Edge will result in an age of peace? Peace does not exsist without work. But killing Edge will just have another enemy replace him. You think I think this world is easy? Terrorsim I could stop? Possible horrible leaders. See my problem is I can't tell the difference between the true future and a possiblity. No amount of training will make the true future visible to me. The reason is I cannot see the true future until it becomes the present. I have stopped trying to see the future at least intetionally."

Aiko sighed.

"All I want is to go home and to be with my Aunt and Uncle. I's like to help but I can't tell what will be a win for you. Last time I listened to my insticts I ended up leaving the island and coming to LA. But I could try." Aiko rubbed her eyes.

"Please, do," said Lucas.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Eden is removed, by the way.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Name: Lucas Abd-al-Yasu (Lucas, Servant of Jesus, the Anti-Eli)
Alias(s): Retribution
Age: 26.
Affiliations: Heroes
Factions: Reformists
Description: A brown-skinned man with perfectly combed, short black hair and green eyes, Lucas is a tall, atheletic, handsome man with a lean, scuplted physique who prefers to wear a flak jacket over a shirt and tan jeans, completed by a brown longcoat. For footwear, he chooses sturdy desert boots.

Powers: Lucas can produce and control water and to a limited extent, ice. He can create whips, high-pressure water jets, ice ramps, bolts of ice, and, well, basically anything that requires water and ice to make. His weakness is that he is severely vulnerable to electricity when using water and, when using ice, fire. He also cannot control water already inside a living being, so no plantbending or bloodbending (unless the blood is outside the body).

Flaws that aren't directly connected to his power, yet affect it, are Lucas' runaway idealism, which, when combined with impatience, leads him to regard struggle and effort as unecessary, which in turn leads him to break down when things don't go his way.

Skills: History, Literature, Strategy and Tactics, Unarmed Combat, Firearms, Swordsmanship and Knives.

Equipment: Several types of Gun, Ammo, a Scimtar and a Kalis*, as well as Grenades, a First Aid Kit, and Pills that help Concentration.

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalis

Ranking: A

(Optional) Brief History: Born in Jordan as the son of a Chirstian Arab Lieutenant Colonel (Muqaddam) and a Filipino Domestic Worker, Lucas was a an immensely intelligent and skilled youth with Dual Citizenship, which allowed him entrance into Jordan's circles of privilege, while at the same time keeping him grounded by interaction with his poorer Filipino relatives. A good fighter and already a soldier in Jordan's Armed Forces, Lucas was (edit: 18) at the time of the Maybark Incident, when Metahumans came to the Public's Attention. Originally hiding his powers from people, he chose to go public when ISIS began overruning Syria and Iraq, which in turn was the same time Metas began being more accepted.

In 2015, Lucas (Edit: and several other Metas were) sent by the UN to relieve the city of Ramadi, then under siege by IS forces. He suceeded, and thereafter underwent further missions in Mosul, Tayl Abd, and Raqqa itself, where he killed the 'Caliph' of IS, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. After that, well, he's been wandering around, putting out brushfires all around the world.

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Damnit, I hate being an inflexible idealist; I intellectually know it's wrong, but emotionally, I don't.

Alternate Middle Ages RP - Suspended

@Vilageidiotx, Added you on Steam!

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

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The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

Show me some one that's gonna give up there meta power@Letter Bee

@AcerRo

Point taken. But even though Eden's powers are useless, said powers fulfill several RPing needs:

1.) They establish Eden as a strategic, tactical character whose modus operandi relies on subtlety and striking from the shadows, instead of being a frontal character.

2.) They are an ideological challenge to Edge and the Underground Movement; someone who muddies the waters for them by blurring the line between Human and Meta.

3.) They allow me a set of contacts and NPCs that, though powerful, are openly flawed because they either lack powers or mundane talents.

But the most important to me is Number 2.

Alternate Middle Ages RP - Suspended

The Byzantine Republic - An Alternate Middle Ages RP

Inspired (but not plaigairzed) from this thread.

After the Rise of Islam and the many disasters that befell the Basilea ton Rhomanion (Byzantine Empire, though more accurately translated as 'Roman Empire'), the nation was reduced to Constantinople and most of Anatolia, which in turn was in danger of being lost due to the misrule of many reigning Emperors, many of whom embraced the creed of Iconoclasm, which forbade the veneration of Icons. As the populace questioned the official Imperial Ideologies, many of the elite aristocrats began reexamining the history of classical times, finding out that most of the expansion of the Empire in the past was as a Republic (not quite true, it's an exaggeration, perhaps even a lie, but one easily believed), and that most of its losses came as an Empire (also an easily belived lie).

Not merely that, but the Iconoclast Emperors, despite their undoubted military successes, were increasingly alienated from the common people, relying mostly on an army that was loyal to them...up to a point. Finally, however, the controversy reached a head when the Iconoclasts convened a fradulent Ecunemical Council, then, when said council showed signs of independence, moved to threaten it by force.

The revolution was swift and bloody, with riots in the streets, soldiers finally finding their loyalty pushed to the limits, and the Church siding with the rebels. News of the sack of Amorium, a key Imperial City, by the Arabs, also helped turn public opinion against the Emperor (who, no, isn't Theophilos, but an analogue). And, when the dust finally settled, one general, known as Thomas the Liberator, was supreme...but, after driving back the Arabs, cast aside all claim to the Imperial Throne and, with the agreement of the local, urban elites, the clergy, and the remaining higher-ups within the Military, proclaimed a Republic (yes, this is implausible, but the point is fun, not plausibility). This was due to the fact that Thomas had not been raised in the countryside, but was rather part of the urban elites that wanted a return to the days of Democracy.

That was in 842. The present day is two centuries later, and the Politeia tōn Rhōmaiōn, despite fractious, corrupt politics, has shifted the focus of the Empire from blind aderhence to ideologies of the past, and into a maritime, commercial direction much like Original Timeline's Venice, which in said Original Timeline, was able to present a powerful opponent to the Basilea despite just being a city, due to its focus on trade helped by its republicanism.

Now is the year 1042, and the trade-oriented direction of the Empire, acting in synergery with its superior Theme System, has resulted in a golden age where few enemies are to be found, the nations of the West look to it as a threat to their values, as well as the beating heart of Christendom, and all yet seems well.

However, the Kingdoms of the Middle East are falling to a new force, the Turks. Masters of the Steppe and Horse Archery, these people seek control of the centres of Islam, their new faith. Though still but a distant rumor, these nomads are crushing all in their way through horsemanship and archery, and inevitably, the Byzantine Republic is in great danger...

Rules:

1.) No Godmoding or Powergaming.
2.) No acting like you have unlimited troops..
3.) Timeskips of less than a week are permitted, but more than a week must be cleared with the other players.
4.) The minimum of each post is two paragraphs of three full lines each.
5.) I cannot always read your NRP Posts, so make sure to put a TL;DR summarizing your actions at the end of your turns.

Nation Sheet:

Nation:
Location:
Total Military Numbers (Keep it Reasonable!):
Icon:
History:

Character Sheet (Yes, Characters can be played separately from nations):

Name:
Appearance:
Bio:
Age:
Skills:
Personality:
Faction (if any):

The Gifted: A Fast Paced Superpower RP (Relaunch)

<Snipped quote by AcerRo>

Eden can mix and match PCs' skills, and if a PC gives up most of his mundane skills, said PC can have two powers.

Also, I can age him up to sixteen; Jackson's age.

@Letter Bee

Repost for @AcerRo.