The Mafia Queen (OOC, Sign Ups Are OPEN!!!)

[Cascadian Free State]

tag: I'm roughly 1/3 of the way - half-way through my app.

[CoraSpia]

Name: 'George Alexander Hamilton,' also likes to go by 'the grand old duke of york'
Age: 75
Appearance: George is a large man, who stands at around 6 ft 5 and has wide broad shoulders. Despite his age, he is well-built and muscular, and has dark and intelligent brown eyes. His hair is long and silvery. When he speaks, he does so in a loud and booming baritone, with a distinctive upper-class or aristocratic English accent.
Skillset:
- Magical abilities: George is a master at elemental magic and elusions, using both to great effect in combat. Other forms of magic such as telepathy are however unknown to him.
- Wealth: George has an unexplained source of wealth (it will be explained later in the rp and it is extremely mundane.) Although he is not a billionaire there isn't much he struggles to afford.
- Mafia Connections: George still has a small collection of friends and people who owe him a favour in the United Mafia who may be able to give him tip-offs.
Personality: George Alexander Hamilton is an insane English man living in America who believes he is an 18th-century aristocrat who is fighting on behalf of good king George. Despite his clear magical prowess, he has deluded himself into thinking that this is simply his 'noble blood' speaking, and that those who also possess magical abilities are nobles: there is a chance that if he encountered someone more skilled he may believe him to be 'good King George' himself. George's main alias is as the legendary 'grand old duke of York,' and therefore the only warning that enemies tend to get before he blows down the door is weird ghostly children singing that song in elusion form. As well as his various delusions, George is highly psychopathic and has a God complex.
Weaknesses/Fears:
- age: At the end of the day, he is an elderly man. Although he keeps himself in shape he is not particularly good in standard combat situations.
- Inability to be stealthy: George wants everyone to know that it's him attacking them. He gives out warnings in the form of kids singing 'the grand old duke of York,' and he is known to sing other songs at the top of his voice while fighting.

Likes: WIP
Dislikes: WIP
Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory:
50 years ago, a mage of unusual skill and dedication joined the United Mafia. He was considered extremely odd by those around him, however his contributions to mafia activities could not be ignored. There was nobody in the ranks of the United Mafia who was able to strike fear into opponents than him; and nobody who was willing to cross moral boundaries with the readiness that he was. Due to his both his power and eye for planning, he quickly rose up the ranks until he was on of the mafia's most trusted members and had the ear and personal confidence of its leader.
Things went sour however when he unveiled a plan to the rest of the Mafia's high command to turn America into a highly militaristic fascist/feudal state, ruled of course by Good King George; who in his absence would appoint his loyal servant the Duke to rule under him. It is safe to say that the rest of the mafia did not like this suggestion and George was forced out around 30 years ago.
It is unclear what he has been doing for the past 30 years, however it is expected that he has largely been focussing on his magical abilities. What he really has been doing however is setting the world in motion for the rise of the antiheroes and the destabilisation of the Mafia and its powerstruggles. Unlike the rest of the team however, his aim is still to set up a fascist state in America; this will, however be hidden from them.

[Infected Mushroom]

Application Format:

Name: Shiroi Kasamoto

Age: 28

Appearance:
Shiroi is a young, lean, and athletic woman of Japanese ethnicity. She has short black hair kept in an angled bob hairstyle and very fierce brown eyes.

She is typically dressed in very casual clothes with a preference for maroon or black leather jackets.

In combat, Shiroi wears a black ninja outfit with a cloth mask, with absolutely no armour (to maximize speed). She always has her family sword, the katana Raikiri (“Thunder Cutter”).

Skillset:

-Shiroi has been trained extensively in over 20 different styles of martial arts

-Shiroi is very skilled at using the katana and other blades, her strikes are decisive, swift, and lethal

-Shiroi is trained by an order of ninjas on Mount Haku and is thus very skilled at the ninja tactics of stealth, camouflage, assassination, and sabotage; this includes the use of projectiles, explosives, and a variety of poisons

-Shiroi is able to handle firearms

-In her time with the Yakuza, Shiroi learned to steal/pickpocket, smuggle and to manage limited aspects of organized crime

-Shiroi can make sushi

-Shiroi is kept alive, sustained, and powered forth by a desire to avenge her family’s honour that is so powerful and fiery that it may as well count as a skill

Personality:

Shiroi appears cold, distanced, and ruthless. She is violent and driven by an unwavering commitment to avenge her family’s honour and destroy the United Mafia. This is a goal that she is so single-mindedly devoted to that she never lived a proper life, threw away any semblance of a normal childhood, and has calculated the vast majority of her life’s efforts towards this objective. Shiroi visits her family’s graves once every month to pay her respects.

Weaknesses/Fears:

Shiroi’s fighting style is heavily geared towards stealth, hand to hand combat, and the use of swords and blades. Even though she taught herself to use firearms, she is not that great at using them.

Shiroi suffers from repeated PTSD style flashbacks and nightmares of her younger self, surrounded by the corpses of her dead parents and her dead brother.

Shiroi has an unwavering sense of honour that enemies may sometimes take advantage of because she is guided by her own mystical code of justice and revenge.

