gatheringlux | Plotting/Meet and Greet

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Plotting/Meet and Greet

Before we got everything started in this whole RP, I thought it'd be best to get everyone acquainted with each other. And for some of us, figure our characters out.

Since only some of us have been able to actually play it, here are some important things to keep in mind regarding KH X (Chi)-verse:

Characters seem to be defined much more by which group they do or don't affiliate themselves with, as opposed to use of light/darkness
As a matter of fact, the whole concept of light and darkness as we know it in the main series seem to be almost an entirely new concept to the people of this world: the heartless appeared - darkness appeared - just recently, and now everyone is scrambling and using these new Keyblades that have also sprung out of nowhere to get these shards of light (called Lux) to fight them off/that the Heartless stole
On the same note, the system of Masters and Apprentices doesn't seem to exist yet. It's you, your Keyblade, and your faction (called a Union), who are just about as new at Keyblade wielding as you, backing you up. Because of this, being a Keyblade Wielder without belonging to any Union can be difficult and risky.
Heartless (obviously) are a very prevalent problem, but are also very new to the residents of the world
The primary form of rivalry between the different Unions seems to be competing to who can get the most Lux; At this point it seems to be a friendly rivalry, seeing as how they're all sharing the same town as a base of operations. This rivalry could erupt into actual conflict in the future, but they're a long, long way from that point as of right now.
The world is united, but different regions are still far enough apart and different enough to be basically known by the same names that they're known by in the games
The primary sort of "nexus" area where people of all different regions and Unions and such meet is called Daybreak Town (It's where our introductory mingle log will be)

If you don't have a full picture yet, feel free to post the ideas you have so far and add onto them as you go! Brainstorming is fun.

Also because of the nature of KHX (chi), some OCs may be of the self-inserty variety. This is PERFECTLY OKAY, so long as we can all be nice about it - no getting overly defensive of your OCs and no making others feel bad about theirs. This is a just-for-fun musebox, and we're all here to enjoy ourselves.

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Just in case anybody has any I'll make myself available right here for easy summoning/asking.

Player Name: call me Mala '^'
Contact:
AIM: whitepoof
Plurk:

Malathyne (friends-only, but if I don't already have you added, feel free to friend me :3b)

I'm still deciding what characters to toss in and fleshing out some new ideas so PLEASE BEAR WITH ME

Edited 2013-07-11 11:29 (UTC)

Name: Elsie (her name is actually Lily Claire, which got shortened to L.C., and then, when said fast enough... Elsie)

Age and Gender: Female, and 12 weeks/three months old; fancy mice mature at 4 to 8 weeks/one to two months and live for up to 18 months, so this puts her roughly in the human equivalent of her twenties?

Union: Ursus

Home area: Generic Didney Worl #3 (specifically, a pet store called Furloose and Fancy Free, which all the pets call Fee-Three)

History: Fee-Three is a privately owned pet shop run by a young couple named Felix and Fern Fortwright. They take very good of their pets and keep them until they are sold, or until they can't afford to keep them any longer, in which case they get sent to no-kill shelters. This is where Elsie has spent most of her life, helping look after the other mice. She is one of the leaders of the pets in the store; each enclosure/species has its own leader, and together, they form a council. When Elsie found herself with a Keyblade and defending Fee-Three from strange black creatures for several nights in a row, she knew that she couldn't just stay at home and wait for this to pass. She had to go out and find some way to put a stop to it to keep her home and family safe!

Relationships: She has a big sister personality in a little bitty body. She mother hens over the other mice, and is likely to take similar tones with everyone else she meets, even if they're bigger than her. You better be prepared for the bitty mouse to baby you.

Misc.: Primarily magic-focused, because, well, mouse. Expect a lot of abuse of the spell Mini, so that people can run around in her world. Oh, and this is what her fur looks like. Also, she can read human language, but not very well.

Edited 2013-07-12 09:49 (UTC)

Player Name: mii
Contact: primary is aim, plurk is okay, both miishal

I do have a character in mind but I have to figure out the revised history and world stuff for playing someone from this early of a setting. Shall be fun!

