Sign Up Extraordinary!: In Her Majesty's Service (Mature)

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Around February 1848, astronomers would discover a large comet with a peculiar green hue. This comet would be on approach to the sun. No record of this comet exists, or anything similar. It is a scientific curiosity known only in certain circles, and briefly mentioned in the newspapers of the era.

However, after it rounds the sun, it tail becomes quite prominent and slowly starts to fade from view, as the comet gains a halo of immense size. The astronomers know that this means the comet is heading directly for the Earth. As it grows in size of the next couple of months, the doomsayers of the past weeks gain more credence. Panic ensues, as people fear that ?the end? is coming. Church attendance reaches all time highs. Governments fall to riots, businesses fail as key factories are burnt, raided, or key employees end up leaving or are killed.

Then, just as it appears ready to strike, the moon affects the comet?s course, or so it seems. It misses a direct strike with earth, brushing the atmosphere. Pieces of it do break off and fall to earth, causing damage in South America, China, and Siberia. The immense tail bathes the entirety of earth as it passes, and for 3 weeks following the predicted ?Doomsday?, October 28th, the skies of earth are a pale green in color. Doomsayers still threaten the earth is poisoned, and still doomed. But no such effect occurs. The skies return to normal, and the governments of the world begin to pick up the pieces.

It is years later before reports start to increase of people with strange spontaneous disfigurations or fantastic abilities. However these reports are disregarded except by local news sources as hoaxes. They steadily increase, although effecting only a small 2% of the population in some way. As they do, some people hide their abilities, while others revel in them. A few are public, others secretive, depending upon the countries in which they operate. In many primitive or highly religious cultures, such individuals are thought to be evil, dangerous, or worse. They are exiled, captured, and usually killed.

In 1860, British scientists release reports of dozens of cases among their citizens now able to lift weights in the tons, some by the power of their mind. Others are able to project beams of fire and other energies from their bodies with no ill effects. One man appears to be invulnerable to all forms of blade and projectile weaponry. Two are found that fly, while another appears able to breathe water. Some of these individuals appear to have physiological changes in their bodies that have adapted them, while others manifest the powers with no apparent change to their physical structure.

In 1861, explorers of the Siberian Devastation zone find numerous patches of green plants growing in what should be frozen wasteland. The plants are unusual, appearing moss-like, growing in small 20 to 25 foot square patches, yet have numerous large bulbous seed/spore pouches. If the patch is disturbed in any way, all the pouches dispel a large cloud of fine green dust. Of 10 explorers, one who breathed the dust developed an extra pair of arms overnight. Similar patches are discovered in the Himalayas and atop other mountains. The plants do not conform to the standards for botanical life forms anywhere on earth, as they require little light, bloom only in very cold climates, and seem to need little in the way of soil nutrients or carbon dioxide to survive. They have a hyper-efficient form of photosynthesis in effect that provides near 100% of the plant?s needs.

By the mid 1860?s the scientific consensus is proven that the green dust from these plants must have come from the comet - that it is apparently causing the mutations. Traces of the spores are found in nearly all individuals that have ?mutated?. How they are affecting such transformation and changes in the Human body is still uncertain.

The British government begins to find and train some of these individuals, and thus furthers their empire worldwide. After the Telepathy riots of the Mid 1860?s, extensive usage in the Judicial branch of Pseudonaturals (generally telepaths) was deemed necessary to prevent the corruption of the legal process due to outside mental influences. This resulted in a high but regulated presence in courtrooms. Order has been maintained, crime has been reduced somewhat, and several benefits have been achieved. Some verdicts have been found to be in error as evidence and individuals have been re-examined. Still, there is some resentment and fear from some circles, including religious ones, as they remain suspect. Unlike some countries, Britain doesn?t force its citizen?s into service based on paranormal abilities, nor does it have any sort of a registration program. However it does have several laws on the books designed to make the use of such abilities in the aid of or to prevent the detection of any criminal acts very serious crimes.

