Advice/Help Free To Use Characters

[White Masquerade]

Sure! It's quite late where I live at the moment, and tomorrow I have college by the morning. I should be setting the character dump post up tomorrow afternoon, if that's fine for you. Until then it'll give me time to actually list up the character archetypes I have and organize them for the thread.

Yes that is perfectly fine with me. You're going to do it in the Character Forum right?

For example, I start with "disgraced physicist" and start asking myself questions to complete the character. What made them disgraced? What made them a physicist? What they look like? What are they like?

Starting from a way to build characters like that, you could create a list of loosely-described characters that can be free to use. That way, the person that is going to use them has creative liberty over them without falling on the ground of "Out of Character" deturpation.

This I really like. It'd be great to have this as a direction so others can do the same and dump as well.

Personally I have no clue about that tag

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[QUOTE="MafagafoGirl, post: 7962214, member: 48225"]Sure! It's quite late where I live at the moment, and tomorrow I have college by the morning. I should be setting the character dump post up tomorrow afternoon, if that's fine for you. Until then it'll give me time to actually list up the character archetypes I have and organize them for the thread.[/QUOTE]
Yes that is perfectly fine with me. You're going to do it in the Character Forum right?

[QUOTE="MafagafoGirl, post: 7959940, member: 48225"]For example, I start with "disgraced physicist" and start asking myself questions to complete the character. What made them disgraced? What made them a physicist? What they look like? What are they like?

Starting from a way to build characters like that, you could create a list of loosely-described characters that can be free to use. That way, the person that is going to use them has creative liberty over them without falling on the ground of "Out of Character" deturpation.[/QUOTE]

This I really like. It'd be great to have this as a direction so others can do the same and dump as well.

[QUOTE="PicaPirate, post: 7962365, member: 5844"]Personally I have no clue about that tag :P[/QUOTE]
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[PicaPirate]

White Masquerade

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Name:  Bushin Hokusai

Nicknames:  N/A

Gender:  Male

Age:  27, apparent age is “Holy fuck what help me”

Race:  Human, though it may take you awhile to get that at first sight.

Personality:  Hokusai has a rather abrasive, frank personality. He has only just just started trying to emulate standard human thinking and mannerisms, so he is clumsy with his words and manners. Raised in purely fighting, he lacks other kinds of training. His mind is strong in a purely martial sense, from thinking for years on the manner of war. He isn't afraid to voice his opinion. His temper is like that of a hawk, seeking opponents when at their weakest. He confronts his problems directly and bluntly. He is unfamiliar with emotions, as one of the codes the Bushin follow is that sentimental emotions are not needed for those who seek strength and the Bushin commit themselves fully to the "martial path" in order to purge themselves of unwanted emotions. His free time is spent meditating to hone his mind in fighting or training. He has been known to fight wild animals and cut down trees with swings of his glaive. He has no form of tactical thinking or conversational skills, as his childhood had none of it. When fighting in a battle, he enters a deep trance taught to all of the Bushin. They blank their thoughts and synchronise their breath their body, becoming aware of their surroundings and the energy around it. While some Bushin flow with the energy and dance in this trance, Hokusai fights it with pure destructive force. His speed and skill with the glaive are powerful from his constant training with it. His raw strength in hand to hand is also high due to his training, however he has no experience with any other weapon.

