[Loaka of the Wind]

This thread is for characters, whether you intend to play them or otherwise. It is for those that are faint traces of personalities or back-stories or the true veterans who have lived a hundred lives and spoken a hundred tales. Write them here and let other people know of your own people.

Here is a useful sheet for writing things up. It isn’t necessary, but it may be convenient.

Name:
Species:

Appearance –
Age:
Gender:
Height:
Weight:
Build:

Possessions:

Magic/Abilities:

Talents:

Weaknesses:

Personality:

Background:

Life Goals (short term):
Life Goals (long term):
Sexuality:
Relationship status:
Immediate family members:
Quirks:
Religion:

Extra Questions –
Where does your character live?-
What are your character’s hobbies?
How does your character act in romantic encounters?
How does your character deal with romantic relationships? Include how they treat lovers.
How does your character deal with their family?
How does character react with friends?
How does character react to strangers?
What does your character fear? Specify their greatest fear.
What is their happiest memory?
What is their worst memory?
How does your character deal with stress?
How does your character deal with intense fear?
How does your character deal with depression?
What is your character’s greatest weakness?
How is your character at following orders?
Is your character a good leader?
How would your character react if witnessing an armed robbery?
How would your character deal with being mugged?
How would your character deal with a cheating lover?
How would your character respond to unwanted advances?
How did your character do in school?
Is your character employed? If so, where?

[Loaka of the Wind]

Name: Fujiwara Nanami, AKA ‘Solar☆Nanamiyo’
Species: Human

Appearance –
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Height: ~150 cm
Weight: ~45 kg
Build: Small and lightly built.

Nanami is a young Japanese woman of small build. She has dark brown eyes and dyed blonde hair that is naturally black. She wears her hair long with a bob-cut at the front.
When in costume, Nanami wears bright yellow contact lenses and has two long pony-tails either side of her head.
When out of costume, Nanami tends to wear her hair in one large pony-tail out the back with a hat of some sort. She tends to wear darker colour clothing and practical, comfortable footwear.

Possessions:
Solar☆Nanamiyo Costume –
A bright yellow costume, featuring a puffy yellow dress with a sun pattern, a gold-coloured plastic tiara designed to fit into one’s hair with a similarly fake sun-shaped crystal embedded into it, a pair of goofy yellow thigh-boots and some awkwardly large yellow gloves. It really is not practical in the slightest. For some reason, the back has thin plastic fairy wings sewn into it.

Solar☆Dialler –
A bright yellow, heavily decorated flip-top mobile phone. It is obnoxiously bright. Nanami uses it for work-related calls. It has a wallpaper of her in costume and the ring-tone is her newest hit song.

Second mobile phone –
A plain phone, black, in an out-dated model. This is Nanami’s personal phone that she uses during her own time. It has a wallpaper of her out of costume with two friends and the ring-tone is a basic polytone that came with the phone.

Talents: Singing, dancing, acting. Nanami is a naturally talented performer and loves to sing.

Weaknesses: Nanami has trouble trusting people, a fear of being truly alone and has issues with her parents. Hypocritically, she despises people who act like someone they are not.

Personality: Outwardly, she seems friendly, sociable and constantly happy, aiming to please and enjoyable to be around. Under this, she can be rather emotional, untrusting and moody, as well as somewhat self-loathing. She is somewhat dependent on others and has grown used to positive reinforcement of all of her actions.

Background:
Nanami was a relatively normal girl for most of her school years, becoming somewhat popular for her looks and singing voice. Her family was small, only her mother and father, and both were quite traditional in their views of the world. Their view was that Nanami would meet a wealthy boy, get married and care for them in their old age. Failing this, they expected her to study in a university and get a good, respectable job, also to care for them in their age. Nanami herself was quite enamoured with the world of the rich and famous, with their extravagant lives, extraordinary personalities and their strange behaviours. Her parents constantly disapproved of Nanami pursuing a career as a performer, seeing it as unreliable and corrupting. Nanami channelled her passion into her school’s performing club, hiding it from her parents.

Near the end of her third year of high school, Nanami was approached by a talent scout after a show she had performed in at a school festival. The scout was interested in Nanami’s stage alter-ego, “Solar☆Nanamiyo”, promising Nanami that she could be the greatest of idols if she simply signed a contract with the scout’s agency. Nanami was thrilled, the prospect of fame and fortune filling her head with stars. She eagerly signed the contract, ready to show her parents that becoming a star was possible. Racing home, she explained all to her parents; the show, the agent, the contract. Her parents were furious, scolding Nanami fiercely for her selfishness. They demanded she cancel the contract and threatened to send her to a strict boarding school. Her eyes flowing with tears, she packed a bag with all of her favourite possessions and some supplies and ran from home.

