tipssyCalibrator

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

@Yuuta
Well that's perfect, because one of the first exams I have planned that will probably do exactly that (but no spoilers!)

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

@Yuuta
Sorry, meant to reply to you in my last post. But yeah, I could absolutely see Ryuuto as the Vegeta/Sasuke to Akiko's Goku/Naruto. I was already kind of looking for a character to fit that role already, so this works out perfectly

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

I personally kind of feel like both of you have good points here, but I do feel like we should maybe play it safe. I have to admit that I flat out did not consider the possibility that @Zero Hex brought up. @Azereiah, do you think you could maybe nerf Jonathan's defensive potential a little bit? Like you said, it isn't very likely for him to use it in that way anyway so there's not much harm in toning it down, right? Maybe just say something like he needs to focus hard on changing the kinetic energy of the object and doesn't have much time to do that while in fast paced melee fight or something (maybe not the best solution, but I just woke up from sleeping <_<)

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

@Western Robot@Yuuta@Azereiah@Hammerman@VitaVitaAR@Dragonsinc@Mercurial@MacDuffy@Dblade26@SaberClass4242@Sodium@Azereiah

Alright, so now that there's a solid number of players and characters, I feel like now is a good time for everyone to start discussing their character relationships. Some people have already started doing this, but I encourage everyone to do it. Look at everyone else's character profiles, try to decide which characters you think could have an interesting relationship with yours, and talk to that player about some of your ideas. You can talk on the OOC or in PMs, it doesn't matter where. And I'm not just looking for positive relationships, but negative ones as well (negative relationships are probably more important in fact, since without conflict there's no story after all)

Also, I should probably talk about when I plan to start the RP. I want to wait at least one more day, since there are still some people I'm expecting characters for that haven't posted yet. I'm also noticing that there aren't really that many staff characters, and having enough staff characters is pretty important, so I'm hoping we'll get some more of them before I decide to start

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

@Western Robot
Seems good, accepted

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

John W.

Name:
Jonathan Walker

Age:
17

Gender:
Male

Personality:
Jonathan is polite, friendly, and helpful. He is, however, not easily taken advantage of, as he always pushes for his relationships to be a healthy give and take. He demands that in exchange for favors and gifts, he be allowed to work off his perceived debts, and to him, carrying a healthy balance is everything.

Jonathan is a deep thinker despite not being particularly bright. He always eventually comes around to the same conclusions other, smarter people come to - though it may take hours, or even weeks and months. He is painfully aware of his lack of brains and prefers to let others do the thinking for him in the short term, only questioning things if they go against his values of respect and balance.

Jonathan always pushes himself, and will gladly step up to any challenge presented to him, including those that are far beyond his abilities. As far as he's concerned, getting himself beaten to a pulp is a learning experience. He is an ambivert, and is just as happy alone as in a crowd. He tries to understand what loneliness is and pushes for those who seem alone to join him, but it just sorta comes off as being annoying to some.

In battle, he is enthusiastic, even when being torn to pieces. Good sportsmanship is a part of his soul to a fault, and he doesn't seem to recognize the concepts of "good" and "evil" or "right" and "wrong", beyond showing respect to one's opponent and treating everyone fairly.

Backstory:
Jonathan comes from a relatively wealthy family living in rural New York. While his childhood home was no mansion, it was fairly large, with more than enough space for him and his four siblings to explore the world safely. He took mixed martial arts lessons with his two brothers for years, which developed his sense of respect, and with his family's encouragement, he became the model of good citizenship. A number of 'awards' were granted to him for his 'leadership skills' - which basically amounted to trying to stop arguments between classmates in school, and nothing else, so his ability to lead is questionable at best.

In his earlier teens, Jonathan found and lost love on a regular basis. Relationship after relationship failed because he gave too much and was taken advantage of. Instead of hardening beyond reason, though, his experiences pushed him gently towards confidence and self respect. At one point there was a rivalry with the boy he considered to be his best friend - Carson McDougall, who had a bad habit of trying to take advantage of Jonathan's kindness. The friendship ended in a fistfight after Jonathan's girlfriend at the time was discovered behind the school stadium bleachers with Carson.

His constant sparring with his friends led to the discovery of his strange manifestation of Wavecaster powers, and he transferred to the Institute after his discovery by local police. It was a peaceful conversation, only prompted by a neighbor being worried by Jonathan suplexing his brother.

Appearance:
Jonathan stands at 6'4", and weighs nearly two hundred and eighty pounds in nearly pure muscle. He has a clean-cut square jawline and shallow cheekbones standing beneath a short Roman style nose and hazel eyes. Bushy black eyebrows sit low on his face, with wavy and curly black hair slicked back with an almost comical volume of hair gel. His arms and chest are comically oversized compared to the rest of his body.

