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Kingdom Hearts: A New Kingdom

Looking around, Kalak saw the others arrive. "Look, i've been a few other things in my time" he said. "I've been a Monster, a Mer-person, an Ape... It's just..." He looked down at his paws. "First time without thumbs..." He said. He then looked over at Hido as Saki seemed to take charge. "Yeah... What she said..." He sniffed the air a little. "I smell... Dog..." He stared at Hido. The dark sky let a bolt of lightning rip through it. "First things first, probably better find cover." He shook his furry head. They then heard a strange sound, a rhythmic popping sound, intermittent with a few bangs. He then saw smoke billowing into the air down the road. "Probably better get out of the road..." He said, before seeing it arrive.

A large, 3 wheeled monstrosity, tearing down the road. It looked like a motorbike that the handlebars had been replaced with a monster. another monster was in the drivers saddle, with a side-car holding what looked like a basket. It was plastered with the Symbol of something that wasn't quite the Heartless.

"OH, Oko taught me about these guys. They're called... Unrehearsed!" He said. "They aren't Heartless, but they kill people all the same... Also, we should probably kill it because they attract Heartless." He flipped the Halberd around his neck as he grabbed it in the middle with his teeth to ready to weild. it. "GEH IHH GUYS!!!" He yelled as it roared past, he jumped and slashed at the creature's front, the motorcycle creature put up its arms to block the Halberds head, grabbing Kalak by the scruff, he instinctively curled his fluffy legs up under him as it carried him, it not slowing down from the attack. "I'h reeeyee sorry..." He groaned through the weapon in his teeth.

Teen Titans South

@RumikoOhara Oh, ok. If you did post those rules i can't find them anywhere else in this thread. But if you are adamant no Lanterns, i'll respect that and withdraw.

That being said, the only "Always-evil" Lanterns are the Blacks (But that's only because the only people who can become the leader of the Black Lanterns are evil people and the leader of the Black Lanterns has 100% control over the rest of the corps) Emotions aren't inherently evil, simply those who wield their emotions can do so in good and evil ways. Hense why Sinestro was able to retain his Green Lantern status, even after turning evil, because he was harnessing his will for evil purposes. The Indigo's are all about compassion and yet they will happily murder people if they think that they are suffering. Star Sapphires are a very mixed bag because half of them harness their love for good purposes, but there are those in the Star Sapphires who harness their love for downright sadistic reasons. Hell, Carol Ferris can't seem to make up her mind as to which side she's on.

On the flipside, you have characters like Arkillo, who is a Yellow Lantern who started evil, but was eventually shown the light by Guy Gardiner, they actually became the closest of friends and after Guy was taken over by the Darkstars, it was Arkillo that managed to bring him back to his senses. Arkillo remained a Yellow Lantern, because his strongest ability was his ability to instill fear, but he is a good person now. Dex-Starr is a common house cat that became a Red Lantern because his owner was murdered and then said murderer tied him up in a burlap sack and threw him off the Brooklyn Bridge. Dex's anger flows from his hatred of murderers and other people who are only out there to make the world worse. Dex is a good kitty. Hell, even Larfleez has managed to have a few good streaks in the light.

Sorry for that rant. The Lanterns are some of my favourite idea's for Heroes in comics and i get a little autistic when people generalize them. Anyway, with this amount of players, i think i'll give this one a miss and wish you all the best.

Teen Titans South

@Dnafein 1) I don't see how "Coming up with a machiavellian scheme to conquer the universe and ultimately letting his opponent live in order to feed his omnipotent arrogance" is somehow "Out of character" for Sinestro. I mean, i thought that was pretty much his main character motivation. "I want to rule the universe because everyone else has proven that they are incapable. Only i am strong enough, wise enough and have the will to bring the entire universe under a single banner" And anyone that says "Sinestro can't feel fear" clearly doesn't understand the character. Sinestro feels fear because he is the Champion of Fear. To become the champion of a colour, you have to be able to feel your emotion, allow it to flow through you, but for you to be in ultimate control of it and be able to instill it in others with the greatest of ease. That's why Hal is the Champion of Green, Attrocitus is the Champion of Red, etc. What does he fear the most? Anything he can't control. Death, for example. Arin died and he was powerless to stop it.
2) Again, because Sinestro had abandoned his Yellow ring in favour of White. The Red ring had its user, the Yellow didn't. Sinestro isn't cold and unfeeling. He cares about people. Hell, the reason that he's the villain that he is is because he loved Arin far too much that her death completely broke him. Again, he had to act caring towards Martin in order to foster that trust and, as proven with Hal, all the best lies have the truth sprinkled in there somewhere. Despite being a crazed despot, Sinestro has proven that he still does care for Halas a partner, as he cared for Arin and Abin. His only real regret is that Hal won't join him. And again, the reason he didn't kill Martin is because of Sinestro's single greatest weakness that defeats him on every single occasion.

