Roleplay

Hey! Sorry- I don’t think I’ll have time to fully commit to this as I thought I would. I don’t want to hold you guys up so you can move on without me :)

Username: @DragonQueenHi
Name: Nylah.
Gender: female
Age: 25
Species: Human-dragon hybrid (I based her design off a Fae dragon, but I can change that)

Faction: Tamorrah

Appearance: long, straight, shiny black hair that reaches down to her waist, tanned, golden skin, big black doll eyes, slightly chubby
Wears longer dresses knowing how impractical they are because she HAS to look good or else what’s she gonna do, be good at her job?

Personality: Nylah is sarcastic, quick and usually can’t focus on one thing- constantly having mood swings or getting bored. She’s used to getting what she wants based on her money and looks, and she’d like you to think she’s a lot more cruel than she is. She also focuses on always looking perfect- a LOT.
Magical abilities: shadow manipulation
Skills: knife throwing, getting information, lying, distraction

Strengths/Weaknesses:
Strengths- beautiful, charismatic, agile, good liar
Weaknesses- physically weak, panics easily, next to no attention span,
Fears/Phobias: her family finding her, heights, claustrophobic
Gear: she carries a small ring with a metal moth, which comes alive when needed and is deadly poisonous. Failing that, she tends to use throwing daggers and crossbows.

Backstory: her family worked for Templar as spies and she discovered her ability during training. Her mother had her killed in secret, but, being trained as a spy, she discovered the plan weeks before before she left and tricked her sister into taking the bullet- her first time actually killing someone, even if it was indirect

Other: restaurant hostess, gets information as a side benefit
Lmk if this is ok?

[quote name="Parrot" date="2025-01-19 03:57:15" ] Hey! Sorry- I don’t think I’ll have time to fully commit to this as I thought I would. I don’t want to hold you guys up so you can move on without me :) [/quote] No worries! Thanks for the head's up

@DragonQueenHi there's just one thing missing from the rules for your character!

[quote name="speedyturtle" date="2025-01-18 22:44:32" ] [quote name="SmilodonLady" date="2025-01-18 15:43:44" ] I can already see her attempting to adopt Cal, for Dagger is secretly a group mom [/quote] That will be fun, haha. Her trying to win him over and him just side-eyeing her like "Why are you paying attention to me? What's your motive?" haha I can also see Cal having some pretty interesting interactions with Mark if they ever meet. He would hate him because he's in the Templar, but secretly, they have a lot in common :3c [/quote] Dagger would legit tell Cal the location of a safe house upon discovering his dad is a no-mage, with weirdly specific instructions to gain entry. After all, the man has suffered enough and getting to know his dad is safe is the least she could do. Mark ironically would try to hit Cal with the gaslighting game, as of course he has no magic, mages are terrible. Mark works for the Templar, no hypocrites here /s but really once you actually get to know the man you realize most of his lies are being told to protect someone/himself and that he's just playing a game of chess with his cousin where the winner really doesn't matter. While being very much on the side of 'everybody calm down- PUT THE SWORD DOWN BEFORE I MAKE YOU. Thank you very much, now can we all just exist in peace, maybe even get some waffles?'

[quote name="@ChaoticPotato" date="2025-01-19 08:56:53" ] @/DragonQueenHi there's just one thing missing from the rules for your character! [/quote] Ohhh my god I’m sorry this is how my brain works bc I was reminding myself to add that every three seconds until I actually HAD to It should be there now

