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"I tell no one any story but his own." (take 3)
All right, so.
Since Aslan is basically the equivalent of GOD in his world, that means, aside from being practically omnipotent, he is also omniscient - i.e. there is canonical evidence for him knowing not only about what happens in worlds that aren't his own, but also about people (their names, etc) before he even talks to them. For the sake of the game, this will obviously be toned down in terms of what he can/cannot know about in-game events and people, but just so I'm not stepping on any toes, please fill out the following form so I know what he can know about your character!
Name: Character Name | Character Journal
Race: I.e., is your character human or something else? Can he know that?
World Information: Canon Name | Canon Information (a wiki or something like it is fine)
Summarize- What kind of place does your character come from? Is it Earth? Another planet? Have any major, world-shaking events happened recently? What kind of creation/god mythos is there?
Personal Information: A link to the character's application or some other informational source would be great, along with a brief summary of the character's life.
Issues to Be Explored: Since Aslan is very much about counseling those who need it, what, in particular, would you like Aslan to pick up about your character and address? Can be positive or negative.
Religious Affiliation: Is your character devout in some shape or form?
Plot: Is there anything your character is doing in the House that he might know about/be interested in?
Stipulations: Can Aslan mention any of the above information publicly? If so, how much?
Tagging: Are you okay with Aslan tagging your character's posts?
Just as a note: Aslan, as a rule, will never disclose any personal information about your character to others. He isn't the type to intervene either so even if your character is dastardly and evil, he probably won't do anything about it. Free Will, and all that.
Also, regarding fourth-walling: If you think your character would ICly know about Aslan (i.e., he/she has read the books or seen the films), feel free to recognize him! Since he's from the end of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, though, I'd rather people didn't get too much into the details of the later books.
Since Aslan is basically the equivalent of GOD in his world, that means, aside from being practically omnipotent, he is also omniscient - i.e. there is canonical evidence for him knowing not only about what happens in worlds that aren't his own, but also about people (their names, etc) before he even talks to them. For the sake of the game, this will obviously be toned down in terms of what he can/cannot know about in-game events and people, but just so I'm not stepping on any toes, please fill out the following form so I know what he can know about your character!
Name: Character Name | Character Journal
Race: I.e., is your character human or something else? Can he know that?
World Information: Canon Name | Canon Information (a wiki or something like it is fine)
Summarize- What kind of place does your character come from? Is it Earth? Another planet? Have any major, world-shaking events happened recently? What kind of creation/god mythos is there?
Personal Information: A link to the character's application or some other informational source would be great, along with a brief summary of the character's life.
Issues to Be Explored: Since Aslan is very much about counseling those who need it, what, in particular, would you like Aslan to pick up about your character and address? Can be positive or negative.
Religious Affiliation: Is your character devout in some shape or form?
Plot: Is there anything your character is doing in the House that he might know about/be interested in?
Stipulations: Can Aslan mention any of the above information publicly? If so, how much?
Tagging: Are you okay with Aslan tagging your character's posts?
Just as a note: Aslan, as a rule, will never disclose any personal information about your character to others. He isn't the type to intervene either so even if your character is dastardly and evil, he probably won't do anything about it. Free Will, and all that.
Also, regarding fourth-walling: If you think your character would ICly know about Aslan (i.e., he/she has read the books or seen the films), feel free to recognize him! Since he's from the end of Voyage of the Dawn Treader, though, I'd rather people didn't get too much into the details of the later books.
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Race: Human! Mostly. There was a "demigod" of sorts somewhere back in Giotto's family tree, enough for some subtle inheritance; Giotto doesn't know about that, but Aslan's free to know.
World Information: Katekyo Hitman Reborn | As mentioned by Madb, the wiki is horrifying.
Giotto's from turn of the century Italy, specifically the end of the Italian unification war. It is an alternate Earth, with pretty much the normal framework of history intact. He's closely involved in a few things that get more complicated.
There's this object that was a part of maintaining the health of the timeline/life-cycle of the world where its custodians died out; the last few of them remade it into three sets of seven pieces of jewelry that would divide up the "workload" so that it could be kept by humans. Giotto's little band was chosen to be the custodians of the last of the three sets made, the one that would maintain history and linear time; as such, each of them were bound to their "ring", so that when they died, they would keep the memory of everything that it was involved in from then on, and act as its will/spirit.
