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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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.
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For another time Ozaei burst into a laughing fit, clearly amused by her response to the deceased spider. "If you're that upset about the spider being dead you could give it CPR! Whatdoya say?!"
His laughter ceased when she moved in to fix his hair, confused at how it could get any better; Ozaei assumed a small touch up wouldn't kill him. "Thanks... I guess..." they said slowly. "Uh yeah I do! Did you forget I have to act like Madame Dolores when out and about?! Besides... you're all flimsy and loopy and... not fast. It'll be easy-peasy." He finished with a big smile.
"Oh well fuck me then-" Ozaei said before stopping mid sentence. The sensation running through him, healing him, was strange to him. It was nothing like how Madame Dolores's "healing"... if it could even be called that. For once, he was dead silent, still, just watching Haley. "Neat..." he managed to say, finally, "You really are an angel." But alas, good things cannot last forever. As soon as he felt himself back to 1% capacity, he jumped up (instantly overheating) and laughed.
"DAMN! Greece?! Do you know Zeus? Hera?! Didn't know you were THAT old that's fuckin' awesome Angel! You look like... like... a pretty... object...!" He stumbled over his words, failing to voice a simple compliment on physical appearance. "N-Not that you are an OBJECT I mean, like, you know what fuck it man... ANGELS SHOULD BE IN HEAVEN! So! I swear to you by your name I will bring heaven down here! The Madame can help with it! She's an ang- SEER- sheit I'm not supposed to be talking about her. Anyway imma feed you know. As my date and a heavenly being you must eat. It is ME, Dolores's, job to do so!"
Ozaei's body began to spark again, a surefire signal that he was going to do something reckless. It wasn't like he could feel it.
Grunting in frustration with himself, he nodded profusely. "Right!" He said, gritting his teeth, "Of course you don't need to eat! I'm a god damn fucking idiot! Duh! You're an ANGEL, angel! But I'm still feeding you so let's get to steppin'. Brownie points for the faithful..." He finished by clasping his hands as if he was praying, looking up towards the sky as a large grin creeped it's way onto his face.
Returning his attention to her, he listened to every word closely, thinking about his answer for once before he said anything. Running a hand through his own hair he sighed. "Yeah, yeah... kinda forgot my ability to heal fast is broken as fuck. So you got yourself a promise!" In his excitement, he sent surges of electricity through his body, making his eyes flicker but causing him to overheat. Again. Immediately realizing he just broke the promise, his eyes widened. "...I'm going to hell. I just lied to an angel. Maybe Madame Dolores can do something she's a Seer... no wait that woman is more demon than angel- Seers aren't Angels- FUCK! I'm sorry! NOW I promise! For real this time!"
Again freezing only to burst out in laughter again, Ozaei fell over through his own amusement, slowly getting back up to his feet. "Aww that's so god damn cute. Didya kill a baby bee too? Or a mouse? I bet you also killed gnat with a electric racket! God..." Looking over for just that, he spotted a daddy longleg near a table. Electricity cackled as he quickly retrieved it, dropping it near her and returning to his original spot. Pointing to it, he smirked. "I could. Bet ya didn't even see me move."
Taking the spare clothes he put them on over his own, clapped on the bracelet, and sent a wave of static through his hair to make it more straight. Inspecting himself, a huge smile engulfed his face. "Huh. I rock this look better than you do, Pacifist Amy."
As the questions poured from her lips Ozaei just stared, confused as a deer in headlights before things started clicking in his head. Maybe he was more fried than he thought, but he should heal just fine, right?
"Nah I don't think I'm insane, now my mom? SHEEITT..." he said, immediately thinking about the many troubles he got into in the Dark Market and the punishments a certain woman would administer to everyone but him. "Can't feel pain Angel! Can't feel a goddamn thing!" He proved his statement by, again, producing an insane amount of electricity in his hand and moving it past his chest, right over his heart. More smoke and steam blew through his skin as blood dripped from his lip. He wiped it off, falling to the ground.
"Oh. Well shit. Might've went overboard," the speedster said, having a hard time breathing. Looking to his left, he nodded."Ice cream? They're still open as fuck and as your DATE and the only one allowed to get into HEAVEN it is my obligation to feed you."
