OOC: Sanctuary REVAMPED

[WriggleRid3r]

@Tewi
Yay ♡
Yeah I realized that rear heels weren't invented until the 16th century. Then again many people say medieval but include renaissance stuff soo

[Tewi_Inaba]

@Wriggle: like i said i'l allow it

@Mima: finally got to reading your app. accepted. also would you liek me to make your character's clan it's own faction?

[Tewi_Inaba]

I getted this done

Spoiler:

Name: Zena Evandar (Zee Nah( (Eh-van-dar)

Age: 18

Race and sub race: Elf Noroi

Gender: Female

Class: Paladin

Bio: Zena was born on the streets of Sanctuary to an unwed mother. As an infant she was sent to an orphanage where she lived for most of her childhood. It was a nice place for the most part. There were plenty of toys to play with, soft beds to sleep on, and the food wasn't' too bad either. It wasn't gourmet or anything but it was still tasty. She got along well with all the other kids, but there was one child in particular that caused trouble for her. There was a human male orphan, about two years older than her. He was bigger than all the other kids and he bullied anyone with pointed ears or fur. His influence got the other kids to do so as well, leaving them shunned as outcasts. It wasn't' so bad when they were young, the bullies would simply make fun of them and bar them from any games. As they got older though the human boy became more and more cruel. He would hit and beat the other children, pour milk on them and boss them around like they were his servants. Zena was the only one who stood up to him, doing whatever she could to shield the rest of the children from his bullying. Day after day she took their beatings and their torment, doing what it took to keep them safe. Eventually he gave up on bullying the other children and simply focused all of his attention on her. What made it worse was that the same children she had worked so hard to stand up for turned on her and joined in the fray, teasing and insulting her from the sidelines.

Zena was 8 year old before she finally managed to escape the constant bullying. Having had enough of it she finally snapped. She had fought back in the past but this time something different happened. A beem of light came from her body and sacked the bully, knocking him through a thin wall. It was the first time she had ever used magic but it was enough to scare the bully into submission. After that the bullying just stopped. Everyone got along like they should have and no one had to live in fear. Her brave act ended up attracting the attention of a certain spirit. Zena had always been able to talk to spirits, it was a power all elves shared.However Zena recognized this ghost immediately. We was that big statue at the center of town square. The legendary Paladin Artix!

The two of them spoke briefly. Artix gave her words of encouragement, congratulating her for overcoming her adversity. The last thing he told her before leaving was to never give up, but then he vanished. She never saw him again after that but speaking with him had enspired her. Zena wanted to becomea great hero like Artix, and she was willing to do anything to make it happen. On her ninth birthday she finally left the orphanage when she was adopted by an orc blacksmith. He was a kind man who wanted disciple to pass down his wisdom too. Zena learned everything the wise orc could teach her about the art of smithing and eventually she wold use what she learned to craft her own blade.

When little Zena finally came of age she started her new life as an Advocate of Sanctuary. She trained night and day mastering her magic, her blade and learning all there was to know about being a paladin. She was following in Artix's footsteps and she was going to make him proud. Zena went about her day to day life keeping the peace and on occasion arresting criminals for their crimes. With her hopes and ambitions high Zena faces the world and all of it's many wonders, and horrors.

Powers: Zena can summon the power of light to do anything from banishing unread, to healing wounds, to lighting up a dark cave. Using light magic she can super charge her sword with the power of light, giving i the ability to slay ghosts and do heavy damage to the undead. However Zena has a hard time fighting enemies that are still alive as most of her magic is meant for either slaying evil or healing team mates.

Gear: Zena has a beautiful long sword with a golden handle and an enchanted steel blade. She wears a cross around her neck which can be used to set lost souls free and send them to the afterlife. She always keeps a canteen handy at al times for when traveling. She also has a small pouch where she keeps her money.


Appearance:



Personality: Zena is a goody two shoes hero at heart. She always tries to do the right thing, She'll go out of her way to help people in need and is kind to everyone she meets, regardless of age race or gender. She is very contagious and will never back down from a fight. Even if the odds are stacked against her, her never say die attitude always shines through. She may not be the greatest worrier but she has a strong will that can never be broken. She has a strong disliking toward liars thieves and traitors and can even lose her temper when dealing with one such characters. Honesty and trust are very important to her and once lost her trust can be difficult to earn back. She dreams of one day becoming a great hero like the heroes before her. She would also like to get married and have children.


Ambitions: To be a great hero and to fall in love.

