The YWS Grand Re-Opening Storybook!

Hey hey, folks! Guess what day it is today? That's right. It's the Grand Re-Opening! So we're going to kick off the celebrations with some storybooking fun.



Plot

The celebrations for the Grand Re-Opening have just got under way, when there is an attack on the YWS Base!

The YWS Base was recently re-located from Mars to London, during the YWS Invasion, and members from all over the world have gathered to celebrate the awesomeness of their favourite site.

But from out of nowhere comes The Nothing. They are a hive mind people who have traversed the galaxies, removing planets in their wake. They come from nothing and they are nothing and they un-do the very substance of creation itself.

The Nothing are drawn to creativity and when all the members of YWS are gathered in one place, how can they resist? And so they come, but will the creative warriors of YWS prove too valiant and powerful for them?

Magic

The presence of The Nothing on Earth has warped the normal rules of the planet. Now every being has the power to create... and uncreate. A person's power is controlled simply by their imagination so only a selective group of humanity find themselves able to battle The Nothing.

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[b]Name:[/b] (This can be a nickname or your YWS user-name)
[b]Gender:[/b]

[b]Appearance:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]Skills:[/b]

[b]Weaknesses:[/b]

[b]Brief History:[/b]

Rules

1. Involve other characters in your posts!
2. Don't kill off YWS members without their permission, but legends such as Bartemius and freakforchrist are fair game.
3. Get injured - lose battles! Make this a fun and difficult war - by all means be powerful, but be out-numbered as well.
4. Don't swear! This is a PG storybook so if you don't want a ten year old hearing it, don't use it.
5. Have fun!

Name: Knight Rydia
Gender: Female

Appearance: Often dressed in green or olive shades, with riding dresses and light leather armour, Rydia is about five foot six and medium build. Her hair's a reddish brown, her eyes are a dark amber and she has a freckled complexion.

Personality: Fierce and passionate, Rydia is as caring as she is creative, but there's a wild and impulsive side to her. Rydia is best known for her determination and for being a relentless and sharp fighter. She strategises before a battle and her experience helps her to avoid mistakes many novices make. However, her passion and deep sense of caring and morality can cause her to act rashly and put herself in danger. While she will never purposefully endanger others, she can't stop them from following her into battle and will realise they have more chance together.

Skills: Negotiation and prowess in last stand battles. Rydia is a fierce and passionate fighter and she knows when to back off and live to fight another day, or when to commit everything and live or die.

Weaknesses: Rydia cares very deeply for the members of YWS and despite poor odds, she will dive into a battle she can't win to save the lives of others. She is impulsive and can sometimes, in the heat of battle, change her carefully laid strategies. This doesn't always work out well.

Brief History: Rydia came by YWS six years ago to do war with unknown forces, but upon arrival she was humbled by their greatness and readily offered up her sword. She quickly rose through the ranks and developed a name for herself as being a fierce but fair combatant, in both the worlds of words and weaponry.

Name: The Animal
Gender: Male

Appearance: He is young warrior with a fair complexion and a little bit of tan. Black hair and black eyes. About 5' 3" and goes to battle in his T-Shirts and shorts with his armor over it. He has a baby dragon in his pocket.

Personality: The one things he hates is poems that don't rhyme. He is very evil. He is afraid of his officers and very shy too. He can be rude with someone he knows well. He can be offensive at sometimes. He has got weird creativity. He is obsessed with Ancient Rome.

Skills: His imagination. It gives him unlimited power. Other than that, he is a good assassin, he kills from behind, though.

Weaknesses: He unknowingly makes too many mistakes. He is not good at choosing things or friends.

Brief History: Animal joined YWS last year on Christmas and is enjoying it here since then. He loves going to different battles as different person through SB's. And he loves writing poems and fantasy and killing.

Name: Megs

Gender: Female

Appearance: Having a closet of whites and blacks, she has an affinity for cool hats and doesn't wear armor. She's of average height and has blonde, wavy hair at shoulder's length.

Personality: Megs is quiet and shy, but if you get her talking, she can be a tad random. She's easily embarrassed and doesn't like to be the center of attention but loves being around people if only to watch them. She cooperates easily, but rather than suggesting an idea, she'll go off and do it herself. She often plans to do things but usually chickens out without some encouragement. If she can stop thinking for a few seconds, she can actually get things done. It's her mind that's in the way.