The moment they reached solid ground, Ozaei bursted with electricity, so much so it could be seen charring his skin... which is absurdly dangerous. He most likely had internal bleeding damage. Before anyone could blink, he was on his knees in front of Haley, hands crossed across his chest. The skates on his feet were red, but he couldn't feel the heat they were emitting.
"I made an impression on an Angel? FUCK YEAH!" He shouted, already back on his feet doing a fist pump. "Heavenly afterlife SECURED BITCHES." Seeing her wings disappear he settled down and stared at her blankly, his face void of expression. A favor? Yeah he could, but he was more focused on her next few words. A few seconds went by before he produced a smirk that would make the grinch jealous. "Uh, YEAH?! I'm a fucking boss at creative electric manipulation. Watch this my angel from heaven."
Full of confidence, he began charging himself up, his eyes radiating yellow as he focused. What seemed like lightning, but truly wasn't, started to appear from his back and from the ground until soon, he managed to form a set of pure yellow wings made out of static electricity. Laughing like a maniac, he clapped his hands together, pulling them back apart slowly. As he did so, a straight line of electricity formed. Ozaei grabbed it and flicked it above his head, the static line gaining mass and widening out, forming a yellow artificial halo.
"TA-FUCKING-DA! WELL?! IMPRESSED?!" He asked, shouting. Impressing himself with his creativity, he began to explain what he did in a very, very, very hasted voice. "Allrighty my angel miss Haley listen so basically static electricity is an imbalance between negative and positive charges in an object BUT I'm a genasi so the thousands of volts produced I can prolong in my body because you know fun fact I'm immune as fuck to electricity boi so I don't gotta worry about shocking myself into cardiac arrest so anyway I take the imbalance and I mold it into whatever the fuck I want using the other three kinds of electricity before- GASP- before whatever it aint important I'll tell you later the tldr of all of this is I CAN FUCKING FLY."
Kicking off on his skates, forwards not backwards this time, electricity blasted into the ground, sending him up a few inches in the air. He hovered there for a bit before falling back to the earth, wings and halo gone completely, burned out. His body should be burnt to a crisp, and internally it was, but he couldn't feel it. Getting back to his feet and brushing his clothes off, he cleared his throat. "Yes. To answer your question." He said calmly, small pillars of smoke steaming from his skin.
Laughing like a maniac, Ozaei calmed down enough to respond to his blind date. "Don't worry I can't age anymore! That means I'm IMMORTAL!" Looking down at the now rapidly approaching ground, he started to should, holding Haley very close just in case he forgot he wasn't alone and shouldn't use any bit of electricity at this height. "DID YOU HEAR THAT YOU EARTHBOUND BITCHES?! WE DO NOT AGE! WE ARE IMMORTAL!"
While that's absolutely not how immortality works, and as usual he was mistaking eternal youth for something else, he didn't care, he was having fun and he only hoped she was too. Finally turning to Haley as the 'falling' part of their descent officially began, it finally set into Ozaei's head what was going on. "Oh shit," he said softly before cheering up immediately. "Don't worry! I'm going to Heaven when I die! HEAVEN IS ON MY SIDE!-"
Quickly, the speedster shut up as he witnessed what his date just did. With wide yellow eyes he stared at the wings on both sides of him, the wings that looked amazing at this altitude, the wings that were currently saving his life.
"You're an angel... holy shit..." Ozaei said in a surprisingly normal voice, but fear could be picked up in it. "I almost killed an angel... holy shit... but... an angel is my fucking DATE... holy shit... I should probably stop cursing..." Pausing for a moment, he looked back at Haley before squealing, then smirking, his mind telling his mouth to remain shut to no avail. "Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?" Internally, Ozaei is kicking the hell out of himself for such a lame angel pick up line that made zero sense. "Shit... Okay we need to restart the whole damn date because I was being rude. We obviously need to go faster and launch higher so I can impress you. Let's fucking do it."
