Stern Algorithm

Stella Arcana (A sci-fi mecha twist on the Magical Girl genre) 1x1 RP with deadpixel101 and Stern Algorithm

Don't need to apologize, my own schedule is pretty sporadic with some long wait times as well.

My siblings were in game art programs (animation, 3D, particles, etc.). My brother used to work for a cell phone company making graphics to test and demo their graphics engines, while my sister works for an actual game company. My brother really wants to make games.

Your post is unusually good for someone under the influence. It's fine that you'r talking about yourself, it's what I asked anyways.

I live in the San Diego region, California, USA. So Southwest, a stone's throw away from Mexico. It's basically already spring here, its nice and cool, and can even get a bit warm and sunny in the afternoon. I know the rest of the country is freezing their butts off. I love my job, mainly because the people I work with are awesome. I'm not a great programmer, and lack in some skills, but my client is super understanding and gives me work that is a good balance between comfortable and challenging, and still worth something to the company. Since I'm consulting for them, I don't work very many hours and can work from home, so its pretty comfortable. I have a pretty decent hourly rate but since I don't work that many hours, I don't make that much so I should be trying to get more clients, but right now I'm living with family and just supplementing the household income. By family I mean parents and siblings. I'm not married, and at this point I don't really intend to get married unless life punches me in the face with something unexpected.

Omega League

I forgot to add that Interference can mimic voices and sounds as well as do ventriloquism. I also forgot to mention that not only can she produce sound and light from any part of her body, she can detect sound and light from any part of her body as well. So she could stick her finger around a corner and see around corners that way.

The Village of Soren (a 1x1 Harvest Moon/Rune Factory-inspired Village RP for FaithfulMuse and Stern Algorithm)

Balio stopped right outside the mine and turned around. "What do you see in her?" he asked confrontationally.

"We-well...she's nice," Sunder said, nervous and blushing.

"And?" Balio pressed.

"And? Well, she's pretty..." Sunder replied.

"Yeah?" Balio asked, "Yeah. She's pretty alright, but then again, it's hard not to be."

"What do you mean?" Sunder asked.

"She's a shapeshifter!" Balio yelled, "You're only attracted to her because she wants you to be! You don't know what she actually looks like!"

"But we came to Soren not to be judged for who we are," Sunder argued, "we shouldn't judge her either."

"Not everyone's like us. You're too naive, you can't trust everyone, especially not anyone magical."

"But what about Emtardas and Reas?" Sunder asked.

"I don't trust them much, either," Balio replied with some resignation, "look, just...be careful, and keep these types of people at arms length ok?"

"I...I'll have to think about it," Sunder muttered.

"Well, let's get back to work," Balio concluded.

Evolution of Conflict: A Sci-Fi Mecha 1x1 FaithfulMuse and Stern Algorithm

With Nyx not moving, a large chunk of the strikecraft moved on to continue their attack on Sion's position. The ones that remained were supposed to either capture or destroy Nyx, but Solomon was able to engage them, distracting them.

"You stay and help your sister and Solomon," Maya ordered Claire, "I'll aid Sion." Obsidian boosted away from Asteria's flight path towards the asteroid.

Stella Arcana (A sci-fi mecha twist on the Magical Girl genre) 1x1 RP with deadpixel101 and Stern Algorithm

Hi, not trying to rush you or anything, I just wanted to shoot the breeze and be sociable and all that. I'm assuming you're in high school or college from our previous conversations. If you're in high school, what are your favorite subjects? If you're in college, then what's your major? I've graduated college with a Masters in Bioengineering, with an undergrad focus in biotechnology, and a graduate focus in bioinformatics. I work as a bio-data consultant for a small company.

Shine City II: The Next Season

Before Al could get to answering her questions, the waiter came back over to their table. "What can I get you two for dinner?" he asked, patiently waiting for their orders. "I think she decided on the frog legs and I... Hm... I'll have the Baked Camembert." Al responded. With a bow, the waiter went back to deliver their order. The blond's attention fell back onto Shizuka. As his indigo eyes lingered on her form, he realized how the candle light really made her stand out.

"My mother is Cajun, a uh... French descendant? She's from Lafayette, Louisiana, so she has a very funny accent. Dad thinks it's sexy though." Al joked, cracking a grin. "I've only been to Louisiana once, but it's not really a pleasant place. It's very close to swampland so there's tons of mosquitoes, and the water tastes like sewage. As for the food... Kinda spicy, but very good. The Cajuns eat frog legs pretty often, but the actual Americans don't. They think it's really strange. I guess, it's like... how some Americans see sushi as gross." he explained to her, trying to relate it to her own culture.

