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Current GM of World of Light. When it comes to writing, there's nothing I love more than imagination, engagement, and commitment. I'm always open to talk, suggestion, criticism, and collaboration. While I try to be as obliging, helpful, and courteous as possible, I have very little sympathy for ghosts, and anyone who'd like to string me along. Straightforwardness is all I ask for.

Looking for more personal details? I'm just some dude from the American south; software development is my job but games, writing, and trying to help others enjoy life are my passions. Been RPing for over a decade, starting waaaay back with humble beginnings on the Spore forum, so I know a thing or two, though I won't pretend to be an expert. If you're down for some fun, let's make something spectacular together.

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Submitted for your approval, @Holy Soldier:


@Lugubrious

I've updated the OOC post with all the currently approved locations, but I can't seem to locate any posts about Stillwater in either my PM history or the IC tab. I do however remember a passing memory of seeing a new location proposal with this name somewhere. Maybe you posted it in the OOC section? Can you please PM me a copy for final approval?


Certainly.
@Holy Soldier would you count N from Pokemon as a villain?

http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/N

He is first introduced in an antagonist role, but it is revealed later that he's been manipulated, and the way he acts befits a hero.
@Lugubrious @Zarkun Hmmm well... I still had plans for Cici. The fairies aren't giving up that easily. She's going to want to get out of Feyhollow, but that's not going to be as easy as it seems. I mean, she could convince Olivie everything's alright and you could go to Stillwater (my other chara's probably going to go there next, you'll have someone to talk to).

Do we timeskip to when everyone's been checked over, though?


Well, Tommy is going to want to stay with Cici, so it'll just be me moving on I expect. I'll handle myself in that case.
Hey there. It's been too long since I've been in a fun crossover RP, and this one looks particularly lively. I think I'd like to join.
EDIT: Sorry, I was using the text box at the bottom to store this while I opened an email to sent to my sister. Didn't mean to actually post it.


No worries. With that in mind, though, you might as well remove it.
@lugubrious just checking, but this is a new location right?

D: The opening post hasn't been updated with the link... @balthazar007


Yes, Stillwater is a new location of my creation.
@LuckyBlackCat @Zarkun since the two of us are behind on the current (now previous) IC day, I propose that our four collective characters rest and then travel to Stillwater over the course of most of the next (now current) day, placing us all at the new spot in the late afternoon of the day everyone else is on. I think that this would be important to restore momentum and ensure that we don't fall behind.
Indigo Afina – Frenzy Camp

@Lunarlors34


A little from experience and a little from intuition, Indigo felt as though something important was headed her way in the form of Ashlyn. The younger woman just seemed to have that air about her all of a sudden; what she said next, if the librarian's hunch turned out to be true, would be no joking matter. Accordingly, Indigo filled her face, framed as it was with locks of flax, with sagacity and approachability to let Ashlyn know that she would take what her heart was about to say lightly.

Ashlyn admitted almost immediately that her next words would be deeply significant to herself. After taking a split second to feel gratified for her prediction, Indigo put her little game aside to listen with sincerity. When her subordinate guessed that soldiers should not keep secrets from their superiors, she replied with a simple, slow nod of her head. Like a chronicler preparing her paper and pen, she prepared to commit to memory Ashlyn's tale.

Shadow Heart. Around Frenzy Plant, an organization proven to dedicate months of time and its entire manpower into specific campaigns to utterly annihilate evil from Fiore, dark guilds tended to tiptoe or to scuttle like bugs. The war guild could catch glimpses of their feelers, their tails, the flutter of their wings, and the foul droppings they left behind, but even to an army armed with spies and numerous contacts, a great many stones remained unturned. As such, many small guilds like Shadow Heart were little more than whispers in its metaphorical ears. To have a lead on one was valuable, but Indigo knew that Ashlyn was more than an advantage to be utilized, and so she listened in silence. Her azure eyes watched tears well up in Ashlyn's, and she saw the shaking of the muscles in the young woman's hands. Words flew together in her mind, moving around as if alive, weeding out ones that wouldn't help or that might give the wrong impression and leaving the choicest behind. Indigo let the silence linger in the air a few moments. Then she took a deep breath of her own and gave a slight smile.

”Miss, it may seem odd, but I do not consider myself a soldier. I never embraced that sort of lifestyle. I'm not as disciplined as Sanders, Zander, Hyun, or even Owen. I've never even completed basic training. I expect I'd be a laughingstock if I did!” A short titter punctuated the remark, but Indigo grew serious immediately after. ”I'm happiest in times of peace. I only like fighting for the grandeur of it, and for reward. If soldiership is about drills and technique, then I am powerful, but unskilled. That's why I don't consider myself a soldier.”

“Over the years, however, I've become very acquainted with soldiers, and with their lifestyle. It's become a mask I put on when my guild marches to war. In your time in Shadow Heart, I suspect you wore one as well. I also suspect you've killed people during that time. Some, maybe, you feel bad about. Some you don't. Let me tell you this, Ashlyn: what do you think soldiers do in war, like the soldier I become?”


She held up a hand, smiling even as melancholy filled her eyes. ”Ah, don't answer. The truth is that I've killed people, too. I regret some, but not all of them. In order to fight -for real- and survive it, you have to hate what you fight. So I've done some bad things. We all have. If we were to lay our records side by side, Miss Johnson, I wonder which of us has killed more people? Yet you feel the darkness nipping at your back, and I am surrounded in light. What's the difference between us, if the truth is that we're both robbers, destroyers, and killers?”

Leaning back, Indigo clasped her hands over her heart. ”It's ideals—what you believe, and what you want. If you believe in hate, cruelty, oppression, pain, theft, et cetera, then you are of the dark, and will be destroyed by the light if not by yourself. If you believe in goodness, justice, freedom, unity, duty, et cetera, then you are of the light.” Indigo reached forward to place her hands on the shoulders of Ashlyn Johnson. ”I may be hasty in saying this, for we have only just met, but then again I have heard the testimony of Thor and Harper. I believe that you are someone who has turned your back on the darkness and chosen to believe in the light again. Frenzy Plant is always growing stronger because the battle its members fight is within: to be the best of ourselves. That makes you one of us no matter your past, and if your past comes crawling, we will grind it beneath our heels together.”

Indigo stood, let go of Ashlyn, and stepped back. She hoped that her message had reached her young comrade in her time of need, and that in doing so she had made a true ally.
<Snipped quote by Prince of Seraphs>

So who's this, exactly? It's been bugging me for the whole year.


That would be the character that Prince's Sapphire replaced in the first iteration of HOB. I think that Prince only brought it over as a sort of memoir.
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