there's no such thing as 'mad' science. it's just a means to an end.
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2016 8:54 am
science saves the day! ...again.
Name: Soleil Rigby Nickname: Excuse you? Sully's a little cute, but she's not really a nickname person! Gender / Pronouns: Agender woman, she/her/hers (transfem) Age:23 29 Birthday: October 27th, 1995; she kept her personal documentation for reference Sign: Libra Gemstone: Opal Blood Type: O+ Fav. Food: She'll try anything once, but deep-fried tofu's her personal homestay food. Hated Food: Oranges. The joke's still not funny even if it's in a different language, thanks.
Occupation: Biostatistician at Destiny City Medical Center & professional Twitch streamer. Has a Master's degree in Biostatistics, with a minor in Digital Communications and Multimedia, from University of Washington. Romano's Constitutional Haven as a teacher's assistant; currently working towards a PhD in Biostatistics
Hobbies: Technology Junkie: It's branched a little more into tinkering since her corruption, but Soleil likes to keep firmly up to date with the newest advances in the nuances of machinery. Every phone she gets her hands on ends up jailbroken - even if it's not hers, even, which is probably a bad habit. She just can't seem to help herself. Adrenaline Junkie: Soleil is very, very aware of her own mortality (that sort of thing tends to happen when without the aid of a magical artifact you would have died bleeding out on the street), and as a result she would really rather have exciting experiences than boring ones. Her odds of being ambushed and mutilated are probably a lot lower as an officer of the Negaverse, given she has a weapon now; but, you know, keep your options open. Have some fun! Do stupid things! Enjoy life at top speed the entire time! Music History: It's a side of creative culture Sunny never really cared too much about, but Soleil started with the Beatles and continued from there. Music history and the interplay of culture is fascinating to her, and she'll spend weekends researching it - what's more interesting than people in their natural state? If it has the bonus effect of making sure she actually knows a wide variety of music instead of just various types of chiptune, well, nobody's going to complain. Video Games: It's harder than it was, once, but Soleil will take what she can get -- it just means she needs to customize things further than the average person. She has no specific genre preference, no system preference, but lately she's gotten very much into visual novels and turn-based games as opposed to real-time reflexes: they're simpler. Besides, people tend to pay a little more attention to a streamer with a sob story and a disability, don't they? It's hardly her fault if she takes advantage of it.
Virtues: Cheery: Whistle while you work? Soleil's taken that to heart. She might not necessarily deem herself an optimist (for good reason), but she's upbeat anyways, trying to always keep friendly and smiling. Someone's got to look on the bright side of things! It's only eminently practical, right? So if it's her, she's totally okay with needing to keep things bright. Hard-Working: If given something to work on, Soleil tends towards giving at least 110% - it's not out of a desire to impress others, but she knows she can do better, and ends up in a one-upmanship cycle with herself. It rarely ends up with any harm done - but she's eternally optimizing and doing better than her best, determined to give all that she can. Self-Confident: Soleil knows who she is, and what she wants; things may come and go, but her sense of self is unshakable, immovable. It's hard to keep her down by casting doubts or aspersions on her; she knows herself best!
Flaws: Overaggressive: Soleil doesn’t like waiting for things, and she’s found that the best way to make people work faster is to push them harder - so she is, unfortunately, very prone to pushing other people too hard. There’s never a good stopping point as far as she’s concerned, and she's deaf to the complaints she may accrue. Spiteful: Soleil holds grudges for pretty much forever, and will utilize any option to do what she sees as ‘getting even’. Why should she have to accept being stepped on to help someone else? Why should she have to sit there and smile? She doesn't -- so she won't. She'll stew and hold grudges and generally make it as clear as possible that she wants to make your life hell. Get in bad with her even just once, and you're going to have to work six times as hard to reach neutral status. Unsympathetic: So what if you're miserable? So what if you're desperate? It's not her problem. Soleil has had more than enough of trying to fix other people's problems, back when she was Sunny, and she doesn't want to do it anymore. Oh, her empathy is perfectly fine, but she's completely bankrupt in the sympathy department and she doesn't care how bad it makes her look. Fix your own issues. Your sob story isn't helping her get her job done, so shut up about it, or she'll make you shut up about it.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Eyes: Yellow-green gradient, usually outlined with some mascara. Hair: Bleached-blonde undercut in an inverted bob. The shaved side is mahogany, her natural hair color. Her hair is 2A-textured; barely wavy. It's surprisingly thick. Face: Oval face, a couple of freckles, simple piercings in black. Has beauty marks under her right eye and on her chin. Clothes: See this. Relatively nu goth. Wears a lot of monochrome with gold and indigo/lavender accents. Body: Soleil is six feet nothing and built like a stick. She has the look of someone who very suddenly lost a lot of weight, once, and even gaining it back didn't quite smooth out her angles. Etc Cetera: She has a tattoo in white ink on the back of her neck, near the hairline; it's an interface plug. Her left arm has a cybernetic blackwork tattoo, similar to some combination of these. Soleil's left arm, from the shoulder down, is clearly much paler than the rest of her and boasts a desaturated hue; she has a nasty loop of scar tissue where it connects to her shoulder. If you ask about it, she just says she had a car accident.
