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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 2, 2015 16:02:43 GMT -5
All right, I think I have come up with a good naming scheme. The basic nitty gritty is that we have Family Name + Personality Name. The Family Name is a name derived from whatever the family name may be. Easy example, say the main family name is Apple so the parents choose to name their child Breaburn, Seed, Appleseed, Golden or whatever. The Personality Name is later given to the dragon when s/he is a little older and is derived from what the parents see in him. So this can be basically anything that links him to his personality. Rock for someone that's steadfast and unmovable. So we can end up with a name like Braeburn Rocks. Now for the more complex stuff. The dragons started off with just four main family names. Wind Fire Light and Dark. These are the original dragon tribes (again all magic could be found in all of them). Dragons whose names are derived from these main tribes can trace their linage back to the leaders of those dragons. Fire however is an exception that dragons aren't allowed to be called Fire or any word meaning fire. Names like volcano and magma is still excepted though and the dragons with names like those are usually the closest to the Fire linage. Next up the dragon names got more diverse. 12 subclasses of names was created: Sky, Stars, Earth, Gems, Water, Heart, Birds, Beasts, Songs, Dreams, Death and Mind. Dragons with names derived from these are usually known to be directly descended from the dragon forefathers. The last tier is any other family name, like a specific fruit like Apple. And these are younger names that came to be in the last 2000 years. Dragons do not however call themselves dragons as a name or any name derived from dragons. As it's frowned upon and seen as haughty and disrespectful to other dragons. So I'm changing Venti's full name and I've also completed my second character. I'm posting both CS here. Name: Venti Dreams Gender: Female Personality: Mischievous and playful. Tries her best to act responsible and like a leader, but would rather be laughing and having fun. Can be a bit hard to read at times and is secretive about her real feelings. She'll fall silent sometimes, try to reason through problems on her own and can be afraid of the future and what it will hold for her and her friends. Human Past: None, obviously. Dragon Tribe: Green Description: Venti has small spikes that move over her cheeks towards the back of her neck and again spikes at the end of her back to the start of her tail. She's a light emerald green with yellow eyes. Not the sleekest of dragons she almost falls on the plump side. Her long tail wraps around one of her back legs, over her back and around her neck like a necklace. Name: Berry Bliss Gender: Male Personality: The opposite of Venti in many ways. Laid back and content with live as it is. Not a seeker of adventure or trouble. Does as he's told and rarely wants to argue. The voice of reason in many of Venti's schemes. His laid back attitude however is greater than that of not wanting to get into trouble and is usually easily convinced to go along with whatever adventure Venti dreams up just so he doesn't have to try and stop her. Whenever he seems to be in deep thought it's usually a façade and he's simply faking it or thinking about Berry pies. Not brave and not cowardly, a middle man in every sense. He takes care of the sheebs that graze in the pastors, something he's been doing since a little dragon and have no plans on seeking a different occupation. Human Past: None, obviously. Dragon Tribe: Blue Description: His scales are a blueish purple and his eyes are light blue. He has spikes on the end of his elbows, on the fold of the wings and a small one on his nose. His tails are sometimes stained light pink, blue and purple from picking or preparing berries that can take a day or two to wash out completely. And sometimes Sheebs wool get stuck on his spikes. But other than that there's nothing remarkable about him. Okay, what do you think? What should I change and what should I make better? Name: Yuki Midorima Gender: Female Personality/Human Past: Very innocent and with a down to earth perspective, Yuki has recently finished high school and doesn't know what to do with herself. Naturally, she tries a little bit of everything which means she doesn't really think about long term goals or consequences. She's been working on a liberal arts degree in college for less then a year, but hopes to find something she's good at and enjoys before she finishes the general studies. She's bright when she's motivated but not the hardest worker otherwise and only managed high C's and low B's, which was a point of tension between her and her parents. They know that when she sets her mind to something she can go above and beyond the calling of said activity. Despite her apparent fixation on her studies and future, she lives in the moment more than anything. She's a definite people person and loves to be right with the crowd. She's not likely to instigate anything or actively start a get together, but loves being part of something big and fun. Alongside this, she takes great care in her personal appearance and even has a morning routine she follows to get the results she wants. As a matter of fact, she can delve into obsession if she finds someone she likes and is trying to impress them, wanting to look her absolute best. This also accounts for her shifting self-esteem which rises and falls like a tide in the moonlight. The smallest compliment and nonexistent dis could push her to high and low self esteem rather quickly, though not in too extreme a manner. Dragon Tribe: Red Description: Yuki would become a Red Dragon. Both as a human and as a dragon, Yuki is smaller then what would be normal for a girl her age. She's only 5 feet tall