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NAME; Hino
CANON; OC
AGE; 23
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; N/A
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; Alexandria
AGE; 16
TIMELINE; End of history section
FAMILY TYPES; Nightmare Soldiers, Virus Busters, Metal Empire
WORLD; The greatest difference between this world and reality is that magic and alchemy are real things that exist. Not the crazy clap-your-hands-and-shit-explodes alchemy that anime has popularized, but the actual science. By using the elements, the stars, theology and a heaping helping of crazy mumbo-jumbo, elements can be purified or altered, homunculi can be created, and of course, the Elixir of Life can be brewed. It's pretty sweet.
Magic, though, is considerably less sweet, and while it is similarly studied as a science, it primarily operates on the rules of Solomon, summoning a demon or angel and making a pact with them. Obviously, angels are considered good and those who make pacts with them are generally considered saints, but angels tend to demand a hell of a price. Demons, on the other hand, make people into witches and warlocks, giving vast cosmic power for basically no consequences... as long as you're alive. They can be patient.
Now that we have the metaphysics out of the way, despite those, the world is pretty normal. Well, geographically, anyway, it's basically Earth, with the addition of a few craters here and there. On the other hand, the world's primary superpowers are England, China, and India.
As the first to discover alchemy, through the emperors’ search for immortality, China is currently the most powerful of them all. However, their strong nationalistic views and isolationist tendencies mean they don’t desire expansion, remaining behind their great wall. The dynasty system was replaced by simply having each era counted by the one emperor who ruled it, until they retired (often via a knife in the back of the neck) and the next took over.
India, on the other hand, has perfected the medicinal applications of alchemy, rendering its soldiers more or less immortal. Their Rasayana was generally focused on healing and augmenting the body, and producing gold was generally seen as a side-effect. Though their metallurgy was not completely left behind, as they still pioneered the secret of Damascus steel.
England, on the other other hand, has focused more on the material aspects over the medicinal, and as a result achieved superpower status through sheer limitless resources. The alchemists skilled enough to make gold were incredibly rare, preventing devaluation from wrecking their economy, and the rest simply purified some incredibly shitty iron into the highest-quality pure steel.
Naturally, this means other changes. For example, America's revolution was quickly put the fuck down by a much-better equipped English army, while France had been more or less conquered and was in no position to help the colonies. India controls much of Asia simply through its reputation of immortality, many countries went to join it willingly in exchange for the elixirs of life. Due to its location, though, the primary hotspot for Alchemic teachings is Egypt, where all forms of alchemy are blended into the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus.
The current time of the world is mid-to-late 1900s, but the advancement of alchemy as a science has made the level of technology rather... inconsistent. For example, as alchemy is able to simply make the rare elements required in lots of technology, simple things like televisions and cell phones are commonplace. On the other hand, as its medicinal uses are so incredible, sciences such as virology or microbiology are basically unknown. There is simply no perceived need for them, so they were just never invented.
(As a side note, due to the traditional power structure remaining due to influence of 'divine right' and all that, despite the current age, surnames are still usually just reserved for nobility.)
APPEARANCE; Roughly 5'4, long red hair and green eyes. Really scrawny, the kind of arms that make you go "woah damn girl have you even heard of exercise". Wears generally dull clothing, bland and cheap stuff in dark colors since dungeons are cold, but carries around a satchel full of alchemic texts.
PERSONALITY; To put it kindly, Alexandria is a NEET. To put it less kindly, Alexandria is lazy, shiftless, stubborn, stuck-up, and incredibly selfish.
She is the kind of person whose dream is simply to never do any hard work. In fact, her goal in pursuing alchemy is simply to become immortal through the elixir and rich through its metallurgy, and then just spend the rest of her life watching comedy acts on TV. She never wants to do anything difficult, and generally just takes the path of least resistance through her life. If you left it up to her, she'd never leave her room for anything, up to and including the end of the world. Let it be someone else's problem!
