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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

Kira!!

(This will be a long post probably awawawawaw)


Not me taking a gamble after /lh

My art motivation just returned, sure hope it stays around this time around 😤


(I am not confident with my writing skills, so please bear with me if parts are painful to read smpbj)


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Her name is Kira!

She personally has little to no experience talking to strangers but considering she saw a new start in the academy, tried her damn best. She intends to be that kind of person on friendly terms with everyone to avoid confrontation. That being said, she would prefer to keep her relationships at face value.  Much as she craves close connections, couldn't help to be eerily uncomfortable when it happens. 


What she’s wearing underneath is a fireman suit  ̶̶c̶o̶u̶g̶h̶̶ ̶i̶n̶c̶r̶e̶d̶i̶b̶l̶y̶ ̶s̶t̶y̶l̶i̶z̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶  to avoid risks of burning of her uniform and others. 79% uncomfortable for her, but hey, if it would lessen the chance of getting extra homework, it’s worth it


The power is Fire Formation (I don’t know what else to call it—) an ability to engulf her entire body into flames, materialising fire in different ways. The ability being essentially reactive to her emotions, strongly responding to fight-or-flight situations


Emotions similar to ‘fight’ responses would fire more so would overtly start to intensify, the fire becoming more apparent similarly shown in the pic. How fast the fire would grow really depends how extreme her emotions were and when left unsupervised would grow bigger. Having yet to find a way to dissolve those kinds of situations while being conscious will eventually pass out due to lack of oxygen. It wouldn’t mean that the fire would disappear along with her when it already come in contact to flammable objects


In ‘Flight’ responses, she possesses the fire inwardly, materialising the fire instead. Turning into gas in a way, It can make physical form of attacks futile on both ends since it will pass through. Most she could do in that situation is flee

In a different scenario , If she happens to be in a moment when she has to fight when there’s no time to react on her end, most often she’s much more vulnerable than she would be from either of the form responses. Other is, If she were to try and force her ability to work while in a clear state of mind, she can only do small chunks of fire when tried hard enough


(Ngl finding the drawback of the power was pretty difficult for me then cherrytwelve’s idea really got me overjoyed so I’m stealing  it— sorry not sorry /j ;³;)


The drawback is everytime she uses her power she rapidly consumes oxygen around her, which can put other  living biengs in danger. It’s overall self explanatory I could say. I’ll shortly post a comment detailing more about the drawback. I’m unsure if it will serve the character well, so I will post separately in case it doesn’t! All in all, it talks about if the drawback affects Kira herself. Afterall, she’s a living bieng herself  in a way 🤔


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This is my first post on the site. Yay! I am hell nervous 💀 Could say that I’m satisfied with this being the first drawing that will be seen in this account, atleast, for now ;) It’s not quite there yet and there are some things I want to change some parts the next time I draw, but it is close and I'm okay the way it is too!  Rn I’m still trying to get used to it and will draw more of the character the next time. Yes, I saw the spacing in the refsheet and I have no idea what to put in there—

It’s no pressure, really, I love the challenge!  The concept, the challenges, not to mention the time and care being put into it as time goes on really made me want to know more about  the world that is shown. If you read this part, you did great 😩👍  Can’t wait to see what’s more in the community!

Other than that, feel free to let me know if there are any needed improvements!
Jun 17, 2022
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Really love the addition of the practical firesuit underneath the uniform and that distinction between fight and flight responses and what it does to her abilities! It really shows how much thought you put into this 😊

And hey! Welcome to Artfol and yay for posting your first post as a challenge entry 🎉
AAAAAHHHHHH KIRA IS SO INCREDIBLY COOLLLLL!!!!! 🥺💕🍓🥺🌺💕🥺🍓🌺🥺🍓🥺🌻💕🥺🌺🥺💕🥺🌺💕🥺🌻🥺 HER HAIR IS SO COOL!! THE SUIT UNDER THE UNIFORM IS SO COOL!! HER ABILITY IS SO COOL!! I remember talking with you about ideas for a drawback, but seeing Kira in action is 10x more amazing!! 😎🌈😎🌈😎 I love how you went with a power that turns her into fire, but actually works in two different ways. Also the fact that Kira needs strong emotions to activate it must be a big problem for her in her first few years, but hopefully she'll learn how to bring forward emotions strong enough as needed 🍀🍀🍀 I still can't believe this was your first post here when your art is THIS BEAUTIFUL!! 💕🌈🌼💕🌈🌼🌺💕🌼🌺💕🌼💕🌈🌺💕🌈 Thank you so much for all the love for Cipher 😭😭💕🍓💕🍓💕🍓💕🍓 It really means a lot to me when people seem so hyped about creating for and interacting with this project! Can't wait to see more of Kira!! WELCOME TO CIPHER ACADEMY!! 🎉🎉🎉
Let’s Kira and Estelle be socially awkward together 🥲
Oxygen consumption is such a cool detail to focus on with fire powers!! Kira is so cool wow-

(Also, welcome to Artfol! Hope you’re enjoying the platform :D)
Kira looks cool! And interesting power too, has a lot of details :D it wasn't painful to read and it's pretty understandable
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