Being a veteran board RPer, I know that it's important to keep a list of characters on hand so people know who all is playing who. Typically, hardcore RP boards seem to make extravagant and detailed forms to be filled out whereas casual boards leave it up to the player or use a very simplified form.

I'd like to start an archive so we all can get to know each others' characters. I'll create two forms - one simplified and one detailed - so we can put down character information. I might start something in the next week or so depending upon how much interest is shown.

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Simplified Form
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Name: Self explanatory.

Age: Self explanatory.

Height/Weight: Self explanatory.

General Appearance: Self explanatory.

Powers: Briefly describe characters abilities.

History/Background: Simple history and background information.

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Detailed Form
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Name: Self explanatory.

Age: Self explanatory.

Height/Weight: Self explanatory.

General Appearance: Without directly referencing height and weight, describe their common dress code. If it changes daily, such as the case with a modern/contemporary character, denote their typical style.

Personality: Without addressing hobbies and interests, describe how they generally are. If you have trouble figuring out how to describe it, use this to determine one and answer all the questions as if you were the character themselves.

Hobbies/Interests: Self explanatory.

Attributes: Any elemental or status strengths, weaknesses, resistances, absorptions, and anything else related to property-based concepts go here.

Powers: Describe all powers and their limitations, if any.

History/Background: Give a detailed history or background. Omit anything that most other characters wouldn't be able to easily know, such as a mysterious character's dark past.

Additional Notes: Anything else you deem worth noting.

Here are my fave four characters:

Name: Sparrowhawk (Spar for short)
Age: 21
Species: Hedgefox
Bio: Spar is an independent young woman who can control birds. She had a blue chicken named Chibi who used to follow her everywhere. Spar isn't the type of girl who is swept off her feet very easily. She is also somewhat tomboyish, not having had any sisters and few female friends.
Attacks: Kamehameha wave (learned from Goku), Aqua ring, Icicle rain.
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Name: Orion
Age: 19
Species: Hedgefox
Bio: Orion is a Martial artist, who is a lot like Goku. He is very naive and too trusting. Orion is also a Pyromaniac. If there is one thing Orion fears, its bunnies. No one knows why Orion is afraid of bunnies, but they sure do tease him about it when they find out. Orion always calls Linkmax "Linkie-poo", and it angers Linkmax to no end.
Attacks: Kamehameha wave (learned from Goku), Firaga, Flare, Shadow's illusion, Blood fist.
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Name: Linkmax
Age: 19
Species: Hedgefox
Bio: Linkmax is the electronics expert, who specializes in weapons manufacturing and Halo 2. He isn't as social as Spar and Orion though. He prefers to be alone most of the time. The one thing that really sets Linkmax apart from his siblings is his bionic left eye. Orion had poked Linkmax's real eye out with a fork at age 3. So Spar created a bionic eye for him. The bionic eye lets Linkmax zoom in on people and see through certain objects, making him a superb sniper. Although Linkmax didn't train with Goku, like Orion and Spar did, he is still a formidable opponent. Linkmax's weakness is Pizza.
Attacks: Scan, eye beam, Giga flare.
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Name: Edward
Age: 21
Species: Hedgefox/Clone
Bio: Edward is the evil male clone of Sparrowhawk. He was created by Professor Natalie Bunny, as an alternative wife for Lonko originally. But Lonko had accidentally knocked the Professor's brother's DNA into the DNA sample stolen from Spar's hairbrush. The Professor's brother had been a mass murderer before being sentenced to death. After Edward's creation, Lonko tried to kill him. But ended up being thrown into a bunch of chemicals by Edward, causing the laboratory to explode. Professor Bunny didn't make it, and Edward had barely survived. Feeling as if he was nothing more than an Echo of someone else, he decided the only way he could be a true being would be to kill the original Sparrowhawk. After a long fight with her brother Linkmax, causing the loss of Edward's right leg, Edward accidentally released the Ancient demon known as Lord Paradoxis from Linkmax's body. After Paradoxis and Edward escaped, Edward swore his alligance to the demon, thus earning him the red Crescent shaped marking on his right cheek. Shortly after this Edward had killed many people, on Paradoxis' orders. Though Edward never cared much for obeying the demon. Orion Danger went to stop Edward after he'd heard about the killings and Edward fell in love with the Hedgefox. He swore to Orion that'd he wouldn't kill anymore, unless defending himself. He also promised never to harm any one of the Danger family. Paradoxis was not happy with this, and used his power over Edward to cause him pain and suffering.
Attacks: -Edward has no special attacks-

Name: Roger Sindel

Age: Unknown

Height/Weight: 6'0"/256 lbs.