Name: Sunny Dyer
Nickname: You could call her Sunny D, but, uh, that will officially end any hope of her being friendly to you ever.
Fav. Food: Don't let Sunny near rolls and butter, because if you look away, she'll try to stuff them all in her mouth like a chipmunk. Only after buttering the rolls, though! She's not a savage. Hated Food: Oranges. Look, when you get subjected to so many Sunshine State and Sunny D jokes, you kind of develop an automatic hatred for anything associated.
School: None! Works at Geek Squad, and helps people rig up custom PCs and consoles in her spare time for a fee. (She should probably go to college, but you know, not really feeling the need to focus all her time and energy and money on a stupid education and a stupid degree.) Lost job due to not showing up for work due to having one arm and being in the hospital due to having one arm. Has not tried to get it back.
Hobbies:
Binge Gaming -- There are people who play video games, and there are people who play video games. Sunny belongs to the latter group: when she gets in the mood and the routine, she will play until she is the best at it, disregarding things like sleep. And then she'll keep her spot at the top through fire and blood -- but never cheating, never cheating. Consoles and PC, and very rarely any multiplayer that isn't local; Sunny does puzzle games, roguelikes, and things that would probably cause anyone sane to break their controller.
Technology Junkie -- You can't play games without the absolute best technology, can you? The newest model of phone, the newest everything: she can go without new clothes for a bit, it's cool. But Sunny has to have as much new and amazing technology as she can...as long as it works. Discoveries like vantablack and new prosthetic limbs she is also SO THERE for, but -- you can't really buy that sort of technology! She's only really interested in the technology that she can use. Sunny's laptop barely looks like the original anymore -- it's a Sunnystein's Monster of cobbled-together replacement parts to better the specs. She's jailbroken her phone and trades up at least once every year and a half. Considering the fact her laptop isn't winning any visual awards because that would require her making it technically worse (look, if her actual desktop breaks down she needs an alternative), and the fact this is where most of her paycheck goes, Sunny ain't judging you if your tech isn't brand new -- unless if you're under 45 and have a flip phone, because really? Really.
Volunteering -- Volunteering makes Sunny feel less like she is an a*****e! She prefers animal shelters because animals don't typically judge you, but any sort of volunteer work is fine; the work is its' own reward and she doesn't want anything much for doing the right thing. It used to be her girlfriend's thing, but in the wake of her death, well...taking up the mantle seemed a good way to honor the dead. Every weekend, 10-4 both Saturday and Sunday, at the ASPCA: and anything else that comes up.
Virtues:
Kind-Hearted -- Okay, yeah, the world kind of sucks nowadays -- especially in Destiny City -- and her girlfriend is dead -- but it's not worth taking out your anger on other people. Sunny just wants people to be safe, and things to be okay, and she loves the ******** out of animals like whoa. She'd have pets! But she has an apartment, and that's not allowed. If you want a shoulder to cry on or someone to tell you that you are a good person, Sunny's your gal, and she will protect you like the best friend you will ever have because she honestly gets really attached to people and she loves you and cares about you. (She desperately tries to be this all the way through, but, uh, there's a core of desperate bitterness in there too, because everyone she has willingly devoted herself to is gone. But even with that -- Sunny will never hurt someone on purpose if not provoked, and she's pretty good at keeping her temper.)
Moral Standards -- Sunny is a good person...or, at least, she is desperately trying to convince herself that she is. She likes to live by Good Moral Rules: do unto others as yadda yadda yadda, be kind, be selfless, don't do anything without thinking of who it might hurt, don't be an a**. All that! She tries very, very hard to live by these rules, and is absolutely desperate to be the person who could do it without trying.
