The Tower - Applications

[King V]

In your application to The Tower, please include the following. Please note that your character may be likely to die partway through the game, you may create a new character at the last floor you cleared if this occurs. However, you cannot reapply as a prince/princess or as an irregular after the game is under way.

Your character’s name
An image of your character
A short backstory detailing why your character is climbing the tower
Your character’s heritage
Choose up to 3 activities your character undergoes before entering the tower
(if you are starting on a higher floor you may be able to choose more activities, pm mastermind for details)
Choose a number from 1 to 4

Activities (you may choose the same activity multiple times)

Physical Training (improves base stats)

Skill Training (grants a unique passive or active skill)

Trading (grants a large sum of money)

Treasure Hunting (grants a unique item)

Shinsu Control (grants the ability to use shinsu from the start of the game, but if you choose this activity you cannot choose any other activities)


Heritage

Your character can be a normal regular, they can be a descendent from one of the Great Families, the King, or they can be an irregular. Giving your character a heritage will grant you an immense number of advantages, but there are also many drawbacks, as several organizations or other families may want you dead for various reasons (doing this essentially puts the game on easy mode for the first 20 floors or so, and lunatic mode for the rest of the game).

DISCLAIMER: The more enemies you have the harder the game will be.

Zahard Family

Pros:
Extremely high overall stat growth
Extremely powerful skills
Extremely high resistance to shinsu
Shinsu Control unlocked (no activity required)

Cons:
The most hated family in The Tower, there is no end to the number of enemies the Zahard Family has accrued


Arie Family

Pros:
High physical stat growth
Extremely high sword proficiency
Powerful Sword based skills

Cons:
Limited shinsu capabilities outside of physical or sword skills
Rivalry with the Zahard and Koon families


Koon Family

Pros:
High overall stat growth
Extremely high spear proficiency
Powerful Lightning and Ice based shinsu skills

Cons:
Infamous for having one of the most descendants out of all the great families, many internal family disputes break out among descendants, often leaving the weaker branch families bereaved of heirs
Rivalry with the Zahard and Arie families
Limited shinsu capabilities outside of lightning and ice based skills


Ha Family

Pros:
Extremely high physical stat growth
Powerful martial skills
High resistance to shinsu

Cons:
Limited shinsu capabilities outside of physical skills
Low shinsu stat growth
The Ha family is a matriarchal family, males in this family are looked down upon


Eurasia Family

Pros:
Extremely high shinsu stat growth
Unique water based shinsu skills
Shinsu Control unlocked (no activity required)

Cons:
Strange mental conditions may occur from controlling shinsu (i.e. you need 18 hours of sleep per day)
Hated by the Poe Bidau family


Poe Bidau Family

Pros:
High shinsu stat growth
Unique items are available at workshops
Shinsu Control unlocked (no activity required)

Cons:
All males in the Poe Bidau Family are automatically sent to work in a Research Association which collaborates closely with the Workshop which creates items throughout the Tower, failure to comply with the Research Association's standards will result in excommunication from the family (females are not sent to the research association and thus are unaffected by this)
Hated by the Eurasia family


Yeon Family

Pros:
High shinsu stat growth
Unique fire based shinsu skills
Shinsu Control unlocked (no activity required)

Cons:
Limited shinsu capabilities outside of fire based skills
The Yeon family is a matriarchal family, males in this family are heavily looked down upon


Lo Po Bia Family

Pros:
Unique Anima skills (the ability to communicate with and control animals)
High overall stat growth
Anima position is unlocked (does not require special training)

Cons:
The Lo Po Bia family has a rigid structure of branch families, most involved in internal power struggles to become the most influential branch family, these struggles will often spill over onto the regulars climbing the tower
Lack of social skills (too much time spent talking to animals)


Tu Perie Family

Pros:
Extremely high proficiency with items and Lighthouses
Extremely high sensory capabilities

