[BitPR2] Renewed Revolution OOCV

[Draken]

That is reasonable. In hindsight, I'm not sure why that statement confused me.

The chains of commanding need to be tightened around your neck then.

[Dorizzit]

This may be my complete lack of prior experience/aptitude in the area showing, then.

[Tebryn]

New Character submission for review.

Isalda/Nikolina "F" Kummerow

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Age: 19.
Gender: Female.
Height: Short.
Weight: "No way, Jose."
Favorite Food: Wiener Schnitzel/Shave Ice.
Side: Quincy (Zerreißen Himmel).
Letter: F
Station: Kaiserlich Rössel
Reiatsu: Feels either very hot, and full of malevolent intent or numbingly cold, devoid of any intent or feeling.
Call her by her first name.

History

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Isalda and Nikolina Kummerow are twins. Born into the poorest part of Frankfurt, the earliest parts of the children's lives are a blur of unpleasant memories. They never knew their father, a fling of their mother's who likely never knew of them. Their mother resented the children, but did her best to care for them as long as she was alive. Soon after the twins turned six, they were attacked by a Hollow due to their growing spiritual power. Their mother was killed and eaten almost immediately. Nikolina attempted to protect her sister, but was pushed out of the way and sadistically forced to watch as the Hollow tore her sister in two before her eyes. Pain, fury, and desperation caused the sisters to simultaneously activate their latent powers and obliterate the Hollow where it stood.

Dying, Isalda's spirit fled her body and fused into Nikolina's, creating a single body with both souls of the sisters. This situation has persisted for the rest of their lives; the two take turns controlling the body, a process that is mostly amiable but does cause inevitable conflicts due to the conflicting personalities of the sisters.

Following the awakening of their powers, Nikolina and Isalda lost all interest in the rules and laws of humanity. They took what they wanted to and went where they pleased, perplexing the German police with their strange powers and slaughtering Hollows the whole way. Eventually, the attention they attracted from the law enforcement became too much of an irritation for them to deal with, and they began hopping from country to country, continuing their dangerous lifestyle.

Things would again change years later in Italy, when the twins (completely by coincidence) saved a Belenus strike team from a large group of Hollows. Jumping at the opportunity to possess such power, the Italian Belenus family convinced the twins to join them, offering more money than the twins had ever seen in their lives and the opportunity to live more easily and with greater convenience than they had ever known. The twins proved to be naturals at Quincy skills, and rapidly rose to become the ace of the Italian Belenus family, despite never joining in an official capacity. The twins took well to the self-centered, uncaring philosophy of the Belenus branch family.

Too well, perhaps, as by the time Hans Weisweide began his initial recruitment drive for the Zerreißen Himmel, Isalda jumped at the opportunity for carnage that he represented and Nikolina went along for the ride. Since then, they have remained on call for the day when he would assemble his forces and strike back at the forces of the Spirit World. The day that has, it seems, finally come.

Appearance

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As the twins share a body, their two appearances are technically identical. Due to their radical differences in personality, bearing, and fashion, however, it is rarely difficult at all to tell which twin is currently in charge of the body. In its base state, the Kummerow body is short and slender, with pale skin and a moderate if note-worthy figure. Her face is beautiful, but with a hard edge to it that manifests in both individuals. Her black hair flows to her upper back. Finally, regardless of dress, the Kummerow twins carry a large shoulder bag with them at all times, containing a change of clothing for when the other twin takes control.

Isalda generally takes a "less is more" approach to dressing herself. She always dresses as if in the tropics, as her powers leave her in a state of constant overheating. She generally prefers tank tops and shorts regardless of the weather, and rarely wears anything more than practical sandals on her feet. She also generally dresses in bright colors, preferring reds, oranges, and yellows. Isalda is generally quite cheerful and open in appearance, making little effort to restrain herself. She typically wears her hair messily loose or more commonly in a pony tail or pig tails.

