The Realm Between

STORY:
Most people live in the light or the darkness. Too afraid of the unknown to look deeper than the surface of things... and then there are the brave people. In the perfect balance of light and dark, when all is lost but everything is gained. Here live the courageous few... we stay untouched by the ravages of time yet we reap all of time's benefits. We stay as young as we'd like and everything prospers. Nobody dies, though usually the new arrivals arrive alone. The pathway will open about once every six months, whether or not there's a new arrival. Usually the newbies come once out of every four portals. Nobody can ever remember life outside of the in-between, but nobody cares. Once they see this utopia, nobody longs for their memories.

One boy did... one boy broke the mold that had been set since the beginning. One boy longed to reclaim what had been lost... and he was prepared to lose everything he had gained in order to do it.
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This is a bit like KH. There's the realm of light, the realm of darkness, and the realm of in-between (Twilight).

You can choose where to start from and once you're there you've gotta work your way into other realms. In light and dark there are two to five Keyblade masters but in the Twilight everyone can wield a Keyblade. People in the Twilight can't remember how to do everything they were once able to do with their Keyblades but the elders have taught them how to unlock doors, use magic, and fight. In light and darkness the masters are able to open pathways between the two neighboring realms though they, unknowingly, have to pass through Twilight to do so. This is why travel between the realms is only used when necessary, because if you allow the twilight to consume your being then you will become a lingering spirit, unaware of anything you once knew or what is currently happening. Your body and soul will disappear into nothingness and you yourself will be lost forever.
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RULES:
No godmodding.
No powerplay.
3 OC's MAX!
If you're not in character then PLEASE use OOC.
Don't do anything that just seems absurd... if it doesn't feel right, then it probably isn't.
Three strikes and you're banned from the RP.
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Character Layout Sheets:
Username:
Character Name:
Age:
Gender:
Realm of Residence: (Light, Darkness, or Twilight)
Keyblade wielder, yes or no:
Appearance:
Bio:
Extra Info:
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Accepted Bios:
Username: SkyCat
Character Name: Yukio
Age:15
Gender: Male
Realm of Residence: (Light, Darkness, or Twilight)
Keyblade wielder, yes or no: Yes
Appearance: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JIsxbAzzI...XAz1Y/s1600/user12629_pic10452_1224716946.jpg
Bio: A boy who came to the Twilight as a child. He's grown and chosen to remain a teenager for the rest of his days. He's curious about where he came from and is willing to pay the price to find out.
Extra Info: He's impulsive but caring. Even if you've just met he'll stick his neck out for you because it's just a natural impule he's always had. It's probably from his days before the Twilight, but who can say for sure?

Username: SkyCat
Character Name: Ayumi
Age:15
Gender: Female
Realm of Residence: (Light, Darkness, or Twilight)
Keyblade wielder, yes or no: Yes
Appearance: http://www.testq.com/nfs/testq/photos/0012/4433/an.jpg
Bio: A carefree girl who came when she was ten. She and Yukio have been great friends ever since and they would be the same age regardless of their time in the Twilight. She fears for Yukio and his impulsive tendencies sometimes, but she holds her own while helping him out on occasion.
Extra Info: She fears of her past but Yukio has had the idea of going back for sometime now and she's more afraid that he'll get himself killed in the other realm than she is of what her past may hold.

 

Username: Aqua101
Character Name: Lilat
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Realm of Residence: (Light, Darkness, or Twilight)
Keyblade wielder, yes or no: Yes
Appearance:

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Bio: Lilat was born in the realm of Light and fights for its denizens. She will do anything to protect her friends.
Extra Info: She is very caring, to the point of naive, and sometimes doesn't notice what she says has a negative impact.

 

Accepted. Welcome to the RP. X)

 

Username: Marushi
Character Name: Aya
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Realm of Residence: (Light, Darkness, or Twilight) Light
Keyblade wielder, yes or no: No
Appearance: Aya has orange-red hair, straight black eyes, and usually wears fire colors. She's small and bright, but stronger then she looks.
Bio: Aya and Isamu are twins, and it's always been rather strange how much they look alike. If she wasn't smaller, and if they weren't for them being different genders, it would be almost impossible to tell them apart. They grew up together in the realm of light, neither of them knew their parents, and they took care of eachother as they grew up.
Extra Info: Aya has two small golden daggers that she keeps hidden in the deep pockets of her shirt, and she uses them for fighting.

