Eden - A Gifted Roleplay

[Rae]

E d e n `


These standing stones remain
The Gates of Eden over all.
Looming into sight.
There is no need for any man
To turn away in fright.
The Gates of Eden, standing tall
through fire, ice and rain.
You walk into our village walls
You never leave again.

It's been a difficult millenium.

It's 3009, exactly one thousand years from now, to the day. The history of planet Earth's past century is littered with stories of exodus, and there are very few left on the surface.

Many years ago, the global war for resources and water came to an end with the deployment of a massive biological bomb, encompassing half the world's population. A bomb named GIL. the Genetic Informatic Ligase bomb. The enzymes were condensed into gaseous form, compacted, and released on explosion, to cut to pieces the DNA of anyone who inhaled it.

Of course, most people died.

Those who survived would never be the same again.

Some were deformed, some were altered very little, and some were blessed. They were gifted. They managed to obtain powers and talents beyond your wildest dreams.

And though the war had now come to an end, and human society was at last at peace, there was no room in the safe cities for this new species. Human point two, they were called, and they were cast out.

Over the past fifty years, the human race has started to leave. There are planets and societies out there that welcome immigrants from the dying star Sol, and provide a far better quality of life than anything left on Earth.

As the planet empties, those left behind descend into State rule. Governments are disbanded and vigilante groups now run riot.

In the Former Union of Britain, one of the larger groups, the London Security Society, vow to keep the last seven cities of their diminishing lands secure. Edinburgh, Cardiff, London, Bristol, Exeter, York and Manchester. The largest threat, they say, are the gifteds in hiding in former towns, now slums, nestled in the countryside.

They will not stop until the gifted are gone.

The setting is Salisbury Plain, and a very small, nameless hamlet that used to reside on the flat land. There is nothing for miles in any direction, yet a colony of gifteds happily exist there... for now. Self-sufficient, rather cautious of the outside world, Eden (as they have named it) is just ripe for the LSS to attack...

[Rae]

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[Rae]

Little Miss Macabre

Name; Layla Eve Webb

Age; 18

Gifted/LSS?; Gifted

Gift; Haemokinesis - The control of blood, pulse, pumonary systems and cardiac movements.

Appearance; Rather pale and skinny, often untidy, wavy brown hair down to her shoulders, not really well tended to, realtively grubby most of the time. Has bright blue eyes the colour of water that has been left to decay for some time, rather smokey and slightly unclear with a hint of cataracts, meaning her vision is not quite perfect. Has a long, 4 and a half inch scar running along her throat from an attack that should, by rights, have killed her. She's fairly tall, slender, a tad flat-chested but there is something there, at least. She has hightened cheekbones, and tonnes of freckles... more pronounced in the summer than anything.

Personality; Wickedly devious. Icredibly inquisitive and terribly juvenile. She acts rather a lot younger and more naive than she actually is. The fact that she can't speak, due to once having her larynx cut in half, makes her rather easily agitated when she can't get her point across, or people don't take her seriously.
She can be awfully blunt and tends to gesticulate furiously when she's not happy. She likes to play the fool and the idiot to wind people up, when in fact she is reasonably world-wise and sly and clever. She spends most of her time irritating the rest of the community.

History; The Webb family were a nomadic gifted family, moving across the countryside from town to town to live, as many do. Layla was born somewhere between Exeter and London, down in the central south of the UK, in what was probably once Southampton. They moved further up the country on foot, settling here and there for six months before wandering again. A rather turbulent life for a very young child.
When Layla was six, they settled somewhere north of Manchester for a while, when a second nomadic tribe clashed with her own. During the fight she got caught by a lacceration across her throat, sweeping straight through her jugular. Instant death. Only she didn't die, and her gift became apparent. Usually they only really come out around the age of nine, but Layla's need drew out her control... she stemmed the blood flow, and though she could do nothing to save her voice, she saved her own life.
It was only when she recovered did they tell her that half of her family had gone. She was now to rely solely on her older brother for protection.
Nothing much happened for the next five years, they continued to move around this way and that, until finding the stones they had only heard about in myths and legends. The gates of Eden, no longer known as Stonehenge. They were real after all. They followed the splintered road to the village, and Layla ran ahead to see what was there. By the time she got to the village, and looked back, her family had gone. She hasn't seen them since.
They gave her a room, and a reason to live in Eden. She has matured in the village walls, under the shadow of the gates. She can't tell anyone about why she was alone, she can't get anyone to help her find her family. Well, she's used to not knowing now. She'd much rather stay here, where she is safe.