Nikolina, by contrast, prefers to dress appropriately to the Siberian tundra. She is almost always seen in a long, flowing overcoat, often matching a thick dress, gloves, boots, and sometimes a hat and scarf as well. She prefers darker colors, like blues, browns, and blacks. Nikolina is much more reserved and much less outwardly emotional than her sister, keeping her face neutral most of the time. She regularly wears her hair restrained but loose, or in a tight braid. Unlike her sister, Nikolina also makes use of cosmetics, although it is difficult to notice due to her skill and tendency towards the subtle.

Personality

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Both sisters share two traits. The first is a tremendous loyalty to one another. The sisters love each other dearly, and despite their (frequent) bickering, they will both go out of the way to make the other as happy as possible. Attempts to exploit any splits between the two or take advantage of the shared body will lead to finding a united front. Second is the near sociopathic disregard the sisters possess for anyone other than them. As far as the sisters care, they are the only people in the world that matter, and will lie, steal, and kill without remorse if they deem it necessary. Or want to.

Isalda, the "younger" sister, is aggressive, bold and open. She rarely thinks more than a few days into the future, and her only goal in life seems to be to have as much fun as possible as often as she can. She is also very volatile, possessing a hair-trigger temper, and loves violence and fighting more than almost anything else.

Nikolina, the "elder," is the opposite. Her behavior is much more demure than her sister's, and her emotions are much harder to read; she is polite and unwaveringly formal with everyone who isn't named "Isalda Kummerow." She also detests violence and prefers more sedate pursuits. She generally serves as the voice of reason and practicality to Isalda.

Abilities

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High-Level Quincy: the Kummerow twins are both exceptionally skilled Quincies, together possessing high levels of skill in all areas of Quincy ability.

• Hirenkyaku: Nikolina is quite skilled in Hirenkyaku; she can move long distances with extreme precision, but she has difficulty making multiple leaps in rapid succession. Isalda, by contrast, is one of the foremost experts of the world on Hirenkyaku, possessing extraordinary skill with it. Her speed, distance, efficiency, and control are all top-notch.

• Gintō: Isalda lacks the patience or tactical mind that Gintō requires, causing her to rarely use it. Nikolina, by contrast, typically keeps a number of Gintō vials with her at all times, and regularly incorporates them in her fighting style.

• Blut: Each sister specializes in one half of Blut. Isalda has a high degree of skill with Arterie, enhancing her already prodigious skill at offense to horrifying levels. Nikolina is highly skill at Vene, making it very hard to actually injure her in combat. It is very rare to see one of the sisters use the other variant of Blut.

Archery: Nikolina is an exceptionally skilled archer, and is able to launch a large number of shots with terrifying precision from her bow. Isalda, by contrast, has poor accuracy unless she tries harder than she is usually willing to. She makes up for this with her volume of shots, blanketing an area in fire until there is nothing left.

Hand-To-Hand: Isalda is a master of a very aggressive style of hand-to-hand combat, relentlessly and aggressively overwhelming her opponents with raw power and aggression. Nikolina, conversely, is highly skilled with Aikido and Judo, and can easily nullify most attacks or turn her aggressor's force against them.

Seele Schneiders: The sisters carry a number of Seele Schneiders. Isalda likes to use them as blades, which she is highly proficient with, while her sister uses them as arrows and also for some of her Gintō spells.

Bow: Gefroren Blume (Frozen Flower): Nikolina's bow. The twins share a single Quincy cross, a bangle with a flowing, traditionally styled cross worn at the wrist. Nikolina's bow takes the form of an elegantly flowing, solid bow of normal size and weight. Nikolina can channel her unique powers through the bow.

Bow: Brennen Motte (Burning Moth): When Isalda uses the cross, she splits it in half down the middle to form her bow, which takes the form of a pair of pistols. These pistols fire standard projectiles by default, but can also channel Isalda's powers much like Nikolina's.