He's been a ring for a hundred years before he came to the house.
His timeline point is just after there was an incident of fixing something to prevent events that would've broken the Tri-ni-Sette - the entire group of artifacts - and turned the world into hell on earth.
Creation/god mythos is hard to say; the race that he's descended from that used to keep the proto-Tri-ni-Sette were powerful enough for humans to parse them as "almost gods", and could live ungodly long, but were a mortal race. Other character I play seems to nod towards a Buddhist cosmology, with a cycle of souls in reincarnation, higher-planar creatures people often interpret as gods, and not much specified about an actual "creator".
Personal Information: Here.
In life, Giotto was a leader of a revolutionary/vigilante group, with the creed of protecting the weak and fighting those who would abuse power. Due to a few snarls, a couple mental breakdowns, and some bad decisions, what he built has, after his death, turned into a very powerful Mafia, with an internal schism between the more humane faction trying to keep the worst of humanity in check - the ones following his foundations - and the ones out for power, cultivated by a good friend of his. /see Spade below. He's been a ring for a hundred years, as mentioned, with his basic role being trying to keep its power out of the wrong hands and encouraging things being fixed.
Issues to Be Explored: Giotto's time in the House has, oddly enough, actually whacked him out of some of his guilt complexes and more self-destructive martyr instincts. He still occasionally falls into trying to fix everything or save everyone and spreading himself too thin, and he's currently in the middle of Plot Things, with some clues about how the House works where he's trying to find a way to fix things and get it pulled out of being a pit of misery and suffering that turns people into monsters.
Given the chance, he will treat every single ghost and monster here as a person and take any chance he has to show kindness to them as long as it doesn't put someone else/himself at risk.
Religious Affiliation: He used to be Catholic. He went from Catholic to "foundations but off" after ending up fighting the Vatican. Since his arrival in the House, he still has a lot of the religious foundations and faith in a higher-power God guiding everything, but his actual beliefs can be summed up as "I don't know, I just trust that said Highest Power put me here for a reason".
Plot: ...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. *sob* Giotto's talked to a couple of the local deities. He's determined to try to fix whatever broke here.
Stipulations: Only thing I can think of is that he's paranoid about some of his dealings since he arrived here, because he knows that some of the powers are outright malicious, and he'd rather they NOT realize that he's working against them or knows as much as he does.
Tagging: THIS GOES FOR ALL OF MINE: I would be massively amused, feel free and I invite it. :3
Name: Rokudou Mukuro |
Race: Born human. Stayed that way for maybe ten minutes. His family put him through fairly horrifying experiments, and also tried to use him to bring into the mortal realm powers that didn't normally exist there; they kind of succeeded. His "human" state is a living weapon, and he lapses into other "Paths" that are basically his self as other beings.
World Information: Katekyo Hitman Reborn -
The main addendums that're specific to him instead of Giotto? One is that he's carrying another part of the set Giotto's group founded; the spirit that inhabits it is still there, and will either be hanging around talking in the back of Mukuro's head, or inhabiting an owl-like construct. *see Spade below*.
His family's experiments involved killing and reviving him repeatedly; basically he's lived through several other "lives" and brought the memories and bits of personality/power back, with a basis in Buddhist cosmology - he actually has, albeit somewhat fragmented, memories of serving in the Hell Realms, the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, the warzone on Mount Sumaru of the Asura, and living in the lowest/"Pleasure Realm" heaven as a Deva, with bits and pieces of memory of some higher beings.
Personal Information: Here.
His app is 20 pages. That's the information on his current state in Maison.
He was born to a minor mafia family that'd dabbled in some forbidden powers; when the rest of the underworld realized what they were up to, there was basically a dogpile to eradicate them, and they went into hiding, putting their entire younger generation + any other small kids they could get into experiments to make living weapons. His birth "name" was Project 69. Among various other things, including his right eye being replaced with the red implant, he was killed and revived repeatedly, as mentioned above. They ended up succeeding a little too well, and caught something that was mostly the Deva coming out of a revival; Path of Heaven bitty went on a divine judgment rampage, wiping out the adults of the Family, and adopted the only two other surviving children/experiments. He kind of went off-rails unguided missile for a while, with the three of them trying to eradicate the underworld by killing off mafia and other organized crime; after a while they pissed off more than they could fight, and he pulled an all or nothing gamble to possess the heir of one of the more powerful families.
