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[Drusilla]

"You have never met me, nor I you... not yet, anyway. You may call me the Alchemist." The old man paused for breath. "I have seen wonders in my life that would amaze, and terrors that would break a man. Fire has seared my lungs, water filled them, dirt has filled my mouth, and the very breath of life I have tasted. I've been blinded by the purest light, and crushed by pure darkness. Yes, I have lived... I have lived as few others ever will. You have the chance now to follow in my footsteps. Not completely... No, I do not trust my full power to any one person, but you shall have a taste.

"Your task is to find the others like you. They could live next door... or you may have to cross the globe to find them. When you have gathered, you must seek me out for your final blessing, to gain your final power. In time, you will have heirs of your own, but that is a trial for another day."

Again, the old man paused, blinking obviously blind eyes. You cannot tell quite how ancient he is, but it is apparent that he has seen much over a long lifetime. Perhaps his claims are actually true... but then, how could they be?

"Tell no one of what I have blessed you with. How do you find the others, you ask? In time, you will be able to see with your heart, and you will feel the pull of your fellows. Pray that you do not take too long, however; my time is running short, and you must ALL be here for the final blessing, or my power will fade from this world... and yours with it. Until then.... farewell, and good luck."

The disk ends, and you are left to ponder your thoughts. Are you excited by the thought of power beyond your wildest dreams? Frightened at the possibilities? Worried that you cannot find the others in time? Do you not even bother to seek out others, perhaps condemning them and their new found powers? What you do now is entirely up to you.


This is an RPG focusing more on character development than character interaction, and as such will be driven by the individual, at least in the beginning. I ask that only those truly dedicated sign up. With that in mind, I also hope that we all have fun kicking some serious ass here. =D

Name:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Element: (Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Light, or Dark; try to tie it in with your character somehow. I'll allow duplicates as long as there's a good mix of the six.)
History:
Other:


Name: Vivian Fay
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Appearance: Vivian is about five foot seven, average weight, with silver-rimmed glasses (which she is known to fiddle with habitually), bright cat-green eyes, and fair complexion. Her hair is currently black on top, and deep red underneath in back. Faded freckles can be seen over her cheeks, nose, and shoulders, though it's apparent that it's been some time since she spent any real time in the sun (at least, without sunscreen; mustn't forget it!). Her ears are pierced twice on the left, three times on the right, and she has her left eyebrow pierced. Her right arm has a vine tattoo winding around from her wrist all the way to her shoulder. Her back is a mass of symbols, script in other languages, and pictures that make no sense at first, or second, glance. One could spend hours going over the designs there and still find something new.
Personality: Vivian goes through life to her own beat, as if she's listening to music that only she can hear, and her actions are a dance to it. She's a free spirit, and isn't afraid to make her mind known to those around her. She's quirky, passionate, bold, die-hard, and loves every minute of it. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone more alive than she is. She lives to experience life to the fullest extent, and gods forbid that you try to persuade her otherwise. She's a source of comfort, joy, and healing to her friends, and she has many of those.
Element: Fire
History: Nothing out of the ordinary; family with three pets (cats, of course), two kids (Vivian has a younger brother), grew up in suburbia. Her parents don't understand her religious/spiritual shift from Christianity, and continuously try to coax her back to it. She either ignores this or laughs it off, going along on her own path.
Other: None yet.


Fire
Vivian Fay, Drusilla
Dante Richards/ "Drako Ralen", Mew Master

Water
Alphonse Demore, Mystic Clown

Earth
Chase 'The Ace' Larson, Blademaster

Air
classy_cat18

Light
Lara Sagel, Crystal Tears

Dark
Mateo Jacobs, Samchu

[Mystic_clown]

Sounds interesting. May I reserve a water character at least?

[Drusilla]

Sure thing.

[Blademaster]

I want an Earth character.

(Yes, Blade's actually joining. STFU. -_-')

[Drusilla]

Yay Bladie! I've put you down.

Reservations aren't needed, really... I'm allowing duplicates. If it makes you feel better, though, go for it.

[classy_cat18]

Even though they're not needed, put me down for Wind. This inactivity is starting to drive me crazy.

[Samchu]

I'll reserve a dark spot and throw a sign up your way eventually. ^^

[Crystal Tears]

I'll take light since Blade switched.

[Mystic_clown]

Name: Alphonse Demore
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Appearance: Standing at six foot with a lanky build, Alphonse has a slightly pale complexion, a thin face, long, unkempt platinum blonde hair which falls just past his shoulders and lazy brown eyes. He has a couple of piercings on his right ear, and for clothing he simply wears a white poet’s shirt, left somewhat open, revealing his chest, black pants held up by a leather belt and black pants. He has two silver rings on his left hand and one on his right. A silver chain hangs from his neck.
Personality: A very mellow and laid back individual, willing to take his time with things and to take it easy. Despite his slow, slacker like mindset, he does have a creative mind when it comes to putting things together. He can also get a bit philosophical after he’s been smoking that hookah of his.
Element: Water
History: According to his parents, Alphonse was a bit of a mixed bag. On one hand, he had a very creative and constructive mind. On the other hand, he was incredibly lazy and took his time with things. At the age of sixteen, he built what his parents described as “The most complicated hookah they’ve ever seen” (Alphonse however said it was the second most complicated), and began his smoking habit. Nobody really knows what he’s smoking, though most people believe it could be opium. The final straw came at the age of eighteen when his mother caught him and his father smoking it. In response, she withheld sex from her husband for a few months and kicked Alphonse out of the house. Now, with only his hookah and whatever money he had, Alphonse now roams around….doing stuff. What can a smoking slacker with a creative mind do?
Other: He carries his hookah and a suitcase with him everywhere.