Sinesto is the single most arrogant being in the universe. If he killed Martin as he stood there powerless then he'd have to admit that he feared him even a little. That isn't something he was willing to do.

Teen Titans South

@Sonnenschein I don't get this argument. "If you question your GM, that means that you don't respect them!" Surely questioning your GM is showing them respect. "I respect you enough to disagree with you and tell you why i disagree with you, because i think you are a reasonable person who can reasoned with."

It's not like i've been told no multiple times and continue to beat a dead horse. I was told "No, i don't want Lanterns" and i have given a good reason why i feel Lanterns aren't as detrimental to the RP as they believe. If/when Rumiko weighs that argument and still says no, then i'll drop it.

Teen Titans South

@Dnafein Ok, so what happened was this:

*Sinestro is Yellow Lantern and stole 1 of each of the other Lantern Rings and took them to Earth.
*Sinestro released them on Earth with a special little modification that both masked them from other Lanterns as well as bound them to Earth, so they had to find a host on the planet.
*Martin was the first one found and he was found by the Green ring.
*Sinestro tricked Martin and the others that the rings chose into believing that they were 1 big team that weilded the 7 magic rings of power, with him as the leader. They tracked down all of the members and grew closer to each other as they did so.
*After the others were found, he tricked Mongol into attacking Earth in order to claim the Rings for himself to make him into a Lantern god of sorts. This set up a situation where the other Lanterns were forced to combine their powers and, with all ring colour weilders in agreement, they summoned the White Lantern ring and gave it to Sinestro.
*Having everything he needed, he dropped all pretenses, easily defeated Mongol, told them "By the way, i fucking hate every single one of you and thanks for the White Ring, taking War-World and going to conquer the universe now, since no-one can stop me."
*Martin attacked him, but having lost all sense of reason at this betrayal, the Green ring sensed that he was no longer fighting on will-power and abandoned him.
*Sinestro found that Martins will to fight him, even after the Green ring abandoned him, caused him for the briefest of nanoseconds the ever so slightest twinge of fear that "Good thing the Green Ring abandoned him or he might have actually killed me with that kind of willpower." It took the Yellow ring a little time, but after a few days, it picked up on that and bound itself to the one that made its former master feel fear.
*He is now looking for purpose, something to do with this power.

Sinestro has always feared what he can't control. That's why he took Arin Sur's death so badly, that's why Paralax was drawn to him and why he became the champion for yellow. He saw in Martin a great power that he couldn't control, but he let Martin live, because he was determined to prove that he had overcome that fear. Plus, they had developed a sort of "Student-teacher bond" that Sinestro didn't want to admit to, but also didn't let stand in his way. Sinestro won. That's not a great departure from his personality. This is Martin dealing with having his ass thoroughly handed to him by Sinestro.

Teen Titans South

@Sonnenschein I'm not saying that i won't abide by the GM's decision, but i do feel compelled to make a decent argument for my case and if that still doesn't work, then yes, i will happily leave you all to it.

@Sanity43217 And again, I hate it whenever anybody says something like that in here. I've been playing on sites like this for 12 years and if that has taught me anything, it's that there is one simple rule of power in every Freeform RP like this:

"Limiting the powers of your characters doesn't limit the amount of overpowered characters. Because there are no overpowered characters, just people who play their characters as overpowered."

An overpowered character is one that won't be defeated by any means and that really comes down to how a player plays their character. Again, you simply have those that follow the simple rule of narrative and those who don't. If you follow the rule of narrative, then you can play any character in any situation, because you will know to go down when you need to in order for your and other peoples stories to work. If you can't, then you are not going to go down, regardless of what power you have, because you'll find literally any way to BS your way out of danger, because "My character isn't a loser who loses, he's a winner who wins every single time without fail" and that's when it all breaks down. Trust me, i've had to kick enough people from RP's or asked that they be kicked because they just don't know how to fucking go down when the narrative needs them to. Hell, one guy did this so bad that i actually banned "Any powers related to "Shadow Manipulation" from every powered RP i did, until i realized that rule above. "It doesn't matter what powers he had, he would have found SOME way to do that shit."

