ShizukaAyame
Junior Member
Welcome to the Orphanage sign-up thread! Click on the linky to learn about the Orphanage RP! All participants of the Orphanage RP are required to know the story, so please click the link provided before posting a character: http://www.rpnation.com/showthread.php/4221-The-Orphanage-Back-Story?p=147350#post147350
One thing that I forgot to mention in the back story; your character can have a minor mutation. Something like a little enhanced strength, speed, sight, hearing, etc. is acceptable, but nothing over the top. Characters cannot use magic nor shoot lazer beams from their eyes or anywhere else. If you're wondering if your mutation is acceptable or not, shoot me a PM and I'll get back to you ASAP.
The only rules of the sign-up are to stick to the sign-up sheet template that will appear in a moment, and to make no more than three characters at this moment in time. I might allow more characters per person later, but I want to see how well the RP flows with a limit of three characters per person for now. If you have under three characters, you can make another character at any time. However, do not introduce your character in the RP unless I've okay-ed the character.
Sign-up sheet:
Name (First & Last):
Age:
Gender:
Appearance (Picture is not required):
Backstory (Please include how your character got to the Orphanage):
Bio/Personality:
Weapon of Choice:
Mutation:
Extra (Optional):
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Name: Keira Darkova
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Appearance: Keira is 5'3'', skinny, but overly so with waist-length, straight brown hair and blue eyes with cat pupils. She usually wears a black tank-top covered by a white jacket that is decorated with black skulls, with a red plaid skirt and ripped grey tights. She never wears shoes, but usually has a army green messenger bag slung over her right shoulder.
Backstory: Keira was a pretty normal fifteen-year-old girl. She had a few good friends that she hung out with occasionally, she had good grades, and she was content with her life. But there was something off about her. You wouldn't sense it at first, but if you spent a good length of time with the girl you would begin to understand that she had an obsession, one that she thought about constantly. Keira was obsessed with blood. Pain wasn't necessarily something she liked to inflict, and she typically bared no ill-will against her peers, but she couldn't help but think of ways to make the people around her bleed. She was so obsessed with the red liquid that she went into a frenzy nearly every time she saw it, and would have to remove herself from whatever situation she was in before she outwardly showed how crazy her obsession made her. It was this obsession that led her to her boyfriend - a masochist by the name of Matt - and what later led her to kill both of her parents. The latter is what caused her to flee the small town she lived in, and what ultimately led her to the Orphanage as she had taken to the woods in her attempt to escape the police. Keira had never intended to harm her parents, and the memories of that night - the horror on their faces and their screams and moans of pain - are things that haunt her dreams. After that night, she vowed to never hurt someone she cared about again, and is obsessively protective of Matt as a result, though her desire for blood and her knowledge of his masochism still lead her to cut him on occasion. The other inhabitants of the Orphanage are now the ones that she attacks to fulfill her obsession. She had lived in the Orphanage for nearly a year when the members had begun disappearing and had become the new "mother" of the Orphanage as a result.
Bio/Personality: Keira is a generally nice and happy person who avoids needless confrontation, except when Matt is involved. She is very protective of her boyfriend, though this trait isn't apparent when blood is involved. She often becomes giggly and overly friendly when she leans towards insanity, and she enjoys dragging out fights during the night.
Weapon of Choice: She carries around two pairs of six-inch, double-edged scissors in the inside pockets of her jacket.
Mutation: Her eyes have pupils reminiscent of a cat's, and they work in a similar way, too. Her pupils dilate like a cat's and allow her to see very well in dark areas, though she can not see if there is no light what-so-ever.
Extra: She has a soft spot for children and prefers playing the nightly game with the older kids, though she wouldn't hesitate to play with the younger children if they initiated a game.
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Name (First & Last): Matt Watson
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Appearance (Picture is not required): Matt is 5'11'' and thin, but toned (so not wimpy skinny, but not buff). He has chin length black hair that he has dyed a deep red at the tips, and underneath his hair that covers his eyes are nearly black irises. He usually wears an oversized gray t-shirt, black baggy jeans, and faded black sneakers.