Cons:
Low physical stat growth
Bad with dark places


Hendo Lok Family

Pros:
High physical stat growth
High shinsu resistance
Unique Defender skills
Defender position is unlocked (does not require special training)

Cons:
Due to a deal struck with a guardian, a curse drains the life energy from all descendants of the Hendo Lok family to extend the life of the family head
Generally disliked throughout the tower due to the curse


Prince/Princess of V

Pros:
Extremely high overall stat growth
Extremely powerful skills
Extremely high resistance to shinsu
Shinsu Control unlocked (no activity required)

Cons:
Very high expectations are placed upon descendants of the king
Some organizations against the king may target princes and princesses as retaliation


Irregular

Pros:
Unworldly overall stat growth
Unworldly powerful skills
Unworldly resistance to shinsu
Shinsu Control unlocked (no activity required)

Cons:
Unknown

[Exusiai]

Name: Yeol Arcbeel

Backstory: Being overly pompous at the age of eleven, Yeol believed it was in his birthright to join the Research Association; it was insistently bored into his past, present, and future.
Eventually, that future failed to entertain him.
Those months of irksome studying and reading turned into yearsーfour years to be exact.
Witnessing the trials and tribulations of those challenging the tower during the last few weeks, Yeol had been drawn to the constant risks of it all.
Rather than being enamored by strength and wit, he held contempt towards those with dreams that could only be fulfilled by reaching the pinnacle, and so, with growing envy and boredom, Yeol Arcbeel came to challenge the tower.

"Wishes are a weakness.  They're simply desires that prove what you can't obtain by normal means." 

Heritage: Poe Bidau Family

Activities: Skill Training, Trading × 2

Number: 1

[Satori]

Name: Ayra "The Huntress"

Backstory: Ayra's exact origins are unknown but what is known is that she is an exceptional sword fighter even at a very young age. She was also born with a "cursed" eye which grants her immense power but because she is unable to fully control it, she needs to wear a special eye patch in order to stabilize it. The Arie Family took notice of her skills and decided to take her in. While not officially part of the Arie Family, she serves as a hitwoman participating in various missions and assassinations on their behalf. This had earned her the infamous nickname "The Huntress" which strikes fear into the hearts of her enemies and is well respected within the family. This wasn't enough for Ayra however as she has still yet to be recognized as an official member of the Arie Family and so she decides to challenge The Tower not only to prove that she is worthy of becoming an Arie but to prove that she is the best swordswoman in the world and won't let anything stand in the way of her goal.

Heritage: Arie Family

Activities: Physical training, Skill training, Treasure Hunting

Number: 4

[John Dark Souls]

Name: Theta

Backstory: Born in a cage. Raised in a cage. The only purpose is to fight. Fight and win. The one who wins, goes back in the cage and gets to live until another fight.
The endless cycle will repeat until one loses, or becomes unable to fight, both resulting in death. These fights are a relatively peaceful way to settle matters between family branches using only disposable lives.
Theta was but one of such lives...
Until one day, an incident happened and all the fighters broke free. Theta was one who luckily managed to escape and even accidentally break into treasury on the way and grab some shinies inside.
But when Theta was cornered and about to be killed by family rankers, tower administrator appeared and Theta was chosen as a regular barely making it out alive.
Heritage: Lo Po Bia Family

Activities: Treasure Hunt x3

Number: 4

[Xaniks]

Name: Miide Effta Verati

Backstory: Though rather pathetic compared to her siblings, Miide Effta nevertheless is a child of V. She is known for her impeccable frailness, talking to herself frequently, and being completely afraid of the responsibilities borne by one of her Princess status. Still, while she is completely lacking in the physical department, she makes it up by training her shinsu capabilities to further support her siblings! (She's afraid of the majority of them)

Why is she attempting the Tower? Maybe those voices in her head are telling her to! Or maybe she is foolish enough to believe someone will help her all the way? Or... Onii-chan?!

