Name: Xaoc (pronounced zay- OK)
Nickname:Age: 22
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Position: Evil
Powers: Chaos: Xaoc uses a darkness based magic called Chaos. Chaos magic is very powerful, but it has an extreme effect on those using it, weakening their grip on reality. When used heavily at any one time, Chaos can drive a person temporarily insane, sending them into a berserker rage. If the person is not disabled quickly, they will die from the energies flowing throw them. So, many Chaos users wear limiter collars, to keep them from drawing on an uncontrollable amount of energy. It is possible to surpass the collars, though not recommended. If the collar is exceeded, it begins building an electric charge strong enough to knock out the wearer. Charge times range from one to two posts.
Chaos spells can be charged to three levels, each requiring longer wait times, and lessened usage time. Each person develops their own attacks. The main body of any Chaos attack is black, with secondary energy discharges being unique to each person. Xaoc’s are red.
In threads, Xaoc’s mental stability is represented by a percentage. Should it hit 100%, she will enter her berserker state. Each use of a Chaos spell will increase the percentage points. Note: Surpassing the collar is only possible for Xaoc after 3-5 posts in berserker mode. Each post she doesn’t use any Chaos magic, her percentage goes down 3 points. It is impossible to get below 0%.
Levels
1: immediate use, 5 post use. Note: level one abilities can be active (as opposed to activated) simutaneously, such as Chaos Blade and Chaos Punishment.
2: one post charge, four post use, increased damage, +2 percentage points
3: two post charge, 2 post use, increased damage and size, + 5 percentage points
Chaos Blade: A large energy based sword appears around Xaoc’s arm. It has physical presence, and can heavily injure or even kill. It does moderate to heavy dark based slashing damage. Percentage +6
Chaos Torrent: Xaoc fires energy balls from the palm of her hand. There is a ten per post limit. The energy balls do mild dark based damage. Percentage +3
Chaos Fear: Xaoc focuses her powers, and mentally invades her foe. She quickly finds their biggest terror and magnifies it, then causes them to hallucinate their terror. Foes become confused, possibly hurting themselves, or attacking allies. The longer it is charged, the more realistic and terrifying the hallucination. Example of use: Say you fear zombies. At level one, a group of zombies would appear, slowly shuffling towards you. The world would not change in anyway. To contrast, at level three, the hallucination would stick you at midnight in a graveyard as the undead rise from the ground all around you. Usage limit: twice oer thread
Percentage: +10 points
Chaos Punishment: Charging her body with Chaos energy, Xaoc increases her strength, speed, and coordination, making her physical attacks more powerful. She can break through defenses with attacks backed by this. Her body lets off a shadowy aura with red electricity occasionally arcing around her. Percentage: +12
Chaos Insanity: When Xaoc’s percentage hits 100, she enters Chaos insanity, a powerful berserker rage. Her attacks are all considered level three, her body glows black, red electricity arcs from her body constantly, and her eyes glow red. She can only scream incoherently in this form, and will attack almost anyone she sees. If someone becomes close to her, they can snap her out of it, but it is nearly impossible to do otherwise, requiring a massive amount of pain. She attacks like a wild animal in this form, using scratches, bites, kicks, and swinging her staff like a club. If she recovers before surpassing the limiter collar, she becomes feeble and drained. Her percentage drops to 20%.
However, should she surpass the amount of energy set by the limiter collar, she changes even more, becoming pure black, while her eyes glow white. The red discharges become larger, and the aura darker. She will usually only use Chaos based attacks in this form. After a post or two to charge, the limiter collar will electrocute her almost to the point of death, which will immediately induce unconsciousness, and dispel Chaos Insanity. Her percentage will drop to 50%. Her personality becomes calm in this state, though the body is fighting completely on its own, without the mind to issue orders. IT will still attack anyone its sees, though it does not act animalistic when doing so. Chaos Insanity does not knock her unconscious, but breaks her grip on reality, rendering her animalistic and vicious, prone to attacking anyone she sees. Simply put, if she is hit hard enough to be knocked unconscious, Chaos Insanity immediately breaks, no matter which version she is in.
It is impossible to exceed 100% while in Chaos Insanity.