Likes:
Swords
Fighting
Sushi
Killing her enemies

Dislikes:
Fast food
Time Wasted
Racism

Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory:

Shiroi was originally born in Osaka, Japan. Her parents moved to the USA when she was really young. Shiroi was part of a close knit family, she had an older brother and was very close to her parents. Young Shiroi helped her parents run a sushi shop. Her father, who wasn’t entirely legit, had borrowed a large sum of money from the Mafia but eventually he could not repay this. In retaliation, the Mafia ruthlessly executed Shiroi’s parents and her older brother. Because she was just a young teenage girl at the time, she was spared.

Leaving Shiroi alive would prove to be a mistake.

After enduring some awful conditions in the orphanages, Shiroi tried to survive on the streets on her own. She was eventually adopted and taken in by a branch of the Japanese Yakuza and resettled in San Francisco. The only thing that kept Shiroi alive was an unwavering resolve to avenge her family’s honour at all costs… however, the Yakuza taught her to tamper this fierce hatred with patience and calculation. While she helped the Yakuza, the Yakuza gave her the resources to pursue extensive training in martial arts and firearms… Shiroi created a timetable whereby she would transform herself into a fighting and killing machine by her mid 20s. After spending a few years in college (and not completing it), Shiroi used her savings to make a trip to Japan where she travelled up to Mount Haku in search of a legendary order of ninjas said to be able to teach long forgotten fighting styles. She was able to find the order (nearly dying in the process). At first the order would not train her but eventually they were moved by her fire and dedication and took her in. She was such a fierce and dedicated student that after ~7 years of training, she became one of their best fighters.

Now aged 28, Shiroi returned to the USA, put on a ninja costume, and finally began to target and kill. It was’t long because Tom Gabriels and Antihero formed an alliance with her.

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Alright, no more NPCs from me.

CoraSpia has said they want 1 more NPC and I think we're waiting for the 1-2 other players to complete the application. (During this time, others may still apply)

Once that happens, I think we can get started. We have lots of players and it's best to get the ball rolling.

Any objections?

As the two+ applications are coming in, I'll also try and come up with a list/diagram to show all the apps and what skillsets we have/don't have.

[Miku the Based]

I don't think my character will be allowed since she is basically a god that can't be killed. Maybe if a play it in a certain way so that if the opposing side "wins" I'll just be locked out of doing actions in America and the game more generally. Like they would have to do some incantation, lose my interest, or somehow block me from entering America.

Application Format:
Name: miku
Age: infinity (appearance forever 16)
Appearance: append model
Skillset: able to navigate seamlessly through the internet and high security areas without problem.
Personality: Michivious, spitful, edgy to Americans. Loving and caring to non-American Chinese and people with english as second language.
Weaknesses/Fears: unable to actually put up any physical resistance, unable to interact with people physically (no one in game is able to physically interact or restrain her, but can prevent her from intracting with physical objects). Scared of boredom.
Likes: leeks, strawberry cake, love, kindness, retribution, divinity, devine righteousness, fate, guns, pyrotechnics, singing to the world, anybody who is against US.
Dislikes: Americans, anglos, Whatever goes on in Lens perverted fantasies, lgbt, the military industrial complex, the CIA, the FBI, the "establishment", the ATF, the department of homeland security, the bourgeois, cultural liberalism, republicanism.
Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory: Just hates America so much willing to go on terror attacks for divine justice. Doesn't care about mafia as organization just cares that they are controling America and that must mean they are doing the bad bad. Hates the culture with a passion and is on a duty to enclose America from expropriating its culture and language abroad in all ifs forms. So targets government sectors and uploads leaked files on wistleblowing sites. Gets control of biological and chemical WMD's and uses them domestically. Halts trade and interations with foreign countries in all matters. Messes with troop deployment orders to cause disarray and keep them in America. Typical anti-hero stuff.

[Nagakawa]

Ooo yes, I'm stoked to begin. I have yet to think of what to do for my second character, but I'll add the app once I do.

[Infected Mushroom]

Name: 'George Alexander Hamilton,' also likes to go by 'the grand old duke of york'
Age: 75
Appearance: George is a large man, who stands at around 6 ft 5 and has wide broad shoulders. Despite his age, he is well-built and muscular, and has dark and intelligent brown eyes. His hair is long and silvery. When he speaks, he does so in a loud and booming baritone, with a distinctive upper-class or aristocratic English accent.
Skillset:
- Magical abilities: George is a master at elemental magic and elusions, using both to great effect in combat. Other forms of magic such as telepathy are however unknown to him.
- Wealth: George has an unexplained source of wealth (it will be explained later in the rp and it is extremely mundane.) Although he is not a billionaire there isn't much he struggles to afford.
- Mafia Connections: George still has a small collection of friends and people who owe him a favour in the United Mafia who may be able to give him tip-offs.
Personality: George Alexander Hamilton is an insane English man living in America who believes he is an 18th-century aristocrat who is fighting on behalf of good king George. Despite his clear magical prowess, he has deluded himself into thinking that this is simply his 'noble blood' speaking, and that those who also possess magical abilities are nobles: there is a chance that if he encountered someone more skilled he may believe him to be 'good King George' himself. George's main alias is as the legendary 'grand old duke of York,' and therefore the only warning that enemies tend to get before he blows down the door is weird ghostly children singing that song in elusion form. As well as his various delusions, George is highly psychopathic and has a God complex.
Weaknesses/Fears:
- age: At the end of the day, he is an elderly man. Although he keeps himself in shape he is not particularly good in standard combat situations.
- Inability to be stealthy: George wants everyone to know that it's him attacking them. He gives out warnings in the form of kids singing 'the grand old duke of York,' and he is known to sing other songs at the top of his voice while fighting.