Heritage: Princess of V

Activities: Skill Training (3)

Number: 2

[Deleted]

Name: Allibis

Heritage: B*stard child of the Arie and Koon Family

Backstory: He’s actually worthless. Like, actual dead-weight. I don’t know how he got accepted into the Tower with his lack of skills. Is he an irregular?
Known by many names: “The King of the Slums”; “The Abandoned Noble”; “The Ruler of the Rats”. All of these titles perfectly match his arrogance, but none of these truly capture who he is:
The ultimate mistake. But one that was never found.
How could he not know where he came from? With his hair, and his strange white and blue eyes, of course there were rumors about him being descended from one of the Great Families. But… Why wasn’t he talented in anything? He couldn’t control shinsu, or use the sword, or... do anything. He wished for power, but it seemed so far away.
One day, someone from the Koon decided to get rid of the rumors that they were associated with this piece of trash. What else could he do but run? So run he did. And what better place to hide, than the Tower itself?

Activities: Treasure Hunting; Skill Training x2

Number: 1

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

Name: E
Backstory: E, one of the son's of V and a prince of the Tower takes to that heritage with great pride and vigor. While not the most esteemed of V's children, E quickly asserted himself as one of the mightier siblings by outpacing the others in bouts of physical strength and dexterity. Constantly believing in his siblings that they too could match up to him he pushed(well, dragged really) them to greater heights they hadn't thought themselves capable of. Unfortunately this focus on physical led him to neglect his other training and while he can manipulate shinsu, it most certainly isn't a feat to behold.

In time this caught up to him and one of his siblings, mighty in both Shinsu and body, demanded that E prove his abilities and show his right to push others further beyond while his own technique was lacking. Unperturbed, E declared that he would do so with a mighty grin. Face to face with his accuser he declared that he would prove it by climbing the tower and not only that, but push(drag kicking and screaming) even more to the top whom would not have made it otherwise. E left with the same mindset that he always had, that with enough effort(blood and sweat) anyone could do anything. Oh and he promised that when he made it back everyone who doubted him would have to train non-stop until they too could shoulder the weight of the tower!

"When I return, the Tower will be twice...no, Thrice as strong as it is now! Count on it!"

Heritage: Prince of V
Activities: Physical Training, Physical Training, and some more Physical Training
Number: 2

[Karenina]

"Eh... I was about to take a nap y´know..."

Name: Mira Nymphaea

Backstory: Staying true to the family heritage of Eurasia, Mira is an excellent manipulator of water and always strives to reach new heights in shinsu control. However shinsu control is also the only thing Mira has ever found more important than anything else. She tends to make mistakes, is sometimes a total apathetic dork and also tends to neglect everything else but her shinsu and sleeping, putting everything else at a lower priority. She does however pull herself together once in a while and is willing to change her ways, if that becomes critical.

Seeing how different challengers gather at the tower, Mira is eventually encouraged to participate as well. Despite not having set herself a clear goal, Mira decides to join out of pure wish to test her own skills as well as helping other people achieve their own goals at the same time. She is only partially aware of just how dangerous challenging the tower actually is.

Heritage: Eurasia Family

Activities: Treasure Hunting, Skill Training x2

Number: 4

[Chatt]

Name:Emiya

Backstory:An illegitimate child in the middle area of the tower, an unknown accident (potentially from the workshop spilling some boiling acid) occurred on the floor he was living on, leaving him the sole survivor. He was found by a worker of the workshop and taken in by him, working as a disciple. While working there, he harbored intense guilt over being the only one to survive the accident.

He discovered a sort of talent while working as well. While looking at a weapon or piece of equipment that his Teacher would show him, he committed them to memory. He discovered that, given the correct materials and amount of time, he could copy the item from memory, having memorized every aspect of the weapon. Though he has only seen very low grade items as of now, he figures that this will carry over to higher grade items.

After a time, he was selected to go into the tower, and was kicked out of the workshop. Having no skills that would aid in comabt, he trained his body for a little while. He also discovered that he has some talent with the bow and arrow. Deciding that he would a be a hero, to fight for the weak and atone for his sin of being alive, he enters the tower. His dream is to save everyone.

