Sam12435

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I really hope this hasn't already failed. @ParagonX

@PKRaptor

Give it a little time, something moght have come up IRL. Or he is buzy. Sometimes it takes a little time for these things to actually start :P

Kosei Academy

Gonna need to jam out to some AC/DC after that (Alternate Current/Direct Current)

@Jedly

Man, I guess you could say that you were Thunderstruck

I'm extra proud of this one.

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I just cringed so hard I fell off my chair. Guess you could say I was grounded.

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@Sam12435 Nice. I've always liked luck based powers.

@PKRaptor

Same, they are always really fun to write. Especially since it doesn't always work XD

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Oooookay, here is a character! I am happy with how he turned out :D Let me know if anything needs to be edited or changed, or if you want more information about the power or whatever.

Sebastian Stewart

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Name: Sebastian Stewart (Prefers the nickname ‘Seb’)

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Religion: Athiest

Sexuality: Bisexual, open to a little bit of everything.

Occupation: ‘Professional Gambler’ – i.e. someone who spends all their time, and money, at a casino. His day job, which funds his adventures to the casino, is as a Taxi Driver.

Abilities:
Counting cards – Before he got his power he had to rely on tricks like counting cards to win in a casino. He got quite good at it, but took a break from the casino scene to avoid the broken legs he was fairly close to receiving. As a result, he is quite good at math, and running.

Confidence – Well calling this an ability is a little extreme, but he has a natural confidence that gets him through some of life’s stickier situations. He once talked his way out of an arranged marriage to a drug lord’s daughter. The only catch was that he had to transport a few questionable items into the country. A situation that he promptly talked his way through safe and sound.

Medical Knowledge – Despite his lack of interesting during his study, Sebastian was able to retain a fair bit of information. He has a good understanding of medicine, and is able to treat minor wounds. Some practice has made him rather good at fixing broken bones and gunshot wounds, even when his patient is himself.

Faults:
Compulsive liar – Sebastian has a hard time determining the truth from the lies. Often finds himself confused as he struggles to remember the facts. This, coupled with a past of substance abuse makes for a strenuous grasp on reality.

Fears – His biggest fear is falling into his lies and forgetting who he really is. His other fears include bouncers, security cameras, large dogs and being caught cheating. Especially being caught cheating.

Physicality – Sebastian is an intellectual, focusing more on matters of the mind than matters of the flesh. To phrase it another way, he is not strong. He isn't very fit either, which makes his daring escapes in the face of danger even more stressful.

Enemies – Sebastian has made a good number of friends that have some influence around the city’s underground. Unfortunately, he has made a far greater number of enemies. He often avoids walking around at night if he can, and generally sticks to more populated sections of the city. He has even had to relocate once when his apartment was introduced to a few Molotov cocktails.

Gambling Addiction – Well this goes without saying, he has a rather uncontrollable compulsion to gamble away his hard money.

Power:
Lady Luck – Lady luck seems to favour some above others. In Sebastian’s case, it would seem that she was somewhat of a stalker. His power is hard to define, and even harder to directly control. Sebastian has slight control over the power, being able to guess what his power might affect, but it has much more of a passive effect. His power might allow him to do things like draw all four aces from a deck of cards, or even cause a gun misfire when pointed in his direction. He also has a much easier time finding lost items, can often stumble upon the correct answer to some questions, and even help him with his gambling. He can't do anything to the degree of jump off a building and have a truck full of pillows be ready to catch him. He has had a situation where his phone blocked a bullet from hitting his heart, but it still came pretty close to killing him. It was pretty lucky that he survived.

Personality: Some might call him eccentric. Others might call him a weirdo. But if you were to ask Sebastian, he would say that he was an amazing actor. Around people he considers his true friends, he is a bubbly man that is more than happy to help with any issues. He acts like himself, and expresses his love for things like classical music and fine art, but around people that he is unfamiliar with he becomes much more calculating. He will do whatever he can to appeal to a person, pretending to like things or to dislike things. But if someone is able to see past his demeanour he acts as he usually would, a happy go lucky young man without a care in the world.