Carrying the Torch -- There is one thing that gets Sunny Dyer to take responsibility, and it's carrying on for anyone who no longer can in whatever their cause might be. She will carry them with her in whatever way she can: her father died in a car accident when she was thirteen, and she took his toolset and tried to do what he'd always done, which was help people with anything they need. Her girlfriend died a year ago, and Sunny bleached her hair to be blonde too and started volunteering -- it's what she would have wanted. She's closed herself off a little more every time someone is lost, but at the same time, Sunny is fiercely devoted to making sure that people are never truly lost. She believes in the good in people, and takes a trait from everyone she loses to keep their memory alive. Don't speak ill of the dead, right? She will believe in you and she will remember you, and she believes in legacies.
Flaws: Kind Of A Bitter a*****e On The Inside -- Sunny tries desperately to appear nice and sweet and the kind of girl your parents would like, but she has a lot of pent-up undirected bitterness and anger about the fact she has no close friends and, did we mention, her ******** girlfriend died. (She doesn't trust that coma bullshit, her babe did not get on well with a lot of people.) She's good about surface niceness, but upon spending further time with Sunny, many find that she is abrasive and uncomfortable with real emotional closeness. It doesn't stop her from getting attached to people anyways, but then she goes and plays video games and spawncamps people until the server bans her because she doesn't want to ever be that mean. She'll ignore your calls and make up an apology about how her phone didn't ring/she was in the shower/she was gaming -- but the odds are she heard that ringtone, she just doesn't want you to get hurt in this shitty town.
What's A Genuine Solid Happiness -- It's debatable if Sunny is ever actually happy -- she never smiles when alone and rarely laughs, and as soon as she's not in the physical company of other people spends her time occupying herself in any activity that'll keep her busy. Her girlfriend died the night after they went on a date and got in a fight, her father died when she was younger -- she comes down really hard on herself for any perceived failure, and although she can attain some measure of genuine peace with other people...well, yeah. She thinks the deaths were her fault, and they've stuck with her for years; and she doesn't want to be responsible for someone else dying in this shitty hellhole. There are murders every night -- but if she doesn't know you, she can try not to cry her eyes out, so she lets herself get a little close to people because that's natural; and then she pushes away hard because she loves you but she is terrified.
What's A Responsibility -- Sunny does not do well in any sort of leading position. She's fine with being told what to do, but -- she hates taking responsibility for people, and hell, she can barely take care of herself. Having to be a fully functioning human being with command over others is terrifying to her, and she's perfectly happy to have her own limited sphere of influence just be over her apartment. Deadlines are okay, deadlines are fine, and animals are fine: but as soon as it's other human beings she needs to take command over Sunny begins to panic and make progressively worse decisions, ranging from just silly to actually dangerous for the people she's commanding.
Eyes: A yellow-green gradient; eyeliner, and a bit of mascara on her lower eyelashes. Hair: Bleached-blonde undercut. Her bangs are mostly swept to one side, the right set of her head is shaved but growing out, and the left side is long and braided -- about waist-length. (Her roots are mahogany.) Face: Oval face, a couple of freckles, simple piercings in black. Kind of a 'lazy punk' vibe? Clothes:This, basically. Layers, navy/black/white/green-yellow; boots and leotards. Lace, stripes, but never words or squares. Etc Cetera: Sunny's natural hair color is a dark reddish-brown; it's bleach-blonde and has been for about a year, but you can see her roots. She has a tattoo in white ink on the back of her neck, near the hairline; it's an interface plug. Sunny speaks fluent Spanish.
you know, the answer to most of my questions seems to be "a wizard did it".
Negaverse Alias: Captain Kosmochlor (formerly Babel Page of Saturn)
Challenge: Science does not have a moral dimension. alt.: Where's the fun in playing fair?
Weapon Lieutenant Weapon: If Kosmochlor had ever been a Lieutenant, she would've "wielded" a ring bracelet. Something a little like this.
Captain Weapon: A set of metallic claws over Kosmochlor's fingertips, connected by metal and flexible materials to form a 'wireframe' design around her hands and wrists. These claws are tipped with a supernatural toxin; by scratching someone with her claws or managing skin contact, the toxin takes effect. The specific effects may vary, but typically simulate various symptoms of a fever (i.e. confusion, sweating, headaches, lightheadedness, chills, etc.); at player discretion, the target may be affected in such a way that their magic is weakened or they are unable to cast entirely. This effect lasts ten seconds; it does not have a cooldown, but Kosmochlor must wait for the ten seconds to be over before she can reapply the effect.