The one exception for this is when she feels she has been personally wronged, as her spite knows no bounds at all. She's kind of a terrible person who, if someone stole twenty dollars from her, would spend two hundred on a plot for revenge. She has no sense of proportional retribution, and tends to think of her own actions as divine punishment upon the wicked.
Alexandria is the kind of person who is incredibly good at whatever she puts her mind to, but she lacks any sort of follow-through, and abandons whatever she was doing as soon as she gets bored with it. Once she decides she doesn't care about something, she completely ignores its existence, and gets irrationally irritated when she is reminded that it exists at all.
She's got a wide base of knowledge due to her variety of studies, which she enjoys blathering on about. She doesn't care if whoever she's talking to doesn't want to hear it, she'll lecture their ear off anyway on whatever the subject, whether it is something they care about or not. Do you care about the effects of the alignments of the stars on alchemic processes? How about the best kind of horse shit to create a homunculus? TOO BAD, you're gonna hear it anyway.
Though, for all her boredom issues, she does quite enjoy puzzles and learning new things. She has a good mind for SCIENCE!! and does enjoy teaching people. She is, however, always selfish and puts her own wants above those of everyone else. She's kind of like a mad scientist like that.
HISTORY;
Alexandria was born to a pair of farmers in rural England. She was born on a fortunate day and soon displayed an intellectual ability far above her age. Unfortunately, this intellect did not come with maturity, and unlike most children, she was rather lazy and spent as much time as she could watching TV. She read books when she couldn't watch TV, and learned a lot, but she never managed to finish any books she started.
Her parents finally realized that her problem was a real problem when she was receiving reports from school that involved her refusing to do any work because it was boring, in classes she had been previously acing. They tried homeschooling her, and just making her help on the farm, but neither of those worked out, either. No matter what they did, Alexandria just got bored and quit. Making her complete her tasks was an exercise in frustration and futility.
However, one day, her favorite comedy show was replaced by a documentary on the history of alchemy. Of course, a normal child would have thrown a fit, and she was fully prepared to. But in the end, she decided to watch and see how interesting it was, and found herself captivated. Alchemy was so cool, could do so much, and more importantly... If she mastered alchemy, she could live forever, become the richest person in the world, maybe even have a castle with servants to wait on her and bring her food so she could do whatever she pleased forever. (She was still a kid, after all.)
So she "borrowed" some books from the school (Borrowed. Borrowed without permission, but with full intent of returning them. Eventually. When she got around to it.) and quickly took to the basics. She saved up her allowance for the materials, but found that with only the basic books the school had, she couldn't do much. Certainly not begin her goal.
But, she knew, on the edge of town, there was another alchemist. She was so skilled many feared she was a witch, but Alexandria had never bought into that. With that woman’s help, she would become skilled enough to make what she wanted, without fail. But there was no way she would take a random kid and help them, and frankly, trying to steal the materials from her seemed like an awful idea even to someone as stubborn as her. So she did the next best thing she could: With astrology, she divined the best time to approach her, and went for it with full power. She camped out in front of her home, waiting for her to emerge, then... well. A smart person would have begged her to take them in as an apprentice. Alexandria, on the other hand, just explained that she divined from the stars that this was the best time for it, so the witch would be taking her in as an apprentice now!
Fortunately, this actually worked out in her favor, as instead of sending her home, the so-called witch started laughing. She decided this child was funny enough to deserve a chance, and agreed to test her. Alexandria passed this test with flying colors, and with a chuckle, the witch (or so-called, but frankly, getting tired of calling her that, and her name was unknown to everyone) agreed to take her in and teach her.
Naturally, since Alexandria hadn’t told her parents before she did that, they were pretty fucking confused when she showed up at home with a pile of books and tools and told them she was studying under the scary witch on the edge of town. They were, however, relieved that she was actually being proactive for once, and even better, apprenticing to someone else meant she wasn’t their problem to make work anymore.
