Roleplays on Neo

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As you guys are aware, sometimes I make boards on Neo for recruitment purposes. Sometimes those are fun so I'm sharing them here.

01/19/2013
Title: Didn't have one O n O
Plot: Late Christmas Party
Status: Died

::Characters::
Sapphire: Toast
Starfire: Elena
Beast Boy: Night
Wally: Force
Raven: Ravendor
Robin: Jack

How festive. How incredibly festive was the Christmas holiday. The brown haired fireball knew how festive it would be and she was secretly happy when the Titans had a peace-keeping mission out of the city. They had had no time to do anything for the holidays save for some random carolings that she hadn't actually listened to. So today, although she had no idea who did it, she was in shock to find the Tower decorated with a tree and lights and Christmas feast.
What in the world...?
She thought to herself as she sat on a stuffed snowman that proceeded to sing 'Frosty the Snowman'. "Who in the world likes this sort of thing?" She mused out loud to no one in particular. Yet it seemed that on TV and in newspapers everyone was joining the Christmas spirit. She didn't much see the point in dedicating one day to supporting ones friends. Add to the fact that the teen had never had any real friends, save an old woman named Lyn who was her caretaker, and what you wound up with was a bitter teenager.
Stepping into the kitchen, avoiding the awful sound of the stuffed abomination, she quickly opened the fridge and with catlike agility pulled out some milk. Majority ruled, even if she'd prefer them to leave it outside of the fridge, her body unable to handle temperatures colder than 50-60 degrees. As she heated the glass in her hand she thought about going out for a walk before daybreak. Then she noticed the snow on the ground that was obviously there to stay for at least a few days (if weathermen were truly accurate.) "Yay. How exciting, building a snowman." Her deadpan voice broke the silence again though she realized that talking to herself was an unhealthy habit. Readjusting her red hairclip as she sat down, the girl took a sip of her warm milk and exhaled with the warmth.
Christmastime is here. Happiness and Cheer?
Yeah.. right, her thoughts were very angry today for no good reason. Standing once again, it was obvious the girl was short at 5'3" and that was with added support from her black boots with the dark red heels. She had rainbow socks that were quite obviously a contradiction to her established personality but the black shirt with shuriken design and flowy, dark blue denim shorts seemed to match just fine. Add tan hair, dark brown eyes and gray with white tipped cat ears and you had a Sapphire. A confused girl with a minimal grip on sanity and happiness.
Merry Christmas...?

A house cat padded through the halls of the HQ, then decided it was time to take a look elsewhere. When it saw the new Titan, its reaction was no more than a mere tilt of the head. //Huh. So there's the new girl,// it thought, debating whether or not it should go over there and say hello. It decided that a nice friendly greeting was best. "Mrrow," it said, its pea-green figure rubbing against her legs. So what if he hadn't met her yet? He was Beast Boy, and he knew he had an awesome personality. Or should I say /purrsonality/? Yeah, I know. Lame pun. But yes, this "cat" felt like it'd be a good day today. Would she think him just as annoying as the others did?
Was that... it was. A shoelace! //You're no match for me!// it thought, wriggling its rear in the air. And then... it pounced! Grabbing the evil footwear accessory in its mighty forepaws, it sunk its claws into its foe's villainous fabric and battered its enemy with its powerful hindpaws, a look of complete determination on its furry face.

Starfire felt that she could sort of understand this holiday that was Christmas. There was an emphasis on charity, friendship, family, feasting and some big man in a red suit. However, they had not been able to properly celebrate it on the day it was supposed to be celebrated. Yet, they were doing so now. A tree was in their livingroom, letting its prickly needles on the floor, while shiny baubles hung from its branches and lights coiled around it. When Robin had first turned off the lights for the 'full effect', she had been entranced. What a pretty tradition! While she may not understand it completely, she could take pleasure in the warm atmosphere of this holiday.
The Tamaranean walked through the halls, carrying a mountain of oddly wrapped gifts in her arms, enough to obscure her view. She knew her way well enough that she could make it to the common room without bumping about /too much/, but due to the pile could not see who else was in the room with her.

