Applicable BYOND Key - NessxAria
Character Name - Strawly Mieva
Request Type -  Character Creation

Request Details -  
I'm thinking of making a character that is 7 years old and i have a picture of him as well already, for a playby. A small cat boy with hoodie, shorts and boots. With a white tail behind him and natural blushing cheeks.

Reason why you are making this request (if applicable) - 
The idea i had for this character, was inspired by the singer himself. I wanted to start him from little where he didn't know how to sing but was inspired so much by music. Until he grows up enough to become a great singer and help people with his songs. Possibly go on stadium and sing for people who would enjoy to listen, to his songs. Also when he would become adult i would like him to make his home into a concert or a place where people can hang out, drink and listen to his music!
(I forgot to specify that i was inspired by the singer Mafumafu! That's why i edited this post.)

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request -
Starly Mieva wasn't a child of prophecy or anything special of the sort, but he lived with his well financial parents that managed to take care of Starly Mieva. Most of the time they brought him around fun parks or towns where they had people singing songs and Starly recieving the joy of the calming and sweet music coming from the musicians. Eventually a day later when Starly Mieva wanted to start singing as well, he went to his parents and asked them if they could buy him any instrument to play with, but his father was too strict towards Starly's future and refused to get him any musical instrument as he was focusing to raise his son into being strong fighter who would attend to join the Guard.

Starly Mieva wasn't happy with the thought that his father is being so controlling over his life, even if he was so young and didn't understand much of life itself. He decided to sneak out to the neighbors and use their instrument to play music. Didn't take long before he was snitched on, and his father saw this act as such failure, and him not being able to take care of a child that is reckless and uncapable of becoming a Guard for it's future, he decided to leave his song for adoption. His mother wasn't around because she was gone the time, she gave birth to Starly so there wasn't much Starly could do but get adopted in Orphanage in Cellsvich. For Starly it wasn't healthy how his father was going to control his life, so Starly would have to find his own way of life, even with tears, he will be able to find better family and follow his path of music.

Playby Picture of Strawly Mieva: 

A thank you to Senna for bringing this to my attention for further testing, and Lumi for helping me test it.

A relatively rarely used detail is that while using Destiny, Spellthief gets all of their copy spells at max rank. However, it seems that it doesn't actually apply to some spells. In particular, any spell that belongs to a base class instead stays at rank 1.

It was tested with Explosion, Holy Arrow, Sear and Fire Whip. The equipment used was simply a tome of the appropriate element and a wisp cloak, and it was tested against a Prinny to avoid any external factors changing it. After doing calculations with the damage, Explosion and Holy Arrow seemed to both count as rank 1, while Sear and Fire Whip both counted as rank 5.

Strangely, Famiuga appears to be an exception to the rule, providing rank 5's damage regardless, but otherwise, it seems like every other base class spell doesn't get powered up when using Destiny for one reason or another.

I sent a private application to K Peculier for permissions and clarifications for a character's backstory and how to make a quirk and height work.  It was discussed with K Peculier and approved by him, and he requested that I post here as well so others could be aware that a application proccess did indeed happen, even if out of public. He has my thanks for giving some time of his day to walk with me.

I desire to create a minor noble house of samurai in Oniga, with permission to let them grow into a larger and established clan as achievements of those within the clan mount in-game, and gains consolidated. There is a chance it will not grow at all, but I decided to seek permission anyway.

Sigil: The Kamon of the clan is a tsuka handguard from a bird’s eye view, with sakura branches in the shape of antlers traveling up on either side of the blade opening in the guard, in a circle. Golden chains are woven between the antler/branches, with the kanjis of ‘Pure Samurai’ resting in the center of the kamon.

Colors: Dusty Brown, Bright Pink, and Gold.
The brown of the sakura branches and deer fur make up the bulk of their color scheme, with gold and pink accents to represent a gilded flower.