As for Lantern Rings, you gotta remember that there are thousands of each of them flying about and, if you've ever read a Lantern comic, you will know that they can quite easily get stolen or simply vanish without a trace. That's hell, that's how Mongol almost took over the Yellow Lanterns. That's how Sinestro and Atrocitus were able to found the Yellow and Red Lantern corps, respectively, to begin with, that's how Scar was able to create the Black Lanterns. "Stole Lantern technology and hid it long enough to replicate it." Way i see it. Sinestro stole the technology and hid it for long enough before, i'm sure that he can do it again. Granted, this time, he doesn't have Paralax's help, but he is very intelligent.

Teen Titans South

@RumikoOhara See, in RP's like this, power levels are worthless anyway. Everything works on the "Rule of Narrative" which clearly states "If the narrative can't proceed without Character X defeating Character Y, then Character X WILL defeat Character Y." It's why Superman can work on a team with people, despite being the most powerful being in the universe.

As for Lanterns having a support system, the point of Martin is that he became a Lantern in a way that he was never made privy to the knowledge that there ARE multiple Lantern Corps. As far as he's concerned, there is 1 ring of each colour. He is THE Gold Lantern and i think it's gonna be fun to RP him working with others and finding this out.

Teen Titans South

@RumikoOhara Might i ask why no Lanterns or Supermen?

Teen Titans South

@RumikoOhara

Gold Lantern

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Name: Martin Wheeler
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Physical Description:

• Height: 165cm
• Weight: 64kg
• Hair color: Brown
• Eye color: Green
• Tattoo / Scars: None

Martin wears whatever he deems "Comfortable" loving loose clothing, hoodies and jeans as well as trainers. He doesn't have any specific styles that he wears. When he transforms into the Gold Lantern, however, his costume becomes very ornate, golden shoulder pads, the Gold Lantern symbolt adorning the black and gold unrippable spandex, complete with solid gold bracers on his forearms and gold boots.

GIFT :
Gold Lantern Power

Gift Discription

Gold Lantern Ring (Can create any construct that he wishes. The power of his constructs increases in power based on the fear of his opponents.)

Gift Limitations:
Limitation The Gold Lantern Ring needs charging after enough energy is expended. This can be done by harvesting great amounts of fear around him, but this technique is highly unreliable, especially against an opponent that is powerful enough that he would run out of energy when fighting. It's much easier and more reliable via his Lantern Battery. By putting his ring in and speaking the oath, the ring is charged back to full power.

In blackest day, in brightest night,
Beware your fears made into light
Let those who try to stop what's right,
Beware my power. Gold burns bright!

However, the battery is large and clunky, meaning that bringing it to battle with him isn't really that feasible.

Skills:

• Junior Parkour (By no means any form of master, he lived on the streets long enough to figure out how to quickly escape people in a cityscape and can use buildings to his advantage.)
• Cooking (He has had to prepare meals for himself a lot and after watching a lot of cooking shows, he deems it one of his only artistic skills. His favourite TV chef is Ainsley Harriot.

Brief History: A kid, living on the streets of Coast City, going from foster home to foster home. Til one day, he was ran into a group of thugs attacking another homeless man... Naturally, just being a kid on the streets, he got his shit royally pushed in. A Green Lantern ring was attracted to his bravery. He won and was found by police because he had abandoned his previous foster home. His next foster was a man called Thomas Sinestro who revealed that he was "The Gold Lantern" and that his team had recently been slaughtered in a battle with a dangerous being called "Mongul" and his team was the "7 Lanterns" Green, Red, Gold, Blue, Indigo, Star Sapphire and Orange.

Thomas and Martin spent the next few months working together across Earth, in secret, recruiting the other 5 Lanterns. After they recruited the 7th Lantern, Mongul and War World arrived on Earth. The Lanterns fought him and were defeated again, but weren't killed. As Mongul gloated over their victory, Sinestro told the others that they could combine their powers to turn one of them into the legendary White Lantern. They agreed to make Sinestro the White Lantern, as the most experienced of them. The White Lantern ring appeared and slipped onto Sinestro's finger, the Gold ring slipping off and he easily despatched Mongul... It was then that Sinestro's true colour was revealed. Sinestro turned on the other Lanterns, easily dispatching them. All he ever wanted was the White Lantern power and he let them know it. Picking up Mongul, he prepared to depart with War World in tow. The greatest power in the universe and the most powerful warship in the universe, his power was absolute. Martin, in a fit of rage, launched one final attack on Sinestro. He was easily defeated as the Green Lantern ring, sensing Martins thirst for blood, abandoned him. Dropping off and heading to the stars. As Sinestro ascended, the last thing he saw on Earth was Martin staring at him. "No matter where you go, no matter how powerful you think you are... I am going to find you and I am GOING to kill you..." And the look in his eyes... The look that pierced straight through Sinestro's soul and for a second, he felt a twinge of fear of this boy.

