Masquerade (Sign ups and Info)

[amdreams]

~~~Story~~~

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Years ago, an evil entity named Malachi escaped from his Hellish prison and came to New York City. Enjoying his new found freedom, he began taking it over. Now he secretly controls the city through propaganda, fear, debt and so much more. However the population cannot see this and only views him as their wonderful mayor.


You were one of these people, living your completely normal life. You went to your normal job or school. You had a normal family and friends. You were normal. That is until the Blood Sky Incident. That day the sky above NYC turned a blood red for an hour despite it being 12 noon. A loud explosion could also be heard but the authorities and people could not find the source or any evidence of an explosion. It was like nothing happened. At least until you went home and found a strange mark on your body.


It was a word, spelled across your skin in the thick black calligraphy that made it look like a tattoo. But you didn't get this. Some of you didn't have any tattoos. Brushing it aside, you go to sleep. It seems like nothing. Or at least it did, until the next day when you happen to witness a fight between a few people with the same markings as you and a demonic creature.


Congratulations. You just joined the Hellion Beasts. Whether you wanted to or not.

So basically . . .

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You are forced to join the Hellion Beasts, a group rebelling Malachi disguised as a street gang. You'll be fighting demonic creatures within Limbo and eventually you'll fight against other people like you, who have demon marks and cores. Some other stuff will happen and whatnot.

~~~Limbo~~~

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Limbo is a separate dimension where these fights take place. To open Limbo, you have to place five special stakes in a circular pattern or draw a magic circle to create a doorway which will pull you in. You must be in the circle to be transported to Limbo.


While in Limbo, your battle will not affect the living creatures of the living plain but it will affect the surroundings, such as destroying buildings and such. Also, in Limbo, the demons, which usually appear as normal people or animals in the living plain, show their true forms.


To exit Limbo, you just have to return to the doorway.

~~~Demon Cores and Marks~~~

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During the Blood Sky Incident, the explosion heard by everyone was actually thousands of demon souls escaping from Hell. Most continued to live as demons in the world but some who could not survive the stress of the trip died and left behind their demon cores, or the source of their powers. Theses cores then found their place inside a few select people who showed an affinity for them. Those with cores within them receive demon marks, the word tattoos.

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A demon mark is pretty much what your powers are. If your word if fire then you can control fire and such.

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~~~Rules~~~

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• No godmodding, bunnying or metagaming. You get three strikes before you are out.
  
• Other typical site rules.
  
• Please have some level of literacy. I will be searching through your posting history to see how you post and interact with others.
  
• No duplicate demon marks or synonyms. If someone is already approved to having "fire" then you can't have flame or heat. If you've read through everything thoroughly, then make your entire character sheet a different color than black.
  
• I and my possible co-runners have final say in character acceptance. You may try to fix your character but do not make a huge scene. There are usually reasons for your denial.
  
• I will most likely pick the people with the most creative character to be a co-runner with me if I cannot find one otherwise, like in the shoutbox.
  
• You're welcome to make villain characters from a rival gang, the Street Wyverns.
  
• No pure OOC posts in the IC thread. If you've got a question or something, either say it here, Pm those involved or couple your OOC with an IC post.
  

~~~Disapproved Marks~~~

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This is not a complete list so if I think of any or find any that belong here, I will update it.

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• God/Angel or any god name
  
• Devil/Demon or any demon name
  
• Blood
  
• Life/Death
  
• Magic/Witch/Wizard/ETC
  
• Mind or the like
  
• Time
  
• Reality
  
• Dominance
  

~~~Taken Marks~~~

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• Indomitable
  
• Nothing
  
• Game
  
• Mimic
  
• Reinforce
  
• Mirror
  
• Burning Hearth
  
• Prodigy
  
• Shade
  
• Turbulence
  

~~~Character Sheet~~~

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Name: (including nicknames)

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Age: (15 and older I will only accept a few teenagers so be different, okay?)

