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• The Darkness Down Below
  ***Sasuke and Erza nominated***
  
  
• Highlanding in the Coliseum
  *** Gin would like C&C for his thread here***
  
  
• The Worst Kingslayer
  ***Nominated by Strazio***
  
• Eye of the Storm
  ***Thaal would like some C&C for his thread here***
  
  
• Midnight Rose
  ***Belle would like some initial opinions on her thread here***

Quote:Hi guys, Erza here. I'll be giving up Aang and switching to Drogon. Assuming that's okay, of course. Obviously there are plenty of things slightly off about this joining form. If the mods decide this ain't coo, I'll think of someone else to make eventually ^.^

Also, if I recall correctly, Drogon should keep half of Aang's earned OM. That shuffles out to 7,802.27 starting OM, and the below form reflects that. If that's also wrong, it can be changed

Darkness faded into light that creeped into Miranda Frost's tent, shining into her eye. It wasn't a pleasant way to wake up with the heat of the sun's light drilling into her naked eye. She grunted turned over lazily in her cot, attempting to catch the sleep that hurried away from her. It was no use though. Miranda was wide away. She turned on her cot and reached over to her dusty, black leather combat boots and slipped them on. Without the padded socks given to her prior to the competition, it wasn't going to be pleasant, but it was better than without them. Lord knows the bandits' drinking habits left the camp grounds littered with broken glass that no one bothered to get cleaned up.

She pulled at her ragged pants, tucking them into her boots before tying them, making sure they were nice and snug. She scanned at her artificial arm, its shiny metallic color fading to the dust. It was a rushed job, these arms. They lacked proper covering, so Miranda was forced to wear something long sleeved. She picked up her long, black coat and slipped in it, zipping it up to her neck before slipping some black leather gloves over her exposed hands. To her exposed eye socket she applied an eye patch, tightening it on her face.On the torn makeshift table lay a silver colored mask to cover the meat grinder appendage that was the replacement for her mouth. She applied some bandages to her face to keep the metal from rubbing her skin raw and screwed the mask in until it was secure. She turned and exited the tent, her first step meeting the crunch of glass and sand beneath her heel, and the other meeting nothing.

The world was stripped around her leaving nothing but a black void. As far as the eye could see nothing but blackness met her eye until a figure of pure white welcomed her.

Quote:“My name is Omni. This is not the world you know. This is the Omniverse. You interest me, so I have made you part of it. The Omniverse is a place that reflects the wishes of those who are part of it. But! There are rules. I will explain them only once, so listen carefully.”

Quote:Omni hands you a glimmering orb in which all the colors of the rainbow coalesce. “This is Omnilium. It’s what ties the Omniverse together. Without it, you are nothing. With it, anything you desire can be yours. But you will need more than this. If you desire it enough, you will find it. You will find that using it comes naturally. Just think of what you desire most.

Quote:“You will not be alone in the Omniverse. There are others. Of course, they, too desire Omnilium. Do not fear death. For as long as you interest me, you will be reborn.

“That’s all you need to know right now. You’ll figure out the rest soon enough. I’ll be watching … and waiting.”

I entered the portal going at top speed. I rocketed through the Apokalips Troopas, until one did a moonsault and landed on my head, slowing me down. "Hey!" I said, coming into a full stop. Vibe blasted it off my head with a vibration blast. "Thanks." I said to Vibe. I then performed a Speed Pulse on an Apokalips Troopa, followed by stomping one into its shell and kicking it like a soccer ball, making it ricochet off of two others before taking out a third and stopping. I then performed a right hook on one that was sneaking up on me. Vibe Vibration Blasted one, and I followed it up with a left jab, then a right leg sweep. The skies were turning black with ash from the volcanoes of the Ashen Steppes. I then did a left hook, then a right uppercut, then a left kick. This knocked one into another, taking them both down.

