Running Wild

In the world there are those with the power to partially morph their body at will to be more like an animal, these changes can come in the form of claws a tail or even things as radical as wings; or have abilities they get from an animal, these abilities range widely including, but not limited to, superhuman strength, agility, and reflexes, as well as heightened senses; and sometimes they get behavioral characteristics of their animal. These people are known as +anima and life for them is usually very tough.  Each +anima only have one animal they can use aspects of and somewhere on their body they are marked with something that looks similar to a black tattoo that depicts in a way what animal their +anima powers come from. Some who have been experimented on contain two or more +Anima, each alone, or the two or more +Anima might fuse together to create a different or whole new +Anima. These experiments make the user's body have a permanent animal trait such as a tail and claws pop out of the user when they are angry, embarrassed, or scared. All most all +anima gained their powers after a traumatic experience but rather than gaining sympathy from the humans of the world they’re often very mistreated and in some cases experimented on.  In the better places of the world +anima are feared as monsters, are hated, and sometimes people seek to control them; in other places however +anima are captured and sold as slaves and then are forced to wear collars that mark them as slaves.  Unfortunately +anima not only have to worry about the other people of the world they also must be careful to not use their powers too often because their anima can get stronger from continuous use even to the point where individuals might eventually give up their human sanity and become more and more like the animal they were bestowed.  It seemed for a long time that things would never change but one day everything changed when an infection unlike any other broke out, now the dead walk the earth and anyone who is bitten turns into one of them in anywhere between 5 minutes and 24 hours.  Now the question is with this new found threat will the humans of the world finally treat +anima differently or will they continue their mistreatment despite the undead? In this world there is still only the use of swords, bows and arrows, and things like that so luckily the undead can not run.

Character Template
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Anima: (what animal you have powers from, if you’re a +anima that is)
Anima mark location: (where is the mark that shows you’re a +anima if you are one that is)
Powers: (what happens when you use your +anima powers, do you gain heightened senses? A tail? etc.)
Appearance: (in general if there anything we need to know about how you look put it here)
Talents: (if there is anything you can do that you would like us to know about here is where that goes)
Personality: (basically how do you act)
History: (if you want us to know your past and stuff)
Items: (things that you carry around with you that might be important)

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3, there is no rule three
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5, try to stick to the time period which is around middle ages with much more medical knowledge (aka no guns and stuff)
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7, stick to rp on here if you got other stuff to write that's what the chat and pms are for
8, don't kill other characters without permission
9, just so the number of rules is divisible by three Rivera is in charge

Map of Places in the +Anima Manga:

Name:  Savina Rain (nickname: Savi)
Age: 17
Gender: female
Anima: lynx
Anima mark location: on back of right hand

+Anima marking:

Powers: heightened senses and agility, plus cat eyes and claws
Appearance: has long dark hair and green eyes; is around 5’5 in height and weighs around 121 pounds; her palms she keeps wrapped in bandages to cover her +anima marking.

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Talents: can pick locks given the correct tools and knows how to use a sword rather well she also knows a bit about hunting down +anima
Personality: is strong willed, a good lair, and is confident in her own abilities, but likes to keep to herself usually and is wary of trusting anyone, but to people she opens up to she tends to be protective of
History: Savina grew up in Sailand where +anima are treated as slaves. As a little kid though Savina never questioned the way things were, but perhaps that was just because of her parents' job. Savina's parents they were hunters, and no that doesn't mean they went out into the woods to get dinner or to be able to sell furs or something, no hunters in Sailand it's their job to catch +anima who have either escaped or who do not yet have a master. Growing up around her parent's she picked up a bit of their tactics and things and if nothing had happened Savina probably would have grown up to be a hunter as well, but of course something did happen. One day a group of +anima who had escaped decided to make a statement so they could show the world that they would not except being treated as slaves. That group of +anima they killed Savina's parents and they were going to kill Savina as well, only one +anima out of the group argued against the whole thing.  One +anima named Mia kept saying that it was wrong to kill and that it would help their situation none, Mia wanted nothing more then the +anima to be liked and she saw that this would do nothing but make the +anima feared more. The others however didn't listen to Mia. They were going to kill Savina despite Mia's pleas and they would have killed her had they not noticed a mark appear on Savina's hand. The other +anima had to stop and laugh at the irony of the situation, they couldn't think of a more perfect fate for a hunter then to become a +anima themselves. They decided to leave Savina there with her parents dead bodies for when other hunters would show up to try and catch the +anima who had done this. But Mia couldn't do it, she came back for Savina just in time and helped her escape. Savina lived with Mia for quite sometime until eventual even that good thing she had going also came to an end. Mia one day was captured by a group of hunters, Savina would have done anything to protect Mia but she knew deep down that there was nothing she could do. Devastated by the loss of her good friend and the only person who would take care off her on top of the loss of her parents and her entire life as she knew it Savina made it a personal goal to get out of Sailand. She felt as if all the good in Sailand had been destroyed leaving behind nothing but evil, and Savina wanted nothing more then to get away from it. So she started doing odd jobs and things to raise enough money to gain passage over to Astaria. What she didn't realize was that she shouldn't use her +anima powers all the time, and that ended up hurting her in the long run. At first the only thing Savina got from using her +anima powers was heightened senses and that she could easily hide eventually it added claws which she still could hide but finally she ended up with cat eyes as well, and someone else noticed it before Savina did. When people noticed that Savina was a +anima she was captured by hunters and taken to Market Town to be sold as a slave, though it's doubtful that she will ever be sold considering recent events.  
Items: her parent's sword and dagger and Mia's jacket, bag of money, 1 bottle of a tranquilizer and a syringe, and five rain drop tag collars

