Us Against the World.

The World

The year is 30XZ. The planet is still Earth, the third world from the sun; but it's not the Earth you know. Two thousand years ago, the moon came so close to the planet, it actually entered the atmosphere. This affected the gravity and caused a chain reaction of natural disasters. Oceans rose and tsunamis fell, sinking islands and cities; Volcanoes erupted, wiping towns off the map; Tornadoes blew across the world, destroying the land; Earthquakes were so strong, the continents shifted.

The continents are now divided into just five. This story revolves around the country Phantascii on the continent of Aren. The city is simply called The City. The upper classes know its true name. But we're not the upper class. We live underground. We never knew the streets. We were raised in captivity. We may have once been citizens, but now? Now we're not considered people. If we once were, we can't remember. It was so long ago, not to mention our memory problems. You want revenge? Blame them. The upper citizens. They feared us and yet, they wanted to use us. To them, we were trash that could be turned to tools. That's what they wanted, and the government obliged. Unfortunately for them, we're not standing by anymore.


Story
Everyone knows of the Shift. That's what the citizens of Earth call the period in its history where the entire planet was ravaged by natural disasters and the continents shifted to their current positions. However, something else shifted: the human DNA. For some unknown reason, an extremely small percentage of people were born with strange abilities and traits. It was usually some kind of physical enhancement. Upon further study, it was revealed that their DNA contained a strange element referred to as Aether. These people, dubbed the "Enhanced" by everyone else, were able to use Aether as an energy source. It was literally their life force made tangible. It was Aether that granted them their abilities. And it was Aether that the normal people feared.

The normal citizens of Phantascii feared the Enhanced and formed mobs against them. But the Enhanced were stronger, faster, smarter. In a word, they were just better. This plus their abilities made them dangerous to approach. The government issued a Registration Act, ordering all Enhanced to register. Some saw it as oppression, some saw it as ignorant, but some saw it as opportunity. Plenty of Enhanced not only registered, but joined the government in hunting down the rest in order to gain their freedom and rights. Soon, all Enhanced were captured. The ones that were employed by the government demanded their freedom, but were instead rewarded with captivity as well.

The Enhanced were studied, bred, and raised as tools. They were experimented on, given them more abilities and enhancing the original ones even more. This went on for a few hundred years. All Enhanced were in captivity. They all were programmed to be loyal to the government. They were soon to be released as tools to the planet, or weapons for countries. But the plan changed when a small group of Enhanced escaped. They call themselves the Resistance. They remember the experiments. They know how normal people live. They are aware of the rights they've been denied. They have been through the horrors of experimentation. They still think of their brethren who are still captive. And they are angry.

The Resistance have mounted an attack on the Facility in which the others are held. They have succeeded in breaking in. They have succeeded in reaching their captured kind. They are now on their way out with the Enhanced who have yet to be completely programmed. The only thing stopping them from escaping? The Enhanced who have fallen victim to programming.

The Enhanced
"Enhanced" is the name society gave the humans born with special abilities. They are usually easy to spot due to at least one physical aspect, but sometimes, it can be difficult. Some of them have small horns, sharp ears, or a different skin color, etc. But what really makes them stand out is their abilities. They were all born with a special ability that enhanced their body using Aether, physical lifeforce, somehow. These could range anywhere from superstrength to transformation to enhanced senses to almost anything. The Facility captures any Enhanced they find in the City and start to "program" them into tools for society, or even weapons. This goes hand-in-hand with experiments. The experiments always result in a new power that can be used in the field. Sometimes the power is a bigger improvement of their original ability, sometimes it's something different to balance them out. The Enhanced in this RP are divided into two groups: The Resistance and the Sanction.


Aether
Every living thing as lifeforce inside their body. It powers growth, breathing, blinking, anything you don't have to think about doing yourself. It's the energy you use to push, pull, jump, run, move, etc. Aether is this lifeforce made physical. Enhanced are born with such a large amount of lifeforce that it has actual physical form. Aether affects the Enhanced's body, altering their "normal" body. It also gives them the ability to manipulate Aether in someway or another. Aether powers the original auxiliary ability and is manipulated into their offensive power as well. Enhanced with the special ability to control Aether have the potential to manipulate the Aether of others, but it doesn't work anywhere as well as controlling their own Aether, due to the fact that as Aether passes through the body, it picks up traces of DNA and becomes personalized. Aether's physical form usually has a white color and glows, but the color can change depending on who is using it.


The Resistance
The Resistance started out as a bunch of normal Enhanceds in the Facility. Then, one by one, something happened that made them realize one thing: Life shouldn't be like this. Some were angry at being used, some wanted freedom, some even thought they should be at the top of the food chain, but regardless for their reasons, they wanted out. They eventually managed to escape and set up headquarters somewhere safe. The government is still looking for them and has yet to find their headquarters. Now, they have broken back into the Facility to save the other Enhanced. Some have been separated, some have been killed, but the ones that are alive are trying to lead everyone back to "Base" with the promise of hope.

The Sanction
The Yin to the Resistance's Yang. This is the security force for the Facility. They also double as the police force for the City. While most of them are Enhanced, some are just regular officers. They have been fully programmed for the most part and are loyal to the City. The Sanction's uniform consists of blue clothes with a gray jacket, belt, gloves, and boots. They have a helmet with a visor and three red circles over the forehead. They all have a gold band around their left bicep with the a stylized S on the front. Enhanced Sanction officers tend not to wear the full uniform, but constantly keep the armband to show employment. After the Resistance broke in, the Sanction Enhanced were deployed to stop them from escaping, through any means necessary.

Rules

1. Read the rules. You don't? You're automatically out. If I feel like you haven't read them, I reserve the right to deny you right away.
2. The RP Arena of KHV has its own set of rules. They can be found here and if you don't read them, you're out. They should affect me as the RP Creator more than you, but read them anyways.
3. Three strikes and you're out~
4. You know the basics, no godmodding or powerplaying. But hell, be creative with abilities.
5. Five characters max. TWO character MINIMUM. I realize it's strange to have a minimum amount of characters, but that's just to make sure we have enough for the story to move.
6. You must have at least one Resistance member and one Sanction officer. Your other three can either be more of these, or someone different with my approval.
7. You should have two powers. An Auxiliary ability which is the Enhanced's natural ability. It should be something that makes them better than normal humans and isn't purely offensive. The other should be an Offensive ability. Something the Facility did during their experiments. Offensive abilities can come from experiments on an Enhanced's body, so be creative.
8. Color code your characters. Each character should have a different color. If a color you want is taken, pick another. If we have so many characters that you feel like you don't have any choices in color, I'll let you pick a used one as long as you bold it or underline it.
9. I would prefer that you use a link for your characters' appearances, but if you use an image, put it in spoilers. (For those that don't know, to put something in spoilers you type [*spoiler]Enter Image Here[/*spoiler] without the *s)
10. Not everyone uses the same forum skin. I constantly switch between the white skin and dark skin. So if a color is too hard for you to use, highlight it. Don't whine about it.
11. Type "We're good" in your first post if you've read up to here.
12. I'm an English Major. Which means I'm very critical of grammar. If you're one of the people who here who is constantly misspelling words so badly that I have to decipher your posts, that's a strike. Same for punctuation, capitalization and the such. If you really have trouble, type your posts in Microsoft Word and use the Grammar/Spelling check. I would hate to kick you out of the RP because I have trouble reading your posts :/
13. There is a 20 word minimum for RPs here. I WILL enforce this. If you're really having trouble with one-liners, add some detail to things.
14. Add "We're better" to your first post.
15. Let's keep romance PG-13, alright? You have PMs if you get too horny.
16. I welcome profanity. It's a normal part of our speech so I'm not going to outlaw it. Hell, I use it a lot. Let's just not go overboard.
17. If you join, please be active. If you have to take a break, let us know in advance. If you leave abruptly without warning, I'll be glad to give you a recap when you return so don't feel like you lost your place. But if you do leave without warning, and I find that you've been online a few times, I'll ask you if you're still in the RP. If I don't get an answer soon, I'm kicking you out.
18. Use "OOC:" and "BIC:" when you post out of character and in character, respectively.
19. Don't go overboard with OOC's.
20. Also, add "And you suck" to your post.
21. If you read all of this, up to here, pat yourself on the back because I approve of you.

