Accepted! Perhaps it could be a plot point that the group eventually finds Gaia's rider in a Hunter prison, or something? Unless you/anyone else wants to do otherwise, of course c:
The rp thread will be up tomorrow morning btw, I need to sleep now haha
I'd be cool with that (:
i will probably come back and edit this a lot, but here's my "finished" form! :p i typed it in all lowercase, but i do not roleplay that way. when i roleplay, i will write letters in uppercase when proper!
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NAME: ailin alden
AGE: 17
GENDER: male
SEXUALITY: bisexual
APPEARANCE: 6'0, never smiles, always makes eye contact (despite blindness), walks tall and proud, average weight, looks (physically) stronger than he actually is, wears very little expression on his face. face claim is below:
unlike his face claim, of course, ailin is blind (light perceiving).
generally wears dark clothing suited to a rogue.
PERSONALITY:
DRAGON: sirona, light dragon
SKILLS: best with protective magic, such as light shields, but also good at long-range magic (blasts of light) because he uses his sense of sound to aim. he has a basic understanding of (non-magic) healing but not enough that he could heal a serious wound. mostly relies on his dragon for offensive fighting because he's useless in hand-to-hand combat.
HISTORY:
OTHER: n/a
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NAME: sirona
TYPE: light
AGE: 17
GENDER: female
PERSONALITY:
RIDER: ailin alden
HISTORY:
OTHER: n/a
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i think ailin should be new to the blood bound; as he had no connections prior, perhaps he is a new recruit. <:
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NAME: Elizabeth "Lumen" Carter
NICKNAME: She prefers to be called by her first name, but she has no qualms with nicknames as she is well aware that it can be quite a mouthful. However she insists to be called 'Lumen' in public places so she can keep a low profile.
AGE: Twenty-three years of age.
GENDER: Feminine
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
APPEARANCE: Elizabeth is a rather petite young girl with shoulder length white-blonde hair and distinct bright green eyes that can be spotted in even the thickest of crowds. She has a rather average height of 5'6", although she is quite convinced she is as short as a dwarf. Nonetheless, she also usually wears a white button up shirt with long sleeves, however, she can roll them up and button them up so as to not get in the way if she needs to. She also usually wears breaches and a pair of riding boots that she finds to be rather comfortable when riding her dragon. She wears a pair of stud earrings in her ears at all times, although she also has a piercing in her upper ear for when she would war more elegant earrings but she no longer wears such things normally. Elizabeth dons a traditional Japanese sword at her right hip, a katana, due to her interest in Japanese culture. Along with all of this she wears a necklace in the shape of her family's crest, a white shield with a lion with a snake wrapped around it's neck, the lion standing upon a crate of goods. The lion represents her family and its honor while the snake represents their connections should they be messed with, while the crate obviously represents her family's occupation, trade.
PERSONALITY: Graceful, rule abiding, knowledgeable, most always calm and composed, loyal, logical, observant, intelligible, focused, independent, quick thinker, fast learner, stubborn in some instances; she doesn't trust people easily which usually will get her in trouble when in a pinch; she can also be slightly a know-it-all, which will lead her into a getting slapped one of these days; Elizabeth believes in all things graceful, so she refuses to do things that she deems to be barbaric which will leave her in rather tight spots, especially in battle, in some instances; she can be more than just a bit stubborn sometimes. Once she has made a decision, you'll need every single piece of evidence you can get your hands on in order to convince her to change her mind. This usually either works against her or with her; she believes very greatly in the samurai code, and will sometimes leave her judgement to the said thing; if one knows how to push her buttons just right, for example, if you rub dirt on her families name or say her family kicked her out, she will most definitely try to tear you to shreds, although this leaves her rather open to any and all attacks because of her not calculating her next movement or her enemies; being as knowledgeable and observant as she is, she is rather good with strategy and will use every resource she can use to create an ideal strategy if it works in her comrades favor; she is not exactly good with expressing how she feels towards other people, as she was taught when she was merely a child how to put on an emotionless mask to make deals. Her family does work as renowned merchants after all.
DRAGON: Altus the Thunder Dragon.
