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I've been wanting to do this RP for a long time, so please PM me if you're interested.
- Plot
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In the land of Helora the inland continent made a deal with the water demons. Because Helora's economy was tied to the amount of rain they received they offered the demons a bride every five years in exchange for rain.
In the last few decades Helora has prospered and has forgotten the promise they made to the merpeople. In retribution the mers have dried up all the rivers and lakes and caused the sea levels to dip. Helora has decided to send a bride every month for the next year in hopes that the mers will forgive them.
One such "bride" was being prepared to be taken out to sea and dropped into the ocean at the "Alter" point where he would be weighted down by heavy jewelry.
Notes:
- Because mers live in close knit family groups they are often related to practically everyone in their pod in one way or another. That's why the tradition is for mers to marry a human and then turn them into a mers.
- Mers can shift to human form for a maximum of six hours a day.
- The mers keep their human spouses in an underwater city that they can't escape from without drowning.
- A kiss from a mers gives the receiver the ability to breath for up to three hours underwater.
- Because mers live in close knit family groups they are often related to practically everyone in their pod in one way or another. That's why the tradition is for mers to marry a human and then turn them into a mers.
- My Characters
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I have two characters I've already made for this RP. Which one I'll use depends on whether you want to be the merman or human.
If you want your character to be human then I'll play as Kenta or if you want to play as the mer then I'll be Jace. Please make an OC for the RP. I've put a some work into these characters and I'd love for them to be paired up with a 3 dimensional character.
Mizushima Kenta
Full Name: Kenta
Sex: Male
Species: Nagi
Age: 23
Occupation: Guardian Warrior
Bride:
Hair: Black
Eyes: Almond shaped. Dark rich brown. The pupils almost seem to seep into his iris.
Height: 5'9
Figure: Fit
Other: Has many faint scars along his body. He has a spiderweb scar on his right hip that looks like he was burned. On his left hip he has a six inch white puckered scar, that is painfully noticeable when he is in merform against his black tail.
Type: Shark
Tail: Black
Gills: like fluttering slashes on each side of his neck
Hands: Has black webbing between fingers.
Hinata is Kenta's older sister. She possesses the same healing and regenerative properties as Kenta. Hinata has devoted her life to healing and she does not approve of Kenta's occupation.
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Noa and Miko are Hinata and Kenta's parents. Miko had been a sacrificial "bride" when he first met Noa. He had been resistant to the marriage at first, but through the years as inevitably fallen in love with Noa. He eventually took on her name and now goes by Mizushima Miko.
Kenta respects his parents. He doesn't talk to them much because he is trying to forge his own path in life, but when things become a bit too much to handle he always knows he can go to them for advice.
- Healing: Kenta has some minor healing abilities and can heal other people.
- Regenerative Abilities: Kenta's body heals at a faster rate than average.
Limitations
- Negative Energy: Kenta can't destroy or create energy. When he heals he has to transfer the "negative energy" to someone else. He cannot simply make a wound go away, the damage has to be transferred, to himself or another living creature. It isn't so bad if he's healing a small cut or burn, because he heals quickly himself, but larger wounds can leave scars or be life threatening to Kenta.
- Positive Energy: On the same note, Kenta cannot simply create energy to help a body heal, he has to find that source from somewhere else, either from the person he is healing, himself, or some nearby creature. This can exhaust him or the person he heals, when he heals a wound or illness that should take days or months to heal simply over a few hours or days.
- Healing: Kenta has some minor healing abilities and can heal other people.
Primary Motivation: Honor. Kenta is ruled by honor. To him honor means to stay true to one's principles, always.
Kenta's key values are: Honesty, Loyalty, and Justice.
Jason (Jace) Bradshaw
Full Name: Jace Bradshaw
Sex: Male
Species: Human
Age: 22
Occupation:
Mer Spouse:
Hair: Long blond
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'11
Figure: Slender, not muscular
Other:
If his spouse ever turns him
Type: Orca
Tail:
Compassionate
Jace has a big heart. He's very empathetic, but not by choice.