Character Forms:
Username:
Alliance:
Name:
Age:
Appearance:
Auxiliary Ability:
Offensive Power:
Weapon:
Personality:
Bio:
Other:

Accepted Characters


Resistance Members:
Username: LilBueno

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Name:
Noctis Etern
Age:
19
Appearance:
Click Here! Each of his arms has what looks like stitches running up them. His Enhanced features are blood red eyes. He has no pupils and is known to wear contacts that give him pupils.
Auxiliary Ability:
Extremely powerful legs. He isn't superfast, but can jump higher and kick harder. Because of this, his fighting style focuses mostly on his feet and he's extremely agile and fights using capoira.
Offensive Power:
The ability to grow a large spike out from the bottom of each forearm. Each extends about half a foot farther than his hand.
Weapon:
N/A except for the spikes in his arms.
Personality:
Noctis is the kind of guy you want to be friends with. He's really cool and easy to get along with. He's determined to do whatever his mind is set on and won't stop until he gets it done. He's the "leader," the one who would put on a fake smile and tell you everything's going to be alright when things are looking grim. He'll do whatever it takes to look out for others and will put them before himself.
Bio:
Noctis was able to hide being an Enhanced through childhood. It wasn't until he had jumped over a bus when he was 13 that he was found out. Because he wasn't taken in as an infant like other Enhanced, he wasn't fully programmed. This caused trouble with the authorities of the Facility who constantly punished him physically. In the Facility, he met Axel and the two instantly became like brothers. Axel was on his way to being fully programmed, but being around Noctis opened his eyes. Axel was one of the original Resistance members, but failed to escape with them. The thought of Axel being programmed has been Noctis' drive to return to the Facility. They were reunited when the Resistance broke in. Noctis is now trying to lead a group of the Enhanced out of the Facility and back to Base.
Other:
N/A

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Name:
Axel "Ace" Wheelson
Age:
17
Appearance:
Click here to find out His Enhanced feature is his skin: it is gray.
Auxiliary Ability:
A sixth sense. Ace has the unique ability to sense other people around him. He can use his own Aether to feel people around him. In extreme cases, he can actual dispel his own Aether and make it a trail of it, leading others to him or using it as a camera. Otherwise, he can just feel when there's people around and can zone in on their location. With other Enhanced, he can track the concentration of their Aether to specific parts of their bodies and to get an idea of their abilities. In the case of a normal person, he can only sense and locate them. He was meant to be a tracker for the Facility.
Offensive Power:
Aether manipulation. Due to experimentation on his Auxiliary ability, he can now draw out his own Aether and use it as energy blasts or shield. Whenever his Aether makes contact with someone else, his sixth sense kicks in and he makes a mental connection which allows him an instant peek into his opponent's mind and emotions.
Weapon:
His own Aether
Personality:
Due to the mental connection and his sixth sense giving him access to the thoughts of those around him, if only for an instant, he constantly sorts through his mind in battle, trying to figure out what are his thoughts and the enemies. This had led him to block out everything but himself and the enemy and makes extremely rash. This, coupled with the experiments, makes him emotionally unstable and he constantly feels angry.
Bio:
Like Noctis, Ace wasn't captured as an infant. However, he was just a child when taken in by the Facility. He always felt like he was being watched and never alone due to his ability. Having only a vague memory of the family that gave him up, he grew up a loner. Before being fully programmed, he met Noctis. Noctis convinced him that there was more than just being a tool for the City and the two soon became like brothers. They plotted the breakout together, but Ace was captured before he could escape. He knew Noctis would return for him, but over time started losing hope. Physical punishment has led him to be even more emotionally unstable. Now that he's reunited with Noctis, a small flame of hope ignited. After happily embracing his unblood brother, he joins in the second breakout.
Other:
n/a.

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Username: Ego Imperium

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Name:
Sarah Xanders
Age:
18
Appearance:
Sarah stands at 5 feet even, being at somewhere around 100 lbs in weight. If even possible, her meek posture makes seem even smaller than she is. While not particularly strong in build, she is genuinly healthy. She has naturally tanned skin, which is smooth in texture, and gives of a certain shine in the sunlight. Her hair is black, with linings of a dark maroon laying underneath at the bottom, and falls passed her shoulders; it's usually kept up in a pony tail. In contrast to her appearance, which is strong in oriental background, she has inherited a pair of brilliant blue eyes.
Auxiliary Ability:
Sarah is super sensitive to the energy pit off by Aether, and the unique signals it lets off; she can feel out a person simply by means of their Aether 'signature', making her aware of the presence of mostly any enhanced being. Tracking, however, isn't the only use for this sensitivity, as her ability seems to be at the point where she can estimate the amount of power boasted by another, usually being accurate when dealing with those who lack the ability to fully manipulate their natural Aether output. But it's not without its backlashes; large outputs of Aether have been known overwork this sensory. As it's not fully refined, she has no control over what signals she picks up.
Offensive Ability:
Sarah’s Aether is, by all means, some of the most destructive around, and highly personal to her, making it something that isn’t lightly consumed. Despite that she is unable to focus it into the pure energy forms that others seem able to, she has found a manner of using to her advantage as an environmental catalyst. This would generally equate to what some might call telekinesis, achieved through the wonders of Aether. By channeling her Aether through, or around a given portion of matter, she is able to effectively utter manipulative powers over it, which can range from moving said matter, to sparking chemical and physical processes, to even the outright breakdown of said matter. Again, it’s not a limitless force to reckon with. It takes precision, and at times patience, as thing won’t always happen instantly, and only so much can be done to certain matter within a short time period. But on that hand, little Aether is required to perform such actions.
Personality:
One would be hard pressed to find a sister any more unlike her brother. Sarah is sort of like that shattered mother figure in the scheme of a family. She’s the one that people aren't always sure of. She's pretty much quiet, and unsure of herself, seeing as she's already failed at sticking with her family, and holding things together. Silently, she does what she can to keep her comrades out of harm's way, especially within the facility, where things the roughest. But she has a bit of a confidence issue when it comes to Actually dealing with the problems, for more often then not, she cowers unless there is more than her own life on the line. She needs to know she is needed, and cared of in order to function properly.
Biography:
Despite being younger than Kai, Sarah can remember the earlier days of their lives pretty clearly. It's just a sort of skeleton of a memory, lacking any meat; but it's a general idea, which is what keeps her going. She rembees that their parents had been the caring kind, far from able to just let their children get carted off. No, they weren't the sort that would spoil the two; they were your normal, middle tier parents, that distributed justice accordingly (most of the time). But other than that, she remembers nothing. She knows nothing of the incident that landed her and Kai into The Facility; and naturally, she wouldn't, as she was asleep when the matter went down. Everything from there is just a blur until coming into the facility, where she watched her brother go aggressive, and ultimately, become programmed. She still resides within the facility, locked up, and watched over by Kai like a worm in the eyes of a bird.