Likes: WIP
Dislikes: WIP
Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory:
50 years ago, a mage of unusual skill and dedication joined the United Mafia. He was considered extremely odd by those around him, however his contributions to mafia activities could not be ignored. There was nobody in the ranks of the United Mafia who was able to strike fear into opponents than him; and nobody who was willing to cross moral boundaries with the readiness that he was. Due to his both his power and eye for planning, he quickly rose up the ranks until he was on of the mafia's most trusted members and had the ear and personal confidence of its leader.
Things went sour however when he unveiled a plan to the rest of the Mafia's high command to turn America into a highly militaristic fascist/feudal state, ruled of course by Good King George; who in his absence would appoint his loyal servant the Duke to rule under him. It is safe to say that the rest of the mafia did not like this suggestion and George was forced out around 30 years ago.
It is unclear what he has been doing for the past 30 years, however it is expected that he has largely been focussing on his magical abilities. What he really has been doing however is setting the world in motion for the rise of the antiheroes and the destabilisation of the Mafia and its powerstruggles. Unlike the rest of the team however, his aim is still to set up a fascist state in America; this will, however be hidden from them.

Approved

[Infected Mushroom]

I don't think my character will be allowed since she is basically a god that can't be killed. Maybe if a play it in a certain way so that if the opposing side "wins" I'll just be locked out of doing actions in America and the game more generally. Like they would have to do some incantation, lose my interest, or somehow block me from entering America.

Application Format:
Name: miku
Age: infinity (appearance forever 16)
Appearance: append model
Skillset: able to navigate seamlessly through the internet and high security areas without problem.
Personality: Michivious, spitful, edgy to Americans. Loving and caring to non-American Chinese and people with english as second language.
Weaknesses/Fears: unable to actually put up any physical resistance, unable to interact with people physically (no one in game is able to physically interact or restrain her, but can prevent her from intracting with physical objects). Scared of boredom.
Likes: leeks, strawberry cake, love, kindness, retribution, divinity, devine righteousness, fate, guns, pyrotechnics, singing to the world, anybody who is against US.
Dislikes: Americans, anglos, Whatever goes on in Lens perverted fantasies, lgbt, the military industrial complex, the CIA, the FBI, the "establishment", the ATF, the department of homeland security, the bourgeois, cultural liberalism, republicanism.
Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory: Just hates America so much willing to go on terror attacks for divine justice. Doesn't care about mafia as organization just cares that they are controling America and that must mean they are doing the bad bad. Hates the culture with a passion and is on a duty to enclose America from expropriating its culture and language abroad in all ifs forms. So targets government sectors and uploads leaked files on wistleblowing sites. Gets control of biological and chemical WMD's and uses them domestically. Halts trade and interations with foreign countries in all matters. Messes with troop deployment orders to cause disarray and keep them in America. Typical anti-hero stuff.

Are you trying to make an AI type character that exists only in computers? Like a Red Queen from Resident Evil?

I'm not sure it fits the RP.

I'm not sure we are going to include WMDs in the RP at least at the beginning.

[Miku the Based]

I don't think my character will be allowed since she is basically a god that can't be killed. Maybe if a play it in a certain way so that if the opposing side "wins" I'll just be locked out of doing actions in America and the game more generally. Like they would have to do some incantation, lose my interest, or somehow block me from entering America.

Application Format:
Name: miku
Age: infinity (appearance forever 16)
Appearance: append model
Skillset: able to navigate seamlessly through the internet and high security areas without problem.
Personality: Michivious, spitful, edgy to Americans. Loving and caring to non-American Chinese and people with english as second language.
Weaknesses/Fears: unable to actually put up any physical resistance, unable to interact with people physically (no one in game is able to physically interact or restrain her, but can prevent her from intracting with physical objects). Scared of boredom.
Likes: leeks, strawberry cake, love, kindness, retribution, divinity, devine righteousness, fate, guns, pyrotechnics, singing to the world, anybody who is against US.
Dislikes: Americans, anglos, Whatever goes on in Lens perverted fantasies, lgbt, the military industrial complex, the CIA, the FBI, the "establishment", the ATF, the department of homeland security, the bourgeois, cultural liberalism, republicanism.
Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory: Just hates America so much willing to go on terror attacks for divine justice. Doesn't care about mafia as organization just cares that they are controling America and that must mean they are doing the bad bad. Hates the culture with a passion and is on a duty to enclose America from expropriating its culture and language abroad in all ifs forms. So targets government sectors and uploads leaked files on wistleblowing sites. Gets control of biological and chemical WMD's and uses them domestically. Halts trade and interations with foreign countries in all matters. Messes with troop deployment orders to cause disarray and keep them in America. Typical anti-hero stuff.

Are you trying to make an AI type character that exists only in computers? Like a Red Queen from Resident Evil?