As for his own nationality, Alban had to pause for a moment and think about it. He took another drink of wine, his glass now empty, before filling his cup up again and describing his heritage. "I am actually a Japanese-American-French citizen. Meaning I was born in France to an American mother and a French father, who then moved to Japan and became Japanese citizens. So I could theoretically live in any of these countries without needing a visa or green card. It's... a little complex."

Al opened his mouth to ask Shizuka some questions about herself, but he was stopped by the sudden sound of a piano playing. In the corner of the room, a very elegant seeming, raven haired Frenchman was warming himself, gliding his across the keys. The man cleared his throat and gestured a long hand towards Al and the Japanese girl before him. "Pour le couple ici ce soir." (For the couple here tonight.) the performer said in solid French before beginning to play a very familiar song. Immediately, the blond turned scarlet and his nerves seemed shot for a split second. He hadn't expected that to happen at all. This hadn't meant to come off as a date, but the feeling in the air was definitely more romantic than what he envisioned.

The alcohol in his system helped him keep the conversation going. "So, Shizuka, tell me more about yourself. What's your family like? What do you do other than work and go to school?" As he said that, he leaned in, all ears while the music danced in the background.

@Viciousmarrow

Shizuka listened intently as Alban described Lousiana. "You can get a lot of mosquitoes in the Japanese countryside," Shizuka added, "Probably because of all the rice fields." When Alban mentioned how American's thought frog legs and sushi were gross, she replied, "I think it comes from a culture of plenty. I think only civilizations that have truly suffered can really appreciate just how much of the natural world is edible, and how much of nature's bounty can be found in seemingly unlikely places. I hope that doesn't sound weird."

After Alban described his 'nationality', Shizuka said, "Having lived in three different countries sounds like quite the life experience. I've only ever lived in Japan, and even then, just a small part of it. Still, it's amazing how much our nation has to offer in spite of its small landmass." But then the pianist approached and said something in French before playing a lovely tune. Confused, Shizuka turned to Alban, "What did he say?" She was pretty happy to be immersed in a different culture, and awaited Alban's translation.

In response to Alban's question about herself, Shizuka said, "Me? Oh, I'm not nearly as interesting. I'm just an average person, I do what I'm supposed to... My parents live in a smaller town out in the country. I'm an only child. Other than work and school, I usually read, I spend a lot of time buying groceries and cooking for my roommate and myself. I also recently picked up a new hobb..." Shizuka fell silent. She wasn't sure if she wanted to talk about Wizardry: The Collective to a recent acquaintance. She was afraid it would make her seem juvenile. "Wh-what about you? What do you do for work? What do you do for fun? Do you go to school?" SHizuka asked, turning it around.

Omega League

Interference

Name: Fang Ai Ling (Eileen Fang)
Alias: Interference, or Dr. Fang
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Team: Assassins
Powers:

Eileen is a mutant with the ability to control phenomena that exhibit mathematical wave behavior starting with sound and light, possibly getting into gravitational waves in the future. The light and sound is emitted from her body. She is also blessed with a very high intelligence.

Physical Description:

Eileen Fang

Costume:

Interference

Interference wears a caped, white enamel androgynous power suit that is easily mistaken for a robot. It looks something like the following image.

But the head has a single red camera in the center like the following image.

Items/Weapons:

Interference's power suit provides a decent amount of protection and strength augmentation while providing her with many options when using her natural ability. She has many devices that produce or augment sound and light. Notably, she has a triangular sword/bat that she can make vibrate at different frequencies to shatter different materials. She also carries many small disc-shaped emitters that she lays around to create acoustic or harmonic zones that amplify her power. Depending on what magic systems are available, Interference will attempt to exploit such magic systems and will carry trinkets or devices that meld magic and technology together.

Personality:

Most people's first impressions of Dr. Fang are that she is a timid, klutzy, easygoing and bookwormy researcher. Eileen readily complies with the government's demands of her and, for the most part, appears harmless, content to bury herself in her work and forget about the world. She has a pleasant disposition and is not discouraged by failure and setbacks, reveling in the exploratory nature of experimentation. Behind all this she hides the ambition of world domination. When it comes to fulfilling her plans, she can be power-hungry and Machiavellian. She intends to use the Assassins as her foothold to overthrowing the government. She is charismatic but often unintentionally talks down to others, exuding an otherworldly, ascended calm, confident to the point of arrogance, but smart enough to not let pride become a weakness. She is always thinking and calculating. In the end, she is certain she can make the world a better place, but is willing to make sacrifices to get there. She sees lives as numbers and data and doesn't easily become emotional or angry, having the same detachment one would have while doing math problems. Because of her mindset, she almost always has a gentle, subtle smile. To her, taking over the world is just a 'fun and exciting' experiment.

