Solomon Academy: Void Stars

Man has always looked to a higher power for guidance and protection, whether kings, gods, or heroes. These things keep man pushing forward, holding the darkness at the edge of their vision so they may lead normal lives. However just because darkness is out of view doesn't mean it is toothless, quite the opposite. From the shadows horrifying creatures prey on humanity in the modern age, slowly growing their power and planting their roots until they are ready to once more reappear in the world.

To combat these threats in the modern age a new method was needed to protect mankind from the darkness, training a new age of heroes who would wage their battles against the darkness in the shadows of the world. Thus the creation of Solomon Academy, on the surface a prestigious school for the best and brightest, pulling from all over the world to fill their classes.

But at the same time every year a small class is brought in on an all expenses paid scholarship, including free room and board for the entirety of their education so long as they join an 'advanced course' exclusive to them. However these students all share a common secret, a lineage reaching back toward either the divine or heroic that allows them access to the abilities to wage war against the things that stalk the dark. While their peers study they will be forged into tools to safeguard the world, even undertaking missions to fight off more blatant threats under the supervision of one of the Academy's many professors.

Will you take up the torch and guide humanity forward? Because it will be all hands on deck as this year will bring about the Void Stars, a once a century alignment that will bring with it the worst the stars have to offer to Earth.

Character Sheet

• Name:
• Age: (14-16)
• Appearance:
• Personality:
• Lineage: (From bloodlines leading back to deities, to connection to the fae, or even a connection to an ancient hero this is the unique line that brought you to Solomon Academy)
• Divine Connection: (A weapon, skill, of magic that connects to your Lineage that allows your character to stand with their peers. Most will have no idea of their own abilities until they are brought to the Academy and put under stress. But there are exceptions, families that have taught their connection or trained their sons and daughters in the ancient ways)
• Backstory: (For most just what their lives were like leading to their invitation to the Academy. Please try to refrain from giving your character a super dramatic backstory right off the bat, by and large most people don't interact with the supernatural outside of rare occurrences, or if they have they won't have memory of it.)
• Misc: (A catch all for anything not in the basic character sheet.)

Notes

This will be technically the 3rd game in this series, however this is a soft reboot featuring a cast of characters that will be fresh, with certain cameo's appearing from characters in previous entries that will not require knowledge of the previous games.

• Name: Axel Sieg
• Age: 16
• Appearance: Hear a roar break through the sky.◊
• Personality: Axel has never been the most expressive kid in the class, generally seems to try and avoid people, basically having to force himself through social situations, and is a bit too honest once he decides to speak. But he generally means well, and by principle, he'd try to do what he can for others, and he tries his best to be what he sees as an honorable man. Even so, he can be meatheaded, too impatient and impulsive, and he tends to get way too into a fight once it starts.
• Lineage: Descendant of Thor, Norse God of Thunder, Strength among many other things.
• Divine Connection: Breaker: Axel's gift is manifested as a stone gauntlet mainly in his right hand, even if he has used his left at times. Upon impact, it releases a powerful shockwave and lightning. Axel seems to resist the backlash rather well, even if he still is figuring them out. He made up the name Breaker.
• Backstory: Axel has been moving up and down the map ever since he could remember. After a point, he just tried to keep people away, leading to a lot of fights. As he picked up boxing as a way to keep himself busy and to stop getting into trouble. As things seemed to work out, a home invasion ended with him manifesting a stone gauntlet and he barely avoided punching the man into paste, making him surrender. He still doesn't really get the whole descended from Thor thing, but if this place can give him some answers and a goal to reach, then that'll be enough for him.
• Misc: He likes to draw and cook, surprisingly. Although he is self-conscious about his works.

Wake me up at your own risk.

• Name: Marlon Elliot
• Age: 16
• Appearance: Pictured here in full magician getup. Stands about 6'1".
• Personality: A natural showman, good with people, able to woo a crowd and hold their attention. Bold and confident, to the point of being a bit reckless. His slight arrogance is tempered by a bit of well-hidden cowardice. When push comes to shove, however, his desire to put on a good show drives him to do the right thing. He's easy to get along with, and loves nothing more than spending time doing card tricks for friends.
• Lineage: Descended from the legendary wizard Merlin, weaver of enchantments and maker of kings. Marlon has never met the man and doesn't really care about his ancestry. Magic powers are magic powers.
• Divine Connection:
  • I've Got the Magic in Me: Unsurprisingly, Marlon has natural aptitude for magic. In addition to being unnaturally skilled at slight of hand, he figured out a few minor spells - opening locks, making flowers sprout from strange places, creating small flames - but his talents grow rapidly. His most proficient skill, however, is...
  • Shapeshifting: Without even trying, the first thing he learned was shapeshifting, a skill Merlin was supposedly quite adept at. At present, he primarily uses it for cosmetic changes, such as changing the colors of his hair/eyes/skin. But he can do a few more esoteric tricks, such as growing claws, extending his limbs, even changing to a childlike size to squeeze into smaller spaces.
• Backstory: By sheer cosmic coincedence, Marlon always wanted to be a magician growing up. Between that and his name he's not sure how much Merlin mucked around with his life, but if he did it was subtle. Marlon lived a remarkably ordinary and quiet life for someone of his mystical persuasion. When he was 13, his magical abilities first manifested, and he awoke to find his eyes a lovely and clearly impossible shade of purple. He quickly figured out how to change them to any color he wanted, before realizing he wasn't limited to only that. His parents were fairly confused, having been unaware of any magical ancestry, but as his powers were fairly minor and could be attributed to a mundane magician, they sort of learned to roll with it. With his powers and natural charisma, Marlon began practicing his magic tricks, initially planning to be the world's greatest performer. Naturally, when the scholarship offer arrived, Marlon jumped at the chance.
• Misc: Marlon carries a mundane magician's baton. He doesn't need it for spellcasting, he's just pretentious.

