earth_12: ∞Application∞

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∞Application∞

Rules for Applying

Before Applying:
This is by no means a requirement, but the Earth 12 OOC community on InsaneJournal is open to new (and old) players to post to before applying. This will give you a chance to receive some constructive criticism if you need it and, especially for characters with canon-mates in the game, plot with the current players. Just remember that constructive criticism isn't a flame and that you'll be treated with the same respect that you give back to the community. If you do feel that you're being treated unfairly, however, please contact a mod.

General:
1. Length. We’re not asking for a novel, but the background and personality sections should be at least two decent-sized paragraphs. That said, don’t be afraid to give us a novel either, we don’t mind.

2. Real People. These applications will only be considered if you’re applying for them from a fandom in which they’re intended to be a fictional portrayal of the person (IE President George W. Bush in Family Guy) and not a basically accurate representation of them (IE President George W. Bush in W.).

3. Mythological People. Characters from mythology will only be considered if they’re being taken from a specific fandom (IE Disney’s Hercules, Thor, Xena: Warrior Princess, etc). This doesn’t extend to deities or religious figures in modern religions, who will not be considered with any exception.

4. LJ Accounts. It’s not required that you have an active LJ or IJ account (that isn‘t a sockpuppet), however we need some way of knowing who you are so you need to either provide us with an account of yours on another site (IE deadjournal, deviantart, fanfiction.net, furaffinity, myspace, facebook, etc) or, if you know someone already in the game, have them vouch for you to the mods.

5. The Waiting Game. If you haven’t heard back in over a week, please ping the mods; it’s possible that they got distracted and forgot, or they simply didn’t get the notification that the app came in. They won’t mind you reminding them, honest.

6. The Other Waiting Game. Current players must wait one week between applications to make sure the first character is settled in. In addition, you can only have up to five characters at once (this may go up depending on the demand/activity), and only two from the same fandom/continuity if they IC-ly don’t interact very closely.

7. Canon Info. We’re well aware that some characters just don’t have a lot of backstory, but don’t let that stop you from filling in the holes with either fanon information or your own version of events, as long as they realistically fit in with the canon as a whole. However, if the character is minor enough that the whole of the available canon information adds up to one or two of the briefest appearances in the series (IE Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Cabbage Man) to the point where no one could possibly have more than the vaguest idea of their personality, they’ll be considered too much an OC and, thus, their applications will not be considered.

8. Rejection. If your application has been rejected for any reason (other than you, yourself, having been banned), you’re more than welcome to rewrite the problem areas and reapply as many times as it takes. Additionally, the mods reserve the right to reject an application based solely on the type of character (IE superhero, supervillain, or citizen) if they feel that the game is becoming too unbalanced. If they do decide to stop accepting applications for any particular type of character they will put an announcement at the top of this page. Also be warned that the mods also reserve the right to reject an application if the applicant is a known troublemaker from another game. For more information on what sort of behavior this includes see the first rule on the Rules Page.

9. Comments. Please only comment to this page if you’re posting an application. Random squee-spam is annoying. You can squee at people in their intro posts. :|

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AU Characters:
1. Clones. Up to four versions of a single character will be allowed, but only one from any one continuity. In other words, we’ll accept a DCAU version of Edward Elric, a DCU version, a manga version, and an anime version.; we won’t accept two anime versions or two DCAU versions. For something to count as a different continuity, there must be a significant difference between them. The general rule of thumb to go by is that if you can summarize the two plotlines from beginning to end in basically the same way regardless of the addition or dropping of minor characters and/or plots (IE The Lord of the Rings books vs the movies), they’ll be treated as the same continuity.

2. Non-DC to DC. When you’re creating a DC or DCAU version of a non-DC character, remember to keep a few things in mind:
-The character cannot alter established canon -- Superman will always have been the first superhero, Robin will always have been the first sidekick, and, no, your character is not the long lost illegitimate daughter of Wonder Woman and Grodd.
-No Mary Sues. If you don’t know what a Mary Sue is, we suggest you spend a little more time on the internet before coming back and applying.
-Your character doesn’t have to be a superhero or supervillain. Remember, without normal citizens around to protect, the superheroes wouldn’t even exist.
-If you intend to make the character an established hero, either talk to the muns of the heroes already established in the city of your choice to work something out (remember, it’s their decision whether or not to involve your character), or make up a new city. If your application is accepted, be sure to comment on the Setting page with the city name and a brief description of it and it will be added to the list.
-If your character isn’t normally human in appearance (IE anthropomorphic characters, catboys, unusual but natural skin/eye/hair colors, extra or missing limbs, etc), they should either be made so, or a plausible explanation should be given as to why they aren’t (this isn’t really as difficult as you might think it is but if you’re having trouble, feel free to ask the mods for help).

