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Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:30 pm
Billy says...



**Can I join? I'll post a profile tomorrow, I just need a little time to think of a character.**
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Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:32 pm
TexanWriter says...



Of course, Billy!
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Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:13 pm
MiriamHannah says...



Can I join?

Name: Daniel Ross (cover name created by soldiers working for the master) Dan for short

Age: 20

Gender: male

Occupation: soldier

Side: Drone

Home: A flat in town center, tidy and perfectly polished

Normal Abilities: Plays the piano (can't remember how he learnt)

Paranormal Abilities (aka superpowers): strength is greatly increased, excellent aim, Can read your eyes perfectly (knows truth from lie, disappointed to happy however hard it is hid)

Weaknesses and Flaws: uncontrollable anger and frustration (especially related to anything in his past.

Likes/Interests: Again piano, scientific mind likes to know how things works and already knows a lot (however he doesn't know why he knows so much)

Dislikes: commitment

Physical Appearance:
-Nationality: (Unknown)
-Height: 5, 6
-Weight: 164lbs
-Hair: short military style, jet black
-Eyes: blazing dark green
-Picture: sorry i can't find one
-Other: very strong jawline, good looking

Style of Dress: If he isn't in uniform he wears a suit, doesn't know the meaning of casual wear.


Personality: straight forward, right and wrong, black and white. He opens up but only when he knows someone so well that he is lost for excuses not to.


Family/Friends/Pets: no pets, one friend from his work called John Steely, the only person in the world he opens up to, yet! Unknown family

History: When he was fourteen he was seen fighting back against a soldier. The soldier was doing badly against the mix between strength and speed. The soldier had run, but he had thrown the nearest object, a torch and it had nailed the soldier in the back of the head. The amount of force in the throw had somehow cracked the soldiers head open and he had died before the ambulance could arrive. Daniel was taking away without a second word and his memory was erased. From then on he worked as either soldier or spy, partnering with the people whos friend he had killed without a thought. It gives him agony to think he had a life and that he will never know what that life included.

Up for Love? Yes, but he would need to get to know the person, open up to them first. They would have to be special.

Other: Only anger.

;)
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Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:19 am
Coffee_and_Karma says...



Can I join?

Name: Clark, Rebecca Julia
Age: 25

Gender: Female

Occupation: Art Gallery owner.

Side: Loyalty

Home: Rebecca lives in a small but comfortable flat above her gallery. Edit: In New York City.

Normal Abilities: Used to run track, and still goes on runs almost everyday. She isn't very fast, but she can go for a long time. Is an intelligent girl.

Paranormal Abilities (aka superpowers): Can start/manipulate fires.

Weaknesses and Flaws: She is fascinated by fire and loves starting them, to the point it is almost pyromania. Is bad at judging people, and because of issues with this before, she doesn't trust easily. Feels like she doesn't fit in. Is a mediocre artist, which is bad because she has always wanted to be an artist.

Likes/Interests: Fire, art, books, and basically nice looking things.

Dislikes: Snobby people, cold, people with bad manners or nasty habits (biting fingernails, etc.)

Physical Appearance:
-Nationality: Caucasian
-Height: 5'6"
-Weight: 130 lbs
-Hair: Brown
-Eyes: Blue
-Picture: This

-Other: She is very pale, and doesn't like this, so she often wears a lot of blush and other makeup.

Style of Dress: Always wears pants, normally jeans, and bright colors, but nothing extremely shocking. Trys to look like a stereotypical modern, artsy woman.


Personality: Rebecca is shy but not extremely so, she isn't likely to strike up a conversation unless she knows what she is going to say. She is a nice, kind person but only if she gets to know you well and opens up. Art is a passion of hers, but she can't draw/paint very well.


Family/Friends/Pets: Casey, pet cat. Michael, friend and frequent patron of her gallery. Kelly, friend and reporter interested in up-and-coming artists.

History: Rebecca is an only child and both parents are dead. She was married for a short while to a very rich man who was almost ten years older then her. He went missing only a few months after they were married. A body, mutilated beyond recognition was found and assumed to be his a few months later. She identified it as her husband. Using the money he left her, she bought the art gallery. While she was going through his papers, she discovered that he was a loyalty. She found out more about it and then joined, more because she wanted to find out about the man who was her husband and felt like she needed to belong to something than any real passion about the cause, although she does support it.