Skills: Megs power is channeled through recitation; she has to read it for it to happen. She's good at reasoning. She can see the pros and cons of most situations and can think about it in a detached way.

Weaknesses: She's slow to act and isn't very sure in herself when she does. She hates being wrong which is why she doesn't often share an opinion or ideas. However, she can get irritated when her ideas are ignored or disregarded.

Brief History: Megs snuck into YWS 2 years and 7 months ago when she was bored out of her mind one summer. She doesn't really have much more to say than that.

Name: Scarlette

Gender: Male

Appearance: I should just put up a picture XD

Personality: He's just the sweetest thing around. Being a true Seer, he can see likely timelines and what could become Created and Uncreated.

Skills: -_- Seer, and he is a fine fighter, especially when his weapon is a cane.

Weaknesses: I should just put up his picture, and you can tell his weakness from that...

Brief History: He landed in the hands of YWS from a fellow Seer who died not long after about a year and a half ago. He changes his name often, so no one can follow him that easily.

Name: Methrirr.
Gender: Male.

Appearance: He’s got straight, long, dirty blonde hair, with brown eyes. He can normally be spotted in a bright red hoodie, with jeans. His shoes, however, are always in disrepair. In many cases, there are holes in the soles, and even on top. How, he insists he doesn’t know. His eyes always flit back and forth, due to his ADHD. He’s always got cuts and bruises on his left hand, and his right leg. If you ask why, he’ll simply tell you “don’t worry about it”, although in reality it’s because when he fails he beats himself up. Literally. He stands tallish, about 5’10”, but

Personality: The return to earth has made him even more obnoxious than when he was on mars. He’s always carrying some weapon on him, whether it be a sword or a gun. Normally, it’s both; a hand and a half “bastard” sword, and a revolver. Occasionally, however, he will go to battle using only his blood crimson Stratocaster, a gleaming Electric guitar for which there is no amplifier necessary. He really is obnoxious, though, and utterly convinced that he’s the funniest person in the world. His fun loving attitude sometimes attract people to him, but just as often it makes people want to shun him, as they often deem him “annoying.” However, he’s very honorbound. With everyone he makes his friend, of whom he is very choosey, a silent oath is taken. He would fight and die fighting without a moment’s hesitation for any one of his friends. He is loyal to a fault, and sometimes stubborn. He is of the stern belief that any problem, any conflict, can be solved or overcome. And he will stop at nothing to overcome them. If you ask, he’ll just tell you “That’s how I’m gonna die.”

Skills: He is relatively athletic, and also very proficient with swords and guns. He likes to think of himself as a fighter, and he can be. But his real skills lie in his gifts in the arts. Writing, yes, but he’s also a musical genius, able to pick up, learn, and play an instrument proficiently with NO INSTRUCTION after just a day of tinkering with it. He can learn virtually any tune by ear, and perform it. It is through the music, the sounds generated by his guitar, that he channels the newfound power of Magic on earth to do his bidding. With it he can create fire, and lightning storms, even cause madness upon those around him. However, he can also heal people with it. It is for this reason that he is valuable to the YWS forces. He isn’t really that good of a fighter anyway.

Weaknesses: He has a serious phobia of zombies. He also hates the idea of his friends getting hurt, and may sometimes grow irrational with these manifesting thoughts. He also has a bad temper, which he often takes out on his left hand and right leg. Also, he’s a terrible diplomat. He oversimplifies everything. In his mind, everything should be that simple. In some cases, it may just be a strength. However, reasonable debate with him is lost in most cases.

Brief History: He was recruited by his friend, who was a long time YWS member, after having written short stories for his own amusement. In his short time among the ranks of YWS, he made many friends. However, the friend who originally recruited him was rarely seen at YWS headquarters. Nonetheless, he stayed with it and soon fell in line with the others. When the fighting started, he was there with everyone else.

Name: Disk Elemental

Gender: That would be telling.

Appearance: Standing nearly 6' 4", Disk towers over the other members. Any other identifying features are covered beneath a long, hooded, grey jacket and gloves. Disk's face is perpetually hidden behind the opaque window of a respirator.