She studied under the witch for years, finally earning her own workshop in the witch’s dungeons. The witch was skilled enough that the Philosopher’s Stone wasn’t impossible to make, and in fact, she set that as the test of mastery for Alexandria. Once she made the Stone and used it to obtain the panacea, or the elixir of immortality, she would pass and become a master alchemist in her own right. Even she didn’t expect her to make the stone at as young as 16, though. However, the stone was unreasonably expensive to make, and it took her years of saving her allowance and selling excess metals to get the raw materials for the stone, so she only could make one. And, being practical, she wasn’t going to try it on herself right away. That was what lab rats are for, after all. So, with the Stone completed, she left it alone in the workshop to retrieve some rodents to conduct experiments on, because hey, potentially-immortal rats in a farming village can’t possibly have any problems, right?
Unfortunately, she returned to find the workshop ransacked and the Stone stolen. A group of warlocks and witches, who sold their souls to demons for phenomenal power, decided the elixir of immortality was the loophole they needed. The demons would only get their souls upon death, after all, but if they became immortal, they were set forever. They were, of course, old and desperate, and it never occurred to them that demons had played this game before. They were busy congratulating themselves on stealing the stone, and fled in order to take the elixir so none would know who they were.
Of course, flinging magic around everywhere in desperation leaves trails, and Alexandria soon picked up on what happened. And, well. Her master’s home had been completely ransacked, and more importantly, the stone she had spent years of saving to make had been stolen. If she let it get away, who knew how many more years it would be before she could make another? She needed that back.
So she immediately set off after them. They had her Stone, her life’s work, her dream of a lazy, comfortable life. She was going to get it back and make them suffer for it.
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON; 1.) If you could make any reality at all, what would you make?
One where I don’t have to do any work. A world centered around me, where keeping me comfortable and entertained was the most important thing would be the best! If realities like this one exist, then maybe that one exists for me to go to, too...
3.) If you were given the option to stay in the Digital World or return to your home, which would you choose? Why?
... That’s too hard. I have to go back to get my Stone back, but here I get enough money to live just for being here... Can I choose both? I wanna go home, get revenge, then come back and have a comfy life here.
4.) What ability would you most like to have?
... Is this a trick question? If it’s an ability, I want to control the world around me like a god. Who would choose anything else? It’s stupid to limit yourself to one little power when you can just make a big one like that and have all the powers at once. Is this some sort of secret IQ test or something?
THIRD PERSON;
To be completely honest, Alexandria didn’t really understand this place. She hated not understanding these things. What the hell was a “digital world”? It defied all logic, reason, common sense, and most importantly, everything she had ever learned up until now. She wanted to take a knife and dissect the world itself, and figure out the true composition of the world. Unfortunately, that was not precisely possible for a variety of reasons, so she just settled for fuming until she could do something about it.
She did have to admit it wasn’t all bad, though. She could treat it as a vacation. Probably. She was given money just for showing up, which was good, since it was their own damn fault she was here, in her opinion. If they weren’t compensating her for that, she’d be really mad. As it was, they could be a lot better, but a free room and the weird devices she got were better than nothing. She found herself wondering if she could take the devices home and sell them, and maybe use that money to make a new Stone.
Though there was a bigger problem, she thought, looking across her room at this so-called “Digimon partner”. As near as she could tell, it was some kind of familiar. She was vaguely aware that some witches and warlocks could summon lesser demons as familiars, and of course all great alchemists had homunculi assistants, but this wasn’t either of those. A “partner”, huh? She was pretty conflicted about that thing. On one hand, she could probably make it do the chores and boring tasks while she played with the devices and tried to get a TV set up in her room. On the other hand... She didn’t even know how long that basic amount of money from the start would last just feeding her. Feeding an extra thing would only make her money go away faster, not to mention it was some kind of weird monster that would probably eat more than her. The guide from the start mentioned something about de-evolving, though... She wondered if she could make it do that to save on food costs.
Then again, how exactly was she meant to bring that topic up? For some reason, she couldn’t help but feel like going up to the monster who was created to fight things and telling it to turn weak because she didn’t want to feed it was a terrible plan. In the worst case... Well, they were supposed to be “partners”, right? So the monster wouldn’t try to eat her instead... Probably. Right?
