Shizuka [Rogue Cadet]

Posts : 8 Join date : 2018-07-04

Shizuka
"To protect their smiles, their joy, their laughter..."
Shizuka [Rogue Cadet] 3ESJWY6

"That's my only wish. I'll surpass even the infinite to see it through."

The Biography

Birth Name: Shizuka
Aliases: Quicksilver (Outer Rim Nickname)
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Birth Day: October 31st
Arcana: The Magician Arcana is commonly associated with action, initiative, self-confidence, manipulation and power (more specifically, the power to harness one's talents.)
Place of Residence: East Eden
Evoker: Mental Shackles
Academy Semester: 1st Year
Class: 0

Sorority: N/A

Part/Full Time Job: Shizuka has worked with the Cadets from a very young age. It's the only career path she knows and it's unlikely that'll change anytime soon. However, with her recent advancement from the Outer Rim to Class 0, it's possible that in the future she might grow interested in the new opportunities available to her.

Appearance: Shizuka is a relatively attractive young woman in spite of the harsh conditions she grew up in. She stands at about 5'6 and weighs 119 lbs. However, while she mostly appears normal, certain features like her silver hair and heterochromia (her left eye is blue and her right eye is amber) mark her as... genetically abnormal. As a child she was often bullied because of these features, but whereas her silver hair became a point of pride during her service in the Outer Rim, her red eye remained offputting to others and thus partially led to her decision to begin wearing an eyepatch. While this eyepatch of hers is considerably ornate and adorned with the pattern of a golden flower on its center, the rest of her clothes primarily consist of combat gear and unrestrictive formal wear, attire that lacks in any real variance or personality.

Personality: In some ways Shizuka can be considered the epitome of a "dog of the government", but there's more to her than what first glance might suggest. While it's true that she's incredibly loyal and obedient to her masters, she isn't particularly zealous about Isla's righteousness or the nature of Psyche Terrorists, instead performing her duties stoically without question (almost as if they're a matter of habit). Acting as an experienced Cadet, she doesn't generally concern herself with the whys of a situation and won't be found debating philosophy with Class 0's latest quarry, opting to focus solely on performing her duties as efficiently as possible. But while she's confident and unwavering on the battlefield, who Shizuka is as a person is vastly different than who she is as a soldier.

Fresh off the frontlines, she struggles to find a place in civilian life and stumbles through day-to-day occurrences in an awkward and skittish fashion. Those who interact with Shizuka outside of work will quickly come to find she's unsure of herself and her place in a world that's completely foreign to her. Because of this she's also incredibly shy, but those who reach out to her and propel her to see new sights and enjoy new experiences will easily bond well with her... so long as they don't mind acting as a crutch for her along the way.

Despite her skill at and commitment to her career though, Shizuka doesn't enjoy talking about her past. She'll often just flat-out ignore inquiries pertaining to her time as an Outer Rim Cadet, however, she may grace those she respects with a swift deflection of the subject. Continuing to press the topic from there is one of the rare things capable of irritating her; she figures that it's obvious that such a place would be a hellhole, so she sees no purpose in dredging up painful memories and will automatically assume the questioner has ill intentions. It's thanks to this that she comes across as someone interested in the here-and-now above all else.

Overall she's a very reclusive person, but she yearns to be more and to expand her admittedly limited perspective in whatever ways she can. With the right friends perhaps she'll accomplish that and discover in Endymion a true home... but if all else fails, she'll always have a place as one of the city's swords.

The Potential

Strengths:

—Strength Name: Promethean Flames
—Description: Within the suffocating darkness of the city's nights, Shizuka naturally found herself drawn to the flames illuminating her surroundings, treasuring them as a light source and a symbol of reprieve. This attachment towards fire remained a part of her ego for years to come and correspondingly came to influence her abilities in a minor but meaningful way. Because of this her Fire skills receive a 15% boost in power.

—Strength Name: War of Attrition
—Description: Any good soldier knows that the best method of dealing with a stronger enemy is whittling them down slowly over time. Being well-accustomed to facing off against overwhelming forces, Shizuka's health drain effects are boosted in potency by 15%. To give an example, this means that a status effect like Searing Burn would do 30% damage to a person's HP instead of the normal 15%.

—Strength Name: Expert Markswoman
—Description: Shizuka is incredibly skilled with guns and her swiftness at using/reloading them is well-noted among her peers. She can shoot twice in one turn with her side-arm and displays a level of coordination that's easily sure to impress firefight rookies and professionals alike.

