Post by acclue lockheart on Aug 12, 2009 22:03:43 GMT -5
Alright, I've been talking about starting one of these for a couple days now I finally got around to it with distractions (subscribed to WoW again) and decided to pick one of my favorite settings, which I have personally thought had the most roleplay potential in it. In fact, I've always hoped that I could get together with an artist and make the original story it came from into a webcomic Maybe I'll post that story sometime... and finish it...
Anyway, I'm copying this explanation of the game right from another website, so if there's any inconsistencies or things that seem slightly off, just ignore it. You can post characters right on your intro post and then get started. Let's see how good we can get into this story ^^
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In The End
Just to tell you, I don't intend to offend any religious beliefs with this setting, so no jumping on me for it!
This is based on a story I'm writing. I always thought it was one of the most capable of being used in RP form, so here goes.
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The Underworld
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When humans die, where do they go? The question that has plagued mankind since the very beginning... is really irrelevant once you find out, now isn't it?
After death, there are any number of planes one could end up on, but there are a few lucky (heh) humans who end up in an interesting little place called the underworld.
The underworld is an infinitely expanding plane of existence where an infinite number of species of demonic beings reside. It is also where many human souls end up once they have... expired... No one is sure why they end up in this specific place, but demons aren't the type to question the causes of things. What they do know is that most of the humans that arrive there are only children. They have no idea where everyone else goes.
They also aren't aware of exactly why the entrance to this realm is several kilometers above the ground in a long diagonal line across the center of the plane. This obviously causes some inconveniences to humans, who cannot, in fact, fly...
Fortunately, since they are already dead, they don't have much to worry about except the pain of crashing into the ground at terminal velocity and the subsequent rest needed to recover. Oh, and the demon most likely to be waiting around the corner to devour their soul.
But should that not happen, it's possible that they would end up in the care (or control) of some other demon...
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The underworld expands flatly at such a fast rate that there is no method of travel that can be used to catch up to it. It would already take millenia to reach the end if it stopped and magical travel were used. Thus nobody knows what the end of the plane is like. It forms as a natural environment as it goes, so the underworld has a vastly variable ecosystem.
The only real recorded landmark of the infinite space is a long, metropolitan road being constantly built parallel to the line that humans drop from. It is most often referred to as 'Main Street', and is a popular spot for demons to congregate. It is the only place in the plane with a uniform set of laws, the only penalty being that when a law is broken, that all other rules no longer apply to that person. Basically, if you break the rules, you're going to be torn apart by all the others. Some scavengers (see the demons section) even like to wait around specifically for people to break the laws, or even make them break them...
The humans most often land in the dilapidated ruins of previously unsuccessful attempts to expand the city. The rules don't apply there and the scavengers like to wait in the drop zones for humans and demon passers-by.
It should also be noted that there are no celestial bodies in the underworld. There is no sun or moon, but it is generally accepted that, unless magically darkened, all surfaces emit enough light for you to see it in the underworld. Some theories also say that all demons can see in the dark, but that doesn't explain why humans can see...
There are no stars, and no magnetic poles, making navigation by anything besides the few landmarks in the world impossible.
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The underworld has all the technology of people in the human world. They just don't bother to use most of it. Most demons' immense strength make quite a number of the labor saving devices of our world completely useless to them. Even when it comes to weapons, demons prefer archaic weaponry to guns. It isn't for tradition or inconvenience of materials, but for the simple fact that demons can effectively wield DEVASTATING weapons such as melee weapons that are several times larger than the person wielding them, or simply ballistic weapons that they just carry around like it was nothing.
Most labor can simply be done by hand, leaving technology as an available luxury, but it is rarely seen in use.
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Aegis
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Aegis is a mysterious deity said to be the true ruler of the underworld. Reapers sacrifice their thralls' spirits to him/her/it to receive them as half-demons under their control. Aegis is seemingly a fair deity in the demons' eyes, and really doesn't require any worship beyond what the reapers do.
Aegis communicates with half-demons as they change forms, but more often than not erases their memory of the visit. It feels some compassion for the severe pain involved with transferring the soul to new bodies. No one is exactly sure what it does with all of the spirits it gets, but demons aren't the type to care...