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Occupation:

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Demon Mark: (also explain what the mark allows you to do)

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Location of Mark:

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Weapons: (keep in mind that you will most likely carry this thing around the city and nothing too crazy)

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Appearance:

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Personality:

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Background:

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Other:

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My Character(s) coming soon

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[jadestarnight]

Greetings, I wish to join if your still taking. 
Name: Winter (icey)


Age: 21


Occupation:


Demon Mark: Summon an ice dragon (medium sized)


Location of Mark: On her shoulder (In the shape of a dragon)


The dragon: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_C5EY5ibMCFA/RyizHW9sKXI/AAAAAAAAATY/05Am-7Kwf4Y/s320/Ice_Dragon_by_Ironshod.gif


Weapons: https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSjBRsGvQYWqCXMBILSKm8W_TPBRxpj4kBeQn8hYh_6XdJrJr6A5A


Appearance: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQW5EBrGya3pnNhlMcY9cEmT5q_Fia1QpJu8LigFbnERtGHjx7Z


Personality: Calm, Quiet, Shy and cold hearted.


Background: She was raised in a poor family, lived a sheltered life until the age of 16. she ran away and was taken in by an old woman who always called her icey. (more will be reavealed later im in a hurry.


Other: work in progress

 

[amdreams]

Sorry Jade but I'm going to have to deny your character. I'm not sure you read the rules or the story/info that well.

 

[amdreams]

Sorry Goddess but I'm going to have to deny you for now. You should reread the rules again. Also, can you state what your mark is in the "demon mark" section. Also, the mark cannot be a symbol of what it is but a word, like mentioned above.


And your backstory shouldn't include limbo or the demon. The roleplay starts the day after the Blood Sky Incident and when you find the demon mark. Your first experience with Limbo will start then.

 

[Sea]

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Name: Caroline "Cara" Vine

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Age: 22

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Occupation: Works at local botanic shop(ironic coincidence)

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Demon Mark: Earth: She can affect/control plants, rocks, and dirt (basically the ground). She has a sixth sense to upcoming weather. She also has a knack for befriending living things, or getting closed to animals than a normal person would.

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Location of Mark: Side of her neck

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Weapons: A set of daggers for throwing or stabbing

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Appearance:

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She has long and straight puppy brown hair that hangs almost to her waist. Her eyes are a light hazel color. She's 5'3 and slim, with small hands and feet. Her peacy skin pales quite easily, as she almost never blushes. She is usually wearing comfortable clothes for fighting and moving around in.

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Personality: Cara isn't very bright. She is narrowminded, stubborn, and constantly wondering why things happen. She gets bored at scholarly works or books, and tends to rely more on action. She is considered a tomboy and finds it hard to be gentle or sweet. When faced with a situation where she has to be, she'll act awkwardly and attempt to slip away. This might cause some friction with her power, where she might have to be gentle to get close to animals/plants. She blurts things out things on her mind impulsively, often making her seem rude. She's also not afraid to show her disinterest or irritation. Her temper flares easily, but usually only through annoyance. She rarely gets angry at all.

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Background: Cara's family was in shambles. Her mother was running around, working odd jobs. Her father was sick and unable to physically do much. Her younger brother was always out of the house and only came back to eat/sleep. She had to learn how to cook, clean, and basic household skills in order to replace what her mother had done before her father had gotten sick. As her mother got older, Cara got a job to help out at the local plant/flower shop near her house.

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Other:

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[amdreams]

Sea, I have to ask. How does your demon mark allow you to fight? I do like that you are being creative from the typical elemental powers I assumed people would choose, but there has to be some sort of combat ability there. And are you sure you want "Sparrow"? It allows for a very narrow interpretation. Your demon mark is the basic theme of your power and as long as it connects, there are so many possibilities found in a single word.


Also, you have not yet even met the Hellion Beasts. You might have heard of them as a street gang but that's it. That happens at the beginning of the rp, so could you alter your background and maybe personality to reflect that? And where's your occupation?


Good job at finding the hidden rule though.

 

[Animya]

A quick draft because this RP enchanted me


Name: Jayzen “Jazz” “Glare” Pleamont


Sex: Female


Age: 20


Occupation: Curator of (ancient) arts for auctions


Demon Mark: Shade (Shade/Shadow, is a simple term to indicate she can merge within the shadows of people, houses and other things, be it alive or dead. Thus she is able to go unnoticed in most scenarios.


Later on: She is keen on creeping up on people, eavesdropping and taking her time to stare at people. This all having led to her nickname ‘Glare’ over time. She can also move in the shadows, though this is limited to small distances and short periods of time.


Location of Mark: Starting just from under her armpit, it runs across the ribs of her right side, it fades out on the lower end moving to the back.


Weapons: She carries two small semi-automatic handguns (Glock 17) which are worn across her back, easily reachable in case of emergency.