SKILLS: Having been tutored in all manners of things, she found herself most interested in Japanese fighting styles. She is as close to an expert in Judo as one can be, despite her rather petite frame. She considers herself a samurai of sorts, oddly enough, so she usually carries around a traditional Japanese sword at her waist, to both her households dislike. As for her magical ability, it's rather poor compared to her physical ability. She is able to crate sparks of electricity on her finger tips and, depending on her emotions, she can extend it to about a five to ten foot range around her to shock her opponents, leaving them rather frazzled or unconscious. She is able to channel the electricity in her finger tips into her sword which allows for about five more feet in her range and letting her have access to a fairly 'heart-stopping' technique, making it a rather deadly combination, however, she rarely resorts to such a method as she finds it to be rather barbaric and not so graceful. There are times in battle that her temper can flare if the right buttons are pushed, which usually either results in her own magic erupting out of control which usually ends in herself being injured, or a fairly large lightning attack that has a range of about 20 to 25 feet around her that drains her both mentally and physically, usually rendering her unconscious.
HISTORY: Elizabeth was born to a rather well off merchant family of french descent. From birth she showed rather impressive intellectual prowess, learning and picking up on things that most children wouldn't learn till they were much older. This being said, her parents started tutoring her in all manners of things, from advanced academics to extreme sports of her choice, from the day she could walk and talk. It was discovered when she was about 6 years old that was to be bonded to a dragon. This was because her magical abilities displayed themselves every now and then, although her parents made no fuss of it and simply treated her as they would if she were not destined to become bonded to a dragon so they carried on trying to conceal her magical abilities from the rest of the world.
At a young age, she found that she was rather drawn to Japanese culture in a history lesson one day, and the result of that is her current interest in Japanese culture and its unique ways. She had one single brother whom was four years her senior and was destined to be her families heir, so she had more freedoms than him, however she would play with him and teach him things she learned whenever she could. They had a very close relationship for years upon years until their father finally passed away when she was about 16 years old which left him to become their households head. He grew rather distant and demanding, sending her off to do their families important trade meetings. From this she was able to travel to many, many places that she found very interesting. This, however, was how she met her bond-mate.
She was 18 years old when met him one night while she was exploring the area that surrounded her childhood home. It was a rather rural and rough land that no one other than herself and her brother had ever gone to, of course that was when they were children. It was early in the evening when she left the house, her sword resting on her hip as she had just escaped from one of her most trusted butler whom tried valiantly to convince her from going outside when it was going to get dark soon. Elizabeth went out despite the butlers attempt at convincing her to stay inside for the rest of the evening, she left and went to the rural and to be frank, rather dangerous, lands outside her home. She didn't intend to go very far, for fear of getting lost, but she found that after a little while of exploring she heard a loud crash and immediately went to see what the source of the sound was. She discovered a dragon, which she found to be utterly stunning, although for a few moments she was struck with terror and would not move from her spot before the large creature. The dragon only started at her for a long time before she felt a tingling sensation all throughout her body. She then realized that this dragon was her destined bond-mate, and since then she has been alongside this mighty creature.
However, this was just around the time that hate for dragons and magic was just starting to get more than a little bit violent. So, to save her families honor, she informed her brother of her sudden need to leave the residence, but she did not inform him of why. Elizabeth decided she would not return to her childhood home for as long as the hate for dragons and magic lasted. Her brother was confused and angry at her for her sudden departure, but he soon discovered the reason after he heard rumors of a young girl riding a dragon was spotted about a month later and now respects her greatly.
Now, in the current time, she acts as a strategist for Blood-Bound.
OTHER: I hope her history and abilities and such are okay. Is it fine that she be the strategist for Blood-Bound or is that a no-no? If it is I can change that bit of her history. Also, I apologize for her history being so long. >.> I always seem to do that for some reason. Also, I have a suggestion. Would it be okay if her family made contributions to the Blood-Bound at Elizabeth's request, that and if they were one of their main contributors in secret? For example, if she made a strategy that required a fair amount of resources that Blood-Bound could not produce in good time the would be the ones to help with supplying them?
NAME: Altus
TYPE: Thunder
AGE: Twenty-Three years of age.
