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.
Yours Truely,
The Staff
season
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.
One might say he is a goliath based on his height alone. The boogeymen has a brittle and thin body, falling underweight for his height and age. Both of his arms and legs are extremely long and lanky, lacking any form of notable muscle and slowly making process from concerning territories of being underfed. Given his new household and care of his father is he seeing proper car for once in his life. Mitchell hands smaller than average hands but his finger make up for them in length although they are fairly bony in shape. Mitchell is a young adolescent that is the furthest from being hard to spot. If not for his extremely abnormal size there's his unique dual-toned skin. It has two varying complexions of contrasting shades; one is pure white and the other a jet-black.
A face with a prominent pointed chin and an oval shaped frame. Mitchell has high cheekbones with hollow and sunken cheeks. His nose is small in length but has a curved tip. Mitchell has thick and bushy black eyebrows which frame mismatched heterochromatic sclera and eyes. The two colors consisting of a bright passionate red and a calming lime green. Mitchell has longer bottom lashes where as his top eyelashes fall more on the smaller side of things. He has bushy dual colored hair; black and white which shapes his face and stays clung to it.
Mitchell has a dislike for wearing anything that exposes any to everything. Often not will you find him in longer-sleeved clothing, turtlenecks, or something which prevents too much exposure of his skin. He's fond of darker colors ableit the only ones excused from this are red or yellow so most of his clothing will be in those shades. His choice of pants tend to be comfortable jeans which either are dark denim or black slacks. He finishes off the fit with a pair of black sneakers and usually- brightly colored socks.
An Assembly of Phantom's family which prized itself on their loyalty and dedication to the organization. His father was a notorious man, an anonymous member but one who sacrificed and used every inch of his fortune for the further growth and advancements. He was an egotistical and prideful man who had plans, plans not only for boosting himself further but for what he wished to offer as proof of his loyalties until a wrench had been through straight through plans that had been plotted for years. A wrench in the shape of a young meek boogeyman child.
His wife and him had come to an agreement that Children were out of the picture and despite all of that they had slipped up far too late. Rather than do the right thing of giving him up; such notion was far too shameful in his family and yet this child had been everything they didn't want. Rather than figure it out, work a way around this they had gone down a route which most loving parents would never think to considered. The day he had been born was swept under the rug, undocumented and raised without a name. Treated more so like unwanted rodent than he had been a child.
His early years consisted of heavy neglection on his parents part and they had put him in the care of lousy servants who did the bare minimum of what a child at his age needed. Quickly did he learn that this was going to be the norm of his life. Days and nights of aimlessly laying in a crib with the occasional meal or ounce of attention shown his way. It wasn't until he had began to enter the crucial development phases that his father would finally pay any ounce of attention. It was attention that showed him his place within his household. As any young and inexperienced child would... He longed for love, for attention from none other than his parents but the day he interrupted an important meeting his father had been partaking in was when he learned to never do it again.
Anger filled beatings and harsh cruel insults were thrown his way. Banished and locked to his room without food or freedom for days as a means to repent for thinking he could do such a thing. It began the new normal for him and most of his days if not often consisted of this treatment since he was unable to behave in the way his father desired. Not knowing any better took a lot out of him and had shaped him to be quite the anxious young child that would shrivel and flinch at the slightest sound or hint of anger. The only ever use his father found in him was his abilities as a boogeyman. Forcing the young child's hand to learn how to use his curses so his father could use them to his advantage. He didn't have any ounce of strength or courage to refuse but such acts that followed would only go on to further haunt the young male with memories that would go on to be hard to shake.
He had resigned to such a life up until the moment he met Antonio Gravisk. A friend of his fathers and someone who had worked with in the Assembly of Phantoms. He had no choice but to play along; his father pulled him aside and threatened him if he dared to not act as if nothing was wrong. As if no one neglected him, abused him and He had no choice but to play along. For the first few times Antonio had come around did it go as his father had hoped until without meaning to did Antonio gradually start noticing the small things. From the way he behaved or acted whenever his father spoke of him.
It took his father going to the bathroom one day and the two being left alone for Antonio to be confirm what he had been suspecting. Questions followed by more questions and it took near a minute or so for him to feel any sort of courage to respond. One by one did every experience of his life came out. Starting from how he never received a name and in place of it had been called a slue of insults. From the neglection and abuse all to how he failed to receive the proper care a child like him needed.