General Weapon: A metal-and-leather cuff containing a hidden razor-wire garrote (matched with a glove on her other wrist that does not contain a weapon). The garrote is coated with a supernatural toxin; if it manages to cut someone, the toxin takes effect. The specific effects may vary, but typically simulate various symptoms of a moderate-to-severe fever (i.e. confusion, sweating, headaches, lightheadedness, chills, etc.); at player discretion, the target may be affected in such a way that their magic is weakened or they are unable to cast entirely. This effect lasts fifteen seconds; it does not have a cooldown, but Kosmochlor must wait for the fifteen seconds to be over before she can reapply the effect.
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Kosmochlor's weapons are partially themed around the same 'disabling/muting' capabilities Babel would have gained were she to remain a Knight, and as such have taken a more aggressive bent due to her corruption.
Kosmochlor lost her left arm in a shoulder disarticulation via General Labyrinthite in February 2018. She obtained a youma arm graft to replace it courtesy of Captain Amazonite. This youma arm resembles (and effectively functions as) a human arm, although when powered up the tattoo on it tends to... move.
Name:Babel Page of Saturn Challenge: Any last words? / I'm sentencing you to life!
weapon:
Page: A silver chain bracelet.
Squire: A pair of silver cuffs with an inlaid design of both the Saturn symbol and chains; they are linked together by what can be charitably described as a necklace chain. ________At this stage, Babel's magic manifests: If a cuff is placed on a powered individual, it will temporarily depower their magic to about 50%; if both cuffs are placed on, it will render them unable to use magic. This can last for up to 45 seconds of depowerment. Babel must remain in contact with the chain to make the magic work: if she loses contact, they revert to being nonmagical cuffs.
Knight: A pair of ornate handcuffs linked together by a chain. ________At this stage, Babel's magic is more powerful than it was as a Squire. If both handcuffs are placed on an individual, their magical abilities will be shut down, and their physical abilities will be dropped by a rank: i.e. Knight to Squire, Captain to Lieutenant, Senshi to civilian. If used on a first-rank powered individual, this does not break glamour, merely negates any physical advantages granted via their henshin. This can last for up to 90 seconds. Babel must remain in contact with the chain to make the magic work: if she loses contact, they revert to being nonmagical cuffs.
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:43 pm
babel: the wonder / the past life do you know what i see? kids posturing with a wikipedia summary's understanding of myth.
♄ Babel is an enormous tower, reaching many stories high; it functioned as a prison for those given life sentences, and Babel Knight's task was to be the warden and caretaker of the prisoners as well as defending the tower itself. ♄ Any who enter Babel aside from the Knight themself will find themselves unable to understand any form of language; this includes writing, speaking, and forms of sign language. They will be able to understand themselves and Babel, but communication with others can only be managed by using Babel as a go-between. ♄ At the time of the former Babel's death, her Wonder had become a political prison; it was not her place to dispute those placed there - she wasn't the judge, after all, she was just the warden. The bones of the prisoners who were there still lie in their cells. ♄ The current Babel Page is a descendant. Her ancestor's name is Izevel. ♄ A thousand years ago, Izevel locked the doors to her tower to keep herself safe inside; she haunts her own preserved body, waiting for another Babel to claim their legacy. ♄ Izevel was an almost-seven-foot-tall mute lesbian from Rigel and happily married to her wife. Three of those things are still true, technically. Who knows what happened to her wife.
Babel never found or upgraded her signet ring before her corruption.
are you ******** crazy? we are little better than children overdosing on divinity. miracles? i wouldn't trust half of you to turn bread into toast. — cassandra igarashi, the wicked + the divine
Pearlescent Bead -A seemingly normal looking pearl that is always cool to the touch. It can be found discarded on Homeworlds, Wonders, Mirrorspace, and the Dark Kingdom. To use this item, a character must throw it hard at the ground. The pearl will not break, but upon impact will explode into a painless, odorless, pearly white smoke at the character's feet. This smoke has the ability to restore all energy immediately. It can fully restore all senshi magic, all knight magic, of all Negaverse abilities, except for fourth stage magic. It can be used to revive all drained energy and is even strong enough to revive someone from death through magical defibrillation. While it won’t heal injuries, it will give someone enough energy to stay alive for a bit longer. The effects will only work on the one person the smoke surrounds and touches. The smoke cannot be blow away from the person it surrounds. After the smoke clears, the bead can be kept as a memento.
