Wintergrey

The Power

Quote: If We Die, We Die, But First We'll Live

Name: Astrid Bones Hallows

Nickname: just Astrid

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Height: 5'6"

Weight: 115 lbs

Ethnicity: Caucasian, about 50% russian mixed in with a variety of other european ethnicities

Sexuality: straight as an arrow

Relationship Status: single

Political Affiliation: yep, just screw them. All of them.

Religion: same as Political Affiliation, screw them all

Drugs of Choice: Hates the taste of Coffee, doesnt like drugs because she feels she is above something like that

Alcoholic Preference: falls under the categories of Drugs of Choice

Favorite Food: just about every consumable with meat. Steak, chicken, tacos, burgers, sausages, you name it she'll eat it. Not raw food though, thats gross

Major: Engineering

Clubs: N/A

Year: Sophmore

Roommates: Nicole Bishop

Occupation: student

Talents/Skills: a fairly good cook, seems to piss people off a lot,

Likes: herself, retaining the upper hand, being superior, stuff she's good at, math, solving problems(mostly her own though, screw other people's)

Dislikes: loosing control, ignorance, idiots, druggies, bullies, punks

Personality: very much a self-fish bastard. In her mind everything is about her and should be that way. She is smarter than everyone else and believes she is surrounded by incapable idiots. Most of these people will quickly wane away her short temper leaving her to explode in an anger unmatched by much.

History: Astrid grew up on the streets. Ever since she can remember the concrete had been her bed, the trash her fridge, the rats her pets. It was a hard life for a child so young. Some how though she managed to survive long enough to get into school. Once in school she found out her thirst for knowledge, and also her complete hate for those without it. Excelling in school, though alone Astrid quickly became the smartest kid in her class. She finished everything early allowing her to continue on her hunt for knowledge and began taking college classes by the time she was a sophomore.

She still had problems with the idiots at the school, but with her new classes she was spending less time being dragged down by them and more time actually learning. Of course there was no avoiding them. More than once she ended up in detention for punching a kid in the nose over something stupid they had said. Not that she regretted it.

Finally after graduating top of her class Astrid joined University of San Francisco for its cheap cost. She really hoped she could go to some place more intellectual like MIT or Stanford, but with her limited budget she was going to have trouble paying for University of San Francisco. As it was she was probably going to have to work through her entire time at college.

Power: Fire. Lots and lots of fire. She can't be burnt, she can light things on fire through friction, usually snapping her fingers. The only other way she can create fire is if her emotions get out of control(which is often)

she can create streams of fire from their hands
Fire can be utilized to manipulate flames into whatever she pleases (Ex. wall of fire) within her energy limit
she can envelop her body with fire, and then throw streams of it like a flamethrower without receiving burns. Extreme energy burner
she can throw fireballs
Focusing fireballs into smaller more intense flames for cutting and carving

The Revived - A Magical SkulDuggery Pleasant RP

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The Revived - A Magical SkulDuggery Pleasant RP

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The Revived - A Magical SkulDuggery Pleasant RP

Skulduggery Pleasant - The Revived


You life is not what it seems. Everything you think is real is wrong. A facade conguiled to distract the true world from the normal people. Not you. You are special. Special because of your genes. Somewhere down that long line of your family history was a little bit of something we call Magic.That magic is in you and it's coming alive. Every day growing and soon it will burst. Unless you leave your life behind. This means everything. Family, friends, everything. Because if you don't leave that life behind, you will be sentencing all of them to death.

These "special" gened people are being called the Revived. All have different powers based on what or who their ancestors were. There are many different types of magic that split into two different main branches. The first one is Adept magic and the other is Elemental magic. Most usually sorcerers have a choice about which path they want to study in until their Surge. However there is the occasional person that is born with a Adept ability and must follow in that path.

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Powers

Adept Abilities

Adept Abilities

♥ These are a few general ideas about what a Adept could be though it is not limited to this
♦ is magic that the user was born with, a power that they inherited. They do not go through the Surge and are stuck with this power their entire life.
is magic that the user chooses as they are going though the Surge, a time were the person is choosing their desired discipline. (read more about this down below)

♥ Symbol magic: The magic to harness the language of magic to the creators control. User can use their magic in many ways though it is commonly used through tattoos, drawings, or writing. While anyone with magic can use the symbols only Symbol magic users can create symbols. The creation of a symbol doesn't require any energy, but the usage does, no matter the user.

♥ Kineticist: This branch of magic allows the user to absorb kinetic energy and convert it into raw physical strength.