Name: A'rayum
Age and Gender: 23/Male
Union: Unaffiliated to start
Home area: Mar'ash, an original area that's mostly scrub and sun and rocky mountains. People here have high copper in their makeup, so their blood tends to darken into green, and as they age their skin gets a natural patina, the colour of which is a good indication of how old they are as well as serving as a natural armour. Their eyes are more almond-shaped, their noses are flatter and with bigger nostrils, and visible on their faces are what look like three stripes on their cheeks but are actually vents through which they sweat. They have a few of these in various locations on their bodies but the face ones are the most visible. They're well-suited to scrambling around and climbing and generally eking out a rough existence. Their technology level is bronze age-ish... think your stereotypical desert wanderer types, except with more mountain scrub and less sand. While they lack the "switch" capability of modern B'aku, they still have an innate sense of chafing when presented with a strong presence of either light or darkness.
History: While they're not quite out of the warring clans phase, they've moved out of hostilities into making treaties and other arrangements. The coming of darkness changed things quite strongly - the bleeding of the world, they call it - and while a handful of individuals have obtained keyblades, the weapons scare the other B'aku and those who manifest such power are thrown out of their clan to make their own way.
Relationships: He's not one for big groups, but he'll gladly start hanging out with people and he won't call them his friends but that's what they'll be. He's a mama bear/big brother type, the kind of guy who would run a guild and break knees if someone messed with his guild members.
Misc.: B'aku are very strong and have high stamina, but are terrible at magic. Modern B'aku keybearers can maybe pick up first-level spells at most but rarely use them, and the handful of B'aku with actual magical talent don't like to use their spells very often because using too strong of magic will kill them. It's unlikely that he'll be able to pick up more than one or two spells, and if he does use them it'll hurt him physically depending on how strong of a spell it is. (clearly he needs to make some wizard friends sob)

Player Name: Gorse
Contact: AIM - gorsethewarrior, Plurk -

gorsecloud

I do have a character or two in mind but that shall wait when it is not 7 am on a night with no sleep.

Name: ~~Gorse~~ Daley because using my name, even an online pseudonym, feels weird.
Age and Gender: 21/F
Union: Unicornis
Home area: Daybreak Town
History: Gorse's life has been... well, ordinary. The only child of her two parents, living in Daybreak Town all of her life, Gorse was always more of an introvert and a dreamer, which led to a somewhat isolated childhood. Still, there's been nothing really bad about her life. But nothing really that fantastic either. If anything, her life has been rather routine. She hasn't been dissatisfied with it, certainly, but there's always been a part of her that's hoped for something bigger.

Thus, when Gorse got her keyblade alongside her best friend, in one of the middle waves of awakenings, she was actually excited rather than afraid. Now she has something to break up the calm routine that was her old life, and a whole new ocean of possibilities open to her. Most particularly, she wants to travel and explore, and help the people who are fighting against the darkness. She's abandoned her old job of different arts and sculpture-making and joined the Unicornis union, ready to face what the future holds.
Relationships: Bestbestbestbestbest friends with Rox's character. They met in school after Rox's character's family settled in Daybreak Town after travelling and after finding out how much of their interests and such they had in common, they became fast friends. Over time they've become near-inseparable, to the point where they even got their Keyblades together and joined the same Union.
Misc.: She has horrible fashion sense.

Edited 2013-07-26 05:14 (UTC)

Name: Unnamed as of yet
Age and Gender: ??/F
Union: Unaffiliated
Home area: Not sure (possibly Agrabah), but currently residing in Daybreak Town
History: (Feel free to list as much or as little as you like!)
Relationships: COME AT ME
Misc.: She is not actually a Keyblade wielder (yet), but has used the sudden explosion of heartless and Keyblades to help springboard her economic exploits. She makes all kinds of Keyblade accessories, including keychains (most of which are normal but occasionally she manages to produce one that will change a Keyblade's form) and Keyblade warmers (like the one Yen Sid makes in the KH2 manga).

Player Name: Twi
Contact: AIM - savedgirl152006, Plurk -

twilitfall

I have a character in mind but I will have to work on that when it isn't 8am and no sleep was a Thing.

Edited (see? i can't even code right) 2013-07-11 12:47 (UTC)

Name: Viola
Age and Gender: 16, Female
Union: Unaffiliated at first
Home area: Wonderland, recently moved to Daybreak Town
History: Originally a local of a small village near Wonderland, Viola is a more peculiar being. While she is a normal human in appearance, her train of thought is much different than the typical teenager in Daybreak Town - some may even think her as loopy or downright due to her clothing choices and mannerisms. Which, back in her small village, was kind of normal - in fact, she was strange to them for being more along the lines of "normal" than they were.