What is so amusing about this? Why do you take lives? How can you forget?

• Name: Glenn Niteray
• Age: 16
• Appearance: Glenn before catastrophe struck was a diligent farm boy, giving him a natural and functional muscular body, standing tall at about six foot three inches, and with bright blond hair and slightly dark blue eyes. He's handsome, though he's not really that aware of it. As of now, he wears a set of shifting blue metallic armor that he can summon up whenever he engages in a fight. When not in a fight, his clothes are remarkably shabby - being a perpetual traveler and opposed to staying in one place for too long, he largely just wears what he can get, and in this case, it's a polo shirt, jeans, and boots.
• Personality: For all that Glenn's been fighting creatures and monsters lately, he's still a complete and total naive country boy. He's kind of confused by a lot of stuff that we might take for granted, and while he might be innocently insensitive, he'd be mortified if he actually did any harm. Glenn is very much book dumb, but the battles he's been a part of have imparted a degree of experience on him. For Glenn, what happened to his family is something he has to avenge, and then prevent the same from happening to anyone else. No matter what the costs are. He'd actually be rather surprised in a bad way that he's become some sort of Demigod himself - as far as he's concerned, that requires losing his humanity. He's a particularly trusting sort, though, and is still in contact with his empowering entity...
• Lineage: Supposedly, Glenn is connected to the Greek God Apollo, and that was what brought on The Incident.
• Divine Connection: While Glenn never saw a Divine Connection of his own acquisition, he was however given something he was told was his Divine Connection - a long black broad-bladed Sword-Spear called the Necroblade by his backer, Myus. Evolving in as it strikes down more powerful creatures, the Necroblade has provided extra oomph to Glenn that has put him on a particularly controversial precipice as a Demigod.
• Backstory: Glenn Niteray was an adopted child on a farm, his adoption coming with just his swaddled 2 year old form, his name scrawled on a card, and "something else". Glenn grew to young adulthood, becoming a strong and dutiful if rather dense farm boy. He found the life gratifying even if it wasn't as glitzy as the "city life" some people moved away to try and chase. Glenn's farm life however would be interrupted in a violently sudden manner as a monstrous figure he only saw in silhouettes with a four winged form, four great horns upon its head, and wielding a mighty axe attacked with an army of lesser horrors. Scrabbling things with ooze-like forms, numerous arms, and multiple eyes and mouths. Glenn's parents were separated from him during the vicious attack, and he was saved from certain death by the intervention of a "Spirit of Choice" called Myus, who took him from the burning location. Telling him of Marrowbrith, the Demon Lord in question, Myus gave Glenn the mighty Necroblade - a completely black Sword-Spear that evolves as it fights more powerful things, speaking of it as "Glenn's true inheritance" and that Glenn apparently could call Aeneus his distant ancestor, and through that connection, Apollo. He thus stepped forward to try and avenge his family, and prevent similar incidents from occurring, fighting numerous monsters and demons for a long enough time to take on a different nature due to the way the Necroblade operated. Finding himself scouted by the Solomon Academy, he decided to go for it - opting to try and learn more about his circumstances and what was going on.
• Misc: Strangely, according to information available at the Academy, there is no Demon Lord in the Abyss by the name of Marrowbrith...strange.

Edited by NickTheSwing on Aug 17th 2022 at 1:54:28 AM

All three above characters accepted!