Up for Love? Sure.

Other: None, really
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Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:09 pm
Incognito says...



Here is my profile, if I can still join. :/

Name:
Williams, Tobias James

Age:
25.

Gender:
Male.

Occupation:
A self-employed deranged scientist.

Side:
Civilian.

Home:
New Orleans, Bourbon Street.
(He lives on the top floor of the apartment and owns the whole top, and has made it into a loft full of junk.)

Normal Abilities:
Tobias is what we shall call different for abilities. He has a great psychotic laugh that he has earned over the years, and can drink a substantial amount of coffee without having to run to the washroom, another skill that has proven useful at times in the lab. He is incredibly smart though, very analytical which makes him helpful in a tough situation and he has no modesty what so ever.

Paranormal Abilities:
Tobias’ powers are slightly different. He has a certain power called Trace. The power allows him to find out material composition and figure out how exactly things work with just the few words ‘trace on’. It is a very valuable power for him in his experiments he may conduct. But that is not the least of the Trace power.

What he can also do is enhance the object he has. Like a lead pipe for example. If being under attack, a lead pipe could be fairly helpful, but not if it is thin and can break easily on you. What he can do is strengthen any object or enhance their performances. He can’t use this power on people of course, but it is unceasingly useful when making objects that no other people can make.

Weaknesses and Flaws:
Tobias is terrified of the dark. He can not stand it, which is also why he always carries a lighter. When the dark surrounds him, it can make him incredibly weak and makes him start to tremble. He can barely even move in darkness. It is actually quite funny.

A problem with his power though is that any other power wielder can sense when he uses it if they are in the vicinity. That makes it incredibly dangerous because if they mean to do him harm, or mistake him for a Loyalist or Rebel, then he would have to protect himself. That is why he lives on the top floor in a loft. That is simply because of the space he can get and the distance away from the populated street is just enough so that he won’t be noticed when using his Trace.

Likes/Interests:
Tobias loves fire. It is a major problem of his. He likes to set things on fire, making things explode on fire, and he enjoys watching people burn while in fire. He also is an avid coffee drinker. He never ceases to stop. He also excessively puts more and more sugar drops into it.

But mainly, his biggest interest is in making something new, something never seen before, and if that means killing a couple people, putting gears into their bodies and watching them dance, then he will.

Dislikes:
As I have said before, Tobias absolutely hates the dark. The results could end up with bodily harm and dangerous temper tantrums. He also hates sleeping because the nightmares that he goes through make him terrified for his life. He would hate to be founded out for what he is and he hates social interaction.

Physical Appearance:
-Nationality: Tobias is from Ireland. He moved to New Orleans when he was young with his mother.
-Height: 5”7
-Weight: 130 lbs.
-Hair: Tobias has dark brown hair that is usually messy and in a disarray.
-Eyes: He has bright green eyes but they are sometimes opened really widely and looking around like true maniacs eyes.
-Picture: Image
-Other: Tobias is very thin, almost sickly, and his skin is incredibly pale. It makes his bright green eyes seem to pop out. Other than his minor imperfections, he is fairly good-looking.

Style of Dress:
Tobias has an affixation for wearing the weird. He wears tight-ish silk jackets with white ruffle sleeves poking out from the bottom of the nicely tailored clothing. He is also usually seen wearing a white laboratory coat which is quite thread bare and has missing holes. He just usually wears black distressed jeans and bright neon green converse.

He always carries a lighter, and a bright silver pistol in his pocket or on his belt. The pistol is elegantly embellished with a small beautiful snake.

Personality:
Psychotic, maniacal, and terrifying are all great words to describe Tobias. He is like on of those cliché mad scientists from movies but slightly modernized, with his cup of coffee, lighter and a silver pistol strapped into his belt. He is incredibly smart, resourceful, and analytical but can seem incredibly stupid at times because he doesn’t get out much. He is eccentric with what he does and guards his inventions with his life.

Family/Friends/Pets:
Jack – His giant black and white Great Dane dog. This dog is incredibly smart it has trained itself to go downstairs and through doors to get outside and got to the washroom. Jack also greets any visitors at the door that will want to visit Tobias.

History:
Tobias grew up in Ireland.