but not really skinny. She's got a medium build that's a perfect balance between "curvalicious" and "unattractively skinny". As a dragon, the other drakes her age are between 1.5 and 2 times her height easily. Her wings are the same span as other dragons, however, which means they're large for her body, but her tail, which makes up half her body length, makes her as long as her wing span is wide. This decrease in size helps her move quickly and efficiently on the ground and her wings having lost none of their power, her tail helping her maintain balance while flying. she's dexterous and a quick study when it interests her, so flying would come easily. Because she can be self-conscious of her appearance, she wouldn't try and use her breath and would be worried that her breath stinks or a slew of other things. Yuki has horns not unlike a young gazelle that are "parallel" to the ground when she's looking straight forward and cling tight to her neck when she's flying or laying her head down. Her eyes are an emerald green which is a sharp contrast to her two tone scales. The main color is a light crimson that accounts for almost all of her and her underbelly is a light beige not unlike other dragons. The second color is a royal purple that glistens in the sunlight more then her other scales. This color is only along her spine (starting from her brow line and going down her back and the length of her tail), lining the bottom eyes and trailing along the bridge of her nose like a cheetah's or gazelles. Name: Vex Erins Gender : Male Human Past: He was a unassuming student at a college for game design. He had no friends and focused on his studies. Although he loved to talk to anyone about game design and stories. Personality : A quiet and observant fellow who while able to speak prefers silence if he can help it. He prefers to have a quiet wit. He loves to talk about games and uses the stories to present himself as a storyteller. Talking about storyline and characters in epic stories makes him happy. He enjoys the idea of flying as it was portrayed in video games and he always wanted to try it. He also loves his illusion breath and finds it fun to play with. Appearance: Sleek with two smooth dragontails. He is very flexible for a Dragon if not physically strong. A sort of shiny Black coloring with yellow eyes and two curved horns on the sides of his head. Better?
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 2, 2015 16:12:10 GMT -5
There's light everywhere. It feels like a dream. Your body is gone, but it doesn't feel strange to you as you drift through all the different colors of light. You are a small little light yourself, brighter than the ones around you. It's so strange, you can't smell or hear, but you can sense that there are all kinds of aromas and soft sounds all around you. There's something you should be remembering, something that's at the tip of your mind. Shouldn't you be asleep? Shouldn't you have a body? But it's so peaceful here and you're not alone. There are two more lights drifting beside you. Just as bright as you are.
ooc: You start with how your character feels and reacts to this.
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 2, 2015 16:33:02 GMT -5
After careful thought Vex decided this was a dream. He liked floating too much to think anything ill of it. He enjoyed the sensation and let his cares go. He thought this would be a good idea for a game level as well.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 2, 2015 16:41:46 GMT -5
OOC: Not sure how much control we have over these ethereal forms but I'm going to assume none BIC: Yuki felt like a snowflake drifting through an endless sky. Not falling in any direction, but sustaining itself. Being brighter then the other lights made her feel a bit important, but also really lonely. That was until she noticed the other two lights as bright as herself and she tried to drift over to them, though she didn't make any progress.
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 2, 2015 17:25:14 GMT -5
ooc: Yep, you have no control.
"Can they here me?" The soothing peacefulness was suddenly broken by a grating voice. It cut through them like shards of glass and smelled of death and rot. It was as if hopelessness spoke to them. "Head my call soldiers of darkness!" The voice continued. "I have summoned you to spread death and destruction to my enemies. Now name yourselves appropriately for your task ahead." "Are you mad!" A second voice came to them. Just as vile, but cutting deeper, deeper than anything they could imagine. "I told you not to interfere with the incantation!"
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 2, 2015 18:06:48 GMT -5
ooc: The voice is talking to you, Raider. And the other lights, but it's still talking to you.
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 3, 2015 3:44:28 GMT -5
ooc: Okay, since I'm still waiting for a reply from Broly and you obviously can't roleplay the death and decay that your character should be feeling, let's try this: As the voice talks to Vex, asking him that question, it feels like a cold knife is plunged into his eye, cuts through his brain and breaks out the back of his skull. Can you roleplay that?
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 3, 2015 8:34:53 GMT -5
Vex felt himself break into convulsions. His head had felt like someone put a cold knife into his eye, through his brain, and out his skull. The pain was too immense. He screamed out in agony.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 3, 2015 8:59:28 GMT -5
The feeling from the voices overwhelmed Yuki who felt like breaking down into tears, running away,or simply to disappear. None of this age child's do and so the added feeling of vulnerability only made her feel more sad, hopeless, and like curling up into nothing. Obviously the thought of responding to the voice never once came to her.
