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[Armok]

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Name: a-Bkvt
Gender: female
race: Elemental
appearance: Being made of molten glowing yet cool to the touch rock that has the form of a cobra with 6 legs and 2 arms and eyes that shine like magnesium flares. (Inspired partially by Matilda from DMFA.)
Powers: "Demonic": innate affinity to fire and some fae-like mind powers.
Personality: Actually a rather mice guy and maybe the most genuinely good and heroic characvter of the story. Friendly, extrovert, talkative and chill, with a calming presence and a tendency to smoother conflict. In other words, the opposite of her appearance.
bio:

sorry, I encourage enthusiasm and such, but this goes a little out of bounds  this character is supposed to at least look human

Why?!? D: I can understand the reasoning for a movie or a comic, but as long as she thinks and talks like a human it shouldn't matter how she looks for a pure text work most of the time!

[Scood]

for the last character how bout a male.someone who probably is related to the research assistant in some way. We may consider a reason for clockwork to be at a high school (maybe under cover work? an attempt to connect to the world?) maybe this relative goes to school here and the fay magicians want to find the assistant through him. so they sent her to investigate. this person will not have any particular skills or powers and no initial knowledge of the hidden world. he probably will not take a liking to Aeta some of it because of jealousy some of it because of Aeta's "i'm better than everyone else" attitude.

He likes to get his messages across accurately. this is sign of distrust he will often speak this way to strangers or people he is not comfortable with. speaking with big words and fancy language is just a front, an attempt to sound smarter than he actually is. People who he knows better he will be more lax with his choice of words.

he enjoys competition. hates losing, and hates to admit he was wrong. He can be very stubborn.

there are other minor things like how his voice deepens (a less exaggerated batman voice hehe) when he gets mad.

How does Nolan sound for a name?

[quip]

Making a character:

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Oskar Reudzelt
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: A pale, wrinkled old man with unfocussed eyes and a ragged beard
Powers:None
Personality: A jumpy old drunkard, he fears the supernatural and tries to outright deny that such things exist despite knowing that it does.
Bio: He was part of (insert nation heres) military before first coming into contact with (either some specific character or just the supernatural in general) was later thrown out of the military and has been living rough on the streets since trying to drink away this second world he has now become aware of.

Think a crazy old tramp who knows about the masquerade and either is avoiding it because of fear of the stange things happening or simply avoiding being silenced(depending on the stance the masqerade upholders take towards those who know of it).

[Scood]

Making a character:

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Oskar Reudzelt
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: A pale, wrinkled old man with unfocussed eyes and a ragged beard
Powers:None
Personality: A jumpy old drunkard, he fears the supernatural and tries to outright deny that such things exist despite knowing that it does.
Bio: He was part of (insert nation heres) military before first coming into contact with (either some specific character or just the supernatural in general) was later thrown out of the military and has been living rough on the streets since trying to drink away this second world he has now become aware of.

Think a crazy old tramp who knows about the masquerade and either is avoiding it because of fear of the stange things happening or simply avoiding being silenced(depending on the stance the masqerade upholders take towards those who know of it).

for some reason when i imagine this character Bill Overbeck from l4d comes to mind hehe. maybe a little demoman mixed in.

[quip]

I actually origionally(?) imagined a crazy drunk Russian guy, who then turned German and into a tramp. Anyway on the character suggested before hand. Nolan sounds good to me.

[Scood]

anyone else think there should be a separate thread for the actual chapters of the story?

[quip]

It would get a bit confusing woulddn't it?
One minute there'd be an epic confrontaion of destiny the next we'd be creating a history for a completely unrelated turnip farmer who would never actually turn up in the story.