[b]Name[/b]: Scarificator Sternocleidomastoid (Scar Stern is what most people use for the sake of time instead of his full name) [b]Gender[/b]: Male He/Him [b]Age[/b]: 317~ [b]Species[/b]: Blood Wyvern [b][i]Faction[/i][/b]: Unaffiliated [b]Appearance[/b]: Scar’s true form is that of a 22ft long Blood wyvern that looks similar to the image provided. Note that he has rather faded burn scars on both of his back legs, with the ones on his right leg being the most faint. [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/ae971d7417ef491659a8b632f3c77c03/3e8b3030a08863c8-7f/s2048x3072/c130d0d82ddef21322b793267e2c54b080cc2380.jpg[/img] [b][i]Shifted appearance[/i][/b] Scar stands at 6’8 and his eyes vary in color depending on how much focus he’s putting into his shift and if he’s using a Glamour or not. As their natural color is red, but he tries to make them green… Thus causing them to be those colors and any shade of brown between. His teeth also seem to be rather sharp for those of a normal human and sometimes his tongue is a bit more forked than human. Scars carrying over since he was human for one of them and you don't get to escape them that easily. [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/237ace8be5434cb40fdb6e765fa08093/3633bbcecba18ffd-ec/s1280x1920/cdcc354ffb54a70c53cd45d72bf81dee69ddaae7.png[/img] [b]Personality[/b]: Scarificator is a really odd person, he’s overly curious about things people do and has all the subtlety of a bullhorn when asking why you did a seemingly normal thing… He’s not mean or anything about it, as he’s just genuinely curious about why humans do certain things he doesn't. Scar is if anything a really fun person to talk to as you can tell that he’s intelligent and more than happy to nerd out about something with you… It’s why he became a college biology/medical professor in the first place. You can also tell that Scarificator wants to help people and would much rather forget about some of the less than great things he did when he was younger, and just starting out on the process of becoming more civilized. There is definitely a more animalistic part of Scarificator’s personality along with a much less than savory part that he used to show more of before he got good at repressing it… Now it just shows as a really dark sense of humor that is slightly concerning but doesn't cause any harm. [b]Magical abilities[/b]: [b]Blood Wyvern[/b]: Scar here has the usual abilities of his species, [i]Vampiric Regeneration[/i], wall crawling, agility, gliding, frigid fire, night vision n’ all that good stuff. He’s also able to turn others by giving his blood with the intent to turn you, whether it’s applied to a wound or ingested doesn't matter. Since it’s going to be more prevalent with Scarificator, he can kinda mimic the voices of other people, but not perfectly since Blood Wyvern’s voices have a slight raspy quality to them (a vocal cord thing) but other than that they have rather clear and easy to understand speaking voices… This mimicry often happens unintentionally while talking to other people. [b]Bite of Pain or Pleasure[/b]: Scarificator inherited this trait from one of his parents, as occasionally Blood Wyverns have some sort of effect tied to their bite that can be beneficial… Though never is it anything truly toxic. In Scar’s case it’s more observable when he’s in a more human form but it is present regardless of form. Scar can choose to have more than just the vaguely painless bite that is the species norm (as in, yes it hurts, but if you don’t struggle it’s really not that bad and feels more weird than painful.) He can release a ‘venom’ from his fangs that contains a strong euphoriant, comparable to some harder drugs if they were to be given in bare minimum doses. While useful for hiding the true nature of what is occurring to an unaware victim, this can become somewhat addictive to the victim due to the nature of the function. Thus meaning it could become a rather deadly addiction or create a very awkward situation. In theory yes you can get a bit of this ‘venom’ from Scar’s fangs… But you’re gonna be there all day to get anything worth collecting as he may have a large reserve, but the amount he gives off is very small and often stops for a bit… As it truly is the bare minimum dosage needed to keep the effect up. Scarificator’s secondary venom is quite the polar opposite of the other, as he can choose to instead inject a venom that simulates fear and pain. It’s as horrible as it sounds as the chemical responsible for the pain portion is similar to that of a bullet ant’s sting, so it *hurts* and the fear aspect is also quite strong, often invoking the fight or flight response in victims. It’s hard to pin down a good reason to use this venom, but then again it makes for quite the intimidating display when used and most definitely sends a powerful message should the victim survive. Scar typically only uses this on people that really pissed him off as a more forceful warning of sorts, or to deny them a more painless death. Of course, this venom is the easier of the two for Scar to essentially milk himself for, as it comes out in larger doses and a bit more readily. It is worth noting that Scar’s venom works [i]exactly[/i] like snake venom, just not directly deadly. Meaning it is protein based (non-toxic when ingested) and is meant to spread via the bloodstream. As I stated, it can be milked from his fangs. Do also keep in mind that unlike snakes, Scarificator has to make the willful choice to use his venom so not every bite will contain it. He cannot spit the venom, if anything needs to simulate the act of biting into something to release it… And the effects of either venom at most last for about 30 mins give or take but depending on the amount of venom he got you with it is very possible to only experience the effect for a few minutes. All of his other abilities are learned forms of magic for the record and would be affected by anti-magic more than just nullifying his breath weapon and possibly messing with regeneration. [b]Shapeshifting[/b]: Scarificator learned how to use a spell that allowed him to take a human form, and while in theory he could use it to take other forms or change his appearance any time… He likes his current appearance quite a bit and the idea of becoming other species isn’t all that interesting to him. Do note that his human form has some imperfections that aren’t obvious at a glance but if you look hard enough you’ll find them. [b]Plant growth[/b]: He learned to use a bit of plant based magic over the years, mostly when herbal remedies were more commonly used in medicine. Scarificator can control them a bit, but no more than getting a tree branch to bend low enough to hit you or getting a plant to trip you up… His magic is more centered on helping plants to grow faster. [b]Enchanting[/b]: Mostly learned from observation, Scar can do minor enchantments on small objects, with the power of the enchantment being more based on the process used to make the enchantment in the first place. As doing a simple quick one on a knife for sharpness isn’t gonna be as strong as one he did a whole ritual for you know? He is incapable of adding an elemental attribute to an object, so no getting a fire sword from Scar. But he can improve on existing attributes of an object, enhance existing elemental properties, and put simple effects on things. Such as enchanting an object to glow on command or to 'coincidentally' always come back to one person, stuff like that. Worth noting that a weaker enchantment doesn't always mean a weaker effect, as sometimes it could also be that the enchantment is temporary and will wear off after X amount of time/uses. [indent][quote name=enchanted-items] Worth noting that a lot of Scarificator’s enchanted things are weird and kinda random… And some even seem like ‘I got bored’ was the reasoning behind them. I’ll probably come up with others over time. [b]Blue Pen Cap:[/b] This piece of blue plastic has a rather random enchantment on it. It can expand in size to about that of a small side table and take any shape the holder desires. However, it is still at the end of the day cheap flimsy plastic of a bright blue color. [b]Hand Mirror:[/b] A kinda old metal mirror that can be opened and closed. It’s charmed to show illusions and such along with normal reflections. (It’s for personal use) [b]Ring of Teleportation:[/b] Looks like a fairly normal faux gold ring, however when the word ‘teleport’ is spoken above it and a location is given… Only the ring will teleport and nothing else. Kinda feels like a failed experiment. [b]Revolver:[/b] This gun can take just about anything for ammo, by loading whatever it is into the chamber and spinning it around a few times to make it into a bullet made of that substance. [/quote][/indent] [b]Glamour[/b]: Scarificator can do some minor Glamour type spells, mostly in the vein of making things look just slightly different or minor illusions. Honestly he mostly used them to get out of trouble in the past, or in more present times to mask a slip up or enhance a lesson. Scar is incapable of perceiving self-applied glamours under normal circumstances, this could prove slightly detrimental given that he can't tell if it actually worked or not. This can be circumvented by the use of an enchanted mirror, but it's not a perfect solution given that you can't always look in a mirror. Non-self applied ones (i.e done on something/one not himself) are perfectly visible to him. Scar can do some simple general forms of magic as well, and is probably more well versed on them than most due to curiosity but it’s nothing to write home about. [b]Skills[/b]: [list] [*]You want a guy to enchant something? He’ll at least try to do what you want [*]This man will gladly talk science/medicine with you, and has only been studying it since he was 17. Do be warned that Scar can and will give you a whole a-s lecture over a simple question if he’s bored enough. [*]Quite a bit of combat experience along with being a medic in at least two wars [*]While yes, Scarificator is familiar with war strategies it dun mean he’s thrilled he has this knowledge [*]He’s got a pretty high pain tolerance, as in he can have part of his leg blown off by a landmine and cuss up a storm about it being more ‘inconvenient’ than painful [*]Scar is multilingual, mostly due to the fact he’s a vocal mimic and the language center of a Blood Wyvern’s brain never truly