once burned, twice shy too much of your light make me blind i'd wait all night but you left one too many times
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name.zemsta nicknames.emmie gender.male race.hallowed litch // chimera // imp // elf birthday.8th of june 2018 zodiac.staff orientation.homosexual occupation.student // enoch partner.none colour.#fba4f1 song.oh land - sun of a gun
As the child of two bounty hunters and a black-market alchemist, it's not surprising that Zemsta hasn't had a normal upbringing. While his parents are in a consensual triad, his hallowed mother Marie lives in an apartment in the inner city, whereas his father Lucius and other mother Cyan stay more downtown - closer to Lucius' 'clientele'. With both of his mothers often out on bounty work, Zemsta and his two siblings were mostly brought up in Lucius' studio apartment. As he mostly worked from home, Lucius did most of the upbringing of the children, happy to fulfil the role of stay-at-home dad. Of course raising three children is always difficult, especially so if they're the children of Marie and Cyan. The litch did his best to instil some of his patience and calm demeanour in his children, but it seems they had plans of their own.
Despite them all being the same age, it seemed Zemsta took on the role of older brother, perhaps because he takes after his father more than his mothers. He feels very protective of his younger siblings - Magenta, who always seems to find her way into trouble, and Elowyn, who is far more coy than their siblings - and has matured beyond his age. As often happens when there's only one primary caretaker around, Zemsta developed an obsession for his rarely-present mother Marie. As a young child, the hybrid wanted nothing more than to be like her. He tried his best to practice pyrestia, the fire magic his mother was expertly skilled in, despite his father trying to encourage them all to take up alchemy. Of course, always a child to learn as much as he could, he thrived in the 'do what you will and always experiment' environment his father provided them. Even as a child, Zemsta began to show signs of developing an incredibly rare talent of combining raw magic with pre-existing alchemy.
Zemsta was delighted when he and his siblings were sent to the academy, not only because it was an opportunity to learn in a structured environment but because it would mean spending more time with his mother. After a heated argument between Marie and Lucius, the litch eventually insisted the chimera take the children on school days as her apartment was closer to the academy, thus putting less strain on all parties; except Marie. She was furious with this new responsibility forced upon her, but eventually saw it as an opportunity to influence a miniature army. At first Zemsta was thrilled to spend more time with his idol, but unlike Lucius who encouraged asking questions and seeking independence, Marie harshly punished any sibling who questioned her or behaved in a way she didn't approve of. While she did try to avoid taking missions on days where she looked after them, she was not a particularly maternal figure, encouraging her children to practice magic and combat to the point of exhaustion. It was clear Marie preferred the high-energy Magenta and playful Elowyn more than the quiet son.
Zemsta has begun to grow disenchanted with his mother and is instead working on his alchemy, something of a sign of how he misses his father. He hopes his future will involve perfecting his combination of pyrestia and alchemy, knowing this will delight all three of his parents.
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lucius zemsta's father and primary caregiver growing up, lucius most influenced the hybrid's upbringing. while zemsta may have thought he was trying to emulate his mother marie, his more quiet and witty charm actually comes from his father. as he's grown older, zemsta's respect for his father has grown more and more and his new childhood dream is to work with him as an alchemist.
marie zemsta's fiery mother and the parent he now spends the most time with, marie has reluctantly taken in her children while they attend the academy. while zemsta was originally completely enamoured with the mysterious and powerful bounty hunter, this illusion has faded after living with her for some time. her short temper and selfish nature is hardly appealing to the freshling, putting a strain on their mother-son relationship.
cyan zemsta's other mother who also has a lot of energy, cyan was far more present than marie during his early life. while she wasn't around as much as lucius thanks to her work, she at least lived with the children when they were young. her energy combined with lucius' helpful demeanour provided a encouraging environment for growing children. after spending more time with marie, zemsta has realised he wants to form a stronger bond with cyan as he grows older.
magenta zemsta's high maintenance sister, magenta is his strongest competitor for 'dominant sibling'. the young freshling is often put-off by his sister's high energy but finds solace in the knowledge that she means well. despite her occasionally getting on his nerves - and in his work-space - he still feels very protective of his sister, more so now that they are all attending the academy together.
