application for capeandcowl
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Ian
AGE: 20
JOURNAL: pridefall
IM: priestlyish
E-MAIL: meaculpable AT live DOT com
RETURNING:
- Tyki Mikk | simplyteasing
- Lucifer Morningstar | meaculpable
- Remy "Gambit" leBeau | 52cardstud
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Heat O'brian
FANDOM: Shin Megami Tensi: The Digital Devil Saga
CHRONOLOGY: Shortly after separating from the party in Digital Devil Saga 2
CLASS: Neutral
SUPERHERO NAME: N/A
ALTER EGO: N/A
BACKGROUND:
Okay, so to understand Heat’s world one must first understand that the first half of it doesn’t even exist. Heat (the AI) begins “life” within a computerized military program called: “The Junkyard” - here he is trained and tempered to fight in tribal warfare scenarios with other members of his “Tribe,” the Embryon. We’re not told much about the years (or, possibly, centuries) of warfare Heat has to struggle through, as the Digital Devil Saga actually starts when the complete and utter breakdown of this training system is initiated: a bright, blinding light falls from the sky, interrupting a battle the Embyron Tribe is having with another opposing tribe. What happens next can only be described as a paradigm shift, as a series of…light tendrils erupt out from the impact zone, firing off towards everyone present as the scene understandably devolves into chaos.
Heat and the rest of his Tribe awaken hours after the event to find that their enemies (and some of their allies) have been completely torn apart and fed upon by unknown creatures. Stranger still, after locating a mysterious black-haired girl lying naked at the site of the light anomaly, each of the survivors finds that they have been “Marked” by a single unique “tattoo” somewhere on their body. This tattoo - called “Atma” - is later found to impart the power of transformation, allowing each tribe member marked with it to shapeshift into a fiercer, more Demonic form - this form, they find, is what allowed them to win their battle, as it was not an outside force, but the Embryon themselves who ate their enemies.
It is here that the Atma Temple, the men and women who essentially “run” the Junkyard, issues a new law regarding this new arrival: “Devour the other Tribes, and bring the black-haired girl to Nirvana.”
Heat and the rest of the Embryon, decidedly angry at this turn events, choose to begrudgingly follow only the former portion of their new way of life, which leads to even more fighting between the Tribes, and brings on the eventual deletion of the entire “Junkyard” program once the Embyron basically slaughter their way to the top. Along the warpath that is the first Digital Devil Saga, each tribe member undergoes a series of changes that seems to “Awaken” them to who they really are, transforming them from blank slates of emotion to human beings with wants, needs, and ideologies that they themselves frequently do not understand.
Case in point, once Heat finally seems to realize that he is human, and that he cares for Sera (the black-haired girl) as more than a comrade, he completely transforms from a mindless, almost stoic killer into someone completely fueled, and often confused by his own emotions. As clichéd as it sounds, Heat actually embodies everything you would expect his name to define, at this point: he is extraordinarily hot headed, severely mal-tempered, quicker to judge than he is to forgive, and unrepentant to such a degree that he may as well be emotionless. All throughout the course of both Digital Devil Saga games, Heat seems to only be able to express how he feels through violence or anger, caring little for what anyone else thinks of his actions unless they try to physically make their point. In particular, within the Embryon Heat especially has conflicting emotions towards both Sera and Serph: he is, in a sense, infatuated with Sera, and jealous of Serph for being so close to her, though he never understands why this is until the second game.
Here enters Heat O’brian, a genetic therapist who, we find out, was the person Sera based the Artificial Heat AI off of once she created the Junkyard program inside of herself. Instead of finding Nirvana after devouring all of their enemies, the second Digital Devil Saga game throws a curveball at everyone by revealing that the Embryon awaken from their supposed “deletions” to a word gone horribly, horribly wrong.
This is where I’m taking Heat from. He’s a little bit of his AI self still, and he’s a little bit of his human self; violent, confused, analytical, and, ultimately, ready to do anything to survive.
This doesn’t have to be terribly detailed, but we’d like a good picture of their canon to draw from, so please make sure you explain anything particularly series-specific or that we might not understand, and also that it’s in your own words.