[Terrahex]

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Name: a-Bkvt
Gender: female
race: Elemental
appearance: Being made of molten glowing yet cool to the touch rock that has the form of a cobra with 6 legs and 2 arms and eyes that shine like magnesium flares. (Inspired partially by Matilda from DMFA.)
Powers: "Demonic": innate affinity to fire and some fae-like mind powers.
Personality: Actually a rather mice guy and maybe the most genuinely good and heroic characvter of the story. Friendly, extrovert, talkative and chill, with a calming presence and a tendency to smoother conflict. In other words, the opposite of her appearance.
bio:

sorry, I encourage enthusiasm and such, but this goes a little out of bounds  this character is supposed to at least look human

Why?!? D: I can understand the reasoning for a movie or a comic, but as long as she thinks and talks like a human it shouldn't matter how she looks for a pure text work most of the time!

Hmm.. this could be a fairie in disguise and I will have a hard time fitting it in, but I suppose that I did say that it would be the readers choice... I suppose I'll use it. But the thing I was worried about when I said it would have to look human, is that I'd have a hard time fitting it into the story. where would something like this reside and all that. if it looked human it could blend in with society.

what are everyone else's opinions on this?

Making a character:

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name: Oskar Reudzelt
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: A pale, wrinkled old man with unfocussed eyes and a ragged beard
Powers:None
Personality: A jumpy old drunkard, he fears the supernatural and tries to outright deny that such things exist despite knowing that it does.
Bio: He was part of (insert nation heres) military before first coming into contact with (either some specific character or just the supernatural in general) was later thrown out of the military and has been living rough on the streets since trying to drink away this second world he has now become aware of.

Think a crazy old tramp who knows about the masquerade and either is avoiding it because of fear of the stange things happening or simply avoiding being silenced(depending on the stance the masqerade upholders take towards those who know of it).

I'm liking this guy. he'd be a nice pitty character or a bit of comic releif.

for the last character how bout a male.someone who probably is related to the research assistant in some way. We may consider a reason for clockwork to be at a high school (maybe under cover work? an attempt to connect to the world?) maybe this relative goes to school here and the fay magicians want to find the assistant through him. so they sent her to investigate. this person will not have any particular skills or powers and no initial knowledge of the hidden world. he probably will not take a liking to Aeta some of it because of jealousy some of it because of Aeta's "i'm better than everyone else" attitude.

He likes to get his messages across accurately. this is sign of distrust he will often speak this way to strangers or people he is not comfortable with. speaking with big words and fancy language is just a front, an attempt to sound smarter than he actually is. People who he knows better he will be more lax with his choice of words.

he enjoys competition. hates losing, and hates to admit he was wrong. He can be very stubborn.

there are other minor things like how his voice deepens (a less exaggerated batman voice hehe) when he gets mad.

How does Nolan sound for a name?

Nolan huh? I can picture this guy and Oskar getting at odds with each other. that would be kind of funny.

Business post to follow.

[Terrahex]

Elements

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an invisible power-hungry demon/Fairie/thing,

Spoiler: Protagonists (click to show/hide)

nickname=Clockwork,
Real name:= Aetas
Gender=Female
Appearamce= a high school student. she always wheres a skirt and a t-shirt with a gear design on it. a silver gear hangs around her neck on a chain and gold gear earings hang from her ears.
Powers=time related
Bio=everyone has known clockwork as clockwork for as long as they remember. no one knows her real name. the teachers refer to her as clockwork, adults refer to her as clock work, her license even says clockwork. but now her time pretending to be normal is coming to an end. An evil force is rising again. thousands of years ago it was supposed to be locked awayby someone with her very namesake, but now it's excaped and after blood.

Name: Faelyn
Gender: Female
race: Changling
Appearence: Sharp features, unnatural beauty from long exposure to Faerie magic. Exposure to large levels of magic has caused her ears to develop a slight point
Powers: Combat skill, Stealth training, Faerie magic
Bio: Given up to the Faeries when she was just a baby, Faelyn was raised to serve her Queen, and taught the skills that would serve her well in her life, unnaturally extended by the peculiar nature of Faerie, as well as by the magic that has been layered upon her as a child.

Name: Nolan
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance:
Powers: none
Bio:
Personality: cocky

Name: Oskar Reudzelt
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: A pale, wrinkled old man with unfocussed eyes and a ragged beard
Powers:None
Personality: A jumpy old drunkard, he fears the supernatural and tries to outright deny that such things exist despite knowing that it does.
Bio: He was part of (insert nation heres) military before first coming into contact with (either some specific character or just the supernatural in general) was later thrown out of the military and has been living rough on the streets since trying to drink away this second world he has now become aware of.

