Characters
Main Characters
AlmostImmortal - Belinda Esther (Twin)

Pronouns: She/Her

Appearance:

Constellation and Powers: Serpens Cauda - Necromancy

Personality: Belinda is and sweet and soft-spoken. She's a bookworm that would do anything to support her twin's dreams. She joins the adventure in hopes that she can revive the Zodiacs to learn more about their assailant. Incredibly imaginative, she's known to get lost in her head. A bit of an idealist really, she has the belief that everyone can be saved.

Home Ship: Gemini

Profession: Librarian, Aspiring Author

Other: Revived her and Darvi's childhood pet, which is now a skeleton. His name is Jasper.

AlmostImmortal - Darvi Esther (Twin)

Pronouns: Any

Appearance:

Constellation and Powers: Serpens Caput - Shapeshifting

Personality: Darvi is very hard-working and dedicated. Tends to be hard on themself, and gets easily frustrated with those they believe aren't working as hard as they could. However, when they need to shapeshift into someone else they become dedicated to that role. They'll change their entire identity in a second if that's what it takes to keep their Zodiac safe.

Home Ship: Gemini

Profession: Gemini Guard

Other: Has a tendency to turn into various bugs while sleeping in order to hide from danger.

Chaser - Enki Sarameya

Pronouns: They/Them

Appearance:

Constellation and Powers: Reticulum - The Net: Can create strands of light that form strings and nets. Weak users tend to have trouble holding the net shape.

Personality: Fantasizes about being a great detective but is a fisherman instead. Still, this doesn't deter Enki from being a nosy person, casual and upbeat while asking about the latest news, which is the best way to gossip among fishermen. They're always chasing the most exciting thing around, but have a few debts from seeking thrills through gambling. They're not that talented at using Reticulum but will still take on any bad guys that come their way. In the name of justice of couse.

Home Ship: Pisces

Profession: Fisherman

Other:

Lehmanf - Rigel Moonlight

Pronouns: She/Her (But at first everyone thinks she’s a guy.)

Appearance: Rigel is almost always seen wearing a white, hooded cloak and ruffled mask/buff, revealing only her amber eyes. For this reason, she is thought to be a guy. It’s not evident that she is a young women in her early twenties until her hood is removed. She wears her silky brown hair in a ponytail.

Constellation and Powers: Canes Venatici - Hunting Dogs; Has the ability to summon a demonic pack of hunting dogs.

Personality: At first Rigel is a reclusive, cunning and cold character with little empathy, but as the story progresses the reality of her shyness and confusion comes to light as she battles to become the person she wants to be.

Home Ship: Cancer; She has a dirty, cold hideaway high up in the mountains.

Profession: Assassian. (She works for her father.)

Other: The daughter of the Zodiac Killer and Virgo.

The Twelve (Zodiac Bearers)
Aquarius Blue (Aquarius)

He is the capitan as he can protect the ships during storms. The waves answer to him. In Greek myth, he was a young boy kidnapped by Zeus and made into the cupbearer of the Gods. It's also considered the luckiest constellation. A child emperor of sorts with a huge weight on his shoulders. He's realitively new edition to the Zodiac and is the least experienced.

Ship: Based on the sea. Prone to tide pools and sand. It has a glass bottom so you can see the ocean.

Aries Volgan (Aries)

A classic pirate type character. Boisterous and powerful, meets every experience head-on but is incredibly caring for those he perceives as weaker than him, Aries is the golden ram that saved Phrixus. The goat is later used to make the golden fleece, said to bring fertility and wealth to any nation who weilds it. Those stronger than him, he cannot resist challenging them and resents their powers.

Ship: There are many gardens, agricultural fields, orchards etc. on this ship, it controls agriculture. Therefore, their ship is wealthy, being the only available source of food. They can even synthezie plants at an incredibly fast rate.