Appearance: Jayzen has dark red hair, which appears to be a chestnut brown in some lights. It’s cut close to her scalp on the left side of her head and is long (app. 50cm) on the other side. It’s straight in originbut has an annoying fuzzy characteristic to it. She has light brown eyes and a lightly colored skin freckled with sunburns. She stands about 1.68cm short and weighs about 72 kg. She has finely set features in a somewhat puffy face. For her length she has great feminine proportions, and she also has some pretty tough muscles on her from training. She is usually seen wearing a dark denim bottom-piece with a simple grey v-neck shirt. She wears bourdeaux-red Dr. Martins as footwear and as a coat is often seen with double-rowed short jackets. Uncharacteristically, Jayzen is covered in tattoos. She has a full upper-body tattoo that isn't visible when she wears long-sleeved o-necks. It’s an showcase of mythical creatures, florals, words, painting-elements all mixed into a beautiful piece. But the most enchanting bit is her back-piece, a balking Kirin with a dead branch in his mouth.


Personality: Jayzen is a bit of a socially awkward young woman. She’s never been all too good with people, and would just sit by and watch them as they went about and had fun in high school/college. She’s pretty quiet in most cases, but will speak her mind if she deems it necessary. Although being in a group is challenging for her she tries to make the best out of everything she runs into throughout her life. Time has taught her that sometimes, making a fuss, just doesn't solve anything. Jazz is kind at heart, and does not wish to harm anyone. But she does believe in ‘the greater good’. Usualy taking to herself, does noet mean Jayzen is an asocial human being. At the right time, in the right place, she can engage in normal talk. However this is on rare occasion.


Background: Jayzen comes from a pretty normal household. She has two older siblings, one brother, the eldest (currently 25): Dafid. And an older sister: Sonna, who is two years older than Jayzen. Her mother was a full-time stay-at-home-mom. Always ready with lunch, milk and cookies and every bit of caring motherly love. Her father is an engineer for the government, making at least 50hr-weeks and working like there was nothing else. Even though Jayzen had difficulty getting along with her peers at a young age, nothing was seen in those early signs. Brushed off as ‘a bit asocial’ it was only much later that the girl was actually intellectually gifted. Soon ready to skip two classes, Jayzen run into a huge wall when she entered university at such a young age. Not afraid to overcome anything with the help of her mother she took the challenge. When her mother fell ill some time ago, it wasn't long before it became apparent her mother had no real future left, and it was only a matter of months before the Pleamont family completely fell apart. Hidden in his job, her father disappeared and her older sibling went their own way. Leaving their youngest sister to fend for herself. At that time she still lived in dorms, but soon enough she was out on her own and looking for a job. She only recently moved into a small apartment down-town and started her job as an art-curator.

Spoiler

What I think will happen: The night of the Blood Sky, and the next morning she noticed a change. Something that had been there before, had now warped into something different, the ink in her skin had shifted and formed a word ‘Shade’

Other:

 

[Sea]

I've changed my form Tell me if anything else needs to be changed

 

[Lovable Dark-side]

Name: (including nicknames)Rico Freeman (No Nickname)


Age: (15 and older I will only accept a few teenagers so be different, okay?)15


Occupation:Student at Saint James Catholic School,She also works part-time as Candy stripe nurse.(Thats an underaged Volenteer who does stuff like clean rooms and reads to patients ect.)


Demon Mark: (also explain what the mark allows you to do)Illusion. This mark allows her to create people,object,even memories that aren't really.She can even make it seem as if a certain event is happening at this very moment and you would believe it was actually happening.


Location of Mark:The smallish and located on the palm of her hand.


Weapons: (keep in mind that you will most likely carry this thing around the city and nothing too crazy)She likes to depend on her wits,so she really doesn't care much except a thin bladed knife that she has named Kiyro.


Appearance:Rico has blackish,brown hair that goes to the small of her back that she likes to keep in two tight braids,because its really curly.Her eyes are like a Alley cats One emerald green and the other deep chocolate brown both gleaming with a secret sadness.Her ears seem to point like an elves,giving her a trusting,yet childish look so she looks more like she is 13 than 15.She is 5'5 with an olive complexion and wears a neon green tee-shirt that is loose against her curvy figure.Along with dark wash Daisy dukes and combat boots that she laces up with two black ribbons.She also wears a black ribbon around her wrist like she is a present ready to be given.


