Open [Sacred Waters]

In the great World Sea, under the choppy surface, dwell a massive variety of mythical creatures mankind has never seen...

Merpeople, Giant Sharks, Sea Dragons, and hundreds more, populate the deep, dark waters with their varied and beautiful forms. One of the rarest and most fragile of these is the tiny Seahorse. Unlike their more animal-like counterparts, the quiet Seahorses are a race of Merpeople-like creatures, but with a seahorses' tail in place of legs.

Seahorses are generally small and frail, but with training, they can be powerful warriors. The tail of a Seahorse is thick and strong, with bright skin and a contrasting section near the hip-area. Each has a stripe the same colour as their tail-skins somewhere on their body, which has an unknown purpose. Seahorses have long, flexible torsos, and strong arms, tipped with thin hands with three webbed fingers and a thumb. Their hair is usualy a similar shade as their tail.

There are very few known Seahorse cities, all of which are enclosed in a massive stone wall stretching even to the surface of the sea, with only one way in and one way out. Caves are carved into the thick walls, which the Seahorses inhabit. They usually only leave to find food and supplies, and to give birth. Seahorse babies must be born on land, and it's a long and dangerous journey to get there, and many females don't survive the trip. Because of the high death rate of breeding females, the males of this species have evolved to be able to bear their own children.

Seahorse culture is very rich, filled with legends and stories passed on from the Elders to the young ones by word-of-mouth. Children are raised in a close-bonded community, knowing almost everyone in their city. The favoured weapons of warriors are spears, but other weapons are sometimes used.


One of the most told stories passed down if on an Ancient Spring located in a dry underwater cave somewhere in the sea, said to provide the Water of Eternal Life. This is much more than a legend... The Spring exists, and the water it gives is powerful. There are very few that know it's location, and they are the Elders of the good species of the sea. Merpeople, Seahorses, Sea Dragons, Selkies, and Hippocampi each have an elder with this knowledge...

The secret of the Spring is needed now, as the beautiful young Princess of the Merpeople was kidnapped buy the 'Monster Sharks', giant sharks with clawed forelimbs that hate all other sea life. They demand a ransom of the Spring's water for her return. The Merpeople have asked the others for help, and the Elders have assembled a ragtag group to save her.



Rules:
-All Forum rules apply
-No God-modding, Powerplaying, ect
-keep the magical abilities to a good amount - Don't go overboard!
-say 'bean' in your form if you've read this
-keep it PG-13 please


Form:

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Species (Merperson, Seahorse, Sea Dragon, Selkie, Hippocampus):
Appearance:
Personality:
History:
Other:

Me:

Name: Dagan
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Species: Seahorse
Appearance: Dagan is small, even for a Seahorse, and very pale. His tail is a deep Maroon, with a teal marking around his hips. His hair is a similar teal as his markings and very long. His stripe is maroon and over his belly. His eyes are blue. He's obviously pregnant, but not too far along.
Personality: Dagan is friendly and sociable, quickly becoming attached to people who are nice to him. He dislikes physical combat, relying more on his wits and magical ability. He gets very frightened and panicky when faced with large amounts of blood, sometimes fainting.
History: Dagan was found abandoned in the reeds near the largest Seahorse city by the Elder, and taken in by the man and raised as his own. The little boy was quickly accepted by the others, and developed a close friendship with a older boy named Morgan. When he reached the age of 16, he and Morgan had their 'Mating Ceremony', which is the Seahorse equivalent of marriage. Shortly after, when Dagan was only a few months pregnant, Morgan was killed in front of Dagan's eyes by a Monster Shark, but he managed to escape back into the city walls. That gave him his fear of blood, and he became even more friendly to others as a way of coping with his loss. He was chosen due to his powerful magic skills.
Other: Dagan can use magic very well, and his favorite means of battle is heating water around the target to boiling temperatures.

Name: Nen
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Species Merperson
Appearance: His hair is pale green, his tail the same shade. He is slightly tanned do to the fact that he lives within the casle that resides near the topical waters. He taies his hair back into a loose pony to keep out of his face when he works. He has a tattoo of a black sea dragon wrapping around his left arm, a white one wrapped around his right. His eyes are as blue as the arctic waters.
Personality: He is calm, quiet, and shy around those he doesn't know. He is a nice guy that loves making friends with nice people. Though he is shy, he pushes all his insucurities aside wheh his cousin was kidnapped
History: He is a Doctor that tends to the royal family, but as well as being the royal doctor, he is also the Princess's cousin. He was never good at hand to hand combat and his offensve magic is limited, but his defensive and healing magic is where he shines. With his skills as a Doctor, he was allowed to go on the mission to save his cousin.
Other: He is the Princess's Cousin, and the only one that can her highness to eat her beans.