[B]Timeline: From ?The Year of the Comet? - Today[/B]

1848

? Revolt in Paris - Louis Napoleon elected President French Republic
? Revolutions in Venice, Berlin, Milan, Parma, and 4 in Vienna.
? Revolt in Rome - Pope Pius IX dies fleeing to Gaeta.
? Forerunner of Associated Press formed in New York City
? Cometary riots in New York, Paris, London, Edo (now known as Tokyo), Rome, Madrid, Berlin, Boston, and Washington - Much Damage.
? Comet fragments strike China, North Eastern Siberia, and the South American Amazon basin. Multiple fires, floods, and chaos. Mid-Pacific impact causes tidal wave and flooding of Japan, Hawaii, California coastline, parts of the Indies, New Zealand, South China, and Australia. Death toll estimated in the hundreds of thousands. Most vessels in Pacific, in port or in shallow waters are wiped out. Several volcanic eruptions occur shortly afterward, as Pacific ?Ring of Fire? ignites.
? Winter in China results in thousands more deaths as supply routes are blocked to isolated communities -
? Queen Victoria sends several envoys to investigate damage reports of the Pacific, and nearby nations.

1849

? Explorers in California find Death Valley a small inland sea. Weather patterns slowly change over western United States.
? Major food riots in China as famine reigns - plagues follow; River trade slowed in parts, and halted in others by naturally dammed river - devastated area slow in recovery. Eventually the remnants of China are divided into 4 smaller separate countries. Weary remaining populations concentrate on rebuilding.

1850

? Livingstone crosses Kalahari Desert, discovering Lake Ngami.
? America attempts the recolonization of Hawaii; near total devastation - most indigenous animal life gone. A small community of natives did survive, having been praying on a mountaintop. However bizarre weather continually plagues recolonization efforts.
? New San Francisco founded.
? China famine over, but new Emperor attempts power grab on neighbors.
? British Royal Navy destroys Chinese Fleet. Coastal China falls to British forces.

1852

? First attempt at English channel cable succeeds
? First reports of bizarre transformations and ?pseudonatural abilities? appear in the press.
? British forces begin colonization of China.

1853

? Crimean War begins

1854

? Telegraphy used extensively in Crimean War.

1857

? Indian Mutiny against British rule - siege of New Delhi. Reports of Kali worshippers able to animate objects including human skeletons. 8-armed Indian woman found fighting - Died under heavy British fire, demoralized Indians routed soon after. Many losses on both sides.
? First studies of pseudonatural abilities begin - eventually divided into physical alteration, mental mutations, and remote energy manifestation or control.

1859

? Darwin writes Origin of the Species by Natural Selection.

1860

? Confederate states secede from U.S. - Civil war begins June 9th.
? British scientists release reports on studies of ?Pseudonatural Abilities and Physical Augmentation of Human Physiology?
? Pony Express begins service from St. Joseph Missouri to Sacramento California. Little known competitor also forms, Mercurian Express using augmented humans at even faster speeds.

1861

? Use of telegraph ends both Express delivery services for most part. Teleportational Delivery Service developed, issuing long-range package delivery at unheard of speeds connecting New York with Chicago, St. Louis, and New San Francisco, through use of multiple long-range exoteleporters. Expenses prohibit it as being able to be used for anything more than an express service.
? Her majesty forms the Academy of Pseudonatural Sciences.
? Dupostov expedition into remote Siberia finds signs of Cometary devastation reminiscent of China. While in the area discovers strange plant thriving in frozen wasteland. Expedition member suffers sudden transformation after exposure to plant spore-cloud.
1862
? U S forces utilize teleporters to assist in war efforts.
? The Academy of Pseudonatural Sciences begins the cataloging and categorization of powers and abilities exhibited by those changed. Terms such as Psionics, Telepathy, telekinesis, and others are introduced for the first time. Psionic Powers are classified separately due to their mental nature, higher frequency of appearance, and apparently easier degree of use when compared with other powers requiring training and/or experience. Racial tendencies toward certain abilities are noted at this time.
1864
? Confederate agents, employing an individual with fire abilities, succeed in setting most of New York City aflame.
? Murder case in London halted after a telepathic Constable from Scotland Yard detected the judge to be under outside mental influences. The story made it to the press and was published in the morning paper causing the first so-called London ?Telepathy? Riot as families and friends of recently judged and sentenced individuals asked for their cases to be retried, claiming they too were victims of telepathy. The individual responsible was found, but could not be prosecuted because of the lack of applicable laws. A whole group of laws were quickly formed to make the influencing by paranormal means of any member of the legal profession, judicial system, juries, or police a serious and possibly capital offense. Also as a result, several telepaths were used to monitor court cases and police, as well as each other, to maintain some semblance of control. Several people were discovered within the next few months to be unwittingly using such talents. By the end of the year, the number of pseudonatural empowered individuals in the law and judicial system had risen to 36.

