forum The Labs (Open!)

Started May 15, 2019 by @Mojack group

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Anomaly
Name: Vey/Void
Age: Unknown
Gender: Female
Cell: They want her to feel as normal as possible, so she has a normal girls room with a small library. (She loves to read.)
Personality: Vey, is very shy and doesn't talk much, but has always wanted to make friends. She is friendly and kind. Loves to laugh and smile. Tends to act a bit childish sometimes. Has the personality traits of a child, can get angry, loves to play and has a lot of energy, even if her body gives out she still tries to have a good attitude about life.
Can be a bit creepy sometimes. When alone tends to freak out and throw fits, she cries easily. And has trouble telling what is really and what is not. Spirits have many different personalities, so it may change when a spirit takes over.
Abilities: Vey's body is basically a portal for other beings and spirits to come and go as they please. Some of them are friendly while others are not. Different spirits can have different abilities.
Weaknesses: Because her body is like that, she is very weak in body and mind. She is basically slowly dying and going insane at the same time
Appearance: https://pin.it/ktwwtk3zggsqdd
Sometimes will look like this https://pin.it/rlm76phqlnvdyy
Attire: She mostly just wears black clothes.
Extra info: No one knows how Vey came to be, but as soon as they found out what was happening, the people she lived with sent her away. (Sorry it's late when I made this so I'm not sure of what else to put. Can't really think right now. Is she good?)

(Is it too late to join?)
Human
Name: Melvin Callaghan
Age: probably around 47
Gender: Male
S.O: Gayyyyyyy
Background: (Optional. Maybe something about their previous life?) Melvin does not talk about his past, despite how very normal it is. Instead, he prefers to make vague statements that make his background seem a little more… mysterious.
Job: (If unsure, ask me! Examples might be the recapture teams, scientist, guard, etc etc. You can even be a janitor, if you want!) Scientist
Appearance: Melvin has jaw-length (ish) jet black hair streaked with grey and combed back away from his face. He has grey eyes and square glasses, with one of those irritating faces you keep forgetting. Melvin has had a lot of trouble over the years where people don't recognize him and get very confused
Attire: (Remember your character’s job, and also where the lab is located.) Melvin wears a warm, dark grey overcoat over a dark cardigan, a quality plaid flannel shirt, warm pants, and boots. For whatever weird reason, Melvin has a briefcase he carries with him at all times filled with the most random stuff at any given day, but the one constant is a bag of lemon drops.
Personality: Melvin loves mystery and the whole aesthetic and vibe thing it gives off. Thus, he literally embodies it, with cryptic responses to the most simple of questions and being at the epicenter of strange occurences (i think i spelled that wrong)…. He seems and acts like one of those absent minded professors and seems pretty easy going, if forgetful. Underneath, however, he is very meticulous and planning e v e r y t h i n g. His next move, what he'll have for lunch tomorrow if x happens, and how to get exactly what he wants without being outright or obvious about it. He gets way to excited about things and just like. Bounces. Everywhere. He gets very excited about new anomalies and likes interacting with them.
Extra info: (Strengths? Weaknesses? Fun facts? Nothing at all?) Melvin has raised and named so many cacti over the years here his office is literally full of them and he's probably given some to his co-workers or Anomalies as gifts.

Anomaly
Name: Ghost
Gender: Demiboy
Cell: Ghost's cell is pretty much just an empty room made out of plastic. There's a bed, resin, and an old violin. Ghost is rarely solid, so there's not much point in giving him a lot of stuff, and when he is, the only thing they do is play random songs on the violin. There IS a sad little cactus called Jeffery that sits in a corner and looks like he's low-key dying. You can probably guess who Jeffery came from.
Personality: Ghost is kind of just an empty shell at this point. Their original personality only shows up when they're solid, the rest of the time they just kinda….. dead. It's pointless to interact with them. When they're solid…. I guess the best way to describe him would be a comparison to what little I've seen of the Ghost Napstablook from Undertale.
Abilities: Usual ghost stuff, like walking through walls and phasing in and out of visibility. Ghost can also solidify, but not for more than an hour every 12 hours. He's also sometimes an empath, but he smells the emotions, which leads to him saying stuff like "You don't have to smell like fresh produce, I don't hurt people" or "Why do you always have to smell like cinnamon i hate cinnamon smelling people they're always so cheery ugh."
Weaknesses: Plastic! For whatever reason, Ghost can't travel through plastic and it keeps him confined to one space. High pitched noises also will turn Ghost solid and cause him to be incapacitated thanks to a sensitivity to loud noises.
Appearance: When Ghost is solid, they are a sad looking boy of Asian origin, with dark eyes and curly dark hair streaked with grey. Ghost had olive skin and there are three scars on their face that look like they were made by a cat, but they're smoking. The rest of the time, Ghost is a cerulean mist that expands and contracts and threads and wisps everywhere like a strange plant or fog, or a blue obscurial.
Attire: If Ghost ever becomes solid, they wear gray overalls over a dark blue t-shirt. They don't bother with shoes.
Extra info: Ghost is a synesthete, specifically a Chromesthete. He's also a Friendly Anomaly, when solid.