General Appearance: Roger is rather slim, but maintains a moderate girth by wearing trench coats and other loose-fitting attire. He almost always wears an old-style hat with large brims that cover his face when he wears it low. His hair, while very rarely seen, is a dark brown, of medium length, and is unkempt. He also wears highly polished black boots and wears matching leather gloves. With the exception of the latter accessories, he may change the color of his attire from day to day, but it is almost always the same: a trench coat, large-brimmed hat, the black gloves and boots.

Personality: Roger doesn't have much to say. He's very reserved and doesn't seek to change that. However, he's not shy by any means. He's simply a businessman, so to speak. Nobody really knows how Roger works. All he seems to be is business: listen for possible contracts, gather the intel, make the contract, and fulfill the terms. Those who have dealt with him before say that he can be very harsh in his methods, but never changes his tone and always remains calm no matter what the situation.

Hobbies/Interests: His only hobbies are gathering intelligence and hunting wanted men or beasts. His only interests are his contracts with his clients.

Attributes: Everything on him is of Neutral/Non-Elemental-property. Except maybe some nifty "fireworks."

Powers: Roger mysteriously has no "powers", but he does seem to be able to gather information unlike people have never seen. Specifically, he seems to obtain much of it from the internet at very high rates of speed. However, whether this is due to his knowledge of networking or an unusual skill or ability is unknown.

History/Background: As quiet and reserved as Roger Sindel is, nobody knows about his past except him. And if you ask him about it, he's likely not going to reply. However, those fortunate few he's found trust in have edged a little out of him.

He doesn't even know much of his own history. He remembers watching a building burn to the ground without any signs of emotion. He remembers that the building was some sort of laboratory, but for what he doesn't know. He remembers that the first thing that ran through his mind at that moment were the words: "Save humanity...destroy them all..."

Since then, he's been working on his own, researching and collecting as much information as he can on his past. Between times of progress, he's learned to become a mercenary to further fund his research. Thus he goes about to bars, clubs, and inns in towns and cities across the world searching for people in trouble or in need of help, drawing up contracts to have him solve their problems. His terms are usually simple: pay how you wish, but if you don't follow the terms, you're as dead as the next person.

So far he's maintained a very hushed reputation, even among other mercenaries. They've either heard of him or they've not, and usually those that have still don't have much to say. Those who have been sent to hunt him down have never returned or even been found...

Additional Notes: Roger is an obviously mysterious character and I intend to keep it that way until he's become involved in more RPs. Once he's been in a few, I'll start adding to the profile.

Out of curiousity, what kind of RP are these character sheets for? Or can we just pick any sort of character we want to post a sheet for? Just wondering.

Feel free to post whatever characters you'd like. After all, any character can be written into any kind of RP. The character sheets are for any character, but most school-based RP boards use a similar setup. Since I used to RP at those kinds of boards in HS, I know how thorough and/or simple they can be, so I just left it up to you as to how much you want to post about your character and used simple guidelines.

Name: Leon Valitzer

Age: 19

Height/Weight: 5'9"/148 lbs.

General Appearance: Leon's apparel changes each day, but he always has the same messy, medium-length bronze hair, dark brown eyes, and lightly tanned complexion. When he's in his Guardian form, he always dons a full suit of bright yellow armor which cackles with electricity. His eyes then turn completely golden and sizzle with the same energy as his armor.

Personality: Leon's normally an energetic, outgoing person with a slight ego and cocky attitude. He's generally warm-hearted though and tends to help people out when he can. He's sociable, but tends to blunder more often than not, resulting in a comedic episode for everyone. People tend to console him for it more often than ridicule him, so he takes it well and simply calls it his "class act", noting that no one else in his class has quite the same sense of humor.

When he's in the heat of fierce adversity, he often dons the form of the Guardian of Thunder and fights to preserve the balance of power that was laid out by the guardians before him. Being that he seeks to preserve balance and not fight for right or wrong, he helps those who need it as opposed to fighting for a side he believes in. While being one of the more powerful guardians, this neutrality means he'll never tip the scales, but rather balance them as they start gearing towards one side. He seems to be more heroic in this form, trading cockiness for confidence, ego for pride, and outgoing for reserve. He seems almost different, but he still has many similar aspects as his natural form.