Username: Marushi
Character Name: Isamu
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Realm of Residence: (Light, Darkness, or Twilight) Light
Keyblade wielder, yes or no: No
Appearance: Isamu has orange-red hair, straight black eyes, and usually wears fire colors. He's small for his age, but not as small as Aya, and he's a whole lot stronger than she is.
Bio: Isamu and Aya are twins, and grew up together in the realm of light. Neither of them knew their parents, and they took care of eachother. More recently, though, Isamu has been thinking more and more about the dark realm, and what it might be like.
Extra Info: Isamu has a short golden sword that hangs from his belt, and he uses it for fighting.

 

Both accepted. Glad to see that not everyone is a Keyblade wielder, but now we need more people from the realm of darkness. One or two more people and we should be able to start the RP...

 

(First time I've tried doing one of these..so we'll see)

Username: Droid4
Character Name: Seth
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Realm of Residence: (Light, Darkness, or Twilight)
Keyblade wielder, yes or no: Yes
Appearance:

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He wears a trench coat similar to OXIII, with the hood down and coat unzipped. Black boots, pants, and shirt.
Bio: Born of darkness, Seth sets out looking for meaning. He was taught to embrace the darkness within him, that it is stronger than any light. Curiosity and reaching the age to find his own place in existence changed his view, he wants to make his own path.
Extra Info: Cold and careless in nature, with dark, dry, sarcastic humor. He may change as time goes own, to learn to care for other more than himself.

 

Accepted. FFVII meets KH in appearance equals awesome! I think we should wait another day or two to see if anyone else decides to join but after that we'll start the RP.

 

Hey, so Starting this Sunday, I'll be on a vacation with no internet access. :P So Even though I entered the RP, I won't actually enter my characters 'til I get back.

 

Well, how long is the trip? I just wanna know when we can expect you to start up.

 

OOC: Oh, sorry I forgot to tell you. I'll be back on Thursday, We're going to a Church camp, and it ends Thursday Morning. lol, sorry to enter and then immedietly cut out.

 

It's ok. For the next 3 weeks i'll be in a tennis camp so I know how you feel.

 

Username: Fuzzy B.
Character Name: Romeo Uzuki
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Realm of Residence: Darkness
Keyblade wielder, yes or no: Yes
Appearance: http://www.zerochan.net/605699
Bio: Trained by a now passed Keyblade wielder, Romeo was a good man. Until his master was killed right before him by heartless. Via his shattered heart, the darkness was able to weasel it's way in since he was so young and inexperienced. He wanted his old master back, not the new one they paired him with. But Romeo bidded his time, waiting until his training was complete. Thus with Keyblade in hand. He vanished into the world of darkness before anyone could stop him. He was 14 when he was last seen on the Keyblade Wielder's realm.
Extra Info: Fear his might. For he has emerged from the darkness a Keyblade Master of the Dark.

 

So everyone in this thread knows, accepted.

He PM'd me his bio and shizz beforehand.

 

-Username: Spike

-Character Name: Arrow

-Age:18

-Gender: Male

-Realm of Residence: Darkness

-Keyblade wielder, yes or no: Yes

-Appearance: A rugged young man with tired eyes. He has light hair, light brown eyes and is often seen with a cigarette in his mouth.

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-Bio: A Keyblade Master who set out to repair a distortion between the worlds 5 years ago, but lost his heart to the Darkness along the way. He's spent all this time wandering through the Realm of Darkness, looking for a way back to the Realm of Light. He has a dry personality and comes off as an uncaring person, but this hides a sense of responsibility towards people he travels with as he's not the type to let others get hurt in front of him.

-Extra Info:
1) Because he's a Keyblade Master, he has been able to avoid turning into a complete Heartless, but his Heartless form occasionally manifests itself using the feelings of Guilt. It takes the form of a giant black wolf that can cast spells in the form of breath attacks.

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2) He uses a Keyblade called Heart of Magnum

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Just let me know whenever this thing gets started. Haven't RP'ed in ages, so I'm looking forward to it.

 

Nice bio Spike, accepted. We'll formally start tomorrow but everyone can set up the backstories for their characters (what they're currently doing and where in the realm they are) beforehand. It'll help everyone else to be clued in on what your character(s) are gonna be like.

 

OOC: Then if no one minds, I'll get this party started.