Edited by Kingxana0 on Aug 16th 2022 at 9:42:50 AM

• Name: Hikari Mochizuki
• Age: 16
• Appearance: 5'6".◊ Hikari’s base form is that of a young girl with short dark hair and a somewhat pale complexion, but she possesses distinctive bright red irises that are uncanny to look upon. Hikari’s form varies depending on which form she’s practising, but she rarely sticks around in forms that aren’t her own if she’s not doing so for an express purpose—Hikari is very much comfortable in her own skin, and it is the base point from which all of her shapeshifting begins. If she intends to lie low, the only alteration she typically makes is to turn her irises grey, but she struggles in maintaining this while under duress and as such she usually just makes the excuse that she wears coloured contacts for aesthetic reasons.
• Personality: Hikari's personality has been rendered somewhat unsettling and odd due to her childhood in the Mochizuki Compound, who as a family still revere the antics of a long-dead psychopathic fox spirit even in the modern day. Though genuinely curious about the outside world, Hikari is unflappable to a terrifying extent, and always seems to be calm and gently smiling in an almost cocky way towards friends and foes alike. Her lack of apparent affect is as deliberate as it is inherent: Hikari is much like her distant ancestor in terms of her sadism and lack of empathy, but she at least tries to put on a more gentle side if it means encouraging her allies or sucking up to those in positions of authority. Hikari believes in teamwork and good behaviour, if only pragmatically, and alienating her peers or being deliberately disruptive would do nothing for her, so despite the influence of her ancestry and her family threatening to make her a coldhearted monster, she is truly eager to learn and make friends even if it's only on a surface level.
• Lineage: Tamamo-no-Mae. The infamous fox spirit of legend, Tamamo-no-Mae posed as several people of prominence during her centuries alive, and integrated herself into multiple kingly courts in order to influence their rulers and gain a sense of power and control. Her sadistic practices and malevolence eventually were found out, however, and she was soon slain in a final battle with the king's forces after a last failed attempt to appeal to the army general's pity. However, Tamamo was hardly abstinent, and her offspring lived on in isolation: congregating together as a clan of hybrids between humans and foxes, eventually becoming the secretive Mochizuki clan that live on today.
• Divine Connection:
  • Shapeshifting & Mimicry: Hikari's baseline power is control over her own form and biological functions, and she is able to reshape and alter either individual parts or the entirety of her body to suit her goals. She can focus much of her mass into the muscles of a limb to maximise force behind a strike, leap superhuman heights or distances by supercharging her legs, adopt the form of animals and people she has studied well enough to imagine in detail, and weaponise her body by morphing her limbs into sharp blades or claws at will. Hikari possesses a photographic memory which aids with her need to concentrate on what she's changing into, but disruption to her focus or attacks landed on her in the middle of changing form can cause her shapeshifting to fail; resulting in possible pain and injury. An attempt to change herself into a form that she hasn't practised before will likely result in a flawed transformation, and Hikari cannot sizeshift—lastly, she has difficulty hiding her naturally red eyes while disguised and as such might accidentally reveal herself while shapeshifted through them. Hikari also has the ability to mimic voices that she hears as well as some mechanical or environmental sounds, though if she doesn't practice it like she does with her shapeshifting then any noises or voices she copies will come out distorted as if recorded on a bad microphone.
• Backstory: Hikari was born in the Mochizuki Compound; an expansive underground complex hidden beneath an abandoned factory on an island off the coast of Japan. Isolation and a lack of genuine socialisation has rendered both them and Hikari by extension somewhat backwards in understanding the world, and the Mochizuki clan have a very cynical view of the role they themselves and their inherited abilities play in the outside world. Hikari's shapeshifting was viewed as a boon for a career in assassination, for example, with the Mochizuki intending to train her to silence the clan's enemies without compromising her identity. However, Hikari has managed to convince them to send her to an external school instead of being privately tutored, so that she can better learn how to socialise and have her powers trained by outside professionals, which her family has reluctantly agreed with. As such, Hikari has become one of the few Mochizuki to leave the compound without supervision, and is curious to see what a world outside of her family's perception is truly like. The fine details on her clan have been kept lacking from the summary that has been given to the Solomon Academy faculty, but in effect it informs that Hikari is one of many descendants of the fox spirit Tamamo-no-Mae, and that the latter's reputation alone should not condemn Hikari to suspicious treatment, lest the clan take her back home by force.
• Misc:
  • Has two younger siblings who view Hikari as a teasing and playful older sister, unaware of her darker side and somewhat twisted abilities. Hikari intends to keep this dynamic intact, so that she has at least some genuine relationships kept innocent without burden.
  • Hikari carries on her person a statuette of the fox spirit Tamamo-no-Mae, which she worships. It appears as a slain fox lying draped over a large stone, with a demonic face having twisted itself into the rock. This references Tamamo-no-Mae's death from an arrow courtesy of a kingdom she had wronged, and her subsequent possession of a boulder to linger beyond death for a short while before her eventual exorcism.
  • Hikari has a habit of climbing onto tall vantage points, such as trees or buildings: she claims she likes the thrill of being up high, but in truth it's a practice instilled in her by her clan for scouting out targets to assassinate. Hikari has other similar habits, like claw-sharpening, but they are the least suspicious compared to her active compulsion to climb things and assess the people below.

Edited by Enirboreh on Aug 22nd 2022 at 7:32:52 PM

bork

• Name: Star Tysandal
• Age: 16
• Appearance: A lanky, 6'0 guy who likes to wear a plain black jacket, blue jean pants, and whatever shirt he feels like wearing (though they usually feature some sort of celestial image, like stars or nebulas.) Plain black hair that's grown a bit over shoulder length, eyes with both silver and green in them, and a thick pair of glasses (not for sight, but because nobody hits someone wearing glasses.) He often has a laidback posture, an air of nonchalance and boredom following him...until something disrupts it.
• Personality: Star is...normal. Mundane. It's a miracle he's even here, given how abnormally normal he is.
• Lineage: He comes from a long, long line of people born from the Greek primordial Chaos's personal action (on a whim, really), a being connected to the void, nothingness, and existence.
• Divine Connection:
  • Abnormal Normal: Star's utter mundanity is a byproduct of Chao's influence, specifically the void and nothingness, giving him a passive that makes him seem normal to everyone. This is both a blessing and a curse as while he can walk wherever he pleases and not seem out of the ordinary, it's also caused him no end of annoyance as more and more shenanigans are tossed his way to deal with.
  • Chaos Space: That isn't to say he's unprepared. Star is packing quite an unusual ability using his void affinity with a massive hammerspace he can access. So long as he's touching something he can send it into his hammerspace, and then take it out later in various states. Though, he can only store so fast. Objects can be held in his hands, like his trust hammer of hammerspace (a normal sledgehammer that's been painted red and gold) are near instant, while large objects like couches and trucks will take more time. Great for bullets though, for as soon as they touch him he can just send them to his space. Larger projectiles like cannonballs will hurt massively though. He can even store spells!
  • Access to the Void, Nothingness, and Existence: Though this may sound powerful, it's really not, at least not currently. He has zero control when he decides to use these domains, often causing tiny black holes that fizzle out mere moments after opening doing absolutely nothing, or creating masses of molecules with no rhyme or reason. Ultimately useless, but perhaps one day he'll learn how to use them.
• Backstory: The only child to the line of Chaos. His life had been, will be, and is normal...except for the sudden invitation. Magic school? Hmm...maybe they'll know how to turn this normality off, it's driving him insane. Whenever he tries to do something that isn't normal, it's as if the world fights him over it. Riding a donkey? The donkey just broke his leg before he could get on. A wild house party? Nobody shows up. He wants change, and he'll do what it takes to finally be anything BUT normal.
• Misc: Despite his "normal" nature, if he didn't have it he would have surely been hunted down for his connection to chaos, thus while he may hate his passive power it ultimately has kept him and his family safe. He's also the only one to manifest his power in this way, as his mother, the only other descendent of Chaos currently alive, has great control over the void.