"There's too many of them, we can't possibly beat them all alone!" I told Vibe. "We probably have at least 1 more guy coming along, but I don't know for sure." Vibe responded, using a Vibration Blast on one. I gathered kinetic energy, dodging attacks, and performed a sturdy Speed Pulse maneuver on one of the four leaders, who was wearing black sunglasses. "That takes care of this guy." I said, stomping him into his shell and tossing it like a football. The thrown shell took down 3 more Troopas before landing and coming to a full stop. I performed a knee attack on a Troopa and knocked him into his shell with a hammer fist, then slammed him into the ground and cracked his shell

"I just got that polished..." the hypnotized turtle said before passing out. "Funny; I just polished the suit yesterday." Vibe commented.

I ran through the portal at super speed, dragging Vibe with. We saw the Fountain of Infinity, and I went top speed. "Come on...I need to find the Ashen Steppes..." I said to myself. When we got to the Fountain of Infinity, I stopped myself. "Okay, gotta find that portal..." I looked at all the different portals, until I saw the one to the North, which was smoking. It lead to the Ashen Steppes. "There it is!" I dashed towards the portal at super speed.

I eventually...tripped and fell, Vibe doing a flip and landing on top of me, standing. "Not funny...Vibe..." I said as he stepped off me. I then grabbed him and continued running. Eventually, I saw inside the portal. A whole LEGION of Apokalips Troopas was there, just like in my previous dream. "I saw this in a dream before..." I said to Vibe, hiding at the side of the portal. "Did we beat them...?" Vibe asked. "No." I said. "But we will now." I then dashed into the Ashen Steppes.

Quote:To be continued in "Dark Skies for Darkseid".

Karl Jak let out a sigh. The only people that remained in the Dante Verse were the guards and the janitorial crews. It'd take a few days, but the place would eventually look perfect once again.

As he reclined into his chair and buzzed in the intern. She waddled in, her heels and pencil-dress a nice touch but nothing that really captured his interest. “What’s your name again?” He asked, unsure where the company kept finding these young women. Why couldn’t they provide him with some nice pieces of meat inside tight-fitting suits? What a waste of company resources.

“I’m Annette,” she muttered, he eyes glancing over to the naked man seated in the other chair.

“Annette, get my friend over there a nice suit from my quarters.” As pleasant as he is too look at, I don’t think he wants to be naked all afternoon.

“Yes, Sir,” she said, nodding her head. The man winked at Karl and followed her out, his ass swaying back and forth as he went.

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The festivities had died down, and the eight remaining primes had filtered their way into the boardroom. At the head of the room, Karl Jak smirked as he dumped out a box onto the table, spilling a collection of artefacts. Around the room, the seven runner ups turned and looked.

“Here’s how it works,” Karl replied, a smile on his face that juxtaposed the fatigue or anger that most of the finalist wore on their faces. “Starting with our runner up, each of you gets to pick an artefact from this pile. Once you do that, you’ll be escorted to a personal teleporter to be sent into your new life of fame in the Omniverse.

“Sound good?” Karl glanced over at the marine. “You’re first,” he said with a smirk, his hand gesturing to the seven artefacts on the table.

Quote:All finalists must post once here confirming their selection IC and departing.

(I hope I did everything properly! I think I got a little confused at one point. .-.)

Character name: Athena Myaló (I only added the surname to distinguish her from the Greek goddess of knowledge - everyone, including herself, just calls her Athena)

Character source: That's... a bit of a long story. Let's just say she's an OC for now.

Character history: Despite appearances, Athena is not human. Rather, she is a Soul: a fraction (1/6, to be exact) of the spirit of a god from her home universe. The god's true name is unknown to her (between you and me, it's actually Kiarza): she was the one to invent the nickname "Omni" for him. She and her 5 teammates and companions - Delta, Abstract, Zamir, Kattly, and Nitrogen - each possess special abilities (also shared by their Omni). Athena, being the Soul of Mind, gradually strengthened and became accustomed to her powers over the minds of living creatures. While weak to the point of being nonexistent at first, she developed these abilities until she could completely control lesser animals, read others' thoughts (as long as they weren't consciously blocked, and since few people knew how to push her out, it was easy to glean information from the general public), send telepathic messages over hundreds of meters, and protect others from mental control.

