Battle Stats
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finchmodsBATTLE STATS
A significant part of life at Finchwood Academy revolves around honing one's Persona and preparing to do battle with the otherworldly Shadows. Fill out the form below to help the mods out and give everyone the details of your character's combat style and their other self!
Responses are screened until the mods approve the character. This must be done, along with the Application before a character will be accepted.
A summary of battle stats (by squad), levels, and additional character abilities can be found HERE.
Responses are screened until the mods approve the character. This must be done, along with the Application before a character will be accepted.
A summary of battle stats (by squad), levels, and additional character abilities can be found HERE.
Character Name: Character's name.
Squad: Select your character's squad. These are pre-assigned for squad leaders.
Squad Position: Select your character's position on the squad. This can be Leader, Second, Member (High/Medium/Low), or Support based on what's available. Leaders and supports are pre-determined and can be found on the Character Roster.
Primary Weapon: Select your character's weapon of choice. Supports may mark this question as N/A.
Combat Style: Outline particular combat skills here, along with their attitude in battle. Are they gung-ho? Do they try to protect their teammates at risk of themselves? Do they try to let others do the heavy lifting? For support characters, this is how they handle their role and how they generally treat their team. Do they worry all the time? Are they quick to point out things, even if they're not a threat? Are they relaxed?
Attribute: Select the attribute that best defines your character's abilities: Strength, Stamina, Speed, or Balance! This will not impact bonuses but it it will impact narrative elements and dungeon navigation.
Persona Name: Please select an available Persona listed under your house.
Persona Appearance: Provide a brief description of your Persona.
Affinity: Select one of the two elements available to your character's house. This is the element that your character will be most proficient in attacking with and defending against. Swords may choose Air or Thunder, Cups may choose Water or Ice, Wands may choose Fire or Lightning, and Coins may choose Earth or Stone.
Weakness: Please select one of the elements not associated with your character's house. This will be the element that does the most damage against your character and their Persona.
Ailment Susceptibility: Select the mental or physical ailment that your character is particularly susceptible to: Poison, Sleep, Mute, Confusion, Enervation, Rage, Fear, Forget, Charm, and Despair. All characters may get all status ailments, but this will be the one most likely to impact the character. Keep in mind that a toned down version of the ailment may, at times, linger with the character for a few days after the initial exposure.
WILDCARDS
Date: 2019-02-02 12:57 am (UTC)WILDCARDS: Suzy
Date: 2019-02-02 05:28 pm (UTC)Persona Name: Chamuel.
Persona Appearance:
A prehistoric nightmare of a tiger. Chamuel is immense and well-muscled, bigger than a horse, with the oversized canines of a sabertooth and a furious roar that is disturbing on a primal level. As if forever out in the cold, his breath comes out in foggy bursts and his fur is laced with frost and crystals of ice. Between his shining yellow eyes is a golden emblem in the shape of a starry snowflake.
When not engaged with Shadows, Chamuel lounges. He likes to bop his gargantuan head against Suzy for attention, like an oversized tabby, and will put bared fangs between her and a potential threat. The tiger's magic manifests as slow-creeping frost that radiates from his claw-points, and a fascinating (yet intimidating) ability to freeze things solid with his stare.
References.
Affinity: Ice.
Weakness: Lightning.
Ailment Susceptibility: Enervation.
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Arcana: The Moon.
Persona Name: Ophaniel.
Persona Appearance:
A drifting astronaut with a broken helmet, visor caved in and skull grinning out. Ophaniel floats untethered, feet never touching the ground, surrounded by a field of glass shards that glimmer in available light. They give off the impression of being.... well, dead. Or close to dead. In fact, they often appear to have little to no control over the direction of their movements, as though truly lost in space: bouncing off the environment, slowly turning in circles in the squad's periphery, etc. Suzy is the center of a meandering orbit. If urgency is required, Ophaniel seems to simply reappear where needed, but even that has the floating, dance-like quality of a space walk.
When attacking, magic sparks like a mis-wire or short-out from somewhere in their suit. Lightning shoots from glass shard to glass shard around them, forming branching, beautiful displays.
This persona is mostly nonreactive, but occasionally crackles with static and garbled voices, like someone trying to make contact over a fuzzy radio.
References.
Affinity: Lightning.
Weakness: Stone.
Ailment Susceptibility: Sleep.
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Arcana: The Emperor.
Persona Name: Hamal.