Backstory (Please include how your character got to the Orphanage): Matt grew up knowing only abuse from his parents - more so his father than mother - and from his peers. At school, Matt was always the odd one out. He was always a quiet boy, and he preferred reading and writing over sports. He'd worn dark clothing since he could remember, and from a very young age he had been considered freakish by his classmates. He was the outcast, the person that you made fun of to feel like you fit in or to make you feel better about yourself. His home life wasn't much better. His father attacked him whenever he was drunk or angry, which was often, and his mother acted as if nothing was going on. With no escape from this mixing pot of hate and pain, Matt looked for any outlet of relief he could try and soon found his vice: cutting. It was only a temporary fix, though, and Matt began a rapid downward spiral when he reached middle school, coming out of the experience with a bad case of depression and a cloud of suicidal thoughts floating around his head. Ninth grade was more of the same, and then, when he entered the tenth grade, he met Keira. She was probably the first person in the world who hadn't looked at him like he was some kind of disgusting thing that had crawled out of a hole in the ground, and he found himself drawn to her. Surprisingly, she was drawn to him as well, and it was only a couple of days before they were officially a couple. Even with Keira, his life was still miserable - his classmates still abhorred him, his father still beat him, and his mother still neglected him - but it was now bearable. He was no longer suicidal and he didn't have a undeniable need to cut anymore, just a faint, nagging desire that floated around the back of his mind.
When Matt heard about Keira's disappearance following her parents' murder, he searched for her. He knew she had probably been the murderer; they had told each other nearly everything there was to know about each other, which included Keira's eccentricity in regards to blood. He raked through the woods, and finally found Keira three days later. In all of this time, Matt had not slept or eaten, and he died after finding Keira, but he died within the walls of the Orphanage and consequently came back to life the next morning. He now lives in the Orphanage with Keira and the other children.
Bio/Personality: Matt has a very quiet, detached personality that makes him appear apathetic, but this is not entirely true. Though it goes unnoticed by most people, he is very warm and gentle when Keira is concerned and quickly becomes violent whenever Keira is hurt or in danger of being so. Matt does not care if he himself takes damage, though.
Weapon of Choice: Matt wears a ring on each finger, excluding his thumbs, from which spikes protrude. They only stick up from the top half of the rings, so he can form a fist without cutting into himself. He uses these to add an extra kick to his punches, which is what he primarily uses to attack with.
Mutation: Matt has a very high pain tolerance, but he is unsure if this is an actual mutation or just a product of enduring years of abuse.
Extra (Optional): Having been abused since he was only a few years old, Matt has a strong hatred for and fear of adults, particularly older men.
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One thing that I forgot to mention in the back story; your character can have a minor mutation. Something like a little enhanced strength, speed, sight, hearing, etc. is acceptable, but nothing over the top. Characters cannot use magic nor shoot lazer beams from their eyes or anywhere else. If you're wondering if your mutation is acceptable or not, shoot me a PM and I'll get back to you ASAP.
The only rules of the sign-up are to stick to the sign-up sheet template that will appear in a moment, and to make no more than three characters at this moment in time. I might allow more characters per person later, but I want to see how well the RP flows with a limit of three characters per person for now. If you have under three characters, you can make another character at any time. However, do not introduce your character in the RP unless I've okay-ed the character.
Sign-up sheet:
Name (First & Last):
Age:
Gender:
Appearance (Picture is not required):
Backstory (Please include how your character got to the Orphanage):
Bio/Personality:
Weapon of Choice:
Mutation:
Extra (Optional):
~_~_~
Name: Keira Darkova
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Appearance: Keira is 5'3'', skinny, but overly so with waist-length, straight brown hair and blue eyes with cat pupils. She usually wears a black tank-top covered by a white jacket that is decorated with black skulls, with a red plaid skirt and ripped grey tights. She never wears shoes, but usually has a army green messenger bag slung over her right shoulder.
Backstory: Keira was a pretty normal fifteen-year-old girl. She had a few good friends that she hung out with occasionally, she had good grades, and she was content with her life. But there was something off about her. You wouldn't sense it at first, but if you spent a good length of time with the girl you would begin to understand that she had an obsession, one that she thought about constantly. Keira was obsessed with blood. Pain wasn't necessarily something she liked to inflict, and she typically bared no ill-will against her peers, but she couldn't help but think of ways to make the people around her bleed. She was so obsessed with the red liquid that she went into a frenzy nearly every time she saw it, and would have to remove herself from whatever situation she was in before she outwardly showed how crazy her obsession made her. It was this obsession that led her to her boyfriend - a masochist by the name of Matt - and what later led her to kill both of her parents. The latter is what caused her to flee the small town she lived in, and what ultimately led her to the Orphanage as she had taken to the woods in her attempt to escape the police. Keira had never intended to harm her parents, and the memories of that night - the horror on their faces and their screams and moans of pain - are things that haunt her dreams. After that night, she vowed to never hurt someone she cared about again, and is obsessively protective of Matt as a result, though her desire for blood and her knowledge of his masochism still lead her to cut him on occasion. The other inhabitants of the Orphanage are now the ones that she attacks to fulfill her obsession. She had lived in the Orphanage for nearly a year when the members had begun disappearing and had become the new "mother" of the Orphanage as a result.
