Altered - Bio and Discussion Thread
 

Well then, for ease of reference, I decided that I'd create a new thread for the character profiles to be kept in. Once they're all up it will become the RP's first discussion thread. If you don't post your character here within the next few days, I'll assume you're not participating any more. The RP will be starting at the end of the week.

My character:

Name: Alex Sengal

Age: 21

Appearance: Alex tends towards a lean build and is verging on being tall. He's not particularly athletic other than doing a bit of walking for exercise each day. Bright green eyes accentuate his sharp features and his loosely cut hair is black. Long, dexterous fingers hint at his skill at using his hands. He wears jeans and a black shirt. He was also fortunate enough to wake up with a loose jumper.

Personality: Alex is something of an idealistic individual, preferring to try and look to the better side of people. However, he also tends towards a pragmatic outlook and when the two conflict, the paradox can get painful for him. He has a keen eye, is a good sketch and also an avid reader. He's not much of a team person, mainly due to past experiences in teams with others not pulling their weight but he'll get on fine with someone who is.

History: Alex has had a fairly normal life up until this moment. He lived out in the suburbs and was enrolled in an English course at university the year after having graduated from high school. He was in his final year where misfortune struck.

Changes: Initially the changes will be relatively subtle. Alex's teeth will start to become pointed and his nose will begin to recede, eventually becoming little more than a pair of nostrils, like those of a snake. His neck will extend slightly, reminiscent of an equine and his hair begins to extend down it like a mane. Ears will grow pointed like a cat or dog's and his face will begin to extend into a muzzle giving him a serpentine or lizard-like appearance. His skin will roughen and begin to acquire some colour-changing qualities even including limited bioluminescence. Hands and feet will both begin to become clawed and he will also begin to grow a tail. Elongation of the ankles and other changes to his feet will mean that he walks on his toes like a bird.

As time progress, Alex will experience considerable gains in strength and toughness as his bones strengthen and his musculature develops and grows. He will become taller despite assuming a slightly more bent over posture. His senses will all sharpen to a degree and his teeth and claws will develop into fairly formidable weapons. He could theoretically slam enemies with his tail, once it grows to full size, but it is more used for balance.

The oddest facet of Alex's changes will be the development of symbiotic attachments. It is difficult to tell if these are truly alive in their own right, but certainly they are incapable of surviving without their host. Initially they will be quite simple - like additional adrenal glands or other such organisms - but they may progress to more complex systems even going so far as to develop weapon-symbiotes.

Name: Andrew
Age: 17
Clothing: Brown pants, a belt, a blue button-down(later with two slits cut in it), underwear, socks, and lace-less sneakers.
Appearance0: Caucasian, brown haired, brown eyed, most of muscles are in legs, although there is decent muscles mass in stomach as well. 5'10 130lbs, tries to fill more space/stretches out
Appearance1: Faint scale batterns spreading across skin, hair becoming thinner, eyes lightening to a tan color, mouth can open wider. 6'2 130lbs, stands straight
Appearance2: Scales are now a deep green, hair is gone, and eyes are a yellow-green, jaw can now be unhinged, teeth are sharper. 6'3 134lbs, more hunched
Appearance3: Small nubs are beginning to protrude from back, chest is growing slightly muscular. 6'6 135lbs, looks poised and ready to pounce at all times
Appearance4: Nubs have grown into vestigal, nonfunctioning wings, although the wings can be used for keeping balance. Chest has decent musclemass. 6'7 135lbs, constantly on toes, ready to move swiftly and gracefully in whatever direction is necessary
Appearance5: Wings are now of a size useful for gliding although still incapable of true flight. Body like a steel cable, thin yet able to withstand blows that would snap in half a normal person of his proportions. 6'7 135lbs, the graceful dancer effect seems nearly completed, one can barely hear Andrew move, and it is an education to watch him do so.
Personality: Startled at first, Andrew will live with it and then get on to the more pressing matter of getting out safely. After a while, Andrew will start enjoying being in the woods, and will happily pitch in whatever assistance he can.
Background: A Life Scout, Andrew was on his way to a training camp in which he would recieve lifegaurding certification so that he could work at a camp over the summer. He had already recieved all badges required for eagle, but he still needed to do the paperwork for his project. He chose to get Life Saving instead of Emergency Preparedness, and as his locomotion related badge he chose Swimming. In an underground forest with no visible large bodies of water, he is rethinking that decision.