Extrovert/Introvert Mix
Jace is a natural extrovert. If he's alone for too long he starts to get antsy and irritable. Socialization brings him alive. On the other hand though his... condition can also make it exhausting for him to be around people. He can become overloaded with emotions and have a panic attack. So while he craves company, he also fears it.
Lackadaisical
Jace is lazy. That's all there is to it really. He'd rather be reading a book or swinging in a hammock then out doing any real 'work.' He tries not to stress about things. He has enough of other people's stress already. He tries to go with the flow of things and isn't that interested in plans or organization.
"Neat Freak"
Jace has often been accused of being a neat freak. It isn't that he's necessarily a neat freak, he really doesn't have a problem with things being messy or cluttered or whatever. And he isn't a germaphobe. However his "condition" (as his father calls it) makes it almost painful for Jace to handle certain objects without spraying the whole thing down with an anti-bacterial spray first.
History
Jace comes from a family with thirteen children. During the drought his family was one that suffered the most. Now his three year old sister, Tanya, is sick and they don't have the money or resources to help her.
Being born with a skill in psychometry (the power to tell things about an object by touching it) and empathy (the ability to feel others emotions) has often labeled Jace as a witch and has made him a bit of an outsider.
When Jace's father, Harris, was offered a deal--his second oldest for enough gold to help the Bradshaw family live comfortably for the next ten years--he didn't hesitate.
Jace, to say the least, didn't go willingly. The Duke's men caught Jace while he'd been dozing under a sycamore tree. He'd been barely awake when they'd clasped him wrists in iron and informed him that he'd been sold. He was to take the place of the Duke's son, as the sacrificial bride.
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- Psycometry: Also known as object reading, Jace can tell the history of an object if enough people have held it while experiencing intense emotions. Sometimes he can even pick up a stray thought or two of the previous owner.
- Empathy: Jace, through physical touch, can have a glimpse of what the other person is feeling. If the emotion is strong enough then Jace might not need touch at all. A person's intense emotions can hang around them like a thick miasma.
Limitations
- Emotion Overload: Jace sometimes has trouble deciphering his own emotions from others. This makes his moods unstable and causes him to sometimes dissociate or have panic attacks as he can't tell where he begins and others end.
- Short Attention Span: Maybe it's because he has so many other emotions swirling inside him or maybe he's just a flighty person, but Jace has a hard time concentrating on one thing for very long.
- Head in the Clouds: Jace is a daydreamer. He loves to escape reality anyway he can, through books or plays or his own imagination.
- Psycometry: Also known as object reading, Jace can tell the history of an object if enough people have held it while experiencing intense emotions. Sometimes he can even pick up a stray thought or two of the previous owner.
Primary Motivation: Love--Jace's deepest desire is to love and be loved. He desires to connect with people and create both platonic and romantic relationships. Relationships are extremely important to him. He wants to know that he is needed. That his presence changes people's lives for the better.
- Rules
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Literate.
An average of 3+ paragraphs per post.
Post Often
Try to post at least once a day. If you aren't going to be available for awhile please notify me or mention it in the OOC.
Autohit
Autohit is when one character hits other without given the other player a chance to retaliate. Ex: John twisted Bob's neck, killing him. Or John pulled Susan into a passionate kiss. Away to avoid this is to use the Attempt/Try rule instead. Ex: John pulled Susan close to kiss her passionately. John attempted to break Bob's neck. This way the intended action is clear, but depends on the other players response.
Mary Sues/Gary Stu
A Mary Sue is a seemingly perfect character who beyond all odds always saves the day and has zero flaws. In real life people have flaws and characters are much more interesting when they have some depth to them.
Metagaming
Metagaming is when a character uses out of character information that the character couldn't have know. For example one user posts and has their character hide in the barn. Another player can't simply have their character go straight to the barn to look for them. Please give IC reasons for a characters actions and don't use OOC information in the IC tab.
God Modding
God Modeling is to make a character invincible. For example, in a fight never taking a hit. This can be remedied by letting a character take some hits, while dodging others.
Insta Love
I want our characters to work for it.
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