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| Jasmine Russell. | |
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LunarCataphract
Posts : 293 Join date : 2018-08-29
| Subject: Jasmine Russell. Sun Nov 11, 2018 10:58 pm | |
| Jasmine Russell
The Biography
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Birth Name: Jasmine Russell Aliases: Aurum Gender: Female Age: 19 Birth Day: 2nd of September Arcana: Emperor Place of Residence: An apartment in Vista Square. A really really cheap one. Academy Semester: Third year Class: (We'll fill this in once you're approved. This will be your class in school)
Sorority: N/A
Part/Full Time Job: Job seeker.
Appearance: - image:
Standing at five feet tall (1.5 metres for those who prefer it) Jasmine possess a petite body long slender legs and a well toned figure. With blue eyes, a fairly well developed chest and long green hair, Jasmine has a certain “supermodel” aesthetic or so she likes to claim.
The clothing she wears while modern and stylish is deliberately picked to show off her best features. She wears mini-skirts, asymmetric black and white jackets and leggings all designed to accentuate her features. While she does change outfits with the seasons out of pragmatism there is always a few elements that stays the same: namely the jewelry she wears.
Alternate Appearance: - alternative:
Golden armour, a venetian mask and just bling everywhere. Like so much bling. Just a blindingly huge amount of bling. That is what Jasmine’s alternative form primarily consist of. There is elements of Jasmine’s alternative design that are supposed to evoke a Scorpion namely the spikes on the shoulder but more importantly, the diadem on her head extends into a golden tassel ending in a scorpion's stinger.
Personality:
- personality:
The best place to start is Jasmine’s general attitude and view of others. She’s better than anyone else in literally every single possible way. That is something she genuinely believes even though is it not necessarily true. One might think she’s arrogant and wants nothing to do with the lessers...but that is not entirely true. Jasmine doesn’t bemoan people for being beneath her she merely thinks their inferiority means they need her wondrously more capable self to guide them! Arrogant she may be but she’s by no means callous.
One could easily compare her view on others to that of Nietzsche's work. She knows that she is better than everyone else but feels as a “superior person” it is her responsible, nay her duty, to inspire and aid others in reaching her own superior level! Or failing that she’ll just control other’s lives and look after everything for them. She may view herself as a ruler of sorts and feels certain privileges are hers by right but Jasmine also believes ruling is ultimately something done for the sake of people under you. She’s an odd mixture of arrogant self superiority and subservience.
Outside of her view on life she can be a very...tricky customer to deal with. Jasmine’s not the type to simply accept random lessers march up to her and make demands (which is why the persona she displays while working at her job is such a whiplash for people who know her) however if one shows the proper respect? She can be very approachable and genuinely present. It’s just a shame when it comes to asking things of others she’s immensely forceful and can easily be taken as rude.
One might think that with her attitude of “helping people be the best subjects they can be” would result in her being immensely willing to actively dirty her hands in helping buuuuuuut you’d be wrong. While ideally, Jasmine would adore being a magnanimous ruler in terms of finances and materials (which she can’t due to her own economical situation) the magnaminty dies when it actually comes up to active effort. While yes, Jasmine believes herself to be this ideal ruler she’s also equally interested in her own amusement. It’s why she’ll only actively and physically help the “weak” if they somehow manage to amuse her.
This may be obvious but Jasmine approves of neither the queen nor the government. Not only does she believe they have stolen the position and influence that should rightfully be hers but they’ve also committed a personal injustice: they stole her property literally. Prior to the death of her parents during the Divide Jasmine inherited their estate but when she was undergoing the experiments to turn one into a Forgotten the government took ownership of her family estate. Her home and the money left to her as inheritance were taken along with the government liquidating all the estate’s physical assets and taking the resulting funds. This unacceptable THEFT is why she has a huge bone to pick with the government.
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The Potential
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Strengths:
—Strength Name: My will be done! —Description: Jasmine can control the movement and levitation of her weapon telepathically. As for how Jasmine controls her weapon it is merely done via imagination. If she can imagine her weapon inside a specific environment (part of why line of sight is an important aspect for the weapon’s effective usage as the weapon provides zero sensory feedback) then she can effectively control it relatively freely inside that area.