Played by; Rae

[Tammy (Twi)]

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Name; Melinda Shadow
Nickname; Shadow
Age; 19
Height; 5'6"
Gifted/LSS?; Gifted
Gift; Shadow Beast

Personality;
Melinda is some one you don't want to get mad as she can get out of hand as he emotions are not her friends. She tries to avoid others like her most of the time as she find she normaly just gets into more trouble. She is not a fighter more of one to just run forever. She can be nice and very kind if you go about things around her the right way.

Appearance;
She looks a bit masculine as her jaw and face are a bit more angled then the average female. But her facial features makes her look tougher then she is. She has a poisonus glare that she developed from being around people who pissed her off to much. With the right effort she can look very beautiful.

She mostly dresses in leather and tang top shirts. She loves working on cars and can often be seen in grease and even slightly blood stained clothes from working hard.

History;
Melinda has not been this way for very long only about a few years. She had found out about what she was when she was attacked by another gifted thus leaving the two scars. The one highest on her shoulder she got from a LSS shooting her. She has since recovered. She still has problems with her left arm though.

Melinda has had a hard time and a confusing one. Her parents had not told her of how she could end up being a gifted as they survived the blast but had no powers. She never thought she would end up with them. So having been away from her family for 9 years she has been roaming the country side untill she had found the place she had heard about called Eden.

Played by; Tammy (Twilight)

[semistarr]

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Name; Natalie Neon
Age; 17
Gifted/LSS?; Gifted
Gift; Control of the element Neon in any form.
Appearance; Natalie has pale white hair wiht Neon colors dyed into it. Her eyes are chocolate brown, and she has slightly tanned skin. She has a lanky build, not much of a fighter. It is said her body always has a faint glow to it, and that sometimes the glow changes with her mood.
Personality; Natalie is mostly quiet and laid back, lazy even, but when she must move, she will. She's not very helpful in fights, having more of a defensive talent rather then offensive, but will do whatever she can. She's loyal to her friends and won't let them down.
History; Natalie was born with her odd talent, always glowing. She lived with her parents, who constantly moved around, so she never had a real home. Her parents eventually found Eden, and they settled down there.
Played by; SEMAH (Semi)

[Prism]

Stuck in the Hell, Never Aging

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Name; Kaitey Hutner

Age; 18

Gifted/LSS?; Gifted

Gift; Drives you insane from the inside until you want to commit suicide. Then she drinks the blood of the victem and devours them in the creature's form. Once blood hits her snout, she's unstoppable. Somewhat. She has her weaknesses. She has the ability to run, and the strength of a vampire. Maybe that just came with the mutated creature inside her. She isn't industructable, but it is harder to draw blood that normal. She needle might bend a little.

Appearance;
Kate is unfathomly beautiful. Her face has no imperfections, which only draws the victim closer. Her long, dark waves curl down to the bottom of her shoulders. It almost seems like she has make-up on, although none is applied. She truly is a lethal weapon to men. Her skin is very pale though, and stiff and cold.
She wears a lacey bottomed tank top at all times, and a regular pain of skinny jeans that fit snuggly around her legs. It would seem that Kaitey has no flaws- the perfect being. That would be a lie. Her build is muscular, yet dainty. And then her monster form is truly horrifying.
A wolf like torso and head, with lynx-like ears sprouting from the top of the cranium. The top pelt is speckled like a leapard. Her front legs are large and muscular scaley limbs, with long sharp talons sprouting. Inside her black lips lay a large amount of razor teeth and a snake like tounge. Sprouting from her shoulder blades are a large set of brown wings. Her lower body is more cat like, with large paws on the end of thick legs. Sprouting from her tailbone is a long lizard-like tail.
Then again, all of this might drive you insane by itself.

Personality; Kaitey is very... short tempered and testy. Even before her transformation she was. Anything could easily set her off, from the ignorance of dropping a hat. She does like to stand up for innocent people though. People that are being taunted. She doesn't want anybody else to feel as crappy as she did. That wasn't right. When she's angry, it actually terrifying. She goes an rampage, destreoying anything her her sight. She will seeth over something for weeks. Keeping a grudge came easily.

She is kind though. When she wants to be. If you're on her good side. She can be very loyal. Except when she's trying to drive you insane. And that isn't very hard. A mere sentence will blow up those humans. Mere mortals. What SHE used to be. The thought makes her shudder now. How could she have been so weak? Kaitey likes to... stalk things. It comes as a joy to see the terrified looks on victims faces.
She's also a jokster. Kind of. Her idea of a joke is a lot different from others. Sure, the 'scaring the shit' part is there, but her sbjects of the pranks... are really never the same. She finds it funny to screw with their minds, leaving them in shell shock for a few years. Maybe for the rest of their lives. She never really pays attention to it. She she's.. partially insane.