Nanami contacted her agent the next day, having slept over-night in a park. Her newly assigned agent, a slightly older woman with a friendly smile, listened patiently to her issue and offered to take her in until she was able to face her parents. Nanami stayed, never returning to face her parents, her new career as a pop idol slowly consuming her more and more. She began to distrust those around her as her career went on and her popularity increased, unsure of the intentions of those around her, ever fearing the same disapproval her parents once gave her. When on stage, she becomes a different person, inside and out. Solar☆Nanamiyo is a strong, independent girl who loves to sing, dance and have fun, unlike Fujiwara Nanami, a cowardly girl who ran from home and cannot even face her own parents. Locking her feelings away, Nanami is slowly becoming less of herself and more of Nanamiyo, a somewhat self-centred and self-important woman.

Life Goals (short term): Become the greatest idol ever!
Life Goals (long term): Regain her parent’s approval.
Sexuality: Straight
Relationship status: Single, but not looking.
Immediate family members: Parents, a salary-man and a house-wife, both very traditional. No other family.
Quirks: Tends to look away when lying.
Religion: Agnostic.

[Loaka of the Wind]

Some random character ideas and such –
–
Time-tagging / time-dragging –
An odd power that comes in two parts. With this power, one can ‘mark’ objects through time with an invisible marker. This mark leaves an unforgettable imprint in one’s mind of the object, which vanishes from existence as it is taken through time. With the second half of the power, one can draw objects forth from the past that have been marked with this power.
Objects that have been marked but will never be used won’t vanish, as the objects do not disappear from the tagging process but rather as a result of the time-dragging process.

An ancient sword of heroes past –
This ornate sword is as much a symbol of heroics as it is a deadly weapon. Over its lifetime it has been forged and re-forged, found many new scabbards, handles, cross-guards, decorations and slain innumerable creatures of darkness. Every major hero of your people has wielded this sword at some point in their lives, as though drawn to it by fate itself. Many argue that the blade itself is merely a descendant of the original, having gone through so many iterations, but within the blade itself lies the ‘spirit of the sword’, a mythical spirit said to guide heroes from lowly men to grand masters of the martial arts.
When held by one of heroic destiny, the sword itself speaks telepathically to its holder. It offers an exchange; the skills, talents and knowledge of every hero who has held the sword become available to its wielder as the blade instructs them, in exchange for also becoming part of the sword’s spirit on their death.
The sword speaks with the knowledge of centuries, wiser than any in the land. It knows a thousand ways of sword-fighting, and ten-fold other arts and studies. It assists the wielder in battle, carefully pointing out its opponents weaknesses, showing its wielder how to move in battle, assisting them with sage counsel. It speaks with countless voices, each a different legendary hero, each eager to impart their knowledge.
One of wicked heart cannot hold the sword, for its power burns their flesh and the blade grows dull and useless. Doing cruel and evil things in all honesty while wielding the sword will hurt its wielder as badly as though they had been slashed with it themselves, though the sword may forgive those who have done so in error or as a best of necessary evils.

[Loaka of the Wind]

Name: Lady Vilma Argentstone
Species: Human (probably)

Appearance –
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Height: Tall
Weight: Thin
Build: Wiry and angular.

Vilma is a considerably tall women, with a slightly muscular body. Her features are somewhat sharp and semi-masculine, with a harsh jaw-line and broad shoulders. She has neatly trimmed short black hair and steel-grey eyes. Vilma has a pointed nose, thin lips and a fierce gaze.
Vilma tends to wear her military uniform above all else and feels ill at ease in other attire, casual or formal.

Possessions:
DEFENDER’s Medallion – A metal shield-shaped medal in blue with gold trim, centred with a white sun. It is attached to a ribbon and hangs around Vilma’s neck at all times.

Enchanted Rapier ‘Dustcloud’ – An heirloom blade, this rapier is one of the symbols of the Argentstone family. A weapon built for and used by DEFENDERs, its name derives from the hope that ‘its first strike will billow with a cloud of dust, to mark the peaceful ages in which it has lain still’. A sorcerous device inset in its hilt makes the blade vibrate and twitch, giving the user the power to move it with extreme speed for parrying and striking.

Magic/Abilities:
Swordsmanship – Vilma is an accomplished master of the rapier, a keen fencer with few peers. She prefers a very defensive style of combat, goading her opponents with the first strike to dodge, parry and retaliate with an overwhelming number of strikes.

Talents: Fighting, defending, leading troops.

Weaknesses: Social situations, formal dining, romance

Personality: Taciturn and serious, Vilma laughs rarely and jokes even less. She is concerned heavily with rules, laws and her own strict moral code.

Background: to be continued …

Life Goals (short term): Become stronger
Life Goals (long term): World peace
Sexuality: Uninterested
Relationship status: Single
Immediate family members: Lord and Lady Argentstone, younger brother Johan Argentstone.
Quirks: Clutches her medallion when nervous.
Religion: Worshipper of Hamon, goddess of peace, light and dreams.