♥ Energy-Thrower: This is the discipline that allows a user to hurl streams of energy. Although most decide to direct the stream from their hands, it has be shown that it can be directed from the mouth, and possibly other parts of the body. Requires vast amounts of energy.

♦ Teleportation: This is quite obvious being someone uses magic to disappear and re-appear anywhere else in the world in the blink of an eye. The more experienced a sorcerer is at teleporting the further they are able to teleport. Currently almost extinct as they have been taken advantage of in the Magic Wars.

♦ Tunneling: This is the magic that allows a person to open up the wall, floor, ceiling, or such and slip into the ground. The tunnel will close up behind the person and only show hundreds of cracks were the tunnel previously was. Usually allows the user to move much faster than when walking or jogging. Magicians with this power are born blind, somewhat referring to the way moles move around and are mostly blind.

♥ Necromancy: This magic is one that harnesses the power of death to control and manipulate shadows and darkness. Necromancers put their power in an object such as a ring or necklace, that they always keep on their person. If the object were to be destroyed or disconnected from them, they would no longer be able to harness the power. Unlike what you would think they usually can't bring back the dead.

♥ Wall-Walking: This is a very useful power that allows the user to shift their center of gravity so they can walk straight up walls and ceilings. Wall-Walkers can also open locks and sealed doors by place a hand on the door. They can't always open doors that are sealed with magic.

♥ Bone-Breakers: This is a useful power that allows the user to break bones with a single touch.

♦ Sensitivity: Sensitives come in many different shapes, including seers, telepaths, clairvoyants, and hypnotists. Seers usually have a hard time deciphering what they read in their "visions".

♥ Linguistics and Etymology: This powers gives the user the ability to know every language spoken by humankind, both present and antique. Basically extremely gifted translators.

♥ Releasing a gist: This is a rare magic that brings another magical body into the user, called the gist. It is fueled by the users hate, anger and determination. When the magic is used the gist takes the appearance of the user. The appearance of the actual gist is somewhat more animalistic than the actual user.(Ex. longer hair, sharper teeth and claws.) Gists draw a massive amount of energy being used and as such can only be released for extreme cases such as a last resort. If a gist is let out of the user's body for too long, the Gist will take over causing the user to be trapped inside the gist, instead of the gist being trapped inside the user. This branch is virtually unstoppable when used correctly. The only way the user can be harmed while the gist is out is though the tiring work of controlling the gist, or if the enemy manages to get past the gist to attack the user.

♦ Warlocks: A dark type of magic, though not as much as a Necromancer, the caster's mouth transforms to enable them to eat the soul of their defeated enemy therefore gaining their strength. Warlocks also appear to be able to command light-based magic capable of paralyzing for short periods of time or speeding regeneration and healing of any wounds the warlock requires. These Warlocks usually are a separate group from the usual magicians and travel in packs subordinate to a extremely strong leader Warlock.

♦ Form Changers: The user can shift their shape in many different ways. Most common are shifts from an human form to an animal form though it has been heard of to have Form Changers that can alter their human physical appearance and completely become a different person. Not the same as vampires or werewolves.

♥ Lighting-Throwers: This magic allows the user to throw lightning and other electricity related attacks. This is a very fast draining power as the creation of lightning takes massive amounts of energy.

♥ Illusion Creators: The mind ability that forces someone else to think and see illusions. This can be useful for trying to extract information from someone or scaring them. The power can not be used back on the user however.

♥ Dimensional Shunting: A very dangerous power for the user. It allows them to move through other dimensions. The user can shunt themselves or someone else. They rarely shunt themselves as it is incredibly rare to find a dimension suitable for humans and it is impossible for the shunter to know anything about the dimension until the person gets there. Dimensional Shunters also have an ability to cast an echoing shunt on other people. This is cast by putting some magic into their touch when they reach out to another person. It has the same effect as shunting except with a delayed effect. It happens multiple times and if it happens an odd amount of times the effect person would be stuck in the alternate reality. The echoing shunt happens every couple of hours until the magic put into the effect runs out. The echoing shunt is usually preceded by throbbing and blur of vision.

Elemental Magic

Elemental Magic

This is considered the second type of magic. It involves the manipulation of fire, earth, water, and air for offensive and defensive purposes. While this seems like a basic magic to master, it is much less practical than Adept, probably due to the difficulty of mastering all four elements.