shuts down. It’s how he learned English to begin with. The other languages he mostly just picked up on during various wars due to being around native speakers and mimicking them instinctively/subconsciously. (For the record he’s fluent in English, French, German, and Spanish. But can speak a bit of most of the native languages of the countries involved in the world wars to some extent since he probably interacted with someone from there. Not to mention his natural language is a mix of draconic and general reptile [Blood Wyverns are intelligent yet still very much animals so they speak funky draconic]) [*]Hunting, as hell no he's not paying for all that meat [/list] [b]Strengths/Weaknesses[/b]: +Can see well in the dark +Knows a concerning amount about how to both save and kill someone +He is well acclimated to modern society and technology despite his age +Resistant to ice/the cold +Good at using his learned magic in a variety of ways +Unnaturally strong/fast when human, but not quite as strong/fast as his true form either +Finding things he can truly eat [i]and[/i] be somewhat discreet about it… An example of this would be Scarificator using his job as a college professor, he’d use his position to easily be let into the morgue of the medical wing. He’d then check to see if anyone would care if he fed on the dead and possibly even take more than just the blood… Or using the same job title to not be questioned when he’d go to make sure the blood for transfusions was still viable, and simply drink what would go bad before getting used to keep it from going to waste -Bright lights can make it hard for him to see and cause headaches over time, has a bit of photophobia regardless of form -Pretty much always hungry to an extent -Can actually get somewhat sick from eating things that aren’t meat based in large quantities -The imperfections of his human form -Scarificator has a bit of trouble understanding certain human emotions, such as grief or sadness and doesn't really know how to express them… even after all this time -The fact that he still feels super guilty about what he did to his mentor -He can't see glamours he put on himself unless he uses a mirror enchanted for such a reason (has one, but dun mean it's always convenient to pull out and use) -Ironically not immune to his own venom -Toxins and certain things that linger in the bloodstream, particularly things that aren’t rendered inert when digested (Alcohol, certain drugs, specific potions/poisons ect.) [b]Fears/Phobias[/b]: [list] [*]Pyrophobia (fear of fire), one of the few things he can't regenerate all that well from, it's a mess and he hates it [*]Mildly scared of nursing homes [*]Never being able to actually publish some of his papers [/list] [b]Gear[/b]: [list] [*]His enchanted crap [*]The scarificator he got his name from [*]Random seeds he finds [*]Hunting knife [*]Notebook [*]Pen, makes his own ink as he's just that weird [/list] [b]Backstory[/b]: No y’all getting this as it’s actually pretty interesting. Scarificator’s early life was pretty normal for his kind, being a more wild and intelligent predator… Learning human speech from preying on them. What got his curiosity towards humans started was an incident when he was 15 where he was originally going to eat a pair of humans he found near a woodland path, drawn in by the scent of blood from a wound. Only to see the other person tie a cloth around the injury. So instead of attacking the humans, Scar came out and in a rather blunt fashion (due to having limited vocabulary) started to ask questions about why someone would wrap a wound and why you’d help a ‘hopeless’ case. He got a few answers and had to ask what a few things meant before instead of eating the pair he tore off the tourniquet and licked the wound to encourage it to heal and left the humans alone for the rest of the night. This started a year or two long quest for Scarificator to try and not only expand his vocabulary of human words, but to also figure out how to look more like one to learn more about them… And secretly have easier access to prey. It was a terrifying time to be a traveler in his locale as he’d randomly roll up on people and start talking, sometimes eating them, usually for not responding. When Scar was about 17, he finally got the ear of a mage that was willing to teach him how to do a minor shapeshifting spell and a few glamours along with it. With this knowledge and a much wider vocabulary he ran off to the nearest human settlement and approached the local healer… This is also how he got his name, as he was incredibly curious about each tool, but one in particular had quite a bit of his attention due to the smell of blood that clung to it. Scar asked what it was called and decided he liked the object and the word thus named himself for it, [b]Scarificator[/b] sure the healer thought he was weird as all hell but accepted it since it seemed pretty harmless. Scarificator proceeded to learn more about medicine from the healer while also doing a few underhanded things, mostly in the form of being slightly too thrilled about bloodletting and overusing it a bit, but due to the time it wasn’t really noticed. During this time Scar learned a bit of nature magic, in the form