Is it really a hammerspace if it doesn't have a hammer?

• Name: Rachel Araneya
• Age: 15
• Appearance: Step into my parlor...◊
• Personality: In contrast with her dark and moody fashion sense, Rachel is a friendly girl who enjoys handicrafts and is always happy to help out and make things for people. Her years of relative isolation after her curse manifested have led to her being starved for human interaction, and now that she's among people again she's a little too chatty and not really great with personal space.
• Lineage: Distant descendant of Arachne, who defeated Athena in a contest of weaving and was cursed to become a spider.
• Divine Connection:
  • Arachne's Curse: Rachel shares the curse of her distant ancestor. Thankfully, the countless generations that have passed since the curse was originally placed have weakened it significantly. Instead of transforming fully into a spider, Rachel has become a being who is half human and half giant spider. While this obviously isn't an ideal situation for her, it does come with benefits. She's capable of climbing vertical surfaces with minimum effort, the chitinous exoskeleton of her lower half makes her legs sharp as spears, and she has a pair of venomous fangs in her otherwise human mouth^* She doesn't use this much, since biting people is kind of gross and she has to get in an awkward position. In addition, she can produce thread that as strong as steel from her spinnerets, which can stick to surfaces. She uses it for both web-spinning and for her weaving projects.
• Backstory: Rachel always loved crafts. She started with twisting pipe cleaners together in preschool, and took on more and more complicated projects as she got older. Cross-stitch, model building, knitting, she just couldn't get enough of making things. This culminated in her 13th birthday, for which she received a loom. In all honesty, she was just unlucky. Arachne's lineage was so diluted after countless generations that the odds of any particular descendant manifesting her curse were one in a million. Rachel just happened to be that one, and the act of weaving caused the curse to kick in. The day after her birthday, she woke up in a body that was only half human. Her parents came to investigate, and there was a lot of screaming involved by all parties, before the family eventually decided she would have to stay in the basement until they could find a way to change her back, for fear of her getting hunted down like some kind of monster. 2 years passed this way with zero progress, before Rachel's invitation to Solomon Academy came. And with it, the promise of answers.
• Misc:
  • Resents Athena for cursing her family line.
  • Has gotten very good at making spider-silk garments, and is more than willing to give them out to anyone who asks. Her own clothes are woven from her silk.

Edited by PossiblyQuiteInsane on Aug 17th 2022 at 10:15:43 AM

• Name: Olivia Trench
• Age: 16
• Appearance: Olivia is an unfortunately tall girl, and one who hasn't really focused on fitness before she left home two years ago. She's got a general sense of being unwieldy in both height and weight. Her fashion sense is best described as 'anything big enough to fit and can protect against inclement weather' and she hasn't been to a hairdresser to tame those auburn locks in more than two years.
• Personality: Olivia is a twitchy mess and has been ever since the incident that broke the mask that hid the supernatural world from her. She sees the world as big and dangerous but that she can't really back down or give into fear while she still seeks irrefutable proof of the incident. She's not really sure what she'll do after she finds what she's looking for and brings it home to show everyone she was right...
  • She's also trying to look far more capable and powerful than she actually is, while taking every opportunity to grab the power or equipment needed to bridge the gap between her boasts and her actual ability.
• Lineage: She doesn't know that she's descended from Gawain, one of the Knights of the Round Table. To be fair, that descent has given her an extremely weak connection to anything that could be considered divine.
• Divine Connection: Gawain had a lot of children and Olivia's relation to him is separated by generations, rendering any hint of supernatural power (of which he only possessed in later versions of the tale) too weak to be notable. Really the only thing it does for her is protect her from supernatural effects that purely target the mundane. Instead, Olivia has turned to stolen artifacts and mundane skills to provide the power she needs to stand among her ostensible peers.
  • The Cardiff Knife: A white-hilted dagger that Olivia found about a year into her search for evidence of the incident. True to the name she's applied to it, the knife was found stabbed into the masonry of Cardiff Castle seemingly very recently given no one else had bothered to remove it. The dagger is of surprisingly high quality and has proven useful for getting around unseen.
  • The Ring Of Charos (a): While likely not its true name, Olivia credits this unassuming gold ring with getting away with half the stuff she does. She finds it hard to explain exactly how it works but somehow it has allowed her to talk her way into traveling the UK unaccompanied, trade odd jobs for supplies and most recently acquire a weapon and plane tickets.
  • Straight Up A Gun: Olivia is in possession of a Walther PPK and a small cardboard box of ammunition for it, having acquired both right before her departure to investigate Solomon Academy. She is not legally allowed to be in possession of a gun and she really doesn't have any experience using it.
• Backstory:
  • It all started a couple of years ago in one world-upending moment. Just there in the middle of the day, everyone but Olivia froze in place as the streets filled with monsters. There were shambling things muttering about smiles and abducting statue-stiff people and then came all stripes of monster and hero alike to tear at the shamblers... It got worse as the day wore on, some of the larger shamblers managing to warp the world around them and beat down those standing in defiance. And then, as suddenly as it had arrived the shambling creatures were felled... And the moon was consumed in an explosion. Olivia continued to hide and survive as one day turned into the second until the world around her resumed as though nothing had happened.
  • They didn't believe her. No one did. There was no trace left of the two days she had endured, as though those hours didn't exist. But she knew they had, the things she had seen and felt were too vivid to be dream or madness. Her insistence caused a division and after an argument with her parents a mere few weeks after the event she fled home to find evidence that it really happened.
  • For the past two years she's been exploring as much as she can on the road, finding bits and pieces that show that the world is far more mystic than anyone around her knew. Frankly, it was a little odd how easily she found the relics she had and the prospect that someone wanted her to find them filled her with a complicated mixture of hope and dread. If someone really was leaving a breadcrumb trail then it led to a forgotten corpse in an abandoned warehouse with a student ID for a prestigious Academy far from here...
  • She prepared as much as she could, leaning on some shady contacts to get the things she'd need to travel to this school and protect herself when she arrived. To her mind, the mission was simple: Find a way in and figure out what this school had to do with the two days of horrors only she remembered.
• Misc:
  • Olivia has eclectic tastes in media that she occasionally lets slip into how she names things. Of course, being on the road for two years means she's a little behind on what's actually popular.

