Betrayed app
Player Information:
Player name: Jenna
Personal Lj: hope_rising
AIM and/or E-Mail: bebo the dragon
Timezone: EST
Character Information:
Full Name: Lord Stanley Hihat Trinidad XIV (Evil King Stan)
Series Taken From: Okage: Shadow King
Power Retained: OVERSHADOWING.
In Okage canon, this means that Stan is able to turn into and possess peoples' shadows. It looks like this. In this form, he can stretch to great lengths and is technically indestructible. He is also a total moocher in this mode and only fucking helps with attacks when you tell him he’s awesome. Otherwise, he just yells. The biggest troubles with being a shadow are a) he can’t exist where there isn’t any light (hence no shadows can be cast) and b) he’s pretty much boned if the person he’s overshadowing dies. Lesson of the game: ARI FALLS, EVERYONE DIES. Should his host become injured, Stan can back out (since he has a body at the end of the game). However, should he not be able to/not be quick enough/be too retarded to do so (a very likely event), he'd probably either die or lose his body again.
Stan is still able to use physical attacks (mostly headbutting for fuck knows what reason) and magical attacks (which don't apply since this is his only retained power) as a shadow.
The effect on the host? Well, if the person's shadow is strong enough, he'll leave behind a "mark" of his power: the person's shadow will change color. In the case of the Hero Rosalyn, it turned hot pink, though it's probable that any color/combo of colors is possible.
(By the way, the "strength" of shadows seems to be measured by a person's noticeability and "Classification", but since this is not crazy Okage land we can ignore the latter at the moment. PERFECT EXAMPLE: if Stan were to overshadow Canada, nothing about Canada's shadow would change. Why? Because, like Ari, Canada seems to be in the backdrop of the world stage. People don't notice that he exists most of the time, and that makes him perfect for Overshadowing. On the other hand, America is VERY prominent in the world theater and, if it was Okage world, would be a Classified Hero. Therfore, his shadow would be effected. It would probably turn into the stars and stripes. It's more complicated than that but yeah.)
Background:
Once upon a time there was this guy named Evil King Gohma. He died and was reincarnated as Stan. Then Stan was put into a bottle by some asshole named The Great Hero Hopkins. About 250 years later, a young hero named Rosalyn found him. Stan overshadowed her. Rosalyn tried to ~*heroically kill herself*~ in order to destroy Stan. Stan decided her butt was too big and lumpy so he jumps back into the bottle. Rosalyn’s shadow is cursed and turns hot pink in the process. Rosalyn kicks the bottle off the face of the mountain. Somehow, Ari’s father finds it. He summons Stan in order to ensure their daughter would have a successful social life and sacrificing his awkward son to Stan in the process. There’s this dude who serves Stan named Evil Butler James but he’s even more useless than Stan. All he does is kiss Stan’s ass and crush on Ari’s mom.
THUS BEGINS THE GAME.
So Stan is Overshadowing this quiet kid, Ari. He is like the Canada of Okage and Stan is the Prussia of Okage. You know perfectly well what this means. Stan wants to destroy/rule over the world but there’s one problem: Stan doesn’t have a body (or the full extent of his powers) at the beginning of the game. He learns that there’s all these other people calling themselves Evil Kings. Stan is enraged and is like “ARI WE’LL DESTROY THEM AND I WILL GET MY POWER BACK.”
Ari: sob
After the first fight with the Sewer Evil King (this giant rat in Madril), Stan’s relation to Rosalyn is revealed through much slander and threatening. Stan also mentions that he was lonely after she kicked him off the mountain. This is critical in that HEY STAN ACTUALLY HAS SOME SEMBLANCE OF EMOTIONS. Kinda. But he’s crazy so he goes right back to yelling and insulting Rosalyn’s butt.
Along the way they acquire several others:
Guten Kisling: Stan hardly understands wtf this guy is saying and thinks he’s a freak, something even sane people can agree upon. Also, most useless fighter EVER.
Princess Marlene: Some snooty girl who enrages Stan and who he attempts to mind-control. It doesn’t work, but for once, it’s not any fault of his own. He kinda helps her in the end, but it’s mostly because Ari loves her and Stan is stuck with Ari until the end of the game.
Linda: Teen Idol Evil King; Stan genuinely helps her improve her singing (through brutal critique) when she’s crying on a street in Madril. She has a major crush on Stan until Epros comes along, much to Stan’s befuddlement.