Final Chaos: An ability that seems mythical in nature. If a Chaos user is able to trigger Chaos Insanity, and retain their mental faculties, they can utilize it’s strength to the fullest. People able to do this are few and far between, and they still suffer the other drawbacks of Chaos Insanity. Exceeding the collar will immediately shatter any semblance of control. People able to do this suffer half the mental degradation while using normal Chaos attacks. Final Chaos is like a very hard to activate Limit Break. Xaoc gains the powerup from Chaos Insanity, but because she retains her mental faculties, she can use it to much better effect. She cannot actually do this yet, which is why I do not mention any of the specifics that happen to her. But when she finally learns how to control Chaos Insanity, which isn't going to happen for a very long time, the ability will only last three posts max. It is simply Chaos Insanity, without the insane part.
Weapon:Crystal Staff: A four foot blue metal staff with a large emerald embedded in the top. Xaoc uses it to focus her powers, and use larger scale versions of her spells. She can also store Chaos energy in the emerald, drawing on it in an emergency.
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Appearance: Xaoc is an odd looking individual. Her hair is a total mess, naturally black, except for three perfect red stripes that she seems to have dyed into it. She wears a black coat with no way to close, which has a large siphon shaped collar going all the way around her neck. She has a dark blue shirt sleeve shirt, and shorts of the same color. She has a gold band above each wrist. Her shoes are red and black sneakers. Her skin is a sickly pale, making her seem ill, even though she is usually healthy. Her eyes are so light as to seem white.
Personality:As all Chaos users tend to be, Xaoc is slightly mentally unstable, and largely evil. She is a habitual liar, easily talking her way convincingly through nearly any situation, and able to fool all but the most observant of conversationalists. She uses this to trick her way into places she doesn’t belong , things she didn’t buy, and money she didn’t earn. She is an accomplished actress too, able to keep up a charade for years, building up her victims for the final betrayal. She is also manipulative, able to talk people around to her way of thinking. In conversation she ranges from sickeningly polite to sadistic, depending on what she want from who she is talking to.
She rarely makes friends, only opening up to the truly nice, who are able to forgive her for her past, present, future, and powers. To those few she is loyal, dependable, and fiercely protective. With them, she is able to relax, and feel like a normal person, forgetting about the grind, and the Chaos coursing through her mind. Those rare few find in her a friend for life, trustworthy, generous, and kind. She would never betray them, not matter what is offered to her.
Her main goal is power. The Chaos is a curse, and those who use it make no pretenses about that. She seeks the power to totally dominate the Chaos, so that she can use it without ill effect. She will do nearly anything to reach this goal, so that she may become the strongest in the world, and never be challenged or defeated. She will take up with anyone who has power, and is willing to teach her. She has sought out those stronger than her, becoming their apprentice and servant, while they train her in the ways of Darkness and Chaos. Should she find someone stronger, though, she will readily betray the current master and join the new one. She has worked her way through countless people in such a manner, always seeking the next strong person, and always looking to learn something new about her powers.
Original World: Harmony City
Population: 1.4 million people
Registered Chaos Users: 14,839
Harmony City is a model city, one which the rest of the world was supposed to look in envy of the perfect lives of its citizens. Instead, the city finds itself under siege every day. Criminals run rampant, overwhelming the security forces ability to contain them. The decent people living the crime infested parts of the city live in fear. But for those living in the city center, the original perfection can still be found. The Clan of Harmony protects it from the outside world with their wondrous control of light. But even here, the corruption has spread. Just as the city outside and inside contrast greatly, so do the powers of those born in the light zone.
Established in 1932, the city was meant to be a haven from the world beyond, where peace reigned supreme. It was opened to citizens in three years, and many people flooded the city. A great wall was built to ring the city, and protect it from outside influence. And it worked for decades, until people with odd abilities began turning up. Simple things, like increasing the amount of light in a room, helping small plants grow faster, that sort of thing. The city authorities recognized the powered population, and instead of mistreating them, they set up the Powered Registration act, declaring that all people at or beyond the age of 13 be tested for powers, and given the opportunity to strengthen those powers for the good of the city. The people liked this idea, and for weeks, the testing went on, as the whole population showed up eagerly to see if they had powers.
