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How Many Powered Characters Do You Own? 1 - Sailor Requiem

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Name: Tag Swagger

Negaverse Alias: Lieutenant Cummingtonite (As in ‘coming tonight to you live’…or the other way, if you're a gutter mind.)

Nickname: Mr. Ron Burgundy (mockingly by his friends)

Age: 25

Birthday: July 29

Sign: Leo

Gemstone: Ruby

Blood Type: AB

Fav. Food: Filet mignon with a glass of red wine.

Hated Food: Goat balls. He’s tried them. They taste like goat balls.

School: Adult

Hobbies:

Journalism: Tag is a reporter for Destiny City’s local news station, WKDC, Channel 6 News. He’s a pretty well known reporter in the city, noted for his good looks, charisma and dedication to the story. He is typically assigned to crime or investigative stories, and in his interviews doesn’t shy away from asking the tougher questions if it means getting a more cutting-edge story.
Journalism is not just a job for Tag, it’s a major influence on his life and aspirations. His fascination with journalism began in high school writing for the school newspaper. He quickly discovered how the news media influence the minds of the public, and this type of power was very intriguing to him, so he continued on in this path. He graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism from DCU while maintaining an internship at WKDC. His internship became a paid job and he quickly rose through the ranks after scoring well with several female demographics and covering groundbreaking stories. He’s content with the position he holds now, but is willing and ready to do anything it takes to rise further in the ranks.

Picking up Chicks: Tag is a single, attractive, charismatic guy with local-celebrity status and only in his mid 20s. So, yes, he gets around the block.
He enjoys the single life and having one-night stands. He doesn't rule out the possibility of girlfriends, but he doesn't get involved too seriously in a relationship. He's just looking for fun and sex, and if things start getting serious, something usually goes awry and he ends up single again. He's a little bit of a commitment-phobe, but he wouldn't admit that.

Hanging Out with his Son: Tag has a two year old son, Liam, from a past relationship. Liam lives with his mother, Chelsea, a few blocks away from his apartment. While Tag wasn’t ready to raise a son, he found that Liam has been a blessing in his life. His relationship with Chelsea has lost whatever romance once existed, and was never too serious in the first place. Tag is a good father to Liam, but does not hold custody, only visitation rights. As such, he does his best to show to Chelsea that he is there for the both of them, and he's developed a strong platonic relationship with her that extends outside of their time spent with Liam.

Basketball: Tag plays basketball with his friends in a court across the street from his apartment building. He’s a decent player but the worst of the guys he plays with, but it’s a good source of fitness and a good deal of fun. He played some intramural basketball in high school, and at DCU he just played with his friends in no official league. Basketball is much more a form of exercise and social bonding than it is a truly passionate hobby of his own, but it is something he does often.

Virtues:

Charismatic: Tag knows how to tell a story in a way to captivate his audience, or just to entertain a group of friends. He uses his words carefully, and knows how to sweet talk his way out of anything. And no, babe, those pants don’t make you look fat because there’s nothing out there that can make you look anything but the most beautiful woman on this planet. He knows just what people want to hear, and he gives them their wish.

Hard-Working: Whatever the case may be, Tag will put in all his effort. Morals and integrity can be set aside when Tag is assigned to a task. If he’s assigned to cover a story about the city’s oldest dog’s birthday, he won’t be happy about it, but he’ll make one hell of a story out of it. Luckily, these types of stories are beneath his ranks, he is usually assigned to investigative or crime stories, in which he gets right into the action and reports the story as best as it can be told. Tag gives his work his 110%.

Charitable: Tag isn’t in this business for the money, he’s in it for the power. He’s a financially stable man with a decent salary, and he also donates a fair amount of his earnings and time to local charities (often underprivileged children or medical research) and often pushes to sponsor these charities in his broadcasts. Ever since Liam was born, he’s donated much more, and more frequently to children-oriented programs.
His motivations for his charitable donations aren't too selfish - he doesn't do it for the publicity or attention, but a bit of self-gratification. As a newscaster, he inspires to influence the world, and donating helps him feel that he is doing just that. By giving back to the community and helping others, he feel he is making some impact on the world and asserting a level of power and influence. He does care about the charities he donates too, he has compassion, but his donations are his way of inflating his own ego and demonstrating power in a healthier manner.