elowyn zemsta's playful second sibling, elowyn's coy nature is a slight relief from magenta's energy. zemsta feels most protective of elowyn and is worried they will have a hard time going to the academy - although to his relief, elowyn's mutations are the least noticeable of the three of them.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:27 pm
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freshling to junior.
two finished roleplays that have at least ten posts per roleplay (( five posts per person )) one roleplay that shows what the freshling wants to be when they grow up, or a life changing event // can be a solo (( min. 250 words )) have passed all core classes except life skills for academy has been one month since the freshling stage was dropped off
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 9:37 pm
and i don't have the right to ask where you go at night but the waves hit my head to think someone's in your bed
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name.joel nicknames.cowboy gender.male race.grimm birthday.9th of june 2018 zodiac.lyre orientation.bisexual occupation.bounty hunter partner.ryu colour.#bd8380 song.miike snow - genghis khan
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likes.excitement // entertainment // comraderie dislikes.friends suffering // consequences // cruelty positive traits.versatile // playful // improviser negative traits.impulsive // cocky // encourageable fears.letting down others // dwelling on past // magic hobbies.shooting // drinking
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Joel's upbringing perfectly fits with the cliche of being 'raised on the streets'. His stone was one of the many woken from the cache, helping increase the grimm population one child at a time. While many of his fellow awakened grimm were immediately curious in their race's history and culture, Joel wanted nothing to do with it. After all, weren't they the bunch of weaklings that got themselves nearly wiped out? Instead, Joel turned to the various 'big players' in the academy, wanting to seek strength rather than weakness to compensate for his race's past; he hated being looked at in pity. Unsurprisingly, that crowd he found himself with were not particularly well rounded individuals, and even as a child he spent most of his time in the backstreets of Asphodel.
By the time he was a junior, Joel was already in one of the street gangs - the Outlaws. His innate strength due to being a grimm was too good for the gang to pass up, and while there were a few other young individuals alongside Joel, it was a serious business, run up by long-standing criminals. Joel was mostly used to intimidate kids in rival gangs, thus putting stress on their influential parents, but his quick wit and ability to quickly improvise got him involved in some serious gang activity. Fortunately he was naturally bright, allowing him to at least pass his classes while working in the Outlaws. He graduated as soon as he could, eager to throw himself into the street life. The Outlaws were happy to have his full commitment, quickly putting the young adult to work.
While Joel had always romanticised his gang work, after being fully integrated into the group he realised how serious it was - illegal drug manufacturing and distribution, underground alchemy work, weapon trafficking. Joel had always seen the violence as simply a means of protecting their turf and fighting against oppression, but he was starting to have his doubts. While he was mostly used for his brute strength - often simply going into a street fight with nothing more than his claws - Joel was naturally gifted at marksmanship and had some of the best hip-accuracy in the gang. Noticing this, the gang bosses started to put him on more jobs to do with weaponry, knowing he could demonstrate their wares more impressively than most. On one particular weapon trafficking job, Joel's life turned upside down.
The operation turned out to be a set-up; someone in the Outlaws had informed the police and the gang was quickly ambushed in the warehouse where the meeting was taking place. It was pure chaos, bullets and magic firing everywhere. When the dust settled, the Outlaws had prevailed, but Joel couldn't celebrate as his eyes looked at the faces of the officers he'd shot down. It was on that day Joel left the Outlaws, never showing his face near their part of Asphodel again. Not wanting anyone to come after him, he moved to the other side of the city, avoiding gang operations as much as he could. The grimm was at a loss, however; all his life he'd been part of the street life, he didn't know what else he could possibly do with himself. After a few months of heavy drinking and aimless wandering, he finally knew what he wanted to do when he saw the face of the mole from the Oulaws' on a bounty poster.
Pulling out his revolvers once more, Joel hunted down the mole and easily brought him to his knees after a pathetic resistance. Seeing the man stare down the barrel, Joel almost pulled the trigger, knowing full well it was dead or alive - the traitor had been feeding information about the police to various gangs while offering his help. It was then Joel decided he didn't want to be a killer, seeing the faces of the officers had had killed blending with the mole's in the dank apartment's lighting. He brought in the bounty alive, and thus began his career as a bounty hunter. He's been in the game for little more than a year, but Joel's already made a name for himself in the industry - the Cowboy.