Sitting on a dark moonlit beach overlooking a vast grey sea in a world of darkness was a young man sitting on crouched knees, staring at the sea with his eyes fixated on the horizon as if that's all he had been doing for ages. He took a long haul off a cigarette he found in his back-pocket and looked at the moon while gently blowing the smoke out of his mouth. He closed his eyes and pointed his head directly upwards, as if trying to allow his sense of hearing to take over his mind. He let a chuckle slip and half-opened his tired eyes to look at the white moon shining in the sky like a giant luminescent sun.

"At least the waves sound the same."

But he knew something wasn't right with this scene. There was something missing. Something important. In all these years, for whatever reason, this thought hadn't occured to him until now. He took the cigarette out of his mouth as he pondered what was missing, then he slowly exhaled another stream of smoke as he finally remembered what it was.

It was the stars. There were'nt any stars in this sky at all. Just a single moon floating eternally in a dark sky, shining it's light as hard as it could, almost as if the darkness of this neverending night sky would consume it even if it allowed its moonlight to flicker for just a moment. Somehow, he knew the feeling . It was a feeling called loneliness. He silently laughed at himself as he realized that he was feeling sympathetic towards the moon. It had been so long since he'd felt the Sun on his face, seen clouds race across the sky, that he barely remembered what sunlight felt like. The only thing this world had was a cold night that stretched on forever and a jungle full of starving beasts that hungered for whatever remianed of the hearts of lost souls like himself. The thought made him feel anger for alowing himself to stoop so low.

He searched his pocket for something he had received years ago and what he pulled from there was a smooth stone cross tied to a chain with the carving of an arrow going down it's long stem. He almost forgot that he had held on to it, but why wouldn't he? This was something she had made for him before the darkness took her.

It took her from him and never gave her back.

Getting up on his feet and wiping the sand off his pants, the young man let his cigarette fall to the floor as he kept his eyes fixated on that dreary, lonesome moon. Closing his hand and sticking out his thumb, he pointed at the moon with his index finger as if it were a gun he was pointing. He had spent the last 3 years of his life sitting in his own misery while there was still a mission he had yet to accomplish. If he didn't move on now then all the things he had worked for, all the things he had sacrificed, and all those who had sacrificed themselves for him, they all would have been in vain.

He swore on whatever heart that was left in him, this would be the last time he ever looked at a starless night. He stuffed his hands into his pockets and took a few steps towards the sea as a giant door of light opened in front of him. Passing through the door and into the light,the first thought that come to his head was how he wasn't cut out for all this melodrama.

 

In the realm of light, all was as it should be. Well, for a lot of people anyway. For the two young people sitting side by side with their backs to their world, nothing was the way it should be. Alone for as long as they could remember, the twins relied on each-other when they so clearly could not count on anyone else. "Don't worry about anyone else." The boy, Isamu, sat with his arm around his sister. "You are a light of your own, and anyone who says otherwise obviously doesn't know you." His fist that wasn't comforting his sister was clenching his sword tightly, so tightly that his knuckles were white. A group of teenagers from around had told them that they didn't belong in the realm of light, that only those who knew exactly who and what they were should live in the light. In other words, they didn't belong in the realm of light because they didn't know who their parents were. Isamu hated this place. He hated the realm of light, and all those who lived in it. They were right. He didn't belong here, and if it hadn't been for Aya, he would have left long ago. In fact, if it weren't for Aya, he would draw his sword right here and now and go after each and every one of those teenagers who had so hypocritacally judged him.

Aya looked up at her brother, wishing she hadn't cried and upset him. She hated to see him angry, but she couldn't help it. Whenever anyone teased her for being abandoned, she couldn't help but be sad. She dried her tears with the back of her hand and smiled. "Thank you, Isamu." She said. "I'm sorry I let them get to me so. I know they just don't understand us, and I know that I'm special, no matter what they say." She looked up at the sky, seeing the bright stars that lit up the night 'til it was almost as bright as day. "Isamu," she said. "You're the best brother a girl could ever have. I love you."

Isamu hugged his sister even tighter. He would make the citizens of light pay for every tear Aya had shed. He also looked up at the sky, glaring at the stars that, to him, represented those people he most hated. He hated his parents for deserting them, he hated all the people in the realm of light, and he hated himself for letting them hurt Aya. Aya was all that mattered to him. He sighed and closed his eyes. "I love you too, Aya." He breathed.

 

Some great starts everyone. Also, for future reference Yukio is blue and Ayumi is Purple.