Vertrauen: Nikolina and Isalda have a very complex dual-mode set of Vertrauen. In its base state, the suit of Vertrauen armor is much lighter and more flexible than most, restricting movement not at all but providing minimal physical protection. In addition, the armor has been modified to naturally absorb Reishi in the air, using it to further increase the power of the user's attacks. When Nikolina is in control, the suit shifts, expending the stored Reishi to make a more complete and solid set of armor that provide a high degree of defense instead.

Kaiserlich Rössel's F: Frostfeuer: A unique ability possessed only by the Kummerow twins. Like most of their other abilities, the power of F comes in two forms depending on the sister in control.

• Isalda's Feuer: Isalda can mentally create and control flames with her mind. This is done through a combination of molecular agitation and Reishi manipulation, allowing for fire to be created even in a vacuum or other situations where it should have no fuel to draw upon. The flames created by Isalda are under her absolute control, and burn hotter and more persistently than any natural fire. Once she stops directly controlling it, the flames become more mundane, requiring fuel to continue existing and being put out easier. Isalda can also control existing fire, but does not make it more powerful.

• Nikolina's Frost: Nikolina possesses mental command of ice. Like her sister, she creates ice through a combination of molecular enervation and Reishi manipulation. Also like her sister, ice directly controlled by Nikolina is much colder than normal and nearly unbreakable, being roughly comparable to diamond in hardness. Unlike her sister, Nikolina can also reinstall these qualities in ice that she has stopped directly controlling, or instill them in naturally occurring ice.

Vollständig: Nuriel (Fire of God): The Kummerow twins possess an extraordinarily powerful Vollständig. It also comes with severe drawbacks, however, and as such they almost never use it. While in Vollständig, the Kummerow twins gain flowing wings composed of thousands of small Reishi constructs. These constructs are similar in size to hail, and swirl through the area occupied by the wings at an extremely fast rate, making them appear semi-solid. Despite their fragmentary construction, the wings can be used to fly or as a shield, as the constructs cluster together when necessary. In addition, they also manifest a burning halo of fire over their head.

While in Vollständig, the Kummerow twins have their soul forcibly merged into a single entity. This irreconcilable conflict of personalities causes the resulting fusion, which the twins appropriately refer to as "Nuriel," to be nearly mindless, singularly focused on the destruction of the twin's enemies without concern for friends or collateral damage. A side effect of this mindless state is that once the Vollständig has been started, Nuriel will not stop destroying until it runs out of energy, going after innocents or even allies once all enemies have been killed.

Like their souls, the powers of the twins are also merged in Vollständig, creating an entirely different effect. Nuriel can explosively deconstruct anything it touches, reducing the contacted area and a large part of the structure it was attached to into dust and shrapnel. This ability is less effective on flesh than inanimate objects, but a single touch is still going to be fatal under most circumstances. Nuriel can also fire blasts of destructive energy from its hands, but these blasts lack the raw power and indefensibility of Nuriel's hands.

Didn't get to comment on this from being out of town. Looks good to me.

[KnightDisciple]

Tebryn, as the head guy for the Zerreißen Himmel, what do you think of the idea that one of the final straws on the camel's back for your guys going "WAR TIME NOW THANKS" is "Those crazy Australians are signing a treaty not only with the Shinigami, but with human-looking Hollows"?

[Dorizzit]

Didn't get to comment on this from being out of town. Looks good to me.

Ah. Excellent.

[Tebryn]

Tebryn, as the head guy for the Zerreißen Himmel, what do you think of the idea that one of the final straws on the camel's back for your guys going "WAR TIME NOW THANKS" is "Those crazy Australians are signing a treaty not only with the Shinigami, but with human-looking Hollows"?

I think the straw that broke the camel's back was the alliance between the Shinigami and the Arrancar. Hein certainly wasn't a fan of the Shinigami to begin with from the start of his life to present day but the fact that they've somehow decided to ally with his most hated enemies? That's the end of the line in his mind. The fact that some Quincy are signing treaties simply means that what Hein has feared for years is true. That the cowardly Quincy Clans have finally dropped all pretense and simply become dogs to the Spirit World, rolled over and given up. The ties between the Scion of the Weiswiede family and which ever clans sign the treaty are probably beyond strained, perhaps even totally cut off and any envoy to try to appeal to the aging mad man won't be coming home.