NAME; Hino
CANON; OC
AGE; 23
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; N/A
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; Alexandria
AGE; 16
TIMELINE; End of history section
FAMILY TYPES; Nightmare Soldiers, Virus Busters, Metal Empire
WORLD; The greatest difference between this world and reality is that magic and alchemy are real things that exist. Not the crazy clap-your-hands-and-shit-explodes alchemy that anime has popularized, but the actual science. By using the elements, the stars, theology and a heaping helping of crazy mumbo-jumbo, elements can be purified or altered, homunculi can be created, and of course, the Elixir of Life can be brewed. It's pretty sweet.
Magic, though, is considerably less sweet, and while it is similarly studied as a science, it primarily operates on the rules of Solomon, summoning a demon or angel and making a pact with them. Obviously, angels are considered good and those who make pacts with them are generally considered saints, but angels tend to demand a hell of a price. Demons, on the other hand, make people into witches and warlocks, giving vast cosmic power for basically no consequences... as long as you're alive. They can be patient.
Now that we have the metaphysics out of the way, despite those, the world is pretty normal. Well, geographically, anyway, it's basically Earth, with the addition of a few craters here and there. On the other hand, the world's primary superpowers are England, China, and India.
As the first to discover alchemy, through the emperors’ search for immortality, China is currently the most powerful of them all. However, their strong nationalistic views and isolationist tendencies mean they don’t desire expansion, remaining behind their great wall. The dynasty system was replaced by simply having each era counted by the one emperor who ruled it, until they retired (often via a knife in the back of the neck) and the next took over.
India, on the other hand, has perfected the medicinal applications of alchemy, rendering its soldiers more or less immortal. Their Rasayana was generally focused on healing and augmenting the body, and producing gold was generally seen as a side-effect. Though their metallurgy was not completely left behind, as they still pioneered the secret of Damascus steel.
England, on the other other hand, has focused more on the material aspects over the medicinal, and as a result achieved superpower status through sheer limitless resources. The alchemists skilled enough to make gold were incredibly rare, preventing devaluation from wrecking their economy, and the rest simply purified some incredibly shitty iron into the highest-quality pure steel.
Naturally, this means other changes. For example, America's revolution was quickly put the fuck down by a much-better equipped English army, while France had been more or less conquered and was in no position to help the colonies. India controls much of Asia simply through its reputation of immortality, many countries went to join it willingly in exchange for the elixirs of life. Due to its location, though, the primary hotspot for Alchemic teachings is Egypt, where all forms of alchemy are blended into the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus.
The current time of the world is mid-to-late 1900s, but the advancement of alchemy as a science has made the level of technology rather... inconsistent. For example, as alchemy is able to simply make the rare elements required in lots of technology, simple things like televisions and cell phones are commonplace. On the other hand, as its medicinal uses are so incredible, sciences such as virology or microbiology are basically unknown. There is simply no perceived need for them, so they were just never invented.
(As a side note, due to the traditional power structure remaining due to influence of 'divine right' and all that, despite the current age, surnames are still usually just reserved for nobility.)
APPEARANCE; Roughly 5'4, long red hair and green eyes. Really scrawny, the kind of arms that make you go "woah damn girl have you even heard of exercise". Wears generally dull clothing, bland and cheap stuff in dark colors since dungeons are cold, but carries around a satchel full of alchemic texts.
PERSONALITY; To put it kindly, Alexandria is a NEET. To put it less kindly, Alexandria is lazy, shiftless, stubborn, stuck-up, and incredibly selfish.
She is the kind of person whose dream is simply to never do any hard work. In fact, her goal in pursuing alchemy is simply to become immortal through the elixir and rich through its metallurgy, and then just spend the rest of her life watching comedy acts on TV. She never wants to do anything difficult, and generally just takes the path of least resistance through her life. If you left it up to her, she'd never leave her room for anything, up to and including the end of the world. Let it be someone else's problem!
