Futuristic Ancient Earth [CS]

[Vanessaaah]

The year is 2005, you're a war reporter/photographer in Iraq reporting on the conflicts. (note: knowledge of the actual conflicts that occurred is not important, however if you know something you're more than welcome to share it or involve it how you want)

All reporters live in one communal house on the army base, and continue out their day to day activities. The war is the same as the others, and nothing seems very different until one of the reporters stumbles upon something that may be a bit bigger than anything anyone ever thought.

Ancient technologies, evidence of an ancient society with more advanced technology than today.
So what happens when she returns to the house ranting and raving about what they saw (pictures included) will you join her in digging deeper and trying to bring light to the perhaps true reason why American troops are on Iraqi soil, or will you stay out of it and just report on the war you're here to report on.

Ancient Earth [open]
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So I don't really care about how many characters you have (but I mean. at least one) just as long as you don't bite off more than you can chew.
So if you think you can handle five characters, go to town. I'm not going to stop you, but if you think you can only handle one then that's totally fine too!
Whatever makes you happy and comfortable pretty much.

Okay, so character sheet!

Name
what are you called? any nicknames?

Age
minimum 24 for reporters 18 for military

Country of Origin
if you're a reporter you can be from anywhere you fancy,
if you're military just the big three so America, Canada or Britain

Occupation
reporter/photographer/face-in-the-field (combination of any), military, etc.

Personality
think behaviour, likes/dislikes, habits, etc
Background
Why are they here, what are they hoping to accomplish,
where did they grow up,
if they're still in contact with their family what do they think about this,
favourite cupcake flavour,
I don't care just make them believable

Extras
this one is optional, but if there's anything else not covered you'd like to include.
Here's your spot to do so.

Appearance
image or description, whatever floats your boat​

 

[Vanessaaah]

Name
Emilea Rose Duckette
She'll also answer to Em, Lee, or Emmy.

Age
25

Country of Origin
Canada

Occupation
she's one of the few Canadian reporters in the region so she acts as many things for multiple stations. She primarily is a journalist and simply writes the stories and takes some videos or photographs to go along with them before she sends them back home. But on occasion she acts as a face-in-the-field, but that's more or less only for breaking news or major events.

Personality
Em is not your typical war reporter. First impressions are always of a small timid girl until she opens her mouth. Then she's a girl who knows too much, has a desire to know the unknown and more of a sense for adventure than a sense of fear which has been known to get her in trouble. She enjoys her privacy and generally tries to keep herself distanced from people.

Background
The youngest of four, Emilea is also the only girl. The little sister to some rough and tough brothers she was raised on a farm that had been part of her fathers for generations. While her brothers had always seemed to be happy and content with knowing agriculture as their future Em always wanted more for herself. So she moved to the big city, went to university and has been on a quest to quench her seemingly (as her mother puts it) undeniable thirst for danger! It's rather obvious about how her family feels her being over here. They are proud of what she's managed to accomplish but are (how Emilea puts it) overly concerned with her safety and well being. She tries to talk to her family at least monthly, bi weekly if she can to calm their concerns but as of late the conversations have been growing shorter due to Emileas lack of desire to sit and hear her family beg her to come home. She's been in country for three months and currently has no set date to return home.

 

[Nothingness]

Cyrox

Nickname
Although his real name is Cyrox given at birth by his kin. He disguises his name by using that of what humans call 'Yukito Akari".​

Age
Unknown; however has the appearance of a 27year-old male.

Country of Origin
N/A; Deep Underground.

Occupation
N/A

Personality
Cyrox had always been a rather curious person since he was a child, before the extinction of his kin, his family and many of the people he knew would always warn him about leaving the interior of the city and that leaving would only get him hurt; though this did not stop him from leaving anyway. He enjoys discovering new things and tinkering with different technology as well as all things he is unfamiliar with just to get a feeling to know what everything is. He enjoys gaining more and more knowledge, though when it comes to meeting others he is quite the awkward butterfly that doesn't speak much and whenever he does he doesn't know what to say or he simply walks away from strangers all together, however if strangers who things that he finds curious he will waste no time to go up to them and inspect them and begin asking questions to no end.