Broken Dagger - A fragment of an obsidian blade set in an ornate tungsten hilt. Centuries of exposure to the elements has completely blunted its edge. It can be found anywhere in the Dark Kingdom or Destiny City. To activate its latent magic, the character must offer the hilt to a youma. Doing so will compel the youma to obey the character's basic commands for the next five minutes, regardless of the character's rank or affiliation. This item will not work on greater youma. Permission must be obtained for this item to work on event youma or personal youma. Once the time concludes, the blade disintegrates, leaving behind the tungsten hilt. Gained from One Abyss.
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This starfish pin prevents Kosmochlor from being drained by energy-draining objects at the club Biolumina, and recharges when she visits the Dark Kingdom. Gained from Light up the Night.
the buggles - video killed the radio star (sim gretina remix) | (in my mind and in my car; we can't rewind, we've gone too far) shawn wasabi - otter pop | (cruising in the off white, soaking up the sunshine) hayley kiyoko - rich youth | (i found out it's all a plot, polar bears aren't getting lost; they just wanna get rid of us) venus hum - surgery in the sky | (wake up, it's all abound; digging into something you haven't figured out) voxtrot - kid gloves | (serenity intact, it's the feeling that i lack) m.o.o.n. - dust | (instrumental) walk the moon - we are the kids | (just a matter of time, don't you get it? we are the kids that you never can kill) hayley kiyoko - palace | (you're my horizon, you'll always paint my sky) e.g.g. - got more raves? | (instrumental) MARINA - lonely hearts club | (lonely hearts club, do you want to be with somebody like me?) sleeping with sirens - the strays | (the big wheel, the black space; tried my best but wasn't praised) home - resonance | (instrumental) circus-p - copycat (jubyphonic cover) | (sacrifice all i know; i will teach myself to let go) CHVRCHES - never ending circles | (we are losing ground; it's time to save your neck)
kosmochlor / soleil
CHVRCHES - good girls | (good girls don’t cry, and good girls don’t lie; and good girls justify - but i don’t) m.o.o.n. - dust | (instrumental) kiiara - gold | (don't care what you say to me, i'mma bite your feelings out) iconoclasts ost - controlled cacophony | (instrumental) suzanne vega - tom's diner (giorgio moroder cover) | (i open up the paper, there's a story of an actor who had died while he was drinking) marina and the diamonds - sex yeah | (cause all my life, i've tried to fight what history has given me) britney spears - heaven on earth | (the palest green i've ever seen, the color of your eyes) dev - cloud9 | (don't see it raining not one single tear for you) charli xcx - superlove | (r.i.p., set me free, yeah, this is dangerous) oktavia - r.i.p. in the gossip sea | (don’t worry, this is all for a good cause, in case that you forgot!) santigold - shove it | (if you know another way, tell them so right to their face: we think you're a joke, shove your hope where it don't shine) prey ost - everything is going to be ok | (instrumental) jubyphonic - sand planet (ma remix) | (so do what you want when we’re gone with the lightning) wander over yonder - i'm the bad guy | (i'm not a little bird who needs your help to fly -- nope! i'm the bad guy) beast breaker ost - level boss arcane | (instrumental) metric - gimme sympathy (adam freeland remix) | (we're so close to something better left unknown; i can feel it in my bones!) shiny toy guns - speaking japanese | (i'll do exactly what i please, and you won't ever catch me) risk of rain ost - dew point | (instrumental)
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:23 pm
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for.
We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
Your problem is that you are very nice. But you want something. And you think being nice is going to give it to you. But it never will. And until you figure out what it is you want. Every kindness of yours will be full of that want. Like mine is.
— neptune, we know the devil
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:25 pm
Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
— george bernard shaw
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:28 pm
I’m not having regrets, either. I’m only mad about how much you’re underestimating me. Because you think I’m satisfied only getting what I want. And not greedy enough for more.
Modern humanity with some 5,000 years of recorded history has been experiencing growing pains, with no end in sight. It is high time for humanity to grow up and to transcend itself by embracing transhumanism.
— newton lee, the transhumanism handbook
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:31 pm
We were cold, so we harnessed fire. We were weak, so we invented tools. Every time we met an obstacle, we used creativity and ingenuity to overcome it. The cycle is inevitable... but will the outcome always be good? I guess that will depend on how we approach it.
Our ancestors are not the boss of us, Life must be dictated by living conscience. Dead people may have the right to make suggestions, But they do not have the right to issue mandates.
— abhijit naskar, vande vasudhaivam: 100 sonnets for our planetary pueblo
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