PERSONALITY:
What is your character like, in at least two paragraphs? What are their dreams, their fears, their general quirks and the issues that make them, them, and does their personality shift in any way after or before the point you are taking them from? If they are from a different or alternate universe, or if their personality radically shifts due to events during the point in time that you are taking them from, how is their new personality different from their normal one?
POWER:
Heat is able to "Tune" into a demonic representation of Agni, the Vedic Fire god. In this form, he has complete mastery over several fire- and physics-based skills -- detailed below -- and is also very incredibly difficult to kill, shrugging off everything from small-arms fire to fierce elemental-based magics.
Agni's Skill list:
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Outside of this, Heat is an excellent soldier with several dozen years of experience to his name, his specialty being full-on frontal assaults at close-range.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: How your character will be addressing the game at large. This sample should follow the same rough format as Cape&Cowl proper - a first-person, text/audio/video-based, intentional post to an internet community. Preferably more than a paragraph in length, this sample is to show us your character's unique voice. If you can make us laugh or outright scare the pants off us, you’re doing a good job!
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:First, there was darkness.
(He blinks it away, tasting copper in his mouth for the first time in ages.)
Then, there is light: bright, piercing, and darker than the space between the stars.
(Heat has never seen the sun, but he instinctively knows that something is wrong with it once he lays his eyes upon the bright orb for the first time.)
Last come words: angry, frightened, and shouted at him from all sides.
(Heat stands up, calls out to Agni, and consumes the men around him before they can reach their weapons. Though this was a new place, and though he is separated from the rest of his tribe, the Atma User knows what is truly important in life)
Sated, the AI looked down at the remains of the men at his feet, his mouth feeling oddly…there was no immediate word for it -- just off, which in and of itself was strange.
He shook his head.
No matter.
(The first time he had devoured another living creature, Heat had felt nothing short of orgasmic pleasure. The process of masticating on bones, his teeth sawing through muscle and sinew, was an automatic and almost ancillary process his body went through once the scent of blood was in the air. It didn't matter if the corpse he ate was friend or foe, or even if, as fleeting as it was, he remembered the men and women whom he killed, so long as his enemies died, Agni ate, and he was able to keep on living because of it.)
Taking a step forward, Heat looked around, and frowned to himself. For a place called Nirvana, this new world, with its empty buildings, ruined streets, and dead, almost burning landscape, was strangely similar to the one he had just left. Even the way the “people” interacted with each other, always violent, never stopping to question who or what they were fighting, seemed oddly…familiar.
Heat turned on his heel and stared, hard, at the remains of what was once a man’s arm.
His eyes went wide.
(The curse, the virus that the Junkyard had given them, was a blessing. “Devour the other tribes,” the Temple had said; adapt or Die; rend, tear, and devour, doing everything in your power to survive. That was the new law. That was the new way of being. Heat couldn't understand how Agrilla and Serph, with their too-bright eyes, and their too-soft words, could ever see it as otherwise - they all had power, now. No longer were they slaves to the weapons they held, or the skin that they wore; the Embryon had real strength, and with it came the power to change the world around them as they saw fit.
How could they not see it? How could they not embrace it? The Junkyard was a horrid, decrepit place, and now they could escape it -- all it would take were the deaths of every single man and woman outside of their Tribe.
Simple, right?)
It came flooding back to him in a torrent of sounds and memories. He had not reached Nirvana; this was Earth. He had not “found” the truth about “himself” or anyone else, for that matter, because they were all dead, meaning that Serph had been wrong, and that the deletion of the Junkyard had not fulfilled Sera’s dreams.
Heat had failed her.
Serph had failed him.
Heat clenched his fists, closed his eyes, and took a breath.
Adapt or die. Rend. Tear. Devour. This is the new law
Part him knew that the Embyron had made it through with him. Part of him knew that, eventually, they would come to realize everything he had realized, if not sooner. Another part of him, however, this one far more quiet than the last, told him that how much they found out didn’t matter anyway.
Each and every one of them would have to die, so that he could keep Sera safe.
It was all that mattered.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Uhm. He needs to eat living people to survive.