A nice jog, maybe?
The air outside was cold, and white flakes flurried around a teenage superhero who was about to take off to the Titans Tower. He was only an Honorary Titan, but he'd been in town for a while and often visited the team. There was nothing else to do tonight, so it would be no exception to what was becoming a habit. In full, bright yellow-and-red uniform, the redhead took off towards his destination, and Jack Frost was definitely nipping at his nose, or maybe trying to tear it off. Jeez, it was really cold.
He reached the shore of Jump City, and continued to run, straight over the freezing water, without a second thought. Arriving at the Tower, he considered knocking for a moment, but his impatience got the best of him and instead he used his Communicator to unlock the door and invite himself in.
Zipping up the stairs, he saw three of the Titans gathered in the common room. "Hey! Wow, festive, huh?" he noted the lights around him, and the tree lit up. There were even unwrapped presents beneath it. "Man, I didn't bring anything!" he grinned, while actually considering going out and grabbing something real fast. He could wrap it in the blink of an eye and no one would be the wiser.

Raven sighed as she closed her book she was reading. She knew she couldn't hide in her room forever. She would eventually have to face the bright, warm, cheery feel of the common room. She wasn't too fond of Christmas, but was willing to give it a try. Raven always felt uncomfortable with anything pertaining to families or gatherings. Always brought back bad memories that needed to stay gone. Raven slid off her bed still holding her book as she opened her bedroom door that was locked. She then heard voices coming from the common room. She took in a breathe and held it for a moment before letting it out and starting to walk down the hall. *I can do this.* Raven thought as she reached the doorway to the common room and seeing some of the titans already gathered around.

Sapphire glanced down at the furry green cat. She had done her research before her recruitment and she knew who they were on a certain level and a general description of their powers. Obviously their weaknesses, secret identities and families were not public knowledge and she could not obtain that but she was able to recognize who was who assuming she needed to. This was Beast Boy, the changeling who could become any animal he pleased. Sapphire could sympathize with another cat and nodded as a response to his wanting to be petted by her. "Hello there, Beast Boy?" She asked, not wanting to seem like a criminal who knew too much and was a threat to the tower. As soon as the green kitty got distracted by a shoelace, people started gathering in the common room. Who was invited? The Titans? The Honoraries? New Recruits such as herself. She grabbed a few boxes to assist Starfire.
"Um, I uh, I got some so you can see." She was always worried that the Titans would discover she wasn't totally a hero. She had good intentions but bad things seemed to happen around her. She could not stay long. But they all seem like nice, friendly people. She just had to make an excuse to stay or go or whatever she needed to do. She forced a small smile before sitting a few gifts under the tree.

Having satisfactorily defeated the shoelace menace, the green feline let out a triumphant-- and probably annoying-- yowl before looking around the room again. //Oh, there's Starfire! And Kid Flash, and...// His thoughts wandered off as he saw something glorious before him-- the Christmas tree. All those lights and ornaments and strands of shiny tinsel... a look of joy appeared on his face, his tail swishing over the ground. //Preeetty treee...// he thought. //I wonder how high I can climb? Ooh! And maybe I can get that bird if I climb up high enough!// he thought, spotting a faux dove up in the branches. A blur of green fluff could be seen for a moment before he darted underneath the tree and sunk his claws into the bark of its trunk, hoisting himself upwards and causing the whole thing to shake precariously. //Birdy... birdy... birdy...//

Kid Flash smirked at the familar green cat climbing up the tree, and seeing a few ornaments about to fall, he zipped over to the tree and caught them before they hit the ground. "Whoa, there, Beast Boy," he laughed, "You'll topple over the whole tree!" Pausing to look at the presents sitting under the evergreen branches, the speedster tilted his head slightly with curiosity. "So, is this a Secret Santa or a grab bag, or what?" he asked the rest of the team.

Raven closed her eyes and sighed as Beast Boy was rocking the tree as he climbed. *He's at it again.* She thought as ornaments were falling off. Kid Flash had caught them and then asked how the presents worked. "Good question, not really sure myself." Raven responded as she had only heard of Secret Santa but not really understanding it fully.