History; Believe it or not, before the whole transformation happened, Kaitey was a pale-faced, frail, chubby dork with a head brace in school. Every day she was made fun of and rejected. She vowed one day that she would kill any people that screwed with her in High school. A rue was forming. When the crash happened, most of the people she hated passed away, leaving her with a smug look. Then again, some people might of survived...

When Kaitey first looked at herself in the mirror, her thin body, her beautiful face, she knew that she was a weapon. Perfect for revenge. SHe could remove the head brace, and she got new clothes that fit her now skinny body. Her face only had a hint of blush above her cheeks, still showing that she was halfway human. And then she started the revenge. She killed all of the people that taunted her, made fun of her one by one. And she made sure it hurt. It was sweet revenge. She had kept her personal promise.

Played by; Puddin

[Jo]

Reserve

[Max]

Cut me open and we all fall down...

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Name; Marcus Anthony Webb
Age; 20
Gifted/LSS?; Gifted, of course
Gift; Well, its kind of hard to describe apart from simply poisonous blood. Upon release, be it via a cut, gash, limb being ripped off, it becomes a poison that will, upon inhalation, infect the person’s blood stream and causes there blood to become like his, they’re veins all turning black, creating a look of black vines creeping along they’re body. They feel excruciating pain, before dieing, normally via they’re heart stopping. If frozen and then ingested, well, they’re body basically shuts down. Organs fail, one by one. Also very painful. His sister, however, is immune to this, the specific antibody needed to protect against it found in her blood only. He is also immune to her power because of the complexity of his blood.

Appearance; Marcus is, admittedly, attractive, even if he does have a couple of scars from fights. His hair is short and dark brown in colouring, maybe even black. Hard to tell with all the dirt, dust, and blood in it. His skin isn’t tanned. At all. Not even the slightest. His clothing consists of mostly torn items, a pair of jeans, and a white t-shirt. His eyes are, normally, a deep, murky blue, kind of like water gone off, unless his power is in effect, at which time they turn black. Not completely black, just the normally coloured part. He is also effected by his power, just doesn’t die because of it.

As mentioned earlier, his body is littered with scars, the most prominent the one running up from his left wrist to his shoulder. His power had saved him from having the knife plunged into his heart. His body developed a lot slower in comparison to others, pretty much looking like a teenager still, mostly because of a slower pulse, seeing as his heart’s poisoned 24/7. He is fairly muscular, having had to fight to protect people since he was around 13.

Personality; Marcus is very caring when it comes to friends and especially family. Heck, unless you’re an agent or a bastard you can be counted as his friend. He is, however, fairly easy to get on his bad side, especially if you mess with his little sister, or treat her badly just because she’s mute. He understands she can be annoying, so he always takes that into consideration before taking action.

He can be quite the risk taker, even if he doesn’t mean to, it just happens. When you get down to it, Marcus is actually a kind person cursed, not gifted. He’d rather he didn’t have his gift and died, instead of living with the fear he’ll kill someone he doesn’t even know. He normally spends most of his time by himself, just so he can relax.

History; As mentioned in Layla’s history, Marcus came from a nomadic tribe, born three years before Layla, and was also basically dragged around, but he also made sure to check everything was ok with her and the others. He had always hated to fight, but had trained himself in case the day did come when he would have to fight. He was a little later to discover his power, probably close to the same time as Layla.

It was the fight when he found out about it. That was when he had received his scar, and found out about his ‘gift’. One of the people in the other tribe had started to attack him, Marcus being stupid enough to try and block the knife his wrist. The knife had cut open the flesh, and narrowly missed the vein, but blood still oozed from the wound, but most of it disappeared. Evaporated. The man had been about to stab him, when he had started coughing. Blood. Black blood. Marcus had jumped back, knocking against another person, who displayed similar symptoms, both of them collapsing on the ground, there veins and artery’s turned black because of the black blood. His body had shaken, and pretty much felt himself die there, screaming out in pain, his own body feeling the pain the others had experienced. Except they had escaped it via death.

After this, everything was painful for him, his body refusing to give him a break from it. He lived in pain, but refusing to show it to his little sister, always making sure she was ok. Maybe he was a bit too caring at times. But as soon as they reached the gates of Eden, he felt himself relax slightly. Until he was basically kidnapped by the tribe his had fought with five years ago. They knew his gift, so didn’t make him bleed, just kept him so close to death. It took him 6 years to finally escape, and managed to get back to Eden. He has since been searching for Layla, scared of what may have happened to her since he was gone.

