@HungryCat and @Galaxian - accepted! i'm excited to work with these two 👀

EchoDraws wrote:

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I need to figure out how to make form because I'm a lil confused on how the different factions work and what is open but hopefully I'll get a form in tonight ot tomorrow

feel free to pm me with questions! i'll be online for another hour or two

@Echo accepted!

@Ash accepted!

Name: Autumn Aequinoctium
Class Title: Bookkeeper [I noticed that the rules state “people in factions have titles”; I’m not sure if she should have one since she's factionless but just in case]
Age: 17
Gender/pronouns: Female (she/her)
Sexuality: Questioning; likely bi or panromantic 
Faction: Factionless
Class: Scavenger
Physical appearance + clothing preferences: Standing at roughly 5’7” tall, Autumn is somewhere between an average and tall height for a female of her age. Her skin is almost a light brown or tan color, and there are faint dark circles around the bottom of her eyes. Autumn’s wavy hair is brownish-black and reaches slightly below her chin, while her eyes are a dark umber in color. She very rarely-if ever-wears any type of makeup, although her ears are pierced and often adorned with a small set of earrings.
In terms of outfit, Autumn tends to wear a neutral colored dress shirt, a darkly colored set of leggings, and a lavender, buttonless cardigan. She will always carry a messenger bag on her person, and there’s usually a small watch fastened around her left wrist. For footwear, she mostly wears a pair of winter boots, although if it is too warm for that, Autumn will wear either a battered pair of running shoes or combat boots. Occasionally, you can also find her wearing a scarf around her neck.
Personality: As an introvert, Autumn dislikes talking about herself and can sometimes be a bit awkward around other people, especially if she does not know them very well. Despite her awkward and sometimes anxious demeanor while talking to people, it’s clear that she is a rather empathetic and understanding person, willing to help others as much as she can. Autumn is also easily worried; even small things can trouble her if she thinks that they have the possibility to grow into a greater trouble later on. Even though she has this tendency to worry too much, one could probably label Autumn as an optimist - she’s always willing to see the brighter side of things. While she tries to hide her own feelings as much as she can, it seems that she’s overall rather emotionally fragile, and can easily get hurt as a result of an unexpected comment.
Backstory: Born to a Kashe Scholar and a Tiaki Defender, Autumn grew up aware of the Rift and the Aljannu, and sought to try to learn why the Rift opened, as well as how it could be closed. Refusing to join any particular faction, she originally tried being a scholar. However, within a year of working at a research lab, Autumn quit her work as a result of an incident she tries to avoid talking about. She’s since become a scavenger, peddling various supplies and information to all factions while still holding onto the hope that people can one day learn about the origins of the Rift and how to close it, although she knows that she likely won’t be the one who finds those answers herself. As both of her parents are still alive, Autumn tends to visit them from time to time.
Strengths: She’s decently sharp and can read both situations and other people’s emotions well. Autumn’s patience and understanding often allows her to put up with even the most troublesome of people, but even she has her own limits. Her worrying could potentially cause problems, but it also allows Autumn to recognize problems early on. 
Weaknesses: In terms of both physical strength and stamina, Autumn is rather weak, as she lacks both and easily gets tired. Additionally, she seems to have low confidence in her abilities and can be emotionally fragile. Autumn is also a very poor decision maker, often struggling to get rid of her indecisiveness in fear of choosing to do something that she’ll regret. Her regrets and mistakes tend to linger with her for a while.
Weaponry, if any: She owns a simple, wooden bow and a quiver full of arrows for it in the case she needs to fight; Autumn very rarely uses it. She’s capable of being a sniper if needed, but she usually doesn’t have a gun with her. The knowledge of how to use them mostly came from Autumn’s mother, who was a Tiaki Defender.
Music for vibes: I’m admittedly not a music person and I struggled with finding anything fitting; if I find anything later I’ll definitely edit this
Other: Rift Jumper; she’s right-handed and a terrible cook

Name: Rune Murkywater
Class Title: Knight
Age: 18
Gender/pronouns: Female; she/her
Sexuality: Straight
Faction: Fractionless
Class: Scavenger

