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Thunderbirds OP. Pls Nerf.

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Name: Thunderbird

Appearance:

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Classification: Creature/Deity

Threat Level: 9 (Not hostile, however it’s abilities alone make it incredibly dangerous, capable of felling even the toughest foes in a single hit.)

Origin/Country of Origin: North America

Abilities: Ability to conjure thunderstorms, lightning, flooding, and various other weather phenomenon. Can cause life to bloom and spring to life simply from it's presence.

Can fire lightning from their eyes. Yes, I'm serious.

Can see through any object with a glance. Meaning one cannot hide from a Thunderbird.

It can seemingly take human form, usually using it’s own feathers as clothing. While in human form, it has a small club which can, and I quote “never fails to kill anyone against whom it is swung”. Meaning, for lack of a better term, it can kill anything, if it wants to and it can reasonably hit it.

Original Myth/Backstory: The Thunderbird is said be a being of great power and strength, revered by many Native American tribes. It is described as a gigantic eagle-like bird, one with wings powerful enough to cause thunder and lightning.

It’s said that it’s appearance brings not only devastating storms, but also a great celebration of life, which many believe coincides with the appearance of spring. They can cause great destruction and flooding, but also seed and bloom life around them, all as they wish.

There are several interpretations on it’s purpose. One says it is a god of the skies, controlling the overworld. Others speak of how it is the messenger of the sun, and controls rains along with controlling and devouring giant horned snakes known as Misikinubik. Others believe that it serves the purpose of fighting great underwater spirits and punishes humans who have broken rules on morality.

Weakness/Weaknesses: Nobody has actually gotten into a fight with a Thunderbird and lived, as they are highly revered and respected creatures, considered as gods in animal form, and due to this, incredibly dangerous if provoked.

It is said one can drive a Thunderbird away with fervent prayer and offerings to it. It does not exactly matter what you offer, but that you do it with firm belief and respect towards the creature and the land that you stand on.

Another notable thing is that while intelligent, they are slow-witted and culturally backwards, considering humans as very, very clever creatures. Meaning, while dangerous, they can be tricked or fooled quite easily.

Other: Other notable facts include:

It is large enough to hunt and devour whales.

It does not have just a beak, but series of serrated teeth inside as well. It can seemingly launch these as lightning-bolts, if it wants to.

One can ask for things from the Thunderbirds. These can range from rainstorms, blessings and luck in battle, visions of the future, and so on. They will usually take raw tobacco or beaver meat and pelts as acceptable offerings.

Apparently, they can eat through their lightning. For example, if a field of maize was struck by lightning, the maize and that around it would be considered "eaten".

@Koish Mainly because it isn't very hostile by nature I would accept it, I just would put a small rule that it can only be used 10 times in the whole rp for how strong It is.

THIS. IS. DONE.

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Name: Original name was Johnathan Smith. However he had changed his name recently to Jacob Smithson
Age: 33

Appearance:

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He stands at 6ft 1. Underneath his coat he seems to wear a black suit, white undershirt, with a blue necktie. When it comes to pants he wears brown slacks, with oddly some durable black boots. He also often has a holster on the right side of his pants which he uses to hold his sidearm.

Personality: Acutulus Flame: Johnathan or 'John' for short is the current Acutulus flame, and as such he is a surprisingly calm individual who often keeps his cool in most situations. Hell even when he was much younger he wasn't always that... hyperactive. He was usually a well behaved child all through his life, and it just seemed to become more prominent when he became 12 years old. As a person he never lashes out, as even when angry, depressed, or even scared he'll always managed to calm down enough to have a clear head. He never is really angry all the time. Just... calm. People describe him often as not a grumpy guy. Just a sensible, calm, and often reasonable authority figure at times.

When scared yes he'll jump and even get scared, but he'll be sure to try and keep as calm as he can be. Which makes him often work best when under pressure compared to others. It was this reason that he was often put in charge of many investigations back in his home city. Other than that he's also quite a smart man, who often tries to figure out things in more sensible way. He's also never the first to pull the trigger in a situation that calls him to use his gun.