Name: Mia Monroe
Age: 23
Gender:  female
Anima: raccoon, bat, and porcupine
Anima mark location: raccoon paw and tail on the back of her neck with a circle of spikes around it as well as bat wings on her back
Powers: raccoon ears and tail (raccoon ears sometimes appear for no reason when she’s scared or embarrassed), increased stealth and balance,  and amazing hearing and bat wings (can’t fly for more than like 5 minutes and wings don’t always appear), as well as porcupine spikes running down her right arm
Appearance:  has long silver hair (dark gray with anima) and amber eyes, is around 5’6 in height and weighs around 125 pounds,  her hair covers her marking
Talents: thieving skills such as picking locks and pockets, as well as remaining hidden and silent  
Personality: calm demeanor in any situation, total disregard for the safety of others except for a select few, will do anything for her master Caden, something about her personality just seems incorrect
History: Mia’s early childhood was quite the terrible one, her father was rather abusive and Mia just wanted out.  One day she found that way out when after a bad night with her father Mia gained her anima and decided to run away from home. Once away from home Mia after living on her own as a thief joined up with a group of +anima. With them she learned all about the horrible things being done to +anima in Sailand, and she really wanted things to change. This group also wanted things to change and they planned to change things by force if it was necessary. Somewhere down the line one of them came up with the idea of taking out some hunters, Mia was against the idea but she didn’t put up too much of a fight against the plan. That is however until the group got it in their head that they would kill a whole family, then she argued heavily against it especially when they got to their kid. Mia knew what it was like to be a scared little kid and she never wanted that to happen to any other kids when she could possibly prevent it.  They were going to kill the little girl though despite Mia’s protests, until they saw that this girl was also a +anima, then they just laughed and walked away. Mia at first walked away with them but then her conscience got the better of her, Mia was not a bad person there was no way she could just leave the poor girl behind like that. So Mia returned for the girl named Savina, and they came to be a really good team.  Mia taught her how to pick locks and Savina taught Mia a bit on how to handle a weapon.  The two felt very close to each other so much so that one day when Savina was scared Mia gave Savina her coat telling her it would protect her. But one day Savina ran off and Mia had to go looking for her the two didn’t know that someone had reported to some hunters that they believed Mia was a +anima.  And so just as Mia found Savina she was captured and Savina who was scared and didn’t know what to do didn’t try to save her and just ran away.  Mia was later sold as a slave, after much harsh treatment Mia managed to escape only to be caught again. This time she was sold to one Caden Dalibor, it’s unknown exactly what might have happened to her but somehow she ended up with not only two extra anima’s but also a certain attachment to Caden.  Mia now cherishes and looks up to Caden not caring whatever terrible things he might do, Mia has changed a lot since she was with Savina.
Items: lock picks, 2 daggers tied to her belt with wire, and a collar with Caden’s symbol on it

Name: Caden Dalibor
Age: 21
Gender: male
Appearance: light brown hair, deep blue eyes, small build, 5’10 in height, and weighs around 135 pounds
Talents: science, knows a lot about what things effect +anima, not a great physical fighter but is good at avoiding getting hit
Personality: he can be a real charmer but at times seems cold and uncaring about what happens to others and has a deep hatred for the rich and powerful, also seems to only care about two things 1, science and 2, his most successful experiment Mia
History: Caden grew up with a very wealthy and proud family.  They were somehow a slight relation to the very king of Sailand, so they had a very very nice house in Stella the capital of Sailand. Their house even had its own indoor pool, and so of course Caden got the best education that money could buy.  Caden was a fast learner too, he was considered by many to be quite the genius, but the more Caden learned the more and more he became disgusted by the people around him.  Stella was the city of the rich but to him it seemed simply the city that repudiated progress.  He saw all the people around him with so much money not using even the smallest amount to learn more about the world and how it worked.  He also saw them doing things like buying +anima simply to dress them up and show off to their friends, in some sort of attempt to have the prettiest pets.  Caden found the whole lot of them ridiculous and downright aggravating excesses for human beings.  To him every single last one was only worth about as much as he could learn from them.  When he had finally learned all that he could learn from teachers and books about his beloved science, he probably would have gone straight to trying to catch the rich and powerful to see what he could learn from them had that been easily accomplished, so instead he started using easily obtainable +anima for his personal test subjects.  At some point though Caden’s parents with all their money and pride simply vanished, he didn’t really seem to mind all that much however.  As their only child Caden was left with all of their wealth, and so Caden used it to move far away from his wretched home in Stella. He moved not too far from Market Town but his new very large house was still very much practically in the middle of nowhere.  And from there he would continue his work by stopping into town occasionally to get anything he might need including sometimes new test subjects.  There have been times when Caden has run into someone of wealth and they’ve just disappeared because to be honest ignorant rich people have always been his favorite test subjects. Though Most of the time though when he’d gotten finished with a test subject he would simply let them go free if that’s what they wished.  Eventually on one of his trips to Market Town while in need of a new test subject Caden bought one raccoon +anima by the name of Mia Monroe.  She soon became what he considered his greatest most successful experiment, and Caden developed over time a certain fondness for her.  This was the first time in his life he had ever gotten close to someone, and so in a way she was his first love.  And so Caden kept her around treated her as more than just a test subject and refused to experiment on her any further, Mia is now his protector, lover, and assistant.
Items: a bag, vials with various strange liquids in them that only he knows the use for them, a large amount of money, extra collars with his symbol on them, special non liquid absorbing gloves, a couple syringes, a rag, and a pair of hand cuffs


Name: Myles

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Anima: Lion Anima

Anima mark location: Right Shoulder facing away from the body

Marking: Lion Paw

Powers: heightened senses, plus claws,lion eyes and mane, increase of strength, but not super strength.  Also gets into a crouched position like he is going to pounce when active.

