Rave

[Rave]

Character Name: Valeria Bellona Decimus

Codename: Rave

Character Source: Original

Soundtrack: [spoiler]

Main Theme Song
"Imperial Army" by Gunitdown

Opening Credits: "Ready To Roll" by Jet Black Stare

Love Scene: "Days Go By" by Dirty Vegas

Death Scene: "Father and Son" by Nobuko Toda

Working Out: "Gonna Fly Now" by Bill Conti

Out and About: "Night by Night" by Chromeo

Dancing: "Move Your Feet" by Junior Senior

Happy: "Float On" by Modest Mouse

Depressed: "Mad World" by Gary Jules

Against The World: "Reignite" by Malukah

Going Insane: "Requiem for a Dream (Electric Violin Mix)" by Kate Chruscicka

Drunk: "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand

Longing: "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday" by Rika Muranaka

Meltdown / Fight Scene: "Encirclement Battle Remix" by Ichigekikai

Closing Credits: "Battlecry" by Nujabes[/spoiler]
Personality: Rave carries with her a huge chip on her shoulder - she is hot-tempered and easily riled. She thoroughly enjoys a good fight, and is very confident and prideful of her ability, roughcut as it may be. However, she also has an oddly charming, charismatic atmosphere - in a swashbuckling sort of way. Despite her sometimes rough ways and speech, inside, Rave is a genius - although her ingenuity runs more along the ways of Wile E. Coyote than Albert Einstein. She is a tough-as-nails fighter in not only her punishing style of her chosen martial arts, but in all manners of the word.

Physical Description: A truly gorgeous young lady whose latent gothic appearance serves only to enhance her exotic beauty. Her deceptively compact figure is shapely, toned, and lithe as a blade from years of martial arts and training, slender but very powerful. She often wears lighter shades that contrast sharply with her smooth, tanned, slightly golden tinted skin. However, she also has scars in her back and legs, both from training in her chosen martial art and because of her fighting in Rome. While she sports these scars with much pride, inwardly they disgust her and she wishes nothing more then to get rid of them. Also, the use of her powers (as well as how she'd lived her life and the experiments run on her) has also prematurely aged her looks beyond her years. As of now she looks about early to mid thirties. Rave doesn't mind it much because she feels world weary and much older than she feels anyway. In the end, she only cares about her body in how it can keep up with her daily need of it, not how it actually appears to the world. It's why she dresses for comfort, not for looks.

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

Starting Proficiencies: (4200)
Ranged Materialize Proficiency (600)
Area Attack Proficiency (600)
Ranged Proficiency (1000)
Debuff Proficiency (1000)
Physical Strength (1000)

Starting Powers:

Starting Moves:
Gravity Field: Rave can also increase the gravity around her in about a twenty foot radius, making people fall to their knees or make them fall to the ground altogether, preventing them from moving until she passes the area or lifts the field. The amount of time she can use this ability depends on the amount of objects or people in the area. The more things, the less time. If she's affecting one person, she can keep up the Gravity Field for about thirty seconds before she needs to stop as fatigue will start to take it's toll. She also cannot hold other Primes that are stronger than her. The Gravity Field activates nigh instantaneously and should Rave be hit by any sort of projectile or psychic attack the field will dissipate, though those that were under it's effect would probably have to take a moment to readjust to normal gravity depending on how intense Rave had made the field. The main advantage while Rave uses this field is the fact that she herself is free to move around it at will though she is unable to take any offensive action while the field is up. Rave knew that, back home, she could slit throats and other such things while the field was up but in the Omniverse she is unable to do so. This knowledge frustrates her to no end. (600 OM)

Muay Thai Expert: The Art of the Eight Limbs, one of the martial arts that Rave took to like no other. While she was fighting in Rome Valeria took lessons from a mutant that knew every single martial arts in the known galaxy and diligently paid attention to every word and movement he made. While Valeria prefers to rely on her mutant power in any given fight, she soaked up all the knowledge given to her by her friend on the off chance someone might actually get in within arms reach of her. (0 OM)

I confirm that I have read and agreed to the Rules of Conduct. Of course.

