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Verthaven: A Bloody Paradise [Completed]

@Maxx Accepted.

@Mr Allen J

Das right biatch.

EDIT: Just a heads-up, I'm going on vacation for the next two weeks (leaving Saturday). I'll still be posting, but this place will briefly become shitpost central.

Verthaven: A Bloody Paradise [Completed]

PSSSSSYCHO GECKOOO

Basic Information

Name:

Santiago Woods

Nickname/Alias/Etc:

Psycho Gecko, Sticky Fingers

Gender:

male

Age:

25

Height:

5’1” (6’6” if you include the tail)

Weight:

128 lbs

Home District:

Union Point Hills

Appearance

Hair Color:

No hair

Eye Color:

He has orange eyes with black slitted pupils, like a reptile

Ethnicity:

½ Mexican, ½ ‘Murican

Physical Appearance:

Santiago looks, essentially, like a giant gecko. He’s five-foot-one, 140 lbs, with a generally humanoid body structure and a long tail. His tail is prehensile, and moves like a third arm (without fingers, of course). It is somewhat thick, and is the most muscular part of his body. He isn’t overly-developed in the musculature department, and looks somewhat flabby in the chest, though his arms and legs are more developed. His arms are slightly shorter than a normal human’s. He has four-fingered hands, and each hand has a large pad on it like a gecko’s. There is webbing between his fingers and toes. His skin is scaly and smooth, and is blue with orange spots, like a Tokay Gecko.
Santiago’s head is long and arrow-shaped. His neck arches up a bit and then slopes down, allowing his head to sit on it the same way as a human head does. It’s definitely reptilian in appearance, with two slits at the end of the snout for nostrils. His mouth is very large, and is lined with many small, needle-like teeth. Inside of his mouth is a very long tongue, longer than his entire body. This tongue is blue in color, and retracts into his mouth like a chameleon’s. The tongue is so long and heavy, however, that it causes a slur in his speech.

Attire:

It depends on what he’s doing. When Santiago is on the job, he wears nothing more than a pair of black boxers (with a hole cut for his tail) and a belt of tools (lock picks, a crowbar, a flashlight). He carries no gun, which is odd for a thief. He also wears a pair of tinted goggles which he had customized to fit his uniquely-shaped face. When not on the job, Santiago tries not to draw any attention to himself. He wears dark clothing and wraps his tail around his waist to try and make it look like it’s not there. This is rarely a success.

Personality

Innate & Outward Personality:

Personality-wise, Santiago is known to be rather...hyperactive. He is practically a ball of energy, and is constantly moving around. He talks a lot, and is fairly big-mouthed when he has the opportunity to be such. He is fairly annoying to most. He is also a kleptomaniac, explaining his job. For those who don’t know, Kleptomania is the urge to steal items for uses other than personal or financial gain. Though Santiago will occasionally pawn off a necklace or bracelet, he mainly steals for the adrenaline rush, and will occasionally return items which have deep sentimental value to their owners.
Despite his propensity for trouble, Santiago is fairly good-natured and prefers stealth over straight-up violence. Santiago sees stealing as a game, and he won’t kill anyone over it because of that. To him, that would be like killing someone because they beat you in Monopoly. He has a deep-seeded fear of the authorities. He’s clever, though, and as of this moment, the great Psycho Gecko has only been arrested once.

Hobbies/Interests:

Well stealing, firstly. Even when not in total jewel thief mode, Santiago occasionally cannot resist the urge to steal things all of the time (you can say he has “Sticky Fingers” punzpunzpunz). He himself doesn’t play sports, but he enjoys watching football and baseball. His favorite football team is the Cardinals and his favorite baseball team is the Angels. He is a major video game addict as well, and is a huge Metal Gear fan (thus the name Psycho Gecko).

Skills/Talents:

Santiago is a famous jewel thief known in the city as “Psycho Gecko”. Being a professional criminal and having grown up on the streets makes Santiago good at things such as lock-picking and hiding. He is very resourceful and, though dyslexic, is rather clever.

Prized Possession:

Quote(s):

“I’m...PSYCHO GECKO!”
“Looking for something?” *holds up fancy necklace*

History/Bio:

Santiago was born in Arizona, and spent the first eight or so years of his life there. His father worked at a factory and his mother was a teacher. At first, he had a pretty good life, and his family had a decent amount of money, but his mother was laid off and his father was injured while at work one day, breaking his back. With the amount of money decreasing, tensions rose and Santiago’s parents split up. He and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where she got a job as a teacher once more. Santiago was never the best student and he had dyslexia, meaning that he had to receive special care in school. it didn’t help that this was around the time that Santiago began to steal things.