Personality:Rico is clever and cunning like a fox,yet is extremely childish and never really takes anything seriously even when she is in danger.So people seem to underestimate her wich is there major down fall,because behind all this childish behavior is a extresemly intiligent girl who refuses to back down even when she really just needs to back off.


Background:Rico grew up in the middle class so her home life wasn't that bad,she knew people who had worst.What could she complain,yes her mother was mentally insane,barely able to remember she had a child in the first place and her father worked long hours to keep at the office just to keep a roof above their head and food on her table.Making her go to some fancy boarding school just so she can have a better chance at life than he has when he was growing up.It wouldn't have been that bad if all the other students were stuck up idiots who craved power like a crack addict crave cocaine.They would bully her horriably to the point where she could barely take itthere wasn't a day when she didn't come home with a new bruise on her.


She would just brush it off and hope for a better tomorrow.No tears from this one nope.When the exspltion happened the sky turning deep red like blood.She sat in the girls locker room figures looming over her menocely armed with knife she was at there mercy.Later that night she came home deep cut that went from jaw line to the her ear,but it quickly healed as soon as she was marked.


Other:

 

[usagi froggy]

Name: Alexandra "Lex" McDermott


Age: 24


Occupation: The sous-chef at an Italian restaurant inside a large mall.


Demon Mark: Prodigy. This allows her to pick up an item and gain the knowledge of the item from the last person who used it. This only takes effect for 5 minutes. If the item she picks up was used by her last she will not gain any knowledge of the object.


Location of Mark: Back of left calve reaching down to the heel of her foot.


Weapons: Two pistols.


Appearance: Lex has dark hair reaching her back which she often ties into a ponytail. She has small, pointy, green eyes with long eyelashes. She has a round jaw and full lips. She often wears makeup which consists or dark reds or pinks. She wears clothes that are easy to move around in, but on special occasions she likes to get all dolled up and fancy. She has a pair of crystal earrings that she wears every day.


Personality: Lex is a hard-working individual who works very hard towards what she wants. Sometimes she gets so focused on things she tends to block other people out. She tries not to let other people bother her, but she is very sensitive and doesn't like to be teased or made fun of. She likes to cry to vent out her feelings, but this doesn't mean she is depressed. She is determined to follow her dreams, and loves sharing them with other people.


Background: Lex came from a good family. Her parents often encouraged her interests which flip-flopped all the time. She started with dancing, then sports, then sewing. You get the idea... Her parents encouragement made her feel like she could do anything.


When she was fourteen she got interested in cooking and focused on it all the time. Years later she graduated from high school and headed to college. She soon graduated and got a job at a restaurant.


She didn't notice the Blood Sky incident until that evening when it had been reported on the news. When she finished watching she noticed the strange tattoo on her calve. She didn't know how it got there and is now trying to figure out it's origin.


Other: Nothing

 

[Nicoledashorty]

Name: Charlotte *Charlie* Simmons.


Age: 21


Occupation: Works as the cashier at the hair salon.


Demon Mark: Water: It gives Charlie the power to move water, control rain, and other things.


Location of Mark: Right hip, the word is in the middle of a somewhat large teardrop.


Weapons: Charlie holds a knife and a small shotgun.


Appearance:

Charlie also has a tattoo of an anchor on her wrist, for an uncle who died in the Navy, and one of a flower on her ankle.


Personality: Charlie is a sweet girl. She is usually quiet, but when she is around people she knows she is loud and fun. She is a strong, independent girl who can stand up for herself. She likes to go to clubs once in a while with her girl friends and have some fun. When she isn't home she is either with her friends, working, or on a date.


Background: Charlie lived with her family since she was nineteen, when she had enough money she moved into her own apartment. Her family was nice, it was just her and her mom, brother and sister. Her dad was a drug attic and alcoholic, who her mother left after Charlie's sister was born.


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[Mags]

Name: Logan Kira Nickname: Kir "keer" or Kira "keerah"


Age: 22


Occupation: Bookstore clerk


Demon Mark: Empathy. The mark gives her the ability to feel the emotions of everyone around her, and the option to make them feel anything she chooses. Fear, hate, loyalty, anything. The catch is that she must transfer the emotion from within herself. If she wants a person to feel anger, she must first feel anger in it's purest form within herself, and then that is pushed through a link with that person, which can be as simple as a name or photo.


Location of Mark: Right side of the neck, just under the ear.