Personality: Sarcastic and abrasive, rarely shows any kind of emotion, beyond anger and annoyance. A distinct lack of interest in love, drama, or a phenomenon known as "huggleing," has alienated Disk from the other YWS members. However, even the most sensitive members have to admit Disk's ability to find flaws in seemingly perfect plans and ideas is useful, even if the suggestions on how to fix the ideas aren't.

Skills: Unlike the other members, Disk has no way of tapping into powers at will. Instead power comes in short bursts, staying long enough to make life a little more interesting, but rarely accomplishing anything useful. Not that it matters, Disk prefers to rely on wits, will, and the comforting weight of a loaded revolver.

Weaknesses: Stubborn to a fault, Disk would rather fight a losing battle forever, rather than admit defeat. A general lack of empathy makes it nearly impossible for Disk to see others as more than pieces playing in some stupifyingly complicated cosmic game.

Brief History: Wandered onto the base late one night, muttering something about sea goddesses, stayed on for reasons no one really understands.

Name: Little Author
Gender: Female

Appearance: A height of 5'2, Being young this is the average height. Dirty blonde hair that falls just below the shoulders and blue green eyes. Freckles dot her nose and cheeks. She can usually be found in a tee-shirt and jeans. Her shoes vary though, She may be wearing boots or she may be in converse, it depends on her mood.

Personality: A very happy little thing. She always has a smile on her face, but due to the landing of earth, she has become less bubbly. She try's to keep the group nice and happy, she usually fails though. She may seem fragile but she is a rock. She will be your shoulder to cry on or the person to tell you to work harder.

Skills: She is artistic and musical. She has amazing voice, but she prefers to play the guitar. She is only a artist with a pencil, as she isn't able to focus with a paintbrush. She is useful with a bow and arrow and could throw knife's very well.

Weaknesses: She isn't the strongest person in the world. She couldn't be trusted with a gun, as they scare the living day light out of her. Her knee's and ankles are very weak and easily brake. She is too optimistic and thinks only the good in the people and ignores the bad.

Brief History: She joined YWS only 2 months ago. She fell in love with story books and has started 2 of her own.

Name: (This can be a nickname or your YWS user-name) Lady Morada. (mwahaha)
Gender: female

Appearance: Morada has straight brown hair that reaches past her shoulders and small violet eyes. She is short and thin. Her skin is supper pale. And when I say super pale I mean really, really pale. Her favorite color is purple so it confuses people that she wears black all the time instead of purple. She likes to wear lots of rings, bracelets, and (fingerless or not ) gloves. She wears black boots, studded belts, she has quite a few piercings in her ears.

Personality: Morada is very nice and caring. She is friendly and loves people...sometimes.
She tends to be shy and quiet. She has an addiction to books and ice cream. She helps others and if she doesn’t then it weighs on her conscience.
Skills: Her writing skills. She can put a pen to paper and come up with anything. She’ll become engrossed in her work until it’s perfect. She can also recite and memorize most of the books she has read. Her painting and drawing, also.

Weaknesses: She cries easily and tends to be self-conscious. Especially when she doesn’t know what she’s really doing because she feels like everyone thinks she is just wasting her time and weighing them down.

Brief History: Lady Morada is the daughter of Lord Bractin and Lady Dessie. She left home in search of adventure, bored of the tedious affairs of her father and the king and the suitors pushed on her, to find others who shared her desire to create. She was forbidden to write or paint or read but she’d do it anyway in secret. Then she stumbled upon YWS and fell for the people who frequented it.
<3

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Oh, sound fun.

Name: Kay Fortnight

Gender: Female.

Appearance: On the shorter end of average, Kay's not the prettiest or most fit girl out there. Her thick brown hair is cropped short for easy management, with never a hair out of place (it getting in her eyes occasionally is intentional, she insists). The color of her eyes is hard to describe, a mish-mash of gray, green, and brown. You'll generally see her in a comfy sweater and sweatpants or a casual sundress/sweaterdress, even though all her friends have pointed out multiple times that they really don't make a fashion statement. If she's in a hurry or feeling lazy, you may spot her in glasses instead of contacts.