May I join? I can't post anything later tonight but I'd love to join

The clicking of Vey's shoes echoed down the empty halls. Vey was one of the rare anomalies that were permitted to wandered the halls when she liked, as long as she had a guard. Skipping she hummed a song she learned from long ago. Although she can't remember when or who taught her. Her hair was put up in a bun, though it might be mistaken for a birds nest. Her black dress glowed behind her. With every skip she looked inside each room to see who was in the rooms. She had heard of some of the other anomalies that lived here, but others were a mystery to her. "Void, what are you singing?" The Male guard finally asked, curious. The tone was dark, and almost sounded like it could summon demons themselves. Rounding a corner the ended up in a large room with couches and a few tables. Vey hated being locked up in her room all the time, and even though she could read a book in there, she liked the change of scenery. "I don't really remember the name." That was all she said as she sat and opened her book.

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Aza sat behind the desk, buried in a copy of Great Expectations. She unconsciously pushed her glasses up her nose, twisting a lock of black hair around her fingers. She tugged it hard and winced slightly. A tongue of flame flickered behind her. "Flamethrower, you keep distracting me," she hissed, annoyed.

Xenia sits in the corner of her room, where it's the darkest in all the cell. She hums a old tune she's been humming since she's learned it, listening to every sound outside of her cell, hoping they don't open the door with the lights on again.

Solidifying to the sound of a screeching cat had not been high on Ghost's list of things to do today. Loud noises made the already painful process of becoming real again that much more painful. Unfortunately, they didn't have much of a choice. Dr. Callaghan had arrived at the lab in one of his very curious and mysterious moods that day, and was conducting and experiment. What that experiment was, Ghost could only guess, as Callaghan merely smiled mysteriously whenever the Anomaly asked.

Whatever this experiment was, however, it seemed to involve high pitched noises being played every three hours or so. Granted, the pitch lowered each time, but it was still enough to drive Ghost half crazy. Ghost lay limply on the floor after the cat noise had faded, scarlet lightning bolts fading slowly from his vision. Ghost closed his eyes and waited to either be able to move again, or to dissolve into mist. Hopefully, by the time either if those happened, Callaghan would be gone.
*
Dr. Callaghan's office had been taken over by cacti again. The spiky plants in their carefully labeled pots covered every available surface until there was no room for work of any kind. Melvin sighed. It would seem he'd have to get rid of a few. Or maybe a lot. He picked up four cacti (Rufus, Calliope, Thomas, and Edward) and left his office in search of collegues and anomalies to give them to.

Harley finished up her notes. She stuffed them into a folder, which promptly went into the metal filer at the other end of the lab. She re-adjusted her lab coat and pushed her hair back. She hadn't realized she had spent this much time on her notes, and she wasn't sure if she had closed the cell door for 049. She walked out of the lab to go check.

Melvin spotted Harley and hurried over to her. He couldn't remember if he'd given her a cactus yet or not. If so, then what was the harm if giving her another one? "Hello, Harley, do you have a moment?" He said, adjusting the cacti in his arms so they wouldn't fall.

Flamethrower gave a chirping noise. "That's disappointing," he said in a rasp. The flame flickered out with a last, "Catch me if you can!" Aza leaped up and slammed her book down, darting out the door. Flying past Melvin, she muttered a hurried "Flamethrower ran away again, gotta go bye!"

Harley turned to Melvin.
"Oh! Hi Callaghan." Harley smiled, then spotted the cacti. Oh boy…

"You'd better catch 'im!"

Aza cast a glance over her shoulder. "Yeah, that's the goal!"

Melvin offered out a cactus, Edward, to Harley, wobbling a bit when Aza ran past them. "I can't remember if I've asked you this already…. Would you like to adopt one of my cacti?" He asked her, "They're very easy to take care of, I promise."

Harley looked down at Edward.
"Sure, I don't see why not." She smiled, taking Edward from Melvin.

Anton
As Anton walked down the halls, he spotted Aza, then realized what she was darting after. He too ran behind them, although he made it sure he was to stay behind them; though at enough distance to not fall behind. Just in case, y’know?

Tool
Tool also approached the hall, but opted to approach Melvin and Harley. The anomaly floated its way over, out of curiosity to investigate what was currently going on.

Xenia hears the cacti exchange outside. She wonders what the hell a cactus is.

Harley shifts Edward to her left arm.
"So, what's its name?"

"His name is Edward," Melvin said, smiling a little, "They only need water about once a month." He adjusted the rest of the cacti so they were distributed in his arms better.

"You don't happen to know of anyone else who might want to adopt a cactus?" He asked, "Perhaps one of the friendlier anomalies? Oh! Tool, how about you?"