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Where should the next chapter be?
NSSU: Britain 2 (66.7%)
NSSU: Oz 1 (33.3%)
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Topic Started: Feb 10 2012, 02:07 AM (5,411 Views)
Kamidio
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Member Name: Put the name everyone calls you here. So if this were my application, I'd put 'Fakey'.

Character Name/Secret Identity: Put your character's name here. Also put their secret identity here. Like say Superman/Klark Kent if your character's secret identity is a normal person. However, if you're like John Smith/The Doctor, where your secret identity is the one that saves the world/steals candy as. If your character is a member of some team, then you'd give their Codename/Friends Call Me [Name]. Like say Solid Snake/David.

Character Bio: Give a short summary of their lives. Make it quick, and really only elaborate on their childhood or motivations/goals in life. Tell us how you will get/have gotten your powers. Notice the slash? It that when you get accepted, you will be divided into groups of people that will have their powers from the start, and people that get their powers during the RP, around chapter 2 at the earliest, chapter 4 at the latest. Here are three scenarios:

Scenario 1: Get them now
 
Across the vast expanse of space, a pair of saddened parents put their boy in a spaceship, and send him rocketing off the planet, which soon explodes. Sometime later, the boy crashes in Smallville, Kansas. A married couple, the Kents, were unable to have children of their own, find the boy and adopt him, naming him Klark. They never tell him of his past, but eventually tell him the truth some time in the future, long after it had been known he has super powers. The boy eventually moves away to Metropolis City, and goes to work for the Daily Planet, which he uses as a way to get close to crime and snuff it out. He eventually becomes recognized as a symbol for truth, justice, and the American way. He is Superman.


Scenario 2: Get them later
 
Peter Parker was orphaned at a very young age, and was taken in by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. He soon fell for the girl next door, Mary Jane Watson. One his first day of school he was to be picked on by bullies. Eventually the years pass and Peter gets used to this. But one fateful day, on a school trip to an arachnid lab, Peter gets bitten by a mutant spider. He begins to manifest powers, which he uses to enter into a prize fighting competition. During the competition, Uncle Ben is shot and killed. Peter swears vengeance on the murderer, and lives up to the last words he heard Uncle Ben say.


Scenario 3 is a predetermined plot point that would result in a few characters getting powers. This happens in chapter two. PM one of the mods if you're interested in that.

Powers: Powers fall into one of many categories. These can be broken up into what is essentially a cladogram. A character may have several different powers (ie Mario: Superhuman strength, pyrokinesis, near invincibility) or they may have one power with several different uses (ie Superman: Kinetic powers, manifesting in the ability to alter his own kinetic energy to deliver powerful punches, blow hurricane force winds, survive bullets, fly)

Here are the different categories for powers, as well as how they manifest.

Augmentation

Religion

Natural Ability


Weaknesses: You know how it works. Drawbacks to using their powers(Needing to eat a ton after super healing), limitations to their powers(Superman needs a yellow sun), or various substances that rob them of their powers or make them less effective(Green Lanterns can't affect yellow too well). Make sure they balance and stay fair.

Character Music: Unlike previous RPs, I'd like to compile a soundtrack for this RP. So include two themes. One them for that sums up your character, who they are. Like Viral from Gurren Lagann. He tends to be merciless in battle, and craves his prey's fear, being a Beastman. So his song reflects his animal instinct and pride.

Specific Music: Second is the music that describes a specific aspect of your character. So if your character is angry a lot, then you'd give us music like that. If your character is particularly happy or goofy, than happy sounding music would fit that. If your character has something they like to do, then give us music about what they do. Just remember to tell which piece is which, and what the second one represents.

Character Picture: Find a picture on the net that looks the closest to what you imagine them as, but if you can draw well and have a scanner or a tablet, then draw it. There's also the Hero Machine website, which you can Google.

So here's the template without instructions.

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Member Name:

Character Name/Secret Identity:

Character Bio:

Powers:

Weaknesses:

Character Music: [flash=600,200][/flash]

Specific Music: [flash=600,200][/flash]

Character Picture:


There. Now I'm off to bed. It's 2:00 in the fucking morning.

Oh and one more thing. Dial, Holben, and I are the ones who will accept or deny applications.

Now nighty night for real.

