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SAMPLE Waking here alone was a nightmare from which he could not wake. Was this Hell? A beautiful world he was ill-suited to live in, a paradise without the one thing that he'd ever cared about? Banished from Weiss' side and damned to a world so soft that one look from a Tsviet should have leveled it to the ground.
He didn't understand.
Hadn't he always done everything right? Everything Weiss ever asked for had been done without question. His life had been lived to ensure his brother's happiness and future.
So why this? Why this betrayal?
His fingers touch the space where the wound had been. The novelty of being able to use his own hands had long since worn off, replaced instead with the loathing of why that was. Freed from his old chains and thrust into a new world with new expectations, ones he had been taught to avoid all his life. Nero was of Deepground. Cruelty and death came far easier than what they expected of him here, and the Gods had the gall to bind his powers to ensure he was better suited to their purposes.
Or...
Or perhaps that was simply the consequence of dying at his brother's hand. A god in of himself now. Handed off to lesser beings to serve them, now that he was no longer of use to the God he'd made of his departed sibling... or what he had so long believed to be. In that moment, Weiss hadn't seemed himself. Yet he'd awoken here before he could investigate, assuming it had been caused by the physical death.
The young man shakes his head.
PLAYER INFO
❥ Name/Handle: Shikki
❥ Contact: minimoffs @ plurk
❥ Over 18?: Y
❥ Other Characters: N/A
❥ Contact: minimoffs @ plurk
❥ Over 18?: Y
❥ Other Characters: N/A
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❥ Name: Nero
❥ Canon: Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
❥ Canon Point: After being killed by Weiss
❥ Fandom OC Approval: (Name of mod who approved you or N/A)
❥ History: a wiki!
❥ CRAU?: N/A
❥ Personality:
Warped Morality & Understanding of the world. Nero is an experiment born and raised in a kill-or-be-killed environment to become the perfect weapon for Shinra. He's never known traditional morality and frankly he doesn't comprehend it. If you're close to him he won't go out of his way to bother you, however if it would benefit him to he'd do it without thinking twice about it. There is no "team" in Deepground. Every man is for himself. That being said, he understands that he can't simply do as he pleases and there are consequences to his actions. This translates to: good behavior gets you rewards like hanging out with your brother, and bad behavior gets you chained to a rock. To this point, he's kind of a tool? He delights in pressing people's buttons and getting them to hate him. Frankly, he has no idea how to interact with people who don't hate him if they aren't Weiss.
Devoted / Codependent. Nero's older brother was the only person who ever treated him like a person. As a result, he is cripplingly dependent on Weiss, to the point that when Weiss died Nero decided he'd kickstart the apocalypse to revive him after Weiss died. Weiss is the only person who ever loved Nero and Nero believes that Weiss is the only person who can ever love him. Nero is capable of great kindness and love, he would move mountains if it meant his brother would be happy.
Socially stunted. Due to the above and more. Nero spent most of his life as an experiment and enduring the cruelest conditions imaginable. He was kept largely in isolation and not allowed to engage with others. The only person he ever forged a genuine bond with was his brother, Weiss. Nero longs for connection and to be loved but doesn't understand it. The bond with his brother is all he has and he leans on that hard, as without it he feesls lost.
Melancholy / Death obsessed. Nero talks fondly of death and views it as an end to suffering. His powers grant him dominion over death and a psuedo-lifestream where the souls he collects just kind of hang around. He's derived from an entity that's entire purpose is killing everyone on the planet. There's a lot of baggage there, especially given that he's never been able to completely control it and has killed people without meaning to.
Calculating. Though Nero can come across as rather childish, he is an extremely intelligent and cunning young man. Rather than let Deepground know Weiss has died, Nero takes over silently and shoves the newly liberated organization into gathering as many non-Jenova infected people as they can in order to trick the planet into starting the apocalypse early.
Unstable. Due to his life in Deepground, his powers, and the loss of his brother - Nero is a trainwreck. While often very calm and quiet, he's prone to emotional outbursts and irrational behavior. Nero's powers tie directly into this emotional state, meaning that he is always tightly controlled but that control is constantly fraying. His powers also give him a sharp slant towards sadism and cruelty as he revels in making people relive their worst memories and, just, flat out killing them because he hates them. Like all members of DeepGround, fighting makes Nero feel alive in a way nothing else does.
