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⁑✩The Children of the Stardust Sign Ups✩⁑

Forum-Index Roleplay RP Sign-up ⁑✩The Children of the Stardust Sign Ups✩⁑
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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 04:17 (1 Year ago)


Who are the Children of the Stardust? They are the ones whose lives have been turned upside down by The Great Supernova.

The Children of the Stardust were all just high school and college students at a remote school in the woods. But the closest star (other than the sun) exploded; causing The Great Supernova. It's stardust spread throughout the universe, and a small speck of it touched the school. All students in the school were "blessed" with a unique power; the strength determined by how close the students were to the apex.

Scientists were fascinated; and tried chasing down the school to study the remaints of the stardust. But, having nowhere to go, this old school and this, newly enchanted, forest is your home. Protect it at all costs.


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NO GODMODDING
No controlling other characters
Must be sfw!
All ph rules apply
If I am in your banlist, you may not sign up. Any sign ups/accepted sign ups are placed on hold untill I'm off ur blacklist. I need a way to contact you.
Yasss romance is allowed


FORM for Sign up (copy paste)
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Name:
Appearance:
Age (16-19 please):
Backstory:
Personality:
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10)
Palpad?:(Y/N)
Other:

RP (Click image)



Name: Nova
Appearance: Short gray hair fades to dull purple
Age (16-19 please): 17
Backstory: Nova was at THE very apex of where the dust hit, so she is extremely powerfull. She talks to her future self, who is infinitely old and basically knows all of the universe's future, thinking that it's her sister (she's an only child)
Personality: Shy and scared, doesn't do anything unless her "sister"(its her future self) tells her to
Power: 10, Prophecy/future-telling; can talk to future self but thinks it's her sister. Can also make prophecies/controll what she sees in the future, with the help of Kaylee.
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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 10:55 (1 Year ago)
Name: Bloodbath fever/ Ken tsukoyomi
Appearance:
Age (16-19 please): 16
Backstory: orphan that goes on split personality disorder shenanigans, one personality wants to kills everybody, other one just wants a family. They get adopted but family immediately dies in a car accident right in front of them with them being the only survivor, causing the wanting a family personality to be broken mentally. Wants to kill everyone personality takes pity and decides to stay dormant while he recovers, they were going to therapy in the school when the stardust hit. Due to their split personality, they got two powers, one power for each of the personalities. Bloodbath fever got the ability to create portal anywhere they want instantaneously, and close it whenever they want. This portal also acts as a gateway, so Bloodbath fever can choose not to let people who enter the portal out and close it on them, sealing them into the void until he chooses to let them out. While inside the void, nobody can die from old age, hunger or dehydration, and time is weird. For ken, their power is to stop anything, this power can stop someones heart even when the user is in america and the target is in china. The user themselves will be frozen while their stop power is active. Power cannot be used on dead objects, robots count as well. Each power can only be used when the personality that correspond to the power is active. Power can be used on multiple things at once but more things cannot be added once the power is activated. The cooldown for this power is 5 minutes every activation.
Personality: chaotic.
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10) portal creation/gateway maker & “IT’S TIME TO STOP” 9 for both their powers
Palpad?:(Y/N) yup
Other:
I stopped caring, I'm past that point in my life.
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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 11:53 (1 Year ago)
"I’m no weakling. I will not respect anyone that does not hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat."

Name: One Finola Turnwail

Appearance:
Sparkling grey hair tied into a high ponytail with a red laurel wreath on his head at all times. He wears red clothes all the time; it doesn't matter what clothes they are, they're always a deep shade of scarlet. Though he usually wears a blouse with a waistcoat and Victorian boots. He's unnaturally pale with piercing eyes that glint like rubies.

Age: 18
Backstory: One's family kicked him out of the household at the age of eight, for being a 'disgrace to the family line' or something. He wandered around the streets, stealing from the richest of the rich and making sure that no one would recognize him from before. One day, a man found him and decided to take him in as his son, though One was reluctant about this. He was enrolled into the school, and then was hit by the stardust, finding out that everything he touched seem to glow an unsteady red.