1865

? U.S. begins employing teleport-delivered agents into Confederate territory - Several southern cities and military outposts attacked using various preternatural abilities.
? Confederacy surrenders formally on February 28th.
? Rebuilding of New York begins in earnest after war?s completion.
? Lincoln assassination attempt foiled by precognitive vision and ?special? bodyguard.
? Atlantic telegraph connects America with Great Britain.
? U.S. adopts similar psionic and power scanning individuals to oversee the judicial proceedings to insure that they have not been influenced. However police usage of telepaths is curtailed and limited after a case where evidence was gained from the suspect?s mind. The Supreme Court deemed this a violation of the 5th Amendment against Self-Incrimination.
? Several scientific followers of Darwin publish adjusted theories of Evolution, making allowances for ?massive sudden changes? in biological forms caused by ?non-terrestrial contamination?.

1866

? Atlantic telegraph cable completed, tying America to Europe

1867

? Typewriter developed (US - Sholes)
? Britain buys Alaska from Russia for 1.5 million pounds. It is set up as a new colony with unique ties to Canada.

1868

? French Sculptor Debonaise obtains popularity with dozens of fantastically detailed sculptures.
? Indian uprising - several tribes have banded together using augmented abilities for communication, defense and attack. Achieve multiple devastating victories against U. S. Calvary forces. America forced to rethink Indian policies.

1870

? French Sculptor Debonaise revealed to be using stone shaping powers to achieve his works.
? French Prussian war - France defeated and Prussians besiege Paris.

1871

? After Prussian war, France enters the period known as the Taint Purges, as Psionics are made scapegoats, as stories of their revealing state secrets are falsely printed. Many French Psis are killed while others flee the country. Many end up in Britain. Possession of Psionic abilities is a crime, and it takes little to ?convict?; such instances are reminiscent of Salem Witch trials. This continues for 9 months, on into 1871, until the populace is calmed down.
? Great Chicago Fire - several attempt to lay blame on former Confederate augmented individuals responsible for the burning of New York. Others question why ?gifted? individuals did not predict the event.
? PT Barnum opens Circus - includes extensive sideshow of freaks, most of which are changed by the spores, but in odd, unsuccessful ways. Most have no ?abilities?, although one has weak but functional wings.
? French Psionic laws are changed to registration, and several Psis work reluctantly for the government - visitors and immigrants are scanned and those attempting to hide abilities (usually minor abilities they may not have been consciously aware of), are turned back at the borders, or imprisoned.

1872

? Lord Jonathan Baker forms the Pseudonatural Advancement Society
[B]
Academy of Pseudonatural Sciences[/B]

Her Majesty from several different fields of study formed the Academy, although medical and biological formed a great deal of the scientists involved. The purpose is to study the changes from human physiology norms that occur in individuals to determine their nature. This is to aid in the medical profession who might have to treat individuals who appear human, but have different internal structures, or whose physiology might pose problems to standard treatments, such as thick skins, resistance to drugs, etc.

It has other purposes as well, to understand the individual effects and how they function so as to detect and/or defend against them. Many powers deal with things the current scientific establishment barely understands; electricity, radiation, advanced photonics, broadcast energy, etc. It is their goal to be able to learn from these effects that otherwise don?t occur in nature, or at least in such controlled circumstances.

They have full access to a collection of scientific and medical reports from across the British empire, and several subjects that have submitted themselves for observation or ?cure?, in such cases where disfigurement, inhuman reconfiguration of the body, or powers that adversely affect others or do not allow the subject to be around others. While a cure has not been forthcoming in these cases, there have been several successes in teaching the individuals better control of their powers.

All subjects are tracked by the Academy, and most are encouraged to aid the British Empire based on their individual abilities if possible.

Academy members are frequently called in to assist in various situations as they have expertise to note when circumstances may indicate paranormal abilities. Scotland yard frequently calls in members if their case seems to suggest such. The Academy has been turning a small profit, as it has been utilizing some willing individuals to work in various areas of industry and science in ways their abilities can be of most benefit. This has lead to several beneficial discoveries and arrangements.