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A group of scientists researching bugs that give off fountain of youth juice,

Spoiler: Setting (click to show/hide)

a wierd world of fairies that have many options of antagonists and protagonists alike.

Now for the nitty gritty stuff.

What we still need:

How should the fairies be hidden? Invisibility like in spiderwick or fabelhaven? just hiding underneath our noses?

Quip, you contributed

we still have one more character slot open at max if you guys like Armok's character.


Also guys, I'm going to significantly reduce Aeta's age. by the way, how do you pronounce Aeta?

[Virex]

I'd guess in the same way one'd pronounce aether.


One interesting option would be that the ability to see the fae (and possibly also other creatures) is tied to how much one knows of them. Someone who'd just learned about the otherworld (the mythical side of the world where the fae reside) would sometimes be able to catch glimpses of it, or see a fae if it directly revealed itself. Once one learns more about the otherworld, more and more becomes visible and the real world becomes more and more interwoven without the otherworld. Running in parallel with this is the ability of those that know of the otherworld to tap into it's potential. For example, to us, a dousing pool is just another body of water, but someone who knows a bit about the otherworld will sometimes catch glimpses of the future in such a pool.


This create the interesting effect that children and 'madmen' can actually see and experience parts of the otherworld, making a monster beneath a child's bed very real. Since for a child it's merely fear and not a deep understanding, the monster won't be able to do much, but such a being would be a real danger to someone who's deeply engaged in the otherworld. Any results from the otherworld on our world will look like coincidence or freak accidents to normal people, but some know better.

[Armok]

Yay my character got in!
Wait, why isn't she listed with the other characters?

[Terrahex]

Yay my character got in!
Wait, why isn't she listed with the other characters?

becuase I want to hear what other people think about it first. maybe they can ecit a bit in ways that you'll like and so that I won't have to pull my hair out when trying to figure this thing out.


And Virex that would kind of explain imaginary friends and things that kids believe in, but as they grow older, they stop believing, losing thier touch with the Fairie world.

[Furtuka]

I like the idea you had about Armoks character being a fey in disguise since it opens up the fey having very varying abilitys and appearances

[Scood]

Name: Nolan
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Appearance: a tall High School student, with blue denim jeans, a tan t-shirt a plad over shirt and sometime a whit jacket.
Powers: none
Bio:  is related to the scientists somehow either a relative or some other relation
Personality: He likes to get his messages across accurately. this is sign of distrust he will often speak this way to strangers or people he is not comfortable with. speaking with big words and fancy language is just a front, an attempt to sound smarter than he actually is. People who he knows better he will be more lax with his choice of words. he is not cocky he's very strong willed. he chooses his words carefully in order to sound more intelligent than he feels he is. He has a natural curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
he enjoys competition. hates losing, and hates to admit he was wrong. He can be very stubborn.

there are other minor things like how his voice deepens (a less exaggerated batman voice hehe) when he gets mad.

fixed

I like the idea you had about Armoks character being a fey in disguise since it opens up the fey having very varying abilitys and appearances

Yay my character got in!
Wait, why isn't she listed with the other characters?

becuase I want to hear what other people think about it first. maybe they can ecit a bit in ways that you'll like and so that I won't have to pull my hair out when trying to figure this thing out.

well the problem i see with this character is that the fey world is supposed to be hidden. I don't think the character is a good fit if it cant disguise itself into something ordinary like the bug demon (it was just a bunch of bugs until recently).

[ragnarok97071]

In most of the things I've read, Faeries live in another dimension which overlaps somewhat with the "normal" world. Also, they usually use a glamour (minor illusion which tones down the oddities of their looks) when interacting with humans. These could follow the rule of 'the more you know, the more you see' suggested earlier.

Fireman could exclusively live in Faerie, as he is a bit too conspicuous to let travel in the human world.