Big Bull: Big Bull Evil King; This… bull guy who wants to build a muscle gym. Stan’s reaction to him is mostly “OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS GUY must obtain my powers wait WHY IS HE FOLLOWING US.” In actuality, Big Bull isn’t that bad of a guy. He’s just. Freaky. And keeps using <3 when he sees Linda. I don’t even know.
Epros: Phantom Evil King; Stan is puzzled and annoyed by his rhyming (as is Rosalyn) but doesn’t seem to mind him too much when he joins the party.
At one point, Stan forgets who Ari is because Ari is Canada Ari presses this weird button thing and ends up with no shadow, meaning he’s so quiet and passive that he’s basically faded from the world. Long story short, Ari forces people to recognize him and he’s suddenly in Stan’s memories again YAY! Stan pops back into existence (after supposedly causing chaos and fighting Rosalyn, though he doesn’t recall this happening) and is confused. Again. He and Ari get a super special awesome power called Friendship Bond. HOORAY!
After too many goddamn hours in caves and a library, the final fight emerges. By this point, Stan has nearly all of his power back. Belioune (Marlene’s butler, actually her father who had fashioned a puppet after his daughter had gone missing from the world) restores Stan to his body… and brainwashes him in the process. The others watch helplessly as he’s engaged in a stereotypical fight to the death, Good Vs. Evil brawl with Rosalyn. Then Ari pulls out a music box and Stan remembers all the good times he had along the way with Rosalyn and the others. Again, does this mean Stan shares some fondness, even friendship with these people? Again, he is crazy and yells forever.
BELIOUNE IS DEFEATED.
STAN HAS A BODY.
HE DOES NOT FIX ROSALYN’S SHADOW AND GOES OFF TO RULE THE WORLD. ROSALYN IS PISSED. THE GAME ENDS.
So how did Stan end up at the house?
Although the Classification system has lost its power, it hasn't entirely disappeared. People go on with their lives after the fact. A former Classified Explorer (a class that Stan isn't too fond of for various reasons), down on his luck, received the invitation. It was the highlight of his life, the opportunity he'd been waiting for since he was born.
So, obviously, Stan punched him in the face, took his invitation, and threw him to the sharks. That's how Stan rolls.
Hoping that it was a deed to a river of lava (it wasn't), Stan read it. He got bored. He ate a sandwich.
Then he realized that Rosalyn was still after him and he didn't feel like being nagged to fix her shadow and, hey, he could very well go to this guy's house and take the whole house and then leave him to rot in a ditch. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW STAN ROLLS.
Conveniently, the Explorer's name was also Stan. AND OFF STAN GOES TO THE MANSION. When he learns that BM guy is evil, he'll have to stay. No one is allowed to be more evil than The Evil King, after all.
Sample Third-Person Post:
“ANOTHER DEAD END?!”
Stan’s fury knew no bounds. How dare a shelf stand in his way?! Of course, that straw-haired Hero was yammering about how if he were truly a mighty Evil King, he would knock it down, but of course Stan ignored her, for she was stupid and womanly and knew nothing of the ways of the world. Kisling deduced (correctly, for once) that Stan could not knock down the shelf because it was of Belioune’s construct and will. Stan didn’t hear that though because it’s Kisling and. Well. It’s Kisling. That guy never has anything important to say! Every time he opens his mouth, it’s like his brain is vomiting nonsensical words, which come tumbling out of his mouth and fall flat on the floor where all of his theories and fantasies about toenails lie forever.
Anyway.
Stan grumbled, peeking one last time through the books as Ari headed (more like dragged himself; the last Bad Poetry Golem had really done a number on him) back into the mist-the mist! They were inside! Did Belioune have no sense of what is truly evil?! Oh sure, the mist fit with the Creepy Library theme nicely, but couldn’t he have had the decency to grace them with some other natural catastrophe? A river of lava, a monsoon, something to at least show some respect for the group who came so far! …Mostly Stan, though-and seeing, through the gaps, the tome.
That’s right. That damned, glowing tome that would revitalize all the weaker mortals so that they could all go on and fight Belioune in his name! HAHAHAHAHA!!! Yes, even in third person narration, Stan’s malicious laugh resounds in the hearts and minds of all readers.
He was dragged along more corridors, infuriated by more locked doors, more chests that were eluding the obviously incompetent humans and Fake Evil Kings, and sat back with boredom as the group wearily struggled on in his honor. And they were so close, so freaking close to eliminating Classification and restoring his body and they ran into another dead in for the billionth time.
“AUUUUGGGGGHHH I HATE LIBRARIES!!!”