Appearance: Has medium blonde hair that attempts to defy gravity.  It goes off in every direction once it gets toward the bottom.  About 5'11, 195lbs of lean muscle, not ripped, but lean and athletic.  He has green eyes, and a few scars here and there that are kept hidden under his clothes. (More in the history on the scars)

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Talents: One of the best teenagers with a sword and hand to hand combat

Personality: Myles is a crazy son of a gun.  Depending on who he's around.  Put him around the right people and he will be one of the craziest people you know.  Otherwise, Myles is more of the silent type with people he doesn't know.  He often prefers listening to a conversation then actually taking part in it.

History: Myles doesn't know much about his past.  He woke up on someones porch on Astaria and that's all there is to it.  He was 5 years old when this happened.  Myles was the name that was given to him, but he has no last name as the family didn't think it was right to give him one.  Especially since they already noticed the mark on his shoulder.  Since he was only 5 years old though, they took him in.  They always told him to cover up the mark so that he wouldn't get bullied or caught by the authorities.  One day at school however, Myles was being pushed around by some older kids.  This was when he was 13.  They pushed him to far, and Myles snapped.  Suddenly, a great roar came out from Myles and he crouched in a pounce-ready position.  The kids were confused, but eventually regained composure.  They attempted to attack him, but Myles was too fast.  He had injured all but one as he went in for a killing strike, but he stopped himself.  Looking around, he noticed the havoc he had caused and immediately ran home.  When he got there, his "parents" already knew that he was a +Anima.  They revealed that they were not his real parents, and that he had been a +Anima since the day he was born.  They told him the whole story of how he came to them, which is rather short as he woke up on their porch.  The scars on his back are from that beating he took from the kids.  He had a chance to get them removed, but he refused, saying "It just reminds me of the day it first happened.  And I'm proud of that day."

Items: Two rapiers that he will dual-wield if necessary.

Name: Alexa Chambers
Age: 11
Gender: Female
Anima: Gazelle
Anima mark location: On the back of the neck
Marking:

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Powers: Grows horns and feet become hooves. Heightened agility and hearing, but slightly reduced eyesight.
Appearance:

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She's average size for a kid her age, 4'2" and 85 lbs.
Talents: Very quick to learn, and unusually smart for her age. She makes up for her inability to use many weapons (hey, she's a kid after all) with deceptive charm and her childlike innocence.
Personality: Outgoing and friendly, however a bit self-centered and egotistical. Tends to get anxious about trivial things, to the point of being borderline OCD.
History: Alexa was given up for adoption at birth. However, her foster home in Sailand - still an orphanage at this point - nearly burns down, and many of her young friends perish in the fire. Scared and traumatized, the child flees to the forest, where her mark appears and she discovers she's become a +anima. It takes her a while, but she eventually learns to hide her new horns from sight, and returns to the place she called home. As her mark is hidden from sight from the normal humans, no one is the wiser to the change that's occurred, and Alexa returns to living life as a seemingly sweet and innocent child, surrounded by people who are overjoyed to see her safe.
She's used to being coddled and spoiled, and getting whatever she wants from others. Alexa pretty much expects that she can bend the will of all the adults around her simply because she's tiny and cute.
Items: A small handbag full of children's toys from her orphanage.

Name:Abram Wolfe

Age:18
Gender:Male
Anima:White Tiger
Anima mark location:Replacing left pupil.

+Anima marking:

Powers:Superhuman strength, Agility, and Heightened speed.
Appearance:Wears an eye patch over left eye, 5'11", Green Eyes, Muscular Build, Black T-shirt, Worn Jeans, Tennis Shoes, White Hair.

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Talents:Can use one handed swords proficently and can also use two handed swords fairly well but prefers a normal sword with a hand and half hilt.
Personality:Nice and easy-going although a little soft-spoken, never seems to say anything that makes people mad at him, always looking out for the little guy.
Hisory:Abram was born in the city of Byzantium his parents were overjoyed to have found that they had a son, until they noticed he was an anima. Not wanting their peers to know what their son had turned out to be, they claimed Abram was stillborn and sent him to live with his Aunt and Uncle in the town of Eusbius. There he had a relatively normal life with his loving aunt and uncle that treated him like their own son, he grew up surrounded by fields and other farms, and thus had to defend himself and his slowly aging aunt and uncle, so from traveling salesmen and other passersby, he learned to use the sword and eventually bought one himself. He trained with it day after day on old scarecrows and was ready when one day bandits ransacked the town and burned the fields. As they came near his aunt and uncle's farm he fought them, just as he thought he had beaten them all a man who looked like a hulking giant with a large two handed sword started fighting him. He fought with all his might but he man was just too strong and he didnt seem to be getting tired at all either. They had been fighting for what seemed like hours but was in reality was only somewhere around ten minutes, at that point his strength failed and a blow he meant to block knocked the sword out of his hand and it clattered away along the gravel path, the blow struck him on the side of the head with the flat of the blade and knocked him out cold. He woke up to the smell of smoke and burning crops and instantly jolted up and ran into the smoldering wreckage of his long time home looking around frantically for the two people who had raised him, he eventually found two charred bodies lying under a segment of fallen wall, clutching to each other for dear life. On that day Abram vowed to travel the world mastering the art of sword wielding so that one day if he ever finds that man again he can beat him in a head-on duel and bring him down. Leaving the town he had lived in all of his life he headed off to travel the world starting with: Byzantium.
Items:Sword with a hand and a half hilt, Food and water rations, and a medalion that had belonged to his mother.