It generally seems eager to 'help' humans into their new bodies, but its mood can vary wildly. Some think that the stress of dealing with the countless number of changes it needs to make at a time wears even on such a powerful being.
Even those that retain memory of Aegis claim to have only heard its voice, which is said to be a menagerie of different voices and tones switching out with each other rapidly. As such, even its gender is unclear.
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That is essentially all there is to know about the underworld, all that's left is to explain the residents...
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Humans
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Most likely, you are one in real life. There are few humans in the underworld that are not almost immediately snatched up by scavengers or claimed by reapers. Chances are, if you're still human, you haven't hit the ground yet. Although on rare occasions, humans sometimes gather odd power when they enter the otherworld, making them seem demonic anyway...
Human spirits (human body in an afterlife, not to be confused with the soul, the human mind in an afterlife) are indestructible. This isn't to say that they can't feel pain or be damaged, but they will always recover from any sort of damage, even if a limb falls off or the body is completely dismembered.
The soul is insubstantial, and cannot be damaged. Thus, any damage that would be done to the brain of a spirit is essentially not as damaging as in the human world, to the point where it is just a mild annoyance in most cases. Though it cannot be damaged, many scavengers feed off of the souls rather than the spirits of human beings, leaving the spirit as a husk for some other demon. Not even these demons are aware of what happens to devoured souls...
Like all living species, humans and half-demons still need to sustain themselves as normal. They will certainly not die from a lack of food, drink, sleep, or exposure, but they will feel the effects of the lack.
Name:
Age: (be aware that time in the underworld does not proceed at a consistent speed with the human world. If two people die within a day of each other and both end up in the underworld, the first one may be decades older than the second. The most accurate representation of the ratio can be seen in a common strategy for reapers, who tell their thralls, weeks after they landed, that they “haven't hit the floor yet” back in the human world.)
Appearance:
Mutation: (if any. It is an extremely rare occurrence for a human to earn demonic power by simply entering the underworld.)
How you died: (usually unknown. The shock of death leaves nearly all humans with severe memory loss of their lives.)
History: (history in the underworld, not in the human world unless they maintained some sort of memory)
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Half-Demons
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Half-Demons are the result of reapers (see demon jobs) sacrificing the spirit of a human to Aegis. The reaper places a magical collar around the human with their personal symbol engraved in it, marking them for Aegis with a calling spell (the Aegis Collar disappears when they turn into Half-Demons, supposedly it is left with their Human spirit). Aegis takes their spirit and leaves the soul in a chaotic demon body in its place. As thanks for the spirit, Aegis gives total control of the half-demon to the reaper, who can control them to the extent of causing them to do whatever they want just by saying and returning them to their original forms (explained later).
The chaotic body of a half-demon changes between many different species of demons through four tiers of development, each more powerful than before. Exactly what they become is dependent solely upon their thoughts and emotions in the period before they changed. They often need to be reset by their reaper, which returns them to their first tier (always an absurdly weak, small, lowly species incapable of even defending itself. The first tier is always the same for any one person), just to keep the natural instincts of the new species from overwhelming the half-demon. This usually happens anyway at the first tier, but they would rather have the more docile species' instincts in their thralls. Few human wills survive permanently in half-demons. They start to behave more like demons would and hardly notice or care anymore.
The way most reapers treat their thralls, a lot of half-demons never make it past the second tier.
Some reapers actually keep first tier half-demons as pets of sorts (in fact, they sometimes just become reapers to get one), or want to keep them at lower tiers even when the appropriate time for them to change has come. This is most often achieved by some magic accessory placed somewhere on them.
Just as ordinary humans, the first tier of half-demons are invincible (still susceptible to having their souls stolen, but more likely to be able to defend themselves), and all the same rules as for human souls apply. For any of the other tiers, the half-demon is susceptible to a sort of death. They do not actually die, but are returned to their first tier, unconscious.
The only way for a half-demon to be freed is if their reaper dies, and they will become a mortal full demon of whatever species they were when their master died. Most Demons that are created this way eventually grow to forget that they were ever Human in the first place.