3. DC to Non-DC. When you’re creating a non-DC version out of a DC character, remember to keep another few things in mind:
-The alternate world can either be based on an established canon (EG The X-Files, Harry Potter, Carrie) or an original idea.
-Metahuman powers and weaknesses should only carry over if they make sense within the context of the new canon.
-If the character is being inserted directly into a series, they cannot alter established canon -- Roy Harper is not Snape’s student and forbidden lover, Barbara Gordon is not Ralph Wiggum’s estranged older sister, and Lex Luthor was not the second, third, or fourth Kira.
-No Mary Sues.
-Your character doesn’t have to have lived near (either geographically or chronologically) the main action of the series -- remember: the FullMetal Alchemist world doesn’t only consist of Amestris; the Harry Potter world doesn’t only consist of Hogwarts; and the Avatar world doesn’t only consist of Ba Sing Se.

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Application:

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hotaustinnights
2009-05-06 04:42 am UTC (link)

Player Info
Name:
LJ/IJ/other:
Contact Info: Personal AIM: branchuchan Game AIM: forgottenredbird Email: branchuchan@gmail.com
Game Journal: Forgottenbird @ IJ

Character Info
Fandom: DCUC
Version: AU'ish - my own take on the character from the comics
Name: Jason Peter Todd Wayne
Age: 21
City of Residence: Gotham and Bludhaven
Background: Jason has had a rough life. Born to a gangster and his drug addicted girlfriend, Jason grew up on the streets of Gotham, more responsible for himself than his parents ever were. By the time the boy was a tender age 10, both parents were dead and he was on his own. He was discovered by Batman, attempting to steal the tires off the Batmobile, and impressed the Dark Knight with his spunk. Batman took Jason back to the Cave and offered him a deal he couldn't refuse. From that point, Jason started a grueling 18 month training regimen, and eventually took over the mantle of Robin, the boy Wonder.

Jason loved being Robin. And Jason loved Bruce. They served together for several years, until a plot with the Joker took Jason on a world-traveling search for his biological mother. The search culminated in his and her death in an explosion caused by the Joker. Bruce returned to Gotham heartbroken, carrying with him the body of his dead son.

Had things been normal, Jason's story would have ended there. Six months after his death, Jason awoke in his own grave to scrabble himself out and wander off into the night. He was suffering from a cracked skull, broken sternum, and a whole host of serious medical injuries that if left untreated, would leave him in the grave once more. He was found just as he was falling into a coma, the name "Bruce..." on his lips.

Another year passed and he escaped, nothing but an automaton, not thinking, just reacting. An empty shell. After another year on the streets, he was taken in by Talia Al Guhl. for a year she tried to get through the darkness, to break through to Jason but to no avail. On the night that Ra's sent Jason away, he also went to the Lazarus pit. In a motion of betrayl, Talia pushed Jason into the pit, thus awakening his mind and bringing him back to the land of the living fully. But at what cost?

Jason was made mad. Mad by grief, mad with the anger that came when he realized his killer still roamed free. Mad that he had been replaced. Left with a hole in his heart and soul, Jason picked things up as best he could and continued onwards. Bruce had no idea he was still alive when Jason returned to Gotham. Jason then started a campaign to save Gotham from it's underbelly of crime, doing the job the way that Batman should have done it in the first place.

~Continued...