Said heir was Giotto's great-great-great-great-grandson. He got beaten down and ended up in a prison run by a group of undead, but agreed to work with said heir in exchange for protection for his people and his eventual freedom, with Chrome as his link to the outside world. Just before arriving here, he'd finally ended up out of the prison, albeit after a conflict with his predecessor below.
Issues to Be Explored: Mukuro is coming to terms with what he is; a previous event led to all the Paths being cranked up in volume, so he's having to relearn control and get refamiliarized with all the new detail to get things in balance. He's also been coming to terms with his "human" self, the foundation under it all, being a living weapon with a lot of things that aren't really human, and turning that into something positive/making it his own instead of being afraid of it.
Religious Affiliation: He's Zen Buddhist. The demon self served under Enma-Oh, the judge of the underworld, the Asura had served one of the guardian deities, and the Deva studied under Kuan-Yin occasionally, although he wasn't a very good student.
Plot: He's apprenticed to one of the local god-figures, and has basically taken a mission to try to prevent further tragedy.
Stipulations: There's not a lot to avoid, really.
Name: Daemon Spade/Rosario Silvestri |
Race: In life he was human. Now he's a guardian spirit inhabiting a pair of earrings (one of the pair is worn by Chrome, the other by Mukuro), with occasional use of an owl construct.
World Information: Katekyo Hitman Reborn, again. Yes the earrings are one of the set Giotto's group had.
Personal Information: Here.
That is an old app from another game. He's currently spending 2/3 of his time in the earrings as a voice in either Chrome or Mukuro's head, and 1/3 of his time in the owl, which can't be very far from either of them.
Spade was noble-born, from a fairly corrupt family; his powers spiked up when he was young, and were taken as some kind of demonic influence, which got him a lot of abuse. Thanks to this, he didn't learn to control them until he was 13-14. The first person to treat him like a human being was a Duke's daughter that he eventually married, who introduced him to Giotto, above; they joined Giotto's group of revolutionaries. As the war settled down, Giotto was wearing down and starting to break under the pressure himself, and against Spade's warnings, signed a peace treaty with some of the other early Mafia families; the treaty was a trap, they got ambushed, and Elena - Spade's main anchor for stability and then-wife - was killed. Spade snapped hard, blamed Giotto and their ideals, and turned on the others; turned what they'd built into a "proper Mafia" out for power, and killed most of the others including Giotto before he was killed himself. Unlike Giotto, he knew possession techniques, and he used them to body-hop and meddle for the hundred years since his death, causing a ton of trouble. Shortly before arriving here, he tried to hijack Mukuro's body, got caught, beaten over the head literally and metaphorically with his own self-delusions and wrongdoings, and had settled into a puddle of self-loathing in the earrings. Mukuro figured out a few things and decided it was better to try to work on his issues than have something in the House use Spade against them, which's why he's active now.
Issues to Be Explored: He is somewhat aware of his issues but they're a hundred years old and kind of deep-cut and infected. He has HORRIBLE trust issues, of the "if I trust/rely on anyone it will end in losing everything/hurting" variety. He has an old vindictive streak that he's trying to sit on now, and a tendency to act on emotion/impulse and rationalize it afterwards. An NPC here managed to hit the right buttons to at least snap him out of self-loathing and being about as stable as C4 dipped in introglycerin; he's trying to help the people here via his awareness of how to be a manipulative bastard/how destroying people works - "monster on your side" tracing out what the worse things here might do to break people and giving warnings, and occasional attempts at "I speak from lots of bad experience and know why it's bad" advice.
Religious Affiliation: He has issues with the Catholic church thanks to his family. He sort of had his own odd set of beliefs that had more in common with William Blake than anything, and is currently somewhat agnostic.
Plot: He's been nudged into trying to help and make something worthwhile of himself by an NPC.
Stipulations: MAJOR NOTE FOR HIM AND WHICHEVER OF THE TWO KIDS HE'S WITH: As a gift from said NPC, he has a small living-metal firefly. It will be hiding either in the owl's feathers, or in the clothes of whoever he's backseat driving/present with, usually Mukuro. The firefly makes him, and whoever he's with/whoever the owl is perching on, a dead zone to powers and abilities to sense things - completely blank space.