Time to change:
1st tier: XXX
2nd tier: a few hours
3rd tier: about a month
4th tier: several years
Name:
Age: (Once again, variable to the time shift. They appear as if at the equivalent age of their human forms when they changed, but thereafter, they age as a demon. See below.)
First Tier: (Remember, this is a very weak demon race of some sort. You won't stay in it for long, so don't worry about being underpowered.)
Appearance: (extremely variable, however, certain subtleties such as hair, eyes, and physical scars remain constant in many forms.)
Reaper: (Who is your master?)
How you died: (once again, usually unknown)
History: (also once again, usually just in the underworld)
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Demons (don't think Kitsuneakki on this one... unless you want to...)
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Demons are just what you would think of in a typical story about them: mischievous, monstrous, often evil creatures. They don't really seem that 'evil' if you have spent any time in the underworld. Seeing as there are so many of them, they really just seem playfully sadistic.
Unlike humans and half-demons, demons are, ironically, mortal. They are capable of having their bodies permanently damaged (though many have astounding regenerative capabilities or magical resources that work just as well anyway) and of dying. No one even has a clue where demon souls go when they die.
Demons can really appear as anything between human-like creatures with bizarre powers to dragons the size of a city block.
Name:
Age: (Demons have LUDICROUSLY long life-spans. Keep in mind that most only reach adolescence at around the age of 3000... VERY few live long enough to become full adults... Average life-span: around 3500. Natural lifespan: unknown, no demon has ever actually died of old age...)
Race: (There are so many different kinds that there is actually no single record of every species of demon. Really, you could just make something up for this category, whether it's original or from mythology and such. An explanation is necessary if it's not painfully obvious)
Job: (Reaper, scavenger, overlord, or thrall. Reaper: captures human souls for Aegis for their own uses. Scavenger: Prey on humans and weak demons, no one really cares, but generally frowned upon as a lifestyle. Overlord: self-sufficient and respected with many thralls, often claiming large areas of land outside of the city as their own. Thrall: Servile to an overlord for one reason or another, unlike half-demons, they are not stuck this way unless magically bound.)
Appearance:
History:
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(Just to clarify, and yes, I have actually thought this part out, demons have all dominant physical genes. If there is ever a situation where this actually needs to come up, the parties involved don't matter, it's always a full demon as a result. They may not have the same psyche of a demon, but given the environment, it is unlikely that they will get anything different. And you all know very well what I'm talking about )
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And now that that's out of the way, I will post my characters. I like to use the two main characters from the original story most of the time, so here they are ^^ There are actually a few other characters they know and may come up in game, but they're minor at best. And with that intro post? You don't have to be the humans in it. It's just a convenient way for those to be intro'd at the same time
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Half-Demon
Name: Tyler Snow
Age: died at 11, now 15
First Tier: Frost Drake (small blue dragon-like creature with wings too light to support flight, and a breath weapon that can, at most, freeze small surfaces for a short period of time. Like all Drakes, they also have terrible short tempers...)
Appearance: Blond hair, blue eyes, odd sigil cut into left hand has left a scar in its shape.
Reaper: Sai'andra "Sai" Rhodes
How you died: unknown
History: Had some unusual events in his first few years, but as far as handling the situation, he's been a typical Half-Demon. Has grown attached to his master as a support to keep him sane in his afterlife, and follows her regardless of her lax policies. Has also followed Sai's example and become a social drinker...
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Demon
Name: Sai'andra "Sai" Rhodes
Age: 1583 (equivalent to about 9 in human years, meaning Tyler is physically older than her.)
Race: Star Nekomata (Human-like creature with some cat features and like many Demons, wings. Sai doesn't even find it necessary to wear clothing on her upper body most of the time since she has fur (wears things a lot anyway since it's somewhat offputting to Tyler). The Star subspecies is capable of using a type of hammerspace (which Sai tends to take literally as her weapon of choice is a large polearm with a giant hammer on the end of it.) which they can access simply by grabbing stuff seemingly out of thin air.)
Job: Reaper (though she is very lax in her power. She tends to turn people just to give them a chance against more malicious Demons, and only really uses them for anything if they just happen to be around when she needs something. This has almost ceased entirely since Tyler is almost always there for her to abuse.)