Ozaei stared at Amy with a fierceness unseen before. According to him. "Yes. Girls. Like. You. You wouldn't kill a fly, did I stutter?!" he asked angrily, not believing a word she was saying. "Lies. You're protected by Madame. Sure sure maybe you can fight a little better than most people because fucking doh you're in the market, but me? That devil gal with the dumb attitude? Not to mention me and me? NOPE. I'm fast as fuck boi." Pounding his chest and putting his hands on his hips, he smiled condescendingly at Amy, half knowing his fighting skills relied solely on his speed and charging things up and without it there wasn't much he could do. "You're a damn doll. N-Not that it's a bad thing."
After hearing her intimidating roar, he froze for a solid second before bursting out laughing, falling to the floor and needing the table to help him stand back up. "Sure, sure, hair, sure..." Ozaei said, mocking her by flipping his own shorter hair behind absolutely nothing because it wasn't that long.
"But uh let's fix whatever the fuck that roar was later m'kay? Kay, now gimme your spare clothes. We're switching places right?!"
"Little fucking Viper watch you goddam mouth lady-" Ozaei bit his tongue as he started processing things (for once), coming to his own conclusion. "I'm a big Viper. I'm a razer sharp, big ass Viper you hear me?" Mumbling to himself, he nodded before wickedly smiling. She wanted him to be more creative with his nicknames? He could do that. He had 99 names for her but a decent nickname wasn't one of them. That didn't mean he wasn't going to use all 99 of those names in the span of a day or two. "I gotchu Assprin." An audible crack could be heard as he gave her a thumbs up, not knowing how messed up his body was right now.
Twitching more than slightly at the comment of him not being a good liar, he again mutter a slew of curses under his breath before swallowing his pride. "Fine, so what if you're right. Teach me how to be a good liar and I'll teach you how to move fast and skate, but if you fail you owe me all the money you stole from me you thieving Apple Cider Slick-faced A...Abitch? Ash..." Getting frustrated, he slammed his fist on the ground, gritting his teeth. "THE NICK-NAME IS A WORK IN PROGRESS."
Ozaei's eye twitched before burning a bright yellow. There was no way she was discrediting him, did she know how difficult it was to steal from a devil?! "Yeah well I didn't see YOU do it, showoff!" he retorted back, pouting with his fists on his hips in a very overly sassy manner, clearly agitated. "What bullshit..." his voice grew softer as he slowly remembered that Amy was right, this was only just a locket, just a necklace. He had seen Amy steal better, more valuable things, and Dolores gave her praise for it, treating him like thunder to her lightning. Every noble knew Amy might as well be an angel. How backwards it was...
Mind still a bit clouded, Ozaei viciously shook his head and followed Amy to another table after watching her move towards it. A role swap? That was a great idea... again his eyes burned a bright yellow. "Yeah! That's perfect! I'm a genius!" Ozaei said loudly, taking credit for the idea that wasn't even his with a big grin. "Let's do it! But! No offense but I don't think girls like you can fight for crap." Shrugging, Ozaei walked over to the other side of the globe. A weird thing to say when he was the one in the dress, but his point still stood. "Other than that, my plan is perfect."
{Click Me..}The candles on the long hallway lit instantly as a trio walked down it. Two were silent, listening to the third, the source of the candle's light. Roami, the Envoy of the Dark Market dressed in her special outfit to match spoke with a clear, warm, and authoritive voice. "Ozaeina, Amelia, remember that the Madame wants you both to study your STEM fundamentals and the Code of Thieves. There's to be no playing..." Roami stopped and turned to Amelia "Amy" Steele, arms behind her back in her usual stance but her blue gaze and the intensity of the candle fire made her message clear to the little girl; she wasn't messing around. "And there's to be no fighting..." Turning now to Ozaeina "Esa" Raunagi, she gave him the same stern look before continuing on, Ozaei grinning. "Of any kind. I hope I'm understood..." With that, Roami lead them to a large room filled with natural light from an unknown source. The room was decorated with a bookshelf, tables and two hallways leading to two seperate private rooms. Letting the children walk in, Roami smiled warmly at them. "I'll be down the hall to the right if you two need anything. Behave please, it's in all our interests."
The usurped queen then left, a door magically appearing to seal them in through a thick puff of smoke. The only thing that she left behind was two heated footsteps in the dirt.