Personality: Usually cold and disdainful, he spits glares at everyone that dares to talk to him. Frankly, he probably didn't want to be in the school in the first place. One particularly shakes with range. Though, he's such a perfectionist, that he'll do anything to impress the people that he looks up to.

Power: 8

Rage Aura Manipulation: the angrier he is, or the angrier the people around him are, the stronger he'll get. He'll be able to throw a rock through a wall. One can manipulate the rage auras, the energy people give off when they're angry, of others too. He can make shields out of the energy, and even weapons. Though, the more rage aura he uses, the less angrier the person becomes. And this ability doesn't work very well on people that can't get angry.
Palpad?: Yeah!

Other: I hope he's not OP! If he is, I'll nerf his powers!


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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 14:45 (1 Year ago)
Name: Carter Williams
Appearance:
Age (16-19 please): 17
Backstory: Walked out of his house at the age of 11. He was known for stealing and paying people back one way or another. Carter was wandering around the school minding his business when The Stardust happened, he felt something strange on his head and ran to the nearest bathroom where he found a shark around what is now his head.
Personality: He had always been respectful, helpful, sneaky, smart, and strategic no matter the situation.
Power: He was pretty close to the Stardust and can move water around and can fight with it. The shark will bite further and further the more he uses his power so he can only do so much. The shark will time to time demand something and will close it's mouth tighter if not done. (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10)
Palpad?: Y
Other: hellos
These guys are cool


Also bring back rps, been to long
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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 15:07 (1 Year ago)
Name: Se-hi Oh (Kaylee is her English name)
Appearance: She wears a soft lilac dress, with long sleeves and a silver trim. Her long, straight, jet-black hair is always down her back, and her bangs gently brush her eyes. She wears a dark purple headband that keeps her back locks out of her face, and has a hair ribbon going down her back. She wears tall, white boots with gold design. Her pale face and pink lips make her large, shiny, purple eyes stand out.
Age (16-19 please): 16
Backstory: Kaylee's parents died when she was 12, and she was an only child. She was left with no money, no home, and no nothing. She spent the next 4 years alone, studying the best she could, so that she could go to college and start her life at last. When she got to college, she was often avoided because people thought of her as 'scum', and she had no friends.
Personality: She is shy and lonely. She is often seemed as 'depressed' as she didn't talk at all, and didn't really show any emotion. That is all because of the suffering she had when her parents died, and people don't know that, so she was very misunderstood. When someone can get her to come out of her shell of pain, memories, and suffering, they can see that she is actually a very sweet person with a very sweet and gentle personality.
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10) 9 Power- telekinesis and psychic visions
Telekinesis/Conjuring Items: Kaylee can use her mental ability to manipulate air particles, as her telekinesis is different. But after her parents died and she suffered, her mental 'block' started limiting her telekinesis, and Kaylee got frightened. She tries doing more than her limit to her telekinesis, and pushes herself a little too far at times, causing her to start her visions, and she often blacked out a lot. But she doesn't tell anybody else about her blackouts, as she always woke up. Eventually. She can also use her telekinesis to combine air particles, forming semi-solid objects. When she can combine enough particles, they form semisolid objects, in which she could combine to make them more and more solid. But she can only hold 3 fully solid particle-mad objects, as she does need a weakness.
Psychic Visions: Kaylee's visions started when she started pushing herself too far. Now, when she touches an object, she can either see the past, or the future of that object, or any being that had touched it. She is very scared of her visions and started wearing gloves so that she wouldn't have anymore, but the gloves only enhanced her visions, so she got rid of them.
Palpad?:(Y/N) Yes please!
Other: If she's too powerful or OP, please tell me! I can always take out Psychic Visions :D - and the visions was totally not stolen from Wednesday XD
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✿ And wherever there are flowers, there is new life and hope ✿
✿ And wherever there is new life and hope, there is love, and someone there ✿

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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 16:37 (1 Year ago)
Im going to condense my form into a spoiler because i wrote a lot of information ^^; the premise of this roleplay gave me such a cool character idea though so thank you for that!!

