Demon Wars: civil war in hell

plot:

To become a demon, you must die in complete and utter despair.

When that happens the Gates of Hell will swing wide open and you will find yourself in one of the nine capital cities of Hell. Inferno, Chaos, Mayhem, Despair, Wrath, Revenge, Abyss, Torment, and Pandemonium.

You would think after living a miserable life, you would be entitled to a little peace and quiet while adjusting to your new existence. No such luck. You see Lucifer has recently vacated his throne, poof, vanished, and no one knows where he's gone. The Throne of Hell cannot remain empty for long, for only by the King's will does Hell exist at all. Hell needs a new King, and soon, or every soul in the dimension will perish for all time.

There's just one small problem, the Nine Territories, each governed by a Fallen Archangel, can't agree on who will be the next King. Civil war erupts, factions vie for power in each of the cities. The newest generation of demons are the wild card, each blessed, or cursed, with unusual gifts and powers.

What will you do, give your loyalty to one of the Territories? Sit on the sidelines? Or will you reach for the top and claim the throne with your own two hands?

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Rules: The usual rules apply no god modding (I find that phrase funny considering this is set in Hell), no killing off characters without permission (although there will be a lot of killing of fodder NPC's), etc... etc...
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Characters: Please follow this character profile.

Name:
Age: (when you died, demons don't physically age beyond that point)
Gender:
City: (which city do you start in, your Home Base so to speak)
Appearance:
Personality:
History: (this is your human history, as all characters have only been in hell for a month, max.)
Powers: (What are your powers as a demon, at least the ones you know so far)
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3- (Note: Your character has yet to gain this power, but it will appear at some point in the story.)
Other:

Name: Genesis "The Black Seraphim" Marston

Age: 8 (Angel) 19 (Demon)

Gender: Female

City: Pandemonium

Appearance:

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Genesis without "Divine Hate" active.

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Genesis with "Divine Hate" active.

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Personality: As her angel self, she is extremely loyal to God and Lucifer, and she see's them as "The Balancing Lords" one is light the other darkness for which there is balance between the forces of good and evil. She constantly harasses the Fallen Arch Angels to find Lord Lucifer before the Balance begins to tip, but none don't want to listen to her, but she won't give up.

As her Devil self, she has no loyalty's she cares only for herself, no man has ever caught her eye, and she will not for the life of her let herself be bound by commitment, only a man who forces her to commit will she be bound. But beyond that, no one has control over The Black Seraphim, and when Lucifer saw no matter what, she won't obey, so he was forced to seal away The Black Seraphim.

History: Genesis has two sides to her, as graceful as an angel, as black hearted as a demon. Genesis died when she was nineteen, she was two faced. She always played the angel, a golden child if you will. She caused trouble and played innocent while others took the downfall for her, she seemed to have it made. But eventually it all caught up with her, it happened when she was home alone with her little sister. She valued her sister with her life, but when a few people had caught up with her, old classmates, ex boyfriends who had been sent to jail because of her.

They busted into her home while her parents were out, captured her and her sister, and they did the unthinkable they had raped her and her sister who did not even deserve it for what she did. Her sister was shot point blank in the skull, Genesis snapped, she took gunshots to her arms, legs, and killed everyone in the house. All her ex's, all her old classmates that got together to get back at her. Genesis died in despair of losing her little sister, and died in her mothers arms.

Powers:
1- Divine Hate: Allows Genesis to achieve her sealed demon blood for a time, mainly during battle, during this all her senses are heightened further than a normal demons senses. She also gains a sword during this time to use in battle, she is known as the Black Seraphim during this time. Genesis when Divine Hate finally reverts, has no memories during which it was activated. This ability is currently sealed at the start.

2- Darkness Homing: This allows Genesis to use powerful darkness to up the power on her melee attacks, it give a radius of how far her slashes can go, constantly comboing one attack into another, there was a reason why Black Seraphim was sealed away. This can only be activated while Divine Hate is activated.

3- Shadow Flare: A powerful shadow spell casted by Black Seraphim that allows her to deal massive damage to a single target, it takes a lot out of her due to how much power it requires to be cast. But if it hits its mark, then her opponets are most certainly defeated from this, few are able to recover from such an attack.

Other: Up for love if you want, but seriously, we have a chick who has split personality problems.