inz~

Name: Rose
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Species (Merperson, Seahorse, Sea Dragon, Selkie, Hippocampus):Selkie
Appearance: She has huge green eyes, that almost seem to glow, and freckles with very tan skin. Her hair is gray and slightly past her shoulders, and usually in a ponytail. She has many scars on her arms, but they aren't very noticable. She has a tattoo of a teardrop on her shoulder. (As a seal, she's a regular, ordinary seal. >>)
Personality: Tries to be patient and polite, but has a bad temper and get into fights pretty regularly. Despite this, she is normally friendly and loves to pull pranks on others. Very protective of her friends, and will always defend them at any cause. Is a bit silly, and often blurts out silly or random phrases when nervous.
History: Just a regular Selkie, but early on proved to be an excellent fighter both normally and with magic. Began training for battles when she was only eight. Got into arguements (Which led to fights) a lot and never really made friends. Some people are actually a bit scared of her, and is frustrated by this. Rose was chosen to go on the misson because of her fighting skills.
Other: Carries a sword with her (Tied to her back) Her favorite magic attack is creating small whirlpools to trap enemies.



BEAN!!!

Name: Gida
Age: 10
Gender: Male
Species: Selkie
Appearance: In his seal form he looks like a baby Harp Seal, with yellowish white fur and pawlike flippers. In human form he has medium-length light blonde hair and large blue eyes. He is quite short.
Personality: He is naive and playful, but a bit dim-witted. He is protective of those close to him. Althoguh he seems a little silly he is actually rather intelligent when he puts his mind to it.
History: He was orphaned when he was young and so had to learn to fend for himself. He managed to teach himself a little magic and also learned how to fight with a blade. he was recently chosen by the Selkie elder to find the Princess, despite his age.
Other: He uses a small sword encrusted with a single bean-shaped pearl.

Ehhhhh, I wanna reserve a space for this. Just not in the right mood for writing at the moment. Also, what do the Sea Dragons look like in this world? Are they just normal dragons that have adapted to live underwater?

Name: Lind
Age: 149 years
Gender: Male
Species: Sea Dragon

Appearance:
Lind is a long, serpent-like creature; at best estimate, he’s around ten metres long. His body is covered by smooth scales, which become smaller near the tail end of his body and transition into skin the same greyish colour as his body. A long fin runs across his back, and is as flexible as the rest of his body. Many scars mar his skin, although they don’t seem very numerous in comparison to his body length. The last metre or so of his body is a tail that is all muscle; this tail can be manipulated more deftly than the rest of his body, much like his long whiskers.

In truth, his four whiskers are more like tentacles, as although they are quite sensitive, much of it is muscle as well. At the base of these whiskers are powerful jaws with multiple rows of sharp, pointed teeth. His long tongue can appear like fire when he opens his mouth, but it’s really just a regular reddish tongue. His calm blue-green eyes are nowhere near as frightening, but don’t be fooled: it doesn’t change whether he’s snuggling up with a friend to sleep or brutally tearing a Monster Shark to pieces.

Personality:
Lind is self-assured and confident, believing that everything will turn out alright in any situation. He’s rather optimistic and likes to look on the good side of things, even willing to dismiss problems that he should probably point out. Because of this, there’s nothing that can make him feel true fear or panic, and even if everyone else was slaughtered, he wouldn’t feel down for long. He views those of other species with a puzzled amusement at their lesser intelligence, and often finds himself shocked at their youth and how short their lives tend to be. He also appears somewhat sadistic at times, as he can be needlessly vicious against an opponent he can completely dominate.

He is eager to find out what will happen on the trip, doubting anything would really go wrong, and treats it more as a vacation than anything. He’s also rather fascinated about all of the other members of the group, since they have such varying backgrounds.

History:
Lind, being quite young for a sea dragon (even though sea dragons have some of the shortest lifespans amongst legendary dragons), still has yet to truly experience much of the world. He doesn’t even have a real job, except for being somewhat of a warrior-mage. He’s distantly related to the king of the sea dragons, just close enough that it should be an honour that he’s being sent on the journey. His life so far has consisted of touring the oceans and learning to manipulate the water, as well as the properties of water, plus hunting for prey.

Other:
Lind’s magic consists of moving a certain section of water in a current of varying strength, in whatever path he chooses. This can range from extremely powerful blasts that can be nearly fatal, to a weak stream to brush off some sand off a chest of gold. He can, however, only create one stream at a time, and it can only move in one direction.


Continue this poem:

Beans, beans they’re good for your heart
The more you eat the more you fart

The more you fart, the better you feel
so let's eat beans for every meal~

Everyone so far: In!

Leviathan: They vary depending on clan, basically, go wild with looks, as long as it could, you know, swim.

