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

Hey, sorry for not posting for a while, I had a bunch of stuff I needed to take care of but I'm back.

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

Maya let Claire go to her sister without a word, in fact, she let Solomon, Israfil, and Tera go as well, but only with Claire's permission. Maya and Sion needed to make a report so they were unable to go see Blythe yet.

Puella Magi: The Wild Hunt

Hi all, sorry for being AWOL for the past few days, real life hit me like a truck (OK, not that bad). I posted my character to the Character tab, and I'm going to waive my age modifier, since I like the fact that Salomea is rather old for a MG but still inexperienced.

That said, I don't think I'll be able to get an IC post up until tomorrow. For the time being, Salomea's enjoying the parade with her family and shirking her MG duty because she doesn't like conflict and hopes that someone else will take care of the 'witch' that she's sensing.

Puella Magi: The Wild Hunt

Salomea Serafin

Name:
Salomea Serafin

Age:
16

Appearance:

Salomea has black hair usually done in shoulder-length pigtails and grey eyes behind her glasses. her timidity, ineptitude and shrinking nature are immediately apparent on her face, making her something of a bully-magnet.

The above image is her magical girl outfit. Her soul gem is a a light lilac in color and is a circular gem with a ripple effect located in her hairpiece.

Nationality:
Polish

Personality:
Salomea is a shrinking violet who suffers from a mild case of social anxiety. She is introverted and a poor communicator. Salomea is an academic at heart and tends to be pedantic, though her grades are not stellar. She tends to get ignored and her desires and opinions are often overlooked, for which she is resentful, but she does nothing about it as she is non-confrontational. Salomea lacks initiative and has resigned herself to a fate of mediocrity and obscurity. She caves easily to authority, force, threat, and volume. Salomea is usually careful and meticulous but she tends to 'drop the ball' or fold in on herself when stressed, rushed, or otherwise agitated.

Afflictions:
-

Wish:
"I wish people would listen to me, that they'd stop ignoring me."

Biography:
Salomea was the middle child among three siblings. While her older sibling had responsibility and authority, her younger sibling had attention. Salomea tried to ingratiate herself with her parents by fulfilling their expectations of her as an obedient child and as a student. However this only made her more obscure as her siblings became 'squeaky wheels', their rebellious nature's garnering more attention than her compliance ever could. By this point she was too entrenched in her ways to change and wasn't even fully aware that she simply wanted acknowledgement in the first place. School was different in the fact that her teachers appreciated her hard work, decent scores, and obedience. However this brought a lot of unwanted responsibility from teachers who would assign her tasks and leadership roles, as well as undesirable attention from some of her peers who hated her for being a 'goody two-shoes'. The bullying never got physical, but those who disliked her knew that they could easily get away with refusing to comply with her assigned responsibilities, which caused her distress, pent up frustration, and gave her a sense of powerlessness at being unable to fulfill her expectations and obligations, and making her appear inept. For a few years now, Kyubey has been plaguing her, offering a wish and informing her about her responsibility as a potential magical girl. She refused constantly because she was afraid to fight and because she lacked the confidence to be a hero or do a good job. She also was afraid to wish for anything, believing that she deserved everything bad that happened to her. However as her frustration built up from her home and school life and Kyubey's continuous insistence, Salomea finally caved. Her experience and despair are low despite her age because she hasn't been a magical girl for a very long time but she has survived a few lucky scrapes.

Skills:
Trivia: Salomea is a wellspring of useless information
Philosophy: Salomea likes to talk about philosophy, especially epistemology and Schopenhauer's Hedgehog's Dilemma.

Threads of Fate:
6

Magical Weapon:
Steel Rod: Salomea's weapon is a simple silver bludgeon like a kanabo or a metal bat, but it is slender, straight, almost as long as she is tall, and has a triangular cross-section.

Experience:
2

Magical Ability:

Harmonics (Core): Salomea's rods vibrate at desired frequencies. These harmonic vibrations can be used to generate sound or shatter various, usually hard and brittle, materials, such as concrete, bone, glass, etc. To achieve the right frequency, Salomea needs to triangulate: she strikes the target once with a low frequency, then again with a high frequency. Based on how the pitch changes after each strike, Salomea can calculate the resonant frequency of the object she is striking, the third or fourth strike is usually quite devastating. For softer materials, the vibrations usually allow the force of Salomea's strikes to penetrate deeper, though some soft materials are just really good at absorbing sonic energy.