Factions: Sanctuary Advocate B3

Character Connections: none yet but i may add a few

Notes: if anyone would like to have any involvement weather it be friend rival or potential lover just let me know.

[S121]

Keeping this here.

http://darkdamnedsoul.weebly.com/upl...0_orig.jpg?673
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[SUSTIC]

DONE.

Spoiler:

Name: Sarutobi (Saru for short)

Age: 18,000

Race and sub race: Apex (a Yaju sub-type.)

Apex info:

Spoiler:

The Apex are a race of what appears to be ape/monkey-human hybrids that live in a remote village in a jungle quite far off from Sanctuary. For a good amount of time, the Apex seemed to have stayed in their little village in what they consider to be 'their jungle'. It takes a good solid week of traveling via transport (and even longer if on by foot) to make it to their jungle from the city of Sanctuary. Once in 'their jungle' one would need to find their village. Which isn't that easy of a thing to do. As the jungle is quite dense, and one could easily get lost in it... if you travel by foot. The one thing that kept their village safe, is that the village was built into the large trees of the jungle. Meaning that it is safe from the ground, and the only way to find the village is to climb the large trees. Which can be difficult for certain species (humans in particular) to reach the village without aid of an Apex.

The Apex themselves are quite interesting in their abilities. They are just as intelligent as humans, slightly stronger than a well-fit human (but not by much, and their strength actually comes from serious training.) The main traits of the Apex is their physiology similar to typical apes and monkeys. The Apex can appear as any kind of primeape or monkey, with the exception of the fact that they all walk upright much like a human as well as knowing speech. Their feet are also like that of an ape/monkey, in the sense that their feet are kind of like secondary hands that can be used to grab hold of surfaces like branches or various items. This helps them in traversing through their village in the trees. Along with their hand-like feet, certain types of Apex can have a tail. Usually these tails are also prehensile, meaning they have quite a lot of range with their tails. This can help even further with things ranging from minor tasks, to self defense.

In terms of intelligence, the Apex shows quite a bit. They are masters of the Jungle, and that includes farming, navigating, and building. Most of their contraptions are powered via water or wind (usually through a water-mill down below, or a windmill up above.) They also have their own religion known as Apexis (Apexis is sort of like real-life Bhuddhism. More on this can be told if you wish for me to.) They even have their own language as well, however they do take their time to learn other languages from the world. In terms of medical care, they don't have the best. Usually their medicines are made from special herbs found in the jungle, and bandages made of well... rather standard cloth and leaves.

Unfortunately the Apex do not generally wander out of their jungle, and as such most of their experiences with the outside world are with the few, occasional travelers.

When it comes to self-defense, the Apex train in a special type martial arts that involves full use of their bodies. This means they use their hands, feet, and tail (if the Apex in particular has one.) Usually they are almost always moving. Preferring to use fast, quick strikes in an unpredictable pattern. In combat an Apex can be expected to be constantly on the move. Using their tails (if the Apex in particular has one), feet, and hands to climb, jump, and generally maneuver around the target. As such it is generally hard to face an Apex in hand-to-hand combat or in general melee based combat.

The Apex's weaponry are generally non-lethal. As they tend to use staffs made of wood, and poison darts from a blowpipe (with the poison being non-lethal, but capable of rendering a threat out cold.) After all they fight mostly for self-defense, not to kill.

The Apex might seem similar to the Yaju, however there are major key differences. They are a sub-type of Yaju, however unlike typical Yaju, the Apexian's cannot transform at all into an animal. They forever look like a crossbreed between an ape, and a human. They even though have the potential to learn and use magic, their religion they founded heavily prohibits the use of magic. For years they have remained, and consider themselves separate to the Yaju despite being a Sub-type to them.

They also do not live for nearly as long as typical Yaju, as most Apex-Yaju only tend to live until 50,000 years old. They are also not considered a senior until around 40,000.

Major weaknesses:
The Apex's major weaknees is mainly their attention span. As even though the Apex are rather smart, their attention spans are rather short lived. Some Apex can train themselves to focus better, and as they age their attention span gets improves. The problems with an Apex's attention span seems to only affect the younger members of the race.

Another thing that is a weakness is their tails. For the Apex that possess tails, their tail is a important. For it helps them with not just various things, but also helps them to balance among other things. If one were to manage to grab the tail of an Apex, and yank on it hard enough, it could leave the Apex paralyzed until the person lets go. Hell, grabbing it is enough to throw an Apex off balance.

Gender: Male

Class: Warrior/Traveling Monk. Does not use a sword, but rather a staff. He even though is a bit of a prankster, has a strong belief in helping those he comes across.