[Crystal Tears]

Name: Lara Sagel
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Appearance: Lara stands at 5’6’’, with just about shoulder length hair that’s dyed blonde, though a little of her dirty blond roots are beginning to show through. Her body is a nice shape, with curves in all the right places. Lara has designed her clothing (particularly shirts), and is usually wearing some sort of black t-shirt with all sorts of designs on either the back or the front. With that she usually wears black cargo pants and some variety of skater shoes. On her wrists are assortments of bracelets, some with studs, some not, all variety of colours, and on her most of her fingers, silver and black rings. If she is wearing jeans, they’re loose and hang on her hips, usually exposing the top of her boxers.
Personality: Never content, Lara is constantly looking for something to inspire and/or move her. She has a short attention span for anything that she deems boring or not worth her time (which is most things if they are not: shiny, expensive, a picture, painting, drawing, sculpture, silver, gold, money, adventurous, amusing, depressingly sad, quirky, unusual, Stargate, Starwars, Firefly/Serenity, video game related, violent, anything with swords, most mythological creatures, and most mythologies or old worlds.). Though she has the gift of gab (being able to make anyone talk about something), she enjoys listening to others and not divulging much about herself. Lara also has a tendency to be shy at the beginning, coming off cold and uninterested in anybody (though she claims to her friends [which are limited], that she hates people). That being said, Lara is sort of embarrassed about certain aspects of her personality. Like her sometimes *extremely* short temper, being easily offended (by the stupidest of things), and sometimes not thinking before she speaks (especially when upset/anger). When in a bad mood, Lara answers in short stoic answers. In that she seems to switch from being light-hearted and friendly to someone who is sadistic and cold. This usually doesn’t last long as then she feels guilty for being so cold-hearted. Lara also tends to apologize A LOT to friends for doing something wrong, saying something stupid, or just… for… a reason she can’t even think of.
She has absolutely NO interest in romance, whether it is relationships, or one night stands. Such things make her feel awkward, especially when it’s her own love life as the conversation (which she lacks in, because she lacks the interest). Though she’ll joke around (and sometimes she gets whimsical, it’ll wear off soon enough); the actual thing (being romance/love/sex/whatever) throws her completely off.
Her absolute favourite things to do are laugh and have a good time, usually blowing off responsibility.
Element: Light
History: Lara had a normal childhood, nice parents, no siblings, and a dog (occasionally she’d have fish). She didn’t do to well in school, simply because she had absolutely no interest in most of it (which was later related to ADD by a shrink she had to see…). Lara Sagel didn’t care much for the psychiatrist’s opinion either, having finished school she could do whatever she wanted and simply enjoy whatever life happened to give her. This lead to a job in a butcher shop (which helps her deal with negative emotion and her *slightly* hidden sadistic nature), and a basement apartment in a quiet little neighbourhood (not really).
No one knows exactly what happened, but Lara Sagel developed a heavy addiction to alcohol, which destroys her usually quiet formidable self-control (also gives her the ability to go from REALLY happy to REALLY angry rather quickly and randomly). Being an artist (quite good too), she often drinks at home, all night while she works on her art in some way or another. This has resulted many mornings where she’s woken up and spotted a finished painting, but doesn’t quite remember *when* she finished it.
Other: Errm.. Nothing? Open to friendships XDD

[Samchu]