GENDER: Masculine
Description: Altus has a rather odd assortment of dark-blue and yellow scales, along with a pair of rather pale sky blue eyes. From looking at him you can tell rather easily that the base color of his scales is a bright-yellow, and that he has numerous dark-blues, of course there is a few light-blue colors mixed in, of varying color. Altus has a pretty muscular build,of course that isn't very surprising being that he was the eldest of his siblings. He doesn't actually have many scars that you would expect him to have, seeing as he had four rambunctious and crazy siblings that he usually had to to take care of. Of course, for reference he would look like this, only with his yellow scales with blue blotches of varying colors shades as well as his pale sky blue eyes. Link
PERSONALITY: Down to earth, protective, sympathetic, kind and caring, 'the friendly guy', great at giving worthy advice, wonderful listener, has his head in the clouds sometimes; Altus very much dislikes having to resort to violence and usually will use words rather than having to fight if he can; he more than just a little protective of his rider, Elizabeth, and will, if he must, rip your head off if you so much as lay a finger on her; being 'the friendly guy' he usually is the one to break up any and all fights that may occur when he's around; he may seem like a dragon with a shy and reserved persona, but he can be more than a little bit scary when angered, which doesn't happen to often; much like his rider, he wears an emotional mask of sorts in some situations, however, he's more immune to most happenings. I suppose you could say he just ignores it in a way that has become so natural to him that it takes no effort for him to accomplish; he likes to please, and will do anything to do so.
RIDER: Elizabeth "Lumen" Carter
HISTORY: Altus was born in the very mountains that Blood-Bound no inhabits. He was born high up where the air just starts getting a chill that makes that hair on the back of your neck stand up. He is the eldest of four siblings, three boys and one girl. He was the one who was depended on the most, and as you may have it, he happened to be the biggest and most dependable of the four. His mother looked after them till they were able to hunt and fly by themselves. It was not long after they were accomplish said things before she bade them farewell and informed them of her location should they ever need her assistance.
He and his siblings inhabited the same area they grew up in for almost seventeen years before the war finally caught up to them in their region of the mountains. The youngest of his brothers went out to catch dinner and returned with spears sticking out of him and half his tail missing, but nonetheless he still returned with the promised meal. Enraged by such acts that he could only imagine to have been the doing of humans, he searched for the nearest village that he had discerned to be the home of the people who injured his youngest brother and mercilessly burnt it to the ground.
To a certain degree, he regretted it but was only happy that he attained the revenge he was looking for. After his brother was fully healed, he and his siblings decided it was best that they separate and all go their own ways. His sister went to the east where their mother was bound to be while his other two brothers went north and west. That being said, Altus decided to go south and wander from there. He found that there were very few places he could be that he would not be attacked at.
He spent almost a year like this until he found himself behind a rather large human accommodation. He had been hunting and came across a buck, but upon pouncing on it he lost it and instead knocked over a rather young looking tree. It was only a few minutes after when he smelled the scent of a human just behind him. Upon turning around, he was ready to kill this person, whom happened to be a young looking girl, should they attack him but all she did was stare at him, clearly in terrified awe but didn't leave despite her fear.
He felt a connection with this girl and, realizing why he felt this connection, simply stared back at her with unblinking eyes. From that day forth the two were partners. They grew very close due to hundreds of violent encounters over a span of five years. Of course, they headed for Blood-Bound just after they had realized their bond. She fitted him with a saddle that she made with the help of a very close friend named Huston. After that had been accomplished they headed straight for Blood-Bound's base of operations and upon arrival became welcomed members.
OTHER: I apologize for yet another rather lengthy history. >.>
NAME: Zakus Irrea Rafen
AGE: 16
GENDER: Male
SEXUALITY: Asexual
APPEARANCE: A long haired lanky boy with bony features. He's rather stringy and unkempt. With brown eyes and dull brown hair, he would seem quite unremarkable to most. The most oustanding thing about him appearance-wise is probably just how uncannily average he is in every single way. He is obviously a person that has seen a lot of hardship in his short life, but he eyes are bit distant, as if his head is full of thoughts at times. Whatever unatural allureness riders might have would be completely counter-acted just by how average this person appears.
PERSONALITY: Clumsy, acerbic, always seems angry at something, proud, unbreakable
DRAGON: Auron
SKILLS: Being an incredibly new rider, fresh to his position, Zakus has very few talents in regards to dragon riding. He has been able to learn a few spells just from Auron, but other than that he is nearly useless.