Back in her village, she was one of a long lineage of bakers (know those cookies that return you to normal height? She can bake a batch for you). Often, she would bake and brew potions with her mother while her father worked hard in the fields on the outskirts of the vilage (and attended all the happy unbirthday parties with them on the side). When the darkness came, the other villagers thought that this was a normal thing! Just new neighbors, really! Yet after seeing someone get hurt by them, a Keyblade chose Viola as she tried to fend it off of her longtime friend.

Sadly this led to her being told to run away from home by her own mother so that the Queen of Hearts wouldn't have her head for being a scapegoat for her wrath. Viola soon found her way to Daybreak Town where she stole a loaf of bread yet paid back for it with brewing one of her strange potions for the owner. ...Hey, it's one way to get a job in a most peculiar town, right?

Relationships: She tends to be the goofy one with an airy personality that tends to lift the spirits of those who don't find her absolutely annoying and unhelpful. She sometimes talks in riddles - an annoying habit she picked up from her family - but will stop if the others can't understand and try to explain. If you think your OC can handle someone with a sort of Luna Lovegood personality, then come at me brosis.

Misc.: Primarily magic-focused due to her age and lack of experience with a sword, but give her something she can smack those dark hooligans with and she will smack them like it's really a baseball bat. Also at some point of her escape from Wonderland, she acquired one of those little flower caps the Flower Riders have.

...It was too cute for her not to, okay.

Player Name: Rox
Contact: xLadyRoxanne on AIM (though I'm never on anymore due to AIM...giving me anxiety attacks every time I get on for some reason idk),

starshowers on Plurk, and xLadyRoxanne again on Skype.

As far as character goes I have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER which is clearly the best starting point ever in the history of ever. I'll edit if that changes, I suppose.

Name: Enid (maybe? SUPER TENTATIVE I'm really bad at picking names)
Age and Gender: 20/Female
Union: Unicornis
Home area: Daybreak Town
History: Was actually born a distance away from Daybreak Town, though I haven't decided where exactly. Has a sister and a mother, father is absent for Reasons (of the "he was a shitty person" variety). Her mother had always dreamed of traveling, which would have been difficult at any time given the fact that anyone who wants to go places generally has to use very slow methods to travel the long distances separating "worlds". But her health was getting worse, and finally she decided that she wanted to uproot and follow her dream before it became entirely impossible. Enid was about eleven when they packed up their lives and set off. They traveled for a year, and though they didn't get to see much it was enough for Enid to get a taste of the wider world outside her home - enough to make her want more. At the end of their travels they reached Daybreak Town, and her mother chose to settle down there and leave behind the bad memories she had of their original home.

So Enid started school there, found new friends, and had a good, normal climb to adulthood. But she never stopped wanting something bigger, and never stopped searching for ways to live a life that would allow her to reach out to the huge world beyond her home...and that's why she, along with her best friend, was ultimately excited to take on the role of a Keyblade wielder.
Relationships: Bestest best friends ever with Gorse. She was one of the first people Enid got close to after her family came to Daybreak Town, and they became inseparable - they even received their Keyblades together. If any of your characters live in Daybreak Town, I'm open to plotting other pre-existing CR, too! She's not, like, Sora levels of being a social butterfly, and she doesn't always initiate conversation, but she's pretty much willing to talk to everybody and always tries to be nice and friendly, so pre-existing CR is more than possible.
Misc.: She used to read a lot, but doesn't have much time for that anymore. Terrible at directions and gets lost way too much ~~this will be a plot point~~. Also did I mention that her name is super tentative?

Player Name: Greta
Contact: Aim is harpiesiren7 and plurk is harpiesiren. I am way too lazy to do the fancy markup.

I am not really sure what to do about characters, but I'm sure I can muster something up. 8Db

Name: Meira
Age and Gender: 16, Female
Union: Vulpeus
Home area: Daybreak Town
History: She grew up in Daybreak Town and had a pretty uneventful childhood. She received her Keyblade and joined the Vulpeus Union at about 15, but she stayed in Daybreak Town for the first year, defending the town from Heartless and things and generally learning about Keyblading. However, now that she’s 16, she feels she needs to start expanding her boundaries and exploring the other worlds with her Union.
Relationships: Her best friend is a boy she grew up with and became Keyblade wielders together with. She also has a pretty good relationship with her parents.
Her relationships with the other characters in the musebox will be developed icly?
Misc.: Is pretty much a Red Mage in terms of combat ability. Good with Black and White magic and swordplay, but not a master of any of the above.

