Introduction
(The New York Metro. So many use it per day. Per hour. Per Minuet. It is the fast transit of New York. And it is the location of the origin of this story.)
A boy walked quickly through the crowds, wearing a blackish grey jacket and a Green vest, as well as jeans and black sneakers. He quickly looked behind him, checking repeatedly, and then went down the stairs to board a subway. Another man with a briefcase, with four armed men, quickly came out from behind a corner. The man with the case told two of them to "Find him, he is vital to the plan".
He then proceeded down the same subway terminal, as the subway train approached. It docked, and the doors opened. He got in, and the case man saw him as well, and hurried in with his two guards, as well as the other two coming back and entering about 20 seconds behind them, right as the doors were closing. The boy hurried to the next subway car. The case man followed him, and his two guards came out from behind him and yelled "Hault!"
The boy turned around, and threw a baseball at him, causing him to drop the briefcase, as well as ducking. The briefcase opened and a device fell out, activating. The boy then realized what had happened, and yelled "GET DOWN!". The device then gave a energy pulse of sort, and it caused electrical damage to the train, causing it to crash and and seriously injuring most people inside.
(But there were survivors. And they are about to wake up different then they were before.
They will wake up with abilities. Powers. And then the story will begin...)
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((No Rules should be needed, except for a 1 paragraph (5 sentences at least) minimum on posts. If you do something bad/wrong, il let you know. No being overpowered. I am playing The Boy on the Subway from the intro, as you could probably guess, but no one can be the man with the briefcase, though one of you could be one of the guards if you REALLY wanted, but you would need to know more about them....))
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At least until she turned around and actually saw the dart. Her eyes widened as she stared at it. But it never hit her. It seemed to have hit something and bounced in another direction. Now maybe he didn't seem so crazy after all. Something was definitely going on. Something she didn't understand. That didn't excuse his behavior, but she was willing to listen to what he had to say if he only stopped acting like a child who couldn't see or put blame where it belonged. Wow, I've grown up. If only sis could hear me now. I would probably be the one to put her in the grave this time. Her thoughts were morbid, but she didn't have much of a sense of humour anymore.
"I'm coming with you." She had a few hours to kill before she was actually supposed to be off work. Maybe she could still make it home in time and no one would be the wiser. She could always lie and tell her mother she had randomly decided to walk to work and wasn't on the subway when the accident happened. Though she wasn't sure how she would explain the gash on her forehead.
She followed other boy, the one who had been standing there when the dart had missed them both. "What exactly are you planning on doing? And... what the hell is going on?" Direct questions, but she wanted answers. She needed them now. If he could justify himself then at this point, she might actually believe him.
Matthew had, more or less, just vented all his anger right there. He probably also said to much. But she just came up to him, started bitching, and tried to use him as a Scapegoat. He took a deep breath, and then, trying to regain his composer, looked at Claes. "So, we should probably get going......before more of them come.....". He then began to walk towards the hospital.......and his brother....
It was hard to know who was more surprised these men or William himself. Suddenly he heard glass breaking from his room and decided to make his way downstairs even though it seemed backup was coming up the stairs as well.
"Better to be closer to the exit and the street," he said to himself as he dashed down the stairs leaving the groaning men behind with out a second thought.
"I'm only blaming you for the things that you had a hand in. Nothing more and nothing less. You are not a scapegoat for anything." By now she was gritting her teeth nearly grinding them. The loose objects around her were starting to lift from the ground, but she didn't notice. She really only wanted to bash the boy's head into the ground until he learned all of the lessons about responsibility that only came from growing older.
The sentence that got through to her the most, past the answer was about his brother. He wanted to save him. Well that was about the only noble thing he had said since she had started talking to him. "You're never succeed at the things you want to do until you grow up." She said as an off comment before he started walking away. His blatant disrespect tipped her even further. The objects that had been raised in the air flew towards him. She didn't know what was happening, but it was definitely getting her point across.