Heirloom: The Last Guard
A Tsuka handguard from a blade used in a significant engagement in the house’s early history. Legend says a beautiful blade adorned with a golden handguard was utilized by the son of the family’s founder, who died in the battle. Most of the blade was lost and destroyed, but the tsuka remained intact. It is now passed down from lord to lord, only their death bidding them to part with it- the Jodo believing the fighting spirit of each lord rests within.

Size: Small.
The Jodo have always been a smaller clan, but the war decimated their numbers, due to their love of the frontline. There are only six samurai remaining, not including the lord and a handful of servants. One of these samurai is even a foreigner. The clan remains semi open to those worthy, for the sake of increasing their size. Though foreigners are highly scrutinized, and typically encouraged to marry into the clan.

Stronghold: A small, abandoned temple complex converted into a dojo and barracks. This estate serves the clan fine, due to their small size. There is a head house, which includes the treasury of the clan and the dwellings of the lord. There is likewise the barracks and training centers, with a small space in the dojo for worship. There is one garden, and room for nothing else.

Values: The Jodo are infamous for their straightforwardness, and battle-oriented rhetoric. Holding honor and integrity as chief values, stealth tactics and underhanded means of combat are outright not permitted. The Jodo seek to establish themselves as a shining example atop the hill, to inspire the same courage throughout the warrior caste. Though small, they are often seen in most major engagements, and fighting with a ferocity akin to a force of nature. Always offering what samurai they can for a fight, to carve out their legacy. What they lack in numbers, they make up for in prowess and discipline.

The Jodo historically treated their enemies with reverence and respect, but are likewise known to utilize fear tactics. Anything, most any weapon, is permitted so long as it is utilized against an enemy that sees it coming. There is a saying about the family, claiming that ‘A hungry Jodo wouldn’t even sneak up on a boar’, joking(?) that a Jodo samurai would try to melee charge during a hunt. Though they are far from blindly courageous or reckless, and follow a deeply spiritual doctrine and worship the gods with great reverence and Zen. Believing prowess in combat is the best way to grant an enemy mercy, swiftly ending their life with discipline.

Notable Members: 
Lord Jodo. A young man currently heading the clan, known for his seriousness despite his age (about 16-17), yet still acts his age time to time, treating his clan more like family.
Torah Cais. A foreigner who had joined the clan when she was younger, unable to enter any other samurai house. Distinguished herself via her mercenary efforts overseas, and is known for her battle-hardened mentality and tribal roots.

You can currently scout out your own create shades and reliably check which one is the one you're currently nested in three fairly reliable manners: 

1) Right clicking on the shades and checking which one you can request trade with, as all the other ones will be too far. 

2) Using Debug-battle-tile will display a message in which tells you whether or not a mob or a named player is present in that location, this message is only visible to the user.

3) Resizing your game window to be much smaller than it usually is in order to force the camera in on your current position, allowing you to see exactly where your create shade is. This is only visible to the user obviously.

I suspect the last is not easy to fix, other than messing with camera shenanigans for create shade specifically.

As of current, the UI update for the new party has broken items that are used on 'Drag & Drop onto party' method. High Quality Bandages unlike normal bandages, cannot be used on the tool belt, which means that there is currently no method to use High Quality Bandages. Other items that also uses the 'Drag & Drop onto party' method is likely also broken.

About three years ago, in Karaten, an up and coming artificer, Frank Alkran was commissioned to make a Mechanation.  Apparently a Noble missed his late father, and wanted a mechanation made in his image.

However, the commission was quite budget constrained, and some corners needed to be cut.

Discount materials were purchased and used, and the quality of said materials reflects the price.  The Llarian scar being no exception, it was purchased from an unscrupulous merchant, and was deeply flawed, clearly having not fully 'ripened' before harvest.

Nevertheless, Alkran continued his work, day in and day out for months, fashioning the Mechanation, until the day came to perform basic testing.  Just hooking things up enough to make sure the arms and legs work, and such.  Alkran put on his welding mask, and made the final welds for the test.

