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[Raiden]

Originally Posted by Naqel

Since you say demons are by default physically superior when compared to humans, and you already gave me a finger by mashing both venom skills into one, I guess I'll just drop sub-sound speed attacks.

Demons on average do tend to be faster or stronger than the average human, but a well-trained human would be able to keep up.

And I don't know if the RP forum has changed since the last time I ran a game, but an ST saying what does and doesn't go isn't considered "giving the finger", it's considered "enforcing the rules of his game".

Edit: Pyros, you're approved. DanteFalcon you're approved, though be ready to switch to the Light side given the going pattern of Dark Team players. Rapter, you're approved but I'm going to be keeping an eye on you. Nothing personal, just the flags of "dark hooded cloak", "gun", and "human with glowing eyes" are sending up alarm flags. I'm sure you'll do fine.

[Naqel]

Originally Posted by Raiden

ST saying what does and doesn't go isn't considered "giving the finger", it's considered "enforcing the rules of his game".

I think a misunderstanding occurred here(or occurs now).
I meant finger as in that saying about a small favor leading to abuse, I probably translated it from my language too directly.
"Give them a hand and they'll take the whole body", I think that's how it goes, so I meant a hand, not a finger.

[Steel Shadow]

Name: Kita Masaru

Side: Light

Race: Human

Age: 25

Appearance: In a word, scruffy. Slightly taller than average, with dark hair and blue eyes, he wears a perpetual grin on his face, seemingly confident even when the observer knows he has no clue what he's doing. Usually he wears a white kimono with a dark red hakama, which he moves easily in. Masaru also has a nasty looking scar on both sides of his right hand.

Weapons: The Hari No Meiro: A scythe with thousands of hidden blades all along its length, each one a different length and shape, each one retractable in ways that just plain aren't possible without magic, and all just waiting for the strange and almost nonsensical pattern of touches on it's grip to spring them out. Usually carried to look like a regular scythe or a walking staff. Occasionally the top blades of the thing catch alight, adding fire into the deadly storm of steel it already is, but Masaru still hasn't worked out how or why it does that.

Special Skill: Inhuman grace: Despite his bearing, build and personality, Masaru moves like the wind. As long as there's stable ground, he can keep his balance and wield his weapon. As long as he's not too distracted his reflexes are superb. And he's damn fast when he wants to be. He's even constantly improving this ability, since wielding the Hari in any style close to it's true potential without maiming yourself is close to impossible without decades of training, and even now he is still unlocking the mysteries of the weapon, hence more training.

Hami No Meiro Style: Wielding the scythe is hard. Grip it slightly wrong and you'll end up with a face full of needles. The style has been passed down for generation, but is still being improved upon even today, as Masaru discovers new uses for his weapon.

History:
"When it accepts you as its master, it will tell you in blood."
The Hari no meiro has been passed down Masaru's family line for centuries. Some say it is a divine weapon, given to their ancestors by the gods. Some say it was the work of a skilled magician. Most say it was the design of a madman. None the less, the family has passed the scythe down, along with their own unique style for wielding it.

Masaru was trained from a very young age in their family's style, ready for his role as it's inheritor, and he was a natural at it. His grandfather taught him everything he knew about the weapon, and once that training was complete Masaru was quick to learn there was more tricks to the Hami left to discover. Wielding the weapon was instinctive for him, and many a time, while he was deep in battle with whatever force he had decided to fight against this week, did he find some new hold on the scythes grip that unlocked a new blade, or some new use for a blade he'd long thought pointless. ?I wish I'd known that five minuets ago!? became the most common of his battle cries.

Still, he did not discover what his grandfather had meant when he spoke of the Hami accepting him as it's master, until he was in his early 20s, fighting a rather brutal battle against a bigger group of bandits than he'd been expecting. As he fought, he found these powerful men moving far slower than he had expected, their attacks easier to dodge or block than he'd ever seen, despite them actually being stronger than most opponents he fought. He began dispatching them with ease. It was then, in the middle of this battle as he beheaded the bandit's leader, that a blade shot out from the Scythe's grip, stabbing itself through his palm and sticking out the other side.

It was rather unpleasant.

Still while defeating the bandits had suddenly become that much more difficult, the Hami No Meiro had accepted him as it's master, and from that day on it almost felt to Masaru that the weapon was telling him how to use it, what blades to use for what, new techniques that were effective against enemies he'd never seen before, locations he'd never heard of. From that day forward, he and the Hami were almost as one being.

And yet he knew he still had much more to learn. Since then, Masaru has traveled the lands seeking evil to find and destroy, always seeking to improve himself, his mastery of the Hami, and in general, make the world a better place.

Extra: Still kind of debating a few things about the Scythe. It's a divinely blessed weapon, but the blades are breakable with enough force to, y'know, shatter steel. Said blades will replace themselves the next time they're activated, however.

[Naqel]

Since it picks up fast, I might as well jump the wagon while there's still place in it.