The one exception for this is when she feels she has been personally wronged, as her spite knows no bounds at all. She's kind of a terrible person who, if someone stole twenty dollars from her, would spend two hundred on a plot for revenge. She has no sense of proportional retribution, and tends to think of her own actions as divine punishment upon the wicked.
Alexandria is the kind of person who is incredibly good at whatever she puts her mind to, but she lacks any sort of follow-through, and abandons whatever she was doing as soon as she gets bored with it. Once she decides she doesn't care about something, she completely ignores its existence, and gets irrationally irritated when she is reminded that it exists at all.
She's got a wide base of knowledge due to her variety of studies, which she enjoys blathering on about. She doesn't care if whoever she's talking to doesn't want to hear it, she'll lecture their ear off anyway on whatever the subject, whether it is something they care about or not. Do you care about the effects of the alignments of the stars on alchemic processes? How about the best kind of horse shit to create a homunculus? TOO BAD, you're gonna hear it anyway.
Though, for all her boredom issues, she does quite enjoy puzzles and learning new things. She has a good mind for SCIENCE!! and does enjoy teaching people. She is, however, always selfish and puts her own wants above those of everyone else. She's kind of like a mad scientist like that.
HISTORY;
Alexandria was born to a pair of farmers in rural England. She was born on a fortunate day and soon displayed an intellectual ability far above her age. Unfortunately, this intellect did not come with maturity, and unlike most children, she was rather lazy and spent as much time as she could watching TV. She read books when she couldn't watch TV, and learned a lot, but she never managed to finish any books she started.
Her parents finally realized that her problem was a real problem when she was receiving reports from school that involved her refusing to do any work because it was boring, in classes she had been previously acing. They tried homeschooling her, and just making her help on the farm, but neither of those worked out, either. No matter what they did, Alexandria just got bored and quit. Making her complete her tasks was an exercise in frustration and futility.
However, one day, her favorite comedy show was replaced by a documentary on the history of alchemy. Of course, a normal child would have thrown a fit, and she was fully prepared to. But in the end, she decided to watch and see how interesting it was, and found herself captivated. Alchemy was so cool, could do so much, and more importantly... If she mastered alchemy, she could live forever, become the richest person in the world, maybe even have a castle with servants to wait on her and bring her food so she could do whatever she pleased forever. (She was still a kid, after all.)
So she "borrowed" some books from the school (Borrowed. Borrowed without permission, but with full intent of returning them. Eventually. When she got around to it.) and quickly took to the basics. She saved up her allowance for the materials, but found that with only the basic books the school had, she couldn't do much. Certainly not begin her goal.
But, she knew, on the edge of town, there was another alchemist. She was so skilled many feared she was a witch, but Alexandria had never bought into that. With that woman’s help, she would become skilled enough to make what she wanted, without fail. But there was no way she would take a random kid and help them, and frankly, trying to steal the materials from her seemed like an awful idea even to someone as stubborn as her. So she did the next best thing she could: With astrology, she divined the best time to approach her, and went for it with full power. She camped out in front of her home, waiting for her to emerge, then... well. A smart person would have begged her to take them in as an apprentice. Alexandria, on the other hand, just explained that she divined from the stars that this was the best time for it, so the witch would be taking her in as an apprentice now!
Fortunately, this actually worked out in her favor, as instead of sending her home, the so-called witch started laughing. She decided this child was funny enough to deserve a chance, and agreed to test her. Alexandria passed this test with flying colors, and with a chuckle, the witch (or so-called, but frankly, getting tired of calling her that, and her name was unknown to everyone) agreed to take her in and teach her.
Naturally, since Alexandria hadn’t told her parents before she did that, they were pretty fucking confused when she showed up at home with a pile of books and tools and told them she was studying under the scary witch on the edge of town. They were, however, relieved that she was actually being proactive for once, and even better, apprenticing to someone else meant she wasn’t their problem to make work anymore.
