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.
We happily accept all role-players as long as they obey the rules and are capable of meeting our word count of 50. This does include those who are unfamiliar with this style of role-playing. The staff of The Duality of Man are willing to happily help those who are new to the role-playing world so they feel comfortable on site. Feel free to message the staff if you need help, they can be found here or in the site Discord and will gladly answer questions alongside calm concerns. If you have any suggestions we would love to hear them; guests may use the support board as a suggestion area as well. Should you decide to join, may I say welcome to the site and we all hope you enjoy your time here.
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Summer 2024
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.
Since the wonderful members of TDOM enjoy the site enough to play around on it, this thread is to assist with the site's tidying! Functionality is important and we want to make the site functional even if its activity will be minimal at best!
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Casting upon the gently rolling waves of the ocean waters was a crystal-clear reflection of the numerous stars, shining brightly in the night sky. The Starlight Beach earned its name without a shadow of a doubt. Even far from the more so populated regions of the beach's attraction, the peaceful and isolated cove didn't surrender any of its splendor. Traveling there by foot would prove to be quite the task... much like a long hike through coastal hills to find a hidden treasure not nearly as touched as the open beaches. [break][break] It was past the time where sunlight may have warmed up the cove's region but the summer season led to it still being comfortable out in the night hours. Tonight was the absolute perfect night to see the stars and how they twinkled so prettily on the shore. It was so beautiful... and Alfonse was in a curious, cheerful mood to go outside and see the full moon at its best peak. He heard stories from one of the councilmen's apprentices about the Starlight Beach whenever it was nighttime during a full moon. The other boy, a teen slightly older than him, told him stories about how during the full moon the Beach seemingly came to life. The waters glittered, as did the sand, and if you created a special potion... something really cool would happen if you used it only when the night was clear.[break][break] Alfonse was enchanted just hearing about it and begged his parents to go out with him to the beach that night. Both his parents were busy as always, though. They both had something that was preoccupying them a lot and neither were sharing much about it. They wanted him to 'focus on school' and continue with practicing his magic training... and something about how 'the time will come' for him to 'know'. All the secret-keeping was discouraging him. [break][break] His parents didn't have time to go out and play with him that night but they also wouldn't allow for him to travel alone. Thus, after Alfonse's excited insistence of expressing his desires to see the full moon at its greatest peak, they gave in to his wishes but only with the company of others. Their long-time personal guard and comrade, Ezriel, was entrusted to stay with the boy as was his mother's assistant Mildred. Two of their most reliable and favored people. [break][break] When arriving at the private cove, Alfonse's breath was practically stolen from him as the very shining beach he'd heard so much about during a full moon cast before him. He froze in his steps, momentarily taking it in, before he excitedly bolted into a run headed towards the shoreline. "B-be careful, Alfonse...! Don't trip and fall!" Mildred called out fretfully. The young woman was dressed in casual boho style pants, a simple white tank-top and unbuttoned light coat making up her attire. Her hair was pulled in a messy braided bun, strands of her bangs framing her face. Ezriel on the other hand was much more suited-up with a hooded black coat concealing a muscular physique, intricate straps decorating his arms and concealing a weaponry holster worn as a single strap crossing his chest.The man was very tall and his hood hid his face, of which case didn't create a very welcoming aura surrounding him.[break][break] "Ezriel, Mildred, look! The sand really does shimmer like the stars," Alfonse expressively called out. The more he ran into the depths of the beach's grounds, the more he felt like the Moon was shining upon him and everything surrounding him in a welcoming embrace. "-- Alfonse, please don't run by the rocks!" Mildred called out nervously as she pulled up her pants while tying to cross the sand. "I-I do wish I had time to change my clothes to something more appropriate..." She huffed to herself breathlessly.