Cymatic Disruption Field(Secondary): Spawning multiple rods, she plunges these rods into the ground in very specific locations to create an acoustic region. The more rods she manages to put down, the more effective it is. The region is flooded with noise that can stun or disable opponents. At weaker levels, opponents will overcome the initial shock fairly quickly, but at stronger levels, it can induce bleeding from the eyes, ears, teeth, and nose, as well as internal hemorrhaging. her harmonic strikes are also amplified in intensity while in the Cymatic Disruption Field.

Signature and Finisher:
N/A

██████:
4%

Puella Magi: The Wild Hunt

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Right, but I mean it doesn't matter which time line. If it's parallel, then wouldn't Kyubey be in japan? Not really a big thing but I've been wondering it.
What about time zones? *Pictures Kyubey flying across the planet after Madoka falls asleep*

@DarkwolfX37

I always assumed Kyubey could be in multiple places at once, the ultimate creeper ability.

Puella Magi: The Wild Hunt

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I read that as "Salmonella Searfish" and nearly died of laughter.
The abilities though... Brilliant.

@DarkwolfX37

Ha, that's a hilarious misinterpretation. To be honest, I just looked up "Polish names" and found two that alliterated. Although I like Serafin which is supposedly derived from Seraphim. Among the Seraphim there is one named (originally enough) Seraphiel, who may also be known as Israfil, an angel associated with divine music who endlessly sings God's praise and instructs other angels to do so.

I'm glad you like the abilities. I love sound based powers, though I tend to make a strong distinction against 'music'-based powers. To me, sound is a science, the understanding of waves is a fundamental aspect of the universe, as opposed to music which is an art and a human construct. I feel that someone who's power is sound rather than music has to a certain extent abandoned their humanity. In essence, Salomea is an area-control/crowd-control support-type. Maybe later she can learn to imbue vibrational energy into her allies' weapons. Her weapon is essentially one prong of a tuning fork, while it's blunt and brutal nature is indicative of Salomea's desire and inability to lash out as well as her lack of experience which results in an unrefined combat method AKA beating one's opponent senseless.

Puella Magi: The Wild Hunt

Here's my CS application, please let me know what (if anything) needs to be changed.

Salomea Serafin

Name:
Salomea Serafin

Age:
16

Appearance:

Salomea has black hair usually done in shoulder-length pigtails and grey eyes behind her glasses. her timidity, ineptitude and shrinking nature are immediately apparent on her face, making her something of a bully-magnet.

The above image is her magical girl outfit. Her soul gem is a a light lilac in color and is a circular gem with a ripple effect located in her hairpiece.

Nationality:
Polish

Personality:
Salomea is a shrinking violet who suffers from a mild case of social anxiety. She is introverted and a poor communicator. Salomea is an academic at heart and tends to be pedantic, though her grades are not stellar. She tends to get ignored and her desires and opinions are often overlooked, for which she is resentful, but she does nothing about it as she is non-confrontational. Salomea lacks initiative and has resigned herself to a fate of mediocrity and obscurity. She caves easily to authority, force, threat, and volume. Salomea is usually careful and meticulous but she tends to 'drop the ball' or fold in on herself when stressed, rushed, or otherwise agitated.

Afflictions:
-

Wish:
"I wish people would listen to me, that they'd stop ignoring me."

Biography:
Salomea was the middle child among three siblings. While her older sibling had responsibility and authority, her younger sibling had attention. Salomea tried to ingratiate herself with her parents by fulfilling their expectations of her as an obedient child and as a student. However this only made her more obscure as her siblings became 'squeaky wheels', their rebellious nature's garnering more attention than her compliance ever could. By this point she was too entrenched in her ways to change and wasn't even fully aware that she simply wanted acknowledgement in the first place. School was different in the fact that her teachers appreciated her hard work, decent scores, and obedience. However this brought a lot of unwanted responsibility from teachers who would assign her tasks and leadership roles, as well as undesirable attention from some of her peers who hated her for being a 'goody two-shoes'. The bullying never got physical, but those who disliked her knew that they could easily get away with refusing to comply with her assigned responsibilities, which caused her distress, pent up frustration, and gave her a sense of powerlessness at being unable to fulfill her expectations and obligations, and making her appear inept. For a few years now, Kyubey has been plaguing her, offering a wish and informing her about her responsibility as a potential magical girl. She refused constantly because she was afraid to fight and because she lacked the confidence to be a hero or do a good job. She also was afraid to wish for anything, believing that she deserved everything bad that happened to her. However as her frustration built up from her home and school life and Kyubey's continuous insistence, Salomea finally caved. Her experience and despair are low despite her age because she hasn't been a magical girl for a very long time but she has survived a few lucky scrapes.

Skills:
Trivia: Salomea is a wellspring of useless information
Philosophy: Salomea likes to talk about philosophy, especially epistemology and Schopenhauer's Hedgehog's Dilemma.