NAME: Ian
AGE: 20
JOURNAL: pridefall
IM: priestlyish
E-MAIL: meaculpable AT live DOT com
RETURNING:
- Tyki Mikk | simplyteasing
- Lucifer Morningstar | meaculpable
- Remy "Gambit" leBeau | 52cardstud
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Heat O'brian
FANDOM: Shin Megami Tensi: The Digital Devil Saga
CHRONOLOGY: Shortly after separating from the party in Digital Devil Saga 2
CLASS: Neutral
SUPERHERO NAME: N/A
ALTER EGO: N/A
BACKGROUND:
Okay, so to understand Heat’s world one must first understand that the first half of it doesn’t even exist. Heat (the AI) begins “life” within a computerized military program called: “The Junkyard” - here he is trained and tempered to fight in tribal warfare scenarios with other members of his “Tribe,” the Embryon. We’re not told much about the years (or, possibly, centuries) of warfare Heat has to struggle through, as the Digital Devil Saga actually starts when the complete and utter breakdown of this training system is initiated: a bright, blinding light falls from the sky, interrupting a battle the Embyron Tribe is having with another opposing tribe. What happens next can only be described as a paradigm shift, as a series of…light tendrils erupt out from the impact zone, firing off towards everyone present as the scene understandably devolves into chaos.
Heat and the rest of his Tribe awaken hours after the event to find that their enemies (and some of their allies) have been completely torn apart and fed upon by unknown creatures. Stranger still, after locating a mysterious black-haired girl lying naked at the site of the light anomaly, each of the survivors finds that they have been “Marked” by a single unique “tattoo” somewhere on their body. This tattoo - called “Atma” - is later found to impart the power of transformation, allowing each tribe member marked with it to shapeshift into a fiercer, more Demonic form - this form, they find, is what allowed them to win their battle, as it was not an outside force, but the Embryon themselves who ate their enemies.
It is here that the Atma Temple, the men and women who essentially “run” the Junkyard, issues a new law regarding this new arrival: “Devour the other Tribes, and bring the black-haired girl to Nirvana.”
Heat and the rest of the Embryon, decidedly angry at this turn events, choose to begrudgingly follow only the former portion of their new way of life, which leads to even more fighting between the Tribes, and brings on the eventual deletion of the entire “Junkyard” program once the Embyron basically slaughter their way to the top. Along the warpath that is the first Digital Devil Saga, each tribe member undergoes a series of changes that seems to “Awaken” them to who they really are, transforming them from blank slates of emotion to human beings with wants, needs, and ideologies that they themselves frequently do not understand.
Case in point, once Heat finally seems to realize that he is human, and that he cares for Sera (the black-haired girl) as more than a comrade, he completely transforms from a mindless, almost stoic killer into someone completely fueled, and often confused by his own emotions. As clichéd as it sounds, Heat actually embodies everything you would expect his name to define, at this point: he is extraordinarily hot headed, severely mal-tempered, quicker to judge than he is to forgive, and unrepentant to such a degree that he may as well be emotionless. All throughout the course of both Digital Devil Saga games, Heat seems to only be able to express how he feels through violence or anger, caring little for what anyone else thinks of his actions unless they try to physically make their point. In particular, within the Embryon Heat especially has conflicting emotions towards both Sera and Serph: he is, in a sense, infatuated with Sera, and jealous of Serph for being so close to her, though he never understands why this is until the second game.
Here enters Heat O’brian, a genetic therapist who, we find out, was the person Sera based the Artificial Heat AI off of once she created the Junkyard program inside of herself. Instead of finding Nirvana after devouring all of their enemies, the second Digital Devil Saga game throws a curveball at everyone by revealing that the Embryon awaken from their supposed “deletions” to a word gone horribly, horribly wrong.
This is where I’m taking Heat from. He’s a little bit of his AI self still, and he’s a little bit of his human self; violent, confused, analytical, and, ultimately, ready to do anything to survive.
This doesn’t have to be terribly detailed, but we’d like a good picture of their canon to draw from, so please make sure you explain anything particularly series-specific or that we might not understand, and also that it’s in your own words.