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Name: Benjamin “Benji” Sharpe

Appearance:
Short in stature and rather skinny , Benjamin has soft, fluffy brown hair with a pale complexion, he has black thin stripes under his eyes that resemble thread and his left arm is a pale greyish colour. He wears thick rimmed circle glasses with an oversized beige knitted sweater with a white button up under that, his pants are a dark brown colour with plaid patterning , he wears grey argyle socks and a pair of thick , chunky based stomper lace up boots which give him an extra three inches onto his height, when i have the time i’ll draw a picture of him and attach it here when I can 💚

Age (16-19 please): 19, his birthdate is January 23rd

Backstory: Benjamin always had a knack for the creation and use of dolls and puppets , often creating them as gifts for those he liked as a symbol of his friendship. He found something about the creation of these miniature lives therapeutic and he enjoyed the marksmanship he could place into every doll often making toys for the children in the local orphanage or those in foster care as he thought it was awful that other children his age had nobody to rely on for comfort or care when he was younger. Born to his loving parents Lucy Sharpe and Miles Sharpe they encouraged him to do well in school so that he could one day become a designer of toys and clothes , whilst his parents do not have a lot of money they saved up enough to purchase him his own sewing machine which is now one of his most treasured items. In his free time he often volunteers to teach children in the local orphanage to sew and create stuff from old objects.

Personality: Benji is relatively shy and passive though he can be quite vile if you get on his bad side, he is resourceful and quite gentle and delicate often having a soft voice when speaking . He is decently smart but not nerdy , he has good grades as he hopes it will help him with his dream of becoming a designer, he is very selfless and will defend others from bullies.

Power: on the closeness scale i’d say an 9

I’ll try my best to explain his power how I’m envisioning it

Material control ;

Benji can create sewing threads from the markings under his eyes , his left arm can change from being a normal humanoid arm to a pair of fabric shears which can be used to cut fabrics (or skin) theres two possible ways for this power to be used , one is more for fighting and one shows off benji’s selflessness and his love for other people even if he is shy , first the fighting one;

The fabric shear arm can be used as a sword of sorts when closed and can be used to cut when opened , it works like a claw think like how lobster claws work i suppose the threads from the markings under his eyes can be used to tangle opponents or grab people to stop them from attacking but since its thread it can be weak and snap easy so would only be useful for a few seconds.

The more defensive way to use his power is simpler , he can use the fabric shear arm to cut skin off himself in smaller quantities or he can use scrap or any form of available fabrics , he can then place these parts onto an injured person and then use the threading he can create to sew it to the skin , it will the person whilst being attached but after it is attached it will function like normal (or example if someone lost a part of their arm he can recreate this part of the persons arm and it will be functional after it is attached) the only difference is that part will be fabric and can tear if not careful with the injury

Palpad?: yes ^^

Other: please let me know if he’s too OP TwT I’ve been meaning to get back into roleplaying and this roleplay looked really fun ^^





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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 18:13 (1 Year ago)
Everyone is accepted! Don't worry, none of u guys are op.

LMFAO I didn't expect this many sign ups overnight! This idea was actually a dream I had the day before I started the RP XDDDD
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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 18:16 (1 Year ago)
Name: Roden Ahearn
Appearance:
Age (16-19 please): 18
Backstory: Roden lost their family briefly before joining the school in a freak accident. Their parents both worked full time so they often had to look after themself and their siblings. Their siblings went into care and they came here.
Personality: Kind, but not naive, they will use their powers to help but will accept when they fall short. If someone was suffering with hypothermia, they'd heat them as much as they could, but wouldn't sacrifice themself to save the other person.
Power: Closeness(5), Energy: Roden can take energy from objects/living them around them and put it into objects. They cannot use this for too long, as losing too much energy would cause his core temperature to drop too much, and the opposite is true when taking in energy. They wouldn't be able to freeze a living being unless it's very small. Their eyes glow the more energy they take in, so it's a good indicator if they are reaching their limits.
Palpad?:Yes :3
Other: Non-Binary (Any pronouns)
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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 18:21 (1 Year ago)
Accept!
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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 20:18 (1 Year ago)
Name: Sobble
Appearance:



Age (16-19 please): 17
Backstory: He left his home at the age of 14 since his home was too boring and left so he could find things that could spark his life a bit more. He has traveled a lot and made friends with a lot of people.
Personality: Kind and likes to be around people, when he isn't around people he gets bored easily.
Power: I'd say 7 and his ability is being able to fire Rockets with his right hand. Kind of like Megaman when you think about it.
Palpad?: Yes
Other: Tell me what I did wrong if you reject and give me the RP link.
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Posted: Wed, 21/12/2022 20:51 (1 Year ago)
Name: Reyna Simaria
Appearance:
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Sometimes, if she’s feeling an outburst of any emotion or anger etc, her eyes may turn golden for a few seconds, 30 secs at most.

Age (16-19 please): 17
Backstory: She’s an only child, she’s extremely isolated and NOT depressed. Her childhood wasn’t bright like you would expect, her father passed away when she was 5 and her family was poor (ish)
Personality: calm, quiet, she doesn’t like communicating with people other than ones she trusts
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10) 8
shapeshifting and object summoning
Shapeshifting:
Turning into animals but not humans
Object summoning:
Summoning items out of nothing but it will take energy
Palpad?:(Y/N) Y
Other: nope
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Posted: Thu, 22/12/2022 01:09 (1 Year ago)
okay accept!
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Posted: Thu, 22/12/2022 01:09 (1 Year ago)
Who?
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Posted: Thu, 22/12/2022 01:11 (1 Year ago)
both
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Posted: Thu, 22/12/2022 09:01 (1 Year ago)
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Name: Hanako-san
Appearance: A cute petite girl who’s mute, they wear a red dress and a strawberry hair clip (Not shown in pic).
Age (16-19 please): 16
Backstory: Was constantly abused at home by a drunkard father, mother, and uncles. She eventually learned to hide in small spaces nobody would look in. Due to hiding in these small spaces, her growth was stunted, and now she looks more like Eri’s age in MHA
Personality: Quiet, dreamy and always in search of something.
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10) Power negation. Hanako can cancel out the powers of others near her, this power can also any hostility towards her. This power will work without fail on everyone, and cannot be negated. Power level: 10/10
Palpad?:(Y/N) Y
Other: nah

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Name: Komoshito Nagisaki
Appearance: Resembles bennet from genshin impact, but taller, less lean and more muscular.

Age (16-19 please): 19
Backstory: One of the jocks back in the day, they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, and instantly took to anything they tried, be it piano or art. However, he was always plagued by bad luck, normally mediocre stuff like their shoe going missing or being hit from behind by a bicycle into the mud. One time he was kidnapped due to his bad luck though, so his bad luck can be rly bad too. Loves their clothes and keeps up with fashion trends.
Personality: Sheepish, loud and extremely likely to cheer you on way too loudly.
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10) “MIA” This power makes anything he touches, be it organic or inorganic disappear, break or die within an hour. This power excludes himself, so he can touch himself freely 😏. This power can be blocked by gloves though. Power level/closeness to stardust: 7
Palpad?:(Y/N) y
Other: nah

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Name: Deishiro Hanamura
Appearance: Half sister of Nagisaki, they look NOTHING alike. Deishiro was a bit more….Risqué looking.