Mutation0: completely normal
Mutation1: static field (slight tingle to people who come close{3 feet}), skin can withstand slightly more than it used to.
Mutation2: tougher skin, can things within the static field, it has condesed to be one foot away from any point of his body
Mutation3: sheds skin, leaving behind something akin to a cross between leather and chain mail. this can be used to fashion equipment. new skin is stronger and scales are more like armor
Mutation4: definite increase in coordination and flexibility
Mutation5: complete fluidity of motion, mesmerise foes by moving back and forth fluidly

Name: Trevor Millstone
Age: 17
Appearance: 6' 1", brown hair and eyes, light skin color, yellow T-shirt, blue jeans, sneakers
Personality: All-around friendly, mildly popular at his high school. Trevor knows how to befriend people, and likes being part of a group.
Background: A relatively average teen, Trevor lives with both his parents and has several good friends at his high school. He has, however, moved to a new neighborhood several times, and has never stayed in one place more than four years; hence the skill at making new friends. He has never gone out of his way to try to get a girl, mostly because since his family moves so often, he's afraid of that sort of loss. Trevor is not overly athletic and has never been on a sports team, but he still enjoys physical activity. Definitely not the type of kid you'd expect something weird to happen to...

Mutation
Level 1: Appears to be perspiring a lot. Flexible scales begin to form on skin.
Level 2: Drenched to the point of leaving a wet trail while walking. Fins begin to form on arms and legs.
Level 3: Can unintentionally drain water from living beings through direct contact. Fins develop sharp spines.
Level 4: Acquires the capacity to absorb large puddles. Begins to learn how to control expulsion of water. Completely covered in scales.
Level 5: Can control flow of water throughout body. Masters the ability to blast water at high velocity. Fins on arms and legs very pronounced; more fins appear on face.

Name: Thomas (Don't ask for the last name. He won't tell you.)
Age: 24
Appearance
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Hair: Shaggy and Blonde
Eye Color: Piercing Blue
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 220
Clothing
Torso: Worn denim shorts and baggy shirt.
Legs / Feet: Old leather boots
Personality: Thomas is a very introverted guy. Not that he won't speak. Hell, sometimes the problem is that he won't shut up. The problem is just that he doesn't trust people. It's very hard to earn his trust. However, once you have earned his trust, he is very loyal. The reason he doesn't trust people is because of something that once happened earlier in life. And don't get him angry. Ever.
Background: Thomas was simply a student in college. At least, that's what he liked to believe. When Thomas was younger, something strange happened. It was around age 11. He and another friend were playing together, and for some reason, Thomas got mad. Very, very mad. He hurt his friend. He hurt him badly. That was when Thomas started to keep to himself and not trust anyone. He figures that if he doesn't trust anyone, he won't feel bad if he flips out again and hurts someone.

For Thomas's mutations, it's a little different for him than the others. For the others in the group, the mutations are random and simply happen because of pure luck of the draw. For Thomas, the mutative factor feeds off of his inner anger. In essence, it makes the demon inside him come out.

Stage One:
During the beginning of his mutation, Thomas begins to notice that he's having trouble closing his mouth. The reason is that his teeth have begun to grow longer and sharper. His hands are becoming elongated and bony, and the tips are beginning to sharpen into claws. His skin, while normally white, begins to turn into a dark brown tan. His strength begins to increase slightly.

Stage Two:
At this point, Thomas begins to not only notice that the physical changes are extreme, but also notices that his anger is much harder to control. He used to be able to bottle it up until it got to be too much, but now he'll flip out in nearly any fight. When he gets angry, his normally blue eyes begin to glow red. His hands are completely turned into claws by now, and his teeth are officially fangs. His skin is now a very dark brown, and slightly scaly. He notices that two bumps have appeared on his forehead, and six bumps have appeared on his back in a 2x4 pattern. His upper body begins to grow larger, while his stomach area thins out. His strength continues to increase.

Stage Three:
In this stage, Thomas's anger is nearly uncontrollable. If you haven't earned his loyalty by now, you're going to be very sorry. His eyes now constantly glow red. His claws are very sharp, as well as his fangs. The bumps on his forehead of jutted out, becoming fullfledged horns. The six bumps on his back have also shot out, becoming six large spikes. His scaly skin is now rough and hard. His face has also began to stretch outwards, and his upper body has become very big. His strength is great by now, and it's not going to get much better.