Heritage:A Normal Regular

Activities:Skill Training x2, Physical Training

Number: 2

[Funny Valentine [Silentgod]]

Name: Al Simmons aka Hellspawn (Spawn for short)

Backstory: Al Simmons was once a mercenary who would go on morally questionable and potential suicide missions. He was tth e best of the best and never questioned his orders no matter how many innocents he had to kill to get the job done. Then one day, his handler decided he was too much of a hassle to deal with and had one of Al's teammates kill in him and made it look like an accident. In the afterlife, Spawn was met by the ruler of the 8th circle of Hell and was offered a deal. If he led Hell's army, he would get to see his wife one last time. Freshly dead and confused on what was going on and desperate to at least say goodbye to the woman he loved, Al accepted.

And promptly returned to Earth as a monster and it was 5 years after he died. And learned that his wife had moved on and married his best friend and they had a kid. Something Al was unable to provide in the first place. Enraged, Al took up his new identity as Spawn and rebelled against Hell and fought against Heaven. Eventually deciding he had enough of both sides (Heaven was revealed to be just as bad as Hell even though they are still technically the good guys) and became a third force in the war. Even eventually killing the Demon that dammed in the first place.

But despite having rejected both sides and eventually deciding he would rather be alone, Heaven and Hell still plagued. Wanting to add his strength to their war or to take him off the board completely depending on which member Spawn encounters. Desperate, Spawn looked for another way to free himself. And he found one. A way that may finally end everything once and for all. He found the Tower.

Heritage: Irregular

Activites: Physical Training, Skill Training, Treasure Hunting

Number: 2

[Falin Touden [Ven]]

Name: Violette

Image:
 

Reasoning for climbing the tower: Violette is from a richer back ground from most and has heard the stories about the Benign King since she was young, and has always helped her lead a life of charity and never throw her wealth on to others. Recently hearing tells of bad tidings and as such Violette wants to help the Benign king to keep his legacy and to make sure those who are deserving and need help can receive it.

Heritage: Eurasia Family

Activities: Skill Training x3

Number: 3

[Snakeperson]

Name: Pandora

Reason: Loot and power. Pandora loves both beyond belief, and is not interested in anything else. A magical torture device got hold of her her while she was exploring and looting the basement of a vampire. She turned from a normal girl into a pain-loving monster. The world must feel pain. The world must enjoy pain like she does.

Heritage: Irregular

Activities: 3x Skill training

She will be number: 1

[Naru]

Name: Naru Yagami

Backstory: Naru born and raised to understand and communicate with the animals that his family raised as part of their "community". As he grew a little older, he realize why his parents forced him to do what they did with animals day in day out. In his everyday life he is seen to be alone or smiling by himself, but with closer look he is seen to be talking to something, which makes him the weirdo of the outside world. 

His family being among one of the many branch family, is usually overlooked due to circumstances, hence making them fight even more to gain recognition.

One day with the opportunity came, in form of an invitation to climb the Tower. So Naru decided to trust in his fate and his family heritage to guide him to what his family wanted, recognition.

Heritage: Lo Po Bia Family

Training: Physical x2, Skills

Number: 3

[Rina Silhouette [spellcraft]]

Name: Rina Silhouette

Backstory: Once upon a time, Rina was told she wouldn't be able to scale the tower, because she was a girl.
For the honour of her family, she's here to prove them wrong.

Heritage: Ha Family

Activities: 

                                            - Physical Training

                                            - Physical Training

                                       - Skill Training

Number: 4

[ktoasty]

Name: Locke

Backstory: Locke wants to go to the top of the tower to fulfill his wish. He wants to meet his dad. He was the coolest dad ever, but one day he vanished. Now, it's Locke's mission to get his dad back.

Heritage: Normal Regular

Activities: Shinsu Control

Number: 2