Hair:   Messy long black hair
Eyes:  Piercing red eyes
Height:  7ft
Clothes:  Generally wears his cloak over him.
Body Type:  Built like a giant brick wall. Makes the Great Wall of China envious. He is scarred all over, though most prominent is the large one across his face.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Powers/Strong Points:
[LIST]
[*]Extreme Strength. His mixture of natural ability and pure training and dedication to fighting makes him a terror in combat. Also thus rather resistant, though obviously is still rather human and not a god.
[*]Bushin: He has no magic, though something close to it gained from simply being awesome. When fighting in a battle, he enters a deep trance taught to all of the Bushin. The blank their thoughts and synchronise their breathing with the rest of their body, becoming aware of their surroundings and the energy around it. While some Bushin flow with the energy and dance in this trance, Hokusai fights it with pure destructive force. His speed and skill with the glaive are powerful from his constant training with it. His raw strength in hand to hand is also high due to his training, however he has no experience with any other weapon. He’ll swing whatever he's given with tremendous force, though it may not be usable after a battle.
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Weaknesses:
[LIST]
[*]No Magic: He has absolutely zero talent for manipulating the elements. He won’t even be able to light a candle and his talent in wind magic is him blowing out of air out of his mouth like literally any person can.
[*]Dunce: In anything that isn’t combat, he really just does not have the know how. The only reason he isn’t a complete utter madman from the get go was due to the lecturing the woman gave him, such that he has some level of morality. Don’t expect anything particularly insightful out of him.
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Hokusai was born with no name. A war orphan in times of strife, he has no knowledge of his parents. All he knows is that he was as a child picked up by a small secretive group of Draconians known as The Bushin (God of Military Arts). A Bushin is someone who secludes themselves from society and dedicates their life to achieving the pinnacle of a "path". All their warriors were nameless and known as Bushin by name. As they are all seeking different "paths", some do so alone while others do so as a group living together. As Bushin apply themselves to continuously honing and refining a "martial path", the Bushin here learnt to fight after becoming old enough to train alone. As a Bushin, fighting was all he did. He fought for his food by attacking convoys and would attack armies to hone his skills. He became renowned as a skilled killer known for his powerful sweeping attacks and keen instincts. Within time, he was feared in his area. Known as a Bushin, that was his name. Currently he is on his path which in his case, is alone. Almost like a warrior pilgrimage, he seeks challenges of the world. The only sentimental feeling he once had was one time when he took down an entire mini army and while recovering from it, was cared for by a shrine maiden at a a lonesome temple at the edge of the mountains. This woman cleaned the man's wounds and healed him from his injuries. In the month it took for him to heal fully, she would engage in discussion with him about near everything. At first, the Bushin did not respond at all, merely listening. After time, he would question various things she said. As a man only in war, he knew nothing about how to live in any other way. During this month period in healing, this woman taught him the principle of humans, valuing life and not mindlessly killing. She explained to him foreign concepts such as justice and simply not fighting. The Bushin would try to grasp these concepts, attempting to learn them. In one sense, he was like a very old child, where a large part of the world was unknown to him. It was also this woman that gave him the name of Hokusai. After he healed, the Bushin began training again. This included meditation to hone his thoughts taught by the woman and cutting trees with simple swings, which she said scared her. Fear was an unknown concept to the Bushin, so he couldn't understand this. By 3 months he was in his full dangerous self again, though with some human knowledge. Once again he set out, though now with the changed course to explore, to see what was out there.

He carries a Glaive/Guan Dao, as shown in the pictures. Inherited by the Bushin he grew up with. Forged from some unknown dragon forged material close to a strong metal, it remains constantly sharp and is ridiculously hard to break. Quite ominous, almost as if seeking for blood.

[SIZE=7][B]Teru 'raven' Anzai[/B][/SIZE]
Description:
Who needs guns? All you want is bullets.

[SIZE=14px][B]General Information[/B][/SIZE]
Name: Teru 'Raven' Anzai. Sexuality: Heterosexual

[SIZE=14px][B]Personality:[/B][/SIZE]

Known as the Raven, Teru is seen as cold-hearted and emotionless. He is cynical, with the little words he says usually sarcasm or small sentences. He wears a passive face with little emotion. In reality he lost his previous lover from a crime gang, who kidnapped, defiled and their body dumped in a forest. Before then he was a cheerful and extremely nice person, but he had his life ripped apart when he found her dead body in the forest in the rain, the blood draining away from the floor. While in anguish, screaming in mental agony, he ended up firing bullets everywhere, ripping the area to shreds except for those resistant to it, discovering his ability. At the moment he has just moved to Bellua, since the last school, a 'normal' one, he was tremendously close of someone finding out his ability. He now is still a nice person, just displays little outside emotion, a broken vessel. He still has nightmares in his sleep. He will still do positive things through action though. He can never find the right wording for anything though, his emotions clamped down.

[SIZE=14px][B]Magic/Spells:[/B][/SIZE]
[B]Shots Fired:[/B] Teru generates shots as if fired from a gun levitating in the air. However, there is no gun in the air. Therefore all that is visibly seen is a sort of muzzle flash with the appropriate sound along with a bullet exiting. Empty cartridges where he fired also appear and fall to the ground. The area from where the bullets can be fired is a 2m sphere around him. The only types of bullets he can fire can be from no larger calibre than a 20mm round, typically seen fired from the Solothurn S-18/1000. He can only fire one type of bullet at a time. So he cannot simultaneously have machine gun fire while firing sniper or pistol rounds. To fire the bullets drains is energy, so maintained high caliber fire at a high frequency drains him very quickly. To fire beyond what he can do would put him into a coma, as though he had exerted himself too much. The more accurate a shot is, the more it drains him too. So concentrated fire to an area is less tolling than to one small point, say a bullseye on a target. The bullets fired can only be of standard military variety. There are no special made up ones you would not see in real life. So the only way he can hit something bulletproof is with AM 20mm with his power. Or just pelt it enough until it breaks.

