Indie Fandomless OC RP blog. Please read Basics and Guidelines before you interact. If you have any questions, come to me and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities.
BASIC:
Hi there y'all. You can call me Alex or Scotch. I may talk tough or any kind of trash but I'm really just kinda a fragile little lightbulb. I use the pronouns he/him. I'm 20 so there will be NSFW content making appearances here. Whether it's sexual or violence/gore/etc., it might come up. But it will be properly tagged and occasionaly put under a read more. Living in the armpit of america, I must make it clear that I will not RP smut at all with any minors. It fades to black at that point if it even gets that far.
FOLLOWING:
I am a fairly selective person when it comes to who I want to follow. OC's and Canon characters from a number of fandoms are welcomed, but it is also my decision to who I choose to follow back. If I cannot see our characters connecting on any level - even hating each other - I will not follow. There are other reasons but [shrugs].
RPING:
Y'all have read the rules so far. Awesome! Have a cookie. I enjoy writing my character. I enjoy writing with other people's characters. This is not an exclusive blog in the slightest and I won't be secluding myself to a single version of a character. I enjoy interactions of all kinds and I like to see how different people would take on a situation with their character. If you have a problem with me playing with so many other versions of a character, I'm sorry I'm not sorry. I only RP with mutuals. I'm sorry about that, but it just helps keeps things organized to a certain point for me. If it's easier on me, I have a better time on here. I like to enjoy myself when I write. If you ever want to turn a meme into a thread, DO IT. Just please please please put it on a separate post. I don't like reblogging asks.
STARTERS/GREETERS:
So I have the habit of making greeters from time to time, and just about every night I try to post a starter call. Mutuals that like the starter call with usually get something within 24 hour prior to the post. If I ever post something and it's tagged [ ic.greeter ], then that means I made it without aking a starter call. It is just for when I want to call out to someone and all. I don't make them as often as I used to, however, so hop on a starter call if you ever want. Or, y'know, just pop into my askbox. If you can't think of anything but you want to RP, send me Praying Mantis in my ask box and I'll make you a starter. Only you guys that actually read my rules will get this chance.
ASKS/MEMES:
I love getting asks at random about or for Taylor here. If you've got a question for either of us, please send it and I'll be happy to answer. If you've got something you want to say to Taylor, do it. If you just want to hit him, I warn you that he will hit back. But we will answer. For those mutuals that want to send a meme but might not interact with me much/never have before, it doesn't matter. If I reblog a meme, it means I want you in my ask box. Even if it's a shippy thing, I can twist and turn it in just about any way to make it work. Just please do it, yes?
HATE:
I want all y'all haters to stop here right now. If you're going to send someone hate that isn't me, you better stop it. Don't bother them and send it all to me. Get it out in my ask box. But just know that I will neither respond to it nor acknowledge it. It is for you to vent your whiny asses and get over yourselves. Don't make other people feel bad, alright? Tumblr is supposed to be a place for us to escape into the fantasy world. Let it stay that way.
Alright, I think that just about does it so far? I will always be adding new stuff onto here if I can ever think of another rule I want to pop in.
Personal:
Name: Taylor Semuels Age: 31 Gender: Male Sexuality: Homosexual DOB: September 9th POB: New Jersey, USA [no known city] Hair color: Dark brown Eye color: Right eye blue, left eye green Height: 5’10” Body type: Lean, slightly muscled Piercings: None Tattoos: Whatever he chooses to have on his body at any given moment. Usually there is a playing card somewhere on his body. Usually, though, he has a flaming ace of spades on his left arm, an open bird cage in the realistic shape of a heart with silhouetted birds flying out, a tribal tattoo wrapping his right bicep, and charred and bloody wings on his shoulders and back. Scars: Left inner thigh from when he was jumping a fence, fell, and the top tore through his pants and into the flesh when he was eighteen, just above his right brow where he ran into a wall when he was seventeen, a rectangular patch under his left arm, usually covered by his flaming ace tattoo, a slice scar on his ribs where he was near stabbed, a small slice over his chest usually covered by a bird cage tattoo. Living situations: A small apartment, somewhat well furnished, but he doesn’t care for it much. City of residence: New York, not much of a big jump from Jersey Can usually be found: Doing some sort of trick or small show on the corner of a street or in a park or on a job he was hired for.