Name: Mateo Jacobs
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Appearance: Mateo stands at just six feet. He has short black hair that spikes at the back but his fringe is longer and hangs over his left eye. He has a rounded face and a strong jaw which has, surprisingly, survived countless ‘accidents’. All he has to show for his adventures is a scar that runs from underneath his right cheek to just below his jaw bone. His eyes are sea blue. He has a muscular build more attributed to athletes than weight-lifters. As his current interests lie in mechanics, music, and motorcycle racing; Mateo wears heavy black boots, close-fitting jeans, a black t-shirt, and a black leather biker’s jacket. He also wears a thick, brown leather bracelet on his right wrist and a silver dog tag around his neck. His body has countless scars, including several on his left forearm from when he had a tattoo removed (let’s just say it didn’t go as smoothly as it was supposed to).
Personality: Mateo’s a nice, out-going kind of guy who can talk to almost anyone about almost anything because he’s managed to do so much in his lifetime. The problem is that he almost seems to know too much and people tend to find him arrogant at times because of it. He’s a little headstrong because of his independence and doesn’t cope well with taking orders from people unless he respects them. Not the type to start a fight, he’ll more than happily finish it if one of his friends is in trouble. He has a bad habit of saying what he thinks sometimes, and this had lead to countless arguments between him and Lara. He’s a bit of daredevil and has a death wish. If others won’t do it then he will. He doesn’t bother him, he hasn’t died yet!
Element: Dark
History: Mateo’s the kind of guy who’s never been able to figure out what he wants in life. He was born into a well-off family but knew immediately that he would not take over his father’s financial company, passing the right on to his younger brother. He travelled often and studied anything he could, though he never settled anywhere and never completed a single course that he began. Then a year ago, Mateo met Lara when he wandered into the butcher’s shop where she worked. His varied life kept her interested in him and the two became friends. It wasn’t long before Mateo realised that his feelings for Lara run deeper than friendship. For the first time in his life, he is confronted by something that he truly wants and it terrifies him. Love is something he has yet to experience and he’s at a loss as to how he should approach it. Obviously, he has yet to make a move.
Other: Has learned to turn a blind eye to his friend’s drinking; mostly because he gets his ass kicked if he says anything about it. He’s also spent more time in hospital recovering from another one of his escapades than he can count.

[Blademaster]

Name: Chase 'The Ace' Larson
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Appearance: A good 6 feet tall and weighing in at about 180 pounds. He has short black hair, perfectly styled, honey-brown eyes that can melt any woman who looks into them, and teeth the color of ivory that actually seem to glint when he smiles. Tanned just slightly, his skin is devoid of any injuries or blemishes and toned just enough to make him look fit but not muscular. He typically wears a fancy white Italian suit over a red dress shirt, shining white shoes, and a red tie that matches a small red pin on his lapel. Atop his head, half-concealing his face is a white hat with a red band around it, just above the rim.
Personality: The perfect way to describe Chase is as a ladies' man. He is kind, warm-hearted, and charismatic, willing to do everything in his power to assist a lady in need and able to flirt his way into any woman's heart (and usually her bed later on ~_^). He is a pacifist, but he's also just as intelligent and cunning as one would expect a man of his profession (casino owner) to be.
Element: Earth
History: Chase's father was killed in Kuwait shortly after he was born; his mother raised him on her own out of a small apartment, where he was home-schooled until the age of 9, when his mother re-married to a card shark at a local casino. Thanks to his stepdad's luck at the poker table, Chase was finally able to afford public schooling; he excelled in school, with his best subjects being math and history.
From Day 1, Chase's stepdad taught his son a lot of tricks of the trade when it came to casinos. Counting cards, knowing when to bet and on what at the roulette table, figuring out what slot machines would pay out the most... Chase had some trouble learning, but his nearly inhuman level of good fortune helped him along.
At the age of 23, successful young Chase graduated college with a Bachelor of Business Administration summa cum laude. And it certainly showed: He bought his stepdad's 'lucky' casino, which he had refurnished into the finest in the state. Sometimes called 'the Caesar's Palace of the east,' Chase's casino made him the 163rd-wealthiest person in the world in just a few short years.
Other: Despite how suave and calm Chase might seem on the surface, the billionaire playboy has one fatal weakness: his sweet tooth. A popular joke around the casino is that Chase's accountants are the only things keeping him from spending every penny he has on jelly beans.

[Drusilla]

Everyone looks good! All are accepted. ^^

[Drusilla]

UPDATE: I have the beginning done and ready to rock. Late sign ups will be welcome, of course, but this is your last chance for prebording.

[Blademaster]

I demand a response to the question proposed by Mystic_clown in your sig.

For, uh... research purposes.

[Mew Master]

Name: Dante Richards
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Appearance: Dante is a tall individual, about 6’6” with bright hazel green eyes and shaggy shoulder-length black hair. His fame is large and toned and wears loose clothing that’s about a size too big for him. He always seems to wear the same blue denim vest over his t-shirts. The pants he wears varies from cargo shorts, to jeans, to what he calls “bondage pants” with chains that loop behind his hips.
Personality: Drako has a personality that could be described as self-sacrificing. He doesn’t like people to get hurt (physically or emotionally) and usually takes the burden on himself. He tries to encourage others to forge their own path, no matter what consequences may arise. He will always be there to help even if it puts him at a disadvantage. He enjoys life, living, and good company.
Element: Fire. The Element of passion, love, will, and intent.
History: Dante’s had a good life. His parents were always supporting, his sister was a brat and one of his best friends. He always drew, enjoyed science and history, and his sarcastic attitude usually lead to some embarrassing situations in his life. Now in college, Dante is practicing a martial art to help with his physical training as well as to help others by stopping them from making a decision they could regret. Aikido is more about respecting your opponent rather than harming them, and so he likes it. He’s always ended up as the “fencepost” for his friends, hearing their problems and offering what advice he can, even though he’s never lived through much of their troubles. Still indecisive in what he wants to major in, he enjoys school too much.
Other: When shite starts to hit the fan, and he meets others that have similar abilities, or if he’s forced to use his newfound powers in front of people, he’ll refer to himself as “Drako Ralen” in order to protect himself and his family.