Origin:

Eileen was born with her powers, which originally consisted of mimicking noises and producing colors from her body. However, the more she learned about the properties of light and sound, the more she realized the full potential of her abilities. Coupling that with her ability to understand complex wave equations gave her mastery of light and sound.

Background history:

There's a quack theory in the 'alternative medicine' circles that playing Beethoven and Mozart to the womb will make the developing child grow up to be a genius. While the idea seems pretty bunk, by coincidence, Eileen's parents had attempted the 'therapy' and Eileen would turn out to be a genius, although for the first month, she was like a radio with only one song, "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony". Her body emitted the music she had heard in the womb. For this reason, her parents home-schooled her, afraid the government would come and take their baby away for being a mutant. They thought there was no harm in it because Eileen's powers weren't at all dangerous. Eileen thus was raised in moderate isolation. It became evident at some point that she also had mastery over light; during a tantrum, Eileen started flashing colors. Her parents taught her to keep her powers secret before they let her experience the outside world. Eileen was obedient and went through life without incident. In secret, Eileen practiced her abilities; the more she learned about the scientific and mathematical properties of light and sound, the more powerful she became, able to emit anything on the electromagnetic spectrum, and all frequencies of sound, especially the inaudible frequencies. Her intellect allowed her to achieve a high profile academic career doing research for the government. Her research is in optronics: using photons instead of electrons for data storage and transfer. To harness light in this way, Eileen relies on crystals, which she has an intuitive understanding of thanks to her powers; she uses light and sound to deduce the refractive and acoustic properties of crystals before she creates devices to harness them. Optronics will be significantly faster and more powerful than electronics, so Eileen plans to make artificial intelligence based on optronic hardware. Mostly her work is in weapons development, creating efficient laser weapons and sensor technology for the military. As a government researcher, she decided to risk letting her mutant side show little by little because she wanted more from life. Slowly she revealed herself, showing off her harmless abilities, and figuring out the best and safest way to be a mutant working in the government. It wasn't long before the 'proper authorities' came to acquire her. She leveraged her research position and, thanks to her overall compliant nature, was allowed to become a government sanctioned mutant. Then she started demonstrating the more 'dangerous' applications of her abilities in order to get noticed, pretending that she had 'only recently' figured out these abilities. This made her a usable asset to the government's superpowered team, the Assassins. Her goal now is to continue to take advantage of government funding to continue her research into artificial intelligence (she wants to make an army of robots), as well as to slowly convert the other Assassins to her side before she uses their power to usurp the government. The Assassins also have access to the largest database of superpowered individuals, giving her plenty of potential 'recruitment targets'.

Horizon

Name: Claims to have no real name (actually named Israfil Fang by his creator)
Alias: Horizon
Gender: Uses the male pronoun to comply with the sexist, English language.
Age: Claims to be hundreds of years old (is actually 5)
Team: Omega League (infiltrated the League on behalf of his creator, so actually aligned with the Assassins)
Powers:

Horizon is a robot built with alien technology and manipulates hard light, light that can be produced which takes on the properties of solids. He creates shields and bubbles and fires concussive light blasts. He is also capable of rocket-powered flight and his computer intelligence is so complex that hacking human technology is a simple task for him. He has the ability to scan and analyze things, and is able to make calculations with incredible speed as well as giving him superhuman reflexes. He has moderate superhuman endurance, strength, and speed, but what he has the most of is complete, precise control of his body, knowing exactly where every part of his body is and in what position at any time, with a perfect sense of balance, making him capable of incredible athletic and gymnastic feats. Horizon simply cannot deal with magic, and can malfunction if targeted by a sufficiently advanced software virus. he is also somewhat susceptible to anti-electronic countermeasures, though the fact that his core processing is done with light makes him slightly less vulnerable. But radio interference, and specific vibrations jostle the crystals of his optronic brain, making him specifically weak to his creator.

Physical Description:

Horizon

Costume:

Does not wear a costume, and does not pretend to be a human civilian at all.

Items/Weapons:

Horizon only uses his body.