of plant growth, to help with the creation of more herbal remedies. For a few years he did fine as the healer’s assistant, but it started to become abundantly clear that Scarificator was going to outlive his ‘mentor’ and he was a little freaked out when he saw the sort of pain and suffering a 80 year old human had… And from his perspective Scar thought he was doing the old man an act of kindness when he drained him during the night, as it seemed more humane to end the suffering quicker. This however left him feeling more guilty and horrible than like he’d done anybody a favor… Yet Scarificator’s mind didn’t really know how to process grief properly due to it not really being a thing his species did yet being aware of human emotions at the same time. This caused him to within hours of committing a murder for the first time in a few years, proceed to do an autopsy on the body to try and figure out why his former human friend had been in pain… Only to find nothing that was easily identifiable as the cause for pain since Scar didn’t know about things like arthritis or joint pains due to the time period and not being able to experience such things himself. Within the same day, Scarificator was forced to flee from the town as he was caught trying to bury the body. The only thing he took with him was the scarificator that inspired his name, more as a keepsake really. For quite a while Scar bounced between towns, usually being a more questionable doctor at worst and a decent one at best, as he was trying to improve and learn more, he even took up biology to try and understand humans a bit better, to prevent another tragic misunderstanding from happening again. Scarificator started picking up on random bits of magic here and there, doing a little in his spare time, when he wasn’t lurking around colleges to stealthily listen to lessons or seeing if he could just act like he went there to get in for free… As he couldn’t afford the pay… Or trying to help the sick and injured the best he could. One of the more notable things for this span of time is that Scarificator helped out during both the world wars (Allies) and even helped with the Spanish flu outbreak that happened between them, and saw some sh-t man… As the wars confused him at first, then scared him with how horrible humans could be to each other, Scar was only a medic both times and had to kill just to protect others. Not long after the the wars died down, Scar moved to america and due to becoming more ‘professional’ due to being enlisted in two wars and helping during a pandemic, had the funds to pay for a college education that was more or less just him paying to get a diploma in things he mostly knew already, but he did use it to become a biology teacher and eventually teach medicine as well. Scarificator started out teaching middle school science and worked his way up to being a college professor over the course of a few years and becoming one of the oldest professors there, due to the fact that at this point, nobody is really certain how long he has been there and they’re afraid to ask at this point. He’s pretty well liked among those who have had him as a teacher, be it a biology subject or a medical one, as he has tons of weird stories and is more than willing to do something just out of pure curiosity. [i]Other[/i]: [list] [*]He's a college biology professor if it wasn't obvious [*]Scar hates that he can't do much with some of the papers/studies he's done due to it being over magical things. Like for example he has a paper on genetics that is very similar to Hardy-Weinburg/Mendell's works and was written at about the same time over dominance and codominance along with the frequency of venom possessing Blood Wyverns. Quite literally this man went around asking members of his own species a few questions, self included [*]Scar has a very weird hoard of various things he’s been shot with, mostly consisting of bullets but there’s a few arrows and crossbow bolts in there too, and will gladly show these things if asked [*]Hunts the Templar for fun here and there [*]For a large predator, he's actually far more predictable than you'd think. Just pay attention to how he talks [*]The Temorrah more or less have Scar point to the no soliciting sticker on his door and closing the door. He thinks humans in general are fascinating, regardless of magic [*]Scarificator oddly enough has contributed to the gene pool, he turned a guy in WWII to save their life and kinda just let them go off on a vengeance quest to sort life out [*]The scars on his legs are from stepping on landmines, and they are kinda faded due to being roughly a century old, if not older (both wars got him once) [*]Scar took to writing some of his more mythical studies in the Blood Wyvern language, being one of the very few to make a written version and well... Things are spelled phonetically and while having some base similarities with Draconic is different in the same way German is different from English. Besides he often puts a somewhat troll-y preface in either going on about some nonsense, how tasty x creature is, or more recently translating chat GPT prompts for some random bullcrap purely to infuriate anyone trying to crack the language [/list]