Appearance: looks like a typical Nekomata: long tail, large ears, fur, claws, etc. . She normally wears black jeans and a green sweatshirt when she finds it necessary. Her wings are unusually small, but still usable, and she is quite oversensitive about them, often losing her temper at the most vague allusion to them.
History: Sai'andra has spent almost her whole life as a sort of savior to Human souls. She has a rough nature toward teaching them, but she means nothing more than to help them get up to speed with how things work in the Underworld, then let them do their own thing. She isn't even sure how many thralls she has.
She is just as sadistic and mischievous as any other Demon and isn't afraid to express herself through violence and rash actions, but she has good intentions in the end.
Sai is notorious in the Underworld for being a paradoxical alcoholic. She loves to drink in her free time, but she can't hold her liquor... at all... she becomes completely wasted after drinking half a bottle of light beer.
Sai has a light Brooklyn accent. There is no explanation for this. Sai isn't even sure, it's "just how she talks"
Ironically, Sai'andra hates Drakes.
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"Sai... what are we doing up here?" Tyler asked angrily, bored with his head rested down on his crossed claws at the edge of an apartment building roof. The tiny blue dragon had been dragged out of bed way too early and brought out into the ruins of old sections of Main Street. Naturally, he was pissed.
The person next to him glanced out into the distance with a grin on her face. She was covered with thin layers of fur over most of her body, but she wore clothes anyway. A pair of black jeans with a tail sticking out the back and a dark green sweatshirt with two small holes in the back for her tiny bat-like wings. Her long black hair blew back with the wind a little bit as a small gust passed. She put on an amused smile as she pointed one of her claws in the air without another word. Tyler looked where she was pointing and saw several objects flying toward the ground at incredible speeds "New Humans..." he said curiously, still half bored.
"Yep. Sure you wanna stick around for this?" she asked.
"Why not? I think I know what people wanna hear when they land." he said as he stood up and let out a yawn.
"And what's wrong with my technique?" Sai'andra leaned over and poked the Drake in the head "You turned out fine, didn't'cha?"
"Yeah, but I could've done without the emotional trauma." Tyler glared back.
Sai paused "Go get 'im boy." she said, nudging Tyler over the edge of the building with her foot and listening to his scream gradually fading as he dropped. "I will never get tired of that." she smiled as she turned to walk down the stairs.
Anyway, I'm copying this explanation of the game right from another website, so if there's any inconsistencies or things that seem slightly off, just ignore it. You can post characters right on your intro post and then get started. Let's see how good we can get into this story ^^
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In The End
Just to tell you, I don't intend to offend any religious beliefs with this setting, so no jumping on me for it!
This is based on a story I'm writing. I always thought it was one of the most capable of being used in RP form, so here goes.
-----
The Underworld
-----
When humans die, where do they go? The question that has plagued mankind since the very beginning... is really irrelevant once you find out, now isn't it?
After death, there are any number of planes one could end up on, but there are a few lucky (heh) humans who end up in an interesting little place called the underworld.
The underworld is an infinitely expanding plane of existence where an infinite number of species of demonic beings reside. It is also where many human souls end up once they have... expired... No one is sure why they end up in this specific place, but demons aren't the type to question the causes of things. What they do know is that most of the humans that arrive there are only children. They have no idea where everyone else goes.
They also aren't aware of exactly why the entrance to this realm is several kilometers above the ground in a long diagonal line across the center of the plane. This obviously causes some inconveniences to humans, who cannot, in fact, fly...
Fortunately, since they are already dead, they don't have much to worry about except the pain of crashing into the ground at terminal velocity and the subsequent rest needed to recover. Oh, and the demon most likely to be waiting around the corner to devour their soul.
But should that not happen, it's possible that they would end up in the care (or control) of some other demon...
-----
The underworld expands flatly at such a fast rate that there is no method of travel that can be used to catch up to it. It would already take millenia to reach the end if it stopped and magical travel were used. Thus nobody knows what the end of the plane is like. It forms as a natural environment as it goes, so the underworld has a vastly variable ecosystem.