[Rave]

'Rome was, and still is, a very dangerous place to be for a mutant. At best we are sold into servitude. At worst we are rounded up and made into an unperson. Don't ask me how, because I never wanted to know all the particulars, but that was somehow very good for the economy; there was a lot of money to be made in mutant countermeasures and gene mining. It was the reason why my family was so rich, why they would have been able to afford me a Ferrari for my sixteenth. So I can only imagine what must have been running through their minds, my parents especially, when they discovered that in their beloved little girl's veins ran the very blood that they made their daily bread from.'

Valeria was born into the wealthy House Decimus, a proud, pure Roman family, surviving all incarnations of Rome throughout the centuries untainted by any assimilated cultures. Like many Houses of its type, it had expanded its power by investing heavily into the benefits of different technological advances, and had since spread its influence into the realm of business and politics. Like every child of the House, Valeria was groomed early to become a success in whatever field she undertook. Starting at age four, she was schooled by only the most prolific tutors; no expense was spared for her education and upbringing. It being Rome and all things being what they were, she was brought up believing that mutants were a lower form of life.

All that changed at the age of seven, when in full view of her family, without even realizing, she made one of her dolls levitate in thin air.

First came the suspicions. When the suspicions were verified through private tests, next came the horror, and the whisperings. That the family had conceived a mutant was inconceivable. It put the family in a very precarious position. If her nature was discovered, it could cripple the House's status and potentially send it into ruin. Not to mention that harboring a mutant of any kind was a criminal act almost on par with treason. The family couldn't be linked with her in any way. The course of action that needed to be taken was quite clear. While Valeria's mother wholeheartedly agreed with the family's decisions, and her relatives offered to do what needed to be done, her father, to his credit, managed to stave off Valeria's sentence for nearly two years. When he could finally fight no more, he agreed to take care of the problem himself.

Valeria by then knew what she was. Though deeply ashamed and frightened at first, the appeal of her powers was seductive. She privately experimented further with her abilities, while outwardly trying to be as normal as possible for both her and her parents' sake. Other than her mother, who only thinly veiled her disgust for her daughter, the family continued to treat her so much like one of their own that she had no idea what was being plotted for her.

Under the pretense of a father/daughter vacation in Prague, Valeria's father drove her out to the distant countryside. There, he abandoned her. In the deadly anti-mutant climate of Rome, that was as good as a death sentence.

Alone, her powers still underdeveloped, Valeria still can't recall how she managed to survive that first year. Her pride nearly starved her before she finally learned to steal and scavenge. She grew sickly and feverish before she took to wearing whatever clothes she could get her hands on. Lost and confused, she continued to hold out hope that it was all some kind of ruse. She knew that she was being punished for continuing to use her powers, but still believed that her family would find her and take her back in. It wasn't until her first encounter with another, homicidal mutant (which she'd survived only by pure happenstance) that she'd finally become convinced that her parents had truly abandoned her.

Valeria endured Rome's inhospitable climate much longer than anyone, including herself, thought possible. As a little girl alone, a mutant, no less, she quickly found the world to be a dangerous, unwelcoming place. It's perhaps this period, more than anything, which causes her to remain quiet about her past. Suffice to say that she learned of humanity's lack of humanity towards those that were weak and unable to defend themselves. Her powers remained fickle, sometimes they'd help her, sometimes they wouldn't. Still, they were the only friend and ally she had. It wasn't until she was 12 that she learned what they were capable of.

Though she typically tried to avoid cities, due to their anti-mutant presence, they were the best places for scavenging and stealing. She was caught doing the latter by a shopkeeper while passing through Kiev. As the Special Police bore down on her, a panicked Valeria abruptly let loose with everything she had, far beyond the reaches of anything she'd thought possible (and hasn't been able to duplicate since). The resulting destruction eviscerated countless people and buildings nearby, lasting all of thirty seconds but rivaling most earthquakes. Though caught as much unawares by her power as those who suffered the brunt of it, Valeria had more than enough time to realize what she was doing, and laugh. The world had changed for her in ways the mass of humans she was ripping apart couldn't comprehend.