I'm not sure it fits the RP.

I'm not sure we are going to include WMDs in the RP at least at the beginning.

I'm trying to do something like that but also a being that can physically interact with everyday objects. I'm trying to not make my character OP in that you can simply take said physical object in ones own hands and the character will not be able to do anything about it. Also serves as good distraction for security considering I can't be harmed in any way. ;3.

[Infected Mushroom]

Are you trying to make an AI type character that exists only in computers? Like a Red Queen from Resident Evil?

I'm not sure it fits the RP.

I'm not sure we are going to include WMDs in the RP at least at the beginning.

I'm trying to do something like that but also a being that can physically interact with everyday objects. I'm trying to not make my character OP in that you can simply take said physical object in ones own hands and the character will not be able to do anything about it. Also serves as good distraction for security considering I can't be harmed in any way. ;3.

Sorry, I don't think it really fits the RP. It's going to interfere with immersion if we have an invulnerable hacking hologram baiting the NPCs

Is it possible to do a more conventional character?

[Miku the Based]

Okay nevermind, ï guess ï wasn't really into the RP. Hope y'all have fun playing.

[Infected Mushroom]

Okay nevermind, ï guess ï wasn't really into the RP. Hope y'all have fun playing.

Okay. No problem =)

[Infected Mushroom]

I'm liking all the characters so far. Joseph and Kevin will be friends

I think Joseph and Lorelei are going to kill each other since they are both psychologically damaged manipulators with a fear of being manipulated themselves.

Application Format:
Name: Jason Wu, aka Ninja
Age: 22
Appearance:

Skillset:
- Stealth: Jason is very stealthy. A mix of grace, body control and good spartial recognition he can move silently and hide efficiently.
- Ninjitsu: Jason is an expert fighter both unarmed and with weapons (Knife, expandable baton, throwing knifes, garotte, etc.). His personal style is build on Judo, Wing Chun Kung Fu and Savate (Kickboxing) influences.
- Peak senses: It's rare to have one sense at peak human level, Jason has all of them. His close and far vision, night vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch are all exceptional.
- Danger sense: Jason can rely on his gut feeling for a situation more then the average guy.
- Supernatural sense: Besides his normal senses, Jason has an entirely new one, where he recons sources of "magic" or otherwise highly supernatural things. When supernaturally gifted people or mystic artifacts are nearby, Jason can feel it. By concentrating he can narrow down the direction and distance and ultimately by touch he can identify them.
- Techie: Jason knows his way around with tools and gadgets. He can pass as a decent mechanic, electronics engineer and IT-guy.
- Decent shot: While preferring close quarter weapons, Jason has some training with pistols and rifles.
- Ambidexterity: Jason can use both hands equally well
- Athletic: Jason is great at track and field, running, jumping, climbing, parkour, swimming and cycling.
- Resources: Jason has inherited a good deal of money from his guardian. While not super rich, it allows him to ignore the need for a job to finance his apartment and costs of living.

Personality: Jason is friendly and open. A bit immature, he still clings to romantic ideas about gentlemen-thiefs and honorable vigilantism. Somewhat snarky.
Weaknesses/Fears: Jason is rather impulsive and direct. He is curious and slightly naive. He seeks validation in others, thus disappointing his "friends" (especially potential new father-figures) is his fear.
Likes: Sports (basically all of them, both watching and doing), clubs
Dislikes: Cellphones (he has one but often leaves it at home to be unavailable), alcohol and drugs (X)

Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory: Jason's talent as a little cat-burglar and thief was discovered early in his life be the Chinese Triad "Copper Dragons". Growing up in China Town, San Francisco, the Triads basically owned his father's business and provided him with an "uncle" who would oversee Jason's development and initiate him once he would be old enough. But it came different. When the Mafia united, the Triads had the choice to fall in line or resist. The Copper Dragons chose to resist but failed and were wiped out. Jason's parents (despite not being gang members) were killed during the time, as collateral damage.
Jason was found by the lone wolf vigilante Ruben Adams. Ruben was the first to realize Jason's supernatural senses and planed to use the grief over his dead parent to turn Jason into a weapon against the Mafia. Ruben trained his ward in the use of various gadgets (grapple gun, surveillance gear, Low-altitude parachutes, ...)
Ultimately, Reuben's life as a vigilante got him killed, too. Jason was once again alone. He wanted to continue the fight, as his Mentor had drilled into him, however they never got to the planing part of fighting organized crime and besides all recklessness, Jason understood that walking through the front-door of the next best Mafia hangout, guns blazing, was a surefire way to get yourself killed. So for a while he spend his nights dressing up and going on neighborhood watch, beating up low-life thugs without Mafia-connection. He made sure to tell the victims he saved to spread word, that "Ninja" was watching the streets. (A hero-name, that he had first chosen out of sarcasm over the fact, that the average American couldn't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese culture but that had somehow grown on him) This got him the attention of Anti-Hero, who found him and invited him to the new Anti-Hero force.

Sorry WIP as in it might be a no go?

