Xeronoia

Synchronization Overdrive: A school-based supernatural RP with a twist

Receiver

Name: Sora Jo
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Appearance:

For the most part she appears to be a perfectly average Japanese highschooler.

Personality: She has a strong sense of scientific curiosity, wanting to understand everything around her. This is especially true of Aether, which she has a strong academic obsession with. She subscribes to the belief that a sound mind requires a sound body, and has a strict exercise, hygiene, and nutrition routine she follows. Her curiosity often leads her to fixate on things that may not be particularly important or relevant, and she is prone to getting lost in thought and tuning things out around her. Because of this, she has a series of alarms set to help her keep track of the time and what she should be doing. When it comes to others she tries to be polite and friendly, but is a notorious gossip and often treats people like a puzzle that needs figured out.

Skills: While most of her skills could be considered strictly academic, such as being capable of doing high-level math in her head at a quick pace, she does apply that knowledge in useful ways. She is able to construct plans that take the potential actions of others into consideration, thinking ahead even in normal day to day life. She is a practitioner of Jeet Kune Do, fairly skilled for her age and experience, and applies her knowledge of physics and biology to it in experimental ways.

Brief Backstory: Her intelligence and curiosity made itself known from a young age, and she was placed in various programs for gifted students throughout her early life. She was initially inspired to take up a martial art as a result of being bullied, but quickly came to adopt it as a genuine pursuit. Her parents being ones to think ahead, they already lived in the area of the academy long before it was time for her to attend. Because of this there was no big change in her life regarding attending, though she had looked forward to doing so ever since learning about it and her status as a receiver.

Tuner: New Student

Synchronization Overdrive: A school-based supernatural RP with a twist

Tuner
Name: Rozmonda Arensdorf
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Appearance:

She is particularly tall and, well, mature.

Personality: She is, to sum her up, self assured to the point of arrogance. She has a simplistic, straightforward approach to life and the world around her, and is prone to outright dismissing peoples attempts to claim it works otherwise. Because of her attitude she is actually somewhat easy going, being difficult to offend but at the same time often inconsiderate of others when they consider something to be important or a sensitive issue. When properly pushed however, she fiercely defends her sense of pride and is difficult to convince to let a matter drop. Although she is arrogant in regards to herself, she doesn't make a habit of downplaying others strengths or accomplsihments and will freely give compliments and support where she believes it is due. Despite the bad first impression she is almost guaranteed to make, she is a genuinely freindly person and has little ill intentions towards anyone.

Type: Ability

Abilities: Negation - Denial given power and form, this ability enforces the users will on reality. This power has some inherant versatility due to it's nature, but comes with severe limitations and drawbacks. For example it may be used to remove the momentum from a bullet, causing it to fall to the ground uselessly. However, it could also remove the bullet itself. To do so would require a lot more energy, and is more likely to fail even if that requirement is met. In order to succeed at a Denial, the user must truly believe it to be a fact that will come to pass. "The Bullet's momentum is gone" and "The Bullet is gone" both must be enforced in the users mind, with the latter being far more difficult to muster a true belief in. As living things are the height of complexity, directly influencing them at all is difficult. This power can only be used to remove something, be it more conceptual like momentum or physical like an object. It does not have to remove the entirety of something, taking away only bits and pieces instead, and using it in this manner is far easier. An example would be only removing some of a bullets momentum and slowing it down greatly, or creating holes in a wall.

Skills: She is good at many things, but few of them could be considered useful. Most of her skills are things like a talent for decor, wood carving, or playing musical instruments. In terms of useful skills, she is an excellent cook so long as it's some form of soup or stew being made, is decently athletic, and has a good understanding of machinery. She is a poor student when it comes to academics, as she purposely chooses to neglect what she finds dull or unimportant. In the few subjects she does apply herself, she performs admirably.