Biography:

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Johnathan Smith was born as the older brother of two siblings in a small town in the state of Michigan. Growing up was kinda... quiet and honestly peaceful during his families early years. When he was young his father was a police officer in the city's police force. This wasn't normally a big deal to most, but to young little Johnny the big police officer that was Henry Smith was honestly quite an inspiration. Johnathan looked up to his Father, who in the Police force was honestly quite high up in rank. Considered the police chief's right hand man. His father was honest, respectful, and a good person in general...

For his younger brother however things were different. Daniel 'Danny' Smith of whom was around 4 years younger than Johnathanwas different. Little Danny was more curious, and after hearing some spooky ghost stories from his friends, Danny grew interested in the paranormal. Of which Johnathan never really cared and even dismissed it as 'stupid and dumb'. While their parents were indifferent to it.

Over the years Johnny was often the one who never got in trouble, while Danny was the one who got in trouble often as he was often caught sneaking out well past his curfew to go hang out with his friends at cemetaries or out in the woods. Only to get dragged and scolded by Ol' Daddy Smith come midnight. It was due to Danny always getting in trouble that their father told Johnathan to keep an eye out for his younger brother. Their father flat out told Johnny often that he was going to become responsible for his brother one day. Johnathan, who clearly looked up to his father who was the 'best police officer ever' in his eyes, listened to his father's orders to look after his brother. From that day onward Johnny was often slowly becoming the one to get Danny out of trouble...

Things grew worse on Johnathan's 12 birthday. In the middle of his son's birthday party, Henry Smith suddenly got called in because of a major incident down at the bank involving some robbers holding people at gunpoint. Despite Johnathan's reluctance to let his father go, he realized that it was more important for his father to go and potentially save lives rather than be there for his birthday. As such he let his father go handle things...

Henry Smith did not come home that night.

Word quickly spread that his father was shot dead when a firefight broke out between law enforcement and the group of thugs who were robbing the local bank... Henry's family did not react well to it. Danny and their mother was mourning. While Johnathan was beginning to mourn... but in quiet. For some reason he didn't feel like crying. Rather he was just... missing his father. Yet remembering all the fond memories of his father. Johnathan was the most calm out of his family during this dark time. Much to the confusion to his mother who was clearly confused, yet proud that he was managing to keep a clear head and not be dwelling on the sadness of his father's death. After all the believe firmly that Henry Smith had went off to a far better place...

Then the years began to go by. Middle school and highschool was pretty smooth for him growing up surprisingly. Not so much Danny who was often getting rather poor grades...

By the time it was ready for Johnathan to start thinking about a career choice, he was beginning to get some ideas in his head already. He was thinking... maybe he should become a member of Law Enforcement himself. Much like his father. In fact thinking about it made him want to become a Police officer more and more as he thought that it would make his father proud if he followed in his footsteps. As such he went to a police academy after he finished a total of 3 years of college.

The Police Academy was... tougher for him though. Yes he was doing... well enough, and he did eventually become a police officer just like his father. However after many tasks and calls he was beginning to... handle things in far different ways. He often never drew his firearm out at somebody and was always calm. Not only that be he had a keen eye, and often settled things like a well... detective almost. Soon... he decided to try and shift proffessions a little. He learned that if he filled out a written test, and did some more training for the task. He could become a Private Investigator for the city... and so he did.

After more training and a written test, he was able to get the job as a private investigator. A job that payed quite well. He was given all the things he would need for the job. A year later though Danny, who had dropped out of highschool about 2 years prior, and Johnathan had found out their mother developed a tumor in her brain. It was serious enough to warrant emergency surgery to get it removed... which unfortunately did not end well...