❥ Abilities: Nero is the only survivor of two hundred test subjects who were injected with stagnant lifestream, essentially dead parts of the planet's essence. He was born with the power to control a warped version of the lifestream that manifests as a flowing black aura around him that has the power to pull things in. His first act on the planet was accidental murder - he killed his mother with his void as he came screaming into the world. From that day forward he was thrown into mako-enhanced restraints that would suppress his powers.
While the lifestream is described as 'hope and life' Nero's darkness is 'death and despair'. Its described in canon as the very essence of death, coming into contact with it makes you relive all your worst memories or can kill you outright if you're unfortunate enough to be drawn into it. It seems to be tied to an empty-void like pocket-dimension full off giant floating rocks.
Once in there, objects begin to dissolve. If someone survives being drawn into the void, their mind will fall apart due to the overwhelming feelings of despair and the constant barrage of reliving your worst memories. Not many can survive long in the void.
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On top of this, shing further into the reverse lifestream phase - Nero has the ability to drain people's lifeforce the same way a healer can mend it. And while doing so, once again, they'll feel nothing but cold despair. This he doesn't seem to have great control over as being in proximity to him can also just trigger it.
Nero is able to create constructs from this darkness (guns, a giant robot suit, clones of himself in his battle) and is able to store some objects in it. Per the games rules regarding hammerspace, that should be set at 10.
Unsurprisingly, Nero's unable to control his power completely. He was never given the chance to learn and was instead thrown in restraints and subjected to cruel experimentation. He always wears restrictive clothing that suppresses the power to a manageable level - though there's always a flow of wispy darkness around him. Emotional outbursts can lead to massive spikes in power. All of this will be brought down to make him playable in the setting.
❥ Extras:
- Nero's darkness will be massively reduced for playability purposes. Rather than being able to throw an AOE big enough to consume a cavern or an airship, Nero will be limited to a radius of about ten feet around him and won't be able to consume any player characters. He won't be able to make clones and will be limited to two darkness constructs at a time, no bigger than his handgun set.
People having any sort of physical contact with him may still have to endure the emotional anguish until he likes them enough to stop doing that.
Nero will also be coming in with a set of bladed mechanical wings on his back. They'll be mostly shattered and broken thanks to Hojo hijacking his brother's beefy bod and throwing him across the room with it. Other than that, he'll just have the ruined remains of his containment suit.
Which god will they choose to support? Or do you wish to be randomized?
Random!❥ Canon: Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
❥ Canon Point: After being killed by Weiss
❥ Fandom OC Approval: (Name of mod who approved you or N/A)
❥ History: a wiki!
❥ CRAU?: N/A
❥ Personality:
Warped Morality & Understanding of the world. Nero is an experiment born and raised in a kill-or-be-killed environment to become the perfect weapon for Shinra. He's never known traditional morality and frankly he doesn't comprehend it. If you're close to him he won't go out of his way to bother you, however if it would benefit him to he'd do it without thinking twice about it. There is no "team" in Deepground. Every man is for himself. That being said, he understands that he can't simply do as he pleases and there are consequences to his actions. This translates to: good behavior gets you rewards like hanging out with your brother, and bad behavior gets you chained to a rock. To this point, he's kind of a tool? He delights in pressing people's buttons and getting them to hate him. Frankly, he has no idea how to interact with people who don't hate him if they aren't Weiss.
Devoted / Codependent. Nero's older brother was the only person who ever treated him like a person. As a result, he is cripplingly dependent on Weiss, to the point that when Weiss died Nero decided he'd kickstart the apocalypse to revive him after Weiss died. Weiss is the only person who ever loved Nero and Nero believes that Weiss is the only person who can ever love him. Nero is capable of great kindness and love, he would move mountains if it meant his brother would be happy.
Socially stunted. Due to the above and more. Nero spent most of his life as an experiment and enduring the cruelest conditions imaginable. He was kept largely in isolation and not allowed to engage with others. The only person he ever forged a genuine bond with was his brother, Weiss. Nero longs for connection and to be loved but doesn't understand it. The bond with his brother is all he has and he leans on that hard, as without it he feesls lost.
Melancholy / Death obsessed. Nero talks fondly of death and views it as an end to suffering. His powers grant him dominion over death and a psuedo-lifestream where the souls he collects just kind of hang around. He's derived from an entity that's entire purpose is killing everyone on the planet. There's a lot of baggage there, especially given that he's never been able to completely control it and has killed people without meaning to.