[B]Characters[/B]

Alright, you shall play as an agent of the Pseudonatural Academy (although your character can be from any part of the world. They are under the guidance of Her Majesty?s service as the British Empire is still in power, and the biggest political and economic power in the world). Remember that the RP is set in the Victorian Period (more information on the Victorian period can be found at you local library ;) )

Sign up sheet

[B]Name:[/B]

[B]Alias:[/B] (An agent of the Academy of Pseudonatural Sciences must take an alias (also known by the less civilized agents as a ?Code- or Nickname?) to protect the integrity of the agent?s loved ones, and the security of the Academy on the whole. These may be drawn fro the Agent?s power or specialty, or as the Agent sees fit.)
[B]
Gender

Age:

Height:

Weight:[/B]Physical Description: (In case there should be some search for the agent, in an emergency)

[B]Personality:[/B] (For the Academy to find suitable partners on missions. As of now there is no concrete proof as to whether a Pseudonatural?s power is derived from it?s personality, or it?s personality from it?s power)

[B]Pseudonatural Abilities:[/B] (Pseudonatural Abilities come in three loose categories; Physical Alteration, Mental Mutations, and Remote Energy Manifestation or Control, or REMC. These abilities must be carefully reported and filed for safety)

[B]Country of Origin:[/B] (For research)

[B]Biography:[/B] (The agent's history. Again, for research and the finding of suitable partners)

[CENTER]My character[/CENTER]

[B]Name:[/B] Ian Anderson

[B]Alias:[/B] Mountebank

[B]Gender:[/B] Male

[B]Age:[/B] 28

[B]Height:[/B] 5?11?

[B]Weight:[/B] 132lbs

[B]Physical Description:[/B] Tall and spindly, with a blandly charming face, with brown hair, pulled neatly into a shoulder length ponytail. His face is dagger-sharp, with a neatly trimmed goatee and pale green eyes. He has wiry muscles, long of arm and leg, what some would say lanky, with long, graceful fingers. His normal attire is a long grey overcoat, complete with leather shoulder capes, a green waistcoat, white shirt and black trousers, with a wide brimmed hat. He carries a walking cane, simple black lacquered wood.

[B]Personality:[/B] Shroud carries himself with an idea of invulnerability, casually arrogant. He is a cautious man, careful with whom he trusts and confides in, and while he seems at ease where he is in the world, he is always checking the surroundings, eyes flicking here and there. He is quick to compliment and sharp witted, reveling in the fierce battlefield of verbal conflict, stabbing and blocking with the skill of a metaphorical master fencer.

[B]Pseudonatural Abilities:[/B] Ian is a powerful telepath, specialising in the aspect of suggestion. This boosts Ian's natural rougish abilities, making him an incredible confidante trickster.

[B]Country of Origin:[/B] England

[B]Biography:[/B]
Ian has been a trickster all of his life. Born to a poor cobbler, he yearned to be more than his father, and made a tiy penny as a pickpocket. As he grew, he discovered his telepathic abilities, and had soon learned a fair few tricks to boost and substitute his earnings. As he reached early teenagerhood, he had seen where he had to be to get into the big money.

The higher class.

Through careful manipulation of family and friends, he gained a new persona, the son of a french buisnessman, Guillaume Debount. He blagged his way to stay with the Maxwell family, successful steel manufacturers. he learned the subtle arts of diplomacy, and used his low and high contacts to substitute his funds. He leanred swordplay, gunplay and how to read and write (of course, he simply said that he had trouble reading English, so no questions were asked). As he grew he got more and mor daring with his tricks, frauding banks for money and women out of their jewellry.

As he gained more and more enemies he decided enough was enough, and went to the Academy of Pseudonatural Sciences, working as an agent with fraud and tricksters.

[Onix]

[COLOR=DarkSlateBlue][SIZE=1]Name: Tetsuya Yamagata (or Yamagata Tetsuya, depending on how you want it)

Alias: Blade-Smith

Gender: Male

Age: 27

Height: 5'10"

Weight: 157lbs.

Physical Description: Tetsuya is tall and of a lean build. He has brown hair that he has let grow fairly long, mainly in the bangs, that tend to conceal his unnatural golden eyes (the irises are gold, not the entire eye). His face his sharp, yet not too sharp. He can easily be described attractive. He is scarred from fights in his past, his arms, chest, and face all marred.