She studied under the witch for years, finally earning her own workshop in the witch’s dungeons. The witch was skilled enough that the Philosopher’s Stone wasn’t impossible to make, and in fact, she set that as the test of mastery for Alexandria. Once she made the Stone and used it to obtain the panacea, or the elixir of immortality, she would pass and become a master alchemist in her own right. Even she didn’t expect her to make the stone at as young as 16, though. However, the stone was unreasonably expensive to make, and it took her years of saving her allowance and selling excess metals to get the raw materials for the stone, so she only could make one. And, being practical, she wasn’t going to try it on herself right away. That was what lab rats are for, after all. So, with the Stone completed, she left it alone in the workshop to retrieve some rodents to conduct experiments on, because hey, potentially-immortal rats in a farming village can’t possibly have any problems, right?
Unfortunately, she returned to find the workshop ransacked and the Stone stolen. A group of warlocks and witches, who sold their souls to demons for phenomenal power, decided the elixir of immortality was the loophole they needed. The demons would only get their souls upon death, after all, but if they became immortal, they were set forever. They were, of course, old and desperate, and it never occurred to them that demons had played this game before. They were busy congratulating themselves on stealing the stone, and fled in order to take the elixir so none would know who they were.
Of course, flinging magic around everywhere in desperation leaves trails, and Alexandria soon picked up on what happened. And, well. Her master’s home had been completely ransacked, and more importantly, the stone she had spent years of saving to make had been stolen. If she let it get away, who knew how many more years it would be before she could make another? She needed that back.
So she immediately set off after them. They had her Stone, her life’s work, her dream of a lazy, comfortable life. She was going to get it back and make them suffer for it.
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON; 1.) If you could make any reality at all, what would you make?
One where I don’t have to do any work. A world centered around me, where keeping me comfortable and entertained was the most important thing would be the best! If realities like this one exist, then maybe that one exists for me to go to, too...
3.) If you were given the option to stay in the Digital World or return to your home, which would you choose? Why?
... That’s too hard. I have to go back to get my Stone back, but here I get enough money to live just for being here... Can I choose both? I wanna go home, get revenge, then come back and have a comfy life here.
4.) What ability would you most like to have?
... Is this a trick question? If it’s an ability, I want to control the world around me like a god. Who would choose anything else? It’s stupid to limit yourself to one little power when you can just make a big one like that and have all the powers at once. Is this some sort of secret IQ test or something?
THIRD PERSON;
To be completely honest, Alexandria didn’t really understand this place. She hated not understanding these things. What the hell was a “digital world”? It defied all logic, reason, common sense, and most importantly, everything she had ever learned up until now. She wanted to take a knife and dissect the world itself, and figure out the true composition of the world. Unfortunately, that was not precisely possible for a variety of reasons, so she just settled for fuming until she could do something about it.
She did have to admit it wasn’t all bad, though. She could treat it as a vacation. Probably. She was given money just for showing up, which was good, since it was their own damn fault she was here, in her opinion. If they weren’t compensating her for that, she’d be really mad. As it was, they could be a lot better, but a free room and the weird devices she got were better than nothing. She found herself wondering if she could take the devices home and sell them, and maybe use that money to make a new Stone.
Though there was a bigger problem, she thought, looking across her room at this so-called “Digimon partner”. As near as she could tell, it was some kind of familiar. She was vaguely aware that some witches and warlocks could summon lesser demons as familiars, and of course all great alchemists had homunculi assistants, but this wasn’t either of those. A “partner”, huh? She was pretty conflicted about that thing. On one hand, she could probably make it do the chores and boring tasks while she played with the devices and tried to get a TV set up in her room. On the other hand... She didn’t even know how long that basic amount of money from the start would last just feeding her. Feeding an extra thing would only make her money go away faster, not to mention it was some kind of weird monster that would probably eat more than her. The guide from the start mentioned something about de-evolving, though... She wondered if she could make it do that to save on food costs.
Then again, how exactly was she meant to bring that topic up? For some reason, she couldn’t help but feel like going up to the monster who was created to fight things and telling it to turn weak because she didn’t want to feed it was a terrible plan. In the worst case... Well, they were supposed to be “partners”, right? So the monster wouldn’t try to eat her instead... Probably. Right?
