Lugubrious

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

@Caits I would be interested in learning about your perspective on the ideas of acceptance versus tolerance in regards to IC. You mentioned that one of your priorities, mostly as Jamie, was acceptance. I'm not sure you're using the right word, however, and if you are, I'm intrigued to learn more about how you'd apply the right word. Let's start this healthy discussion off with some definitions:

Acceptance: 1. the act of taking or receiving something offered.
2. favorable reception; approval; favor.
3. the act of assenting or believing:
4. the fact or state of being accepted or acceptable.

Tolerance: 1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own

In essence, acceptance is to approve of, and tolerance is to reasonably allow. This applies not just to physical characteristics, but to mental ones as well. A person with a wart on his nose is easy to accept, but a person who values knowledge above sentimentality? Not so easy. Jamie did not accept Nero and his behavior, ideas, or principles, but she tolerated him insofar as she allowed him to exist unbothered. When it came to the very different practices and beliefs of General-Master Sanders of Frenzy Plant, however, she pursued him, told him how wrong he was, insulted him and all his comrades, and went away. This sort of behavior (which has been previously described as self-righteousness) shows up with Gabriel as well, and to a lesser extent Michael. Is that either acceptance or tolerance? If either of these are a core principal of a character, then it must be applied to all. Wouldn't you agree that choosing individual things to accept or tolerate (moreso the latter than the former) is a fairly standard practice, characteristic of most people?



Anyone else who bothers reading this is free to comment.

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

I think I have an arc idea or two.

@hatakekuro

Neat.

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

Filia – Moon Over Bourbon Street, near Mahora

@Flamelord

Tailred's assertion received only a glum, uncertain look from Filia. If this girl believed she could legitimately do good for people, well, good for her. Somewhere, maybe, the classical idea of heroes lived on, with perfect standards of good and evil, good-looking and mighty heroes, and nefarious, irredeemable evildoers to be beaten down. In Filia's world, however, no heroes existed. Right and wrong were blurred, life for most was a fight to survive, and those with power seldom ascribed to heroic ideals. New Meridian took heroes, chewed them up, and turned them into the very antithesis of all they thought they stood for. Neither host nor parasite desired a fate like that.

Whether or not Tailred was delusional, Filia decided to attempt to enlighten her. “Maybe...you're not looking at this the right way. Back where I come from, there are these beings -the Skullgirls- that command incredible power. I saw one once: her name was Marie. She controlled life, shadow, and bones, able to raise the dead from all across history. Her power...unreal. Somehow, this Viewer seems worse. Don't you think he'd like to obliterate heroes for entertainment? I'm sorry, just...as far as I know, heroes can't exist in a world where evil is the supreme power.”

She jammed her hands in her pockets, still ill at ease. Samson, meanwhile, watched her back as always, though with more of a disinterested air than usual. Both faces, however, turned to curiosity when an announcement boomed through the district surrounding Mahora. Filia winced, and her parasite scoffed. ”Hah! Perfect ironic timing! Gonna go and help people, kid? Maybe bein' a hero ain't so bad. Don' worry about the Viewer jus' yet. Remember, you got you an' me.”

Filia put a knuckle to her lips thoughtfully. “Uh...maybe. If we work with these people and get on their good side, they won't attack us, right? Anyone calling themselves a hero can't do that. I'll...give it a try.” Her partner smirked and formed her hair into beetle wings, recycling the leftover into twintails like Tailred's, perhaps in an effort to associate herself with heroism. Otherwise, Tailred was forgotten as the duo flapped away toward the train station.

The trip was short, and the schoolgirl touched down on the train's roof with a clang. Samson spat out her hat and hid beneath it, trying to keep himself a secret from the Mahora bunch, and Filia climbed down manually to board the vehicle. Her hands shook with nervousness. Medieval times meant swords, axes, spears, knives, and more, all things great for cutting hair.

DIO – Positively 4th Street

@Luciansmentor@Invisible Man@GameguruGG

The seeking fingers, so tantalizing close to filling the veins of Forneus with a smotheringly frigid slurry, barely missed their target. Instead, a few locks of DIO's opponent's hairs were flash-frozen and fell down to fracture on the sweet pavement below. This did not perturb DIO whatsoever, even if it did seem to excite the abyssal lord somewhat. After all, if his very first attack resulted in his enemy's death, the whole event would have to be logged as momentously disappointing, not to mention boring. Of course, this didn't stop the vampire from noticing with a critical look that the Overlord failed to seize his opportunity and properly distract Forneus.

Overlord's evaluation would have to come later, for the abyssal lord began to craft his counterattack. DIO leaned away, scraping some dirt from beneath a fingernail in the epitome of boredom. Did all of Forneus's attacks take so long to set up? A single punch would be enough to splatter the ground with a far more diverse array of fluids than water—but then again, perhaps the localized maelstrom around the demon hosted some sort of special property. DIO compliantly chose to wait and see, watching as the magical attack formed, proved to be named something utterly ridiculous, and burst outward. Clicking his tongue, the vampire held his arms crossed in front of his face and barely moved as the spikes of water penetrated his pale skin, slinging blood and vampiric essence into the storm.

Ultimately, though, the spikes did not make much progress. Within DIO's arteries flowed an incredible cold, and upon breaching his blood vessels the water spikes froze solid. For a split second, the vampire resented a monstrous, icy hedgehog, but he wasted little time before he flexed, and the icicles popped out of him to shatter lifelessly on the ground. On the other side of Forneus, the Overlord appeared to be powering through the destructive spell's might to deliver a crushing mace attack, and an idea crept into DIO's mind. ”Your struggles are in vain! They are useless, useless, useless! Mu-DA!” As the Apocalyptor sank into Forneus's face, DIO twisted around and went low, aiming a ruthless, frigid elbow into the abyssal lord's spine. If the demon could survive a horrific blow to his skull and an equally devastating attack to his spinal cord, perhaps he did deserve some credit, after all. All the same, DIO imagined that he could not.

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

@Everyone in Phoenix Wing

I am working on the part two post for Jane's Reckoning. I am going to send a character your way if you aren't in the Stadium or, more importantly, involved in the Games. I will provide a name, general attitude, and magic. Please either mention me in an OOC post or PM me if you have a specific magic type you'd like to face. Keep in mind you will be controlling these characters for the duration of your fight, that I'd like to last until after I post part three or four, still deciding on how long Jane's Reckoning will be for sure, but these people are murderers and thieves. Anyways, letting you all know.

@Zarkun

Neat.

Character Crossover Crisis City (C4 Reboot)

That's assuming DIO's not attacking with greater or equal force from the opposite side, of course. Hmm...

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

@Caits Fleo? Also, Lunar posted his dark guild for your approval

@lunarlors34 Mentions don't work in edits.

Phoenix Wing (A Fairy Tail RP-Always Open, Open)

Pooooossssttttttsssss

@Caits

Sorry, it takes a little while to plan things when nobody acknowledges your character's existence.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Watch out, Luke can be a pretty nasty dude.

@HereComesTheSnow

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

@floodtalon as far as your contest entry goes I should mention that there is no "Japan" in Remnant.

@Prince of Seraphs

There's no 'Asia' either. How would you describe Cobalt's race outside of regional terms?

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Out of curiosity, how well balanced do our villain characters need to be? Is part of the challenge properly balancing both the weapon and semblance or can we take it too extremes?

@Write

No real limitations--if you think you need to take it to extremes to make it interesting. Remember the Joker, and how good a villain he is? He has no powers or great weapons, just some twisted tech and a seriously twisted personality.

Then again, Superman is the living embodiment of OP, and he makes a fairly good villain too.