Ah. Excellent.

[Kuroimaken]

Speaking of confusion, somebody remind me to take Hasunaga out of the freaking limbo and give him some direction since being pushed in and out of the Void like that.

Not that I don't like the way it turned out - things probably wouldn't have been much different anyway - but we kinda missed a perfectly good opportunity for character development, or at the very least character building, as far as the old teacher is concerned, and kinda made him out to be a bit more incompetent than I'm comfortable with.

I get that it was for the sake of PLAWT, but still.

[Tebryn]

Tebryn, as the head guy for the Zerreißen Himmel, what do you think of the idea that one of the final straws on the camel's back for your guys going "WAR TIME NOW THANKS" is "Those crazy Australians are signing a treaty not only with the Shinigami, but with human-looking Hollows"?

Sorry to re-quote this but something came to mind here and I felt just editing it into the previous post might be overlooked.

Keep in mind, Hein has up to the literal announcement of the Zerreißen Himmel not been a raving war hawk looking for an excuse to plunge the Quincy into a civil war and the world into a battle ground with the forces of the Spirit World. In the ramp up of Quincy inner strife he's been a pacifist arguing for non-aggression and mending ties to create a more solid Quincy organization. That's including non-aggression with the Shinigami who murdered his entire family right before his eyes while he hid under the floor boards. That's not to say he hasn't been highly critical of his Quincy cousins scattered around the world or the Shinigami who he has never been shy about saying he resents and holds a grudge against. Hein has been for all intents and purposes the Grand Dad you keep in the home because he doesn't remember your last visit and yells about how you've forgotten him or says the occasional racial slur. That's changed. As I pointed out in the previous post it's changed solely on the alliance between the Arrancar and the Shinigami. It's been swift, sudden and totally out of the blue. Which only seems to lend credence that ol'Hein has finally lost it. Zerreißen Himmel may not even seem a credible threat. Just the last raving lunatics from an otherwise highly decorated but mentally dwindling old fart.

The only person, by any respect, that would know that he's always been a hate filled and vengeful monster who has been planning a war with the Shinigami since the day he was able to fire his own bow is Niklaus and maybe some of the Kaiserlich Rössel who were part of what ever Hein had in the works before Der Zerreißen Himmel Entwicklung but that's a fairly small number and no one has made a character that goes back that far.

[Dorizzit]

In that case, I need to change the Kummerow twins' backstory a bit, since as it stands they joined him before the Quincy world at large knew he had snapped but because of his violent tendencies.

Would it work for you if Hein had scouted the Twins before they had any official capacity with the Quincies and recruited them then as a kind of "sleeper agent?"

[Tebryn]

In that case, I need to change the Kummerow twins' backstory a bit, since as it stands they joined him before the Quincy world at large knew he had snapped but because of his violent tendencies.

Would it work for you if Hein had scouted the Twins before they had any official capacity with the Quincies and recruited them then as a kind of "sleeper agent?"

That works perfectly fine, makes total sense.

[Frozen_Feet]

Waiting for Mahonri Violinist in both Mortal World (Valentina) and Spirit World (Caeyrn). Also a note, Hoshi, Caeyrn and Tsubame are kinda just standing in the wide open there. I find it uncharasteristic of our player base when half of all Shinigami don't pounce on intruders.

I'm also waiting for either Demidos or Berry to move Momoka and Igarashi to HQ front door. (We don't really need to RP the Ministry's inspection.)

[Draken]

Waiting for Mahonri Violinist in both Mortal World (Valentina) and Spirit World (Caeyrn). Also a note, Hoshi, Caeyrn and Tsubame are kinda just standing in the wide open there. I find it uncharasteristic of our player base when half of all Shinigami don't pounce on intruders.