Edited 2013-07-16 21:16 (UTC)

Player Name: Ana
Contact: AIM is anakhathesilver and Plurk is anakha

I have two characters I'm going to modify for this!

Since some information about the world at large is fragmented/incomplete/not given in KHX, this is where we'll figure it out and list it out.

I've been having trouble picking Unions for my characters, since they don't seem to mean much of anything. So I went hunting for general symbolism about each of the animals used as mascots/namesakes for the Unions, and put together a short thing:

LEOPARDOS
Leopards are symbols of bravery, wisdom, and wildness. They are hunters and mysterious, and have a great need for privacy, giving them a reputation of being secret-keepers.

UNICORNIS
Unicorns are symbols of truth, innocence, and self-knowledge. They are associated with purification, as their signature horns have the ability to heal wounds and purify tainted water.

ANGUIS
Snakes are symbols of cunning, rebirth, and passion. They are known for their protective natures, and are often evoked as guardians.

VULPEUS
Foxes are symbols of intelligence, adaptability, and intuition. They are often seen as messengers of both good and ill fortune.

URSUS
Bears are symbols of strength, freedom, and nurturing. They are known for their contradictory nature, as they may be fierce, but also greatly enjoy the peaceful life, like lounging in the sun while eating honey.

So what do you guys think?

what was interesting to me is that they use the genus names. 'anguis' isn't actually for snakes, it's for slow worms, which are lizards that have lost all their limbs. visually about the same as snakes, but a different genus!

yeah, I was kind of surprised that they used anguis instead of serpentes or something relating to it

I'm going to personally blame TWEWY because of Megumi Kitaniji's Noise Form. Anguis Cantus is also a red cobra-like serpent.

//twi is forever lazy

same, especially considering there are only two species in the anguis genus. fun fact, though--slow worms can shed and regrow their tails to escape predators!

All right, I actually discussed this with Rox a bit but...

The five leaders of the different unions were among the first to receive their Keyblades. But more importantly, they were the first ones who decided to try to organize the efforts of all the new Keybearers. That's why they made the Unions - in order to make sure that no Keybearer is ever really alone, especially with all these dangerous new enemies running about.

While they did disagree on some philosophies, the primary reason they decided to divide up into different groups was because it was deemed that there was too much for one group to try to take care of at any one time, and it'd be easier if they could work independently rather than under a committee. This also allowed each leader to run their Union according to their own philosophies, which were different from each other, though not excessively so. This is why the groups are overall friendly - friendly enough to share Daybreak Town as a base of operations.

It's possible that at some point right around "now" timelinewise they'll discover that the rite of succession/passing the power is a thing, though the whole idea of a Keyblade Order won't really happen until late if not after the Keyblade War.

Player Name: Kari
Contact:

kawree,

kawree, kawreee @AIM

this game is too cute not to make like a kersquillion OCs

Name: Pernelle Colette du Gaillarde (just call her Nel)
Age and Gender: 29/F
Union: Unicornis
Home area: Born in Enchanted Dominion, now lives in Daybreak Town

More info can be read here!

Player Name: Ranko
Contact: AIM - rainykoi, plurk - balanceweaver, skype - gaia_bane1

When I figure some things out, I'll add more. o7

Name: Nalani
Age and Gender: 17/Female
Union: Unicornis
Home area: Kauai - Lilo and Stitch world
History: Nalani's life has been relatively peaceful thus far. Between school, friends, her art, and (once she turned 16) life-guarding at the beach in the summer, she's had it pretty good.

And then, everything changed when the Heartless attacked.
Relationships: Nalani is an easy-going kind of girl, quick to laugh at a good joke and very easy to get smiling. However, she's a little on the quiet side, and it can take some time before she warms up to a person. But once she's your friend, she'll go to hell and back for you.
Misc.: Um... ... n/a.

Edited 2013-07-28 04:15 (UTC)

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Plotting/Meet and Greet

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WORLD BUILDING

re: Unions?

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A bit of history

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