Brief Backstory: She has a complicated history with her status as a Tuner. Moving to Japan was a difficult experience, both culturally and because simply being forced to attend the academy there rubs her the wrong way. Despite how she acts at times and the fuss she made when she was younger, her life was otherwise a happy one. For various reasons she had difficulty making friends, and between that and her situation as a Tuner, her parents did their best to compensate by supporting whatever hobbies and other freedoms they could. She has been with the academy for awhile now, but due to her difficult attitude to work with she has yet to manage a viable match with a Receiver.

Receiver: Yet to find a suitable match.

Receiver
Name: Sora Jo
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Appearance:

For the most part she appears to be a perfectly average Japanese highschooler.

Personality: She has a strong sense of scientific curiosity, wanting to understand everything around her. This is especially true of Aether, which she has a strong academic obsession with. She subscribes to the belief that a sound mind requires a sound body, and has a strict exercise, hygiene, and nutrition routine she follows. Her curiosity often leads her to fixate on things that may not be particularly important or relevant, and she is prone to getting lost in thought and tuning things out around her. Because of this, she has a series of alarms set to help her keep track of the time and what she should be doing. When it comes to others she tries to be polite and friendly, but is a notorious gossip and often treats people like a puzzle that needs figured out.

Skills: While most of her skills could be considered strictly academic, such as being capable of doing high-level math in her head at a quick pace, she does apply that knowledge in useful ways. She is able to construct plans that take the potential actions of others into consideration, thinking ahead even in normal day to day life. She is a practitioner of Jeet Kune Do, fairly skilled for her age and experience, and applies her knowledge of physics and biology to it in experimental ways.

Brief Backstory: Her intelligence and curiosity made itself known from a young age, and she was placed in various programs for gifted students throughout her early life. She was initially inspired to take up a martial art as a result of being bullied, but quickly came to adopt it as a genuine pursuit. Her parents being ones to think ahead, they already lived in the area of the academy long before it was time for her to attend. Because of this there was no big change in her life regarding attending, though she had looked forward to doing so ever since learning about it and her status as a receiver.

Tuner: New Student

Synchronization Overdrive: A school-based supernatural RP with a twist

@Xeronoia: I'm actually a fairly big fan of Raildex! And honestly the ability's looking better now. I'd suggest being careful and probably limiting how effective it is on living things(Living Static, if and when they appear, are a different matter when it comes to en masse slaughtering them).

@VitaVitaAR

Ahah, nice!

Also, will do. It makes plenty of sense for it to be limited on living things anyways. Living beings are REALLY complex stuff. It's not like a rock or a hunk of metal at all.

Synchronization Overdrive: A school-based supernatural RP with a twist

@Xeronoia: Image is kind of pixel-y. ^^; Character-wise, my concern is her ability, but it does seem difficult to use at least. Tentatively accepted, though I do recommend finding a less pixel-y image.

@VitaVitaAR

Alrighty, swapped the picture out for a nicer, if smaller, one.

As for the ability, I'm perfectly willing to change it up - Either change what it can and cant do, or change the ability entirely to something else. I do like that one though, since i think it has a good level of room to slowly grow in strength while also having fairly potent weaknesses no matter what. Just being in a negative mood would be a problem, or thinking an opponent was too strong for her to possibly do anything to. That also provides a more active option for whoever her receiver ends up being, since they could also serve as a backup source of DETERMINATION to try and keep her in the proper mindset.

Also, and this is mostly just for reference/fun discussion, the idea of the power is based mostly around a very watered down version of a power a guy in A Certain Magical Index has. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ESNaRPtr28 Basically his thoughts shape reality, but he can't control it beyond controlling his thoughts. He uses tools to help shore up the weaknesses, focusing his mind with sharp needles and stating what he wants to happen out loud in order to focus. The fun thing about the clip, though it thankfully can't happen to her in this manner because of how aether and whatnot works and since she can't create things with her power, is how horribly it backfires on him as a result of his opponent being good at mind games.