However, before the Police converged on her in force, and before she could focus her will into causing any more damage, she was telepathically subdued and spirited away by a mutant she would come to know as Tiberius Cassius.

Deus Vox
'You've got a lot of hate in your heart. That needn't be so bad, if it makes you want to put an end to this.' He gestured out the window. '...But one thing you need to remember, is that unless it's for the greater good, there is no reason to use your gift to hurt people.' He turned to Valeria and smiled slightly. 'Not anymore.'

'But I want to,' Valeria said.

The man's eyebrows rose as his smile faded. 'You don't have to.'

'But I want to,' Valeria repeated. The threads of panic were beginning to be replaced by anger. 'They're out there right now, killing all those people who are like us. I want to hurt them. I want to kill them back. Don't you?' She snatched her hand from the man's grasp. 'Can't you?'

Tiberius would go on to become a close friend and mentor to Valeria, becoming the first person to show her kindness in a long time. It was through his instruction that she began to fully understand what she was and the depth of her blessing. He greatly opened her eyes to the suffering of mutants in their homeland and worldwide, and the need for all mutants to band together, and help each other. More to the point, he taught her that the only way mutantity would ever assert themselves in the world would be to fight against their oppressors, and helped her realize that she had a responsibility to her powers, to use them to protect and aid others like her.

To that end, he instructed her in the finer points of guerrilla warfare, propaganda, and unconventional fighting tactics. She learned firsthand how take a small band of mutant with a various range of powers, and utilize each to form a cohesive, efficient force. This was demonstrated in Tiberius' small band of young freedom fighters, calling themselves Deus Vox (The Voice of God). Primarily targeting humanity's ongoing campaign of hate and openly challenging their ideals, Tiberius' ultimate goal was to free the mutants of Rome from the nation's oppressive rule. In Valeria, Tiberius saw a great power which could assist in turning that dream into a reality. Though he knew full well of the rage in her heart, he sought to help her channel it towards a positive cause. In Deus Vox, Valeria came to find a place among kindred spirits, and a new identity: The Goddess of Gravity.

Valeria was a freedom fighter for the next three years. During that time she bore raw witness to the full breadth of the evils mankind had visited upon her people. It made her question Tiberius' methods: though sometimes violent out of necessity, they yielded only moderate victories at best, due to Tiberius' desire to play the humans against each other.

Tiberius would come to realize that he'd greatly underestimated Valeria's anger and viciousness. Though she remained dedicated to the cause, she became argumentative, destructive, and excessively violent. At the young age of 15, she had already scored more kills than any of the other freedom fighters combined, usually against the Special Police which continually hounded the group, but more and more frequently innocents were being added to that number. Her increasingly murderous ways were seen as counterproductive by the others in the group, but it was the fact that she seemed unaffected by the killing that garnered the most concern. Tiberius, believing that her young mind had been warped by some of the horrors she'd witnessed, attempted to fix her through psionic means. He found out that there was nothing to fix because Valeria simply wasn't broken.

Due to their disagreements, Valeria and Tiberius' relationship began to deteriorate. However, this was overshadowed as Tiberius' maneuvers and careful machinations over the years culminated with the kidnapping of the Emperor's daughter. With such a powerful bargaining chip at his disposal, it seemed as though his dream for DV might be realized. But as fate would have it, the Special Police had likewise been tracking the group's movements throughout the years and had at last pinpointed the group's current location at the ruins of Philippi in Eastern Rome. A strangely intelligent human named Cassius Silva spearheaded the attack on the group, catching them unawares. Surrounded by Special Police, and against a 1:1 DV-to-Special Police ratio, Valeria and Tiberius watched as their comrades were cut down and captured. In a manic rage, Valeria prepared to destroy everything and everyone present, but Tiberius once again psychically subdued her, allowing her to fall into the Special Police's clutches under the condition that she be kept alive.

After her capture, Valeria remained a prisoner of the humans. Impressed with the display of power he'd seen, the human Silva took a great interest in Valeria, overseeing all procedures done to her. Kept in paralytic stasis like a lab specimen, she was subjected to numerous experiments, then placed back in nutrient stasis so that whatever meat cut from her could grow anew. This cycle would continue for the next six years of her life.