Antonio was outraged from hearing all of what he had gone through. Never did he imagine that from the entire world he had came to know would shake and shake until it no longer was what it had been. A promise received from Antonio that he was going to save him and take him away from here. It had been the first time in his life he ever clung tightly to another person.
The events which followed this promise came as expected. Antonio came at night to come get him but to their unfortunate surprise did his birth father come in and try to stop them. A small fight broke out before the both of them were finally able to make their escape through the window. The moment they were far away from the mansion he had grew up in did he realize that from here onwards his life was going to change.
A year has passed since this life altering event.
A nameless boy once but now he goes by the name of Mitchell Gravisk, an adopted son to Antonio Gravisk. Mitchell with the help of Antonio is slowly being introduced to life as a whole. First it started with helping him find a name and now it's going through and making up for the lack of development he received.
Mitchell is still fears all but thanks to Antonio... slowly but surely his fears are erasing one by one.
CHARACTER'S MISC
LIKES
- Melted cheese - Red (the color) - Puzzles - Sunshine - Stargazing - Antonio - Oversized Sweaters - Board Games - Warmth - Receiving praise
DISLIKES
- Getting up in the morning - Oranges - Strangers - PDA - Anything Horror themed - Sour Candy - Insults - Swearing - Hostility - Books/Reading - Being hungry - Loud noises - Cigarettes - Strong smells
FEARS
- Being injured - Large Animals
MISC INFORMATION
- Mitchell was raised most of his early life without an actual identity and rather being called a handful of insults. It wasn't until Antonio became his father that he had been able to choose the name Mitchell for himself. - Mitchell has a handful of habits that he's been trying to grow out of but is a hard task since they were from the result of conditioning done by his abusive birth father. The habits are the following: responding to anyone who may refer to him as an insult - or even only responding if insulted, not speaking / not eating unless given verbal consent, keeping any health or mental pertaining issues to himself even if it's to severe levels (became far too used to the belief that talking about them will result in being punished so he keeps it all to himself) - Mitchell is extremely triggered by the following: The smell of cigarettes / burning, the sound of doors slamming, drunken behavior - anyone drinking around him - the smell of alcohol on someone's breath, the sound of shouting and yelling - Mitchell has extreme selective mutism - known to have speech problems due to his underdevelopment due to the conditions he was brought up in in his prior home. - Mitchell is attached to his adoptive father, Antonio to a point of where Separation Anxiety is a thing within his life. He's dependent on the adult and needs him around whenever he can have it. - Mitchell is prone to crying and does so easily. The slightest set back, connotation of something bad will be enough to move him to waterworks. - Mitchell is extremely comforted by warmth and often not will resort or wrap himself in blankets or multiple layers of clothing to keep himself comforted.
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The skin is created by Wolf of Adoxography and Gangnam Style. The thread and conversation remodels are by Kagney. The Strange Reality board list, Heal My Soul info center, I Remember Now mini profile and Electric Requiem profile remodel is made by Pharoah Leap. The Who's That Member member list remodel was made by Tictactoe. The Cbox.ws Shoutbox remodel was made by Trinity Blair. All templates used for claims, information sheets, applications, etc are credited to their owners; credits for these can be found in the threads the templates are use on. Images that are used on The Duality of Man are credited to their owners, however, they have been edited by Zac with a few being edited by Chibi Magician. The plot, rules and various other information pieces for The Duality of Man are written by Chibi Magician with the assistence of her co-admins, Finnegan and Dremulf, alongside other unlisted people who were kind enough to give their input. The TRS, AP and face claim were all created by Fleur for specifically the use of TDOM. All plugins used on The Duality of Man are credited to their owners. The templates my members use are credited to their maker, if you find a template that belongs to you, but is uncredited, please speak to Chibi Magician or the member themself. Characters created on The Duality of Man are credited to their owners and should not be used elsewhere without the creator's permission.
Special thanks for the members of TDOM who make suggestions to help make this site better. Even though we can not accept all suggestions, we immensely appreciate it. Thus, we give credit to any additions that you thought of and were later implimented by the staff, because we are glad you give us these excellent ideas.