[Infected Mushroom]

So this is what the Antihero Force looks like this far, and we have a good mix of skills:

Specialists with combat support
Tom Gabriels (ex CIA and sniping support)
Rep. Joe Langley (Congress)
Lorelei Martin (hacking)
Paul Lacrosse (Police experience)

Heavy Hitters Geared Towards Combat
“Kevin” (the Hulk type)
Antihero/Vladislav (serial killer generalist heavy hitter, balanced for close range guns, knives, and hand to hand)
Jason Wu (Ninja tactics with a bit of tech and supernatural awareness) ***
Shiroi Kasamoto (swords, martial arts)

Magic Support
George Hamilton (elemental and fear magic)
Joseph Brooke (telepathy)

...

I think that’s what we have.

CoraSpia said he’s doing one more App and I see Cascadian States being 1/3 done with an app.

Looking at the teams, what would you say we are missing?

[Kaledoria]

(...)

Sorry WIP as in it might be a no go?

Ah, yeah, as we do have a proper ninja now, that character seams no longer needed. Might apply for a less martially focused guy with the second sight (to be used as a plot driver) but don't wait for him if you want to start the IC.

[Nagakawa]

I think our team could do with a medical doctor and/or a pharmacologist. Will get to work on one

[Keruma]

Hi! I've only lurked at the forums a lot and dabbled in one or two rps in the last two years but I've decided to take a shot at this one because it suits my fancy. I can tweak my character a bit if anything special is required


Application Format:
Name: Jonathan Lee / Lee Tae-Jin
Age: 22 (international age)
Appearance:

180 cm, 60 kg, lean with defined muscles.

Skillset:
-Peak human agility: Jonathan is naturally gifted with moving his body with quick and efficient movements. To maintain this natural talent, he routinely does exercises that help him keep fit and nimble.
-Parkour Expert: Jonathan was enrolled in a parkour school ever since he was 9, one of the few things his family allowed him to do on his own volition. Through years of training and practice, Jonathan has become a master at moving through the environment and overcoming physical obstacles efficiently. This skill is, of course, augmented by his extraordinary levels of agility.
-Multilingual: Jonathan is fluent in Korean, English, and Chinese. He is at a conversational level when speaking in Japanese and can understand basic German and Russian.
-Basic military training: Jonathan has undergone the mandatory South Korean military conscription and has acquired the basics in marksmanship and battlefield medicine.
-Korean martial arts: As Jonathan's father was fiercely patriotic (as well as wanted his son to have a bigger build), Jonathan was forced to practice all Korean martial arts and their differing schools. Jonathan has amalgamated these lessons into his own fighting style. His fighting style consists of strong, powerful kicks with good counters to any possible tackles or moves which bring him to the ground. He is also knowledgeable with swords, knives, and bows.
-Aircraft pilot: Jonathan enlisted in the South Korean Air force, and therefore knows how to operate helicopters and airplanes.
-Liquid assets: Jonathan inherited a sizable fortune from his mother and father. While this isn't necessarily a skill, it does allow him to make certain decisions that people with fewer fortunes cannot.
Personality: Jonathan is what we would call a silent man, the type of person that people would not notice walking down the street unless you bump into them. He generally prefers minding his own business unless interfering in the situation would benefit him directly. Jonathan used to be idealistic, where he believed that everyone has some good in them and that people could completely change for the better. During his teenage years, this has somewhat changed. He still believes that everyone is not black and white when it comes to morality, but also thinks that people are more likely to become evil because it brings more benefit to them. As such, he decided to weigh everyone if they were more likely to pursue their own self-interests rather than the common good.

Jonathan has always found difficulty connecting with people, which secretly causes him a lot of distress. Any relationships he had, both personal and professional, have been cut off ever since that traumatic day, or 'the catalyst', as Jonathan would like to call it. He also has difficulty in meeting new people. He generally avoids any social meetings and prefers to stay indoors. It takes him a significant amount of energy to maintain any conversation unless he is under the influence of alcohol.

Jonathan has a complicated relationship with his parents. he detests everything his parents ever made him do but acknowledges that it did help him throughout his life, especially nowadays. The death of both his mother and father is bittersweet to him. He finds relief in the fact that their authoritarian presence will no longer be able to control him, but at the same time is saddened by how they went out. As his one final act of obeisance to his parents, he swears to hunt down the group who murdered them. He will stop at nothing to ensure that the killers will no longer see the bright side of the day.
Weaknesses/Fears:
-His inability to form connections with people hinder his chances of finding his parent's killers and finding joy outside of his home. It also causes him to fear his death, because all he can imagine is him lying in his own pool of blood with no one to help him.
-Jonathan can at times be a scatterbrain and lose focus when he finds a situation to not be that important to him.
-Jonathan has pyrophobia due to a traumatic experience that he had when he was a young child.
Likes: walking, exercising, strategy games, Red Velvet, stoicism
Dislikes: Judo, the sound of metals scraping each other, parties
motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory: Jonathan was born in the affluent parts of South Korea. He and his family emigrated to the United States when he was only two years old because his father became the head of the North American branch of a Korean conglomerate. Jonathan has live in the states his entire life, barring the occasional summer trip back to Korea to visit his grandparents, all of which have passed away at this point.