Valeria finally escaped her imprisonment that would have left her a vegetable for the rest of her life, were she not pulled into the Omniverse...

[Rave]

"Prior to Tiberius' arrival, Valeria had spent ten minutes listening to the girl a little ways to her right argue a case to her prick boyfriend. Among the key bullet points of the conversation was the assertion that mutants were humans too (they weren't), that they benefited society (note how the implied meaning was that mutants benefited human society), and that they had as much right to happiness as anyone else (the pretentiousness of that statement made Valeria grind her teeth). In not crushing the girl to a mass of liquids and powdered bone, Valeria felt she was showing remarkable self-restraint."

Almost as notorious as Rave's actions are her beliefs, the reason why even if she were to be captured, she would remain a very dangerous individual.

Valeria Decimus wants humanity dead.

Innocence or guilt is a non-factor. She doesn't care if they are anti-mutant. She doesn't care if they are pro-mutant. Indeed, she's made known that she finds the notion of a human advocating 'mutant rights', as if such a thing is theirs to dictate, extremely insulting. She's shown nothing but disdain for their so-called ethics, which they expect mutants to abide by. She doesn't care if they somehow acquired mutant-like abilities through drugs or otherwise. She doesn't care if they have a mutant in their family. She doesn't want them enslaved; she's aware of how strong the human spirit can be and knows that if enslaved they will eventually rise up against her. She doesn't want them rounded up and stranded in Antarctica. She doesn't want a segregated society between mutant and humans. She doesn't want to negotiate with them, make concessions with them, or accommodate them in any way. She doesn't want them cowed, humiliated, broken, beaten, subjugated, demoralized, or bankrupted. For the sins they've committed against her people, she doesn't want them to suffer.

She wants them dead. It is, honest to God, as simple as that.

Mutantity, on the other hand, she wishes nothing but the best for. Indeed, everything she has done, has been in effort to free the minds and bodies of her people from the shackles humanity has placed upon them. This not only includes the overt capture and mistreatment of mutants overseas, but also the docile, "we can coexist peacefully" attitude of the mutants of the world. To Rave, this is just another form of servitude, instilled upon mutants from birth. She sees it as the world's insidious way of controlling a population of people who are, in the end, far more advanced genetically than their human counterparts, and benefiting from their gifts by coercing them into willful servitude. Given the number of mutants in the world who've selflessly served to defend humanity from dangers, she may be on to something.

Though she acts as a leader and catalyst to her movement, Rave has stated that she has no desire to rule over mutants, as she believes that all mutants, including herself, are equals. She only wants to free them from the scourge that is humanity, a fundamentally flawed, fearful, petulant, savage, hateful, murderous species that will only ever serve to impede and oppress her people's growth. The only way to truly achieve that freedom, she reasons, is to wholly remove humanity from the equation. In doing so, mutantkind will inherit the Earth, in keeping with nature's law of survival of the fittest. She wants all mutant to see that day together, but anyone who stands in her way takes their life in their own hands.

The (predominantly human/human-controlled) media at large has covered Rave's philosophies and poo-pooed them as the ravings of an insane, racist, fanatical terrorist. That's one school of thought. The other is that unlike many of the mutants of the world, Rave has seen and endured the atrocities committed to her people up close and personal, on a daily basis. She understands, far better than most, what the cleansing of her people from Rome was meant to be, and seeks to prevent such a thing from ever occurring again, through the most coldly logical method available. And since humanity not only spared mutants no quarter, but were also the ones to initiate mass genocide, they're deserving of precisely the same.

[Atelos]

Welcome to the Omniverse!

First thing's first, I can tell you have put a lot of time into this application, nice history if I might add. While we don't require a role-playing sample you went ahead and wrote one, which was also very nice.

Anyways on to the move-set!

First off when you approve moves you want to put proficiencies next to the name
So for Gravity Field your going to need ranged proficiency, debuff proficiency, and area attack proficiency, which you have. This move is insanely strong and this site is really, REALLY picky on debuffs just because it reduces player interaction and they can be overpowered.