Name: Jae (The eclipse) ???
Age:???
Anima: Crocodile
Mark Location: On his forehead
Mark description: A crocodile eye reflecting the moon
Power: Incredible bite strength, Terrible (as in awe inspiring) upper body strength, increases height dramatically and a tail, scales and all.
Appearance: Long hair obstructs view of his anima mark, 5,8 (6,5 with anima) Blue (yellow with anima), average build (Immense muscular build with anima), a white dress shirt, and black slacks (a black trench coat, same everything else with anima).
Talents: successful archer (when suffering from a mental breakdown incredibly proficient with a knife), Operatic singer.
Personality: normally very calm and reposed he can fire arrows from a maximum distance of 50 meters although every once in a while he will suffer from a psychotic break and, he can't aim as he's explained "its almost like someone is shaking me like crazy before everything goes black". he has tried in the past to hide his anima mark but no continually viable options he grew his hair out.
History: Born in the city of Luna the capital of Lunuria. An island nation off of Sailand. He was raised by a wealthy couple who weren't his parents. Because his birth parents were the victim's of a horrible murder-suicide some months before they adopted him at the age of 7. His adoptive parents always loving and caring even if he was a +anima as they came to love him as their own and even his adoptive mother taught him to sing, sing the most beautiful songs. when he was eighteen and wanted to take up as the heir of their wealth as they were on their death beds they agreed and shortly passed on in their sleep. he then fired all of their servants and sold their mansion and then stored all of his wealth in a bank. he lived a near nomadic lifestyle, moving from town to town even jumping to island after island. until he reached the bigger island of sailand. he contiued to move from big city to big city until he came across the city of stella and he stopped for what for him seemed like an eternity as he studied something every town he stayed at until that point had, had every once in a while a person would go missing. until he left that town then they suddenly stopped. he then wandered through his house which was seemingly huge all hours of the night until he one night looking through his boxes and crates he saw a music box that he had never noticed before he winded it up and heard the melody that came from the wonderful box it calmed him calmed him so much that he want to sleep something that he hadn't done in what for him felt like months. that night he had the most terrifying dream of his life where he saw this.... this.... monster stalk and kill a man he was blond and he had blue eyes. The look of fear in his eyes as his life was ended, was the most terrible thing he'd ever seen. what made it worse was that there was a voice, a voice in his dream a dark voice that was singing.... singing the same songs his mother had taught him to sing when he was adopted. he felt sick he woke up and vomited on the floor next to his bed it was at this point that he had to leave that town he then moved to the busy place known as market town.
Items: Bow and arrows, a butcher knife and anti-psychotic medicine needles.

Name: Salvador Talbot
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Anima: Great Horned owl
Mark Location: On his back
Mark Description:

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Power: Flight, night vision and talons
Appearance: 6 ft (normal) 6'2 (anima) Short Brown Hair Blue eyes. wings sprout out of his back when power is used and his eyes get bigger to take in more light finally his feet become razor sharp talons .
Talents: Can lift one if not several people with his talons in flight. good as a ambush fighter well versed in using blades primarily focuses his efforts on his twin blades but has a small knife in case of emergencies. Very inventive keen and tends to make things when he had money.
History: In asertia in the capital of Astar, he born to the wealthy couple, the father of which hated +anima loved his son more and more each day until one night when he was riding a horse with his father something startled the horse causing it to knock both of them off they then fell off a near-by cliff as they were falling faster and faster Salvadore looked at his father he saw that he was scared to die. That's when 'it' happened he changed wings sprouted from his back, he felt his eyes increase in size and his feet turn into talons. he carried his father to safety. many months later after much building and building arguing his father had attempted to have him sold into slavery but he escaped into sailand and began feeding on the animals near market town.
Items: Twin swords, a small dagger, meats and berries in individual sacks.

Name: Malcome Cain

Age: 19

Gender: male

+anima: eagle

Mark location: middle of back

anima mark:

powers: eagle sight and wings

Apperence:5'8, 148 pounds, brown eyes, black hair, average build, Tennis shoes, jeans

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Talents: very stealthy and very resourceful

Personality: mysterious, doesn’t like other people until he gets know the better then they grow on him.  Under his tough exterior he really cares about everyone he just doesn’t show it. Can easily hit a bullseye from 70 meters this triples when he uses his eagle sight.

