Soldiers of Light, sign-up (Here we go again.)

[Raiden]

Alright, as the title said, I've done this RP before. Twice, actually. The first time, it was completed. So...yay. The second time, I was forced to end it prematurely due to some unforseen circumstances. But now, by popular demand (and a few PMs from some interested people), I recreate this classic from the old forums.

The story is as follows:

The RP is set in a feudal Japan setting. Over a thousand years before the current RP takes place, the Demon King Talkatz decided that he no longer just wanted to rule the underworld and the demons which inhabited it. He wanted to rule the human world as well. So, he and his army of demon soldiers moved into the human world and started to take over. Now, as could be guessed, the humans didn't like that too much. They fought back, but no fight they ever fought ended well. A great turning point in the battle happened when a demon and a human worked together.

A demon blacksmith in Talkatz's forges was not there by choice. He didn't want to have any part of the fight. However, he was one of the greatest divine sword artisans that the demon world had to offer. As such, the demon king took his family hostage, and forced the demon to work for him. One day, a human samurai named Tama Genkai was wandering the wastelands, searching for any means to destroy the demon interlopers. In his travels, he fell into a deep hole, and landed in the demon forgers. The demon blacksmith and human samurai met, exchanged stories, and came up with a deal. The demon blacksmith would forge a sword of untold power, and Tama would use it to destroy Talkatz. Then, the human world would be safe, and the demon would get his family back.

After several months of forge work, rune work, and searching for the rare materials needed, it was finished. From a mix of demon forge and human purification magic came the birth of the Raigaki, the Sword of Light. Tama took the sword, and began to fight his way to Talkatz's lair. Along the way, he managed to collect a small group of followers, each special in their own way. When they reached the Demon King's lair, they were expected. There was a large army of demons waiting for them. The entire army was slaughtered before the might of Tama and his followers. The problem was Talkatz's elite demons, the Weapon Altmas. They each specialized in a demonic weapon, and to get Tama inside to fight the demon king, his followers sacrificed themselves to destroy the Weapon Altmas. Once inside, Tama faced Talkatz in battle, and almost defeated him. Before he could be fully killed, Talkatz separated his soul from his body and escaped. Tama left the lair, and went home. He then hid his sword in a secret place, so that if or when the Demon King returned, the sword would be ready for its new owner to wield it. Well, it's a millenia later, and Talkatz is up to his old tricks again. And Kurama Genkai, a distant descendent of Tama, is leaving home with an ancient blade at his hip...

A fun twist in this RP is that we have both good guys and bad guys. The bad guys will help add in some character to the other side. And they don't always lose. They might run in and steal something the good guys were going to get, and then the good guys will have to run after them. However, an important thing. THE BAD GUYS WILL LOSE AT THE END OF THE RP. At the end of the RP, you will either go down with your master, or convert to the good guys. And also, this is a mostly fighting RP. So, there will be at MOST two mages on each side. The rest will use melee fighting.

Also, your character needs a special skill they can use in a fight. It can't be something like "I'm a great swordsman!". It's the feudal era. If you aren't a swordsman, you're dead. But if you can, say, set your blade on fire with your mind so that it both burns and cuts, well that's pretty damn special.

Sign-ups are as follows:

Name: (Obvious)
Side: (Good/Bad)
Race: (Human/Demon/Half-Demon. Also, your race doesn't decide what side you're on. You can be a demon that's on the good side, or a human on the bad side. It doesn't matter.)
Age: (Obvious)
Appearance: (Obvious)
Weapons: (What's he/she packin'?)
Special Skill: (Can he/she split into two? Can he/she shoot arrows tipped with explosives? A robotic arm? Very short distance teleportation? What?)
History: (What did he/she do before joining the team?)
Extra: (Anything else you want to add in.)


As an example, here's mine.

Name: Kurama Genkai
Side: Good
Race: Human
Age: 23
Appearance: Long black hair that's tied back into a pony tail. Stands about 6'2", with a lean muscular build. Wears standard samurai clothing, but no armor. Wears sandals, and his sword hangs from his left hip. His sword has three runes on it's blade, and it's almost always glowing with a soft light.
Weapons: The Raigaki, an enchanted katana. If a demon even touches it, it will burn them.
Special Skill: Unlike the other characters, Kurama has more than one special skill, and he will continue to gain more as the RP progresses. It's not necessarily that HE'S gaining the skills. It's more like the sword is leveling up. At the beginning of the RP, he has the following:
-Kama: Launches blades of light from his sword.
-Simpo: Kurama jumps high into the air, much higher than a normal human could ever hope to jump. Then, using the momentum of his fall, he points the tip of his sword down and pierces through a target.
-Dangik: Very destructive. Kurama swings downward with his blade, sending a very large, very powerful blast of light energy flying forth. And no, I'm not copying the Windscar from Inuyasha. I thought of it before they did, so if anything, they're copying me.
History: When he was around 5 years old, Kurama saw a ghostly figure. The figure led him to a hidden grotto, and it was there that he found an old rusted piece of metal that had once been a sword. When Kurama picked it up, the sword burned off the rust and shone like the day it first left the forge. After that, his life was dedicated to becoming a strong fighter, so that he could finally defeat the Demon King. Because of this, he didn't have a very eventful life up to this point.