Welcome to The Duality of Man, an original animanga role-play that features numerous supernatural creatures. Unfortunately, these various species have distanced themselves because of the war that occurred thousands of years ago, plaguing some with eyes that only see their dualism. While others meddle themself with their differences, two groups fight, each attempting to eliminate the other in for their definition of worldly peace. These two groups of the Terror Response Syndicate (TRS) and the Assembly of Phantoms (AP). With individuals fighting merely over their differences, it brings uncertainty to the outcome of this war.
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Summer 2022
Heat has broken through into a glorious summer. The snow has entirely dried through the spring, leaving to the brilliance of the warmer months. Terror activity has risen as people are brought out of their homes, leaving the TRS in a position of consistent work. Each are attempting to maintain victory in the endless struggle for power.
With April, an activity check has arrived for members to do! Please post on the AC and tag all your accounts, including WIPs and OOC accounts. Failure to post on this AC will result in your accounts being marked inactive or deleted. Please note, due to a late start, the due date for this check has been adjusted for one time and one time only.
Logan hadn't really known what brought him to the outskirts of the area. He was sitting down on a rock with his pet Jackal Juliet next to him as he pet her. His black furry hood on over his head with his headphones in listening to music. As he messed with a cell phone he had trying to make improvments to it. He had his normal long sleeved shirt with a few gashes in the sleeves, with a sleeveless black coat with a hood that appears to have fur on it like the fur his black-backed jackal from would have. His pants are more of legging fabric that also have tares in them. He wears a red pouch on his side that goes around his waist that keeps screwdrivers and a compass in it along with a few small medical supplies. He has very small feet for a guy because of the jackal having smaller feet. His shoes are a little big for him as was said before, they are sneakers to give him better traction than other shoes. Made for running and climbing. They are red with grey souls and black shoes laces.
His blonde hair covering his left eye that had a scar over it. It was clear if people saw his back or his teeth that he wasn't a normal human. But that he was a shifter. Logan was only 19 years old but was very thin and underweight he had gotten nervous again today and skipped two meals of the day already. Which was worrying Juliet as she whined at him. Wanting him to eat but he just pet her to calm her down. "I'm fine girl really" he smiled.
[attr="class","lbtTextContent"] Logan was out of town for the day. Zoe wanted him to "get some fresh air and try to calm the fuck down". [break][break] He was tired of being cooped up in the apartment anyways. Or well, the surprisingly fancy space hidden in the upstairs of a supposedly abandoned warehouse. So here he was, on the edge of town, wearing a grey hoodie that was too small and jeans that managed to be tight and yet loose. The sleeves were short, so portions of his tattoos stuck out into open view, though his hands were in the large front pocket of the pull over hoodie, obscuring most of it once again. He had a black single strap backpack thrown over one shoulder. [break][break] He was ascending a short but steep hill, and after having crested to the top, he noticed someone sitting with.. not a dog. Or at least, not a normal, family dog. Maybe a hunting dog. [break][break] But this guy obviously was not the hunting sorts. Gashes all over his clothes, he was either homeless or "edgy". [break][break] Logan walked up towards the person, whom had earphones on, and sat rather abruptly down next to him. Sitting closer, Logan could tell the boy was markedly thin. A shifter (Logan can "see" species) out in the wild with gashed clothing and a probably hunting dog. [break][break] "You lost?" Logan's voice was deep, and, combined with his 6'2" height and muscular, though not sculpted, build, intimidating.
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Logan had kinda jumped although he didn't hear what he said because of the headphones his Jackal did. As he took out the headphones that had been in his ears. "Sorry about that I was kinda plugged in" he said politely as he turned around a little intmiadted for how tall and deep the mans voice was. However he remain as calm as he could. Juliet barked at her owner her friend Logan telling him what this man had asked him. "Oh so that's what he asked thanks Juliet".