[b]Name[/b]: Luther Savage [b]Gender[/b]: Male he/him [b]Age[/b]: 43 [b]Species[/b]: Human [b][i]Faction[/i][/b]: Unaffiliated [b]Appearance[/b]: Luther is 5'9 for reference. And a quick note on his eyes is that they are typically red and the whites of his eyes are in fact black. However his eyes can pick up a bit of a reddish glow when he has a strong emotion (doesn't have to be anger mind you) and the color of his eyeshine/tapetum lucidum is this sort of pinkish-red color. I'm also adding the fact that Luther often wears a cloak much like this one: Use the less messed up one for this if it wasn't obvious. (image includes his half sister, Aida) [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/e7a26f685c0ced6a6be9224ac7b70d69/3e8b3030a08863c8-42/s2048x3072/61ce49d2caf7d9c88cbdfff91e3a28c2470b87db.jpg[/img] [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/55fd57d83840104759d2f2d16355a3bd/3e8b3030a08863c8-2b/s2048x3072/e54296ab234294bafc27c3f1e0c12fec094939c0.jpg[/img] Has a scar on his arm starts about a 4th of the way up the inner part of his right arm makes a slightly skewed straight line to about his wrist. There is a fairly interesting story behind how Luther got the scar, and fire wasn’t involved in any way with it. Also, have a ref for the scar and the tattoo that works with it (scar is the nearly white skin tone that makes up the back of the scalpel) [img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/ed83f35690f4fd8406aa01bec94c1db2/39285f53c29fc70c-4a/s1280x1920/32d835bbcb5c2498b6a487606c2badc14d842cce.png[/img] Luther has a few other tattoos as well such as: -Death's head moth sitting on a knife, on his chest -What looks like Freddy Kruger doing a sheet ghost impression, left calf -'I hardly bite', left wrist -Plague Doctor, higher up on left arm [b]Personality[/b]: Luther is actually a pretty decent guy, he does have a bit of a dark sense of humor and isn’t particularly bothered by what people want to associate his vampirism with. Luther unfortunately tends to give off possible serial killer vibes, and technically has the mindset of one… Just nothing’s pushed him over the edge yet. Also, do keep in mind that Luther is rather intelligent, to the extent of being able to skip the 7th grade and get into early college programs in high school. This doesn’t mean Luther can’t yell at you for doing something stupid, in fact he will do so shamelessly… Has to do with certain kinds of people that showed up at his workplace, as there is a reason he was asked to not work at the front desk. Throw in some brutal honesty as he won’t necessarily tell you the truth in a gentle manner if you really need to hear it. Due to having vampirism, Luther’s personality will become less pleasant the hungrier he gets… With the end result being an aggressive survival oriented mindset. [b]Magical abilities[/b]: [b]Vampiric Regeneration:[/b] Luther’s regeneration is always active, even if just healing off dead cells. But, the act of regenerating causes him to get hungry/thirsty (in proportion to the wound) and that would be fine and all, but it's blood that he needs to facilitate proper regen. The reasoning is that to heal at the rate he does, his metabolism speeds up to meet the demands of his regeneration. The kind of blood consumed doesn't matter, as it would be a pain for him if he was blood type locked. His blood can change from positive to negative depending on what it was for the last thing he ate. He's overall a bit faster and stealthier than the average human, and has better eyesight in the dark due to being nocturnally inclined and having eye shine. Luther has an above average sense of smell and is very sensitive to the smell of blood. His saliva is kinda cool in that it's antibacterial and has very weak healing properties (the most it can do is close up a bite he inflicted) BUT is also a very powerful anticoagulant since he is vampiric after all and that quality is beneficial in that regard. He is able to ‘hide’ his fangs at will under most circumstances It is also worth noting that Luther’s blood is harmless in the regard that it can’t turn you… But if it’s compatible with someone else's, it can provide a weak regen effect if given in a transfusion and will also help the recipient fight off diseases. [b]Vascular Mastery:[/b] The name is derived from the bodily system your blood is part of, so therefore I’m not truly referring to veins here. The most basic form of this that Luther is currently aware of is the ability to stop his own heart. But the full extent of this ability is fairly passive, it is the ability to deny a blood mage the ability to actually manipulate blood that is inside of his body (this includes consumed blood) to a blood mage this ability being activated would feel like trying to work with a large hunk of leather hard clay and get it to form shapes like it was fresh... And that said clay had no intentions of doing much of anything you wanted it to do. (it's the best analogy I can think of)... But this part Luther is completely unaware of and it would only activate instinctively in short protective bursts until he realizes it’s a thing he can do and learns to sustain it. As at the moment, Luther just thinks he’s hypersensitive to blood mages doing anything with his blood, and while yes it is true… It ties back to this particular ability. And the resistance to blood magic has activated before, but it was so minor that it was more of a ‘nobody said anything’ situation as the blood mage wasn’t even