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Title: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: slimcognito on August 23, 2012, 05:34:20 PM
 
''I am nothing and soon you will be too.'' ''I am the antihero of Existance for I am Oblivion......Dont toy with me Dude!!''

''How come Death gets a Form...... I Want a Form....''
Oblivion

Character Name: Oblivion

Age: Unknown, Estimated Dawn of Existance

Gender: Male

Race: Horseman of the Assured

Appearance Ok, imagine a void of absolute nothingness. Of blackness so dark an Event Horison seems as bright as a star. Now imagine it in the shape of an adult male with an unusually round head and you have almost pretty much got Oblivion. His general form can morph to his will but he usually favours a tall slender figure of around 8'7. As of yet no device or civilisation has been able to work out a method of weighing him, so his mass is unknown-Although it is highly likely that he weighs nothing as gravity seems to not effect him unless he allows it. Should he become iritated (or just simply feel like it ) the outline around his shoulders become spiked and vicious, as if he was wearing sharp pauldrons that curled up towards his temple and down past his elbows. making him seem broader than usual. usually he appears to be wearing something akin to a jagged crown on his head but its hard to tell as all his armour is made of the same complete blackness he is. His eyes are the only part of him that looks different from the rest, they are as thin as knife slits and spew forth pure white light. Although that can change to red, blue or green depending on his mood. ( it is also the only way apart from the state of his armour to tell his emotions)

Oblivions horse Void is a curiosity. like the rest it is massive, its head well over 14 feet high. Unlike the steeds of the other horsemen however it never appears on its own, or even seems to have any particular distinguishing personality. In fact it ceases to exist when not mounted by oblivion, only reappearing when oblivion chooses to ride again. When he does he will rise into the air and Void then silently forms underneath him. This has lead to the speculation that Void isn't a thing in its own right but rather another fragment of Oblivions will taken form. This is likely why Void is completly and utterly loyal and obediant. it understands what oblivion wims are at the exact same moment as oblivion. this gives them such a high level of grace that they appear to be one conglomeration rather than horse and rider. The fact that they are both made of identical nothingness makes it even easier to believe.

Alliance: The Eight Horsemen

Personality:(one paragraph minimum) Oblivion is at best as blank and forboding as a layer of snow settled on the thin ice of a freshly frozen lake. He seems utterly impassive almost all the time and never shows any form of emotion, exept in cases like in the middle of battle, where he succumbs to cold bloodlust, and occasionaly when alone with his fellow horsemen. (Oblivion is also one of the few individuals that find chaos's antics amusing rather than infuriating. Which is ironic because its the only thing in the multiverse he finds amusing) He almost never talks, even during a council. He instead prefers to wait to the end and deliver one or two words that he deems of great importance to the matter. Although he will answer direct questions. His motives are unfathomable, even to the other horsemen he is an inigma.

 His voice can be best described as a billion insane phycopaths talking at the same time in a smooth tone that never varies or changes and continues long after he has stopped talking. His voice chills the hearts of all those around him and can drive lesser minds to lunacy if heard for too long. Oblivion is unique among the riders in many ways, one of which is that he has no split or opposite personality like the others.
Quote
The parallel of Nothing IS Nothing and i will not be questioned by minds to feeble to comprehend it
                 Oblivion

Inventory: Void of nothingness- Oblivion is perhaps the most efficiently deadly among the horsemen because of the fact that his entire body is a weapon. A bullet or any small peice of matter that comes into contact with him is instantly destroyed. also if he desired, he could slowly disintigrate larger things. if any part of his body touches something for more than a few seconds then it will start to dissapear. if he put an arm through someone then in about 6 seconds all than would be left of their chest would be a gaping hole. he can also use this ability to walk through normal walls and doors. His specific ability has made him focus on hand to hand combat exclusively so he has no specific weapon to speak of. Although his style isn't martial arts, its more of brutal, efficient combat system. His form is unique among his kin but it seems to allow magical attacks and directed energy weapons to effect him more than his fellow horsemen. should enough raw energy be fired at him he will have to stop everything he is doing and focus completely on staying in one particular shape. if he didn't he would dissapate and have to re-form over the course of a few days.

Telekinetic field- Oblivion rarely uses magic of any kind. He HAS a large amount of power at his disposal but for some reason known only to him, he uses but the bare minimum in battle. The only thing he uses regularly is a mono-molecular telekinetic field that he creates around himself so he can pick things up, punch someone without killing them, use a doorknob or just generally interact with the world without obliterating it. He has been known to lengthen and sharpen his fingertips before coating them in the field, this gives him a more normall means of lethal attack than his void of nothing. The field is very powerfull however and it appears to give him strength many times greater that your average biped.