—Strength Name: The king speaks! —Description: Another aspect of how she controls her weapon is that Jasmine's telepathy allows her to shape it into pretty much any shape she imagines. However, the line of sight restriction applies as does her inability to form it into complex shapes. She can not form anything more complex than spikes, spears or swords. Things like guns, complex mechanical devices and vehicles (cars and what not basically) are out.
—Strength Name: Tight purse strings —Description: Due to her own relatively poor financial circumstances, at least when compared to her childhood, Jasmine has learned to converse her funds very well and always manage to squeeze a few discounts out of people here and there. As such any and all VC expenditures are reduced by 10%.
—Strength Name: Hidden weapon. —Description: Jasmine is able to, somehow, store the entirety of her soul bound inside a metal canister, it’s roughly the size of a thermos, without it being impossibly heavy to carry. In fact, it weighs roughly the same as a bottle of water and even sloshes where you to shake it around.
—Strength Name: Highbrow education —Description: Jasmine has had an immensely good education growing up and as such starts at one level higher in her intelligence stat than she normally would.
Weaknesses:
—Weakness Name: Weight of the throne. —Description: While yes, Jasmine can control her soulbound via thought, something that takes a great deal of concentration and practice to do, there are limits to the control. Her weapon is not in any way autonomous (apart from naturally forming into a cube while idle) and always requires mental orders from Jasmine to function. This means if she was caught off guard or unaware of an incoming attack her soul bound would not magically rush to her defense. Essentially, if an attack is too fast for her to react to in time then there is no way her weapon will ever be able to respond.
—Weakness Name: All the light touches. —Description:One weakness of how she manipulates her weapon is that Jasmine's telepathic control has a limited range. If the cube exceeds a distance of seven feet, two point one metres, away from Jasmine it immediately deactivates and lands on the ground as a glorified paper weight. Finally, Jasmine can't physically lift her unless it is inside the aforementioned thermos and she can only control the majority of the weapon's mass at a time. Like if it was separated into two blobs of 60% and 40% she could only control the 60% until it physically merged with the missing 40%
—Weakness Name: What do you mean I was undercut? —Description: While Jasmine is very good at getting discounts out of people she, sadly, knows very little about the value of things and economics in general. Because of this anything sold by her is worth 10% less be it shards, demon masks, ammo, items, consumable whatever. So long as she’s selling it to a store she would get 10% less.
—Weakness Name: Concealed weapon. —Description: While Jasmine’s weapon is inside the thermos used to carry it she has no control over it. She has to physically unscrew, or otherwise create an opening the thermos for the liquid metal to function as her soul bound. This also means it’s honestly relatively easy to prevent her from using or accessing her soul bound if you can get the thermos away from her before she opens it.
—Strength Name: High society —Description: Sadly due to her own high society lifestyle while growing up and the general detachment she had from those standing on lower rungs of the societal ladder she can genuinely struggle to understand them. As such she has to go through the first level of her understanding stat twice before she gains any improvement.
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Shadow/Demon Weapon:
Weapon Name: Ruler’s Will Weapon Description: Ruler’s Will is a large volume of liquid metal grey in colouration. It normally adopts the form of a cube two cubic square feet wide, two cubic square feet high and two square cubic feet deep or zero point six metres for the metric fans. The cube weighs exactly one hundred pounds; the disparity between mass and weight is down to the supernatural aspects of the metal. As for the dimensions the metal can morph into, as per Jasmine’s strengths, it can never exceed a length of four feet (0.11 cubic metres) or a width of three (0.08 cubic metres) while having to sacrifice mass in other dimensions to achieve that.
Now, as per Jasmine’s strength Ruler’s Will can change its shape and form however, it is unable to form any complex shapes or mechanically advanced devices. Swords, bows, guns and axes are all out of the picture. Despite that it is able to form into spikes, sheets of metal and spheres but any mass that detaches from the majority of the cube/sphere/object/whatever can not be manipulated telepathically until it recombines with the majority of the mass. Weapon Image: It’s just a metal cuboid with a grey reflective surface. Weapon Attack Type: Pierce Weapon Element: N/A
Side-Arm Weapon:
Side-Arm Name: King Maker Side-Arm Description: King Maker is pretty much what you’d expect from a revolver. Six chamber that rotate, a wooden handle, metal barrel, a trigger and a hammer are the primary components that make the weapon up. It’s a gun, you pull the trigger, bullets come out and things diei...hopefully. Side-Arm Image: - picture:
Side-Arm Attack Type: Gun Side-Arm Style: Revolver - Single Shot - Accuracy is increased by 20%. Consumes only one type of ammo per use. Can shoot only one enemy at a time.