Yukio sat outside his home. Most people were inside for the so clled night. They liked to sleep around the same time so they could all socialize at the same time. He found it pathetic and usually just slept during all their stupid 'daytime'. The portal was due within the next 24 hours, and his plan was set. Ayumi was against it, but she knew that he could never love it here. The realm of Twilight was only a paradise if you enjoyed it, just like any other place someone could go to. He wanted so desperately to leave and look up into a sky that wasn't so blank. This realm had no light because there was no darkness. He wanted to stare into a sky with light or to go inside and see things change. He was going to leave. Nobody could change that. Nobody would stop him. Ayumi was the only regret he could ever have... She was the one thing that could make him miss the hell that was Twilight...

Ayumi sat in her bed. She couldn't sleep but she wanted time to forget the troubles of Twilight. Thus place was supposed to be worry free and like paradise... but Yukio had been talking about 'leaving this hellhole they all call paradise' more than ever now. The thought of Yukio in the outside world that they all had desired to leave so long ago scared her. She was afraid, and she knew that when that next portal came... he would make a break for it. Not many people watched it. Only the newer arrivals, but nobody was expected from this portal. It was perfect for him. She looked up at the ceiling and lay down in her bed. She closer her eyes and said one thing.
"Yukio... be safe, will you?"
She fell into a dreamless sleep, as everybody did in the twilight, and could only hope that nothing would go wrong tomorrow.

 

OOC: Wow, you guys are good, especially yours Spike.

Aimless walking, one of the few things there is to do in the darkness. "What's my purpose if only to walk the shores of darkness." Seth thought to himself. After leaving home he thought his problems would leave him, but not having anyone to answer to and nobodies feelings to worry about only weakens the heart. He kicked the lifeless sand, "When the moon is your only companion, you've got problems.." He said to himself.

Just as he was wondering why he had come to this beach in the first place a light shown through in the distance. Living in the darkness for so long, Seth didn't enjoy staring at what appeared to be a portal. "Sunglasses would have been a wise carry on." He walked closer to the large door, watching some spiky blonde walk through, Seth had come to this place in search of this portal that annually appears here.

"I've come this far, be a shame to white out now. It's not like anyone's gonna miss me." Seth stepped on a cigarette that was still smoldering and walked towards the door. His last thoughts before this were only, "I really need to stop talking to myself...." With that he walked in, facing the unknown with a smirk on his face and a blade in his hand.

 

Well, this thread isn't going to die so soon after it's beginning, now is it?

It was 'morning' and the portal would be coming any minute now. Yukio just sat where it should be opening as everyone else got up and walked away, towards the town square. Ayumi was worried for him, now more than ever, but there was no going back. This was his only shot, he could barely take another day of this. He felt like he had memories of before... like they only needed to be reawakened. He tried closing his eyes and thinking about the time before Twilight. Nothing, like every other time. He dreamt of a world full of warmth and comfort, not a world of perfection. Nothing was perfect, but this place was too good to be true. There had to be a catch and he wasn't staying another second to find out what it was. Ayumi was looking out her window and Yukio's eyes met hers for a few seconds. She was scared, he was serious. She walked out her door and came up to him, like she had something important to say.

"Yukio... I can't let you go alone. You don't know what the outside world can be like or what might be out there... so i'm coming with you!
"...I figured you'd wanna come."
Yukio stood up and looked her in the eye. They'd been best friends for years and they cared about each other more than anyone in Twilight could ever fathom. Their love wasn't deep and true because they figured they'd have forever to try. With Ayumi and Yukio... it felt like they had to protect each other or the guilt would haunt them forever.
"Fine. Just... be careful in there. 'Kay, Ayumi?"
He smiled the way she loved and he felt happy. He wanted her to be with him every step of the way. If they weren't together then it just wouldn't feel right.
Ayumi laughed a bit. That smile always made her feel happy and safe.
"Okay... look."
She became serious as the portal appeared behind Yukio. He turned around but turned his head towards her, making sure that she was ready for this. She nodded. They held hands as they both walked into the portal. First it was black, empty and dark. They continued to walk when they saw a small light begin to form up ahead. It never seemed to get closer as they continued to walk toward it, though the light itself began to engulf the darkness.
"Ayumi... whatever happens, don't let go of me. We can't get separated, not now!"
She nodded. She knew how he felt and as the last bit of light engulfed the black, they both began to slip into unconsciousness. She held on tighter than ever... and so did he.