Flaws:

Power-Hungry & Manipulative: Tag knows how to get what he wants. Its not too difficult really – a little bit of charm here and there, and the willingness to do whatever it takes. Sacrifices to integrity may need to be made, but as long as nobody finds out about it, who really cares? His biggest concern is rising in the ranks in the news station; he's absolutely obsessed with power. He’s a pretty well-known reporter now, but he’d kill to become an anchorman. Don’t tempt him.

The Douchebag Factor: You know that trait some people have, its something annoying about them but you can’t quite put your finger on it? But whatever it is, it causes you to label them as a douchebag? Tag is one of those individuals. He’s over-confident, flaunts his success, fully aware of his good looks and fan-following, loud, obnoxious, chauvinistic, and pretentious. Its not that he is an a** hole or mean to others, he just carries himself in such an obnoxiously perfect way that makes you want to punch him in his face.

Full of s**t: The man has charm - but is what he saying truthful? Not always. He uses his charm to exaggerate stories, and often even flat-out lie. With his beautiful white smile, handsome face and carefully-chosen words, it is hard to detect when Tag is being honest or not. Hell, sometimes he hardly knows. He isn't a pathological liar, but he allows himself to believe in the mistruths that he tells, it eases his conscious. Because if Tag were to tell the truth, then truthfully babe, you do look fat in those pants - but its not the pants that make you look that way. He has no issue or guilt using his charm to tell a lie if it means getting what he wants, and he's grown so accustomed to it that its practically an impulse.
As a journalist, if a story isn't that interesting, he'll beef up the story by adding in his own version of the story. He'll get the facts out there, but he knows how to lie to make a story of the city's oldest woman blowing out her birthday candles sound like the world's oldest woman defused a bomb using only her breath. For bigger stories that are more cutting edge, he'll report his own opinions and findings as facts, tailoring the story in a way that satisfies him.

Fatherhood: Tag's son is his greatest weakness. He's a father who cares deeply about his son and isn't allowed to spend as much time with him as he'd like to due to only having visitation rights. He is extremely protective of both his son and of Chelsea, and would do anything to ensure their safety. As such, he can be very easily manipulated if Chelsea or Liam's lives, reputation, safety or livelihood are at stake.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Cool, captivating blue-green eyes.

Hair: ‘Dirty-blonde’ hair. Short-cut and professional. A classic masculine haircut, lightly styled. No facial hair.

Face: Strong facial features. Classic attractive, charming looks.

Civilian Clothes: Business casual attire.

--NEGAVERSE--

Negaverse Alias: Lieutenant Cummingtonite

Challenge: Coming tonight to you live, this is your demise!

Lieutenant Weapon: Microphone (He can beat people with it, but its non-functional.)

Captain Weapon: Functional Microphone (A functional microphone [magically works without speakers!]. He can beat people with it.)

General Weapon: Super-Amped Microphone (Same microphone as before, and this one also has a setting that screeches so loudly that it may distract or disorient others, or at least provide one nasty headache. Cummingtonite is not immune to these headaches. He can beat people with it.)

Inspiration Images: Designer suits (courtesy of GQ): [1][2][3]

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What Category is This For? Premade (Natsube’s Adult Female)

How Many Powered Characters Do You Own? One!

Link to Quest Thread: N/A

Name: Riley Maddison

Nickname: N/A

Age: 32

Birthday: May 13th

Sign: Taurus

Gemstone: Emerald

Blood Type: AB-

Fav. Food: Fruit Parfait. Not only is it more healthy than a burger, but it comes in a cup for convenience!

Hated Food: Corn on the cob, because it has a really annoying way of getting stuck in your teeth.

School: N/A

Hobbies:
Teaching – Riley is a (fairly new) professor at Destiny City University and is very passionate about sharing her work and the work of her comrades with eager young minds. She has a PhD in Folklore and she worked hard to get it. Of course, there aren’t really that many options for a Folklorist in the world, so teaching became her goal in life with her own interests in research and documentation falling to the backburner until she gets the time to explore it more. Right now she mostly just focuses on becoming a successful professor since she’s still fairly new to the game.