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The Background
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History:
- history:
Jasmine’s history starts with her family’s background. Both of her parents were rich due to, primarily, their own business. We’re not talking Elon Musk or Steve Jobs level of rich but they were rich enough to own a large house, have a lot of staff on the paycheck, get some of the best education for their daughter as possible and just genuinely maintain a very high quality of life. Sadly all of this changed with the Divide. I’ll spare you the details but at age fourteen demons barged into her family home and butchered Jasmine’s parents. She was lucky as she was not at home while this occured.
In the two years that the queen took to restore order Jasmine was looked after, and paid, by the huge inheritance her parents had left for her. It was roughly around the time society started to pull itself back together (PRAISE ISLA) that she was out in the town by herself, a rather foolish thing given her background which obviously ended badly. Jasmine never came home as she was kidnapped but not due to her money nor to hold her to ransom. Instead, she was kidnapped at random by a group of people eager to experiment on how to bind human and demon together.
I’m going to gloss over a lot of details here but for the next three years Jasmine underwent numerous painful, unethical and inhumane experiments which only bore fruit two years after the experiments started. The people responsible for subjecting Jasmine to this torment were genuinely considering killing her and discarding her corpse so they could move onto a new test subject. At first it was subtle, with paranormal activity registering very faintly but as the days ticked by the results grew stronger until it was undeniable Jasmine had indeed called bonded to a demon.
The demon she bonded to was Naberius from the Book of Solomon. At first he was too weak to really affect things and could only whisper things into Jasmine’s ears. For a full year Naberius was Jasmine’s only friend. This year she spent enduring more and more painful experiments broke her will completely and so she was eager to latch onto anything that would give her hope. Sadly for the people who imprisoned her what she latched onto was Naberius’s promises of restoring her lost dignity.
A year after she first came into contact with her partner demon Jasmine broke out. She unleashed the power of her demon in full. A destructive violent maelstrom of suffering, anger and injured pride was unleashed murdering anybody foolish enough to try and prevent Jasmine’s bid for freedom. To make a long story short she managed to escape back into Endymion's streets however….the explosive power she unleashed was such a drain on her it rendered the power he had been accumulating for a full year burned up.
One might think that after escaping the facility she was a prisoner in Jasmine could just reclaim her inheritance and things could go back to how they were but...nope. Things never turned out that way. In attempting to regain her former life Jasmine discovered she had no I.D and no way to prove she was who she claimed to be but worst of all? She discovered the government had, in their arrogance, stolen everything that should belong to her. Her inheritance? Stolen. Her family estate? Gone. Her belongings? Gone. The government had “reclaimed” it in the wake of Jasmine’s disappearance.
It was on that day she decided to go along fully with the deal her demon offered hence why she seeks to rule the city. A lofty goal indeed but one she was determined to achieve! Luckily, she managed to find an old family friend who hooked her up with a cheap apartment and helped her get a job out of gratitude for everything her parents had ever done. Of course she does still need to make ends meat and pay for her rent, among other things, but for now? Jasmine is determined to take back that which was stolen from her.
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| | | ViniVidiVicci
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| Subject: Re: Jasmine Russell. Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:15 pm | |
| Interesting stuff! I like it, there's just a wrinkle we'll need to go over.
For My Will Be Done! having control over your weapon's shape and the ability to control its movement via telepathy is a bit too strong. You'll need to split it into 2 Strengths, but you can still have it. Weight of the Throne does balance well with what it can do but having all that in one Strength is a bit much. | |
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| Subject: Re: Jasmine Russell. Mon Nov 12, 2018 12:05 am | |
| The Strengths are good now but re-reading them I came across something I missed the first time.
You CANNOT have a Demon Weapon that weighs 4000 lbs. Unlike Soulbounds Demon Weapons are more physical objects, and while you're still doing Soul damage you're still swinging with 4000 lbs of force x whatever speed you're swinging it at. There is absolutely no way anyone can have this. Max you can have it is 100lbs. | |
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| Subject: Re: Jasmine Russell. Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:28 am | |
| Alrighty, looks good. Approved. | |
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