However, this did not go as planned.  The Mechanation jumped up, leaping from it's bed, pointing at Alkran, still wearing his welding mask, pointed and shouted "ALBEDO RESEARCHER!  HELP!  HE'S TURNING ME INTO A CHIMERA!", and then immediately fled the building; the crazy, half-built mechanation going around, telling the guards about how his creator is an Albedo researcher, trying to turn him into a chimera/mechanation hybrid.

Frank realized how fortunate he was to have been wearing a mask the whole time, and carefully evaluated the situation.  While yes, he is well within his rights to re-capture the rogue mechanation, to reclaim it's parts and try to repair it, he determined that it's probably a good idea to NOT claim ownership of that travesty.  After all, being known as the creator of the nutbag who went around claiming it's creator was an Albedo researcher making a chimera/mechanation hybrid isn't worth the cost of the parts.  So he just abandoned it, and pretended that he has no relation to it.

And so, the mechanation has travelled around, his deeply flawed scar giving him the 'insight' needed to piece together various conspiracy theories, which he espouts loudly.



List of conspiracies he's given:

• There are invisible wyvernriders over Sigrogana dumping mindcontrol potions over the populace.
  
• Focus is actually the airborne versions of the aforementioned potions.
  
• Mercalan magic is a finite resource, and that's why the church rations it through the tenets.
  
• The Gazebo district houses a secret basement where Albedo harvests parts for use in chimeras.
  
• The reason people can't find Mersales is because it's in the future.  Elves reach Sigrogana from Mersales by time traveling.
  
• Mechanations are actually people that the church failed to heal and put them into a robotic body instead.
  
• The purpose of the scar is to hide the memories of the mechanation's previous life.
  
• The flaws within his own scar allow him to remember fragments of his previous human life.  He was a farmer.
  
• Hyoya doesn't exist.  It is merely a mass hallucination caused by exposure to the cold.
  

I am posting this on behalf of BYOND key SatanicMegiddo on account of verification garbage. This is in regards to a Chimera character.

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Applicable BYOND Key: SatanicMegiddo
Character Name: Beherit
Request Type: Character Extras ( Limbs/Appendages.)
Request Details: My character has extra parts in their body that is typically unconventional, as stated in the description I've given to them. Which is as follows


"They have four arms, covered in black sinewy carapace, as well as several thorny tendril like tails slithering out from their lower spine, made of a similar material. Both the arms and tendrils are decorated with violet eyes whose pupils dart around restlessly. 

They do not wear shoes due to the fact that their feet are carapaced draconic talons that attach seamlessly to their otherwise human legs.

They stand tall, at 8 foot, and are of a slender build. Their body can be seen undulating unnaturally at times, as though they had living things slithering underneath their pale skin.

It is hard to tell at times whether the black parts of their body are solid, sinewy or some kind of compressed liquid. As if she were half consistent of lustery, ever-shifting shadow.

There is a radiant purple, jam-like substance that leaks from her black carapace"

The parts in question that I am apping for, are the existence of four arms, and the tendril like tails. Everything else is intended to be grotesque additions to add to the monstrous themes I'm attempting to go for. Example being the jam that leaks out is nothing useful, cannot be used for anything save for occassion I may fluff using it for aquamancy, in which case its nothing more than colored thicker water. No additional properties there other than to add to a disgusting spook factor. 

The all arms are fully functional, and are identical. The tails are very much functional as well. 

Reason why you are making this request (if applicable): In truth, my original intent was to say that my chimera was simply built with said monster parts, magic and a corrupted human's body (such as a shaitan), and black beast mud. If this original intent isn't possible, I can change the origin instead to say that they were simply fed monsters after initial creation and work with that instead- thus:

As per the chimera lore supplemented in the wikia, I was under the impression that I would be allowed to make something monstrous leaning than most other races, and honestly the name "Chimera" felt like it was something that would lend to the idea of making something different to begin with. The writings in said wikia say that chimera may grow several different appendages based on what they have consumed, and to further that its stated that chimera apperances vary depending on what their mutations have been. I can think of a maybe one or two monsters where the tendrils may have come from despite the color/flavor I've given them to support their presence on the character. 


