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 Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:13 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:21 pm
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AMITYVILLE ACADEMY ENROLLMENT FORM
Name: 'Elium'.
Nicknames: El or Eli, if you really want to push it.
Gender: Male.
Age: Recently sixteen. In reality, he's a bit older, but not by much.
Faction: Undead.
Race: Plague eater.
Natural Ability:
[ -+- ] year one - - center for disease control
oooooo]Elium passively filters a small percentage of 'miasma' out of the surrounding area, leading to fresher air and a lower germ count. What eaters call miasma is basically the FEAR produced by disease/illness/etc and decay rolled together, and when ingested passively, keeps Elium fed and vaguely happy. About as happy as he normally is, anyway.
Personality:
[ -<>- ] respectful - - submissive
oooooo]If you've garnered the eater's respect for whatever reason, Elium will be polite, courteous, and overall, a doormat. It's very easy to walk all over him after, but without the right degree of subtlety or select careful words, all that you've earned will evaporate in an instant, and you're entirely liable to remain on his bad side for at least a while. If somebody he respects is leading a group or activity, he won't step forward to offer suggestions or attempt overt assistance, and will instead do whatever he's told without much fuss. He doesn't seem to notice if he's being used until a good while after it starts, and he doesn't respond well to it when he's discovered just what's going on. Elium is a stickler for referring to people by their titles if they have any, and generally will not make eye contact when speaking to somebody as well.
[ -<>- ] intelligent - - stubborn
oooooo]Elium isn't stupid, and he knows it. While he's not a genius by any means, he's in a comfortable spot where he's got plenty figured out and yet doesn't get hassled for answers or advice. His knowledge of things is a comfort to him, and he'll fight figurative tooth and literal claw to resist changes that strongly affect ideas that he's held for a while. He likes what he knows and is entirely convinced that it works, and you're not going to get him to change his mind without a fight. It doesn't matter much to him that he's awful fragile as far as the physical department goes, but push him far enough, and he might actually put up the dukes. He doesn't have any sort of inclination to be an a** about what he thinks he's got sorted out, and you won't catch him declaring that he's right and you're wrong. He much prefers to stay unnoticed, and trying to lord things over people isn't really a good way to do that.
[ -<>- ] loyal - - vindictive
oooooo]One of the things that he prides himself on is his sense of loyalty. Elium knows when he's picked the proper folks to stick with--most of the time, anyway. He'll latch on to them out of both gratitude for being friendly to him and a desire to ensure that they're okay, which can sometimes lead to him being smothering. On the other hand, if you manage to irritate him regardless of your current status, he usually won't hesitate to either give you a good dressing down or sometimes a physical confrontation, even if he isn't the best fighter. If you really get him wound up, you can expect a long series of subtle revenges that may or may not involve humiliating you if at all possible. The best way to get off of his list is to clearly attempt some form of reparation--an offering of books he hasn't read or some unusual token is a good way to do this, though it has to be coupled with a proper apology as well. Even then, he'll be watching you a lot more carefully afterwards.
[ -<>- ] passionate - - wrathful
oooooo]Elium throws himself into what he loves, regardless of what it is. While that isn't always a good thing, when he gets fired up about something positive, it's more than a little obvious. He won't stop working on whatever it is until it's done, and will actively seek to improve upon it as he goes with varying results. If it's an individual instead of an inanimate object, they'll get the finest in skinny diseased guy protection, for what it's worth. His passion is sometimes his undoing, as he's also liable to flying off the handle entirely--it's not a pretty sight, but at least he's easily subdued. While he may not last terribly long in a fight, his anger certainly does, and he'll hold grudges for a ridiculously long time without batting an eye. Elium tends to ramble about the things he enjoys, as well as apologizing profusely for such when he realizes that he really should've shut up about five minutes ago instead of talking somebody's ear off. If you share the same interests as him, he'll likely take a shine to you almost immediately, and will occasionally attempt to talk about such things after a warmup period.
Why are they enrolled in Amityville Academy?
oooooo]The problem with having reached the age of maturity for your species is that you're going to suddenly have a lot of expectations put on you; even moreso when those expectations involve you basically joining a cult of disease in a rural area. Needless to say, Elium wasn't quite sure he wanted to deal with that, which resulted in a late-night really frustrating hitchhiking sequence that got him somewhere far better--Amityville. Enrollment was a bit of an issue to get situated, but he managed on his own, getting settled fairly quickly and hoping that nobody from his wing finds him. Luckily enough for him, that's not likely to happen.