However, as the testing continued, a disturbing trend was noticed. A few people were noted to have powers that resided in the opposite spectrum from the normal powered. These people were instructed to come back for further testing, and it was revealed that their powers were not constructive, like the rest. The were wholly and purely destructive. And those powers were very strong indeed, though without the testing, the powers might never have developed. These powers, the opposite of those that would help Harmony City, where an object of concern for the city leaders. They couldn’t have people with destructive powers using them. And since these powers could not bring Harmony, but instead Chaos, the use of those powers were banned. And so began the low level rebellion by Chaos users against the authorities.
They began training in secret, and soon, finding themselves ostracized by the “decent people,” began committing crimes to survive. The security forces were ill equipped to deal with Chaos, and Harmonious powers could not hope to challenge the powers of Chaos. So, the City leaders passed an amendment to the Powered Registration Act. All peoples found to have Chaos powers shall not be discriminated against, but shall wear Chaos Limitation Collars for the protection of their fellow citizens. The majority of Chaos users submitted to this law, because they were basically good people. But the strongest of the Chaotic refused to obey, as the power had already corrupted their minds. Soon, any person found to exhibit Chaos abilities was fitted with a limiter collar.
A successful lawsuit, however, changed this practice, making it illegal unless a Chaotic has already used their powers to harm another. Support programs were set up by well meaning but misguided people, to help new Chaotic “deal” with having Chaos. This only instigated more rebellion, as user after user was sentenced to these rehab programs. The Chaotics, sick of their treatment at the hands of the city’s officials, declared open war, and began taking over portions of the city. The Clan of Harmony, established to defend against the Chaotics, withdrew into the city center, and began building light gates that would turn away any Chaos user. So, with the city now divided in two life took a turn for the worse for those not in the protected city center. Crime became more common, and the criminals built empires, carving out turf, and fighting over the borders, with the Chaotics ruling over it all in the shadows. In the middle of this war, in the Light Zone, a girl is born with Chaos…
Current World: Traverse Town
History: Xaoc was born Denise Walter on June 17th, 2047. She had a normal enough childhood, until she was tested for powers, under the Powered Regulation Act of 1956 at age thirteen. What she didn’t know was that she had tested negative for every power archetype except one: the very illegal Chaos branch. Though, under the Powered Regulation act, a person could not be arrested, fined, or otherwise punished for having Chaos abilities, the tester was required by law to inform Denise’s parents, the principal of her school, all of her teachers,
and her boss at her part time job, as well as register her in a Chaos user database. Soon, every time something went wrong, poor Denise was blamed in some way. For example, once at her work, a grill that she had been working on exploded. Denise barely avoided injury, but a coworker that had also gotten a promotion over her was severely burned. Though the explosion was eventually found to be caused by a faulty gasket in the gas line, she was fired for it.
This kind of thing went on for three years until she was able to wrestle the truth from her parents. Shocked to find out what she truly was, she ran away from home. Wandering the streets that night, cold, lost and hungry, Denise was attacked by a gang of five men, determined to have their way with this defenseless, lost girl. They surrounded her, and each drew a weapon of some kind. Rather than get scared like other girls would have, she began to get angry. The leader reached for her clothes and… That’s all she remembers. She entered her first berserker rage at that point, and soon, her attackers were bleeding and broken on the ground. She fell unconscious soon after, and the whole bunch was picked up by a local patrol.
Down at the station, Denise was fitted with a restraint collar, and placed in an isolation chamber. She was released to her parents custody with just a warning, seeing as it was here first offence, and she had only used her powers in self defense, but warned to keep the collar, so that she wouldn’t hurt herself. She was also given a pamphlet on living a normal life despite being Chaos endowed. This irritated her, and so, to spite the system, she began to practice her powers, and fell in with a dark crowd.
She dropped out of school, where her friends, hearing about Killer Chaos Denise, had been avoiding her. She legally changed her name to Xaoc, which was Chaos in a foreign language. She began her life of darkness, and grew eviler and more powerful by the year. However, Chaos, being an offshoot of Darkness, eventually attracted the wrong kind of attention, in the form of the Heartless, They were drawn to the darkness. Some Chaos users master control over them. Others fought against them. But eventually, all fell to them, until finally, the world itself fell…
Role Playing Sample: See Rose and Halen.
