It's the year 2016. Nobody has died for five years. But thousands, perhaps millions are being murdered every day.
Five years ago, all around the world, death came to a halt. Everyone on Earth stopped dying all at once. And yet pain, injury, disease, it all remained. Hospitals were slowly overrun with the wounded. Slowly the whole world turned to hell.
Torchwood, a former top secret organization once thought disbanded, reformed to try and solve the problem. Eventually they uncovered a sickening secret. The Government were creating Overflow camps, supposedly to house the injured and elderly. But the ugly truth was they were categorizing them into three different categories. Later a fourth category would be voted in.
Category 3s are healthy. These are the ones not required to reside in Overflow Camps.
Category 2s are the ones with nonfatal, yet significantly debilitating injuries. Category 1s are the ones that should be dead. It is mandatory that anyone with Category 1 injuries be sent to overflow camps. Yet the truth is Category 1s are being incinerated every day. Burned alive, to help with overpopulation and to prevent the spread of disease.
Anyone harboring a Category 1 illegally will be arrested, and persecuted. Category 0s are the Governments new death penalty. Criminals or anyone the Government deems necessary to kill are incinerated.
Torchwood came so very close to stopping the madness, exposing the truth behind the Miracle. But ultimately they failed. The team, and all of their family and accomplices were detained, questioned, and if found to be in cahoots with them, incinerated.
However, Jack Harkness managed to send out one last message. A message to someone currently unknown. But his message was simple. Form a new Torchwood. Stop the Miracle where he'd failed. And most importantly, stay hidden.
And so that person did. In secret, and complete and total anonymity, they began recruiting a new Torchwood, in the attempts to uncover the truth, and to ultimately put a stop to the Miracle, to stop the Overflow Camps, and to bring back death.
You are Torchwood Five.
Here is where we can discuss this RPG, as well as where you post your bios. Also, feel free to ask any questions related to the RPG here! We don't bite! :3
We're not going to be starting the RPG right away. We want to collect a few accepted characters before starting, so that we have a nice sized cast. We're also waiting on a friend to finish her bio as well so that she can be around when it starts!
But until then, post your bios/questions! And click the image above to be taken to the main thread, where you will find the character skeleton~
Guys, if this is in any way unacceptable, I can make changes/add more/anything! I think I've got everything I have on this character down here, but I can work it out!
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Name: Maya Club
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Personality: Maya has a child-like nature to her, full of wonder and whimsy and optimism. However, with this comes a certain level of immaturity. While she isn’t completely a baby, she tends to jump to conclusions and is very much the jealous sort. Her jealousy comes out not in aggression or paranoia, but moping and whining and general feelings of inadequacy. She’s also far too trusting, which tends to get her in trouble.
Maya is sweet, and hopes to find the best in almost everyone. She is interested in technology and weaponry, but also has an odd fascination with the morbid.
This fascination manifests itself in a way in-keeping with her child-like tendencies. She is very bright-eyed about death and views it as the next adventure. Because she was raised without much religion besides the use of phrases like “Oh my God”, she doesn’t think of the afterlife in terms of Heaven or hell, but in terms of ghostly spirits wandering the Earth, invisible to most and free to travel through different planes of reality. The idea of multiple realities and worlds also fascinates Maya.
Appearance: Maya is a short young woman, just reaching five feet, and weighs a slightly above-average one-hundred-seven pounds. She was a more or less average build, looking slightly stocky, especially due to her preference for baggy sweatshirts and sweatpants in cool colors. However, when she gets the chance, Maya loves to dress up in a wide range of clothing, usually from other cultures she doesn’t necessarily know anything about. Maya has shoulder-length, wavy hair in a rich, chocolaty-brown. Her eyes are blue, and she has a somewhat up-turned nose and generally rounded face.
How long have they been a member of Torchwood: A new recruit of about a month.
Skills: Maya is a great shot! See her history for the reason for this. She’s got great aim and can work a fair amount of weaponry.
Injuries: None… Yet.