Research – Riley’s biggest passion in life is researching folklore, writing about it, and interviewing people for her work. It’s a slow process since she works at the university and is trying to settle in to that pattern still. One day she hopes she’ll be able to publish some of the stuff she’s been working on in her down time.

Supernatural – One of the sole reasons that Riley got into folklore in the first place was her love of the supernatural. Ghosts, goblins, fairies – she loves it all. She has taken multiple classes during her schooling, read hundreds of books and has probably watched just as many documentaries. Not only that, but she’s guaranteed to watch just about any TV show dealing with it on television – she’s a hardcore Supernatural fan, unsurprisingly.

Ghost Hunting – This is more of a companion hobby to her love of the supernatural, but Riley loves a good ghost hunt. She often visits haunted sites across America in the hopes of catching something on film or even with her tape recorder. She’s been successful a few times (in her opinion) and has committed everything she finds to her research.

Virtues:
Everything has its proper place - Riley is organized, at least when it comes to her work space, house, and schedules. Everything she owns has a proper place in her house or her office and she’s very good about making sure there’s never any clutter anywhere. This might be a method of self-preservation since the less stuff is lying around, the less she has the ability to run into. Then again, she was always raised with that same kind of mindset, passed down from an OCD (Riley’s words) mother. If only she could get her attention span to cooperate with the rest of her life, then she’d really be on the ball.

Question everything - Riley is naturally curious and this presents itself in an undying need to know what things are and how they work. This ranges from new technology she uses right down to the meaning of life. She can always figure out how to work the VCR, she knows the pros and cons of every phone she’s ever bought, and she never has problems resetting the time on her car’s radio. She’s not exactly technologically inclined (she wouldn’t be able to tell you how to fix your red ring of death) but she makes a point of knowing how to work everything she buys – there’s a user manual for a reason! When it comes down to the meaning of life, she’s still figuring that out. She has, however, made some great progress on understanding ghosts and other supernatural beings through her curiosity and investigations. If there’s a mystery happening in town, you can bet Riley will be there soon ready to study it and present her own theories.

Can you read my poker face? - Riley is pretty good at smiling in the face of failure and being polite to the snottiest kids you’ll ever find. Despite the fact that this requires quite a bit of bottling up real emotions, she knows when it is and isn’t appropriate to let your true feelings show. She doesn’t snap at her boss, she doesn’t ridicule kids unfairly and she most definitely doesn’t let anyone see her break down if she can help it. She’s a model of professionalism to anyone involved in her life, though people that know her well know the downfalls in trying to be so perfect.

Courage isn’t the absence of fear - Riley’s inquisitive nature has given rise to a fearless attitude. Her need to know what goes bump in the night means she isn’t going to lay in bed and pull her blankets over her head. What if she misses something really important? The things she already thinks she’s figured out make her even less likely to cower in the corner when mysterious footsteps come down the corridor. If she can put logic in a situation, there’s nothing left for her to fear from it. If she can’t, well, then she just has to figure it out!

Flaws:
I swear it was just 8 o’clock five minutes ago - When Riley gets caught up in her work, she really gets caught up in it. Some people stay up until all hours of the night watching TV, playing video games, or surfing the net. Not Riley! When she’s still up at four a.m. it’s probably because she started something and lost track of time. Be it grading papers or taking notes from recorded interview sessions, Riley has a bad habit of letting what she loves get the best of her. She has to try really hard not to let herself get so lost that she misses class or has no time to sleep, but sometimes it happens. Thankfully she hasn’t missed more than a couple of classes since she started teaching (the ability to cancel via email is such a relief), but she’s definitely been late for meetings, parties, dinners and any other number of social gatherings.

That desk jumped right out in front of me - Riley is clumsy. Not your typical “oh I stubbed my toe” kind of clumsy – she’s sometimes a walking disaster. She always has at least one bruise that she can’t remember getting, either because the incident was so minimal or because it happens so often that she just brushes it off at this point. She has a bad habit of spilling drinks, dropping her phone, and there are an endless number of things she has run into at this point. FYI: she really hates street signs on the sidewalk.