It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.

• Name: Blanche la Broceliande
• Age: 15 (in human years at least)
• Appearance:
  • Blanche is a 4'3" tall pale girl. She has large translucent white butterfly-shaped wings on her back and she is often seen floating and flying.
  • She has fluffy wavy white hair that doesn't go pass her shoulders and pure azure insect-like eyes.
  • She usually wears white with soft blue accents and prefers comfortable clothing. Her go-to outfit is a pure white sweater and leggings which the latter has blue gradients towards the lower half.
• Personality:
  • Blanche is a tender spirit, wanting to help out as much as she can and won't give up on those she helps even if they decline her offers. Thus, she often falls into Samaritan Syndrome as she bemoans those who she fails to help out. She always keeps her word and will not tell anybody a secret from someone else unless they tell her otherwise, even cursing herself to make her unable to spill it out if needed.
  • She is also timid, usually only approaching people if they're in need of help or they approached her first. If it's the latter, she often stutters.
  • If she encounters a young girl with blond hair, tends to dress in blue and/or silver, and is currently having a rough life, she feels the strong need to help her - no protect her. She'll drop her timidness and will defend that girl at all costs, snapping back at those who'll harm her.
• Lineage: The Fairy Godmother. Yes, the same one who helped Cinderella attend the ball and gave her her iconic glass slippers. Blanche comes from a long line of peculiar Fae that unlike most other Fae who tend to have rather ambiguous morals, are explicitly and purely good. They are devoted to helping others in need, serving as their Fairy Godmothers but thanks to the fame brought upon by the first one, they can't help but subconsciously wish to grant the happy ending to the next Cinderella and feel accomplished with their lives doing so.
• Divine Connection:
  • The Goodwill Wand: The wand first used by the First Fairy Godmother, passed down from generation to generation. It can grant people's wishes as long they are benign in concept such as fortune, health, and new fresh clothes. It can also heal, provide defensive barriers, curse the user to not reveal secrets of someone, and buff other's magic. However, it best works if the user is aware of the recipient's true name (it'll still work if the user is unaware, but not as effective) and it cannot be used for any malicious intentions and it's not suited for offense. However, as Blanche is rather young, the Wand has given itself restrictions and set a limit that upon reaching, it disables itself for the rest of the day, in order to not let her lose control over it. Thus as a result, Blanche doesn't have access to the most potent of its abilities and must train in order to earn it.
  • The Greatest Wish: Also jokingly referred to as "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" by Blanche, it is the most powerful spell that the Goodwill Wand is capable of casting. Once cast on someone, granting them an elegant silvery blue outfit depending on the situation (such as a beautiful dress for the ball, majestic armor for battle, etc) and glass slippers. Its purpose is to grant the recipient, well, their greatest wish and it will also create other things needed to help grant it (i.e pumpkin carriages. However, it has a time limit where by midnight, everything generated by it - with the exception of the glass slippers - disappear. Despite that, it doesn't mean the spell worn out as it'll work passively to give the recipient their Happily After Ever (such as getting married to the prince or finding peace after suffering for so long) no matter what and will only end once it does so. As the young Blanche recently inherited the wand and is inexperienced, she currently doesn't have access to this spell. Thus, with enough time training and honing her magic capabilities, she'll be able to unlock the spell.
• Backstory:
  • Blanche lived a humble life in the Broceliande forest located in Brittany, France where a secret community of Fae roam. She was raised to be kind and help out others while being taught basic Fae magic.
  • Shortly after turning 15 (in human years; Fae age differently), she was given the Goodwill wand by her mother, who decided that she was now ready to be taught to be the next Fairy Godmother. While Blanche can do very basic spells (such as healing scrapes and fixing someone's hair), she often goofed up her more complex ones. While they aren't life threatening and the worse they can do is grant someone minor bad luck or put them in embarrassing situations, it was decided that Blanche would need some extra lessons on magic.
  • So, her family searched around for magical schools that accepted Fae as they tended to not allow them to attend due to the Fae being known for their morally questionable behavior, but they eventually settled on Solomon Academy. A couple months later, Blanche was sent an acceptance letter and she went on her merry away to the fabled school.
• Misc:
  • Blanche will serve on the battlefield as a supportive unit as neither she or the Goodwill Wand are capable of fighting. She'll be a medic, making barriers, and buffing others.
  • Blanche is well aware of her lineage but doesn't like bragging about it, so she'll only bring it up if asked or explaining what she wants to do in life.
  • Her favorite portrayal of the Cinderella story is the 1950 Disney animated film. Admittedly basic? Yes. But hey, cut her some slack, Solomon Academy is where she'll be first exposed to human media.
  • She can't help but distrust step-mothers thanks to the Wicked Stepmother trope being a crucial part of the Cinderella tale but she'll keep it to herself and help them out regardless as long they prove to not live up to the aforementioned archetype.