Bio:
Sarutobi was born to the Apex village of Wukong located deep within a jungle down south.

For years growing up, Saru lived the life of a son of the head of the Apexis Temple of Wukong. As such his life was rather boring, yet at the same time oddly entertaining. His general duties as son of the head of the temple involved lots of hard work and discipline. Day in and day out he had to train hard to keep his body in shape. He had little time to play or have fun with some of the other Apexian children. This made life for the young Apexian quite boring and dull, but he did find a way to have his own fun.
Often times when he wasn't training or working in the Temple, he would often play pranks or jokes on the visitors, and even his own father... much to his Father's anger and dismay. This in turn would often end in some serious punishments for Saru. But the pranks he pulled, and the reactions he got from them did lighten up his boring life a bit.

Although out of his pranks, he would lose the respect of his father... This did upset and sadden Sarutobi, for he did genuinely care for his father... But playing pranks and jokes on others was so much fun! How could he give that up so easily? Either way his father had begun to lose respect in Saru, an Saru began trying to think of a way to make it up to his father.

Things though would get quite interesting... in both a good, and bad way. For one day a lone wanderer had entered Wukong Village. Or more like one of the Apexian farmers had found an injured man on the jungle floor, and as such the Apexian Farmer brought the man up to the village to treat his wounds. A few days went by and things were all fine. The man seemed to have recovered quite well, and he began sharing stories of a large city known as Sanctuary. A place where plenty of people come to live together in what sounded to be a pretty nice place. Saru for these past few days had constantly snuck away to listen to the stories this man had to tell. This continued for several nights until his father found out, and as such his father had forbode Saru from leaving the temple once the sun set past the treeline. This more than anything had left Saru quite sour with his father, and in turn the father and son of the Temple began to drift further and further apart.

It wasn't until about a month in that they people of the Apex village of Wukong had discovered what was going on. People were slowly becoming sick with some strange plague. For a larger portion of the village was getting more susceptible to the sunlight. So much so that members had seemingly began to burn in the day. Along with this the plagued Apex villagers were also beginning to crave something the Apex don't normally crave... blood.

As it turned out, the strange injured man that was brought to the city was a Vampire who was being hunted down by some other outsiders, and that this man was infecting the people of the Apex Village with vampirism. Something that the Doctors of the village could not cure. This was definitely not a good thing. It got so bad that there was only a small handful of non-infected Apex left in the village. With two of them being Saru and his father.

His father and a few others of the village that haven't been infected yet began to devise a plan. The plan was to send out one of the remaining non-infected Apex out of the village, and out of the Jungle to find a cure. Hearing this made Saru quite excited actually. He found this as a possible way to earn the respect of his father again. As such he volunteered. Normally his father wouldn't send out such a young 'child' out of the Jungle, but since Saru was currently the youngest of the Non-Vampire/Apex villagers. Saru was perhaps their only choice.

With it being settled that Sarutobi would be sent out of the Jungle to look for a way to cure the Vampirism and aid the village, the young Apex ventured out. The stories of a city by the name of Sanctuary kept coming to mind, and as such the young Apex had set off to look for this city.

Since he didn't have a quicker means of transport, he had to go by foot. For about the two weeks he was traveling he had encountered many people of several different races. He had faced several troubles along the way, but he continued on his journey. Thankfully with the little amount of english he had learned from previous visitors to the village, he managed to eventually find his way to the city of Sanctuary. Unfortunately his short attention span caught the better of him, and he had gotten distracted with the sights of Sanctuary, and forgot why he came all the way to the city.

Currently he is in Sanctuary, and has been learning even more English. He speaks English somewhat fluently, but he has more than enough of the language to live in harmony with the other residents of the city. It has been about a few months since he had first arrived in Sanctuary, and yet he still cannot remember as to why he traveled to this place. He's currently trying to remember what his goal was.

Powers:
As an Apex, Sarutobi's agility and maneuverability is quite high. He's a natural when it comes to gymnastics. Anything ranging from climbing, and general parkour style movements. He uses this in conjunction with his fighting style which involves a solid, well made wooden staff. He normally is a trickster though, and he does also put that into his combat. For he usually fights in an unpredictable way, and often uses tricks and deception to fool his opponent. Anything ranging from small, handmade smokebombs that he made himself, to using some rather cheap tactics (such as tossing sand into his opponents face.)

