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.
“Good night,” Thannah called back to her mother and retreated down the hallway. The light pitter-patter of Holly, her spaniel puppy, followed closely behind her. When she came to her bedroom door, the sight of it closed caused her to pause, her neutral expression deepening into a frown as her thin brows drew together. Had she closed it before she had left? Odd, she hadn’t thought so, but she didn’t think beyond that as she opened the white door. As soon as there was enough room, Holly squeezed through the crack and scampered into her bedroom. [break][break] Shutting the door behind her, Thannah felt a swell of… uncertainty brew within her chest. Was she being paranoid? There was just something… off. It almost felt as though there was another presence within her bedroom. Had she just psyched herself out? Holly certainly hadn’t noticed anything. Thannah’s violet eyes roamed to her spaniel who had immediately taken up residence in her doggy bed by the window.
I'm sorry but your story isn't adding up Think your religion is a lie to keep my mouth shut So I won't testify to crimes you're keeping score of Why don't you throw me to the wolves I thought you were one?
You were standing there like an angry god Counting out my sins just to cross them off Saying that my tongue was too loud to trust And that my blood couldn't keep you
My dear, you're not so innocent You're fooling heaven's gates So you won't have to change You're no saint, you're no savior
Your revelations don't look nothing like the pictures You read between the lines and don't stick to the scriptures You only follow rules if other follow with you That doesn't sound too holy, only playing victim
You were standing there like an angry god Counting out my sins just to cross them off Saying that my tongue was too loud to trust And that my blood couldn't keep you
My dear, you're not so innocent You're fooling heaven's gates So you won't have to change You're no saint, you're no savior
So keep your judgment for someone else, I've had enough And keep your judgment for someone else, I've had enough So keep your judgment for someone else, I've had enough And keep your judgment for someone else, I've had enough
My dear, you're not so innocent You're fooling heaven's gates So you won't have to change You're no saint, you're no savior
HAIR — Her hair is a beautiful shade of strawberry-blond that really accentuates a light pastel pink and dusty brown mixture. It's somewhat wavy and reaches in length to just about the middle of her back, while her face is framed with a thick layer of bangs that end just before her eyes. Thannah loves to decorate her hair, putting it up in all sorts of styles, with cute little bows, ribbons, and pendants.
FACE — Thannah has a regular makeup regime and does spend at least an hour in the morning preening herself to perfection. She is fortunate to have elven blood from her mother, making her naturally more of a beauty and in need of less work. Regardless, Thannah enjoys matte foundations and pink lipsticks as her general "kawaii" style.
BODY — She is a little shorty, standing at only 5'1". She is petite with a small body frame, bone structure, and weight. She has a slightly below average chest size and a body figure that it not too pronounced. Her skintone is fair and more on the pale side as she does not tan easily and instead sunburns.
Time Reduction:The user can slow time down to various degrees, for a few seconds, while being able to move normally, either slowing time for a certain targets or affecting everything in an area but the user. If the user were to move during this time, to the target it would appear the user was moving at inhuman speeds.
Time Stopping: User can stop time of an individual or area for a few seconds while being unaffected themselves. If the user moves before this ability ceases, it would appear to everyone effected that the user had teleported.
Time Reverse: The user can rewind time (on themselves) for up to a few seconds. By backtracking, this allows the user to prevent and dodge an attack. This ability also allows the user to reverse and essentially repair any damage that had occurred to them within the last few seconds.
Thannah's time manipulation ability is brand new to her and thus she is currently a complete novice at it. She has not been able to reverse or stop time at all, and the processes of slowing is extremely taxing on her energy levels. However, essentially, her ability does not actually stop "time" itself but people's biological time. It is a power she can use within a radius (which she currently cannot perform) or on specific targets. Her ability essentially slows the target into such a state that could it is perceived as slowing or stopping their individual time clock. If her ability on a target was witnessed by unaffected bystanders they would observe the same as her; the target has either stopped completely or is stuck in slow motion. Time Manipulation is an extremely taxing ability and can only be performed for a maximum of a few seconds at a time.
STRONG ABILITY: ? ? ? — Unknown Ability has not yet unlocked.
WEAK ABILITY: MIND READING — Apprentice
The user can sense the thoughts of other people, usually hearing them like ordinary speech. Normally, they sense the surface thoughts, but they can also learn to push farther into the subconscious and memories.
Thannah's ability to hear the thoughts of others generally remains in a dormant state by default, requiring her to concentrate and focus her energy in order to "turn up the volume", if you will. Once activated she can control varying levels of radius in order to better fine tune who she wishes to hear the thoughts of. She does not have the ability to hone in on a single target; rather, by lowering the strength of the volume it likewise shortens the radius at which she can hear, effectively allowing her to listen in to those close by and not those out of earshot. In most circumstances, she is able to control this ability with relative ease. However, emotional states wreak havoc on her senses and often cause the ability to go haywire, leaving her with little other option than to take refuge in hiding until the moment passes. Thannah also has yet to discover the full potential of the power, including the ability to delve further into the subconscious and extract a person's memories.
backstory
Thannah was born the second of two children to her gifted father and half-fae mother. She is the considerably less remarkable and younger sister of Theadora, who (unlike her) retained their mother's half-fae blood. Thannah grew up constantly in the shadow of her older sister and mother. They were revered for their magestic beauty and grace, while she was always the "cute" or "adorable" afterthought. From the start, Thannah has always been a shy, but sociable, girl. Growing up through elementary, she held her fair share of friends and early crushes; even a "boyfriend" or two, sharing kisses on the cheeks, and wearing each other's rings they'd gotten from the toy gumball machines in the grocery store. Thannah's mother was not only beautiful but also strict and disciplined her whenever she broke out of ladylike demeanor. Even as a child, she was often reprimanded for playing in the dirt or grass, as it dirtied her dresses.