[SIZE=14px][B]Weapons:[/B][/SIZE]
His weapon is his magic and his fists.

[SIZE=7][B]Shinmei Munemori[/B][/SIZE]

[SIZE=14px][B]General Information[/B][/SIZE]

[B]Statistics[/B]
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[*][B]Character Name:[/B] Shinmei Munemori
[*][B]Occupation:[/B] Ronin (Wandering warrior)
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[B]Appearance[/B]
[LIST]
[*][B]Age:[/B] 26
[*][B]Gender:[/B] Male
[*][B]Height:[/B] 6ft 2
[*][B]Weight:[/B] 13 st
[*][B]Marks:[/B] Scarring across all over their body, except for their face.
[*][B]Hair:[/B] Scarlet red hair which flows to the base of the neck, refer to the images. It flows with reasonable ease and while of a form of entropy, does not look unsightly by any means.
[*][B]Eyes:[/B] He has bright blue eyes which almost seen to shine in the dark, though that's just because they reflect the light well.
[*][B]Skin:[/B] He has pale skin, accentuated with the scars of a darker shade.
[*][B]Clothing:[/B] Shinmei wears sandals and a well-worn previously white, now grey from use, haori with the relevant complimentary clothing. Owns no other clothing.
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[B]General[/B]
[LIST]
[*][B]Talents:[/B] He is an expert swordsman, especially in Iaido (quick-draw and sheatche) and Niten Ichi-Ryu (dual wielding swords, set up by Miyamoto Musashi).
[*][B]Inabilities:[/B] His cooking and academic skills are pretty poor. He also is prone to making mistakes when fighting from not concentrating.
[*][B]Fears:[/B] He fears the idea of being a leader with responsibilities and losing people close to him.
[*][B]Wants:[/B] Shinmei wants to calmly enjoy his life and protect the people close to him when he has them.
[*][B]Loves:[/B] They currently have no love interests, however does not object the concept of it. There may come a point where he falls in love, however he would be unlikely to admit it.
[*][B]General Personality:[/B] He is by no means against being with people, however is generally one of few words. Definitely more a listener than a talker. This is mostly because he suffers from [URL='http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007470.htm']Dysarthria[/URL], a condition he has had since birth. It has affected him in such a manner that he cannot speak loudly, sounding at the loudest like a person talking softly. As such talking for him takes him quite some effort, so usually chooses not to. He will vehemently protect people precious to him, having a personal code of honour to give himself for the people he chooses to.
[*][B]Inner Personality:[/B] He is what he shows to the outside world, being shameless in that sense. Obviously because of his speech impediment, he will think responses a lot more than he says them.
[*][B]Secret:[/B] They have no secrets they keep to themselves.
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[SIZE=14px][B]Personality:[/B][/SIZE]

(TO BE WRITTEN WHEN IN AN RP)
[SIZE=14px][B]Magic/Spells:[/B][/SIZE]

[imagefloat=right][IMG]http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/371920/371920,1276289280,7/stock-photo-muscular-forearms-of-a-martial-artist-samurai-warrior-with-a-natural-wood-background-55009231.jpg[/IMG][/imagefloat] [B]Arms of Tobatsu Bishamonten:[/B] Shinmei's arms move at much higher speeds than typically feasibly possible. They travel at a maximum at the speed of sound from the furthest point of his arm. He is able to flexibly move it as so in this speed, including drawing and swinging a sword especially. This encompasses the Iaido draw-slash technique and otherwise common form of sword movement. To an external observer it appears though his arms move in a flash, which could have them questioned whether they even drew, slashed and then sheathed the sword. The faster he moves, the more burdening it is on his stamina. He can maintain at most an hour of constant use at max speed until he falls into a coma from lack of stamina to expend.

[SIZE=14px][B]Weapons:[/B][/SIZE]

His weapons are a nodachi and a katana. The first picture shows the size of a nodachi, while the second demonstrates how they are both bound to his hip. He primarily uses in his right hand the nodachi while his left the katana. Because of his speed, there is no decipherable difference in speed in slashing with his nodachi and his katana. These weapons are smithied in a high quality, however otherwise there is nothing extraordinary about these weapons. They have no flashy engravings and simple but durable black sheaths.