On top of that but due to his training at the temple, Saru is actually quite skilled in being a disicplined warrior. He knows how to keep himself alive in the event of say an injury to the chest via sheer force of will, and focus. He may not be able to heal his own injuries, but thanks to his training he can manage to keep himself alive even if he say... to a dagger to the stomach. He will have to have a hand over his stomach, but he also needs to keep focused on his breathing. This can help him stay alive just long enough to seek out medical attention. Hell sometimes if he is battered and beaten badly enough, he will still get up and try to continue fighting through sheer force of will.

Thanks to his special, rigorous training, he is capable of entering a state in which he can actually clear his mind out of all distractions. When in this state he is quite dangerous. As he would be more focused, and in turn, more capable of concentrating on one thing and one thing only. His opponent. Unfortunately he has a rather hard time entering this "Zen Mode". For he never really finished his training. To be honest though, he never really bothers with this state anyways. Even then if he WERE to try and enter this state of complete and utter Zen, it would take quite a lot of concentration without interruption.

He currently does not know how to use magic, nor has he ever bothered. Though he does wish to learn more about magic sometime.

Gear:
His wooden staff:

Spoiler:

It is little longer than himself. With the staff being about 6ft exact.

He also occasionally carries a few homemade smokebombs that he had learned to make back in his village.
Appearance:

Spoiler:

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Sarutobi stands at about 5ft 9, and he never wears a shirt, but he does wear some rather standard blue cotton pants beneath that armor on his waist. He also never wears shoes.

Personality:

Sarutobi is ambitious, eager, and generally mischievous. He enjoys having fun and generally is quite playful. He's the kind of kid that would probably ditch some hard work to either go pull a prank on someone, go play, or do anything else more entertaining than say... chores. He also is generally considered loud, obnoxious, and sometimes a nuisance despite usually having good intentions. The reason why people generally consider him loud and obnoxious is because well... he is a bit of a loud mouth. He's the kind of guy who is not afraid to speak his mind, whether the situation calls for it or not. If he thinks you look fat, he'll say it. If he thinks that your plan is faulty, then he'll just go and do his own thing EVEN if it might get him into some trouble. However he generally doesn't mean anything negative at all. For he was taught to be truthful with others, and as such he is.

Along with that he is quite arrogant and tends to have his head up in the clouds. He is not above talking down to people he thinks are lower than him or weaker than him. Despite this he is a generally good guy that is willing to help others. Even though he was raised to not expect anything in return for helping someone, he still loves to receive rewards for helping people. To him, a reward is just a bonus for doing something good. He's also quite greedy and easily distracted. He tends to fancy jewels and gems. He loves to collect them not for money... but just because he likes how they look. Even though he won't actually go and steal something from someone, he isn't the kind of monkey to just give stuff that he likes away.

In combat he is a bit different. In combat he shows far more discipline and self-control... to an extent. He may appear more focused in battle at times, he is still easily distracted. As such people who have realized this, actually tries to use this against him.

Also despite having forgotten why he came to Sanctuary in the first place due to being distracted with all the sights, he still wishes to help find a way to help his village... first he needs to remember that exact detail.

Ambitions:

He strives to help his village from near complete 'destruction' as he, and some of the remaining non-infected people of his village believe. He just forgot that well... that is what he's supposed to be doing. He also wishes to become a better fighter, and even explore more of the world.

Factions: Not with any real factions as of now. Though one would consider him to be with the Temple of Wukong.

Character Connections: None as of now.

Notes:
Please note that he still is not highly skilled in combat. Just enough to help him in a fight.

Also do not call him a Monkey. Even though he technically is one, he hates being called it as he finds it to be an insult. If you do call him a monkey expect to be either pranked, slapped with his tail, slapped with his foot, slapped with his hand, or wacked upside the skull with his staff.

[Tewi_Inaba]

@ sustic

[Koishi]

@Mima: finally got to reading your app. accepted. also would you liek me to make your character's clan it's own faction?

I'd change the app a little for that, but yeah, that'd be cool. If you need a deeper explanation or anything, i can write one up.

[Tewi_Inaba]

@Mima: added your faction to the list

@:everyon: IC will be up in a few hour (if not sooner) please wait just a bit longer

Edit: also Zekai i can help you make a bio if you need

[Zekai]

I have a few things down, I just need to finish it.

[Tewi_Inaba]

Go ahead and post what you have, i'll accept it and then you can finish the rest of the bio when it comes to you. Or if you like i can help you out. IC just went up and i would hate for you to miss it.

Also everyone bending the rules just a bit since no one else has been reading and approving apps. the characters that as of this post have at least one approval will be able to join the IC so go nuts you crazy nutters

[Zekai]

Let me get a bit more done and I'll post my app and then I'll fully read the other apps.