—Strength Name: Makeshift Modifications
—Description: When you're low on supplies you learn to make do with what you've got. As someone who was often running low on specific kinds of ammunition, Shizuka learned how to make her own "bootleg" types by using spare parts and strange ingredients, mixing and matching various properties in unusual ways to give her bullets that extra kick needed to take down particular kinds of demons. While there's little need for her to perform it on-the-fly anymore, she can still take her expertise to the workbench and with some time and effort modify any normal rounds she has on hand, spending a timeslot to give up to five of her normal bullets one standard element (Fire/Wind/Ice/Electricity/Earth/Light/Dark) of her choosing. Obviously these bullets have the same rules and characteristics as their regular elemental ammo counterparts; they're just less expensive homebrewed versions of the real thing.

—Strength Name: Endless Adaptability
—Description: One of the main reasons why Shizuka rose to her current station is her quick-thinking. Throughout numerous operations, she demonstrated the ability to quickly process and adjust to new situations, formulating strategies on the fly and predicting the actions and shortcomings of her opponents based on circumstantial evidence. While this adaptability doesn't necessarily lend itself to her studies or growth, it does provide her with a solid foundation for problem-solving and to an extent enables her to fall back on a natural crutch when forced to think outside the box. It's with this in mind that she starts out at the second rank of Intelligence.

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((A floating Strength is a strength you've gained inRP. For example, if you were on a Kendo team for some time, you'd naturally know Kendo which is where this strength would come in. However, be aware, it will not be as strong as any of your actual strengths and is a small plus)

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Weaknesses:

—Weakness Name: Clueless
—Description: As stated earlier, Shizuka is a complete mess when it comes to civilian activities and responsibilities. She often struggles to comprehend even the most basic facets of modern life; she might know what they are and remember engaging with them prior to the Divide, but when it comes to actually participating in them it's like she was born yesterday, and this certainly doesn't help her people skills either considering how most of the spontaneous interactions people have with each other are centered around these daily happenings. Because of this inexperience, Shizuka must rank up her Understanding twice in order to reach the second level of it.

—Weakness Name: Queen's Wrath
—Description: Shizuka can certainly be a terrifying force on the battlefield, but for some of her enemies, this goes beyond ordinary levels of fear. Weaker foes with weaker wills seem to naturally shrink away from her and grow nervous in her presence; it's as if she radiates some kind of malicious presence only they can see. Lower-level demons she engages in negotiation with thus have a 20% chance of lashing out on the spot before she can get a word in. If this happens then the negotiations automatically fail and they'll receive a 10% boost to attack for their next turn like a cornered animal lashing out against a predator, locked into a seemingly random fight-or-flight response, the enemy refusing to reopen negotiations unless Shizuka is switched out of the active party.

—Weakness Name: Lyssa
—Description: Rogues tend to suffer side-effects from the drugs they take and Shizuka is no exception. In the heat of combat or other intense situations, she's prone to sudden inflections of aggression that pierce her normally stoic demeanor. These episodes are most commonly triggered by her going into Overdose; after the class skill ends and her Persona stops its subsequent rampage, Shizuka will automatically be inflicted with Rage for a turn, effectively taking strategic control away from her for four turns as opposed to the usual three.

—Weakness Name: Lab Accidents
—Description: Shizuka's methods of creating alternative ammunition are... questionable to say the least. She devised them on the battlefield under threat of death, so it's not surprising that the steps can be difficult to replicate sometimes, nor is it too shocking when performing them seemingly perfectly leads to unintended results. When dedicating a timeslot to the creation of elemental bullets, the player must roll a ten number randomizer and select three numbers: the first number will cause the element to be randomized and the second and third will lead to the bullets simply being destroyed in the midst of mixing-and-matching things together. This only gets more likely with higher tiers of bullets as another number is added onto this chance of failure per additional tier. If total failure occurs then they'll be replaced with one pile of "Bullet Scraps", a useless item with no mechanical effect, though it can be sold on the Black Market for 10 VC and a look of pity from Chee.

—Weakness Name: Under My Skin
—Description: While it can be initially difficult to provoke Shizuka, when an intense emotion washes over her she's quick to lose herself in it, making it easy to maintain a particular emotional state so long as the opponent can push her into it first. The duration of mental ailments is thereby increased by one turn. (Note: This only applies to skills and such which inflict them, not special circumstances which automatically inflict an ailment like her Lyssa weakness).

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((A floating weakness is one gained in RP. It could be a fear you inherited during RP, or an injury that hinders your character. Some can be temporary while others can be permanent.)

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Soul Bound Weapon:

Weapon Name: Luna Blade
Weapon Description: A weapon that harnesses the power of the moon in fantasy stories. It manifests as a relatively unremarkable steel katana, but when summoned at night it gleams with a vibrant silver glow. Its measurements are that of the average weapon of its type being about 65 cm long.

Weapon Image:

Weapon Attack Type: Slash
Weapon Element:

Side-Arm Weapon:

Side-Arm Name: Quicksilver
Side-Arm Description: Sharing the nickname with her, Quicksilver's SMG is a swift-firing gun with a small smiley face scribbled crudely onto its trigger via chalk.

