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Cipher Academy Welcomes All!!

Cipher Academy is a secret school/organization entrusted by the government with the task to teach, train and guide teens with supernatural abilities. To the general public, this school is nothing more than a boarding school, but inside they're helping the next generation of shadow helpers to grow strong! Cipher Academy: - Beginner students are the ones who've been in the school for up to 3 years. They are heavily monitored and require a mandatory student buddy (an advanced student who'll help them) - Intermediate students have been in the school from 4 to 6 years. They have more freedom to use their abilities and no longer need a student buddy - Advanced students have been in the school from 7 to 9 years. They start training to work in the outside world with other shadow helpers (superhumans who secretly work to help and save others). They are responsible for a beginner student as means to help them become more responsible (You can visit my Cipher Academy Collection for more info) Rules of the Challenge: - Create a new OC to enter Cipher Academy - Your OC needs a supernatural ability, such as super strength, mind reading, talk to animals, etc. - Check the post "Why Your OC Might Need Adjustments" in my "Cipher Info" collection before submiting your OC 🙇‍♀️ There I explain the 3 main points a Cipher OC needs to check to be accepted. As a resume: human, power, drawbacks. - Before creating your OC pls check to see if no one has a similar power yet. If there's a lot of entries by the time you join (like more than 20) I can accept similar powers but pls try to be unique 💕 - Your OC's power needs a drawback, like "power can only work if they say a magic word", "power can only work if both hands are free" or "power can only work if they're always hot", etc. - Your OC can be female, male or non-binary. The uniform is the same for everyone (in case you can't see it clearly, those are pants) and you can mix and match longer and shorter options; also you can give them different shoes, but they need to be as comfy and resistant as these bc they'll be using them to train - Accessories like gloves, earings, bags, etc. are allowed and your OC can wear them with the uniform, so long as it's nothing that changes the appearence of the actual clothes - There's no deadline but if a bunch of people seem interested in this I'll create new challenges for you to draw you Cipher OC in!! ✨😎🌈🎶🍓🌸 (Correction: THANK YOU FOR ALL THE LUV!! There's more Cipher challenges on the way!!) - Check my "Cipher Info" collection for any in-world doubts you might have! I compiled a bunch of FAQ there for everyone Have fun, everyone!! 🎶🌼😎🎨🍓✨🤗🌸🍀💐🌸🍀 I've been really into superhero books recently so I hope someone'll find this as fun as I do skdbsmdm IMPORTANT: I'll need to check your OC before you can post stuff for other Cipher challenges. That's because your OC might not fit the lore in some aspect so I need to review everyone's entries first, ok? 🍀🙇‍♀️🍓

Challenge creator
cherrytwelve

Etzel Oberon

I will now introduce you to Etzel Oberon (Zel to his friends) (he/him)
He is an advanced student at the cipher academy. He 18 and currently in his 9th and probably last year at the academy. I have also decided to give him a bit of history with Alais. So remember that I mentioned that Alais beat up another student really bad, well this is that student. And it would not be the first time they have had fights, most of them were started by Alais but Etzel probably taunted her a few of the times. (He always lost) And although Etzel is much nicer than Alais he is arrogant and of the thinks he is above others which Alais really hate. Their conflict started when he started in his 3rd year and Alais her 2nd. Alais and her original student buddy didn’t really match and at the year shift they (the advanced student) asked to change, this advanced student then became Etzel’s student buddy, as his previous one was finished and left the school.
Now I don’t want his entire character to revolve around Alais but I wanted to explain that part of their shared backstory.

So a bit more about just him, as stated before he is arrogant and often se himself as the centre of the world, but sort of because of this he wants to be very helpful. He sees himself as perfect and therefore needs to help anyone who isn’t. and he also can’t take criticism very well.

His powers is something I have decided to call Mindmap. It gives him the ability create a non material world by manipulating his mindmap as he calls it (also for cherry how does the ability naming work, do the students come up with them themselves ore are they given by the school, and if it is given are they allowed to change it later on?) he can go into his mind world whenever he likes but his body doesn’t so if you ever find Etzel somewhere and he seems zoned out and not responding he is probably in his mind-world.

