☪ Faith, Pain, and Rebellion ☪ (Accepting!)

[Harpalyce]

A low laugh rolled out of Yvain as he looked over at Roxy. "Try not to get up to too much trouble..." He paused to pull his hair back as best he could, though it wasn't quite long enough to pull back into a short ponytail and it ended up sweeping in front of his face again. For a long moment he watched quietly, looking Skylor over as if evaluating whether or not her offer was genuine. It was a suspiciousness that made sense: because he was so active among humans, a few of the Terlamaines had made their opposition to him quite vocal. And practically, he was a liability.

Yvain nodded in greeting to Jake as he came in, but otherwise remained quiet for another long moment, considering. His tone was polite and slightly deferential, as if making sure his respect of Skylor was clear. "If you're sure I would be welcome here, I may... take you up on that offer."

[hdmwolf]

| Sam |

I jumped slightly with surprise as I heard a voice beside me. It was a girl's voice, and as I turned to look, there was a black-haired teenager beside me. I wasn't really thinking that anyone would bother to talk to me so this was different. I usually went on my walks alone, and no one ever tried to make a conversation with me. She looked around my age, maybe a little bit older, and had pretty brown eyes. I was quiet for a moment, trying to form an answer, but then simply said back "Hi." It was an okay reply, but it seemed pretty boring. But still, I wasn't that much of a person who talked when alone and without good friends around.

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| Kayla |

Mom soon had to leave, and she left me with a bowl of popcorn and the movie still playing. I didn't exactly like it when Mom left me, but it was okay. I could manage while she left. I kept on remembering Dad's promise about the helicopter. I was only about one week away from my 8 birthday. Then I would be able to fly with him. It would be really fun. Watching Mom drive out of the driveway to go to the grocery store, I turned back to look at the TV screen. I sighed as I sat there, wishing for some kind of company. Suddenly, I heard a noise. I sensed that someone was there. It's kind of like how you know that someone's looking at you, like a sixth sense. I turned around, wondering who it was, but no one was there. I felt a few prickles down my spine and tried to focus on the TV, but I kept on getting an eerie feeling that someone was watching me.

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| Skylor |

I wished that Yvain would actually feel comfortable being in the hotel. I didn't want to seem too over-powering. I mean, I probably would play my power up in front of humans, but Yvain was one of my kind. And besides, even though I was who I was, it felt weird when he talked to me like that. He may have been younger than me, but he was like me, and I wished that he felt better and more relaxed around here. "Of course." I said, hoping that he understood that I was really telling the truth. I turned around and smiled at Jake. "Hey. Starting to rain pretty hard out there?" I asked, wishing that I could just go back up on the roof and get soaking wet, but it seemed that I should probably stick around. I leaned against the lobby's counter top and placed my elbow against the marble. But right as I did so, something triggered in the back of my mind. I closed my eyes and started to concentrate, hoping that no one else would try to talk to me. There was a Terlamaine in the area. One that was unknown.

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(Have to stop for now because my computer's got a virus D:
Fail posts.)

[solo]

Hello everybodyyy!

