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PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Character Name: Henry Lawson
Character Gender: Male
Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): Human
Age:18
Appearance: Henry stands at 5'9 and weighs about 126 pounds. He has dark black hair and purplish-blue or lilac eyes. He has a otter-type body, which means that he's got the body of a swimmer (slim and muscular), with some hair on his body; most noticeably on his chest and arms. He wears large-rimmed or "nerdy" glasses as his friends call them but due to being harassed by people for them, he only wears them when he needs to see something far away or when reading. He has a ear piercing on the left side of his ear most of the time, but will occasionally remove it. He mostly wears colorful t-shirts with jackets, blue jeans, and sneakers and beanie, but will occasionally wear something more "formal" like a polo or shirt-sleeve dress shirt, cargo or boat shorts with boat shoes.
URL to Character Picture, if any: Here's Henry
Primary Objective: (What is your character's main goal? This should be the thing that drives their part of the plot.) After the economic crash and the lost of his family's money, Henry was bullied because people thought that he was a spoiled little brat. He wants to prove to the world that he doesn't need the help of his parents to get money or get back to his original status, but instead of following in his family's footsteps of real estate and marketing, and business, he wants to make it though another way that doesn't require him deceiving or hurting people. Unless it was at the last resort. He also wants to find out where his childhood friend is see how he's doing. And hopefully do more than that.
Secondary Objectives: (What other goals does your character intend to achieve? These should drive subplots.) He's quite the charasmatic and friendly person, and wants to make as much friends as he can along the way. Also he's still going to college in order to fullfil his goal, so earning his Master's in animal science will help be the driving force for his goals. With some of the money he had saved up from working before the crash, he also wants to travel the world and sample all the foods and drinks before settling down.
MUNDANE SKILLS
These do NOT require points. These are the average, daily things your character can do. Examples are "drive a car", "speak a normal Foreign Language", "play a guitar", "write poetry". Some mundane skills come from your bio and are freebie. A soldier knows very basic training (shoot a gun, basic drill). Medic, martial arts or sniper would be a Specialized Skill or Talent.
List Mundane skills here:
.Has a driver's license; can drive.
.Is fluent in both French and Spanish
.Can play the piano and saxophone
.Chef-levels of cooking.
.Has both book or academics smarts and street smarts
SPECIALIZED SKILLS AND TALENTS
These are specialized skills that set you apart from the average person. You have 7 points to spend here. Examples are swordsmanship, sniper, coercion, piloting etc.
Ability 1 and Points Spent: Charisma/Charming: 2 points
Ability 2 and Points Spent: Gambling; Gambler: 1 points
Ability 3 and Points Spent: Virtuoso: 2 point
Ability 4 and Points Spent: Cooking: 3
MAGICAL OR SPECIAL ITEMS
He has no magical or supernatural abilities or objects. Just a regular ol' human.
BACKGROUND
Education or Training: His parents has sent him to some of the best schools that they can afford for him for the past 12 years of his life. But when they went bankrupt, they had to switch him into public school. Even though that they weren't the greatest schools, Henry was still one of the best students. He excelled in most of his grades up until he was in high school, especially in science (particularly chemistry and biology), music, and foreign languages giving him a scholarship to a college to study animal science and biology.
Character Background/Biography:
Born in the great hipster city of Austin, Texas, Henry Lawson's parents were some of the wealthiest people in the state, both being real estate tycoons throughout Texas. For the past 12 years of his life, he and his family, which consisted of his mother, father, and older brother, and dog were living the dream. He went to some of the best schools in the city and made lots of friends with the local elites' children. Everyone was happy and enjoying life. At a young age, Henry was a musical prodigy, learning how to play the piano at 3 and the saxophone at 7. His parents have taught him some of the things that they learned in real estate and business at the age of 10 when he fully understood the concept of it. They thought that by doing that, that Henry will follow in their footsteps and carry on the real estate empire they build.
Since a young age, Henry always loved animals and dinosaurs and his dream was to work with them. He could name almost animal or dinosaur that he saw and what they ate, lived, and almost everything that you can think of due to the large amounts of time reading books about them and going to museums of science and natural history.