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Username: SpazticFantaztic :3

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Name:
Echo Gray
Age:
17
Appearance:
Clothes/Face:

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Echo also has dark grey/navy blue bat wings with claws on the end, and bat ears at the top of his head.
Hair:

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Auxiliary Ability:
Ability to fly. Echo was born with the wings of a bat, and he cannot hide them, instantly marking him as an enhanced to the rest of society. Unlike a bat, however, they are not attached to his hands, they stick out of his back. They have their own claws on the end, just like a bats, however.
Offensive Power:
Because Echo has some attributes of a bat, he also has an offensive ability reminiscent of a bat's power. Echo can let out a high-pitched screech that is at such a high frequency, it bothers and sometimes even stuns normal humans, if only for a couple seconds at best. It can also make normal humans confused and disoriented, and doesn't have as great an effect on other Enhanced.
Weapon:
The claws on his wings and his own two hands.
Personality:
Echo can be a very cold person sometimes, but he doesn't care. Having been kidnapped at a young age and taken to the facility, Echo literally doesn't trust ANYONE. He has no regard to other's feelings, because he assumes they don't care about his own. He typically makes sarcastic comments to his own enjoyment, though he doesn't speak as much as most people. Echo's sense of humor lies in making sarcastic comments, and laughing at the ignorance of others, though ignorance bugs him. He may be cold, but he isn't a cruel person and doesn't like to see other people getting hurt unless they are his enemies. (As a reference, sorta think Fang from the Max Ride series.)
Bio:
When Echo was five, it was already completely apparent that he was an enhanced. The wings that stuck out of his back and the ears on the top of his gave it away. Not wanting to harbor a fugitive, his parents gave him up to the government, who had promised them he would be safe with his parents. His parents took him back, trusting in the government's words. Boy, where they wrong to trust the government. Now knowing that there was an Enhanced in the Gray family, the next night the government came to the Gray house and kidnapped Echo from his bed.
Echo tried to fly away, but they had put nets over his wings and bound them together. He was trapped in the back of a pickup truck as the members of the Sanction drove him to the Facility. After arriving at the facility, he was put in a small metal cage so cramped that he couldn't stretch his wings. He spent the remainder of his life in that cage, having tests and injections done on him occasionally. When he turned sixteen, another Enhanced, called Sasu, broke Echo out of his cage using Sasu's ability to grow biomass out of his hands. Sasu and Echo ran away from the facility, until one day the worst of all the betrayals in Echo's life happened.
Echo and Sasu had formed a great bond, and quickly became best friends. Echo actually enjoyed his time with Sasu, and Sasu was his first friend. A nicer, happier side came out of Echo when he was with Sasu, but that was all destroyed when Sasu joined the Sanction. He had heard form other Enhanced that had been brainwashed by the government that it was a benefit to all Enhanced, and so Sasu joined. He urged Echo to join, as well, but Echo refused, remembering his terrible childhood when he was betrayed by both his parents and the government. When Echo wouldn't join, Sasu turned him in to the government, and Echo was put in a larger cage as he would no longer fit in his old one. He had spent a year being friends with Sasu, and so was now seventeen. Being out and about, his bones had room to grow a little, and so he became a good deal taller. His new cage was not built out of the same material as his old one, and so he eventually broke out of it using his claws. He knocked out the humans guarding the facility with his supersonic screech, and then ripped them apart with his claws, fueled by rage. He ran away, and cooled down a little. He is still running.
Other:
None.

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Username: Midnight Star

Spoiler

Name:
Alyssa Moon
Age:
16
Appearance:
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=2667388
Auxiliary Ability:
The ability to move through walls or any other substantial material, she can also short circuit any electrical device she moves her hand through. She can transfer her ability to others through constant physical contact if she wants.
Offensive Power:
Can spray a potent sleeping gas from her wrists that sends anyone who breathes it in instantly deep asleep for half an hour.
Weapon: 2 short swords
Personality:
Alyssa is still fairly innocent and hates anything being hurt. She loves to feel free and doesn’t like being confined. She is very determined and strong willed. She has strong morals and feels a strong sense of guilt if she lets anything get hurt.
Bio:
Alyssa was found with her brother and taken to the facility when she was only two. She relied completely on her brother and soon after they arrived he tried to protect her and got punished as a result. She decided then that these people were bad and rebelled in her mind. Every time she saw someone get hurt she became more determined and as a result the programming did not work on her. Now, she has always wanted to break out but wants to takes everyone, especially her brother out of there, as she felt guilty of leaving them. Due to this she does not use her ability to the extent she is capable.
Other:
None

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Username: ArchAwesomeman

Spoiler

Name:
Alaric Rho
Age: 19
Appearance:
http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx355/Bound_By_Love/-Anime-Guy-anime-guys-6863170-592-4.jpg Except without wings.
Auxiliary Ability:
Rho has the power to store large amounts of Aether in his body higher than other Enhanced. His body naturally absorbs Aether “loose” in the air and when his ability is focused he can potentially absorb most if not, all of it if Aether is directly used to attack him. His ability to absorb an Aether-based attack is in actuality rather dangerous as it requires him to actually “catch” it with his hands and Alaric has found that even then, he cannot always escape unharmed if the attack overwhelms his own abilities.
Offensive Power:
Due to his ability to store excessive amounts of Aether in his body, a way was needed to allow him to release some of that power before his body overloaded with it. Instead of completely taking in Aether if it is used against him, he can redirect it using his hands. He can also use his own store of Aether to produce a heavy “aura” around himself that ranges from causing fear to those around him to even bringing those of weak constitution to their knees from the weight of it.
Weapon:
None.
Personality:
Alaric is the type of person who believes that logic is the most important trait someone can posses. He does anything that falls in line with his own logic and constantly puts his own plans before anyone else’s. At the worst of times he is cold and calculating, thinking that putting emotions up as a top priority as something reserved for those of a lower mental capacity. Even so, he does care about the others around him although he would have no trouble leaving another to die if the price of saving someone would be his own life.
Bio:
Alaric was actually bred to be used against members of the Resistance who used Aether-based attacks and would have been specifically trained against those types of Enhanced. Since he was born within the Facility it was assumed that by merely training him so that he would fight of his own free will, he would never need to be programmed. Alaric fled the moment someone decided that it would have been better to “program” him. Due to his abilities being virtually useless against those who could simply pummel him to death or use a weapon proficiently, he kept to himself and learnt the basics of keeping himself alive as a fugitive as well as thinking of ways to get back into the Facility and rescue his brethren. He spent some time trying to fight the Sanctum alone mainly in an effort to find the full extent of his abilities and after nearly three years he decided to join the Resistance formally.
Other:
Dislikes caps and hoods even though using either would be enough to cover his white hair which causes him to stick out like a sore thumb.