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hotaustinnights
2009-05-06 04:42 am UTC (link)

Personality: Jason is very much an anti-hero. He wants to do the right thing, he wants to make the world a better place, but he does it in his own way and in his own style. Jason believes that the world's problems won't be solved through treating criminals with kid gloves. Jason is a very angry person, someone who is haunted by his past and has an uncertain future. He exists on the edge of heroism, willing to walk the line and destroy the evil that he fights against. This, coupled with the fact that he - honest to God died - has warped the boy in some ways that are quite deep. Jason has a hard time showing affection without some sort of physical affection behind it. Much of this comes from the abuse that he suffered under Talia's care, turning him into an attention starved creature. He wants nothing more than to be a family again with Dick and Bruce and in extension Tim. Jason loves Dick very much, perhaps too much. Tim is considered to be a nuisance at best, and often is referred to as "the Imposter" or "the twerp."
Powers: None. Jason's got his guns, and his muscles, and his brain. That's enough.
Weaknesses: Jason has a lot of issues that hold him back mentally: post traumatic stress, emotional and relationship issues, flash backs, nightmares... His anger is another weakness.
Journal Sample:
Private Entry:

Made contact with the twerp. Beat his nose bloody and then choked him out.

Oh how I love the rear naked choke

Took his little badge too - though it cut me. I don't care. I got two trophies tonight - two pieces of my lost legacy. The twerp's R. And his staff.

Still no contact with Joker - he's turning out to be a tough cookie to find.. but find him I will. The explosion tonight was proof he's still around.

I'm coming for you Bruce. But first I'm going to toy with you - do your job for you the way you should have always fucking done it.

I hope you like my present.

RP Sample: Robin deserved it. Really.

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Accepted!

earth_12
2009-05-06 07:39 am UTC (link)

Congratulations and welcome to Earth 12!

Here's how to get started:

∞ Reply to this comment with the character's InsaneJournal account.
∞ Join the IC, OOC, and Log communities.
∞ Add the other characters to your friends list and comment to the Add/Remove List.
∞ Comment to the Taken Characters Post.
∞ Comment to the Character Map.
∞ Introduce yourself in the OOC Community and start playing!
∞ Feel free to join us in our OOC AIM chatroom, "e12ooc"!

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eatshootsnleves
2009-05-31 03:37 pm UTC (link)

Player Info
Name: Lina
LJ/IJ/other: Arks
Contact Info: AIM: Linadarkstar

Character Info
Fandom: DCU: Teen Titans, the Arsenal Miniserieses, Titans v.2, and the first several issues of Outsiders.
Version: Original, circa early 00s.
Name: Roy Harper nee Lost Arrow aka Arsenal nee Speedy aka He-Who-Once-Did-Drugs. The future Red Arrow.
Age: 28
City of Residence: I'll drop him in Blüdhaven to start. He might shift on over to New York, though. Or Steel.
Background: Roy Harper, Sr. was a firefighter in, on, and around the country’s biggest Navajo reservation, not too far away from Star City. He saved so many of his neighbors that when he died in a forest fire on their turf, the Navajo elder Brave Bow adopted his small son without comment or further discussion.

Lost Arrow remembered very little of his father beyond the funeral. He grew up on the rez and loved it, and for a long while never even realized his differences with the rest of the tribe. But when he turned thirteen and was given his adult name, he expected something with straightforward meaning and a place in the tribe (Brave Bow, Fleetfoot, hell, he would’ve taken Thinks-With-Second-Head.) He was instead re-gifted “Roy Harper.” And told to leave.

Brave Bow got him adopted by this hero from Star City, some Green Arrow guy known to his friends as Ollie Queen. It was probably the only way they could have gotten the stubborn kid to budge, because Lost Arrow was a crack shot, the best they'd ever seen, and badly needed a better teacher. As a matter of fact, it turned out he was faster on the draw than the great Green Arrow himself. The kid was dubbed ‘Speedy’ and out there cleaning up the streets of Star almost before he’d moved into Queen Manor.

It was a rough transition. Speedy was thrown into city life, vigilante life, hell, life in an actual house with a bed, all at once with almost nobody but Ollie to show him the ropes. He’d grown up in a tribe on a rez with sixteen people around at all times. At least he wasn’t the only kid sidekick on the planet; pretty soon he was running around with this little group of misfit kids in bright costumes who called themselves the Teen Titans.

That was where he first met Dick. Robin, then. And Donna, the first Wonder Girl, and Wally, then-Kid Flash, and of course Garth – Aqualad. The five of them held each other up and saved each others’ lives and ticked each other off. Pretty soon they were adding new members, too – it was a superteam more for the people who needed to be in it than for the lives they saved along the way.