History: Though his exact birth place is unknown because he can’t remember much before the age of 3 but he does remember around that age that he was put on a ship and it sailed across the sea for a couple of days before arriving on a big island and next to that island were smaller islands.
(only later would he find out that the place in which he now called his home was called Luna on the island of Lunuria).He then arrives at an orphanage where he lives his life when he first arrives he is shy and doesn’t talk to anyone because he does not know why he is there and he is shy then all of a sudden two people come up to them and introduce themselves as Chazz and Joy and ask him to play with them throughout the years they became best friends. When they got bored for fun they would train in the woods they didn’t have much being orphans and such so they had to make do with what they had they made make shift bows and practiced with sharp pieces of rocks they had tied to strings greatly improving their accuracy. Then one time as they were training they were attacked by a pack of wild dogs they survived through teamwork and their skills but just barely that day they vowed to never leave each other’s side and made bracelets with their names on them for the others to ware to symbolize this. Then when he was 15 while he was out training by himself he heard a loud scream coming from the direction of the orphanage. Quick like lightning he ran in that direction sadly he arrived only to find that his long time home or what passed for a home burned to the ground and his two best friends lying on the ground dyeing as he bent over them crying he asked them what happened Chazz replied “bandits they wanted to take everyone’s money and food we tried to stop them but we could only stop so many” Malcome replied “I’ll get them don’t worry u will be okay” they told him to not worry everything would be okay and to take care of himself he then gave them a proper burial and left that spot vowing revenge on the bandits that did this to his friends. While walking Malcome felt a burning on his back he then removed his shirt and looked threw some mirrors to find a strange symbol and along with this he could call on an eagle’s sight and grow wings he had heard of this in legend he must be what they call an anima. Now he lives in a place he built himself overlooking the spot where his old home burned down as well as his best friend’s graves and one can frequently hear him training in the forest yet everyone sees him as scary so they try to avoid him as much as possible.
 

Items: a picture of his family two adults a male and female (his parents) and a baby girl (his sister) and of course himself. But the pic is missing the adults faces, two bands with his friends names on them (Joy and Chazz) he wears joys on his left wrist and Chazz's on his right, a bow and a quiver that holds 40 arrows, and a battle ax and shield for close range. The quiver also has pockets on the sides that hold several days’ worth of food.

Name: Lucacris

Age:17

Gender: Male

Anima: Arctic Wolf Anima

Anima mark location: Back of his ears

Anima mark appearance: Claws

Powers: His skin becomes covered with white fur, though his black hair remains the same. His Hands and feet become claws, and his ears become those of a wolf's. He also has a wolf tail.
In his anima state, Ludacris gains heightened sensens of smell, hearing, and sight. He becomes stronger and faster as well.

Appearance: He has shoulder-lengthed, messy black hair and sky-blue eyes. He is tall - around
5'8, and is around 200 pounds. He is muscular, and usually wears light clothing, such as tank-tops and shorts. He also prefers not to wear shoes. Basically, he wears anything that doesn't get in the way of his anima.

Talents: He is a talented grappler, and prefers hands-on combat. He can tell if things are poisoned or have gone bad, and he is a skilled climber and hunter.

Personality: Ludacris is very short-tempered and is very protective of people who become close to him. He rarely trusts others, however. He lives by relying on his instincts. His only fear is being able to do nothing in a situation where someone he cares about is being attacked and hurt. He would gladly fight to the death with anyone who harms him or those close to him, and he often says mean things, hurting others without meaning to. He always ends up feeling bad about it, though. He's a real softy on the inside, especially for kids.

History: Ludacris was raised by a man who was brutally honest and overly strict. He kept no secrets from Ludacris and told him just how cruel life is. He taught Ludacris to fight, and was more of a teacher than a parent. He disciplined the young boy and raised him well, but ended up being killed by tuberculosis, and he forced Ludacris to leave him, not wanting the boy to get sick as well. Cris was then alone in the forest, and was to sad and lonely to really try to live. A wolf pack took pity on him and granted him his anima, even comforting him. He eventually recovered and learned to hunt and use his anima, which at first was only the ears and claws, but as he continued to use it, it became much more. Now he is almost more like a wolf than a human in the way he acts, and whenever he transforms, the amount he uses his anima shows in how much it has changed.
Later on, when Cris was in the mountains where the Kim-Un-Kur live on the border of Sailand, when he was hunting a deer, he saw a young, frail-looking Kim-Un-Kur being captured by slave traders. He saved the boy, a deerling, ironic enough, and from then on cared for the boy. He has a serious soft-spot for him and always caves in to the boy's puppy-dog eyes.

Items: Ludacris carries a small backpack with a water canteen, drawing and coloring supplies for the deer anima he found, a small guide to tell about edible plants from the several regions, and some dried meat from animals that he hunts.


Name: Kotarou

Age:10

Gender: Male

Anima: Deer Anima

Anima mark location: Top of head, under hair

Anima mark appearance: Antlers

Powers: Kotarou gains small deer antlers, deer ears, and his lower body becomes a deer body (like a centaur from greek myths) and gains better hearing, speed and agility.

Appearance: Dark brown hair (goes just past his face, is messy like Cris') with beads that show he's a Kim-Un-Kur. He wears native-looking clothing to his tribe (brown leather stuffs) and he has bright green eyes. He's short for his age (only around 3'10), is only about 46 pounds, and his skin is very pale.

Talents: Skilled in art (such as drawing) and in singing. Also skilled in falling asleep anywhere, no matter the occasion, at being clumzy and at being a derp. A cute derp, though.