Name: Akhil San'jay
Side: Dark
Race: Demon
Age: Young looking Adult
Appearance: A huge(18ft long) cobra snake with a pair of weak looking arms growing where its "hood" starts. Looks a bit more like a humanoid thanks to the fact that he moves up-right most of the time(head floating at around 6ft) and wears a simple maroon robe. His scales have a pleasant honey color with ebony lines outlining the eyes and also forming a spiral pattern on his hood and back.
Weapons: Nothing.
Special Skills:
-Hypnotizing Gaze: By looking directly in the enemy eyes San'jay can confuse or distract them. While short lived, the effect usually lasts long enough to launch a vicious bite. Weak minded targets will be distracted for a longer time.

-Venom Fang: He has venom fangs, quite big ones. He also can wrap his mouth around quite big things. Immediate effects include numbed muscles and blurred vision. After an amount of time(24h-48h) based on how deep was the bite and how big and healthy was the subject, heart stops beating and death occurs.
-Venom Spit: Alternatively San'jay can launch a small stream of pressured poison in an attempt to render the enemy blind. If the attack dosen't make it to the enemy eyes, it's pretty much useless. If consumed, spit poison has a laxative effect(it also has no color and a fairly weak smell, so it's easy to mistake with dirty water, or miss it in another drink).

History: He used to be a servant to one of Talkatz's less important subordinates, having a boring life of running errands and kidnapping meals for his master. His superiors died somewhere along the way, so he got a new job.
Extra: He ssspeaksss in a ssspeciffic fashshion. Shasahshasha.

[Dracorion]

All I've heard about since forever is how "Soldiers of Light is so awesome" and "SoL is sooooo cooooool", so I'm putting in a placeholder.

Funny story, I was halfway through my character named Genkai, based off of AB's namedrop in Tsubasa's profile. Then I realized that AB is a SoL veteran and he probably dropped that name there because it's already taken somehow. So I did some backsearching.

Hey AB, the main character this time around was renamed from Genkai Kurama to Daisuke Kurama, so you might want to change that. And I've got to come up with a new character.

Maybe Daisuke Kurama's long-lost distant cousin or whatever, because I don't want to lose the work I've done so far.

[batgirl]

You can't have a Soldier of Light RP without Jade, so I return!

Name: Akatsuma Jade "Orange Death"
Side: Light
Race: Human
Age: 25

Appearance: Jade stands at 5'7" and has a slim build. She has black hair and brown eyes, her hair usually left down reaching the middle of her back. She wears standard ninja garb: black pants with mesh, black wrap shirt with mesh underneath, fingerless gloves and ninja sandals. Her swords are sheathed diagonally on her back and across her lower back. She wears light black armor over her clothing. The only hint of color on her is an orange scarf that she wears to conceal her face. While the scarf itself has no magical properties, it seems to as it has been with her for many countless battles and has not torn once.

Weapons: An orange handled Kodachi "Ichi" and a black handled Wakizashi "Nii."

Special Skill: Jade can call upon wind magic. This can manifest itself in many different ways, but she usually uses it to increase her speed and agility to superhuman levels. At her peak she can move fast enough that she appears invisible. She can also use her magic to mask her scent from demons and fire bolts of wind to knock her opponents around.

History: Jade was born into a clan of ninja assassins. She was trained from the time she could walk in the arts of stealth, speed and death. Her clan was one of no allegiances, and just took jobs for money and not political gain. When she became a teenager, she was tested in the ways of her clan and was chosen with a select few to be given the gift of magic. She was taught the ways of the wind kami, her clan shaping her into a deadly fast assassin. As her reputation grew in notoriety, she was given the nickname of "Orange Death," as her victims would only see a blur of her orange scarf before their demises. Her clan does hold one allegiance with honor, they are sworn to help and protect the wielder of the Ragaki. There have been many who have come to the village pretending to be the new hero of light, and all have fallen before the village's test: face their most deadly assassin in combat and survive.

[Menarker]

Might as well put up a placeholder myself, although I got to leave for work in a bit.

Name: Keiga Erayo
Side: Light
Race: Demon of Slumber.
Age: 800
Appearance: An utterly pale but healthy looking large figure almost resembling a human bear, whose skin is so incredibly clean of blemish, scars or dirt, you'd figure he never worked a single day. Wears simple clothing and no jewelery or special markings.
Weapons: Brute Force alone.
Special Skill: Demon of Slumber and thus wields magic based on keeping things at neutral or stopped state or in a state of achieved rested state. Such things may include power of sealing (by forced slumber), sleep, weakening, dulling of senses and pain, constant rested state. Foes "killed" by Erayo is induced by eternal sleep.

State of Perpetual Rest: Erayo radiates a powerful invisible aura which effects everything around him. To those who have his favor (as well as himself), their bodies never feel weariness or exhaustion, able to fight as if in their prime even onto the point of death itself, their strength roughly enhanced and their mental state alert as if they had a perfect sleep. To his foes, their strength and thus their physical abilities are sapped and drained and their mental state weary and tired and groggy. The weak in body or mind are put to sleep until some time after his presence have disappeared.