When Roy was sixteen he started doing heroin. He has only tried to justify it once, to Green Lantern, on the night he and Green Arrow caught him at it. Ollie kicked him out.
The Green Lantern flew him to Black Canary’s place, and asked him why, why didn’t he ever listen when grown-ups told him drugs were bad. And the kid listed off all sorts of things grown-ups had told him: rely on the heroes, trust the government, go to war. (The year was 1971.)

He’s never tried to justify it since. It destroyed everything he had. He never went back to Queen Manor, only barely picked up Speedy again months later. That was on and off, jerkily going through the motions in a costume that didn’t fit anymore. The newer Teen Titans tried to help, but that got on like a house on fire.

Roy ended up shucking the mask and everything that went with, and started working plainclothes with federal investigators to bust the guys he used to buy from. He joined a band, too, and spent the rest of the 70s in his late teens drumming for Great Frog and staying under the superhero radar. Ollie tracked one of his drug busts once. He thought his kid was shooting up again. Once they’d straightened everything out and cleaned everything up, Roy punched him in the face.

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eatshootsnleves
2009-05-31 03:38 pm UTC (link)

And soon he’d moved up into the Central Beaureau of Investigation, his world’s version of the CIA. He doesn’t talk much about those days now, but that was where he first picked up a gun. (Guns are useful tools. They’re more compact than a longbow and more intimidating than just about anything. And when you’re as good a shot as he is, they don’t need to be lethal weapons.) But somewhere in that mess, Agent Harper met Jade Nguyen. She was beautiful, sharp, funny, incredibly smart, and liked him quite a bit. He gave as good as he got. If she hadn’t been an incredibly skilled assassin working for the world’s worst drug ring under the name of Cheshire… well, she wouldn’t have been herself. And he probably wouldn’t have loved her quite so badly if she weren’t.

He walked out on that mission, because he couldn’t bring her in.

The Titans kept forming and re-forming, mostly without him. He claimed he didn’t need those nagging links to his life as a masked vigilante. When a new spook named Raven tried to enlist him, he turned her down. When Wonder Girl came to ask his help sometime later, well, that was a little harder. Donna and he had always been close. So that was how he found himself back in costume when Cheshire came back into his life, and he got to find out he had a daughter. His world has never been the same since.

Lian. The graceful willow. He came to see Cheshire in Hong Kong after the mission was over, and held her for the first time. It was months later when he enlisted his old friend Dick Grayson (now Nightwing) to help rescue his baby girl from her mother’s dangerous life, and stop Cheshire from assassinating a whole slew of ambassadors along the way. He assumed custody and moved to L.A., and with some work as a private investigator and on-off missions with the next incarnation of Titans Mr. Harper had a new start.

The new start came with a new name, and the gun-wielding Arsenal stepped up to the plate. What’s more, almost as soon as he’d joined up again full-time Nightwing handed him the leadership and left. The Titans carried on until they fell apart, which is how they always work. So Roy didn’t linger on it; he had a daughter to raise.

The CBI tried to re-recruit him. By which I mean set him up to take the fall on a shit mission that ended up with him caught by Chinese gangsters and re-introduced to his old friend heroin, before being thrown in a secret prison to crash from withdrawal for the second worst time of his life. It didn’t work out so well for them. He turned on the assholes who set him up and never worked for the US government again.

The caped world spun around him while he settled into domestic life. The Green Lantern died in action, and it was a rough blow for them all. Roy almost, almost reconciled with Green Arrow, right before he died. Cheshire nuked a country. Dinah, the Black Canary, ended up being around a lot to help raise Lian - she was a lifesaver that time Lian was deliberately infected with a kidney disease in order to coerce Roy into working for a supervillain. He threw away his guns, after that one. Dinah convinced him that he was a better dad without them.

That’s who he was when he, Wally, Donna, Garth and Dick re-re-re-re-formed the Titans. Vic, a key member from earlier days, had kind of reunited them by, uh, taking a cross-galactic trip and coming back as a planet and almost destroying the Earth. These things happen. So the five of them each picked a second, and ten Titans moved in to a new Titans’ Tower and set up shop once again.