sure if they had actually done anything to Luther by accident. The limitations of this ability are pretty simple, if Luther bleeds, that blood loses the resistance to blood magic as it is now outside of his body. AND it requires Luther to activate it to do anything more than flare up on an instinctive reflex for a few seconds… And to answer the curiosity questions, yes a sufficiently powerful blood mage could get around this… But I doubt any characters are strong enough to do more than make Luther a bit nauseated or induce uncomfortable sensations with that being incredibly difficult (this is to acknowledge the near impossibility but also not negate the ability either) And if Luther was to activate it mid assault by a blood mage it would be jarring as that prior control would be all but yeeted within seconds. (He's more or less aware of this here, I just don't feel like re-writing things rn) [b]Improved Physical:[/b] As I kinda stated, Luther has better senses and physicals than most humans. He can see incredibly well in the dark and can even see in color as well, and has vision that is slightly more sensitive to movement. This interestingly has some minor effects on his ability to see in brighter lighting due to having eyes that are made for seeing in the dark. Luther is able to smell things better and is more sensitive to the smell of blood. For a bit of context/scaling Luther can smell the presence of some drugs/illnesses people may have and can smell things slightly further away than most other people can. His hearing is also above average but not absurdly so. Luther can run faster, hitting 40 mph at most in shorter bursts than more reasonable speeds. He’s a bit stronger than most, being able to break someone’s bones more easily than the average person. Aside from those, most of Luther’s more physical abilities are related to having swift reflexes and stealth, as he can walk with near silence. [b]Skills[/b]: [list] [*]Luther is a surgeon, specializing in a mix of trauma and cardiovascular related procedures. Friendly reminder that you need at least 5-7 years of med school just to be a surgeon plus a few more depending on specialties. I'm just going to let this speak for itself on several subjects. [*]He can perform a near perfect blood test by taste alone, usually double checks anyways. [*]Is actually fairly skilled in hand to hand combat [/list] [b]Strengths/Weaknesses[/b]: +This man was made to work the nightshift as a surgeon +Might as well have a degree in self control +Ambidextrous, by choice due to the medical field not at all being made for lefties +Not at all affected by the cold, could walk out and roll in the snow naked and be fine +Do I need to explain why you should be scared if Luther is sick? As it is very hard to do that -Photophobia, bright lights really do hurt his eyes and make it hard to see -Mildly addicted to caffeine -Behold the martyr of all sorts of medical discrimination for being vampiric -Has a little bit of extra difficulty sleeping sometimes due to Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) on top of being nocturnally inclined [b]Fears/Phobias[/b]: [list] [*]Pyrophobia, burns are one of the few things his regeneration struggles to deal with and it's a whole mess. [*]Getting fired over something as petty as his vampirism [*]His little sister getting hurt [*]Anything that suppresses magic (more like a mix of fear and hate) [/list] [b]Gear[/b]: [list] [*]Liston Knife, he just thinks they are neat [*]Some assortment of medical supplies [*]Water bottle with some of his saliva in it labeled 'Disinfectant' in sharpie [/list] [b]Backstory[/b]: Luther had a funny early childhood, since he had his abilities when he got his scar. See [url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VOXmJtc5HSlM9CkbPWCIYMjFxsmXH2QNB7lbIrtYwsE/edit?usp=sharing]here[/url] for more context and change like two words for the setting. Anyways, after his parents got divorced and his dad remarried Luther and his younger brother Adrien had fairly normal lives. Out of a mix of coming from an EMS oriented family and spite for their actual mom they both decided to go into the medical field. When Aida, Luther's half-sister, turned 18 he moved out with her since Luther could drive her to college when he got off work and had a moment to eat with her. And umm… The two of them just kinda live together even now. That's it, that's the lore. [i]Other[/i]: [list] [*]Luther is a surgeon/hematologist at a local hospital, Adrien got hired on as EMS at the same place, and Aida is a Crime Scene Investigator for the police. Listed all of 'em b/c why not? [*]Luther's RLS comes from having an iron deficiency for a while and being at the age it starts to show [*]He's left handed, but hardly any medical tools accommodate that so he was kinda forced to get good with his right hand [*]Has three cats, an orange boi named Hunter, black tabby named Tomie, and a three legged Lykoi named Tree Fiddy (3.50) [*]Will throw hands if some clown that never even went to college tries to act like they know more about medical issues than him [*]Luther has atrocious handwriting [/list]

@DragonQueenHi looks good, I'll add to the front page later!

@SmilodonLady same for you, both look good

I love that Landon and Ashlynn use 'cheap' phones for different reasons. Since Landon is using a Nokia b/c that thing will survive falling out of his pocket regardless of where it happened and possibly even handle being stepped on.
Nokias refuse to break.