In his childhood, he was always alone. He was that weird kid always alone on the playground for obvious reasons. Not many people would want to hang around with a person who collects worms and dissects them, making sure all the small hearts are placed in a bottle which he would bring home and place on the shelf, along with his jar of toad eyes, and tongues from multiple kinds of animals.

He always did well in school except for physical education. He just wasn’t into that kind of thing.

He lived in a broken household. His father, always coming home drunk, would mercilessly beat his mother up, and she would just cover it up and pretend it was nothing. Tobias noticed, but he was too meek to do anything.

After a while, in the middle of his night, his mother and him caught a flight to America where they started living off of welfare and food tickets. The meagre food he got, he didn’t take a liking to so he rarely ate or drank, except for the instant coffee. He got started on that at the age of six.

When his father found his mother in their apartment and dragged her back to Ireland, he was left behind, blamed for teaching her false hopes and aspirations of a life without a husband. Tobias never saw his parents again, but under his mother’s name he continued to get the food tickets and money. He would build trinkets and sell them, inventing small toys that tourists liked to buy.

By the age of 13, he had gained his full powers.

Eventually he found the loft on Bourbon Street when he was 19, and automatically he set up his diabolical apartment. It is now filled with books, inventions, and trinkets. But no matter what he built he was always unable to figure out what he wanted his finest invention to be.

Up for Love:
Yes!

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If everything is in order, I would love to join. ;3
Me and LaReina are always storybook buddies, at least for most of the time. xD

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Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:37 pm
TexanWriter says...



Wow. That's better than mine.



If anyone wants to make another character, we could use a few girls ;). Let's start! I can't, but anyone feel free.
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:07 am
Flux says...



Really? -eyes shine- If I have time tonight, I might start with Spencer!
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth."

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Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:15 am
Incognito says...



Tex --> It is definetely not better. ;3

And LaReina, I am expecting a nice and lengthy one. xD
You keep on saying how much you can ramble.

~Incognito
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:49 am
Bloo says...



Name: David Theodore Schemer

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Occupation: He is in school at NYU and works part time at a sporting goods store, lets say Dick’s.

Side: Loyalty

Home: He lives with a roommate in his dorm room

Normal Abilities: He is a talented fighter, adapt at boxing, and mixed martial arts, and he is in school off a mixed basketball, lacrosse scholarship, so fast and powerful.

Paranormal Abilities: He has bone manipulation, as he has the ability to manipulate the bones in one's own body. This includes, , the generation of new bone mass, projecting bones out from the skin and rearranging one's own bones. He also can make force fields.

Weaknesses and Flaws: He likes to play, and is not very good at doing his missions. When he does them he takes too long, and often unsuccessful as a result.

Likes/Interests: Sports, partying, girls, reading.

Dislikes: Tests, work, studying, not partying when there is a big party.

Physical Appearance:
-Nationality: Caucasian
-Height: 5 foot 9 inches
-Weight: 150
-Hair: Short, spiky, black hair.
-Eyes: Brown eyes.
-Picture: http://coolmenshair.com/2008/07/adam-le ... style.html
But younger.
-Other: has beard stubble.

Style of Dress: Generally dresses like he plays. Shorts and sleeveless shirts, when it is warm that is. If not that jeans and T-shirts.


Personality: He likes to play with his prey, not one to just shoot the gun and run. He will think of an elaborate way to get the job done, and that is how he got into sports and fighting. He got to toy around before he won. He applies this to everything, making someone work for something, even if they are on the same side, he just can’t tell you something.


Family/Friends/Pets:
June Scheme, mother,
Brain Schemer, father
Dane Totem, Roommate, 19, male
Sabina Schemer, Twin sister, 19,
Cooper, pet dog, Sichon, 2

History: Dave was always an angry kid, and when he turned seven he parents got fed up with the violence he had been adding since five. When he broke a kids arm he was sent to anger management, and later joined a boxing class to have a safe environment to channel anger and violence. He later won the silver shorts at age twelve and golden gloves, and still holds that. He got into martial arts, kick boxing and such after a year of boxing, and now has three black belts, a red and a green in assorted mixes. He started sports at ten, and later got into varsity lacrosse, hockey, basketball and football. When he got to college he choose not to play football or hockey. His room at home is now filled with trophies from tournaments.

Up for Love?: Sure

Other: He has dyslexia, he still likes to read though, and ADD
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:41 am
ridersofdamar says...