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eatshootsnleves
2009-05-31 03:39 pm UTC (link)

It went pretty well! For a good long while. Titans came and went, as they were wont to do. Lian and Roy lived in the Tower, safest place on the surface of the earth for that kid (and her Aunties and Uncles spoiled her plenty.) They had rough times and good times, and then rough times and more rough times, and then very suddenly in the middle of a lot of crap Donna died. And it broke them. Nightwing was the one to say it: he couldn't work with his family, pull together people he loved to watch them die. Not anymore.

Roy put together the next team, entirely on his own. Grace. Thunder. Jade. Metamorpho. Indigo. And Nightwing, who came in last and assumed field leadership without any questions at all. But this time was different. Professionally organized, professionally funded, and - supposedly - professionally treated. Roy maintained the team, found their intel, and set their missions, and Dick deployed and coordinated while they were in action. It worked alright - but Dick kept distancing himself, trying to make sure he didn't so much as care whether his teammates were hurt.

Which didn't work so well for him - or for anybody on that team - when Roy caught the wrong end of a semiautomatic, and took five hollow-point bullets point-blank to the chest through body armor. He took a bullet in the heart. And (this is important, because in Roy's view it is monumentally rare) the incident was not his fault.

It's taken the man several months to recover, and the team hasn't been the same since. For one thing, they've all been forced to admit at least privately that yes, they do care for their wayward, reckless, charming manager. For another, he's just more cautious. Maybe even a little scared.

He'll get over it. He's got work to do.

Personality: On the surface this man is carefree, blunt-spoken, a little charming, a lot jackass. He says what he thinks and he does what he wants. Living in the moment is by now kind of a bad habit, something he doesn’t enjoy so much as simply handles well. He’s capable of being irresponsible precisely because he has the mindset of an archer; Roy zeroes in on the target. The rest of the world can just go to hell.

Unfortunately it's an occupational hazard that his target changes often and without warning. He's not ADD, he just focuses and refocuses with the kind of snap reflexes usually reserved for stunt motorcyclists and fighter jet pilots.

And, he’s been a fuckup. He knows just how bad he has fucked up. So he’s sympathetic to other people’s mistakes, sometimes to a fault. Bad enough that he is internationally famous for having used heroin. But having a child with a genocidal terrorist? Oy. It’s hard for most of his villains to top that.

He does make a point of not regretting a damn thing about Lian, which means he doesn’t regret being in love with Cheshire. But that's been over for a long time, and during his last round with the Titans she was put away for good. Twice. These days he is a good-natured and highly appealing rogue when it comes to the ladies, and there have been plenty to appreciate his various talents. He's very frank about appreciating theirs.

Roy is a hero. It is ingrained in him as a matter of course to help those in need. And if anybody hurts a kid on his watch, he will get very angry very fast.

His identity is not a secret. At this point it is impossible to track who knows who he is, and who cares. A rogue with enough resources could find out- for all the good it would ever do them. He wears no mask. But he makes up for it with really, really stunning home security.

Lian is the core of his world, now. She is the reason he goes out to make the world better, and the reason he's careful to live through it to come home. The Titans were family, but the Outsiders are a working arrangement. Some days he might as well leave his soul in his apartment and pick it up when he keys through the door. She'd keep it in a popsicle-stick box with sequins on. And label it in big fat red marker.

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eatshootsnleves
2009-05-31 03:43 pm UTC (link)

Powers: He isn’t called ‘Arsenal’ because he’s good with guns. He’s called ‘Arsenal’ because he can make a weapon out of anything.

His aim is perfect. And this is with longbow, shortbow, crossbow, gun, sling, pebbles, paperclips, long-range explosives. He once took out an assassin with a nail file thrown into her arm. The short-range punch-kick business isn’t so bad either, but it’s not his specialty and he largely leaves that to his exceptionally talented and stunningly powerful teammates. But as he once told Vic: if you need something broken, he is your man.

Weaknesses: The ladies. Complicated manipulation, because he's still pretty straightforward. A growing paranoia, as he works for the first time with people he doesn't necessarily trust as far as they trust him. ('What's wrong with them?' is the underlying self-image issue to overcome; surely most people with sense trust him less.) And he gets pissed off, now, when it's implied he's irresponsible. Because he has worked hard and is working hard to do everything in his power to not be.

Journal Sample: You know, Blüdhaven really doesn't seem that different.

Sure, there's more daylight, and I swear I saw somebody smile back there. But I think by now I'm uniquely qualified to tell you: All versions of Hell basically look the same.