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Edited by Kamidio, Feb 10 2012, 02:12 AM.
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I will kick things off then :)

Member Name: dialforthedevil

Character Name: Ikabod Griffit. (He has no alias, why would he?)

Character Bio: Ikabod has always been gifted, ever since childhood. He grew up in London and struggled through life until he managed to claw his way into Oxford University studying Biotechnology. After some lets just say morally dubious experiments he was kicked out. He seems to have gone off record for a while working for the Ministry of Defence in Fort Halstead until after a mysterious explosion he vanished. It is unknown why he came over to Asphodale, but heres there. He has a hideout located deep in the woods. The local ranchers report cattle missing then resurging strung up in trees with most of their internal organs ripped out. Ikabod is dangerous and deluded, he is firm in the belief that he can improve the human race by hunting it. He believes that he is the force of Natural Selection which will prevent mankind from as he says 'stagnating'.

Powers: Ikabod has no powers himself, but he is a genius. His knowledge of the Natural World allows him to tamper with genetic codes like nothing else. His menagerie of strange beasts are always ready to protect him.

Weaknesses: Ikabod himself is only human. He is also a prolific alcoholic.

Character Music:

Specific Music: Ikabod once hes commited some act of seeming absolute evil as he contemplates the good he sees he has done.

Character Description: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RhoiX9HEM_o/TFgllo3NgNI/AAAAAAAABoc/sLnJa4mTkbk/s400/cillian-murphy-scarecrow-batman-begins-400a092607.jpg
Edited by dialforthedevil, Feb 10 2012, 04:42 PM.
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I should have mentioned. No Requiem for a Dream or Let the Bodies Hit the Floor or other over-used songs like that.

It has to be something unique to your character's being. Requiem for a Dream sounds like something only a god-like character would have. I'd have thought you'd go with something more evilish.

Also, where's his picture?

And does Asphodale mean he's not in the main city, but near the steel works?
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No hes outside of the city, hes in the rural farming areas outside. Fine I shall find some other sinister music.
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YES!

I love a good BVVVVVVVVOOOOOMM.
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Oh and he looks like Cilian Murhpy by the way
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-snip-

So he's young now?

WORK AGING DO HOW?
Edited by Kamidio, Feb 10 2012, 04:50 PM.
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Ikabod was always quite young, remember he wansnt some old crone.

COME ON GUYS LETS HAVE SOME MORE CHARACTERS!!!!
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member name: trex841

character name: man-x

character bio: man-x has always loved cartoons, even into his teen years. his parents, however, did not. they drilled him through out his life to get perfect grades in school, much to his building stress. that, plus the bullying he got for still liking cartoons in high school, lead him to a high distrust of the world around him, and eventual madness. using the knowleage that was forced apon him, he attempted time and time again to escape the real world for the comfort of the world of cartoons . one day, he did it...almost. he entered the the cartoon world, but only for a moment before the experiment failed and he was launched back out. but that was enough. he wasn't the same man when he came out. the experement changed him. he became a cartoon. from that day forward, he vowed that if he couldn't go into the cartoon, he would bring the cartoon to him.

powers: man-x runs on the cartoon laws of physics, which you can find here.and here.

weaknesses: some of the weaknesses are mentioned in the physics page, but there is one other big one. Turpentine, acetone, benzene. aka, the dip. the one thing in the known universe that can kill a toon.

character music:

specific music: (warning, this song is f&#%ed up!

also, had i bit of a problem with the music, but i think it's good.)

character description: um...a mad scientest...type...character... ... ...only...rubbery...i don't know, picture the tf2 medic.


so i think that covers it, if there are any problems with the charater, just let me know.
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Remember to use proper grammar when you RP.

Accepted.

I have to ask, is he a hero or villain, or is he neutral?

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Would this work?
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I'L...sorry. i'll start typing it up on windows.

i'm thinking that he will be more mischievous. he likes messing with people, but not harming them. he wants to spread the laughs, but is a bit wild at times. so mostly good, but not incapible of bad.
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So would the above image of Ren Hoek work to describe him?
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AH! not them!

maybe some thing more along the lines of dead pool, the joker, Q, discord, pinkie pie...

...i think i may have passed of my character as to manic...oh well, there's a balance to it.
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I meant for how he looks.
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still no.

for kicks, i'll go with this guy.

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