FEAR Ability:
[ -o- ] year one - - piercing pandemic + battle cry
oooooo]By focusing ingested miasma, Elium generates a tarlike ooze around his claws and slashes at his opponent, hopefully splattering them with the substance. It's going to hurt either way!
Physical Description:
Eye Colour: N/A.
Hair Colour/Style: N/A.
Skin Colour: N/A.
Clothing Style/Colours: Very simple, sturdy clothing. Pretty much all black, with the occasional bit of medium red here and there.
Extra: His arms from the elbow down are an odd ceramic gauntlet sort of thing, with black feathers at the 'elbow' and sharp claws at the fingertips. See references for details when they make it up.
References: Warning, these are kind of big. :'|
oooooo][ x ] [ x ]
oooooo][ sketch that I will never finish ] | [ tiny fleeing Eliums ]
oooooo][ WIP paperchildren! Mosh on the left, Elium on the right ]
and then there's this ancient paperchild.
Physically speaking, Elium is about seven feet tall and about as well-built as a twig. He looks rather emaciated when he's down to just his bandages and closer clothing, and when visible, his skin's an unfortunate light gray-purple color where there aren't discolorations or lesions. He's got a few scars, though nothing serious, and these show up as darker welts that crisscross his skin here and there. His nails are black, and he does not have any visible hair. He does have some runic scarification running from his left side across to his right hip, and these, in contrast to the more mundane scars he possesses, are visibly paler than the rest of his skin. His mask is a simple, slightly bone-colored affair with red lenses and no real ornamentation, with a medium-length beak that ends in a sharp hook. The vents for his mask are located in the groove that forms his 'mouth', and are a series of small holes that, when the mask is open, make the inside of his jaws appear to be serrated with a large amount of diminutive ridges. If one were to feel the edges while he's eating, which is a very bad idea and should not be attempted, they would find it quite sharp, and would probably wind up with a sizable cut for their troubles.
When he removes his hood, some tousled, slightly curly and rather short dark brown hair can be seen. It doesn't seem to grow past an inch in length.
Due to the effects of the Legacy meta, Elium also has a black lock located right at the center of his collarbone. It is suspended by three chains projecting from small spikes located on both sides, and these chains meld together into one at the side of his neck, fastened with a silver bead. There is a drop extending from the center of the lock's bottom edge, and this holds a chain with larger, rounder links that connects to another silver bead before splitting off in either direction to meet up with the lowest chain of both sides about midway through, ending with the same bead as the other connections do. This lower chain forms an upside-down T shape.
The main body of the lock doesn't have that much ornamentation, simply bearing a few slashes, some small wing engravings, and a few dots and lines here and there. It smokes a dark black, and tends to create a wispy trail wherever Elium goes.
His skull pin is attached to the band of his hat, right where the feather's tucked in. Its reference image is located to the right.
And finally, some sprites from the Legacy meta!
Elium has not given or received any emblems yet.
ooooooPlague eaters, more commonly referred to as just eaters, are quite likely some odd and distant cousin to plague doctors that tend to stay in family-groups called wings that are composed of anywhere from three to nineteen individuals (though some wings with larger numbers are known) that are usually entirely unrelated. In appearance, they can be considered mock doctors, though they lack any visibly inhuman traits at first glance. Most of them are tall and thin, covering every possible inch of their bodies with bandages or cloth so as to hide their diseased appearances. They do not require physical food or drink, and both sleep and breathing are simply entertained as a ways for them to fit in better with groups that may need to do as such. Eaters instead absorb FEAR, which they call 'miasma', from the area they're in and occasionally diseased or ill targets--the specific FEAR they go after being a combination of the product of illness, various forms of taint or corruption, and germs/bacteria. Eaters act as a sort of filter for this, processing it and converting it into energy that they can use while at the same time purifying the area. They cannot ingest pollution, curses or magical ailments, physical injuries such as broken bones, mental or psychosomatic conditions, Distortion, or Insanity, and only older or more experienced eaters can handle the more serious maladies and infections. Most are not trained in a medical sense, and many live out in rural areas where they act as witch doctors of sorts as they pass through villages. They lead a mostly nomadic lifestyle, wandering through lands as they follow FEAR and carry on their way. |
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:25 pm
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Elium's dorm is...not the nicest place, but it has a sort of questionably homey feel to it, almost as if it's somewhere you've lived for all your life but know that there's twenty corpses under the floorboards.
(There are no corpses under the floorboards.)