Just waiting to explode - Riley has a bad habit of bottling up her feelings. She knows it’s not a good idea but she just can’t help it. She takes people’s criticism with smile, even if it’s unjust and uncalled for. She lets her students get away with more than she should. She even goes so far as to pretend nothing is wrong, even if the problems lie in the very person she’s talking to. At some point, Riley gets fed up and that’s when things get nasty. It usually happens after she’s had a string of bad days and you never quite know what might finally be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. She just simply breaks down and locks herself away, sobbing and cursing the world. Sometimes, if it’s really bad, she might snap on an unfortunate bystander before she retreats from the world (though it’s never for a prolonged amount of time). For those people that know her closely, it really does make her seem like a ticking time-bomb, even if it doesn’t happen that frequently.

More stubborn than a mule - If Riley thinks she has seen enough information on something, if she thinks she absolutely knows what the truth is, she is immovable. Unfortunately, it’s not that hard for her to convince herself that she is right. This happens from her opinions on her work to her opinions dealing with everyday life. Although she’s not outspoken in a rude or harmful way, she still expresses where she stands on a subject if questioned, often as if she were presenting undeniable facts. That speck in the photograph is definitely a ghost orb guys, there’s no way dust can create that pattern! She does seem to have problems differentiating between fact and opinion, which can be more than irritating for anyone trying to debate the validity of her opinions or work. She doesn’t just “take people’s word for it” which means she needs some evidence of their opinion if they have any hope of ever changing her mind.

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What Category is This For? Semi-custom senshi.

How Many Powered Characters Do You Own? None. No characters at all, in fact.

Link to Quest Thread:Cliquez-moi!

Name: Melanthios Vervain. Yes, he knows it's ridiculous.

Nickname: Mel to teachers and classmates, Anthy to close friends/romantic interests.

Age: 17

Birthday: September 18th

Sign: Virgo

Gemstone: Sapphire

Blood Type: B

Fav. Food: Baklava/other Greek pastries

Hated Food: Beef Stew/anything with cauliflower

School: Meadowview Public High School

Hobbies:Moviegoing -- One of Melanthios' favorite activities is to go to the movies alone and immerse himself completely in the spectacle. Plot is what he tends to latch on to, before even character, and he can recite the plot of any movie he's seen easily. This has the tendency to pull his conversation into digressions, and gets him strange looks from less erudite, or more accurately less easily distracted people, or those in a hurry.

Urban Exploration-- Anthy is quite the flâneur; he loves to leave the house at just before dusk and wander the streets in search of adventure--and coffee. He enjoys, in a sort of bemused, detached way, meeting random strangers and seeing what happens in their lives; to a certain extent this is how he gathers up tales to tell his friends in conversation. He doesn't intentionally seek out danger--he wanders more for the sense of novelty, that the same places are every evening different in some way, and also finding new places he hasn't discovered before. He would start out, of an evening, by choosing a direction that he hadn't chosen before, or a permutation of possible destinations that would take him walking down streets in a direction he hadn't tried before.
His mother worries about him, while he's wandering about, more than she ever tells him, but she doesn't mind too much provided he's home by the hour he specifies. Anthy doesn't really introduce himself to people, he's more of an observer. Occasionally this habit of his might provide him with the "opportunity" to happen upon Senshi or Negaverse folk in combat or up to no good; sometimes he would pretend it wasn't happening, but for the most part he'd be as spellbound and terrified an observer as any other.

Choir -- Anthy wasn't surprised at all that he got into Meadowview's rather prestigious choir, because he's been singing since he was a small child, though he went through a few depressing years of not-singing when his voice broke and he didn't know what to do with it. He's well aware that his high opinion of his own singing abilities is only deserved insofar as he can back it up, which he feels like he's continually struggling to do in Meadowview's choir's tenor section. He has only once gotten a solo, something he's not too proud of. As a result, he practices incessantly, sometimes in the street.