HISTORY: All of his life, Zakus never dreamed of becoming a rider, never knew the fate that would be his tangled together with his dragon in the coming war. However, one thing was for certain, whatever misdemeanor the other riders had brought upon themselves to instill a civil war, Zakus would have had no part in it. Heck, he didn't even know he was a rider until a month ago. He'd been a simple stable boy so many weeks ago, content to muck the stables and wash his stable-master's boots should the man have asked for it. Now, all of a sudden he is riding thousands of feet above the ground, hardly breathing as the intense air pressure threatens to collapse his lungs and ice cold breaths seize his chest in a vice grip. The scaleless dragon, Auron, had found his stable boy in a horse stall covered in manure and straw. Nearly having to force the bond upon his rider, Auron had stolen Zakus from his home, his family, and his life, and thrown him into a war without any weapons or knowledge of who he was fighting. Now Zakus must fight for the only resource he has left, his honor and his pride. He will likely never forgive Auron for what the beast has taken from him, but Zakus is not about to go down in a war fought by cowards and jealous fools. Rider or no rider, this has become a matter of survival of the fittest.
NAME: Auron
TYPE: Thunder/ Scaleless
AGE: 16
GENDER: Male
PERSONALITY: Proud, prone to harsh language, ascerbic, unbreakable
RIDER: Zakus Irrea Rafen
HISTORY: Auron was born in a clutch of eggs, the youngest of three siblings, all of different colors and breeds other than his own. His older sister, Wistela, his brother, AuRel, and himself, they had been an inseparable trio all until the day the humans came and ruined it. The jealous monkeys had killed his siblings in cold blood, murdered them on a cave floor before their wings had even come in. They had been seeking his clutch's scales, but seeing that he himself had none, they had left Auron to die of starvation in the wilderness. The unlucky bastards had underestimated him that night, but after a year they were no longer laughing. Auron killed the bandit crew that had murdered his siblings, but he will likely never forgive humanity for stealing his brethern from him, putting them down like wild beasts. To discover his own rider, such a weak human covered in horse manure and scared to death of him, honestly had given Auron a but of a thrill that he quite reveled in most days. Thought such revelries were quickly dashed by the constant shows of his own rider's outstanding incompetence. He had done his best to teach the child a few skills, but at the end of the day, in war you saved your own skin. Tradition be damned, he had held no part in this war until a month ago, and dragon or no dragon, it was a dog eat dog world. He swore upon his siblings he would be the last monster standing.
OTHER: I'm liking the parallelism here... :)
Btw character ideas from the fantasy series Age of Fire by E E Knight for dragon fans.
@suzykururu, accepted! Nice to have another light dragon buddy c: I'm going to start the rp with most of our characters going on a patrol around the Blood-Bound's headquarters, so if you wanted your characters to be a completely new recruits to the group then we could discover them then, if you wanted?
@Anemone_, also accepted! I will say that countries such as France and Japan probably don't exist in the world of the rp, but there will be parts of that world with similar cultures and ideologies. Your character would have picked up her fighting style from such places (as would have most of the riders who have experience in hand-to-hand combat, now that I come to think of it) and any other cultural practices that she may follow. And yes, it's fine that she acts as a strategist for the Blood-Bound. I'm also okay with her family being the main suppliers to the group, too. Most of the group's resources come from their own hunters and craftsmen, though they might need other supplied on occasion.
@Leafflightgirl accepted! Though I will ask, what do you mean by your dragon being 'scaleless'? That they literally have no scales/armour, or that they have feathers instead of scales, or something else?
Well well... some new charries! This is starting to look awesome!
@greatbear awesome! if they discovered ailin and sirona there, that would be perfect. c:
The rp thread is up and can be found here! If anyone has any questions about anything, send them my way. And kick me if I start to ramble too much in my posts haha
Edit: Anyone want a plot/chat thread, too? I don't mind if we do or don't, but it might keep the muse up if we're able to come up with some ideas in advance c:
awesome, i'll go post in the rp thread soon! & i like the idea of a chat/plotting thread. ^^
I'll probably put up a chat/plot thread when I have a little more free time, in that case c:
Oh yeah, and another thing I should mention that I didn't in the first post; dragons can mentally communicate with each other, though this connection is nothing like the sharing of thoughts and emotions that the Bond allows dragons and their riders to do.
Getting back to your previous post, sorry, I should have clarified a bit more. Auron is scaleless, so basically he's smaller than most dragons, more lightweight, and significantly faster. The only downside to it is that he is a glass cannon. Without scales to protect himself, an arrow could pierce his heart at any moment and take him down. Imagine a dragon if you will, then remove it's layer of scales and that is what Auron looks like.