Personality: Kotarou is sweet and overly trusting. He's quiet and loves to draw and play. He is very clumzy and ditzy, and lacks common-sense. He's a cuddle-bug and doesn't hate anyone, even if they try to hurt him. If he sees that someone is about to be attacked, though, he would jump in the way and take the blow for the other person. He is scared of thunder, lightning, being alone, and of getting lost. He likes taking naps in the shade during the day.

History: Raised by his tribe leader after his parents were captured by slave-traders in Sailand, Kotarou lived a privaleged life, becoming an anima when running from a bear. However, the leader's son grew jealous of him, because his father grew to prefer Kotarou due to the fact that he was kind and affectionate, and was now a +anima. He lead Kotarou to the edges of the mountains, where Sailand was, and when he was almost caught by traders, Kotarou leapt in the way and was caught in his place. Instead of helping, he abandoned the boy, betraying him in every way. Not long after, though, Kotarou was saved by Ludacris.

Items: Ludacris carries all of his things.


Name: Arakkis

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Anima: Normal Human

Anima mark location: None

Powers: None

Personality: Arakkis is strong-willed, chivalrous, and gallant. She protects those she loves and her beliefs passionately. She is leader-like, and sees the good in people and their talents. She believes in equal rights for all, +anima included. Friendships and forming groups to protect one-another are important to her.

Appearance: Long red hair with a slight curl at the ends. Purple eyes. Average height (around 5'6). 170 pounds. She looks intimidating, and has the air of a leader surrounding her. She wears dignified clothes that a man would usually wear (such as soldier-wear) and prefers to wear reds, greens, and blues.

Talents: She is skilled in persuading others and in being a leader. She listens to others' opinions and takes suggestions, and is skilled in protecting others and knowing how to use everyones abilities for the good of the whole group. She is skilled in fighting with everything, though she is best with lances, spears, and halbirds. Also skilled in horse-back riding.

History: Arakkis was raised in Astaria by loving parents, her father being a soldier. She wanted to be like him ever since she was young, and he trained her, making her the good leader that she is now. She always dissaproved of the way people treated anima, and strives to make the world accept them as valuable companions and friends, like other people are, considering that the anima are human beings as well.

Items: She wears armor and carries a spear. She always has rations with her, along with hidden weapons (such as a daggar) and a shield. She doesn't go anywhere without Chival, her horse.

"...Na I'm sure she stole them," everything was fuzzy Savina could barely tell what was going on, the grogginess was still very present as she began waking up from the drugs. "No, no I'm telling you, she's from the Rain family," everything felt heavy for Savina and she couldn't really think, but she could tell that some where near her two men were talking. "They were all killed though, you know whatever it doesn't matter we're still gonna take her in regardless," Savina's vision started to come back in correctly and confusedly she thought to herself a cage? Knowing she needed to figure out what was going on she started listening to the men more intently, "well yeah of course, but boy she was a tough one to catch."  that was when Savina realized the situation I was caught, by slave hunters Savina began looking around her surroundings while trying to clear her head as the two men continued talking,"yup but she'll probably sell for a lot, especially if we throw in her sword and stuff." Savina noticed that she was in a cage in the back of a wagon that was calmly moving along, her hands were tied behind her back and she didn't have her weapons or her jacket.  She knew she was in trouble and now was filled with dread at the idea of being someone's slave. "damn it," she said quietly to herself as she slammed her head back on to the cage floor angered by her defeat, "I was so close to getting out of here..."

(alright we won't have any zombies till I say so but yeah feel free to post now the rp is open ^_^ )

"i can smell it i can smell the prey and....... and something else it smells like it isn't fear its something else is it oh yes it is its despair oh it smells wonderful" he says hopping through the trees due to his immense strength. "Oh that's where its coming from" he looks to the right of him as he see's a cart with a pair of men riding it with a cage in the back "it seems they are slave makers i'm gonna take my time with them" oh yes what pleasure it shall be looking into those eyes after they've seen what I've done

Ludacris gazed quietly at the cart as the men drove the horses. He was hidden among the trees, little Kotarou next to him. He saw the cage, holding what he assumed to be either a Kim-Un-Kur or a +anima. Maybe a mixture of both, like Kotarou, but unlikely, since the natives rarely left the mountains. He glanced back at the boy, a deer anima.
"Kotarou, stay here. I'm going to see if I can help the one they caught." The boy smiled and nodded silently, and Lucacris set down their bag next to the little one.
"Stay hidden, no matter what. Okay?" Kotarou nodded again, silently giggling as Cris patted his head.
Without another word, Ludacris changed into his anima form, his skin becoming covered with white fur as his hands and feet became claws, his wolf ears and tail growing, his teeth sharpening. He lowered himself, crouching beneath the tall grass, silently stalking the wagon.

Ok, ok Savi you can't give up, Savina thought to herself, yeah, yeah maybe I can still get out of here. She decided she better focus on escaping before they get to a town, because if they were in town it would become a whole lot harder to get away. So Savina after much effort managed to slide her bound wrists under her legs so that way they were in front of her and immediately began trying to untie the rope with her teeth. Sadly her struggle to escape must have alerted the two men transporting her, "hey look who's awake, awh and she's trying to escape that's so cute," the two weren't really taking Savina's attempts seriously but when she continued and just ignored them they figured they maybe should do something about it, "ok stop the cart, I'll go deal with her," and so the two of them stopped the cart. Savina felt hopeful for a second though because of this as she thought up a plan in her head, ok if he opens the cage I make a run for it.