The furnishings are simple and clean, though a bit battered, and the bed doesn't seem to get a lot of use. He's put a few bunches of dried rosemary here and there, and the place smells like you've opened up an old book filled with herbs combined with the scent of equally aged wood. It's not a bad smell, but it's kind of musty, really. There's a white ceramic tub in the corner that contains his three floresce, and the rest of his minipets sleep in varying places about the room--Lou always on his pillow, Hawthorne and Conridge at the foot of the bed, Nicodemus in a drawer that cycles from day to day, and Tumbleweed pressed up against Elium when possible. There's books strewn about the place in fairly haphazard piles, which can lead to some less than pleasant bookslides when he decides he wants something at the bottom of a pile.
There's a small sign on the outside of the door, partially scratched and partially painted onto a thin piece of light wood. Whatever's on there, it's...pretty unreadable, being that it appears to be a bunch of lines and circles.
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:29 pm
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7 / 50 Year One
Points 1 point:- One piece of fanart drawn by you for anything related to shop (max 5 points this way) [ II ] - One complete regular rp, you must have written at least 800 words. - One complete classroom rp, you must have written at least 800 words. - One complete homework assignment for a class that assigned it. [If homework involves growing a class minipet, an RP/solo of at least 800 words is required.] - One complete battle, rolls-only (800 words not required). - Five minipets grown to their final stage (1 point per 5, up to 5 points can be earned this way. Can only claim 5 points per year this way.) [ V ] 2 points:- One complete 'battle' with filled out actions - Character 'plot assistance' - Student is awarded a Pumpkin Seed by staff 50 points + an exam (pass or fail) = Y1 > Y2. || Exam cleared by virtue of House Cup participation. |
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Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:38 pm
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oooooo Elium does not have a cult name, and his given name is pronounced (el-EE-um). His self name is Zhirak, (JAI-rook).
oooooo He is actually somewhat afraid of all sorts of corrividus, and is not fond of explaining this.
oooooo Elium does not enjoy the city. At all. He thinks it's crowded, too noisy, and smells funny--as a result, it's highly unlikely that he'll be going out too much.
oooooo Due to his upbringing past the outskirts of civilization, Elium is highly unused to loud noises and those made by vehicles other than carts, and is very easily startled by such things. He requires near silence to actually 'sleep', though the sounds of insects are entirely acceptable.
oooooo One of the things he loves is a good book. If he's found something he enjoys, he won't put it down until he's read it cover to cover. He isn't the best reader out there, having been taught by ten different eaters who collectively weren't too bad, but he's working on it. Some large words will confuse him, but he tries. That aside, if you're the one who gave him a book he adores, you're going to be showered in praise, gratitude, and discussions about said book. It's just going to happen. Accept it.
oooooo He's really kind of a nerd, but has absolutely no experience with electronics or advanced technology. Sure, he knows it exists and has dealt with electricity before, but things like eyephones will perplex him to no end. He somehow managed to get a critter, but has no idea how to really use it.
oooooo Elium was initially abandoned by his wing during his conversion--they had been driven off by a larger approaching wing, and were forced to leave both Elium and another youngling. The Alzar wing, an oriented one with infections as its chosen, came across the two of them shortly after they emerged, and the Guides insisted that Alzar was their original wing. Elium is unaware of the swap, and his gauntlets are Alzar-crafted. His mask is not.
oooooo Underneath everything, Elium isn't too badly off as far as his condition goes. It certainly could be worse. He's got a sort of musty smell, and any visible skin has to have an odd purple-blue-gray tint, as well as various marks of disease. And scars. Hoo boy, scars.
oooooo While he hasn't had a lot of experience with minipets in general that weren't wild, he's decided that he quite likes ghost dogs, basilisks, and pathlings. He also prefers the failed floresces to the 'successful' ones for whatever reason.
oooooo Due to the placement of his mask, he is unable to eat or drink. That doesn't mean that he won't try cooking for somebody who can, even if this may wind up less than stellar. He tries hard, and that's what matters--okay, no, the taste of it is.
oooooo He can vaguely feel sensation through his gauntlets and mask. Light touches are not likely to be picked up on, but if you put pressure behind it, he'll get it if he doesn't see it.
oooooo Elium really, really likes the smell of rosemary, as well as most sweet and/or herbal scents. He's entirely liable to have a few plants of aromatic nature in his room.
oooooo He's not very comfortable in enclosed spaces, especially not small and dark ones. While he can make do with buildings such as the academy, shoving him into a closet will not result in anything positive.
oooooo Elium's emblem has his self name written on it in eater hieroglyphs. He doesn't expect anybody to be able to read it, but the fact that it's on there means that he'll only give one of his to somebody he truly trusts. |
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:42 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 8:43 pm
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