In the books by E E Knight they describe this type of dragon as a Grey. It's like a special kind of genetic disease passed down through recessive genes basically. :)
That sounds pretty similar to how air dragons are in this world (though they do have some armour, its just very lightweight), which works out nicely since thunder dragons are their close relatives c:
I look forward to seeing you in the rp!
oh, i had an idea for the thread... i'm not sure if we could use the idea, but i'll share it anyways. :0
maybe monster hunters not only hunt down and kill dragons, but maybe they enslave them too? perhaps they kill dragons that are allied with riders, but there are special dragon species that they enslave, such as wurms and amphitheres. and they kill their dragons if they get injured or act disobediently.
just a thought, because maybe then some people could roleplay monster hunters?
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~Skylar Primridge~
AGE: Twenty-one years young
GENDER: Female
SEXUALITY: Heterosexual
APPEARANCE: Sky is a very slender girl. She stands at just around five foot, five inches, and weighs in at one hundred and fifteen pounds. Her frame is to blame for her light weight, but she is a rather small girl. Her hair is auburn in color, and her eyes are are chocolate brown. Her skin is naturally very pale, causing any blush or sunburn to stand out greatly.
PERSONALITY: Sky is a very gentle girl, calm, and normally collective. She isn't one to throw her temper around, but she can be rather stubborn at times. She loved to fly with her dragon, and loves being up in the air at any given chance. She enjoys reading, and being outdoors, and the warmth of the sunlight makes her feel safe. She hates being cold, or seeing any dragon or rider hurt. She also hates when her hair is called red. Bitter cold isn't her friend, but she'll bare through it for the snow.
DRAGON: Anil (India origin - meaning: child of the wind or air)
SKILLS: Sky has a bow that she relies on heavily as she isn't that skilled when it comes to combat. Her light weight and frame makes it easy for her to be overcome. So she relies on her bow for long rang attacks, though carries a small dagger around with her just in case. As for her magic, she is able to create puffs of air thanks to her bond with Anil, but the strength depends on her energy. if she uses a lot, the puff is strong, but as she weakens, so does the wind.
HISTORY: Skylar was raised by a single mother, and never knew who her father was. Her mother cared for her very much, and their village was very small. Skylar lived her early years helping her mother and being a normal little village girl. However, that changed when she began to discover her small amount of magic. Her mother, though surprised, did not fear what her daughter had, but the village did. A rift began to form between Skylar and those she previously saw as friends. She didn't understand why at the time. At the age of eighteen, she couldn't take it any longer. Feeling shunned within her own village weighed on her heavily, and she packed her things to leave. She hated leaving her mother, who received some of the wrath, but she couldn't bare to stay. So in the dead of night, under the cover of darkness, she slipped away, leaving behind all she had ever known.
She traveled around for a little over a year, keeping her magic hidden from all she met. She did what she had to do to survive, believing that this was the life she would have to live now. But then, when she turned twenty, she came into contact with the gentle air dragon, Anil. Their bond was sealed, and since that day the two have become inseparable. They relied on each other for a few more months, traveling on until they came into contact with the Blood-bound.
OTHER: Sky has a scar over her left eye, hidden beneath her bangs. It is the result of the hostility that arose in her village.
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TYPE: Air
AGE: Twenty-one years young
GENDER: Male
PERSONALITY: Usually, Anil is very serious dragon. He doesn't often play around, or associate with others that much. He tends to keep to himself, unless Sky is around. He is protective or Sky, and will do anything to keep her safe. He loves to test his speed when flying, and hates storms as it means he must remain grounded.
RIDER: Skylar Primridge
HISTORY: Anil hatched alone a top a mountain cliff. It was a high cliff so the young dragon learned flying very quickly as it was necessary to survive. However, due to the lack of dragons around when he hatched, he never really formed any bonds with other dragons. This was the start of his more 'lone dragon' personality. It wasn't until he came into contact with a young girl on a very cold night that he had contact with anyone really. The girl was alone, camped beneath a tree. Feeling drawn to her, he landed nearby and slowly approached. This was their first meeting, and when he felt it was safe, he grew close enough to try and keep her warmer.
OTHER: Nothing to really add
Both accepted! Link to the RP thread is at the bottom of the first post.
~white rose~
( Nineteen ~ College girl )
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