“It helps that you’re illiterate,” the Hero commented snidely.
“Rosalyn, one more word, and I will decapitate you with a book of rhyming!”
And so it went on as they marched towards the beginning of the end.
Bonus Third-Person Sample Because I Can:
Once upon a time there was this Evil King named Stan. He was the greatest Evil King ever. He was so great, his awesome could only be expressed in haiku form (and accompanied by the most annoying tune in the world.)
Stan is the greatest
He’s the shadow Evil King
He’s THE Evil King
At least, this is how
He views himself within
His arrogant bubble
Of self delusion,
An anti-hero mindset,
And of false grandeur
He denies any
Notion of being such, but
That is simply ‘cause
Stan is a failure
At all endeavors of life.
Refrigerator.
To get to action,
Stan stands outside of a house,
A mansion, I mean.
He stares at it with
With a sense of disdain (because
Seriously. What.
This place looks far too
…well, unconquered. Which really,
is in his favor.)
Smiling wickedly,
(because he does everything
wickedly, etc.)
Stanley advances
On his future dark domain
Because, after all
Stan is the master
Of all things that walk, crawl, fly,
And live in mansions.
He laughs cruelly
(like a tree that falls in the
woods, no one hears him)
And he bellows his
Rights of rulership (i.e.
Incoherently
Screams about ruling
Everything ever. A-
gain, no one hears him.
But does this stop Stan?
HELL NO! He’s THE Evil King!
He’ll just yell until
They all bow before
His mighty powers of… might.
BLAH BLAH EVIL BLAH.
Exclamation points
And capslock show his crazy
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sample First-Person Post:
[ Sorry, mansion peeps. Your eardrums are about to collapse from within. ]
ATTENTION ALL WEAK, FUTURE SUBJECTS OF FEAR AND TURMOIL.
YOU ALL HAVE EXACTLY THREE TASKS. SHOULD I HEAR ANY COMPLAINTS FROM ANY LOWLY LIFE FORMS, SAID COMPLAINTS WILL BE MET WITH IMMEDIATE SMITING.
FIRST OFF, WHAT AM I TALKING INTO.
SECOND, WHERE AM I.
THIRD, BOW BEFORE YOUR FUTURE OVERLORD, THE MASTER OF DARKNESS, THE EVIL KING STAN! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
FOURTH- …ah, yes, I did say there were only three tasks, didn’t I? No matter, you’re obligated to follow what I say no matter what alterations I make to my demands! Do you know why?
Because I can destroy you all with a wave of my hand. AHAHAHA... ha...
[ Pause. Pause. ]
What the--?! Why isn't energy crackling at my fingertips!
HEY, FAT-THIGHS HERO! IF THIS IS YOUR DOING, I'M NEVER RETURNING YOUR SHADOW TO NORMAL! NEVER EVER!!
Player name: Jenna
Personal Lj: hope_rising
AIM and/or E-Mail: bebo the dragon
Timezone: EST
Character Information:
Full Name: Lord Stanley Hihat Trinidad XIV (Evil King Stan)
Series Taken From: Okage: Shadow King
Power Retained: OVERSHADOWING.
In Okage canon, this means that Stan is able to turn into and possess peoples' shadows. It looks like this. In this form, he can stretch to great lengths and is technically indestructible. He is also a total moocher in this mode and only fucking helps with attacks when you tell him he’s awesome. Otherwise, he just yells. The biggest troubles with being a shadow are a) he can’t exist where there isn’t any light (hence no shadows can be cast) and b) he’s pretty much boned if the person he’s overshadowing dies. Lesson of the game: ARI FALLS, EVERYONE DIES. Should his host become injured, Stan can back out (since he has a body at the end of the game). However, should he not be able to/not be quick enough/be too retarded to do so (a very likely event), he'd probably either die or lose his body again.
Stan is still able to use physical attacks (mostly headbutting for fuck knows what reason) and magical attacks (which don't apply since this is his only retained power) as a shadow.
The effect on the host? Well, if the person's shadow is strong enough, he'll leave behind a "mark" of his power: the person's shadow will change color. In the case of the Hero Rosalyn, it turned hot pink, though it's probable that any color/combo of colors is possible.
