TruthHurts

Dispatch: Welcome to SDN!

I'm really bad at ref hunting, so I'll put up a CS tomorrow and try to scrounge up a look for 'em later.

Dispatch: Welcome to SDN!

If there aren't too many players already, I'm struck with the concept of a hero with sight-based powers, used to be a bit player of some TV/reality show (so not a real hero) and got jailed for quite literally seeing too much. So to keep from getting shanked in prison he's in the Phoenix Program on technicality.

⤫ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 ⤬

8

^Morning

The Rookery, Fifth Floor

[Everyone]

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Now that their questions were being answered - sometimes you had to be okay getting half of what you need out of the Church like this - Pequod settled in their seat and remained silent for the meeting to follow.

Anyone who knew them would not be relieved for their silence.

Their obscured eyes were locked on the mutilated visage of 2's corpse, long after it had vanished in place of the war map once more. Their fingernails scratched at their wood armrest as ideas rolled over one another, this new train of thought kept from their compatriots.

As the Bishop and General left, with a less-performative bow of their head this time, Pequod tilted their head to one side, the side 8 was sitting.

"You know what I'm thinking, Eight."

_{"........the head."}

In the post-meeting din, before that Hawthorne entered to continue the brief, handler and number held a quiet conversation, almost conspiratorially.

Or, well, very conspiratorially.

<sub>"They never retrieved it."

"M-mm-maybe kept by the tribe. A trophy."

"It's a good chance. If we got to the brain..."</sub>

8 smiled, manically.

_{"I've been practicing..."}

They had to keep it quiet, just had to. Attempting to play God under the Church's nose was the height of blasphemy.

Dreamer's Sea: A High School RP inspired by the Persona Series (Dead)

"Deki-Ma"

Name: Hidekichi Mamai
Age: 17
Physical Description: The biggest name in the art world you don't know. Not pictured, all the bandages and colorful smears on his hands.
Important items:
'The Kit' - a series of small odds-and-ends Hidekichi keeps on hand for whenever inspiration hits.

• Swiss Army knife
• Tube of WE-STICK brand superglue
• Fine-tip permanent marker
• At least 1 palm-sized chunk of malleable material (clay, wood, etc) at any given time

Essentials - wallet, phone, housekeys
Deki-Ma Keychain - a mass-produced piece of merch modeled after one of Deki-Ma's most popular pieces, a chromatic koala bear hugging a tree that had grown to incorporate it. The keychain is, obviously, just cheap plastic.
Short Bio: Hidekichi grew up poor and lonely. His parents worked meaningless jobs with extreme hours that never paid well, which reflected in how they were treated by neighbors and acquaintances. He wasn't able to make friends in school, but the fact his baby sister Tsuzuri couldn't either got to him more. He tried to be there for her to compensate, trying to be her friend when no one else would, but they were too far apart in age to be in the same school. So, Hidekichi got creative.

It started with simple dolls, little figures made of foraged sticks, faces doodled on rocks, but at an early age he began to make new sets of friends for her. If nothing else it made her happy, having something she could take with her to feel less alone. He never gave up, though, wanting to make something he thought would be 'worth' keeping. As his interest in crafting grew, so did his skills and his range, leading to him taking up sculpting, whittling, papercraft, even sewing, his scope steadily increasing from tchotchkes to actual statues and other such things. He had a knack. It was just a hobby, something he kept within the walls of his home, until one day his mom decided to take some of his more cutesy projects to work with her.

People loved them. She asked if he could make more, and he did. People asked her if they could buy them, so she started selling. Word spread, more people were interested, Hidekichi's skill improved, so pieces of higher quality were shown off and bought, and it all sorta snowballed from there. Hidekichi rode the pseudo-popularity, beginning to sneak his pieces out to the public eye, the air of mystery as to who this sculptor could be only fueling the interest. Known only as "Deki-Ma", he had become something of a sensation before he even entered highschool.

Of course, fame was never what Hidekichi wanted out of this. He was ecstatic that people enjoyed what he made and how it helped his family's financial trouble, but as Deki-Ma grew from an underground nobody to a sought-after auteur, it all became too corporate for him. Now he had to fill out jobs (delivered anonymously from the few points of contact in the world aware of Hidekichi's identity), and those jobs didn't carry the same spark as it had when he was younger, when it was simple fun to make his sister happy. He still does what he has to, of course, not wanting to do away with Deki-Ma despite his growing resentment towards the persona, and he does like to challenge himself with grander projects. But his passion for art, the side of it all that filled his heart with joy, was still rooted in those ugly, ramshackle things that Tsuzuri brought with her to school.
Personality: Hidekichi is a bombastic sort, the kinda kid that wears his heart on his sleeve and has no real shame in how other people see him. He's loud and tends not to think things through, usually landing him in a lot of trouble wherever he goes. While everything about him - the way he acts, how he dresses, etc - screams 'delinquent' or 'punk', Hidekichi holds no malice towards anyone or anything and only wants the best out of life, for him and everyone around him. Though his thoughts spiral this way and that, making it hard for him to focus on much for very long, unless it's one of his little projects which spring up just as fast as anything else that comes to his mind. The one thing he truly despises is the idea of "perfection"; he argues against the very idea of it, hates when people use it to justify treating others, or themselves, like shit, and holds great value in the imperfections in life... sometimes to his own detriment.
Skills: Hidekichi's most prevalent skill is his artistry. From the ripe age of 10 he's been obsessed with all manner of handcrafts, primarily sculpting - creating things out of clay, stone, wood, marble, and so on. He's something of a prodigy, his expertise increasing rapidly in the few years since he began, and at his age to boot! Pretty much anything he gets his hands on he can work into a competent piece of art, from erasers and chewed gum to gemstones and solid metal. Though he much prefers "feeling it out", seeing where his heart takes him as he works instead of following any rigorous standards a sculptor of his caliber tends to be associated with.