Physical appearance + clothing preferences: Rune's got strawberry blond hair that falls to just below her shoulders with bangs that are constantly swept to the right. She enjoys  wearing her hair down with a headband or up in a braided bun. She's got heterochromic eyes; the left a bright green with gold flecks, the right deep blue with some flecks of silver. She's got a hawk-like nose and a sharply defined jawline, along with an oval, leaning on a circular shaped head. She has a skinny build, and her height reaches around 5' 6". Although she has a light complexion, her skin is dotted with freckles, most of which are on her arms.
Rune tends to wear black jeans with a button up, dark green, royal blue, or gray shirt. She normally sports black combat boots, and on occasion she'll wear a light jacket. 
Personality: When first met, Rune is the kind of person few people want to be around. She's arrogant and cold, and her eyes always seem to be staring you down in a challenge. It seems that right off the bat she either likes or loathes a person, and depending on which one, she'll either decide to be friendly enough to speak with or pass insults any chance she gets. 
Typically, she always has some sort of plan in her creative and cunning mind, and hates to be without one. She's observant and tries to gather as much information as she can from her surroundings. Unfortunately, she's not nearly as intelligent in her mind as she is when it comes to emotional or social situations, and because she doesn't know what to do, she'll often procrastinate doing anything if she can. 
When it comes to emotions, Rune does her best simply to ignore whatever she's feeling. This often leads to her bottling up her emotions, which comes back to bite her later. Rune is definitely not much of a people person, and although she doesn't like being the center of attention, she will step up and do her best to lead. 
Backstory: Rune's parents were  Fractionless, and so she grew up living the scavenger/Fractionless lifestyle. When money was running short between her family of three, Rune would do her best to pickpocket.

Strengths:
>Jack of all trades; nearly everything she tries she does well, but never perfectly
>Observant; Rune is good at picking out details from conversations or surroundings she might find important for later. 
>Clever; Rune is quick to put together an idea or plan in her head.
Weaknesses:
>Arrogant; Rune tends to look down at people
>Selfish; Rune puts her own well-being in front of most anyone else's, the exception being her friends
>Secretive; Rune hides a lot of things from others, even her friends
>Not terribly athletic, but she's an alright runner
Weaponry, if any: The only thing Rune carries around with her that would resemble a weapon is a pocket knife. 
Music for vibes: I'm not that big on music...but maybe Pirates the Caribbean music? XD I'm not too sure honestly
Other: Rift Jumper

Name: Astra Stellae
Class Title: Silboreali
Age: 18 {almost 19}
Gender/pronouns: Female, She/Her
Sexuality: Straight, questioning (likely bi)
Faction: Vaai-Ese
Class: Entertainer/{wants to be/is trying to be a Hunter}
Physical appearance + clothing preferences: Astra is very pale, and stands at about 5 8". She has a lot of small freckles on her face, but not much anywhere else. Her long brown hair is usually dyed at the ends, whether it be red, blue, or purple. She likes to think she has blue/gray eyes, although some might say they're a light greenish-teal. She is lithe and graceful from her years of dancing.

Personality: Astra is a perfectionist. She will work for hours and hours into the early morning if she has too to get something right. She hates when she feels weak in front of people, and because of that she usually puts on a fake smile if she's not feeling/doing well. Astra hates uncomfortable social situations, so she does her best to make conversations interesting for everyone so that it doesn't get awkward. She's self-conscious of all her faults, even if they aren't really "faults." She likes to appear positive and happy to everyone, so she usually sticks her more negative emotions away until she's alone and safe. Astra likes to be sarcastic and witty, although she's scared that that's the only thing people will ever see about her. Secretly, she just craves real, actual interaction with people she can just be herself around, and she's very sensitive. She can be stubborn when it comes too things she's passionate about, but for the most part she likes to make everyone happy, even at her own expense. When she does talk to others, she feels like she isn't really heard. Like people hear her words, but don't really care.

Backstory: She was born into her faction and her parents encouraged (read, forced) her too stay and become famous for her singing/dancing. She doesn't hate it, but wishes she was allowed to actually make decisions and choices for herself. Astra has learned to lie from her parents {who are also pretty famous}, and she is very good at hiding her feelings. She has started sneaking out and training to become a hunter, and she really wants to find people who feel the same way. Sometimes she feels like she's all alone because people only see her persona. She's had years of dancing practice, ballet and contemporary, but has lost her love of it because of being pressured and  forced to become the best at it, the same with her singing.