When Santiago turned twelve, he went through puberty. This is normal and expected, but not when puberty turns you into a lizard. At first, it was just enlarged reptilian eyes and being able to run up walls, but soon the scales formed and painful changes altered his body shape. He became a freak and an outcast, and was often beaten up at school (until he figured out how to use his super-strong tongue and tail). Not only that, but his kleptomania excelled at this point. He shoplifted fairly frequently and became quite good at stealing. One day, he got caught trying to steal a woman’s bracelet and was arrested. He was sentenced to six months in a juvenile detention center, and for the week or so that he was actually there, he was abused by guards and inmates alike. The rest of his sentence he spent at Academy 218 in Alaska (which for a lizard was awful). He attended the school for one year, and then came home.
For a while, Santiago tried to fight the urge to steal quite hard, but then he realized that he was so good at it. He ran away from home one night at age seventeen and came to Verthaven, where he began to make a living off of pickpocketing, but his horrible living conditions and skill convinced him to go big-time. Using his skills, he began stealing from homes and stores, taking jewelry and other expensive, shiny things. At the first jewelry store that he knocked off, he spraypainted “PSYCHO GECKO” across the wall. He became quite good at this up until he was arrested. He was robbing a jewelry store one night with a partner of his when a group of Verthaven police popped out of a closet and took Gecko down. The partner was an undercover cop. Santiago spent three years in prison on robbery charges (they couldn’t get him on armed robbery because he didn’t have a gun). After he got out, though, Santiago didn’t change one bit. He continued to steal, and is now renowned as one of the best thieves around.

Relationships

Family:

Allen Woods: Father
Maria Woods: Mother
Henry Olin: 2nd cousin

Dynamics:

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Abilities

Power Class:

Super-system Animal

Power:

Santiago’s reptilian physiology gives him several advantages over your average human. Firstly, he has fingers like a gecko. Hairs on these pad-like fingers allow Santiago to take advantage of the weak van der waals force, allowing him to climb any flat surface and hang on effortlessly. His reptilian eyes give him full-color night vision, and he has a vomeronasal organ. This organ is found in snakes and some lizards, and gives them the ability to smell by flicking their tongue. This gives Santiago an extreme sense of smell. Eyelash pit viper pits also give him the ability to see in thermal vision, allowing Santiago to detect enemies through walls and such. If in doubt, Santiago can see you and you can’t see him. His eyes move independently of one-another like a chameleon, allowing him to watch his surroundings.
Furthermore, chromatophores in his skin allow Santiago to change colors like a chameleon. Santiago does this to show his mood, and can also change his color to help him blend in (such as turning black in the shadows). This does not give him active camouflage like Sam or Talia, but it does make him harder to see. Santiago also has a sticky tongue longer than his entire body, and can use said tongue to grasp things from a distance. Santiago isn’t overly strong (at least, not stronger than an average human), but his bite is strong enough to break bones and his tongue can lift objects that weigh up to fifty pounds.

Limits:

The van der waals force is strong enough to allow Santiago to climb walls, but it’s not exactly super glue. While he can climb well, Santiago cannot climb on moving or vibrating surfaces. If a surface shakes too much while he’s climbing it, he can easily fall off.

Weaknesses/Drawbacks:

Well firstly, heat. Santiago is cold-blooded, and so if he is placed in a cold area for too long, he becomes lethargic and can very easily freeze to death. In the same way, hot environments will quickly cook Santiago, and so he has to be very careful about ventilation lest he overheat. Secondly, while Santiago has excellent sight, he is also nocturnal. His eyes aren’t made to work properly in the daytime, and so he rarely does. Bright lights can easily blind Santiago, and can damage his vision permanently. Santiago’s tongue, though strong, is also very sensitive and if he’s put in too much pain, he instinctually retreats it. Punching Santiago in the tongue is akin to punching a man in the testicles.

Other:

Balaclava by Arctic Monkeys

Sample Post:

Optional

Verthaven: A Bloody Paradise [Completed]

@Mr Allen J

Oh, the doors are open?

*facedesk*

@ToadRopes

If she knocks, there's a butler bro who will open it for her and let her in.