The team of Souls spent most of their first days of existence filling out bounties across the galaxy and running from the ruthless and controlling mega-corporation Firewall, until Omni appeared to them and gave them a mission. He explained that Firewall had used blood samples to create clones of each Soul, and that by default those clones had been pushed into another dimension (or Timeline - there are a total of 3 Timelines). For reasons that Athena could never quite understand, the fact that there were two copies of each Soul trapped the universe in a paradox that would eventually result in the unraveling of all of existence. Therefore, the original Souls (Athena and her friends) had to travel to the second Timeline and kill their duplicates.

While pursuing her clone, the sadistic Baroness, in the second Timeline, Athena became trapped inside her own mind and began to lose her sanity in a figurative maze. Once she found her way out and back into the real world, to preserve her lucidity, she was forced to destroy her own eyesight. However, the ordeal gave her much greater power: she not only gained a sixth sense that all but replaced her physical sense of sight, but she could now effectively alter reality (the outcomes of attacks, usually) with her mind (although after doing so twice [without sleeping for a few hours in the interval] would cause her to pass out for several days). Once all of the clones in the second Timeline were destroyed, the Souls returned home to the first Timeline and hoped to live a more pleasant existence without constant risk of destruction. That is when the Omni from the third Timeline (the one you are all familiar with) summoned her there - here - to the Omniverse.
Just as there was no god in the second Timeline, there are no other souls in the Third. Athena is now alone in her adventures, until she finds new allies. She is not connected to this Omni the way she was to her own - this one, as far as anyone knows, has never manifested his soul outside his body.
(I'll lengthen and elaborate upon this once I post the full version in the Roster. This isn't the whole story - more of an outline.)

Physical Description: Athena appears as a human of medium height (approx. 5'4") with light skin, slightly angular features, and brown hair (to be really specific, similar to the color of walnut wood). She wears mostly brown in her clothing as well - generally some sort of long-sleeved shirt or tunic, leggings or long pants with pockets, and short boots. She always wears a long, dark brown cloak, and often has the hood up (especially if she's in a strange area around unfamiliar people). The cloak does a pretty good job of hiding Crescent Gold when in its dormant form, as the weapon is attached to her back, but the God Sword is usually visible (being too large to hide on her person), either strapped to her hip or her back (over her cloak). The last notable feature of her appearance is the black blindfold covering the badly-scarred place where she once had eyes.

Stats:
ATK: 1
DEF: 2
SPD: 3
TEC: 4

Starting Proficiencies: Physical Strength, Ranged

Starting Powers: Basic Enhanced Senses

Starting Moves: The God Sword (300 OM ~ requires Physical Strength), Crescent Gold (900 OM ~ requires Physical Strength and Ranged)

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Name:Miranda Frost
Level: 5
Spent OM:17500
Consumed OM: 0
Proficiencies(2000): Physical Proficiency(1000), Debuff Proficiency(1000)
Powers(6,300): Basic Super Jump(300), Master Acrobat(400), Master Enhanced Senses (2000), Survival (2000), Insight (1600)
Moves (900): Knight's Claws (300) Frost's Scorn (600)
Super Moves:
Transformations (5000): (Alternate Form 2000), (Alternate Form 2000), Tier 1 power up form (1000),
Assists:
Items (300): Dataverse Device (100), Communication's Device (200)
Bases:
Unlocks(3000): 1 Stat Unlock(TEC)(1000), Second Stat Unlock(SPD)(2000)
Base stats:
ATK:5 (7)
DEF:4 (5)
SPD:2 (3)
TEC:1

Alt Form 1
ATK: 5  (7)
DEF: 1  (2)
SPD: 5  (7)
TEC: 1

Alt form 2
ATK: 5 (7)
DEF: 1 (2)
SPD: 1 (3)
TEC: 5

Never has there been a difficult time like before that the blunette has underwent on getting any form of direction. He was hopelessly lost in this confusing jumble of realms and without assistance worst of all. Where are your own division of lower rank Koopa Troop minions when you need them? That in itself would cut out the unwanted pressures of winging it alone!