Strengths: 
-Hiding her emotions
-Her stamina
-Her strength/gracefullness, especially for dancing

Weaknesses:
-Astra is too quick to trust and love people
-She always doubts her emotions and thoughts {because she has a hard time distinguishing herself from her persona}
-She is a perfectionist, so she will most definitely overwork herself to fix any flaws that she perceives she has

Weaponry, if any: She carries a pocketknife when she's around others from Vaai-Ese, but she wants to be a Hunter using a short sword and throwing daggers.
Music for vibes: Nightmare - Halsey, Toxic Thoughts - Faith Marie
Other: rift jumper, she loves to read, write, and sometimes draw

Name: Ephemeris Auratir
Class Title: Quicksilver
Age: [16-25]: 17
Gender/pronouns: Female, she/her
Sexuality: Asexual biromantic
Factions: factionless
Class: Hunter

Physical appearance + clothing preferences: Ephemeris has a slight, toned figure and stands 5’6” tall. Her mahogany-coloured hair is uncaringly pulled tight into a ponytail at the base of her head and firmly secured by a plain metal band. A small diagonal braid runs from the front left of her head to the tip of her ponytail, and ensures strands don’t stray into her face.
Her left eye has a strike of silver across the iris, but they’re otherwise a diluted shade of brown. Slender, long lashed and a little downturned, they have a dulled glisten under the sun’s glare. Her external eye shape is sharp edged and arcing, but her iris and pupils are soft and rounded. 
A brush of ruddy skin and freckles bridges her cheeks and small, straight nose. Ephemeris’ lips are thin and pale, with a slight rosy tint.
Her preferred clothing is a pale, mint-coloured denim jacket with black metal hardware and a nasty-looking tear down the seam of its right shoulder. Underneath she usually wears a round-necked, sleeveless vest top made from a flexible black material (the kind you’d find in sportswear), and two grey leather straps across her chest as a brace. Legwear is made from a similar material, in a stormy colour with white strikes, and stops at the mid-shin area. Sports a pair of short brown-splotched combat boots secured with three sets of buckles.
Her sickle chains are secured at the waist with a kind of lightweight, easily unclippable carabiner, and draped around the two lowest buttons either side of her jacket. The silver chains are rather long, and even in this state knock against her legs as she walks. The sickle parts are tucked into her deep jacket pockets.

Personality: With such an intense apperance, most people assume Ephemeris has an attitude to match. You would struggle to be much further from the truth.
She talks a fair bit when it suits her, and will often try and find something to say just to keep herself out of her own head. Often this just proves to irritate those around her though, since her social skills are... lacking. She has little confidence in those around her, and will do everything possible to avoid relying on others. Uncomfortable and stubborn when dealing with changes, and reluctant to do things in a new way if it varies from the things she’s done for most of her life.
Ephemeris rarely values others that she doesn’t see as being useful to her, and can be very selfish in battle. She hardle bothers about the damage she does to her surroundings and how it will affect the people there, and won’t make an effort to save someone unless it’s going to make the fight easier to handle or benefit her in some way.More often than not she’ll act submissive and impartial in an argument, including when its about her, and maybe a little more than she should be. Despite this, she will always take a side in her head and usually unintentionally end up being unconsciously bias, which is another thing that can irritate others.
Though she isn’t keen on showing her emotions to others, she rarely makes a conscious effort to hide them, and honestly? Even when she does you can normally see them written over her face. Whenever anyone asks about how she’s feeling, or if she’s okay, Ephemeris will deny that she’s feeling that way no matter how obvious it is or how much you ask her.
She’s very fair tempered (like anyone, she has her limits) but really holds a grudge. Those who do get on her bad side will always be treated poorly unless they do something that really, really seems good to Ephemeris. She’s very persistent when pursuing a major grudge, very vengeful, and incredibly violent. Often her retaliation is much more serious than the action that provoked them.