Babysitting -- Anthy's mother's best friend has a three-year-old and a five-year-old, and therefore is often in need of assistance so she can take some time off for her mental health. Anthy's mother had the bright idea one day of shoving them off on her teenage son, who resented the imposition at first, then discovered it was the most fun he'd had in ages. His two young charges kept demanding that their mother tell them one of "Anthy's stories," to the point that she found herself hiring him almost every weekend, then passing him on to her friends with young children.

World Mythology -- From the time he was a little child, Anthy has pored delightedly over tomes of ancient myths, both from his parents' cultures--mother is Black Irish, father Thai--to Greco-Roman and Mesopotamian and Persian stories. This is a child who had read the Epic of Gilgamesh by 10, and who would love to tell you the story of What the Rose did to the Cypress. His teachers were for the most part delighted with this interest of his, though his mother tried to encourage him to read more "normal" offerings, finding his interest especially in his father's culture a bit too unusual/reminiscent of his father.


Virtues:
Generous -- Melanthios likes to feel that he's done something that made someone else feel good, specifically in giving of himself. A sense of largesse, almost noble in a way. If he has a bag of candy and you're around, you can expect to have at least a few pieces of it, though this doesn't guarantee that he likes you from a personal standpoint. You're just human, and fellow humans deserve to be shared with.

Childlike/Good with Children -- Still about 10 years old emotionally, Melanthios sympathizes naturally with the large, forbidding, yet self-centered world of children. On the one hand, he likes how it feels to be the larger person, the helper, the friend a child can rely upon; on the other hand, he's motivated by a genuine sense of caring and would do anything to get a child out of trouble or danger. That being said, he's not that much of a mother hen--he's willing to let children wander around, and he doesn't lecture them too much--he has something close to a peer relationship with them, where one of the members just happens to know more about life. Melanthios' childlikeness extends to other areas of his life--despite having a sort of world-weary look, he's sometimes painfully naive, especially when it comes to romance, and he feels very ill at ease in the grown-up world, with its endless paperwork and politesse. He's socially comfortable only with people he identifies as kindred spirits, aside from children--most grown-ups seem distant to him, and people his own age far too self-absorbed and boring.

Conversationalist/Good Sense of Humor -- Despite being in many ways a difficult companion, Melanthios at least knows how to laugh at himself, and laugh he does--his self-deprecating wit is put to good use in the stories he tells about his misadventures. His few good friends know they can come to him to put a lighter spin on their problems, which he does without mocking them, for if you're a real friend of Anthy's, you have his respect, which is hard to earn. He loves a good conversation above all else, and spends his time alone going over things he's seen in his mind, refining them, spinning them out into real stories. While his various flaws might lead one to think he'd be averse to introduce himself into social situations, he really has no issue with this, provided he's not called upon to do more than provide quietly witty banter. A deeper emotional investment with people he is jealous of or considers inferior is what he struggles with.

Observant--Anthy's detachment (really a sort of running away from himself) and interest in seeing things in terms of narrative make him an excellent voyeur observer. He delights in watching things, anything, and noting details, important or no. This ability not only enriches his conversation, allowing to add a touch of realism to his description of events, but makes him an excellent mediator in disputes he personally is not involved in and would make him invaluable to police if he were a witness to a crime. Furthermore, he's a fast learner partly thanks to these observational skills.

Flaws:
Jealous -- Melanthios' purple eyes could almost be called green by proxy. Though he does not always--or even usually--merit it, and he realizes this, he secretly wants to always be the center of attention, to be doted on, and when other people have the spotlight he has a tendency to take an automatic dislike to them and dismiss their merits out of hand. Furthermore, he has difficulty sympathizing with the good fortune of others if it does not directly benefit himself, though he realizes this and finds it mildly repellent.