Sanction Officers:
Username: LilBueno

Spoiler

Name:
Alec Scales
Age:
18
Appearance:
Click here one more time His Enhanced feature is the same as Noctis': Blood red eyes with no pupils.
Auxiliary Ability:
Complete invisibility. Has a time limit on it, but can generally stay invisible long enough to carry out his job. He does it by covering himself in his own Aether which not only shields him from people's sight, but their hearing and smell as well.
Offensive Power:
The ability to discharge Aether from his body in the form of electricity.
Weapon:
A small dagger he keeps hidden in his forearm which is now mechanical.
Personality:
Completely serious and loyal. Whatever his mission is, he will do it with hesitation. He is completely programmed and holds his mission above all else.
Bio:
Captured from a young age, Alec was successfully programmed. He was in the same experiments as Noctis. Because of this, he felt like it was his job to stop Noctis from escaping the initial time. He failed. Now that he has a second chance, he won't let Noctis escape.
Other:
n/a

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Username: Ego Imperium

Spoiler

Name:
Kai Xanders
Age:
20
Appearance:
Kai's appearance is reflective of what some might call an eccentric blend of Asian and Eastern/Northern European Ancestry (and he probably has a bit of everything in him somewhere. While facially he expresses the same general appearance that has become synonymous with the Chinese/Japanese groupings, the rest of him is clearly of a Scandinavian, or possibly Russian influence. It is seen that this European persuasion has taken the dominant course within his looks. He is of a light Caucasian skin tone, having bluish-gray eyes, and a gaggle of a beard of black hair gathered upon his chin, spreading out in the shadow of his mouth. He stands at 5'11'', with his body being one that might as well have been carved out by a Greek artisan. It is visibly perfect in proportion, being of a lithe build, that of an athlete. His hair, when left unattended, which seems to be his nature these days, is left in an unkempt mess of black curls that fall to nearly shoulder's length.
Auxiliary Ability:
To some extent, all beings seem to have grown into a state that enables them to manipulate Aether. Aether, existing now within ever cell of Kai’s body, coupled with his ability to manipulate that Aether, has gifted him with the ability to manipulate the very material of his body, ranging from altering cells, to firing off cognitive signals to muscles, and sensory receptors, resulting in an all around enhanced sensory ability, and the potential to break far beyond peak human physical capacity through flows of Aether within his body. Of course, he’s not free from obstruction in this; to sway even the smallest function of his body, even through Aether, he runs the risk of compromising his homeostasis, and many of the possibilities remain as mere dreams in his mind.
Offensive Power:
He realizes that he’s far from the only one in possession of such power, but anyhow, he is able to utilize his internal Aether as a form of pure energy, focusing it into waves rays, and bursts, existing externally as a semi-transparent form of energy. A variety of other techniques have come to mind, such as the concentration of his Aether onto a specific part of his body, or even encompassing his figure for melee style combat. He’s been experimenting since he’s had his power, finding out what suits him. On the whole, he prefers the use of melee style techniques, believing that “just blasting things and people to kingdom come isn’t the respectful way to do damage.”
Weapon:
Bar is ability to coat his body with Aether, turning it into a lethal weapon in and of itself Kai bears no weapons.
Personality:
Kai is pretty much the typical example of a twenty-year-old. As a young adult he comes off as pretty weird, and ultimately obnoxious to the older generations. He’s a sociality at heart, mingling with pretty much anyone he can get in with, even if it happens to be the most; through it all, he seems to be a little bit careless in the sense that not much of anything really fazes him, and for the most part, he feels immortal, invincible even. He could be staring at death itself, and still have the heart to laugh right before it took its toll on him. Despite his somewhat lazy attitude, he is well enough off in his intelligence. And there is at least one area in which he shows diligence: Competition. When there is some sort of glory on the line, Kai is usually seen spearheading his way to somewhere near the top of the ladder; this is especially true with anything involving anything competitive, which he easily gets worked up about, almost to the point of rage.
Bio:
For as far back as Kai has ever been able to recall, he had lived the entirety of his childhood within the Facility. And he knows nothing of the circumstances of his capture, as he was far too young for it to embed itself within his memory. The story, as it has been told in any files (of which Kai has no knowledge at the moment), his parents had been involved in an incident, which had, inevitably, claimed their lives. Hence, Kai, and his sister Sarah, would have been left as orphans, if not for the Facility’s involvement in the incident. The two were captured, and hauled off to their respective places within the facility, where their lives would unfold in what they believed was the normal way it was meant to. Then, they had no memory of anything beyond their lives, bar each other, prior to The Facility.
In Kai’s case, the whole thing developed into somewhat of a game; one in which his goal was to just be better than the others he brushed shoulders with. For the earlier part of his time there, he was one of those mischievous kids, always getting into places, and situations that were generally frowned upon by the Facility staff. He received his punishments, and his scolding, those light taps on the wrist, and sometimes beatings. His trouble-bound persona began to sway into a more hard-core alignment; he became less mischievous, and more about taking on the challenge placed up by his peers, and ‘superiors.’ In fact, he had originally sought to break free. To his misfortune, the Facility had decided to start wrangling people in to prevent this happening. With Kai’s weakness in his ego, he was a prime target, and was hence, captured, and programmed.
He’s been amongst the ranks of The Sanction, preparing for a possibility of a second breakout attempt. He seems to have been trying to flout his ego about more often lately.
Other: Why Not?
Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkeAQG6kQw
Fighting Theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofqHfSvy_8

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Username: SpazticFantaztic :3

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Name:
Sasu Rust
Age:
18
Appearance:

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Sasu has midnight blue hair that frames both sides of his face. Now that he has been brainwashed by the government, he has a constant smirk on his face.
Auxiliary Ability:
Sasu has the ability to grow biomass out of his hands, just pure living mass due to his Aether-powered cells. The biomass is an extension of him, and he can grow as much of it as he wants. He uses it to climb things, cling to things, and reach faraway objects.
Offensive Power:
Using his biomass, Sasu can consume and absorb any living or nonliving thing to fuel his Aether. The living thing cannot be very big, however, and so, if he were trying to devour a human, he would have to do it piece by piece, ripping off and consuming, say, and arm first.
Weapon:
His biomass.
Personality:
Sasu has always had somewhat of a superiority complex. In fights, he taunts his enemies and says things like "I'm clearly the better man", "You can't win against me", and "There's no telling how bad I'll beat you". Now this is typical in most people who fight, but Sasu does it to such an extent that it is noticeable and a complex. Hanging out with his friends, including Echo, he lightly teases them and always succeeds in his attempts to one-up them.
Bio:
Sasu was born and raised in a cage. He didn't even know he had the power he had until the doctors at the facility made him so enraged, his biomass shot out of his hand and ripped the doctors arm off. From that day on, he learned to control his power. He grew stronger and stronger until he was fifteen, when he broke out of his cage using his powers that he had trained with.

He ran away from the facility, but then remembered that there were other Enhanced in there, and eventually came back to rescue them. The only Enhanced that had survived in his ward were one, Echo Gray. He helped him escape and they became friends. They ran away together, until Sasu was persuaded to join the Sanction by brainwashed Enhanced. He was told it would give him a better life, and urged Echo to join too. Echo said no, and so Sasu went to join by himself. He was brainwashed into thinking like the government wanted him to think, and so turned Echo in to the government. Sasu now hunts escaped Enhanced and brings them back to the facility. He has run into Echo four times, but has not been able to bring him back successfully yet.
Other: None

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Username: Midnight Star

Spoiler

Name:
Lucas Moon
Age:
18
Appearance:
http://s.bebo.com/app-image/6390644...dios.com/img/q/u/08/04/07/anime-smart-boy.jpg
Auxiliary Ability:
Can mimic anything he sees or hears, not including abilities /powers but he can mimic any physical moment, skills, noises and voices.
Offensive Power:
Can make a really loud screech, which is able to smash glass and causes anyone to hear it to collapse and clutch their ears in pain. It also has the effect that it can disorient anyone it is aimed at.
Weapon:
Daggers.
Personality:
Lucas feels a strong sense of responsibility over things, especially Alyssa. He is fairly outgoing and likes to joke around. He can be fairly immature but most of what he does has good intentions. However, he takes his job very seriously and will work hard to get his goals.
Bio:
Lucas found his ability at a very young age by coping anything; he learned to talk very early as he imitated other people’s voices exactly. Lucas was four when he was found and taken to the facility, he fought hard to protect her as he thought they were bad despite his age but they easily managed to capture him. He was successfully programmed and now feels that they must be kept there for there own safety as well as the humans safety, especially his sister.
Other:
None