Name: John "Slayer" Mason
Age: 27
Gender: Male
City: Inferno
Appearance: John Slayer Mason is a 5'10" tall muscular soldier from the war. With long white hair that touches his shoulders and piercing green eyes, he often seems older than he actually is. He is 187 lbs of pure muscle. He has a large gash in his chest that goes from his left collar bone, down to his right hip bone. He also has a large scar straight down the right side of his face, which makes his right eye squinted.
Personality: A soldier at heart, he stands tall and confident, barking orders whenever he can. He doesn't talk to anyone at first, but waits for them to see if they can beat him out in a brawl. When it comes to the battlefield, he's shoot first, ask questions later and prefers to be alone, as he is often worried someone will betray him.
History: John had just left his pregnant wife at home when they called for all soldiers. John was out in the field when he received a phone call stating his wife had been assaulted and tormented in all ways possible before she was hung from a bridge. In a fit of massive rage and despair, he stormed into the middle of a blazing battlefield with 2 M4A1 assault rifles and started shooting at the enemy with all he had. He eventually was shot down after dispatching every enemy he could see in his vicinity and turning his rage on his own comrades.
Powers: (What are your powers as a demon, at least the ones you know so far)
1- Striking Rage. When John goes into this power, he starts lashing out with his arms, striking anyone within a 10 meter distance of him, dragging them close and then slashing across their chest. He can only use this when he is in bloodlust (He has to kill 10 or more people to get to bloodlust.)
2- Torture. John will go into a fit of despair, grabbing the closest enemy and staring into their eyes as he relives their memories. Upon breaking from this gaze, he will either fall to the ground, gripping his head or walk off. If he walks off, you are safe. If he falls to the ground, you will have roughly 10 seconds before he goes into a frenzy, breaking anything (And anyone) to get out of the frenzy.
3- Dash. John will only Dash when he has killed someone he deems innocent. He will then dash to the closest soul, killing them before proceeding to kill up to 4 other "harmless souls." Upon finishing, John will cut a mark into his body for each soul slain when he Dashed.
Other: Often has hallucinations that he has seen his wife and it causes him to be stunned for a second before he resumes to whatever he was doing.

(Let me know if I need to change a power please.)

Can I reserve a spot for this?

Name: Feoryn Amadayos (pronounced: fee-or-in)
Age: 19
Gender: male
City: Pandemonium

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Personality: Reckless and independent, with a mile wide stubborn streak and a terminal case of curiosity. He has a problem with authority figures, which is the main reason he ended up in Hell in the first place. Proud and headstrong, Feoryn has a hard time following anyone's lead. He has never felt fear for his own life. A hotheaded wild child. Fiercely loyal. But he's also intelligent and cunning, and enjoys messing with peoples heads. More will be revealed with time.

History: Feoryn was born the Prince of a small island kingdom. He wasn't the heir, that future went to his older twin brother, Philios. Philios grew up in the palace pampered and praised by their parents, the servants, and pretty much every citizen of the country. As the "spare" Feoryn was sent to a boarding school in America at the age of six. He came back to his home for breaks.

Despite the distance and time which seperated them, as well as the fears that Feoryn would try to overthrow Philios, Feoryn never resented his brother and the two remained close. The summer before Feoryn went to college a rebellion erupted and the Royal Family was losing. So the brothers switched places, Philios got on a plane to America where he could request sanctuary and Feoryn took his place at the gallows.

But he was alright with dying because because his twin, the only person in the world that mattered to him, was alive and safe. Moments before his execution his Uncle, the newly crowned King, told Feoryn that they knew the twins had switched place. An assassin killed Philios before he got on the plane. The last sight Feoryn saw before he died was his brothers headless corpse.

Powers:
1- Precognition: It's undeveloped and still fairly limited, the visions will often kick in without warning. Feoryn has discovered that he often knows what his opponent is going to do next in a fight.
2- Fire: the ability to manipulate the element of flame, because ironically enough that is how he was executed.
3- (Note: Your character has yet to gain this power, but it will appear at some point in the story.)
Teleportation: This power will start out short range, but eventually he will even be able to move between dimensions. As his power grows it is believed he will even be able to enter the heavenly realm.

Other: Up for love, Feoryn is part nephilim, decended from one of the seraphim, at least that's the story that was passed down in his family. Feoryn is actually a direct descendent of Lucifer himself, so when he woke up in hell he had a pair of black feathered wings. Still he has no interest in claiming the throne as his own.

Sure Veeren, you can go ahead and post a profile. I'm going to give this a few more days to see if anyone else joins then we can get started. I also tweaked my profile a little.

reserving a spot!

Reserving!