Synchronization Overdrive: A school-based supernatural RP with a twist

Tuner

Name: Rozmonda Arensdorf
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Appearance:

She is particularly tall and, well, mature.

Personality: She is, to sum her up, self assured to the point of arrogance. She has a simplistic, straightforward approach to life and the world around her, and is prone to outright dismissing peoples attempts to claim it works otherwise. Because of her attitude she is actually somewhat easy going, being difficult to offend but at the same time often inconsiderate of others when they consider something to be important or a sensitive issue. When properly pushed however, she fiercely defends her sense of pride and is difficult to convince to let a matter drop. Although she is arrogant in regards to herself, she doesn't make a habit of downplaying others strengths or accomplsihments and will freely give compliments and support where she believes it is due. Despite the bad first impression she is almost guaranteed to make, she is a genuinely freindly person and has little ill intentions towards anyone.

Type: Ability

Abilities: Negation - Denial given power and form, this ability enforces the users will on reality. This power has some inherant versatility due to it's nature, but comes with severe limitations and drawbacks. For example it may be used to remove the momentum from a bullet, causing it to fall to the ground uselessly. However, it could also remove the bullet itself. To do so would require a lot more energy, and is more likely to fail even if that requirement is met. In order to succeed at a Denial, the user must truly believe it to be a fact that will come to pass. "The Bullet's momentum is gone" and "The Bullet is gone" both must be enforced in the users mind, with the latter being far more difficult to muster a true belief in. This power can only be used to remove something, be it more conceptual like momentum or physical like an object. It does not have to remove the entirety of something, taking away only bits and pieces instead, and using it in this manner is far easier. An example would be only removing some of a bullets momentum and slowing it down greatly, or creating holes in a wall.

Skills: She is good at many things, but few of them could be considered useful. Most of her skills are things like a talent for decor, wood carving, or playing musical instruments. In terms of useful skills, she is an excellent cook so long as it's some form of soup or stew being made, is decently athletic, and has a good understanding of machinery. She is a poor student when it comes to academics, as she purposely chooses to neglect what she finds dull or unimportant. In the few subjects she does apply herself, she performs admirably.

Brief Backstory: She has a complicated history with her status as a Tuner. Moving to Japan was a difficult experience, both culturally and because simply being forced to attend the academy there rubs her the wrong way. Despite how she acts at times and the fuss she made when she was younger, her life was otherwise a happy one. For various reasons she had difficulty making friends, and between that and her situation as a Tuner, her parents did their best to compensate by supporting whatever hobbies and other freedoms they could. She has been with the academy for awhile now, but due to her difficult attitude to work with she has yet to manage a viable match with a Receiver.

Receiver: Yet to find a suitable match.

Synchronization Overdrive: A school-based supernatural RP with a twist

This sounds really cool, I'd be down for this if you have room for one more.

The Village of Secrets

@Xeronoia heh. I usually associate my character with the appearance, this RP is different though. I sent my CS to @Jerkchicken already, after finally making something I was happy with.

@Shikaru

Ahah, fun stuffs!

Overlord: A new Generation

Clearly we start the way every overlord thing starts: Beating the shit out of something cute as a tutorial!

That or the jester.

(Although really however we start should be fun times, can't wait!)

The Village of Secrets

I uh, don't really have a character yet. But k. I intended on basing them around the secret, *shrug*.

@Shikaru

If it helps, try thinking about very basic archetypes that you might want to go with and then work from there. It's what I usually do, although half the time I end up subverting the archetype in some fashion or other.

Fallout: Atlanta

<Snipped quote by Comrade Doge>

A few gangs would have formed raider gangs, and their might be a few slavers, but I don't think a faction like the Enclave or even the Brotherhood would be around, especially since the Brotherhood is West coast. You could make one up if you want. Maybe a local military group or police group formed a faction to fight the gangs.

@TheUnknowable

The Enclave as we know it definitely wouldn't, but iirc they had ties to the US Government. A sort of Proto-Enclave being around would be neat, maybe?