It would be luck if there even is a single minion of Bowser is to be found roaming around, but that's just him going into a wishy-washy tangent; a mindset that he thought that he had under control when he left the Nexus sometime ago.

Get your head straight, Ludwig! There's no need to feel frustrated nor agitated for that matter.

Eventually, stopping in place, the Koopa looked around for any noticeable landmarks amongst this volcanic pit of darkness. Such a treacherous landscape with dark and cracked ground, volcanic mountains and flowing lavafalls, all while under the darkness of the ash clouds in the skies above..

It was reminiscent of Darkland, his former home, and the fact that he was alone has put Ludwig in a state of uncertainty, if not outside the usual loneliness.

Granted, when he first came here, he was excited at first to finally get away from the stresses of his highly obnoxious family life by escaping his reality and enter into the great unknown, but now, the truth and reality was really biting back at him. He lowered his head a bit as he looked down to the blackened ground as the memories of the happier days when he was with his family began to flow through his thoughts. He did whatever he could to watch and to protect them and even though he despises the Heir and his Father, he did had a softer side.

Ludwig was someone that was merely misunderstood and not evil as he cracked up to be even though many had feared him; it's to the fact that they forget that he is also a living being with a heart and soul. It didn't take long before he crossed his arms for a bit and sighed a bit, only to just stand there for a brief moment as he ponders for awhile, only to be interrupted by a single voice.

"Lord Ludwig..? Is that really you?"

Lord Ludwig? He never really heard of himself for being called that for awhile, was he hearing things or was it something that is actually happening?

Eventually, bringing himself to reality, the Koopa straightened himself up while uncrossing his arms in the process before he turned around and noticed a redshelled Paratroopa from behind him. His eyes widened in surprise as he saw one variation of the Koopa Troop that he fully recognized and asked,"How..how is this? Am I really seeing things or this is real?"

"Hey, don't go crazy yet. Please, if you would allow me to explain," replied the Paratroopa as he became nervous. "I promise you that it's all truth," Though, this would be better if Kamek was around, that old Magikoopa seems to be the only one that Ludwig values his trust in the most.

It took a bit for Ludwig to calm down, but it was eventually replaced with skepticism; evidently all the while that his brows furrowed followed by a sharp glare as he solemnly warned,"Very well, I will allow you to speak with what must be spoke, but if I find out that this is all a lie, you know what will happen,"

The minion nervously nodded as he replied,"Y-yes, my Lord,"

As the minion began to explain everything, Ludwig listened to each and even detail intently. According to the minion, Bowser, too, has stumbled across this unusual reality sometime back and has gone out of the way to reestablish the foundation of the Koopa Kingdom within the underground area to Ashen Steppes, to which isn't that far from their current location. He also added in that Bowser has been growing impatient as of recently due to the absence of his children and he send out an order to all of roaming Koopa Troop members in the area to locate and escort them immediately to the Castle.

For a moment, Ludwig's brows rose a bit before they returned to their usual seriousness as he replied,"Very well, lead me to the Castle. Let us be on our way," Even though he doesn't want to confront his Father, he would have to by all means to ease his worries;

The minion nodded and beckoned for Ludwig to follow behind him as he turned around and led the way to the Koopa Kingdom's Main Castle where Bowser awaits, to which the blunette followed.

This is going to be a challenge of a situation for him to mentally cope with, but it's better off than to be alone in the unknown

..right?

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