Age (16-19 please): 18
Backstory: They were a popular girl back in the school days, homecoming queen, cheerleader yadda yadda yadda. She was a straight A student and the envy of most people. She had eyes only for one person in the school though.
Personality: Yandere. Sadistic. Likely to tie you up and beat you to death then give you a kiss on the cheek.
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10) “Adjust settings” She can adjust the settings of other people, like muting them, increasing their thiccness, changing the colour of their hair, increasing their pain receptors and so on. She can also set whatever music she wants, So if she wants to she could set the music to BOTW guardian theme and run at you, signifying IT’S BOSS BATTLE TIME power level/closeness to stardust impact site is 10
Palpad?:(Y/N) y
Other: nah

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Name: Promethius fireheart
Appearance: dark bluish hair, pink eyes and a awkward smile/ wears green clothes all the time.

Age (16-19 please): 18
Backstory: a gentle giant standing at 8’1, they love animals and life. Gets traumatised by death. PTSD is triggered when they see something that’s dead.
Personality:
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10) He can breath life into non living beings like robots, upon doing so these beings will live, and will be sentient and be able to die. Power is 6
Palpad?:(Y/N) y
Other: nope

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Name: Alan Tchaikovsky
Appearance:
Age (16-19 please): 18
Backstory: Knew Benji since they were young, slowly grew attached to benji and decided to start stalking him. Has two gay yandere dads to help guide and train him, extremely talented with guns and other weapons.
Personality: Does what she has to do.
Power: (and how close your character was to The Stardust, 1-10) she can materialise weapons in her hands, she has aimbot too. 6/10
Palpad?:(Y/N) y
Other: nope

I stopped caring, I'm past that point in my life.
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Posted: Thu, 22/12/2022 09:02 (1 Year ago)
Name: Emiru
Appearance: this but humanized lol
Age (16-19 please): 16
Backstory: Tended a large rose garden before the stardust
Personality: Lazy, and loves to be entertained(by people). Does not like battle much and prefers watching from the sidelines
Power: summons roses that release poison on touch, is immune to the poison, 5
Palpad?: Yes
Other:

♡ ♡ ♡
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Posted: Thu, 22/12/2022 09:33 (1 Year ago)
"C'mon, don't you wanna get into a little bit of fun...? Trouble? Yeah, so what?! It's even more fun that way!!"

Name: Ignis Carmelita (YES SHE'S MY FEMALE SONA)

Appearance: Black hair tied into buns behind her head with orange streaks in the front of her hair. Dazzling peacock eyes that shine like rhinestones with a chaotic grin plastered on her face at all times. She wears a black hoodie and parachute pants that are stuffed into knee-high boots.

Age: 16
Backstory: Strange to believe but Ignis actually has a family! She has parents and a twin brother! Though her parents are not usually home so it was always her and her twin. They get into all sorts of trouble and fun, until the parents decided that it was time to stop the chaos and sent her to the school.

Personality: Many would describe Ignis as a raging hellfire, and honestly she probably calls herself that too. She's hot-heated and tell-it-as-it-is, but that won't stop her from trying to have fun! If there's anywhere with adventure, you can bet that she's definitely going there.

Power: 7

Celetial Solar Flare: Ignis can control light and plasma, and with plasma, fire. When controlling light, she can solidify it and turn it into barriers or weapons. When controlling fire, she can make the atoms in an object vibrate so much that they combust and burst aflame. Certainly a good power for a chaotic girl!

Palpad?: Already innit ;D
Other: Again, she won't be OP lol


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Posted: Fri, 23/12/2022 00:30 (1 Year ago)
uh apathy that's a LOT of characters, i should put this in the rules, but the limit is 2-4 characters

Ignis thats legit 4 seperate powers- conjuring, light, making stuff burst into fire, and plasma. Plasma itself is a really string element- could u lose the conjuring and light?

Taromilk, accept
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Posted: Fri, 23/12/2022 01:17 (1 Year ago)
Aw man, i hate character limits :(. How about this, i’ll use alan tchaikovsky to kill off ken/BF, then i’ll use promethius, deishiro and nagisaki to fill the last three spots of my character limit.
I stopped caring, I'm past that point in my life.
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Posted: Fri, 23/12/2022 03:00 (1 Year ago)
Oooh yeah sure! She'll just make fire, if that's okay!

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