The extra set of functioning arms are another matter that can be argued against for sure, though the wikia does say they can gain additional (new) appendages from what they've consumed. Of the bdps, there are many humanoid-leaning monsters that can be consumed to allow for an extra set of arms to have grown. Some with claws, or large fists even. If the IC of that is tenous at best, then at least know it was done with what I thought was something acceptable from within the game and lore written. 

I know that these additions may present potential mechanical benefits strictly in the IC of things- though I'd very much like to be able to keep them, as my intent wasn't really to gain an advantage but rather portray a chimera in a way I thought possible and felt like would add to the uncanny unsettling vibe. I feel like what I have done here adds to that and is a continously important aspect to what I'm trying to portray in my rp. I know I cannot control the reactions of those who would rp around me, but the idea was to further the reason as to why this brand of homonculi would be seen as conversial through these means- and though this may lean on the opinionated way of things, I'd like to posit that if they are only allowed such slight changes to their appearance as chimera, that it'd really feel as though they were just any other race already available in the game to begin with. Leaving few with reason to see them as anything different beyond their creation- of which they simply dont have to mention to blend in really. 


I'd really like to keep the corrupted aspect of their creation intact, in some manner of frankenstein-ish theme, and I even intend to roleplay out a weakness to Iashus as other corrupted would. I do not intend to use this to gain a mechanical advantage, everything will simply be lore based and rp based, and if I do come across something I'd like to do creatively in lieu of an event if I ever were to think of one- I'd come to seek approval for that anyways. 

Said wikia article says that they must have a human core to them, I realize, which is why I've left their torso, head, upper legs, shoulders, and upper arms human in nature. Additionally... they're eight feet tall, which wasn't something really focused on at all, although I would like to keep that and I'll simply say its size increase due to their consumptions. I do not intend to go over eight feet. At all. What so ever. Nor was it my intent to make anything bigger.

To add, as for their tails I intended for them to have four, and only really use them to greater effect when I activate moves like “Vine Pull” from an orbello install. 


Everything I have put together for my character is something I feel is very important, so I'd like to keep it as intact as possible. 
they do.. infact use shapeshifter to be real, but I don't want to use that as an excuse as it feels cheap personally. If its something that can support my case in the long run, I don't mind adjusting for it honestly.  Though I'd really just like to keep the original vision of my character intact. 

Roleplay & Lore supporting your request: https://neus-projects.net/wiki/index.php/Chimera (With a screenshot of said page supplied),  Various monsters in bdps consumed- with some background lore that I intend to rp out in interaction supporting that they were fed monsters upon their creation. Things such as Legumes, Mad vines, and jellyfish are among the tendril'd examples I can think of, where as Frost giants, goblins, Slider zombies, several humanoid undead in the lich tombs are what I can lay out to explain having feasibly grown extra limbs- with the addition of having eaten several clawed things like scare bears, frost tyrants, and etc. 

Origin story I had written down personally was that they were a chimera made with the standard requirements, monster parts and a corrupted’s corpse- such as a shaitan. Usual albedo reasonings would be behind it, such as accessing the potential akashic knowledge they can potentially spawn in with, as stated in the overall homunculi wiki page, sited from here; https://neus-projects.net/wiki/index.php/Homunculus

They were made by Albedo mages and sold to another mage ( or not ) whomst would make use of them. The intentions are unclear cause thats where my writing stops as I’ve allowed for that to be rp’d out by a friend of mine. Ie the intentions of the “villain” in their background are entirely up to them- I can tell you privately the player that would be responsible for doing that if its needed. The caravan holding them would have been intercepted by another individual whomst is played by another friend of mine, and since then they’ve been dealing with the consequences of looking after this character. I can also tell you who they are privately, if its needed. I’d like to keep these things on the private end because I usually like for character backgrounds to be discovered via interactions rather than just flat out lore dumps on my part, though I do have it written down for my personal reference. We do intend to rp out a slight.. Mini event? I dont know if thats the right word for it, to reflect this- though we’re waiting for a time where we all have time to do this properly.

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Attached is a screenshot from the Wikia page regarding homunculus creation:

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