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[B][SIZE=7]Acronomicon Shadowstalker[/SIZE]
Username:[/B]
PicaPirate

[B]Name:[/B]
Acronomicon (Acro) Shadowstalker

[B]Age:[/B]
35


[B]Appearance Picture:[/B]

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[B]Appearance Details:[/B]
An imposing man at 6ft, he has broad shoulders and a build suited for a balance between movement and strength. Raised with nature, his body is rough and not used to comfort or luxury. His black hair is dread-locked with braids, slightly greying already from the burden of dark magic. Has tattoos and scars as seen in the image, including a runic scar made on his shoulder to show him as a shaman. His eye pupils have greyed and have no black, becoming almost translucent. He wears a thick black leather cloak with a large hood and feathers, which is neatly designed, along with a staff that he uses to store dark magic inside and release in bursts for ease. To complement his large frame, he has a deep voice which is firm but not unnecessarily loud, speaking only as loud as necessary to be heard.

[B]Personality:[/B]
Acronomicon thinks not quite as most do. Secluded in the wasteland of the East, his contact with other humans is little to none. As such, he thinks almost on a primal level, that of how nature would function over emotion, in practicality. His mind is rigorous and fully capable, just not in that of typical human mannerism or connotations.

As such, he can come across as also emotionally blind and cold to others, having little regard for their feelings. In the end though, he values the true cycle nature as and when it should happen. Thus the corruption of dark magic struck him differently to most people, who would have thoughts based on the desires forged by their more normal lives. The darkness robbed him of most facial expression change, not being able to show a great array of facial emotions. It also robbed of what he held most dear, his early past and origin and of any desire to find out himself. As such he walks alone, willingly unknowing of himself, serving nature as one of its legislators.

[B]Defining Personality Traits:[/B]
[LIST]
[*]Ruthless, will enact what he deems necessary when need be.

[*]Sees things from an outside perspective.

[*]Absent of seen emotion. Incredibly hard to read due to the lack of anything he shows.
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[B]Background:[/B]
Born in the small clan villages of the East where there are only wastelands since as long anyone could remember, it was one of the regions of Valia mostly unchanged by the destruction by the Shadow King since well...there was nothing much to destroy at a wasteland. The clan he grew up in were from times from even the Dark Days, practising magic in hiding. Most of these were versed in earth magic based on their habitat, so were incredibly difficult to track.

Acronomicon was born in a clan somewhat differing to others, even an outsider to the outlying clans of the region. They embraced the concept that darkness accompanied the natural balance of the world and that expunging  all dark magic was not how to go about with things.

Thus, since as of a small age Acronomicon was raised in the ways of dark. An incredibly harsh, almost Spartan, approach to childhood, he went through rigorous training in both strengthening his own body to become someone who could deal with the darkness, along with training in dark magic and survival in fighting. He knew nothing of 'love' and such, as that had no focus at all in their clan.

At the age of 30, he was put into a cave as a final test of his training, a do or die. Closed into the cave by a giant boulder, he would have to survive in the pitch black caverns he was placed in and become one with the darkness. And that it did.

As he infused himself with darkness, along with in darkness for so long, he lost all visual sensories. The darkness also consumed all of his past of his childhood, not knowing even the warmth of his mother or his own birth name. Feeding only what lived inside the cave and killing it with dark magic, he was crash coursed into an adept at the magic, which kills many in the clan due to the harshness of it. Some survived but were driven mad, others came out very changed people.

Acronomicon came out as the man he is still is now, given the name of Acronomicon Shadowstalker, along with given by the village craftsman a staff to use to help him attune his magic in concentration and the weapons he carries to survive in the outer worlds. Deemed suitably strong enough to leave and deal the justice of nature rather than stay in hid home village, Acronomicon wanders the great plains of the East Valia to this day, enforcing the will of nature.
[B]
Weapons:[/B]

As seen in the picture, a decorated dagger and short rapier for melee combat. Standard high quality steel weapons with nothing particular about them. He also has a staff as seen in the Appearance picture, however this serves for use with his dark magic.


[IMG]http://www.jayfisher.com/_borders/RapierDagger.jpg[/IMG]

[B]Magic:[/B]
An adept and in training of dark magic since a young child, Acronomicon is incredibly flexible in his manipulation of the dark. He generally does not 'create', but manipulates existing darkness in the form of umbrakinesis. He will use nearby shadow to move the darkness and create a semi-viscous darkness that he can manipulate freely. In itself it is about as durable (and acts awfully like) something like custard, however attempting to break a thick of barrier of even that would see one struggle. It can also be also be changed in any form by varying levels of complexity, from the powerful force that is a gelatinous mass hitting as a blunt force, to brittle but sharp needle-like tendrils.

He can also fire simple bursts of dark magic, though while these are powerful they cost also a lot of energy to fire, since they cause both intense physical and emotional pain to a target.