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Username: ArchAwesomeman

Spoiler

Name:
Victor Creed
Age:
23
Appearance:
http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy122/jirachistarlight/animepics/Veil.jpg
Auxiliary Ability:
Victor is able to release Aether from his body in a heavily concentrated mass. The Aether which he releases is closer to a thick gas than a form of energy and can be used in a variety of ways such as reaching objects at a distance to grasp it(the maximum weight it can lift is 300 pounds, so he won‘t be tossing around cars) or if forced into a high enough density it can be used a platform of sorts.
Offensive Power:
Using the Aether he releases, Victor is now able to use the cloud he releases to surround those of his choosing with it. Although it may not seem very frightening, the cloud will cut through just about anything in its path. If Victor chooses to do so, he can manipulate it in a variety of ways, condensing it to form a shield or even to form a blade if he wishes to kill someone with his own hands.
Weapon:
His “cloud”. …It’s visible so its color is blue. The cloud only moves at three times the speed of a regular human’s sprinting pace. So it would be slower than some of the others’ attacks.
Personality:
Victor is a calm person who is slow to anger. In battle he has never once shown the slightest hint of agitation even if he is mocked. Victor is a proud being who will rarely admit to a mistake but he is not overconfident as he knows the extent of his abilities. Although his abilities would be best suited for “crowd control” he often opts for one-on-one combat whenever given the chance as it gives him the opportunity to kill his opponent in a way that would allow he or she to not just be a nameless target.
Bio:
Victor was born and raised within the Facility and had become so loyal that the thought of actually programming him was thought to be useless. When another had escaped who had the same thought about him, Victor was programmed for fear of him deciding to turn his back on the Sanctum. This would be the first and last time he would allow himself to have his pride injured. Being programmed was an insult to him and he vowed to kill the one who had escaped. Upon some research, he found the mention of the name “Alaric” in a report that was filed the same day an Enhanced had fled from the Facility. Victor tries not to show it, but he wishes nothing more than the death of the one who had indirectly dealt damage to his pride.
Other:
None.

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"We Came. We Saw. We Cowabungaed."

Username: Ego Imperium
Alliance: The Sanction
Name: Kai Xanders
Age: 20

Appearance: Kai's appearance is reflective of what some might call an eccentric blend of Asian and Eastern/Northern European Ancestry (and he probably has a bit of everything in him somewhere. While facially he expresses the same general appearance that has become synonymous with the Chinese/Japanese groupings, the rest of him is clearly of a Scandinavian, or possibly Russian influence. It is seen that this European persuasion has taken the dominant course within his looks. He is of a light Caucasian skin tone, having bluish-gray eyes, and a gaggle of a beard of black hair gathered upon his chin, spreading out in the shadow of his mouth. He stands at 5'11'', with his body being one that might as well have been carved out by a Greek artisan. It is visibly perfect in proportion, being of a lithe build, that of an athlete. His hair, when left unattended, which seems to be his nature these days, is left in an unkempt mess of black curls that fall to nearly shoulder's length.

Auxiliary Ability: To some extent, all beings seem to have grown into a state that enables them to manipulate Aether. Aether, existing now within ever cell of Kai’s body, coupled with his ability to manipulate that Aether, has gifted him with the ability to manipulate the very material of his body, ranging from altering cells, to firing off cognitive signals to muscles, and sensory receptors, resulting in an all around enhanced sensory ability, and the potential to break far beyond peak human physical capacity through flows of Aether within his body. Of course, he’s not free from obstruction in this; to sway even the smallest function of his body, even through Aether, he runs the risk of compromising his homeostasis, and many of the possibilities remain as mere dreams in his mind.

Offensive Power: He realizes that he’s far from the only one in possession of such power, but anyhow, he is able to utilize his internal Aether as a form of pure energy, focusing it into waves rays, and bursts, existing externally as a semi-transparent form of energy. A variety of other techniques have come to mind, such as the concentration of his Aether onto a specific part of his body, or even encompassing his figure for melee style combat. He’s been experimenting since he’s had his power, finding out what suits him. On the whole, he prefers the use of melee style techniques, believing that “just blasting things and people to kingdom come isn’t the respectful way to do damage.”

Weapon: Bar is ability to coat his body with Aether, turning it into a lethal weapon in and of itself Kai bears no weapons.

Personality: Kai is pretty much the typical example of a twenty-year-old. As a young adult he comes off as pretty weird, and ultimately obnoxious to the older generations. He’s a sociality at heart, mingling with pretty much anyone he can get in with, even if it happens to be the most; through it all, he seems to be a little bit careless in the sense that not much of anything really fazes him, and for the most part, he feels immortal, invincible even. He could be staring at death itself, and still have the heart to laugh right before it took its toll on him. Despite his somewhat lazy attitude, he is well enough off in his intelligence. And there is at least one area in which he shows diligence: Competition. When there is some sort of glory on the line, Kai is usually seen spearheading his way to somewhere near the top of the ladder; this is especially true with anything involving anything competitive, which he easily gets worked up about, almost to the point of rage.

Bio: For as far back as Kai has ever been able to recall, he had lived the entirety of his childhood within the Facility. And he knows nothing of the circumstances of his capture, as he was far too young for it to embed itself within his memory. The story, as it has been told in any files (of which Kai has no knowledge at the moment), his parents had been involved in an incident, which had, inevitably, claimed their lives. Hence, Kai, and his sister Sarah, would have been left as orphans, if not for the Facility’s involvement in the incident. The two were captured, and hauled off to their respective places within the facility, where their lives would unfold in what they believed was the normal way it was meant to. Then, they had no memory of anything beyond their lives, bar each other, prior to The Facility.

In Kai’s case, the whole thing developed into somewhat of a game; one in which his goal was to just be better than the others he brushed shoulders with. For the earlier part of his time there, he was one of those mischievous kids, always getting into places, and situations that were generally frowned upon by the Facility staff. He received his punishments, and his scolding, those light taps on the wrist, and sometimes beatings. His trouble-bound persona began to sway into a more hard-core alignment; he became less mischievous, and more about taking on the challenge placed up by his peers, and ‘superiors.’ In fact, he had originally sought to break free. To his misfortune, the Facility had decided to start wrangling people in to prevent this happening. With Kai’s weakness in his ego, he was a prime target, and was hence, captured, and programmed.

He’s been amongst the ranks of The Sanction, preparing for a possibility of a second breakout attempt. He seems to have been trying to flout his ego about more often lately.
Other: Why Not?
Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpkeAQG6kQw
Fighting Theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofqHfSvy_8

Alliance: Resistance
Name: Sarah Xanders
Age: 18

Appearance: Sarah stands at 5 feet even, being at somewhere around 100 lbs in weight. If even possible, her meek posture makes seem even smaller than she is. While not particularly strong in build, she is genuinly healthy. She has naturally tanned skin, which is smooth in texture, and gives of a certain shine in the sunlight. Her hair is black, with linings of a dark maroon laying underneath at the bottom, and falls passed her shoulders; it's usually kept up in a pony tail. In contrast to her appearance, which is strong in oriental background, she has inherited a pair of brilliant blue eyes.

Auxiliary Ability: Sarah is super sensitive to the energy pit off by Aether, and the unique signals it lets off; she can feel out a person simply by means of their Aether 'signature', making her aware of the presence of mostly any enhanced being. Tracking, however, isn't the only use for this sensitivity, as her ability seems to be at the point where she can estimate the amount of power boasted by another, usually being accurate when dealing with those who lack the ability to fully manipulate their natural Aether output. But it's not without its backlashes; large outputs of Aether have been known overwork this sensory. As it's not fully refined, she has no control over what signals she picks up.