Played by; Burned out

[Mikki]

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Stranded in this spooky town
Stoplights are swaying and the phone lines are down
This floor is crackling cold
She took my heart, I think she took my soul
With the moon I run
Far from the carnage of the fiery sun

Driven by the strangled vein
Showing no mercy I do it again
Open up your eye
You keep on crying, baby
I’ll bleed you dry
The skies are blinking at me
I see a storm bubbling up from the sea

And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer

You, shimmy shook my bone
Leaving me stranded all in love on my own
What do you think of me
Where am I now? Baby where do I sleep
Feel so good but I'm old,
2000 years of chasing taking its toll

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Name; Takeshi Kuro
Age; 20
Gifted/LSS?; Gifted
Gift; He is a kitsune, a nine tailed fox from Japanese Folk-law. He can transform into anything, a kitsune is a shape shifter. His original form is human but with two fox ears and a tail. He can transform into a human without the tail and ears but he has to bare a fox like shadow.

Kitsune are illusionists, he has the power of fox fire, a blue flame that the foxes learn as they grow older. He has nine tails in his fox form, the more tails the wiser the kitsune is, the limit of tails the kitsune can have is 9 tails.

His gift has a side effect, he ages differently to most. He grows older slower hence he has a longer life-span.
Appearance;
Human; Takeshi has silver hair and golden eyes. In his human form he has two fox ears perched on his head and a silver tail. He's about 6"2 in height. He looks about 17.
Fox; He is larger than any normal fox. He is about the size of wolf, his nine tails are long, just under the length of his body. His fur is pure white and his eyes are a pink/red just like an albino, the light tricks the eyes, many think they glow because of how the light reflects off them.
Personality; Takeshi is a loner, like most foxes he sticks to himself even though being on your own for a long time can be very lonesome so sometimes he accepts company. He normally sticks to himself even though he acknowledge the presence of others. He is brave and wise even though he can be big headed from time to time and look down his nose to other people he can still talk and see people as his equal.
History; Born a gifted. His gift could been seen from birth, he was different with those silver fox ears on his head and his fluffy tail.

His parents died just before they reached Eden when he was young, aged 9. Then he changed into his kitsune form, his form was about the size of a full grown fox then, he roamed the countryside on his own, pretending to be a fox, when he was nine he only had one tail.

As he grew older he looked at the walls of Eden and wondered what was inside, remembering the stories that his parents told him, he would be safe there. Plucking up the courage he ventured into Eden and never looked back.
Played by; Mikki

[Rae]

<sub>It was rather chilly. Well... for a summer morning. And clearly, as usual, Layla was not behaving.

Her blue eyes shone in the cloudy light as she looked back at the settlement, knowing she really shouldn't stray this far away but she couldn't help it. She liked the standing stones at the Gates of Eden. She liked to make a break for it, and see what was there, to touch them. She stepped forwards, her leather ankle boots pressing softly into the ground, folded down at the top to show the soft sheepskin lining underneath. Her grey dress reached down to her knees, and her collected trinkets jangled about her skinny wrists and on the chains around her neck. She seemed rather distracted by something or other, there on top of the stones. Of course, there was nothing there, but it was good to imagine there may have been some mystical bird, or something, sitting up there. She reached out, with rather dirty fingers, to stroke the stones, and a rather ominous shadow grew across their face. Her hair was rather flyaway, a dusty brown in colour and clearly not cared for that well. She didn't care for herself very well.

She retracted her fingers, stepping back into the barely-existant daylight, running over her every curve, and the rather sooty mark running from her nose around her eye socket. She had an expression of someone who was trying to fein innocence, as she took a step back, blinking, heading into the very centre of the stones.

Surely they had not always been a gate. Surely there was something else to it. Gates were not round, not in her universe, they stopped people getting in. This was more like an arch, or a cage, or something ritualistc. This ran through her mind as she walked the circle, running her fingertips over every stone she passed. Of course. There had to be something more to it.

If people could read her thoughts, maybe they wouldn't think what they did of her. Layla couldn't help that. After all, most of the time she was up to something. Just not today.</sub>

[Luke]

Don't start without meee! - Will finish soon.

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Name; Rhyder Rocha
Age; 16
Gifted/LSS?; Gifted
Gift; Thermokinesis - Ability to make things hotter or colder, to the point of freezing or burning.
Appearance; Rhyder is short for his age. Standing at about 5'5, it puts him below many, even those younger than him. But his stature is quite stocky, having a slight six pack, and noticable arm muscles. He has very blond hair, that seems to shine, no matter what sort of light. He has very large, shiny blue eyes, with long eyelashes.
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