Background
Being born into a race known as the Vahkir, Cyrox had been special in many different ways to begin with once he was born; starting from the fact that on the day of his birth, he did not cry once he had left his mother. Second, unlike all Vahkir who were raised to learn that leaving the city that they lived in was forbidden due to the dangers that lurked outside of the city being monstrous beasts and unknown beings that roamed the land; Cyrox was always one to break the rules and leave the city whenever he possibly could to explore the world outside of the city. Leaving the city also gave him the opportunity to end up finding out that outside the city; there were hunters who seemed to had been aware of the Vahkir race and wanted to kill them for their blood, supposedly rumored that the Vahkir blood would make one immortal if they drank it. Even after returning to the city to warn the people of the city about the incoming dangers; no one would ever listen to Cyrox words and only shamed and scolded him for leaving the city when it was forbidden.

Considering Cyrox to be nothing more than a delusional child due to the dangers of the outside world from the city had caused him to become tainted and made his mind unclean to see things such as hunters. He was kept indoors at his home with his family, never being allowed to leave without the supervision of either his family or guards of the city to avoid having him leave once again.
It was only a matter of time as the years passed that the hunters eventually arrived at the city and began to open fire out in public to attack and slaughter the Vahkir one after another; of course the Vahkir had fought back bravely but due to the surprise attack, they were soon enough wiped out easily. Luckily though, during the slaughter; being kept indoors had allowed Cyrox to hide in the deepest parts of the basement for the time for the screams and sounds of killing to end. By the time everything had gone quiet and Cyrox had left the basement only to find bodies scattered throughout the home as well as all over the city; the horror of blood spilled and smeared all around nearly made Cyrox go mad as he could only leave the city to begin living in the wild unknowns.

Thousands upon thousands of years later, the year had reached so far as to 2005 and the land of which Cyrox once lived had now been overtaken by nature and even overgrown due to earthquakes of all different sorts to make the once massive city that stood tall, now become underground. Cyrox on the other hand, still surviving to this day has traveled the land only to come and see as other strange beings started to eventually take over the land; these beings calling themselves...humans. Now, with this new being populating the planet; all Cyrox can do is to learn about them and just continue to survive as he had all these years; unaware that the hunters that once slaughtered his kin still lurk deep in this new world somewhere.

Extras
Just like all Vahkir, Cyrox carries two weapons at all times around him. One of which is large slim blade that humans apparently consider a 'katana' while the other is a weapon of choice that all Vahkir get to decide on their own; Cyrox just so happen to had chosen what is considered nowadays, a scythe.

The Vahkir are all blind hence the fact that all of them had worn either white or black blindfolds over their eyes to help them see by using their other forms of senses; Cyrox in particular wears a black blindfold. Although they maybe blind, their eyes underneath the blindfolds are completely silver pupils; with the strange technology that is used through their blindfolds, they are able to 'see' their surroundings as though they are never blind to begin with.

An ability that the Vahkir possess with their weapons is that they are able to hide it from all visibility through a technological cloak that envelopes the weapons to the point that it is completely invisible to the naked eye of any mortal; however, if the weapon is used, it will immediately uncloak itself.

Due to the Vahkir not being exactly human, they also possess abnormal abilities. A common trait that all Vahkir possess is their inhuman speed, reflexes, intelligence and strength. Cyrox on the other hand also holds a special ability due to his time being around as the oldest Vahkir as well as the only Vahkir left, it being that he has learned to manipulate water at the touch of his fingertips; the reason for this being that as he had lived his life with the ever changing land, there had been times that water had either not been available to him or the water had been contaminated for some reason that he was not able to the drink it; with this knowledge of this ability, he had been able to manipulate the water in the atmosphere to drink it or even turn it to ice if he so wishes it.

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[Rusty of Shackleford]

Name
Jacob Adams

Age
27

Country of Origin
America

Occupation
Photographer
Personality
Jacob has a very inquisitive personality, always searching for the truth and exposing it to the public. He tends to get caught up in his work, though, causing him to isolate himself from others. When not on the job, Jacob is a very charming and funny individual, trying to brighten the often dark mood.
Background
Born in New York City, Jacob is the son of two successful war photographers who achieved fame and money for their work. When he was 25, he found out that his parents actually lie about their work, sometimes letting soldiers die to get a good shot. This caused him to develop a hatred of dishonesty and corruption, deciding to become a war photographer himself to show what war is really like. He has basically disowned his parents, cutting all ties with them and refusing to even talk about them.

Extras
He reading history on war, as it helps him write about his photos.

Appearance
He's a very tall man, about 6'3 and weighs abut 170 lbs. He has black hair that's well cut and has soft grey eyes. He usually wears a button up shirt with dress pants and loafers, and wears prescription glasses.