I'm going to price this at 600 because you can do this to both single targets and over a widespread area. Also this move is going to get nerfed super hard since it basically stops the person from doing anything at all. In ten minutes you can do anything to a person which is an insane amount of time so your going to need to reduce the time down. This is also going to need some downsides even after those nerds so you're going to have to add a fatigue factor or anything else that you can think of that might balance it. Also you might need to be able to use it less because this is so strong you shouldn't be able to use it within such short periods of time.

Also some quick questions about the move itself- Can she move or attack while she uses this move and if she gets hit by something does it stop the field? I'm assuming yes but is this move instantaneous?

As for the Martial Arts that doesn't require a move. You can feel free to state that she is a Muay Thai Expert in your roster once we set you up but you don't need to purchase that with OM.

Lastly, for your character profile you need to use your official roster once you get approved, and only use the last part(the viewtopic…etc. and on)

[Rave]

Okay, I changed stuff up and worded things differently. I hope that's better. If not, lemme know what I need to change.

[Omni]

Hi there!

Gravity field is a fairly advanced move so I'm going to take over from Atelos.

Gravity field is essentially a telekinetic move in the sense that it makes a solid, but invisible field at range. Therefore it has the same proficiency prerequisite as telekinesis (Ranged Proficiency, Remote Control Proficiency, Ranged Materialize Proficiency), in addition to the debuff proficiency. I'd be willing to waive the remote control proficiency if the field didn't move, but that's an explicit part of the description so I will leave it on there unless you wish to remove it for cost-saving purposes.

In order to have a move that, quote, "prevent(s) them from moving until she passes the area" you would need much greater downsides than it currently has. For that specific purpose, I would suggest a time limit of around thirty seconds, during which time Rave is limited in what she can do (i.e., moving only). And as you said, stronger primes would be able to resist this field.

It's already implied that she can vary the strength of this field in order to hold more or less people; I'd make that explicit.

I'd also make explicit in the line "The main advantage while Rave uses this field is the fact that she's free to move around it at will" that this is by Rave actually moving about physically. At first I thought this meant that she could move the field away from her, but I don't think that's what you meant. If I'm correct then you can waive Remote-Control.

[Rave]

Alrighty. I believe I corrected the wording. Please let me know if there's anything else I can change.

[Omni]

Still needs this:

Gravity field is essentially a telekinetic move in the sense that it makes a solid, but invisible field at range. In order to have a move that, quote, "prevent(s) them from moving until she passes the area" you would need much greater downsides than it currently has. For that specific purpose, I would suggest a time limit of around thirty seconds, during which time Rave is limited in what she can do (i.e., moving only). And as you said, stronger primes would be able to resist this field.

Also, please remove the line referencing "twenty seconds." And simply state something like "the stronger the opponent, the more difficult they are to hold." This is because a strong enough opponent would be able to simply shrug off any holds. You're not gonna be holding no Diablo for any number of seconds. :omni:

[Rave]

Okay, fixed. Sorry I missed that. Should be okay now, me thinks.

[Omni]

I meant that it sort of gradated thing rather than all or nothing, but I'll approve this version. You're free to post. A mod will get to your roster shortly. Enjoy the Omniverse!

[Guu]

Name: Rave
Level: 1
Spent OM: 4800
Proficiencies (4200): Physical Strength (1000), Ranged Proficiency (1000), Ranged Materialize Proficiency (600), Area Attack Proficiency (600), Debuff Proficiency (1000)
Powers:
Moves: Gravity Field (600)
Super Moves:
Transformations:
Assists:
Items:
Bases:
Unlocks:
Base stats:
ATK: 2
DEF: 2
SPD: 2
TEC: 4


Head on over to the Roster forum and make yourself a Roster! Copy and paste the above into the first post and make any subsequent posts about your character.
(Just list Muay on your roster. Since you didn't have to pay anything for that, didn't feel the need to put it under moves.)

Please read over this topic to help you get started: What do do once you've been approved

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Any who, congrats on getting approved and welcome to the Omniverse!