How had he been at his desk for two and a half hours?
Robin sighed, leaning back in his chair as his hands rubbed over his face and hair in amazement. He'd only meant to come down to check on one fact he'd been thinking about -something about Cinderblock's last holding cell- and he'd managed to dig himself in a study so deep he hadn't even looked up from the table. It was definitely well passed the time to head back upstairs to check on his friends. Besides; he was hungry, and knew that the break from all the catch up work would do his brain some good. Or at least his hair, which he'd massively disheveled by scratching his head once about every 15 minutes since he'd been down there. He pushed his seat out from underneath the desk then stood up with a sigh, taking a second to stretch his arms up over his head with a pleased groan. He hadn't even been in the chair for very long, and already he was stiffening up. That was a sign, to him, that he'd officially done enough detective work for the day. Making sure to turn off the lights on his way out of the lab door, he wasted no time in getting up into the massive room where the fridge waited eagerly for him to find it.
Voices from the common room told him that most of the team must have gathered there, which only further encouraged his decision on putting aside his work for the night. The holiday season might have been over for the rest of the world, but it was time for the Teen Titans to celebrate. It couldn't hurt to relax for just one night.
As he came through the large doors, he stopped and snorted a little at the sight of Kid Flash trying to catch the ornaments that Beast Boy was knocking down in his mad dash for the dove within their tree. He thought about scolding the green teen for being so reckless, but the idea seemed so tiny in comparison with his desire to go for the sandwich he'd made himself earlier that afternoon, though he hadn't had the time to eat it. Waving a hello to anyone paying attention to his entrance, he made his way over and opened the fridge, frowning at how very sandwich-less it was. It didn't take long for him to appear behind his friends. Rather than accusing anyone outright, he took a backdoor to finding the culprit. "Anyone feel like a sandwich today?"

"Ah, Robin, my friend," Kid Flash zoomed over to where he was making sandwiches, "You know I could /always/ use a sandwich. I'm /starving/!" He grinned and started slicing various meats and cheeses from the fridge, cutting around the standard blue fuzz. "Here, I helped," he said, passing over a ridiculous amount of sandwich toppings.
"How's research going?" he asked, assuming that's what the Boy Wonder was up to.

Starfire was assisted, Kid Flash came into the room, and the tree was rattling fiercely as if a bunogalaf had made its home in there. "Thank you comrade Sapphire." She thanked her pleasantly; though they did not know each other that well yet, the alien liked to be friendly unless given a reason otherwise. She added her gifts with the others, and then paused at the question give. "Secret Santa?"Had she overlooked something in her enthusiasm to get presents for her friends. "I had gotten a gift for each of my friends and labelled them as such. Was this wrong?" Indeed, all of the presents had the white sticker and Starfire's distinctively feminine writing--she had even adopted the juvenile quirk of adding hearts above her i's.
The doors opened and Starfire waved back to him though the gesture was somewhat diminished as she was worrying over the proper protocol of her presents. Perhaps it was all for naught; she was never under the impression that giving a gift, even if without the proper procedure, would be offensive... though this was Earth, and they did things differently than she was used to.
The topic turned to food at least, and she considered her leader's choice. That was a rather modified feast for the holiday was it not. She tilted her head. "If we are not having dinner together, then I suppose I could consume a sandwich." Kid Flash was already making one after all.

Robin got ready to speak just as Kid Flash did, "Wait, I didn't mean-" That's what he got for beating around the bush. He eyed Beast Boy suspiciously, narrowing the sandwich thief down to either him or Cyborg, who wasn't anywhere to be found anyway. He thought about saying something then, but decided to just let the whole thing go. New sandwiches were on their way, and his crankiness was already disappearing now that he was out of the dark lab. Plus, it was hard to stay mad at anything with the room looking as jolly as it did. The tree had really done its job. He thanked Kid Flash for his help, and went to put together a few sandwiches for the room. He shrugged when he was asked about the research, "It's, uh.." He thought about all of the time he'd spent, and realized that he'd been looking at so many things at once that he hadn't really accomplished much at all. He breathed a laugh, and shook his head. "It's fine. How about your work in the city?" He handed Starfire one of the sandwiches as she came over, shaking his head with a smile at overhearing her confusion with her presents.