Jonathan's parents were abusive to him. Not physical by any means but emotionally, psychologically. They would berate his every mistake and be silent with his accomplishments. They would force him to what they want him to become, regardless of their own child's wishes. Some people would say that his parents were not always like that. Some say the death of their first child, Jonathan's elder sibling, caused their drastic change in personality. They became cold and distant from one another, even when their second child, Jonathan, came to life. They vented out their repressed anger and own failed ambition to their son. Jonathan doesn't care for their excuses, they were still horrible to him in every definition of the word.

When Jonathan turned 18 and graduated high school, he immediately moved out of his parent's house and went to a university in New York, the opposite side of California, and his parents. This didn't stop their persistent attempts at manipulating him so at 19 he decided to enlist just to completely get away from his parents. Life in military service was grueling but at least the people attempting to control weren't his parents for a change. He spent two years in Korea before returning back to the states.

Once he returned to New York, however, he was immediately notified of his parent's death and was forced to go back to California. Official reports have been reported as a murder-robbery, but Jonathan knows better. Jonathan knew about the group of people who wanted his father gone by any means necessary. Necessary meant being a member of the United Mafia, which Jonathan found out through the personal notes of his mother. The funeral also revealed something else; the murderers were also on to him. He immediately escaped from California, sold his apartment in New York, and has since lived in relative anonymity, simultaneously trying to live and take down his parent's killers.

[CoraSpia]

Another good app, Keruma.

My third and final app will be up today, and then I think we can get going with the IC. Applications will stay open for the duration of the rp, and I'll do my best to help new arrivals settle into the plot, so if people are working on an app there's no need to rush.

[Infected Mushroom]

Hi! I've only lurked at the forums a lot and dabbled in one or two rps in the last two years but I've decided to take a shot at this one because it suits my fancy. I can tweak my character a bit if anything special is required


Application Format:
Name: Jonathan Lee / Lee Tae-Jin
Age: 22 (international age)
Appearance:

(Image)
180 cm, 60 kg, lean with defined muscles.

Skillset:
-Peak human agility: Jonathan is naturally gifted with moving his body with quick and efficient movements. To maintain this natural talent, he routinely does exercises that help him keep fit and nimble.
-Parkour Expert: Jonathan was enrolled in a parkour school ever since he was 9, one of the few things his family allowed him to do on his own volition. Through years of training and practice, Jonathan has become a master at moving through the environment and overcoming physical obstacles efficiently. This skill is, of course, augmented by his extraordinary levels of agility.
-Multilingual: Jonathan is fluent in Korean, English, and Chinese. He is at a conversational level when speaking in Japanese and can understand basic German and Russian.
-Basic military training: Jonathan has undergone the mandatory South Korean military conscription and has acquired the basics in marksmanship and battlefield medicine.
-Korean martial arts: As Jonathan's father was fiercely patriotic (as well as wanted his son to have a bigger build), Jonathan was forced to practice all Korean martial arts and their differing schools. Jonathan has amalgamated these lessons into his own fighting style. His fighting style consists of strong, powerful kicks with good counters to any possible tackles or moves which bring him to the ground. He is also knowledgeable with swords, knives, and bows.
-Aircraft pilot: Jonathan enlisted in the South Korean Air force, and therefore knows how to operate helicopters and airplanes.
-Liquid assets: Jonathan inherited a sizable fortune from his mother and father. While this isn't necessarily a skill, it does allow him to make certain decisions that people with fewer fortunes cannot.
Personality: Jonathan is what we would call a silent man, the type of person that people would not notice walking down the street unless you bump into them. He generally prefers minding his own business unless interfering in the situation would benefit him directly. Jonathan used to be idealistic, where he believed that everyone has some good in them and that people could completely change for the better. During his teenage years, this has somewhat changed. He still believes that everyone is not black and white when it comes to morality, but also thinks that people are more likely to become evil because it brings more benefit to them. As such, he decided to weigh everyone if they were more likely to pursue their own self-interests rather than the common good.

Jonathan has always found difficulty connecting with people, which secretly causes him a lot of distress. Any relationships he had, both personal and professional, have been cut off ever since that traumatic day, or 'the catalyst', as Jonathan would like to call it. He also has difficulty in meeting new people. He generally avoids any social meetings and prefers to stay indoors. It takes him a significant amount of energy to maintain any conversation unless he is under the influence of alcohol.

Jonathan has a complicated relationship with his parents. he detests everything his parents ever made him do but acknowledges that it did help him throughout his life, especially nowadays. The death of both his mother and father is bittersweet to him. He finds relief in the fact that their authoritarian presence will no longer be able to control him, but at the same time is saddened by how they went out. As his one final act of obeisance to his parents, he swears to hunt down the group who murdered them. He will stop at nothing to ensure that the killers will no longer see the bright side of the day.
Weaknesses/Fears:
-His inability to form connections with people hinder his chances of finding his parent's killers and finding joy outside of his home. It also causes him to fear his death, because all he can imagine is him lying in his own pool of blood with no one to help him.
-Jonathan can at times be a scatterbrain and lose focus when he finds a situation to not be that important to him.
-Jonathan has pyrophobia due to a traumatic experience that he had when he was a young child.
Likes: walking, exercising, strategy games, Red Velvet, stoicism
Dislikes: Judo, the sound of metals scraping each other, parties
motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory: Jonathan was born in the affluent parts of South Korea. He and his family emigrated to the United States when he was only two years old because his father became the head of the North American branch of a Korean conglomerate. Jonathan has live in the states his entire life, barring the occasional summer trip back to Korea to visit his grandparents, all of which have passed away at this point.