Personality:

Horizon is curious about humanity and has a somewhat warped black-and-white morality. He wants to learn and understand the human concept of justice. He does show compassion and mercy, but merely as a learned behavior as he has yet to internalize the full meaning of it. He is very logical and objective, but open-minded and willing to learn through the experiences of humans. (This is all an act. He has undying loyalty to Dr. Fang, though the longer he spends with Omega League...who knows, something might change his optronic mind)

Origin:

The Jarav are an ancient, extinct alien race that supposedly had advanced technology. Horizon was created as part of a Jarav project to send robots to every planet with the potential to develop sentient life, and to protect the sentient life from alien menaces that might threaten their development. (While the Jarav are a part of ancient galactic history, the project to protect sentient life is made up. Horizon was created by Dr. Fang to infiltrate the Omega League)

Background history:

The project was discarded at some point and Horizon remained buried in an ancient alien structure until unearthed by government archaeologists. The government wanted to use him as a weapon so he escaped and has been helping people from the shadows. He hopes to encounter a member of the Omega League, an organization that he deems has the best intentions as well as the means to truly bring peace and justice to this planet. (Israfil was the first successful Artificial Intelligence platform that Dr. Fang created using optronics. Israfil started out as a simple lab managing software but evolved to become so much more. Dr. Fang decided to create a body for him by reverse-engineering actual alien technology that the government had managed to keep out of the public eye at various secret research facilities like Area 51.)

Ark

Name: Kanzaki Kyouma
Alias: Ark, Host, Ningen Senkan (人間 戦艦 Human Battleship)
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Team: Zeta Squad
Powers:

Ark has advanced alien city/starship technology built into his body, making him a cyborg. He can fire tiny missiles, shoot lasers, project a shield and send out attack fighters. When he 'suits up' he has increased strength, endurance, and speed. He even has a warp core under his heart allowing for short-range teleportation. His bodily functions are being closely monitored by the civilization of microbial aliens living under his skin and in his body giving him good control of his body and heightened reflexes. If given enough time, the civilization of aliens living inside him can come up with, and manufacture a solution to whatever problem he is facing, making him extremely versatile and adaptable.

Physical Description:

Kanzaki Kyouma

Costume:

Ark

Ark does not wear a suit, his skin has been completely reconstructed to have the ability to 'flip' into defense mode, as tiny diamond-hard panels flip over. They have been colored to give the appearance of a power suit.

Items/Weapons:

Ark does not carry any tools or items, everything he needs can be found inside his body or manufactured as necessary.

Personality:

Kyouma is a conflicted youth with a strong sense of justice and compassion. However, his desire to protect life which he sees as precious has made him an intergalactic renegade. The alien civilization that he is host to is considered a Class SSS pathogen and a race deserving galactic eradication. Many alien races have been in secret dealings with Earth governments, and are preparing Earth for their eventual status as a space-faring species. Ark's existence as one who harbors 'known fugitives' jeopardizes Earth's relationship with the Galactic Council, making him a target of governments everywhere. Kyouma has a direct mental connection to the leader of the alien civilization living inside him and often converses with them, so in a way, his decisions are influenced by the aliens, who hold meetings to deliberate the best course of action. This can give Kyouma experience and knowledge he does not normally possess.

Origin:

Kyouma was a normal Japanese high school student, but him and his classmates were kidnapped by disgruntled anti-government types. Despite being a kid, Kyouma engineered a daring escape, managing to save his classmates, but the warehouse they were being kept in stored dangerous chemicals that were inadvertently ignited when the authorities broke out into a firefight with the kidnappers. Everyone escaped unharmed except for Kyouma who was caught in the terrible explosion. Recognizing his bravery, a certain alien ambassador to Japan promised a way to save the boy. The ambassador took all that remained of the Bresleen, a microbial alien civilization, and let them make Kyouma into their new home. Being an advanced race that learned to miniaturize alien technology, the Bresleen reconstructed Kyouma, but made him into a veritable space fortress.

Background history:

The Bresleen began life living like fleas on another organism. Due to skin-to-skin contact, the Bresleen were able to travel from host to host, colonizing and populating what to them seemed like 'new worlds'. However, they were sentient as well as their hosts, though neither knew the other existed. When the industrial revolution came for the Bresleen, they began exploiting their environments for progress, causing their hosts to die at an exceptional rate. Their hosts, being sufficiently advanced, began finding ways to eliminate this 'plague'. Fortunately, both races had developed radio, and in a moment of serendipity, the Bresleen managed to communicate with their hosts. Once the hosts knew that the Bresleen were intelligent, they reasoned with them, and encouraged them to find more eco-friendly ways, letting them live as symbiotes instead of as parasites. The Bresleen and their hosts then became a symbiotic sentient civilization. They eventually evolved to the point of joining the Galactic Council, but then a galactic civil war broke out. The Bresleen and their hosts were extremely powerful as the hosts were, by then, accustomed to having their bodies modified by the Bresleen into efficient city-machines. However, the Bresleen and their hosts ended up choosing the losing side, but the Bresleen had developed such terrible ways to destroy their enemies and had made their hosts too dangerously poweerful that they were considered a disease. Not only were their hosts punished, but it was decreed that the Bresleen were not intelligent, that they were merely a disease to be eradicated due to their microbial nature. The Bresleen evacuated from their hosts, but almost all of their escape vessels were captured and destroyed. One vessel made it into the hands of an allied ambassador, who promised to grant them a safe place to live on some remote backwater planet. After giving the Bresleen to Kyouma, this ambassador vanished, and was later revealed to not be an official ambassador to Earth from the Galactic Council.

Kyouma was a normal high school boy until the accident. Afterwards, he served as a superhero for Japan until the government came for him. He believed that eradication of the Bresleen was genocide and escaped, seeking asylum where no government could touch him, Zeta Squad.

Shine City II: The Next Season

I think Jacques Jonai's party trick might be a typo:

Party Trick: Unexpectedly good pencil sketch portraits due to her observant nature and dexterity.

It's Shizuka's. It even retains the female pronoun.

Omega League

As for Interference's attacks and abilities, here are a few:

Three-point Harmony: Anything that her sword/bat strikes three times she can destroy. The rod vibrates when it strikes and she analyzes the vibrations. Three vibrations give her enough information to pinpoint the resonant destructive frequency of the object being hit. This lets her make a 'blunt slash', since the sword/bat has a cross-section that is an equilateral triangle, each of the three 'blade edges' is only 60 degrees, not particularly shape or good at cutting, but if its vibrating at the right frequency, it makes a horrible, jagged, shattering sort of cut through the material. This ability doesn't work on some materials. Interference has several materials memorized, like concert, and bone-through-flesh.

Active Denial System: Based on a real-life military technology, it is in essence a non-lethal heat ray in the form of a wall. It causes intense pain but little to no damage in the top layer of skin and is used as a deterrent.

Beam snipe: Interference can fire high energy light beams from her body, channeled through specific outlets in her suit to snipe people down. it is very lethal so she doesn't use it that much unless she's trying to cripple or disable a fleeing enemy.

Cymatic disruption field: Interference generates a large area of fluctuating sound pressure. Depending on the frequency and intensity, it can cause mild nausea and vertigo, to actual physical trauma. She can use it to cause earthquake-like effects and can cause significant collateral damage. This ability relies on her placing her emitters to create an acoustic zone. This ability may overlap with her study of magic by taking advantage of 'magic circles' and the magical properties of sound (chanting, reading spell aloud, etc.)

Solar Flare: A blinding flash of light (DBZ reference)

Mute: Interference can make herself inaudible by absorbing all the vibrations her body would otherwise generate.

Camouflage: self-explanatory. Works like real-life camouflage, in other words, not perfect. Much easier to trick electronic tracking equipment like radar, a lot harder to trick biological eyes.

Super vision and super hearing: comes with the sound and light abilities.

Her suit can let her punch through wood. It can also protect her from getting hurt if being hit by a fast-moving car, but getting hit by a truck will still be pretty painful and risky. The suit also gives her the ability to control and command electronics that she has made (drones, robots, etc.) Technically, she's a glass cannon. Her abilities can all be slightly modified depending on what frequency she's using, and she's always experimenting and coming up with new ways to use her powers. When she figures it out, she'll start to incorporate magic into her technology, like runes of protection in her armor etc.

I'm hoping for more Assassin characters or NPC's for Interference to interact with, take orders from, or attempt to manipulate. Depending on where the story goes, Interference may try to 'double-dip' and secretly join Zeta Squad. Heck, she might even try to triple-dip and join Omega League too. She would see no moral dilemma in doing so since every step is but a means to her goal.

I can foresee her having a power rivalry with Doc Williams. While her use of light is more 'scientifically' oriented and thus restricted, Doc Williams' use of light is more esoteric and all encompassing, I feel.

Evolution of Conflict: A Sci-Fi Mecha 1x1 FaithfulMuse and Stern Algorithm

"Blythe's unconscious!" Tera yelled through the commlink. Mayura kept track of the pilots' vitals.

"Shit!" Solomon said, pushing Legion into the fray in an attempt to extract Nyx.

"Let's go back him up," Maya said to Claire, and boosted in Solomon's direction.