PERSONALITY:
What is your character like, in at least two paragraphs? What are their dreams, their fears, their general quirks and the issues that make them, them, and does their personality shift in any way after or before the point you are taking them from? If they are from a different or alternate universe, or if their personality radically shifts due to events during the point in time that you are taking them from, how is their new personality different from their normal one?
POWER:
Heat is able to "Tune" into a demonic representation of Agni, the Vedic Fire god. In this form, he has complete mastery over several fire- and physics-based skills -- detailed below -- and is also very incredibly difficult to kill, shrugging off everything from small-arms fire to fierce elemental-based magics.
Agni's Skill list:
-
-
-
-
Outside of this, Heat is an excellent soldier with several dozen years of experience to his name, his specialty being full-on frontal assaults at close-range.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: How your character will be addressing the game at large. This sample should follow the same rough format as Cape&Cowl proper - a first-person, text/audio/video-based, intentional post to an internet community. Preferably more than a paragraph in length, this sample is to show us your character's unique voice. If you can make us laugh or outright scare the pants off us, you’re doing a good job!
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:First, there was darkness.
(He blinks it away, tasting copper in his mouth for the first time in ages.)
Then, there is light: bright, piercing, and darker than the space between the stars.
(Heat has never seen the sun, but he instinctively knows that something is wrong with it once he lays his eyes upon the bright orb for the first time.)
Last come words: angry, frightened, and shouted at him from all sides.
(Heat stands up, calls out to Agni, and consumes the men around him before they can reach their weapons. Though this was a new place, and though he is separated from the rest of his tribe, the Atma User knows what is truly important in life)
Sated, the AI looked down at the remains of the men at his feet, his mouth feeling oddly…there was no immediate word for it -- just off, which in and of itself was strange.
He shook his head.
No matter.
(The first time he had devoured another living creature, Heat had felt nothing short of orgasmic pleasure. The process of masticating on bones, his teeth sawing through muscle and sinew, was an automatic and almost ancillary process his body went through once the scent of blood was in the air. It didn't matter if the corpse he ate was friend or foe, or even if, as fleeting as it was, he remembered the men and women whom he killed, so long as his enemies died, Agni ate, and he was able to keep on living because of it.)
Taking a step forward, Heat looked around, and frowned to himself. For a place called Nirvana, this new world, with its empty buildings, ruined streets, and dead, almost burning landscape, was strangely similar to the one he had just left. Even the way the “people” interacted with each other, always violent, never stopping to question who or what they were fighting, seemed oddly…familiar.
Heat turned on his heel and stared, hard, at the remains of what was once a man’s arm.
His eyes went wide.
(The curse, the virus that the Junkyard had given them, was a blessing. “Devour the other tribes,” the Temple had said; adapt or Die; rend, tear, and devour, doing everything in your power to survive. That was the new law. That was the new way of being. Heat couldn't understand how Agrilla and Serph, with their too-bright eyes, and their too-soft words, could ever see it as otherwise - they all had power, now. No longer were they slaves to the weapons they held, or the skin that they wore; the Embryon had real strength, and with it came the power to change the world around them as they saw fit.
How could they not see it? How could they not embrace it? The Junkyard was a horrid, decrepit place, and now they could escape it -- all it would take were the deaths of every single man and woman outside of their Tribe.
Simple, right?)
It came flooding back to him in a torrent of sounds and memories. He had not reached Nirvana; this was Earth. He had not “found” the truth about “himself” or anyone else, for that matter, because they were all dead, meaning that Serph had been wrong, and that the deletion of the Junkyard had not fulfilled Sera’s dreams.
Heat had failed her.
Serph had failed him.
Heat clenched his fists, closed his eyes, and took a breath.
Adapt or die. Rend. Tear. Devour. This is the new law
Part him knew that the Embyron had made it through with him. Part of him knew that, eventually, they would come to realize everything he had realized, if not sooner. Another part of him, however, this one far more quiet than the last, told him that how much they found out didn’t matter anyway.
Each and every one of them would have to die, so that he could keep Sera safe.
It was all that mattered.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Uhm. He needs to eat living people to survive.