Jonathan's parents were abusive to him. Not physical by any means but emotionally, psychologically. They would berate his every mistake and be silent with his accomplishments. They would force him to what they want him to become, regardless of their own child's wishes. Some people would say that his parents were not always like that. Some say the death of their first child, Jonathan's elder sibling, caused their drastic change in personality. They became cold and distant from one another, even when their second child, Jonathan, came to life. They vented out their repressed anger and own failed ambition to their son. Jonathan doesn't care for their excuses, they were still horrible to him in every definition of the word.

When Jonathan turned 18 and graduated high school, he immediately moved out of his parent's house and went to a university in New York, the opposite side of California, and his parents. This didn't stop their persistent attempts at manipulating him so at 19 he decided to enlist just to completely get away from his parents. Life in military service was grueling but at least the people attempting to control weren't his parents for a change. He spent two years in Korea before returning back to the states.

Once he returned to New York, however, he was immediately notified of his parent's death and was forced to go back to California. Official reports have been reported as a murder-robbery, but Jonathan knows better. Jonathan knew about the group of people who wanted his father gone by any means necessary. Necessary meant being a member of the United Mafia, which Jonathan found out through the personal notes of his mother. The funeral also revealed something else; the murderers were also on to him. He immediately escaped from California, sold his apartment in New York, and has since lived in relative anonymity, simultaneously trying to live and take down his parent's killers.

Approved. I’m loving this.

[Kaledoria]

Since this is vaguely set in "the present": Can we say that either for Butterfly effects or even completely unrelated, there is no Pandemic in the UM-Timeline?

[Infected Mushroom]

Since this is vaguely set in "the present": Can we say that either for Butterfly effects or even completely unrelated, there is no Pandemic in the UM-Timeline?

There will be no pandemic. It works better that way.

[Diahon]

am i doing this?

i am doing this

right? hm

[Kaledoria]

I reworked my previous idea. I don't know which direction the story will take but could imagine paths where Lorelei stumbles over some artifact and then asks her nerd friend/associate what that might be. Thus I do not plan to use this character from the beginning but might use him later and would offer this as an NPC (therefor I'm not objecting if someone else controls him for a scene):

Name: Jason Wu, aka Sentinel
Age: 22
Appearance:

Skillset:
- Peak senses: It's rare to have one sense at peak human level, Jason has all of them. His close and far vision, night vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch are all exceptional.
- Danger sense: Jason can rely on his gut feeling for a situation more then the average guy.
- 2nd sight: Besides his normal senses, Jason has an entirely new one, where he recons sources of "magic" or otherwise highly supernatural things. When supernaturally gifted people or mystic artifacts are nearby, Jason can feel it. By concentrating he can narrow down the direction and distance and ultimately by touch he can identify them. On closer observation he may sometimes get a vague idea on the nature of the "magic" aura but this is rather unreliable.
- Techie: Jason knows his way around with tools and gadgets. He can pass as a decent mechanic, electronics engineer and IT-guy.
- Decent shot: Jason has some training with pistols and rifles.
- Resources: Jason has inherited a good deal of money from his guardian. While not super rich, it allows him to ignore the need for a job to finance his apartment and costs of living.
- Historian: For an amateur historian, Jason has a very good knowledge of history. His specialty are civilizations in their golden ages, especially the Roman, Abbasid and British Empire and the Jin and Ming dynasties in China.
- Occult knowledge: Jason has a widespread book-knowledge about myths and monsters and superstitions of magic in its various forms from medieval witchcraft to voodoo to various versions of alchemy. For some of this fantastic tales he has some idea how close they are to reality
- Speed reader: Jason can read 400-700 words per minute (depending on the complexity of the text).

Personality: Jason is friendly and open. A bit immature, he still clings to romantic ideas about gentlemen-thiefs and honorable vigilantism. Somewhat snarky.
Weaknesses/Fears: Jason is rather impulsive. He is curious and slightly naive. He seeks validation in others, thus disappointing his "friends" (especially potential new father-figures) is his fear.
Likes: Medieval fairs and reenactments, books
Dislikes: Cellphones (he has one but often leaves it at home to be unavailable), crowds

Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory: Jason grew up in China Town, San Francisco, the Triads basically owned his father's business and provided him with an "uncle" who would oversee Jason's development and who would initiate him once he was be old enough. But it came different. When the Mafia united, the Triads had the choice to fall in line or resist. The Copper Dragons chose to resist but failed and were wiped out. Jason's parents (despite not being gang members) were killed during the time, as collateral damage.
Jason was found by the lone wolf vigilante Ruben Adams. Ruben was the first to realize Jason's supernatural senses and planed to use the grief over his dead parents to turn Jason into a weapon against the Mafia. Ruben trained his ward in the use of various gadgets (grapple gun, surveillance gear, Low-altitude parachutes, ...)
Ultimately, Reuben's life as a vigilante got him killed, too. Jason was once again alone. For a while he wanted to forget the violence and wrote himself into college for anthropology and history, where he made it to a bachelor degree.
But ultimately his past brought him back in. He realized that a certain don of the mafia (that was indirectly linked to the death of his parents) sponsored massive archeological enterprises in southern California. Wondering whether this was just a really expensive hobby or part of an evil plan, Jason watched the Mafia guys from afar and noticed they were handling some magic items and had more then one gifted person among them. He realizted, that this was not good and even though he lamented why it should be him, he knew, someone had to do something.
Jason tried to keep records of the names and abilities of magical Mafia people. Then Joseph broke out and left a mess behind. Jason tried to keep track of Joseph. After some days he lost the track since the telepath was running from the Mafia and thus obviously took caution not to be found, but Jason's snooping around was discovered by Antihero, who confronted him. The two man found their goals compatible, although for now Jason wanted to remain mostly independent and keep a status as an associate of the team, not a full member.