He has taken to the fashions of Europe. He wears a long black coat with the sleeves removed. Beneath it he wears a simple black shirt, and a pair of black work pants that flare at the bottom. He wears heavy boots and a thick belt, as well as a narrow-brimmed hat. A silver chained necklace with the kanji for "Death" hangs from his neck.

Personality: Tetsuya is very solitary, preferring to work as alone as possible. He is sharp-tongued and has a sharp mind. He's extremely intelligent, making him a dangerous opponent. He is generally silent, and appriciates it when others are also quiet. His demenour is calm for the most part, but he can become angry quickly and when he does, he is a force to be reckoned with.

Pseudonatural Abilities: Tetsuya has the incredible ability to "eject" an energy blade from his forearms. The blade appears to be of an electrical nature, but does not have all the properties of electrical energy. It seems to be a solid, being able to block and attack like a regular blade. It has a much greater ability to cut than most blades, able to pass through steel easily.

Country of Origin: Japan

Biography: Tetsuya was born in a dying time. An era was coming to a close, and he was raised during the turmoil. His life started during the beginning of the Meiji Revolution. And he was raised by one of the last Samurai, no less.

This has resulted in a great cultural clash in Tetsuya. While he was taught honor and the sword, he saw around him growing corruption and the gun, symbol of modernization. His early years were confused and split.

This all changed one dark night.

His father had grown tired of the government and attacked the palace a few days after the banning of swords. The attack was a bloodbath, and greusome sight. Many men died, including the assassin himself.

But not all was lost for Tetsuya. In fact, in the loss of a father, he gained his sight and true path. He took his father's example, and decided to anything for his views. His path would be of his making, but father's spirit would be the force that guided him down it.

When Tetsuya discovered his powers, he decided to use them to follow the honorable path and faught against those that would do harm to others. He was a champion of the city, and his exploits became known to the Academy. He quickly accepted their invitation, seeing it as just another path to honor.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Engel]

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Name: Micheal Edwards

Alias: Gatekeeper

Gender: Male

Age: 23

Height: 5'11

Weight: 139 lb.

Phys. Discription: Micheal wears casual clothes of white pants, A normal black shirt, and rubber shoes. His long golden hair doesn't cover his dim green eyes. Micheal 's muscles are thicky formed, buldging slightly from under his red tunic that covers his black shirt.

Personality: Micheal is sly and cunning, able to make foes go mad with a single suggestion, often making them slip up. His somtimes cold nature leads his rather sadiastic power to new limits. Sligh of foot and hand, he is stealthy, but can beat the crap out of anyone who messes with him, if they get past what he sends.

Pseudonatural Abilities: Micheal has a rare gift indeed. He can manupulate life and insanity its self, creating horrid creatures of the netherworld to do his bidding. He can make Zombies, which come in 3 fruty flavors:

Red: Can regrow severed limbs and deal a lot of damage

Blue: After rekilled, it explodes in a violent gas that kills anything but him near.

Green: After the limbs have been severed, they grow back as phaom enities, causing severe insanity.

His second summon is a Bonetheif, a praying mantis type creature that jumps down the throat of the one to possess, keeping the body and memories of the possessed.

His other Summon is a Horror, a three headed mosntonisy, capable of shooting lightining and fierce claw swipes.


C.O.O: America

History: Micheal was raised in Boston, in a semi-normal envroment. He was made fun of because of his long blonde hair, but he didn't mind. One day, as he was walking home from the small schoolhouse in the far eastern corner of Boston, a corpse was sticking out of a small aclove in an ally. Prodding it with his finger, red energy lept out of his finger, and brought the dead man to life, his clothes shrinking off and his skin turning reddish. A head popped out from the neck, and spoke in a guttreal voice,

"What is thy bidding, Gatekeeper?" After the red zombie said this, Micheal thought about it for a minute, then said,

"Go scare the hell out of a girl named Amie Jewitt. Then come back." And the corpse shambled off. 10 minutes later, Amie was running down the ally, then stabbed into his arm with a stick she was carrying. She stabbed and stabbed, a gape in his arm. Enraged, the zombie sucked her face off, then flew into Micheal's wound, healing it halfway.