Jonathan generally dresses nicely, as he took his fashion stylings from his father, who took his style from his father before him. As such, he wears old-style sporting gear - a tweed sporting jacket over a button-down shirt, with brown slacks supported by suspenders. He wears a differently colored English flat cap upon his head every day.

Equipment:
A fine ballpoint pen.
Numerous hats and tweed jackets.
A briefcase with all of his study supplies and copies of important paperwork, including a passport and birth certificate.
Coins. Lots of them.

Abilities:
Jonathan can bench press up to 400lbs., and can deadlift up to 600. He is physically monstrous.
He is a disciplined student and almost never misses a day of class or an assignment.
Overwhelming optimism.
Agility. Jonathan can turn and move his own body surprisingly quickly for a man of his size, though running isn't an option due to sheer mass -- it would wreak havoc on his knees.

Channeller category:
(Unknown - either Alternative or a bizarre Wavecaster?)

Description of power:
Kinetic energy modification. Jonathan can expend energy to change the momentum of any object he comes into direct contact with. His lack of understanding of his power means that he can only propel entire objects, however, rather than propelling individual parts. If he were to try to propel, say, someone's arm, the entire person would be launched.

Names/descriptions of moves:

Catapult: Jonathan touches a large object - a person, a car, whatever - and sends them flying in whichever direction he pleases.

Coin Toss: A penny, held between his thumb and forefinger, is flung at near-bullet velocities. He's getting surprisingly good with his aim, though wind throws his shots off course.

NOPE: He catches an object hurtling towards him and either slows or completely halts it. So far, he's discovered that this applies to anything physical, as well as any solid blasts hurled at him such as fireballs, so long as he can wrap his head around it as being one coherent object - and can actually react to it quickly enough.

Future Techniques:

Collapse: Jonathan, having learned to think of objects as the sum of their parts rather than entire objects, grabs an object with both hands and propels the two parts towards one another in a crushing motion.

Rip: Similar to Collapse, Jonathan instead propels parts away from one another.

Bombing Run: Jonathan has finally figured out that, yes, he himself is an object that he can throw. He does so and bombards a target from above with whatever he can get his hands on.

ABSOLUTELY NOPE: Instead of merely slowing down or stopping an energy blast, Jonathan focuses his efforts on flinging it back at its owner against their will. This takes an enormous amount of concentration to do, and as such, he only does it to truly massive attacks.

Dustbowl: Jonathan stomps on the ground, flinging a section of the ground upwards to distract his opponents.

Character theme song:
youtube.com/watch?v=_F5459jCtuM

Other:
Jonathan is a would-be artist. He's too clumsy with his hands to make anything particularly pretty, but that creativity comes out in other outlets, such as in combat.

Here ya go. One character application, fresh off the stove. Not entirely sure what sort of Channeler he is, so it's up to you. Open to negotiations on abilities.

@tipssyCalibrator

@Azereiah

Everything seems to be in order, accepted

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

@tipssyCalibrator I mean I'd be cheating myself.

@Mr Allen J

Ohhhh, I see. Sorry :S

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

By the way, are we just limited to the powers or moves we came up with as a start? I'm mostly asking because I like when you can come up with new ideas over the course of the game, or learn things in character or with help from the mentors.

Also, just so excited for this, it seems awesome.

@Dblade26

Characters are expected to learn more moves, be able to do bigger and more impressive things and get more creative with their powers as the RP goes on. As for learning entirely new powers, it's fine for a character to learn a new power or two, but try not to get too ridiculous. We don't want the power creep problem that DBZ, Naruto and Bleach had XD

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

This OOC advanced a lot. I was busy filling out job apps. lol

Anyways, even though I placed possible interest, after getting involved with the debate on the intchek I feel as if it'd be cheating if I don't put my cards in. I have another RP to write for, I'll get my characters ready in a second.

@Mr Allen J

Well just to put this out there, I'd completely understand if you decided you didn't want to join. I don't want anyone to feel obligated to join after all, especially if they decide they didn't want to

Institute for Young Channellers (Shounen Battle School Anime RP) (Always accepting)

If you'd prefer the government not to know, you can sub in some other group. I was thinking it'd be some sort of Men in Black for channellers, but the Institute could do it, or some third party channeller secrecy group of some sort. I'll let you decide; it's your universe.

@Sodium

I feel like the simplest solution would just be that the ENTIRE government doesn't know, just a small group of people who reached out to him happen to know

In any case, he's accepted