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:01 pm
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ryu a member of both the mafia and an assassin clan, joel has crossed paths with ryu several times both as an outlaw and as a bounty hunter. ryu is clearly more disciplined and skilled than joel, so it rarely goes the cowboy's way, but the grimm's ability to improvise and spontaneous charm has allowed him to occasionally come out on top. the serious but enticing chimera caught joel's attention, and he found himself using all his networking to obtain his number. he has only recently started messaging ryu, time will tell if anything will come from it.
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Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 8:01 pm
you're across the room there's nothing i can do when did this get real i fear what i feel
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name.wulfram nicknames.wulf gender.male race.imp // bakeneko birthday.16th of june 2018 zodiac.lyre orientation.homosexual occupation.student // eldritch partner.robin colour.#c88198 song.prozzak - love fools anonymous
Wulfram was raised by his imp father - the bakeneko father is rarely mentioned in his household, but what has been said is never very pleasant. While raising one child alone is already difficult, Wulfram was raised with his six older siblings, all by the one man. His father refused to give any of them up to the academy or to a foster family to be raised, so the eight of them struggled to get through their busy home-lives. Despite being the baby of the family, Wulfram was never coddled or treated more softly, in fact it was the opposite; he was the victim of his siblings' relentless bullying due to being an easy target. This constant belittlement and teasing caused the young hybrid to become obsessed with obtaining power for himself and putting others down as often as he could to gain that authority he never had at home.
By the time he was old enough to attend the academy as a freshling, Wulfram was itching to get out of his home environment and make his way to the top of the pile. Unfortunately he tried to achieve this using similar tactics to his siblings which meant teasing others to the point of bullying. More than once the freshling landed in trouble for making another child cry, but he never truly understood why it was such a bad thing - it was just how you got power in a room full of a lot of people; it had always happened to him, and now that he could do it for himself he wasn't allowed to. This frustrated Wulfram, but the increased time at the academy meant he could explore an interest of his he always had to hide from his siblings at home lest he be mocked for something so 'nerdy' - bird-watching. He didn't know many names or calls or breeds, but he enjoyed escaping to isolated parts of the academy grounds to watch the different birds and write down their patterns, sounds and behaviours in his little notepad.
Wulfram continues to get into trouble for his teasing and rough-housing and may need a soft-soul to help him come to terms with his emotions and desire for kind activities like his bird-watching.
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freshling to junior.
two finished roleplays that have at least ten posts per roleplay (( five posts per person )) one roleplay that shows what the freshling wants to be when they grow up, or a life changing event // can be a solo (( min. 250 words )) have passed all core classes except life skills for academy has been one month since the freshling stage was dropped off
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she built a house in the darkness as the light fainted in an open country and her heart was numb
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name.sed'hera nicknames.none gender.female race.demon // sluagh birthday.23rd of june 2018 zodiac.chalice orientation.asexual occupation.witch partner.none colour.#753c47 song.oh land - numb
Sed'Hera's father, a demon named Justin Bright, was the most well-known scholar in the field of 'disconnected civilisations' - sub-groups of individuals who had branched off from the larger groups of their race to live and grow independently as a culture. Justin had written many papers on half a dozen unique cultures, his preferred methodology being to actually make contact with the groups and observe how they lived and, most importantly, how they differ from and are similar to the culture they had separated from. He heard a rumour of one such group of sluagh who were more active and aggressive in their fighting against the elves. They refused to follow Ciaran to the island to escape the elves and instead fought until the last sluagh standing - or so everyone thought. Rumours of their continued existence in a dark forest outside the ancient elf homeland began to surface and Justin was determined to be the first scholar to find them.
Even thought contact with Above had been solidly established, few field researchers from Below had risked going to the foreign lands. Justin was no such coward and put all of his grant money towards a solo expedition. The last known whereabouts of Justin Bright was his departure from the elven capital - after that he simply disappeared, never to be heard from again. The unknown truth is that he did in fact find the group of sluagh he was looking for, but he could never have anticipated what they had become; a dark cult that craved power to eventually gain the means of defeating the elves. Unfortunately, the scholar learnt all of this from a cage, having been captured as soon as he entered their forest. Through the use of a mind-affecting potion, the cult coerced Justin into imbuing a stone with the one member of their tribe that had any magical inclination - Ru'Zen. As the sluagh rarely show signs of magical talent, Ru'Zen was placed on a pedestal and Justin was seen as a means of bringing in even more potential; none of the long-disconnected sluagh had ever even seen nor heard of a demon and assumed he was some sort of magical mutant. The result of that imbuing was Sed'Hera.