Bio/Personality: Keira is a generally nice and happy person who avoids needless confrontation, except when Matt is involved. She is very protective of her boyfriend, though this trait isn't apparent when blood is involved. She often becomes giggly and overly friendly when she leans towards insanity, and she enjoys dragging out fights during the night.
Weapon of Choice: She carries around two pairs of six-inch, double-edged scissors in the inside pockets of her jacket.
Mutation: Her eyes have pupils reminiscent of a cat's, and they work in a similar way, too. Her pupils dilate like a cat's and allow her to see very well in dark areas, though she can not see if there is no light what-so-ever.
Extra: She has a soft spot for children and prefers playing the nightly game with the older kids, though she wouldn't hesitate to play with the younger children if they initiated a game.
~_~_~
Name (First & Last): Matt Watson
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Appearance (Picture is not required): Matt is 5'11'' and thin, but toned (so not wimpy skinny, but not buff). He has chin length black hair that he has dyed a deep red at the tips, and underneath his hair that covers his eyes are nearly black irises. He usually wears an oversized gray t-shirt, black baggy jeans, and faded black sneakers.
Backstory (Please include how your character got to the Orphanage): Matt grew up knowing only abuse from his parents - more so his father than mother - and from his peers. At school, Matt was always the odd one out. He was always a quiet boy, and he preferred reading and writing over sports. He'd worn dark clothing since he could remember, and from a very young age he had been considered freakish by his classmates. He was the outcast, the person that you made fun of to feel like you fit in or to make you feel better about yourself. His home life wasn't much better. His father attacked him whenever he was drunk or angry, which was often, and his mother acted as if nothing was going on. With no escape from this mixing pot of hate and pain, Matt looked for any outlet of relief he could try and soon found his vice: cutting. It was only a temporary fix, though, and Matt began a rapid downward spiral when he reached middle school, coming out of the experience with a bad case of depression and a cloud of suicidal thoughts floating around his head. Ninth grade was more of the same, and then, when he entered the tenth grade, he met Keira. She was probably the first person in the world who hadn't looked at him like he was some kind of disgusting thing that had crawled out of a hole in the ground, and he found himself drawn to her. Surprisingly, she was drawn to him as well, and it was only a couple of days before they were officially a couple. Even with Keira, his life was still miserable - his classmates still abhorred him, his father still beat him, and his mother still neglected him - but it was now bearable. He was no longer suicidal and he didn't have a undeniable need to cut anymore, just a faint, nagging desire that floated around the back of his mind.
When Matt heard about Keira's disappearance following her parents' murder, he searched for her. He knew she had probably been the murderer; they had told each other nearly everything there was to know about each other, which included Keira's eccentricity in regards to blood. He raked through the woods, and finally found Keira three days later. In all of this time, Matt had not slept or eaten, and he died after finding Keira, but he died within the walls of the Orphanage and consequently came back to life the next morning. He now lives in the Orphanage with Keira and the other children.
Bio/Personality: Matt has a very quiet, detached personality that makes him appear apathetic, but this is not entirely true. Though it goes unnoticed by most people, he is very warm and gentle when Keira is concerned and quickly becomes violent whenever Keira is hurt or in danger of being so. Matt does not care if he himself takes damage, though.
Weapon of Choice: Matt wears a ring on each finger, excluding his thumbs, from which spikes protrude. They only stick up from the top half of the rings, so he can form a fist without cutting into himself. He uses these to add an extra kick to his punches, which is what he primarily uses to attack with.
Mutation: Matt has a very high pain tolerance, but he is unsure if this is an actual mutation or just a product of enduring years of abuse.
Extra (Optional): Having been abused since he was only a few years old, Matt has a strong hatred for and fear of adults, particularly older men.
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