It was at this point in time that Johnathan and Danny were not left without a job. Johnathan was around 27 at this time, and Danny 23 when their mother had passed away. Both brothers were distraught over their mother's passing, but Johnathan wasn't entirely worried about what their future had in store for him. Rather he was more worried about his brother's fate. As his father's words all those years ago about how he would be responsible for Danny one day rang through Johnathan's mind. As such Johnathan's first course of action was to find a new place for him and his brother, which thankfully he was able to find a decently good home for himself and Danny. A home that was still inside the same city that they grew up in, but was a bit closer to the wilderness. All the while his brother was beginning to dabble in the occult once again. With things like Ouiji Boards and other things. Deep down Danny wanted to try and contact the spirits of their parents, which Johnathan was highly skeptical of... but decided not to interrupt his brother as it was at the least distracting him and giving his brother something to do while Johnathan himself went out for sometimes a few days at a time for work.

One day though when Johnathan had gone out to investigate a case that would take all night, his brother found that to be the perfect time to try a little ritual he found out from a 'friend.' A ritual known as the Midnight Game. A game that summon a powerful entity that, if you fail the Midnight Game. Will kill you. However if you succeed... no one really knows what would happen. However thinking about it Danny somehow got to the conclusion that maybe summoning this Midnight Man through this ritualistic 'game' would also open up the place to more spirits which might let him contact his parents. So... doing a bit of research before hand, he had the stuff ready.

When Johnathan left for the night, Danny started the ritual. He wrote his name on a piece of paper and bled a little on it. Then once he turned off all the lights and knocked on the door proper once it hit 12:00 am... things went south pretty bad.

Everything at first seemed fine. It seemed quiet. Eerie, but quiet. Danny with his candle had taken out his Ouiji Board and began to try and contact spirits, but as he did felt a presence watching him from the darkness... and as he asked the first question... "Is anybody there?" the candle went out. Danny freaked the fuck out and began to panic he quickly grabbed his container of salt and made a proper circle around him, and was at first safe. However from the darkness he could see a shadowy figure that seemed to be a man wearing a trench coat, and wearing a fedora. This strange figure seemed to taunt, and mock Daniel as he hid within his safe little salt circle. Eventually though as he had gotten rightfully scared, he took out his cellphone and began to call his brother... Bad move. He had broken one of the rules of the Midnight Game. Do not use any light source other than a candle. Which his cellphone had given off a rather bright light.

Calling his brother on the phone, Danny began to panic and explain to Johnathan about the shit he's done and that there was someone in the house now and wants him dead. Johnathan was worried, but didn't think it was anything supernatural. Rather he was worried that someone had broken into the home.

Over the phone Johnathan overheard Danny getting angry, and terrified at this shadowy creature that kept trying to scare Danny more and more. To the point that Danny began cursing, and shouting insults at this shadowy figure while cursing at his brother telling him to get home soon. Getting quite worried about this Johnathan said he was going to call an officer to come and investigate... Until Johnathan heard a voice that sent chills down his spine.

It was a quiet, yet deep, raspy whisper that simply said "He MINE now" before Danny's screaming cut to silence.

Hearing this Johnathan was now downright worried. He dropped what he was doing and had rushed home as fast as he could. When he got home he found the front door hanging wide open. All the lights in the house were off. The smell of melted candle wax was in the air... and the place looked like a mess. Oddly of all there was a... unfinished salt circle on the floor. Danny must not have properly finished it. All the while Johnathan could hear a faint cackle in the distance.

Unfortunately Johnathan had gotten caught up in the Midnight Man's grasp as well. As he entered the sight of the ritual before sunrise. Though Johnathan did not know this at all. Hearing this laugh that seemed to come from outside, the detective quickly ran out and began searching. He called in a squad of officers for backup. Through the rest of the night up until sunrise Johnathan and the officers investigated what happened. However they could not find any traces of breaking or entering. No sign of a struggle... except for one clue. The shirt Danny was wearing. It seemed to have a hole torn through the front of it, and was bloodied a bit. This actually got Johnathan worrying about what happened to his brother...