Offensive Ability: Sarah’s Aether is, by all means, some of the most destructive around, and highly personal to her, making it something that isn’t lightly consumed. Despite that she is unable to focus it into the pure energy forms that others seem able to, she has found a manner of using to her advantage as an environmental catalyst. This would generally equate to what some might call telekinesis, achieved through the wonders of Aether. By channeling her Aether through, or around a given portion of matter, she is able to effectively utter manipulative powers over it, which can range from moving said matter, to sparking chemical and physical processes, to even the outright breakdown of said matter. Again, it’s not a limitless force to reckon with. It takes precision, and at times patience, as thing won’t always happen instantly, and only so much can be done to certain matter within a short time period. But on that hand, little Aether is required to perform such actions.

Personality: One would be hard pressed to find a sister any more unlike her brother. Sarah is sort of like that shattered mother figure in the scheme of a family. She’s the one that people aren't always sure of. She's pretty much quiet, and unsure of herself, seeing as she's already failed at sticking with her family, and holding things together. Silently, she does what she can to keep her comrades out of harm's way, especially within the facility, where things the roughest. But she has a bit of a confidence issue when it comes to Actually dealing with the problems, for more often then not, she cowers unless there is more than her own life on the line. She needs to know she is needed, and cared of in order to function properly.

Biography: Despite being younger than Kai, Sarah can remember the earlier days of their lives pretty clearly. It's just a sort of skeleton of a memory, lacking any meat; but it's a general idea, which is what keeps her going. She rembees that their parents had been the caring kind, far from able to just let their children get carted off. No, they weren't the sort that would spoil the two; they were your normal, middle tier parents, that distributed justice accordingly (most of the time). But other than that, she remembers nothing. She knows nothing of the incident that landed her and Kai into The Facility; and naturally, she wouldn't, as she was asleep when the matter went down. Everything from there is just a blur until coming into the facility, where she watched her brother go aggressive, and ultimately, become programmed. She still resides within the facility, locked up, and watched over by Kai like a worm in the eyes of a bird.

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Will add a profile for said sister once it's ready. I'm not too good at describing female characters in terms of appearance, so it'll take some thinking. And if I may, I'd like to reserve Magenta as the color code for his sister.

 

Added and color is reserved.
Also, reread the first post, you missed a couple of things.

 

Got, I'm sure. Thought that it had something to do with later posts. Very sneaky.

 

We came. We saw. We cowabungaed.

Username: SpazticFantaztic :3
Alliance: Resistance
Name: Echo Gray
Age: 17
Appearance: Clothes/Face:

Spoiler

Echo also has dark grey/navy blue bat wings with claws on the end, and bat ears at the top of his head.
Hair:

Spoiler

Auxiliary Ability: Ability to fly. Echo was born with the wings of a bat, and he cannot hide them, instantly marking him as an enhanced to the rest of society. Unlike a bat, however, they are not attached to his hands, they stick out of his back. They have their own claws on the end, just like a bats, however.
Offensive Power:Because Echo has some attributes of a bat, he also has an offensive ability reminiscent of a bat's power. Echo can let out a high-pitched screech that is at such a high frequency, it bothers and sometimes even stuns normal humans, if only for a couple seconds at best. It can also make normal humans confused and disoriented, and doesn't have as great an effect on other Enhanced.
Weapon: The claws on his wings and his own two hands.
Personality:Echo can be a very cold person sometimes, but he doesn't care. Having been kidnapped at a young age and taken to the facility, Echo literally doesn't trust ANYONE. He has no regard to other's feelings, because he assumes they don't care about his own. He typically makes sarcastic comments to his own enjoyment, though he doesn't speak as much as most people. Echo's sense of humor lies in making sarcastic comments, and laughing at the ignorance of others, though ignorance bugs him. He may be cold, but he isn't a cruel person and doesn't like to see other people getting hurt unless they are his enemies. (As a reference, sorta think Fang from the Max Ride series.)
Bio:When Echo was five, it was already completely apparent that he was an enhanced. The wings that stuck out of his back and the ears on the top of his gave it away. Not wanting to harbor a fugitive, his parents gave him up to the government, who had promised them he would be safe with his parents. His parents took him back, trusting in the government's words. Boy, where they wrong to trust the government. Now knowing that there was an Enhanced in the Gray family, the next night the government came to the Gray house and kidnapped Echo from his bed.

Echo tried to fly away, but they had put nets over his wings and bound them together. He was trapped in the back of a pickup truck as the members of the Sanction drove him to the Facility. After arriving at the facility, he was put in a small metal cage so cramped that he couldn't stretch his wings. He spent the remainder of his life in that cage, having tests and injections done on him occasionally. When he turned sixteen, another Enhanced, called Sasu, broke Echo out of his cage using Sasu's ability to grow biomass out of his hands. Sasu and Echo ran away from the facility, until one day the worst of all the betrayals in Echo's life happened.

Echo and Sasu had formed a great bond, and quickly became best friends. Echo actually enjoyed his time with Sasu, and Sasu was his first friend. A nicer, happier side came out of Echo when he was with Sasu, but that was all destroyed when Sasu joined the Sanction. He had heard form other Enhanced that had been brainwashed by the government that it was a benefit to all Enhanced, and so Sasu joined. He urged Echo to join, as well, but Echo refused, remembering his terrible childhood when he was betrayed by both his parents and the government. When Echo wouldn't join, Sasu turned him in to the government, and Echo was put in a larger cage as he would no longer fit in his old one. He had spent a year being friends with Sasu, and so was now seventeen. Being out and about, his bones had room to grow a little, and so he became a good deal taller. His new cage was not built out of the same material as his old one, and so he eventually broke out of it using his claws. He knocked out the humans guarding the facility with his supersonic screech, and then ripped them apart with his claws, fueled by rage. He ran away, and cooled down a little. He is still running.
Other: None.


Alliance: The Sanction
Name: Sasu Rust
Age: 18
Appearance:

Spoiler

Sasu has midnight blue hair that frames both sides of his face. Now that he has been brainwashed by the government, he has a constant smirk on his face.
Auxiliary Ability: Sasu has the ability to grow biomass out of his hands, just pure living mass due to his Aether-powered cells. The biomass is an extension of him, and he can grow as much of it as he wants. He uses it to climb things, cling to things, and reach faraway objects.
Offensive Power: Using his biomass, Sasu can consume and absorb any living or nonliving thing to fuel his Aether. The living thing cannot be very big, however, and so, if he were trying to devour a human, he would have to do it piece by piece, ripping off and consuming, say, and arm first.
Weapon: His biomass.
Personality: Sasu has always had somewhat of a superiority complex. In fights, he taunts his enemies and says things like "I'm clearly the better man", "You can't win against me", and "There's no telling how bad I'll beat you". Now this is typical in most people who fight, but Sasu does it to such an extent that it is noticeable and a complex. Hanging out with his friends, including Echo, he lightly teases them and always succeeds in his attempts to one-up them.
Bio: Sasu was born and raised in a cage. He didn't even know he had the power he had until the doctors at the facility made him so enraged, his biomass shot out of his hand and ripped the doctors arm off. From that day on, he learned to control his power. He grew stronger and stronger until he was fifteen, when he broke out of his cage using his powers that he had trained with.