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Aug 17th 2022 at 8:51:30 AM

Victor of HGS S320 | "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."

• Name:Setsuna Kagura
• Age: 16
• Appearance: Half oni with issues. Stands about eight feet tall.◊
• Personality: Setsuna is bubbly, sweet, and somewhat reserved and demure. She adores cute things and has a developed sense of fashion, but she’s ridiculously apologetic She often catches herself saying ‘sorry’ or asking others for approval, even if she doesn’t need to. But buried underneath everything else, she has a ferocious temper. Stemming both from her abuse and her nature as part oni, she’s tried her best to bottle it up and everything that comes with it. With that anger comes a love of fighting, brawling, even killing. Part of her loves it, but another part is ashamed.
  • Her years of abuse have also led to her being easily persuaded. She has little confidence or self-worth, agreeing to others demands and suggestions if it pleases them. She has her limits, but if you treat her nicely, she'll do almost anything you say. More than that, she's incredibly indecisive. She goes with the flow, following the leader or acting on group consensus rather than make her own decisions. She's tried to be more confident and assertive, but it's been a struggle.
• Lineage: Setsuna is descended from Ka-Ki, legendary oni of flame. After their service to the great summoner Fujiwara was complete, they founded a small settlement in the Japanese wilderness which is still going strong. The Ka-Ki Oni are distinct from other clans, but their great power and strength runs deep.
• Divine Connection:
  • Oni Power: Setsuna is very strong and durable, if not as much as a full Oni. She’s also a skilled fighter and survivalist, having been trained by her mother and father in combat. She can turn into a more powerful form when sufficiently angered, though it doesn't last long.
  • Roaring Flame: As a descendant of Ka-Ki, Setsuna was blessed with the gift of flame. She's never used it much, her brute strength proving more than sufficient, but she can summon small gouts in a pinch.
  • Oni Transformation: As a half-oni, Setsuna can change between human and oni forms as well. She's a born and raised oni, so that's the form she prefers to be in. But the angrier she gets, the harder it becomes to switch out of her human form. She prefers her oni form, so she doesn't mind, but it makes blending in with humans a lot more difficult.

Backstory: Setsuna was born to a human father and oni mother. The girl’s mother loved her dearly, trying to raise her in the traditions of her people while teaching her that her appearance was nothing to be ashamed of. But the other oni in her tribe told a different story. The other children mocked her. The adults shunned her. Even her mother's husband knew that she was not his, berating and abusing her for the slightest offence. Or for doing anything not ‘oni’. But this was easier said than done. While the girl was feisty and aggressive, she wasn’t as naturally brutish or impulsive as other oni. She was somewhat different from them, both in appearance and attitude. Try as she might not to be.

• After years of trying and failing to fit in and live up to their standards, Setsuna couldn’t take it anymore. About to be on the receiving end of another of her father’s assaults, she struck him back. If felt cathartic, almost a relief. And her father felt the same. Even though she had human blood, she was ultimately an oni through and through. But his words struck a cord. After all he put her through, her father was the last thing she wanted to be, but she was quickly becoming her father's successor. Feeling both pride and shame, she left the village, uncertain of who or what she wanted to be. Ever since, her father's men have been on the hunt, trying to bring her back. Not to harm her, but to make her the next village chief.
• But it wasn't so simple. She already had doubts, but between the village and self-imposed exile, she had a third option. According to her mother, the blood of a kami ran through her veins, opening the door to Solomon Academy. It wasn't an easy decision, but she didn't have anywhere else to go. And it would keep her out of her father's reach. She wasn't sure what awaited her, but it was better than the alternative.

• Etc: Setsuna adores cute and cuddly things, and has a terrific fashion sense. She dreams of becoming a dollmaker or fashionista. Has a stuffed bunny to keep her calm. She has a taste and high tolerance for alcohol, but it's embarrassing to admit.

Edited by kkhohoho on Aug 18th 2022 at 9:38:22 AM

Each and every person has been accepted, from top to bottom this is going to be a fun ride through a crazy story! So for those of you newly joining the game for the first time glad to have you! The game has a discord as a player hub to allow rapid transit of information and story ideas between players, posted here: https://discord.gg/U79tvr2c

And for those waiting to take a crack at things immediately, well.