History: Maya’s life was a simple one. She was born to two very young parents she doesn’t at all remember and quickly put up for adoption, and ended up staying with her third foster family -- A man named Cameron who lived with his brother Paul, Paul’s wife, Denise, and their daughter, Eloise. The family lived on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Eloise was five years older than Maya, who was adopted at age two, and acted as a protector and, in some ways, mentor, to the younger girl.
Maya knew she was adopted all her life, and as a small child didn’t ask much about it. When she reached her preteen years, she grew curious about her birth parents, but they proved impossible for her to track down on her own, and she didn’t want to go to orphanage she was from for help, because that would mean getting her father involved, and she feared he would think she was unhappy.
By the time Maya was eighteen, and old enough to get answers on her own, she didn’t care about her birth parents, quite feeling at place with her adoptive family. Her and her father, Cameron, were especially close. He coddled and babied her fairly often, but she really never minded. Once she was old enough, he began taking her to the local shooting range with her.
Cameron was fascinated by weapons, not for their ability to hurt but their sheer complexity and how simply amazing they often were, and Maya picked up this trait as well. Cameron was more than happy to supply her with many items and teach her how to use them.
When Maya was eighteen, she went to New York for college, majoring in English and aiming to become a teacher. She was a substitute during the time between graduation and being recruited for Torchwood.
Yeah, it's a really awesome bio! <3 I really love her personality, she sounds really great. Oh man, I can't wait to RP. I really hope more people post bios soon!
If not... well, the three of us can always start, eh?
Personality: Isadora is quite a lively member of Torchwood. She's very funny and outgoing, and has a soft spot for anyone in need or who has been treated wrongly. On the other hand, she keeps details of her personal life and history a secret due to traumatic events, and doesn't like letting people in.
At first this can make people shy away from her, calling her guarded. Which is true, considering she does have trust issues and doesn't like to let people see her vulnerable. However most find that if they just keep off of the subject of her past, Isadora is a pretty cool chick. She's very intelligent and always sticks up for the under dog, but she has a habit of holding grudges. She's very loyal to anyone she does trust, which includes her team, and she loves to make people laugh, especially because in their world now a days there's not a lot of laughing.
Because of her past, however, Isadora does know how to manipulate someone. She can read a person like a book, but she hates it being done to her. She can get someone to do what she pleases simply by mental manipulation, but she usually only does it if it is of great importance or is for a mission. Because of her social abilities and her skill of manipulation, she is almost always out on missions, especially if they involve infiltration and others. She's not one to boast about it, but will not let someone underestimate her. She can be a bad ass when need be, and isn't afraid to let people see that side of her.
Appearance: View
Isadora has a young face, which makes people tend to think they can walk over her. However she doesn't always take it as a bad thing, as she knows she can use it to her advantage. Her hair is naturally two toned because of chromosomes that got mixed when she was still in her mother's womb. She is a small five foot five and 123 pounds.
The young Isadora is often in jeans and a tee, band, or sometimes a tad dressy shirt. Though sometimes at work she will dress in slacks, but she tends to keep a laid back sense of style. In the winter she loves to adorn herself with scarves and knit hats. While in the summer she will wear a 'hippie band' around her head or a flower in her hair.
How long have they been a member of Torchwood: Two and a half years
Skills: Isadora is very talented in the art of manipulation. After her past she learned to not let people fool her, and the only way to do that was to be able to fool them. She is capable of playing any part she is given or needs to, much like an actress. She can also, by manipulating of course, get people to do as she wishes or tricking them into believing something completely untrue. This makes her a vital member in missions, especially those involving others.
Luckily for her, Isadora is extremely skilled in hand to hand combat, including with weapons. She has been known to take down men twice her size, a lot of which is due to her small stature and lithe figure. She is very knowledgeable about weapons and their pasts.
The last of Isadora's skills is her abilities with defense tactics and escape maneuvers. Her gut instinct is almost always right, and so she knows when it is time to get out of a tricky situation. Ever since an event in her past she has plotted escape routes in her mind, and every place she goes she makes sure there is one way she can get out. Her knowledge of war maneuvers makes her the go to girl for defensive tactics.