Ok they have stopped time for some delicious carnage he then jumps into some tall grass expecting to land quietly on soft earth but landed on something fuzzy and the fuzzy thing moved under his weight causeing him to lose his center and crash on the ground with a thump

Ludacris grunted and felt pain as something landed on him. He sniffed, smelling another anima. He growled at it as it fell beside him, thinking that it was probably on its way to attack the wagon, like he was going to. He quickly got on all fours, running silently back into the forest, where Kotarou was. He didn't trust others, so staying to talk wasn't an option to him. He didn't know if the other anima was a friend or a foe. But, he decided to stay to see if the other two +anima would be okay.

One of the men walked to the back of the stopped wagon and stared at Savina as she continued to untie the rope on her wrists with her teeth, "What'ca doing little kitty?" Savina didn't answer the man and just continued her work, "if you keep that up I might have to knock you out again." The ropes came undone just as he finished saying that, "alright that's it." the man pulled something out of his pocket and opened the cage. Savina went to lunge out of the cage but she didn't anticipate for a person to be standing there, so she bumped right into him. The man didn't hesitate at all he instantly grabbed Savina's arm and jabbed a syringe into her. Desperate and knowing she had failed to escape Savina attempted to plead with the man, "please, please just let me go, I can help you find other +anima I promise, just let me go." Savina felt the drug starting to kick in and even though it was a smaller dose then before she knew she probably would now be unable to escape on her own. But sadly the response she got to her pleas was just, "sorry sweet heart no can do, now be a doll will you and cooperate." Savina tried fighting back but she was much to dazed from the drugs to put up much of a fight as the man retied up her wrists behind her back. meanwhile up front the other man heard something coming from some tall grass not far from the wagon, "hey I think I heard something, I think I'm gonna go check it out!" he called back to the one dealing with Savina. The one that was tying up Savina's wrists called back to him, "yeah sure whatever just don't take too long," he then went right back to what he was doing as the other man went to go check out the noise he heard. Savina felt like she wanted to cry she knew there was nothing she could do to escape, and the slave hunter even stopped to gag her before closing and locking the cage just to be sure she couldn't try undoing her binds again, which only made her feel more helpless. The man stood there and he must have been the one to figure out who she was because he stopped and said, "my just look how far the Rain family has fallen." Savina could only groan in response but the man must have taken this as some sign of defiance because he spat in the cage and just before storming off to the front of the wagon said, "filthy +anima."

Jae still recovering from the fall heard someone coming his way so he hid in the tall grass and threw a stone for good measure to lure the human towards a tree about 5 ft away from the path so the human not knowing the trap walked up to the tree and just looked at it and saw the mark the stone had left on it still trapped in thought he didn't even hear the anima walking up behind him Jae stepping on a twig less than an inch from the man grabbed his attention as the man spun around Jae grabbed his neck and lifted him off the ground pinning him to the tree. "hello there" Jae said in an very dark voice alluding to what he had in store for him the man who had been unable to talk from fear tried to say something but only managed "ack hack ou". Jae replied "oh right i forgot i am crushing your windpipe and i am going to guess that was who are you am i right. The man simply nodded agreeing to him. Jae said "i do enjoy it when i am right but my introduction i am simply something you should be afraid of but seeing as how that's to long a name i have taken to the name eclipse and guess what". The man whimpered a "wha". eclipse said "I AM HUNGRY" in a dark horrible voice as he started quickly bashing the man in to the tree over and over and over and over and over until he heard what he wanted a "SNAP" coming from the mans neck signifying that he was dead. he then went on and walked in to the path where the other man was but before he got to the path he jumped into the trees and jumped behind him making sure that who ever was in the cage saw him.

Savina's eyes widened in surprise at the appearance of the crocodile +anima. Maybe it was just her instincts, or maybe just the fact that he kinda appeared out of no where, or the fact that he was rather threatening looking, or maybe it was because she was a bit out of it because of the drugs, but even though normally she would never in a million years try to warn someone who just spat at her, Savina felt like she needed to inform the man who drugged her and left her in a cage of this +anima. Savina went to speak but realized quickly that was stupid and came up with a new idea. The man had come to deal with her when he thought she was trying to escape, so maybe if he thought she was trying to again he'd notice something was up. Savina tried to sit up but because of the drugs in her system she couldn't quite figure it out and ended up falling back onto her side. This motion however had caused a bit of noise as she hit the floor causing the man to take notice, but rather then look back he just hollered at her, "are you still trying to escape? Jeez maybe I should go give you a higher dosage so you pass out," Savina didn't know what to do her head wouldn't think right so she just gave up and stared at the crocodile +anima wondering what he was going to do. The man must have gotten a bit impatient though wondering where the other one ran off to, "man he's sure taking his sweet time isn't he. That idiot he's probably off chasing squirrels or something." the man sighed impatiently as he waited before calling out to the other unaware that he was already dead, "hey come on Market Town isn't getting any closer! You know we got a little kitty to sell or have you forgotten already?!" then he simply muttered to himself, "what an idiot."

Ludacris gazed in amazement at the crocodile's raw power, but also in fear as he killed one of the men. He looked worriedly at Kotarou.
Was the croc anima evil? Seeing what it did to a fully grown man who could've put up a fight, he wondered what it would do to a little kid who couldn't defend himself, like the little deerling. If Cris was protective of anything, it was Kota. He would defend the child with his life.
However, the wolf anima saw that the crocodile was preoccuppied. He worried for the +anima that the slave-hunters had caught, though he didn't really worry for the other hunter. They sort of desserved what they were getting, in his opinion, with how they treated the Kim-Un-Kur and the +anima...