Holds Grudges -- Melanthios finds it difficult to speak from the heart at times, especially if he resents something. If someone does him an injustice, he considers it part of who they are, and has serious difficulty letting go of it. As a result, once someone has lost his trust, they will find it nearly impossible to regain it--if they even care to. He considers them below him, or even, in extreme cases, subhuman. This tends to mean that revenge is not really on the table, because they're not worth it. And he does hold little grudges, though he doesn't blow the offenses out of proportion so much as he'll hold them cumulatively. So if someone borrows his pencil and doesn't give it back, he'll be very slightly annoyed with them indefinitely, not so much that anyone would really notice, and his way of expressing this to himself is "So and so is kind of irresponsible, aren't they?". If they proceed to lose the book he lent them, this will upgrade to "So and so is irresponsible and doesn't care about other people's possessions." This can last for years in some cases, months in others, depending on how often he sees a person, how important they are in his life, and how bad the "offense" is.

Snobby -- Melanthios has a large but incredibly fragile ego, and finds it far too easy to look down on people for some small error they have made or a belief he finds fallacious. However, he lacks the confidence to insult these victims of his judgment to their faces, so he tends to avoid them instead, sometimes to the point of being awkward, if they corner him in the corridor at school or on the street.

Deeply Insecure -- Follows from the above three. Melanthios is just never quite sure of himself. Perhaps it was the years of teasing over his name, which he now claims to be proud of; perhaps it follows from the impossibly high standards he sets for himself, but a continual sense of unworthiness and unsureness follows Melanthios like his own personal patch of bad weather. His self-loathing is not helped by the prevalence of Senshi in Destiny City--he's always fancied himself someone exceptional, and to find himself on the side of the civilians in a sort of cosmic war--this is unthinkable.



PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Eyes: Deep purple, turn up at the corners.

Hair: Dark brown, looks black, thick, wavy, parts of it hang over his face in layered bangs. No longer than just beyond chin-length, relatively masculine style.

Face: Heart-shaped, thinnish. Long, thin nose. Smallish mouth. High cheekbones. Relatively sharp chin. Ears are hidden under hair. Skin is a rich but light mocha.

Clothes: N/A

SENSHI ADDENDUM OF WIN

Senshi Alias: Sailor SCHEHEREZADE, Senshi of STORYTELLING
Scheherezade is the storyteller from the Arabian Nights. King Sharyar had been marrying women and killing them the next morning, because his first wife had betrayed him. Scheherezade, the vizier's daughter, well-read and brilliant, volunteers to take the place of the next bride. She saves the lives of hundreds of women, including her own, by spinning a series of tales that lasts 1001 nights, by which time Sharyar has fallen in love with her and had several children by her.

Scheherezade is also a minor planet.

Senshi Element: Storytelling

Challenge: The moral of the story is... you're punished!

Attacks: T

Sailor Scout Attack: Scheherezade's Gift (defensive): Night appears to descend, and Scheherezade alone seems quite well-lit. He approaches the enemy until he is only a few yards away, and then begins a tale that keeps them entranced for 30 seconds-1 minute. He can only keep them distracted as long as he maintains his concentration, and if another Senshi hits an enemy with an attack during this time, their interest in his story is broken and Scheherezade is vulnerable until he can get further away from the enemy.

Super Sailor Scout Attack: Gift of Wisdom (defensive) Scheherezade begins a story in the same manner as the Sailor Scout Attack, only it now also has a pleasant effect on the other Senshi he's fighting with (no effect on him if he's fighting alone). They feel somewhat refreshed and their wounds will heal, if they're minor, and cause them less pain, if they're more serious. The story also lasts a little longer, between 1 and 2 minutes.

Eternal Sailor Attack: Star-Crossed Ending (offensive) Scheherezade walks towards the enemy, (alternative idea: hovers in front of them on a flying carpet) arms outstretched, apparently unarmed, telling a story about them. The enemy is confused and (hopefully) unable to react for a short while. (Unless they're really powerful.) Around the end of the tale he gets to "But it was not to be, for their fates were WRITTEN IN THE STARS!" and the stars that form part of the illusion of evening he creates fall in torrents, wounding the enemy quite badly. This attack requires quite a bit of time, as Scheherezade has to get most of the way through a(n admittedly rather short) story, and if the enemy can manage to break their concentration, it goes nowhere. Also, he's open to attack that whole time, if there's an enemy that hasn't managed to become entranced.

Inspiration Images: I don't have any images, but I do have a song: Yo-Yo Ma!