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01/20/2013
Title: Press Your Luck
Plot: round late-January, people begin to start thinking about luck in honor of Saint Patrick's Day. The Titans begin to notice four leaf clovers in odd places that explode into puffs of smoke. As it turns out there is a new villain of luck, who causes bad luck to good guys and good luck to bad guys. He will appear with his magically enhanced clovers and use them to mess with lives. Can the Titans overcome Fate? Or will this man spread his bad luck to the world? You decide.
Status: Ongoing at this time

::Characters::
Sapphire: Toast
Saint Patrick: Toast
Beast Boy: Night
Robin: Jack
Starfire: Rose

The light clicking and glow from the screen were eerie enough in the darkened apartment, whose windows were blinded and then covered with black curtains to ensure no light would come in. Add to that a tall, skinny man who held a magic wand color cane and it was downright sinister. Clad entirely in a formal green suit, he was the epitome of Saint Patrick's Day. He appropriately called himself Saint Patrick or The Four Leaf. Twirling his cane, he stepped away from the computer and laughed lightly.
"Yes, tonight will not be very lucky for the Teen Titans!" Patrick laughed again before preparing his magic for that night. Enchanted four leaf clovers, rabbit feet, horseshoes, coins, dice and a rainbow star. Yet for the methodical maniac, it wasn't enough.
"No!" He shouted out loud, his voice echoing off the walls that had no furniture, no hung up pictures of family. His room was nothing, which was similar to him, a shell of a man. His personality was paranoia and attention to every detail of a plan. Rather than see if a plan simply would not work, he would find every useless quirk in his plan and work and research endlessly on the computer. "This won't work, not at all!
Robin has countless weapons and Beast Boy is GREEN! Why is nothing ever right?!" He sat in his chair and leaned so far back he fell onto his back. He grunted in pain before continuing to type furiously, waiting for the right moment to strike.

"Uhh... guys? I think something's wrong," said a certain green Titan, noticing some very strange things going on outside the Tower via its windows. "Horseshoes are only lucky when they're like this, right?" he asked, drawing a 'U' in the air with his fingers, hoping one of the others would see. "'Cause I know it's weird, but I can't think of any other reason why horses would be walking
in reverse... And people don't usually crash into telephone poles after seeing a tails-up penny, right? Guys? Come on, someone back me up on this!" he screamed, flailing his arms and legs in frustration. "We have a problem going on here!" He sighed. Did /anyone/ ever listen to the little green man anymore?

"You really believe in bad luck?" The new fiery titan asked the changeling quizzically. "The only problem we have here is that you believe in bad luck." Surviving with luck not on her side, the catgirl had to convince herself that bad luck was just a hoax, that Fate really just didn't bother with her, that she created her own problems. Knowing about Saint Patrick's Day, she wore a green plastic bracelet on her left hand to avoid any pinchers who wanted to carry on the tradition. Just in case the rainbow knee socks weren't noticeable enough to repelling the traditional pinch. The rest of her outfit was much darker; a black shirt with a shuriken design on the chest, dark blue shorts that were very baggy and black boots with red platforms that added an inch to her 5'2" height.
The girl began to sip at the tea in her hands and opened up a newspaper article to the new villains picture. "Even the VILLAINS believe in this!?" She sighed before abandoning the paper and looking out the window. She felt horribly stupid when it turned out Beast Boy was right. "Okay, weird things are going on." The girl, Sapphire, admitted defeated.

"It's not about believing or not, Sapphire. Just look out the window!" he exclaimed, his posture changing from straight up to hunched over and ears drooping a bit in dismay. "Well, I guess it's not so bad if--" Beast Boy peeked over the newspaper at the article and screeched. "What?! They're getting /good/ luck?! No fair!" he yelled, stomping his foot. "Dude, that's messed up! Everyone knows it's the good guys that are supposed to get that!" he whined. "Why would anyone wanna give evil dudes good luck? Unless..." He gasped. "What if one of those bad dudes is behind this? What's he gonna do to the city? Oh, no!" he cried out, panicked. Then another horrible thought struck the boy. "What if that dude is gonna attack us and the Tower, too?!" At this point, Beast Boy turned into a chicken and ran around the Tower's interior, crashing into walls and lamps and all manner of potted plants before smacking right into the couch, where he turned back to his normal self, feeling extremely dizzy. "Uuugh..." he groaned, his head moving in a disoriented circle. "Where did all the horseshoes come from...?" he asked before promptly passing out.