Anybody happen to know if there's a place 'round here name of Hogan's Alley? Assuming it still exists, I could sure use a drink.

RP Sample:

A bullet grazed his shoulder, the sharp ricochet as it clipped his armor lost in the roar and din of a hundred howling fanatics in battle. Arsenal crouched back-to-back-to-back with a vaguely humanoid writhing mass of grey-lavender elemental shapeshifter and a slim, scowling girl whose rich dark skin spat sparks with each bullet that zinged off of her. As he loosed another half-dozen bolts from his favorite crossbow, Roy Harper jerked his head to the side and thought wryly that if one of those singed his hair, he was going to hear no end of it from the girls.

It was never a good idea to break focus mid-fight, and hard-trained reflex directed him back to mission overview as he fired off another two perfect shots. This was taking too long. It wasn't his department to take out the mooks, most of his team was better at hand-to-hand. No, it was his job to find the right target, the best target, and wait. And when the perfect moment hit...

There. "Grace, time for my close-up."

As he sprinted forward, loaded the new rounds into his best gun, took the leg-up from the lady that shot him six stories into the air, and twisted, Roy didn't think about the mission. He didn't think about the mind-control, didn't think about the kids he'd shot down today with rubber bullets, sixteen and frothing at the mouth. He actually didn't think about anything.

But in the split second it took to sight, aim, and fire, Roy thought about splitting an arrow down the middle, straight from the point. With another arrow.

The bullet punctured the weakened forcefield, sliced the megalomaniac's right arm, and went clean through the alien transmitter. A hundred howling fanatics forgot what the hell they were yelling about. A green girl in green swooped through the air and caught Arsenal's free hand- though he could just as easily have thrown a grapple.

Nevermind. It was more important to the team that they were all useful, each supporting the other. The Titans had taught him that. And unlike some people, he was determined not to throw those lessons away.

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IT'S ABOUT TIME

earth_12
2009-05-31 10:34 pm UTC (link)

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	WHATEVER MAN bratwonder 2009-05-31 11:06 pm UTC (link)
	also the 'Accepted' image is broken also I don't want to use aknahas now, so prepare for ANOTHER WAIT whilst I figure his new screenname so there (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: WHATEVER MAN earth_12 2009-05-31 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	I know, I've uploaded it to three different sites but I can't get it to work. D\| IT'LL GIVE DICK TIME TO ACTUALLY GET BACK TO BLUDHAVEN. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: IT'S ABOUT TIME arks 2009-06-09 11:14 am UTC (link)
	OKAY JEEZ it's shootemup :\| (Reply to this) (Parent)

LET'S SEE HOW LONG THIS MUFUGGA IS [1/3?]

swordianmaster
2009-06-14 07:49 pm UTC (link)

Player Info
Name: Sword
LJ/IJ/other:

swordianmaster
Contact Info: AIM: Bahamut725
e-mail: katarani@gmail.com

Character Info
Fandom: Touhou Project
Version: Original/DCAU hybrid. With Gensokyo, it's... complex.
Name: Remilia Scarlet
Age: 506, give or take a few years.
City of Residence: Formerly Alba Iulia, Romania. Then, formerly Gensokyo, a sort of isolated bubble-universe located roughly halfway between Nagano and Yamanashi in Japan. Currently? Blüdhaven.

Background: Remilia and Flandre Scarlet were innocent Romanian children, totally unaware of the world around them... At least, that's how the story of the first decade of the girls' lives goes.

Not quite twins, Remilia and Flandre were born five years apart to an unsuspecting peasant family in the Middle Ages, the early 1500s to be precise. No records exist of their parents, or on whether they were turned like many vampires or were instead, like Vlad Tepes Dracula before them, the infernal spawn of Satan himself. All that is known is that on Flandre's fifth birthday, something in the girl's mind snapped. The Scarlet parents were found throughout the Romanian countryside within the next day, and in a week's time the small farmship of Alba Iulia was ruled by two young vampire lords - one ruthless and cruel, the other psychotic and nearly inhuman. As of such, the two young girls settled themselves into their new life, content to live out vampiric undeath in a fashion much like any other Transylvanian resident: by establishing themselves as rulers of the region and spending their days sitting back and not drinking... wine. Given that they were relatively unambitious, and that the rise of Count Dracula had drawn the attention of most of the vampire hunters in eastern Europe, Remilia and Flandre lived in relative peace for centuries, even establishing a mansion of their own despite Flandre's best attempts to blow it up. It didn't hurt things that the two of them were notoriously unskilled at what vampires actually do, that is, sucking blood - Flandre was so psychotic that her victims often exploded into a fine red mist before she even reached them, and Remilia was a notoriously light eater, actually spilling more of her victim's blood on her dress than actually taking it for her sustenance. Ironically, this was how she became known as the "Scarlet Devil".