Sed'Hera was raised to believe her only parent was Ru'Zen, and that her horns, tail and smaller arms were the result of the powerful magic within her, proof that she was some sort of 'chosen one'. Despite having little magical talent as a child - neither demons nor sluagh are particularly inclined towards magic, after all - the cult forced her to practice daily. It was gruelling and both physically and mentally painful for the young girl, but it paid off; by the time she was a teenager she had harnessed magic in a way beyond the cult's expectations. Of course most of this was turned towards shadow, blood and dark magic and, to their delight, her natural skill for alchemy. She was still being groomed as their chosen one as she grew into an adult, although she had built herself a small hut a fair distance away from the rest of the tribe. She was always treated differently to the other children, and this had resulted in a very poorly socialised individual. Even as a child, Sed'Hera valued her independence above all else.
Sed'Hera spent most of her time in her hut, producing potions and poisons and performing dark rituals. Her only true companion was Venus and any other familiars that dared wander towards the dark aura that surrounded her home. She grew to prefer the sounds of nature to any of the sluagh and so they should not have been shocked by her actions on the day of their downfall. An academic named Clare who had become fascinated by the works of Justin Bright chose to follow in his footsteps. Together with her partner Chris and a small team of contractors led by a hallowed named Marie, they ventured into the forest where Professor Bright had travelled two decades before. Just like Justin, they were ambushed as soon as they entered the forest, but they were able to put up more of a fight. During the chaos, Clare found Justin's cell and released him, insisting he flee with her immediately. Instead, he stumbled to Sed'Hera's hut - having heard the others talking of where their witch lived - and told her the truth about him, her father. The only reason Sed'Hera didn't simply kill him as he walked through the door was because she recognised his features - the tail, the horns - and a suspicion that had always existed in her heart against the cult that raised her began to bloom. After hearing his story, the witch grew furious and emerged from her hut to unleash her rage against her own tribe.
Marie and her contractors had fought well but were on the point of being captured when Sed'Hera arrived, and after that it was a quick but bloody affair. Any that she didn't deal with fled - including her other father, Ru'Zen. After a few moments of chaos following the fight, Sed'Hera looked at the aftermath in satisfaction and simply returned to her hut - she was finally truly free. Clare and Justin both asked her to come with them to Asphodel to learn more about her true heritage and the wonders of civilisation, but Sed'Hera refused; the life in the forest was all she had known and she had no intent to leave. Disappointed, Clare and her expedition returned Below with Justin Bright - the demon desperately needed medical attention and would take months to physically recover from his twenty year imprisonment - but they both promised to return some day. Sed'Hera still lives in the hut in the forest, and only time will tell if anyone will draw her out of her isolation.
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venus (pronounced vee-noose, meaning vengeance in the language of her tribe) was given to sed'hera as a gift from ru'zen on the day of her awakening; venus had been born that day and the cult considered it a sign from the gods. the jackalope was part of a rare strain with wings and was considered the perfect companion for their chosen one. in the end, venus was sed'hera's only true companion and was perhaps the only creature she truly cared about. despite being used as a test subject for some of his master's less lethal spells and potions, venus remains unwaveringly loyal to sed'hera; it is almost impossible to find one without the other.
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clare the scholar the enabled sed'hera to achieve independence by exposing the truth about the cult, clare is seen as a potential ally. sed'hera doesn't truly trust anyone - and clare is no exception - but she is fascinated by the strange looking hybrid and her connections with her father, justin bright. sed'hera will not turn clare away should she visit her hut, but she has no intent of returning with the scholar to asphodel any time soon.
venus (pronounced vee-noose, meaning vengeance in the language of her tribe) was given to sed'hera as a gift from ru'zen on the day of her awakening; venus had been born that day and the cult considered it a sign from the gods. the jackalope was part of a rare strain with wings and was considered the perfect companion for their chosen one. in the end, venus was sed'hera's only true companion and was perhaps the only creature she truly cared about. despite being used as a test subject for some of his master's less lethal spells and potions, venus remains unwaveringly loyal to sed'hera; it is almost impossible to find one without the other.