Name: Teror (Pronounced like Terror)

Age: 10

Gender: Male

City: Chaos

Appearance:

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Personality: Teror will do anything to be the strongest out there. He will even kill his friends if the need arose. Ever since reawakening in Chaos, he has been chaorrupted. He has a taste of power. If a fight was to break out, Teror is almost 99.99% of the time victorious. He is also quiet and planning out everything. He doesn't look like it, but he does act like a mature adult.

History: Teror, previously known as Cheerful on the account of always being cheerful, was kicked out of Heaven. He tried to bring God down to become the new God and was banned from Heaven and sent to Hell. He awoke in the city of Chaos. He was able to use his powers, and feels as if there's something more inside him. He started to kill other residents of Chaos, knowing they would just "respawn". He aims to become the new ruler of Hell, and is hellbent on it. Nothing will stop him.

Powers:
1- Paralyzing Tears - With his childlike look, Teror will start crying rather easily. Do not let these tears hit you, for if they do, you will become paralyzed.
2- Chaos Sphere - Teror forms a sphere of chaos the size of a house that will envelop the opponent. When ever the opponent enters this sphere, they lose their powers temporarily and will kill themselves.
3 (rare one)- Chaos Army - Teror will learn how to form an army made out of chaotic energy. AT the moment, he is only able to summon one person, but will soon be able to summon an army of a hundred and fifty.

Other: He has multiple personalities...
He is up for love and bi, and will only care for that person who finds.

Name: Jack Masters

Age: 28

Gender: Male

City: Revenge

Appearance: He has a slightly muscular build with light skin, shorts below his knees, and a sweater vest as his shirt. He has medium length blonde hair combed backwards and sunglasses on his face at almost all times. While you don't often see them, his eyes are dark blue.

Personality: Jack is a very outgoing guy. He always wants to have fun and make the best of his time in hell. He'll do almost anything for a laugh and isn't afraid to stand up higher authorities.

History: As a human, he was moved between families very often while he was young. At the age of 16 he'd run away from his latest home and joined a gang, becoming an elite member within a few years. By the time he was 25, he owned the gang and was amazing at it. He was very persuasive with his words and an excellent strategist, which ultimately led to his demise. While planning to get rid of a rival gang, he was shot when pretending to be a loner trying to join. That's when he ended up here.

Powers:
1- Shadow - He can fade into the shadows and reappear out of any other shadows.
2- Illusion - He can make someone believe they're seeing something they're not. He usually does this to escape or to toy with someone.
3- Hulk Mode - When he get really, really, really, really, really angry (which is rare since he barely gets slightly angry, period) his skin will turn hard as rock and, well, go hulk smash anything he sees.

Other: He loves everyone. Not literally though, he's straight.

Name: Timothy (Tim) Johnson

Age: 27

Gender: Male

City: Pandemonium

Appearance:

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Personality:
Tim's a genuinely nice guy, who cares far more about others than he does about himself. He's calm and playful, and even though he'll act like he's fine to not bother others you can clearly see the grief underneath his facade.
If he sees someone in trouble he will try to help instinctively, sometimes making the situation worse by being too stubborn and/or reckless. He'll take on the most hopeless cases, refusing to give up no matter what. If he fails he breaks, stops functioning until he sees something that once again evokes his compassion.
Tim used to be very talkative, but after his son's death he became much quieter. The happier he feels the more he talks.
He's utterly useless when it comes to fighting.

History:
Laura and Tim had been friends since they were kids, and got married as soon as they turned 18. Their son, Jason, was born while Tim was still a medical student and Laura had to temporarily quit her job as a waitress, but despite their financial situation they were happy. At 24 he had graduated med school and immediately started to work as a pediatrician in a big hospital.
When Jason turned five he was diagnosed with leukemia. Nothing that the doctors did helped, and when Jason's doctor told Tim and Lauren that he only had weeks left Tim became desperate. He read an article about a treatment that had helped children in the same situation as Jason, but it was very risky and the hospital refused to go through with it. Tim started treating Jason in secret, and at first it seemed to work, but then Jason suddenly died because of a complication. Tim was fired because of what he had done.
Tim blamed himself and went into a deep depression. Laura tried to be supportive, despite her own grief, but eventually she couldn't take it anymore and left him. He hanged himself after signing the divorce papers.

Powers:
1 - Healing hands. He can heal others easily, and himself to some extent. Both sicknesses and injuries. The power manifests itself as a warm light coming from his palms.
2 - Green thumbs. Can make plants grow or wither by touching them.
3 - Control of life and death. White wings pushes out from his back, breaking through the skin with a spray of blood. His eyes roles back, only showing the whites and he cries blood. In this mode he can kill or resurrect anyone by touching them with his hands.