[break][break] Alfonse was, indeed, not far from a rocky hillside that protruded from the shore and entered a little ways into the ocean. The boy had sprinted so fast that he easily left the two adults behind, though Ezriel was in no hurry. "Stay where we can watch--" The sound of Mildred's voice reached the boy's ears but was diminished by the increasing noise of gently rolling waves as he drew closer to the dampened beach. Finally, he listened and changed directions from where he was running away the cliffside she was so worried about. "I know," He called out to her, slowing down and flailing his arms cheerfully, "I won't go far, I promise!"[break][break] He hoped Mildred wouldn't be nervously hovering over him the whole entire time in anxiety of him somehow getting hurt. Thankfully, she didn't. He went along with her idea of building a sand castle together, which seemed to soothe her greatly as the sound of gentle water and peaceful isolation of the beach captured the area. Ezriel found a private spot of his own around by the shoreline, sitting upon a tall rock that observed the distant ocean. [break][break] Walking with a determined bounce in his step, Alfonse came back from scavenging for more shells to use as decoration for their castle. His bare feet left footprints behind him as he ventured back to where Mildred was waiting for him. "I found different shells we can use. See, this one is a really pretty silver color--" The boy began with a smile upon his face, eyes gazing upon the collection of shells in his hands. Before he finished, he looked to Mildred. Laying upon the blanket she'd placed for them, the young woman had fallen asleep on her side. The sight surprised Alfonse as the boy gazed upon her with large, curious eyes. "Mildred?" He quietly whispered, kneeling down before her... and after looking at her a moment longer, it was apparent she was in a deep slumber. The boy's smile softened. Poor Mildred must have been exhausted... it was nice of her to come with him to the beach even when she must have been feeling drained. [break][break]
He set the shells down quietly by the unfinished castle and stood back up. Alfonse didn't want to wake her when she looked so peaceful and so tired... thus, the boy turned around to look at the ocean waters. Quiet, consistently crashing on the shore... as he watched, Alfonse felt a tranquility fill him that his youthful exuberance hindered him from experiencing when originally arriving. The boy walked towards the shoreline, feeling the sand beneath his toes as he reached the border where the ground was damp. The sand reminded him of finely crushed silver-white diamonds, soft but cool underneath his feet. His Aquamarine hues gently narrowed as they watched the water... how the moonlight reflected clearly upon the surface with every sway and ripple. The glowing white aura from the moon was so pure that his own eyes illuminated from it, lost in silent appreciation.[break][break] ((OOC: Woo-hoo, LONG STARTER POST xD The muse hits when it hits, I guess! I'm very excited to see how you introduce Desmond. ^^ Please message me if you have a question or if something doesn't work~.))
There was a fire burning through his veins, molten flames that seared his skin as it corded through the length of his legs to the pulsing beat of the oceans waves. A wall of water crashed against his form, folding over his body which lay outstretched against the glistening sand, illuminated a deep shade of blue under the shine of the moon. [break][break] A heartbeat passed, and then another; life grasped him. Steely gray irises flashed under the white moonlight, his eyes opening as he was seized in a horrific fit of coughs. Hands a ghostly pale and as cold as ice curled into the wet sand underneath, strength rippling through his arms as his upper weight was lifted and the ocean’s curse was expelled from his lungs. [break][break] Mother nature was not kind. Harsh waves continued on, battered him, while the fire that burned blue in his veins seared further into his thigh, climbing higher to his naval and setting his fingertips ablaze. Weakness flooded his miserable existence, muscles contracting under the weight, until he fell to the wet sand once again. [break][break] Beyond his gray eyes, illusionary wisps of hazy blue spirits spiraled upward in a spherical dance, encroaching, and the stars that once filled the sky began to fall, raining over his crippled form. The white mist which often plagued him returned, exiting his mouth upon exhale, and before him a shape began to take form; a glimmer of a fox scurrying through the wisps of a forest, dissipating as it took flight.