Electricity now was gathering at his hands, the charge he had left from the subway. "I HAVE HAD MORE RESPONSIBILITY THEN YOU HAVE EVER FELT IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE!". Now he had just punched her straight in the face, and then, in an attempt to avoid further conflict, tried walking away again, breathing deeply. He went toward the hospital. The amount of anger he had no, he might rip the whole hospital apart and the facility beneath it trying to get to his brother. That was his sole focus now. He zoned everything and everyone out except for Claus, and the thought of rescuing his brother. Well, and traffic. And where he was going. But that's it.
Razael was beyond pissed. She was a mother. She was good mother. Even her own family had said that even if they hadn't wanted her to have the baby. She had given everything to make sure he had everything he needed. "You have no responsibility for your own actions let alone the ability to carry someone else." Her voice was rather calm, but on the inside she was boiling with anger. When he went to push at her, he missed. Whether out of reflexes from her brother or whatever had stopped the dart from hitting her, his punch didn't touch her. But it was enough. "Your actions speak even louder than your shouting. You are a child trying to pretend to be an adult and failing miserably. Good luck because you will fail." With that, she turned on her heels and headed for home where she knew her son would be waiting and she could finally see the calm in the storm whenever she was around him.
"This is freaking insane!" he said as he tried to keep himself calm and his voice down. He moved away from the main street figuring there were plenty of cars out there waiting for him. As he ran his mind went back to what had happened inside. He had used several martial arts techniques that he had never seen before, but his mind quickly stopped and corrected itself as he recalled what he had seen on the tv. He had not been paying attention but his eyes had still seen what the show had to offer. He wondered about the show on Muay Thai and as he wished to perform a knee kick to the face his body righted its pace and he leaped high sending his knee into the air.
William continued to look around as he ran. His memory recalling where he had come from as well as the people he had seen with perfect clarity. He found himself back on the main road but, because it was closer to the center of town it was much more crowded. He slipped into the crowd quietly thankful that he hadn't changed into his pajamas and that the had been to preoccupied to take his shoes off.
He recalled the mess in his room again clear as glass but realized that was the least of his worries now.
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"Excuse me, I may not know much about responsibility, but... Now really isn't the time to be doing this, right...?" he said somewhat quietly to both of them. "I mean, We've got people shooting at us and stuff, and... Umm, Miss...? You probably shouldn't go off on your own..."
He was fairly sure that his little speech wasn't going to help them too much, but he could at least hope.
"Ma'am, I know it's pretty confusing, but right now we've sorta got to work together, I think... If only to figure out what's going on exactly. Matthew... Y'know what, this is really awkward, since I don't even know both of you, I think I'm going insane and there are people with guns who want to kill all three of us. So can we just skip the drama and shut up so we can actually survive and stuff? Er... Please?"
He wanted to just sleep really. Or cry. He was holding it all in. All this energy, this anger, this emotion, he had funneled into saving his brother. He could see Claes, but no one else. "Can you see a way out of this? This smoke is too thick....." (Hint hint nudge nudge)
Meanwhile...
Ryan was trapped in a holding cell, accessing his cell's speakers to let him spy on others. That was his power. Technopathy. Ranged Technopathy, though it is more effective with contact. His little secret he had yet to share. For all they knew, he was just superintelligent. Thats when he heard one of them mention a "plan", some preliminary "testing", and "The Meta Bomb", while they had called their previous devices a "Meta Pulser". If Ryan figured this next part right, that meant a large bomb........and a large scale test......a large scale, city wide test......and this was not good.
(SOrry for short post, but I managed to get a good twist in to keep it going!)
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So far it's been my most successful strategy.
Also, if your depressed, look on the bright side and be happy. That, or punch things until you realize being depressed isn't worth it and might be hurting others. Apologizing also helps, because even if you don't think you should or have to, or if it's for something you didn't even do or have anything to do with you, it always seems to make people (including myself) happier, as well as helping you make/keep friends.