Sapphire attempted to shake Beast Boy awake, before the tower got a strike against it. They all had to be ready. "Come on, Beast Boy!" She shouted, not comforting but instead in anger, "it's probably just an illusion like Mumbo Jumbo's magic!" Bad luck didn't exist, right? No need to give it much though, if the good guys were in trouble, that was all that mattered. If innocent humans were in danger, then who cared whether the threat was really there or not. To everyone else it existed, and that was all that mattered in the end. All things considered, the girl's suspension of disbelief had to be pretty high. Aliens, changelings, half-demons, cyborgs, witches and wizard, et cetera. Weird things just tended to happen to Jump City, for whatever reason. Her face flashed a quick expression of concern before she waited for time to wake her green friend.

Uuugh... dude, what time is it? Oh, hey Sapphire," he mumbled, giving a groggy smile. He slowly sat up, giving a catlike stretch. "So, uh... where is everyone else anyway, Saph?" he asked, blearily looking around. "I mean, if we're gonna beat this guy, we need more than just two of us... right?" As confident as he was in his abilities, Beast Boy wasn't dim. If a villain could cause this much chaos in the city, just two of the Titans probably wouldn't be enough to stop him. "If this dude's powers are based around luck... I wonder what would happen if we had some good luck on our side when he tried attacking us? And if we were around with good luck when the dude tried making trouble for other good guys and normal people... would it mess him up? Dude, that'd be /awesome/!" he cried excitedly, grinning and giggling.

"That's good thinking, Beast Boy," Robin stood in the door way, his own copy of the news paper tucked under his arm. It was covered with red markings from where he'd circled facts, and made notes in the margins in case he needed to come back to it later. "But I don't think we're really dealing with superstitious luck here..." Like Sapphire, Robin didn't believe in good or bad luck. He made his own luck, and reacted accordingly when things did or didn't go in his favor. "I think Sapphire's right. It has to be some kind of illusion." He came up towards the window Beast Boy had been staring out of earlier, and peeked through it for himself. The symbols of luck displayed across the city.. they had to be rigged somehow, maybe throwing off the equilibrium of Jump City's citizens so that made clumsier mistakes, making it look like bad luck. It was a theory, at least. "How long since you first noticed all of these?" He asked, not speaking to anyone in particular.

Sapphire was glad Robin had shown up to reinforce her beliefs. "See, even Robin doesn't believe in luck. Though with his personality you wouldn't expect him to." Sapphire gave a light chuckle before Robin agreed with her. Catching her off guard, she barely heard the question that was asked of her.
"Oh, um, I didn't notice anything really. Beast Boy pointed it out a few minutes ago." She grumbled to herself, ashamed that she hadn't caught on to strange happenings sooner. Her reflexes and knowledge needed improving it seemed. "Whatever it is though, I think we should investigate, prove the illusions false."
ooc: oh I completely forgot to have her get mad at him for calling her "Sapph". my mistake o n o

."Oh. So... we can't fight him with good luck?" he asked sadly. "Aw man... and I was all hyped up for some awesome bunny butt-kicking! Hoooo-aah!" he exclaimed, striking a karate pose. "Uh... that's kicking butt as a bunny, by the way. Just to be clear. Eheh." Beast Boy cleared his throat. "So, no awesome giant green bunnies of doom? Uh... then what do we do?" he asked, a pair of large rabbit ears vanishing back into his head. "Investigate. Yeah, but um... how?" he queried, scratching his head with a finger, one brow quirked.

Starfire walked into the room with a yawn. "Hello friends!" she said with a smile, then noticed everyone's serious faces. "What is wrong?" she asked with a little confused. She pulled on a bit of her hair as she waited for an answer. her green eyes darted from face to face wondering who would answer her question.

If the town wasn't under attack by the bad-luck menace, Robin would have laughed at Beast Boy's pose. "We need to track these things down to their source, and find the one responsible," he answered simply, his fist hitting the center of his palm for emphasis as he turned around to face his team, just in time to see Starfire entering nervously. "There's trouble in the city." At least, they thought there was.. The alarm hadn't gone off yet, and nobody in the city seemed to think they were in any immediate danger. Still, it was worth looking into if there could be somebody behind all of it. "We think somebody's using bad luck as a trick to help crime.. The question is: how?" He stepped away from the window, approaching the massive screen at the center of the room to pull up viral images of the newspaper they'd all read.