Side-Arm Image:

Side-Arm Attack Type: Gun
Side-Arm Style: Machine Gun - Muti-Round - Accuracy is decreased by 30%. Consumes 3 types of ammo at once to fire -must be same type of ammo.)

The Background

History: Shizuka was orphaned during the events of the Eternal Divide. With nowhere to go and no one to take care of her she ended up joining the Outer Rim Cadets (at the time wanting to take revenge on the demons that caused such chaos). However, having joined up with the force as a mere young teen, Shizuka wasn't skilled enough to secure a position off the frontlines and serving as a soldier quickly became the only thing she knew. Thankfully many of her comrades helped aid her along the way and taught her much about combat, even giving her her signature eyepatch as a means of learning how to fight in the dark, a treasure she holds close to her heart and wears to this day in spite of its current impracticality.

After years of adaptation, service, and climbing through the ranks, she eventually began to develop a Persona, but her undeveloped ego led to it becoming out of her control. Her role in successfully leading an operation against an unusually powerful King Frost marked her last day as an Outer Rim Cadet as a recommendation was filed not soon after for her to join up with Class 0 and receive pills to keep her abilities in check. Truly returning to her home for the first time in years, she finds herself in a place that's completely foreign to her, following her orders as best she can in an environment unlike anything she's ever seen before.

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Quote :: —Strength Name: Makeshift Modifications
—Description: When you're low on supplies you learn to make do with what you've got. As someone who was often running low on specific kinds of ammunition, Shizuka learned how to make her own "bootleg" types by using spare parts and strange ingredients, mixing and matching various properties in unusual ways to give her bullets that extra kick needed to take down particular kinds of demons. While there's little need for her to perform it on-the-fly anymore, she can still take her expertise to the workbench and with some time and effort modify any normal rounds she has on hand, spending a timeslot to give up to five of her normal bullets one standard element (Fire/Wind/Ice/Electricity/Earth/Light/Dark) of her choosing. Obviously these bullets have the same rules and characteristics as their regular elemental ammo counterparts; they're just less expensive homebrewed versions of the real thing.

I would say add one crafting material of the necessary element in order to do this. Like if you want a fire bullet, you'd need a fire crafting material like ash. On top of using up five normal bullets. Never mind, I saw the weakness.

Quote :: —Weakness Name: Lyssa
—Description: Rogues tend to suffer side-effects from the drugs they take and Shizuka is no exception. In the heat of combat or other intense situations, she's prone to sudden inflections of aggression that pierce her normally stoic demeanor. These episodes are most commonly triggered by her going into Overdose; after the class skill ends and her Persona stops its subsequent rampage, Shizuka will automatically be inflicted with Rage for a turn, effectively taking strategic control away from her for four turns as opposed to the usual three.

So Rage for a turn and then persona going out of control for three turns?

Quote :: —Weakness Name: Lab Accidents
—Description: Shizuka's methods of creating alternative ammunition are... questionable to say the least. She devised them on the battlefield under threat of death, so it's not surprising that the steps can be difficult to replicate sometimes, nor is it too shocking when performing them seemingly perfectly leads to unintended results. When dedicating a timeslot to the creation of elemental bullets, the player must roll a ten number randomizer and select two numbers: the first number will cause the element to be randomized and the second will lead to the bullets simply being destroyed in the midst of mixing-and-matching things together. If the latter occurs then they'll be replaced with one pile of "Bullet Scraps", a useless item with no mechanical effect, though it can be sold on the Black Market for 10 VC and a look of pity from Chee.

I would say keep the one number for determining element. But choose two numbers on whether if it fails or not. Yet add an additional number for failing per bullet tier higher than 1.

History:

You wouldn't be able to use a Persona before joining the Outer Rim Cadets. If you did, you'd immediately join the Outer Rim Cadets. ~~Though admittedly that is a choice.~~ I would say during your occupation in the Outer Rim, you would eventually be able to use a Persona and come to need to use pills. Hence got a recommendation to join Class Zero that way. You can keep beating a King Frost. But the development on how you got the Persona has to be something among the lines of what I just said.

Other than that, I'm okay with it. Let me know when you need any more grading.

Posts : 8 Join date : 2018-07-04

Edited. And the Lyssa weakness is just a turn of Rage that occurs immediately after the normal Overdose drawback. Sorry if my wording was confusing! Very Happy

Quote :: Once the three turns are up, their skillset reverts to normal, and for the next three turns, your active Persona skills will be randomized each post, as well as the target for said skill, meaning you will not have any control over what your Persona does for the duration of the three turns.

Posts : 5994 Join date : 2013-10-06 Age : 30

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