Weapons: Blades. She is a hands-on fighter, in the thick of things, often with the small twin daggers she keeps strapped to her thighs. In the right outfit she has forearm blades, blades in her boots, and various through knives.


Appearance: She's tall, 6' even, with closely cropped hair auburn, so that it doesn't get in the way when she fights. Pale skin, with bright green eyes, she looks like she never gets out into the sun. She has the appearance of a stick but she is all muscle.


Personality: At first meeting, Kir is very quiet, not shy, but calculating. She reads people well and has a good sense of the sort of people she likes to be around and makes her decisions about strangers quickly, who to trust and who to let in. Once you get to know her, and she relaxes around you, she is energetic and excitable, someone who loves to laugh loudly and often. She has a passion for reading and for learning and a knack for picking up random bits of knowledge. She is fiercely loyal, and dangerous when crossed. She has always been the type to bottle up any negative emotions.


Background: The only family that Kir is close to are her two older brothers, Craig, 25, and Jordan, 28. When she was five, her parents split up and her mom left her and her brothers with their father, who spent as much time away from the children that reminded him of the wife that left him as possible, especially Kir who resembled her mother. Her brothers were all she had. Growing up poor in NYC, she developed the ability to read people young, as a necessity. She split her time out of school in the library and in the dojo where her older brother Jordan worked. In the martial arts, she found that she could focus the whirling emotions and tangled thoughts into pure physical energy, something that she release onto the unsuspecting practice opponent. In books, she found an escape from her mind.


Other: Once she realizes what she has, she is going to have to find a way to make two separate parts in her mind, one for the emotions she feels, and one for those that others feel. It's going to sometimes come off as a nearly split personality as it will be easy for her to changer her emotions.

 

[amdreams]

Oh dear Lord, where to start . . .


Sea The only issue I have is that I fail to see how "Earth" would apply to weather and animals. Although I am thinking about earth the element and not the planet.


Animya The only thing you have to do is reread the rules for a certain little thing you may have missed.


Xynia1998 I'm sorry to say this but denied.


Nicoledashorty Sorry but denied.


Mags A few things. One, I don't know if you want "Empathy" as your demon mark. I'm just not sure how that would help against fighting demons. Also, there's a rule I think you missed.

 

[Sea]

I was thinking of Earth as more of a plant/atmosphere/surroundings thing rather than the element

 

[amdreams]

Well, that might be a bit OP . . .

 

[Riddle78]

Name: Neil Starke


Age: 32


Occupation: Construction worker


Mark: Indomitable. At will,Neil can ignore various laws of momentum,inertia,movement,and other physical laws in a "defensive" posture,reduced injury and trauma,and,remarkably,entering a state of total stasis,where it is utterly impossible for Neil to be moved,either by his own power,or others,while being utterly impossible to damage on any scale.


Location of Mark: Between the shoulder blades


Weapons: Prybars,sledgehammers,really,anything you can find on a construction site,Neil knows how to use it as a weapon. Then there's his own body,which he applies to put his opponents in grapples. He keeps no weapons on his person.


Personality: Neil's a simple man. He wants to get the job done,get paid,and go home. However,he wants to guarantee his pay,so he will do everything he can to get the job done right the first time,and endeavours to leave no loose ends.

Spoiler

Minus the robotic arm. Stands six foot three,weighs 225 pounds. Dark brown hair,brown eyes.


Background: Neil Starke is a born and raised New Yorker. His parents struggled to keep him and his brother fed,and the household afloat. Their schoolastic careers were rocky,to say the least. They passed elementary school by the skin of their teeth,and his brother dropped out of high school in the tenth grade,quickly falling into gangs.


Neil,however,graduated,if barely. Finding himself handy with tools,and physically strong,he signed on with a construction company based out of Manhattan,and saw steady,honest work,while his brother bounced in and out of prison for this and that. One day,Neil's brother,Elliot,decided to lead a gang raid on one of the construction sites that Neil was working at. Elliot didn't care,having disowned his family during his tenth stay in prison,seeing his gang as his family.


The gangsters were repelled by the workers and the police,resulting in the arrest of Elliot and several others. A week later,Elliot was stabbed in the prison yard.


When the Blood Sky Incident occurred,Neil was unnerved,to say the least. The sky was never supposed to be such a shade of red. He was even more unnerved when he saw the tattoo on his back the next morning,reading "Indomitable". He never got ink. He vowed to never get a tattoo,seeing them as nothing but gang tags.