Personality:
Usually a kind soul, Taylor is an upbeat person to talk to and a joy to be around. He’s got a somewhat sunny disposition, even though he owns very little to his own name and had a shit life leading up. He is not quick to anger or annoyance, but can be frustrated very easily, either if it’s something he is trying to figure out or something that has happened to him that he doesn’t know the reason for. During his working moments or any time he has to drop the smiles and interest, he’s silent and serious. A great contrast from how he is usually. Whatever he does like that, he usually won’t regret it later. But he can drop it easily and pretend that nothing had happened.
Abilities:
● Ink manipulation: User can create, shape and manipulate ink, including moving ink, change the color, consistency/viscosity between solid and liquid, etc., even if the ink is printed/written/tattooed. They can write/scribe/tattoo without tools by manipulating ink.
● Ink Mimicry: Power to transform into or have a physical body made up of ink.
● Power Bestowal through Iconic Imagery: Self explanatory, really. If he were to tattoo someone and give them a certain image, such as wings on their back, they would be given the power of flight. He can manipulate the ink in his own skin to make it whatever he wants and use the power that comes with it. Anything that he were to make as an image with the manipulation would seem almost real or become a superhuman power for the person.
Bio:
Taylor knows neither his birthplace, his parents’ real names, or even the name that he was born with. He had been moving around ever since he was young, his parents carting him from town to the next when something seemed to go awry in his parent’s life. The child didn’t know what his parents did for a living either, nor did he know why they had to leave each time they did. It was something that he rarely asked them about, something he rarely even thought about as he figured it was normal. They moved, changed names, and forgot the life that they left behind. It was something that his family did and something that he didn’t much care to know any more of. This lifestyle continued for almost all of his life, up until his senior year in a town in New Jersey. He found his parents gone from the house they rented and everything moved out. They had abandoned him and left him behind yet he wanted to finish what had been started. Taylor was the last name that he had been given with the move before their disappearance, and it was the name that he graduated high school with.
He knew of his powers somewhere in the middle of his high school years, a wandering and bored mind leading to him drawing on himself with a pen. When he couldn’t wash off the mark or even smudge it later on in the day, he had started to worry if it was going to last. A wandering mind led to an active imagination, however, and when he was in class one day and letting his imagination loose, movement caught him from the corner of his eye and drew his gaze to his arm. The mark he had made on his arm with the pen started to swirl and twist around, forming a small image of one of the things he was picturing in his head. Taylor had been caught by surprise and started to test what he had seen, finding that he could control the image. He didn’t tell his parents of it, didn’t want to be a freak or cause them to move again, only for them to have to do so later. In his free time, he continued to practice, drawing on himself and letting the ink morph into any intricate designs he wanted.
After high school, he wandered the streets and used his ability to become a street magician, using the ink to make a number of different tricks and earn money like that. He took up odd jobs and traveled around when he could, making his money where he got the chance and traveling to bigger cities so that he could display his ‘magic tricks’ to a larger and better paying crowd. The big stage could never be for him, though, as all of his tricks had to be done up close. Street performances were working just fine for him, or the occasional awe in whatever bar he was spending an evening at. Of course, there are days or weeks that he has to do some things that he isn’t, and never will be proud of, but that’s what it takes to keep living in this world.
As he grew older, he was able to further tune his powers and realized his full capabilities. Allowing himself to be hired out by certain businesses, he had been offered jobs to secure information, steal certain objects, and occasionally kill. It took years for him to get used to the latter. Now it doesn’t bother him. A job’s a job and he’s sick of living on the streets.
sᴛᴀɪɴᴇᴅ ʜᴀɴᴅs (Open): Main verse. Taylor in his early thirties, living in an apartment and spending his time either performing on the streets or running jobs for the people that hire him.
ɪɴᴋ ғᴏʀ ʜɪʀᴇ (Open): Marvel verse. Basically the same thing for him but just tagged differently and with the knowledge of the heroes not being from comics or movies.
ᴛɪʀᴇᴅ ᴅᴇsɪɢɴᴇʀ (Open): His own little non-powered verse. Instead of being able to manipulate it, he's a tattoo artist. Works in a small place, lives in a smaller apartment, but still has fun with the slight of hand and doing performances on the streets in his free time.
ᴜɴᴅᴇʀᴅᴇᴠᴇʟᴏᴘᴇᴅ (Open): Taylor in about his late teens. Just a younger verse for him, basically. Before he had learned the full extent of his powers.
ᴄʟɪᴘᴘᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅʏ (Open): Dragon Age Verse. A former elven slave to a harsh master, Taylor's ears were clipped at a young age to seem more human. Later in his years he realized his powers and killed his master and their family, burning the manor to the ground as well. Doesn't live in a set place.