History: Sebastian had the kind of life you might read about in a PSA about the dangers of drugs. He was a bright and friendly kid with loving and respectful parents. He was brought up in a good town and went to a prestigious high school, ready to make the transition into medical school to become a doctor. But it was when he moved out of home that his life started to slip. He fell in with the wrong crowd and started to stay out all night drinking and gambling away all his money. He was able to maintain his lifestyle, but it wasn’t long until one of his ‘friends’ introduced him to something a little more intense.

He started taking any drug he could get his hands on. His particular favourite was cocaine. He began a spiral down into addiction, hatred and despair. Fast-forward a few years, and we are met with a very different man than the bright young boy that had left to start a promising medical career. Sebastian had dropped out of medical school, cut off all contact with his parents and started living in a run-down apartment surrounded by countless drug dealers and gangsters. On the bright side, he had given up the drugs. On the not so bright side, he had developed a small case of compulsive lying. But back on the bright side, he has a job as a taxi driver. It doesn’t pay too well but it covers the necessities like rent and bills. Food is optional, but he prefers to spend his money at the casino. These days he doesn’t have any people he would consider friends, more like people he would consider useful.

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Oh, I was just wondering, have we gotten our powers yet? Or do we get them after the RP begins?

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Awesome, I'll have a CS up later tonight :D

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Haha thanks, I actually feel like I got some inspiration from the show, even though I've yet to watch a single episode, I still plan on watching the show though I've heard so much good things about it, and I figure if I liked Heroes I'm damn sure I'd love something like Misifts which from what I hear is even better.

@ParagonX

The show is really great, it kinda falls off in the later seasons but its still good :D There are some really great characters, and the powers work very similarly to the whole part of your personality thing, which I really like as an idea :D

I'm excited to come up with a character yhough, I'm thinking about a luck based power. Something like manipulating random chance or being really lucky in the right situations :P

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This has a very misfits vibe to it, I like it :D Count me in!!

Kosei Academy

Dante Mathers

Dante watched as the professor carried off the injured girl. He was relieved to see that she was going to be okay, it didn’t seem like it was too bad an injury, but you couldn’t be totally sure. He looked back at the group to see that most of the people had already done their jump, even someone he hadn’t seen here before.

He took a deep breath started walking to the pitch to run. He looked over the pitch and everything began to twist and turn in front of him doing these types of things by himself was hard enough, but when so many people were watching it was near impossible. He did his best to calm his nerves, and started running as fast as he could. Once he reached the end of the pitch, he jumped as far as he could.

“This is it!” He thought to himself. “I think this will be my best jump ever!” He was so distracted by his thoughts, that he forgot about the part where you were supposed to land. His foot hit the ground unexpectedly, causing the rest of him to slam into the sand. After a few moments he sat up and looked around, his cheeks turning bright red. He stood up and dusted himself off, before checking his distance.

1.83 meters.

“Well that’s not too bad” Dante muttered to himself as he looked around. It seemed as though there were more people in his position than he had originally assumed. Quirks were sometimes pretty situational, so there was a chance that some of them might not even get to show off their powers at all. He hoped that everyone would get a chance to though, he was excited to see the other kinds of interesting quirks the class might have. But there was one test he was looking forward to the most. It was the one test that he knew he could do well in. He suddenly remembered that everyone else in the class had given themselves some kind of introduction. He looked around at the group for a moment before he blushed. He had never liked interacting with one or two people in an uncontrolled environment, let alone a class group like this. And they had just seen him face plant into a bunch of sand, it’s not like there was anything he could say to cover that up. He let out a sigh as he resigned to his fate before turning to face the group.

“My name is Dante. My quirk isn't good for this kind of test...” He said as he made his way over to the group of people who had already finished the test. He made sure to take a place near the people he had already met, namely Lazarus and the bird girl. They already knew he was a bit of a ball of nerves, so it helped him relax a little. He stood in silence as he waited for anyone who still had to complete the test.