Stage Four:
This is the final stage. At this point, Thomas's face has stretched out, making him look like a monster. His eyes constantly glow red, even in the dark. His other physical aspects are the same from Stage Three, only now, he has electricity running through his body. Every so often, electricity sparks between his horns or the spikes on his back. He can blast electricity at his enemies, or zap them if they get too close. Also, his anger is the greatest. He's just constantly angry. And if you didn't gain his loyalty by this point, you'll be nothing to him. If a friend is in trouble, he'll go out of his way to help, even if it means that he will be injured. If a member of the group that he doesn't like gets in his way, he'll think nothing of striking him down.

The picture below gives a rough estimate of what he would look like. Just replace the electric arm things with claws.


Demon

Place-holder. Gonna post later, after some initial editing, swearing, and reorganisation of my char's bio.

Name: John Rainier
Age: 25
Appearance: Short(5'7"), and weak looking, he appears to be very reliant on his mind to save him. He has black hair that is obviously in disarray, and is wearing a pair of faded denim pants that are pretty torn up, a pair of sneakers that lack laces and a red faded and torn sweater that falls halfway to his nees. His complexion is pale noting a lack of sunlight in his workings. He has brown eyes which seem to look like mud.
Personality: He is a very sensitive and quiet person. He tends to keep to himself alot unless put in dire situations(a la this). He also tends to see things in people from the way they act. He is very intelligent in all things. able to solve complex puzzles and mathmatical problems. The only thing he lacks is stregth which he tends to make obvious.
Background: He was a philosipher. As he made assumptions about reality wrote them down and was paid for them. He was made intelligent by it and was considered the best at his young age. He was the kind of person who would disappear for long periods of time to think about simple philosophical questions as well as complicated ones. He wouldn't be thought dead for a long while. He had simply been going on one of these life questioning walks as he came here. Though he is still not entirely sure how.

His mutation will consist of 6 stages. He will change from his current self to a mad murderous and partially loyal beast that appears to be a plantlike creature.

First stage: he gains strength. It won't be much but enough. He will begint see small tendrils growing out of his waist. His face will begin to soften slightly. He will begin to have an unusual craving for raw meat.

Second stage: he gains more strength. The tendrils will grow longer and have an opening at the end with small teeth. His face begins to move as his eyes drift towards each other. His current mouth will start to go away. The tendrils will gain his craving and begin to feed on his own legs.

Third stage: his legs have disappeared from sight but he has gotten even stronger and the tendrils harder. His mouth is gone and he only has one eye, and it increasing in size. His other facial features are beging to go away as well(including his nose and his ears). And his tendrils are now feeding off the arms.

Fourth Stage: His arms are gone and his craving has deepened. Hi strength has increased for the last time. His tendrils begin to grow minor lesser mouthless tendrils to replace his arms. He loses his ability to talk and mostly communicates with pictures. His hair has fallen out and his face is all one giant eye that stares in all directions hungrily. He may attack his comrads if he is not fed.

Fith stage: His skin has hardend and began the process of photosynthesis. Though most of him still relies on the fluids of others to survive. His speech style is clearer than before as he learns how to release air correctly from his new mouths in the tendril. His craving is under more control but if his hunger is deep enough he will turn on his comrads. He gains the ability to eject poison and DIgestive acids from within to ease the consumption and to help him catch them.

Final stage: His skin is now a very hard bark. Lack of sun causes him to become completely reliant on the fluids of others to survive. His speech though still odd is now completely clear. His tendril can now drop a seed to suck fluids directly from the dead. He is as under control of his craving for flesh as a quitting smoker and will kill to eat. His eye is now his entire skull and looks in all directions. In the end his look will be the tendrills sitting below a round eye that holds them together.

As for attacking them he only needs to hold out to his final stage and he will be able to resist the beutiful flesh of his comrads. If he does get to hungry he will run off for a bit. He may be a monster but his mind is still in there somwhere warped but still minorly philosophical and not wishing to end up bad with his new god. If it goes too bad for him he will eat himself instead of them. Yeah I want him to die like that if it get's too bad.

Name: Hareton Earnshaw

Age: 18

Appearance: Hareton is 5'6" and 170 lbs. His face is fairly round, with a slightly arabic nose and small, usually disinterested eyes. He wears a soul patch and his dark hair curls over his eyebrows and ears. Hareton has weak shoulders and arms covered in thick, dark hair. His hands are small, with slightly thin fingers and short, chewed fingernails. Hareton's torso has undeveloped muscles and two handfuls of gut. Hareton's legs are as hairy as his arms and are fairly well muscled. He could walk forever due to his constant roaming. He couldn't run very far though. His feet have small patches of thin hair on the top and have well developed callouses from walking barefoot. Haeton wears a plain blue t-shirt, blue jean shorts with a CD pocket on each leg, and black Adidas sandals.