(Note, this next bit is supposed to sound more joking then serious, and should not be regarded as a serious/insulting remark, in case it seems to you that way) It sort of seems right now like your Matthew as Raz described him. xD
Though, this is from someone who's disposition is stuck at happy most of the time and always looks on the bright side and is positive whenever possible. Also someone who probably isn't the best in the "socialization department".
Oh, and I hope your Fiancée is okay. We got hit pretty bad up here, and the Nor'Easter made it worse. D:
I much prefer regular Easter. It has candy. :D
Hope you feel better!
P.S.: Teddy Bears, especially big ones, also help, especially when you hug them. :D
Also, Avenger, he is a chat RPer. One of them. He cannot be trusted (probably). :3
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However, from my understanding and reading of what you described from the subway... if you wanted it out like that then why didn't you write all of that? If you don't want him to come off as involved, which is how I read it. Granted I do have some slight reading problems... include it in your intro post. I didn't even know what to do with my intro because yours didn't give anything to go off of really.
I don't apologize to anyone and I'm not starting now. I meant every word I wrote and I'm not taking them back. If they came off as harsh, oh well. I mean what I say and I say what I mean. I'm a blunt straight forward person and that's not going to change. Actually I haven't been disrespectful until about now. Take things how you will.
Also new person: Please don't come in here and tell others how to make their posts. Based on your post count alone... *shakes head* I'm a lit rper. And frankly there is something called character development. Please learn it. Its what makes a story.
On that note Squishy, I will warn you I have mostly been ranting due to my depression and that is about the only thing I am sorry for. I can't help it. So yes, after this just take my advice. Put more detail into the post so that way there is no confusion on what you see in your head, what's on paper, and what other players see. That will help all of us in the long run.
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Also, stop typing out such long paragraphs with underlying meaning that are a waste of space and time to everybody not involved with whatever they detail.
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Okay, let's just all step back and take a breath. Clearly there is some miscommunication in the understanding of the questions.
First off, let me say that if anything Matthew said offended you, sorry, because that was not its intention and only now I'm getting the feeling your taking offence to this.
Second, the questions were, at least what I thought, we're fairly evident in their answer. But il just tell you then, since it irritates you so much. Matthew's and Ryan's father was abusive, after their mother died, and blamed it on Ryan, because she died in childbirth. Matthew tried to protect Ryan, which ended up in a conflict when their father started hitting Ryan that Matthew thought his life might be in danger, and tried to defend him, learning hand to hand combat to do so. At one point, while drunk, he attacked Ryan with a broken glass bottle, but Matthew intervened. However, after that, they ran away, getting on a bus, which was the same one that exploded due to the device.
The abusive family part can be deduced from his lack of reaching out to his family for help, and from what he has said.
This next part is what he has yet to fully realize, but has subconsciously. At the subway station, the man with the device had two of his guards split up to look for him, but kept the other two with him. He then went towards that subway car before seeing him enter. But if he was looking for him, why have the device? And why concealed in a piece of luggage you could, perhaps, stow on a train and leave there without anyone noticing? And it just happened to activate when it hit the ground?
Right, I'm asking a lot of questions again expecting you to get the answer, which you apparently hate, so let me answer it simply. The device was supposed to go off in the train. It was supposed to detonate in the subway. It was always going to detonate there. Why else would he have the device? Why else did they have guards there, at the station the survivors would be at? Why else would he just coincidentally go and look at the one station with a subway still there? Matthew ran towards it because of that, but he wasn't the reason they went that way.
Now, I would like to point out I feel like you have been very harsh and disrespectful with your words, and it would be very nice if you could apologize too, and we could leave this whole bad moment behind us and have fun, instead of making each other miserable. It's a mutually beneficial resolution. We both can have a fun, interesting experience, and not make this a hassel. :D
Now, I would like not to spoil anything else as well, so this is the end of this diplomatic OOC post.