He is also able to send other people into his mind world their body also stays and become soulless like Etzel. And for Etzel to send someone in to his mind world he has to touch them, which is why he wears gloves or more like why he originally wore them as he didn’t have as good control over his ability when he just started and he didn’t want to randomly send anyone in as he also struggled a bit to to get out. (He is also sent in whenever he sends someone else in) now he is just wearing it out of habit and as a fashion statement

As he grew stronger his ability also evolved so now he is also able to get into other peoples mind-world and as most people can’t shape their own mind it becomes this chaos of memories and emotions and is quite difficult to navigate. This is where is third eye comes in, it usually just looks like a scar but when he needs to navigate someone else’s mind-world it opens up, and allows him to make a map of their world. This does take up a lot of his strength (and blood) and depending on how good the opponent is at keeping things hidden it might take several sessions of mapping out their world. But once this map is complete he can use it to immediately find the information they are looking for. It is a painless process and it leaves no scars so it is perfected for interrogations where the person has to be left unharmed.

So his ability allows him to create his own world in his mind go there but his body stays in the material world, he can invite others in by touching them, and he can also go into others minds however that takes a lot more energy. He is completely defenceless while in his or someone else’s mind
Sep 10, 2022
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Comments
Damn, I really love the concept of Etzel's powers! I wonder if Etzel and Bakko'ra can be frenemies since Bakko'ra 's power also involve delving into other people's minds, but he probably doesn't like Etzel's snobbish attitude haha
Finally here to analyse your child!! 💃💃💃 I'm so sorry for the long wait, luv, but I'm glad you kept drawing Etzel even while waiting 💕🌸🌺 Sorry again and thank you for being patient 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️
First of all, Etzel's design is absolutely gorgeous!! ✨💕✨💕✨💕✨ This boy is a beauty and he knows it and I fully respect that!! 😂💕💕 Him being in his last year is also a pretty fun addition to the whole persona bc 9th year students really give a vibe of respect and I don't think we have many of those (I know Raz is also in his 9th year, but aside from him idk anyone else who is)
About Etzel's power: at first I was a bit afraid it was another illusion-like power but actually it seems more like a mind travel power and that's soooo freaking unique!! You mentioned how he can use it to look for info for interrogations but honestly the whole time I was thinking "Etzel is going to be the next Cipher therapist" BC JUST IMAGINE!! HE CAN LITERALLY HELP PEOPLE BY ANALYSING THEIR MEMORIES?? WITH THEM THERE TO SEE?? So cool!! The whole "taking various trips to complete" is also a great drawback and with the standard ones you added everything looks great!
WELCOME TO CIPHER ACADEMY!!! 🎉🎉🎉

P.S.: about your question: it's a mix between students deciding on a name and the government deciding on a name. The student need to describe their power to an official and may choose a name the official agrees with, but if they don't then the Supernatural Association chooses a name for their power. Glad you asked that 🍀🌈🌻🌼
Ooo such an interesting power and character! Not to mention to glorious hair 😩💚
I really love the mind-world idea! Does his look like an altered version of our world? I understand that other people's mind-worlds look chaotic, but do the resemble anything in specific( a museun of memories, a field of thoughts), or is it just like a labyrinth of blank space?
That sounds like such an awesome idea!!! I wonder what different mind worlds look like :0

Also do people look different in the mind-world? Like, it sounds like a place where one's personality and memories are shown. Do the people also look like their true selfes in their mind world? Cuz that would be cool-
Ooh now I wonder if Etzel has ever gone into Alais’ mind world…
Oh i like so much this power !!!

Some questions if you Can answer please 😭

Do he have more than 1 World ?
If yes do he have all the World a name ?
Do he create people of his World. Like do he create New species in his World ?

Anyways like his design too !
His name is fabulous and gorgoeus i think.
"Etzel" is really beautiful !