And,irony of ironies,that's when he got press-ganged into the Hellion Beasts,after getting a brief on his mysterious tattoo.

 

[amdreams]

Riddle, accepted.

 

[FungKu]

Name: Henry Wright


Age: 32


Occupation: A Mechanic


Demon Mark:


Reinforce = This Demon mark allows Henry to harden his skin, Something tougher than steel. And also, It sharpens both his nails and teeth, As a sharp as a blade. But it's only down side is, He can only keep it up for a couple of minutes. His human body is not strong enough to sustain it's ability.


Mimic = This ability allows Henry to copy the solidarity of anything he touches. For example, He copies the metal of a Street light. His skin changes into the same metal of the street light. But it's only limited depending on how big the object is he is copying from.


Location of Mark: Reinforce is located on his left chest, Just in front of the heart. The Mimic is located on his right forearm.


Weapons: Nothing, He prefers fist fight.


Appearance:

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Personality: Henry is a man who loves his work. And most of all, He loves cars. He also tend to smoke from time to time, Only to kill some time when he is bored. Also, He is a heavy drinker. Loves to drink, with friends if possible. But inside, Henry is a man with good instinct. Like animals, He follows his instincts more than decisions.


Background: When Henry was young, He was an unwanted child. His parents never cared for him. Except for his uncle, A unmarried mechanic who lived by himself. For some reason, His uncle loves him a lot more than his parents. It must be the fact that his uncle never had a child of his own. And he takes Henry as his own.


When Henry graduated from senior high. He then started to work for his uncle as A mechanic. Just like him, He fell in love with cars. Together, They were like father and child. But little did he know that his father was against Henry being a mechanic.


Henry's father tried to convince him in doing medical science. But Henry insisted, And his father got so pissed in that he started to fight Henry, But his uncle was there to stop the fight. Unfortunately, His father accidentally stabbed his brother with a knife. Leading to his death.


After the funeral, Henry moved out of his parent's house and moved in to his Uncles place. He never wanted to be with his parents anymore. He grew up, On his own, On his uncles place, As a Mechanic.


Years later, The bloody sky incident occurred . Henry didn't care much about it. So he just continued his everyday life as a mechanic, Fixing other people's car. But then, Later on, When he was in his room to change, He noticed that he had a tattoo on his right fore arm and left chest. At first, He thought it was just an oil from the shop. But it didn't come off when he tried to rub it off. Not able to do anything with it, He just kept it with himself.

 

[amdreams]

Accepted, Wright.

 

[keizerin]

Name: Violet "Vi" Jones


Age: 24


Occupation: Bookstore assistant


Demon Mark: Acid; Vi can generate an acidic substance and control the corrosiveness, from having weak burning sensations to burning a hole through even the strongest of materials.


Location of Mark: Over her left collarbone.


Weapons: A combat knife for close combat and a few home-made mini-bombs.


Appearance: Violet stands at 5'7 with a slender build and slight curves. She has lightly tanned skin with dark green eyes as well as dark brown hair that comes down to about mid-back in length with straight bangs. Her hair is usually tied up into two braids that rest upon her shoulders, but when her hair is down it is lightly waved. She likes to wear plain-colored shirts with plaid shirts as a light jacket of sorts with jeans and typical shoes. When hanging with her gang, she wears a gas mask.


Personality: Violet used to be a bookworm-type character, always quiet and keeping to herself. She often preferred the company of her stories and parents than anyone else, always afraid of strangers. However, something changed after the incident when she was ten and she turned into a completely different person. She became more sociopathic over time; in other words, her true emotions had almost completely disappeared, but she's damn good at mimicking them. Inside she's cold and near-heartless, very rarely caring about anyone other than herself.


Background: Violet lived a relatively normal for the first ten years of her life. Her family was made up of four people (her, her mother and father, as well as an older brother) and most definitely wasn't perfect, but there wasn't any major issues that couldn't be resolved, and it's not like they were poor. However, one day Vi's father took her out of the house to spend some quality father-daughter time together, but was faced with absolute horror when they returned home.