Eclipse slowly stalked forward taking great care not to be seen then as he grew close to the back of the carriage he looked in the cage and saw a young girl and she had anima we are getting rather close to a slave town i better help her. He then put a finger in front of his lips and said "shhhh" . then proceeding to get within micrometers of the slaver man and wrapped his forearm around his neck pulling him to the back of the carriage he planted the man face down on the bed of the carriage and a sickening "SNAP" came from the man as Eclipse broke the mans arms with little effort leaving him completely vulnerable to Eclipse. Eclipse looked at the girl and darkly asked the man "WHERE ARE THE KEYS" the man too busy dealing with the fact that his arms where now nothing better than dead weight and screaming from the pain barely heard Eclipse. He commented " m-m-my  breast pocket p-p-p-please don't kill me". Eclipse just reached into his breast pocket and took the key out and hit it against the cage making sure he had her attention he then dropped it in the cage he then proceeded to look deep into her eyes and said this "i want you to know something you are lucky i only have one stomach and that i hope you find me when you are free" He then did the most horrifying thing he opened his mouth and then Bit into his neck and started chewing the man started screaming in absolute agony screaming unintelligable words to try and get him to stop blood covered the bed of the carriage and then he bit into his jugular causing blood to spurt out everywhere and it landed on her face covering it slowly the man stopped screaming as he died away. Eclipse then just walked away laughing like a mad man he then stopped and screamed in to the forest " I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE YOU MADE ME TRIP YOU PUT ME IN DANGER YOU OWE ME ONE" and walked off into the night.

Savina didn't even have time to think about escaping when the key was dropped in the cage. What she saw was just so terrible, and so violent she just didn't know what to do. As blood covered her she began almost hating the crocodile +anima for making her watch such a thing. Death always reminded her of the loss of her parents, and Savina just couldn't handle things anymore. So still gagged, still in a cage, still tied up, still drugged, and still covered in blood Savina broke down and just began openly sobbing she no longer remembered the key sitting just inside the cage, so she brought her knees up to her chest for comfort and tried not to think as she continued to cry.

Mean while in the city of luna Malcome sits in a bar alone sure there were other people but he didnt know any of them so therefor he felt alone.hoping he can drink away his memories and forget the bad that happend. Suddenly the conversation the bartender was having with someone else caught malcomes attention Bartender:"did u guys here about the psychotic killer that lived here they say he moved away" Patron:"thank god he could have kiled us they say he has the strength of ten men and a jaw like an animal hes probably one of those *shudders* +anima" curious malcome asks "were did this thing go" the bartender replies "they say it moved to sailand may god have mercey on them" malcome then rushes out of the bar thinking to him self this guy could be who killed my friends i must find him he then rushes to his house to get on a boat and set sail for sailand with his crew he had assembled for a special ocassions. "Well guys were setting sail" says malcome "were to boss" says the navigator of the boat"sailand pack your things were leaving as soon as possible" with rhat every one got to work on packing there blongings for the trip ahead.

((Thanks, I was going to get to that. x3))

Just a quick walk... they never notice I'm gone. the small girl thought to herself, her caramel-colored hair bouncing slightly as she slipped away from her orphanage building, undetected. Whether due to inattentiveness or simply failure to care on the caretaker's part, security was never high in the place anyways. One could just walk in and out without being noticed, save for catching the eye of another kid or two at the very best.
Alexa shook her head quickly, having already become lost in thought, and notices she'd already made it to a familiar forest trail - one she'd walked so many times she could probably do it in her sleep if she wanted.
But she didn't, because the forest was dark at night, and dark forests were kind of scary.
This time, Alexa's thoughts were interrupted by a terrified scream, the one uttered by the man who had been attacked. Hesitant at first - and scared - but also eager to find out what had happened to cause it, she quickly ran closer. The run slowed - no, stopped, when she heard others talking, however. Talking... yelling... crying.
This couldn't be good. Maybe coming here was a mistake...

Ludacris felt the hair on his body stand on end when the crocodile adressed him when it - he, he should say - yelled towards the forest. When the larger male left, heading into another part of the dense area of trees, Cris felt it necessarry to check on the anima that was in the cart. However, he didn't want to leave Kotarou alone this time, knowing that such a dangerous person was now lurking somewhere in the darkness.
"Kotarou, stay low and follow me, okay?" he whispered to the deerling. The boy nodded in response - not that he really needed to crouch or anything, since he was already very short.
The two crept up to the cage, Ludacris still in his anima form, Kotarou staying in his ordinary physical state. Cris decided that since Kotarou would look much less threatening in any way, no matter what form he was in, that he would interact with the anima who was caught, so as not to scare it. He lifted the small mute onto the carriage, and the boy silently padded over to the cage, lightly tapping its bars with a gentle smile on his face, a finger over his mouth to instigate that she should be quiet.

Savina still sobbing probably wouldn't have even noticed Kotarou if it weren't for him tapping on the bars. She was so lost in her own head due to everything that had happened that day and the drugs that if she could Savina probably would have told Ludarcis and Kotarou to go away. Savina probably didn't even realize that the two were there to rescue her, but she nodded anyway when Kotarou gestured for her to be quiet. Savina then just continued to sit there crying without making any effort to aid in her own escape.