He ran away from the facility, but then remembered that there were other Enhanced in there, and eventually came back to rescue them. The only Enhanced that had survived in his ward were one, Echo Gray. He helped him escape and they became friends. They ran away together, until Sasu was persuaded to join the Sanction by brainwashed Enhanced. He was told it would give him a better life, and urged Echo to join too. Echo said no, and so Sasu went to join by himself. He was brainwashed into thinking like the government wanted him to think, and so turned Echo in to the government. Sasu now hunts escaped Enhanced and brings them back to the facility. He has run into Echo four times, but has not been able to bring him back successfully yet.
Other: None

 

Username: Midnight Star
Alliance: Resistance
Name: Alyssa Moon
Age: 16
Appearance: http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=2667388
Her ears are also a little pointy.
Auxiliary Ability: The ability to move through walls or any other substantial material, she can also short circuit any electrical device she moves her hand through. She can transfer her ability to others through constant physical contact if she wants.
Offensive Power: Can spray a potent sleeping gas from her wrists that sends anyone who breathes it in instantly deep asleep for half an hour.
Weapon: 2 short swords
Personality: Alyssa is still fairly innocent and hates anything being hurt. She loves to feel free and doesn’t like being confined. She is very determined and strong willed. She has strong morals and feels a strong sense of guilt if she lets anything get hurt.
Bio: Alyssa was found with her brother and taken to the facility when she was only two. She relied completely on her brother and soon after they arrived he tried to protect her and got punished as a result. She decided then that these people were bad and rebelled in her mind. Every time she saw someone get hurt she became more determined and as a result the programming did not work on her. Now, she has always wanted to break out but wants to takes everyone, especially her brother out of there, as she felt guilty of leaving them. Due to this she does not use her ability to the extent she is capable.
Other: None

Username: Midnight Star
Alliance: Sanction officer
Name: Lucas Moon
Age: 18
Appearance: http://s.bebo.com/app-image/6390644...dios.com/img/q/u/08/04/07/anime-smart-boy.jpg
His eyes are also golden.
Auxiliary Ability: Can mimic anything he sees or hears, not including abilities /powers but he can mimic any physical moment, skills, noises and voices.
Offensive Power: Can make a really loud screech, which is able to smash glass and causes anyone to hear it to collapse and clutch their ears in pain. It also has the effect that it can disorient anyone it is aimed at.
Weapon: Daggers.
Personality: Lucas feels a strong sense of responsibility over things, especially Alyssa. He is fairly outgoing and likes to joke around. He can be fairly immature but most of what he does has good intentions. However, he takes his job very seriously and will work hard to get his goals.
Bio: Lucas found his ability at a very young age by coping anything; he learned to talk very early as he imitated other people’s voices exactly. Lucas was four when he was found and taken to the facility, he fought hard to protect her as he thought they were bad despite his age but they easily managed to capture him. He was successfully programmed and now feels that they must be kept there for there own safety as well as the humans safety, especially his sister.
Other: None

We came
We saw
We cowabungaed

 

All of you are officially added.
We'll start either when one more person joins or when Ego puts his other character up, whichever I feel like.
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And said character can be up by this evening. The character sheet won't be as strong, since I suck at making females off of a non-real life basis, and I tried to not repeat much of Kai in it. Should be good though.

 

Don't know why, but I get the feeling like Aether shouldn't be something that a person could just absorb into their body, at least, not the Aether of another person. I mean, wouldn't that be sort of like just integrating some foreign DNA into one's body? I mean, it can't be healthy for a person, assuming that Aether is as personalized as the DNA itself is.

 

OOC: Aether isn't as personalized as DNA. It's literally life force made solid. Think of it as how you use energy to push and you put more energy into your arms to push harder. Enhanced can use that energy and increase it to a point where it becomes a physical substance and, depending on their abilities, they can manipulate it or it has an effect on their body. Granted, it is somewhat personalized since it comes from one's own body, so it picks up your DNA as it comes out, but Archawesomeman's characters have weakness for it, so it balances out. I'll add that to the initial post, should've done it anyways. Anyways, less spammy in the thread. Any other questions, VM me.

I also forgot to ask you guys to put whether your Resistance members currently in the Resistance or being broken out by them, so just incorporate that into your post somehow >> And if you didn't pick it up from the first post, we're starting right in the middle of a breakout. Arch, you're in and we start.....now.



BIC:

While the alarm rang loudly throughout the halls of the Facility, Noctis led a group of Enhanced around a corner. "Damn it, didn't think they'd notice us this quickly..." he complained as he motioned for the others to stop behind him. "Maybe we should've been quieter, eh, bro?" He smiled to Ace as he leaned against another corner. It was nice seeing his friend safe and sound after all this time.

"Quieter? That wouldn't be any fun then," Ace smirked, pumping his arms. "Let's tear this place up!" As he said it, his arms gave off a faint glow just for a brief moment. Before Noctis could say anything back, Ace sensed someone running towards them around the corner. "Someone's coming."

Noctis tensed up and pushed off the wall; he could feel his forearms tingling. "Must be the Sanction coming for us. Is it....?" He started to ask, his eyebrow raised.

Ace shook his head and smiled, lowering his voice. "Not an Enhanced. No Aether," he looked back at the group behind him. He couldn't help but shake slightly. So many thoughts were rushing through his head, but, for once, there were his own. "He's coming in five, four," he turned his head back to Noctis and held up a hand, counting down with his fingers. Three fingers up, two fingers, one finger...

Noctis could hear the footsteps approaching the corner before Ace started counting down, and once Ace's last finger went down, Noctis spun around the corner with a leg high in the air. The uniformed Sanction officer had no idea what hit him as he was clotheslined. He landed on his back, unconscious before he even hit the floor. Noctis frowned at the unconscious body before looking back up the hall. No one else was coming and he couldn't hear any footsteps. I hope the others are alright... He thought silently before looking back at the rest of the group. He nodded to Ace and smiled at everyone else, "You guys ready to keep moving?"



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Several floors up, Alec was running as fast as he could down a hall, his arms flailing behind him. He was just deployed to stop the intruders. Capture was priority, but not a necessity. He hadn't run into any Resistance members so far, but he once he did...there was no stopping him. As he entered the stairwell, he could feel small amounts of electricity running around his fingers.

 

((Second character posted. Also, out of courtesy for everyone, I've changed Kai's color to silver, so as to not cause any strains on peoples' eyes. The dark orchid color wasn't very accomadating)).

 

Alyssa nodded quietly, she was happy that they were eventually going to get out of here and she was just determined that nothing was going to ruin it for them. She was disappointed that she hadn't managed to get Lucas to join them but it was more important to get everyone else out first. She looked around at the others, she wanted to prove herself to them and show she wasn't just some little girl.

Lucas was running towards the direction, everything had gone into panic trying to stop the escapees. He watched another member run overtake him and run faster than he could. He grinned and matched their pace, copying their run exactly. He curled his hand into a fist, he was not going to let them get away this time.

 

Echo scanned the acres of land that housed the facility. From this high above, he couldn't see much, so he flew lower to check to see how many guards were stationed at all the entrances. I know the other members of the Resistance are already in there, he thought, but this is something I want to do on my own. Landing silently on the ground about six paces behind a guard, he walked slowly toward the guard. Echo put his hand around the guards throat, and whispered "I've got a secret to tell you." Then he moved his mouth even closer to the guard's ear, and let out a piercing shriek. The guard slumped down into Echo's hands, unconscious.

It was a genius plan, or at least Echo thought so. With that loud of a noise all the other guards would rush over to that area to see what the noise was. Echo would fly up, high into the sky, and then enter through one of the now unguarded entrances to the inside of the Facility. It was what he would do inside that he wasn't sure of.

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Sasu was standing at one of the small, concealed entrances to the Facility. He wasn't a very high rank, as he had only joined about a year ago. From some of his spies in the Resistance, he knew that they were launching an attack today, and he was determined to prove himself to the higher-ups. Today was the day that he would rise above the new recruits in the Sanction, oh yes. He could feel it. It wasn't often that Sasu wasn't at the top of things, the leader, and it didn't feel right. But today, he knew, that would change.