(By the way, the "strength" of shadows seems to be measured by a person's noticeability and "Classification", but since this is not crazy Okage land we can ignore the latter at the moment. PERFECT EXAMPLE: if Stan were to overshadow Canada, nothing about Canada's shadow would change. Why? Because, like Ari, Canada seems to be in the backdrop of the world stage. People don't notice that he exists most of the time, and that makes him perfect for Overshadowing. On the other hand, America is VERY prominent in the world theater and, if it was Okage world, would be a Classified Hero. Therfore, his shadow would be effected. It would probably turn into the stars and stripes. It's more complicated than that but yeah.)
Background:
Once upon a time there was this guy named Evil King Gohma. He died and was reincarnated as Stan. Then Stan was put into a bottle by some asshole named The Great Hero Hopkins. About 250 years later, a young hero named Rosalyn found him. Stan overshadowed her. Rosalyn tried to ~*heroically kill herself*~ in order to destroy Stan. Stan decided her butt was too big and lumpy so he jumps back into the bottle. Rosalyn’s shadow is cursed and turns hot pink in the process. Rosalyn kicks the bottle off the face of the mountain. Somehow, Ari’s father finds it. He summons Stan in order to ensure their daughter would have a successful social life and sacrificing his awkward son to Stan in the process. There’s this dude who serves Stan named Evil Butler James but he’s even more useless than Stan. All he does is kiss Stan’s ass and crush on Ari’s mom.
THUS BEGINS THE GAME.
So Stan is Overshadowing this quiet kid, Ari. He is like the Canada of Okage and Stan is the Prussia of Okage. You know perfectly well what this means. Stan wants to destroy/rule over the world but there’s one problem: Stan doesn’t have a body (or the full extent of his powers) at the beginning of the game. He learns that there’s all these other people calling themselves Evil Kings. Stan is enraged and is like “ARI WE’LL DESTROY THEM AND I WILL GET MY POWER BACK.”
Ari: sob
After the first fight with the Sewer Evil King (this giant rat in Madril), Stan’s relation to Rosalyn is revealed through much slander and threatening. Stan also mentions that he was lonely after she kicked him off the mountain. This is critical in that HEY STAN ACTUALLY HAS SOME SEMBLANCE OF EMOTIONS. Kinda. But he’s crazy so he goes right back to yelling and insulting Rosalyn’s butt.
Along the way they acquire several others:
At one point, Stan forgets who Ari is because Ari is Canada Ari presses this weird button thing and ends up with no shadow, meaning he’s so quiet and passive that he’s basically faded from the world. Long story short, Ari forces people to recognize him and he’s suddenly in Stan’s memories again YAY! Stan pops back into existence (after supposedly causing chaos and fighting Rosalyn, though he doesn’t recall this happening) and is confused. Again. He and Ari get a super special awesome power called Friendship Bond. HOORAY!
After too many goddamn hours in caves and a library, the final fight emerges. By this point, Stan has nearly all of his power back. Belioune (Marlene’s butler, actually her father who had fashioned a puppet after his daughter had gone missing from the world) restores Stan to his body… and brainwashes him in the process. The others watch helplessly as he’s engaged in a stereotypical fight to the death, Good Vs. Evil brawl with Rosalyn. Then Ari pulls out a music box and Stan remembers all the good times he had along the way with Rosalyn and the others. Again, does this mean Stan shares some fondness, even friendship with these people? Again, he is crazy and yells forever.
BELIOUNE IS DEFEATED.
STAN HAS A BODY.
HE DOES NOT FIX ROSALYN’S SHADOW AND GOES OFF TO RULE THE WORLD. ROSALYN IS PISSED. THE GAME ENDS.
So how did Stan end up at the house?
Although the Classification system has lost its power, it hasn't entirely disappeared. People go on with their lives after the fact. A former Classified Explorer (a class that Stan isn't too fond of for various reasons), down on his luck, received the invitation. It was the highlight of his life, the opportunity he'd been waiting for since he was born.
So, obviously, Stan punched him in the face, took his invitation, and threw him to the sharks. That's how Stan rolls.
Hoping that it was a deed to a river of lava (it wasn't), Stan read it. He got bored. He ate a sandwich.
Then he realized that Rosalyn was still after him and he didn't feel like being nagged to fix her shadow and, hey, he could very well go to this guy's house and take the whole house and then leave him to rot in a ditch. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW STAN ROLLS.
Conveniently, the Explorer's name was also Stan. AND OFF STAN GOES TO THE MANSION. When he learns that BM guy is evil, he'll have to stay. No one is allowed to be more evil than The Evil King, after all.
Sample Third-Person Post:
“ANOTHER DEAD END?!”