☭ Username: Flaming Ferret Cupcake Walrus Sockmonkey
☭ Character Name: Real name is Rusty O'Mahoney, but he goes by Freckles, and only Freckles
☭ Gender: M
☭ Age: Was born in 1929, but looks 15 (and acts like it XD)
☭ Species: Terlamaine
☭ Appearance: He has light brown, slightly reddish hair and light gray-blue eyes. He's lanky and thin, about medium height, if not a little short. He has pale skin with a lot of freckles on his face. He like to wear an old, worn dark brown fedora with a card sticking out of it's band. He's a very put-together kind of guy, he actually likes to wear ties and such. Old fashioned, likes Depression-era clothes since that's when he was brought up, so he's a bit oddly dressed most of the time XD
I know you said not to post images that don't belong to you, so here is a link, if you so wish to see what I imagine he looks like: http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu20 ... reckle.jpg
☭ Personality: Freckles can actually be quite amusing once he's opened up. At first, however, he is very shy and tends to have on a poker face. Almost always keeps a cool head, very rarely does he get angry. Loyal to those he trusts. He's more of a "right-hand-man" type guy than a leader, but he can be when he needs to be. Hates drama and fighting, the only time he fights is when it's absolutely necessary. Very smart, logical. Doesn't have much of an imagination, he's a "just the facts, ma'am" kind of person. Easily persuaded, borderline gullible. Brave and confident on the outside, but on the inside, he lacks self-confidence, but he usually hides this. Paranoid, worries a lot, nervous a lot. Trustworthy, will never violate secrets or lies (unless he has to. And he's very good at lying if he needs to). Much likes to gamble but he's not the best so he tries to keep away from it Likes things neatly organized and planned out. A bit of a workoholic. Usually serious, but under that guise, he's really a softy
☭ History: Freckles was unaware he was a Terlamaine at all until he was 10. Before that, he lived a rather boring life. Growing up in the Great Depression, his family was extremely poor. But his parents wanted him to get an education, so unlike most kids of the era, he stayed in school. When he turned 9 he started working the night shift at a shoe factory. One night, as he was wheeling many boxes of shoes out to the warehouse, he heard some somebody yell "Hey you!". Before he had the chance to turn, somebody was shooting at him. He ran into the warehouse, and the stranger ran after him. He looked desperately for a place to hide, but the stranger was gaining on him. Then suddenly... something very odd happened. He was very small, it seemed. The man ran right past him. It was then Freckles realized that he had shifted into a cat.
After that, Freckles had a war inside of him. He wanted to tell his parents, but he was frightened. He was some kind of freak. And why had that man tried to kill him? Was he putting his family in danger?
Freckles decided to keep it a secret. He practiced his abilities, soon able to morph into many animals, and discovering he could run very fast. Other than having to make sure he kept this in check, he lead a normal life.
Then, when he was 17, somebody broke in his family's house in the middle of the night. Not to steal.. but to kill. Freckles was woken by the piercing scream of his little sister getting shot in the head. He ran into their room to find the killer, and before he knew what was happening, he was a wolf. His parents ran in just as he was finishing the murderer off. Freckles fled from the house and never returned. The rest will be RPed out.
☭ Special Power: Shapeshifting. He can turn into almost any animal or living thing. He cannot turn into inanimate things- so you don't have to worry about that vase over there, only the mouse hiding behind it
Due to the animal-thing, he has extremely good hearing and night vision. He does not know of the other "shared powers", so he thinks all he can do is shapeshift and run fast.
☭ Family: Mom (Suzie) and dad (Charlie Senior) that are most likely dead by now. Deceased little sister (Shirley). An older brother (Charlie Jr.) that he hasn't seen since he was 17.
☭ Crush: None, open, but shy
☭ Other: Likes photography And old music! Also- he doesn't know whether or not his parents were Terlamaines, or if they knew he'd have powers and they were waiting to tell him because they didn't think he knew.
He knows next to nothing about other Terlamaines, he's pretty naive when it comes to the way he's supposed to act and all. He doesn't understand why humans try to kill Terlamaines.
He does have trouble coming to grips with not being human; after all, he still acts like one.
Still slightly unexperienced with his powers sense he tries hard to live normally.
Carries extreme guilt about his sister's death, believing it was his fault because he should have left earlier because the killers had originally come to get him, and he had led them to his family.

[hdmwolf]

(SSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOO!!!!! 8D
Accepted of course!
I love your username |D

I can't really post... I'm waiting for Cherry to post, but she says that her intro is really long and over the past one or two days, she's only done one of her person's intro. Now she has to do the other two.

I'm really excited though! :D )

[SnowFlies]

(( Yay solo! -this is .:*Snow*:./time speaking-
I love your siggy XD))

[Harpalyce]

((I would post, lol, but I don't want to obnoxiously clog up the roleplay.

I will happily volunteer to drag some plot in by the horns, though, after Yvain next leaves, since he's a very easy target for any Terlamaine hunters. I would love a PM with what the government does with Terlamaines - I was just assuming that Yvain might get dragged to be tested/researched given his regenerative abilities.))

[solo]

((Thank you! lol yes!
SNOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!! *tackles*
And yes, I am minorly obsessed with Inception XD I carry a loaded die wherever I go and I'm totally not crazy haha why would you say that? ))