After that night Johnathan did get in trouble for abandoning a case, but reluctantly gave him a warning understanding some of the shit that's happened to Johnathan before. Though Johnathan was given a break from work for a while. At least to give him some time to rest and get his shit together.

During the 2 weeks of absence from work, he was beginning to experience... odd happenings. Things like objects occasionally moving around when he's not looking. Lights turning off at random times. Shadows moving when they shouldn't be, and more terrifyingly. Vivid nightmares of a shadowy figure hunting, chasing, and trying to kill him in his dreams. Something of which was... odd to say the least. As he kept having these dreams for months he began to wonder... maybe this supernatural stuff that his brother was going on about was true... So he began to start doing some research on things. He did research on what his brother did that night and it led him to something called the Midnight Man.

The Midnight Man upon doing some research was... odd. There didn't seem to be much information on the Midnight Man himself, but there was information on his ritual... which seemed to match the things he found the night his brother had disappeared. This just began to create more questions as he furthered his research. All the while as the months went by Johnathan began to witness... odd things. As well as notice more... unusual happenings. He'd often see shadows in the corners of his eyes, and a few cases he had come across he began to realize... Some of these deaths that were just cast off as 'wild animal attacks' didn't really make sense. The attacks were blamed on bears, or wild dogs. However bears weren't really... active around this time of year, and wild dogs tended to avoid people more often than not. Not only that but the attacks seemed to have been done to people who were completely alone, and no one was able to witness what happened. Johnathan was getting himself deeper into the world of the supernatural.

Years began to roll by as he began to learn about 'Shadow People'. Entities of various different shapes and sizes, but almost always just out of sight. With the key characterstic of Shadow People being that they appear to be completely pitch black like a shadow. While he was beginning to learn more about these Shadow People, and after a close call with what he presumed to be the one behind the 'animal attacks' that happened over the years, he became a firm believer in the world of the Paranormal.

However about one year ago from current day, he had left his home town and went into secrecy. Much to the confusion of his old companions at the Police Station. All while he was eventually listed as a missing person. Johnathan has now been on the search for information on this 'Midnight Man', and what he had done to his brother. All the while he had legally changed his name to Jacob Smithson, gotten a new license plate, and has been travelling the country (and posing as state officers or state detectives to make gathering info easier) as best as he could just to figure out more about this Midnight Man while filling out a small journal filled with information he has gathered on Shadow People so far. During his journey's though the Midnight Man still haunts him for trespassing on the site of the ritual... not only that but the Midnight Man knows of the blood connection Johnathan or... 'Jacob' has been having his nightmares be invaded by the Midnight Man.

Skills:
As a (ex)Detective Johnathan or 'Jacob' has a sharp eye. Sometimes it is hard for him to miss something, as he has a keen eye for the little details and stuff. On top of that he is quite smart, and has some above average problem solving skills. Or at least is quite good at piecing together evidence. Over the years he has seen quite a bit of things that don't surprise him too much anymore. He has gotten relatively used to the presence of supernatural creatues like Shadow People, but he isn't super used to the presence of much else. In fact he still believes Shadow People are one of the only few things out there. He doesn't entirely believe in other entities and deities. However he is NOT close minded, and is much more open to believing in other supernatural entities should they exist.

On top of that thanks to his original training to become a Police Officer, which he kinda kept up with his exercises, he is a rather healthy and fit person. However the reason he became a detective in the first place was because he wasn't fond of direct confrontations, and never really got into too many fist fights. As such he isn't the most skilled in hand-to-hand combat, only skilled enough to at least defend himself against a ordinary human thug. However when it comes to firearms he is... quite a bit more proficient oddly. His keen eyes, and healthy reflexes makes him a pretty good shot, especially in emergencies. However he doesn't have too much experience with firearms outside typical side arms. Like the trusty Berretta 92 FS.

With his keen eyes and knack for noticing the smaller details, problem solving skills, and quick aim in emergencies. On top of his knack for remaining calm in almost any given situation, he makes for a reliable ally to have.