Her mother had tried to cook dinner for the two while they were gone, but something went wrong with the stove and the whole house was blown to smithereens. Of course, her brother's body was no where to be found, in whole or in pieces, so the police ruled it as an attempted murder. While the detectives worked on finding her missing sibling, Violet and her dad moved to New York City, hoping to escape and rebuild their lives there. However, her father fell into a deep depression and soon wouldn't leave the house to even attempt to get a job. He started drinking, of course, which left the poor girl to work multiple part-time jobs in order to pay for their terrible apartment as well as juggling schoolwork.


Of course, Vi had no choice but to stay with her dad after high school and take care of him, no matter how much she had grown to despise the man. She repeated her busy routine until the age of twenty; her and her dad got into a huge argument. She left, never even giving him a second glance.


She eventually managed to find a job and an apartment. Soon after, when the Blood Incident occurred, she didn't know what to think of it. Sure, there was a giant boom that came along with the disconcerting color change, but nothing seemed to be any different. If everyone else went about their lives as usual, then so should she. However, after coming home from work she noticed a word had been tattooed onto her skin...


Other: Ever since the Blood Sky Incident and Violet gained her demon mark, she has had trouble breathing and has had to use an inhaler and is unsure whether it is due to her new-found abilities or if it's just a coincidence.

 

[Hippopotamus]

[PRETEND THIS IS A SKY BLUE]


Name: Benjamin Young Sargeant | Often nicknamed Benny, Ben, or Teddy by his family/coworkers.


Age: Nineteen


Occupation: A waiter in a cafe that often sells breakfast-related items such as coffee, eggs, donuts, and several pastries.


Demon Mark:


Turbulence - Turbulence grants Benjamin the power to summon unnatural blasts of wind that can go in any direction. This wind can only come from a three yard radius from him, which will get weaker the farther it is from him. It isn't quite strong enough to lift anyone besides him when he uses his umbrella as it is open, but it is enough to force someone of average weight a few feet back.


Location of Mark: On his back, just below his neckline.


Weapons: Benjamin often carries an umbrella with him, which can be considered both a useful tool and weapon for Turbulence.


Appearance:

Spoiler

Personality: Benjamin can often be seen as quite the airhead, throwing off foolish remarks left and right. He is quite friendly and open and is never the person to leave another alone, or be alone himself. He is also an enthusiast of fashion, striving to look very 'stylish' and 'unique'.


Background: Benjamin lived in a middle class family with two older sisters, a mother, and a father. His sisters, who commonly treated him like the third sister of the house, could be seen as stereotypical girly girls, who liked make-up and dress-up and styling hair.... Well, mostly Benjamin's hair. His father was a mechanic, working in his own private business, while his mother worked for a company that sold clothing as well as wet-wear (typically ponchos and umbrellas).


He lived a pretty normal life, except for the fact that he came out with a higher-than-average tolerance to girls. At school he made more female friends than the average male, and wore pretty extravagant clothes (on account of his mother working for a clothing company). Many of his classmates, in high school, thought he was gay. But that wasn't the case, and he disregarded their false accusations right as they started.


Soon, before Benjamin finished high school, he found a well-paying waiter job at a cafe and decided to stay working until he got enough money to pay for college. A bit more than a year later, while he was working, he found the sky to be a bloody red. He didn't care much for it, or the boom that had happened because of it, but when he went home later in the day he found a tattoo on his back while changing into his house clothes...


Other: Benjamin often carries a differently-styled umbrella each day to test how society would think of it, which his mother thinks is quite a cute habit.


[/PRETEND THIS IS A SKY BLUE]

 

[Ineffectivd]

Name: Danielle “Cross” Delacroix


Age: 26


Occupation: Police Detective. Try messing that up with a sleuth and I’ll hit you. Very hard.


Demon Mark:


-Burning Hearth: General control over fire. As she stands now, she can only manipulate existing sources of heat (such as, say, a burning cigarette stub) to explode into a burst of flame that burns at the temperature of a stove, or to manipulate existing fires to go forth as a whip or a weapon of sorts. These two abilities may be used in conjunction.


Location of Mark: The back of her right hand.


Weapons: A Thompson Contender G1. Antique, but very reliable. It has an engraving of a cougar on the right side of the weapon, just next to its hammer. Was given to her after the staff was clearing out the confiscatory. Seemed kike no one was going to claim it.


A standard issue Beretta 92F.