The other Lanterns decided to go after Sinestro, but couldn't take Martin with them. After they left, Martin was broken, forced back onto the streets, but determined to help in any way they could. As he saw someone in trouble again, he was about to turn away, but then remembered... He was a hero. He wasn't going to turn away. This time as he stood, confident and proud, the goons still came for him, but instead of the Green ring finding him, the Gold ring found him. "Martin Wheeler, you are able to instill fear in even the most cold and villainously evil. Speak our oath and join our ranks." and the next thing he knew, he was the new defender of earth. the new Gold Lantern. Unable to follow his former allies and too young to join the Justice League, he has found himself at a crossroads. Where to go? Coast City has far too many now-painful memories and everyone who he cared about has gone to hunt Sinestro. He could follow them, but then Earth would be without a Lantern to guide it. He needs time to think, to get to grips with everything.

Maybe these Titans have something to offer...

Kingdom Hearts: A New Kingdom

As Xehanort left, Kalak put the book on the table and flicked to the page labeled Pays Des L'Aristochats and looked it over.

"Upon arrival, i have found myself placed in a most curious situation, my body seemed to become different from what i had remembered, it took a little time to figure out exactly what happened, but it was not entirely unpleasant or unwarranted. Moving around without drawing attention became exceedingly easy. With this, i took the opportunity to explore the surroundings. From what i can tell, this is the same city as La Cité des Cloches. The streets and many buildings look much the same, even Notre-Dame herself stands tall and proud in the back. This is most curious, but not entirely unreasonable to believe. If the multiverse truly is infinite, then it stands to reason that, eventually, worlds will repeat themselves an infinite amount of times.

Strangely enough, as i explored, i noticed that there ARE humans here, but the world still chose to change me in this way as i entered. Again, i am not unfamiliar with this, many worlds have chosen to do the same, in the past, but this one is the first i have seen to do so whilst humans are present in the world. I sense a very powerful heart here. One that could potentially assist in my and G's theory of creating a new First Heart. My investigations brought me to the residence of one Madame Adelaide Bonfamille. Her kindness and charity is known throughout the town and she may, in fact, be one of the hearts that i am searching for. After meeting her, i find myself torn on her being the one i am looking for. I sense the presence of a pure heart on her, but hers is...

Unfortunately, my investigation was forced to conclude inconclusively as I received word of another attack from the Heartless and her. I will return to this world for a second part to this report, eventually. Coordinates enclosed.

Xehanort's Report 231

Kalak finished reading and looked around. "So, we need to head to this place and meet with this "Madame Bonfamille" lady. Well, if she's as nice as he says, then i am positive that this is gonna be a piece of cake. Get there, ask her to help us save the multiverse and then find the other 6." He pumped his fist positively. He then looked over at Hido. "First things first." He said, approaching him. "You're gonna need to figure out how to get there. See, now that you've got your Key, you've also got a means to travel." He pointed to the little armour piece that was on his shoulder "We all got one the day we were given these. I think it comes from the same place as the key itself. But look." He stepped back, balled his fist and pressed it to the circle on the piece. In a brillaint flash of light, Kalak's armour appeared around him. A light-blue tinged armour with green and white trims. "See? This stuff is awesome, not particularly great in battle, but it does protect from the elements of the inbetween as well as serve as a nifty disguise. Also, whilst like this, you get to do this-" He summoned his Key-Halberd and in another flash of light, it transformed into a floating rocket-like motorcycle vehicle "Come on. we're gonna save the UNIVERSE!!!" He cried, pumping his fists.

His rocket blasted up into the air and through a hole into the multiverse that appeared. Flying through the space between, they constantly zipped between the large bubbles of worlds. "See that over there?" He pointed out a glowing sun to Hido. "That's the remains of the First Heart. If we can restore it, it'll glow so brightly that the blackness around us will glow white and the Heartless will be destroyed." Flying through asteroids, past chunks of long gone worlds, they also passed a bubble that was completely black, with the only thing to break up the darkness being A large heart symbol with a cross through it. "That's what happens when we fail to save a world..." He pointed out. "Don't bother with that world, it's... It's been consumed." He said. Finally, they arrived at a bubble. He pointed to it. "This is the one. We're in luck, see no symbol on it, the Heartless haven't touched this world yet. But our presence will draw them eventually. So, we should try to be as swift as possible. Don't worry, it's not instantaneous. Usually takes a few weeks before they notice. Well, let's get going!" Jumping off of the front of his glider, it disappeared and his Key appeared in his hand as he flew straight into the bubble, it rippled a little as he disappeared into it.