Cancer Aval (Cancer)

Has an incurable fear that he will be attacked by the other Zodiacs. He has paranoia has caused him to become reclusive in his later years.

Ship: The defences systems on the ship are constantly improved and built onto in hopes of making it impervious to attack. They are incredibly skilled in metal maniuplation and building. This ship has a big steampunk and industrious vibe. The geography is split between mines, smiths and labs.

(Capricornus)

Capricornus is a half goat, half fish known as a sea-goat. It stemmed from Pan escaping a giant, but is largely associtaed with rain. They have the ability to help prevent storms, use wind to help with travel etc.

Ship: The ship is largely responsible for energy generation. It is made up of plains which have been used for wind turbines and solar panels.

(Gemini)

Gemini has the ability to clone or make illusions, almost like a disguise.

Ship: Has a major focus on Academia. There's a single mountain in the center, that has on observetory on its peak. The rest is forest, as to obscure the stars and focus on other work. Most of their buildings are in the trees, however there are luxury houses and gorgeous libraries at the base of the mountain.

(Leo)

Impervious to physical damage. Leo is based on the Nemean Lion.

Ship: This ship is a hunting range of sorts. They raise animals and have established hunting seasons depending on population. This ship would have the most diverse landscape.

(Libra)

Libra has the ability to determine whether someone is lying. Libra is the judicial body of the Twelve Zodiacs. There have been corrupt Libra bearers in the past, who took bribes to change verdicts. It would come as no suprise if the current bearer is corrupt as well.

Ship: This is the site of the main kingdom. It is surronded by beautiful parks, fountains and courthouses.It would be reminiscent of a bustling city, with a park in the center surronding the castle walls.

Pisces Damo (Pisces)

Can breathe under water, swim incredible and has mastered the art of water bending. Due to the freedom that their powers provide, the Pisces bearer does not spend a lot of time on board the actual ship, preferring to swim down deep and explore the ocean. They are responsible for the underworkings of the ships. In fact, the Pisces bearer is barely seen at all. They are only noticed when dead sea creatures surface, killed for food.

Ship: Pisces are the fishermen, but also deal with aquatic hunts when larger threats draw near. Their ship is the most like an actual ship in construction, with windmills of sails that give them power. Most of the ship is underwater, similar to a submarine. It has extensive windows for monitoring threats.

General Sagittarus Gunnar (Sagittarus:)

Sagittarus is the military general, a sharpshooter known for their strictness.

Ship: Their ship is used as the barracks, mostly focusing on underwater training such as with submarines manufaced on the Cancer Ship. They are mostly known, however, for ranged weaponary. This ship looks like a bare military camp, with pockets of other territories for training purposes.

(Taurus)

The myth of Taurus refrences from the time Zeus turned into a bull and fathered King Minos. Taurus is associated with the minotaur and has the ability to make make people fall in love.

Virgo Ambrosia (Virgo)

Has eternal youth and life. The Virgo bearer has been given immortality, which they alone can decide to relinquish. They were once in love with the Zodiac Killer. Unfortuantely this caused them to begin aging. Dismayed, Virgo sacrificed this love, causing the Zodiac Killer to become bitter and enraged at the power of the stars.

Ship: An ancient pirate ship. Antiquated and wooden in structure. It gives a sense of sacred nostalgia to the people on it. It is home to much of the original cuisine and is the main island for musuems. It's like a snapshot frozen in history.

Scorpio Ulysses

Can use a powerful toxin. They are ostracized for this ability. Is one of the first people blamed for the death of Cancer. Deep down, they would not hurt anyone.

Ship: This ship is the primary place for waste management. Scorpio's acids are used to break down much of the solid trash until it can enter the ocean safely. It is overrun by slums, discarded things and discarded people.