Injuries: On a past mission Isadora was sliced down her stomach, the wound barely missing her appendix. It is a long, jagged cut which goes from about two and a half inches above her belly button to the top of her hip bone. Often it causes her pain, but she disguises it well.
History: Though Isadora isn't one to talk of her past, she, of course, does have one. Isadora's mother died while giving birth to the only child of the family, Isadora. Her father did not take it well. Isadora was passed from family member to family member in Germany since she was born. When she turned fifteen, she was finally sent to live with her father in America, who had become an important member of the government.
Within the first few months of living there, Isadora had tricked her father into letting her know fully what the government was doing. Isadora's father tried to persuade her to see things as he did, to understand why he was doing what he was. Isadora had done some research of her own, tricking people into telling her things, and had found out the truth. Her father didn't succeed in winning her over, and his anger boiled.
Isadora had been physically and emotionally abused from then on, but she let it make her stronger instead of tearing her down. Her hatred of her father then began, but it reached new extremes the night before her sixteenth birthday. Drunk and angry, Isadora's father stumbled into her bedroom. That night he raped her and beat her to the point where she couldn't move, leaving her vulnerable and with no way out. This was the major cause for her constant plannings of escape routes and defensive tactics.
From then on Isadora vowed to bring down her father and his government, no matter what. She ran away six months after she turned sixteen, living with a friend until she finished schooling. Her father didn't want to be accused or suspected, so he did not bring it up or try to find her.
When Isadora was eighteen she graduated as valedictorian, and soon after began attending Columbia. She excelled in her classes, double majoring in psychology and sociology. She had also studied extensively on criminology. Her double majors landed her a spot in the FBI Behavioral Unit, tracking down serial killers. It was hard work but Isadora had a plan for all of it.
As Isadora finally became head of the only Behavioral Unit team, she was one step closer to tracking down her father. At this time she was twenty one years old, the youngest leader of the FBI B.U. team. He had severed all ties from her, and Isadora was set on bringing down him and his government.
For the next two years Isadora did extensive work on researching the government and her father. She used her ability to manipulate others and read their emotions and behaviors to create ties with others. She acted as if she supported the government, and this brought her many ties to important members of the government.
On one escapade of Isadora's, where she was actually infiltrating the government, Isadora met Amelia. Both were pretending to be loyal believers in the government, and thought that the other was an important government member. Isadora's gut feeling told her to tell Amelia who she really was, and so she did. She revealed her identity and her father's identity. Through this risk Amelia asked her to join Torchwood. Isadora took the offer and left her FBI team, hoping that through Torchwood she would be able to finally bring down her father and his government.
Anything Else: Isadora is originally from Germany. Her father had been an important member of the German government, and he went to America as an ambassador. They soon recruited him to stay and help with foreign ties as well as the rest of the government work.
Hey guys, sorry that it hasn't been started yet. I had a few things come up the last few days that made it difficult to find the time to RP. Hopefully if all goes well, tomorrow we can begin.
Ok guys, we're getting started! Sorry for the delay. James and I will go first, and then you can join in. Anyone else interested is still allowed post bios and join!
Name: Marcus Wright
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Personality: Fairly immature for the most part but has a sadistic streak
Appearance:
How long have they been a member of Torchwood: Trainer
Skills: Trained in espionage and assassination techniques along with making explosives
Injuries: Horrible facial injuries
History: A former government black operations member, he went off the grid when he realized the kind of money he could make going freelance. For a while he made a name for himself in certain circles as a professional, top-tier 'problem solver.' For the most part he would just gun down his targets or plant a dagger in the back, but once the Miracle happened, he had to adjust his tactics. For the most part, work dried up, but the few jobs he did take on became a lot more... explosive. His new tactic usually involved approaching the target while they slept, restraining them, and then putting a block of C-4 down their throat. With the dawn of Torchwood 5, the enigmatic leader sent him a request to take a job there to help train their operatives in the skills associated with his field. Since it payed well, he boarded a plane to New York City.
Sorry everyone for the delay in RPing; Marques just recently started college, and I've been really busy with life myself. We're going to try and get this thing going again in a few days, so please just have patience and bear with us.