While in private school up until the age of 12, Henry was not the social butterfly and only had a close of friends, one of which he had grew real close to as they were friends since they were both 3. His name was Daniel and those two were inseparable. They both liked the same things, played instrument, and were rich. You could say that they were basically brothers. However, Henry thought of Daniel of more than of friend and so did Daniel. They both hoped to become more than friends.
But all that soon came to an end. There was a large economic crash in Texas, resulting in the housing prices to fall drastically and people to move out, which resulted in the Lawson family to lose nearly lose their billion dollar empire and even file for bankrupt. This was a sudden and drastic effect of the crash was that they family had to sell their house, land, and all their belongings. And with that, Henry and Daniel were separated. His parents were forced to get minimum-waged jobs and Henry and his brother were forced to go from the award-winning private schools to the average public school at the age of 13, something that was basically hell to them due to the amount of bullying and harassment that both his private and public school friends due to his sudden economic class change. And without Daniel by his side, Henry used music as a coping mechanism for his pain and despair.
As time passed, Henry gotten use to his change. He excelled in school and was the number one student in every class and grade up until he went to high school. From there, his relationship with Daniel started to grow further and further as he started to make friends and gradually forget about him. But he didn't completely forget about him. He still misses him and always wonders where he is. When Henry graduated high school as valedictorian, he was awarded with a scholarship to one of the best colleges in the country for animal science and biology. His dream to work with animals were starting to become a reality. Now, he's studying to become a zoologist and with that in mind, hopes to prove that he can make it without the help of his family or selling and buying houses. All the while fulfilling that goal, he still continues to wonder and look for his friend Daniel. He doesn't really know where he is, but he will not stop until he found him and tells how he feels.
Currently, Henry is taking a break from his studies and is travelling the world with the money he saved from working before the crash and when he was working while in school. He has about a year before he goes back to school, so he's taking this advantage by the hands and not letting go. The sights, smells, and tastes of the this unknown and mysterious land will hopefully be a one-in-a-lifetime experience.
OTHER GAME MECHANICS
URL to Apartment Picture: (What's the inside of their apartment look like)
Layout of apartment
Link to RP examples: (this MUST be a DIRECT LINK to your IC post in an RP, NOT a link to the RP thread itself. If you don't have examples, make your biography good.)
Here you go
IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details
Character Name: Henry Lawson
Brief Description: Everything that you want in friend, Henry has it- Charisma, a good sense of humor, easily able to get along with and many more, he has the potential to woo and befriend everyone. However, he's not really the social butterfly as he seems, so most likely, someone else will have to make the first move in order to befriend him; along with not bore him with small talk or irrelevant things. A avid animal and science lover, talking about that will almost automatically be a winner for him; good luck getting him to shut up about it once you get him started. Secretly, behind this nerdy-like and timid demeanor is a party animal that likes to drink, gamble, and have fun; if you known what I mean. Only true friends know this part of him and love it. But even though he does all that, he's still looking for someone and is determined to find out what happened to them.
If there's anything that needs to be changed or improved, let me know.
Not bad but you'll need to change his goals. They're tied in to his old life. He won't be able to fulfill most of them.
- Primary Objective: (What is your character's main goal? This should be the thing that drives their part of the plot.) After the economic crash and the lost of his family's money, Henry was bullied because people thought that he was a spoiled little brat. He wants to prove to the world that he doesn't need the help of his parents to get money or get back to his original status, but instead of following in his family's footsteps of real estate and marketing, and business, he wants to make it though another way that doesn't require him deceiving or hurting people. Unless it was at the last resort. He also wants to find out where his childhood friend is see how he's doing. And hopefully do more than that.
Secondary Objectives: (What other goals does your character intend to achieve? These should drive subplots.) He's quite the charasmatic and friendly person, and wants to make as much friends as he can along the way. Also he's still going to college in order to fullfil his goal, so earning his Master's in animal science will help be the driving force for his goals. With some of the money he had saved up from working before the crash, he also wants to travel the world and sample all the foods and drinks before settling down.