15 years later, he decided to join the Academy of Pseudonatural Sciences as an assassin and espionage.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Anne]

Name: Lysa Greitja

Alias: Flora

Gender: Female

Age: 21

Height: 5'4

Weight: 105

Physical Description: click take the markings off her face

Personality: She is kind and gentle. Well manner and soft spoken, but likes to tell jokes and has a great sense of humor. Loves to be around Nature and be alone for short period of times. Doesn't like to hurt people but will defend others. When she is began bugged or made fun of it doesn't bother her but it will make her mad if she see other getting picked on. Her face always has a warm, friendly smile on no matter what emotion she is feeling. She can get along well with just about anything.

Pseudonatural Abilities: Lysa has the ability to control plants. When she is around them they will start to grow and look healthier. She can also bring a plant that died back to life. Also can communicate with the plants and know how they are feeling.

Country of Origin: Sweden

Biography: She grew up in Sweden with her large family. She didn't know about her abilities till she was ten. She had been in a meadow playing, when she touched a flower bud and it bloomed. This seem strange to her but she shrugged it of as a coincidence. Soon all different types of plants seem too perky up around her and she seem to know what they were feeling. Final she realized that she had the ability to control plants. Lysa was scared by this and kept it from her family and friends. She new if the Swedish government ever found out that she had this ability they would make her join their army and make her harm people.

Two month after her sixteenth birthday she heard rumors that the government had caught wind about her. She didn't know how they found out but she fled Sweden. Leaving just a note for a family telling them why she left and that she loved them all. She made her way to Britain and decided to take residence there.

While in Britian she heard about a place called Pseudonatural Advancement Society that was opened by a man name Lord Jonathan Baker. She diced to join to help do research on why people had began mutated and help in any other way she can.

How is this?

[Flo]

[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]Name: Maura Trepas

Alias: Mizu or Breakheart

Gender: female

Age: 24

Height: 5'4

Weight: 123lbs.

Physical Description:
[URL=http://www.psycko-hentai.de/grafix/gallery/bg2/arm5.gif]Maura[/URL]
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Personality: Maura is a flirt and toys around with peoples feelings. She's had a hard life and releases her anger in fighting or training. Careful not to revil to much about her life, she becomes angry when people ask about her past.Running from her problems, she keeps her true feeling inside; people have a hard time understanding her. Even though she's hard on the outside she has a kind heart and cares deeply for the people around her. She's broken many guy's hearts and she dosen't regret any of her heartbreaks. Truly all she really needs is someone to look inside her find out her true feelings and melt her cold exterior.


Pseudonatural Abilities: Maura has control over the elements water. She can manulate them anyway possible, though she perfers to use the water element. She can also cast people into illusions of their worst memories. She can create normal illusions too.

C.O.O: America

Biography: Maura's father left her and her mother when she was only five. Her mother made sure that Maura was happy. She never thought of herself. When Maura turned nine she became very ill. Her mother toke her to the doctors and they said that she had caught it from her mother and without a very expence surgey she would die. Her mother gave them the money though it was only inof for one of them. Maura recived the surgey, during it her mother made a phone call to who, she didn't have time to tell. After a few months her mother died. A man appeared at her funeral and toke her in his arms, crying. She asked the man why he was crying and he never answered. Taking her away from Washigton he toke her to his home in Georgia. Maura never asked him why he stole her away, because she felt a calming since she had seen him cry. He explaned that he was her father. She nodded something inside her had told her that he was her father. He loved her and respected her, something her mother had failed in doing. He then found told her of her gift and told her that was why he had left her and her mother. Because he was afiard. He then told he of a place where she could be accepted. So she went. But on her way there she was raped and beaten down. The man that had raped her held her captive. Then one day in a cloud of smoke she came out of the building he kept her in, with a cold side to her. She cared for no one, but herself. When she reached the Academy of Pseudonatural Sciences. She decided to be an assassin and theif of young mens hearts. She also worked as a body guard.[/COLOR]

[Case]

Name: Gavin Tate

Alias: Silhouette

Gender: Male

Age: 20

Height: 6?6?

Weight: 250 lbs.