The only real recorded landmark of the infinite space is a long, metropolitan road being constantly built parallel to the line that humans drop from. It is most often referred to as 'Main Street', and is a popular spot for demons to congregate. It is the only place in the plane with a uniform set of laws, the only penalty being that when a law is broken, that all other rules no longer apply to that person. Basically, if you break the rules, you're going to be torn apart by all the others. Some scavengers (see the demons section) even like to wait around specifically for people to break the laws, or even make them break them...
The humans most often land in the dilapidated ruins of previously unsuccessful attempts to expand the city. The rules don't apply there and the scavengers like to wait in the drop zones for humans and demon passers-by.
It should also be noted that there are no celestial bodies in the underworld. There is no sun or moon, but it is generally accepted that, unless magically darkened, all surfaces emit enough light for you to see it in the underworld. Some theories also say that all demons can see in the dark, but that doesn't explain why humans can see...
There are no stars, and no magnetic poles, making navigation by anything besides the few landmarks in the world impossible.
-----
The underworld has all the technology of people in the human world. They just don't bother to use most of it. Most demons' immense strength make quite a number of the labor saving devices of our world completely useless to them. Even when it comes to weapons, demons prefer archaic weaponry to guns. It isn't for tradition or inconvenience of materials, but for the simple fact that demons can effectively wield DEVASTATING weapons such as melee weapons that are several times larger than the person wielding them, or simply ballistic weapons that they just carry around like it was nothing.
Most labor can simply be done by hand, leaving technology as an available luxury, but it is rarely seen in use.
-----
Aegis
-----
Aegis is a mysterious deity said to be the true ruler of the underworld. Reapers sacrifice their thralls' spirits to him/her/it to receive them as half-demons under their control. Aegis is seemingly a fair deity in the demons' eyes, and really doesn't require any worship beyond what the reapers do.
Aegis communicates with half-demons as they change forms, but more often than not erases their memory of the visit. It feels some compassion for the severe pain involved with transferring the soul to new bodies. No one is exactly sure what it does with all of the spirits it gets, but demons aren't the type to care...
It generally seems eager to 'help' humans into their new bodies, but its mood can vary wildly. Some think that the stress of dealing with the countless number of changes it needs to make at a time wears even on such a powerful being.
Even those that retain memory of Aegis claim to have only heard its voice, which is said to be a menagerie of different voices and tones switching out with each other rapidly. As such, even its gender is unclear.
-----
That is essentially all there is to know about the underworld, all that's left is to explain the residents...
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Humans
-----
Most likely, you are one in real life. There are few humans in the underworld that are not almost immediately snatched up by scavengers or claimed by reapers. Chances are, if you're still human, you haven't hit the ground yet. Although on rare occasions, humans sometimes gather odd power when they enter the otherworld, making them seem demonic anyway...
Human spirits (human body in an afterlife, not to be confused with the soul, the human mind in an afterlife) are indestructible. This isn't to say that they can't feel pain or be damaged, but they will always recover from any sort of damage, even if a limb falls off or the body is completely dismembered.
The soul is insubstantial, and cannot be damaged. Thus, any damage that would be done to the brain of a spirit is essentially not as damaging as in the human world, to the point where it is just a mild annoyance in most cases. Though it cannot be damaged, many scavengers feed off of the souls rather than the spirits of human beings, leaving the spirit as a husk for some other demon. Not even these demons are aware of what happens to devoured souls...
Like all living species, humans and half-demons still need to sustain themselves as normal. They will certainly not die from a lack of food, drink, sleep, or exposure, but they will feel the effects of the lack.
Name:
Age: (be aware that time in the underworld does not proceed at a consistent speed with the human world. If two people die within a day of each other and both end up in the underworld, the first one may be decades older than the second. The most accurate representation of the ratio can be seen in a common strategy for reapers, who tell their thralls, weeks after they landed, that they “haven't hit the floor yet” back in the human world.)
Appearance:
Mutation: (if any. It is an extremely rare occurrence for a human to earn demonic power by simply entering the underworld.)
How you died: (usually unknown. The shock of death leaves nearly all humans with severe memory loss of their lives.)