Ozaei loudly groaned, stretching his arms behind his head before turning to stare at Amy, eyes narrowed and a huge grin on his face. He of course was dressed in the usual female Dark Market uniform because he had nothing else to wear: a plain black slit dress with red and yellow highlights. Somehow simple and elegant at the same time. Reaching into his pocket, he quickly whipped out something pure golden... a locket with the letter 'R' etched on it.
"What do you think Amy?! I told you I could do it! I told you!" He said, waving the locket in front of Amy proudly.
"Hell's damn wrong! What the HEAVEN!" The wind blowing past them was now a little bit too much for Ozaei as he felt his ears pop. Normally he could easily breeze past dozens of people at this speed but with someone else literally right in front of him it was proving to be a bit of a challenge. Slightly registering what was said, he yelled back a response. "I AM A WARNING!" Speeding up even more, they were now surrounded by lightning as bright as his eyes, Ozaei still taking care not to hurt or harm his date by charging her up too.
Tightening his grip on her waist, he kicked off the ledge once they reached it and of course Ozaei didn't think the rest of this plan through as they were launched very high into the air at around a few thousand miles per hour; the joys of enhanced acceleration. Once up there he looked down, still holding onto Haley as they just... remained there. Clearing his throat after his excitement vanished a little, he chuckled. "So, I think we have a bit until we start falling," he would say, smiling, "but the view's nice right? Look at that sky! Best skate ever am I right?"
Ozaei perked up at the question, his devilish grin appearing as he increased in speed, the static between them becoming more and more apparent. "Yeah, I had to- oh, yeah," He said, stopping quickly after her next few words. He'll of course tell her later. They were pretty fun sometimes, he had to admit. He met a lot of neat people along the way with pretty not so neat stubs for heads.
After being asked his age, he didn't bother to slow down or stop, only continue on. He was young, but old enough to know things and have skills. A very particular set of skills that could be used in very particular ways. "Yeah, like nineteen or something. I don't know, I think I stopped that aging shit couple years ago..." He replied, still focused on skating before noticing a ledge. "You ready for this?! This is going to be the best skate of your life! Bet!" He said energetically, attempting to let go of her hand, skate behind her and hug her waist. It was time for speed.
If he succeeded, Ozaei would then charge himself up with electricity before launching forward at speeds he has no right going right towards the ledge, making sure his blind date didn't slip out of his grasp. That would be less than good.
When his blind date took his hand, Ozaei smiled widely. This was going to be fun, especially since she was apparently a fast learner. He didn't doubt that, he just doubted she was faster than him, and just like that an internal bet was made to himself, by himself, for no one in particular.
"OK, so what you do is pretend like you're riding a bike with no seat and keep your balance. Then kick off and fly! But since you're with me you know shit's gonna be easy, so all you have to do is hold on and let Dolores take the invisible wheel." Way too simple to be an explanation but he didn't care, to him that was the jest of things.
Pulling Haley close to him, he kicked off with one foot, and just like that they were off. Ozaei took great care to not go too fast, but fast enough that they were starting to pass other skaters way too quickly. He was holding her hand tight, if paying attention one might see small sparks of static electricity between their fingers; like he planned, he was having fun and not paying much attention to anything else besides Haley and sometimes death-glaring people with fancier skirts than him.
"Don't remember when I started. I think I picked it up on an assassination mission or some shit you know? Gotta be fast enough to keep up with my own lightning to get to Heaven and zoom the heathens. By the way just let go when you're ready to try skating by yourself. I'll catch ya if you fall."
Without another word, Ozaei complied and backed up a reasonable distance, sticking his hand out when he did. "Listen I didn't understand a damn thing you just said to me," he stated, still irritated, "But I'm willing to make a bet with ya. Let me charge you up. If you explode you win and I'll pay you fifty. If I freeze to death I win and you pay ME fifty." His face and tone made it very hard to tell if he was joking or not, but being an addict, betting on something was just a thing he couldn't turn down.
Putting his hand down, he scoffed. "Anyway. Think about it. Didn't catch your name either. You look... like a Sarah but more like a Jake."
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