==Pays De L'Aristochats==

Edgar was the faithful servant of Madame Bonfamille, he had served her without question or dereliction of duty for almost 30 years now. He had looked after her many cats, made her food, kept and cleaned her house... In these later years, he was starting to think of his retirement. Well, since Madame Bonfamille hadn't any children or any heirs... Well, she was meeting with her lawyer to write her Will at this very moment. Edgar was in his room ironing his trousers when he heard his mistress' voice through the servants-phone. Maybe... Maybe just a little listen... He walked over to it.

"-And naturally, I want my beloved cats to be always cared for. And certainly no one can do this better than my faithful servant, Edgar." Said the voice of Madame Bonfamille through the hose. Edgars eyes lit up.

"Edgar?" Asked the lawyer "Adelaide, you mean to say you're leaving your vast fortune to Edgar? Everything you posess? Stock and bonds? This-This mansion? Your country chateau? Art, treasures, jewels and-" Edgar silently danced with joy, 30 years of being a servant had FINALLY paid off, he could go anywhere, do anything. He was going to be a big shot, he was going to be a somebody!

"No, no, no, Georges, to my cats." Adelaide replied. And in that moment, Edgar's heart was split in twain.

"Your Cats?" asked the Lawyer

"CATS!?!?!?!" Edgar wheezed as the news took everything out of him.

"Yes, Georges. I simply wish to have the cats inherit first. Then, at the end of their life span, my entire estate will revert to Edgar." Bonfamille explained. Edgar was forced to sit down at the heavy news.

"Cats inherit first! And I come after the cats." He sobbed. "I, me, after... No. It's not fair! Ooh! I mean, each cat will live about 12 years. I can't wait. And each cat has nine lives, that's four times twelve multiplied by nine times. No it's less than that. Anyway, it's much longer than I'd ever live. I'll be gone..." Then an evil thought crossed his mind. "No. Oh, no. They'll be gone." His eyebrows arched as a sinister plan went into effect. The damage that had been done to his heart when he had got the news began to creep open a little more... "I'll think of a way. Why, there are a million of reasons why I should! All of them dollars. Millions." He didn't realize the black aura creeping from behind him "Those cats have got to go." As he said that, he doubled over in pain. "AAHHHH! WHAT'S..." He breathed heavily as he pressed his hand against the ironing board. "I..." He saw a light appear from his chest as a glowing pink heart appeared in front of him. "What's..." It split in half in front of him. "Uh oh... That... That's..." He then saw the heart turn black as ooze began to leak from it. A black pool appearing on the floor in front of him. "Oh no!" He saw a Small, black creature claw its way from the ooze Edgar's eyes widened as he stumbled back and fell on his bed. "NO, STAY AWAY FROM ME!" He cried. The small creature moved erratically, no fluidity in its movements at all. Jagged and sharp movements. It stared at him, before moving quickly to the ironing board. Edgar through his arms across his face. He then felt something strange around his legs, he shook like a leaf in the wind as he dared to take a look." He looked down to see that the creature now had identical friends and they were dressing him. "Oh... Oh... You're... You're not going to hurt me?" He asked. He stood up as they finally pulled his trousers up fully. "Well... Well, thank you, my little friends..." He then saw the split heart re-enter his chest. and on him, a strange symbol appeared on him. He smiled a sinister smile. "Tell me, my little friends, would you like to help me with something?" He snickered. The small creatures zoomed over to him. "Yes... You'll do perfectly..." He purred in his evil aura.

==The Party==

As the portal to, what he presumed to be the city opened, Kalak flew straight through it and landed on his hands and knee's... Wait, no his feet, all 4 of them. "Wait..." He looked at his hands, they were... Fluffy... "Huh?" He asked. He saw a small puddle on the ground and rushed over to look at his reflection. "AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" He screamed. He turned around and looked at the others as they emerged. "I'M A CAT!!!" He said as they got a full look at his new form "I'M FLUFFY AND ADORABLE AND HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO USE A POLE-ARM!?!?!?" He cried. "I NEED THUMBS!!!" He rolled around on the cobble-stone road and cried. He then looked around. "Wait... This isn't a city..." He was correct. They seemed to be in the middle of the countryside. "This is... Well now what do we do?" He asked.