Other:
His equipment:
The Berretta 92 FS:

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A standard issue Berretta 92 FS chambered to hold a clip 13 .40 S&W handgun rounds. It's reliable and he often has it fully loaded, with one back up clip on his belt at all times in a small pouch.

His standard, rather common, heavy duty and reliable, old, Maglight Flashlight:

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It may be big... but it sure is bright, and makes for a rather decent club when need be.

He also in his possession has a shoe box underneath his carseat that contains his notebook of info on Shadow People he's been filling out. So far not a whole lot in it, just some info on one or two types of Shadow Beings he has come across. As well as one of the means that is best used to fend one off. Bright lights. A BOX half full of .40 S&W handgun rounds that he keeps to reload those clips of his handgun when need be. He also has his old ID, passport, some spare D batteries for his flashlight (or just in case he needs them), a tape recorder, and a few small old cellphones (some of which still has stuff like pictures and stuff saved on them), and a photo of his family when he was a kid.

His car: A 2005 Toyota Camry. An old car of his that he's had for a long while. It's not broken or run down yet, and it works more than fine enough. Still has quite a bit of miles on it. Has undergone a few major repairs here and there, but it continues to serve him incredibly well.

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My app is completely donezo now.

I want everyone to note that midnightman is Sustics, Please do not touch the midnight man!!!

Also @Sustic good starting app, accepted

Name: Drayden Fenwald

Age: 21

Appearance: Stands at 5'9", has a slight, scraggly shadow, with a decent soul patch on his face. Short, brown hair covers his head, with blue eyes. He tends to wear a leather jacket, and a backpack as well, allowing him to carry only the essentials he needs for his job.

Personality: Drayden is a rather gruff human, or at least, that's what he tries to give off as his image, allowing himself freedom to simply be ignored or left alone. He is rather nice to know, and a great friend and ally if on his good side. He is the Bearer of the Fortitudo flame, and tends to be rather foolhardy it seems to others, but to him, he simply knows what he needs to do. He treats most things like a job, with tasks and plans on how to achieve the goals set out before him. He very rarely keeps friends, and in fact, he tends to avoid most if he can help it.

Biography: Drayden has been a loner since his school days, only really going to any outings because of his parents. He never really cared for people, only exploring the wilderness, much to his own father's delight. His father would take the young Drayden on regular hunting trips, teaching him in the way a hunter.. and ex military father can. He's learned how to strip a rifle, clean it, as well as how to identify most weapons by sounds, though its easier to guess at some of the bigger guns being used than it is to hear them cocked. He's learn patience, and how to be brave, saving his father from a bear who had thought the pair to be food. Lucky enough, the one bullet Drayden had needed was enough.
Drayden now goes around, having been contracted at 20 years of age to hunt down super natural creatures who have in other terms, gone rogue. He has been training even further on the types of beings he will be best against, and how to deal with those he isn't as good at.

Skills: Knowledge of guns, knives and bullet smithing are some of Drayden's skills, while hunting and tracking are just as good. Close quarters combat is not his forte, but if needed, he can, and will go toe to toe with someone. A well kept hunting rifle is usually within reach, and he is a great shot, but won't out sniper those who have more dedicated sniper rifles. He knows how hide away if needed, as well as ways of making sure he's hidden.


(I'll edit this later with a bit extra, plus a picture of weapon, my time is short enough as is.)

Due to me selling my house and moving, this RP will be put on hold for a little bit until I officially move.

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Letting everyone know that I will take this off of hiatus in two days aswell as anything I haven't been posting for in other rps, I apologize for any inconvenience I have caused you all.

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@Lily

AAAUUUUUU

LILY DOES THIS MEAN YOU ARE BACK


I MISS UUUU!!

Okay enough joking around, but seriously. Welcome back.

@Sustic yeah, in a couple of days I'll be set up for the forum rps again.

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