There was a dark chuckle from apartment 13B as Saint Patrick finally received information. What he didn't know was that he was simply on a fan site, where anyone could post anything. "Excellent, some people actually pay attention to detail!" Patrick continued to laugh, maniacally, evilly. "The Titans do not suspect me at all." He grabbed a king chess piece before dashing out the door with the rest of his good-luck trinkets. His first order of business was to hide in an alley before the Titans would spot him. The element of surprise was necessary for the perfect scheme and what better than a dark alley? Not much really.
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"Any idea where to start?" Sapphire asked Robin, not bothering to throw in her opinions. Leaders didn't like when others tried to take control after all. "Is there a magic shop in Jump? Or a place like a circus?" She inquired, familiar to the area but not familiar to all of the social points of interest it withheld. Glancing as Starfire entered the scene, nervous as ever, and listened as Robin described the situation. "Bad luck doesn't exist though, Star." Sapphire added to prove a point. Her eyes then fell on Beast Boy and his pose of deep thought. "Uhm, Beast Boy, are you okay?" She smirked for a moment before falling back into her normal expression.

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ooc: NOT ON NEO BUUUUT
yup

WATCH ME FAIL AT ROBBIE

Robin pulled out a stack of papers as Beast Boy led the applicants to him. Paperwork was annoying but Batman taught him to document everything so he did just that. "Ryan, before you are able to apply, I'll need to ask you a few questions. Beast Boy jumped the gun here." The Boy Wonder glanced over at Beast Boy who was going to have his hands full with all the superpowered teens. Many people wanted to join the Titans after all, for popularity but Robin had to make sure they didn't have another mole in the team, like Terra.

Sure Terra started out good, but she quickly proved to be a traitor and a spy. The black-haired teen knew that he shouldn't pass judgement but the similarities between Ryan and Terra proved to be great, almost too great. One could never be too careful when it came to new recruits. It was Robin's job to make sure all the applicants checked out before even thinking about how they could join and what their living arrangements should be.

"What can you do? I need a brief overview of your powers and your history. Understand this isn't personal, I just want to make sure you check out." The Teenage Traffic Light was concise and honest, and he held a red pen between his gloved fingers, ready to take the necessary notations when the girl spoke. Behind his domino mask there were tired eyes at the many hopeful teens who just didn't work out. He had to make powers a requirement or very intense training regimes. He was proof that one without powers could prove formidable and he didn't want anyone else to be forced to live up to the standards he unconsciously set. If they could, then why was he the leader instead of them?


Another tomboyish girl sat patiently waiting, book in hand open to a rather far place in the book. She would look up every so often with her brown eyes before turning her head back down to the pages. She was excited by the novel but her face registered no emotion, no feeling. Truly, it was a blank screen. At this moment the girl was wearing a red kimono-style top with a white kimono underneath, from her Japanese heritage. White pants covered her legs and black boots gave her a 1/2 inch of extra height which seemed to do her some good.

People did not like being kicked in the face by a girl with a heel. Actually, people did not like being kicked at all. As the green beaned Beast Boy confused Ryan with a boy, the bookworm just offered a long standing glare. Who said a girl could not have a boy's name or a boy could not have a girl's name?

The bookworm used the name Sapphire, and although feminine enough, she looked like a boy. Her chest and hips were simply not there and her tan hair was kept shoulder length at all times. Cat ears and a tail also donned her body, gray in color with white tips at the end. Fighting was much easier this way but she didn't have many boyfriends. Though after suffering a bad breakup, the girl was beginning to wonder if she would ever need a man. Certainly not! She was a woman, a powerful woman and she didn't need some self-righteous arrogant prick to tell her what to do and how to do it. This served to beg the question, why would she join a group of mostly men?

Deep down inside, even if she'd never tell them, she wanted to learn to control her powers. For some reason, the Teen Titans seemed to be in control of theirs. She'd give it a try.

What did she have to lose?