Fire:
This is the flashiest and most used of the four elements, this power is mostly used to hurl fireballs at foes. Elemental sorcerers create fire through friction, usually snapping their fingers. Fire is the second most powerful, as its level of destructive power solely depends on the magical abilities of the sorcerer. However, fire still requires oxygen to be present, and as such it is not very useful in closed areas.

Uses
Users can create streams of fire from their hands.
Fire can be utilized to manipulate flames into whatever the user pleases (Ex. wall of fire) within their energy limit
Users can envelop their body with fire, and then throw streams of it like a flamethrower without receiving burns. Extreme energy burner
Users can throw fireballs. More powerful sorcerers can send bursts of flames
Focusing fireballs into smaller more intense flames for cutting and carving.

Air:
Air magic is the most versatile and at times the most powerful of the four elements. Air magic is the easiest to learn and for beginner Elementals it is usually what they start with.

Uses
Used to push objects/people
Destroy of create walls
flight, which is very hard for the user and requires hundreds years of practice
pull an object/person
deprive a person of air
levitation, somewhat easier than flight but still requires years of practice
air bubble, such as underwater
ability to read the disturbance of the air (sometimes used for tracking people or animals)
Creating whirlwinds
Crushing objects.
Squeeze, press, cut, or hold objects floating in midair
Containing explosions(like grenades, etc.) by making a sphere of air around it. This is very exhausting work as it requires a lot of energy to constantly keep up the solid wall of air needed to compress the explosion till it is done.

Earth: (very rarely is this used)
Earth magic was always a very defensive magic. Later on it was figured out it could be used for more besides defense.

Uses
It turns the user into an unbreakable stone statue for a random amount of time, from anywhere between a year and a few hundred years. There is a museum dedicated to keeping statues until the user comes out of their shell.
Manipulates the earth to give away the ground, sometimes used to find tunnels and holes in the ground. Requires years of practice.

Water:
Water besides Earth is the most rarely used out of the four elements. Most commonly not used for combat but for instead aiding the user in somewhat mundane tasks.

Uses
walk on water
used to dry the user when swimming
create water to disrupt electrical appliances
manipulate the water vapor in the air
used to propel the user in the water
to remove all moisture from the outside of the body
to manipulate snow or ice

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Details

Age and Names

Age and Names

The constant use of magic rejuvenates the body and extends a sorcerers lifetime many lasting well over five hundred years. There are three names a sorcerer get throughout their life. The first is their given name; the name their parents bestow them on birth. The second is their taken name that they call themselves to protect themselves from other sorcerers using their given name against them. The final name is the most powerful, the True Name. The name describes their entire being and is incredibly powerful. It is said that it is a direct connection to the stream of magic from which all magic taps. If a user finds their True Name they can be extremely powerful allowing them to adopt other magic and become much more powerful than any other sorcerer, to the point were they are nearly invisible. However if their true name is figured out by someone else the person can control the sorcerer in question. Once a second sorcerer uses someones true name against them, the owner cannot seal it. Sealing it is a complex and dangerous method to protect the person true name once they know it.

The Surge

The Surge

The Surge is when a sorcerers magic discipline is set. They undergo this change around the decline of puberty if they were born into the world of magic using it constantly. If they have just gotten into the world of magic it takes a few years for it to reawaken. Before the surge the Sorcerer can train in several different magics though after the surge the sorcerer must make a choice on which magic they would prefer. The Surge allows the user to be much more powerful then before they had gone through it. In some extremely rare cases the user may go through the surge and yet still be able to do more than one type of magic. This is an effect that has only been seen once every thousand or so years. Most times however separate uses of each magic after the surge results in massive personality changes.

Sanctuaries

Sanctuaries

Sanctuaries are organizations around the world the enforce the magical laws. There is usually at least one per a country, an example of more than one would be Africa. The Sanctuaries are lead by a Grand Mage and followed by his two Elders. Together they are called the Council of Elders. They are basically the government of magical law, enforcing and punishing those that break the law.
You all will be lead(through subconscious magical means to the Sanctuary of Dublin, Ireland, a small magician-filled town called RoarHaven.