Welcome

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16609721280A83426500&page=1#1

Is it too late for me to sign up? I expected to have a bit more time...

Everyone's just doing the best that they can.

Yes I'm still allowing sign ups.

This looks interesting so I'll sign up

• Name: Kotone Shinonome

• Age: 16

• Appearance:
  • Kotone is an average statured girl who stands at 5'5, she has shoulder length messy brown hair that she usually ties in a ponytail, and dark red eyes.
  • She usually wears an orange dress with red accents with a pink cardigan, white leggings and brown boots.

• Personality: Kotone is very bubbly and loves making friends. She's often the first to approach people and engage conversation. She's pretty open to all types of activities and wants to have fun with everyone.
  • Underneath her cheery exterior however she's scared of being abandoned and alone by her friends or loved ones, whether they die or move along and forget about her. She sometimes comes across as clingy because of this

• Lineage: Descended from Orpheus, the legendary musician and prophet, she grew to have a natural affinity for string instruments and took a particular liking to the lyre, using the one passed down in her family, which was apparently Orpheus's own.

• Divine Connection: Master of Strings: Like her ancestor, she has an ability to enchant almost any living being through her music, whether it be putting them to sleep or infatuating them.

Backstory: Kotone lived a humble life with her fairly normal seeming parents, who saw her talent they encouraged her to pursue it as much as she could. Kotone didn't have a problem with this, as she loved music anyway. Then, she was invited to Solomon Academy and she ignorantly assumed it was a normal boarding school, and accepted because she was eager to meet new people.

Misc:

• Kotone prefers to be averse to combat, and doesn't like directly hurting people. However, when she needs to, she'd use naginatas in battle.
• Also I randomly picked the name Kotone but it means 'harp' or 'flute' so accidental Meaningful Name yay

Edited by eido-natokun on Aug 21st 2022 at 9:26:11 AM

Tbh obsessed with making a world of my ocs and not doing anything w it

• Name: Grim "Anubis" Reaper (Nicknames: Death, Son of a Hades, Bonefinger, Scythe Lord)
• Age: 14
• Appearance: Generally in a cloak, which he appears to have hair in it but also that his hands appearance more human. Otherwise, is a regular old skeleton with it off.◊ Looks like this while cloaked otherwise.◊ He sits at 4.6 feet tall, with a few inches difference due to the cloak, making it look closer to 4.8. His size does not change when his skeleton form is actually shown, bar the cloak not being accounted for.
• Personality: A young Skeleton who has an affinity for nature and has great respect for the living. He can be very blunt and rough to other people, but he believes in great balance. As part of his neutrality, he also has much respect for the departed and does not like necromancy.
• Lineage: It is said that more than one version of Death exists. He is just one of many who has ascended. The only key thing that is clear is that they're all at least some form of Undead(though treated as alive despite this), in terms of being a Ghost, Mummy, or otherwise. It is unknown if Death existed since the dawn of time or later came to be a true Deity of Neutrality.
• Divine Connection: As descended from Death, he has gained holy abilities equivalent to that of a Cleric. However, he has not developed any of these skills except how to use a Scythe... as a gardening tool. Despite his natural form, he does not actually identify as an undead creature nor have an undead aura. He is all for intents and purposes, 100% alive.
• Backstory: Grim is among the line of natural born forms of Death, his own various children and beyond. It is never made clear exactly how they are born, to the point that the original Death has kept it a secret. One theory is they grow from a single bone. Another is that due to Death being actually alive, as well as the various forms, regular childbirth has happened. Grim has come into this world in a Farmland, and has learned and understood various hard work to keep a great farm up. As he actually does not cause decay just by touching something, like the rest of his family, he can easily interact with animals and other living beings. Due to this, he was able to rather decently live with his family, and later on join a school. Due to his form, he has been shunned before, which had made him rough around the edges. This is why he's a bit too blunt, but tries to respect others. This has led to him being a bit condescending at times, though not intentionally.
• Misc: Grim already keeps a nice garden. Also is generally in a cloak to try and hide his appearance, though the most it does is give an illusion of hair and humanish hands. He is unaware of the cloak's miniscule magical properties, as he has no knowledge of magic in itself. He's capable of learning it, of course, having a natural magical affinity.

(I do have ideal abilities for him, to be possibly learned later. Let me know if any issues exist here if I need to change them, if he is to be accepted, anyway).