I'm also waiting for either Demidos or Berry to move Momoka and Igarashi to HQ front door. (We don't really need to RP the Ministry's inspection.)

I am gonna have Hideki deal with them.

[Kuroimaken]

By himself? Clearly something is kooky!

[Draken]

By himself? Clearly something is kooky!

Don't be silly. Hideki is obviously going to communicate remotely.

[Kuroimaken]

Says the guy who splattered Alexandra's brains all over the walls.

[Frozen_Feet]

Well, bullets are remote, and to certain extent they pass as communication.

[Demidos]

Posted, Frozen

No idea what Momoka wants to say, so feel free to engage in conversation and we can do the other one retroactively, or wait, your choice.

Also, a probable dismal failure at some vague attempt at something possibly resembling philosophical commentary from Tinja. What can I say? Science major who is terrible at explaining arguments.

[Draken]

Says the guy who splattered Alexandra's brains all over the walls.

It was a warning shot.

[Kuroimaken]

"Remind me to pick up a bulletproof suit of armor to hang around this guy."

[ImpSyndrome]

It's been a few days with no response to my open-ended post in the Spirit World thread (and it was really open-ended, too). Is anyone currently available to run into Satoshi or vice-versa, or should I make up an expository scene of some kind?

[Tebryn]

It's been a few days with no response to my open-ended post in the Spirit World thread (and it was really open-ended, too). Is anyone currently available to run into Satoshi or vice-versa, or should I make up an expository scene of some kind?

The game tends to be slow moving, especially during the holidays. Give it some time.

[Kuroimaken]

I was still considering charging my defibrilator though.

[5a Violista]

It's been a few days with no response to my open-ended post in the Spirit World thread (and it was really open-ended, too). Is anyone currently available to run into Satoshi or vice-versa, or should I make up an expository scene of some kind?

I just accidentally replied to your post IC before reading this one OoC, so...scene go!


Also, sorry everyone for holding people up.

[Frozen_Feet]

Edited in Hoshi's reply. She's charming as ever.

[Dorizzit]

AnimeKid, if you want Tamaki to be part of the Las Noches trip, now would be the time for him to show up.

[Kuroimaken]

Speaking of confusion, somebody remind me to take Hasunaga out of the freaking limbo and give him some direction since being pushed in and out of the Void like that.

Not that I don't like the way it turned out - things probably wouldn't have been much different anyway - but we kinda missed a perfectly good opportunity for character development, or at the very least character building, as far as the old teacher is concerned, and kinda made him out to be a bit more incompetent than I'm comfortable with.

I get that it was for the sake of PLAWT, but still.

No comment on this, then?

[Frozen_Feet]

I'd say Hasunaga arriving back at his house and hearing what Kumarin has to say, then hurrying either after Mikael or to help the kids only to realize how late he is, would work well in every respect. Yes, he might end up feeling or looking incompetent, but that's just normal considering he was blindsided by Alex, a fifth party he didn't even know of.

[Kuroimaken]

And what makes you think he needs to actually go home, when he has a freaking cell phone?

Stop trying to give Mikael plausible means to slip Hasunaga's hawk-eyedness!

[Frozen_Feet]

I didn't say he needs to go there. But I admit that I didn't think of the possibility of him calling his bear rug.

Besides, Mikael really hasn't escaped his attention; he did meet him when he was chasing for Alice, and Kumarin caught him leaving his house. Hasunaga's just been a bit preoccupied to act much on that information.

[AnimeKid]

Sorry about the not posting for a while guys. Was kinda busy playing the sh*t out of the new games I got for Christmas. I tried to check in every few days, I just never got around to posting unless I was poked. So how have things progressed? Should I go ahead and have Tamaki head over to where Mikael is? Has operation clean up Rukon gone into effect yet?

P.S: Oh my god I love Tales of Xillia and there is a sequel coming out this year!