Turning his attention back to the man he looked at him "No I'm not lost. Although this is my first time at the outskirts. I'm Logan this is Juliet" he smiles petting the black-backed jackal next to him. "What brings you here?" he asked in a polite but curious way. As he turned around putting away the screwdriver and small parts to his phone in his red bag that was around his waist. Juliet was standing next to her owner she was a small young jackal and Logans best friend.
[attr="class","lbtTextContent"] "Didn't know shifters could speak dog," Logan said gruffly. He looked out, away from town, towards the vast Canadian wilderness. [break][break] Well, civilized wilderness. He could see a highway and a small technically-a-town that consisted of a department store and a block of rundown houses off in the distance, far enough away that the cars were smaller than ants. [break][break] "Heh," Logan blurted out as the other Logan introduced himself. "Small world. Name's Logan too." He reached down and held out the back of his right hand towards Juliet. [break][break] "I'm just... walking. What typa dog is she?"
Logan looked at the man surprised he had figured out he was a shifter. I mean he hadn't even told the man he was a shifter. But smiled when he said his name was logan. "Actually shifters can understand any animal. But they can understand what they shift into more than any other animal". He smiled as he looked out at the wilderness too "Nice an peaceful huh, more so than the hussle and bussle of everyday life huh".
He noticed the man who's name turned out to also be Logan reaching to pet Juliet. Juliet didn't seem to like being called a dog but let him pet her. "Actually she's not really a dog, I mean she is related to a normal dog but She's actually a Black-backed Jackal, same thing I shift to." He smiled as she let the man Logan pet her. "That's cool your names Logan too." He then smiled as Juliet nudged Logan (my logan) with her tail to try to make friends. He yipped at her in Jackal speak. "Are you crazy he wont want a failure friend like me. Besides you know how nervous I get trying to make friends, I end up someetimes talking like this to them." She yipped back "Just try it after all I like you so does yur sister". Logan sighed "sorry about that I was just taling to Juliet she wants me to try and make friends, and I'm not so sure many people would want to be friends with someone whos parents coisder them a failure." He said as she let the other Logan pet her.
[attr="class","lbtTextContent"] "Jackal? Huh. Looked like a hunting dog. Not that far off I guess." [break][break] Juliet had a nice coat. Coarse, but nice. [break][break] Logan just kind of sat there as Logan barked at the dog. [break][break] He took a deep breath. [break][break] "Look, I'm not out to be makin' any friends right now." [break][break] Logan paused. [break][break] "But I can relate. To the parents thing." [break][break] Logan leaned back, the hood falling off his thirty four year old head. This more plainly revealed the dragon tattoos that crawled up his neck and disappeared under his hairline. [break][break] "Do shit in school. Do shit out of school. Make the folks angry. Run away. Life's a fucking bitch and she can keep her damn lemons."
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[attr="class","lbtNotesContent"] @logan[break] Just a reminder that Logan is an escaped felon with multiple homicides and a bank robbery under his belt.
"I guess their not excited for the tall ears and the fact she hates dogs" Logan said as he pet Juliet. She seemed happy when pet she was no dog though. Logan smiled at her and looked at the other Logan. "Ya I figured that would be your answer seems to be everyone's answer." Then he herd him mention parents "mine only wanted a boy which they got in my older brother and a girl, I was the thing not wanted, besides for some reason they both hate shifters and I'm the only shifter in the family." "My brother is a gifted human, twin sis is a familiar" he said as he looked up at the sky as he payed back. "So what's your story if you don't mind me asking " he said as politely as he could.
[attr="class","lbtTextContent"] "Look, kid, if you knew who I was, you wouldn't be askin' to be friends right now." Logan's mouth curled down, and his eyebrows pointed to his nose as he talked to the other Logan. After a few moments, his face relaxed and returned to looking out over the 'wilderness'. [break][break] "Didn't realize a family could be so... diverse. Shitty parents." [break][break] Logan was not exactly... well traveled. To him, that family makeup made him think 'cheater and/or adopted'. But this kid would figure that out eventually. (Or Logan was just uninformed, these are just his thoughts). [break][break] "My story huh..." [break][break] Logan dragged out a pause for a bit. [break][break] "Nah, it's boring as fuck and depressing." Logan frowned. He drifted backwards and down, until he lay upon the rock.