[Infected Mushroom]

I reworked my previous idea. I don't know which direction the story will take but could imagine paths where Lorelei stumbles over some artifact and then asks her nerd friend/associate what that might be. Thus I do not plan to use this character from the beginning but might use him later and would offer this as an NPC (therefor I'm not objecting if someone else controls him for a scene):

Name: Jason Wu, aka Sentinel
Age: 22
Appearance:

(Image)

Skillset:
- Peak senses: It's rare to have one sense at peak human level, Jason has all of them. His close and far vision, night vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch are all exceptional.
- Danger sense: Jason can rely on his gut feeling for a situation more then the average guy.
- 2nd sight: Besides his normal senses, Jason has an entirely new one, where he recons sources of "magic" or otherwise highly supernatural things. When supernaturally gifted people or mystic artifacts are nearby, Jason can feel it. By concentrating he can narrow down the direction and distance and ultimately by touch he can identify them. On closer observation he may sometimes get a vague idea on the nature of the "magic" aura but this is rather unreliable.
- Techie: Jason knows his way around with tools and gadgets. He can pass as a decent mechanic, electronics engineer and IT-guy.
- Decent shot: Jason has some training with pistols and rifles.
- Resources: Jason has inherited a good deal of money from his guardian. While not super rich, it allows him to ignore the need for a job to finance his apartment and costs of living.
- Historian: For an amateur historian, Jason has a very good knowledge of history. His specialty are civilizations in their golden ages, especially the Roman, Abbasid and British Empire.
- Occult knowledge: Jason has a widespread book-knowledge about myths and monsters and superstitions of magic in its various forms from medieval witchcraft to voodoo to various versions of alchemy. For some of this fantastic tales he has some idea how close they are to reality
- Speed reader: Jason can read 400-700 words per minute (depending on the complexity of the text).

Personality: Jason is friendly and open. A bit immature, he still clings to romantic ideas about gentlemen-thiefs and honorable vigilantism. Somewhat snarky.
Weaknesses/Fears: Jason is rather impulsive. He is curious and slightly naive. He seeks validation in others, thus disappointing his "friends" (especially potential new father-figures) is his fear.
Likes: Medieval fairs and reenactments, books
Dislikes: Cellphones (he has one but often leaves it at home to be unavailable), crowds

Motivation for joining Antihero team/backstory: Jason grew up in China Town, San Francisco, the Triads basically owned his father's business and provided him with an "uncle" who would oversee Jason's development and who would initiate him once he was be old enough. But it came different. When the Mafia united, the Triads had the choice to fall in line or resist. The Copper Dragons chose to resist but failed and were wiped out. Jason's parents (despite not being gang members) were killed during the time, as collateral damage.
Jason was found by the lone wolf vigilante Ruben Adams. Ruben was the first to realize Jason's supernatural senses and planed to use the grief over his dead parents to turn Jason into a weapon against the Mafia. Ruben trained his ward in the use of various gadgets (grapple gun, surveillance gear, Low-altitude parachutes, ...)
Ultimately, Reuben's life as a vigilante got him killed, too. Jason was once again alone. He wanted to continue the fight, as his Mentor had drilled into him, however they never got to the planing part of fighting organized crime and besides all recklessness, Jason understood that walking through the front-door of the next best Mafia hangout, guns blazing, was a surefire way to get yourself killed. So he just watched the Mafia from afar and noticed their growing interest in the supernatural and especially in gifted people. Jason tried to keep records of the names and abilities of magical Mafia people. Then Joseph broke out and left a mess behind. Jason tried to keep track of Joseph. After some days he lost the track since the telepath was running from the Mafia and thus obviously took caution not to be found, but Jason's snooping around was discovered by Antihero, who confronted him. The two man found their goals compatible, although for now Jason wanted to remain mostly independent and keep a status as an associate of the team, not a full member.

This works well. If we get to a later arc, magic could be huge so this character will be very relevant Approved.

But he’s independent for now?

[Kaledoria]

This works well. If we get to a later arc, magic could be huge so this character will be very relevant Approved.

But he’s independent for now?

I slightly altered his Bio to better fit the new interest in history. Nothing mayor.
And yes, he mostly does independent surveillance and research but as an "associate" he has contact with the team and tells them if he finds out something that might be relevant for them or needs their help (or vice versa)

[Infected Mushroom]

Do you guys like murder mysteries? Because I’m already thinking of how to incorporate a mini case into a later part of the story except with super powers...

CoraSpia and I are coordinating the first IC but it may take a while we’ll see