 

[Locklaklazarii]

Name
Sargent (Jared) Michaels

Age
26-Male

Country of Origin
America

Occupation
Sargent - Marine Corps

Personality
Stern, By the Books, Honor Bound, Closed Off, Negative View of the World, Hyper-vigilant, Loyal

Background
Born and raised in El Paso Texas, after his father's death he was ostracized by his mother, he has stayed in contact with his two sisters but not his mother whom he despises. First Deployment at the end of the Kosovo War, didn't see much combat. Second Deployment in Afganistan, 2001-2004, saw a lot of combat, after the end of his deployment he was promoted to Sargent. He has been Deployed once more to Iraq.
(I'm keeping this sparse for a reason, if anything else gets revealed I will add it here, but I think he needs to stay relatively mysterious to fit his closed off nature)

Appearance

 

[Nothingness]

Seung Jun

Age
27

Country Of Origin
Korea

Occupation
Photographer

Personality
Seung is known to be one that follows the rules to the very letter no matter what it might be. Although he loves to travel from place to place, the first thing he tends to do even if he is a photographer and enjoys the idea of taking pictures of absolutely everything to share to the public; he tends to prefer to learn the rules and law of the places he visits before doing anything else. Although once he is free to begin taking photos, whenever he finds anything that is worth taking a photo to reveal to the public; nothing will tend to stand in his way to go and take the picture, no matter what kind of dangers might block his path.

Background
Being born in Los Angeles, California; Seung had never really had to deal with the thought of leaving his home country of Korea to come and live in America since his family had left and began to live their lives in America for quite some time before having their child. At first though, as his younger ages; Seung had always been the type to be rather closed in and more just focused on his studies than just helping his family around the house the entire time. Although as he grew older and his knowledge began to spread out more with the more he was forced to leave the home with his family and be more social, Seung had eventually began to come and realize how beautiful the world outside of his home actually really was. At times, even when he had gone on vacation with his family, Seung had never wished to leave because he never wanted to forget the feeling he had when he was around such beautiful and unique things that were outside the confines of their home.

With knowing this bit of information about their son, Seung's own family had decided to purchase their child a camera; telling him that taking a picture of the things that he found interesting would help him remember the feeling as though he were there. Of course, after getting the camera; Seung had began to take pictures of practically everything that was outside of his own home. As he grew in age, his love for photography soon even brought him to do it as a full career and now even bringing him to Iraq where he has started to begin taking war photos for the public to know about, his curiousity for mysterious things continues to grow for more photos and life experience.

Extra
Seung does have a slight issue when it comes to excessive amounts of germs and dust; this is why he tends to go around wearing a thin cloth over his lower half of his face as a sort of mask to keep himself from catching anything that might get him sick in any sorts.

 

[Blazingsword23]

Name
Captain James Bartolomew Stryker.
"Jay" "Captain Bart" "Stryker"
Age
26yrs

Country of Origin
America

Occupation
Captain/pilot

Personality
James is a highly relaxed individual, usually happy with simply kicking back with some alchohol and good company. He tries to refrain from acting like he is a persons superior, yet occasionally a situation calls for him to act his rank. He tends to enjoy the company of civilains as opposed to military personel claiming it makes him feel more at home. That said he is far more comfortable in the air, with his cigar lit, and the clouds beneath him.
Background
The military wasnt the first choice for james, but the air was always his passion. He lived the normal life of a teenager from a big texas city, born and raised in houston. He got into trouble, made friends, fell in love a few times, but he could never seem to settle. He always wanted more, shooting not for the moon but for the stars behind them.

In college he found that he was a bit of a mechanical whiz. His love for all things air related causing him to choose a major in aeronautical engineering where he found out the ins and outs of how to operate all manner of aerial craft. It wasn't until he was 22 and four years into his degree that he discovered he would need years of piloting training before he could actually fly. That was unless he joined the military. It was a no brainer for him, he enlisted within the same week and was off to basic. When he finally made it to piloting school it was obvious that the young man was a natural born flyer. He graduated with the best simulation scores that the air academy had ever seen. He spent the following three years transporting valuable cargo and personnel all across the battle field priding himself on his flawless flight record.

Extras
Though he is no master in hand to hand combat, James is still military trained and his natural competitive nature has gotten him into the top 20% hand to hand combatants in the Armed Forces, he is also a very skilled marksman able to hit a target from 1000 yards with his rifle, or 200 yards with his sidearm. All that said he is most well known for being the best ace pilot in the world. Yet even the best can loose from time to time.

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