Hobbies/Interests: Normally, games of any kind, sports, and martial arts are his hobbies of choice. If he isn't doing one, he's doing another. As a guardian, he doesn't have hobbies so much, but he takes interest in many otherworldly matters, particularly those dealing with alignment issues. In this sense, he's much like a public official.

Attributes: Sources power from the Thunder/Lightning element. Is vulnerable to Earth elements as they absorb his energy nearly infinitely. Is strong against Metal- and Water-based elements as they are good conductors of electricity and amplify his power. His supporting element is Fire and the element he supports is Air.

Powers: Leon has minor-level control over electricity or electrically-powered objects in his natural forms, but has a cosmic-level control over electrical energy in his guardian form. In his natural form, he's limited to merely charging or discharging electricity or to transferring electrical energy from one source to another. In his guardian form, he has the ability to control almost any electrically-charged energy and manipulate it to his will, but cannot create any physical objects with his power. It should be noted that he can only control negatively-charged ions when it comes to a molecular level. Fire, his supporting element, typically gets the positively-charged ones.

History/Background: Leon was a typical person until one day when he was assaulted in the middle of school by a powerful demon. During the attack, his latent powers woke up within him and gave him enough power to fight off the demon. After the fight, he was knocked unconscious and summoned by the gods. The gods explained that he was the first in thousands of years to show the ability to control the power of thunder. They also explained the circle of Guardians, which controlled the various elements and preserved the balance of power. They offered Leon the chance to learn about and develop his power as a Guardian of Thunder, to which he curiously agreed. They then gave him his gear, appropriately titled the "Thor Armor", granting him the Norse god Thor as his overseeing deity and sending him off on various adventures, allowing him to learn and grasp more of his power and to pass the many trials the gods sought to put him through.

After three years of hard training and many trials and tribulations, Leon was able to master his power as a guardian and take his place among the circle to preserve the balance set by his predecessors. He decided that being a full-time guardian was not his wish, and so offered the gods a deal so that he could be summoned any time there was trouble in the balance and still enjoy a decent human life. It was at this time that he returned to school and graduated, moving on to college in a different location.

Though he goes to college, he only goes part time and doesn't hold a job (because he could be summoned at any time and college is the only thing he could excuse himself from). He's free the rest of the time, usually taking on any of his favorite hobbies with very little social life.

Additional Notes: While ultimately a cosmic-level being, Leon exercises great caution as to when he uses his powers and when he decides to use his guardian form. This sometimes comes at a fault due to his reluctance to use his power even in great adversity.

Name: Gaki

Age: 17 (Looks 10)

Height/Weight: 1.04 m (3'5'')/47.73 kg (105.23 lb.)

Appearance: As noted above, Gaki has the stature and features of your average child, thanks to a certain demonic brother of his. He wears a green bandana with white circles over his head, which covers most of his golden brown hair, with a small shock of hair sticking out in front and a medium length ponytail behind. He also has a tattered wayfarer's cape, with a blue shoulder plate on his right shoulder, which he wears in memory of his fallen beloved, Valiae Aurelia. Concerning the lower part of his body, he wears dark green cloth pants and brown leather shoes. As for his weapon, he wields a rather ornamental looking silver spear with a ruby tip. Some say that the tip is actually angel's blood, and the spear was made in ancient times during a holy war told to last a millenia for demon slaying.

One thing worth noting is that only his pants are tailored to fit his newly aquired ten year old body, so his loosely fitting cape and shirt make Gaki look shorter than he really is, resulting in many people referring to him as a cute kid, which annoys the hell out of him.

Personality: Most times, he's a bit angsty and reclusive, speaking very little and usually wearing a face of seriousness. However, he is certainly not one to turn down help from those willing to contribute to his cause in any way. He hates those who insult his appearance and those who don't take him seriously, and can be quick to anger depending on how much alcohol is in his system. Also, he's something of a gentleman at times, having a deep respect for all women and acting somewhat polite around them. He has even sworn not to harm another of the opposite gender, after witnessing the brutal deaths of his older sister, mother, and lover.