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 3, 2015 9:15:51 GMT -5
None of the lights could hear each other. They felt a bond to the other lights, but the pain and feelings they went through was their own. "What's happening!?" The horrible voice came again. "You have broken the stream stupid man!" The other voice yelled. There was more they yelled at each other, but the lights didn't notice this. They started to fall, faster and faster they fell towards the unknown. They didn't know what would happen, trapped in uncertainty, but at least they were moving away from the voices and the feeling that came with it.
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 3, 2015 9:19:20 GMT -5
"This dream is crazy! This is LSD Dream Emulator type crap!" Said Vex as he fell into the unknown
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 7, 2015 0:41:42 GMT -5
OOC: Raider, nowhere in your character sheet does it state that your character doesn't register normal emotions and react in inappropriate ways. If someone felt like they were being cut to the heart by the words of some unknown evil who's voice alone evokes fear and helplessness, they would be all like "This is really trippy. I should make a game out of this." They would probably not be able to speak at all. Paralyzed with fear or trying to run away/confront it. You're characters passive in his reaction and active in his realizing what he's feeling. And if someone that doesn't have control of themselves begins falling to Celestia knows where, they wouldn't make a drug reference and still think they're dreaming, especially after the voice did it's number on them. They would transition to this being a nightmare. And it's most uncommon for someone to say that a given reality is a dream period, let along when things go from south to sour in a heartbeat liek they did for our characters. Your character should been anxious at the sound of the voice, exposed and helpless, afraid even. Confused at best. Not nonchalant and passive active/incapable of feeling normal human emotional responses to a stimuli that would evoke a response from the subconscious level where they have no control.
BIC: Yuki felt herself falling but noted that the other lights were only moving around her, not staying in place. She figured they all were falling at the same time and she was glad not to be near the voice anymore. In her mind she sighed a breath of relief, but now her thoughts were on the ground she assumed she'd be hitting. She couldn't see anything and even the sound of the wind was nonexistent. She was simply falling, helpless and exposed once again. She also felt more alone then ever, not able to see the bright lights anymore or make her way to them.
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 7, 2015 6:56:27 GMT -5
ooc: I'm going to move on, but I hope you listen to what Broly said Raider. Also, I've been noticing, especially in Bancho, that you're trying to predict the story. Don't do that. Take it from me and Broly who did this and constantly ended in friction because of that. That's why we try to communicate, to make sure we're not trying to write our own stories over the other one's.
Venti was sitting in a large round room. There was a large pool in the middle filled with water that sparkled from the many glowing orbs of light that hung from vines that covered the roof and pillars. There were five pillars that surrounded the pool and reached up to the roof. The pool itself took up most of the space and there wasn't much else in the room that caught the eye. There was a small archway that lead out of the room. Venti had her eyes closed, chest pushed out and a determined look on her face. Then she gave a big sigh and her featured slumped down, the water rippled with the breath she blew out. "Come on Venti, you can do this. Just a little bit of concentration." She told herself out loud, took a deep breath and went back into her previous pose. The water suddenly created a huge splash that send down a rain of droplets through the entire room. Taken by surprise Venti flew halfway up behind one of the pillars and peeked around it to see what caused the huge splash. With her heart beating in her throat she watched as waves splashed against the edges of the pond. Lying in the middle of the shallow water was Vex and Yuki. They were dragons, the one a black dragon and the other a red one, unmistakeable by their tails. The small green dragon, heart still knocking against her chest, stared on in complete surprise at the two dragons in the pond.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 7, 2015 9:47:25 GMT -5
OOC: What's our status? I know we're dragons, but are we awake, sleeping, just waking up, still think we're in the nightmare dream thing?
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 7, 2015 13:46:47 GMT -5
ooc: Oh heck, one important thing I forgot to mention. You're just waking up btw. The two dragons in the pool of water was slowly regaining consciousness. Their past as humans were vague and blurry, although they did remember they were human and the ordeal with the voices was blocked out of their memory, like a dream that they knew they had, but just couldn't remember.
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 7, 2015 14:01:27 GMT -5
Ooc: Can we stumble due to our inability to walk like we are used to?
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 7, 2015 14:58:31 GMT -5
OOC: While that's really up to Bio, it's not uncommon for dragons to easily transition from Quadruped to Biped. I imagine it'll work more like a Meerkat or Mongoose. They can stand up so to speak, but they would to the majority of their movement on all fours, judging by the picture in Chat thread at least. Again, this is up to Bio. I just won't have her try and walk yet.