ᴛᴇᴄʜɴɪᴄᴀʟʟʏ ᴀ ᴡɪᴛᴄʜ (Open): Supernatural Verse. Basically his mainverse with Taylor being either on the streets or owning a small apartment from the money he makes. Just explaining his powers and how he became a witch after his parents abandoned him. Just to be able to fend for himself.
He knew that, but it still didn’t stop him from wanting to know those secrets. It was a childish pout that made itself known on his face, drew together his brows and made him look far younger than his years. Puppyish in it’s pleading manner, and unfortunately he was extremely good at giving the dejected, kicked puppy look.
His immature behaviour near earned him missing the disappearance of the paper flower and the appearance of the card that took its place, and— it was really hard to focus when his burning want to know was all he could concentrate on. It was only furthered by his next trick, unable to resist the urge to reach over and trace fingers across the card on his skin, confirming for himself that it was indeed there.
”Come on— just a little hint. Pleeease.”
He could have only expected the other wanting to reach forward to see if the card design really was on his skin, allowing the other to run his fingers along it before pulling back. He gave a laugh as the other gave him the puppy eyes and nearly begged to know a hint from the trick, Taylor himself trying to think of something that he could say. The man couldn’t tell the truth, he couldn’t really do anything, but if he kept saying no, the other could end up getting frustrated and back off. Not something that he wanted.
“It’s not really something that I can explain. These tricks are all ones that I’ve made and come up with by myself.”
Maybe that would work? If not, he would have to get creative, and his tricks were not something with which anyone could gauge that with. On his own, he was not as competent coming up with anything verbally as he was with how he used his powers.
The effort was clear to see, always was with these kind of things. Years of practice were just something to be expected with magic tricks; it was no secret that the best had practiced endlessly to get as good as they were. Himself included, even though his tricks were more the kind of making things disappear. Wallets had such a terrible habit of doing that around him.
Adrian couldn’t help the smile that tugged at his own mouth as that hand was opened again, laughter that could almost be described as disbelieving escaping his mouth as his eyes settled on the now blooming rose. That really was magic, this guy- he couldn’t help but wonder who exactly he was. No average joe was able to perform tricks like that.
”Christ— how the fuck—?”
It was always fun to see the amazement in the other’s eyes, always fun to impress someone like this, and when the other asked how he had done the trick, Taylor only shrugged. He wasn’t going to tell no matter what the other said or did, was just going to leave the amazement, and looking down to the palm of his hand, he swiped his other palm on top and erased the rose. The rose was gone as soon as it was there, the ink becoming invisible.
“A magician never reveals their secrets. I’ve got a few more than those.”
With another flick of the fingers of one hand, he was able to morph a card back in between his fingers, turning it around to show the card was a nine of clubs. Rolling up his right arm’s sleeve to reveal bare skin, he pressed the card to the skin and covered it with his hand, covering the process in which the card melded back into his skin. When his hand was removed, the card seemed to have become a part of his arm, the nine of clubs facing up as it had been.
There were a few ideas he could imagine to the crumpling of the card, a few similar things he’d witnessed before and he wondered what path the other would take with it, what he’d choose to show off in a flourish. But he’d just have to watch and find out, have some patience for once and wait for things to happen before he was second guessing them.
So he stayed quiet, kept his gaze fixed firmly on the other’s closed hand and anticipated him opening it again- had to pause when he did to do a double take. Now that one was unexpected, entirely new and he almost couldn’t believe his eyes. The flower in his hand was constructed so delicately, much like that of the origami ones people spent a while perfecting the skill to do.
"—That’s really cool.“
Saying he was in awe was very much an understatement; he was hooked well and truly, wanted to both know how in the world the man had done it and stay in the dark to keep the magic of it.
Even if the other had asked, he wouldn’t have given him and explanation. There was no way to explain it other than magic, and that was omitting what was really going on. If he told the other what it really was – the looks he’d get. Taylor could imagine them already. But the man didn’t, only saying that the trick was cool, and he couldn’t help but smile and nod.
"Thanks – I work real hard on this stuff. I’m glad they’re appreciated.”
He grinned before closing his hand over the folded flower that was in the palm, crumpling it up again and allowing the ink and skin to mold back into his hand. Instead of letting it disappear fully, he shifted the ink to take the picture of a rose in bloom, fully colored with red along the petals and seeming to have drops of water running down them. As beautiful as the folded flower, he opened his hand to reveal the image, the smile still plastered to his face.
"I would like to show you a magic trick, if you don’t mind. Either you can just tell me or I can give you a pen and you can write it out on my arm, but I want you to think of a design or a pattern you would like to see.“