When she was six years old, Thannah met a boy at her neighborhood park, and would go on to idolize him as her Prince Charming from one of the fairytale storybooks she had at home. This fated meeting with the angel would ultimately carve out the rest of her path, and lead her to her own destruction. But, as an innocent and ignorant little girl, she sat down to have picnics with him and play pretend, even gifting him a coloring of a princess and prince, until he simply vanished. She wouldn't meet him again for another three years.
At nine, Theadora moved out to attend a university a few cities away and took her dog with her. For the first time, her parents allowed Thannah to have her own pet, and she picked out a female spaniel puppy, naming her Gracie. It was during this time that she met the boy from three years ago and the two formed what Thannah considered to be a pretty close friendship. She had been incredibly embarrassed over her "crush" and the coloring she had given him, but it didn't stop her from getting close to him. She never learned his name, as he was her mysterious prince for the storybooks, and had simply given himself the nickname "Angel". During the year of their childhood friendship a tragic accident happened to Gracie where she had been swept away and drowned within a river in the neighboring forest, and aside from her family, Angel had been the only one there for her while she went through the sudden and unexpected death of her dog.
When Angel disappeared from her life again, it took Thannah a while to get over him. At her fifth grade dance she had turned down a boy she had liked previously because she had felt that her "Prince" was the only one for her. But, after the summer, and come the start of middle school, she had gotten over her infatuation and had moved on with her life once again. Thannah had attended a private elementary and her middle school was no different. The school was larger, with more students and more freedom, but for the most part school life started out the same as it had always been; she got along with some girls, not so much with others, and had boys who liked her right away and others who teased her. But, Thannah would soon learn that in middle school, everything wasn't so innocent anymore.
Everything started when an angel named Alexander took an avid interest in her. Their whole class knew that he was practically besotted, especially Natalie, who had grown green with envy and jealousy. She hadn't taken to Alexander liking someone other than her, and thinking back on it, Thannah should have never given in to Natalie's invitation into her friend group. She became the awkward fourth wheel within Natalie's group of friends and was often expected to be the errand girl for them. She was underappreciated and often talked about behind her back. Natalie had brought Thannah into her group in order to manipulate her away from Alexander and also encourage her to pursue other guys in their classes instead. It was through them that Thannah got to know Dylan, a boy who was crushing on her. Although Thannah didn't return his feelings, the two ended up developing a rather strong friendship with one another, and for a while Thannah began to spend more time with Dylan than Natalie and her girlfriends.
It was during her last year of middle school that everything went to hell. The old flame between her and Alexander reignited as they once again shared a class during the year and were assigned to work on multiple projects together. Alex and Natalie had previously had a falling out with one another, leaving more of an opportunity for Thannah and his feelings to grow. Eventually the two began dating. However, everything changed when Guy Pierceton began to attend her middle school. Just as the times prior, his appearance kindled an old flame within Thannah. He was her Prince Charming, her Angel, and now she finally had his true and actual name. They weren't supposed to be anything more than friends, despite her inner feelings. But, it was true that she indulged in his presence and his attention, even while fully aware that she was Alexander's girlfriend — not Guy's. It was harmless, at least to Thannah. But, her old friend Natalie twisted the situation into something it wasn't and began to tarnish her reputation on online social media. Natalie and her two friends not only began to harass her directly, but the slander began to spread to friends of their friends, and friends of their friends. Alexander turned on her as well, believing the lies, becoming increasingly more paranoid, until he actually attacked Guy and accused her of being a slut.
Something so small and initially innocent had somehow snowballed into such a huge plague in Thannah's life. When Alexander was expelled from the school, Thannah's classmates blamed her, and the slander got out of hand. She became the talk of the small, private, middle school, and it was during this traumatic time that her first ability activated; Mind Reading. As though to smite her, God hadn't believed what she had been going through could truly be referred to as "traumatic" and so he instilled within her the utter chaos of hearing everyone's true thoughts. Guy Pierceton had been the one constant in her life. The one friend through it all. But, even he had finally turned his back on her. He told her that she had acted like a greedy dog who already had a bone in its mouth but wanted the one it could see in the reflection, ultimately losing them both. "You disappointed me," were the final words he spoke to her. His final thoughts; "I told you not to trust anyone."
Thannah had thought the thick black writing within her planner had been more slander and bullying from the other students, only to learn that it had been Guy. Trust No One had been the thick words eerily smeared across an entire page of her planner. Everything proved to be too much for her to handle and she dropped out of school, refusing to finish the year. She struggled even at home with her new ability, constantly being subjected to her parents thoughts of disappointment and how they wished she were more like her older sister, Theadora. Over the year and a half that she stayed at home, she learned how to better control her ability, and finally found the reprieve she needed from her parents inner workings. Simultaneously during her seclusion, the company her father worked at had come into a financial crisis. When he was given the opportunity to be transferred to a branch in Lorsette, he took it, and their family moved. Now living in a completely new environment, Thannah's parents insisted she begin school once again, and so she was forced to reluctantly attend her 10th year at Lorsette High.
misc
Thannah's zodiac is Capricorn.
Her hometown is Mikail.
Her favorite color is pink.
She owns a pink 3DS.
She writes all of her real feelings within a scrapbook, which she has locked up under her bed.
She has a mild eating disorder and is seen mostly eating salads for meals.
She typically always has a box of chocolate sweets in her bedroom and has developed a habit of eating exactly 1 a day.
Saturday is her "cheat" day where she indulges in buying a sugary coffee drink of some kind and a baked desert at the Crescent Moon Cafe.
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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.