Stan’s fury knew no bounds. How dare a shelf stand in his way?! Of course, that straw-haired Hero was yammering about how if he were truly a mighty Evil King, he would knock it down, but of course Stan ignored her, for she was stupid and womanly and knew nothing of the ways of the world. Kisling deduced (correctly, for once) that Stan could not knock down the shelf because it was of Belioune’s construct and will. Stan didn’t hear that though because it’s Kisling and. Well. It’s Kisling. That guy never has anything important to say! Every time he opens his mouth, it’s like his brain is vomiting nonsensical words, which come tumbling out of his mouth and fall flat on the floor where all of his theories and fantasies about toenails lie forever.
Anyway.
Stan grumbled, peeking one last time through the books as Ari headed (more like dragged himself; the last Bad Poetry Golem had really done a number on him) back into the mist-the mist! They were inside! Did Belioune have no sense of what is truly evil?! Oh sure, the mist fit with the Creepy Library theme nicely, but couldn’t he have had the decency to grace them with some other natural catastrophe? A river of lava, a monsoon, something to at least show some respect for the group who came so far! …Mostly Stan, though-and seeing, through the gaps, the tome.
That’s right. That damned, glowing tome that would revitalize all the weaker mortals so that they could all go on and fight Belioune in his name! HAHAHAHAHA!!! Yes, even in third person narration, Stan’s malicious laugh resounds in the hearts and minds of all readers.
He was dragged along more corridors, infuriated by more locked doors, more chests that were eluding the obviously incompetent humans and Fake Evil Kings, and sat back with boredom as the group wearily struggled on in his honor. And they were so close, so freaking close to eliminating Classification and restoring his body and they ran into another dead in for the billionth time.
“AUUUUGGGGGHHH I HATE LIBRARIES!!!”
“It helps that you’re illiterate,” the Hero commented snidely.
“Rosalyn, one more word, and I will decapitate you with a book of rhyming!”
And so it went on as they marched towards the beginning of the end.
Bonus Third-Person Sample Because I Can:
Once upon a time there was this Evil King named Stan. He was the greatest Evil King ever. He was so great, his awesome could only be expressed in haiku form (and accompanied by the most annoying tune in the world.)
Stan is the greatest
He’s the shadow Evil King
He’s THE Evil King
At least, this is how
He views himself within
His arrogant bubble
Of self delusion,
An anti-hero mindset,
And of false grandeur
He denies any
Notion of being such, but
That is simply ‘cause
Stan is a failure
At all endeavors of life.
Refrigerator.
To get to action,
Stan stands outside of a house,
A mansion, I mean.
He stares at it with
With a sense of disdain (because
Seriously. What.
This place looks far too
…well, unconquered. Which really,
is in his favor.)
Smiling wickedly,
(because he does everything
wickedly, etc.)
Stanley advances
On his future dark domain
Because, after all
Stan is the master
Of all things that walk, crawl, fly,
And live in mansions.
He laughs cruelly
(like a tree that falls in the
woods, no one hears him)
And he bellows his
Rights of rulership (i.e.
Incoherently
Screams about ruling
Everything ever. A-
gain, no one hears him.
But does this stop Stan?
HELL NO! He’s THE Evil King!
He’ll just yell until
They all bow before
His mighty powers of… might.
BLAH BLAH EVIL BLAH.
Exclamation points
And capslock show his crazy
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sample First-Person Post:
[ Sorry, mansion peeps. Your eardrums are about to collapse from within. ]
ATTENTION ALL WEAK, FUTURE SUBJECTS OF FEAR AND TURMOIL.
YOU ALL HAVE EXACTLY THREE TASKS. SHOULD I HEAR ANY COMPLAINTS FROM ANY LOWLY LIFE FORMS, SAID COMPLAINTS WILL BE MET WITH IMMEDIATE SMITING.
FIRST OFF, WHAT AM I TALKING INTO.
SECOND, WHERE AM I.
THIRD, BOW BEFORE YOUR FUTURE OVERLORD, THE MASTER OF DARKNESS, THE EVIL KING STAN! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
FOURTH- …ah, yes, I did say there were only three tasks, didn’t I? No matter, you’re obligated to follow what I say no matter what alterations I make to my demands! Do you know why?
Because I can destroy you all with a wave of my hand. AHAHAHA... ha...
[ Pause. Pause. ]
What the--?! Why isn't energy crackling at my fingertips!
HEY, FAT-THIGHS HERO! IF THIS IS YOUR DOING, I'M NEVER RETURNING YOUR SHADOW TO NORMAL! NEVER EVER!!