Persona Appearance:
A drowned king in ragged finery and crown, fused atop a bony, long-fanged Kelpie. River weeds entwine in hair and around limbs, with dark water forever rolling around their hooves, splashing as the horse-shaped creature moves (not exactly like a horse; in subtle and hard to describe ways, a bit more like a giant predator).
When Suzy directs an attack, the water grows troubled below Hamal's hooves, swelling in waves and lashing out with force. The king directs the kelpie around the battlefield with an authoritative point, and their horse head complies by biting and tearing at Shadows with relish.
Despite an unsettling appearance and apparent enjoyment in killing things, Hamal has a playful attitude toward both Suzy and her squadmates. The king occasionally removes his crown in salute to them, and the kelpie is capable of a kind of panting, doggy smile, greasy black tongue lolling out of its wolfish mouth.
References.
Affinity: Water.
Weakness: Thunder.
Ailment Susceptibility: Charm.
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Arcana: The Devil.
Persona Name: Zephon.
Persona Appearance:
A sorrowful girl in antiquated mourning garb. Zephon has the appearance of an animated painting: rich colors, rich darks, a smooth, angelic face glistening with tears. She walks at a stately clip, clutching a flower in one of her hands. Occasionally she can be heard making a sound that resembles sobbing.
When Zephon attacks using earth magic, she flings her flower down like a gauntlet before the desired Shadow, which is viciously choked by the vines and thorns that spring from it like a snapping trap. Her crocodile tears turn to smiling laughter, and her face twists into a distorted sneer.
This persona generally doesn't seem to notice or care about other humans, but when Suzy dismisses her she likes to offer a pretty bloom in farewell. If taken, it crumbles to ash that smells of sulfur.
References.
Affinity: Earth.
Weakness: Water.
Ailment Susceptibility: Forget.
WILDCARDS: Zinnia
Date: 2019-02-03 01:28 am (UTC)Persona Name: Suriel, benevolent angel of death
Persona Appearance: Suriel was once probably a handsome young man, dressed all in black. Something about him feels kind and charming, maybe even a bit impish. Underneath a massive hooded cloak he wears a couture suit and deep black furs, which barely hide the fact that Suriel is completely skeletonized. A breeze continuously ruffles his cloak, the hem of which dissolves into smoke. The edges of Suriel are whispy and vague, but looking into his dead face is intense and unnaturally crisp. He doesn't speak, but sometimes chuckles good naturedly in the middle of battle.
Suriel has no weapon, but in each gloved hand he holds the leather leash of a massive dog. Two German shepherds, one jet black, one bone white. They bark excitedly, wagging their tails and pulling on the leashes. They're eager to fight, and when Suriel attacks, he releases them. The dogs dissolve into smoke, which lashes out to strike the enemy. At the end of a successful battle, the dogs jump around excitedly, and Suriel seems to struggle to calm them down. Yes, you can pet them. (References.)
Affinity: Air
Weakness: Fire
Ailment Susceptibility: Fear
WILDCARDS: Pearl
Date: 2019-02-03 05:06 am (UTC)Persona Name:Yeehah
Persona Appearance: Yeehah appears in the form of a mythical gorgon. She has hair made out of snakes and a human torso (clothed in silver armor that resembles scales,) and a long, long green tail that she rises up on to attack. While her head is ostensibly shaped like a human's, her eyes are yellow and reptilian. All of the snakes in her hair spit out stone when she attacks with it. She stands behind Pearl ferocious but aloof, different from Rochel, who gets closer and seems to merge with Pearl. There's always the faint sound of hissing emanating from around her.
Affinity: Stone
Weakness: Water
Ailment Susceptibility: Rage
WILDCARDS: Noah
Date: 2019-02-03 06:07 pm (UTC)Persona Name: Jophiel (Angel of Beauty and Wisdom)
Persona Appearance: Jophiel looks like a mythological harpy, but where her torso should be, there's a hourglass-shaped copper birdcage. Her coloration evokes a masked lovebird: her face, breast and long curly hair are sunshine yellow, while her wings and feathered bird legs are various shades of green. She wears a helmet that covers the upper half of her face, black with a red beak and white almond-shaped eyes. Jophiel has two sets of wings: one set sprouting from her back, and another set sprouting from where human arms would be. Inside her birdcage torso is a glowing red heart, that flutters around inside her "chest" like a trapped bird. Despite having legs, she always floats above the ground, her hair flowing around her like it's always caught in a breeze. Every time Noah attacks or casts magic, Jophiel's wings spread wide, and the heart in her cage finally stops flying around, growing bigger and brighter for a couple of seconds.