History: (history in the underworld, not in the human world unless they maintained some sort of memory)
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Half-Demons
-----
Half-Demons are the result of reapers (see demon jobs) sacrificing the spirit of a human to Aegis. The reaper places a magical collar around the human with their personal symbol engraved in it, marking them for Aegis with a calling spell (the Aegis Collar disappears when they turn into Half-Demons, supposedly it is left with their Human spirit). Aegis takes their spirit and leaves the soul in a chaotic demon body in its place. As thanks for the spirit, Aegis gives total control of the half-demon to the reaper, who can control them to the extent of causing them to do whatever they want just by saying and returning them to their original forms (explained later).
The chaotic body of a half-demon changes between many different species of demons through four tiers of development, each more powerful than before. Exactly what they become is dependent solely upon their thoughts and emotions in the period before they changed. They often need to be reset by their reaper, which returns them to their first tier (always an absurdly weak, small, lowly species incapable of even defending itself. The first tier is always the same for any one person), just to keep the natural instincts of the new species from overwhelming the half-demon. This usually happens anyway at the first tier, but they would rather have the more docile species' instincts in their thralls. Few human wills survive permanently in half-demons. They start to behave more like demons would and hardly notice or care anymore.
The way most reapers treat their thralls, a lot of half-demons never make it past the second tier.
Some reapers actually keep first tier half-demons as pets of sorts (in fact, they sometimes just become reapers to get one), or want to keep them at lower tiers even when the appropriate time for them to change has come. This is most often achieved by some magic accessory placed somewhere on them.
Just as ordinary humans, the first tier of half-demons are invincible (still susceptible to having their souls stolen, but more likely to be able to defend themselves), and all the same rules as for human souls apply. For any of the other tiers, the half-demon is susceptible to a sort of death. They do not actually die, but are returned to their first tier, unconscious.
The only way for a half-demon to be freed is if their reaper dies, and they will become a mortal full demon of whatever species they were when their master died. Most Demons that are created this way eventually grow to forget that they were ever Human in the first place.
Time to change:
1st tier: XXX
2nd tier: a few hours
3rd tier: about a month
4th tier: several years
Name:
Age: (Once again, variable to the time shift. They appear as if at the equivalent age of their human forms when they changed, but thereafter, they age as a demon. See below.)
First Tier: (Remember, this is a very weak demon race of some sort. You won't stay in it for long, so don't worry about being underpowered.)
Appearance: (extremely variable, however, certain subtleties such as hair, eyes, and physical scars remain constant in many forms.)
Reaper: (Who is your master?)
How you died: (once again, usually unknown)
History: (also once again, usually just in the underworld)
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Demons (don't think Kitsuneakki on this one... unless you want to...)
-----
Demons are just what you would think of in a typical story about them: mischievous, monstrous, often evil creatures. They don't really seem that 'evil' if you have spent any time in the underworld. Seeing as there are so many of them, they really just seem playfully sadistic.
Unlike humans and half-demons, demons are, ironically, mortal. They are capable of having their bodies permanently damaged (though many have astounding regenerative capabilities or magical resources that work just as well anyway) and of dying. No one even has a clue where demon souls go when they die.
Demons can really appear as anything between human-like creatures with bizarre powers to dragons the size of a city block.
Name:
Age: (Demons have LUDICROUSLY long life-spans. Keep in mind that most only reach adolescence at around the age of 3000... VERY few live long enough to become full adults... Average life-span: around 3500. Natural lifespan: unknown, no demon has ever actually died of old age...)
Race: (There are so many different kinds that there is actually no single record of every species of demon. Really, you could just make something up for this category, whether it's original or from mythology and such. An explanation is necessary if it's not painfully obvious)
Job: (Reaper, scavenger, overlord, or thrall. Reaper: captures human souls for Aegis for their own uses. Scavenger: Prey on humans and weak demons, no one really cares, but generally frowned upon as a lifestyle. Overlord: self-sufficient and respected with many thralls, often claiming large areas of land outside of the city as their own. Thrall: Servile to an overlord for one reason or another, unlike half-demons, they are not stuck this way unless magically bound.)