Combat Level: 5
Magic Level: 3/5
Physical Strength: 5

Character History
Oblivion is the incarnate of oblivion. He is Nothing given form, and always has been. No-one knows why Nothing decided to become sentient at the birth of the horsemen but no one can deny that it makes sense and just seems right . He has a deep brotherly conection to his fellow riders (although you would never know it) and has nothing but good feelings to all of them.
Oblivion is the final judgement for any planet to have armaggedon wrought apon by the horsemen of the assured. Once a planet has had all life wiped from its surface. once the oceans have boiled and its atmosphere has been swept into space. Then oblivion will slowly change, his form flattens and morphs from a humanoid to a humongous cloak like apparition. He will then go about his ancient ritual and slowly travel across the face of the dead world disintigrating a trench of rock and ash, continuing like this he will slowly but surely consume the planet layer by layer untill there is little enough rock that the energy in the spinning core of the world will tear it apart and send spinning chunks of crust into the consuming void of space. this process usually takes years and his brothers invariable move on before it is finished. only when a planet is reduced to mere dust will he allow himself to follow.
 Untold years after his creation the horsemen came upon a planet and despite the inhabitants being incredibly inferior in every way they some how managed to capture them. Oblivion was reduced to a formless mass and then caged in a sphere of energy a few inches in diameter. It now hangs on a magnetic field sealed in a vacuum chamber embedded in a concrete wall of the cave with the rest of his brothers. Countless moons waxed and waned, mortal lives past by like ants and the legend of the horsemen was forgotten. Now 40,000 years later something is waking.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: slimcognito on September 11, 2012, 02:18:21 PM
Bump
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: K2 on September 11, 2012, 03:34:50 PM
So sorry mate, approved.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: slimcognito on September 12, 2012, 03:14:40 PM
thanks :D one more to go
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: K2 on September 16, 2012, 02:26:49 PM
Bump.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: Nisorin on September 16, 2012, 04:30:46 PM
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this. It seems very, VERY close to godmodding.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: K2 on September 16, 2012, 04:54:20 PM
I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this. It seems very, VERY close to godmodding.

Hm, I didn't catch the Void Of Nothing part before, that part sticks out to me as overpowered. What parts of the character were you referring to?
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: Nisorin on September 17, 2012, 12:27:12 AM
The part where it can punch you once and leave a hole through your chest. Or just walk straight through an army of people with no care in the world as they all died.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: K2 on September 17, 2012, 05:39:40 PM
Right, slimcognito could you please make your character a tad less powerful?
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: slimcognito on September 17, 2012, 06:36:33 PM
sure thing. what aspects do you have the greatest problems with
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: K2 on September 17, 2012, 08:10:10 PM
The only part particularly overpowered is the Void Of Nothing. It's absolutely fine for him to be able to destroy things into oblivion by touching them, but there needs to be more limits. It's a problem for it to be able to happen instantly. If you can destroy something by a touch, instantly, with no drawbacks or obvious weaknesses, it's overpowered.

I would personally suggest perhaps having it take time for what he touches to be destroyed. This gives the opponent time to try to counter. Also, when you say destroyed, what do you mean exactly? Destroyed how?

Also the walking through any kind of solid matter no matter what it is may be a bit of a problem to me. Shields, barriers, etc should keep him out, for instance. I understand this character is meant to be unbelievably powerful and unique but there still need to be limits.

So yeah just clear that up and we should be cool man.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: Nisorin on September 17, 2012, 11:39:43 PM
Honestly, taking out the instantly part and making it take time would pretty much clear up any issue with it, in my opinion.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: slimcognito on September 18, 2012, 01:43:15 PM
sure thing. oops did i not say that shields and energy barriers can keep him out. sorry i meant to :P he can be kept out by pretty much any energy shield system. . the plan was for him to be completely impervious to physical matter but very weak to magic and any directed energy weapons. il clear that bit up sorry.  would it be ok if i confined the instantanious destructive power to his hands :P just because he has no ranged weapons and refuses to use but the bare minumum of magic
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: K2 on September 18, 2012, 02:16:03 PM
We usually have a problem with "instantaneous" stuff here. Mainly because instant implies that it doesn't take any time at all, literally, which is impossible because all things have to take time, even if it's only a thousandth of a second. That is, nothing can happen in no time at all, if that makes sense.

In any case having it drawn to just his hands, it would be fine given that there is a way "out". That is, if Oblivion touches someone, if they're clever enough to find a way to block it, they can survive. For more on what I'm trying to suggest you should check out the debate that we had over the character Abel (http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=29.0) who had a similar ability in which his arm could absorb the spirit and magic of those he touched. Specifically check out Nisorin's post here (http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=29.msg715#msg715) where the debate really started.

My point is, give the opponent time to respond.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: slimcognito on September 18, 2012, 02:22:08 PM
thank you . now i understand the problem with the instant disintigration. ok great il change it so it takes some time then. cheers for the advice
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: K2 on September 18, 2012, 02:27:40 PM
Thanks man, any problems or questions feel free to ask. Given the changes, approved.
Title: Re: The Eight Horsemen (Oblivion)
Post by: Ghost on December 18, 2012, 01:55:34 PM
Bump: archives or approved or what?