His childhood friend is in a dimension he might never return to. Likewise, real estate and marketing won't give him much on Galli. No colleges. And he's achieved the "travel the world" the moment he finds himself in the setting. "Making friends" isn't a solid goal for PL. (I've tweaked the app tonight to discourage it, since so many people seem to focus on it.)
I suggest retooling them a bit to make them a bit broader, or else narrowing them down to reflect the drive behind the desire to achieve these goals.
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PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Character Name: Venla the Bold
Character Gender: Primarily female
Species (nation personification, human, alien, etc): Huvidu-Zaan
Age: 60 Solar years(35 Huvidan years), just out of young adulthood.
Appearance: The mammalian part is reminiscent of something mixing a bear and otter, with large, triangular pointed ears that come from the sides of her head. A short and expressive snout with a purple tinted nose, and bright inquisitive eyes. The fur is brown, thick and slightly oily, obviously built for an oceanic or marine environment rather than an existence solely on land. She stands about 7 feet tall, though most of the length is her body rather than limbs much like an otter, and despite the size she still seems sleek and is obviously a strong swimmer and able to lift quite a heavy load of needed. Her hands and paws are built for swimming, webbed but with wicked claws meant for rending flesh. Her teeth are that of an omnivore, with forward sharp teeth and more hidden grinding ones.
The most distinctive feature that would set her apart from simply being a giant alien bear/otter is the fungal look to what seems like an infestation, but at the same time normal. It is especially thick over the left side of her head and down her neck then shoulders, though most of the ‘infestation’ was hidden internally. The whole thing had a slight purple glow and coloration to it, even tinting her fur a slight purple due to its prevalence over her form. Tendrils of the fungal substance are able to come from her form through some natural way, and able to deftly manipulate things her normal limbs simply would be unable to reach or use. They aren’t nearly as strong and can be broken off, though it would hurt Venla and it would take a while to regrow the lost matter.
Like most her species she wears little clothing, only a loose sort of tunic to let her fur and fungal tendrils breath, as she like most her species would overheat easily in much more than that.
URL to Character Picture, if any: Something like this
Primary Objective: (What is your character's main goal? This should be the thing that drives their part of the plot.)
She wants to record as much of the multiverse’s cultures and inhabitants as possible, for the good of retaining said knowledge as long as possible and to document what she’s encountered. Might even write a book about it!
Secondary Objectives: (What other goals does your character intend to achieve? These should drive subplots.)
-Learn more about Galli and the multiverse
-continue her research if possible.
-work on her martial arts skill more, she’s really let it go slack over the years.
-Organize the people at the building more, or keep a record of all the people there to know whose on hand at any time.
MUNDANE SKILLS
These do NOT require points. These are the average, daily things your character can do. Examples are "drive a car", "speak a normal Foreign Language", "play a guitar", "write poetry". Some mundane skills come from your bio and are freebie. A soldier knows very basic training (shoot a gun, basic drill). Medic, martial arts or sniper would be a Specialized Skill or Talent.
List Mundane skills here:
Learned:
-Speaks Huvidu-Zaani, Human Standard Dialect, Qri-Tal Xo’Lokakoi (not fluent, enough to get by)
-Survivalism, she knows how to survive among primitive cultures, can start a fire and similar level.
-knowledge of basic Galactic history, Huvidu-Zaan history.
-Current politics for her galaxy.
-Academics and the normal things a scholar might know, such as writing papers.
-Random Trivia picked up from random sources.
-maintenance of things assigned to her for missions.
Natural:
-Claws on fingers
-deft and dexterous fungal tendrils, range about ten feet, though can’t lift much.
-strong mammalian limbs, able to lift much more than her
-faster than average human, especially on all fours. Slower walking speed.
-swimming speed is faster than speed on land by a good margin due to environment they grew up in.
-Zaan Healing: A natural ability of the fungal Zaan, they can engulf injured parts of their host to rapidly heal it, promoting the healing process through hormones and secretions. Can even promote regrowth of limbs and more minor body parts, though in any sort of combat it’s near impossible to use. If exposed again the process stops, and it is a tiring process as it uses a lot of body energy.