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She isn't sort of irresponsible. Based on her history, which is what you are doing and implanting that through character, is the past. Things have changed. She changed. She grew up and understands how teenagers feel when it comes to not owning up to the things they did and blaming it onto someone else. So saying she is irresponsible at this point is highly rude because its not the truth. It actually makes perfect sense because she sees him on the same path she was on, and she knows what needs to be done to get him from falling into the same hole where there might not be a return.
It shouldn't matter about fucking spoilers for an rp. Characters do and go where they want. We can't control them. When you try and control them you take away their free will and they are no longer doing or saying what they want. They are doing and saying what you want. There is a major difference.
No one cares about what one character has to figure out unless it relates directly to them. No one cares about what Matthew doesn't know about enhanced perception. They want answers to him about what the hell happened and what is happening to them. And what is he doing? He's leaving them to go off on his own thing and leave him behind.
Again no one cares about what has been mentioned or not mentioned. If you wanted a story central to one person... write a book. Not an rp. Things that centralized to one character die because the other rpers get bored and frustrated about being kicked to the back burner. I helped raise my brother who is fourteen years younger than I am and I sure as hell don't talk about my parents in everything or hardly mention them. It was always my brother and me and maybe mom but that's it. So no his reference to no parents doesn't draw much attention in this world.
So knowledgeable? I wonder why? Because he knows what is going on and isn't saying anything. Which is all you. Independent? They don't know how old he actually is and frankly kids younger than him have held jobs and been emancipated by the courts. So no. I was an very independent kid and turned into an extremely mature woman. Independent has nothing to do with it. That is simply a personality trait nothing more.
Again on caring only about brother not overall family. First he's American. And second again, my brother. I would care more about getting him than any of my other family members. To me he is my son. So no the family doesn't count. Seemingly anti-social? Trying to hit a woman is not anti-social its abuse. And he's taking the other boy with him... and talking to him. That's not anti-social. You're talking to someone who has anti-social personality. He's not very good at being anti-social and again why should the character's give a rat's ass? They shouldn't. He hasn't done anything for them except make their lives worse.
Hand to hand combat? How does Razael know some stuff - her brother. How do I know? I'm a third degree brown belt. So let's see its easy to learn somewhere. They are in NY so really... not that shocking or surprising. Not something that draws attention to himself. Nothing that makes the character extraordinary except his abilities.
Maybe he didn't have a choice in the experiments sure. But his decisions once free... yeah those are all on him. Sorry if I ranted, but I am sick of being around people who use their own knowledge about what is to come or even about other characters and put it into their own. Let the character be themselves and let them grow through experience. Stop trying to make the story central to just Matthew because it won't work. Its boring and no one wants to be a secondary character in anything.
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HOwever, it makes NO SENSE at all for her to just go up to him and accuse him of all these things. Especially since, when you look at it, Razeal was sort of irrisponsible herself, it makes no sense for her to make these accusations. And at that point, he was pissed off, and she was in his way.
Its not his fault either way, however, it isn't even remotely his fault because of certain spoilers I refuse to spoil. Its actually something he noticed, but hasn't realized it yet. Enhanced Perception is tricky like that.
Additionally, there is a bit to his history you have failed to get from how he talked, so let me ellaborate. WHy is it his parents have not been mentioned this entire time? Why does he seem so knowledgable and independent? Why does he feel like his little brother is his only concern, not his families? Why is it he is seemingly anti-social? And how does he know Hand to Hand combat?
WHen you figure out what happened, or at least somewhat of what happened, then perhaps your character will learn that he has not had a choice in this....
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Also, if anyone has been paying attention, something about what he is saying should strike someone as odd.
And Razael appears to be very stubborn....xD
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That doesn't mean you cant still join though!
The only thing that will stop me is power outage, but that shouldn't happen, at least not that soon (and hopefully none at all)
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And understand, the more powerful it is, the worse any side affects should be. I will accept powerful abilities, but there better be either a nasty side affect, or really hard to control/use/maintain.