○ Freckles ○

I sighed and trotted behind the cafe's dumpster. Today's the the day.
I'd been eying the old hotel for weeks. Watching. Waiting. I knew what they were, yet I was still apprehensive, and kicking myself for it. My old shyness was hitting me like a truck. Half of me did not want to walk in there, yet the other half knew that I had too. I had to stop living like this.
I looked around carefully, then morphed out of my disguise, an average looking stray dog. I plucked my hat off the ground, brushed the dust off of it, and peeked around the corner.
I saw the older man walk in. I'd spotted him a couple times now, though more briefly than the others. My stomach churned. What if they didn't want me? Then where would I go?
I calmed my breath and straightened my shoulders. Standing there had made my brown coat wet with rain. If I waited much longer I'd be soaked.
But there was a wall between me and that old hotel. I'd never really been around other... other "Terlamaines", as I'd heard they were called once watching the news. I didn't feel like a Terlamaine. I felt like, just, well, another human being. But I was different. I would always be "different".
But what do I even say to them? Do I just walk in and say "Howdy, I'm a freak too!"?
I stood there.
A lady with a umbrella rushed by me, looking at me apprehensively, and got into a bright yellow cab. Whoops.. Some random teenager with a fedora on leaning against a shadowy building in the rain probably looks pretty sleazy...
I straightened myself, mulled over my last few thoughts in my head, bit my lip.
Oh, for pete's sake get over it!
My eyes darted around the street one last time before I stepped out and walked across the rain-glazed asphalt. I went the same way the man had gone until I reached the door.
Here goes nothing...
I knocked very softly on the wood and held my breath.

[SnowFlies]

((( Eeek! *falls over* ello
Inception's great, a perfect excuse to be obbsessed with it ))

.:*Roxy*:.

I tilted my head towards the door, looking at it. Was that a knock I heard? As far as I knew it could be a human, or worse the human's police. Then again. . . why would a human knock on a abandoned looking building? They were to busy in their selfish lives. Where as it being the police, they would have just stormed the place.

After considering the possible reasons of who it might be, I couldn't decide. But before anyone could stop me I was already by the door, my hand twisting the handle, opening it slightly. What I saw was a boy who appeared a year older than I looked, his face covered in freckles which to me seemed rather . . . cute.

I quickly pushed the thought away opening the door a bit more so he could get in, to my embarrassment I could feel my cheeks beginning to burn and I looked away slightly, "Uh,you can come in." Seeing his old style of apparel made me think that he could be one of us, hence why I opened the door more, then again if he just happened to be not one of us I was as sure enough as dead.

[hdmwolf]

(I guess I'll try to get my act together and post a decent post. Currently I'm trying to do well at drawing humans, so my mind is kind of creative in the artwork center. I'll try to get it to switch to writing now though. :3

Also, I'm thinking of changing Skylor's mind reading. I feel too all-knowing, and I don't want Skylor to be too much of that. It sometimes gets boring to roleplay a character that knows and hears and understands everything. D: )

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| Skylor |

The connection to the Terlamaine was lost as I suddenly heard a knocking on the door. It couldn't have been a human, for this hotel had been abandoned for years, unless it was some kind of little child and he or she was just doing a dare. That's another thing I didn't really understand about humans. Why dare each other to do things? What do they get out of it? Just... plain happiness that someone did something unbelievable or disgusting? I glanced up, my eyes flashing as Roxy opened the door. I tried to make out the figure. He seemed around two years younger than me (appearance-wise) and he also seemed tentative, like he was nervous. I was really worried and nervous too, since Roxy opened the door before really checking who it was. It could have been the police or something. I also wished that she would close the door soon. Call me a nervous freak, but I was really careful about what I considered my family. I watched with some interest, tipping my head to the side as I waited to see what he was going to say.

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(Yeah... I can't really think of anything for Kayla right now, and I'm being lazy, yes. So... That's all.

EDIT: Sorry Harpalyce. I kind of had a forgetful moment when I didn't answer your question. I'll just post it up here so that people don't really have to all ask. I hope that's okay. :3
So, it's kind of like how you said. The police are controlled by the government to find the Terlamaines and capture them, since they've been causing danger, are endangering the human race by them slowly grouping and training, and since they are just plain too powerful to be comfortable with. The government haven't really had any luck capturing a Terlamaine before, so they're still wondering what their genetics and abilities are like, and how they came to have them. So for the government, having a Terlamaine in their hands means that it's time to run major tests. They treat them like animals, and are tested to find out their weaknesses and abilities. And if they're lucky enough, they try to brainwash the different Terlamaines to turn against their own race and to help join them in the killing and capturing of the Terlamaines. If the government gets enough information and data out of one Terlamaine and cannot brainwash it successfully, then they will easily resort to killing the Terlamaine, as it is not their loss.

Hope that helped. It reminds me of Maximum Ride somewhat...)

[Harpalyce]

((I haven't ever seen Maximum Ride, but I get the type of feel you're going for - that's what I had sort of assumed, so that's awesome. Don't have time for a post right at the moment, my best friend came by unexpectedly. I assume the police have some sort of way to track them from the intro, but it's probably only effective relatively short distances, so I expect Yvain will get busted at the lumber mill. :>))