[Cucoo5]

you know I'm really derping with things I've never derped with before when it takes me this long just to generate a bio.

I got Aion done, so to speak. Now Achlys is another story... Because I don't do merchant easily...

[SUSTIC]

WOOTWOOT APP IS FINISHED WOOTWOOT

[Tewi_Inaba]

@sustic: sorry i know i'm the slowest reader ever. App approved go ahead and post in the IC

[Zekai]

Spoiler:

Name: Zero

Age: 18

Race and sub race: Human/Jin Noroi

Gender: Male

Class: Blade Striker (Swordsman)

Bio:
Born to a Human Mother and Dragon Jin Father. His Mother was a Tailor and housewife and Father was a Blacksmith. Grew up in a town around 6 days away from Sanctuary. As a young mix-breed, Zero was different from those in his town, since he was the only Human/Jin mix there was in the town. With his mother as a tailor, she always made great outfits for the people and was always kind to everyone there.
While his father being a blacksmith, his father supplied the town with anything that needed forging and also did special orders for certain people.

Zero was a hyper as a kid, always playing outside with the other kids in town and would play no matter the weather.
Zero went to school like any other kid in his town and was an average grade student, with grades ranging from C to A. He did have some popularity in class as a smarty but mainly popular for his mix.

He always help his parents out in either the tailor shop with his mother finding the right patterns and sizes and the smithery carrying metals and placing orders in. Of course, Zero would make time for his friends and was helping others in town with various tasks to make his own money.

One day when Zero was around 12, his father was accused of comminting a serious crime of selling weapons to criminals and bandits and was put to death and that's when the unexpected happened, massive wind surrounded Zero, cutting anyone that tried to get to him.
Due to this event, whenever violence occured around him, mainly to him, his kind personality went and turned violent. When Zero became 18, he found a long sword crafted by his late father and he took it along with and outfit his mother made him and left his home.

After leaving the only place he knew all his life, Zero decided to go to where his father was born, Dragon Jin territory. It took him 3 weeks to get there and even after arriving and meeting his relatives, he was treating rough and poorly by his uncle by kind by his aunt and cousins. Zero spent nearly 4 months there training in Aeromancy and learning more about his Jin half. It was here when Zero was taught some powerful but risky techniques to make up for being a half. These techniques were called Wind Dragon God Style. It was after learning these risky techniques is when Zero decided to thank them for everything and left for Sanctuary to help repay them.

During the time after Zero left his home and relatives, he took down bandits and criminals with both his sword and magic. One of the rulers of a town he went to gave him the nickname of Blade Striker.

Now Zero has arrived at Sanctuary, just in time for it's Hero Festival.

(I'll add more later, this is all I can think of at the moment and Tewi said to post what I have at the moment)

Powers:
With being a mix breed, he has both the strength and weakness of both races. The only part that he can regrow is his left arm.
Aeromancy.

Gear:

Noticable - The long sword he carries with him.

Unnoticable - A small carrier bag that has medical sprays and bandages for him (It's usually covered by the long jacket).

Appearance:
Black spiky hair with red highlights in a ponytail that reaches his neck. Red eyes.
Black sleeveless shirt. Long, long-sleeve black jacket that has fur and armor on left arm.
Black pants with armor on knees and armored footwear.
The whole left arm (where the fur and armor covers it) with the shoulder, collar bone, shoulder bone on the back, the side of the body from his thigh (from knee up, all on the left side) scaled and his left eye dragoned.

Personality: Normally nice and friendly but when in any type of violence, it does a 180.

Ambitions: Doesn't have any to begin with.

Factions: None at start.

Character Connections: None for now.

Notes: I'm going to explain a few things.

Wind Dragon God Style - Even though it has God in it's name, it's not Godmodding, it's just a name. These techniques are extremely powerful and are last resort moves. I'm not saying they are all powerful and nothing can stop them but they are powerful and destructive.

Ripping Effect - This is not a negating effect what so ever. Imagine ripping apart paper continually until its gone. Whatever is ripped cant be mended for at least 12 hours so it's not all powerful.

I've explain these so there shouldn't be any more fuss about them.

@Cucoo, Wriggle, Mima, S1, Kristia, Tewi, SUSTIC

I read all your apps and I give my approval so for those who now have their 2nd approval can now post in the IC (unless you're a rule breaker like Kristia and Wriggle) and for those who this is their 1st, just have to wait for one more.