Personality: Kay's an idealist and a perfectionist, leaving little time in her day to relax. She's determined that her life will mean something, and hopes to be remembered after she's gone for asking the questions nobody else would ask, but she's afraid to step up and take a leadership position, and often will avoid doing so unless no one else does. In that case, she can prove rather bossy and annoying, not having learned yet to be subtle in her influences. Kay pretends to have high patience for people who won't get something that seems obvious to her, but inside she'll be frustrated and annoyed at what she perceives as sheer stupidity. Not the best at small talk, Kay mostly has friends who share a few of her interests and avoids talking to the people who don't. She fights passionately for her causes even when most would give up, and has a strange combination of idealist and practical morality.

Skills: She loves to write (why else would she be here?), can knit fairly well, and is excellent with most animals, both in taking care of them and in the all important knowledge of how to cut them up when you want to eat them. Wild animals...well, she may be able to take care of it if she can compare it to livestock but if not she's still going to try.

Weaknesses: She was the bane of her gym class, nonathletic and uncoordinated, with the only physical activities she's actually good at being hiking for short distances and swimming. She's arrogant and easily irritated by people.If she's wrong, she'll either cling stubbornly to the idea that she's right or dive in and fix the mistake, often to the point where it goes to far in the other direction, depending upon whether somebody else pointed it out or she noticed it, respectively. Kay also has no idea when she's taken too much upon her shoulders and eventually will take the fall.

Brief History: Kay joined YWS only a month and a half ago, but's already involved in somewhere between five and ten (she doesn't have time to go and count) storybooks, some running, some still in the character stage. She's also trying to write a novel, keep straight A's in school, knit, read, and work on her SAE for school, something about breeding Angora rabbits for wool. Needless to say, it's amazing she have time to lie in bed, doing nothing but cuddling with her cats.

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I'll be on only a couple times in the next week, so if it starts this week i'll be a little behind!

Name: Emma- "Yubs" or "Yubster"
Gender: Female

Appearance: A 5'2 girl of medium build. Emma's hair is shoulder length and straight as a stick. Her eyes are like melted chocolate. She constantly wears big, baggy t-shirts and sweatpants, claiming that other people's opinion's don't matter, and she likes being comfortable rather than stylish. looks good in bright, contrasting colors, but prefers soft hues in green, purple, or blue.

Personality: She is insane. The Yubster has no set personality, it changes frequently and is never the same for more than a few minutes. When she is happy, she gets crazy excited and loves everyone. When she's upset, she will lash out in anger or frustration and run away, off to be alone. She is a mystery, and you never know what's coming next.

Skills: Recently (today) she rode a bike for 4 1/2 kilometers with no hands. Her quick-thinking and calmness in emergency is a plus. . She can accurately use a bow and arrow to fight, and her imagination can take her anywhere.

Weaknesses: She is weak, having no muscle at all, only some limp noodles where her muscles are supposed to be. She jumps right into things with out thinking and ends up in some pretty messy situations.

Brief History: She's had some pretty tough times in the past year; her dad "leaving", getting kicked out of the house a couple times, etc. She just wants to forget about the past and look to the future, but the future doesn't look so great; her family is picking up their lives and moving it s north in to the cold and misery of a far off place in the wild mountains of Canada.
The Yubster just finished celebrating her one year anniversary with YWS. She was so excited to hear about the YWS Grand Re-Opening, that she just had to participate!

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Name: Noni (Also noninjaspresent and Sir Knight Captain Noni on formal occasions.)
Gender: Female

Appearance: Around 1.6 metres tall with a medium-skinny build on a slight, nimble frame. Light blue eyes with a slight taste of grey and wavy light copper-blonde hair that reaches to the bottoms of her shoulder blades. White skin with a hint of a soft light tan and a small splash of freckles. She usually wears black jeans and either a black singlet or t-shirt accompanied by bare feet or dark grey lace-up canvas shoes.

Personality: Noni usually appears rather arrogant, sarcastic, and bland when people first meet her. Though, give her time and she'll warm up into a feisty, passionate fighter with a weird, but slightly funny sense of humour and a love of cinnamon doughnuts.