Calculating. Though Nero can come across as rather childish, he is an extremely intelligent and cunning young man. Rather than let Deepground know Weiss has died, Nero takes over silently and shoves the newly liberated organization into gathering as many non-Jenova infected people as they can in order to trick the planet into starting the apocalypse early.
Unstable. Due to his life in Deepground, his powers, and the loss of his brother - Nero is a trainwreck. While often very calm and quiet, he's prone to emotional outbursts and irrational behavior. Nero's powers tie directly into this emotional state, meaning that he is always tightly controlled but that control is constantly fraying. His powers also give him a sharp slant towards sadism and cruelty as he revels in making people relive their worst memories and, just, flat out killing them because he hates them. Like all members of DeepGround, fighting makes Nero feel alive in a way nothing else does.
❥ Abilities: Nero is the only survivor of two hundred test subjects who were injected with stagnant lifestream, essentially dead parts of the planet's essence. He was born with the power to control a warped version of the lifestream that manifests as a flowing black aura around him that has the power to pull things in. His first act on the planet was accidental murder - he killed his mother with his void as he came screaming into the world. From that day forward he was thrown into mako-enhanced restraints that would suppress his powers.
While the lifestream is described as 'hope and life' Nero's darkness is 'death and despair'. Its described in canon as the very essence of death, coming into contact with it makes you relive all your worst memories or can kill you outright if you're unfortunate enough to be drawn into it. It seems to be tied to an empty-void like pocket-dimension full off giant floating rocks.
Once in there, objects begin to dissolve. If someone survives being drawn into the void, their mind will fall apart due to the overwhelming feelings of despair and the constant barrage of reliving your worst memories. Not many can survive long in the void.
pu
On top of this, shing further into the reverse lifestream phase - Nero has the ability to drain people's lifeforce the same way a healer can mend it. And while doing so, once again, they'll feel nothing but cold despair. This he doesn't seem to have great control over as being in proximity to him can also just trigger it.
Nero is able to create constructs from this darkness (guns, a giant robot suit, clones of himself in his battle) and is able to store some objects in it. Per the games rules regarding hammerspace, that should be set at 10.
Unsurprisingly, Nero's unable to control his power completely. He was never given the chance to learn and was instead thrown in restraints and subjected to cruel experimentation. He always wears restrictive clothing that suppresses the power to a manageable level - though there's always a flow of wispy darkness around him. Emotional outbursts can lead to massive spikes in power. All of this will be brought down to make him playable in the setting.
❥ Extras:
- Nero's darkness will be massively reduced for playability purposes. Rather than being able to throw an AOE big enough to consume a cavern or an airship, Nero will be limited to a radius of about ten feet around him and won't be able to consume any player characters. He won't be able to make clones and will be limited to two darkness constructs at a time, no bigger than his handgun set.
People having any sort of physical contact with him may still have to endure the emotional anguish until he likes them enough to stop doing that.
Nero will also be coming in with a set of bladed mechanical wings on his back. They'll be mostly shattered and broken thanks to Hojo hijacking his brother's beefy bod and throwing him across the room with it. Other than that, he'll just have the ruined remains of his containment suit.
Which god will they choose to support? Or do you wish to be randomized?
SAMPLE Waking here alone was a nightmare from which he could not wake. Was this Hell? A beautiful world he was ill-suited to live in, a paradise without the one thing that he'd ever cared about? Banished from Weiss' side and damned to a world so soft that one look from a Tsviet should have leveled it to the ground.
He didn't understand.
Hadn't he always done everything right? Everything Weiss ever asked for had been done without question. His life had been lived to ensure his brother's happiness and future.
So why this? Why this betrayal?
His fingers touch the space where the wound had been. The novelty of being able to use his own hands had long since worn off, replaced instead with the loathing of why that was. Freed from his old chains and thrust into a new world with new expectations, ones he had been taught to avoid all his life. Nero was of Deepground. Cruelty and death came far easier than what they expected of him here, and the Gods had the gall to bind his powers to ensure he was better suited to their purposes.
Or...
Or perhaps that was simply the consequence of dying at his brother's hand. A god in of himself now. Handed off to lesser beings to serve them, now that he was no longer of use to the God he'd made of his departed sibling... or what he had so long believed to be. In that moment, Weiss hadn't seemed himself. Yet he'd awoken here before he could investigate, assuming it had been caused by the physical death.
The young man shakes his head.