Due to the corruption of the dark magic that cost him his vision, he sees the darkness of everything. This ranges from shadows cast in a half mile radius of him, to any sort of darkness where lighting changes. He will not generally take great attention to any of it though, much like one wouldn't unless they saw or heard a great change Thus focusing on an area has him 'see' in more detail. Also as any magician is aware of magic in the close natural area, he is more attuned to 'seeing' it due to his blindness avoiding him from drawing an image based on appearance.

[B]Battle Strengths/Weaknesses:[/B]
[LIST]
[*]Powerful.. Dark magic is known as one of the most dangerous of magic, hurting in more ways than one.

[*]Flexible. He can bend his magic to his will for a variety of roles.

[*]Subject to time of day and conditions. The more darkness there is, the more he can use his magic. Conversely, in daylight he is limited to the shadows cast by objects. Worst at midday, where the shadows cast are rather small and thus lacking in use.

[*]Blind. While he can guess to a great extent the movement of objects based on the change of their movement in correlation to darkness or various other multiple hints, he outright cannot see and thus cannot read or see things that his other senses cannot compensate for. Don't give him a book.
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[B]Goals:[/B]
To restore the natural balance of the elements, currently being torn asunder by the Shadow King.

[B]Other:[/B]
Seriously, don't give him a book.[/tab]

 

[m i l k]

Is there any specific reason you're looking for pre-made characters?

I'm attached to any of my ocs that I have significantly memorized, but I think I have more motivation for creating characters right now than I do actually rping them, and something like a pre-made character shop would be fun. It would be interesting seeing how they turn out in different people's hands as well.

If you still need any, I could help you out or just straight up make a character for you. It would help if there was a specific theme or rp(s) you had in mind though.

 

[White Masquerade]

Is there any specific reason you're looking for pre-made characters?

I'm attached to any of my ocs that I have significantly memorized, but I think I have more motivation for creating characters right now than I do actually rping them, and something like a pre-made character shop would be fun. It would be interesting seeing how they turn out in different people's hands as well.

If you still need any, I could help you out or just straight up make a character for you. It would help if there was a specific theme or rp(s) you had in mind though.

Good question. Yes there's a specific reason. It's to help both GMs (like me) and those who like to make characters more than RP them (you at the moment ). One problem for GMs is they lack NPC. That is not a bad thing for casual roleplays where you can make them up on the spot, but for detailed roleplays that is a big no-no. It is very difficult making 10-20 different NPCs. If there were a thread like this GMs could browse and pick out characters, that would help us IMMENSELY. One reason keeping me from making detailed RPs is cause I'll have to spend a good few weeks making NPC. It's so draining and time-consuming. Something like this would make things easier.

For users like you, you get to create whatever characters you'd like without needing to do anything with them. You get to see how other users/GMs play them. Maybe from a different perspective/role you never thought of. It's also a good way to get quality characters out there. Let's say you post 5 characters with good detail and an awesome theme. That is 5 well-created characters you are giving someone else to use/build off of instead of making a 1-dimensional NPC of their own. It helps. They may even learn a thing or two from your character?

Either helping out or making characters yourself would be fine. There would be no theme in particular. Just go with you imagination and see what comes out. No restrictions. The political cat girl in this thread wanted to have a general outline of what was needed. I thought that was a good idea. Motivations, theme, job, etc.

 

[rae2nerdy]

I would say if your looking to make a thread of free to use NPCs than I would just ask people to submit character summaries. Like maybe basic info
Ex. - Gender x Age x *optional* Species/Ethnicity.

Then 1 - 3 paragraphs about the character's personality and background, keeping it to broad strokes. Then below that you can put in spoilers extra information. Like if the character has superpowers some suggestions you ( the creator ) would make, or if they are to have magic , or whatever. Basically just alternate directions people can take with a character.

This way GMs get starting points and people can just post summaries without having to fully transcribe a playable character with a lot of information that would ultimately be useless to GMs anyway.

White Masquerade

 

[White Masquerade]

I would say if your looking to make a thread of free to use NPCs than I would just ask people to submit character summaries. Like maybe basic info
Ex. - Gender x Age x *optional* Species/Ethnicity.

Then 1 - 3 paragraphs about the character's personality and background, keeping it to broad strokes. Then below that you can put in spoilers extra information. Like if the character has superpowers some suggestions you ( the creator ) would make, or if they are to have magic , or whatever. Basically just alternate directions people can take with a character.

This way GMs get starting points and people can just post summaries without having to fully transcribe a playable character with a lot of information that would ultimately be useless to GMs anyway.

White Masquerade

This is excellent. Makes sense to me. Thank you for that.