Name: Hedenja
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Species: Selkie
Appearance: Her hair is long and flowing with a silky looking texture and a silvery shade of baby blue. She has no bangs. Her eyes are a sparkling deep blue that matches the sea. Her feminine beauty draws in many males making her eager to keep the form of a seal. Her seal form is a darker shade than her hair with silvery designs and markings all over. Her eyes become black when she's a seal.
Personality: She gives off the impression that she's solemn but she has a dark side that allows her to be a stubborn mule and a nasty but scandalous woman. On a regular basis, she's calm and patient.
History: At a young age she was taught a lot of magic as much as she hates it since she sees no uniqueness since everyone can do it. She instead focused on human capabilities and took up physical training. She was so caught up in it that she spent the majority of her time with the humans. For a year she remained there and men started taking a fondness to her. She was almost raped by a group of men that she always saw when training and gave up on the humans. She is cold towards men.
Other: Her abilities in combat include supreme strength and ice abilities.

Name: Belle
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Species: Merpeople

Appearance: Take one look at Belle, and you'll know she's a force to be reckoned with. Her face is sharp and angular with pointed ears, bright red eyes, and what look like fangs poking out from under her upper lip. Her hair is only a shade darker than her eyes and, were she in an evironment where hair simply hung down, it would reach the point where the human-like part of her body meets her tail.

Her arms are lean and well-muscled, ending in feminine but strong hands with long nails. Her tail is often compared to that of a shark, murky grey in colour with a triangular dorsal fin. Scars cover her tail and there's a chunk out of her fin, along with what look like claw-marks on her left shoulder. Her only garment is a pair of pale bluish clam shells acting as a bra.

Personality: A strong fighter who takes pride in her physical excellence, Belle does not take kindly to magic-wielding show-offs treating her like she's inferior or weapon specialists being critical of her skill in hand-to-hand combat. She also does not take kindly to those who treat as a woman rather than a warrior; she is a fighter first and foremost, a cares little for 'proper behaviour.' Unfortunately for anyone forced to deal with her, she usually comes across as blunt, impatient, lacking in empathy, and convinced of her superiority.

Though she seems uncaring, she is in fact fiercely protective of this is little group of adventurers and will not hesitate to tear apart anything that seeks to do them harm. Sharp-tempered and quick to make threats, anyone who thinks she's all talk and no action are quick to find out that she will back up every last one of her threats to the letter if she has to.

On a less aggressive note, Belle adores children of all species and is a lover of good music. Just don't ask her to sing. Really, don't. Your ears still have so much to offer you.

History: Belle drifted into the Merpeople's city one day when she was fifteen, and she simply never left. A fierce, competetitive fighter, having already earned the scars her body displays to this day, she quickly caught royalty's eye. She's worked as a palace guard for over two years, the story of her history leaking out slowly over that time.

Apparently, even Belle isn't sure exactly where she'd come from. Her earliest memories were of being raised by a pair of female Seahorses. Lacking mates and too terrified to take the trip to the surface even they had, the two close friends had taken care of the young Mermaid until she was eleven, when they were both killed by a Monster Shark, Belle herself barely escaping with her life.

Belle stayed with the Seahorses for a while, training herself for battle and wandering out to confront whatever creatures the ocean decided her throw at her. It didn't take long for the spear her late caretakers gave her to break in one of these adventures, and she began to fight with her body instead, earning herself a number of her scars due to her tendancy to strike foes with her tail.

Finally, the akwardness of being a Merperson in a Seahorse community got to be too much. She was always too big, too slow, too aggressive even. Looking for somewhere to belong, she journeyed to the home of the mermaids and stayed there. She's always taken her job seriously, and was unfortunately not on duty when the princess was taken. She immediately volunteered to go out to save the princess; after all, the group that had been slapped together would need protection.

Other: Belle has all the magic ability of a bean, and has more than a little contempt for those who depend on it. Also, though her and the princess have only exchanged probably a handful of words since Belle started working as a guard, she would admit that she is rather fond of the princess...though she can't figure out for the life of her why she's so worried about her Highness, or why she misses her so much, or why she instantly hates any of the princess' potential suitors as soon as she lays eyes on them.

Everyone in~!

Also, how many should we let in before we start?