Backstory [why are they in their faction? anything significant in their past to shape who they are now? optional]: Ephemeris was born to parents who were in different factions, and since neither of them wanted her she ended up on her own growing up in the Tiaki faction. She struggled to understand why they were so bent on protecting others, since it often ended with their people being hurt in the process. As you can imagine, in such a faction this was a somewhat unpopular opinion, and she was regularly and harshly scolded for ‘being too cold’ or ‘so selfish’. At one point she trained with the defenders, but eventually went her separate way since her fighting style was rather unconventional to them and she still couldn’t agree with their morals. Once she had a simple grasp of how to defend herself, she tailed a convoy of Tiaki headed for a Nêçirvan colony. Once there she was eventually able to train for a more offensive style, and ended up staying there for quite a few years. In the end though, Ephemeris still didn’t feel particularly comfortable (since neither of her parents were Nêçirvan, some people were far from acceptive and she ended up as something of an outsider) and in the end struck out away from them as well. Another factor was how fed up she was of the petty arguments and politics between the factions. Now she usually wanders around factionless colonies, and rarely Kashe, to hunt Aljannu.

Strengths: Fast (in both speed and reflexes) and resourceful, uses the environment around her and will seemingly ‘toy’ with opponents of any strength in an attempt to find their weaknesses. Acrobatic, especially with her sickles!

Weaknesses: Physical strength is very inadequate and ill-suited to close combat (muscles used to move her chains to a distant target are different than those you’d use to kick or block, or effectively throw them at a much larger, stronger target), and without her sickles or when in exposed landscape she’s very vunerable. Relies too much on her sickles and keeping her distance. Also ignorant and negligent of most injuries she’s given while fighting until she actually needs to use that part of her body, which often catches her off guard. Really struggles to use other weapons since she’s used her chain sickles for so long, and because of how different they are to say, a sword or rifle.

Weaponry, if any [please be reasonable. you cannot carry an entire arsenal]: pair of chain sickles secured around her waist.Music for vibes: ...i honestly have no idea. Maybe whatever it takes by Imagine Dragons? Only thing i can think of really

Other: Keeps a small tool for sharpening weapons in the breast pocket of her jacket. Rift jumper (is it knitted?)

I absoloutely suck with backstories so please play around with it to make it fit the story?

Last edited by Ephemeris (7/29/2020 6:07 am)

Name: Myst Hope
Class Title: Storm
Age: 17
Gender/pronouns: he/him
Sexuality: straight
Faction: Nêçirvan
Class: Techrunner
Physical appearance + clothing preferences: Myst is tall, around 6', and lithe. He's agile, precise, and fast in his movements. He has short black hair and deep green eyes. He has an intimidating stare and others often can't look at him for more than a couple seconds. Myst usually wears darker colored clothes that help him blend into dark areas. He wears whatever's comfortable, and doesn't care much about how it looks as long as it fits well, is comfortable, and helps him be stealthy. 
Personality: Myst is mysterious, and prefers to keep it that way. He's loyal if you're in his small circle of trust or hold a respected position, but otherwise it takes a while for him to warm up to you. He talks short and to the point, and doesn't like people to know personal details about him. He's always willing to help out a friend, however, and will go to great lengths to be protective of them. He loves snakes and has an unhealthy fascination with them, similar to his fascination with technology of any kind. He goes far out of his way to see them and find out as much about them as he can. He's always trying to figure out how things work, how he could build said thing for himself, and how he can modify it to improve on it's original design. If he is captured by something, his mysterious attitude goes out the window, and he'll ignore people for days at a time to take it apart and investigate it.
Backstory: Myst grew up in a middle-class family. He scavenged for tech, being drawn to it and fascinated with the little pieces that made it work, and taught himself how to code, and build things. He would always be found tinkering around with circuits or building clever little gadgets for his friends and family.
Strengths: He's very agile and able to outmanuever most anyone, and prides himself in being acrobatic and skillful.
Weaknesses: He's not the strongest and will usually lose in hand-to-hand combat, he's stubborn and doesn't give up on anything easily.
Weaponry, if any: Myst carries a katana sheathed at his waist
Music for vibes: pretty much any EDM xD hope this is ok
Other: rift jumper please ship my chi l d


edited! sorry about the copying again XD

Last edited by RisingStorm (Imagine) (8/03/2020 3:20 pm)

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@Vertigo accepted!

i edited my form, xenon! :>