Question~~

Is there a particular reason for the no cussing rule? Or is it because we want to keep it clean?
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
  





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Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:48 pm
Billy says...



Name: Mawson, Mitchell Thomas "Mitch"

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Occupation: Psychiatrist/Neurologist

Side: Civilian

Home: Apartment in Manhatten

Normal Abilities: He's an excellent talker, whether getting himself out of something, convincing someone, or just counselling. He also plays the piano.

Paranormal Abilities (aka superpowers): Empathy (He can detect and, to an extent, manipulate the feelings of others).
Telepathy (He can't speak into someone else's mind, but he can read it and also manipulate it to an extent, although this is much weaker than his empathy. He can also use this in conjunction with his Empathy to cause severe psychological damage, although he doesn't know that yet.)

Weaknesses and Flaws: He has a very strict personal ethics code, and refuses to use his powers to hurt or exploit someone. This is the reason his empathy is stronger than his telepathy, he doesn't like to use telepathy at all, because he feels like he is prying.

Likes/Interests: Helping people, all types of music (particularly calm stuff, whether it's classical or trippy chill out music), cleanliness and orderliness.

Dislikes: People he regards as 'immoral', anyone overly messy or chaotic

Physical Appearance:
-Nationality: American
-Height: 5'9"
-Weight: 160 lbs
-Hair: Black, messy despite his best efforts.
-Eyes: One grey-blue, the other brown. He needs contact lenses, and picked out coloured ones so that his eyes would be the same colour (brown). He does have a few boxes of one-day contacts, though, and so is liable to be seen with his natural eye colour.
-Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Profe ... _Eppes.jpg But with messier hair


Style of Dress: Usually a white button up shirt, black suit, and a tie. He never dresses more casually than casual formal.

Personality: Known to his friends as "Mitch", for the simple fact that he hates it, Mitchell is, to put it most simply, a neat freak. He hates things being out of order, and often gets very annoyed when a patient shows up late for an appointment. That said, he is also an expert at hiding his feelings, which consequently tends to make him appear shy, quiet, withdrawn, or boring. That said, he is very much concerned for other people, and doesn't like seeing someone feeling down.

Family/Friends/Pets:
Joy Mawson, Cousin
Jonathan Harving, Best friend

History: His parents always encouraged an awareness, sensitivity, and respect to the way others felt, and Mitchell went out of his way to do just that from an early age. Nonetheless, people did annoy him sometimes, as he quickly learnt that he had an issue with people if they didn’t meet his strict criteria for who he wanted to be friends with. For this reason, his close friends often joked around with him, even setting him up on a blind date with a punk rock-loving, drug-taking girl who was essentially a collection of walking issues. Mitchell, in that way only he could manage, forced himself to sit through the date and even managed to make her open up about her problems – the first time he manifested his gift, and the event that set him on the path to becoming a psychiatrist.
Now, he has won a small amount of renown for his skill as a counsellor and his being the perfect person to go to about a problem, and for hisapparentabulity to just know what is wrong in someone's mind and then prescribe the correct drug to deal with it. On the other hand, he’s terrified about becoming too well-known, because he feels that someone might notice that his gift with people, while connected to a perfectly natural ‘way with words’, is far from completely normal.


Up for Love?: Yes, I guess
Last edited by Billy on Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:19 pm
Flux says...



Yes, I think it's just because we want to keep the storybook clean.

And disregard what Incoginto said about us being "storybook buddies". She is my devoted stalker, on YWS and outside of it. XD (kidding ... or am I?)
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Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth."

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Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:01 pm
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Incognito says...



I don't know LaReina, I always know where you are, and I watch you as you sleep in your house. You helped me a lot when you showed me where your room was. I was getting unbearably lost. ;3

Eh, and Billy! You have Physcologist! Maybe he might be able to make Tobias sane again. xD
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:29 pm
TexanWriter says...



Be different people! We already have a phsycologist, and there are way more boys than girls! There are three people working in a veterinary place, and probably something else! BE DIFFERENT!!

Thank you and have a nice day.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:21 pm
Billy says...



Alright, changed psychologist to psychiatrist/neurologist. Not a huge difference, I know, but I wanted Mitch's job and everything to mesh in with his power.
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. - Yossarian, Catch-22

Wide-eyed stupid.

If you're gonna rule the world, you've gotta get up early! - Joel S. Dickens
  








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