Name: Soma Cruz |
Race: Functionally dhampyr/half-vampire.
World Information: Castlevania | Canon Information
Alternate earth! Normal history pretty much intact, but there's a bit of a "half-secret war" between demons, vampires, and other creatures of darkness and human hunters/etc. There's never really been any sign of anything divine interfering beyond some powers shown by some of the humans fighting the darkness. The central focus of some of the worst dark powers is a living demiplane that manifests as an everchanging castle, with a vampire who elevated himself to a sort of chaos lord by being its bound Master.
Personal Information: Here.
Soma's the reincarnation of said vampire lord. As "Matthias Cronquist", he was a close friend to a young baron, Leon Belmont. They fought in the first crusade, came back to Matthias's wife having died, Matthias broke, became a vampire, gained a demiplane of incredible power, and declared and waged war on humanity for the next thousand years, with Leon's descendants fighting him all along, where at some point he started going by "Dracula". Around 1999, he was finally killed, but his ties to the castle/power over it and some contingencies kicked in.
Soma was born to a normal family, but had a "creepy" aura that made it impossible for him to have a social life beyond the shrine-keeper family he stayed with as an exchange student (who knew what he was); when he was seventeen, the Castle appeared and drug him and that family's daughter/his close friend into it. There was an attempt at reviving Matthias through him, he rejected it, and tried to seal the Castle and go back to his life.
"I AM GOING TO BE A NORMAL PERSON DAMNIT" hasn't worked so well.
Issues to Be Explored: Soma is Matthias's reincarnation - it's not two souls in one body or a parasitic relationship, really, he just walls off his past self and is kind of in denial that it's a part of him. He has all of Matthias's memories behind that wall, and the potential to regain Matthias's personality and go Lord of Darkness again, which terrifies him, leading to him avoiding ANYTHING that might be "like Matthias". Sadly, this includes that Matthias was a brilliant tactician and very intelligent, so Soma is, willfully and intentionally, reckless, derpy, and naive.
Religious Affiliation: Raised Catholic, sort of "I DON'T KNOW ANYMORE" agnostic, a little bitter/irritated that demons will come up and wreak havoc but you never see the other side interfering to stop them.
Plot: He's basically careening around the Manor trying to figure it out and finding things with his face.
Stipulations: Go for it!
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Race: Genome. He's an organic, living construct with the powers of a magical Weapon of Mass Destruction that was made to be a vessel for another soul.
World Information: Gaea/Terra | Canon Information
Kuja was created on Terra -a dying world; the Terrans had stored their souls in a device tied to the planet, with a custodian who would work to try to revive their world by essentially leaching off the life force of other worlds. He was used to try to speed that up by going to the "victim" world - Gaea - to wreak havoc and cause death and destruction in an attempt to cause Gaea's own cycle to break down and weaken, making it easier for Terra to absorb.
Personal Information: Here.
Created to be a vessel for one of Terra's souls, he was treated as a "glitch/broken" for having a will of his own, and eventually sent to basically wipe out civilization on Terra's "victim" world. He was never HAPPY with this, but didn't have much choice/was terrorized into it, and went about his work wreaking havoc and orchestrating wars while looking for a power he could turn against his creator in a bid to win his survival/freedom, since he knew the plan was for him to be destroyed as a failure as soon as he wasn't useful anymore. Succeeded at getting some of the powers of Gaea to destroy his creator, but said creator triggered a killswitch; he had a breakdown, destroyed what was left of Terra and tried to wreck some vital parts of Gaea, but as he was dying, indicated wanting to be something other than the villain.
Issues to Be Explored: He's VERY touchy about the fact that he's artificial/a created being, and hides signs of it. He's also very touchy about things like possession or anything taking over his body, and touchy about experimentation or the idea of being forced to serve again. He WANTS to be good, but he doesn't really know how that works after a lifetime of training to be a bastard; he's kind of bad at ethics and empathy, and is currently functioning on enlightened self-interest and being good at people.
Religious Affiliation: Technically, he directly pissed off some of the gods of Gaea.
Plot: Recently arrived, and still basically in a sort of high that he's alive and has something resembling a second chance.
Stipulations: Go right ahead! Be careful with approaching the "created being" thing, he has some violent reflexes.