Name: Nixie
Age:18
Gender:Boy
Species:Merperson
Apearance:His face is very feminine looking and pretty. He's got short curly light blue hair to match his tail,clear blue eyes(literally like water), he has long sharp dark blue nails. He has fair skin. He has shiny metallic scales on his tail. He has a well toned body. He's got a mouth full of ferocious teeth no matter how pretty he looks.
Personality: He is very kind to others, but he doen't care too much about many people.He is independent and tries not to accept help from others. He is tolerant of alot of things but he cannot stand cocky people. He's starting to learn about appreciating people, but he till struggles.
History: Nixie was born in the city.He was given a girl's name cuz he looks like a girl He was raised like a normal child. He is good at hand to hand combat and has good magic skills.He has no strategy of fighting just attack.
Other: He was fortunate enough to be gifted with the singing voice of an enchantress. He has caused humans to drown while they look for the mermaid who was singing to them. His magic attacks can increase the water pressure and are electricity based.

Aaaaand done

Name: Reskia
Age: 261
Gender: Female
Species: Sea Dragon

Appearance: Dragons are, generally, strong, formidable creatures; feared and worshiped for their awesome power. Reskia, however, isn't quite the definition of "strong and formidable" that most would be expecting. In her entire figure, easily twenty feet from head to the tip of her tail, the most noticeable aspect is her belly, a ball of scaly, bluish-gray flesh half as wide as she is tall, contrasting with the mottled blue-and-dark-green that is the rest of her body. Straddling her belly are similarly thick legs that can't move particularly dexterously, although over time they became strong enough to swim around with so much weight. Sitting atop her tree trunk of a neck is a soft face, both in appearance and to the touch, with twinkling copper eyes and a kind smile, although that visage can easily shift into a gaze of pure disgust, opening to show rows of sharp teeth in a mouth strong enough to break bones. Her long, surprisingly thin tail trails out behind her and is tipped with an arrow-shaped point.

Personality: When you first meet Reskia, she will probably introduce herself as "the greatest practitioner of magic who has ever lived." That might be true if she had been honest enough to add "within ten feet" at the end. She tends to be extremely vain about her skill level, often attempting to perform spells far above her own limits, then complaining about some outside force making her lose focus. The only thing bigger than her ego is her laziness (and her stomach XD); any time she doesn't spend practicing or gathering food and other necessary materials is used for sleeping. Still, after years upon years of near-continuous solitude, the company of others is one of the things she enjoys most, and she will always try to care for and support those around her.

History: Reskia never had much training when she was younger, as no one would teach her after her ego nearly got everyone involved killed several times. Without a true mentor or even much of a family to hold her back (the rumor that actually ate all of her relatives became quite popular), she left to go on a journey of self-discovery. Unfortunately, it wasn't very long before she completely lost motivation and, figuring that there wasn't anything new waiting for her back home, started to live in a conveniently-located cave. In the century or so since, she has continued to improve her skills alone, until one day when an venturing traveler told her of how the mermaid princess had been kidnapped by sharks. She then decided that if she joined the quest to find the spring of eternal life would be the best way to find that meaning in life she tried searching for so long ago. Right after lunch...

Other: Despite all her talk of being a master magician, Reskia is only able to reliably cast a handful of spells without something going horribly wrong. In any event, she doesn't particularly excel in physical strength and endurance, so her strategy in self-defense usually revolves around a smattering of weaker techniques, particular one that allows her to "solidify" water into barriers, which can then be used as shields, supports, or to surround an object so that it can be moved around.



This character is so radically different from any other I've made so far that I'm going to go bathe in beans (I just know I'm going to screw this up somehow XD).

In regards to the number of participants, there are seven now (nine if Rat and I are accepted) so it would probably be a good idea to have about ten members, twelve maximum. It'd also probably be good if there was a Hippocampus on the team, but that's just my opinion.

very good, I like it. Everyone is in...

Now, we can either start now and let some other people join late, or pimp the RP out and wait before starting. What sound better?

((Uh-oh. Um...KQ and I are losing internet connection tomorrow so we won't be able to post for a while because we are moving. If you do start, we can just fit ourselves into the story somehow. Your choice. ^_^))

((Oh man. Well all that Rat said was true and now that I know you guys have the option of starting I regret it. T_T Well yeah, we can pop into the story one way or another.))

(OKEY DOKES! WE'RE BACK!! WHEN WILL WE START?)

When we have two or three more people. x-x

I had really hoped it wouldn't get to this point, but the fact remains that it's been two weeks since the last person (being myself) joined, so I'm really not too sure if anyone else is actually interested. Nothing else is happening; it would be better to just start now and hope that we get some new players later on.

True enough. so, we'll start I suppose. (why do people not like joining my RPs? D: my Poor Hellboy one has like, two people besides me in it...)

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Dagan was lurking in a pach of thick seaweed, watching carefully for anything that might hurt him. He peeked out the edge of the weeds, a few of the thick strands tangled in his long, flowing hair. It was quiet, but that wasn't always a good way to tell if it was safe. He blinked, letting his eyes scan the rocks and weeds around.

"Hm."

He slid out of the weeds carefully, keeping low to the rocky bottom.