Skills: Wit and words are her strategic specialities, taking on the role of a snarky politician when needed. Though, when it comes down to fighting, hand-to-hand, namely with a dagger is her forte. Her power is a strange, sinister one, almost an alternate form of what The Nothing possess in their path of destruction. Noni too can un-create the world around her, but unlike The Nothing, what she destroys doesn't remain as nothing. Instead, what she un-creates is turned into a raw energy of endless possibilities that in ways, resembles the force behind creation itself.

Weaknesses: Cinnamon doughnuts. If anything can bring her down, it's them. She just can't resist the sweet, fluffy dough and the distinct taste of cinnamon. She can also absolutely not stand improper grammar, causing her to get into battles she knows she can't win. This, as well as a tendency to think she can take on anything alone has led her into some rather sticky situations.

Brief History: Both a Knight of the Green Room, and the Ops Coordinator of the YWS Fleet, Noni has quite the history and reputation when it comes to battle. After joining YWS in June, 2011, Noni made her first great debut in battle during YWS's invasion of Russia. Following that, she has built up her reputation as the local ninja and an aspiring poet. YWS has become her home, and following the threat of The Nothing, she is more than willing to step up to the plate and defend YWS.

Thanks for joining, guys! This will be starting tomorrow, but feel free to keep signing up

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Don't start yet! I want to join! XD

Name: Choco

Gender: Female

Appearance: Choco has black, thick hair (almost silky but not yet.) which reaches her shoulder and brown eyes. She's fair, tall for a 15 year old. Choco is always dressed up in different clothes according to color. She wears glasses when needed like reading or watching television. She'll make all the effort to be fashionable but at the same time that it looks good on her. You can see her nails often with various styles of nail polish.

Personality: Choco cannot be called "that perfect girl over there" at all. She's not that popular in class, nor does she want to be but she's at least thankful that people talk to her. She's very short-tempered but at the same time, can become overly kind and polite when she's at a sound mind. She can be confusing at times and has never really taken the time to understand her own self. She plays the keyboard, ice-skates, designs, dances and takes photography as a second profession. Though she's always seen around with a smile on her face, she's not exactly comfortable everytime. Choco takes the time to listen to everyone, whatsoever it is.

Skills: Choco has always been able to catch if a person's lying or not. Pretty much faster than others which is a good things because she itself hates lying unless its needed. She has enough potential to fight back and debate over things and never fails to give up. She rises to challenges easily.

Weaknesses: Extremely scared of the dark and horror movies.

Brief History: Choco joined YWS almost 2 years ago. Its funny because she stumbled across here as an a enemy but by the humbleness and kindness of all the knights and soldiers here, she was forced to like them and join them with their wonderful skills of writing and battling.

Knight Rydia

The party was almost full swing and Rydia had just finished icing the giant cake with the flat of her sword (what? Where else was she supposed to find a knife big enough?) when Kay came over to tell her there was trouble at the door.

"What kind of trouble?" Rydia asked with a small sigh as she looked longingly at a pile of balloons waiting to be played with inflated.

"The troubling kind?" Kay replied uncertainly.

"Mmm, and who's on the door?" Rydia asked, hesitating a moment longer. There really was so much to do and surely the person who'd been placed on door was going to be responsible enough, intelligent enough, capable enough-

"The Animal."

Rydia groaned and turned her full attention to the younger girl. "Let's go."

It wasn't that animal was particularly unreliable, and he certainly had intelligence. But he was always making mistakes.

Striding over to the door, frosted sword still in hand, Rydia quickly realised that this was more than a small scale situation. For one, the door was very much... not there, and the uninvited guest was...

"Well where is he?" Rydia asked.

"You have to look kind of sideways at it, then you see this black shadow, like a wraith," one YWS'er said quietly. Rydia slowly tipped her head to one side and shivered as she saw the creature.

"What is it?" Another member asked.

"The Nothing," Rydia hissed as she put out an arm and gently pulled The Animal back a few steps. She had never encountered them before, but she'd seen their likeness etched into ancient volumes in the YWS archives. That one had arrived on Earth was a bad side: they weren't known to travel solo.

"Stand aside, I'll handle this one!" Methirr declared as he pushed his way through the gathering crowd of uneasy YWS'ers.