BIC: Yuki groaned. She felt like she'd had a rough night sleep and fell off the bed. She was then hit with the worse realization when she rolled over... She felt wet... like, beyond a sweaty nights sleep, but soaked to the bone. She jolted up on all fours in 10 milliseconds flat with tail, wings, arms, legs, and neck erect in a fashion not unlike a German short hair pointer on high alert. She wasn't facing Vex or Venti, and was not even able to piece together the visual stimuli of the cave. Was she still sleeping? Why was she all wet, was she shorter? All this and more was going through her head.
OOC: Also, Raider. Are you aware your characters name is also the verb for "To annoy"
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 7, 2015 15:58:56 GMT -5
Ooc: And someone called it! It took like... 2 weeks?
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 7, 2015 16:00:27 GMT -5
OOC: Honestly, I thought you did it on accident. Didn't take you as one who'd know what the word meant.
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 7, 2015 17:23:41 GMT -5
I know some words... maybe not all words but some words.
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 7, 2015 21:49:06 GMT -5
ooc: It's like Pokemon Dungeon, if you've seen the short animations. They're usually alright with certain actions, like walking and talking even though the mechanics would be different, but not others like having a tail or a shell on the back. Play it around that, concentrate on the more unusual things for your character to get used to.
Venti slowly moved down the pillar. She still wasn't sure what just happened, but her curiosity was getting the better of her and instead of running out of the room she wanted to know what was going on.
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 8, 2015 16:37:16 GMT -5
Vex crawled forward and felt a strange feeling in his tail. "TAIL?!" Vex thought to himself. He turned his head slowly backwards. "Um..." Vex said slowly.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 12, 2015 15:08:30 GMT -5
Yuki heard shuffling and splashing behind her and her heart jumped into her throat. She slowly turned her head to look behind her and panicked when her face hit her outstretched wing. She ran screaming away from what she through had latched onto her and felt something was off. She looked at her legs and realized she had four, or at least was on all fours... and they were craws, not feet or hands. She looked back again and her wing was right there. She followed the purple strip down her back and her tail lifted and flicked upward as she looked down it's whole length. She was slowly piecing together a picture of a dragon and right as the panic was about to set in again, she saw another dragon behind her... And was that another coming from behind the pillar. At this point she froze, trying to appear as a statue and not be eaten as he mind tried in vain to rationalize her situation.
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 12, 2015 15:35:09 GMT -5
When Venti was sure it was really only two dragons in the pond she gave a groan. Half for getting surprised by them and another for it just being two dragons after all. She walked back to the edge of the pool. "What are you two doing playing in here!?" She commanded. "If Teacher Fair finds out your going to be in so much trouble."
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 12, 2015 15:39:14 GMT -5
"...Punch me in the face." Vex said suddenly.
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 12, 2015 15:58:53 GMT -5
Yuki just turned around and slowly started away, not sure what was happening, but knowing when something was bigger then her... and a dragon... that she should probably run away from.
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 12, 2015 16:24:00 GMT -5
"Seriously guys, if Teacher Fair catches you he's going to put you on hatceling duty for like, forever. The sacred pool is, well, sacred." Venti cringed a bit hearing herself say that. She felt weird scolding the two like this. Especially since she herself has sneaked into every place so shouldn't have been in when she was younger.
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Post by Raiderjoseph on Mar 12, 2015 17:31:19 GMT -5
"Uh... what?" Vex said. "This pool is sacred?"
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Post by Broly Ultimatrix on Mar 14, 2015 11:40:44 GMT -5
"Sacred pool?" She said as her first words, and it shocked her how smooth they sounded. She half expected to sound like a snake or something. She turned her attention to the green dragon behind her, "This is some sacred pool? What does it do. Did you do this to me?" she said and the more she spoke the more the panic and urgency flared in her voice. It just about cracked a couple times leaving her throat. The look on her face was a matching combination of fear and confusion, but also determination as she talked up to the dragon before her.
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Post by Bio Plus on Mar 14, 2015 14:45:26 GMT -5
"Well duh! Yeah." Venti said rolling her eyes. "It does what it always does, helps us to keep the mountains healthy. "And I'm not going to tell on you, so you can stop acting dumb. I doubt any dragon would find you convincing anyway, you're pretty bad at it." Venti took another look at the two. She sat down feeling more at ease now. "I haven't ever seen you around. From what part of Sanctuary are you?"
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