Affinity: Air
Weakness: Water
Ailment Susceptibility: Despair
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Arcana: The Hierophant
Persona Name: Micah (Angel of Unity)
Persona Appearance: Micah has the appearance of a 12' tall man slowly turning into crystalline glass. The left side of his body is hard and immobile, his skin turned to shiny facets that show white bones and bright red veins underneath. Clear crystals have spread from his skin to cover half of his clothing, a royal blue velvet cassock, the colour still visible underneath the stone. Micah's long straight hair is black except for a single lock that's turned crystalline white, while his face has entirely converted to glass, showing only the remnants of a skull and red veins inside. In his right hand (still pliable flesh, in a black glove), Micah holds a large book bound in red leather, filled with strange images, like out of a medieval illuminated manuscript. Whenever Noah casts magic, the book floats above Micah's hand, open towards the target, and the pages cycle rapidly like a flipbook, so the painted illustrations look like they're moving.
Affinity: Stone
Weakness: Fire
Ailment Susceptibility: Poison
WILDCARDS: CECILIA
Date: 2019-02-17 09:00 pm (UTC)Persona Name: Marmaroth, angel who thwarts fate
Persona Appearance: At a quick glance, Marmaroth has a more humanoid appearance than most Persona. Roughly, she's an eight and a half foot tall woman in a simple, floor-length maroon dress. Her outline is blurry and seems to expand and retreat, sometimes jutting out suddenly before reforming. If you listen closely, she gives off a soft crackling sound, like static. Her movements are jerky and unbelievably fast. Cecilia is unsure whether Marmaroth has multiple sets of arms and legs or if they just move so quickly that it seems so.
See, the thing is Marmaroth does not appear to be contained within a single timeline. At once an ancient woman, a young girl, and every age between, all superimposed upon one another. Each version of Marmaroth flickers in and out of existence so quickly that it's difficult to make out any discernible appearance at all. She's unsettling to look upon and Cecilia is uneasy around her.
Affinity: Lightning
Weakness: Air
Ailment Susceptibility: Happiness
WILDCARDS: Rose
Date: 2019-03-01 08:48 pm (UTC)Persona Name: Johiel
Persona Appearance: Diminutive for a persona at hardly six feet tall, Johiel takes the shape of a dryad hewn from vines. Her petticoats are made of brightly coloured tropical leaves and her fairylike wings have petals in place of feathers. Though the rest of her form suggests a female appearance, her face is entirely featureless. The tightly coiled vines that make up the rest of her body form a geometric cage in place of a head. Trapped inside is a miniature sun.
As Johiel exerts herself in battle, be it through flowery magic or vine whip physical attacks, the fire trapped in her head begins to set her alight from the inside. When Rose dismisses Johiel, she burns up entirely.
Affinity: Earth
Weakness: Fire
Ailment Susceptibility: Despair
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Arcana: The Hermit
Persona Name: Ambriel, angel of communications
Persona Appearance: A robe-clad figure with the sweet, inquisitive face of a gecko lizard, Ambriel does not look particularly intimidating at first glance. It holds a lantern on a crook, and the light of the flickering flame occasionally produces shadow puppets on nearby surfaces.
In battle, however, Ambriel is a vicious foe. Quick and erratic, it goes berserk as soon as it encounters Shadows. Ambriel will bludgeon nearby enemies with indiscriminate and haphazard blows of its lantern, sometimes leaving them aflame.
Affinity: Fire
Weakness: Air
Ailment Susceptibility: Rage
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Arcana: The Tower
Persona Name: Shalgiel, Angel of Snow
Persona Appearance: Shalgiel is a stack of toads and frogs, each smaller than the last and made of snow or ice. Like snowflakes, each is individual and unique, different every time Rose summons this persona. Some carry swords or shields, some wear tiny wizard hats, and some just look confused to be there.
Versatile in combat, its strengths depend on the composition of the tower. More frog warriors mean it tends to use more physical attacks; frogs with wands and spellbooks encourage magical ones. While the stack is capable of moving, it is not particularly agile. When Rose dismisses Shalgiel, the tower topples over and vanishes in individual flurries of snow.
Affinity: Ice
Weakness: Earth
Ailment Susceptibility: Charm