Threads of Fate:
6

Magical Weapon:
Steel Rod: Salomea's weapon is a simple silver bludgeon like a kanabo or a metal bat, but it is slender, straight, almost as long as she is tall, and has a triangular cross-section.

Experience:
2

Magical Ability:

Harmonics (Core): Salomea's rods vibrate at desired frequencies. These harmonic vibrations can be used to generate sound or shatter various, usually hard and brittle, materials, such as concrete, bone, glass, etc. To achieve the right frequency, Salomea needs to triangulate: she strikes the target once with a low frequency, then again with a high frequency. Based on how the pitch changes after each strike, Salomea can calculate the resonant frequency of the object she is striking, the third or fourth strike is usually quite devastating. For softer materials, the vibrations usually allow the force of Salomea's strikes to penetrate deeper, though some soft materials are just really good at absorbing sonic energy.

Cymatic Disruption Field(Secondary): Spawning multiple rods, she plunges these rods into the ground in very specific locations to create an acoustic region. The more rods she manages to put down, the more effective it is. The region is flooded with noise that can stun or disable opponents. At weaker levels, opponents will overcome the initial shock fairly quickly, but at stronger levels, it can induce bleeding from the eyes, ears, teeth, and nose, as well as internal hemorrhaging. her harmonic strikes are also amplified in intensity while in the Cymatic Disruption Field.

Signature and Finisher:
N/A

██████:
4%

CLOSED/MAY REBOOT IN FUTURE

I really appreciate the transparency from the GM and co-GMs. As much as I enjoyed this RP, I've never felt better after an RP ended than I do now because of the care and honesty taken by those involved. I'm sure we've all felt the sting of rudeness, callousness, and lack of information that usually accompanies an RP ending so this is certainly a breath of fresh air. So thank you for the great RP and I hope everyone has fun wherever you may go.

Shine City II: The Next Season

I might have an 'older taste' in music, but I wanted to share this song with everyone. Despite its upbeat style, I think the lyrics fit Shizuka's reticence and rather weak-willed approach to romance rather well.

Shine City II: The Next Season

He moved a little closer to Shizuka, pulling out his phone, typing on it before showing it to her. "Is everything alright?", he was quite concerned about this girl, she seemed.. Troubled by something. Perhaps he should try ask her to dance? Maybe she doesn't want to dance.. Who knows.

@Rekaigan

@Viciousmarrow @The Muse

At first Shizuka wasn't sure that Kazuma was trying to communicate with her since she was somewhat lost in thought, but when he kept his phone's screen pointed at her for such a long time it dawned on her that he wanted to show her something. Shizuka wondered if he communicated in this way because the music suddenly got really loud and it became hard to think, let alone hear, but she read his message. "Y-yeah..." Shizuka said, but then wasn't sure if he could hear her so she raised her voice slightly, "I-I'm fine...just...I was just worried for Alban is all, he seemed pretty drunk, but at least Maribelle is with him..."

Suddenly a row started on the dance floor, causing Shizuka to turn to look. Alban and Maribelle were slinging insults with another couple. Then Alban and Maribelle stormed off. Shizuka got up again, feeling a slight desperate annoyance at having to get up and run around twice on account of Alban. "I-I'm so sorry..." Shizuka began apologizing to Kazuma for leaving him alone at the table for the second time today, but wasn't sure what she was going to say or why she was even trying to follow Alban at this point. She ran after the two drunks, out the door, calling, "Alban, wh-what happened? What's wrong? W-Wait!!!" but the music was too loud and Alban was too intoxicated by both the alcohol and the company of his current partner to hear Shizuka. Before she could catch up to them, Shizuka tripped and fell forward onto the hard marble floor. By the time she recovered from the shock of falling and lifted her head, she saw Alban and Maribelle enter a cab and leave. She just lay there for a bit, completely bewildered at having been abandoned. She could rationalize Alban dancing with Maribelle, she could rationalize that there was nothing going on between herself and Alban other than a simple friendship, but she had a hard time rationalizing that he'd actually forget about her and about the fact that he had driven her here. She hadn't really paid attention during the drive here and wasn't sure what part of the city they were in. She could make a guess and she could use her phone's GPS, but she didn't know if walking to the academy was a viable option. She could take a cab, but at this point, in a numb daze, she simply didn't want to think about anything. Picking herself up gingerly, Shizuka absentmindedly straightened her dress and walked back into the building. As if automatically, she wandered back to Kazuma's table and sat down wordlessly. Right now, she was glad her ridiculous helmet covered her entire face.