Dreamer's Sea: A High School RP inspired by the Persona Series (Dead)

"Deki-Ma"

Name: Hidekichi Mamai
Age: 17
Physical Description: The biggest name in the art world you don't know. Not pictured, all the bandages and colorful smears on his hands.
Important items:
'The Kit' - a series of small odds-and-ends Hidekichi keeps on hand for whenever inspiration hits.

• Swiss Army knife
• Tube of WE-STICK brand superglue
• Fine-tip permanent marker
• At least 1 palm-sized chunk of malleable material (clay, wood, etc) at any given time

Essentials - wallet, phone, housekeys
Deki-Ma Keychain - a mass-produced piece of merch modeled after one of Deki-Ma's most popular pieces, a chromatic koala bear hugging a tree that had grown to incorporate it. The keychain is, obviously, just cheap plastic.
Short Bio: Hidekichi grew up poor and lonely. His parents worked meaningless jobs with extreme hours that never paid well, which reflected in how they were treated by neighbors and acquaintances. He wasn't able to make friends in school, but the fact his baby sister Tsuzuri couldn't either got to him more. He tried to be there for her to compensate, trying to be her friend when no one else would, but they were too far apart in age to be in the same school. So, Hidekichi got creative.

It started with simple dolls, little figures made of foraged sticks, faces doodled on rocks, but at an early age he began to make new sets of friends for her. If nothing else it made her happy, having something she could take with her to feel less alone. He never gave up, though, wanting to make something he thought would be 'worth' keeping. As his interest in crafting grew, so did his skills and his range, leading to him taking up sculpting, whittling, papercraft, even sewing, his scope steadily increasing from tchotchkes to actual statues and other such things. He had a knack. It was just a hobby, something he kept within the walls of his home, until one day his mom decided to take some of his more cutesy projects to work with her.

People loved them. She asked if he could make more, and he did. People asked her if they could buy them, so she started selling. Word spread, more people were interested, Hidekichi's skill improved, so pieces of higher quality were shown off and bought, and it all sorta snowballed from there. Hidekichi rode the pseudo-popularity, beginning to sneak his pieces out to the public eye, the air of mystery as to who this sculptor could be only fueling the interest. Known only as "Deki-Ma", he had become something of a sensation before he even entered highschool.

Of course, fame was never what Hidekichi wanted out of this. He was ecstatic that people enjoyed what he made and how it helped his family's financial trouble, but as Deki-Ma grew from an underground nobody to a sought-after auteur, it all became too corporate for him. Now he had to fill out jobs (delivered anonymously from the few points of contact in the world aware of Hidekichi's identity), and those jobs didn't carry the same spark as it had when he was younger, when it was simple fun to make his sister happy. He still does what he has to, of course, not wanting to do away with Deki-Ma despite his growing resentment towards the persona, and he does like to challenge himself with grander projects. But his passion for art, the side of it all that filled his heart with joy, was still rooted in those ugly, ramshackle things that Tsuzuri brought with her to school.
Personality: Hidekichi is a bombastic sort, the kinda kid that wears his heart on his sleeve and has no real shame in how other people see him. He's loud and tends not to think things through, usually landing him in a lot of trouble wherever he goes. While everything about him - the way he acts, how he dresses, etc - screams 'delinquent' or 'punk', Hidekichi holds no malice towards anyone or anything and only wants the best out of life, for him and everyone around him. Though his thoughts spiral this way and that, making it hard for him to focus on much for very long, unless it's one of his little projects which spring up just as fast as anything else that comes to his mind. The one thing he truly despises is the idea of "perfection"; he argues against the very idea of it, hates when people use it to justify treating others, or themselves, like shit, and holds great value in the imperfections in life... sometimes to his own detriment.
Skills: Hidekichi's most prevalent skill is his artistry. From the ripe age of 10 he's been obsessed with all manner of handcrafts, primarily sculpting - creating things out of clay, stone, wood, marble, and so on. He's something of a prodigy, his expertise increasing rapidly in the few years since he began, and at his age to boot! Pretty much anything he gets his hands on he can work into a competent piece of art, from erasers and chewed gum to gemstones and solid metal. Though he much prefers "feeling it out", seeing where his heart takes him as he works instead of following any rigorous standards a sculptor of his caliber tends to be associated with.

Seekers Beyond - Foreword

@Auragreedia No complaints! Though to clear up any future confusion, you'd only need one color for clues. It's only both if you have two characters, I should've made that clearer.

Dreamer's Sea: A High School RP inspired by the Persona Series

Just making sure!

My current thoughts on Icon is either Friendship (or some sort of bond-like concept) or Soul - whichever one giving him the capabilities to bring what he sculpts to life. And cuz if where his passions lie, and for the sake of time, a lot of them might be silly little guys.

Dreamer's Sea: A High School RP inspired by the Persona Series

I'm assuming we still get a say in how the powers manifest, right?

Dreamer's Sea: A High School RP inspired by the Persona Series

Both matter, and lacking in either love or skill weakens what you can get.

@Letter Bee

Hmm... What about if their skill is high, but they only love their craft if they aren't trying? Like, the difference between drawing as a job vs drawing for the fun of it? I'm trying to make the concept work but if it's moot I'll redirect.

Dreamer's Sea: A High School RP inspired by the Persona Series

Ok yeah I'm very interested in this.

Does being "good" at a form of art matter more than loving it for the purposes of an Icon? Preliminary idea is someone who's really really into sculpting but doesn't quite have the skill to back it up, so their Magic comes in the form of ugly, misshapen little golems.