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General

Rules:
♥Try to go with a power that hasn't been taken yet, be original
♥Romance is allowed and encouraged. Keep is pg 13 or 18+ put it in a spoiler.
♥Keep it real. If you suddenly found out powers how would you really react?
♥Go slow. The Rp will be no fun if you instantly have mastered you power so go slow and learn how to control it as the RP goes.
♥Violence is encouraged though not strictly required. Many of the powers are directed on being defensive or offensive so violence will happen, just remember you are supposed to be civilized people.
♥Please disguise the name skulduggery pleasant in the other section of your application
♥Follow the rules or you shall explode in a rain of disease and blood

Character Sheet:
Name:(given name please)
Taken Name:(what should we call you, you can decide to do this IC if you want, though it may be good to decide beforehand)
Age:(any age though within reason because before this you were a mortal (recommended: 12-50))
Gender:(male/female)
Appearance:(post a real picture. Please no anime or drawings)
Personality:(how do you act, what are you like?)
Biography:(Your story before finding out you were a Revived.)
Adept or Elemental:(if Adept please specify which path you follow. It is possible that you can follow in more than one path until your Surge)
Adepts weakness:(Adepts generally have a major downfall that corresponds to their chosen power. Ex. the ability to resist all fire and not be burnt but instantly dieing once in a body of water.)
Other:

Queens Guard: the Iron Company [semi-realistic medieval RP]

Astrid

Astrid was laying on her back floating in the water. Flakes of dried blood slowly peeled themselves off of her skin and drifted down the river. As she was, her ears lay below the surface, blocking out most sound. It was peaceful for her in this position. Even here the birds and the sounds of the forest faded away until all that was left was the constant flowing, rushing of the water moving past her. She expected the peace wouldn't last very long. Sooner or later someone would come looking for her, wondering where she had wondered off to. Not that she cared too much what the other people thought.

A sudden movement in the trees caused her eyes to shoot open from their acute position. They snapped to the position in the woods where she thought she saw movement and realized that Joachim was standing there. Flying up onto her feet as fast as she could she spat out, "Shit Joachim!" She attempted to cover herself up, but it was much too late to take away what he had already seen. Unfortunately her clothes where on the side of the river that he was standing on, so she had to move closer to him to dress herself. Realizing that he could probably still see her naked form she swore at him again. "Fuck. Look away, look away!"

On land she half hid herself behind a tree, while quickly throwing on her clothes. "Thousand bloody arrows, don't you say anything before you walk up on a woman trying to wash blood out of her hair." After her rude awakening from her peaceful bath, her hair was splattered all across the right side of her face. Still looking at him untrusting she raised a hand to brush it out of her eyes.

Queens Guard: the Iron Company [semi-realistic medieval RP]

working on a post right now, should get one up as soon as I catch up on all that I have missed.

Queens Guard: the Iron Company [semi-realistic medieval RP]

sorry i havent been able to post guys, i just got on vacation and internet access is hard to get for me

Queens Guard: the Iron Company [semi-realistic medieval RP]

Astrid

Astrid was panting hard looking around her at the dead bodies that littered the ground. Green shields, broken spears, arrows, all laying across the ground in pools of blood. Sheathing her sword she walked up to a sword that had been stabbed into the ground near Wren. Yanking it out of the ground angrily, she wondered what stupidity in herself had caused her to think she could or even should form some sort of relationship with Wren. Walking to the nearest body she stabbed it in the throat. Letting a moment go by to see if it was dead, she yanked it out and moved on to the next one. She should have just let Wren fend for herself. Independancy. That was the goal here. No strings attached, no bonds. Crunch. Another neck crushed by the end of the spear. This time with a scream. It didn't last long. She gazed into the eyes of the dying soldier with blank uncaring eyes.

As soon as Astrid had checked that every body was dead she followed the others to the stables, all the while grumbling to herself. She had killed her horse and somehow still ended up riding back to the castle. She would have much preferred to just walk home. Once again she grabbed the closest one to the door and rode out without waiting for anyone else. Before she had left the town she stopped before Atl. Jumping off the horse before him, she stood there for a second staring at him before reaching out and grabbing the "trophy" around his neck. She looked at it momentarily before stating, "You might want to hide this, the villagers aren't as strong as you and me." Turning away without waiting for a reply she hopped back on her horse and rode off.

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With the castle in sight she strayed from the rest over to the left. Without a word to the gang she rode right into the woods to a stream that she remembered being nearby. Blood was caked on her face... and arms... and legs... pretty much every part of her had drying blood and it was unlikely the queen would feel the need to have a bath drawn for them. Tying the horse to a tree, she quickly stripped of her light armor and slipped into the water. It was cold, letting her known of the approaching winter, but not cold enough to prevent her from entering. Sighing she drifted to the bottom of the stream and let the water run over her. Slowly, like erosion, the hardened blood flowed off of her. Looking down the stream she could see the water turn slightly red with run off from her body.