So any Twenty-One Pilots fans around these here parts?

Verthaven: A Bloody Paradise [Completed]

@Maxx

Should I assume that Taylor gave Ratchet the address?

@ToadRopes

Yeah. Off-screen, I imagine she swapped numbers with les peeps and give them the address.

The Race for God's Pen: Space High Scifi RP

<Snipped quote by Maxx>

You want us to wait twenty days for SPACE. PIRATES...

You Monster...

@amol_kotay

Well actually I'm not. While I'm gone, Godmod and another of my bros are going to watch the rp and make sure that all of the sheets are okay.

Verthaven: A Bloody Paradise [Completed]

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Taylor Pierpoint

@Toadropes
@Valhalla
@Mr Allen J
@RaijinSlayer

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The girls made a good point. Taylor looked around at the crowds around her. Some had camera phones and were probably waiting to put the fight on Instagram or other social media outlets. The city was in enough shit already with the Fiend attacks, and now they were drawing more attention to an already-frenzied crowd. She sighed and, closing her eyes, dropped her defenses. The floating icicles hit the ground and shattered, and the ice shards retreated. There was a collective "awwwwww" from the crowd as she walked away, like they were disappointed that they hadn't been able to watch a homicide. As she turned away, she looked over her shoulder at Aiden.

"Don't give me another reason to get angry at you," she snarled. Then she walked over to get her things from the bench, her beach session ruined. She pulled the cover-up on, put her hat back on, and slid her flip flops back onto her feet. The ice, she left behind. It would melt eventually, and perhaps it was slippery enough to stop the freak from following her. She could feel a couple of other eyes on her, and she felt her skin crawl. She picked up her bag and walked away towards Jen and Meifeng. Before she walked past Imani, she stopped and looked at her.

"Thanks," she said.

"I can't believe we're letting that asshole go," she said, arriving at where Jen, Ratchet, and Meifeng were standing. "But I guess it's better this way. I wouldn't want to get arrested." Then she looked up as if she remembered something.

"By the way," she said "I know this is a little impromptu, but I'm having a party tonight at my place in Knightdale Rows. You should come."

Verthaven: A Bloody Paradise [Completed]

In other news, I've decided to make Psycho Gecko a real character instead of an NPC. That way I can compete with Nick's character Henry for the position of Most Valuable Lizard.

The Race for God's Pen: Space High Scifi RP

Time for piracy!

@Agent B52

SPACE PIRATES!

One problem that I noticed, guys. Starting next week, I will be on vacation for thirteen days. Unfortunately, I will be unable to post while on vacation. Would you guys still be interested if I didn't start the RP until after I get back?

Verthaven: A Bloody Paradise [Completed]

@Maxx You have really made this battle a lot more difficult to write without killing my character since a motorcycle gets tossed at his back while Taylor decides to point a killer icicle at his throat. If anyone could give me a believable way for Aiden to avoid getting at least seriously injured by this(because their are no scales on his body except for his arms yet) then that would be great, cause otherwise, Aiden's going to need a trip to the ER or the morgue.

@Raijinslayer

It was a normal bike, not a motorcycle from what I read. There were probably translation errors.

However, I can't help but notice that you kind of put yourself in this situation, Raijin. You had a very aggressive character walk up to two semi-aggressive metas (neither Taylor nor Meifeng are known to be level-headed people) and started a fight. As far as the "Taylor decides to point a killer icicle at his throat", wouldn't you want to intimidate your adversary in a situation where they are challenging you to a fight? At this point, none of this is much of an issue anymore, as Allen and I plan to end the scene in order to move the rest of the plot along. This benefits both sides, as NEST doesn't have to arrest anyone if there's no fight.

In the future, however, I must advise you to be cautious, Raijin. Though Aiden is a powerful meta, there are others who are just as strong as he is. Some of them wouldn't hesitate to beat the tar out of him if he tried to show off his "dominance". What I do often when I play aggressive characters is I have their aggressiveness become part of their story. They lose a bunch of fights and then realize that they have to learn to control their anger in order to stop losing. Yet again, that's easier when your meta is the endlessly-regenerative Titus MacArthur.

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Shut up, Maxx, I have everything under control, everything planned out!

@Mr Allen J

Yeah sure you do.

So after careful deliberation (ie flipping a coin), I have decided to make Psycho Gecko an actual character.