Personality: Hareton is forgetful and introverted. Sometimes he gets a bit too worried about life, hindering his enjoyment of the present. He's future-oriented. While he isn't unfriendly, Hareton tends to inadvertently hurt the feelings of those he speaks with. Hareton is fairly cowardly and lazy, but this may change as he gets used to living without civilization. He has a great grasp on language, so sometimes he uses bombastic vocabulary.

Background: Hareton is an average United Statesian. He went to public school, lives with his divorced mom, and liked video games. Before he somehow ended up in the underground woods, he was getting ready to enter his first year of college. Hareton had a few schoolmates he'd call friends, but none of them were really important to him and he has grown away from them in the last few years. Hareton spends most of his free time in the woods near his house, mapping out paths and animal trails so that he won't forget them.

For his mutation, he will first become very hairy, but he'll probably try to shave that off if he finds something sharp. His canines will become pointier, but his teeth will remain unchanged other than that. His eyes will start to grow and he'll develop tapetum lucidums (the light-reflecting membranes that reveal cats' demonic heiritage). His coccyx will start to curl out and new bones will form, creating a thick, prehensile tail that will, near the end of his transformation, develop two finger-like projections like those on the end of an elephant's snout. His arms will grow longer and his legs will grow shorter, sending him to the trees. His feet will become more hand-like. At some point, he may develop a resonating chamber to produce monkey howls. I won't promise that these changes are in order, but it's a rough outline anyway.

Character Data
Name: Unknown ["She'll name herself 'Leaf' or something soon after waking up, taking her name from something in the environment she wakes up in."]
Age: Unknown (23 Human Reckoning)
Appearance
Species: First Stage Infected Human
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Female
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Emerald Green
Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 116
Body Dimensions: 34" x 27" x 33"
Skin Tone: Minor Tan
Identifying Marks: None
Clothing
Torso: Flimsy Dress - Made out of mostly useless material that barely covers the goods.
Legs / Feet: Worn Sandals - Worn and weathered sandals that have seen better years.
Personality: Having woken up with amnesia, this woman acts innocent and physically weak, and is mostly scared of the way her body develops, but seems to have no problems adjusting to whatever mutations her body may go through. Her personality seems to make sadistic people want to brutalize her and sensitive people want to help her. She's pretty gullible and has a good eye for noticing strange things.
Background: There's little one can say about this woman. She seems to be experiencing amnesia, and doesn't know anything about who she is or where she came from. She doesn't know her name but can properly describe things around her, so the amnesia is more or less selective, wiping out her identity, though not her ability to function.

Mutation Stage Data
Stage 1 Infection Phase
Powers: Minor increase in physical strength, allowing for stronger blows. Slightly heightened perceptions and reactivity.
Appearance: Minor muscular developments, notable only in the limbs. On occasion, her skin will move, as though some kind of creatures are crawling just inside her body. This is due to minor reconstruction of the frame. A faint glow develops in the eyes.
Stage 2 Infection Phase
Powers: Notable increase in physical strength. Armor plating developments help in limiting damage. Use of Stage 2 Parasites to damage attackers.
Appearance: More prominent body developments and an increase in size and mass. Halfway through this stage, the first exoskeleton will be shed in a notably bloody and painful "rebirth". Afterwards, the woman will still have mostly human features, but will have more prominent arthropod features, such as segmented armor plating, antennae, and large black eyes. Human features retained will include the face, breasts, seuxal organs, joints, and body proportions. Skin discoloration is that of a polluted and dark cyan.
Stage 3 Infection Phase
Powers: Exponential increase in strength and durability. Decrease in speed and reflexes. Use of Stage 3 Parasites to damage enemies. The orifices can now eject toxic juices that damage tissue on contact.
Appearance: Change in coloration and hardness of armor. Basically, this stage is spent fortifying the plating, making it more resistant to damage. Very little notable change in physical shape.
Stage 4 Infection Phase
Powers: The development of edged claws and toes allow for cutting potential. The strength is augmented quite a bit, most of it after the second "rebirth", which is less bloody and agonizing than the first but still quite a change in the physical form of the woman.
Appearance: No change before the second "rebirth", where the woman loses all resemblance of being human. All of the human traits are rewritten by the mutations and she stands as a hulking beast of shell armor and vicious claws. She will stand roughly eight feet tall, with claws as wide as a forearm and just as long. The legs are as wide as an adult man's waist, and the feet have deformed into armored hooves. The armor plating is really rough and incredibly durable. The orifices hidden between the armor plating which launch the parasites are larger in size and are better protected from exposure.
Stage 5 Infection Phase
Powers: The orifices can now be used to eject bizarre organic spears that poison targets with modified mutagen that is highly toxic. Hardening of the armor plating in all areas increases attack and defense.
Appearance: By now, the woman weighs quite a bit more than usual and is only just as fast as a regular human. Coloration changes from a pasty white and rosy pink combination to a shiny black and polluted cyan combo. She's very intimidating and the mutation within her seems to have reached its peek, robbing the woman of her humanity completely. All of her physical body is rewritten.