Logan listened to the other Logan as he looked at him a bit a taken back by his appearance at first. However he calmed quickly as he focused on the man's words rather than his looks. Logan wasn't sure what the man meant by if he really knew who he was he wouldn't want to be friends with him. However, this just confused the young Logan, as some questions passed through his mind. Why wouldn't he want to be a friend to this guy? Why did this guy think right away that he wouldn't want to be friends with someone like him? Why did he seem to think this? It was true Logan didn't know anything about this guy other than his name is Logan, and sure he knew there could be a chance this Logan was right. However, this other Logan was forgetting one thing. This other Logan didn't know the younger Logan himself either. So how could he know that he wouldn't want to be friends with him? Besides, there were other reasons for why he had Juliet where ever she went. Being an animal and a canine she could sense when someone would or had an intent to do harm to him or herself. Yet she had let this Logan, a complete stranger pet her.
So Logan believed this man had no ill intentions towards him or her, or that he wasn't as bad as he seemed despite him looking like he was a treat or treating the person not to be trusted. Although he knew sometimes that Juliet’s senses could be wrong and that she could make a mistake in trusting someone as he himself could. He knew she still had a better sense and could read peoples intent better than he could, sometimes her sense was better than going by someone's own instincts. So, therefore, Logan trusted her completely. Seeing that she let this stranger named Logan pet her he concluded that this guy had not ill will, intent to harm, or wasn't as bad as he appeared. Although he knew neither of them knew this man well at all he still relied in what Juliet felt. As this other Logan may not realize due to not knowing them yet but Juliet letting the other Logan pet her that it was actually a really big deal, a bigger deal than most people would realize.
He then gathered his many thoughts into simple terms ”Its true I don't know you other than your name is Logan too and is true I could not want to be your friend if I got to know you. However, like me, you don't know me well either yet so I could be the kind that doesn't want to be your friend, however as I said since you don't know me well, you don't know if there could be a chance that I would want to be your friend.” He said as he smiled at the man petting, Juliet, besides Juliet here has a special talent of reading when people are a threat to me or her, however, it is true that she can be wrong sometimes she still most of the time can be better than a person's instincts on who are threats or not. So since she let you pet her I believe your not as bad as you make yourself sound.”
He then would pet Juliet more as the the man thought about it or at least as he made a pause, but then he turned his attention back to the man when he started to speak. He heard him say his story before the pause then heard him say ”Nah, it's boring as fuck and depressing." As he heard that he nodded respecting that he didn't want to talk about it however when the man said it was a depressing life another word came to his mind that he always thought of when he heard people talk about or mention depression or depressing things, and that word was lonely. He then did a half smile as he spoke ”Its ok if you don't want to tell me as I know I am a complete stranger, however, when you say its a depressing story it makes me think it must be a lonely one too. When it comes to loneliness from my experience sometimes talking about it with someone that is willing to listen can help with the loneliness. At least that's what I have seen and from what my twins told me. However, I also understand not wanting to think about depressing things or experiences people have had. But more than that I respect your decision to not want to talk about it. Even though you say its boring too. Which again goes back to what I said earlier it is true I could possibly find your story boring, however since you don't know me that well you also don't know if I would or would not think its borning.” He said as he stopped talking realizing for one of the first times ever especially with a stranger that he had talked too much, but he also stopped talking because he felt and didn't want to be or seem too preachy. Since he knew lots of people didn't like that. As he then again took his attention away from the man to pet Juliet as they sat there in the quiet yet peaceful outskirts.
occ/notes: omg my first time with a post over 900 words long. I hope its good and gives you enough to work with. I am very proud of this post. I also hope I did better with the spelling and grammar this time in this post. @zeethesecond
self notes: # of words without notes and tag = 908 # of words with occ/notes for zee = 950 # of words adding tag = 951 # of words adding self notes = 982 total words + final numbers = 989
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