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Watching the waves lulled Alfonse into solace. The distant noise of waves rolling forward, tumbling into a smooth roar before crashing onto the damp sand and sending bubbling foam searing up towards his toes... it stirred inside his chest a feeling of comfort. A feeling of home. Ever since he was a child it was always the same feeling of comfort and happiness that filled him whenever he was somewhere calm by the water. Libraries, gardens, and cafes with decorated desserts were happy places of his but the feeling that captured him whenever he was somewhere like this was different than the rest. He was brought into stillness and ease... temptation of entering the waters beginning to murmur in his subconscious.[break][break] Abruptly loud wheezing and coughing broke such a trance. Alfonse's shoulders tensed and shot upwards in fright, completely caught off guard by an unfamiliar and very endangered noise of someone choking, o-or drowning...? He instantly looked beside him, and then jerked his head to look in the opposite direction to find where it was coming from. [break][break] An unnatural glow caught his eyes... o-one that gradually yet fairly fast grew as it took the hinted possible shape of an object. Except... i-it wasn't just an object... it visibly moved and was clearly the source of the sudden noises of struggling distraught. Alfonse's solitude was interrupted with quite the scare, and the boy's heart strummed worriedly as he eyed the strange creature while beginning to approach it with haste. [break][break] He paused, hesitantly ducking a little as though trying to safely find a means of peeking and seeing... wh-what and who was there. The smell of salt water and ocean debris made it much more difficult for Alfonse to pick up on any particular scent that may have made the strange glowing person any more distinct. The boy straightened his posture and took another few frantic steps closer. He then saw more clearly what looked like blue glow actually being subdued under clothing.... a-and with another few steps, his heart racing faster, Alfonse saw that it was a man that had fallen upon the shoreline, waves crashing against him while a blue glow radiated intensely from his fingers. O-Oddly, the moment he had drawn near to the stranger... a pulsing ominous sensation gripped at him. One that didn't feel like his own, yet... unpleasantly ruptured the beautiful shores with an unnerving gloom.[break][break] The boy's youthful eyes widened in complete shock and confusion, his mouth dropping open as he once more stopped. H-how could he have not seen, or heard this man possibly drowning on the shore before now?! I-It was as though he just... emerged through the waves like this, eerily glowing! A-and why did it suddenly feel so powerfully eerie around this man...? Gulping quietly, Alfonse was forced to take a step back from how sudden and overwhelming it was. "A-ah, um, u-um sir... do you need any help?" He asked worriedly, cupping his hands together near his collarbone and face colored expressively with complete bewilderment. The sleeves of his black hooded cloak fell slightly from the notion of his arms, revealing the buttoned wrist-cuffs of his white shirt underneath.
Noises echoed, like whispers on the wind. They came to him in the night, swirling around his crumbled form, tender tendrils of motion brushing against his aching flesh. The stars rained down, shimmering and twinkling reflections of light while a thick and ominous smog began to inch its way across the shoreline. [break][break]
Encroaching.
[break] Emotion shone within the dark depths of his silver gaze, stars raining down within their reflection. A world of madness. Footsteps approached, like a memory long forgotten, his gaze following the length of smooth alabastar limbs. The world glitched and distorted, while the black smog ever neared, accelerating , abruptly billowing upward as though caught in an updraft. The stars blasted away in an invisible gust of breath. [break][break] Silver met the deepest depths of blue, where the stars had escaped to shine and twinkle. A pathetic groan wheezed from his lungs, parting from his lips. His chest heaved and then shuddered on a breath as he pushed himself to rest on his back, both arms outstretched at his sides as the tide rolled over him. The sky continued its gradual rotation overhead while the smog continued to rise, forming giant, horrific, pillars.