Personality: Gavin is a somewhat ?puzzling? individual whom has been diagnosed with everything from being antisocial to being apathetic. Regularly antisocial, he scarcely talks to people when he doesn?t know them very well. After a while however he develops a comfort toward certain people and will be quite talkative to them. Gavin also has an immense thirst for knowledge, although he is already very gifted, he still does research whenever he gets a chance.

Physical Description: Gavin has brown hair that covers a great deal of his face including his matching brown eyes. Under his hair, he has a somewhat handsome clean-shaven face. Although he is a rather sizeable individual, he is not in the least bit muscular, with the weight, for the most part, evenly distributed throughout his body. His choice of attire is a long black trench coat, with a black suit underneath. He also carries around a cane sword with him at all times

Pseudonatural Abilities: Gavin can perform a rarely found physical altercation where he becomes a shadow. Proficient at silently gliding along walls and hiding in preexisting shadows, Gavin?s ability gives him excellent stealth capability. Along with stealth Gavin can also take small items with him into the shadows. However if a bright enough light is shined on him when he is a shadow he revert back from a shadow.

Country of Origin: Germany

Biography: From his early childhood Gavin was recognized to be a highly intelligent person who could go on to do very great things. However fate was unkind to Gavin, even though he was born into a rich aristocratic family. Through a series of bad investments and luxurious spending, by the time Gavin was 14, his family was broke and could not afford to school him. Embittered by the fact that his potential could now never be reached, he left home and eked out a living stealing from others. One night, two years after living as a thief, he was caught by the police and was chased into a dark alley. Pressing against the wall he suddenly sank into it leaving only his shadow behind. After the police gave up looking for him, Gavin emerged from the shadow and realized how much potential that his newly found ability might have. After the night in the alley the crimes that Gavin committed steadily grew more and more risky. Then one bright, clear, sunny day while spending some newly ?acquired? money, he saw a diamond necklace in the window of a jewelry store. Walking over to the window, he took out his cane and smashed the front window. Calmly taking the necklace he strolled over to a building one the other side of the street. He then pressed against the wall and began to sink into the shadows. Suddenly he fell out of the wall, not understanding why, he pressed against the wall again, and was spat out again. After being apprehended, the police, realizing what he was, turned him over to the government, who gave him two choices. He could either be executed for posing a threat to the English crown, or he could join the Academy of Pseudonatural Sciences.

[Eclectic]

[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Name: [/b]Antionette Noire[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Alias:[/b] Gepetto (I've probably spelled this wrong so feel free to correct me.)[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Gender: [/b]Female[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Age: [/b]23[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Height: [/b]5'7[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Weight:[/b] 120 lbs.[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Physical Description:[/b] Antionette has long blonde hair kept in a perpetual bun and a piercing ice blue gaze. [/size][/font][url="http://www.peabodyhistorical.org/images/gfh4.jpg"][font=Century Gothic][size=1]Her clothes[/size][/font][/url][font=Century Gothic][size=1] are black and crimson whenever possible.[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Personality:[/b] Antionette is very quiet and introspective, preferring to be alone whenever possible. A recluse by choice, she hides herself away to drown in fiction and fantasy.[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Pseudonatural Abilities:[/b] Antoinette has the ability to manipulate the movement of other living creatures. With enough concentration, she can control every action, even speech. However, the person will always remember what has happened unless another changes that memory.[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Country of Origin:[/b] France[/size][/font]
[font=Century Gothic][size=1][b]Biography:[/b] Antionette's childhood in Bordeux was happy for the most part. She used her powers from the age of ten, not recognizing them for what they were, to train dogs and other small animals for shows and local circuses. Eventually, she began to study dance and quickly became a rising star. At seventeen, she moved to Paris to further her studies and join a small ballet company there. After being in Paris for two years, her company was finally offered a chance to perform at the grandest theatre in the city. Rehersals were tedious and she slowly began wiling her peers to perform better, culminating in a flawless opening night. Her company began world renowned for their perfect performances but she remained half in the shadows, fearing what uses the government could put her to. She stayed in the city until the Taint Purges, when her closest friend was executed because of what she had done for their ballet company. She fled to England, no longer a diva, but increasing quiet, humble, and antisocial. She learned of the changes in French law through letters from remaining family and friends and turned to the Academy for sanctuary.[/size][/font]
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[font=Century Gothic][size=1]Just a note, the phrase 'her clothes' is a link. I hope this is okay.[/size][/font]