Hobbies: He wanders far and wide in search of his younger brother to exact revenge. Not really much to it. Then again, he likes to drink away problems, though I couldn't tell you how he even gets into bars. He doesn't really get a kick out of asking random interesting people about the whereabouts of his brother, so I can't really call that an interest.

Attributes: More of a Wind/Shadow kind of guy, though he knows no actual magic.

Powers: Dragoon Dive (think Dragoon/Kain/Freya from FF3 or FF5/FF4/FF9 respectively), sticking on walls and ceilings, running with a speed akin to a charging horse. and blending in with shadowy places. Also has smoke bombs he uses for some techniques, like disappearing.

Background: At the age of 10, he witnessed his younger brother Kage (pronounced "kah-gay") sacrifice his teenage sister to summon a demon, which he then used to kill his parents and wipe out their entire village. Gaki was the only one lucky enough to survive this morbid ordeal, though he had nowhere to go. So for three long years, Gaki lived off of what he could steal from passing travellers, honing in on his thievery skill. Life was hard, but the young boy managed what he could.

Then, one night he tried to steal from a peculiar old man who seemed to be travelling alone, but was caught. The man, who later revealed himself as a retired Dragoon Knight, decided to spare Gaki's life in exchange for his service to him as his heir, in hopes to keep the old way of Dragoons alive. Gaki willingly trained under this old man, applying what he learned to his stealth skills. Eventually, he enlisted with the resistance against the self-proclaimed demon king, Sargeth. During his time of service, he met and later fell in love with Valiae, who was a skilled swordswoman and mercenary shunned by society because of the vampiress blood that flowed through her veins. After the final battle with Sargeth, it was later learned that Kage had been pulling the strings of the "demon king", and that he was the true mastermind. The couple tried to apprehend the wayward brother, but the battle ended with Valiae slain, Gaki turned into a child, and Kage making his escape. Now Gaki will not rest until those close to him are avenged and his demon brother brought to justice.

Name: Kraven Arc

Age: 28

Height/Weight: 5'11"/168 lbs.

Appearance: His blue dress coat and magic crested gloves give him the appearance of a younger fellow, but the few deep scars and sorrowful Egyptian blue eyes are contradictory. His faded blond hair is a perfect match to his (all too often) mud covered boots and dirt speckled pants, both of which were black. He does have dress cloths, featuring a hand made doublet, but frowns upon the formality of them.

Personality: Kraven is a go-getter, as seen in his involvement with many-a political struggle and his devout history. His warrior nature provides a dash of aggressiveness and the intellect given to him by his master has taught him patience among other valuable skills. His face is often drenched in seriousness and worry, but he has a humorous, all be it underdeveloped, side.

Hobbies: Often found in the depths of his library, he loves to find new and innovative ways to fight a battle. Sword play is a regularly scheduled routine matched with a few hour of meditation. He loves baths and tries to take as many as possible in a day, which is a goal that happens to fall short from his callings. He teaches a few school classes, but he finds them simple waste baskets for his energy.

Attributes: He has an average understanding of many magics, but his gloves give him a magnificent boost to abilities. He draws his weapons from said gloves and, once completed with his work, returns it.

Power: Basic magic (most of which is physically draining). He is often considered a strategic genius, which gives him a sort of self absorbency. Crack him mentally, and you could do far more damage then any blade.

History: Kraven knew his mother (Lisa) and father (Phoenix) well, living with them for most of his childhood. They knew more about his potential than he ever did, and when soldiers came looking for it, they sent him away with his sister (Alice) and brother (Wes). His wagon was escorted by guards, but that only attracted the attention of bandits.

Wes and Alice were taken away, but the guards got a hold of Kraven. He was handed over to Talon, a mean old Arch-mage. Training started shortly after his arrival. He had two adapts working with him, which eventually became his only friends. He was taught basic magics: shooting fire balls, pulsing lightning, and very simple telekinesis, but he was also taught about the battle field. Sparing and group warfare with talon's dummies were a proverbial light at the end of his tunnel.

A short while after his graduation, Talon bit the dirt. It was all shrouded in mystery, with plenty of death threats towards anyone who wanted to dig up facts. Kraven was left alone for dead from there. He had plenty of wondering to do, and nobody really knows how he ends up in the places that he does...

(Note: this is a very, very dumbed down version, so don't blame me if it seems a bit to vague at the end. Besides, if I really RP with him, he needs a reason to end up anywhere...)

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Hope you liked it!