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For a second their eyes crossed paths.... silver hues meeting with Alfonse's gaze. Barely but a second later another wheeze sounded from the struggling male, startling the boy as his form jumped in place. Whatever strangely spooky feeling was taking hold of him once he'd neared the male made him feel all the more on edge... and the young boy couldn't shake off a surge of apprehensiveness towards the faceless man because of it. He worriedly bit down on his lip, lightly chewing it as a nervous tick as his hands remained cupped by his chest. Glowing blue whirled around the stranger's dark demeanor, his clothing nearly blending with long dark hair that was astray his back.... th-the whole suddenness of him showing up, and in such a conspicuous way was almost as terrifying as it was mind-blowing.[break][break] "... U-um..." A small, shaking noise left Alfonse when no verbalized response was given. The man had fallen onto his back whilst another rhythmic motion of waves came searing over him before slowly sinking back. With how his arms spread in defeat against the sand, it looked as though he was forfeiting himself to the ocean.... letting the waves take him if they so pleased. ".... Sir?" He once more attempted to communicate but any form of certainty had left his tone, causing his voice to fall quite soft among the more so prominent commotion of the ocean backdrop. [break][break] This man must have been hurt, or fatigued, o-or something bad must have happened to him because this wasn't normal! I-It wasn't normal for someone to appear out of nowhere like this and to be glowing like... l-like some super-powered jellyfish! His mind fled through all kinds of confused and increasingly nervous thoughts in trying to make sense of the situation, a-and.... with another couple steps forward, he found himself practically paralyzed in place as though a silent voice murmured into his subconscious not to draw closer. Fear... danger... i-it all very powerfully, and weirdly surrounded whomever this man was.... and it worsened every passing second he was close.[break][break] Alfonse took a deep, shaking breath. He was seconds away from calling out for Ezriel... b-because he was starting to feel freaked out and worried about what was going on with this person... but as another rolling herd of waves started roaring towards the man, the boy spared his idle body. A translucent light, silvery glow mixed with a hue of pale blue whirled from his fingers in a similar waving current of illusory clear water. Releasing his hands from their clasp, he held out his palms to face the waves. Beside the man, the very same glowing hue appeared, creating a shimmering see-through rounded-shield that went half-way over him. Its demeanor almost looked like a glass reflection of the moonlight and stars with how clear, yet idly silver-hued the shield was. Once the waves met where the dark-clothed figure laid, wild splashes of water bounced off from the protective aura that saved him from being caught under the current, dispersing into frantic droplets while the rest of the waves seethed around and away from his figure.
Illusions in the night. Gray pillars of billowing smoke; a living nightmare. Desmond closed his eyes and surrendered, life forgotten. “U-um… Sir?” The voice distorted on the rolling waves, becoming feminine, and even in darkness he could not escape. In a burst of brilliant white light, the lithe frame of a female appeared, sunflowers clutched at her breast. [break][break]
Yasumi?
[break] The man’s frozen steel gaze snapped open as waves crashed over a translucent barrier that had been erected to encase his battered and soaked form. Waves pummeled the clear structure and within it he could see the vision of his own reflection. A haunting and sickened image, all life drained from his corpse as he barely clung to life. [break][break] Reality shifted, sanity… returned, if only for the barest of moments. His gaze swept passed the arcing dome, and the ocean’s wrath, to a shadowy figure in the distance. Moonlight poured from the heaven’s and glistened over red-orange hair, and his reality glitched. In the boy’s stead he saw a female, red-orange hair flowing in the moonlight, crystal blue eyes peering at him with so much… [break][break]
Despair.
[break] Haunted. Desmond sucked in a sharp breath and forced his body to comply as he turned and began to pick himself up from the sandy prison. Like a half dead creature he stumbled and hunched, lanky arms limp, his coat whipping at his legs in the unforgivable torrent. The blue glow that had once encased more than half of his body had dimmed, ultimately returning to the prominent black scarring that it was. [break][break] The sand squelched under each heavy footfall of his slow and impending advance. Around him, tendrils of insanity remained, the ocean glowing an iridescent blue, like the stars still reflected in the child’s eyes. The lone silhouette of the child on the beach’s shore, hands raised, palms outstretched, as he held the tide at bay.
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Eyes snapped open and like a shadowy ghost haunting the desolate shores, the stranger nearly floated up from where he'd befallen the damp sand and staggered onto his feet, and an even stronger eerie aura surrounding the beach's enclosure that Alfonse hadn't felt before his gaze had met with his. [break][break]
His hands somewhat trembled, glossed in the same silvery-blue hue of magical glow as they kept the summoned shield up to protect this man from being thrown back down by the waves.... but a part of the boy wondered if... h-he should even be helping someone that was starting to seem so ominous.[break][break]
The shield nonetheless followed the man and Alfonse felt a combination of confusion and terror as the man advanced towards him without saying a word. It were as though the strange dark figure had gathered just enough energy... t-to literally be walking right at him. [break][break]
"A-ah, um, sir--?" Alfonse attempted again, this time his voice riddled in more fear. Beginning to take a few steps backwards, he followed his words with a more so assertive, "Wh-what's wrong? Who are you?" A tightness in his throat begun to surface and the auburn haired boy was emotionally feeling closer to just.... f-forgetting about keeping the tides away from the previously down-stricken man and running back to Ezriel. It was, however, the very weakened state of his that kept him from quite yet running... to see what was wrong, however foolish that may... end up being.
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