World Be Still: Forcing existance, creation and even magic itself to a sleeping halt, Erayo can seal off magic and energy in an entity or in an area. The magic energies that permete an area or entity do not stir naturally or upon command, and casters find their resources do not flow like they could manage before. When used upon immensely strong beings, it may utterly reduce its effectiveness in a variety of ways such as lengthening casting time, weakening its potency and so on but still leave them able to cast. Natural energy such as fire and lightning will cease to stir and thus go out. Can also be used as a counterspell if focused.

History: *To Be Determined*
Extra: Lazy, almost perpetually bored, just about always yawning.

[lazy man]

Holy crap, Raiden, you really DID make things explode! ...well, uh, might as well get Suzume back in on this. Just gotta go nab his profile and cause me some 'splosions!

Unless, of course, I can think of something new before then.... Nah, gotta stay lazy for this. MIDTEEEERMS!

[DanteFalcon]

Name: Motou Akai
Side: Dark (I'm willing and able to switch this character's side with little effort pre-RP should sides be imbalanced)
Race: Demon of Blood
Age: 214 (Appears to be around 30ish)

Appearance: Motou is extremely vain in his appearance, strangely enough, taking great pride in looking handsome almost all the time. His hair is neat, medium length and dark brown, with black eyes. His skin is slightly tanned and his body, while not appearing to be a body builder is extremely well toned, similar to a distance runner. He wears a crimson cloak, long enough to brush slightly over the ground and to completely conceal his hands from an onlooker, thus hiding his gauntlets. The sword sheath is diagonal on his back, hilt showing over his right shoulder. The hood to his cloak is almost always down to show off his appearance.

Weapons:

Elbow length metal gauntlets with spiked knuckles: They are as stated. These are his usual weapon in smaller engagements and when he wants to watch people suffer.

Great Sword: His weapon for larger engagements. Looks like fairly plain iron except for the blood channel running down the middle to the hilt. Only magic about it is a spell to make it harder to break.

Special Abilities: Motou is a demon of blood. His abilities are based around manipulating his own blood in an offensive and defensive manner.

Blood Spike: His blood by nature is always connected spiritually and magically to his body and is his most lethal weapon. He can shape his blood into two foot long spikes, from wherever they currently are. However the spike in question always goes away from the matter it is sitting on. (If it's on the ground, the spike shoots up. If it's on a person's skin it points away from their body). This can also be used to create rather nasty pointed protrusions from his body.

Bloody Life: Upon consuming blood from anything but himself his body converts it into life energy which is then used to heal and regenerate wounds that he acquires. It can go as far as to reconnect severed limbs though his power isn't great enough to regrow a limb at this point in time.

History: Motou was born in a hospital. Needless to say the hospital wasn't very good or sanitary. At one point in time there was an illness that raced through the patients, killing many. Due to the lack of sterilization practices, the disease remained for years and the hospital would have gone out of business except that it was much less expensive than most other places at the time. He was born from the number of deaths and illnesses that plagued the hospital over the years. It is now completely abandoned, all of the employees found themselves brutally stabbed on the night of his birth. And if the humans lose this war then he will find so many more people to play with. And near immortality from the blood to drink.

[PyrosNine]

Name: Nine Senses, Pyros. Err... Pyros. Name Pyros, title "Of the Nine Senses."
Side: Team Kickass. (light)
Race: Half Demon
Age: (25)
Appearance: (If Jesus, Cloud Strife, and Tibarn from Fire Emblem did a tri-fusion-ha!) Wears an almost buddhist priest outfit that is white and brown, while wearing a blue sash over his shoulder and side. Wears an indo-european blade at his side, sheathed, and wears pieces of armor over his left shoulder, right knee, and right arm. Hair is long and brown, eyes are brown, and underneath his clothes and visible up to his neck, are alot of bandages.

...oh, and he has wings.

Weapons: (Pyrosian Masamune: Fairly normal sword aside from being unbreakable, somewhat blunt and unbalanced.)

Special Skill: Pyrokinesis obviously, but also possesses the ability to hone his will into a blade, making it as sharp his will is strong. In essence, this means that with enough willpower, he can cut through anything.

With wings, he can fly, but this really isn't that special of a skill.

History: Was found as an orphan by an old hermit lady high in the mountains, supposedly so high up that if one climbed any higher they would meet God, and raised according to her virtues. One day however, the old woman died and Pyros found himself thrust into the world of men and demons, finding both hostility and trouble wherever he went, as the winged traveler.

Extra: Pyros is technically the fire kami, having just bested Ifrit and having had his old sword broken, broken many bones in his body, and suffering injuries that will never truly heal. He begins the RP just leaving the presence of a peculiar human smithy who fixed his sword and tended to his wounds, as well as teach him some swordsman concepts.

However, he is still recuperating from his wounds and is heavily bandaged.

Personality: Too nice for existence. Dislikes fighting. Dislikes killing. Doesn't step on ants. Enjoys hugs and tea.