Edited by Irene on Aug 29th 2022 at 1:54:34 PM

• Name: Leonard Hesperos
• Age: 16
• Appearance: Leon is a teenager with piercing blue eyes and striking black hair. He looks generically good-looking, the kind that you'd forget moments after seeing him.
• Personality: The most studious of three brothers, Leon would rather spend his time reading books and brushing up on his magic than socializing. Unfortunately, his position in the Hesperos family means that he often has to socialize with others. Though Leon is the sort to care about those close to him easily, he is also the sort of prioritizes his family and their well-being over anything else. Even himself.
• Lineage: Leon's family claims descent from Hermes Trismegistus, a legendary Hellenistic figure and the ultimate founder of hermeticism, hermetic magic, and a good chunk of western magic in general. It is also a well known story that Leon's parents, Ingraham and Elise Hesperos, had used the teachings of Hermes to fell a god and steal their power for themselves.
• Divine Connection:
  • The Emerald Tablet: The original Emerald Tablet was a tome that contained all the knowledge and wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus, both that which were discovered on his own and that which were compiled from his contemporaries. The Emerald Tablet maintained by the Hesperos family contains both the original Emerald Tablet as well as the collective knowledge and wisdom of each and every member of the family. This book in Leon's possession has been enchanted to reflect the contents of the original, which is contained within a secure vault. This allows the book to update itself whenever an addition is made to the family's collective wisdom. The book can only be read by those within the Hesperos family tree, which also happens to be contained within the same secure vault as the Emerald Tablet.
  • Hermetic Magic: The three parts of the wisdom of the whole universe. The three magics known to the Thrice-Great Ancestor and still taught throughout the entire Hesperos family.
    • Alchemy: The Operation of the Sun. Among him and his siblings, Leon is the best at Alchemy. More than just transmuting lead into gold, Alchemy is an investigation into the spiritual constitution of matter and material existence by applying the mysteries of birth, death, and resurrection. Leon is capable of most of what a layperson may consider alchemy, from creating potions and magical items to transmuting one material to another, though he is far from a master.
    • Astrology: The Operation of the Stars. Among the siblings, the eldest brother Cyrus is the most adept at this art. The movements of the planets and stars reflect the influence of the divine upon the Earth. This influence doesn't dictate the actions of mortals, but it does reveal what it is that fate holds. While Cyrus is known for his ability to predict the future, manipulate chance, and shape courses of events, Leon only knows enough Astrology to be able to tell when a great disaster is approaching.
    • Theurgy: The Operation of the Gods. Among the sibling, the third brother Dain is the most adept at this art. Theurgy is a divine magic reliant on divine spirits like gods or angels. It's brother art, Goetia, can also be used to draw upon demons and wicked spirits for power. Dain is something of a prodigy when it comes to making deals with supernatural entities, whether they are gods, demons, or even fae. Dain is also an expert when it comes to figuring out their weaknesses. Meanwhile, Leon can only use Theurgy and Goetia to identify supernatural beings.
  • Stolen Divinity: Leon's parents, Ingraham and Elise Hesperos, had stolen from a god of the stars their divinity before settling down and having children. Out of all their children, its the youngest daughter Ella that inherited this divinity the strongest, though as she is twelve no one knows how this affects her exactly. Still, Leon and the rest of his siblings are technically Demigods. Any effect that detects Demigods would detect them, and anything meant to affect Demigods would affect them as well. The three brothers, like most people sharing blood with the gods, get jack shit for their relation save for trouble.
• Backstory: The second son of two god slayers and a descendant of Hermes Trismegistus, Leon was born into a family of people who are better than him. His brother Cryrus, who is only three years older than him, had already proven himself to be a master precognitive who has averted numerous catastrophes and contributed to The Emerald Tablet. Dain, who is barely a year younger, is rapidly gaining favor among the gods. And while Ella is only twelve, there are many who are expecting great things from her in the future. In the midst of all of that, the forgettable Leon almost seemed like an afterthought. Though he has made great strides in Alchemy, he is not yet a master of it and is far from being able to make something unique of his own and leaving his mark. Perhaps Solomon Academy would give him a chance to prove himself?
• Misc:
  • Contributing ones own works to The Emerald Tablet is something of an honor in the Hesperos family, especially for someone as young as Cyrus at the time. This fact makes Leon feel even worse when compared to his big brother.
  • Leon's family is actually pretty close-knit, and none of his siblings would look down on Leon for “only” being good rather than a prodigy. Still, Leon feels the need to prove himself to them.

Everyone's just doing the best that they can.

All characters accepted, feel free to join the discord and post in the game!

I'll need a link to the Discord, please. First time joining this series of games and all, heh.

Name: Alice Dean

Age: 16

Appearance: Alice is fairly tall and slim, her most notable feature being her hair: long, dark on the left side but entirely grey on the right side. She wears round glasses and generally dresses in darks or purples, favouring hoodies.

Personality: Alice is the quiet, scholarly type. She's an introvert who would prefer a book and a cup of tea than spending too much time around people, and is generally on the apologetic side rather than confident.

Lineage: Alice is descended from Hel, one of the norse deities presiding over the afterlife, ruler of Helheim and daughter of Loki. Generally depicted as being half-dead, the likely cause of Alice's hair discolouration.

Divine Connection: — Dead Triad. Alice is able to summon and dispel three ghosts at once. They take about a minute to conjure, and appear as faint blue-white transparent floating figures. Dead Triad always summons three ghosts, and they must stay within a few meters range of Alice. The ghosts are unable to touch living things, but can interact with the environment and objects. They retain their original personalities, for better or worse.

Backstory: Alice was raised by her aunt Rachel, her parents not being in the picture. Rachel first realised something wasn't quite adding up with Alice when she found her as a child conversing with ghostly historical figures from a documentary that had been on tv. Difficulties with peers, something her divine connection definitely didn't help with, led her to consider dropping out of highschool in favour of homeschooling. However, a scholarship to Soloman Aacademy has led her to reconsider that.

Misc: Alice leans toward the humanities, enjoying reading and painting. Her dream job would be as some sort of artist. She also carries a tarot deck, though she doesn't know how to actually do readings. She has a tendency of summoning and conversing with historical figures when alone, and has used them to cheat on history tests before.

At the end of everything, hold onto anything.

Dullahan 72 you are accepted.

Aaaaand with that sign ups are closed until further notice.