Then, in the year 1885, in distant Japan, a great magical barrier was constructed around the land of Gensokyo, effectively sealing the world of science and technology and the world of magic and the "old ways" off from one another. Even in Europe, this had an effect, as in Romania, the vampire hunters stopped coming at them with stakes, and instead came after them with blessed ~~implements of sadism~~whips... It was also at this time that the Scarlet Devil Manor, as it had come to be known, started attracting other sorts than just the two sisters. A magician on the run from her own city hunting her, Patchouli Knowledge. A Chinese woman with dragon's blood running through her veins, Hong Meiling. A small assortment of fairies that were quickly enslaved and set to work keeping the manor clean and tidy. And Flandre, long since gone past being controllable, was finally locked away in the basement where she could do the least harm to herself and others.

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swordianmaster
2009-06-14 07:50 pm UTC (link)

As the world outside the barrier grew more and more technologically advanced, so too did the fantastic and magical grow closer and closer to Gensokyo. Nobody knows exactly when the Manor actually showed up in the land of Gensokyo, but it is suspected to be roughly a century after the Great Hakurei Barrier was first erected. It is during this time that Remilia bested the final vampire hunter to come after her, but instead of sentencing her to death, Remilia decided again, to rechristen the girl as Izayoi Sakuya, conscripting her to be her maid for the rest of the girl's mortal life.

It didn't take long for the harsh sun of Japan, a striking contrast to the cloudy skies of Transylvania, to get to Lady Remilia. As of such, she used a portion of her magic to cover the land of Gensokyo in a deep crimson mist, blotting out the sun to give herself much-needed shade. However, those plans were stopped by a flying miko with too much bare armpit, the current guardian of Gensokyo's barrier - a girl by the name of Reimu Hakurei. Despite nearly fighting to the death on the highest tower of her manse, Remilia and Reimu became friends, and Remilia agreed to draw back the scarlet fog as long as Reimu continued to be interesting. After half a millenium, after all, one tends to grow bored with living their -own- life.

However, Reimu's life would hardly be classified as interesting enough - after a few short years, Remilia found herself growing further bored with the life of a lonely shrine maiden whose only purpose in life was to be constantly assaulted by youkai. That was when she said the wrong words to the wrong person at the wrong time:

"I wish there was some way to make life interesting again."

It was those words Remilia spoke to a youkai by the name of Yukari Yakumo, a woman who originally helped construct the Great Hakurei Barrier and whose powers were over the manipulation of boundaries. It was, for Yukari, incredibly simple work to simply take the vampire - and her maid, Sakuya, whom she was dependant on and whom was much more savvy about current day technology - and deposit them on the other side of the barrier, on the other side of the date line, the other side of the ocean... in a small city off the New Jersey coast.

After all, no skin off Yukari's back if Remilia gets killed or, worse, messes with people on the outside. Meiling and Patchouli could handle Flandre, and she wanted things interesting, after all.

Personality: In a word, childish. Remilia may be over five hundred years old, but she still has the personality of a spoiled-rotten, selfish twelve year old. Except, unlike twelve-year-old girls, if she doesn't get what she wants, people pay. Usually through violence. She's got all the trappings of blue-blooded royalty, as well, from feeling as she's privledged to the world on a silver platter to the urge to throw extravagant balls on a regular basis. Despite all this, she hasn't gone living as long as she has without learning SOMETHING. When she's determined, she can be incredibly devious, sadistic, and meticulate, plotting and scheming to make things work out exactly how she desires them.

Her attention is easily grabbed by things that are either exotic, or supernatural beings of her own European heritage - she'll quickly be interested in things such as werewolves, banshees, and other such legendary creatures. And when she gets interested in something, watch out. She'll keep her eyes on it at all times, unblinking, unwavering... plotting and waiting for a chance to make it hers, like it should be...