Parasite Data
Stage 1 Mutation Parasites: Resemble tadpoles with stretched out bodies and tentacles extending from the front, used for locomotion. The bodies are about the width of a small marble. Unless the woman is physically cut to the point where these parasites fall out, they won't leave her body at all. Out of the body, the parasite quickly suffocates and dies, especially when exposed to heat and light. These parasites lack combat abilities and are easily killed.
Stage 2 Mutation Parasites: The elongated body is as wide as a golf ball and is oh so slightly more durable. The tentacles and tail are longer and it can live for a limited amount of time outside of the host body. They are blood drinkers, and use their tiny cutting mandibles to puncture the flesh to drain blood.
Stage 3 Mutation Parasites: Minor developments in the parasites just like in the host body. The body is a little more durable and the front tentacles seem to have retracted some.
Stage 4 Mutation Parasites: Major developments. The parasites are now as big as a closed, meaty fist and resemble horseshoe crabs with glowing violet eyes. There's no more tentacles, and the creature rapidly scuttles across the floor on small legs with sharp endings that allow it to scale walls and sometimes even ceilings. They have sharp mandibles and can pierce flesh easily with them and their powerful cord-like tails. They now consume flesh, and can live outside the body indefinitely as long as they can sustain their diet.
Stage 5 Mutation Parasites: Fortified armor, a minor increase in size, and a small change to darker coloration similar to the woman herself. They gain the ability to spit corrosive vomit similar to what the woman could begin using in stage 3. They have much less reserves of it than the woman does, understand this, and will only spit in dire emergencies, such as protecting the woman.

Hey Arhra, I've just realized something. I'm going to be out of town from June 11 to the 18th. Do you want me to quit the RP?

Name: Lena O’Shea
Age: 19
Appearance: Lena is tall and thin, standing at 5’8”. She isn’t particularly muscular or athletically built; she’s a bit on the lanky side. Her hair is dark brown and straight, cut short at the shoulders and usually tucked behind her ears. Her eyes are blue and are framed by a pair of small silver-rimmed glasses. She wears a fitted lavender tee-shirt, a denim jacket, blue jeans and a pair of grey sneakers.

Personality: Lena is an intellectual. She takes her duties very seriously and often expects everyone else to do the same. She isn’t overly fond of working in groups, since people tend to take advantage of her studiousness and leave her to do all the work.

Despite this, Lena is generally a friendly person. She loves to learn and share her knowledge with others, even if nobody else seems to care. Science in particular fascinates her. Some regard her as a nerd. She doesn’t deny it.

Aside from science, Lena is secretly in love with science fiction. Her bookshelves are balanced between Biology textbooks and scifi/fantasy novels. She’s also an avid gamer, which comes as a surprise to most.

Bio: At the head of her class, Lena graduated high school a year early and went directly to college, where she now majors in Biology. She works at a local animal shelter between school time and gaming time. "Survival skills" aren't part of her repetoire, but she's a quick learner and thinks well under pressure.

Mutation: I wasn't sure of what you wanted for this, so tell me what you think. I was thinking of having Lena undergo an animal-hybrid type mutation. The eventual change will be that she becomes a leopard-human hybrid. (Ugh, I know it's cliche, just deal with it.) The first sign of her change will be her eyes. She'll realize that she suddenly doesn't need glasses, and if she could see her reflection she'd notice that the pupils of her eyes are changing shape (becomign oblong instead of round) and that her irises are going from blue to yellow-green. Over time, she'll notice that she's become more muscular and that her brown hair is getting lighter and is developing leopard-like black spots here and there.

Then... Well, let's just cut to the chase here. To make a long story short, Lena eventually gets cat ears, a leopard's tail, claws, and cat teeth. She develops a leopard's speed, reflexes, and senses, and sometimes shows bursts of aggression. Suddenly she's able to climb trees and jump higher than ever. And she always lands on her feet.

As much as I despise doing this, holding a place. Should be able to get it up tommorrow or saturday.