Suddenly, he heard a shriek. Normally, this would not bother him, as the experiments done at the Facility always made the test subjects shriek. This particular shriek, however, seemed like it came from outside. He rushed over to the spot the noise sounded like ti came from, and was startled to find many of the other guards gathering in a circle around a fallen guard. Now Sasu knew what that shriek was, and he said it aloud.

"Echo."

 

“Kai!” The sound of the voice felt so distant from the napping young man. “Kai!!” The voice called out again, starting draw closer. But the young man still dozed like a log in the forest, undisturbed, and at that moment, uncaring of anything that was happening around him. WHAM! The cold, hard butt end of an assault rifle plowed into Kai’s abdomen, causing him to cringe, holding his gut to shield it from further pain. Finally, his eyes opened as he rolled off of the desk, onto the floor. It was just as cold there as it had been against the butt of the rifle. So it wasn’t exactly the best choice for sleeping. He opened his eyes, instantly coming face to face with a uniformed man, decorated in what seemed to be random, self-awarded badges, as they were like none that had been seen on too many others, even around the facility.

It was less than a second after that, when the officer was forcing him onto his feet, that Kai realized that the room was tinted in the classic red light of an emergency. The alarm was crying out for someone to answer, drowning out most of the voices that strayed too far into its range; the office Kai had been in was, of course, blocked off from the sound in its entirety, so hearing wasn’t really an issue. “Sup, Greggs?” he asked with a yawn. “I was dreaming this awesome dream… Man, I’ve gotta tell you about it! I—.“ The officer named Greggs raised a hand, and Kai fell silent, though his half-excited face waned only a little bit. “Kai,” Greggs said, contrasting Kai’s lighthearted take on things with a bout of seriousness. “We’ve got a break in. The Resistance, that group of people that broke out last time, has come back.”

“Oh!” Kai said, fighting against his drowsy, loopy mindset to get worked up about the situation. “Why the hell would they be coming back to this place anyway though? I mean, they’ve already broken out? What IS their reason for returning?” Greggs just breathed out a heavy sigh, as though the answer to that question was a heartbreaking one; and to him, it was. “We suspect they’ve come back for the sake of breaking out the rest of the lot. They’ve already gotten into one of the main cell wings. Now they’ve been taking out the rookie guards left and right, as well as few veterans on site.” Greggs turned around, walking to the door before turning his head back to Kai. “I trust you know your jurisdictions here. Go and take care of your evacuation assignments. All specimens must be rounded up, and moved to the secondary site.”

Greggs waited for no confirmation of the mission; before Kai could even get another word in edgewise, his CO was out into the hallway. Kai, now alone in the office overflowing with the sound of the alarm, reached into an open drawer, removing from its content, of all things, a pair of large aviator style sunglasses. They weren’t his, but they were now. Fun time. The trip from the office to his destination was a short one, literally right across the hallway. There, there stood a tough steel door, one amongst a row of many. He had the key to each door on that side of the facility, the complete opposite from where the break-ins had been reported. The door opened instantly once the key device had been slipped in; the door opened swiftly, steadily, and with an iron screech to accompany it’s motion. “Time to go, sis.”

The sole occupant of this particular cell, a younger girl, two, maybe three years down on Kai, moved her head slowly to face his visage, a mere shadow of black, imprinted against the red lights from the hallway. She looked much like Kai, bar her meeker, more serene appearance, and frightened expression. “What’s going on Kai? Are we leaving now? Are… are we going to go home, finally? Please tell me we’re going home.” When all her inquiry got in response had been silence, and a threatening step forward, she knew that it wasn’t home that they going. “So you’re just gonna keep me locked up, aren’t you? You’re gonna let them screw with me, and all the others here, bring us all to some other location? Well, I won’t have it!” Kai being two feet from her, she threw a punch at his gut, which was caught with ease. “Sarah… it’s for everyone’s good that the testing resume. "Things need to be… learned.” He snapped her wrist back, sending a jolt of pain up her arm. “You’re coming, and that’s the final word."

((For now, try not to do much of anything with Greggs (if you bring him into things). I want to see what, if anything, I can do with him as a PC before he gets too roughed up)).

 

OOC: Sanction, Arch, not Sanctum. We're not on Cocoon >>

BIC:

Noctis winked at the girl who had nodded and nodded in return to the other members, trying to assure them that they'll be alright. He took a step back, and turned the corner, patting Alaric as he walked passed him. "Nice job, but don't overwork yourself. We still got a ways to go," he told the fellow Resistance member. "We're going to need all the energy we've got. Now," he flashed one last glance at Ace, who had his fist in his other hand, "we're moving. Let's go. Ace, you take point with me. Alaric, cover our rear." And with that, he ran forward. His top priority: Making sure EVERYONE got out.

Ace had to clear his throat. Whatever the man named Alaric did made did make it hard to breathe for a moment. "Hell yes! Let's do this!" He yelled with a burst of enthusiasm. It wasn't hard to figure out that Noctis wanted him up front to sense any Sanction officers before it was too late, but he was completely oblivious to the true reason: Noctis was determined to protect him, moreso than the others. He ran behind Noctis, keeping his senses up. It normally didn't take much energy, his sensory ability was usually a subconscious and constant activity, but by focusing on it, he could determine distance and number of people a lot easier. And he was set on proving himself to his proclaimed "brother." As they ran around another corner, he felt other people. The ones that didn't have Aether he guessed were Sanction officers, but the ones that did, he wasn't sure if they were Sanction or Resistance Enhanced. Guess we'll figure it out when we get close, he grinned at the thought. He clenched his fists, cracking his knuckles in the process. The Sanction had it coming to them.

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Alec grabbed the handrail the moment he entered the stairwell and vaulted himself over it. The angle in which he launched himself landed him on the opposite wall on the next floor down, barely missing its rail. He continued the process two more times, surprising another Sanction officer before dashing towards the door. Instead of opening it, he looked through the small glass. It would be better to reserve his invisibility for a later moment, so he had to check to see who was in the hallway. Seeing no one, he opened the door and kept running through the flashing red light. He cursed himself for not having his com-link on him; he had no way of knowing where the Resistance members were. However, there wasn't a doubt in his mind that he would find them. Just follow the commotion, he thought as he saw a group of Sanction officers run down the adjacent hall. One of them stopped and started to raise his gun, but stopped after noticing Alec's armband. Stumbling, the officer quickly followed the rest, with Alec doing the same.

 

Alyssa smiled at Noctis, for once she felt like she actually belonged and they were going to get out of here. She found it hard to breathe for a moment but followed them quickly, moving towards the front of the group. There was no way that the sanction was going to stop them now, she was not going to lose this new hope without a fight. Her eyes scanned her surroundings, seaching for anything that might put them at danger.

Lucas raised his eyebrows as he watched another Sanction officer vault himself over a handrail, landing on the floor he was on. Lucas paused and smiled, remembering the move for later before following the crowd towards the breakout, listening to his comlink for more information. He was determined to not let this group escape, they couldn't be allowed into the outside world.

 

Echo silently walked deeper into the halls of the Facility. He cursed the place's low ceilings, which made his ability to fly completely useless. The area he was walking around in seemed to be completely deserted, as there were neither Sanction officers nor Resistance members about.

With his extrasensory ability to hear, he heard someone coming. Echo used the claws on his wings to grab a pipe on the ceiling. He swung himself up and clung to the pipe with all six limbs, though his wings were not really limbs, and waited, holding his breath. A lone Sanction officer walked underneath him, apparently unaware of Echo's presence. Well that was anticlimactic, Echo thought, as he jumped down from the ceiling and onto the band's back. He put the man's neck in the crook of his elbow and squeezed, snapping the man's neck.