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[3/4 DAMMIT JUST OVER THE LIMIT]

swordianmaster
2009-06-14 07:51 pm UTC (link)

Powers: Being a classical vampire, Remilia has superhuman strength and resilience, as well as regenerative capabilites. She also has a form of red (blood) magic, allowing her to shape power into solid force, most typically seen in a crimson-hued representation of the spear Gungnir (even if it's not the original). During a full moon, her powers are amplified, leading to nigh-invulnerability. In addition, like many classical vampires, Remilia has the ability to change into a bat, and even split her form up into multiple smaller bats at her whim. Despite all of this, she is noted by Gensokyo historians as having the "power to manipulate fate", which would be visible not first-hand as it would be from a distance as a series of perhaps contrived coincidences. As long as she is NPC'd, her maid Sakuya is also notable for having the ability to stop time for unknown periods in a manner not unlike that of Dio Brando's stand The World from JoJo's Bizzare Adventure.

Weaknesses: Despite the ability to use red magic, Remilia is very weak at defending against a ranged assault, and as of such it is seen as a favorable option to taking her on hand-to-hand. While she's strongest during the full moon, the reverse is also true - her strength and endurance are weakened almost to the point of mortal limits during a new moon, albeit still disarmingly high for someone who portrays herself as a young girl. As a side-effect of her shapeshifting ability, she can never disguise the bat wings from her back, making it impossible to blend in perfectly with the public, though she has been occasionally seen outside in a long black cloak to hide them. The sun, while not fatal to her on a level like most classical vampires, is regardless incredibly unpleasant to be out under, and prolonged direct exposure to daylight (direct meaning 'out of the shade') is liable to weaken her further and possibly even render her temporarially blind. Unlike most classical vampires, Remilia can never turn an unwilling victim into a vampire - she does not drain enough blood when feeding to threaten the lives of her victims, and as of such any turning would have to be done through routine, nightly feedings, over the course of months or even years. Finally, her own personality can be seen as an Achilles Heel - while she fancies herself quite meticulous and cunning, she's still an immature, spoiled vampire princess underneath it all, and not getting what she wants is a good way to incite her into anger and carelessness.

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[AND FINISHED]

swordianmaster
2009-06-14 07:52 pm UTC (link)

Journal Sample: So... this is a computer, mm?

Intriguing. I must say, it's certainly a lot easier than a quill and paper, that's for certain! So... this new town, Blüdhaven... heh, even if Yukari deserves to have her flesh flayed from her body - or worse, a date with China - for sending me here, I must admit her sense of humor is amusing.

RP Sample: The night. Even the heroic predators of the eastern American coast, Batman and Nightwing, preferred the night to the day when they were on the hunt, so it was hardly any worry at all to the occasional Blüdhaven citizen that there was a figure crouched low on a high rooftop; after all, their hero was protecting the city, it must just be him keeping an eye open for the scum of the city!

Except what was skulking about the rooftops of Blüdhaven tonight wasn't Nightwing, and was actually more akin to the aforementioned scum. Forced to survive on what she and her maid could manage in a world she was barely acquainted with, the crimson eyes of the small vampire girl narrow as she sees a rather muscular man heading down a dark alley, fearless. After all, who would mug someone that looked like a bodybuilder?

Thus, when the sound of light footsteps is picked up by the gentleman's ears, he wheels around, barely able to slow his arm to a stop before his fist impacts the face of what appears to be a twelve-year-old girl in an anachronistic dress, smiling demurely at him. "Oh, p...pardon. I thought you were a low-life thug. Hey, it's not safe for a girl your age to be wandering these streets at night, you know? You could get hurt really bad. Tell you what, I'll walk you home..."

The girl's answer never comes, and within a moment she's gotten the gentleman pinned against the alley, fangs sinking into his neck.

And the Scarlet Devil's dress grows a deeper crimson...

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Accepted!

earth_12
2009-06-14 08:18 pm UTC (link)

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	Re: Accepted! swordianmaster 2009-06-14 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	I'M IN UR EARTH 12 FIXIN UR HTMLZ oh, rite the journal name is scarlet_thirst. Obviously, she just needs to get some scarlet Sprite. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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