Antagonists
The Zodiac Killer

Appearence: c. 45 years old; Brown Crew Cut; 5 feet 9 inches; c. 85 kg

They have the powers of Sol, the sun. The "swallowing" of the stars can be seen as the sunlight obliterating the starlight during the day. Uses the power of the Sun to absorb the Zodiac powers before killing the bearers. This causes the stars in that constellation to vanish. The Zodiac Killer is split between causing as much terror as possible, and covering his tracks as well as possible. To shake people's faith in the Twelve, and to accomplish his mission of amassing their powers. He is a misson-orientated sadist.

Usually sends some types of letters before killing. Examples include:

"I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experence it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is thae when I die I will be reborn in paradice and all the I have killed will become my slaves I will not give you my name because you will try to sloi down or atop my collectiog of slaves for my afterlife ebeorietemethhpiti"

"I hope you are having lots of fan in trying to catch me that wasnt me on the tv show which bringo up a point about me I am not afraid of the gas chamber becaase it will send me to paradlce all the sooher because e now have enough slaves to worv for me where every one else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death I am not afraid because i vnow that my new life is life will be an easy one in paradice death"

Virgo involvement: They were once in love with the Zodiac Killer. Unfortuantely this caused them to begin aging. Dismayed, Virgo sacrificed this love, causing the Zodiac Killer to become bitter and enraged at the power of the stars. This bearer has watched for centuries as the other signs have gone and passed on. This is interesting because Virgo has to be convinced to die. Killing the Virgo is the goal. The antagonist hopes that killing all of the other Zodiac bearers will give them the power to kill Virgo.

Plot Outline

Introduction posts. These can be whatever you want to establish your character, so long as they are headed to the prison transport by the end. We'll also need to establish these things:

Cancer Aval has been killed with a blow to the head, something his Cancer Shield should have prevented. (This can also be adapted to whatever power FourLeaf goes with.)

The prevailing theory is that FourLeaf's character ambushed him and killed him in a single blow. (FourLeaf should have the first introduction post, because it sets the mood.)

The prisoner is being taken to Libra in order to be put on trial and mainly to find out how they killed Cancer.

Our characters will meet while FourLeaf's character is being transferred to Libra for trial. Presumably, Rigel will attack them and fail to kill FourLeaf, but cause enough commotion for them all to escape. What results is their being hunted by the forces of the Twelve and Rigel.

(Gap.)

Aries captures the party, but instead of turning them over, he challenges them to a duel to prove his powers are stronger than the other Zodiacs. Once he realizes the misunderstanding, he becomes an ally.

Leo is getting played by Zodiac. Thinking that he'll take out their competition and being as arrogant as to say that he couldn't also kill them. He does, but Leo is unaware of the extent of Zodiac's Solar Power, believing the other Zodiac skills to be eliminated instead of absorbed.

Scorpio is killed second. No one likes him and his poison ability could come in handy for the Zodiac Killer villain. Not all toxins kill you, it can paralyse the you. Making it much easier for the antagonist. Our heroes smuggle in with the garbage, and seek out Scorpio to try and stop Zodiac's next move. Are they too late or too weak to stop him? Probably on the verge of being killed before Rigel steps in, she might be claiming to finish them off to regain her father's favor, only to let them go and start conspiring against Zodiac because of a previous argument.

I think right after Scorpio, we have an arc where the Twelve secretly call a meeting to discuss what's going on. We get the setup for Leo's death, as well as an introduction to the dynamic of the Twelve with characters like Aquarius and Aries and Virgo. Some of the Twelve won't show up, of course.

The Zodiac Killer hires Ursa Major after Rigel abandons him.

When Zodiac goes after Pisces, he takes the time to talk with them about what Pisces saw underneath the waves. Ruins of human civilization. Only Pisces and Virgo know about this at the moment. This is where we get a glimpse of Zodiac's motivations.

Gemini's death would be deeply personal to Darvi, which could result in them losing it and trying to fight against Zodiac Killer one-on-one. This fails miserably, and ends really badly. Kidnapping would be a great way to force Rigel to finally switch sides.