SPECIALIZED SKILLS AND TALENTS
These are specialized skills that set you apart from the average person. You have 7 points to spend here. Examples are swordsmanship, sniper, coercion, piloting etc.
Ability 1 and Points Spent: Xenology 4- She has a master’s degree in Xenology, and its her main discipline. She’s working her way to a master’s degree.
Ability 2 and Points Spent: Linguistics 2 – She’s focused on the linguistics of alien languages
Ability 3 and Points Spent: Huvidu-Zaan martial arts 1 – as a kid she started learning this like many of her species, but she’s rusty and skill is equivalent to that of a novice again.
OPTIONAL SUPERNATURAL CHARACTERISTICS
You have 7 points to spend here on supernatural skills or abilities. Sonic Scream, Levitation, Spell Casting, Shape Shifting etc. Superman MUST have his kryptonite, so Restrictions are what can't they do with their power or what balances it. They can only use it when they genuinely need it? They can't use it for more then five minutes without serious side-effects? Some things are allowed without points. A pegasus has wings thus it can fly. A raptor is fast thus no points are spent in speed. These "natural" abilities should be listed in the character's description, however.
None
MAGICAL OR SPECIAL ITEMS
List:
-Huvidu-Zaan Translator: A small specialized computer similar in design to a blutooth device that goes into a Huvidu-Zann’s ear, that processes and translates languages for them if the user doesn’t know said language. It can learn new languages they encounter over time, comparing to the grammar and linguistics of other languages to find patterns and piece together likely translations, it even has a small speaker to translate for the Huvidu-Zaan as well.
-Holodisguise: lets a huvidu-zaan or other user hide their appearance how they desire, though its only a hard light projection and easily disrupted if moved into, and can’t change the person’s overall size. It also is easily interrupted, if the person is touched for instance.
BACKGROUND
Education or Training: equivalent of Bachelors in Xenology and Linguistics
Character Background/Biography:
Huvidu-Zaan rose on a watery world in the outer rim of their galaxy, far from the rise and fall of stellar empires. Sometime a million years before the rise of the Huvidu-Zaan Stellar Collective, some sort of disaster ended up reducing these powers to remnants along the edges of the galaxy, with new races slowly taking up the mantle as they reached for the stars. It was from their homeworld of Huv that this species arose, and eventually the individual known as Varla Karlenian. Largely free of large predators, the planet would to most be considered a paradise. It is largely covered in water with only archipelagos forming the landmass of the world, leading most life to be oceanic or amphibious in nature.
A Huvidu-Zaan is a composite being, made up of a mammalian host body (termed the Huv), and a fungal symbiote(the Zaan). Separately, both are moderately intelligent, though not sapient organisms. Together though, their intelligences commingle and create a singular sapient individual. This is partially a result of countless years of evolution on their watery homeworld, and the fact their physiologies have become so closely linked that they even share a reproductive cycle, each Huv born with a Zaan already growing and spreading through its host. It’s a symbiotic relationship, the two uniting into one individual. Huv are strong and long lived hosts (Many last into two centuries of life going by Solar years), and Zaan dexterous and protective of their bodies. A Zaan’s tendril may be severed by the core is housed within the brain of a Huv. Indeed, the Huvidu-Zaan never even realized they were born of the union of two organisms until they reached their industrial age and began unlocking the secrets of their homeworld Huv.
Huv are strong, fast, and resilient by themselves, and long lived. Their exposure to Zaan created a longer lifespan and nursed their intelligence to bloom. They do the manual labor of the Huvidu-Zaan, the fungal tendrils not strong enough to lift the heavy things required for industry and logistics. Since they are the more mortal part of the body, most of the intelligence ends up being housed in the Zaan as they age, as well.