Other: Up for love, bi. He desperately needs someone to care for and to distract him from his past, so he's constantly looking for someone who can fill the hole in his heart that Jason and Laura left.

Name: Genevieve Rowe

Age: 25

Gender: Female

City: Wrath, though she originated in and maintains ties to Inferno.

Appearance:

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Personality: Though she attempts to remain in control of herself, she often allows herself to get caught up in nostalgia and depression that leads her to acting distant and cold with a cynical and macabre sense of humor. She is soft spoken and subtle in speech but very demonstrative in mannerism and allows her actions to speak for her. She is very passionate and driven and operates in the grey area as she can easily confuse right from wrong. She is extremely stubborn and resolute and once committed will not easily falter. She will often choose justice over mercy and though she is a valuable ally, her moral discrepancies are a serious issue.

History: Though she came from a stable background, born of wealthy parents, her life took a turn when her father, caught in an affair, exhausted the family funds before blowing out his brains. Her brother, witnessing the event, followed suit, leaving her mother, her sister and herself the only surviving members. In order to hold onto some semblance of normality, her mother married a wealthy but corrupt "businessman" who sexually and physically abused all of them and forced Genevieve and her sister into prostitution, driving Genevieve to the police, broken and bleeding with severe head trauma. However, her mother, fearing for her own safety, turned on Genevieve, accusing her of framing the incident. She retaliated by burning down the house with the couple inside. However, she did not realize her sister was trapped inside as well and witnessed her jump from the roof in a failed attempt to save herself. This snapped her and, covering herself in gasoline, caught a spark from the blaze, thus self-immolating.

Powers:
1. Reminiscence: She can create vivid illusions of the last moments in a demon's life, sometimes altering the events in order to manipulate her subject. These illusions involve all of the senses and can drive the victim to insanity and eventually numbness, a state in which none of their senses can operate and they transition into a vegetative state.

2. Root of Evil: She can make strong, negative feelings experienced by others such as anger, hatred, fear, and sadness into a tangible force that, appearing like thick black tar that responds to her will, can trap people, suffocate them, consume them, or even slip inside of them, turning them into puppets controlled by her. Especially useful when combined with Reminiscence, however it's difficult for her to control.

3. False Hope: A power she gains over time that is a manifestation of Reminiscence and Root of Evil combined. It is an extremely effective weapon that allows her to grant anyone what they truly desire. However, this is judged by Genevieve upon review of their dying moments and though it can appear as a blessing, their desires can destroy them, and by allowing her freedom to explore their most intense longing, they grant her access to fabricate from these emotions, a convoluted answer to their prayer, which often brings more misery, hopelessness, and often times a terrible death.

Other: Up for love.

Name: Cecilia Aringrosa
Age: 19
Gender: Female
City: Pandemonium
Appearance: She has curly honey brown hair, and the same coloured eyes. Her skin is only a little bit lighter. She has a pretty and pointed nose and a sweet face. She is short and slightly curvy. She wears mainly wears colours ranging between white and brown.
Personality: Cecilia is an all around good person. She doesn't have very many bad things to say about people and she always try to hold her tongue if she does. She hates it when people fight and will do almost anything to stop it. She is a likeable person. She will give up almost anything to help someone out, which is also her greatest flaw. Though she tries to be very peaceful she is firm in her opinions.
History: She was born into a middle class family in Spain. She was a viola prodigy, and was also top of her class in her school She was so skilled and famous she was accepted into the Royal Academy of the Arts when she was sixteen.
She made friends very easily. Some of her friends manipulated her into picking up something for her late at night on a shady street corner. Little did she know that what she was going to give to her friend was ecstasy. The person who was dropping it off hinted at it, thinking she knew. When she heard she began to scream. The dealer began to get annoyed with her and shot her in the head. She was brain dead by the time she arrived at a hospital.
Powers: (What are your powers as a demon, at least the ones you know so far)
1- She can put you to sleep just by touching you. The sleep lasts about 10 minutes to an hour, she can never tell.
2- She controls air. It can be lethal but it's a peaceful power, though very strong.
3- (Note: Your character has yet to gain this power, but it will appear at some point in the story.) She can change her body on command. She can only change into people she has touched before.
Other: She always carries her Viola with her, in symbolic form on her wrist, though if she ever wants to play she can literally pull it out of her wrist. Her she always carries her bow (the instrument kind) with her and she uses it as a whip to hit people with if she meeds to.

Alright the storybook will officially start as of tomorrow afternoon.