Appearance:


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Personality: Cross is a strict and no-nonsense person who does not have time for your jokes or your ‘let’s lighten the mood’ acts. She often bends the law to get her way and no one can escape the grasps of Madamoiselle L’Detective Jave- I mean, Delacroix once she has set her sights on you and has condemned you to a death sentence or a life imprisonment. She takes every job seriously and will not tolerate kiddish behavior, biting off heads if she must. Her hellish determination to take down criminals is as it is: hellish. Don’t get in her way unless you want a bullet in your brain pan.


Background: There was a childhood for Delacroix, believe it or not. She came from France, from a country-side, to the bustling New York, her father looking for a job in the thriving city. He found one, of course, as a run-of-the-mill grunt for the local precinct. Danielle grew up under the teachings of the law and the Christian way. The only one thing about the Bible that she did not exactly follow, however, was ye olde “Forgive and forget”. With the idea that France was a weakling country along with the fact that she was a girl, her schoolmates tried to bully her, Cross had quite enough of this bullshit and decided to, one day, turn on them with a balled fist. She didn’t miss a single one of the other kids who wronged her. Her parents reprimanded her, obviously, but Cross saw nothing wrong with her actions. She was but carrying out the needs of the law and to promote goodness for the Lord.


She soon enrolled into a police academy according to her wishes and ran with the whole police shtick. While her parents weren’t too happy- “You should have worked in another industry!” – they let her be, confident that she will drop out after seeing how tough the training was. She didn’t. Instead, she went on to be one of the better ones of her cohort. She was enlisted into her father’s precinct soon after. At 23, her father resigned, as Cross herself climbed the ladder rapidly. She was later assigned to the Organized Crime department as a Detective.


12 Noon. Detective Cross was out for a smoke break, looking up into the sky as she paced around the roof of the precinct. No new cases. Reports from the Criminal Intel say of a new syndicate coming up, but without any solid evidence, there was nothing that her department can do. The sky flashed once and turned red as she mulled over this. The wind whipped past her as the sound of an explosion roared through the air. The phones in her precinct started ringing and nearly all the departments were contacted. Cross went out with one of the teams to search for the source of explosion. A whole day of searching and nothing came of it. The other precincts had no information either, so the whole force just marked it down as an unresolved case.


Cross returned to her home at three in the morning, tired and sore from all that paperwork, and slumped into her bed. Morning came almost too soon, and Cross awoke to find a tattoo on the back of her hand. Irritated and not wanting her superiors to think that she had been getting tattoos, Cross grabbed her black gloves and wore them over this new addition to her physique. What in the world was this thing? She had tried, later, to erase it with everything she could, stopping short of slicing off her own skin.


Other: She smokes and carries around a Zippo lighter with a picture of a near nude woman printed on the cover. It was confiscated from a gangster she had arrested, but never thought to get rid of it.

 

[Mags]

Empathy as a mark, it is going to help her read people or demons that the group may or may not be able to trust. In a fight, if she can make a group of the enemies feel fear or distrust for their group, it's going to make it more difficult for them to fight.


And sorry about missing that second part of the rule. I'll change it now.

 

[amdreams]

Okay, let me say this now. I will not be accepting any more female applications! Honestly, we've got like 10 people who applied as girls. And only 3 guys. Granted 3 of them are denied but that still leaves 7 possible ones. I'm going to have one female character but I'm the GM so I can do what I want. But I still wanted this to be a relatively small to medium group rp, max of like 12-13 characters. Because things tend to get hectic with more, especially when no one is branching off to their own plots or stuff. I might end up having to select the ones I like the most because I wanted a generally equal number of females and males.


Mags But empathy in itself wouldn't really help to defeat the demon, plus that sort of ability would fall under a type of mind power which I don't really want. Is there another mark you might like?


keizerin The only problem with your backstory is that your character shouldn't have your powers yet until the rp starts and the Hellion Beasts tell you about your mark. I also have a bit of an issue with the bombs thing. I just don't think it's safe to carry around a bunch of homemade bombs. You can still have bombs as your weapon because we'll eventually need a demolitions guy but I'm just not sure about you carrying them around everywhere in your bag.


Oitetment Accepted.


Sheogorath Accepted.


Just a note, when I close sign ups, I will choose my two or three favorite characters to be a part of the first Hellion Beasts, or the ones who are already part of the gang before the rp starts. The perks to this would be that these characters would already have some form of mastery of their marks and they get to start the rp with a battle instead of witnessing a battle. If you're not interested, please say so.

 

[keizerin]

Good to know. I fixed up my character and (hopefully) even the spacing problem in my bio.