Zaan can, however, outlive their hosts. As the Huv body begins to decay and wither the consciousness slowly is transferred entirely to the Zaan. The downside of course is that they lose their mobility and strength. The Huvidu-Zaan have taken to using these leftover fungal tissues to construct biotic computers and systems which they can interface with directly. Most Huvid-Zaan colonies have a large mass of central Zaan working as one unit (usually with a single dominant personality), acting as colonial administrators. Huvidu-Zaan colonies as a result are usually named after the Zaan running the systems of the colony, for example Baldarak’s Freehold in the Wyltshyr system.
The Huvidu-Zaan named Venla happened to be born on that planet. It was a kind of world termed a Gaian world by humans, one fit for species of all types to reside on comfortably. As a result the multispecies Huvidu-Zaan Stellar Collective has increasingly moved governmental structures from the homeworld to it, and multiple species call it home with Huvidu-Zaan making up the Majority.
Venla grew up in the city of Balman’s Chain, a set of islands off the main continent with a large human population, with a mix of cultures that proved to surprise Venla. One species having so many differences even into the space age was largely unheard of, but the individualistic humans refused to give up their old cultural and tribal ties. The Huvidu-Zaan by contrast had a largely unified culture, even as they spread across the galaxy.
Her exposure to such varied culture lead to her later interest in learning about them and exploring the galaxy. She also showed aptitude at learning language, so after her education at the University of Baldarak’s Freehold she ended up working in Linguistics for the Collective, recording languages and dialects for their later records and use. But Venla was not really cut out for desk work of that kind, and applied to work at one of their observation posts above primitive worlds. This would be for a doctorate in Xenology, which she was just starting to work on.
She got her wish, and was sent to Xo’Lokako to study aliens known as the Xo’Lokakoi, who’ve recently proven to be antagonistic against attempts to enlighten them, so the program had recently been scaled back. The primitives, whose technology was late Iron age, and approaching a medieval society, had previously shown to share the same ideals as the Huvidu-Zaan roughly, so it was a surprise when approached with the opportunity to bring them up to galactic level of technology to be met with weapons. The delegation barely escaped. Luckily the natives only assumed they were some kind of demons, though a shift in culture to the species has led them as a whole to become increasingly xenophobic for some reason.
Venla’s been assigned to find out why, given the opportunity to go to the surface of Xo’Lokako to the Empire of Qru-tali as it seems to be spearheading this shift after the ascension of a new ruling family. It’s a very dangerous mission, as any unknowns in their society tend to be executed or lynched.
OTHER GAME MECHANICS
URL to Apartment Picture: (What's the inside of their apartment look like)
Link to RP examples: (this MUST be a DIRECT LINK to your IC post in an RP, NOT a link to the RP thread itself. If you don't have examples, make your biography good.)Something Like this
IMPORTANT:
One paragraph that sums up your character. This paragraph is what we'll use on your player tab on the first page of the thread. This MUST be brief. Your tab will contain a link to your application so people will have full details
Character Name: Venla the Bold
Brief Description: A Huvidu-Zaan Xenologist and Linguist whose goal in life is to learn as much about other species and cultures as she can.
I finally got around to finishing this now that I'm back. I have some ideas for things involving her world,though I don't know if they'd be interesting to anyone but me
If I need to tweak anything tell me!
Approved. Be wary of the biogardens and what's left of the fungal field. The fungus there is violently predatory and colonizes quickly using other fungus as hosts.
I might bring her in at the same time I bring in the arab.
For the retrieval team, I have Maghrl, Rmwtyliin, Julia, Macy, Katya, and Amanda? Aren't some of them involved in the summer stories? I don't want to delay things too much. Let me hunt down Slo quickly. He might still be awake.
It will only end in tears.
That wasn't a joke.
A friendly reminder to all: Epic isn't a chat location thread and, given the bullshit that got all CLT in F7 shut down, I'd rather eviscerate characters than allow our game to come under Mod scrutiny via flirty, giggle-laden chat posts. Romance isn't banned. We have several poignant relationships that evolved over time and during the course of adventures or events. They're believable relationships. Our weird fan base grooves on them.
@Gio. I'll drop in a post for Klaus tomorrow to get things moving to clear the way for returning whenever you're ready to send them back.