Appearance:
History:
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(Just to clarify, and yes, I have actually thought this part out, demons have all dominant physical genes. If there is ever a situation where this actually needs to come up, the parties involved don't matter, it's always a full demon as a result. They may not have the same psyche of a demon, but given the environment, it is unlikely that they will get anything different. And you all know very well what I'm talking about )
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And now that that's out of the way, I will post my characters. I like to use the two main characters from the original story most of the time, so here they are ^^ There are actually a few other characters they know and may come up in game, but they're minor at best. And with that intro post? You don't have to be the humans in it. It's just a convenient way for those to be intro'd at the same time
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Half-Demon
Name: Tyler Snow
Age: died at 11, now 15
First Tier: Frost Drake (small blue dragon-like creature with wings too light to support flight, and a breath weapon that can, at most, freeze small surfaces for a short period of time. Like all Drakes, they also have terrible short tempers...)
Appearance: Blond hair, blue eyes, odd sigil cut into left hand has left a scar in its shape.
Reaper: Sai'andra "Sai" Rhodes
How you died: unknown
History: Had some unusual events in his first few years, but as far as handling the situation, he's been a typical Half-Demon. Has grown attached to his master as a support to keep him sane in his afterlife, and follows her regardless of her lax policies. Has also followed Sai's example and become a social drinker...
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Demon
Name: Sai'andra "Sai" Rhodes
Age: 1583 (equivalent to about 9 in human years, meaning Tyler is physically older than her.)
Race: Star Nekomata (Human-like creature with some cat features and like many Demons, wings. Sai doesn't even find it necessary to wear clothing on her upper body most of the time since she has fur (wears things a lot anyway since it's somewhat offputting to Tyler). The Star subspecies is capable of using a type of hammerspace (which Sai tends to take literally as her weapon of choice is a large polearm with a giant hammer on the end of it.) which they can access simply by grabbing stuff seemingly out of thin air.)
Job: Reaper (though she is very lax in her power. She tends to turn people just to give them a chance against more malicious Demons, and only really uses them for anything if they just happen to be around when she needs something. This has almost ceased entirely since Tyler is almost always there for her to abuse.)
Appearance: looks like a typical Nekomata: long tail, large ears, fur, claws, etc. . She normally wears black jeans and a green sweatshirt when she finds it necessary. Her wings are unusually small, but still usable, and she is quite oversensitive about them, often losing her temper at the most vague allusion to them.
History: Sai'andra has spent almost her whole life as a sort of savior to Human souls. She has a rough nature toward teaching them, but she means nothing more than to help them get up to speed with how things work in the Underworld, then let them do their own thing. She isn't even sure how many thralls she has.
She is just as sadistic and mischievous as any other Demon and isn't afraid to express herself through violence and rash actions, but she has good intentions in the end.
Sai is notorious in the Underworld for being a paradoxical alcoholic. She loves to drink in her free time, but she can't hold her liquor... at all... she becomes completely wasted after drinking half a bottle of light beer.
Sai has a light Brooklyn accent. There is no explanation for this. Sai isn't even sure, it's "just how she talks"
Ironically, Sai'andra hates Drakes.
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"Sai... what are we doing up here?" Tyler asked angrily, bored with his head rested down on his crossed claws at the edge of an apartment building roof. The tiny blue dragon had been dragged out of bed way too early and brought out into the ruins of old sections of Main Street. Naturally, he was pissed.
The person next to him glanced out into the distance with a grin on her face. She was covered with thin layers of fur over most of her body, but she wore clothes anyway. A pair of black jeans with a tail sticking out the back and a dark green sweatshirt with two small holes in the back for her tiny bat-like wings. Her long black hair blew back with the wind a little bit as a small gust passed. She put on an amused smile as she pointed one of her claws in the air without another word. Tyler looked where she was pointing and saw several objects flying toward the ground at incredible speeds "New Humans..." he said curiously, still half bored.
"Yep. Sure you wanna stick around for this?" she asked.
"Why not? I think I know what people wanna hear when they land." he said as he stood up and let out a yawn.
"And what's wrong with my technique?" Sai'andra leaned over and poked the Drake in the head "You turned out fine, didn't'cha?"
"Yeah, but I could've done without the emotional trauma." Tyler glared back.
Sai paused "Go get 'im boy." she said, nudging Tyler over the edge of the building with her foot and listening to his scream gradually fading as he dropped. "I will never get tired of that." she smiled as she turned to walk down the stairs.